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Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
The latest weapon in the war against hackers, thousands | :00:10. | :00:17. | |
of teenagers are to get lessons in cyber security. | :00:18. | :00:37. | |
It's hoped they'll become the experts of the future | :00:38. | :00:39. | |
and protect Britain from online attacks. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Good morning it's Saturday, 11th February. | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
President Trump says he may issue a new order authorising a travel ban | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
after his old one was blocked by the courts. | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
Parks under threat - a new report says funding has | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
reached a tipping point and new ways of paying for them need to be | :00:53. | :00:56. | |
The latest on the battle to save hundreds of whales stranded | :00:57. | :01:00. | |
One of the biggest test yet for England, the first trip to Cardiff | :01:01. | :01:13. | |
for Eddie Jones. Wales are banking on the home advantage to take them | :01:14. | :01:15. | |
to the top of the Six Nations. And find out how I survived | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
the stairway to heaven, even if it did turn | :01:18. | :01:20. | |
my legs to jelly. Good morning to match who has the | :01:21. | :01:31. | |
weather. A cold feeling day for all of us, snow giving a limited | :01:32. | :01:38. | |
coaching in some areas. But for many, that is no will turn back to | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
rain. See you soon. -- Matt. Schoolchildren are to be offered | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
lessons in cyber-security to encourage more younger people | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
to pursue a career in defending It's hoped that thousands | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
of teenagers in England will spend up to four hours a week | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
on the subject, over Here's our home affairs | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
correspondent Tom Symonds. Daniel Kelly is a convicted teenage | :01:58. | :02:09. | |
hacker facing a jail sentence. He took part in a massive digital | :02:10. | :02:15. | |
break-in of TalkTalk. What if his potential had been realised at an | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
earlier age? He may have ended up joining a new breed of apprentices | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
learning to cyber security trade, like these. With that in mind, the | :02:24. | :02:30. | |
government is putting up ?20 million for nearly 6000 schoolchildren aged | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
14 and over to take four hours of cyber security lessons after school | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
each week. We think that will help seriously with the shortage of cyber | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
skills that we've got. We will always keep it under review, in case | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
this needs to get bigger. But getting it going at that scale shows | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
serious ambition to make sure that we can have a pipeline of talent we | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
are going to need. Police are stepping up the fight, but this is | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
not a threat that can be defeated on the ground. The cyber-crime | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
battlefield will be online, and Britain's GCHQ will be it's command | :03:11. | :03:16. | |
centre. 50,000 people are employed in the anti- hacking industry. More | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
will be needed, and the government knows it has to start finding them | :03:21. | :03:21. | |
when they are young. And after 7:00, we'll be | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
joined by Brian Lord, who spent over 20 years | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
as a Deputy Director Donald Trump has said he may rewrite | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
the presidential order imposing restrictions on travel to the US | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
to overcome the legal obstacles that have frustrated his | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
efforts so far. His first order, stopping travel | :03:40. | :03:41. | |
from seven mainly-Muslim countries, Our Washington correspondent | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
David Willis has more. After a federal appeals court backed | :03:44. | :03:58. | |
a stay of his executive order, Donald Trump vowed he would see his | :03:59. | :04:04. | |
opponents in court. With the Supreme Court currently split along | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
ideological lines, pending the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch, taking | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
the matter to the highest court in the land would be a protracted | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
process that might prove unsuccessful. Speaking en route to | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
his weekend retreat in Florida, the president revealed he was waiting | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
other alternatives. We will win the battle, but we also have a lot of | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
other options, including filing a brand-new order. I like to keep you, | :04:30. | :04:39. | |
I'd like to surprise you. It is for reasons of security. It could well | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
be that we do. Unveiled at the end of a frantic first week in office, | :04:44. | :04:47. | |
the original order suspended America's refugee programme and | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
banned travellers from seven majority Muslim nations from | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
entering the US. It caused chaos at airports and sparked protest across | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
the country. Just how the White House might rewrite the order is not | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
clear. Lawyers almost certainly have to address the claim that in its | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
existing form, the order is unconstitutional and blocks entry to | :05:10. | :05:14. | |
the United States on the grounds of religion. Mr Trump has continued to | :05:15. | :05:22. | |
insist that tough immigration policies are essential for the | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
country's security. The funding of parks has reached | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
a tipping point and new ways of paying for them may | :05:28. | :05:30. | |
