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This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:00. | :00:10. | |
The Brexit bill goes to the vote as MPs decide whether to give | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
Theresa May the power to leave the EU. | :00:14. | :00:16. | |
Last night, the Government saw off a possible rebellion after promising | :00:17. | :00:19. | |
that any final deal will be put to the Commons. | :00:20. | :00:23. | |
We'll be live at Westminster with the latest in the next few minutes. | :00:24. | :00:39. | |
A damning report says a plan to free up hospital beds in England | :00:40. | :00:55. | |
As campaigners demand tougher limits on the use of sexual history in rape | :00:56. | :01:02. | |
cases, we'll hear one victim's story. | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
It was awful, to be degraded in such a way and to be so totally | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
humiliated. An overdraft could cost you five | :01:12. | :01:13. | |
times more than a payday loan. I'm looking at the cost of quick | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
cash and asking whether regulators After stepping down | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
from the role, Alastair Cook says playing under another England | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
captain will "not be an issue." A whirling, swooping, | :01:24. | :01:30. | |
acrobatic spectacle of nature. As the season comes to an end, | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
we'll be looking at the science Good morning. A cold start in the | :01:33. | :01:53. | |
west. A risk of ice first thing. Sunshine and coastal showers. Cloud | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
will drift into the central parts. And some showers will be wintry. | :01:59. | :02:07. | |
More details in 15 minutes. Thank you, Carol. See you then. | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
The bill empowering Theresa May to start the process of leaving | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
the EU is due to reach its final stages in the Commons later. | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Last night, the Government saw off a potential rebellion | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
from Conservative backbenchers, and defeated amendments put forward | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Tom Bateman. | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
A battle for control over the process of Brexit. How much say will | :02:27. | :02:33. | |
Parliament have? Last night, MPs ended more than seven hours of | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
debate which contained what some saw as concessions from the government. | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
I can confirm that the government will bring forward a motion on final | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
agreement from both Houses of Parliament before it is concluded. | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
In other words, MPs will get to vote on any future rigs a deal before it | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
is signed off by the government and the EU. -- Brexit. But other | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
negotiations will likely be complex. Some are worried about Theresa May's | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
threat to walk away from the talks rather than take a bad deal. What | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
the house wants is the opportunity to send the government back to our | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
EU partners to negotiate a deal if one is not reached. Last night, the | :03:16. | :03:21. | |
government saw off a number of attempts to starve Brexit. Some | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
backbenchers remain unhappy about what the ministers offered. | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Divisions between those who argued for it and who campaigned against it | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
were plain to see. The bill reaches its final stage later today, with | :03:35. | :03:46. | |
more Tory backbencher debate. The government leaves it can trigger its | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
next month. -- believes. Our political correspondent, | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
Carol Walker, is in Westminster this After that series of victories by | :03:55. | :04:04. | |
the government in their votes yesterday, it will hope to win | :04:05. | :04:09. | |
another series of votes in Commons today. That gets it threw all its | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
Commons stages before getting onto the Lord's. It will hope those | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
convincing victories will persuade the Lord's not to change the bills | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
too much and cause any problems for the government. The garden should be | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
helped by the fact Jeremy Corbyn has ordered his MPs to support the | :04:29. | :04:33. | |
legislation. -- Government. That has brought substantial rebellion. Three | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
people from the shadow cabinet had to resign. Many eyes today will be | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
on the Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott, a key ally of Jeremy Corbyn. | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
Last week some colleagues said this was no more than a case of Brexit | :04:50. | :04:58. | |
flew. If she fails to turn up today, that will bring problems for the | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Labour Party and the government will be hopeful it can get the | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
legislation through, trigger Article 50, and trigger negotiations by the | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
end of March. Thank you very much for the moment. | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
Plans to treat more patients in the community have so far failed | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
to save money or reduce hospital admissions in England, | :05:16. | :05:17. | |
according to the Government's spending watchdog. | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
The National Audit Office says ministers were over-optimistic | :05:20. | :05:21. | |
in thinking a scheme called the Better Care Fund could save ?500 | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
When residents of this care home in Sutton have to go to hospital, | :05:25. | :05:34. | |
an innovative scheme helps cut their stay to a minimum. | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
Their medical and personal details go with them in distinctive red bags | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
so doctors and nurses can make faster and more | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
It's been a great asset for us and we're | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
able to pass the information on with a guarantee that it's | :05:53. | :05:59. | |
going from ambulance to A to the ward. | :06:00. | :06:06. | |
We have been able to choose the time by four days which is massive | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
when you think about how stretched the system is at the moment. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
The National Audit Office says the spending of ?5 billion | :06:14. | :06:20. | |
Starting in 2014-15, the scheme aimed to reduce | :06:21. | :06:23. | |
an emergency admissions to hospital by more than 100,000. | :06:24. | :06:36. | |
But in 2015-16, admissions actually went up by 87,000. | :06:37. | :06:38. | |
Over the same period, the project was | :06:39. | :06:40. | |
supposed to reduce the number of days lost by people stayed | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
in hospital to just under 300,000 but | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
The Public Accounts Committee wants long-term solutions rather than | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
short-term funding. What is it that is | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
stopping the beds being available even when there is some | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
money being thrown at them, The government says it is too soon | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
to judge the impact of the funding. Government lawyers in America have | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
been trying to convince an appeals court to reinstate President Trump's | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
ban on people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
the United States. They said Mr Trump was acting | :07:19. | :07:19. | |
within his powers and that the court which suspended the ban | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
last week made an error. But two US states argued it | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
discriminated against Muslims. Our Washington correspondent, | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
Richard Lister, has more details. Alleged rape victims shouldn't be | :07:29. | :07:38. | |
cross-examined in court about their sexual history | :07:39. | :07:40. | |
of appearance, according to an MP. Liz Saville Roberts wants | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
to introduce a so-called "Rape Shield Law," which would | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
prevent defence lawyers from routinely using a claimant's | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
past sexual behaviour as evidence. The Ministry of Justice says the bar | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
for disclosing such information is high, but they were | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
listening to concerns. A rape victim told BBC Breakfast | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
she was left humiliated The accused me of being someone who | :07:56. | :08:12. | |
is miscue is. It is appalling. I was told that it is not allowed, it was | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
resigned to the Dark Ages, a character annihilation. | :08:18. | :08:18. | |
Plans to offer 30 hours of free childcare to three and four year | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
olds in England could lead to a shortage of nursery places, | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
The 15 hours per week children currently receive in term time | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
is set to double from September, but more than half of councils told | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
the Family and Childcare Trust that they were unsure their areas | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
would have adequate provision to cope. | :08:37. | :08:37. | |
The Department for Education says quality, affordable childcare | :08:38. | :08:40. | |
The chairman of the Football Association has admitted | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
that the organisation needs to change, and says he'll resign | :08:46. | :08:48. | |
Greg Clarke's comments come ahead of a debate in Parliament tomorrow | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
In December, five former FA chiefs called on the government | :08:54. | :08:57. | |
to legislate to restructure the body, saying it was outdated, | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
We have heard about the travel ban. But one other story. Does he wear | :09:01. | :09:21. | |
dressing gowns? Quite an extraordinary story. Lots of old | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
pictures of him wearing a bath robe has appeared on line. That is after | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
his Press Secretary told journalists the president definitely does not | :09:33. | :09:41. | |
wear one. The were subject to a meal times article suggesting he sits | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
down watching Fox News in his dressing gown. -- New York Times. It | :09:45. | :09:50. | |
is one of its most used phrases. Fake news. The president's latest | :09:51. | :09:57. | |
spat with the media is over this, a bath robe, and whether he does or | :09:58. | :10:03. | |
does not own one. This New York Times report described a chaotic | :10:04. | :10:08. | |
start to his presidency. But it was the claim that Donald Trump spent | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
considerable time watching television in his bathroom that | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
seemed to particularly irritate the White House. That is literally the | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
epitome of fake news. I mean, you start at the top, I don't think he | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
owns a bath robe. He definitely does not wear one. From top to bottom it | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
is a made up story that does not exist. The president tweeted, of | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
course, his annoyance at what he described as poor reporting. And | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
that bar for a denial prompted people across the globe to take to | :10:40. | :10:46. | |
social media to contradict the White House. -- bathrobe. Some delved deep | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
into archives to find these images. There were Donald Trump bathrobes as | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
well. And it spawned parities. This picture of Ronald Reagan did the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
rounds. One tweet said he should not be so shy about wearing the garment. | :11:02. | :11:10. | |
Many said that the government had more serious matters to discuss | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
rather than his choice of loungewear. Interesting gown news. I | :11:15. | :11:22. | |
love the Internet. Social media is brilliant. Do you have one? I like | :11:23. | :11:29. | |
my one. I got one 15 years ago as a Christmas present and I never use | :11:30. | :11:36. | |
it. You are missing out. Free and easy when I get out of the shower. | :11:37. | :11:40. | |
Maybe you should not have said that. I like to let nature dry me. Every | :11:41. | :11:51. | |
day! Stop. I will talk instead about Alastair Cook. Yesterday we spoke | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
about him not being the captain any more. He actually looks quite sad in | :11:57. | :12:07. | |
that picture. He did not look like a man with the burden lifted off the | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
shoulders. Alastair Cook says he'll have "no | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
issue" playing under another captain following his resignation | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
as England Test skipper. Cook led his country | :12:22. | :12:22. | |
in a record 59 Test matches. Batsman Joe Root is | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
the frontrunner to replace him. Leicester City have given | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
their "unwavering support" The reigning Premier League | :12:29. | :12:29. | |
champions are just one point Leicester have managed just two wins | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
in their last 15 league games, They play Derby tonight in an FA Cup | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
fourth round replay. Fed Cup captain, Anne Keothavong, | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
says her team can "put women's Their campaign begins | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
in Estonia this morning. World number ten, Johanna Konta, | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
Heather Watson, Laura Robson, And Ronnie O'Sullivan | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
is through to the second round of the World Grand Prix | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
at Preston's Guild Hall after beating China's Yan | :12:55. | :12:56. | |
Bing-tao last night. The Rocket will now play either | :12:57. | :12:58. | |
Neil Robertson or Ricky Walden Have you recovered? Yes. Yes. We are | :12:59. | :13:15. | |
over it now? Moving on. We will catch up with Carol. For once we | :13:16. | :13:21. | |
have made sure she is on time. Good morning. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
I am in shock. Good morning. Yesterday, some of us had snow. | :13:26. | :13:37. | |
Beautiful pictures. There is some snow in the forecast today but not | :13:38. | :13:42. | |
all of us will see it. We will have a cloudy start in the east. Wintry | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
flurries. In the west, a brighter start. A colder one. The risk of ice | :13:47. | :13:52. | |
on untreated surfaces. High-pressure building in the south-west. This | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
weather front is in the east. This is starting to make progress towards | :13:57. | :14:03. | |
the west. Behind it, effectively, we will pull in this cold continental | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
air. It will feel colder today than it did yesterday. We will start off | :14:08. | :14:13. | |
where it is cold this morning. That is in parts of the west. Under | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
clearer skies, temperatures have dropped. There is the risk of ice on | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
untreated surfaces. The east, more cloud, some getting in central parts | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
this morning. Patchy and light rain and drizzle. Again, up the east | :14:27. | :14:33. | |
coast, a wintry element coming in. Western Scotland and Northern | :14:34. | :14:36. | |
Ireland, clearer skies and the risk of ice and fog here and there. | :14:37. | :14:42. | |
Nothing to substantial. Further snow in the Grampians today. In the east, | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
especially over the high ground. During the day, that will come down | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
a touch. We pull in this easterly wind and it will feel cold and some | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
of the showers will have a wintry components to them. Down the east | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
coast, highs of three and five. Something not as cold out towards | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
the west, 7-8. Heading on through the evening and overnight, we hang | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
on to this cold wind coming in from the continent. A southerly one out | :15:09. | :15:12. | |
towards the west. Again, where we have clear skies, pockets of frost. | :15:13. | :15:18. | |
More cloud towards the east. Not such a problem here. The odd pocket | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
of fog as well. Again, nothing to substantial. Temperatures, below | :15:23. | :15:30. | |
freezing. Now, as we head on through tomorrow, again, similar to today. | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
Similar with no change. Some sunshine in the west. The east, wind | :15:36. | :15:39. | |
coming in from the North Sea with an easterly direction. Once again | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
tomorrow, showers, as especially coming in from the coast. Some will | :15:46. | :15:53. | |
get inland. Along the coast, sleet and snow. Snow in the Grampians and | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
possibly the Pennines as well, but not significant amounts. Fried a. | :16:00. | :16:05. | |
More showers than this is showing. -- Friday. An easterly wind across | :16:06. | :16:13. | |
the land. A cold day. Maximum temperatures between two and three. | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
Once again, fairly cloudy, especially in eastern areas. Showers | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
still with a wintry component. Snow in the Pennines and in the Grampians | :16:23. | :16:29. | |
as well. Typical wintry weather, Dan and Lou. Thank you. | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :16:34. | :16:35. | |
The Bill authorising Theresa May to start the process of leaving | :16:36. | :16:42. | |
the European Union is due to reach its final stages | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
Efforts to treat more patients in the community have neither saved | :16:46. | :16:51. | |
money nor eased pressure on the NHS - according to a report | :16:52. | :16:54. | |
Ben and Sally have joined us to have a look at the papers. I'm sorry. We | :16:55. | :17:15. | |
will have you all involved with the big catch-up debate later. The Times | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
and most of the papers have got this rather funky picture of former | :17:21. | :17:23. | |
President Barack Obama who has been spending a bit of time with the | :17:24. | :17:26. | |
Richard Branson on his private island in the Caribbean, doing a bit | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
of kite surfing. The names are the -- main picture at the top. Written | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
thesis biggest tax bill for 30 years. Front page of the Daily | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
Telegraph, their main story is about Greece and the EU facing a crisis | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
that threatens the sustainability of the eurozone after the IMF ruled | :17:48. | :17:59. | |
that Chris's debts are -- Greece's debts. Millions of cooks are now | :18:00. | :18:07. | |
endangering their health by cooking their rice incorrectly. This is | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
according to scientists. They are putting more water in the Pan or | :18:12. | :18:19. | |
steeping it overnight. Overnight? Isn't that rice pudding? Are not | :18:20. | :18:31. | |
that organised. Front page of the male, new blow for 2100 savers. -- | :18:32. | :18:39. | |
21 million. You can read an article about that if you so wish. The sun | :18:40. | :18:47. | |
are talking about a hitman telling an investigator that he can solve | :18:48. | :18:57. | |
the riddle of Jill Dando's death. In a sneak in a few small ones? This is | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
in the Telegraph. British Gas customers set to see their bills | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
rise. We have ready had one big price rise but this time it is | :19:08. | :19:13. | |
British Gas. The UK's largest energy provider. They have refused to deny | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
it, according to the paper so that is one thing we will keep an eye on | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
for you. Badgers caught my eye. A device that tells you if you are | :19:23. | :19:31. | |
boring on a date. I don't want to bore you but we talked about this | :19:32. | :19:40. | |
yesterday. You out about so... I needed to alert you at that point | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
before you got too far into it. I'm going to rattle on. I was in Derby | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
yesterday so thank you very much. Levitate about this story. I'm | :19:53. | :19:58. | |
crushed. -- let me tell you about this story. High-street banks | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
hitting customers with charges, exorbitant fees. This is related, of | :20:03. | :20:10. | |
course to if you take money out and go over your overdraft. Deep! My | :20:11. | :20:23. | |
watch is buzzing. --. This is Paul Hayward walking in about David | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
Beckham and the hacked e-mails. We have all read at out his huge desire | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
for a knighthood and how cross he was when he didn't get one. After | :20:33. | :20:40. | |
doing lots of work, he has been widely criticised by those e-mails. | :20:41. | :20:46. | |
Paul Hayward made this point. The charity were key has done is all | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
legitimate. He has spent a lot of time and donated millions of pounds | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
of his own money. OK, he has lots and lots of cash but he has | :20:56. | :20:59. | |
seriously... The will to do good came before the desire for the | :21:00. | :21:06. | |
knighthood. There are other papers taking some completely different | :21:07. | :21:09. | |
views. There is a real division about it. Definite damage to the | :21:10. | :21:17. | |
brand David Beckham. One supermarket has started keeping catch-up in the | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
fridge before you buy it and lots of people complained. Before you opened | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
it? Cupboard or fridge? In the fridge. Fridge it! Cupboard. | :21:32. | :21:41. | |
Cupboard. Used or something where the supermarket stores it but that | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
puts it out. I'm not having a great morning. An absolute shocker. Thank | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
you very much. After three days of debate, | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
MPs are set to give the government the green light to start | :21:54. | :21:56. | |
the process of Brexit tonight. But triggering Article 50 is only | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
the beginning of our divorce We took two people - | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
one who voted Remain and the other Leave - along to Westminster | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
to watch the Commons debates and discuss with MPs from both sides | :22:08. | :22:10. | |
what the future might hold. Our political correspondent | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
