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Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and

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A new report says more needs to be done to protect children.

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Compulsory internet safety lessons in schools and new privacy laws

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are being proposed by England's Children's Commissioner.

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Good morning, it's Thursday the fifth of January.

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A new ambassador to the EU.

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Sir Tim Barrow's appointment has been broadly welcomed on both sides

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People who live near major roads may have higher rates of dementia

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according to research published today.

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What will the year ahead bring for the economy? Stronger exports and

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manufacturing are up thanks to a stronger pound but prizes in the

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shops are expected to go up and we won't get a pay rise to match. Cash

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prices. -- prices. In sport, Chelsea's winning run

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comes to an end as the League leaders are beaten

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at Tottenham. as they win 2-0

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and move up to third. I will be live from Las Vegas as the

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world's biggest gadget show gets under way, the big thing this year,

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intelligent machines, artificial intelligence baked into everything

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from your car to your toothbrush. A cold and frosty start to the day,

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temperatures in some parts have fallen two -7 but there will be a

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lot of crisp winter sunshine but in the West there will be a bit more

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clout -- fallen to. More details in a few minutes. -- bit more clout. --

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cloud. Our main story is a warning

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from the Children's Commissioner for England that young people

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are left to face the dangers of bullying and grooming

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online alone. Anne Longfield says children

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and often their parents have no idea what they are signing

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up to on social media sites and pupils as young as four should

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be taught about internet Our education correspondent,

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Gillian Hargreaves, has more. Digital technology can enrich

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children's minds, but there are pitfalls too. Millions of youngsters

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have joined social media sites to keep in touch with friends, but many

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of those questioned by the commission have little idea of what

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they're signing up to. With pages of terms and conditions, it seems few

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realise the risk to privacy. The children's commissioner calls for

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the appointment of a digital ombudsman to mediate between

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children and social media companies over online bullying. She also

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recommends there should be mandatory digital citizenship courses in

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schools and new privacy laws to protect children's personal

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information online. What no one has done yet is to look at how we design

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and intervene with a digital world in a way that can really give

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children the support they need for the place they spend an awful lot of

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time, but also the information and the power to be able to get what

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they need out of the Internet. While Instagram, Facebook and Twitter

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recommend that their services are most suitable for children over the

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age of 13, younger children can circumvent the rules and open an

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account. Gillian Hargreaves, BBC News.

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A spokesperson for the Department for Education told us there is more

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to be done and that they will carefully consider the report

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as part of their ongoing work to make the internet a safer place

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And at 6:40am, we'll speak to the founder of Parent Zone

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and schools on making children safer online.

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If you want to talk to us about it this morning then let us know as

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well. The appointment of Sir Tim Barrow

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as the UK's new ambassador to the European Union has

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been welcomed by almost He replaces Sir Ivan Rogers,

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who resigned on Tuesday and confusion in the approach to

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Brexit. Our political correspondent,

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Iain Watson joins us now. We want to know about this man, what

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can you tell us. First of all the most important thing is he is a

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career diplomat, something that has been in the Foreign Office for quite

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some time, almost 20 years -- someone. He worked with junior

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ministers at the Foreign Office 20 years ago. Iain, I see your

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suffering, we will come back to you later. We know that feeling. We've

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all had moments like that. We will go back to him in just a second. The

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rest of the news this morning: Immigrants should be expected

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to learn English before coming to Britain or attend language

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classes when they arrive, that's what a group

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of MPs are calling for. The All Party Parliamentary Group

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on social integration also wants the Government to consider

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giving the UK's nations and regions the power to control

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the number of visas issued. Here's our home affairs

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correspondent, Danny Shaw. Over the past decade, the scale of

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immigration to Britain has been unprecedented. Sparking debate about

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whether the numbers should be reduced and if so how. But this

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report from MPs and peers says there should be more focus on what happens

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after immigrants arrived. It says many immigrant communities and

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people already settled here lead parallel lives and it calls on the

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government to address what it says is a lack of integration. The report

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makes a number of recommendations. It says all immigrants should learn

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English before coming to the UK or in role in classes but when they're

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here. It calls for courses to teach immigrants about British culture and

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the report says the government should give immigrants guidance on

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the costs and benefits of UK citizenship and consider cutting the

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fees for naturalisation. A lack of integration for newcomers leads to

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them not having access to the same opportunities. It can lead to an

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increase in distrust in the community locally, and all the

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things that make living in England and Britain great Adonai people.

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Now, you cannot enjoy what this country has to offer if you don't

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speak the language. Another idea in the report is for immigration policy

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to be devolved to Britain's nations and regions. They'd be able to

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allocate visas according to local need. The report said that might

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instil confidence among members of the public that the immigration

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system works for their area. The Home Office says it's not planning

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to introduce local bees are arrangements but they have said they

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have made more funding available for English lessons. Danny Shaw, BBC

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News. The father of a man shot dead

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by West Yorkshire Police on Monday says he feels his son

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was killed unlawfully. He and his wife joined friends

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of Yassar Yaqub last night at a vigil at Ainsley top yards

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from where he was killed. Police say it was during

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a pre-planned operation. The police watchdog,

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the Independent Police Complaints My message is that he's been killed

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unlawfully. How can you kill someone like this, at a time like this,

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without giving them the chance to get out or anything, three bullets

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through the windscreen and that's it. Were not in America, we're not

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in a third World country. He hasn't got a bad pass because he's not been

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convicted of anything. President Barack Obama has

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urged his fellow Democrats to fight It comes as the incoming Trump

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administration began the process of repealing

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The Affordable Care Act. The Republican Vice President-elect,

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Mike Pence, had promised the process would begin on Donald Trump's

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first day in office, People who live near main roads may

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be at greater risk of dementia, according to a decade-long study

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by scientists in Canada. The medical causes of the brain

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disease have yet to be identified but the research suggests

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air pollution and noisy traffic Memory is lost, thoughts confused,

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personalities gradually fading. -- memories. Dementia Fx 850,000 people

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in the UK. Now there they claim it could be linked to traffic --

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affects. This study from Canada shows that people living close to

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busy roads had higher chances of developing dementia. Researchers in

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Ontario followed more than 2 million people over 11 years. The ones who

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live within 50 metres of heavy traffic had a 12% higher risk of

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dementia than those more than 200 and Zoe. So what is it that's

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actually affecting the brain -- 200 metres away. Very fine particles,

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the very smallest ones, can move along the lungs into the bloodstream

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and circulate in the body. How those Park Hill particles work, we can

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speculate, but one hypothesis is non-specific effects on inflammation

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and oxidisation affects on the body but it is far from proven. Experts

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here have cautiously welcomed the results as important and

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provocative. They have stressed it shows an association, not a cause.

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Dave pointed out dementia is also affected by age, lifestyle and

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genetics -- Dave pointed out. But they are promoting further research

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into the impact on traffic and pollution. Dan Johnson, BBC News. --

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Dave pointed out. -- Dave pointed out.

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Doubt has been cast on the NHS programme for screening those

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Researchers say its unlikely to have much impact according

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It concluded that inaccurate blood tests would give

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too many people an incorrect diagnosis, while lifestyle changes

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The director of the NHS programme said its approach was based

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The price of petrol and diesel rose to their highest levels for a year

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and a half in December according to the RAC.

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Both fuels went up by three pence a litre during the month.

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It now costs around ?62.80 to fill up a typical family

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The increasing cost of crude oil and further falls in the value

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of the pound are believed to be behind the trend.

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A Mediterranean diet can help older adults maintain bigger brains

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according to researchers at the University of Edinburgh.

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A study of pensioners in Scotland found that those

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with a diet rich in fresh fruit, vegetables and olive oil had

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healthier brains than those with different eating habits.

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They suffered less brain shrinkage than those who regularly ate meat

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Letters written by Princess Diana are due to be auctioned

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Written to a steward at Buckingham Palace,

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they reveal that a young Prince Harry was routinely

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The collection also includes a signed Christmas card

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from Prince Charles and Diana and their infant children sitting

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going back to a story that has dominated over the last few days. A

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new UK ambassador to the European Union has been appointed and

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welcomed by both people on both sides of the debate. Let's talk

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about Sir Tim Barry with Iain Watson, who has probably had a drink

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of water. -- Sir Tim Barrow. Tell me about Tim Barrow. I was before my

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moment struck! He's a career civil servant, he had worked with other

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Foreign Office ministers back in the Conservative government in the

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1990s, he's a former ambassador to not just Russia but the Ukraine, so

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he is seen as a tough negotiator and in addition to that he is welcomed

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by many conservative Brexiteers but Nigel Farage, the UKIP formally

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there has suggested he is simply another knighted career civil

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servant. Many civil servants will be delighted, they were worried about

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impartiality because of calls from people in the Leave campaign to get

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like a businessman or a former politician to negotiate the exit

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from the EU. This is someone who has worked in the Foreign Office for

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some time. Most recently very closely with Boris Johnson, so he

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has the confidence of the Foreign Secretary and he has been warmly

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welcomed by David Davis as political minister in charge the detailed

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negotiation getting under way pretty soon. He's been described by Downing

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Street as energetic and optimistic, those qualities will be essential

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during perhaps up to two years of negotiations with people

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representing 27 other EU countries. I'm not sure I'd ask another

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question but I'm going to try. Go-ahead. -- I'm not sure I'm going

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to ask you. What about Theresa May, what he/she is doing to put herself

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on the front foot again? She hasn't commentated -- what is she going to

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do. She is giving a major speech on Europe this month and the question

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is whether she is going to take on this key criticism of Ivan Drago is,

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that she simply doesn't have any kind of negotiating strategy or

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objectives in the EU. She's already given us pretty strong hints, she

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has suggested we want control of our borders and she has suggested also

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quite significantly that she doesn't want to be under the juror of the

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European court -- the jurisdiction. What Labour are saying is a change

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of personnel in Brussels, Tim Barrow won't that make up for a lack of

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strategic vision, so they want government ministers coming to

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Westminster when MPs return next week and they want a full statement

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on Europe. Iain, thank you very much. I don't know what to recommend

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because we are all struggling. May be a hot tea! Sometimes it happens,

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it just happens. Flies in the mouth, all sorts. Good morning. What have

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you got for ask Wes blew everybody apart from Chelsea fans were

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toasting Dele Alli -- what have you got for ask Wes blew -- what have

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you got for us? . King jack their incredible winning

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streak is over. They were beaten 2-0

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by Tottenham at white Hart Lane. Two goals from Dele Alli ends

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Chelsea's run of thirteen consecutive wins and moves

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Spurs up to third. Everton's Yannick Bolasie

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could be out until 2018, his manager Ronald Koeman

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confirmed last night. Bolasie injured his knee last

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month in the one all draw Sir Andy Murray is through

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to the quarter finals but was made to work for it by world

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number 68 Gerald Melzer. he's now unbeaten in 26 competitive

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matches. And Paralympic champion Kadeena Cox

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has defended her decision to take part in the Channel 4 programme

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The Jump, saying life is a ticking time bomb and having MS has

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changed her outlook. UK Sport have suspended her funding

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while she takes part in the ski Louise Hayes has advised the likes

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of Kadeena and others, as they are still going on in their careers.

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It seems to be getting more popular. Fine if your career is over.

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Now for a quick look at the papers. The front page of the Daily

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Telegraph. They are talking about what we were just talking about with

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Iain Watson. Theresa May ready to come out of the single market if

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Europe isn't given control of their borders. And parents, leaving

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children. According to the children's Commissioner for England,

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leaving children at the mercy of the internet. Let us know what you

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think. On the front page of The Daily Mail.

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Living near a busy road can cause dementia, according to a new study.

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This is looking at some problems with people live within 50 metres of

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major routes. Sometimes the papers do things

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almost exactly the same way, the same stories. The Times talks about

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Theresa May and the exit of the Ambassador. Almost the same on the

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Guardian, but a different slant. The Sun talks about the refugees

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coming from Syria. They claim they were allowed into the UK.

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How did you watch TV over Christmas? Did you do it on demand?

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Streaming services? A mix. And DVDs?

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Yes, I watched quite a lot. Still?

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Yes! Streaming services are apparently

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exceeding DVD revenues for the first time. Sales fell below ?1 billion

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for the first time and there was a big surge in the popularity of

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paying for content, things like Netflix and Amazon. That rose to a

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market of 1.3 UE and pounds. There is a suggestion in the Guardian that

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there is only one way for that to grow. -- ?1.3 billion. It seems more

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of us arguing at like that. I don't think I watched anything

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over the holidays, apart from Breakfast offcourse! It was all on

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catch up. Not live? Yes, not live.

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It is to do with the sleep patterns. Sleep is the biggest bane of my

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life. Most of us here on this sofa. Every day I work up at 4:30am during

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the holidays. Occasionally I went back to sleep. There is a big

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article in the Mail. Is it because I was born at 5am? So my natural cycle

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is to wake up? I should go to bed early...

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Do you know when you were born? Nine o'clock in the morning and I would

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like to sleep until nine o'clock in the morning!

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I don't know. The suggestion is that whenever you were born at is when

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you are most awake. I think I was born about 6am, so

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bang on, but I think this proves it doesn't work.

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I love this story. It is mentioned in a few of the papers. A

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105-year-old man who has made cycling history, cycling more than

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14 mild around the track in one hour. Absolutely staggering. -- 14

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mild. He said the 100s category and then beat it to years later. He is

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inspiration for many! At least if you are feeling rough

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you don't look like this. This is a waxwork museum in Pennsylvania and

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some of them genuinely I don't know who they are. You probably get the

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picture. This is Michelle Obama. Apparently these are life-size

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waxworks. Barack Obama. This is Hillary Clinton!

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I mean, some of the ones down here... Anyway, if you are

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interested they are for sale! Great! I want them all!

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It would be a great Christmas present. Gettysburg, in

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Pennsylvania. Can I do this as well? We were

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talking about this yesterday. The earthquake that happened near

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Scarborough. We did ask if anybody felt it and the resounding answer

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was no. The people in Scarborough have been doing this joke pictures

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of the effects of the earthquake. A chair overturned, had -- a bin. Love

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that. Thanks. I think it is time to have a

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quick chat with Carol. This morning, if you haven't ventured out, it is

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cold and frosty! But it means for most of us we are looking at some

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wintry sunshine. To give you an idea of what is happening, high pressure

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is dominating. A lot of clear skies through the night. Where we have the

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weather front towards the west that where we've got more cloud, the

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temperature is not as low. If you are stepping out these are the

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temperatures in towns and cities. These are the values in the

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countryside. Currently -7 in Oxfordshire. Through the morning you

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can see a bit more cloud across south-west England. It's the

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remnants of that weather front. Elsewhere we've got clear skies.

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Along the east coast of England there is a bit more cloud here and

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there, thick enough to produce the odd shower. But as we traverse

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northwards into Scotland, clear skies. Northern Ireland still has a

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weather front across you, so you will have more cloud this morning.

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Through the day look at this. The blue indicates where we will see

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sunshine. Sunshine coming out nicely through the morning. Later in the

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day it may turn hazy towards the north-west. Temperature wise,

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nothing to write home about. It will feel cold. In light reasons it will

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be pleasant, crisp and sunny, except for in the west. Into the evening

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and overnight once again you can see the blue, frost and patchy fog.

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Freezing fog, especially in east Anglia and the south-east, but we

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could see it west as well. At the other end of the of the country the

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weather front is coming in, introducing rain across Scotland and

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Northern Ireland, in the north-west England and fringing in the

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north-west Wales. Tomorrow what will happen is the fog in the

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south-eastern quarter and elsewhere where it forms will take its time to

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lift. Some of it will lift into low cloud, so it will feel cold and bank

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in the south-east tomorrow. Meanwhile rain moves steadily

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southwards. Heavy burst in it. Spending time in Yorkshire and the

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east Midlands. Behind it, again we will have brighter weather, but

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there will be showers around and hill fog. Look at the temperatures,

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7-10. That's not that. Quite a difference from what we have as the

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maximum today. By the time we get to Saturday the weather front moves to

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the south. Behind it a lot of dry weather. Not that cloudy at times.

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There will be some sunshine and the odd spit and sport. Still fairly

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mild, especially in the south. As we have a look at Sunday a game, some

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sunshine. -- again. A couple of showers. The richer wise, still

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pretty good. -- temperature wise. I love crisp winter mornings. Thank

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you. Britain is short of

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budding young scientists. Only 15% of nine to 11-year-olds

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are considering the subject Today, the BBC is launching

:24:02.:24:09.

a two-year campaign to inspire a million children to get

:24:10.:24:14.

involved in science. The results will be published

:24:15.:24:16.

in academic journals as Breakfast's Jayne

:24:17.:24:18.

McCubbin reports. Behold, it's time for some science

:24:19.:24:30.

fun! This is Liz and this is a primary school in Hackney. She is

:24:31.:24:34.

here to launch the BBC's terrific scientific to help more children

:24:35.:24:38.

catch the science blog. What are we doing today? Is super exciting

:24:39.:24:42.

experiment to try to save a dinosaur from being buried in quicksand.

:24:43.:24:51.

Dinosaurs in the balls! -- bowls! We know children love science up to a

:24:52.:24:55.

certain age and then they become disengaged. This campaign is about

:24:56.:24:59.

looking to really pinpoint what the reasons might be for that and to try

:25:00.:25:09.

and change that trend. Here they are clearly into the subject. It is

:25:10.:25:12.

working! But the statistics are gloomy. Almost 40% of primary

:25:13.:25:18.

schools spend less than an hour a week on science and a 50% of nine to

:25:19.:25:23.

11 -year-olds want to be a scientist. With 40% of science and

:25:24.:25:28.

technology jobs left vacant each year, this is a real problem. Why

:25:29.:25:32.

are so many people afraid of science? I really don't know. We can

:25:33.:25:39.

see how much -- fund the children's are having. These are things lying

:25:40.:25:44.

around the house. Flower, buckets. The short answer to your question, I

:25:45.:25:50.

have no idea. But Liz has a very clear idea. She said science has an

:25:51.:25:56.

image problem. For some reason science still has a lot of

:25:57.:25:58.

stereotypes attached to it. You've got to be brainy to like science, or

:25:59.:26:05.

you've got to work in a lap, be an older gentleman with glasses and be

:26:06.:26:08.

extremely boring and you could be further from the truth. So, today

:26:09.:26:15.

she is kicking off the two year Terrific Scientific campaign, which

:26:16.:26:18.

will involve more than 1 million children and 40,000 teachers,

:26:19.:26:21.

bringing real experiments into real schools to gather real

:26:22.:26:26.

scientifically significant results and we hope it will inspire.

:26:27.:26:35.

Adventurers, creators, dreamers, innovators, climbing mountains,

:26:36.:26:38.

exploring the oceans and everything in between. For me it is clear how

:26:39.:26:41.

exciting and fun science is. And if your school wants to get

:26:42.:26:48.

involved, you can register at this website -

:26:49.:26:56.

bbc.co.uk/terrificscientific. Time now to get the news,

:26:57.:27:01.

travel and weather where you are. Plenty more on our website

:27:02.:30:23.

at the usual address. Hello, this is Breakfast

:30:24.:30:26.

with Charlie Stayt and We'll bring you all the latest news

:30:27.:30:31.

and sport in a moment, How should immigrants

:30:32.:30:36.

integrate into British life? Labour's Chuka Umunna will be

:30:37.:30:40.

here to tell us why a group of MPs think they should learn

:30:41.:30:44.

English before they arrive. Are bans on vans, boats and caravans

:30:45.:30:46.

outside owners homes snobbish? We'll look at the curious covenants

:30:47.:30:57.

imposed on residents. It reads like a criminal decathlon.

:30:58.:31:11.

That's him, that's the man I chased. You chased someone? Is their CCTV?

:31:12.:31:16.

the pathology drama Silent Witness is back.

:31:17.:31:18.