have to be found. That's according to | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
the Commons Communities and Local Government Committee | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
which says parks are suffering It warns there's a danger | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
of a return to the neglect Instead of regarding parks as only a | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
sort of leisure and recreation area of service, we should be thinking | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
about them as big contributors to public health and environmental | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
policy, and community cohesion. And maybe they can be re- prioritise. | :06:00. | :06:03. | |
There is fundamentally a problem about the number of cuts that local | :06:04. | :06:07. | |
authorities have been experiencing and the distribution across the | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
country, and the difficult decisions that most local authorities are | :06:12. | :06:12. | |
having to make. Labour has issued formal warnings | :06:13. | :06:13. | |
to members of its front-bench team who disobeyed Jeremy Corbyn's order | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
to vote for Brexit. Among those who ignored Mr Corbyn | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
were eleven shadow junior ministers A 16-year-old boy has died | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
after he was stabbed in a busy The wounded teenager was taken | :06:26. | :06:31. | |
from the Harehills area to hospital for treatment, but died | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
a short time later. A 15-year-old boy has been arrested | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
on suspicion of murder. The decision to end a scheme to let | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
unaccompanied refugee children into the UK is shameful according | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
to the Scottish First Minister She's urged the Prime Minister | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
to change her mind saying there is a moral duty | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
to help those in need. The scheme's due to end in March | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
with 350 children being admitted far fewer than some campaigners | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
had hoped for. Some distressing pictures | :07:02. | :07:09. | |
from New Zealand where volunteers are trying to save around 100 whales | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
that have become trapped Hundreds more have already died | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
in one of the biggest ever mass It's hoped the pilot whales may be | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
able to swim to safety As they wait for high tide, | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
volunteers do everything they can to cool the whales, pouring water | :07:24. | :07:33. | |
and covering them with cloth to help regulate body temperature - | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
temporary measures until the whales Some hope that singing | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
will prove soothing. And then, the sound | :07:40. | :07:47. | |
of success, but it is early We had a group of volunteers | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
camped out over night. We had a little bit | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
of time where the whales But very quickly, this | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
tide has come racing in, and we are all up to our knees, | :08:00. | :08:03. | |
some up to their waists in water, and we are seeing some | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
floating happening. We are assisting them | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
with their breathing until the water gets deep enough | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
for them to swim out. It is a devastating | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
image, one of the worst whale strandings in | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
the country's history. It is unclear what brings them en | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
masse into Farewell Spit. One theory is that when a whale | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
is distressed, it sends out a signal Once they are on the beach, | :08:27. | :08:29. | |
it is hard to get them both They try to use the rising waters | :08:30. | :08:39. | |
to guide them into the sea, but some swam straight back | :08:40. | :08:53. | |
to the beach and most were stranded Today, volunteers are hopeful | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
that the whales will make it out A 30-foot hole has appeared | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
in a section of the tallest dam Large amounts of water can | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
be seen spilling out at the Lake Oroville Dam | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
in Northern California. Officials say there's no immediate | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
threat that it will fail. Water levels in the reservoir had | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
risen due to heavy rain and snow. A dramatic crash has been caught | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
on camera in County Armagh CCTV footage shows the moment | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
a slurry tank crashes through the garden wall | :09:25. | :09:30. | |
of a house in Glenavy. The homeowner, who was in | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
the property at the time, said he was just glad | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
no-one had been hurt. Let's take a look | :09:39. | :09:57. | |
at this morning's papers. Shall I start us off? The Guardian | :09:58. | :10:05. | |
this morning, a story about Boris Johnson. Pressing Liam Fox to | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
continue exporting weapons to Saudi Arabia after the bombing of a | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
funeral in Yemen last October which killed 140 people and was condemned | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
by UN monitors. The front page includes some famous faces at the | :10:23. | :10:31. | |
Calvin Klein show. Emily Blunt, ahead of the BAFTA is happening | :10:32. | :10:38. | |
tomorrow. And their top story, they can use. Tim Cook, one of the bosses | :10:39. | :10:47. | |
of Apple, calling on governments to launch a campaign to fight the | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
scourge of fake news which he says is killing people 's minds -- | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
BAFTA's. The Times has a picture of a steward from the HMS mercy, it was | :10:58. | :11:10. | |
a 13 month mission tackling people smuggling and drug smuggling. The | :11:11. | :11:15. | |