Ben Wright reports. The countdown to Brexit is picking | :22:14. | :22:33. | |
up pace. After days of debate, the days of divorce talks are about to | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
start. In West Minister to watch them this week was Lance, a Remain | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
voter and Tony who booted for Britain to leave the EU. -- voted. | :22:43. | :22:48. | |
Just down there is the House of Commons chamber. From the public | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
gallery, Lance and Tony watched MPs argue about the government's Brexit | :22:53. | :22:56. | |
strategy and what role this place should have as Britain begins to | :22:57. | :23:04. | |
leave the European Union. Your -- European Union... Order! That is why | :23:05. | :23:11. | |
I am voting against this amendment, because ultimately it is a political | :23:12. | :23:15. | |
matter. It is for the Prime Minister to demonstrate her leadership skills | :23:16. | :23:23. | |
and negotiating skills and to get it right. Please can we have a say. Not | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
on behalf of Parliament but on behalf of all-out constituents. | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
That's why we come here. Afterwards, we chewed it all over with two MPs | :23:35. | :23:39. | |
from different sides of the referendum argument in a Westminster | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
pub. Tony, do you worry that some MPs outrageous to slow the whole | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
thing down and even stop Brexit from happening? Yes I do. As I do. I feel | :23:48. | :23:56. | |
it's against the will of the people. Bello believe vote one but it wasn't | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
by a massive, massive majority. It was by a still -- slim amount. You | :24:00. | :24:06. | |
still have to take into account the 48% of us that voted to stay in. | :24:07. | :24:11. | |
People from every political party have questions because there has | :24:12. | :24:14. | |
been absolutely no detail, no transparency, no script and see, | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
coming from the government -- scrutiny. The key now is to deliver | :24:19. | :24:29. | |
them. It is with a united front. How is Brexit by to be served up? | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Theresa May plans to formally tell the EU that Britain prepares to | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
leave by the end of March and then tough talks in Brussels begin. EU | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
rules say there are two years to sort out a divorce deal with the UK. | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
So, Britain will be out of the EU by the spring of 2019. But sorting out | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
a new trade deal could take much longer. Even the difficulty with | :24:51. | :24:56. | |
coming out of the EU, isn't it important that we get the headline | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
decisions made worst and we sort out the detail later? What is the point | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
of rushing through a decision like this if it is not right for the | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
country? That is my main opinion. After three days of debate, do we | :25:09. | :25:14. | |
have a clear plan? Allah have a positive plan we can put away | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
European friends. The key now is do we have enough flexibility. At the | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
end of the process we then have the best deal for everyone in the | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
country. Nobody expects a Brexit talks to be this civil. And | :25:29. | :25:39. | |
arguments had over real macro to will move to the arena? | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :25:43. | :29:04. | |
maximum and still those it averages into the weekend. | :29:05. | :29:07. | |
Back to the wheeze and dam, by for now. | :29:08. | :29:20. | |
This is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
This is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. | :29:30. | :29:34. | |
We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :29:35. | :29:37. | |
This is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :29:43. | :29:45. | |
It was awful, to be degraded in such a way and to be | :29:46. | :29:50. | |
Are the courts treating people who say they've been raped fairly? | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
We'll hear claims they are routinely being questioned | :29:55. | :29:56. | |
Also this morning, flying in perfect harmony. | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
These are thousands of starlings performing their nightly | :30:00. | :30:01. | |
We'll have the latest on where you can see | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
Comedian, Hugh Dennis, will give us an update on how | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
the Red Nose convoy is getting on delivering supplies in Kenya. | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
But now, a summary of this morning's main news: | :30:14. | :30:17. | |
The bill giving Theresa May the power to start the process | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
of leaving the EU is due to reach its final stages | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
Last night, the government saw off a potential rebellion | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
from Conservative backbenchers, and defeated amendments put forward | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Tom Bateman. | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
Plans to treat more patients in the community have so far failed | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
to save money or reduce hospital admissions in England, | :30:40. | :30:41. | |
according to the government's spending watchdog. | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
The National Audit Office claim the Better Care Fund is at risk | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
The Department of Health says it's too soon to judge | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
but the Public Accounts Committee say more needs to be done. | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
Overnight, government lawyers have been trying to convince an appeals | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
court in San Francisco to reinstate it, saying Donald Trump was acting | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
They said the court last week made an error. Two US states said they | :31:01. | :31:14. | |
discriminated against Muslims. Plans to offer 30 hours of free | :31:15. | :31:25. | |
childcare to three and four year olds in England could lead | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
to a shortage of nursery places, The 15 hours per week children | :31:29. | :31:31. | |
currently receive in term time is set to double from September, | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
but more than half of councils told the Family and Childcare Trust | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
that they were unsure their areas would have adequate | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
provision to cope. The Department for Education says | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
quality, affordable childcare One of the largest collections of | :31:45. | :31:53. | |
Alice in Wonderland memorabilia will be auctioned off today. They were | :31:54. | :32:02. | |
collected over 25 years. Previous part of the collection have been on | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
display in Tate modern and Europe as part of the Alice in Wonderland | :32:07. | :32:13. | |
exhibition. Look at that. That is a lot for one couple to collect! Good | :32:14. | :32:23. | |
morning. Alastair Cook. You have to say he looks fairly sad in that | :32:24. | :32:31. | |
picture behind you. Not Alistair in Wonderland. He has been working on | :32:32. | :32:40. | |
that. We are there already. You have certainly gone down the rabbit hole. | :32:41. | :32:47. | |
We have gone too far. He has been talking about problems with Kevin | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
Pietersen. All that trouble back a few years ago when he was seen as | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
the centre of the storm over whether Kevin Pietersen should be included | :32:57. | :32:57. | |
and his regrets over that. Alastair Cook says he'll have "no | :32:58. | :33:03. | |
issue" playing under another captain following his resignation | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
as England Test skipper. Cook announced that he was stepping | :33:07. | :33:08. | |
down on Monday after leading his Cook said England's 4-0 Test series | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
defeat in India was "maybe the final Joe Root is the frontrunner | :33:12. | :33:16. | |
to replace Cook. I think he will do a very good job. | :33:17. | :33:24. | |
He obviously has something about him to back the way he does. -- bat. But | :33:25. | :33:33. | |
there are other people as well. Ben Stokes has a leadership role at some | :33:34. | :33:38. | |
stage. He has improved and matured as a cricketer. He is someone people | :33:39. | :33:44. | |
gravitate to because he has personality. Jos Buttler did an | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
excellent job in Bangladesh. We are lucky that there is a good group of | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
people pushing for would. Whether it is one of the greatest jobs you can | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
ever do. -- whoever gets it, it is. Leicester City have given | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
their "unwavering support" The reigning Premier League | :34:03. | :34:04. | |
champions are just one point Leicester have managed just two wins | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
in their last 15 league games, but they released a statement | :34:09. | :34:12. | |
yesterday saying "the entire club is, and will remain, | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
united behind its manager." There is no crisis. Of course, when | :34:16. | :34:31. | |
you don't win, you lack a little bit of confidence. It is normal. | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
Fortunately, these players are warriors. They are used to fighting. | :34:38. | :34:43. | |
They have already lived this situation. They lived with the good | :34:44. | :34:48. | |
things, but also the bad things. Leicester are in FA Cup action | :34:49. | :34:52. | |
tonight. They play Championship side | :34:53. | :34:54. | |
Derby in the only replay The first tie finished | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
2-2 at Pride Park. Leicester are very good team on the | :34:58. | :35:07. | |
day. They are very capable of reaching the heights that they did | :35:08. | :35:11. | |
last season. I watched the first 40 minutes against Manchester United. | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
They dominated with their usual aggressive and pressing selves. They | :35:16. | :35:26. | |
had lots of opportunities. But the ball is not going in the net. | :35:27. | :35:28. | |
You can watch Leicester against Derby live on BBC One this | :35:29. | :35:31. | |
evening or listen on BBC Radio 5 Live. | :35:32. | :35:33. | |
Fed Cup captain, Anne Keothavong, says her team can "put women's | :35:34. | :35:36. | |
tennis on the map in Great Britain" Keothavong believes they can emulate | :35:37. | :35:40. | |
the British men's Davis Cup team ahead of their campaign which begins | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
World number ten, Johanna Konta, Heather Watson, Laura Robson, | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
and Jocelyn Rae make up the GB squad. | :35:48. | :35:49. | |
The group we are currently in, there will be 13 other teams, of the 14 | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
teams, including us, only two will go through. In the past 15 years, | :35:56. | :35:58. | |
that has only happened twice for us, I think. But this year we are going | :35:59. | :36:02. | |
in with a top ten player, Johanna Konta, and Laura. They have been | :36:03. | :36:06. | |
ranked higher. I do believe this is our strongest team for some time. | :36:07. | :36:08. | |
Wales were thrashed 92-27 by New Zealand in the first of two | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
New Zealand dominated the match and led Wales by 27 points | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
Wales struggled to claw back the gap as New Zealand, | :36:16. | :36:19. | |
who are ranked second in the world, added 25 more goals | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
The two teams will play each other again today. | :36:23. | :36:35. | |
We can make a fuss about it but that will be an excuse. We have more | :36:36. | :36:47. | |
games on shorter turnaround is. It is something you have to deal with. | :36:48. | :36:54. | |
There is that physicality at an international level. We experienced | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
it in the season and we have to get on with it. I bet you he is not | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
drinking them this week. A great start to the Six Nations this | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
weekend. A quiet day on Saturday. It may be a bit noisy. Goodbye. | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
The confusion and legal wrangling over President Trump's travel ban | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
on people from seven mainly Muslim countries has entered a third week. | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
Overnight, government lawyers have been trying to convince an appeals | :37:17. | :37:19. | |
court in San Francisco to reinstate it, saying Donald Trump was acting | :37:20. | :37:22. | |
To tell us what might happen next is Dr Marie Newhouse, | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
Director of Surrey University's Centre for Law and Philosophy, | :37:27. | :37:28. | |
Good morning. It is fascinating to see how this might pan out. Remind | :37:29. | :37:40. | |
us of why the outcome could be so significant. This is a really early | :37:41. | :37:45. | |
test of Donald Trump's administration, isn't it? It | :37:46. | :37:48. | |
certainly is. Thank you for having me. One thing to understand is this | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
has been an extra ordinarily rushed piece of litigation because the area | :37:53. | :37:59. | |
is so large. The courts have made an effort to process the case as soon | :38:00. | :38:02. | |
as possible. And the argument that we just had in the ninth circuit | :38:03. | :38:07. | |
demonstrated the lawyers were feeling under a lot of pressure. Not | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
much evidence has been gathered yet. And yet it seems important to make | :38:13. | :38:16. | |
some kind of decision as quickly as possible. In fact, the judges | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
appeared disposed to make the decision as quick as possible. By do | :38:20. | :38:24. | |
you think Donald Trump can push his executive orders when it comes to | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
national security -- how far do. One of the things they are saying is | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
that they have the power to control borders given by Congress. The | :38:35. | :38:38. | |
president has a great deal of latitude to control borders. But it | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
is not completely unlimited. And in fact, one of the argument is that | :38:43. | :38:46. | |
the State of Washington and one of the plaintiffs in this litigation is | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
making is that doctor's order could actually be inconsistent with print | :38:51. | :39:00. | |
edition -- prohibition of immigration. That will only apply to | :39:01. | :39:07. | |
immigrants if it applies, not to visa holders or tourist visa | :39:08. | :39:10. | |
holders, but it would apply to refugees. That would be significant. | :39:11. | :39:15. | |
It is possible many people impacted by the travel ban could get some | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
legal relief, even if the courts decide not to address the | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
constitutional claim. The legal argument, just listening to it, it | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
can get quite deep about whether it amounts to a Muslim ban or just one | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
no majority Muslim countries to be that could be the deciding issue, | :39:33. | :39:39. | |
couldn't it? It certainly could. The Donald Trump administration said the | :39:40. | :39:42. | |
court should not look beyond the four corners of the executive court | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
itself in order to find religious discrimination, which is another one | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
of the claims that the State of Washington is making. Now, there are | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
some cases that the Federal level that indicate that that a claimed | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
that may succeed in terms of evidence that the court should not | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
look beyond executive orders. -- claim. But that does not involve the | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
kind of evidence we already have in the record about religious to | :40:10. | :40:13. | |
scammer nation, Donald Trump's and claims during the campaign trail, | :40:14. | :40:19. | |
and Rudy Giuliani's claimed the Donald Trump called him up and said | :40:20. | :40:25. | |
I want to implement a Muslim ban, how do I do it legally? This puts | :40:26. | :40:29. | |
the government in an awkward position. It is not clear to me that | :40:30. | :40:33. | |
the judges will decline to entertain that evidence. Both sides could | :40:34. | :40:39. | |
appeal this decision, whatever it is. Then it goes to The Supreme | :40:40. | :40:42. | |
Court. An interesting part of that is that there is only aged judges on | :40:43. | :40:49. | |
that Supreme Court because the ninth has not been sworn in yet. And those | :40:50. | :40:55. | |
eight are pretty divided. With this deadlock, whatever the ninth circuit | :40:56. | :41:03. | |
decides would stand. How might that process work in terms of timing? | :41:04. | :41:08. | |
When is the ninth circuit judge meant to be sworn in? Well, I think | :41:09. | :41:12. | |
what you are talking about is the ninth Supreme Court justice being | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
sworn in. Yes. That will depend on the information hearings in the | :41:18. | :41:20. | |
Senate. I probably do not need to tell you how tremendously fraught | :41:21. | :41:25. | |
that issue is in the Senate right now given the refusal to hold | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
confirmation hearings last year for Obama's appointed, Merrick Garland. | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
It is not clear how quickly the Senate will move to feel that they | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
on The Supreme Court. How quickly this case reaches The Supreme Court, | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
and I believe it will eventually, will depend on the red of the | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
decision. -- breadth. The ninth circuit could actually say it does | :41:50. | :41:52. | |
not have jurisdiction over this case yet, that they have to wait for the | :41:53. | :41:59. | |
Federal trial to issue something like a preliminary injunction to | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
take a good look at it. If they do that, I do not think anyone will | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
will appeal that order, I think we will just wait for the preliminary | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
injunction at the trial court. On the other hand, the ninth circuit | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
could come out and rural on merit. One of the judges said she was eager | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
to do that. Judge Friedland, anti- Obama appoint key. If that happens, | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
I think that will be appointed to The Supreme Court is be -- an Obama | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
apointee. I think we will talk about that again. We have learned so much | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
about how the American system works. You are watching Breakfast. The main | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
stories. The bill authorising Theresa May to start the process of | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
leaving the European Union is due to reach its final stages in the house | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
of a man is today. Efforts to treat more patients in the community have | :42:50. | :42:56. | |
neither saved money or helped the NHS according to the watchdog. | :42:57. | :43:00. | |
There could be snow. Good morning. Good morning. This morning, if you | :43:01. | :43:10. | |
are just stepping out, it will feel colder today than it did yesterday. | :43:11. | :43:14. | |
As we go through the rest of the week it will feel colder again. | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
Cloudy in the east and brighter in the west. The risk of ice and quite | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
a lot of frost around, especially in western Scotland and Northern | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
Ireland. We have this knows of high-pressure moving towards the | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
south-west. Equally, a weather front. This is what produced the | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
rain in the past few days and it is trying to move back towards the | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
west. What is happening is we are pulling in this colder air more or | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
less across most of the UK as we go through today. Coldest in the | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
south-western parts of Wales under clearer skies. Some showers. There | :43:50. | :43:54. | |
is the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Cloud, especially east. | :43:55. | :43:59. | |
Some of that is in the west and is currently producing showers. | :44:00. | :44:03. | |
Northern Ireland, a cold start for you and a frosty one with the risk | :44:04. | :44:06. | |
of ice on untreated surfaces. Showers in northern England. | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
Scotland, again, in the west, the risk of ice, clearer skies, a few | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
showers, and further snow in the Grampians. Through the course of the | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
day, flurries coming in. Nothing to substantial. It will be a cold, | :44:21. | :44:27. | |
easterly winds we are pulling in. Are towards the west, sunshine. | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
Through the afternoon, a few coastal showers developing, but not much | :44:32. | :44:33. | |
more than that supplied still comparatively mild out towards the | :44:34. | :44:39. | |
west. Cool air starts to see bin from the North Sea. As we had gone | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
through this evening and overnight, it will continue to feel colder. | :44:45. | :44:47. | |
More of the showers will have a wintry element to them. Windy | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
towards the west, cold from the east, and again, where the cloud | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
breaks, especially in central and western areas, we are looking once | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
again at frost. May be pockets of, but nothing to substantial. | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
Tomorrow, similar to today, in that we have clearer skies are towards | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
the west. That is where we will see sunshine. Tomorrow will feel colder | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
than today. We will still pull in cold and easterly wind. Still, some | :45:14. | :45:19. | |
showers. Towards the east of England and also Scotland, right on the | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
coastline, some showers will be sleek and snow. You do not have to | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
be too far inland to have sleet and snow. Friday, a bit more of the | :45:28. | :45:34. | |
same. The cold theme continues. Cold wind continues off the North Sea. | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
Towards the east of England and eastern parts of Scotland, snow | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
showers. The coast, more likely to be sleet. Moving across the | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
Pennines, Northumberland, the borders of Aberdeenshire, we will | :45:47. | :45:54. | |
see snow. Just over an inch. It could be almost over that. There are | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
showers. Not all of us will see them. I counted how many times you | :46:00. | :46:05. | |
said cold. It was a lot. See you later. Thank you. I just cold her | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
darling on. That is embarrassing. She is part of the family. | :46:11. | :46:20. | |
There is no love this morning. I make one mistake on the so far | :46:21. | :46:28. | |