The show's stars will tell us why murky murders have seen it become

:31:19.:31:22.

the world's longest-running crime drama.

:31:23.:31:25.

But now a summary of this morning's main news:

:31:26.:31:28.

Young people are being left to face the dangers of bullying

:31:29.:31:31.

That's the warning from the Children's Commissioner for England.

:31:32.:31:35.

Anne Longfield says children, and often their parents,

:31:36.:31:37.

have no idea what they are signing up to on social media sites

:31:38.:31:41.

and pupils as young as four should be taught about internet

:31:42.:31:44.

Our education correspondent, Gillian Hargreaves, has more.

:31:45.:31:49.

Digital technology can enrich children's minds,

:31:50.:31:52.

Millions of youngsters have joined social media sites to keep in touch

:31:53.:31:58.

with friends, but many of those questioned by the commission have

:31:59.:32:01.

little idea of what they're signing up to.

:32:02.:32:05.

With pages of terms and conditions, it seems few realise

:32:06.:32:08.

The Children's Commissioner calls for the appointment of a digital

:32:09.:32:17.

ombudsman to mediate between children and social media

:32:18.:32:20.

She also recommends there should be mandatory digital citizenship

:32:21.:32:26.

courses in schools and new privacy laws to protect children's

:32:27.:32:29.

What no-one has done yet is to look at how we design and intervene

:32:30.:32:37.

with a digital world in a way that can really give children the support

:32:38.:32:41.

they need for the place they spend an awful lot of time,

:32:42.:32:44.

but also the information and the power to be able to get

:32:45.:32:48.

While Instagram, Facebook and Twitter recommend

:32:49.:32:54.

that their services are most suitable for children over the age

:32:55.:32:57.

of 13, younger children can circumvent the rules

:32:58.:32:59.

A spokesperson for the Department for Education told us there is more

:33:00.:33:19.

to be done and that they will carefully consider the report

:33:20.:33:21.

as part of their ongoing work to make the internet a safer place

:33:22.:33:25.

And in about ten minutes, we'll speak to the founder

:33:26.:33:28.

of Parent Zone who provide support to parents and schools on making

:33:29.:33:32.

Immigrants should be expected to learn English before coming

:33:33.:33:35.

to Britain or attend language classes when they arrive,

:33:36.:33:37.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on social integration also

:33:38.:33:42.

wants the Government to consider giving the UK's nations and regions

:33:43.:33:45.

the power to control the number of visas issued.

:33:46.:33:47.

The Home Office says it's made funding available for more

:33:48.:33:50.

President Barack Obama has urged his fellow Democrats to fight

:33:51.:33:57.

It comes as the incoming Trump administration began

:33:58.:34:00.

the process of repealing The Affordable Care Act.

:34:01.:34:02.

The Republican Vice President-elect, Mike Pence, had promised the process

:34:03.:34:05.

would begin on Donald Trump's first day in office,

:34:06.:34:07.

People who live near main roads may be at greater risk of dementia,

:34:08.:34:16.

according to a decade-long study by scientists in Canada.

:34:17.:34:18.

The medical causes of the brain disease have yet to be

:34:19.:34:21.

identified but the research suggests air pollution and noisy traffic

:34:22.:34:24.

The price of petrol and diesel rose to their highest levels for a year

:34:25.:34:33.

and a half in December according to the RAC.

:34:34.:34:36.

Both fuels went up by 3p a litre during the month.

:34:37.:34:40.

It now costs around ?62.80 to fill up a typical family

:34:41.:34:43.

The increasing cost of crude oil and further falls in the value

:34:44.:34:47.

of the pound are believed to be behind the trend.

:34:48.:34:54.

Letters written by Princess Diana are due to be auctioned

:34:55.:34:57.

Written to a steward at Buckingham Palace,

:34:58.:35:00.

they reveal that a young Prince Harry was routinely

:35:01.:35:03.

The collection also includes a signed Christmas card

:35:04.:35:12.

from Prince Charles and Diana and their infant children sitting

:35:13.:35:15.

I'm trying to read some of them as well. The handwriting is curious as

:35:16.:35:25.

well. Yes. Mike is here with the sport right now. Good morning.

:35:26.:35:32.

Chelsea, losing! A strange feeling for them, losing for the first time

:35:33.:35:36.

since September, that was Arsenal so they don't like North London that

:35:37.:35:44.

much! But for the rest of the league it's important someone worked out

:35:45.:35:47.

how to beat them, especially this man, Dele Alli, the England man.

:35:48.:35:50.

Chelsea's impressive winning streak is over after they were beaten

:35:51.:35:53.

by Spurs 2-0 at white Hart Lane last night.

:35:54.:35:55.

After 13 straight victories Chelsea needed just one

:35:56.:35:57.

But two goals from Spurs' Dele Alli ended any hope of that.

:35:58.:36:02.

Chelsea remain five points clear at the top, but the win for Spurs

:36:03.:36:06.

Very, very proud of them. I think that we showed character and we were

:36:07.:36:18.

competitive in a tough game like today. It is good for the team and

:36:19.:36:26.

for that it is important now to keep going and believe because football

:36:27.:36:27.

is about belief. It's a pity but it's important to

:36:28.:36:39.

know that this can happen. It's important now to start and continue

:36:40.:36:43.

to work very hard and to try to improve everyday.

:36:44.:36:45.

Everton's Yannick Bolasie could be out with injury until 2018,

:36:46.:36:48.

his manager Ronald Koeman confirmed last night.

:36:49.:36:51.

Bolasie injured his knee last month in the 1-1 draw

:36:52.:36:54.

Koeman says it could be up to 12 months before he's back playing.

:36:55.:36:58.

Sir Andy Murray has extended his career-best winning streak to 26

:36:59.:37:01.

competitive matches by making it through to the quarter finals

:37:02.:37:05.

of the Qatar Open but he was made to work for it

:37:06.:37:08.

against the world number 68 Gerald Melzer.

:37:09.:37:10.

The Austrian took Murray to a tie-break in the first set

:37:11.:37:13.

but the world number one eventually came through 7-6, 7-5.

:37:14.:37:22.

He will face Spain's Nicolas Almagro next.

:37:23.:37:25.

England and Leicester centre Manu Tuilagi has been ruled out

:37:26.:37:28.

of the 6 Nations and next summer's Lions tour with a knee injury

:37:29.:37:34.

and it's another blow for the player who has suffered

:37:35.:37:37.

a string of injuries over the last three seasons.

:37:38.:37:40.

He's appeared just 23 times for Leicester since 2013

:37:41.:37:42.

and just once for England under Eddie Jones.

:37:43.:37:44.

Paralympic champion Kadeena Cox has defended her decision to take part

:37:45.:37:48.

in the Channel 4 programme The Jump, describing life

:37:49.:37:50.

UK Sport have suspended her funding while she takes part

:37:51.:37:55.

in which participants learn to ski jump.

:37:56.:38:00.

On social media, Cox said her diagnosis of MS had

:38:01.:38:06.

changed her outlook on life, so she was going to enjoy skiing.

:38:07.:38:10.

MS Dhoni has stepped down as India's one day captain ahead of the ODI

:38:11.:38:15.

series against England, which begins later this month.

:38:16.:38:19.

And England's ODI captain Eoin Morgan will be hoping

:38:20.:38:22.

in that series to replicate his big hitting

:38:23.:38:24.

in the Big Big Bash League in Australia.

:38:25.:38:26.

His Sydney Thunder side needed a six off the final ball

:38:27.:38:29.

of the match to win against Melbourne Thunder,

:38:30.:38:35.

and under pressure, he smashed it into the stands.

:38:36.:38:37.

It was Morgan's final appearance in the Big Bash before he joins

:38:38.:38:41.

Now, we all know as we get older, keeping fit takes a bit more effort

:38:42.:38:47.

which makes the achievements of Frenchman Robert Marchand

:38:48.:38:50.

At the age of 105, he's set a new record

:38:51.:38:53.

for the furthest distance cycled in one hour for riders of his age.

:38:54.:39:02.

He managed 22 kilometres in 60 minutes, all down to six

:39:03.:39:05.

He already held the record for those aged over 100,

:39:06.:39:10.

Afterwards he said he could have done better and while his legs

:39:11.:39:15.

I just think he's brilliant. I'm not in anyway belittling what he did but

:39:16.:39:27.

he beat the record for somebody his age, how many 105 -year-olds Chris

:39:28.:39:34.

white he has still got to beat himself. Just amazing -- 105

:39:35.:39:41.

-year-olds? Just to put it into context, he was born just before the

:39:42.:39:47.

First World War. He would probably beat both of us! Fantastic, thank

:39:48.:39:49.

you. Whether it's on their tablets

:39:50.:39:51.

or smartphones, children are using social media sites

:39:52.:39:53.

more than ever before. But a new study by the

:39:54.:39:56.

Children's Commissioner for England says that they are

:39:57.:39:58.

ill-prepared to deal with problems they commonly find online,

:39:59.:40:01.

such as cyber-bulling Vicki Shotbolt is the founder

:40:02.:40:03.

of Parent Zone, an organisation that provides advice and information

:40:04.:40:08.

to families and schools. Good morning and thanks very much.

:40:09.:40:19.

It's interesting, we talk about this on Breakfast a lot but it seems

:40:20.:40:24.

worrying what she is saying about children being left on their own to

:40:25.:40:29.

cope with an adult space. It's not true to say they are just left on

:40:30.:40:33.

their own, parents are working hard to do their bit to keep kids safe

:40:34.:40:40.

online and schools are doing a lot but children are struggling and that

:40:41.:40:44.

is worrying. Where are the dangers lying? It is absolutely right she

:40:45.:40:49.

has picked up on the issue of privacy and understanding the terms

:40:50.:40:54.

and conditions. Do that one by one, prove as the first of all, what is

:40:55.:40:59.

the risk? We are all used to it, not just children, adults do the same

:41:00.:41:04.

thing, you go on social media and you don't look at the terms and

:41:05.:41:08.

conditions, 17 pages some of them, they are interminable but you do it

:41:09.:41:13.

anyway. What is the risk with young people? All that data is going

:41:14.:41:18.

somewhere, young people are telling services a great deal about

:41:19.:41:21.

themselves and I was listening to the news this morning talking about

:41:22.:41:25.

the Internet of things, we will be sharing even more. We are telling

:41:26.:41:33.

our friends where they are and what they do and where they go to school

:41:34.:41:37.

but you're building up this history for yourself... At the moment if you

:41:38.:41:40.

fill in a university application, in five years you might not need to

:41:41.:41:43.

because everything people need to know is online and very findable.

:41:44.:41:47.

That might not be a bad thing but it is something that young people

:41:48.:41:52.

should understand and be thinking about. What are the parents most

:41:53.:41:56.

concerned about, when something has gone wrong? That's when it becomes a

:41:57.:42:01.

problem. Absolutely, they are concerned when their kids have had a

:42:02.:42:05.

bad issue and any experience online that is miserable but the other

:42:06.:42:09.

thing they worry about is what kids see online and they see lots of

:42:10.:42:12.

upsetting stuff that you would never be exposed to a few years ago.

:42:13.:42:19.

Sometimes young people think... It is dangerous to stereotype but

:42:20.:42:22.

sometimes young people think they understand it and their parents

:42:23.:42:26.

don't but they are OK, it is a hard conversation to have. It is and it

:42:27.:42:32.

won't get any easier because young people will always use tech

:42:33.:42:37.

differently to parents. Parents should put aside the tech because

:42:38.:42:41.

it's not really about that, it's about social skills and being savvy,

:42:42.:42:45.

all the lessons you teach your kids about being off-line, do it online

:42:46.:42:52.

as well. One of the ideas is that of an ombudsman. Sometimes people don't

:42:53.:42:57.

have much faith in those individuals or organisations, what do you think?

:42:58.:43:02.

It's really interesting because who is looking after children's rights

:43:03.:43:06.

and interests online? It's not parents because the online world

:43:07.:43:12.

treat children as adults when they're over 13. They would be very

:43:13.:43:17.

busy, though, they would be inundated. Thanks for much, we will

:43:18.:43:22.

be talking about this later. Three to four -year-olds online are

:43:23.:43:25.

spending over eight hours a week over the last year, which is an

:43:26.:43:30.

extraordinary figure. We will be talking about that with Anne

:43:31.:43:33.

Longfield later and a victim of cyber bullying.

:43:34.:43:33.

The Department for Education told us that there is more work to do

:43:34.:43:37.

and that they will carefully consider this report's

:43:38.:43:39.

recommendations as part of their ongoing work to make

:43:40.:43:41.

the internet a safer place for children.

:43:42.:43:45.

Carol has the weather for us. Good morning.

:43:46.:43:49.

Good morning. A cold start if you haven't gone out start, these are

:43:50.:43:56.

the current temperatures, Benson in Oxfordshire is -8, the lowest

:43:57.:44:04.

temperature in England this winter. In London it is -4 but where we have

:44:05.:44:08.

more cloud in the west, temperatures not that low. A frost east, there

:44:09.:44:15.

will be a lot of winter sunshine under those clear skies and for most

:44:16.:44:20.

of us it's going to be a dry day. High pressure is firmly in charge of

:44:21.:44:24.

our weather and this is the weather front, remnants from yesterday in

:44:25.:44:28.

the west is producing thick cloud and keeping the temperatures that

:44:29.:44:32.

bit higher. Maybe the odd spot coming out of but nothing

:44:33.:44:36.

significant. Across southern counties, a lot of blue sky day when

:44:37.:44:40.

the sun gets up and the same in Midlands, the east Wales and the

:44:41.:44:44.

west coast of England. Cloud and the odd shower but hit and miss.

:44:45.:44:49.

Northern Ireland under the same weather front as south-west England,

:44:50.:44:52.

more cloud for you and into Scotland, a cold and frosty start

:44:53.:44:56.

with the temperature in Glasgow at the moment -5, -3 in Edinburgh.

:44:57.:45:01.

Through the morning the sun will come out and it will be a beautiful

:45:02.:45:06.

crisp winter's day with light breezes. The sunshine turning hazier

:45:07.:45:10.

in the north-west later ahead of a weather front and for most it will

:45:11.:45:14.

turn cold, seven degrees but it won't be too bad if you're in

:45:15.:45:18.

Belfast. Through the evening and overnight, you can see the blue on

:45:19.:45:22.

the chart, cold and frosty, cloud building ahead of the weather front.

:45:23.:45:27.

That will lift some of that but we will see patchy fog forming and some

:45:28.:45:30.

will be freezing, especially in East Anglia and the south-east but you

:45:31.:45:34.

can see fog patches forming further west. Meanwhile our band of rain

:45:35.:45:39.

moving across Scotland and Northern Ireland, getting into north-west

:45:40.:45:42.

England and north-west Wales, breezy around that. Tomorrow morning our

:45:43.:45:47.

weather front continues going south. Default in the south-eastern quarter

:45:48.:45:51.

and further west will take its time to lift, some will lift into low

:45:52.:45:56.

cloud -- the fog. Low cloud and at times it will feel quite dank. This

:45:57.:46:01.

is the weather front bringing rain across much of northern England,

:46:02.:46:05.

into northern England, Wales and the Southwest. Behind it they will be

:46:06.:46:11.

hill fog around, look at the temperatures, higher than today so

:46:12.:46:16.

we have ten in Stornoway, seven towards Cardiff and ten in Plymouth

:46:17.:46:19.

but if you're under the cloud with the fog in the south-east it will

:46:20.:46:24.

feel cold. Then the weather front clears altogether on Saturday,

:46:25.:46:28.

leaving a dry and brighter day with variable cloud and sunshine. Still

:46:29.:46:31.

high-temperature is for the time of year and Sunday is very similar, but

:46:32.:46:37.

later on Sunday a new weather front from the west -- still

:46:38.:46:40.

high-temperature is. Still mild for this stage in January.

:46:41.:46:45.

The start of a new year, but what does it have

:46:46.:46:47.

Ben's looking at what we know about the year ahead.

:46:48.:46:54.

I am having a look at what's in store for this year. Good morning.

:46:55.:47:02.

Businesses and all of us hoping for a bit of optimism after a rather

:47:03.:47:06.

unpredictable end to last year. The vote to leave the EU had a big

:47:07.:47:10.

effect on business here. Donald Trump's victory in the US has raced

:47:11.:47:13.

big questions for the global economy. What happens next? The

:47:14.:47:18.

British chamber of commerce has spoken to over 7000 businesses up

:47:19.:47:22.

and down the country and the results show a mixed bag for the year ahead.

:47:23.:47:27.

Let's have a look at the details. At the end of last year it was good for

:47:28.:47:31.

manufacturing and exports, and that was thanks to a boost from the week

:47:32.:47:36.

pound. The study also showed more optimism in the all-important

:47:37.:47:41.

service set. But sadly it isn't all good news. Any firm say they will

:47:42.:47:45.

have to raise prices because of higher costs of imports, due to the

:47:46.:47:50.

slump in the sterling since the Brexit vote. And petrol prices are

:47:51.:47:57.

at an 18 month high and they will rise even further this year. One

:47:58.:48:04.

thing to warn you about, you will hear a lot about inflation over the

:48:05.:48:08.

next year or so. It will be a big issue and it will affect wages, jobs

:48:09.:48:11.

and economic growth. Let's delve into the numbers.

:48:12.:48:13.

Andrew McPhillips, Chief Economist at Yorkshire Building Society,

:48:14.:48:15.

We've listed the good and bad. I suppose my first question is, does

:48:16.:48:23.

the good outweigh the bad? The important thing to know is the

:48:24.:48:33.

manufacturing, we've seen in pact of the pound helping manufacturers, and

:48:34.:48:38.

a lot of the bad, the rising cost of living, there is quite a lot of

:48:39.:48:43.

speculation on how inflation could rise, probably about 2.5% - 3%.

:48:44.:48:48.

Probably likely to be a bit higher than wages. These are the things

:48:49.:48:55.

that are still the unknown is to a large extent, because yesterday we

:48:56.:49:01.

heard Next would have to put up their prices and others say they

:49:02.:49:05.

will have to raise prices due to the rising cost of imports and we won't

:49:06.:49:09.

get a pay increase. So the money in our pocket will get tighter. And in

:49:10.:49:14.

part that's what has kept the economy going. Consumer spending on

:49:15.:49:19.

the high street has been part of the economy. That picture if we get the

:49:20.:49:25.

rising cost of living will mean people will feel that in their

:49:26.:49:29.

pockets and that's the risk to the year ahead. That will lead to

:49:30.:49:33.

economic growth slowing. And that clearly has an effect on other

:49:34.:49:37.

stuff. To look at the good stuff, manufacturing which has been a

:49:38.:49:40.

surprising success story towards the end of last year, especially

:49:41.:49:45.

exports. It was stronger than people expected. People forecast that we

:49:46.:49:51.

would have a sharp slowdown in the UK economy and that hasn't come

:49:52.:49:54.

through and manufacturers are feeling the benefit of the falling

:49:55.:49:57.

pound. Not as good for people going on holiday. We should try to

:49:58.:50:02.

rebalance the economy back towards manufacturing rather than services.

:50:03.:50:06.

That's a good story that came out of last year. And one we will follow

:50:07.:50:11.

this year. I suppose the question is, what does this year have in

:50:12.:50:19.

store? There are so many questions. What do you think will be the

:50:20.:50:22.

underlying theme? The issue of inflation? Yes, regardless of which

:50:23.:50:27.

side of the referendum you were wrong, Brexit will have a big

:50:28.:50:34.

impact. Donald Trump, we have no idea what he will do in terms of

:50:35.:50:39.

whether he pulls through with the campaign pledges and that's likely

:50:40.:50:42.

to be a longer term picture. So I think the story of the year is

:50:43.:50:46.

whether inflation turns out to be as bad as people fear, or whether the

:50:47.:50:51.

forecasters who are inherently uncertain... It might not be as

:50:52.:50:56.

severe as some people predicted. We will watch closely, because who

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knows how these things turn out. Thanks very much. That's all from

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me. More later. The latest driverless car,

:51:02.:51:04.

headphones that can translate languages instantly and the latest

:51:05.:51:08.

smart gadgets for the home. Including bears that can stop people

:51:09.:51:23.

snoring! I don't know why you look concerned!