Times is also saying that standing. As are ripping off cash-strapped | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
hospitals by demanding fees of up to ?4000 per day. The Daily Mail, we | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
will be talking about this led this morning as well. It is the end of | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
the Iraqi historic allegations team, that has been called off. One of the | :11:36. | :11:42. | |
human rights lawyers who was struck off over his tack Dicks, you can see | :11:43. | :11:51. | |
the headline, at last an end to the witch-hunt -- tactics. We will also | :11:52. | :11:57. | |
be speaking to the government about what happened. Coming up to 12 | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
minutes past six, you're watching Breakfast from BBC News. The top | :12:04. | :12:04. | |
stories: Schoolchildren in England | :12:05. | :12:08. | |
are going to be offered It's hoped that more than five | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
thousand teenagers will spend up to four hours a week on the subject, | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
over the next five years. President Trump is said to be | :12:15. | :12:22. | |
considering a new executive It follows reports he might not take | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
his case to reinstate his travel ban The team from Click will take a look | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
at the 500 year history of humanity's attempts to create | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
robots that resemble people. Here's Matt with a look | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
at this morning's weather. Good morning. We start the weekend | :12:41. | :12:51. | |
on a raw note, some snow around in places and into the afternoon. For | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
many, any snow that you do see will gradually turn back to rain. Do not | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
be fooled, it is very cold. A raw wind. This is a picture of how | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
things are shaping up at the moment. A mixture of rain and snow on the | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
chart. So in the hills of northern England and eastern Wales, also in | :13:12. | :13:16. | |
Suffolk and into south-east Kent and Surrey. Looking further north and | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
west, cold but frosty to start. The best of the brightness across the | :13:24. | :13:26. | |
northern Highlands of Scotland and across Northern Ireland. Sleet and | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
snow across Ireland and northern England. Snow on the hills and quite | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
a bit of snow at the moment across eastern Wales. Elsewhere, it is a | :13:37. | :13:44. | |
cold start. Rain and a slight wind across the south and east. Stronger | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
winds to the south-east. Closer to gale force later. The light colours | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
in the chart starting to diminish, snow retreating to the hills. | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
Temperatures will be up to between three and six degrees this | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
afternoon. But the layers on, because it will feel cold as you | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
head through the day. If you are lucky enough to have tickets for the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
England- Wales match, you will definitely need to pack something | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
warm. Through the day and tonight, Scotland and Northern Ireland | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
staying dry. The best chance of some frost overnight. Any cloud breaks | :14:21. | :14:25. | |
could turn a touch I see. Rain, sleet and hillslope will take us | :14:26. | :14:30. | |
into Sunday morning. Sunday will be in other predominantly cloudy day | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
for England and Wales. Patchy rain, sleet and snow. Rain for many, | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
staying fairly grey. Many places will stay dry. The best and | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
brightest skies will be to the north. With wind tomorrow, feeling | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
that bit colder. If you aren't enjoying the chill, bear with it. It | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
does look like things will turn left cold into next week. As a little bit | :14:53. | :14:58. | |
of sunshine comes out and temperatures get into double figures | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
next Tuesday and Wednesday, it will feel quite a bit better. Quite a | :15:04. | :15:09. | |
jump in the figures, three degrees to 10 degrees. You will really | :15:10. | :15:10. | |
notice that jump as well. A team of volunteers have been | :15:11. | :15:12. | |
attempting to refloat 100 pilot whales stranded on a | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
New Zealand beach. They were the lucky few that | :15:18. | :15:19. | |
survived after more than 400 were found beached on Farewell Spit | :15:20. | :15:30. | |
on the South Island. We can get the latest | :15:31. | :15:33. | |
now from Andrew Lamason of the Department of Conservation, | :15:34. | :15:36. | |
who has been leading the efforts. We must warn you of some distressing | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
pictures during this interview. Good morning to you in New Zealand. | :15:40. | :15:47. | |
It is early evening there. Bring us up to date if you would, Andrew, as | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
to what is happening and what the situation is now. You're right, it's | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
early evening now and we have asked all our volunteers to leave the | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
beach and they are coming off as the tide comes in. You're right, we have | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
worked hard and got the 100 whales off that survived overnight and we | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
lost some of them, but the bad part of the story is a separate pod of | :16:13. | :16:22. | |
240 whales are stranded, we've been fighting to keep those ones happy | :16:23. | :16:27. | |
but it's pretty grim out here. Overnight you said that many of the | :16:28. | :16:32. | |
whales had died, they just didn't survive? No, that's not the case. | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
Overnight most of them survived but what happens is those ones got | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
refloated we believe successfully and while that happened, another pod | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