and... What have you got for us, sweetheart? OK, too much, too much. | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
Have you ever faced a hefty fee for using your overdraft? | :46:33. | :46:35. | |
Well research out this morning says it can be more expensive | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
Looked at how much it would cost to go over your overdraft by ?100 | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
for 30 days - and found it could cost between ?30 and ?180 - | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
depending on which current account you have. | :46:49. | :46:50. | |
Payday loan firms - by law - can't charge more than ?24 | :46:51. | :46:53. | |
for the same type of loan - and Which says the same rule should | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
We'll speak to them in just a minute - but first - | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
do you feel you get enough warning to try to avoid the fees? | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
No. They just came out and happened three months in a row and then I had | :47:07. | :47:13. | |
to go in and sort it out. It was that that kept at putting me back | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
over. The outline the rules at the start so as soon as you follow them, | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
you shouldn't really get stung. A bit of self-discipline. I pay my | :47:22. | :47:27. | |
rent and buy rent goes out and if it goes ?10 overdrawn, I get charged at | :47:28. | :47:33. | |
ten for being at ten overdrawn. They meant to be able to help you. You | :47:34. | :47:35. | |
are paying for your own money. Pete Moorey is Head | :47:36. | :47:38. | |
of Campaigns at Which? Looking at the numbers, it strikes | :47:39. | :47:47. | |
me, with a traditional bank account it cost you between ?100 and 130 | :47:48. | :47:54. | |
council to pay date loan is capped with 20 pounds. Dirt with a payday | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
loan? There are many reasons why it people do it with a payday loan. We | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
think it is right to ask why we are paying so much. When it is capped at | :48:06. | :48:13. | |
?24 for payday loans. The financial regulator is doing at high review of | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
credit and Binny to get to the bottom of this issue. We think is | :48:19. | :48:26. | |
unfair -- we need to. Why doesn't the rule applied to the banks, the | :48:27. | :48:32. | |
cup of ?24? No one has decided to intervene to date in that way. We | :48:33. | :48:38. | |
had a "Into banking. We think this is what they failed to mess. --A big | :48:39. | :48:47. | |
inquiry. It is time for the financial regulator to step in. This | :48:48. | :48:53. | |
is about awareness. A lot of people fall into this because they don't | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
know they are short of money that month and if they were a bit more I | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
wear, they could transfer money in from another account, for example. I | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
think it is more than transparency. The banks will tell you that they do | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
more than give you just information. Actually, we think it is simply | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
about these fees being too high. They we think it should be tackled. | :49:13. | :49:22. | |
People are suddenly hit with huge fine. People are using their | :49:23. | :49:30. | |
unarranged overdraft as a buffer. This takes into a spiral of debt. We | :49:31. | :49:41. | |
want to hear your stories about this. | :49:42. | :49:43. | |
We'll be talking about it again after 8.30. | :49:44. | :49:53. | |
Send us your thoughts. More from me after seven. | :49:54. | :50:02. | |
It has to be one of the most stunning free shows on earth - | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
and it's currently playing in Cumbria. | :50:07. | :50:07. | |
Tens of thousands of starlings are performing a nightly | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
Their synchronised flying creates an amazing aerial ballet. | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
The Friends of the Lake District has organised a number of viewing events | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
before the season ends later this month - | :50:18. | :50:19. | |
It's an aerial ballet with a cast of thousands. A mass of starlings | :50:20. | :50:39. | |
flying in mesmerising harmony. The dictionary tells us this is called a | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
murmuration. It also tells us the word has been in use for hundreds of | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
years but why a murmuration? Nobody really knows why it is called this. | :50:49. | :50:51. | |
It's an interesting word because they do not really murmur. It is an | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
old word. Short dance, nobody knows. But why do they formed these | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
patterns and move together in harmony? Again, nobody really knows. | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
There is some suggestion that come together at dusk in a big group | :51:05. | :51:06. | |
because it protects protect them. Why would they pick | :51:07. | :51:19. | |
this spot? It is a stunning landscape. Why would anyone want to | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
spend a night here? And so an audience gathered in Cumbria for one | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
of the greatest free free shows on Earth. I'm a reporter for my school | :51:30. | :51:41. | |
magazine. You are a reporter like me? So you can report on this? I'm | :51:42. | :51:46. | |
going to write it up on the computer. Are you going to take some | :51:47. | :51:51. | |
pictures as well? Yes. Hopefully my mum has remembered my phone. I have | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
two capture it on my camera over there and if I miss anything, can I | :51:57. | :52:04. | |
borrow your shots? Yes. As dusk starts, the stars of the show | :52:05. | :52:07. | |
appears. They do not disappoint. Absolutely beautiful. They are just | :52:08. | :52:24. | |
stunning. The sky turns black and it's just amazing. I've seen them | :52:25. | :52:31. | |
before in other places but nothing like a big shows like this. Someone | :52:32. | :52:40. | |
estimated there was 60,000 or so starlings are there. I will take | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
their word for it. Then as darkness falls, so too do the starlings. It | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
is curtains down on another perfect performance. | :52:51. | :52:56. | |
You could just watch that for hours. It's lovely. | :52:57. | :52:59. | |
Joining us now to tell us more about this spectacle is Tom Clare | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
from the Martin Mere Wetlands Centre in Lancashire. | :53:04. | :53:07. | |
It's just mesmerising, isn't it? It is incredible. One of the great | :53:08. | :53:14. | |
sights of nature. Sinor the starlings making these fantastic | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
shapes in the sky. -- seeing all the starlings. There are two main | :53:21. | :53:30. | |
theories as to why people do it -- wired the starlings do it. It is | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
mainly to avoid predators. Also when they come down to roost, because | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
there is so many of them, they will keep warm when they stay together. | :53:39. | :53:45. | |
There has been a reduction in numbers? About 66%. The population | :53:46. | :53:52. | |
has decreased. Although we get these big numbers as you can see in the | :53:53. | :53:56. | |
murmuration is, unfortunately they are on decline. You used to see them | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
much more in cities but now they are over a role phenomenon. Louise | :54:03. | :54:10. | |
sometimes sees it East. It is harder to see them because they fly in a | :54:11. | :54:16. | |
straight line. Adi begin to count the amount of starlings in that? | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
Geese are always on one plane but starlings, it is like a | :54:23. | :54:24. | |
3-dimensional object. Although you can count what's in front of you, | :54:25. | :54:31. | |
you have to factor in the depth. It never stays still either. Is at the | :54:32. | :54:39. | |
season at the moment for this? We have a good amount of starlings in | :54:40. | :54:43. | |
the UK throughout the year but in winter they all form together and | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
make these large murmuration is. We also get a lot of those from the | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
continent, Scandinavia and places like that who escaped their harsh | :54:53. | :54:58. | |
winters to spend it with us. I'm just mesmerised seeing them on the | :54:59. | :55:03. | |
telly there again. Whenever you see them, people are down there pointing | :55:04. | :55:08. | |
their cameras as well. People follow them around the country. It is | :55:09. | :55:12. | |
amazing views that you get with these starling murmuration 's. It is | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
this time in nature where you need any equipment, you just go out to | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
the local area were you see the murmuration is and you stand there | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
and watch them for maybe half an hour to one-hour and watch them | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
until they go home to roost. So they do them in the same place every | :55:30. | :55:33. | |
evening? Pretty much. They will move around a few times. We have had some | :55:34. | :55:40. | |
at Martin mere. They have now moved on. Probably due to the fact we had | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
a lots of birds of prey around, following them around. That might | :55:47. | :55:52. | |
have moved them on. In general, you might be able to find them in | :55:53. | :55:55. | |
similar locations. This might be in ignorant question but they all | :55:56. | :56:01. | |
bashing to each other ever? How do they know when to turn right et | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
cetera? We are still try to figure it out. I'm glad it's not that | :56:08. | :56:14. | |
stupid question. You can see it is instantaneous. There is a lot of | :56:15. | :56:20. | |
research going on about it. A lot of physics behind it as well. Looking | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
into exactly how when one knows, the other one knows. You get is rippling | :56:27. | :56:29. | |
effect through the whole murmuration. Geese are incredible to | :56:30. | :56:37. | |
watch as well. Is one of the great thing is working with wildlife. You | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
see these or inspiring events in winter and the sheer number of birds | :56:43. | :56:52. | |
is just amazing. -- awe inspiring. You know what to do. | :56:53. | :57:00. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :57:01. | :00:24. | |
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See you in half an hour. This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker | :00:30. | :00:33. | |
and Louise Minchin. The Brexit bill goes to the vote | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
as MPs decide whether to give Theresa May the power | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
to leave the EU. Last night, the Government saw off | :00:41. | :00:42. | |
a possible rebellion after promising that any final deal will be | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
put to the Commons. We'll be live at Westminster with | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
the latest in the next few minutes. Tonight, it could be Labour MPs | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
defying their leader. Campaigners demand tougher limits | :00:59. | :01:06. | |
on the use of sexual history in rape It was awful, to be degraded | :01:07. | :01:22. | |
in such a way and to be A damning report says a plan to free | :01:23. | :01:29. | |
up hospital beds in England The Government's plans to fix | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
the broken housing market put pressure on big developers | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
to build more quickly. So I'll be catching up with the boss | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
of Redrow to find out Is it the dreaded vote of | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
confidence? Leicester City have given | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
their "unwavering support" to manager, Claudio Ranieri, | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
despite the reigning Premier League champions being just one point | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
above the relegation zone. A whirling, swooping, | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
acrobatic spectacle of nature. As the season comes to an end, | :02:00. | :02:08. | |
we'll be looking at the science It will be called. We will see some | :02:09. | :02:17. | |
snow, but not everywhere. The most likely place for that is in the | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
east. It will mostly be in the high ground. Cloudy in central and | :02:22. | :02:24. | |
eastern areas. Rain and showers. Cold and frosty and sunshine. More | :02:25. | :02:36. | |
details in 15 minutes. Thank you, Carol. See you then. | :02:37. | :02:37. | |
The bill empowering Theresa May to start the process of leaving | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
the EU is due to reach its final stages in the Commons later. | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
Last night, the Government saw off a potential rebellion | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
from Conservative backbenchers, and defeated amendments put forward | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
Here's our political correspondent, Tom Bateman. | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
A battle for control over the process of Brexit. | :02:55. | :02:57. | |
Last night, MPs ended more than seven hours of debate, | :02:58. | :03:06. | |
which contained what some saw as a concession from the Government. | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
I can confirm that the Government will bring forward a motion | :03:10. | :03:19. | |
on the final agreement to approved by both Houses of Parliament before | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
In other words, MPs will get to vote on any future Brexit deal before | :03:23. | :03:27. | |
it is signed off by the Government and the EU. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
But other negotiations will likely be complex. | :03:30. | :03:33. | |
Some MPs are worried about Theresa May's threat to walk | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
away from the talks rather than take a bad deal. | :03:37. | :03:38. | |
What the House wants is the opportunity to send | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
the Government back to our EU partners to negotiate a deal if one | :03:42. | :03:44. | |
Last night, the Government saw off a number of attempts to starve | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
Some backbenchers remain unhappy about what the ministers offered. | :03:49. | :04:00. | |
Divisions between those who argued for it and who campaigned against it | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
The bill reaches its final stage later today, threatening to expose | :04:04. | :04:18. | |
further rifts within Labour and with more Tory | :04:19. | :04:25. | |
The Government believes it can trigger Article 50 next month. | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Our political correspondent, Carol Walker, is in Westminster this | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
This feels like another big one. It is the final day of debating and | :04:32. | :04:41. | |
voting in the Commons. After winning convincing votes today, the | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
government will be hopeful it can do the same again today. The bill will | :04:45. | :04:50. | |
go on to the House of Lords. Again, given the margin of victory for the | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
government in the Commons, ministers will hope that will deter the Lord | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
from trying to disrupt this bill as it goes through the houses of | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
government. That will put the focus back on the Labour Party, as Jeremy | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Corbyn, the leader, has ordered his MPs to vote in favour of the | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
legislation. That is difficult for some who campaigned strongly to | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
remain in the EU and he may have constituencies that voted strongly | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
to remain. More than 40 rebelled last week. There has already been | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
three resignations from the shadow cabinet. And I think many people | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
will be waiting to see if Diane Abbott, the Shadow Home Secretary, | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
turns up. Now, she missed a key vote last week and many of her colleagues | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
who saw her perky at the start of the day said she had a bit of Brexit | :05:41. | :05:48. | |
flu to avoid and embarrassing vote. If she fails to turn up today that | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
will spell a big problem for the Labour leader. We will keep an eye | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
on that. In the meantime, we will discuss this later on in the | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
morning. Plans to treat more patients | :06:01. | :06:00. | |
in the community have so far failed to save money or reduce hospital | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
admissions in England, according to the Government's | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
spending watchdog. The National Audit Office says | :06:07. | :06:08. | |
ministers were over-optimistic in thinking a scheme called | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
the Better Care Fund could save ?500 When residents of this care home | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
in Sutton have to go to hospital, an innovative scheme helps | :06:14. | :06:23. | |
cut their stay to a minimum. Their medical and personal details | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
go with them in distinctive red bags so doctors and nurses can | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
make faster and more It's been a great | :06:31. | :06:32. | |
asset for us and we're able to pass the information | :06:33. | :06:39. | |
on with a guarantee that it's going from ambulance to A to | :06:40. | :06:48. | |
the ward and following them through. We have been able to reduce time | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
of stay by four days which is massive when you think | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
about how stretched the system The National Audit Office says | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
the spending of more than ?5 billion of council money on integrating | :07:00. | :07:09. | |
health and social care has not given Starting in 2014-15, | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
the scheme aimed to reduce emergency admissions to hospital | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
by more than 100,000. But in 2015-16, admissions | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
actually went up by 87,000. Over the same period, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
the project was supposed to reduce the number | :07:26. | :07:37. | |
of days lost because people were stuck in hospital | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
to just under 300,000 but The Public Accounts Committee wants | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
long-term solutions rather They need to look at why | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
this isn't working. What is it that is | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
stopping the beds being available even when there is some | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
money being thrown at them, The Government says it's too | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
soon to judge the impact Government lawyers in America have | :07:58. | :08:06. | |
been trying to convince an appeals court to reinstate President Trump's | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
ban on people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
the United States. They said Mr Trump was | :08:15. | :08:15. | |
acting within his powers and that the court which suspended | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
the ban last week made an error. But two US states argued it | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
discriminated against Muslims. Yemen is on the brink of famine | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
according to the United Nations. The country's been in | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
the grip of a civil war between government | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
forces and Houthi rebel It's estimated that 80% | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
of the population are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
with children the worst affected. Plans to offer 30 hours of free | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
childcare to three and four year olds in England could lead | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
to a shortage of nursery places, The 15 hours per week children | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
currently receive in term time is set to double | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
from September, but more than half of councils told the Family | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
and Childcare Trust that they were unsure their areas | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
would have adequate The Department for Education says | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
quality, affordable childcare We have been speaking a lot about | :09:02. | :09:21. | |
the travel ban in the last few days, but one other story about President | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
Trump is making rather strange headlines in the US. It is all about | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
dressing gowns. It seems unbelievable, does he or does he not | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
own wine? Lots of pictures of him wearing one have appeared on line. | :09:36. | :09:43. | |
journalists the President "definitely doesn't wear one." | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
The White House had apparently been angered | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
by a New York Times article which suggested President Trump sits | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
around watching TV in his dressing gown, as Sarah Corker explains. | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
It's become one of Donald Trump's most used phrases. | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
The president's latest spat with the media is over this, | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
a bath robe, and whether he does or does not own one. | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
This New York Times report described a chaotic | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
But it was the claim that Mr Trump spent | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
considerable time watching television in his bathroom that | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
seemed to particularly irritate the White House. | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
That is literally the epitome of fake news. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
I mean, start at the top, I don't think he owns a bath robe. | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
From top to bottom it is a made-up story that does not | :10:31. | :10:39. | |
The President Tweeted, of course, his annoyance at what he described | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
And that bath robe denial prompted people across the globe to take | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
to social media to contradict the White | :10:47. | :10:48. | |
Some delved deep into archives to find these images. | :10:49. | :10:58. | |
There were Donald Trump branded robes as well. | :10:59. | :11:04. | |
And it spawned parodies and spoof images. | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
This picture of Ronald Reagan did the rounds. | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
One Tweet said he should not be so shy about wearing the garment. | :11:09. | :11:14. | |
the government and public had more serious matters to discuss | :11:15. | :11:20. | |
rather than his choice of loungewear. | :11:21. | :11:22. | |
Sarah Corker, BBC News. There are more important things than dressing | :11:23. | :11:32. | |
gowns, but I love them. The cat in the dressing ground was the | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
highlight. -- gown. It's been seven months | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
of recriminations and political wrangling, but today MPs | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