:51:24.:51:23.

These are just some of the things we can expect from this year's

:51:24.:51:27.

International Consumer Electronics Show.

:51:28.:51:29.

Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is in Las Vegas

:51:30.:51:31.

ahead of one of the biggest events in the tech industry.

:51:32.:51:35.

Rory, what new technology is going to wow us in 2017?

:51:36.:51:42.

Yes, the big thing this year is fountains. I am not being serious,

:51:43.:51:51.

of course. Not many people will have smart fountains. At all of the

:51:52.:51:56.

gadgets this year as talking about artificial intelligence, artificial

:51:57.:52:02.

intelligence which is the radical and researched out of laboratories

:52:03.:52:05.

is coming out of the laboratories and coming to all sorts of products,

:52:06.:52:09.

making everything smarter, from your car all sorts of products around

:52:10.:52:15.

your home. Audio devices will now be smart.

:52:16.:52:18.

In a penthouse suite at a ritzy Las Vegas hotel, smart home exhibits are

:52:19.:52:25.

on show. There is a smart speaker for children, each toy is a

:52:26.:52:34.

playlist. Kung fu fighting... A voice activated door lock. And

:52:35.:52:43.

upstairs... There's even Nora, described as a smart snoring

:52:44.:52:48.

solution. It is paired with a pad under the pillow which detects the

:52:49.:52:51.

snoring and moves just enough to stop me without waking me up. The

:52:52.:52:58.

big scene this year is turning the advances in artificial intelligence

:52:59.:53:02.

into products. -- big theme. There are robots of course. This one is

:53:03.:53:06.

meant to be a shop assistant, while this one is designed as a companion

:53:07.:53:10.

for children or elderly people. AI seems to get everywhere, even into

:53:11.:53:14.

this toothbrush, which learns how you brush your teeth. Artificial

:53:15.:53:18.

intelligence is not just gathering the data, it is being able to use

:53:19.:53:22.

it. Then you learn where your weaknesses are, where your strengths

:53:23.:53:27.

are and the person -- purpose is to become better at taking care of your

:53:28.:53:31.

oral health. This walking stick is also smarter than it looks. An

:53:32.:53:36.

inbuilt mobile phone SIM card means it can help if there is an accident.

:53:37.:53:40.

It will detect the fall of the user and when it detects it it will alert

:53:41.:53:45.

the family or the neighbour, so they can come and help these people. And

:53:46.:53:50.

this clever mirror helps anyone to try out make-up. We have a new Las

:53:51.:53:57.

Vegas! Out on the Las Vegas strip, this young entrepreneur from

:53:58.:54:00.

Manchester has just flown in. Welcome to Las Vegas. His instant

:54:01.:54:06.

translation headphones aren't quite ready. They will eventually be tiny

:54:07.:54:09.

earbuds, that he is still looking forward to CES. This is important

:54:10.:54:15.

because we will be able to showcase what we've been working on to the

:54:16.:54:20.

world, to show this is something we started years ago as a small team,

:54:21.:54:24.

as a small start-up, with dedication and passion. The odds are against

:54:25.:54:29.

Danny, a 1-man bands taking on giants like Apple and Google, but he

:54:30.:54:34.

is betting that he has the product that can change the world. Now,

:54:35.:54:40.

Danny is quite a rare breed because he is one of the few British

:54:41.:54:44.

companies actually exhibiting here. He has come under his own steam, has

:54:45.:54:48.

cost a lot of money and haven't had any government health. There's been

:54:49.:54:52.

some controversy about how few British ones there are here compared

:54:53.:54:56.

to other countries. There are loads of French companies, all sorts of

:54:57.:55:00.

French government institutions supporting their companies. There

:55:01.:55:04.

are 1300 Chinese firms. But the British government says it does

:55:05.:55:07.

support people coming to this show, it gives them moral support at

:55:08.:55:11.

least, at the question is whether or money should have been spent on

:55:12.:55:15.

making the British voice heard a bit louder this week in Vegas.

:55:16.:55:19.

If you could bring on home, what would be the piece of technology?

:55:20.:55:25.

The piece of technology that I love at the moment is a robot that can be

:55:26.:55:31.

controlled by voice. The Alexis system has been put into a robot and

:55:32.:55:35.

that robot, I've seen it doing yoga lessons this morning. I want that

:55:36.:55:41.

robot to come home and take me to a few yoga exercises. I would rather

:55:42.:55:47.

it did the ironing! I would quite like to see that. You

:55:48.:55:50.

Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:55:51.:59:14.

Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

:59:15.:59:16.

Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and

:59:17.:00:04.

Left to "fend for themselves" online -

:00:05.:00:06.

a new report says more needs to be done to protect children.

:00:07.:00:09.

Compulsory internet safety lessons in schools and new privacy laws

:00:10.:00:12.

are being proposed by England's Children's Commissioner.

:00:13.:00:31.

Good morning, it's Thursday January 5.

:00:32.:00:32.

A new ambassador to the EU - Sir Tim Barrow's appointment has

:00:33.:00:37.

been broadly welcomed on both sides of the Brexit debate.

:00:38.:00:42.

People who live near major roads may have higher rates of dementia

:00:43.:00:45.

according to research published today.

:00:46.:00:51.

We bought a record number of new cars in the UK this year

:00:52.:00:55.

according to industry figures out this morning.

:00:56.:00:56.

But with ownership predicted to fall next year and the rise of Uber

:00:57.:01:00.

will owning a car outright become a thing of the past?

:01:01.:01:04.

In sport - Chelsea's winning run comes to an end as the League

:01:05.:01:07.

leaders are beaten at Tottenham.

:01:08.:01:09.

Two goals from Delle Alli do the damage at White Hart Lane

:01:10.:01:12.

as they win 2-0 and move up to third.

:01:13.:01:16.

We'll hear about plans to find the next generation

:01:17.:01:18.

We are going to do a super experiment to hear about a dinosaur

:01:19.:01:25.

varied. -- buried. According to the start in that

:01:26.:01:37.

England has had the lowest temp richer recorded. A lot of sunshine

:01:38.:01:44.

up and down the loud, -- the land. I will let more details in 15 minutes.

:01:45.:01:47.

Our main story is a warning from the Children's Commissioner

:01:48.:01:50.

for England that young people are left to face the dangers

:01:51.:01:56.

of bullying and grooming online alone.

:01:57.:01:57.

Anne Longfield says children and often their parents

:01:58.:01:59.

have no idea what they are signing up to on social media sites

:02:00.:02:03.

and pupils as young as four should be taught about internet

:02:04.:02:06.

Our Education correspondent, Gillian Hargreaves has more.

:02:07.:02:09.

Digital technology can enrich children's minds,

:02:10.:02:10.

Millions of youngsters have joined social media sites to keep in touch

:02:11.:02:18.

with friends, but many of those questioned by the commission have

:02:19.:02:21.

little idea of what they're signing up to.

:02:22.:02:23.

With pages of terms and conditions, it seems few realise

:02:24.:02:26.

The Children's Commissioner calls for the appointment of a digital

:02:27.:02:32.

ombudsman to mediate between children and social media

:02:33.:02:34.

She also recommends there should be mandatory digital citizenship

:02:35.:02:38.

courses in schools and new privacy laws to protect children's

:02:39.:02:41.

What no-one has done yet is to look at how we design and intervene

:02:42.:02:54.

with a digital world in a way that can really give children the support

:02:55.:02:57.

they need for the place they spend an awful lot of time,

:02:58.:03:01.

but also the information and the power to be able to get

:03:02.:03:04.

While Instagram, Facebook and Twitter recommend

:03:05.:03:18.

that their services are most suitable for children over the age

:03:19.:03:21.

of 13, younger children can circumvent the rules

:03:22.:03:24.

A spokesperson for the Department for Education told us there is more

:03:25.:03:32.

to be done and that they will carefully consider the report

:03:33.:03:35.

as part of their ongoing work to make the internet a safer

:03:36.:03:38.

The appointment of Sir Tim Barrow as the UK's new ambassador

:03:39.:03:43.

to the European Union has been welcomed by almost

:03:44.:03:45.

He replaces Sir Ivan Rogers, who resigned on Tuesday

:03:46.:03:49.

after complaining of muddle and confusion in the approach to

:03:50.:03:51.

Our political correspondent, Iain Watson joins us now.

:03:52.:03:56.

Iain - what is Theresa May doing to get back on the front foot?

:03:57.:04:01.

Let's go through some of the basic. What we need to know about Sir Tim

:04:02.:04:11.

Barrow? Downing Street say here that seasoned and a tough negotiator. He

:04:12.:04:16.

has experience in Brussels. He was an ambassador to Moscow relatively

:04:17.:04:19.

recently when relations with Russia were not so good. For that,

:04:20.:04:24.

ambassador to Ukraine. Also it has been welcomed from people across the

:04:25.:04:28.

political spectrum, not from Nigel Farage of UKIP. He wanted a Brexit

:04:29.:04:37.

true believer in their. -- there. He has also worked closely with Boris

:04:38.:04:41.

Johnson as a political director in the Foreign Office and Johnson spoke

:04:42.:04:51.

warmly of him. Partly, he ended himself to the Conservative Party is

:04:52.:04:55.

because during the previous state in Brussels he was in charge of

:04:56.:04:59.

security policy and arguing against an EU army during difficult times in

:05:00.:05:11.

Europe. Moving forward, Sir Arjun Rogers told about the model and

:05:12.:05:15.

confusion over Brexit. -- Sir Ivan Rogers. Theresa May hoping to change

:05:16.:05:19.

the sentiment around that. She might make a statement relating to her

:05:20.:05:24.

attitude and the steps ahead now, some papers are saying. She kept

:05:25.:05:32.

silent on Sir Ivan Rogers' key charge that she didn't have any

:05:33.:05:36.

negotiating object is just before triggering Article 50 but now she

:05:37.:05:40.

has to answer the key criticisms. She will be taking to the airwaves

:05:41.:05:44.

herself this weekend. We are expecting a major speech on Europe

:05:45.:05:47.

this month. The question really is whether she goes beyond some of the

:05:48.:05:51.

strong hints we have had from her before including at the Conservative

:05:52.:05:56.

conference last year when she said we want to control our borders and

:05:57.:06:00.

be outside the jurisdiction of the EU Court. Ishiguro to be more

:06:01.:06:06.

explicit about access to the single market? Before she makes the speech,

:06:07.:06:10.

she will be under some pressure from Labour. They will be pressing

:06:11.:06:19.

ministers, possibly David Davies rather than Theresa May, to make a

:06:20.:06:21.

statement here at Westminster. Immigrants should be expected

:06:22.:06:24.

to learn English before coming to Britain or attend language

:06:25.:06:26.

classes when they arrive. That's what a group

:06:27.:06:29.

of MPs are calling for. The All Party Parliamentary Group

:06:30.:06:31.

on social integration also wants the Government to consider

:06:32.:06:34.

giving the UK's nations and regions the power to control

:06:35.:06:37.

the number of visas issued. Here's our home affairs

:06:38.:06:39.

correspondent, Danny Shaw. Over the past decade,

:06:40.:06:43.

the scale of immigration to Britain sparking debate about

:06:44.:06:46.

whether the numbers should be But this report from MPs and peers

:06:47.:06:55.

says there should be more focus on what happens after

:06:56.:07:00.

immigrants arrives. It says many immigrant communities

:07:01.:07:02.

and people already settles here lead parallel lives and it calls

:07:03.:07:06.

on the government to address what it The report makes a number

:07:07.:07:09.

of recommendations. It says all immigrants should learn

:07:10.:07:15.

English before coming to the UK or enrol in classes

:07:16.:07:18.

when they are here. It calls for courses to teach

:07:19.:07:21.

immigrants about British culture and the report says that government

:07:22.:07:24.

should give immigrants guidance on the costs and benefits of UK

:07:25.:07:26.

citizenship and consider cutting A lack of integration for newcomers

:07:27.:07:29.

leads to them not having access to the same opportunities and can

:07:30.:07:36.

lead to an increase in distrust All the things that make living

:07:37.:07:40.

in England and Britain great You cannot enjoy what this country

:07:41.:07:50.

has to offer if you don't Another idea in the report

:07:51.:07:54.

is for immigration policy to be devolved to Britain's

:07:55.:07:58.

nations and regions. They'd be able to allocate visas

:07:59.:08:04.

according to local need. The report says that might instil

:08:05.:08:07.

confidence among members of the public that the immigration

:08:08.:08:10.

system works for their area. The Home Office says it is not

:08:11.:08:13.

planning to introduce local visa arrangements but the department says

:08:14.:08:16.

it has made funding available President Barack Obama has

:08:17.:08:19.

urged his fellow Democrats to fight It comes as the incoming Trump

:08:20.:08:27.

administration began the process of repealing the

:08:28.:08:31.

Affordable Care Act. The Republican vice-president-elect,

:08:32.:08:33.

Mike Pence, had promised the process would begin on Donald Trump's

:08:34.:08:35.

first day in office - People who live near main roads may

:08:36.:08:38.

be at greater risk of dementia, according to a decade-long study

:08:39.:08:47.

by scientists in Canada. The medical causes of the brain

:08:48.:08:50.

disease have yet to be identified but the research suggests

:08:51.:08:54.

air pollution and noisy traffic Memories lost, thoughts confused,

:08:55.:08:56.

personalities gradually fading. Dementia affects 850,000

:08:57.:09:07.

people in the UK. Now there's a claim it

:09:08.:09:11.

could be linked to traffic. This study from Canada shows that

:09:12.:09:15.

people living close to busy roads had higher chances of

:09:16.:09:19.

developing dementia. Researchers in Ontario followed more

:09:20.:09:23.

than 2 million people over 11 years. The ones who lived within 50 metres

:09:24.:09:28.

of heavy traffic had a 12% higher risk of dementia than those more

:09:29.:09:32.

than 200 metres away. So what is it that's actually

:09:33.:09:38.

affecting the brain? Ultra-fine particles,

:09:39.:09:40.

the very smallest ones, can actually move across the lungs

:09:41.:09:44.

into the bloodstream and circulate How those particles work,

:09:45.:09:48.

a bit speculative, but one hypothesis is fairly non-specific

:09:49.:09:51.

effects on inflammation So we have a potential mechanism

:09:52.:09:56.

but it's far from proven. Experts here have cautiously

:09:57.:10:03.

welcomed the results They've stressed it shows

:10:04.:10:05.

an association, not a cause. They've pointed out dementia

:10:06.:10:09.

is also affected by age, lifestyle and genetics.

:10:10.:10:13.

But they are encouraging further research into the impact

:10:14.:10:16.

of traffic and pollution. Doubt has been cast on the NHS

:10:17.:10:18.

programme for screening those Researchers at Oxford University say

:10:19.:10:30.

its unlikely to have much impact. It concluded that inaccurate

:10:31.:10:35.

blood tests would give too many people an incorrect

:10:36.:10:37.

diagnosis, while lifestyle changes The director of the NHS programme

:10:38.:10:40.

said its approach was based The price of petrol and diesel rose

:10:41.:10:44.

to their highest levels for 1.5 years in December

:10:45.:10:55.

according to the RAC. Both fuels went up by three pence

:10:56.:10:57.

a litre during the month. It now costs around ?62.80

:10:58.:11:00.

to fill up a typical family The increasing cost of crude oil

:11:01.:11:03.

and further falls in the value of the pound are believed

:11:04.:11:07.

to be behind the trend. A figure of a soldier

:11:08.:11:16.

from the First World War has been It's nearly six metres tall and took

:11:17.:11:19.

a blacksmith three months to make Martin Galbavy used items

:11:20.:11:24.

including spanners, brake discs and horse shoes

:11:25.:11:31.

to create the impressive work. It's a stunning, isn't it? When it

:11:32.:11:49.

you see it next to the building, you get a sense of the scale.

:11:50.:11:50.

Being able to speak English is 'key' to integrating into British life.

:11:51.:11:54.

That's according to MPs who want immigrants to learn the language

:11:55.:11:57.

They also want the Government to consider giving regions

:11:58.:12:00.

Labour's Chuka Umunna chairs the All Party Parliamentary Group

:12:01.:12:04.

He joins us from our London newsroom.

:12:05.:12:15.

Good morning. You are saying immigrants should be fitted to learn

:12:16.:12:23.

English before coming to Britain. How would prove that that's what

:12:24.:12:28.

they have done? To set this report in context, we have spent time in

:12:29.:12:31.

this country talking about the numbers of people committed the UK

:12:32.:12:35.

and of course that is important but widow and spent time talking about

:12:36.:12:40.

what happens when they get here. -- we don't spend time. An important

:12:41.:12:44.

part of being integrated into UK society when you come and work and

:12:45.:12:47.

settle here is being able to speak English. We believe that because of

:12:48.:12:52.

that, either you should be required to have a certain level of English

:12:53.:12:56.

before you come here or certainly if you do come here and you don't have

:12:57.:12:59.

sufficient proficiency in English, you should be in rolled on

:13:00.:13:03.

compulsory English language classes so you can be part of our community

:13:04.:13:13.

-- enrolled. It denies you opportunities, health outcomes are

:13:14.:13:19.

worse, you do -- don't get a chance to be part of the community. Really

:13:20.:13:25.

importantly, integration is a 2-way street. Of course, there is a role

:13:26.:13:30.

in certain obligations and people who come here to integrate and that

:13:31.:13:34.

is why we say learning English be an expectation that also, there's an

:13:35.:13:37.

obligation on the host community as well. We need to properly fund

:13:38.:13:41.

English language learning classes and employers need to give people

:13:42.:13:48.

sufficient space. Can you answer the first question I asked you. You made

:13:49.:13:52.

your point. How can you prove they have that level of English? In

:13:53.:13:56.

Australia, they carry out certain tests. This is an interim report. In

:13:57.:14:05.

terms of the exact detail, we are going to produce more detail on how

:14:06.:14:10.

exactly that might work in the final report of this enquiry. The other

:14:11.:14:15.

suggestion is that a regional authorities could allocate visas.

:14:16.:14:18.

This is something I know you are looking at. Would be able to

:14:19.:14:23.

allocate visas in accordance to local need. How would that work? How

:14:24.:14:28.

could you ensure that somebody goes to a particular region? We know

:14:29.:14:31.

people care about numbers but actually they care about the numbers

:14:32.:14:35.

of people coming here far less than they do about control. One way of

:14:36.:14:40.

instilling more confidence in the system and maintaining the consensus

:14:41.:14:47.

in our country from an -- for managed migration is to set need to

:14:48.:14:52.

the niche in -- regions of the UK much as they do in Canada. Different

:14:53.:14:58.

provinces in Canada set out their needs according to their sectors and

:14:59.:15:04.

different labour markets. For example, on our committee, people

:15:05.:15:08.

from Scotland and SNP members, they want to see immigrants go up but in

:15:09.:15:13.

other parts of the UK and parts of England, people would like to see

:15:14.:15:17.

that reduced. What we are saying is let's give the power to set need to

:15:18.:15:23.

local areas and regions. That way I think we can detoxify this debate

:15:24.:15:28.

because then it won't be seen as Westminster imposing immigration on

:15:29.:15:32.

you and saying look, and except all these people for... Does that mean

:15:33.:15:39.

for example a region can say, right, we don't want any immigrants, is

:15:40.:15:41.

that what you are saying? You could feasibly do that. In

:15:42.:15:55.