of 240 pilot whales came in and are stranded further south from where we | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
were initially doing our work. People have been trying to care for | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
them all afternoon and now we are pulling people of the beach because | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
it's getting dangerous. You say the tide is coming in, is this a time | :17:01. | :17:05. | |
where they may be able to work themselves free again? That's | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
possible. It's not something that usually happens. We could have kept | :17:10. | :17:15. | |
people out there a bit longer but we've had a few people getting | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
hypothermia and we've got large schools of stingrays coming in | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
around the volunteers, so it's too dangerous to leave people out there. | :17:23. | :17:28. | |
There's a lot of speculation about why it is that more of the whales | :17:29. | :17:33. | |
are there than usual and this is the biggest stranding there's been in | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
living memory in New Zealand. Are you clear about why so many are | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
there at this particular time? There's always a lot of marine | :17:41. | :17:47. | |
animal activity around this area and there are a lot of these pilot | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
whales in the Southern Ocean. These ones, Golden Bay is a classic | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
stranding spot. A beautiful location but if you're a whale it is lethal. | :17:58. | :18:04. | |
A big sweep of sea that curves around. The water is very shallow | :18:05. | :18:10. | |
for a long way. As the whales come in, they get disorientated and | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
trapped and it's all downhill from there. Looking ahead now, Andrew, | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
it's going to be dark in a few hours time, you said the tide is coming | :18:20. | :18:24. | |
in, what are your hopes for the next 12 hours or so? My hope for the next | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
few hours is that all the people we have taken off the beach and manage | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
to get somewhere warm and have a good meal and prepare themselves for | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
another big push tomorrow morning. Like I said, it's way too risky to | :18:37. | :18:42. | |
have anything going on now. We are trying to keep everyone refreshed | :18:43. | :18:45. | |
and ready to go again for another push in the morning to work with | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
whatever whales we have to work with. Andrew, thanks for your time. | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
Andrew Lamason from the Department of Conservation, looking after the | :18:54. | :18:59. | |
volunteers and the whales involved in the effort to try and free them | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
and we will keep you up to date with that as things develop. | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
We'll be back with a summary of the news at 6:30am. | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
Now it's time for the Film Review with Mark Kermode and Jane Hill. | :19:11. | :19:21. | |
Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. | :19:22. | :19:27. | |
To take us through this week's cinema releases is Mark Kermode. | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
We have the 20th Century Women, a new film starring Annette Bening. | :19:34. | :19:39. | |
We have the Lego Batman movie, which does what it says on the tin. | :19:40. | :19:45. | |
And Fences, a major awards contender. | :19:46. | :19:52. | |
Let's start with 20th Century Women from Mike Mills. | :19:53. | :20:07. | |
It is an interesting film, set in California at the end | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
Young boy facing an uncertain adulthood, surrounded by strong | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
women of different ages, who both inspire and also confound, | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
brilliantly played by Annette Bening. | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
Stop. What? | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
Thinking that you know everything that's going on. | :20:26. | :20:27. | |
No, I just think that, you know, having your heart broken | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
is a tremendous way to learn about the world. | :20:31. | :20:42. | |
OK. Do you think you're happy? | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
..As happy as you thought you'd be when you were my age? | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
You don't ask people questions like that. | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
Wondering if you're happy is a great short cut to just being depressed. | :20:55. | :21:17. | |
It has terrific performances, partly because they had time | :21:18. | :21:28. | |
to rehearse and get to know the characters. | :21:29. | :21:30. | |
These are characters you want to spend time | :21:31. | :21:32. | |
We want to know about their lives and how they work out. | :21:33. | :21:39. | |
The film has texture, you feel like at any point | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
the camera could go out of the car, out of the house and into the street | :21:44. | :21:48. | |
and the world would be complete around it. | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
It evokes a world that is in many ways lost. | :21:51. | :21:53. | |
It's back to time that now seems so distant, | :21:54. | :21:55. | |
but the issues it deals with feel contemporary. | :21:56. | :21:57. | |
It is not plot driven, it is to do with moments, | :21:58. | :22:00. | |
The narrative flips back and forward to some extent. | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
When I first started watching it, I knew nothing of what to expect, | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
I was drawn into their world and their characters. | :22:12. | :22:17. | |
I loved it, I can't wait to see it again, you will love it. | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
Will it be disparagingly called a women's film? | :22:22. | :22:23. | |
It used to be a term that was used for popular movies. | :22:24. | :22:33. | |
Because females were the majority of the audiences. | :22:34. | :22:35. | |
What they meant was something would be successful and a blockbuster. | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
Anybody could see 20th-Century Women and get something out of it, | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
Same is true of the Lego Batman movie. | :22:46. | :22:50. | |
Which is such a surprise. Did you see the Lego movie? It was really | :22:51. | :22:56. | |
great. It sounded like a stupid idea but it | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