will finally vote on the bill to trigger Article 50 and start | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
the formal process of Brexit. And some of the details | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
of what happens next We now know MPs will vote on any | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
agreement reached between Britain and the EU, but should they reject | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
it, there would be no renegotiation and Britain would leave | :11:56. | :11:58. | |
the European Union without a deal. Owen Jones from the Guardian, | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
and political commentator, Kate Maltby, are in Westminster | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
to discuss this with us. Good morning. Thank you very much | :12:04. | :12:15. | |
us. Obviously, very simplistic terms, deal or no deal. First of | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
all, how will it go today? Jeremy Corbyn says his MPs must support | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
this bill. They are in a difficult position, whatever you think about | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
it. You have a situation where the majority of Labour voters voted | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
remain, but most have constituencies of leave. The victory was narrow. | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
The vast majority of constituencies voted to leave. The problem Labour | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
has, and their fear is, because the polling shows the haemorrhaging | :12:52. | :12:54. | |
voters who voted to leave, that seems to block the desire of the | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
people. That could have calamitous consequences, not least in places | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
like Doncaster, where 70% of people voted to leave. At the same time, | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
they have to keep their voters, especially in big cities, who are | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
despondent about the referendum result. They think this is a | :13:15. | :13:19. | |
nightmare and that Labour has capitulated to the Conservatives. | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
The tightrope they have to walk is to support the bill and support | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
activating Article 50, but make it clear they will scrutinise and | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
challenge the Tory Brexit. OK, let us talk about the Conservative | :13:34. | :13:37. | |
Party. There have been MPs rebelling. How do you think it will | :13:38. | :13:41. | |
go today? Well, fundamentally, the government is going to get its way. | :13:42. | :13:45. | |
And every rabble in the Tory party knows that. What is interesting is | :13:46. | :13:51. | |
that yesterday afternoon we had that rebellion of seven MPs. -- rebel. | :13:52. | :14:02. | |
Some Tory MPs rebelled. There was a number of rebels on the issue of | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
rags to work ready to stand up and be counted. -- Brexit. That will | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
continue in the referendum. You can talk about splits in the Labour | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
Party, we have been talking about that a lot recently, but one thing | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
that has not been covered in ours is the extent to which the Tory | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
remainders are still digging their heels in. They do not think they | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
will get their way on policy and they do not think they will get | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
their way on these particular votes, but they reminded Theresa May they | :14:36. | :14:38. | |
are still a force to be reckoned with. She is not 100% in control of | :14:39. | :14:42. | |
her party either. That is what I wanted to talk to you about. Is she | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
emboldened by what is going on? She is still in a relatively secure | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
position, especially compared to someone like Jeremy Corbyn. The | :14:52. | :14:57. | |
likes of us talking to you, we don't give her enough credit for the | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
extent to which she is still backed by the majority, not just of Tory | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
voters, but of the electorate. I was privy to some private polling just a | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
couple of days ago. It was full of Londoners in the room where people | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
had been asked across the country about Theresa May's handling of | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
Brexit. We were sitting in the room thinking she was going to be | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
hammered. She was going to be criticised. But strong numbers were | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
coming out for her. The majority of her handling it well enough all very | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
well. She is well aware that there is not a particular plan for Brexit. | :15:37. | :15:49. | |
But as she puts it, Brexit means Brexit. She has to get some kind of | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
deal. She is good at looking like she has authority. She did well in | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
the Commons debates. She was confident. I talked to the Tory | :16:00. | :16:07. | |
rebels, a few of them were actually quite rough grudgingly impressed by | :16:08. | :16:14. | |
her performance in the Commons. Wanted to ask you a little bit. It | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
comes down to individuals. Diane Abbott. She missed the vote. Some | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
people criticising her. Some called it Brexit flew. Is it important she | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
turns up? Yes. I'm sure she doesn't have a | :16:28. | :16:37. | |
migraine today. In terms of the problems. If you like, the Labour | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
leadership has no choice but to support Article 50. Some Labour MPs | :16:42. | :16:47. | |
have no choice but to vote against. It was in some constituencies which | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
heavily voted Remain, particularly the big cities, the danger facing | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
lots of Labour MPs is that it UKIP and the Conservative Party, the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Liberal Democrats and Greens -- is not UKIP and the Conservatives. It | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
is that Liberal Democrats and the Greens will stop it is despondent | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
remainders, furious about Brexit, terrified about the future and | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
jubilant Leaders who believe they have the country back. Labour had to | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
bring together a coalition that includes Doncaster which voted 70% | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
for Leave and Islington which voted 80% remain. Some MPs, even the | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
Labour leadership has made it clear, but they will support Article 50. | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
Some Labour MPs have no choice but to vote against. Otherwise they will | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
haemorrhage votes to the Liberal Democrats, to the Greens and other | :17:42. | :17:50. | |
leave their lose their -- lose their seats. If you look at the Tory MPs, | :17:51. | :17:58. | |
people who voted against the government yesterday, these are | :17:59. | :18:01. | |
people that the chairman of select committees. Very well respected. | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
George Osborne who is still thinking about a political comeback, | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
abstained. That is as significant as Diane Abbott not showing up for a | :18:12. | :18:16. | |
vote. Yes, the Labour Party is in a bind but the Tory party is not as | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
stable as people think it is. Good. We are on the BBC, I went. That has | :18:23. | :18:34. | |
warned the Cockle of my heart. The impartial BBC. | :18:35. | :18:40. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
The snowdrops are out, Carol, aren't they? It is a good start to the day, | :18:45. | :18:58. | |
wherever you are. Cloudy in the East but brighter in the West. There is | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
ice on untreated surfaces. The weather in the West is more | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
unsettled. This weather front has been producing the rain and today, | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
it will try and move it back towards the West. In doing so, we will pull | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
in these cold continental air behind it. So the cold air seeping over | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
towards many areas today. Not all, as you can see from the yellow but | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
across many. A cold start this morning. South-west England and | :19:24. | :19:28. | |
parts of Wales, some ice and frost. But there will be sunshine. Across | :19:29. | :19:33. | |
central and eastern parts of England and Wales, we are looking at quite a | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
bit of cloud producing some showers. Northern Ireland, a cold start and | :19:38. | :19:45. | |
some patchy fog. The north-east seeing some rain. For Scotland, rein | :19:46. | :19:50. | |
in the east and clearer skies to the West. That means some ice but also | :19:51. | :19:55. | |
some sunshine. The fog will not last. Further snow in the Grampians. | :19:56. | :19:59. | |
Through the course in the day, as it turns colder. Later on, it will | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
drop. We are not looking at significant levels of snow. In the | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
east, you could see the odd wintry flurry today but again, you are | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
looking at sleet rather than substantial amounts of snow. | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
Wherever you are, it will feel cold but not as cold towards the West. | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
Through this evening and tonight, particularly through western areas | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
where you have your skies, we are looking at fog. There is the risk of | :20:23. | :20:28. | |
ice on untreated surfaces. We still pull in these easterly wind and | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
still have a brisk wind going on in the West. With the showers, | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
increasingly some of those will also be wintry. On the coast, there will | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
be sleet. As we come inland, there will be snow and sleet. There are | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
showers. And you know the drill with showers, not all of us will see one. | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
Tomorrow, some parts of eastern England and Scotland could see that | :20:49. | :20:53. | |
combination on the coast. Showers, rain and sleet. Inland of sleet and | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
of snow. Again, we don't expect huge amounts to be falling. There will be | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
snow in the Pennines and the Grampians and out towards the West | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
there will be the brightest skies. Look at those temperatures. Out was | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
the West, we're looking at four Celsius. Again on Friday, eastern | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
areas are prone to snow. Let so on the coast and more so inland. | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
Especially across north-east England and across the borders, eastern | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
parts of Aberdeenshire and into the Grampians and the Pennines. A cold | :21:21. | :21:24. | |
they generally that speaking about that snow, at lower levels, some of | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
us could have two or three centimetres. Twice that is possible | :21:29. | :21:29. | |
on higher ground. Plenty more from Carol throughout | :21:30. | :21:44. | |
the day. Looking at the front page of the Times which we were picking | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
up on, teachers wearing body cameras to film unruly pupils. They're using | :21:49. | :21:55. | |
police style cameras and they are used in at least two comprehensive | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
schools in England, one of which has a history of behavioural problems. | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
They are using it as a behavioural experiment. They do not record all | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
the time, as I understand. You know police wear them sometimes. They are | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
turned on during an incident. It is a pilot scheme at the moment but we | :22:15. | :22:27. | |
will talk about it more later. Benny is here with the business news. | :22:28. | :22:29. | |
The consumer group Which? looked at how much it would cost | :22:30. | :22:37. | |
to go over your overdraft by ?100 for 30 days - and found it | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
depending on which current account you have. | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
Payday loan firms - by law - acn't charge more than ?24 | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
for the same type of loan - and Which says the same rule should | :22:49. | :22:52. | |
German-owned Aldi has overtaken the Co-operative | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
as Britain's fifth biggest supermarket, industry data shows. | :22:56. | :22:57. | |
Aldi's sales rose 12.4% year-on-year in the 12 weeks to 29 January, | :22:58. | :23:00. | |
taking its market share to 6.2% and ahead of the Co-op's 6%, | :23:01. | :23:03. | |
according to research firm Kantar Worldpanel. | :23:04. | :23:05. | |
It underlines the challenge the big retailers have faced | :23:06. | :23:07. | |
from discounters such as Aldi and its German rival Lidl. | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
Sales at Lidl rose 9.4%, taking its market share to 4.5%. | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
The housebuilder Redrow says there has been a profit in the last year. | :23:21. | :23:32. | |
They completed 13% more properties but after the government described | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
the UK's housing market is broken. It says developers are not building | :23:39. | :23:43. | |
enough homes to meet demand and that is keeping house prices artificially | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
high. I'm going to speak to them was of Redrow in a minute. Interesting | :23:48. | :23:53. | |
to see those prefab houses being built. Fascinating. You can | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
basically go in and choose it off the shelf. | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
Thank you for watching us on Breakfast this morning. | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
Humiliating and degrading, just two of the words used | :24:08. | :24:09. | |
to describe the treatment of some rape claimants in Britain's courts. | :24:10. | :24:12. | |
Victim support groups told BBC Breakfast that people who say | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
they've been raped are being routinely questioned | :24:16. | :24:17. | |
Some would argue that's vital for a fair trial, | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
but others suggest it is irrelevant and putting people | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
This morning a bill will be presented to MPs in Parliament, | :24:24. | :24:27. | |
arguing more should be done to protect possible rape victims | :24:28. | :24:29. | |
Sees other places where justice is served but today, claims that in | :24:30. | :24:50. | |
some cases it is where rape victims feel violated all over again. It was | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
awful to be degraded in such a way and to be so totally humiliated. | :24:56. | :25:06. | |
Ivy's retrial ended in 2015 but she said the grilling she received was | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
as bad as the physical assault. Sellar specific questions they asked | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
me were how many is sexual partners have had? The accused me of someone | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
who was promiscuous. It was appalling. I was told that line of | :25:22. | :25:24. | |
questioning wasn't allowed, it was consigned to the Dark Ages and it | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
didn't happen. But it does. And it does. The charity told me this | :25:31. | :25:37. | |
happens too often. We are hearing as victims being questioned about the | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
number of sexual partners they have had in the past or the colour of the | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
dress they were wearing at the time of the attack or even behaviour in | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
the past of the victim that they have had a mental health issue or | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
whether they have had an issue with alcohol in the past, somehow been | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
brought into this as being relevant that what it is actually doing is | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
victim shaming and blaming. Detection for victims already exist | :26:00. | :26:05. | |
under section 41 of the youth Justice and criminal act. References | :26:06. | :26:10. | |
to sexual activity should only be rarely allowed but new research | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
carried out in court in Newcastle suggests this might be happening in | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
around one third of all cases. What I fear is that we are going to the | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
hard old days of the 80s in the 70s were victims were essentially the | :26:24. | :26:26. | |
dock themselves and interrogated, quizzed over past. The time is right | :26:27. | :26:36. | |
now to address justice. This is why today the MP will present a private | :26:37. | :26:43. | |
members bar where victims can go who might be scared away from making a | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
complaint. If you had known then how you would be treated, would you have | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
proceeded? Definitely not. It was a total character annihilation. Last | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
year, there were around 36,000 rape allegations made to police and only | :27:01. | :27:02. | |
2.5 thousand convictions. Campaigners believe that is because | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
some victims are dropping out of the judicial process echoes they fear | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
what will happen to them under cross-examination in court. In a | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
statement, the Ministry of Justice says the bar for the disclosure of | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
complaints of sexual history is high that we have listened to the | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
concerns raised and are looking at how the law is used in practice. | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
They need to rebalance it in favour of the victim. Others say defendants | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
are equally entitled to a fair trial but the balance cannot shift too | :27:36. | :27:37. | |
far. We will talk about that more at | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
length at ten past eight. details of organisations offering | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
information and support And if you think you've been | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
affected by any of these issues, details of organisations offering | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
information and support are available at | :27:52. | :27:52. | |
bbc.co.uk/actionline, or you can call for free, | :27:53. | :27:53. | |
at any time to hear recorded Later we'll be speaking to the MP | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
Liz Saville Roberts, who'll be presenting the bill | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
to the Commons today, about why she feels | :28:03. | :28:04. | |
more needs to be done. This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
and Louise Minchin. The bill giving Theresa May | :28:08. | :31:48. | |
the right to start the process of leaving the EU is due | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
to reach its final stages Last night, the Government | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
saw off a potential rebellion from Conservative | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
backbenchers, after promising that any final deal would | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
be put to Parliament. But tonight's vote could | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
cause more Labour rifts, with the party's MPs told | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
to back the Brexit bill. Plans to treat more patients | :32:05. | :32:12. | |
in the community have so far failed to save money, or reduce hospital | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
admissions in England, according to the government's | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
spending watchdog. The National Audit Office says | :32:19. | :32:19. | |
ministers were over-optimistic in thinking a scheme called | :32:20. | :32:21. | |
the Better Care Fund The Department of Health says it's | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
too soon to judge the Fund's impact. Government lawyers in America have | :32:25. | :32:33. | |
been trying to convince an appeals court to reinstate President Trump's | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
ban on people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering | :32:37. | :32:40. | |
the United States. They said Mr Trump was | :32:41. | :32:41. | |
acting within his powers, and that the court which suspended | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
the ban last week made an error. But two US states argued it | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
discriminated against Muslims. Teachers are wearing video | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
cameras in the classroom Staff in at least two | :32:54. | :32:55. | |
comprehensive schools England are said to be wearing bodycams | :32:56. | :33:04. | |
similar to these worn by the police A Department for Education | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
spokeswoman said the trial Yemen is on the brink of famine | :33:09. | :33:11. | |
according to the United Nations. The country has been | :33:12. | :33:26. | |
in the grip of a civil war between government | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
forces and Houthi rebel It's estimated that 80-percent | :33:30. | :33:30. | |
of the population are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
with children the worst affected. It could turn into a bit | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
of a Mad Hatter's Tea Party in Oxford today as one | :33:40. | :33:42. | |
of the world's largest collections of Alice in Wonderland | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
books and memorabilia The 3,000 items were | :33:46. | :33:47. | |
collected over 25 years by the late Thomas | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
Schuster and his wife. Pieces from the collection have | :33:51. | :33:52. | |
previously gone on display at the Tate Modern in Liverpool, | :33:53. | :33:55. | |
and in Europe as part of an Alice Plans to offer 30 hours of free | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
childcare to three and four year olds in England could lead | :33:59. | :34:08. | |
to a shortage of nursery places, The 15 hours per week children | :34:09. | :34:11. | |
currently receive in term time is set to double | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
from September, but more than half of councils told the Family | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
and Childcare Trust that they were unsure their areas | :34:19. | :34:20. | |
would have adequate The Department for Education says | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
quality, affordable childcare Coming up on the programme, Carol | :34:24. | :34:26. | |
will have a full weather forecast. You are in nice and early. A bit | :34:27. | :34:46. | |
naughty. We are getting ahead of ourselves. Did you think it was | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
eight o'clock? I came in for the headline and the camera came around | :34:52. | :34:55. | |
and I realised I was not meant to be here. You should sit here throughout | :34:56. | :35:01. | |