Canada they have all the different provinces there and they want more

:15:56.:16:00.

migrants. Generally in our countries you look at the attitudes of people

:16:01.:16:04.

towards EU citizens currently living in the UK there is no desire to

:16:05.:16:08.

reject those citizens. I went to box in which recorded the largest leave

:16:09.:16:16.

vote. Very few people there want to get rid of their Eastern Europeans.

:16:17.:16:21.

And that was a question of having more control. Different areas will

:16:22.:16:26.

want more less but the question, the issue here is to give them the power

:16:27.:16:31.

to set that. Local businesses, for example, and the need of the economy

:16:32.:16:35.

dictate that most parts of the UK will need more immigrants but let

:16:36.:16:39.

them be the determinants of that. That way I think we do get to

:16:40.:16:43.

detoxify what has become a very toxic and polarised debate between

:16:44.:16:48.

those who want to shut the Borders and others who say they want open

:16:49.:16:52.

borders. In the end, the British people are in the middle. They want

:16:53.:16:57.

more control and I think that is how we can maintain the consensus we

:16:58.:17:01.

have always had in this country for managed migration. Thank you for

:17:02.:17:06.

your time. And looking at the statement from the Home Office it is

:17:07.:17:11.

not planning to introduce local visa arrangements at a holiday has made

:17:12.:17:15.

funding available for more English lessons. If you have not been out

:17:16.:17:20.

and about this morning I will give you a heads up. It is cold. Carol

:17:21.:17:23.

has the details. Good morning to you both. Louise is

:17:24.:17:31.

correct. The lowest temperature of this winter so far in England. It

:17:32.:17:40.

was -8 Celsius in Oxfordshire. Manchester -5, Glasgow -5, Cardiff

:17:41.:17:48.

minus two. We have the remnants of yesterday 's weather front. That

:17:49.:17:53.

will help maintain the temperature level. It is a cold and frosty start

:17:54.:17:58.

the day but there will be a lot of winter sunshine at and down the land

:17:59.:18:03.

with light and a few exceptions. One of them is this where the frontier.

:18:04.:18:08.

This is what is maintaining the temperature level across parts of

:18:09.:18:11.

Wales and south-west England and Northern Ireland with more cloud.

:18:12.:18:15.

You can see a splash of rain coming out but nothing too significant.

:18:16.:18:19.

Across the southern counties there will be blue skies from the word go.

:18:20.:18:24.

That extends all the way up into Scotland. On the east coast of

:18:25.:18:27.

England you may just find clouds again for a couple of showers here

:18:28.:18:32.

and there and we have thick cloud across most of Northern Ireland as

:18:33.:18:36.

the temperatures are above freezing. There is always an exception and

:18:37.:18:39.

there is one place well below freezing. Through the course of the

:18:40.:18:43.

morning and hang on to blue skies and eventually we lose the showers

:18:44.:18:48.

from the east of England but most of us will mist them anyway. Art was

:18:49.:18:52.

the worst you will find a bit more cloud building ahead of a weather

:18:53.:18:55.

front so the sunshine will turn hazy. The maximum temperature is 2-5

:18:56.:19:02.

inland. Seven and eight out west. John Wardrop rabidly and you can see

:19:03.:19:07.

the blue so an early frost for some and others will hang on to it. As

:19:08.:19:10.

weather front brings its rain and the front will build. We will also

:19:11.:19:16.

see some patchy fog forming across East Anglia and the south-east. A

:19:17.:19:20.

possibility we could see a drift further west. Meanwhile rain comes

:19:21.:19:23.

in across Scotland and Northern Ireland, getting into south-west

:19:24.:19:28.

England and north-west bust before the end of the night. We start

:19:29.:19:33.

tomorrow with the exact scenario. Rain continuing its Lotus and moving

:19:34.:19:36.

south eastwards. In the south-east and Wales we have fog and we find it

:19:37.:19:42.

will slowly lift. Some of it into low cloud. If you are in the

:19:43.:19:46.

south-east under that cloud it will be cold and dank. Heavy at times and

:19:47.:19:52.

it will be prolonged across parts of Yorkshire in east Midlands. Behind

:19:53.:19:56.

it, brighter skies, hills fog and showers. Check out those

:19:57.:20:01.

temperatures. They are an EU we are except in the south-east. Saturday,

:20:02.:20:06.

there goes the rain and foremost it will be dry. A few showers here and

:20:07.:20:14.

there. Again we are in the mild category to the stage in January. As

:20:15.:20:19.

we head into Sunday a little more of the same. Most of the UK will be

:20:20.:20:23.

dry. A couple of showers but temperatures of between eight and

:20:24.:20:30.

ten. That is not bad at all for the seventh of January. Thank you very

:20:31.:20:39.

much, Carol. She did not say one of her favourite phrases "Not quite

:20:40.:20:40.

shabby." So, Ben, you will look at that. You are

:20:41.:20:48.

talking about how we spend and how much we owe. Yes. And it is all to

:20:49.:20:53.

do with the debt hangover from Christmas because the credit card

:20:54.:20:57.

bills will start lending on doormats and people realise how much they

:20:58.:21:02.

have spent. Figures say they have been record amounts. New figures

:21:03.:21:05.

show that we racked up more debt in the run-up to Christmas and we

:21:06.:21:11.

racked it up the rate since 2005. Altogether we borrowed ?1.9 billion.

:21:12.:21:17.

That is up 10.8% on the same time as last year. Economists warn that that

:21:18.:21:23.

rise reflects a similar boom before the 2008 financial crisis. They also

:21:24.:21:28.

say our total debts on credit cards and in loans is now a staggering 100

:21:29.:21:34.

and 92 billion pounds. Elsewhere it seems the discount retailers did

:21:35.:21:39.

well this Christmas with the latest figures. BN Dems say revenues were

:21:40.:21:48.

up to ?741 million. The number of shoppers in its stores were up by

:21:49.:21:53.

20% on last year and they snapped up 6 million Christmas crackers amongst

:21:54.:21:57.

other things. And streaming services for watching television and films

:21:58.:22:04.

has overtaken DVDs for the first time. The market is now worth ?1.93

:22:05.:22:10.

billion, up nearly a quarter on the same time as last year. It comes as

:22:11.:22:15.

out of physical disks fell below ?1 billion for the first time. CD

:22:16.:22:21.

southward down as well by 13%. That has been blamed on a rise in other

:22:22.:22:25.

music streaming services. It reflects a big change in the market,

:22:26.:22:32.

buying fewer DVDs and CDs. I watch television on a mixture of

:22:33.:22:37.

everything. But then don't you find it is difficult to keep track

:22:38.:22:41.

because you have a DVD in one place that can only be seen upstairs...

:22:42.:22:47.

Vinyl sales are going up, of course. They are still rather niche. They

:22:48.:22:53.

are going up. They are going up from a low level so it seems like a lot.

:22:54.:22:58.

Bring back the B he just hate! I still have my Star Wars ones! Had to

:22:59.:23:03.

keep a television, a special television so I can play them. Today

:23:04.:23:10.

we are talking about online, children online. A new report from

:23:11.:23:13.

the children's Commissioner saying that children are being left out on

:23:14.:23:19.

their own in an adult environment. Many of you are getting in touch.

:23:20.:23:23.

Ian has an easy answer, do not give the kids are smart phone until they

:23:24.:23:27.

can pay for it themselves. Clare says that when her son started

:23:28.:23:30.

making YouTube videos she set up the account with her details so that she

:23:31.:23:34.

gets all of the notifications and message alerts. She can watch and

:23:35.:23:38.

delete what she needs to. She can also see the videos he is watching.

:23:39.:23:41.

People have quite informative answers. Peter has been in touch as

:23:42.:23:48.

well. He wants to know why any child under ten has unsupervised access to

:23:49.:23:52.

a mobile phone or any part of the Internet. His suggests that you just

:23:53.:23:58.

use the word no. Using peer pressure as an excuse abdicates

:23:59.:24:00.

responsibility. Some people believe that that the worry is that if you

:24:01.:24:05.

say no, the children will just find a way at their their friends house

:24:06.:24:08.

or whatever. Rachel is talking about her 12-year-old. Says she knows all

:24:09.:24:14.

of his password and get notified when he logs into a different

:24:15.:24:17.

computer. There is absolutely no social media allowed and he -- she

:24:18.:24:27.

can check up on his friends. Britain is short of budding young

:24:28.:24:28.

scientists. Only 15% of nine to eleven-year-olds

:24:29.:24:30.

are considering the subject as part Today, the BBC is launching

:24:31.:24:33.

a two-year campaign to inspire a million children to get

:24:34.:24:36.

involved in science. The results will be published

:24:37.:24:38.

in academic journals. Breakfast's Jayne McCubbin

:24:39.:24:41.

is at a primary school in Liverpool Behold, it's the science bus

:24:42.:24:43.

and it's time for some science fun! This is Liz Bonnin and this

:24:44.:24:52.

is a primary school in Hackney. She's here to launch the BBC's

:24:53.:24:56.

Terrific Scientific program to help A super exciting experiment

:24:57.:25:00.

to try to save a dinosaur We know children love science up

:25:01.:25:09.

to a certain age and then This campaign is about looking

:25:10.:25:18.

to really pinpoint what the reasons might be for that and to try

:25:19.:25:26.

and change that trend. Here they are clearly

:25:27.:25:32.

into the subject. Almost 40% of primary schools spend

:25:33.:25:36.

less than an hour a week on science only 15% of nine to 11-year-olds

:25:37.:25:49.

want to be a scientist. With 40,000 science and technology

:25:50.:25:58.

jobs left vacant each year, Why are so many people

:25:59.:26:00.

afraid of science? We can see how much fun

:26:01.:26:04.

the children are having. These are things lying

:26:05.:26:08.

around the house. The short answer to your

:26:09.:26:10.

question, I have no idea. She says science has

:26:11.:26:13.

an image problem. For some reason science still has

:26:14.:26:19.

a lot of stereotypes attached to it. You've got to be brainy

:26:20.:26:23.

to like science, or you've got to work in a lab, be an older

:26:24.:26:29.

gentleman with glasses and be extremely boring and you couldn't be

:26:30.:26:32.

further from the truth. So, today she's kicking off the two

:26:33.:26:35.

year Terrific Scientific campaign, which will involve more than 1

:26:36.:26:39.

million children and 40,000 teachers, bringing real experiments

:26:40.:26:44.

into real schools to gather real scientifically significant results,

:26:45.:26:48.

and we hope it will inspire. Adventurers, creators,

:26:49.:26:51.

dreamers, innovators, climbing mountains,

:26:52.:27:00.

exploring the oceans For me it is clear how

:27:01.:27:03.

exciting and fun science is. That was Breakfast's

:27:04.:27:15.

Jayne McCubbin reporting. And if your school wants to get

:27:16.:27:19.

involved you can register at this website -

:27:20.:27:22.

bbc.co.uk/terrificscientific. We will be back with the headlines

:27:23.:27:31.

in a couple of minutes. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:27:32.:30:58.

with Charlie Stayt and Louise Young people are being left to face

:30:59.:31:06.

the dangers of bullying That's the warning from the

:31:07.:31:13.

Children's Commissioner for England. Anne Longfield says children

:31:14.:31:17.

and often their parents have no idea what they are signing

:31:18.:31:19.

up to on social media sites and pupils as young as four should

:31:20.:31:22.

be taught about internet A spokesperson for the Department

:31:23.:31:25.

for Education told us there is more to be done and that they will

:31:26.:31:36.

carefully consider the report as part of their ongoing work

:31:37.:31:39.

to make the internet a safer The appointment of Sir Tim Barrow

:31:40.:31:42.

as the UK's new ambassador to the European Union has

:31:43.:31:49.

been welcomed by almost He replaces Sir Ivan Rogers,

:31:50.:31:52.

who resigned on Tuesday after complaining

:31:53.:31:55.

of muddle and confusion The government says the UK's

:31:56.:31:57.

new ambassador in Brussels Immigrants should be expected

:31:58.:32:01.

to learn English before coming to Britain or attend language

:32:02.:32:07.

classes when they arrive, The All Party Parliamentary Group

:32:08.:32:09.

on social integration also wants the Government to consider

:32:10.:32:14.

giving the UK's nations and regions the power to control

:32:15.:32:17.

the number of visas issued. The Home Office says it's made

:32:18.:32:19.

funding available for more Integration is a 2-way street. There

:32:20.:32:41.

is an obligation on the host country as well. We need to properly fund

:32:42.:32:48.

English language learning classes and also employers need to give

:32:49.:32:52.

people sufficient space and time off to go and learn English as well.

:32:53.:32:55.

President Barack Obama has urged his fellow Democrats to fight

:32:56.:32:57.

It comes as the incoming Trump administration began the process

:32:58.:33:01.

of repealing the Affordable Care Act.

:33:02.:33:03.

The Republican vice-president-elect, Mike Pence, had promised the process

:33:04.:33:05.

would begin on Donald Trump's first day in office -

:33:06.:33:08.

People who live near main roads may be at greater risk of dementia,

:33:09.:33:15.

according to a decade-long study by scientists in Canada.

:33:16.:33:18.

The medical causes of the brain disease have yet to be identified

:33:19.:33:21.

but the research suggests air pollution and noisy traffic

:33:22.:33:23.

A figure of a soldier from the First World War has been

:33:24.:33:33.

The price of petrol and diesel rose to their highest levels for a year

:33:34.:33:36.

and a half in December according to the RAC.

:33:37.:33:39.

Both fuels went up by three pence a litre during the month.

:33:40.:33:42.

It now costs around ?62.80 to fill up a typical family

:33:43.:33:45.

The increasing cost of crude oil and further falls in the value

:33:46.:33:49.

of the pound are believed to be behind the trend.

:33:50.:33:57.

Letters written by Princess Diana are due to be auctioned

:33:58.:34:00.

The collection will have approximately 40 lots with estimates

:34:01.:34:04.

Written to a steward at Buckingham Palace,

:34:05.:34:07.

they reveal that a young Prince Harry was routinely

:34:08.:34:09.

Coming up on the programme, Carol has the weather.

:34:10.:34:24.

She is warning of cold, icy temperatures at head. -- ahead.

:34:25.:34:34.

Cases of bird flu have been rising in Europe for several weeks,

:34:35.:34:38.

and there have been outbreaks in the UK since the beginning of

:34:39.:34:41.

The latest was announced in Camarthenshire, just yesterday.

:34:42.:34:43.

The Chief Veterinary Officer has now declared that a prevention

:34:44.:34:46.

zone will be extended until the end of next month in order to protect

:34:47.:34:50.

poultry and captive birds from avian flu.

:34:51.:34:52.

Professor Christianne Glossop who is the Chief Veterinary Officer

:34:53.:34:54.

Bank for your time this morning. -- thank you. Can you explain what the

:34:55.:35:07.

zone is? Delly prevention zone covers the whole of Great Britain.

:35:08.:35:12.

It is aimed at at reducing or limiting the contact between wild

:35:13.:35:17.

birds that we believe are carrying this infection and domestic poultry.

:35:18.:35:21.

We are requiring people to keep their birds indoors and keep them

:35:22.:35:25.

separate from wild birds as far as possible. What is the scale of the

:35:26.:35:32.

problem at the moment? If you look mainland Europe, they have had big

:35:33.:35:35.

problems over the past year or so but within Great Britain, there was

:35:36.:35:39.

the case in Lincolnshire in turkeys before Christmas and more recently

:35:40.:35:45.

just this week, I have confirmed 8518 infection in a small backyard

:35:46.:35:57.

flock. -- H518. We have also found that in wild birds in different

:35:58.:36:04.

parts of Great Britain. H518 is the strain. People hearing you talk

:36:05.:36:13.

about it may be worried about the implications on human health. Are a

:36:14.:36:17.

different strains on flu virus and it is constipated and difficult to

:36:18.:36:21.

understand that this particular strain H518 has never been reported

:36:22.:36:27.

in a human being. There are no human cases. Although this is worrying for

:36:28.:36:33.

our poultry industry, it should not be of concern to the general public.

:36:34.:36:39.

Said there are no issues eight production or any of these issues.

:36:40.:36:49.

-- egg. We have movement restrictions in place for poultry

:36:50.:36:53.

and poultry products, particularly focusing on areas of high risks that

:36:54.:36:59.

would be for Wales, around and an outbreak in Caernarfonshire. Hence

:37:00.:37:05.

the zoning we have in place. It is to ensure the industry can keep

:37:06.:37:08.

running while we fight the disease. You mentioned the most recent

:37:09.:37:14.

outbreak in Caernarfonshire, where did that come from? That is the

:37:15.:37:26.

first question we ask. This is within ten miles or so within the

:37:27.:37:32.

finding of a wild bird, I wild duck, with infection just before

:37:33.:37:38.

Christmas. The working hypothesis is that these were probably infected by

:37:39.:37:43.

a wild bird that we are still investigating, it's early days.

:37:44.:37:44.

Thank you for your this morning. My kitty to talk about Chelsea. The

:37:45.:38:01.

winning streak! -- Mike is here. Chelsea still have a 5-point lead.

:38:02.:38:03.

Chelsea's impressive winning streak, is over, after they were beaten

:38:04.:38:06.

by Spurs 2-0 at White Hart Lane last night.

:38:07.:38:09.

After 13 straight victories, Chelsea needed just one more

:38:10.:38:11.

But two goals from Spurs' Dele Alli ended any hope of that.

:38:12.:38:17.

Chelsea remain five points clear at the top, but the win for Spurs,

:38:18.:38:21.

All the boys, there is no need to talk before the game. We knew this

:38:22.:38:34.

was not just for the players but the fans as well. You could see that

:38:35.:38:37.

from the first whistle. The fans wanted you to win as well. It is

:38:38.:38:42.

with nice to score but it is more important to get the win today.

:38:43.:38:43.

It is important to know that this can happen. It is important now for

:38:44.:38:53.

the start to continue to work very hard, to try to improve everyday.

:38:54.:38:56.

The January transfer window's open of course so expect some comings

:38:57.:38:59.

And West Ham are expected to increase their offer

:39:00.:39:03.

for Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe after having an initial offer of six

:39:04.:39:06.

Defoe began his career at the Hammers as a 16-year-old

:39:07.:39:10.

He's scored more than half of all Sunderland's goals

:39:11.:39:14.

in the Premier League this season and appears crucial to their chances

:39:15.:39:17.

Sir, Andy Murray, has extended his career-best winning

:39:18.:39:29.

streak, to 26 competitive matches, by making it through to the quarter

:39:30.:39:32.

finals, of the Qatar Open, but he was,

:39:33.:39:35.

made to work for it against, the world number 68 Gerald Melzer.

:39:36.:39:38.

The Austrian took Murray to a tie-break, in the first set,

:39:39.:39:41.

but the world number one eventually came through 7-6, 7-5.

:39:42.:39:44.

He'll face Spain's Nicolas Almagro next.

:39:45.:39:48.

The England and Leicester centre Manu Tu-langi,

:39:49.:39:50.

has been ruled out of the Six Nations and next summer's

:39:51.:39:53.

It's another blow for the player, who has suffered

:39:54.:39:58.

a string of injuries, over the last three seasons.

:39:59.:40:00.

He's appeared just 23 times for Leicester since 2013 -

:40:01.:40:03.

and just once for England, under Eddie Jones.

:40:04.:40:07.

Paralympic champion Kadeena Cox, has defended her decision,

:40:08.:40:09.

to take part in the Channel 4 programme, The Jump,

:40:10.:40:12.

describing life as a 'ticking time bomb'.

:40:13.:40:15.

UK Sport have suspended her funding while she takes part

:40:16.:40:20.

in the programme - in which participants learn

:40:21.:40:22.

On social media, Cox said her diagnosis, of MS,

:40:23.:40:25.

had changed her outlook on life, so she was going to enjoy ski-ing.

:40:26.:40:32.