turned out to be very All age groups, I am in my 50s | :22:59. | :23:04. | |
and I laughed all the way through. It is about Lego Batman, | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
a narcissist, and he has to learn to have relationships with people, | :23:11. | :23:16. | |
with Robin, his butler, and The Joker, who is desperate | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
for him to admit he is a special villan and they have | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
a special relationship. And what is great, | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
the visuals are terrific, I kept wanting to hold the frame and | :23:27. | :23:36. | |
say stop, there are so many jokes in this one frame, they're going by too | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
fast, I can't keep up with the speed of these jokes. It is smart, it is | :23:41. | :23:47. | |
cine literate. It is great for all | :23:48. | :23:49. | |
ages, it is funny. Loads of exciting stuff | :23:50. | :23:51. | |
happening on the screen. There are jokes about the '60s | :23:52. | :23:53. | |
Batman and the Christopher Nolan You need to see The Lego Movie, | :23:54. | :23:56. | |
because that is terrific The Lego Batman movie is tiptop | :23:57. | :24:02. | |
stuff and doesn't let the side down. I am already feeling | :24:03. | :24:14. | |
overwhelmed by those two. I haven't seen the film and now | :24:15. | :24:16. | |
I feel I want to see the play. I have seen the film and now I want | :24:17. | :24:21. | |
to see the play. Denzel Washington stars | :24:22. | :24:28. | |
in and directs it. He works in the sanitation | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
department. He brings home his frustrations | :24:33. | :24:39. | |
from his work, from his life. They all come out in | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
the home encounters. The film has got four Oscar | :24:43. | :24:44. | |
nominations including Best Supporting Actress | :24:45. | :24:46. | |
and here's why. You're not listening to me, | :24:47. | :24:48. | |
I'm trying to explain it It's not easy for me to admit I've | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
been standing in the same place Well, I've been standing with you! | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
I've been right here with you, Troy. I've given 18 years of my life | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
to standing in the same spot as you. Don't you think I've ever | :25:04. | :25:13. | |
wanted other things? Don't you think I had | :25:14. | :25:15. | |
dreams and hopes? That scene is so powerful in the | :25:16. | :25:31. | |
play. The only problem is the film feels very stagey. | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
There are plays that have been adapted for the screen | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
This feels like something that has taken the stage play and filmed it. | :25:39. | :25:42. | |
There are slight differences, but it never felt like | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
It felt like great writing, relevant issues. | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
Terrific committed performances that you could absolutely get behind. | :25:49. | :25:50. | |
But it didn't take flight as a piece of film-making. | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
That is a problem because if you take a stage play away | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
from the stage and put it somewhere else, you have to do | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
You really feel you wish you were seeing it live on stage, | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
particularly with the larger speeches. | :26:05. | :26:05. | |
It felt like a theatrical production as opposed | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
The screenplay was written by August Wilson before he died, | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
It is different writing for the screen and it is a craft? | :26:14. | :26:24. | |
It is different directing that work for the screen. | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
The classic screen adaptation of plays, they understand | :26:28. | :26:29. | |
This is clearly a huge reverence from the stage play, | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
I just don't think it is as cinematic as it needs to be. | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
Despite the fact it is great writing, solid performances | :26:43. | :26:44. | |
and great individual moments, but as a piece of cinema | :26:45. | :26:47. | |
Coming up to the Baftas on Sunday, it is something that might win | :26:48. | :26:57. | |
awards for the acting rather than anything else. | :26:58. | :26:58. | |
My feeling is that is where its heart resides, | :26:59. | :27:01. | |
The best thing out in the cinema at the moment is Toni Erdman. | :27:02. | :27:10. | |
It is terrific, it sounds so unlikely, a three-hour | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
a standout performance about father, daughter estrangement. | :27:16. | :27:26. | |
A father turns up at his daughter's place of work pretending to be | :27:27. | :27:29. | |
a life coach, and she cannot get rid of him. | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
It is really edgy and really funny and really painful and really | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
poignant. It is about to be remade | :27:36. | :27:36. | |
starring Jack Nicholson. It is perfect as it is, | :27:37. | :27:38. | |
it doesn't need remaking, I have seen the trailer and | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
the trailer itself is interminable. I am somebody who believes | :27:44. | :27:51. | |
in cutting to the bone, less is more, but in the case | :27:52. | :28:00. | |
of Toni Erdman, I would not I know loads of people who have seen | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
the trailer and not been put off it. It is a story about a young doctor | :28:05. | :28:30. | |
who fails to open the door to a potential patient who is then found | :28:31. | :28:31. | |
dead. No one knows who he was. He has a crisis of conscience | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
and tries to find out who she is. It was a film, when it | :28:36. | :28:39. | |
was in the cinema, that The best thing about DVDs, | :28:40. | :28:42. | |
you can reassess things It is a better film than critics | :28:43. | :28:51. | |
gave it credit for first-time around. | :28:52. | :28:51. | |
It is a thriller, but it has a humanist heart | :28:52. | :28:53. | |
I don't know it, so that is a good recommendation. | :28:54. | :28:58. | |
Thank you. A quick reminder should you need it. | :28:59. | :29:09. | |
and reviews from across the BBC online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. | :29:10. | :29:13. | |
And you can catch up with our previous programmes | :29:14. | :29:15. | |
And we mentioned the Baftas, let's find out who wins | :29:16. | :29:19. | |