the show. But then I would go and do all my extra bits and work and find | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
out what all the information is on things like Leicester, for example. | :35:06. | :35:11. | |
Interesting stage management yesterday, wasn't it? A fantastic | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
vote of confidence in Claudio Ranieri. He gave everyone time to | :35:16. | :35:24. | |
read the released statement and then had a press conference. It was all | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
thought through. He is confident. There is something going on. All | :35:30. | :35:36. | |
sorts of whispers about discontent. Players are not happy, coaches are | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
not happy, staff are not talking to each other. But he did get | :35:42. | :35:43. | |
unwavering support. Leicester City have given | :35:44. | :35:47. | |
their "unwavering support" The reigning Premier League | :35:48. | :35:49. | |
champions are just one point Leicester have managed just two wins | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
in their last 15 league games, but they released a statement | :35:53. | :35:56. | |
yesterday saying "the entire club is, and will remain, | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
united behind its manager." Of course, when you don't win, | :36:00. | :36:01. | |
you lack a little bit of confidence. Fortunately, these | :36:02. | :36:06. | |
players are warriors. They have already | :36:07. | :36:08. | |
lived this situation. They lived with the good things, | :36:09. | :36:11. | |
but also the bad things. Leicester are in FA | :36:12. | :36:20. | |
Cup action tonight. They play Championship side | :36:21. | :36:22. | |
Derby in the only replay The first tie finished | :36:23. | :36:24. | |
2-2 at Pride Park. Leicester are very | :36:25. | :36:32. | |
good team on the day. They are very capable | :36:33. | :36:34. | |
of reaching the heights I watched the first 40 minutes | :36:35. | :36:36. | |
against Manchester United. They dominated with their usual | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
aggressive and pressing selves. But the ball is not | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
going in the net. You can watch Leicester | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
against Derby live on BBC One this evening or listen | :36:51. | :36:53. | |
on BBC Radio 5 Live. Alastair Cook says he'll have "no | :36:54. | :37:05. | |
issue" playing under another captain following his resignation | :37:06. | :37:08. | |
as England Test skipper. Cook announced that he was stepping | :37:09. | :37:10. | |
down on Monday after leading his Cook said England's 4-0 Test series | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
defeat in India was "maybe the final Joe Root is the frontrunner | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
to replace Cook. He obviously has something about him | :37:20. | :37:22. | |
to bat the way he does. Ben Stokes has a leadership | :37:23. | :37:28. | |
role at some stage. He has improved and | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
matured as a cricketer. He is someone people gravitate | :37:33. | :37:34. | |
to because he has personality. Jos Buttler did an excellent | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
job in Bangladesh. We are lucky that there is a good | :37:38. | :37:39. | |
group of people pushing forward. Whoever gets it, it is one | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
of the greatest jobs Fed Cup captain, Anne Keothavong, | :37:44. | :37:45. | |
says her team can "put women's tennis on the map in Great Britain" | :37:46. | :38:00. | |
Keothavong believes they can emulate the British men's Davis Cup team | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
ahead of their campaign which begins World number ten, Johanna Konta, | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
Heather Watson, Laura Robson, and Jocelyn Rae make | :38:08. | :38:10. | |
up the GB squad. The group we are currently in, | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
there will be 13 other teams, and of the 14 teams, including us, | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
only two will go through. And I think, In the past 15 years, | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
that has only happened twice for us. But this year, we are going | :38:20. | :38:23. | |
in with a top ten player, I do believe this is our strongest | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
team for some time. Wales were thrashed 92-27 | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
by New Zealand in the first of two New Zealand dominated the match | :38:33. | :38:35. | |
and led Wales by 27 points Wales struggled to claw back | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
the gap as New Zealand, who are ranked second in the world, | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
added 25 more goals The two teams will play | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
each other again today. Wales top the Six Nations table | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
on points difference heading into the second round | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
of games this weekend. But ahead of a crucial | :38:54. | :38:55. | |
match against England, Wales captain Alun Wyn Jones has | :38:56. | :38:57. | |
been preparing a little differently He's been pulling pints | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
of "Ale Wyn," which is being served His side have a tight turnaround | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
to get ready for the England game on Saturday and they have | :39:04. | :39:09. | |
some injury concerns. We can make a fuss about it | :39:10. | :39:15. | |
but that will be an excuse. we have quick turnarounds | :39:16. | :39:34. | |
with more games. It is something you | :39:35. | :39:36. | |
have to deal with. There is that physicality | :39:37. | :39:38. | |
at an international level. We experience it in the season | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
and we have to get on with it. I have some beer facts for you. That | :39:42. | :39:55. | |
is an IPA, Indian pale ale, 5%. Really? Sally... You can tell I am | :39:56. | :40:05. | |
not a beer expert. I have been doing some beer Googling. Going down a | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
storm. As is the Six Nations. Unsurprisingly. Saturday will be | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
fantastic. Brilliant. Thank you. Were joined by a representative who | :40:14. | :40:34. | |
will tell us about a trial where school teachers will wear body cams. | :40:35. | :40:40. | |
This is happening in two schools in agreement with local education | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
authorities. It is the first trial of teachers actually wearing video | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
cameras in classrooms. The idea is that there are several reasons for | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
doing it but one overarching reason is to reduce low level disruption in | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
the classroom so they can get on with teaching. Many questions. Do | :41:02. | :41:07. | |
the pupils know the teachers are wearing the body cameras? Yes. The | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
body cameras are designed like policeman cameras, to be highly | :41:13. | :41:16. | |
visible. They are not running all the time. They are only switched on | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
when they are required or as is necessary. There is usually a light. | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
The students can see themselves being filmed on the chest of the | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
teacher. Why have the teachers decided this is necessary? I think | :41:33. | :41:37. | |
it was not just the teachers. It was a whole series of people involved in | :41:38. | :41:42. | |
the decision. But you'd do get a lot of complaints from teachers having | :41:43. | :41:50. | |
to be in charge of controlling the class rather than teaching at. This | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
is a way to get rid of the disruption to get the teaching hours | :41:56. | :42:02. | |
doing teaching. It is only a pilot scheme. Is there evidence it is | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
working? Yes. Everyone seems happy with it that is involved in the | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
project. The parents have been fully informed. The teachers themselves | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
that are using the cameras seem to be fairly happy with them. But there | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
is no formal evaluation at this stage. It is just the pilot stage. | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
For example, if there where an incident, it was filmed, what would | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
that footage be used for? It is quite interesting in schools | :42:36. | :42:40. | |
actually because you could use it for standard... You could use it in | :42:41. | :42:43. | |
the standard way that the police use it which would be either to | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
prosecute or at least offer cautions or whatever. So, within a school | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
contexts, that may be in the disciplinarian procedure as | :42:55. | :43:00. | |
evidence. But you have more options in the school because you can | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
actually use it to teach the students through reflection, perhaps | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
involve the parents in it as well, avoiding the disciplinary process | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
and bringing about the desired change in behaviour without | :43:13. | :43:17. | |
resorting to a discipline process. There has been some criticism | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
already. Is it appropriate for schools to be collecting this type | :43:22. | :43:25. | |
of evidence? I think you have to bear in mind that many schools have | :43:26. | :43:29. | |
already got CCTV cameras, perhaps not always in the classroom. There | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
has been some controversy recently about whether you should have in | :43:35. | :43:37. | |
school toilet because there are problems happening there. The | :43:38. | :43:42. | |
cameras are already without. Most of the pupils have smartphones. So we | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
are moving into of an age were those things are becoming more ubiquitous. | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
This is just a way of actually engaging it, I think, in a way that | :43:53. | :43:59. | |
is not intrusive and big brother like. That is what I was going to | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
ask. Tom Ellis, a Criminal Justice researcher from Portsmouth | :44:05. | :44:06. | |
University. He revealed the information. Thank you very much. Do | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
get in contact if you want to talk to us about it. It is a new trial. | :44:12. | :44:21. | |
What was it? Breakfast at BBC! Lots of people do know how to find us. | :44:22. | :44:24. | |
This is Breakfast. The main stories. The Bill authorising Theresa May | :44:25. | :44:33. | |
to start the process of leaving the European Union is due | :44:34. | :44:37. | |
to reach its final stages Efforts to treat more patients | :44:38. | :44:40. | |
in the community have neither saved money nor eased pressure on the NHS | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
- according to a report This weather forecast I will do a | :44:46. | :44:55. | |
count of how many times you say the word cold. Good morning. | :44:56. | :44:57. | |
It is -4 in Northern Ireland. -3 here. It is colder in Northern | :44:58. | :45:08. | |
Ireland. Quite good start. This morning, fairly cloudy in the east. | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
Some rain and drizzle around. In the west, it is right, it is cold, the | :45:14. | :45:18. | |
risk of ice on untreated surfaces. Frost. This ridge of high pressure | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
means we are looking at sunshine. This weather front in the east means | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
we will try to get it back today. Cold Continental air will be allowed | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
to push across our shores. Where we have the yellows, comparatively | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
mild. In the west, some sunshine to look board to. Central and eastern | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
areas, still some showers. Most of those will be with rain and the odd | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
snow flurry though nothing substantial. Further snow falling in | :45:49. | :45:54. | |
the Grampians. Later in the day as the temperatures fall, we will see | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
some at low levels, though not substantial. Northern England, the | :45:59. | :46:01. | |
Midlands, East Anglia, the south, all that cloud around. A few | :46:02. | :46:07. | |
showers. Some sleet. That is all. Six degrees in London. The west, | :46:08. | :46:13. | |
still, we have some of the showers. The south-west, a beautiful | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
afternoon. A lot of sunshine. Not as cold. West Wales, a lot of sunshine, | :46:18. | :46:23. | |
the same, not as cold. The east of Wales, cloud once more. Northern | :46:24. | :46:29. | |
Ireland, a cracking day ahead. Seven degrees in Belfast. It is currently | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
freezing. Overnight, where we have the clear skies in the west is where | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
the temperatures will drop. Once again, looking at a widespread | :46:39. | :46:43. | |
frost. It could well be a little bit of ice to look forward to in the | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
morning depending on how damp it gets. More cloud in central and | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
eastern areas. Still producing some showers. The temperatures will be | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
lower so some of those will have a wintry component in them down the | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
east coast of Scotland and England. We start tomorrow with the sunshine | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
out towards the west. Like clouds are producing some showers. What you | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
will find us along the coastline of Scotland and also England, you will | :47:08. | :47:11. | |
find it will be rain and sleet. You do not have to travel to fight | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
inland to find a bit of sleet and snow. -- too far. They will not be | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
enough to build a snowman. The cold air is going further west. Northern | :47:23. | :47:31. | |
Ireland, some weather. England, across the Pennines, north-east | :47:32. | :47:36. | |
England, part of the Grampians and Aberdeenshire, lower levels. 1-2 | :47:37. | :47:42. | |
centimetres. Almost twice that with a bit more height. | :47:43. | :47:50. | |
No snowmen? Maybe in the Grampians. I think you and I can do that, | :47:51. | :47:57. | |
Carol. Thanks, Carol. Yesterday the government published | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
plans for a new housing strategy - this morning Ben is speaking | :48:04. | :48:06. | |
to the boss of one of The traditional housebuilders, the | :48:07. | :48:18. | |
ones that build on building sites are not either factory. The | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
accusation is that they are not building enough and that is why | :48:22. | :48:24. | |
prices are going up. Redrow is one of the big developers | :48:25. | :48:26. | |
in England and Wales - But it's the Government's Housing | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
white paper that will have the biggest impact | :48:30. | :48:37. | |
over the coming year - so let's speak to the | :48:38. | :48:40. | |
Chairman Steve Morgan. Good morning, Mr Morgan. You without | :48:41. | :48:56. | |
your heart the early results. Three things struck me. ?140 million in | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
pre-tax profits. That is at 35% on the Centre and lusty. Prices that | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
you can sell for our rocketing, are by 7%. -- last year. The housing | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
market is broken, say some people but it is not broken for you, is it? | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
Saying the market was broken is an unfortunate phrase. It certainly | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
isn't broken. Our house prices are up 7% but that is not inflation, | :49:24. | :49:27. | |
that is more to do with the fact that all of our growth is coming in | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
the south of England and in London where house prices are higher debt | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
to the rest of the group which is in the Midlands and the north. It's | :49:37. | :49:39. | |
interesting that you say that it is not broken yet many people watching | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
this will say they are not able to get a deposit together to buy a | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
house, high prices artificially high and they can't get in the ladder and | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
yet you are able to sell your houses for 7% more over the course of the | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
year. If you are trying to get on the ladder, it is absolutely broken. | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
Yes but it is not the builders' fault. You have been looking at | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
successive planning policies over the last years. There haven't been | :50:04. | :50:06. | |
enough houses built because they haven't been enough planning | :50:07. | :50:09. | |
permissions to build them. The system is still broken today. In | :50:10. | :50:15. | |
that sense, the housing market is broken it as it's not fit for | :50:16. | :50:22. | |
purpose. What would you like to see change? It's funny because we have | :50:23. | :50:28. | |
site in the north of England right opposite a site that we had | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
permission for in 1990. This time we got 68 conditions to clear which it | :50:33. | :50:38. | |
takes for ever to clear before you can get on. In 1990, we have six | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
conditions. That is the root of the problem. It just takes so long to | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
clear through the bureaucracy. You call that planning process. | :50:50. | :50:56. | |
Unfortunately remaining as ponderous as ever. You are talking about the | :50:57. | :51:07. | |
landbank of where you can develop. Give me a timeline. Relatively a | :51:08. | :51:14. | |
third of the houses are stuck in the planning process. We don't have the | :51:15. | :51:18. | |
approvals and conditions cleared. The actual net buildable is more | :51:19. | :51:25. | |
like about 16 thousand, 17,000 plots which is just over three years' | :51:26. | :51:37. | |
supply. We need the pipeline to sustain growth. That is why, as a | :51:38. | :51:41. | |
country, we are still not building enough houses. The government set a | :51:42. | :51:48. | |
target of around 3 million to properties by 2020. Buy your own | :51:49. | :51:51. | |
admission, it is a small contribution. We are not building | :51:52. | :51:56. | |
enough. The larger builders are building more than they have ever | :51:57. | :52:01. | |
built that the issue is the smaller, medium-sized builders. Again, they | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
have these huge problem of overcoming planning red tape and | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
burden. The amount... If we have the same amount of builders as we had in | :52:12. | :52:16. | |
2007 today, we would be building an extra 20,000 homes in the country | :52:17. | :52:19. | |
but the reality is, the planning system has got so bureaucratic that | :52:20. | :52:27. | |
it is a huge barrier to entry. The SNP are all about disappearing and | :52:28. | :52:31. | |
that is the problem. The small builders are not building what they | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
used to build. OK, it is good to talk to you. Steve Morgan, the | :52:36. | :52:37. | |
chairman of Redrow home. We heard it from the boss. The | :52:38. | :52:46. | |
planning process is as ponderous as ever. They want to build more houses | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
and they have the sites for 25,000 of them that the planning process is | :52:51. | :52:55. | |
too slow and it continues to be a shortage of skilled workers. That | :52:56. | :52:58. | |
could be many of the things that are holding those big housebuilders back | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
that we will be discussing over the course of the week. | :53:02. | :53:02. | |
It has to be one of the most stunning free shows on earth - | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
and it's currently playing in Cumbria. | :53:07. | :53:08. | |
Tens of thousands of starlings are performing a nightly | :53:09. | :53:10. | |
Their synchronised flying creates an amazing aerial ballet. | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
The Friends of the Lake District has organised a number of viewing events | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
before the season ends later this month - | :53:18. | :53:19. | |
It's an aerial ballet with a cast of thousands. | :53:20. | :53:37. | |
A mass of starlings flying in mesmerising harmony. | :53:38. | :53:41. | |
The dictionary tells us this is called a murmuration. | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
It also tells us the word has been in use for hundreds of years | :53:46. | :53:49. | |
Nobody really knows why it is called this. | :53:50. | :53:54. | |
It's an interesting word because they do not really murmur. | :53:55. | :53:56. | |
But why do they form these patterns and move together in harmony? | :53:57. | :54:05. | |
There is some suggestion that come together at dusk in a big group | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
because it protects them from predators. | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
Why they do this and amazing aerial ballet before they settle down for | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
the night, nobody knows. Why would anyone want | :54:22. | :54:23. | |
to spend a night here? And so an audience gathered | :54:24. | :54:28. | |
in Cumbria for one of the greatest free | :54:29. | :54:30. | |
free shows on Earth. This is one of several murmuration | :54:31. | :54:39. | |
viewings posted by Friends of the Lake District. | :54:40. | :54:40. | |
I'm a reporter for my school magazine. | :54:41. | :54:42. | |
I'm going to write it up on the computer. | :54:43. | :54:51. | |
Are you going to take some pictures as well? | :54:52. | :54:53. | |
Hopefully my mum has remembered my phone. | :54:54. | :54:56. | |
I have two capture it on my camera over | :54:57. | :54:59. | |
there and if I miss anything, can I borrow your shots? | :55:00. | :55:02. | |
As dusk gathers, so too do the stars of the show. | :55:03. | :55:20. | |
The sky turns black and it's just amazing. | :55:21. | :55:30. | |
I've seen them before in other places but nothing | :55:31. | :55:35. | |
Someone estimated there was 60,000 or so | :55:36. | :55:41. | |
Then as darkness falls, so too do the starlings. | :55:42. | :55:53. | |
It is curtain down on another perfect performance. | :55:54. | :56:04. | |
We were talking about an expert earlier on and they still don't know | :56:05. | :56:11. | |
how they know whether to turn left or swoop at the same time. It's | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
really lovely. It's the season at the moment so if you can see them, | :56:16. | :56:17. | |
too. Time now to get the news, | :56:18. | :56:19. | |
travel and weather where you are. Hello, this is Breakfast, | :56:20. | :00:22. | |
with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. The Brexit bill goes to the vote | :00:23. | :00:25. | |
as MPs decide whether to give Theresa May the power | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
to leave the EU. that any final deal will be | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
put to the Commons. Tonight it could be Labour MPs | :00:33. | :00:35. | |
defying their leader. We'll be live at Westminster | :00:36. | :00:37. | |
with the latest. Campaigners demand tougher limits | :00:38. | :00:52. | |
on the use of sexual It was awful to be degraded in such | :00:53. | :01:10. | |
a way. To be so totally humiliated. An overdraft could cost you five | :01:11. | :01:29. | |
times more than a payday loan. Is it the dreaded vote of | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
confidence. Leicester City have given their support to their manager | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
despite the reigning Premier League champions being just a point above | :01:43. | :01:49. | |
the relegation zone. We will be looking at the science | :01:50. | :01:59. | |
behind starling murmur rations. And Carol has the weather. It will | :02:00. | :02:03. | |
turn colder. It is snow showers. What we have got today are brighter | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
skies in the west with the risk of ice. More cloud in central and | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