MS Dhoni has stepped down, as India's one day captain,

:40:33.:40:35.

ahead of the, ODI series against England, which begins

:40:36.:40:37.

And, England's One Day captain Eoin Morgan,

:40:38.:40:40.

will be hoping in that series, to replicate his big hits,

:40:41.:40:43.

that he's been managing, in the Big Big Bash League in

:40:44.:40:46.

His Sydney Thunder side, needed a six off the final ball

:40:47.:40:56.

of the match to win against Melbourne Thunder,

:40:57.:40:58.

and under pressure, he smashed it into the stands.

:40:59.:41:00.

It was Morgan's final appearance in the Big Bash,

:41:01.:41:03.

Now we all know, as we get older, keeping fit takes a bit more effort

:41:04.:41:10.

- which makes the achievements of Frenchman, Robert Marchand

:41:11.:41:12.

At the age of 105, he's set a new record

:41:13.:41:16.

for the furthest distance cycled, in one hour, for riders of his age.

:41:17.:41:20.

He managed 22 kilometres in 60 minutes - all down to six

:41:21.:41:23.

He already held the record for those aged over 100,

:41:24.:41:26.

Afterwards he said he could have done better, and while his legs

:41:27.:41:31.

He is my hero of the day. Amazing to beat his own record. 105, still

:41:32.:41:52.

going strong. He was a firefighter in the 1940s in Paris and then he

:41:53.:41:54.

went to be a lumberjack in Canada. Could living near busy roads

:41:55.:42:01.

be a factor in higher Canadian scientists followed 2

:42:02.:42:04.

million people over 11 years and their results suggest

:42:05.:42:07.

there may be a link. British experts have

:42:08.:42:09.

described the findings Dr David Reynolds is the chief

:42:10.:42:11.

scientific officer at Alzheimer's Research

:42:12.:42:15.

UK and joins us now. I am sure you have looked at the

:42:16.:42:29.

study. What do you make of it? It is interesting in that it suggests

:42:30.:42:33.

there is a link between living near busy roads such as a motorway or

:42:34.:42:38.

major a road and the having a small but increased risk of developing

:42:39.:42:47.

dementia later in life. It is difficult to tell with these studies

:42:48.:42:51.

because they can show an association but they can't show a cause. There

:42:52.:42:58.

is an effect Widodo the cause. -- we don't know. We need to look at it

:42:59.:43:05.

more closely. What factors about living near a busy road important

:43:06.:43:08.

for increasing your risk of dementia? Is that the noise caused

:43:09.:43:12.

by the traffic that might affect your sleep? Is it breathing in air

:43:13.:43:17.

pollution, the gases, the small particles, what? What suggests we

:43:18.:43:24.

need to look at it more closely to look at the important factors and

:43:25.:43:28.

then sit there something we can do about it. What they are saying is

:43:29.:43:34.

there is a decline in deaths of further people lived people -- away

:43:35.:43:38.

from traffic. What you are saying is exercise caution or what would your

:43:39.:43:42.

message be? With these kinds of studies, it is always important to

:43:43.:43:46.

make sure there are repeated and you see the same findings. You can see

:43:47.:43:53.

some effect, you can't understand the cause and if you look at them

:43:54.:43:57.

again in England or elsewhere in Europe, for example, you might not

:43:58.:44:02.

find the same association. For the moment, I might not necessarily do

:44:03.:44:05.

anything associated with where you live near a major road. There are a

:44:06.:44:10.

number of things you can do to beat Chris your risk of developing

:44:11.:44:13.

dementia, living a healthy lifestyle -- decrease your risk, not smoking,

:44:14.:44:18.

a healthy diet, drinking in moderation, these are well-known to

:44:19.:44:22.

three the risk of developing dementia. What we need to know more

:44:23.:44:26.

about for this study is what is it about living near a major road that

:44:27.:44:30.

could increase your risk and then in the future, we can perhaps give out

:44:31.:44:40.

advice on what to do. And looking the future because this is the

:44:41.:44:44.

frustrating thing, we know quite a lot more about dementia and

:44:45.:44:47.

Alzheimer's but still, give her, trying to find the cause. How far

:44:48.:44:50.

away are we from finding what it might be? Because of a disease like

:44:51.:44:53.

Alzheimer's or other types of dementia is likely to be quite

:44:54.:44:56.

collocated and different from person-to-person -- the cause. We

:44:57.:45:00.

note lifestyle factors and genetics all play a role. There is a lot of

:45:01.:45:04.

research at the moment trying to understand exactly what causes these

:45:05.:45:09.

different types of dementia. In fact, just before Christmas it was

:45:10.:45:13.

announced that a new dementia research Institute will be

:45:14.:45:16.

established in the UK which will really bring a lot of resources in

:45:17.:45:22.

types -- terms of different types of research in the laboratory or doing

:45:23.:45:26.

studies in the clinic, to really understand the cause. Doctor David

:45:27.:45:28.

Reynolds, thank you for your time. Here's Carol with a look

:45:29.:45:32.

at this morning's weather. Carol will tell us it has gotten a

:45:33.:45:43.

little cold in some places but, Carol, when we were all children

:45:44.:45:47.

wasn't a cold? It certainly seemed like the. We had snow in the winter

:45:48.:45:56.

and the summer was longer. It is certainly a lot colder than it has

:45:57.:46:00.

been. We have just had the lowest temperature this winter so far. I

:46:01.:46:06.

thought it would show you some of the towns and cities. It is quite

:46:07.:46:16.

quickly. -7s, -6s and minus fives. But which is a bit higher out west

:46:17.:46:21.

because we have a weather front. That is producing cloud and the odd

:46:22.:46:26.

spot of rain here and there. Although it is cold and frosty to

:46:27.:46:31.

start we're looking at a lot of crisp winter sunshine, again with a

:46:32.:46:35.

light breeze. In the east and there will be more cloud and an odd shower

:46:36.:46:40.

while. Towards the west where we have our weather front the cloud is

:46:41.:46:46.

thicker. As a result, in the afternoon in the north-west the

:46:47.:46:49.

sunshine will turn hazy. That will come our way later on. Over here we

:46:50.:47:00.

get a mixture of some sunny spells most of England has good to richer

:47:01.:47:07.

and the extreme west has a bit of cloud. The same for Cornwall and

:47:08.:47:11.

Devon. Nothing significant apart from an odd splash of rain. You can

:47:12.:47:17.

see from the blue in the chart that it will be an early frost. The frost

:47:18.:47:22.

will lift for some but a continual crust East Anglia and the

:47:23.:47:25.

south-east. Here as well we are looking at some fog around which

:47:26.:47:31.

could take time to lift. Meanwhile a weather front tomorrow things south

:47:32.:47:34.

across all of Scotland and Northern Ireland into north-west England and

:47:35.:47:40.

also parts of Wales. The fog that lifts may just lift into low cloud

:47:41.:47:44.

and it will be much later on that we will see it being pushed down into

:47:45.:47:48.

the south-east where it will still feel cold. Behind the rain, Hill fog

:47:49.:47:54.

and a few showers. As we head into Saturday the rain will clear all

:47:55.:47:58.

together and behind it are lot of dry weather with sunshine. Variable

:47:59.:48:04.

cloud and a few showers the rain there. Into Sunday it is a similar

:48:05.:48:08.

story in that it will be a cloudy day with bright breaks and mild with

:48:09.:48:14.

a couple of showers. All in all this weekend is not too shabby, Charlie.

:48:15.:48:20.

Mild conditions with cloudy conditions at times. I would just

:48:21.:48:26.

like to show you these temperatures. If you step out, these are the

:48:27.:48:30.

values that will greet you right now. I love Carol. You listen to

:48:31.:48:40.

Charlie very carefully. Did you hear that? Not too shabby. I put it in

:48:41.:48:44.

just for you, Charlie. We bought a record number of cars

:48:45.:48:45.

in the UK last year - More of us splashed out

:48:46.:48:49.

on a new car last year it seems, With nearly 2.7 million new cars

:48:50.:48:57.

taking to the roads. A lot of that is because

:48:58.:49:05.

the way we're buying In 2015 nearly three quarters

:49:06.:49:07.

of cars were bought using something called a Personal Contract

:49:08.:49:12.

Purchase - or PCP. That's when you pay a deposit,

:49:13.:49:15.

make monthly payments for three or four years, and at the end

:49:16.:49:21.

of that you have a choice to buy the car outright or give the car

:49:22.:49:25.

back to the dealer and upgrade. But could we have reached

:49:26.:49:29.

the peak of new car sales? The stats out this morning predict

:49:30.:49:35.

a 5% fall in new car I am speaking with Amanda Stratton.

:49:36.:49:52.

A former race driver and now a motoring industry expert. Let us

:49:53.:49:55.

talk, first of all, about pig ownership. It is the way that we buy

:49:56.:50:01.

cars and used cars is changing. It is no longer about having something

:50:02.:50:05.

sitting on the driveway, it is essentially renting. The number you

:50:06.:50:10.

mentioned was correct. What we are seeing is that something like over

:50:11.:50:16.

90% of cars are actually being purchased on a finance option. The

:50:17.:50:20.

way we are purchasing our cars is different. It is no longer something

:50:21.:50:24.

that you save up for and own a physical car. It is now more like

:50:25.:50:29.

mobile phones where you look at paying monthly instalment for

:50:30.:50:34.

servicing and such things like that. You are paying slightly more for it

:50:35.:50:40.

but it is something you roll over as soon as the newest latest and

:50:41.:50:43.

greatest model comes out you can roll your dear over. What does that

:50:44.:50:49.

mean for car manufacturers? More new cars coming off the production line

:50:50.:50:54.

and more being sold. Are we able to upgrade more quickly? Is that why

:50:55.:50:57.

this is happening? That is absolutely correct. Where the motor

:50:58.:51:03.

industry is going. Looking at some of the stories you have handled this

:51:04.:51:06.

morning already, we know that the car industry and the way we use our

:51:07.:51:11.

cars and roads and pollution, space, all of these things are emerging so

:51:12.:51:15.

I think the industry will change dramatically over the next few

:51:16.:51:21.

years. This year they predict a 5% fall in car sales. Some element of

:51:22.:51:25.

nervousness over the state of the economy but it is also about things

:51:26.:51:30.

like Uber and being able to car share and possibly even driverless

:51:31.:51:36.

cars further down the line? Yes. There are very low interest rates

:51:37.:51:40.

which give as chief financial deals and exchange rates have had a big

:51:41.:51:45.

part to play up until now. But as you said there is a lot of

:51:46.:51:48.

uncertainty. And that next year and, you are right. Things like car

:51:49.:51:53.

share. These things will have a big impact on the way we purchased our

:51:54.:51:58.

cars and the way we use our cars and people coming into the car market.

:51:59.:52:01.

Many people are not looking at owning cars themselves but getting

:52:02.:52:06.

into a car scheme. It is quite interesting how it is changing.

:52:07.:52:10.

Thank you very much for your time, Amanda. I would like to hear more

:52:11.:52:19.

about that as well. Thank you very much. Ben must have known we will

:52:20.:52:22.

talk about driverless cars. The latest driverless car,

:52:23.:52:23.

headphones that can translate languages instantly and the latest

:52:24.:52:26.

smart gadgets for the home. These are just some of the things

:52:27.:52:29.

we can expect from this year's International Consumer

:52:30.:52:32.

Electronics Show. Our Technology correspondent

:52:33.:52:33.

Rory Cellan-Jones is in Las Vegas ahead of one of the biggest events

:52:34.:52:36.

in the tech industry. Rory, what new technology

:52:37.:52:39.

is going to wow us in 2017? Good morning. These fountains,

:52:40.:52:56.

behind the way, only come on when you come to me and I paid a lot of

:52:57.:53:01.

money to get them queued up and on display at this precise moment. I

:53:02.:53:05.

hope you appreciate it. The big scene here this year is

:53:06.:53:10.

intelligence. Intelligent machines with artificial intelligence built

:53:11.:53:16.

in. Everything from more and more driverless cars, something of a

:53:17.:53:19.

motor show here today. I was in one where I was allowed to take my hands

:53:20.:53:24.

off the wheel and look around. A little scary for those riding with

:53:25.:53:28.

me. All sorts of household devices as well becoming more and more

:53:29.:53:31.

intelligent. Absorbing data and doing clever things. This year it

:53:32.:53:36.

seems to be the year when you are devices, all of them, will be smart

:53:37.:53:38.

devices. In a penthouse suite

:53:39.:53:38.

at a ritzy Las Vegas hotel, There is a smart speaker

:53:39.:53:41.

for children, each toy A voice

:53:42.:53:46.

activated door lock. ..there's even Nora, described

:53:47.:53:54.

as a smart snoring solution. It's paired with a pad under

:53:55.:54:01.

the pillow which detects the snoring and moves just enough to stop me,

:54:02.:54:06.

without waking me up. The big theme this year is turning

:54:07.:54:13.

the advances in artificial This one is meant to be a shop

:54:14.:54:15.

assistant, while this one is designed as a companion

:54:16.:54:22.

for children or elderly people. AI seems to get everywhere,

:54:23.:54:27.

even into this toothbrush, which learns how

:54:28.:54:30.

you brush your teeth. Artificial intelligence is not

:54:31.:54:33.

just gathering the data, Then you learn where your weaknesses

:54:34.:54:35.

are, where your strengths are and the purpose is to become

:54:36.:54:41.

better at taking care This walking stick is also

:54:42.:54:44.

smarter than it looks. An inbuilt mobile phone SIM

:54:45.:54:49.

card means it can help It will detect the fall of the user

:54:50.:54:52.

and when it detects it it will alert the family or the neighbour,

:54:53.:54:59.

so they can come and help these And this clever mirror helps

:55:00.:55:03.

anyone to try out make-up. Out on the Las Vegas strip,

:55:04.:55:14.

this young entrepreneur His instant translation

:55:15.:55:18.

headphones aren't quite ready. They will eventually be tiny

:55:19.:55:23.

earbuds, that he is still looking This is important because we will be

:55:24.:55:26.

able to showcase what we've been working on to the world,

:55:27.:55:31.

to show this is something we started years ago as a small team,

:55:32.:55:34.

as a small start-up, The odds are against Danny,

:55:35.:55:39.

a one-man band taking on giants like Apple and Google,

:55:40.:55:45.

but he's betting that he has the product that can

:55:46.:55:48.

change the world. And Danny is a rarity in that he is

:55:49.:56:06.

one of the few Rhodesian exhibitors who made it over here. Only 50 or 60

:56:07.:56:12.

of them. Many more French exhibitors and over 1000 from China. 1000 out

:56:13.:56:19.

of just under 4000. Britain is not exactly punching above its weight

:56:20.:56:23.

but people like Danny with big dreams of making innovations that

:56:24.:56:27.

will really wow Las Vegas and let them on the path to future riches.

:56:28.:56:36.

Are you controlling the fountains? A few fountains. It is done by a

:56:37.:56:41.

little app that I have in my back pocket but I cannot tell you more

:56:42.:56:46.

than that. Well, there you go. I don't know. I think it probably is

:56:47.:56:53.

controlled by him. Technology is clever but big sweaty water things

:56:54.:56:55.

are also impressive. Hello this is Breakfast, with

:56:56.:00:16.

Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin. Left to "fend for themselves" online

:00:17.:00:20.

- a new report says more needs to be England's Children's Commissioner

:00:21.:00:24.

joins us to tell us why she wants compulsory internet safety lessons

:00:25.:00:29.

in schools and new privacy laws. Good morning, it's Thursday

:00:30.:00:50.

the 5th of January. A new ambassador to the EU -

:00:51.:00:52.

Sir Tim Barrow's appointment has been broadly welcomed on both sides

:00:53.:00:56.

of the Brexit debate. People who live near major roads

:00:57.:01:02.

may have higher rates of dementia, according

:01:03.:01:04.

to research published today. Car sales hit a record in the UK

:01:05.:01:13.

this year but with the rise of cab sharing and driverless cars,

:01:14.:01:18.

will owning a car soon become In sport - Chelsea's winning run

:01:19.:01:20.

comes to an end as the League Two goals from Delle Alli do

:01:21.:01:27.

the damage at White Hart Lane as they win 2-0 and move

:01:28.:01:31.

up to third. This reads like a criminal

:01:32.:01:41.

decathlon. That is the man that I chased? You chased somebody? Is

:01:42.:01:43.

there CCTV? 20 years of murder and intrigue -

:01:44.:01:48.

the show's stars will be telling us how Silent Witness has become

:01:49.:01:51.

the world's longest And Carol has the weather... It is a

:01:52.:01:58.

cold and frosty start to the day, England has had its coldest winter

:01:59.:02:01.

nights so far this winter but for most of the UK, it will be sunny,

:02:02.:02:07.

cold with light breezes, cloud in the West and some showers in the

:02:08.:02:11.

east. More details in 15 minutes... Thank you.

:02:12.:02:14.

Our main story is a warning from the Children's Commissioner

:02:15.:02:18.

for England that young people are left to face the dangers of

:02:19.:02:21.

Anne Longfield says children - and often their parents -

:02:22.:02:24.

have no idea what they are signing up to on social media sites

:02:25.:02:28.

and pupils as young as four should be taught about internet

:02:29.:02:30.

Our Education Correspondent Gillian Hargreaves has more.

:02:31.:02:35.

Digital technology can enrich children's minds,

:02:36.:02:36.

Millions of youngsters have joined social media sites to keep

:02:37.:02:42.

in touch with friends, but many of those questioned

:02:43.:02:44.

by the commission have little idea of what they're signing up to.

:02:45.:02:49.

With pages of terms and conditions, it seems few realise

:02:50.:02:51.

The Children's Commissioner calls for the appointment of a digital

:02:52.:02:58.

ombudsman to mediate between children and social media

:02:59.:03:00.

She also recommends there should be mandatory digital citizenship

:03:01.:03:06.

courses in schools and new privacy laws to protect children's

:03:07.:03:09.

What no-one has done yet is to look at how we design and intervene

:03:10.:03:17.

with a digital world in a way that can really give children the support

:03:18.:03:20.

they need for the place they spend an awful lot of time,

:03:21.:03:25.

but also the information and the power to be able to get

:03:26.:03:31.

While Instagram, Facebook and Twitter recommend

:03:32.:03:38.

that their services are most suitable for children over the age

:03:39.:03:41.

of 13, younger children can circumvent the rules

:03:42.:03:43.

Thank you for getting in touch about that...

:03:44.:03:56.

A spokesperson for the Department for Education told us

:03:57.:03:58.

there is more to be done and that they will carefully

:03:59.:04:01.

consider the report as part of their ongoing work to make

:04:02.:04:03.

the internet a safer place for children.

:04:04.:04:05.

We'll be speaking to the Children's Commissioner

:04:06.:04:07.

and a victim of cyber-bullying in about ten minutes.

:04:08.:04:11.

The appointment of Sir Tim Barrow as the UK's new ambassador

:04:12.:04:14.

to the European Union has been welcomed by almost all

:04:15.:04:17.

He replaces Sir Ivan Rogers, who resigned on Tuesday

:04:18.:04:21.

after complaining of muddle and confusion in the

:04:22.:04:23.

Our Political Correspondent Iain Watson joins us now.

:04:24.:04:34.

Sir Tim Barrow is going to be an important player in the coming

:04:35.:04:41.

months, tell us more about him? He will, and certainly Downing Street

:04:42.:04:45.

said that he will be a tough negotiator, he is seasoned and

:04:46.:04:50.

someone with experience in Brussels as an ambassador, she has been an

:04:51.:04:53.

ambassador in Moscow when relations in Russia were not at their best and

:04:54.:05:05.

an ambassador to the Ukraine. He is staunchly opposed to the

:05:06.:05:10.

creation of an EU army and he has served junior ministers at the

:05:11.:05:13.