Full coverage from BBC News on the red carpet. | :29:20. | :29:26. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :29:27. | :30:17. | |
Coming up before 7:00, Matt will have the weather for you. | :30:18. | :30:32. | |
But first, a summary of this morning's main news. | :30:33. | :30:35. | |
Schoolchildren are to be offered lessons in cyber-security | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
to encourage more younger people to pursue a career in defending | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
It's hoped that thousands of teenagers in England will spend | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
up to four hours a week on the subject, over | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
Here's our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds. | :30:48. | :30:49. | |
Daniel Kelly is a convicted teenage hacker facing a jail sentence. | :30:50. | :30:55. | |
In 2015, he took part in a massive digital break-in of TalkTalk. | :30:56. | :31:00. | |
What if his potential had been harnessed at an earlier age? | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
He may have ended up joining a new breed of apprentices learning | :31:04. | :31:14. | |
the cyber security trade, like these at BT's headquarters. | :31:15. | :31:16. | |
With that in mind, the government is putting up ?20 million for nearly | :31:17. | :31:20. | |
6000 schoolchildren aged 14 and over to take four hours of cyber security | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
We think that will help seriously with the shortage of cyber skills | :31:24. | :31:28. | |
We will always keep it under review, in case this needs to get bigger. | :31:29. | :31:34. | |
But getting it going at that scale shows serious ambition to make sure | :31:35. | :31:48. | |
that we can have the pipeline of talent we are going to need | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
Police are stepping up the fight, but this is not a threat that can be | :31:53. | :31:57. | |
defeated on the ground by raiding the hackers. | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
The cyber-crime battlefield will be online, and Britain's GCHQ will be | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
58,000 people are employed in the anti-hacking industry. | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
More will be needed, and the government knows it has | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
to start finding them when they're young. | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
And after 7:00, we'll be joined by Brian Lord, | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
who spent over 20 years as a Deputy Director | :32:15. | :32:16. | |
Donald Trump has said he may rewrite the presidential order imposing | :32:17. | :32:29. | |
in a bid overcome legal obstacles which have | :32:30. | :32:33. | |
The President unveiled the ban at the end of his first week | :32:34. | :32:37. | |
in office, barring entry to travellers from seven | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
Earlier this week, an appeals court upheld the suspension | :32:41. | :32:42. | |
The case may now proceed to the Supreme Court. | :32:43. | :32:46. | |
The funding of parks has reached a tipping point and new ways | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
of paying for them may have to be found. | :32:52. | :32:53. | |
That's according to the Commons Communities | :32:54. | :32:55. | |
and Local Government Committee, which says parks are suffering | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
It warns there's a danger of a return to the neglect | :32:59. | :33:04. | |
Instead of regarding parks as only a sort of leisure and recreation | :33:05. | :33:08. | |
area of service, we should be thinking about them as big | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
contributors to public health and environmental policy | :33:14. | :33:15. | |
And maybe they can be re-prioritised. | :33:16. | :33:20. | |
There is fundamentally a problem about the number of cuts that local | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
authorities have been experiencing and the distribution | :33:25. | :33:29. | |
across the country, and the difficult decisions | :33:30. | :33:37. | |
that most local authorities are having to make. | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
Labour has issued formal warnings to members of its front-bench team | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
who disobeyed Jeremy Corbyn's order to vote for Brexit. | :33:45. | :33:46. | |
Among those who ignored Mr Corbyn were 11 shadow junior ministers | :33:47. | :33:51. | |
A 16-year-old boy has died after he was stabbed in a busy | :33:52. | :33:56. | |
street in Leeds. The wounded teenager was taken from | :33:57. | :33:58. | |
the Harehills area to hospital for treatment, but died | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder. | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
A team of volunteers are trying to save around 100 whales that have | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
become trapped on a beach in New Zealand. | :34:09. | :34:11. | |
A warning, you may find some of these pictures distressing. | :34:12. | :34:13. | |
Hundreds more have already died in one of the biggest ever mass | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
We worked hard and got a 100 Wales of the survived overnight. We have | :34:18. | :34:36. | |
lost sight of them, but the remaining pot of 240 Wales have come | :34:37. | :34:42. | |
and re- stranded just to the south of that. We are fighting to keep | :34:43. | :34:46. | |
them happy, but it is pretty grim out here. The tide is now coming in, | :34:47. | :34:54. | |
we will keep an eye on that story for you. | :34:55. | :35:02. | |
The roof will be open for this one, and history tells us that favours | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
They've won 4 of the 5 matches played with the roof open | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
Wales wanted it shut, to intensify the atmosphere. | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
Nevertheless, it's still sure to be a spine-tingler, | :35:14. | :35:15. | |
in the Principality stadium, with both teams winning | :35:16. | :35:17. | |
their opening games, and both camps have been telling us, | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
Lots of people named Jones. It is quite amazing. | :35:21. | :35:43. | |
We've played a bit of Tom Jones, he is from my era. They weren't too | :35:44. | :35:52. | |
happy about hearing Delilah in the gym, they are not too familiar with | :35:53. | :35:58. | |
that hit. In all seriousness, we have looked at the fact is that we | :35:59. | :36:02. | |
can control and that's all we can do. | :36:03. | :36:09. | |
Slamming the doors, the doorway gets a bit small. We have got them be | :36:10. | :36:19. | |
5000 fans -- we have got 75,000 fans. We are renowned unfortunate | :36:20. | :36:26. | |
Place, hopefully we can put some smiles on faces -- place. | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
Ireland will be hoping to bounce back from their surprise defeat | :36:32. | :36:34. | |