eastern areas with rain. But I will have a full forecast in 15 minutes. | :02:12. | :02:24. | |
The Bill giving Theresa May the power to start the process | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
of leaving the EU is due to reach its final stages | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Last night, the Government saw off a potential rebellion | :02:34. | :02:37. | |
from Conservative backbenchers, but today's debate could cause more | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
Labour rifts with its MPs told to back the Bill. | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
Here's our political correspondent Tom Bateman. | :02:42. | :02:44. | |
A battle for control over the process of Brexit. | :02:45. | :02:45. | |
Last night MPs ended more than seven hours of debate which contained | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
what some saw as a concession from the Government. | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
I can confirm on the final agreement to be approved before both Houses | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
In other words MPs will get to vote on any future Brexit deal before | :03:03. | :03:10. | |
it is signed off by the Government and the EU, but Theresa May's | :03:11. | :03:13. | |
negotiations with other EU leaders are likely to be complex and some | :03:14. | :03:16. | |
MPs are worried about her threat to walk away from the talks rather | :03:17. | :03:19. | |
What the House wants is the opportunity to send | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
the Government back to our EU partners to negotiate a deal if one | :03:27. | :03:28. | |
Last night the Government saw off a number of attempts to add | :03:29. | :03:34. | |
conditions to the Bill which gives it the power to start Brexit. | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
But some backbenchers remain unhappy at what ministers offered | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
and the divisions between those who argued for Brexit | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
and those who had campaigned against it were plain to see. | :03:46. | :03:49. | |
The Bill reaches its final stages in the Commons today threatening | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
to expose further rifts within Labour and more tough | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
Our Political Correspondent Carol Walker is in | :03:54. | :04:06. | |
People will be looking closely at how MPs will vote? Good morning. I | :04:07. | :04:20. | |
think we will see more passionate debate and some more important | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
debates in the Houses of Parliament today, but the Government is | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
confident that by tonight it will have got through all its stages in | :04:27. | :04:31. | |
the Commons. It goes on to the Lords, but after that series of | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
convincing victories yesterday, I think ministers are hopeful that MPs | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
will back it tonight and then the Lords will be reluctant to try to | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
introduce too many amendments to disrupt the legislation too much. | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
What happens then? Well, I think much of the focus tonight will be | :04:51. | :04:53. | |
back on to the Labour Party because Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour leader, | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
has said that all his MPs should vote to support the legislation. | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
That's very difficult for some who campaigned very strongly to remain | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
in the EU, whose constituents may have wanted very much to remain in | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
the EU. There was a significant rebellion, more than 40 MPs last | :05:12. | :05:16. | |
week, there were three resignations so far from his Shadow Cabinet and I | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
think many people will be watching Diane Abbott closely. She is the | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
Shadow Home Secretary, a close ally of the Labour leader. She failed to | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
vote last week prompting accusations from some of her colleagues who had | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
seen her looking perky earlier in the day it was a bad case of Brexit | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
flu to avoid an embarrassing vote. If she fails to turn up today that | :05:39. | :05:42. | |
means a real problem for the Labour Party. Thank you very much. | :05:43. | :05:52. | |
It's been revealed that teachers in two schools have begun using body | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
cameras in the classroom to record misbehaving pupils. | :05:56. | :05:56. | |
Staff at the two comprehensives in England are wearing the cameras, | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
which are similar to those worn by police, in a three-month trial. | :06:00. | :06:02. | |
It's understood they don't constantly record and only | :06:03. | :06:04. | |
do so when switched on during an incident. | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Privacy campaigners have criticised the move. | :06:07. | :06:07. | |
The Department of Education says is a matter for the schools. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
Tom Ellis is part of the trial. He told us on Breakfast that the | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
cameras hand teachers back control of the classroom. We get a lot of | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
complaints from teachers about having to be in charge of | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
controlling the class rather than teaching it. I think this is some | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
way of trying to get rid of the disruption and actually end up | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
spending more of your teaching hours actually doing the teaching. | :06:36. | :06:43. | |
Government lawyers in America have been trying to convince an appeals | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
court to reinstate President Trump's ban on people from seven | :06:46. | :06:48. | |
mainly Muslim countries entering the United States. | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
They said Mr Trump was acting within his powers and that the court | :06:51. | :06:52. | |
which suspended the ban last week made an error. | :06:53. | :06:55. | |
But two US states argued it discriminated against Muslims. | :06:56. | :07:03. | |
Plans to treat more patients in the community have so far failed | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
to save money or reduce hospital admissions | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
in England according to of the Government's spending watchdog. | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
The National Audit Office says ministers | :07:11. | :07:17. | |
were over optimistic in thinking a scheme called the Better Care Fund | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
When residents of this care home in Sutton have to go to hospital, | :07:21. | :07:25. | |
an innovative scheme helps cut their stay to a minimum. | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
Their medical and personal details go with them in distinctive red bags | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
so doctors and nurses can make faster and more effective | :07:33. | :07:34. | |
It's been a great asset for us and we're able to pass | :07:35. | :07:42. | |
the information on with a guarantee that it's going from | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
ambulance to A and to the ward and following them through. | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
We have been able to reduce time of stay by four days | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
which is massive when you think about how stretched | :07:54. | :07:56. | |
The National Audit Office says the spending of more than ?5 billion | :07:57. | :08:06. | |
of council money on integrating health and social care has not | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
Starting in 2014-2015, the scheme aimed to reduce emergency | :08:10. | :08:18. | |
admissions to hospital by more than 100,000. | :08:19. | :08:22. | |
But in 2015-2016, admissions actually went up by 87,000. | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
Over the same period, the project was supposed to reduce | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
the number of days lost because people were stuck | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
in hospital to just under 300,000 but they had increased. | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
The Public Accounts Committee wants long-term solutions rather | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
They need to look at why this isn't working. | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
What is it that is stopping the beds being available even | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
when there is some money being thrown at them, | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
The Government says it's too soon to judge the impact | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
Yemen is on the brink of famine according to the United Nations. | :08:59. | :09:06. | |
The country has been in the grip of a civil war between | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
government forces and Houthi rebel groups since 2014. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
It's estimated that 80% of the population are in urgent need | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
of humanitarian assistance, with children the worst affected. | :09:17. | :09:34. | |
We've heard about the travel ban but one other story involving | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
President Trump that's making headlines in US - does he, | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
Lots of old pictures of him wearing a bathrobe have | :09:40. | :09:48. | |
It's after his press secretary told journalists the President | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
The White House had apparently been angered by a New York Times article | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
which suggested President Trump sits around watching TV in his dressing | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
It's become one of Donald Trump's most used phrases. | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
The president's latest spat with the media is over this, | :10:05. | :10:17. | |
a bath robe, and whether he does or does not own one. | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
This New York Times report described a chaotic start to his presidency. | :10:22. | :10:28. | |
But it was the claim that Mr Trump spent considerable time watching | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
television in his bathroom that seemed to particularly | :10:34. | :10:34. | |
That is literally the epitome of fake news. | :10:35. | :10:38. | |
I mean, start at the top, I don't think the President | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
From top to bottom it is a made-up story that does not exist. | :10:41. | :10:49. | |
And the President tweeted, of course, his annoyance | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
at what he described as poor reporting. | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
And that bath robe denial prompted people across the globe to take | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
to social media to contradict the White House. | :10:58. | :11:12. | |
Some delved deep into archives to find these older images. | :11:13. | :11:23. | |
There were Donald Trump branded robes too. | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
And it spawned parodies and spoof images. | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
This picture of Ronald Reagan did the rounds. | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
One Tweet said he should not be so shy about wearing the garment. | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
But others on line said the government and public had more | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
serious matters to discuss rather than his choice of loungewear. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
Humiliating and degrading, just two of the words used | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
to describe the treatment of some rape claimants in Britain's courts. | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
Victim support groups told BBC Breakfast that people | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
who say they've been raped are being routinely questioned | :12:01. | :12:01. | |
Some would argue that's vital for a fair trial, | :12:02. | :12:09. | |
but others suggest it is irrelevant and putting people | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
This morning a Bill will be presented to MPs in Parliament, | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
arguing more should be done to protect possible rape victims | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
These are the places where justice is served, | :12:23. | :12:32. | |
but today claims that in some cases it is where rape victims feel | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
It was awful to be degraded in such a way, to be so totally humiliated. | :12:36. | :12:43. | |
Ivy's rape trial ended with conviction at the end of 2015, | :12:44. | :12:45. | |
but she said the grilling she received felt as bad | :12:46. | :12:47. | |
The specific questions they asked me where, | :12:48. | :12:56. | |
how many previous sexual partners have I had? | :12:57. | :12:59. | |
They accused me of being someone who was promiscuous. | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
I was told that line of questioning was allowed, | :13:03. | :13:09. | |
it was resigned to the dark ages, it didn't happen. | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
The charity Voice for Victims tells me this is happening too often. | :13:13. | :13:19. | |
We are hearing from victims being questioned about the number | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
of sexual partners they have had in the past or the colour | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
of the dress they were wearing at the time of the attack, | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
but what it is actually doing is victim shaming and blaming. | :13:34. | :13:46. | |
Protection for victims already exists. | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
Under section 41 of the Youth Justice and Criminal Evidence Act | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
references to sexual history should be heavily restricted | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
But new research carried out in courts in Newcastle suggest this | :14:04. | :14:14. | |
might be happening in around a third of all cases. | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
What I fear is we are going back to the bad old days of the 80s, | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
the 70s, when victims were effectively put in the dock | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
This is why today the MP will present a Private Member's Bill | :14:30. | :14:37. | |
to parliament to offer better protection for victims. | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
If you had known then how you were going to be treated, | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Definitely not, it was a total character annihilation. | :14:48. | :14:55. | |
Campaigners say we need to redress the court room balance back | :14:56. | :15:00. | |
Others say defendants are equally entitled to a fair trial. | :15:01. | :15:08. | |
Joining us now from Westminster is the MP Liz Saville Roberts, | :15:09. | :15:15. | |
who'll present her Private Member's Bill to the House of | :15:16. | :15:21. | |
Here in the studio, is Hannah Quirk, a senior | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
lecturer from the University of Manchester's School of Law. | :15:29. | :15:29. | |
We have spoken to one lady who said she would think again about court. | :15:30. | :16:04. | |
Have you seen this type of questioning? Has it changed people's | :16:05. | :16:24. | |
minds about what they are doing? We have taken evidence from a number of | :16:25. | :16:34. | |
victims who felt they were Why is it happening and should | :16:35. | :16:57. | |
attitudes change perhaps? I am concerned this is being used more | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
regularly than it was originally intended. The law that is supposed | :17:01. | :17:09. | |
to prevent this happening is unclear and it was written a few years ago. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
What worries me is that victims will be concerned that in the back of | :17:15. | :17:17. | |
their minds is the fact that many people now live their lives on | :17:18. | :17:20. | |
social media and they will worry about the sort of evidence they put | :17:21. | :17:26. | |
up on that about their past. We have to address section 41 to make sure | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
there is clarity on that. Also there is clarity on what is expected on | :17:32. | :17:38. | |
procedure from judges. We had evidence in Newcastle that the | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
procedure was not followed correctly. There needs to be a | :17:43. | :17:46. | |
discussion and perhaps training on what constitutes consent with Jewry | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
's. Hannah, it is important to explain what section 41 is and why | :17:54. | :17:58. | |
it is important in rape trials. The previous government introduced | :17:59. | :18:03. | |
legislation saying that this legislation should not be | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
admissible, it should not matter what the complainant had done | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
previously, it would never be relevant. The case was taken to the | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
House of Lords and they said there was an absolute blanket ban, said | :18:18. | :18:23. | |
the legislation was changed to allow specific circumstances where it was | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
relevant. It is difficult for defendants, and I worry sometimes we | :18:29. | :18:32. | |
only hear about these horror stories which of itself may put people off | :18:33. | :18:37. | |
from reporting these cases to the police. If we look at how cases are | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
dealt with, there have been improvements over the last 20 years. | :18:43. | :18:47. | |
I am totally sympathetic to some of the games, but I am not sure more | :18:48. | :18:53. | |
legislation is the way of doing it. You may get prosecutions being | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
stopped if judges think there will not be a fair trial, it may be | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
counter-productive. I want to talk about that discussion of consent. | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
How would that take place and who would lead those discussions? Would | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
that be for the court to do? It is part of the criminal justice system, | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
but if I can return to statistics. 36,000 rapes reported to the police | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
last year and yet only 7.5% of those went to a conviction. We have a | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
situation where we should be almost continually making sure the balance | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
is correct between the rights of the defendant and the complainant. At | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
present there are real concerns that the rights of the victim are playing | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
second fiddle to the rights of the defendant. Thank you both very much. | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
And if you think you've been affected by any of these issues, | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
details of organisations offering information and support are | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
available at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or you can call for free, | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 077 077. | :19:55. | :20:02. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
The Bill authorising Theresa May to start the process of leaving | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
the European Union is due to reach its final stages | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
Efforts to treat more patients in the community have neither saved | :20:14. | :20:20. | |
money nor eased pressure on the NHS according to a report | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
Carroll has told us so many times it is going to be cold. | :20:24. | :20:37. | |
Good morning. It certainly is as we go through the rest of the week and | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
some of us will have some snow. In the West it is a brighter start and | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
a colder start and there is a risk of ice and some fog. There will be | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
sunshine from the word go. In the east we have a weather front across | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
the East Coast and that will drift westwards during the day. A big area | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
of high-pressure stubbing it going further east, but that allows cold | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
air to come into many parts of the UK. In the West there is patchy fog | :21:08. | :21:16. | |
still, that will lift and we are looking at some sunshine. In Central | :21:17. | :21:20. | |
and eastern areas there is more cloud around. There are also showers | :21:21. | :21:26. | |
and patchy rain up the coast. In Scotland we will see further snow | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
today, especially in the Grampians, and we will see some of it at lower | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
levels later on. As we push across England, a cloudy day ahead. You | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
might see the odd wintry flurry coming in from the North Sea, but | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
nothing substantial. More showers in Hampshire and Dorset, but in | :21:48. | :21:52. | |
south-west England it is a beautiful day, nine Celsius in Plymouth. But | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
move further east and there is a bit more cloud in Wales. In Ireland a | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
beautiful day in prospect for you, temperatures are well below | :22:04. | :22:08. | |
freezing. But the temperature will pick up and it will be a pleasant | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
day. In the evening and overnight in the West it will be called, there | :22:14. | :22:19. | |
will be a widespread frost. In central and eastern areas there will | :22:20. | :22:24. | |
be more cloud around. As the temperatures go down, the showers | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
will be wintry. On the coast we are looking at some rain and sleet and | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
some snow showers, but they are showers. By no means will we all see | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
them. Tomorrow on the east of Scotland and England we are looking | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
at that combination. Showers, some wintry on the coast and moving | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
inland. We have also got snow on the Pennines and on the Grampians. In | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
the West it is not a bad day at all, but that cold air is filtering | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
further westwards. On Friday a lot of dry weather, but still those | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
showers and the east of the country is prone to them, rain and sleet. On | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
the mowers in the North East, the Pennines, east of Aberdeenshire and | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
the Grampians, we will see snow even at lower levels, just over an inch. | :23:19. | :23:30. | |
After three days of debate, MPs are set to give the government | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
the green light to start the process of Brexit tonight. | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
But triggering Article 50 is only the beginning | :23:37. | :23:38. | |
of our divorce from the EU, so what happens next? | :23:39. | :23:40. | |
We took two people, one who voted Remain and the other Leave, | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
along to Westminster to watch the Commons debates and discuss | :23:44. | :23:45. | |
with MPs from both sides what the future might hold. | :23:46. | :23:48. | |
Our Political Correspondent Ben Wright reports. | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
The countdown to Brexit is picking up pace. | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
After days of debate, the days of divorce talks are about to start. | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
In Westminster to watch them this week was Lance, | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