Foreign Office 20 years ago when John Major was in power and there

:05:14.:05:17.

were divisions in Europe. He knows the territory well and he says

:05:18.:05:21.

himself he wants to get the best possible outcome for British

:05:22.:05:23.

negotiations, you would not expect him to say anything else but Nigel

:05:24.:05:29.

Farage from Ukip says that he is just another career diplomat

:05:30.:05:32.

committee wants to see things shaken up and a true believer in Brexit,

:05:33.:05:36.

perhaps someone from outside of the political establishment. And so

:05:37.:05:41.

drive and Rogers is leaving that cloud, the model and confusion

:05:42.:05:48.

surrounding Brexit, Theresa May, has she been stung into action by that

:05:49.:05:55.

sentiment? -- Sir Ivan Rogers. Actually, I think that is

:05:56.:05:58.

overstating it slightly, she responded yesterday and we are told

:05:59.:06:02.

that she will take to the airwaves at the weekend, she was always

:06:03.:06:05.

planning a speech on Europe and we expect that to take place this

:06:06.:06:09.

month, under pressure to take on this argument that she does not have

:06:10.:06:14.

this negotiation strategy in place and objectives set a few months

:06:15.:06:18.

before triggering the process of leaving the EU, she has given strong

:06:19.:06:26.

hints of why she wants to go before, including the Conservative Party

:06:27.:06:32.

speech, she does not want the European to interrupt, but she wants

:06:33.:06:38.

to clarify this point and make explicit what has been implicit but

:06:39.:06:41.

they do not want to wait for her speech, they want ministers to come

:06:42.:06:44.

to the House of Commons and tell them what the strategy in Europe

:06:45.:06:46.

really years. Thank you. -- really is.

:06:47.:06:52.

Immigrants should be expected to learn English before coming

:06:53.:06:54.

to Britain or attend language classes when they arrive.

:06:55.:06:57.

That's what a group of MPs are calling for.

:06:58.:06:59.

The All Party Parliamentary Group on social integration also wants

:07:00.:07:01.

the Government to consider giving the UK's nations and regions

:07:02.:07:04.

the power to control the number of visas issued.

:07:05.:07:06.

Here's our home affairs correspondent, Danny Shaw.

:07:07.:07:09.

Over the past decade, the scale of immigration to Britain

:07:10.:07:12.

has been unprecedented, sparking debate about

:07:13.:07:16.

whether the numbers should be reduced and if so, how?

:07:17.:07:19.

But this report from MPs and peers says there should be more

:07:20.:07:22.

focus on what happens after immigrants arrive.

:07:23.:07:29.

It says many immigrant communities and people already settled here lead

:07:30.:07:31.

parallel lives and it calls on the government to address what it

:07:32.:07:34.

The report makes a number of recommendations.

:07:35.:07:39.

It says all immigrants should learn English before coming

:07:40.:07:41.

to the UK or enrol in classes when they're here.

:07:42.:07:46.

It calls for courses to teach immigrants about British culture

:07:47.:07:49.

and the report says that government should give immigrants guidance

:07:50.:07:51.

on the costs and benefits of UK citizenship and consider cutting

:07:52.:07:54.

A lack of integration for newcomers leads to them not having access

:07:55.:08:03.

to the same opportunities, it can lead to an increase in

:08:04.:08:05.

All the things that make living in England and Britain

:08:06.:08:15.

You cannot enjoy what this country has to offer

:08:16.:08:18.

Another idea in the report is for immigration policy to be

:08:19.:08:22.

devolved to Britain's nations and regions.

:08:23.:08:24.

They'd be able to allocate visas according to local need.

:08:25.:08:30.

The report says that might instil confidence among members

:08:31.:08:33.

of the public that the immigration system works for their area.

:08:34.:08:39.

The Home Office says it is not planning to introduce local visa

:08:40.:08:42.

arrangements but the department says it has made funding available

:08:43.:08:45.

President Barack Obama has urged his fellow Democrats to fight

:08:46.:08:50.

It comes as the incoming Trump administration began the process

:08:51.:08:58.

of repealing The Affordable Care Act.

:08:59.:09:03.

The Republican vice-president-elect, Mike Pence, had promised the process

:09:04.:09:05.

would begin on Donald Trump's first day in office -

:09:06.:09:08.

People who live near main roads may be at greater risk of dementia -

:09:09.:09:16.

according to a decade-long study by scientists in Canada.

:09:17.:09:18.

The medical causes of the brain disease have yet to be identified

:09:19.:09:21.

but the research suggests air pollution and noisy traffic could be

:09:22.:09:24.

Memories lost, thoughts confused, personalities gradually fading.

:09:25.:09:35.

Dementia affects 850,000 people in the UK.

:09:36.:09:39.

Now there's a claim it could be linked to traffic.

:09:40.:09:45.

This study from Canada shows that people living close to busy

:09:46.:09:47.

roads had higher chances of developing dementia.

:09:48.:09:52.

Researchers in Ontario followed more than two million

:09:53.:09:54.

The ones who lived within 50 metres of heavy traffic had a 12% higher

:09:55.:10:01.

risk of dementia than those more than 200 metres away.

:10:02.:10:10.

So what is it that's actually affecting the brain?

:10:11.:10:12.

Ultra-fine particles, the very smallest ones,

:10:13.:10:13.

can actually move across the lungs into the bloodstream

:10:14.:10:16.

How those particles work, a bit speculative, but one

:10:17.:10:20.

hypothesis is fairly nonspecific effects on inflammation

:10:21.:10:21.

So we have a potential mechanism but it's far from proven.

:10:22.:10:32.

Experts here have cautiously welcomed the results

:10:33.:10:33.

They've stressed it shows an association, not a cause.

:10:34.:10:40.

They've pointed out dementia is also affected by age,

:10:41.:10:42.

But they are encouraging further research into the impact

:10:43.:10:48.

Doubt has been cast on the NHS programme for screening those

:10:49.:11:01.

Researchers at Oxford University say its unlikely to have much impact.

:11:02.:11:05.

It concluded that inaccurate blood tests would give too many people

:11:06.:11:08.

an incorrect diagnosis, while lifestyle changes

:11:09.:11:09.

The director of the NHS programme said its approach was based

:11:10.:11:16.

The price of petrol and diesel rose to their highest levels for a year

:11:17.:11:29.

and a half in December according to the RAC.

:11:30.:11:31.

Both fuels went up by three pence a litre during the month.

:11:32.:11:34.

It now costs around ?62 to ?80 to fill up a typical family car.

:11:35.:11:37.

The increasing cost of crude oil and further falls in the value

:11:38.:11:40.

of the pound are believed to be behind the trend.

:11:41.:11:43.

A figure of a soldier from the First World War has been

:11:44.:11:46.

It's nearly six metres tall and took a blacksmith three months to make

:11:47.:11:52.

As you can see, it is pretty impressive.

:11:53.:12:01.

spanners, brake discs and horse shoes to create the impressive work.

:12:02.:12:10.

When you see it against those buildings you really get a sense of

:12:11.:12:18.

the incredible scale of it as well. All of the sport and the weather

:12:19.:12:20.

coming up for you a little later... Whether it's on their tablets

:12:21.:12:23.

or smartphones, children are using social media sites more

:12:24.:12:25.

than ever before. But a new study by the Children's

:12:26.:12:27.

Commissioner for England says that they are ill-prepared to deal

:12:28.:12:30.

with problems they commonly find online, such as cyber-bulling

:12:31.:12:32.

and issues surrounding privacy. Joining us from the London

:12:33.:12:36.

newsroom is the author And in the studio we have Ella,

:12:37.:12:38.

who has been a victim Good morning to both of you, let's

:12:39.:12:53.

talk to you first of all, Ella, what kind of problems did you have at

:12:54.:12:58.

what age? I have had three occasions where I have encountered this. At my

:12:59.:13:02.

youngest I was 13 years old. I had recently only just joined social

:13:03.:13:11.

media. And, I did suffer from cyber bullying and problems within my

:13:12.:13:14.

school, and then it went online as well. Then, I faced other issues

:13:15.:13:21.

around 16 and recently in the last couple of weeks. And that really was

:13:22.:13:27.

quite difficult, emotionally, to deal with. I have got quite a good

:13:28.:13:31.

support system at home, I could talk to my parents. However, when I tried

:13:32.:13:37.

to report these things online, I did not really have a lot of support

:13:38.:13:42.

there, and I felt like I was talking to a brick wall, there was not

:13:43.:13:46.

really that much contact. When it started, what was your attitude to

:13:47.:13:51.

the messages you were getting? Did you think that was just part of what

:13:52.:13:56.

happens on social media? Or, did you feel like it should not be

:13:57.:14:02.

happening, what was your instinct? I did feel that something was

:14:03.:14:05.

definitely wrong. I did not feel like this was what they were created

:14:06.:14:10.

for. I thought that something ought to have been changed, and it was not

:14:11.:14:14.

really right for people to be targeting others online. And I did

:14:15.:14:20.

suffer from it within the school environment, and outside of school.

:14:21.:14:24.

Then for it to come online, it felt like there was no escape from it.

:14:25.:14:28.

I really wanted it to stop but at that age I did not know how, nothing

:14:29.:14:34.

was told in school on how to reported or anything like that. In

:14:35.:14:37.

some ways, things will change because sometimes children get

:14:38.:14:44.

lessons in school. So many issues highlighted. When someone comes up

:14:45.:14:48.

with a problem, with a parent trying to support a child, or a child, is

:14:49.:14:53.

communication between them and the company running these kinds of

:14:54.:14:58.

websites, is it getting better? Can people take down photographs more

:14:59.:14:59.

often than before? That is not what I'm told by young

:15:00.:15:10.

people, there are incremental increases and I hear the stories all

:15:11.:15:13.

the time with young people saying they have little faith in the

:15:14.:15:16.

company is taking them seriously, and if they try to get something

:15:17.:15:20.

taken down about half of them say they are dissatisfied. Win over half

:15:21.:15:28.

of children's leisure time among teenagers is spent online services a

:15:29.:15:31.

new area of their life and it's important they get the lessons in

:15:32.:15:33.

school that can help build their resilience, that they get honestly

:15:34.:15:37.

informed through the terms and conditions, but then they have

:15:38.:15:41.

recourse to some independent means to help them deal with difficulties

:15:42.:15:46.

when they arise. So that's why I'm recommending that we introduce a new

:15:47.:15:50.

digital Commissioner, a new digital ombudsman for young people that will

:15:51.:15:54.

be on their side and be able to mediate. That's interesting, I don't

:15:55.:16:00.

know what you think about that, the idea of an ombudsman. Sometimes

:16:01.:16:04.

people feel those figures seem too distant, too far away from what is

:16:05.:16:07.

happening on your device. What do you make of it? I would definitely

:16:08.:16:10.

agree somebody should be there that you can contact because when I have

:16:11.:16:15.

personally tried to report things I haven't had any reaction to things

:16:16.:16:20.

that have been taken down. To have that human contact with someone who

:16:21.:16:25.

is fighting your battles with you because I felt very alone and I was

:16:26.:16:28.

talking to these big companies and no one was listening. Anne

:16:29.:16:32.

Longfield, I'm thinking if you think about right now, how many people

:16:33.:16:37.

will be suffering because of some kind of cyber bullying, every day

:16:38.:16:40.

with so many incidents, how can one person start to make an impact? This

:16:41.:16:45.

is about changing the relationship between the companies and children

:16:46.:16:48.

themselves. The Internet was not designed for children but they are

:16:49.:16:51.

one of the biggest users actually. Would need to change that

:16:52.:16:55.

relationship and help children to become more informed us customers

:16:56.:17:00.

and demand more, if you like, from the companies themselves. I also

:17:01.:17:03.

want government to extend my powers so I can find out from the companies

:17:04.:17:08.

themselves what complaints children are put into them, the nature of

:17:09.:17:11.

those complaints, what happens to them and big scale command again, to

:17:12.:17:16.

start to get grips to this issue. It is something which is very

:17:17.:17:19.

practical, something that has been in Australia and something which

:17:20.:17:23.

could be permitted quickly. But certainly this is something that

:17:24.:17:27.

young people report to me all the time and they want the companies to

:17:28.:17:36.

rip -- respond. You have looked at privacy laws, do you want to get the

:17:37.:17:41.

laws extended that far? What do you want to change? New laws around

:17:42.:17:45.

privacy are being brought in in 2018 and in America new laws have been

:17:46.:17:49.

introduced which protect children's privacy online so I suggest they

:17:50.:17:53.

should be brought forward and they should be protected as we enter the

:17:54.:17:57.

Brexit period. This is all about ensuring that children's data online

:17:58.:18:01.

is protected as much as it can be. What we know is with pages and pages

:18:02.:18:14.

of terms and conditions that children can't possibly stand a

:18:15.:18:15.

chance of understanding. They are signing away without realising

:18:16.:18:17.

important privacy and data that could be shared and even sold. One

:18:18.:18:20.

last thought, at the beginning you mentioned recently you have still

:18:21.:18:22.

been a victim. Have you changed what you do online and social media? My

:18:23.:18:27.

privacy settings are very high but some of my friends' maybe aren't as

:18:28.:18:32.

much, so someone took a photo of me and my friends and posted it on a

:18:33.:18:38.

group that we didn't even know about until someone came across it. They

:18:39.:18:42.

effectively stole your image? Yes, and then we got quite a lot of

:18:43.:18:46.

negative comments and it was quite offensive. I then tried to report

:18:47.:18:50.

the post and take it down and nothing happened, it is still there.

:18:51.:18:54.

It's very interesting. Thank you for talking to us today. And Anne

:18:55.:18:59.

Longfield, Children's Commissioner, thank you.

:19:00.:19:03.

Thank you for getting in touch, all of you, we will look at your

:19:04.:19:07.

comments later. It is cold again this morning. It certainly is, there

:19:08.:19:18.

is a widespread frost but it means we will have cold winter sunshine.

:19:19.:19:24.

In Benson it is minus 8.1 Celsius, the coldest night so far this winter

:19:25.:19:29.

in England. In Edinburgh, -4, Kew Gardens -4, Cardiff -2, but Belfast

:19:30.:19:34.

and Plymouth have temperatures a little higher and the reason is we

:19:35.:19:39.

have a weather front to the west, the remnants of yesterday's weather

:19:40.:19:43.

front still producing a fair bit of cloud and the odd spot of rain.

:19:44.:19:47.

Elsewhere, might breezes and a lot of sunshine. So you can see sunshine

:19:48.:19:52.

from the top to the bottom of the land, towards the east of in the in

:19:53.:19:57.

particular there are bits and pieces of cloud floating around. This

:19:58.:20:00.

morning could produce a few showers that will tend to fade after a

:20:01.:20:04.

Pembrokeshire, into south-west England, Northern Ireland and

:20:05.:20:06.

north-west Scotland there is more cloud, so the sunshine will turn has

:20:07.:20:11.

hazier through the west of Scotland in the afternoon, with a weather

:20:12.:20:15.

front in the wings. In Northern Ireland, some bright skies and quite

:20:16.:20:19.

a bit of cloud. In the extreme west, the south-west also. For the rest of

:20:20.:20:23.

England, a fine afternoon, cold, light breezes and lots of sunshine,

:20:24.:20:28.

and as we head down to west Devon and Cornwall, we still have the

:20:29.:20:32.

influence of weather fronts, more cloud and spots of rain. You can see

:20:33.:20:37.

the blue hue on the charts this evening and overnight indicating it

:20:38.:20:40.

is cold enough for some frost. As the cloud comes south some of it

:20:41.:20:45.

will lift but not in the south-east, and here we are looking at fog in

:20:46.:20:50.

East Anglia down to Kent, maybe a little further west and that could

:20:51.:20:53.

prove to be freezing fog. Meanwhile, the weather front will bring rain

:20:54.:20:57.

across Scotland, Northern Ireland, north-west England and also

:20:58.:21:00.

north-west Wales. We picked that up tomorrow as it continues its descent

:21:01.:21:04.

south-eastwards. The fog we have will be slow to lift and some will

:21:05.:21:09.

just lift into low cloud. In the south-east corner it will be quite a

:21:10.:21:14.

cold day ahead, and quite great, and at times it will be dank. Meanwhile

:21:15.:21:18.

the rain is heading southwards, some of it heavy and persistent across

:21:19.:21:22.

parts of Yorkshire and the East Midlands. Behind it some brighter

:21:23.:21:26.

skies, hill fog and a few showers that look at the temperatures come

:21:27.:21:29.

away from the south-east the temperature start to pick up. On

:21:30.:21:33.

Saturday, the rain goes away, behind it dry weather and one or two

:21:34.:21:38.

showers here and there but most of us will miss them all together and

:21:39.:21:42.

we will see some sunshine. The overriding thing is how mild it will

:21:43.:21:46.

feel for this stage in January, and it's a similar story on Sunday in

:21:47.:21:50.

terms of mildness. Lots of dry weather, the little bits of

:21:51.:21:54.

brightness, but look at the temperatures, 9-11, you don't hear

:21:55.:21:58.

that often at this stage in January. So cold and then much warmer, thank

:21:59.:22:01.

you, Carol. We were all paying attention, even

:22:02.:22:06.

Ben on the other side of the room. We absolutely were. What have you

:22:07.:22:12.

got a credit card debt? Yes, I will be talking about debt.

:22:13.:22:18.

We racked up more debt in the run up to Christmas

:22:19.:22:21.

We borrowed ?1.9 billion in November, that's up 10.8%

:22:22.:22:25.

Economists warn the rise reflects a similar boom before

:22:26.:22:28.

Our total debts on credit cards and in loans is now

:22:29.:22:34.

2.7 million new cars hit the roads last year, a record number.

:22:35.:22:45.

A lot of that is because the way we're buying cars is changing.

:22:46.:22:50.

Three quarters of cars were bought using something called

:22:51.:22:53.

a Personal Contract Purchase - or PCP, when you pay a deposit,

:22:54.:23:02.

make monthly payments and at the end of the contract you can either buy

:23:03.:23:05.

But with the rise of car sharing and the likes of Uber,

:23:06.:23:10.

experts are forecasting a 5% fall in car sales this year.

:23:11.:23:13.

And streaming services to watch TV and films has overtaken

:23:14.:23:16.

The market for services like Netflix and Amazon Video

:23:17.:23:23.

is now worth ?1.3 billion - up 23% on last year.

:23:24.:23:26.

It comes as sales of physical discs fell below ?1 billion

:23:27.:23:29.

CD sales were down too - by 13%, blamed on the rise in music

:23:30.:23:35.

Those streaming services are convenient but you don't get the

:23:36.:23:46.

satisfaction of holding the DVD or the video in your hand, VHS,

:23:47.:23:49.

remember that? I do, I still remember them. Do you still have

:23:50.:24:02.

them? I don't still have them. So satisfying to rewind them!

:24:03.:24:05.

Do you eat plenty of fruit, vegetables and beans?

:24:06.:24:08.

If you don't, you might want to start.

:24:09.:24:09.

New research shows that following the Mediterranean diet

:24:10.:24:11.

It found that those who followed the diet had greater brain

:24:12.:24:15.

volume after three years than those who didn't.

:24:16.:24:17.

The study, was carried out by scientists at

:24:18.:24:19.

Let's speak now to the lead researcher, Michelle Luciano.

:24:20.:24:21.

Thank you for joining us. You were specifically looking at an older

:24:22.:24:27.

generation. Tell us what you found. What we did was we measured people's

:24:28.:24:31.

diet when they were 70 years of age and that 73 and at 76 they came into

:24:32.:24:37.

the laboratory to get their brains scanned. And what we then showed was

:24:38.:24:46.

that the Mediterranean diet was protective of brain loss over that

:24:47.:24:52.

three-year interval. Those who adhere to Motou a Mediterranean diet

:24:53.:25:01.

showed less brain loss -- endeared to. You talk about a Mediterranean

:25:02.:25:05.

diet and we have our own point of view of what that means. What sort

:25:06.:25:10.

of things were they eating? A Mediterranean diet is characterised

:25:11.:25:14.

by a high consumption of fruit, vegetables, legumes, cereals, a

:25:15.:25:23.

moderate intake of fish, low to moderate intake of dairy, a high

:25:24.:25:28.

ratio of monounsaturated to saturated fats, mostly obtained

:25:29.:25:33.

through olive oil consumption, and a moderate alcohol intake as well.