They face Italy in Rome in the early game, while Scotland are in Paris | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
Away from the Six Nations and history was made | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
in the Premiership last night, as Bristol's Tom Varndell, | :36:45. | :36:47. | |
became the league's all-time, top try scorer. | :36:48. | :36:49. | |
The division's bottom side were thrashed by Harlequins, | :36:50. | :36:51. | |
but Varndell scored his 91st Premiership try, to take him | :36:52. | :36:53. | |
A last gasp penalty from, Rhys Priestland, gave third place | :36:54. | :37:02. | |
Bath, a one point victory over Northampton. | :37:03. | :37:03. | |
Elsewhere Sale Sharks beat Newcastle. | :37:04. | :37:16. | |
Scarlets moved into the top four, of the Pro 12, after an important | :37:17. | :37:19. | |
Tom Williams scored one of their two tries. | :37:20. | :37:22. | |
The top two of Munster, and Ospreys, both won, | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
There's confusion over the future of the Rangers manager | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
Rangers said in a statement that he had resigned | :37:29. | :37:32. | |
from his position but Warburton says he wasn't aware of that | :37:33. | :37:35. | |
Rangers are third in the Scottish Premiership but 27 | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
Under-20 coach Graeme Murty is set to lead the side in topmorrow's | :37:40. | :37:43. | |
Scottish Cup tie with Greenock Morton. | :37:44. | :38:01. | |
The early kick off in the Premier League is at the Emirates | :38:02. | :38:04. | |
where Arsenal take on a rejuvenated Hull City side. | :38:05. | :38:06. | |
Arsenal are currently in fourth but have lost their last two | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
matches, which has led to renewed speculation over manager | :38:10. | :38:12. | |
Former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright thinks this will be | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
I was with the boss last night, and to be totally honest, I got the | :38:16. | :38:24. | |
impression that that's it. I genuinely believe, I was with him | :38:25. | :38:31. | |
for a few hours, I just get the impression looking at him that... | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
That's it. I think that's it. It actually mentioned when we were | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
talking that it's coming to the end. I've never heard him say that. | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
In the rest of the days matches, Manchester United take on Watford, | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
Middlesbrough face Everton, Crystal Palace are at Stoke. | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
At the Stadium of Light Sunderland play Southampton whilst West Ham | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
And there's a big one in the late kick off with second place | :38:51. | :39:00. | |
Sheffield Wednesday are still on course to reach the at least | :39:01. | :39:14. | |
the play offs in the Championship after a 3-nil win over | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
Birmingham City. Their opening goal was scored by new signing | :39:18. | :39:20. | |
Jordan Rhodes after just nine minutes of his home debut. | :39:21. | :39:23. | |
Great Britain will play Croatia later in a promotion play-off | :39:24. | :39:25. | |
That's the equivalent of the Davis Cup in women's | :39:26. | :39:29. | |
The British team won all three of their group games. | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
In their latest tie against Turkey a singles victory for Johanna Konta | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
put Great Britain on their way to a 3-0 win. | :39:36. | :39:38. | |
Tiger Woods has withdrawn from the next two events on the PGA | :39:39. | :39:41. | |
The 14 time major winner pulled out of this month's Dubai Desert Classic | :39:42. | :39:46. | |
before the second round with the injury. | :39:47. | :39:48. | |
He only returned to action in December after two back | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
For years now, Snowdonia in North Wales has been establishing | :39:52. | :39:57. | |
itself as a centre for extreme adventure sports, with Europe's | :39:58. | :40:00. | |
longest and fastest zipwire - and a unique surfing lake. | :40:01. | :40:03. | |
Now, former slate mines have been brought back to life, | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
to add a huge adrenalin rush to history lessons. | :40:07. | :40:08. | |
I joined a school party in one of the vast caverns | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
Beneath this sci-fi landscape, there is an industrial world waiting to be | :40:12. | :40:25. | |
discovered again. A labyrinth of over 300 tunnels and caverns, 24 | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
stories deep. Former slate mines, now to be explored using climbing | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
skills and declines, giving you an insight into the life of a minor. | :40:37. | :40:45. | |
This is a horrible dream! All that supports you are staples humbled | :40:46. | :40:50. | |
into the rock. You are say thank you to a harness. But your mind | :40:51. | :41:05. | |
paralysed as you with fear -- miner. What is so incredible is when you | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
look down and around, this is where people work. Some working here were | :41:10. | :41:19. | |
as young as six years old. I learned about what the miners had to do. We | :41:20. | :41:26. | |
have a great safety system now, but they just had chains around their | :41:27. | :41:31. | |
legs. It is crazy to think they did that for 12 hours a day. She -- this | :41:32. | :41:41. | |
man worked in the mines, but is now a safety inspector. You have to | :41:42. | :41:48. | |
bring people in. There is a side, we are very proud of the culture, we | :41:49. | :41:57. | |
have embraced that culture. After the training, it's up to you to get | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
around the three-hour long course. You cold your fears in the head, and | :42:04. | :42:09. | |
then it starts to get a bit more enjoyable -- you conquer. You learn | :42:10. | :42:16. | |
more about yourself going around there than you can looking at your | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
iPhone. The school pupils took it all in their stride. Having seen one | :42:21. | :42:27. | |
might fall of the monkey bars 200 feet up... It was really scary. I | :42:28. | :42:34. | |
thought I was just going to fall. I gave this is, taking a different | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
route to the final challenge. I don't want to look down. This is the | :42:38. | :43:03. | |
stairway to heaven. They saved the steepest zip wire to last. | :43:04. | :43:08. | |
I felt like I was in a different dimension, everyone else didn't seem | :43:09. | :43:15. | |