a Remain voter and Tony who voted for Britain to leave the EU. | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
Just down there is the House of Commons chamber. | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
From the public gallery, Lance and Tony watched MPs argue | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
about the government's Brexit strategy and what role this place | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
should have as Britain begins to leave the European Union. | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
European Union notification of withdrawal bill committee. | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
That is why I am voting against this amendment, because ultimately | :24:34. | :24:39. | |
It is for the Prime Minister to demonstrate her leadership skills | :24:40. | :24:46. | |
and negotiating skills and to get it right. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
As we go to that new relationship, please, could we have a say? | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
Not on behalf of Parliament but on behalf of all-out constituents. | :24:54. | :25:01. | |
Not on behalf of Parliament but on behalf of all-our constituents. | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
Afterwards, we chewed it all over with two MPs from different sides | :25:04. | :25:08. | |
of the referendum argument in a Westminster pub. | :25:09. | :25:10. | |
Tony, do you worry that some MPs are trying to slow the whole | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
thing down and even stop Brexit from happening? | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
I feel it's against the will of the people. | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
The Leave vote won but it wasn't by a massive, massive majority. | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
You still have to take into account the 48% of us that voted to stay in. | :25:26. | :25:37. | |
People from every political party have questions because there has | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
been absolutely no detail, no transparency, no sctutiny, | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
I hear a lot of people saying that these objectives | :25:44. | :25:53. | |
The best way to do that is with a united front. | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
So how is Brexit to be served up over the next few months? | :25:59. | :26:01. | |
Theresa May plans to formally tell the EU that Britain prepares | :26:02. | :26:04. | |
to leave by the end of March and then tough talks | :26:05. | :26:06. | |
EU rules say there are two years to sort out a divorce deal with the UK. | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
So, Britain will be out of the EU by the spring of 2019. | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
But sorting out a new trade deal could take much longer. | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
Given the difficulty with coming out of the EU, | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
isn't it important that we get the headline decisions made first | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
What is the point of rushing through a decision like this | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
After three days of debate, do we have a clear plan? | :26:33. | :26:41. | |
We have a positive plan we can put away European friends. | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
The key now is do we have enough flexibility. | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
At the end of the process we then have the best deal | :26:50. | :26:51. | |
Nobody expects a Brexit talks to be this civil. | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
And arguments had over real ale will soon move to real world. | :27:00. | :27:11. | |
Real ale has had a mention on the programme a couple of times today. | :27:12. | :27:21. | |
Yes, Sally mentioned it. Time to get news and travel wherever you | :27:22. | :30:40. | |
I'm back with the latest from the BBC London newsroom in half | :30:41. | :30:49. | |
Now though it's back to Louise and Dan. | :30:50. | :30:58. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
The bill giving Theresa May the right to start the process | :31:02. | :31:03. | |
of leaving the EU is due to reach its final stages | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
Last night, the government saw off a potential rebellion | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
from Conservative backbenchers, after promising that any final deal | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
But tonight's vote could cause more Labour rifts, with the party's MPs | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
It's been revealed that teachers in two schools have begun using body | :31:16. | :31:22. | |
cameras in the classroom to record misbehaving pupils. | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
Staff at the two comprehensives in England are wearing the cameras, | :31:25. | :31:26. | |
which are similar to those worn by police, in a three-month trial. | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
It's understood they don't constantly record and only | :31:30. | :31:31. | |
do so when switched on during an incident. | :31:32. | :31:33. | |
Privacy campaigners have criticised the move but the Department | :31:34. | :31:35. | |
of Education says it's a matter for individual schools. | :31:36. | :31:47. | |
Tom Ellis, a criminal justice researcher, | :31:48. | :31:51. | |
whose part of the trial, told BBC Breakfast that the cameras | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
helped teachers take back control of the classroom. | :31:55. | :31:58. | |
You do get quite a lot of complaints from teachers about having to be in | :31:59. | :32:05. | |
charge of controlling the class rather than teaching it. I think | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
this is some way of trying to get rid of the disruption and end up | :32:09. | :32:13. | |
spending much more of your teaching hours actually doing the teaching. | :32:14. | :32:26. | |
It's been revealed that teachers in two schools have begun using body | :32:27. | :32:29. | |
cameras in the classroom to record misbehaving pupils. | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
Staff at the two comprehensives in England | :32:33. | :32:33. | |
are wearing the cameras, which are similar to those worn | :32:34. | :32:43. | |
We have a situation where we should be continually making sure the | :32:44. | :32:48. | |
balance is correct between the rights of the defendant and the | :32:49. | :32:52. | |
rights of the complainant. At present there are real concerns that | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
the rights of the victim are playing second fiddle. | :32:57. | :33:07. | |
It's been revealed that teachers in two schools have begun using body | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
The MP Liz Saville Roberts has told BBC Breakfast that the rights | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
of alleged rape victims are not being given as much importance | :33:14. | :33:15. | |
She's calling for legislation which would prevent defence lawyers | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
from routinely using a claimant's past sexual behaviour as evidence. | :33:20. | :33:21. | |
The Ministry of Justice says the bar for disclosing such | :33:22. | :33:24. | |
information is high, but they were listening to concerns. | :33:25. | :33:26. | |
Plans to offer 30 hours of free childcare to three and four year | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
olds in England could lead to a shortage of nursery places, | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
The 15 hours per week children currently receive in term time | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
is set to double from September, but more than half of councils told | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
the Family and Childcare Trust that they were unsure their areas | :33:40. | :33:41. | |
would have adequate provision to cope. | :33:42. | :33:43. | |
The Department for Education says quality, affordable childcare | :33:44. | :33:45. | |
When you retire from being one of the most powerful men | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
in the world, it must be hard to know what to do with all of your | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
No such problem for Barack Obama though, he's been enjoying some | :33:53. | :33:56. | |
"down time" kitesurfing with Richard Branson. | :33:57. | :33:57. | |
The secret service had apparently banned the former president | :33:58. | :33:59. | |
from some of his favourite activities, like surfing, | :34:00. | :34:01. | |
during his time in office because of fears for his safety. | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
That is a hard thing to be able to do. It is made for people younger | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
than me, I have never done it. Let's do a live thing on BBC breakfast! | :34:09. | :34:17. | |
And coming up here on Breakfast this morning... | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
Comedian Hugh Dennis will give us an update on how the Red Nose convoy | :34:24. | :34:28. | |
is getting on delivering supplies in Kenya. | :34:29. | :34:30. | |
Also this morning, flying in perfect harmony. | :34:31. | :34:31. | |
These are thousands of starlings performing their nightly | :34:32. | :34:33. | |
We'll find out where you can see these amazing displays. | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
And after nine, the changing faces of fashion. | :34:38. | :34:39. | |
Christian Dior has ruled the catwalk for 70 years, | :34:40. | :34:41. | |
we'll speak to film maker Michael Waldman about spending six | :34:42. | :34:43. | |
Someone definitely still in the inner circle at Leicester City, | :34:44. | :34:59. | |
Claudio Ranieri, they have given him the vote of confidence. Dear oh | :35:00. | :35:04. | |
dear(!) they have offered their unwavering port to manage the | :35:05. | :35:15. | |
Claudio Ranieri full -- unwavering support to manager Claudio Ranieri. | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
The reigning Premier League champions are just one point | :35:21. | :35:22. | |
in their last 15 league games, but they released a statement | :35:23. | :35:29. | |
yesterday saying "the entire club is, and will remain, | :35:30. | :35:31. | |
There is no crisis, obviously when you do not win, you lack a little | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
confidence. But these players are fighters. Because they have already | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
left this situation once. They remember the good things but also | :35:43. | :35:43. | |
the bad things. Alastair Cook says he'll have "no | :35:44. | :35:49. | |
issue" playing under another captain following his resignation | :35:50. | :35:55. | |
as England Test skipper. Cook announced that he was | :35:56. | :35:58. | |
stepping down on Monday Cook said England's 4 - | :35:59. | :36:00. | |
nil Test series defeat in India was "maybe the final nail | :36:01. | :36:05. | |
in the coffin". Joe Root is the frontrunner | :36:06. | :36:07. | |
to replace Cook. Canada's Denis Shapovalov says | :36:08. | :36:09. | |
he blacked out after hitting an umpire in the eye with a ball | :36:10. | :36:11. | |
during a Davis Cup match He was playing Kyle Edmund | :36:12. | :36:14. | |
when he struck the ball in anger and hit Arnaud Gabas, | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
defaulting the match. I remember hitting the ball, I | :36:19. | :36:32. | |
didn't know where it went, I see the official, bending down, holding his | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
ire. I was in complete shock and regret right away. I kind of blacked | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
out for the next ten minutes, ashamed of my actions for letting my | :36:44. | :36:50. | |
team down, letting down my country. I think what he means is that he | :36:51. | :36:56. | |
blocked out that ten minutes, he never really wanted to remember that | :36:57. | :36:59. | |
again. I think that is what he is saying. | :37:00. | :37:06. | |
Missed targets, slow delivery and failing to give value for money, | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
that's the damning verdict of the spending watchdog | :37:10. | :37:11. | |
the National Audit Office on a 5-billion-pound scheme | :37:12. | :37:13. | |
to integrate health and social care in England. | :37:14. | :37:15. | |
The aim was to bring together NHS services like GPs | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
and emergency care, with local authority run facilities | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
It was predicted that The Better Care Fund, | :37:26. | :37:39. | |
as it was called, would save the NHS in England ?511 million | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
But today's report by the National Audit Office shows | :37:43. | :37:47. | |
that far from saving money, some aspects have actually | :37:48. | :37:49. | |
The scheme was supposed to reduce emergency admissions | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
In 2015 to 2016 they actually went up by 87,000. | :37:56. | :38:09. | |
The report highlighted there'd been an increase in the number of older | :38:10. | :38:13. | |
people still at home 91 days after being discharged | :38:14. | :38:15. | |
The Department of Health says the Better Care Fund, is just one | :38:16. | :38:20. | |
element of the government's plan to integrate health and social care | :38:21. | :38:22. | |
and it's too early to make a conclusive assessment. | :38:23. | :38:24. | |
Well to give us his reaction Niall Dickson is from the NHS | :38:25. | :38:27. | |
Confederation which represents people and organisations who provide | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
We are hearing about integration of services, practically, what does | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
that mean? A lot of what we are seeing has been well illustrated by | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
your reports on the BBC over the past few days which demonstrate a | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
system that is under enormous pressure, unprecedented pressure, | :38:46. | :38:51. | |
and is coping with fewer staff than it should have, and with a lack of | :38:52. | :38:57. | |
resources. I think that is part of the background that you have to take | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
into account. There is also a direct ignition across the NHS that simply | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
putting more money in, which is necessary, is necessary but not | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
sufficient and the system itself needs to be re-form, that will take | :39:11. | :39:14. | |
time, and one has to have a degree of patience here, we're organising | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
services, trying to get health, social care, GP services more | :39:18. | :39:22. | |
aligned with each other, working more closely together, will take | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
time, and there are further experiments which have been put in | :39:27. | :39:29. | |
place following the better care fund, which one would hope over the | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
next couple of years will start to see results. What one should not do | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
is say that this is the solution to all NHS or social care problems. | :39:37. | :39:41. | |
Social care in particular absolutely needs more money and needs the money | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
urgently. Specifically on the better care fund, you think that it may | :39:47. | :39:50. | |
well be more of a success a few years down the line but at the | :39:51. | :39:55. | |
moment, like many things in the NHS, as we discussed regularly, it is | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
struggling to work within the system? I think you are seeing | :39:59. | :40:04. | |
examples where, for example, the number of admissions of older people | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
into hospital has been reduced. You are seeing examples of hospitals | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
managing to get older people out into care homes, work with care | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
homes, it is to try to train the staff there to manage all the people | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
without referring them to hospital. These initiatives take time, the big | :40:23. | :40:27. | |
question for the NHS, once we are able to identify success, are we | :40:28. | :40:31. | |
able to roll that out across the system? That will be a big task over | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
the next few years. Politicians and the public, I hope, will recognise | :40:36. | :40:41. | |
that this is being set against unprecedented demand. The system is | :40:42. | :40:45. | |
struggling at the moment to cope, and some patience is required as | :40:46. | :40:51. | |
well as extra resource. Some success in some areas, integration working | :40:52. | :40:54. | |
in some places, we can talk about funding streams and issues that we | :40:55. | :40:58. | |
always discussed with the NHS but can you give as an inside this | :40:59. | :41:01. | |
morning, people watching at home, what will this mean to those that | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
are watching? If you take an elderly woman who has four example two or | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
three long-term conditions, she may have diabetes, she may have had a | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
cancer diagnosis and she may be frail on her feet. This is not | :41:16. | :41:20. | |
something that the NHS was traditionally to manage, it was | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
about episodes of illness, and when people became ill, there was a | :41:25. | :41:27. | |
treatment and that was dealt with. Now we are dealing with large | :41:28. | :41:32. | |
numbers of people living with long-term conditions. How we manage | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
that more effectively in the community? Life for her will be | :41:37. | :41:38. | |
different, she may have a different kind of care worker who will be | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
supporting and helping her to stay at home and manage. Hopefully she | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
will have some interaction with voluntary organisations, whether it | :41:47. | :41:51. | |
is Macmillan or Diabetes UK, who will be helping to support her, and | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
keep her as healthy as possible within her own home, rather than | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
having a system at the moment where the chances are three or four times | :42:01. | :42:05. | |
perhaps in a year she will be referred into hospital, where they | :42:06. | :42:08. | |
patch her up and send her back into a system and then there is not the | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
care at home to look after her and then she is stuck in a hospital. | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
None of that is good for the elderly patient and it is not good for the | :42:18. | :42:21. | |
system. We have to find ways to make the system work more effectively, | :42:22. | :42:25. | |
there is a recognition across health and social care in practices, GP | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
practices, community services and hospitals that that is the challenge | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
going forward. We appreciate your time, thank you for joining us. | :42:35. | :42:42. | |
It's day three of the Comic Relief's Red Nose Convoy. | :42:43. | :42:45. | |
This year, six celebrities are travelling across Kenya | :42:46. | :42:46. | |
and into Uganda, delivering aid and visiting projects | :42:47. | :42:48. | |
We'll catch up with comedian and star of Outnumbered Hugh Dennis | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
First, let's get a taste how life on the road has | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
We spoke with David Baddiel the other day, and look at how they | :42:57. | :43:10. | |
would be arguing about driving the car. | :43:11. | :43:21. | |
The acceleration does not do much up the hill. | :43:22. | :43:24. | |
The instructions are in Korean, but apart from that, | :43:25. | :43:26. | |
The car of potential death, as I have now come to think of it, | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
has gone to the garage to be checked, and maybe | :43:32. | :43:33. | |
as I think I will have enough power to overtake a truck | :43:34. | :43:54. | |
so let's see what comes tomorrow. | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
This is the challenge, getting along the road | :43:59. | :44:00. | |
I did not realise it would be as much of a challenge as it is. | :44:01. | :44:10. | |
Katy Brand, Russell Kane, David Baddiel, Reggie Yates, | :44:11. | :44:12. | |
Michaela Coel and, of course, Hugh Dennis, who're all taking part | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
And Hugh joins us now from Kericho in western Kenya. | :44:16. | :44:24. | |
Good morning, how are you doing? Good morning, we are doing very | :44:25. | :44:35. | |
well, we did have a few problems, all three cars have problems | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
yesterday. Katy Brand's car, could not even overtake at all, something | :44:41. | :44:44. | |
wrong with the accelerator. Reggie's car broke down. The car that David | :44:45. | :44:50. | |
and I are driving, the immobiliser went, so you would be driving along, | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
not very high speed, 40, 50, and the car would try to immobilise it self, | :44:56. | :45:00. | |
hazard warnings kept on coming up! That is all being sorted out. Quite | :45:01. | :45:03. | |
a long day, what a long drive yesterday. Long delay on the line, | :45:04. | :45:09. | |
sounds like it is keeping you entertained, nevertheless! | :45:10. | :45:21. | |
Today we are going to a place called Kisumu. We have musky tenets to | :45:22. | :45:34. | |
deliver, 100 bicycles to deliver. Yesterday we thought we would just | :45:35. | :45:37. | |
get the bicycles out and peddle them, we will need another 90 for | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
people to help us! They are unlikely to break down! The first thing we | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
delivered what this ultrasound thing to a health centre, I met a | :45:48. | :45:56. | |
fantastic look called Patrick, who was a community health volunteer. He | :45:57. | :46:03. | |
ran his own business but was completely devoted to his community, | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
so he would go out into the community and give information and | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
educate pregnant women as to what they needed to do, to keep them a | :46:13. | :46:20. | |
beat and themselves healthy during pregnancy. He gives them information | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
on nutrition and hygiene and all these things that were incredibly | :46:26. | :46:29. | |
potent in this place, because they slum of a million people without | :46:30. | :46:34. | |
sanitation. We brought a pregnant lady back into the health centre to | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
have the first ever ultrasound. That is an amazing moment. It is great to | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
be able to see where all of that money... Because the public are so | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
generous, to see the difference the money makes. It is amazing, and the | :46:49. | :46:55. | |
money really does make a difference, that is the point of this week, to | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
show people in the UK who are donating every time Comic Relief is | :47:01. | :47:03. | |
on, to show the difference is that their money is making. They are good | :47:04. | :47:10. | |
news stories, but there is an awful lot left to do. This is really just | :47:11. | :47:16. | |
a snapshot of what Comic Relief does and can do. If you can donate, do. I | :47:17. | :47:22. | |
am not really a cross what effect it is having in the UK, I do not really | :47:23. | :47:28. | |
do social media, I have only had one text, and that was from my dentist, | :47:29. | :47:33. | |
saying, well done, enjoy the trip. But hopefully it is making a big | :47:34. | :47:38. | |
difference in terms of donation. We are getting a lovely reaction here, | :47:39. | :47:41. | |
we will mention how people can donate. David was quite clear, he | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
said that Reggie feels he is the best driver, but now you have a few | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
days, are you willing to put your hand up and say you are the safest | :47:52. | :47:59. | |
man behind the wheel? Yesterday, I am driving with David, I have driven | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
across Ethiopia with him before, but what happened to us yesterday, as | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
well as mechanical failure, we got slightly lost, and he convinced me | :48:10. | :48:14. | |
to take a left turn when I said that we had to go back to the previous | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
junction. We were driving the wrong way up a dual carriageway, and were | :48:19. | :48:24. | |
stopped by the police. We had to be very charming to the police, who | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
asked for our licenses and what we are doing. He said, you are driving | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