:25:34.:25:39.

Could you tell us a little bit about it? You found a difference in brain

:25:40.:25:44.

size, would that have a big impact possibly on people's life chances

:25:45.:25:50.

and how they are able to live? So, the association we found was

:25:51.:25:53.

specifically with brain loss over time, so over that three-year

:25:54.:25:58.

period. And studies have shown, so other studies have shown, that brain

:25:59.:26:04.

loss can be a signal of dementia, for instance, and there is also

:26:05.:26:07.

associations with brain loss and cognitive functions like memory and

:26:08.:26:14.

processing speed. So this could be some kind of link between the

:26:15.:26:17.

protective effects that have already been shown between Mediterranean

:26:18.:26:24.

diet and the onset of dementia, Alzheimer's, disease. As we said,

:26:25.:26:30.

you were looking specifically at older adults. Could it make a

:26:31.:26:34.

difference to young people as well? This is what further research needs

:26:35.:26:38.

to show. So, we focused only on people in their 70s. And we also had

:26:39.:26:44.

one limitation in the study, we don't know how long people had been

:26:45.:26:48.

adhering to the Mediterranean diet, so something for future research

:26:49.:26:52.

would be to monitor whether people have been following this diet all

:26:53.:26:58.

their life, or whether a short-term kind of change to a Mediterranean

:26:59.:27:02.

diet might actually show any protective effects against cognitive

:27:03.:27:10.

function and loss, for instance, during the ageing process. .

:27:11.:27:15.

Michelle Luciano, thank you very much.

:27:16.:27:22.

I say beetroot. Actually, I love beetroot.

:27:23.:27:24.

It is not proven by the way, scientifically! Time to get

:27:25.:30:45.

Young people are being left to face the dangers of bullying

:30:46.:31:15.

That's the warning from the Children's Commissioner for England.

:31:16.:31:17.

Anne Longfield says children - and often their parents -

:31:18.:31:27.

I hear that young people, if they try to get something taken down,

:31:28.:31:32.

half of them say they are satisfied. We know that half of their leisure

:31:33.:31:38.

time in stages is spent online services and new area of their life,

:31:39.:31:43.

it's important to get lessons in school that can help build their

:31:44.:31:46.

resilience, but they get honestly informed through the terms and

:31:47.:31:50.

conditions but then they can have recourse, some independent means to

:31:51.:31:52.

help them A spokesperson for the Department

:31:53.:31:58.

for Education told us there is more to be done

:31:59.:32:00.

and that they will carefully consider the report as part

:32:01.:32:03.

of their ongoing work to make the internet a safer

:32:04.:32:05.

place for children. The appointment of Sir Tim Barrow

:32:06.:32:11.

as the UK's new ambassador to the European Union has been

:32:12.:32:13.

welcomed by almost all He replaces Sir Ivan Rogers,

:32:14.:32:16.

who resigned on Tuesday after complaining of muddle

:32:17.:32:19.

and confusion in the The government says the UK's

:32:20.:32:22.

new ambassador in Brussels is a "seasoned and

:32:23.:32:26.

tough negotiator. Immigrants should be expected

:32:27.:32:30.

to learn English before coming to Britain or attend language

:32:31.:32:32.

classes when they arrive, funding available for more

:32:33.:32:34.

English lessons. But The All Party Parliamentary

:32:35.:32:41.

Group on social integration also wants the Government to consider

:32:42.:32:43.

giving the UK's nations and regions the power to control

:32:44.:32:45.

the number of visas issued. integration is a two-way street,

:32:46.:33:00.

there is a role for people who come here, which is where we say learning

:33:01.:33:04.

English at the end expectation but also there is a lubrication on dust

:33:05.:33:08.

could be nitty, we need to properly fund English language learning

:33:09.:33:13.

classes and employers need to give people the time of the go and learn

:33:14.:33:15.

English. President Barack Obama has

:33:16.:33:17.

urged his fellow Democrats to fight It comes as the incoming Trump

:33:18.:33:20.

administration began the process of repealing

:33:21.:33:24.

The Affordable Care Act. The Republican vice-president-elect,

:33:25.:33:26.

Mike Pence, had promised the process would begin on Donald Trump's first

:33:27.:33:29.

day in office - the 20th of January. People who live near main roads may

:33:30.:33:36.

be at greater risk of dementia, according to a decade-long study

:33:37.:33:38.

by scientists in Canada. The medical causes of the brain

:33:39.:33:41.

disease have yet to be identified but the research suggests air

:33:42.:33:44.

pollution and noisy traffic could be Dr David Reynolds from

:33:45.:33:46.

Alxheimer's Research UK says that What factors about living near a

:33:47.:34:03.

busy road are important for increasing your risk of dementia? Is

:34:04.:34:07.

of the noise caused by the traffic that might affect your sleep, is

:34:08.:34:13.

breathing in air pollution, the gases, the small particulates, we

:34:14.:34:16.

don't know at the moment but what this suggests is we should look at

:34:17.:34:20.

this more closely, to understand what the important factors are and

:34:21.:34:23.

then see if there is something we can do about it.

:34:24.:34:27.

Doubt has been cast on the NHS programme for screening those

:34:28.:34:30.

Researchers at Oxford University say it's unlikely to have much impact.

:34:31.:34:35.

It concluded that inaccurate blood tests would give too many people

:34:36.:34:38.

an incorrect diagnosis, while lifestyle changes

:34:39.:34:39.

The director of the NHS programme said its approach was based

:34:40.:34:43.

The price of petrol and diesel rose to their highest levels for a year

:34:44.:34:50.

and a half in December according to the RAC.

:34:51.:34:52.

Both fuels went up by three pence a litre during the month.

:34:53.:34:55.

It now costs around ?62 to ?80 to fill up a typical family car.

:34:56.:34:59.

The increasing cost of crude oil and further falls in the value

:35:00.:35:02.

of the pound are believed to be behind the trend.

:35:03.:35:08.

A Mediterranean diet can help older adults maintain bigger brains

:35:09.:35:14.

according to researchers at the University of Edinburgh.

:35:15.:35:16.

A study of pensioners in Scotland found that those with a diet

:35:17.:35:18.

rich in fresh fruit, vegetables and olive oil had

:35:19.:35:22.

healthier brains than those with different eating habits.

:35:23.:35:23.

They suffered less brain shrinkage than those who regularly ate

:35:24.:35:25.

Letters written by Princess Diana are due to be auctioned

:35:26.:35:33.

The collection will have approximately 40 lots with estimates

:35:34.:35:39.

Written to a steward at Buckingham Palace,

:35:40.:35:44.

they reveal that a young Prince Harry was routinely

:35:45.:35:47.

A figure of a soldier from the First World War has been

:35:48.:35:56.

It's nearly six metres tall and took a blacksmith three months to make

:35:57.:36:02.

Martin Galbavy (pron: GAL-BAVIE) used items including spanners,

:36:03.:36:08.

brake discs and horse shoes to create the impressive work.

:36:09.:36:19.

When you get a shot from further away, it's really remarkable.

:36:20.:36:28.

Victoria Derbyshire is on at 9 o'clock this morning on BBC2.

:36:29.:36:31.

Let's find out what's coming up today.

:36:32.:36:36.

We have an exclusive report on the men who murdered members of their

:36:37.:36:40.

own families, but what causes them to carry out acts of such

:36:41.:36:45.

unspeakable brutality? Will hear from some of those left behind.

:36:46.:36:51.

Those are the things that I have to live with now. Even though it's been

:36:52.:36:57.

14 years. You still have the bedrooms and the things you have

:36:58.:36:59.

experienced. Join us later. Coming up here on Breakfast

:37:00.:37:06.

this morning... That's the man I chased! You chased

:37:07.:37:13.

someone? Is their CCTV? The pathology drama

:37:14.:37:23.

Silent Witness is back. The show's stars will tell us why

:37:24.:37:24.

murky murders have seen it become the world's

:37:25.:37:27.

longest-running crime drama. Are bans on vans, boats

:37:28.:37:29.

and caravans outside We'll look at the curious covenants

:37:30.:37:31.

imposed on residents. We're live at a school

:37:32.:37:37.

in Liverpool looking at the campaign to inspire the next

:37:38.:37:41.

generation of scientists. Time for the sport. The last time

:37:42.:37:57.

Chelsea fail to win in the Premier League was back on September 24! A

:37:58.:38:02.

strange feeling for the fans and players as they trudged off to a

:38:03.:38:06.

league defeat, again in north London. Tottenham found a way to

:38:07.:38:11.

outfox them. So Chelsea's impressive

:38:12.:38:15.

winning streak, is over, after they were beaten by Spurs 2-0

:38:16.:38:17.

at White Hart Lane last night. After 13 straight victories, Chelsea

:38:18.:38:21.

needed just one more, But two goals from Spurs' Dele Alli

:38:22.:38:23.

ended any hope of that. Chelsea remain five points clear

:38:24.:38:29.

at the top, but the win for Spurs, There was no need to talk before the

:38:30.:38:45.

game, everybody knew how big the game was, not just for the players

:38:46.:38:47.

but other bands as well, you could see that from first whistle, it's

:38:48.:38:51.

always nice to score but more important we got the win today.

:38:52.:38:55.

It's a pity but it's important to know that this can happen, it's

:38:56.:39:03.

important now to restart, it continue to work very hard, to

:39:04.:39:05.

improve everyday. The January transfer window's open

:39:06.:39:09.

of course so expect some comings And West Ham are expected

:39:10.:39:11.

to increase their offer for Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe

:39:12.:39:16.

after having an initial offer Defoe began his career

:39:17.:39:21.

at the Hammers as a 16 year He's scored more than half

:39:22.:39:26.

of all Sunderland's goals in the Premier League this season

:39:27.:39:31.

and appears crucial to their chances Sir Andy Murray has extended his

:39:32.:39:34.

career-best winning streak, to 26 competitive matches,

:39:35.:39:45.

by making it through to the quarter finals,

:39:46.:39:47.

of the Qatar Open, but he was made to work for it against

:39:48.:39:49.

the world number 68 Gerald Melzer. The Austrian took Murray to a tie

:39:50.:39:52.

break in the first set, but the world number one eventually

:39:53.:39:55.

came through 7-6, 7-5. He'll face Spain's

:39:56.:39:58.

Nicolas Almagro next. Meanwhile Johanna Konta,

:39:59.:40:00.

Britain's number one female tennis player,

:40:01.:40:03.

is now just one win away She beat Kristyna Pliskova

:40:04.:40:05.

in the quarter finals of the Shenzhen Open,

:40:06.:40:08.

going through in three sets. Konta is seeded third

:40:09.:40:13.

for the tournament. The England and Leicester centre

:40:14.:40:23.

Manu Tuilagi, has been ruled out of the Six Nations and next summer's

:40:24.:40:25.

Lions tour with a knee injury. It's another blow for the player,

:40:26.:40:28.

who has suffered a string of injuries over the

:40:29.:40:31.

last three seasons. He's appeared just 23 times

:40:32.:40:33.

for Leicester since 2013 - and just once for England,

:40:34.:40:35.

under Eddie Jones. MS Dhoni has stepped down

:40:36.:40:39.

as India's one day captain, ahead of the, O.D.I series

:40:40.:40:41.

against England, which And England's One Day

:40:42.:40:43.

captain Eoin Morgan, will be hoping in that series,

:40:44.:40:49.

to replicate his big hits that he's been managing

:40:50.:40:52.

in the Big Big Bash League in His Sydney Thunder side

:40:53.:40:54.

needed a six off the final ball of the match to win

:40:55.:40:58.

against Melbourne Thunder, and under pressure,

:40:59.:41:01.

he smashed it into the stands. It was Morgan's final

:41:02.:41:05.

appearance in the Big Bash, Paralympic champion Kadeena Cox has

:41:06.:41:08.

defended her decision to take part in the Channel 4

:41:09.:41:17.

programme, The Jump, describing life UK Sport have suspended her

:41:18.:41:20.

funding while she takes part in the programme -

:41:21.:41:24.

in which participants On social media, Cox

:41:25.:41:26.

said her diagnosis, of MS, had changed her outlook on life,

:41:27.:41:31.

so she was going to enjoy skiing. Now we all know, as we get

:41:32.:41:38.

older, keeping fit takes a bit more effort -

:41:39.:41:42.

which makes the achievements of Frenchman, Robert Marchand

:41:43.:41:44.

even more impressive. At the age of 105,

:41:45.:41:48.

he's set a new record for the furthest distance cycled,

:41:49.:41:49.

in one hour, for riders of his age. He managed 22 kilometres

:41:50.:41:53.

in 60 minutes - all down He already held the record

:41:54.:41:56.

for those aged over 100, Afterwards he said he could have

:41:57.:42:02.

done better, and while his legs I just think he is fabulous! Unique.

:42:03.:42:21.

Apparently unlike the firefighting in Paris in the 40s, he is also a

:42:22.:42:26.

lumberjack, for many years, I guess that must be fit! I heard he stopped

:42:27.:42:35.

eating meat and recently? Because he suddenly became upset by the way

:42:36.:42:39.

animals are treated. That's right, for the last two or three years. Do

:42:40.:42:44.

you member last he repeated a 95-year-old sprinter who was sitting

:42:45.:42:50.

all sorts of records? He put it down to building muscle mass, so stopping

:42:51.:42:54.

long distance running, it's all about resistance training. Taken

:42:55.:42:58.

that on board? Maybe when I am 75! You've paid your deposit, sorted

:42:59.:43:04.

out your mortgage and moved in. It's now your home and you can do

:43:05.:43:08.

what you want with it, or can you? Buried in the small print

:43:09.:43:13.

of the title deeds or lease could be a list of things you're not

:43:14.:43:15.

allowed to do. It could include anything

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from building another property on your land to hanging out

:43:19.:43:20.

the washing or even parking your van These clauses are known

:43:21.:43:23.

as "restrictive covenants." This estate in Colchester, it hasn't

:43:24.:43:38.

even been finished yet but has already made headlines over a van

:43:39.:43:45.

ban. A van driver said he was all set to find his dream home here,

:43:46.:43:49.

until he realised he wouldn't be able to park his work than outside

:43:50.:43:55.

his house because of a restrictive covenant that bars commercial

:43:56.:43:59.

vehicles. Not far from the estate, builders were working on an

:44:00.:44:03.

extension, when a plumbing and heating engineer said he thought the

:44:04.:44:07.

van ban was unfair. I think it's absolutely ridiculous. And

:44:08.:44:12.

discriminating against someone who goes to work and works hard just

:44:13.:44:15.

because they use a band, I think it's outrageous. Not just a's MP is

:44:16.:44:23.

up, property lawyer, he wants an end to restrictive covenants that bar

:44:24.:44:26.

commercial vehicles. There are lots of hard-working people who ride on

:44:27.:44:32.

vans and Houston, often it's the only mode of transport, to say they

:44:33.:44:35.

can build a house but they're not able to buy delivered one because

:44:36.:44:37.

they can't park of another drive, I think is a disgrace and snobbery. In

:44:38.:44:40.

a statement: back at the estate, most residents

:44:41.:44:54.

said they were happy with the van ban but not all. They have purchased

:44:55.:44:59.

a house at these prices, should be allowed to have whatever vehicle

:45:00.:45:03.

they own parked in the driveway. But the only white band we spotted was

:45:04.:45:04.

leaving. He has the money, he has brought the

:45:05.:45:21.

house but can't park is van? It's not entirely unusual.

:45:22.:45:29.

They been going on for years, particularly in post-war housing and

:45:30.:45:35.

development. The key point in the story is, at what point do you get

:45:36.:45:41.

the information? What point do you know how a reason and covenants are?

:45:42.:45:46.

And then you make a judgment as to whether or not you should buy the

:45:47.:45:51.

house. This is a private estate, but that is the reason they are able to

:45:52.:45:56.

put on those restrictions. Exactly. It tends to be classically a

:45:57.:46:01.

new-build development. And that can be different sort of covenants, for

:46:02.:46:04.

example one saying that no livestock could be kept on your property, for

:46:05.:46:10.

obvious reasons. Or saying that you could not convert your garage for a

:46:11.:46:13.

couple of years without the permission of the builders, that you

:46:14.:46:19.

could not run a business with multiple vehicles. That could be

:46:20.:46:23.

various considerations in these covenants, and it is for the greater

:46:24.:46:26.

good. The argument would be that it is for the protection of the broader

:46:27.:46:33.

offering. It provides challenges that people have to deal with. We

:46:34.:46:36.

mentioned hanging the washing out in the lead-in. Is that really a

:46:37.:46:41.

covenant? It is not common, in my experience. There are not many that

:46:42.:46:47.

I know of but these leaseholds or covenants, they can be quite

:46:48.:46:51.

extensive, so the advice would always be to speak to your solicitor

:46:52.:46:56.

and make sure they explain to you in plain English. There is also an

:46:57.:46:59.

argument that point when you put on your reservation, even before the

:47:00.:47:02.

legal process starts, it might be reasonable to say, are there any

:47:03.:47:07.

covenants on this? So that you then do not incur the cost of mortgage

:47:08.:47:11.

application fees, except. What happens if somebody breaks the

:47:12.:47:16.

covenant? Enforceability. Essentially, somebody has the

:47:17.:47:20.

benefit of the covenant, when you enforce it, so typically it would be

:47:21.:47:23.

the developer or a management company. So you hang out your

:47:24.:47:26.

washing, what happens? What would normally happen would be that a

:47:27.:47:32.

neighbour who was affronted by this outrageous hang-out of the washing

:47:33.:47:35.

would then probably contact the management company or the builder

:47:36.:47:40.

and say, we are seeing a clear breach. Then it would be for the

:47:41.:47:43.

people who have the benefit of the covenant to take that issue up. It

:47:44.:47:47.

would normally start off with a letter or a discussion. It can end

:47:48.:47:55.

up in a fine. Thankfully, it really gets to that point. The crucial

:47:56.:47:57.

point is that people understand the advantage of buying a house, and you

:47:58.:48:02.

need to know what you're dealing with. Hopefully that will restrict

:48:03.:48:06.

the amount of problems. You can only assure them that the house-builders,

:48:07.:48:10.

the recently put the covenants in, is mostly because most people want

:48:11.:48:14.

them. If people did not want them, they would not be there. That's my

:48:15.:48:18.

view. There is a market force. If the covenants are unreasonable and

:48:19.:48:22.

people do not want them, and the houses do not sell, that would make

:48:23.:48:26.

the builders change their policy. Ultimately, if the covenants are

:48:27.:48:29.

there, and people are buying them with those covenants, the market is

:48:30.:48:34.

proving it. There are practical considerations. On modern

:48:35.:48:37.

developments where the tends to be more houses on small pieces of land,

:48:38.:48:41.

compared to 20 years ago, some of these developments have reduced

:48:42.:48:45.

payments, or no payments at all. If you have big commercial vehicles,

:48:46.:48:51.

and reduced size pavements, what about a wheelchair getting by, what

:48:52.:48:55.

about Abraham? So there is probably a business aspect but there is

:48:56.:48:58.

probably a practical aspect as well. And what about all the homes? --

:48:59.:49:04.

older homes. These covenants can apply to any property. Typically,

:49:05.:49:11.

they are more commonly found among new developments, and more commonly

:49:12.:49:15.

enforced. Particularly those built in the last five or ten years. If I

:49:16.:49:21.

am selling my house, can I put a covenant on its? The answer is that

:49:22.:49:27.

you can but you would have to make sure when you were selling it that a

:49:28.:49:31.

mortgage company, if the buyer had a mortgage, they would want to review

:49:32.:49:35.

it and see if it was reasonable. It might well be seen as reasonable.

:49:36.:49:41.

But if it is unreasonable... If I had a beautiful tree that I had

:49:42.:49:45.

loved in the garden, could I put a covenant on it saying that whoever

:49:46.:49:48.

buys the house, they could not cut it down? It would need to be

:49:49.:49:55.

carefully drafted but there are tree preservation orders, for example, so

:49:56.:49:59.

very often the local authority will put a covenant on saying that

:50:00.:50:02.

essentially you cannot remove the tree without speaking to us. These

:50:03.:50:06.

things exist. You can see all sorts of covenants that they try to put

:50:07.:50:12.

in. Whether or not they end up being enforced is a different issue but

:50:13.:50:15.

always check and see what they are. Anything can happen and it is

:50:16.:50:19.

important that you know what you were buying. Very interesting.

:50:20.:50:24.

Robert, thank you very much. Do you have a favourite treat?

:50:25.:50:28.

I love all trees. I can't bear it when people chop down trees.

:50:29.:50:36.

I am not sure quite how to describe that behind you, Carol? Good

:50:37.:50:39.

morning. It is frosted Middlesbrough.

:50:40.:50:45.

-- frost in Middlesbrough. A frosty start but a lot of sunshine. And we

:50:46.:50:50.

have another beautiful sunrise in Powys. Still frosty. The forecast

:50:51.:50:55.

for most of the UK today is a frosty start, with cold, winter sunshine

:50:56.:51:00.

and light breezes. As always, there are nuances in the forecast and

:51:01.:51:03.

there is one in the shape of a weather front towards the West. The

:51:04.:51:09.

remnants of yesterday's. Today, a bit more cloud and the odd splash of

:51:10.:51:13.

rain. At times, we will see a little bit more cloud to the east on. And

:51:14.:51:17.

it will be thick enough for the odd shower. Most of us will not see it,

:51:18.:51:21.

we will miss the showers and it will remain dry. Through the day, in the

:51:22.:51:26.

Northwest the cloud will thicken, so sunshine will turn a little bit hazy

:51:27.:51:30.

in nature. Away from that, the rest of Scotland will be cold and sunny.

:51:31.:51:35.

For Northern Ireland, you are under the influence of a weather front at

:51:36.:51:38.

the moment. If you have a little bit of cloud and sunshine, but for the

:51:39.:51:45.

Bank of England, it will be cold, with breezes, and sunny. The

:51:46.:51:50.

exception being Pembrokeshire, West Devon and Cornwall. Through the

:51:51.:51:58.

evening and overnight, blue indicates it is going to be cold and

:51:59.:52:03.

frosty. The cloud will move south, lifting some of that, but it will

:52:04.:52:06.

remain in the south with temperatures in London down two

:52:07.:52:09.

minus one. There will also be freezing fog patches forming in East

:52:10.:52:13.

Anglia and the south-east, possibly further west. Meanwhile, a weather

:52:14.:52:17.

front coming across Scotland and Northern Ireland will take

:52:18.:52:19.

strengthening wind and rain further south by the end of the night into

:52:20.:52:22.

north-west England and also north-west Wales. Tomorrow, that

:52:23.:52:27.

will continue its descent southwards. Starting off with a fog

:52:28.:52:32.

in the south. That will slowly lift tomorrow. A lot of low cloud. In the

:52:33.:52:37.

south-east it is going to be quite a cold day and cloudy. Dank at times.

:52:38.:52:43.

Meanwhile, here comes the rain. Some of that heavy, some of it

:52:44.:52:47.

persistent, especially across parts of Yorkshire and the East Midlands.

:52:48.:52:50.

Behind it, some brighter skies and hill fog. The overriding thing away

:52:51.:52:56.

from the south-east is how mild it is going to feel, especially in

:52:57.:53:00.

comparison to today. Some of us will have a 7 degrees hike in temperature

:53:01.:53:05.

tomorrow. Lots of dry weather around then we will lose the rain early on.

:53:06.:53:09.

Some showers but they will be the exception rather than the rule.

:53:10.:53:14.

Still mild on Sunday, and for most of the UK it is going to be a dry

:53:15.:53:19.

day. Cloudy with spots of rain. Later in the day, we will see some

:53:20.:53:23.

more rain coming in and across the North West. After this call

:53:24.:53:26.

day-to-day, things warming up a touch. It does not mean that it will

:53:27.:53:31.

be sparkling blue skies. What a shame. I like sparkling blue

:53:32.:53:36.

skies! We have got them today but after today, no.

:53:37.:53:40.

The latest driverless car, headphones that can translate

:53:41.:53:42.

languages instantly and the latest smart gadgets for the home.

:53:43.:53:45.

These are just some of the things we can expect from this year's

:53:46.:53:48.

International Consumer Electronics Show.

:53:49.:53:51.

One of my favourites is a pillow that can stop you snoring. Or can

:53:52.:53:57.

it? Who knows? Are you volunteering to try it out?

:53:58.:54:02.

Are you saying that highs no? I don't know, do I?! -- are you saying

:54:03.:54:08.

that I snore. Earlier we spoke

:54:09.:54:10.

to our Technology Correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones who is in Las Vegas

:54:11.:54:11.

ahead of one of the biggest events All the gadgets we are seeing this

:54:12.:54:17.

year, they are talking about artificial intelligence, which was

:54:18.:54:23.

the radical, researched in the laboratories, is coming out of

:54:24.:54:26.

laboratories and into products, making everything smarter, from your

:54:27.:54:29.

car to all sorts of products around the home. That is the message from

:54:30.:54:33.

here this year. All of your devices from now on will be smart. In a

:54:34.:54:40.

penthouse suite at a ritzy Las Vegas hotel, Smart home exhibits are on

:54:41.:54:43.

show. There is a smart speaker for children where each toy is a

:54:44.:54:52.

playlist. A voice activated door lock. And upstairs, there is even a

:54:53.:55:03.

smart snoring solution. This little device is paired with a pad under

:55:04.:55:07.

the pillow, which detects if I'm snoring and moves just enough to

:55:08.:55:13.

stop me without waking me up. The big theme this year is turning the

:55:14.:55:16.

advances in artificial intelligence into products. There are robots, of

:55:17.:55:22.

course. This one is meant to be a shop assistant. This one is designed

:55:23.:55:25.

as a companion for children or elderly people. AI seems to get

:55:26.:55:30.

everywhere, even into this toothbrush. Artificial intelligence

:55:31.:55:36.

is not just gathering data, it is being able to use the data. So then

:55:37.:55:42.

you learn where your strengths and weaknesses are and the purpose is to

:55:43.:55:46.

become better at taking care of oral health. This walking stick is also

:55:47.:55:51.

smarter than it looks. An in-built mobile phones that means it can help

:55:52.:55:55.

if there is an accident. It will detect the fall of its user and then

:55:56.:55:59.

when it detects it, it will alert the family or neighbours. So they

:56:00.:56:06.

can come and help people. And this clever mirror helps anyone to try

:56:07.:56:14.

and make up. Out on the Las Vegas strip, Danny, young entrepreneur

:56:15.:56:19.

from Manchester, has just flown in. Welcome to Las Vegas. His instant

:56:20.:56:23.

translation headphones are not quite ready. They will eventually be tiny

:56:24.:56:29.

earbuds but he is looking forward to the event. It is important to

:56:30.:56:32.

showcase what we have been working on. To the whole public, to the

:56:33.:56:36.

whole world, to let you know that this is something that we started

:56:37.:56:40.

years ago, as a small start-up, and with dedication and passion, we can

:56:41.:56:47.

make something. The odds are against Danny, a one-man bands taking on the

:56:48.:56:50.

giants like Apple and Google. But like plenty of people here this

:56:51.:56:54.

week, is betting that he has the product to change the world. Dan is

:56:55.:56:58.

a rare breed because he is one of the few British companies exhibiting

:56:59.:57:02.

here. He has come under his own steam and it has cost them a lot of

:57:03.:57:05.

money. He has not had any government help. There's been some controversy

:57:06.:57:10.

about how few British firms are here, compared to other countries.

:57:11.:57:22.

There are a lot of French companies, all sorts of French government

:57:23.:57:25.

institutions supporting their companies. There are 1300 Chinese

:57:26.:57:27.

firms. But the British government says it does support people coming

:57:28.:57:29.

to this show. It gives them moral support, at least. But the question

:57:30.:57:32.

is, should more money had been spent making the British voice heard

:57:33.:57:36.

louder? Rory mentioning the fact that surprisingly few British

:57:37.:57:39.

companies are involved in gadgets and signs.

:57:40.:57:45.

That might explain our next order. -- our next story.

:57:46.:57:46.

Britain is short of budding young scientists.

:57:47.:57:48.

Only 15 per cent of 9 to eleven year olds are considering the subject

:57:49.:57:51.

Today, the BBC is launching a two-year campaign to inspire

:57:52.:57:55.

a million children to get involved in science.

:57:56.:57:57.

The results will be published in academic journals.

:57:58.:57:59.

Breakfast's Jayne McCubbin has been getting some expert help

:58:00.:58:01.

This is Liz Bonnin and this is a primary school in Hackney.

:58:02.:58:15.

She's here to launch the BBC's Terrific

:58:16.:58:17.

Scientific programme to help

:58:18.:58:18.

A super exciting experiment to try to save a dinosaur

:58:19.:58:27.

We know that children love science up to a certain age and then

:58:28.:58:37.

This campaign is about looking to really pinpoint what the reasons

:58:38.:58:42.

might be for that and to try and change that trend.

:58:43.:58:51.

Here, they are clearly into the subject.

:58:52.:58:53.

Almost 40% of primary schools spend less than an hour a week on science

:58:54.:59:04.

and only 15% of nine to 11-year-olds want to be a scientist.

:59:05.:59:07.

With 40,000 science and technology jobs left vacant each year,

:59:08.:59:09.

Why are so many people afraid of science?

:59:10.:59:17.

We can see how much fun the children are having.

:59:18.:59:22.

We can see how easy it is. These are resources that are lying around the

:59:23.:59:27.

house. Cornflour, buckets. The short answer to your

:59:28.:59:31.

question, I have no idea. She says science has

:59:32.:59:33.

an image problem. For some strange reason,

:59:34.:59:41.

science still has a lot You've got to be brainy

:59:42.:59:44.

to like science, or you've got to work in a lab,

:59:45.:59:47.

be an older gentleman with glasses And that couldn't be

:59:48.:59:50.

further from the truth. So, today she's kicking off the two

:59:51.:59:55.

year Terrific Scientific campaign, which will involve more

:59:56.:59:58.

than 1 million children and 40,000 teachers,

:59:59.:00:02.

bringing real experiments into real schools to gather real

:00:03.:00:06.

scientifically significant results, Adventurers, creators, dreamers,

:00:07.:00:10.

innovators, climbing mountains, exploring the depths of our oceans

:00:11.:00:22.

and everything in between. For me it is clear how

:00:23.:00:24.

exciting and fun science is. Good morning, children! Hands up who

:00:25.:00:49.

lost science! Lets see science in action. Tommy what's happening. The

:00:50.:00:56.

Ballouchy blow up with this baking soda. It makes the gas go into it so

:00:57.:01:04.

it makes the balloon rise up. You can tell us the importance of this

:01:05.:01:10.

experiment. It demonstrates... Chemical change! What do you want to

:01:11.:01:19.

be when you grow up? Policeman. Go in the Army. A footballer. This is a

:01:20.:01:28.

common one in Liverpool! The vast majority of children don't have any

:01:29.:01:33.

interest in a career in science. Not so these two, what do you want to

:01:34.:01:42.

be? Without the make potions. I believe there was an incident once

:01:43.:01:46.

in the classroom. She was not that happy about it. No one was injured!

:01:47.:01:53.

That's all you need to know. The point of this is to engage kids have

:01:54.:01:59.

signed so that you think about having a career as you did, in

:02:00.:02:04.

science, before you came to teaching. I was an engineering

:02:05.:02:08.

geologist, I not signed as a child and that I would like to instil in

:02:09.:02:15.

these children. So they enjoy science. Less than 10% of teachers

:02:16.:02:22.

have any scientific -based qualifications. How much time do you

:02:23.:02:25.

spend on science and would you like to spend more? At least an hour, we

:02:26.:02:29.

would like to spend more time but there are constraints with other

:02:30.:02:32.

subjects in the curriculum, maths and English, they are the priority.

:02:33.:02:38.

That's how you will be measured. Thanks for your time. Come over

:02:39.:02:46.

here, let me get across to the head teacher, Miss Gough. You know what

:02:47.:02:49.

she wanted to be when she was growing up? Mermaid! Your parents

:02:50.:02:58.

and children here. When I say science, what do you think?

:02:59.:03:05.

Intelligent people, not for me. It's a bit intimidating. It shouldn't be

:03:06.:03:09.

the case. This campaign is about instilling enthusiasm for science in

:03:10.:03:14.

parents and teachers as well as children. You understand this? I

:03:15.:03:19.

have five children, I have a science background but they think it's

:03:20.:03:22.

boring. One of my sons came home and said we did a really cool thing in

:03:23.:03:26.

school today, I said, that was science! They don't get that the fun

:03:27.:03:36.

stuff is science. Terrific Scientific is about showing that

:03:37.:03:38.

science is important, it's about real experiments which will be

:03:39.:03:43.

published, it's all very exciting. More details coming up.

:03:44.:03:48.

That was Breakfast's Jayne McCubbin reporting.

:03:49.:03:50.

And if your school wants to get involved you can

:03:51.:03:52.

register at this website - bbc.co.uk/terrificscientific.

:03:53.:04:02.

In a moment we'll be speaking to the stars of 'Silent Witness'

:04:03.:04:05.

First a last, brief look at the headlines where

:04:06.:04:11.

Silent witness has become the world largest crime drama on TV. We will

:04:12.:06:23.

speak now to our guests from the programme. It's just lovely to have

:06:24.:06:30.

it back, it's one of my favourites. You are aggressively new character.

:06:31.:06:37.

It's been five years now, and four for Richard! Are there any

:06:38.:06:42.

characters that have sustained all the way through, there aren't, they?

:06:43.:06:52.

There are one or two behind the scenes, Amanda Burton, but one of

:06:53.:06:56.

the programme is macro strengths is its continuity. Continuity, and

:06:57.:07:05.

production as well? So important to get that right. People treat away

:07:06.:07:10.

and say you haven't got this right, that right, but there is a lot of

:07:11.:07:13.

attention to detail, forensics attention to detail, we get a lot of

:07:14.:07:18.

advice, it's not a documentary but we pride ourselves on making sure

:07:19.:07:22.

it's accurate. I am aware that you are both playing roles. So you're

:07:23.:07:28.

not in fact pathologists! But knowing what you know now, as it

:07:29.:07:34.

made you more... Do you look at things differently but Mac more

:07:35.:07:40.

frantically aware. -- forensically aware. The storylines take incidents

:07:41.:07:45.

that could have happened in real life, a murder, discovery of a body,

:07:46.:07:50.

it's amazing how much forensic technology has changed, even in the

:07:51.:07:55.

five years I've been doing the show. And it's our 20th anniversary this

:07:56.:08:00.

year, it's amazing to have lasted so long. That's because it has

:08:01.:08:04.

responded well each year to the frantic changes that have happened

:08:05.:08:08.

in science. But have a quick look at the next episode. I found a cycling

:08:09.:08:16.

app on the laptop, it uploaded automatically and tells me she

:08:17.:08:19.

cycled 3.75 miles only she vanished. When was it activated? 9.10. She

:08:20.:08:27.

triggered the programme as she left her house? The traffic cam will

:08:28.:08:33.

check for the moment she went missing. No sightings? Five

:08:34.:08:37.

surrounding lanes and at the road. We have got something. 3.75 miles

:08:38.:09:00.

from her house. They've always got something, haven't they? Tell us a

:09:01.:09:05.

little bit about Clarissa, she has a fantastically dry sense of humour.

:09:06.:09:10.

She has it's a joy to play. I remember reading the script and the

:09:11.:09:13.

audition and it was just like, I know how to do this! That's because

:09:14.:09:17.

I am deeply dark and sarcastic myself! There is no mystery there.

:09:18.:09:23.

But to bring that kind of humour into such a dark series, and a

:09:24.:09:28.

serious topic, it's really important. We do have a darkness and

:09:29.:09:33.

we have to have lightness and Clarissa helps to bring that up.

:09:34.:09:37.

Andrew taunts the other characters, I think that's good, that's what we

:09:38.:09:41.

like as real people and what we're trying portray. You were talking but

:09:42.:09:47.

the technology, the site is always fascinating, but the programme works

:09:48.:09:51.

because of the dynamics between the characters -- the science is always

:09:52.:09:57.

fascinating. It's an amazing job, we work every year from April through

:09:58.:10:00.

to November, filming. The stuff you have just seen now, I hadn't

:10:01.:10:06.

actually seen the scenes before. It's a thrilling time of year for

:10:07.:10:10.

us, you see about stuff you have read on the page comes alive on the

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screen, particularly the racial chips between the central

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characters, and the visiting people, you always have an understanding

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about something and how it's good to look that you have no idea how it

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relates really look to you see it on screen. He mentioned the script,

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when you have technical stuff, which you do, it is hard to grasp

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sometimes, the science and technology? Yes, very. We have a

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forensics pathologist, Liz has a lot of technical stuff, I have

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postmortem stuff to do, and we pester them continually because I

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refuse to say anything on screen that I don't understand. As I think

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you can tell. Do you have the same principle as Mac on no, no. He is a

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professional and I try to win it. Thank goodness for Google! As well

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as forensic experts. The other thing I love about it, I followed avidly

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for so many years, it is the love interests, and I understand that for

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your character there might be one this time? Yes, we finally get to

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meet my husband, played by Daniel Wayman, we will emerge for 12 years,

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as Max and Clarissa, you get to see a different side of her from seeing

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her in a relationship, we felt 20 years, we've seen everybody else in

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a relationship, let's see Clarissa, who she's behind the scenes. A lot

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of people think she just lives in that centre and never comes out but

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she has got a private life. Is that important for you as well to play

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that? Absolutely, I love different six and crime stuff but it was great

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to see more. We all want that from our characters. It's important,

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growing up I never saw the kind of thing that we're going to be showing

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in the episodes on the 23rd and 24th of January, I never saw a disabled

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character in a stable relationship, how exciting to be playing something

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I never saw. I am an actor first but be changing things as well and

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pushing the envelope, I guess, that's really important to me. When

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I think of a TV pathologist I go right back to Quincy. Was he a

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coroner or a pathologist? He was a coroner. But essentially he was

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doing the same welcome every week he would get quite angry and find the

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crucial bit of evidence. They always seem to be characters. The people

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that are very exposed to some of life's more gruesome and darker side

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so I suppose that's a tradition. You are inspiring as an actor but also,

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people are inspired by this programme, we have been talking

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today about not taking up science, can you see that in the reaction it

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gets? Absolutely. I have just started on Twitter and people are

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going, chronological mats sociologically or forensics, people

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are really interested in it and that's great. We need to get more

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people into science. Were either of you any good at it at school? I

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failed my physics on level, there is no way I could be a forensics

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pathologist! Alongside the science, talking about her character

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developing, the great gift for an act of being in a long-running

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series, that comes back, is that you have time over that period to

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explore, our characters have related in a different way. A lot of people

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are very pleased to see it back. The new episode is on Monday night at

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nine p.m.. A couple have been out already and you can watch them on

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the iPlayer. That's it from us. We asked you who has left you

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feeling ripped off and you came back with a catalogue

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of travel disasters.

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