incredibly dangerously, and if you do that again, you will die. I did | :48:35. | :48:39. | |
because quite that serious, but that was definitely David's fault. Take | :48:40. | :48:46. | |
care on the rest of your trip. It is great to speak to you! Not what you | :48:47. | :48:52. | |
want to be doing. He wondered how it is being received | :48:53. | :48:54. | |
back here. If you'd like to show your support | :48:55. | :48:57. | |
and make a donation to Comic Relief, you can donate ?5 by texting | :48:58. | :49:00. | |
the word CONVOY to 70205, or to donate ?10, | :49:01. | :49:11. | |
text CONVOY to 70210. Texts will cost your donation | :49:12. | :49:13. | |
plus your standard network message charge, and 100% of your donation | :49:14. | :49:15. | |
will go to Comic Relief. You must be 16 or over, and please | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
ask the bill payer's permission. For full terms and conditions | :49:19. | :49:21. | |
and more information, Later in the week we'll be | :49:22. | :49:23. | |
speaking to Katy Brand. And Comic Relief is | :49:24. | :49:29. | |
on Friday 24th March. I was trying to see which screen | :49:30. | :49:46. | |
Carroll was going to be on. She is actually over their! I like to know | :49:47. | :49:51. | |
where you are! A frosty scene behind you. | :49:52. | :49:58. | |
One of our weather watchers sent this in. A bright start further | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
south. What a cracker in Buckinghamshire. High pressure is | :50:05. | :50:12. | |
keeping things fairly settled in the West, but this weather front, which | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
has been moving east, will go west through the course of today. It will | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
allow the cold continental and to seep across our shores. Not everyone | :50:22. | :50:27. | |
sees it. It will be a cold day today than yesterday. The trend will | :50:28. | :50:30. | |
continue through the rest of the week. Towards the West, patchy fog, | :50:31. | :50:36. | |
Frost, still the risk of ice. A lot of sunshine. Move inland, more cloud | :50:37. | :50:43. | |
and rain or showers. Snow in the Grampians, mostly at height, but | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
later on the snow levels will fall. Across most of England, it will | :50:49. | :50:54. | |
remain fairly cloudy. You might see the sunny break, but that will be | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
the exception. There will be some showers, not all of us see those. On | :50:59. | :51:02. | |
the east coast, some of them will be wintry. There was the south-west, a | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
beautiful day, lots of sunshine, and not as cold. West Wales has a fair | :51:08. | :51:18. | |
bit of sunshine. A beautiful start and a beautiful day generally across | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
Northern Ireland, although temperatures are below freezing at | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
the moment, they will pick up. This evening and overnight, with the | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
clear skies the temperatures will tumble. A widespread frost, possibly | :51:30. | :51:36. | |
the risk of ice. It is windy in the West, and a keen easterly across the | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
East. That will continue to blow in some showers on the coastline. This | :51:42. | :51:44. | |
is the forecast for the next few days. There will be rain and sleet | :51:45. | :51:50. | |
on the coast, move into land and there will be sleet and snow, but | :51:51. | :51:58. | |
not all of us will see it. Move out towards the West, not much change | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
from today. Again, it will be fine, dry, cold and sunny, but the cold | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
air permeates it further west tomorrow. We will hang on to the | :52:08. | :52:17. | |
seven in the south-west. For Friday, more snow showers. Some of that | :52:18. | :52:25. | |
falls across the Pennines, North East England, east of Aberdeenshire | :52:26. | :52:28. | |
and the Grampians. With height we could have five centimetres, less at | :52:29. | :52:31. | |
low levels. Typical winter weather. Go and have a cup of tea! | :52:32. | :52:44. | |
That sounds like a fabulous idea! I would make it for you! | :52:45. | :52:47. | |
Lots of you have been getting in touch with us this morning | :52:48. | :52:50. | |
about the cost of overdrafts, which Ben was looking | :52:51. | :52:52. | |
at earlier this morning, so he's back with some | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
There has been a high-profile campaign against payday lenders, and | :52:56. | :53:06. | |
how much they charge. Sky-high rates, and there was a clamp-down, | :53:07. | :53:13. | |
so they have been capped. But the consumer group Which looked at how | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
much it would cost to go into an authorised overdraft. | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
The consumer group Which looked at how much it would cost to go | :53:24. | :53:26. | |
over your overdraft by ?100 for 30 days and found it could cost | :53:27. | :53:29. | |
between ?30 and ?180, depending on which current | :53:30. | :53:31. | |
Payday loan firms by law can't charge more than ?24 | :53:32. | :53:34. | |
for the same type of loan, and Which says the same rule should | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
We'll speak to them in just a minute, but first, | :53:39. | :53:41. | |
do you feel you get enough warning to try to avoid the fees? | :53:42. | :53:44. | |
Earlier I spoke to Pete Moorey from Which. | :53:45. | :53:46. | |
You can be charged ?180 for going into your unarranged | :53:47. | :53:49. | |
overdraft when it is capped at ?24 for payday loans. | :53:50. | :53:51. | |
The financial regulator is doing a big review of high-cost credit | :53:52. | :53:53. | |
and we need to get to the bottom of this issue. | :53:54. | :53:56. | |
We think it is unfair that you are being charged such a high | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
amount, and we want that to be tackled and these exorbitant fees | :54:00. | :54:02. | |
The payday lenders were subject to the scrutiny, the regulators said, | :54:03. | :54:12. | |
you have to put a cap on how much you charge, that with the banks and | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
these overdrafts, that has got through, they have not tackled it | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
yet, so there is a suggestion they may do that. People have been | :54:22. | :54:26. | |
getting in touch. It is a real split, a lot of people say, don't | :54:27. | :54:31. | |
use it if you don't like how much it costs. Janet says, I have not used | :54:32. | :54:35. | |
my overdraft, the banks use them to make millions. David said he has | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
only used it once but it works out cheaper than seeing these on things | :54:41. | :54:47. | |
like direct debits. Joanna says, I do not have one, I have refused to | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
have one on my account, I know what I am like. It comes down to the idea | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
of transparency, how did you know when you will fall into the | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
overdraft, how much will it cost? If the bank warns you in advance, maybe | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
you can move money from elsewhere to drop it into the account. It is one | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
of those things that will get people going. Other comments, yes, there | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
should be a cap on the charges because in many cases the idea that | :55:15. | :55:20. | |
you borrow ?100 but the cost of it could be ?180 in some cases, and | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
that is astronomical. An anonymous one here, my dad has a lot of | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
savings come money in some accounts, but he has Alzheimer's and he is not | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
aware of the problem when he goes overdrawn, and he has been charged | :55:35. | :55:40. | |
?228 in overdraft fees, so it is a bad banks telling people more. If | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
you phone your bank, you can discuss the charges. This is at their | :55:45. | :55:50. | |
discretion, they both say, we can see you have accidentally gone | :55:51. | :55:53. | |
overdrawn, maybe it is a direct debit or a bill and you have gone a | :55:54. | :56:00. | |
few pounds into your overdraft. Within a certain time period they | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
will say, we will refund the charge, but this is more for people who are | :56:05. | :56:07. | |
regularly using it and they find the cost is astronomical. The comparison | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
with payday lenders is particularly relevant. | :56:13. | :56:15. | |
It has to be one of the most stunning free shows on earth, | :56:16. | :56:18. | |
and it's currently playing in Cumbria. | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
Tens of thousands of starlings are performing a nightly | :56:24. | :56:25. | |
Their synchronised flying creates an amazing aerial ballet. | :56:26. | :56:28. | |
The Friends of the Lake District have organised a number of viewing | :56:29. | :56:31. | |
events before the season ends later this month. | :56:32. | :56:33. | |
Dave Guest has been finding out where you can catch a glimpse | :56:34. | :56:36. | |
of these amazing birds before the season ends later this month. | :56:37. | :56:46. | |
It's an aerial ballet with a cast of thousands. | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
A mass of starlings flying in mesmerising harmony. | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
The dictionary tells us this is called a murmuration. | :56:55. | :56:57. | |
It also tells us the word has been in use for hundreds of years, | :56:58. | :57:00. | |
Nobody really knows why it is called this. | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
It's an interesting word because they do not really murmur. | :57:06. | :57:08. | |
But why do they form these patterns and move together in harmony? | :57:09. | :57:15. | |
There is some suggestion that they come together at dusk | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
in a big group because it protects them from predators. | :57:20. | :57:24. | |
Why they do this amazing aerial ballet before they settle down | :57:25. | :57:27. | |
Why wouldn't anyone want to spend a night here? | :57:28. | :57:40. | |
And so an audience gathered in Cumbria for one of the greatest | :57:41. | :57:42. | |
This is one of several murmuration viewings posted by Friends | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
I'm a reporter for my school magazine. | :57:47. | :57:53. | |
I'm going to write it up on the computer. | :57:54. | :58:00. | |
Are you going to take some pictures as well? | :58:01. | :58:03. | |
Hopefully my mum has remembered her phone. | :58:04. | :58:07. | |
I have to capture it on my camera over there, | :58:08. | :58:10. | |
and if I miss anything, can I borrow your shots? | :58:11. | :58:12. | |
As dusk gathers, so too do the stars of the show. | :58:13. | :58:18. | |
The sky turns black and it's just amazing. | :58:19. | :58:43. | |
I've seen them before in other places but nothing | :58:44. | :58:46. | |
Someone estimated there were 60,000 or so starlings out there. | :58:47. | :58:54. | |
Then, as darkness falls, so too do the starlings. | :58:55. | :59:02. | |
It is curtain down on another perfect performance. | :59:03. | :59:16. | |
STUDIO: I feel very relaxed after all of that. | :59:17. | :59:23. | |
Joining us now to tell us more about this spectacle is Tom Clare | :59:24. | :59:26. | |
from the Wild Fowl and Wetland Trust. | :59:27. | :59:33. | |
So mesmerising to watch, you can find this all over the UK. Yes, you | :59:34. | :59:40. | |
find them all over the country, like Aberystwyth peer, sometimes city | :59:41. | :59:44. | |
centres, most of the time, they are out in oral locations, doing that | :59:45. | :59:52. | |
fantastic display. Is it always at dusk time? Just before they are | :59:53. | :59:56. | |
coming into roost, sometimes half an hour, sometimes an hour, and they | :59:57. | :00:00. | |
are congregating before they go in for the evening roosts. -- | :00:01. | :00:13. | |
Aberystwyth Pier. Why do they behave like this, there is a few theories? | :00:14. | :00:19. | |
During the day, they are out looking for food, in the evening, all coming | :00:20. | :00:24. | |
in to join together before they go into route, what we think is | :00:25. | :00:27. | |
happening they are forming these you to commemorates and avoiding | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
predators, is having so many birds in one place, it stuns the birds, | :00:31. | :00:36. | |
the birds of prey going for them, and when they go into roost, so | :00:37. | :00:42. | |
close together, staying nice and warm staying together and keeping | :00:43. | :00:51. | |
warm during winter. -- murmurations. This is the best time of year to | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
come and see them come you get the big numbers coming into this time of | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
year. Beautiful to see so many birds together but Stalin | :00:56. | :01:09. | |
numbers have been falling dramatically over the last few | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
years? Since about 1970 they have dropped by 60%, so they have really | :01:14. | :01:17. | |
dropped down in numbers, although we get these huge murmurations hundreds | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
of thousands, close to a million, the numbers are on the decrease and | :01:25. | :01:30. | |
they have been for some time. We were speaking with you earlier, we | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
were asking you about how they know whether to go left, right, loads of | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
people have been coming up with their own particular theories, you | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
say it is something that still baffles those who look into it, why | :01:41. | :01:45. | |
they are so synchronised and beautiful, and every single bird | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
seems to know which way to go at a given time? Still one of those | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
wonders of the natural world, still trying to figure out what is | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
happening, and why they are doing it and how they can move so quickly | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
with each other. It is like a wave, one bird moves, it is a ripple | :02:03. | :02:12. | |
effect, the entire murmuration. Is there anything we can do to help | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
them and arrest the decline? It is a problem nationwide, we are not 100% | :02:18. | :02:21. | |
sure why they are decreasing, throughout the breeding season, they | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
are feeding invertebrates on the ground. Perhaps the food resources | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
for that is decreasing, feeding birds in the garden, anything you | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
can do to encourage the starlings into your garden, helping them at | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
home. More hedgerows, where they can breed nice and safely, always a good | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
way to work with the birds. I have a very friendly robin. If we put bread | :02:45. | :02:52. | |
out, he comes to get the bread. It is always fantastic getting that | :02:53. | :02:54. | |
close to nature, especially in your garden. You are like Dr Doolittle! | :02:55. | :02:58. | |
It has been wonderful. And we would love to see some | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
of your pictures of the wonders Here's a couple that some | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
of you have already sent in to us. This one sent in by Anita | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
shows Canadian geese Robert sent in a picture | :03:11. | :03:12. | |
of a Galloway cow and calf Steve sent in this one of a little | :03:13. | :03:16. | |
egret at a local nature reserve. And this starling murmuration | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
above Brighton Pier You can email us your pictures | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
at [email protected] What was that green line on that | :03:23. | :03:36. | |
one? I think we may have added that one! Sorry for ruining the picture, | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
for some reason we have put a big green line through it. | :03:44. | :03:49. | |
We'll be getting a look behind the scenes at | :03:50. | :03:55. | |
Christian Dior when filmmaker Michael Waldman joins us. | :03:56. | :03:56. | |
But first, a last, brief look at the headlines | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
where you are this morning. feeling increasingly cold. That is | :04:00. | :05:41. | |
it from me for now, thanks for watching, have a lovely morning. | :05:42. | :06:05. | |
STUDIO: Christian Dior died just ten years after debuting his "new look" | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
haute couture in 1947, but today it remains | :06:09. | :06:10. | |
one of the world's most well-known fashion labels. | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
To celebrate its 70th birthday, film maker, | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
Michael Waldman, spent six months behind-the-scenes of | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
the billion-dollar brand, interviewing everyone | :06:17. | :06:17. | |
from the seamstresses to parfumiers and the company's first ever | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
We'll speak to Michael in a minute but first let's take a look. | :06:20. | :06:23. | |
VOICEOVER: Braid list Ruth has been chosen to lead the entire parade. -- | :06:24. | :06:39. | |
braidless. I don't want to mess it up, it is brave in its | :06:40. | :06:50. | |
nonconformity. Inside those? A secret, my secret! | :06:51. | :07:16. | |
The drama! Michael Waldman Joining us now. So well-known, and he died | :07:17. | :07:26. | |
only ten years after he created this brand, white and extraordinarily is | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
even. Absolutely, spending six months behind-the-scenes of this now | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
billion-dollar company was a fascinating | :07:35. | :07:36. | |
experience, they very cleverly exploited the legacy of Christian | :07:37. | :07:42. | |
Dior, the man whose name is above the title, they know it is a very | :07:43. | :07:48. | |
telling brand, but by definition it is fashion, they must renew but keep | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
a foot in the past, it is a nice balancing act. They also exploit the | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
name, as Christian Dior did himself, very savvy businessmen, to make | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
Perkins and cosmetics and is the series, it is a big business. You | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
made a film about Christian Louboutin, a few years ago, you know | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
the industry, so it was an eye-opener into how brutal it can be | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
on occasion, is it cut-throat? I'm not a fashionista, it is not my | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
field, but it has been fascinating, dipping toes into it, two different | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
French companies, it is all that you imagine and more, in terms of the | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
theatricality of it, what there is is costumed, by definition, and be, | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
there is a show that has to be delivered by a certain time, so the | :08:38. | :08:42. | |
frenzied behind-the-scenes, and the decision-making, and he makes the | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
decisions and how, that is dramatic. And they wanted to keep it... You | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
must need lots of negotiations, there's a lot of it is secret, what | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
is going on, how they make things. Of course, getting into a place like | :08:56. | :09:00. | |
this takes a lot of doing, and when you are there, you have to keep | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
pushing and be opportunistic. That is the nature of making documentary | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
films of an observational sort. A funny moment, I mentioned, the | :09:09. | :09:13. | |
Perkins and the cosmetics, there is a guy who is called the nose, very | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
important job, and on his nation nasal sensitivity depends the | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
profits of the Perkins. -- we saw Jasmine and rose petals. He was very | :09:28. | :09:38. | |
conscious of not revealing the secrets. Profits of the perfume. -- | :09:39. | :09:54. | |
back it is like the secret herbs and spices. You met the man with the | :09:55. | :10:04. | |
nose for the Percy and, this is in a dressmaking shop in Paris. -- with | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
the nose for the perfume. Everybody is different. Some with small | :10:16. | :10:25. | |
waists, with big wastes, everyone is different. The woman of the world. | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
If you look at the woman, they are all different. -- big waists. They | :10:32. | :10:41. | |
are rich. Yes, it is silly to say anything else. It is not accessible | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
to everyone. It is something special. It is a dream. And it has | :10:47. | :10:58. | |
two stay a dream. She is very honest about most people not being able to | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
afford any of the items except for the make up. And the make up is not | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
cheap either, but it was fascinating watching them in the very workshops, | :11:07. | :11:14. | |
the people who make the clothes, all specifically made for each client, | :11:15. | :11:17. | |
she is the woman who is in charge of the department and she has two | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
liaise with the department, those are models of actual women. It is | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
made for each individual. Normally you do not see that, we would not | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
reveal the names. It is shaped there. If she comes in and says, I | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
would like that one from this year 's collection, but in blue but not | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
black, they come in and they make it on the cast. -- has to. And it comes | :11:41. | :11:46. | |
in at a ridiculous price. Yes, don't even go there! You follow the new | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
creative director, this post has been held by John Galliano, Eve St | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Laurent, and so this is a real pressure job. The rival for the | :11:56. | :12:05. | |
first. An Italian woman, wonderful and funny, and the pressure on her | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
is enormous. She's a creative director of vast billion-dollar | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
brand, she has to create several collections a year. -- Yves Saint | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
Laurent. The legacy that she is basing it on, she has to have a | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
sense of Christian Dior in the past, plus the previous great designers, | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
what happens is that we see her in the lead up to the first collection | :12:29. | :12:33. | |
and she is remarkably relaxed, jocular, funny, filming things are | :12:34. | :12:37. | |
normally we would not be allowed to, and she went with it. Impressive | :12:38. | :12:45. | |
woman, regardless of what you think about the clothes, they may not be | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
to your taste, but regardless, somebody tends to buy them. Female | :12:49. | :12:53. | |
form and eating disorders within the fashion industry and models, they | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
talk to you about that. Briefly, one could make a whole programme about | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
that, of course we touched on it, Maria was very interesting, she has | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
a daughter, who came over to Paris to support her mother for the first | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
collection, wonderful and good-looking woman, not model shape, | :13:10. | :13:17. | |
in some cases, women and girls really are that shape and there is | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
not a problem, sometimes there is. It is something that is a big issue | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
in the fashion industry. Very good to speak with you, thank you for | :13:27. | :13:27. | |
joining us. Inside Dior Today, we're settling an age-old | :13:28. | :13:38. | |
argument as well as revealing why the latest celebrity-backed food fad | :13:39. | :13:41. | |
isn't all it's cracked up to be. | :13:42. | :13:45. |