scared at all. I was absolutely terrified. I think maybe as you get | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
older... The stairway thing, you have a cable thing to hold on to an | :43:21. | :43:30. | |
end... 200 feet of nothing. You are on these little staples, that is all | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
you are treading on. It's your mind, isn't it? Wants UK net, it is a | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
great feeling. 20 of opportunities to get involved. -- plenty of | :43:41. | :43:52. | |
opportunities -- once you get it. Very good. We will see you later on. | :43:53. | :43:58. | |
The main stories this morning: Schoolchildren in England | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
are going to be offered It's hoped that more than five | :44:03. | :44:04. | |
thousand teenagers will spend up to four hours a week on the subject, | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
over the next five years. President Trump is said to be | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
considering a new executive It follows reports he might not take | :44:13. | :44:14. | |
his case to reinstate his travel ban Three cyclists have been killed | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
on London's roads over We'll be in Trafalgar Square | :44:20. | :44:32. | |
where campaigners are calling on ministers to make | :44:33. | :44:35. | |
cycling safer. Here's Matt with a look | :44:36. | :44:40. | |
at this morning's weather. What's with all the snow, Matt? It's | :44:41. | :44:46. | |
cold out there, Charlie and Steph. Cold and wintry for some this | :44:47. | :44:58. | |
morning. Not a great morning for emerging from under the duvet but as | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
temperatures rise, a lot of the snow will turn back to rain with not much | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
disruption around. A slight covering here and over the hills. To show you | :45:08. | :45:12. | |
where it's been over the last few hours, parts of eastern Scotland and | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
the Pennines and eastern parts of Wales. The odd flurry elsewhere in | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
England and Wales and especially to the south and east. Not cloudy and | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
raining and snowing everywhere because western Scotland and | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
Northern Ireland have sunshine this morning but a frost sees | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
temperatures down to -10 in parts of the Highlands. Eastern Scotland | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
above freezing just about but rain on the coast, a bit of sleet and | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
snow inland, the same in northern England and to eastern parts of | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
Wales, mainly light snow falling at the moment. Some in the south-west | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
and Wales will see some sunshine but for most in England and Wales, a | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
great start, some snow possible in Kent, Sussex and Southwark. A lot of | :45:51. | :45:57. | |
places that sees no first thing will get rain and drizzle later in the | :45:58. | :46:03. | |
day -- Suffolk. The best of the dry and sunny weather west of Scotland, | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
Northern Ireland but even though temperatures are up on yesterday, | :46:07. | :46:10. | |
the wind will make it feel colder so bear that in mind if you're going to | :46:11. | :46:14. | |
the Six Nations match in Wales later. Quite a bit of cloud coming | :46:15. | :46:19. | |
your way and it will feel cold in the wind. That wind gets even | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
stronger through tonight, near gale force wind parts of eastern England. | :46:24. | :46:27. | |
Were further rain, drizzle, Hill sleet and snow. Some breaks in the | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
cloud and in Northern Ireland and Scotland we will have temperatures | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
close to freezing on Sunday morning but even colder tomorrow, the wind | :46:38. | :46:41. | |
stronger for England and Wales, lots of cloud around, rain and drizzle, | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
sleet and snow in the hills are especially in northern England. A | :46:46. | :46:49. | |
few breaks possible in the south and in Northern Ireland and Scotland we | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
will continue to see the driest and brightest whether. Still feeling | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
cold wherever you are. If it is too cold for you at the moment, stay | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
waiting because things turn warmer next week. 10 degrees, not exactly | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
tropical but when you hit double figures after this weekend, a bit of | :47:08. | :47:11. | |
sunshine, probably feeling a bit like spring. | :47:12. | :47:13. | |
We'll be back with the headlines at 7am. | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
Few things say the future better than robots. | :47:18. | :47:48. | |
We seem to be in an era of massive advances at the moment. | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
This week, a leaked video from Boston Dynamics shows | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
off its latest machine, called Handle, something its founder | :47:57. | :47:59. | |
Rolling on with the wheel theme, Piaggio, known for its Vespa | :48:00. | :48:10. | |
motorcycles, has revealed a new robot servant called Gita. | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
This robo-suitcase follows its owner's every move, | :48:16. | :48:18. | |
using cameras in its body and in the user's belt. | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
But sometimes it's good to look at where we've come from. | :48:22. | :48:34. | |
The robots exhibition at the London science musician is an attempt to | :48:35. | :48:43. | |
resemble behaviours. There are more than 100 robots here, including some | :48:44. | :48:45. | |
old friends that we've met before. There are more than 100 robots here, | :48:46. | :48:58. | |
including some old friends that And this amazing swan, | :48:59. | :49:01. | |
made from silver, is all the more incredible because it was made over | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
200 years ago, in 1773. It was these mechanical marvels that | :49:06. | :49:21. | |
made the Industrial Revolution possible, mobilising hundreds | :49:22. | :49:23. | |
of workers to be at the same place at the same time, enabling | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
goods to be transported, trains to run accurately, | :49:27. | :49:28. | |
and allowing industry to become The Industrial Revolution was also | :49:29. | :49:31. | |
the catalyst for massive social change across the world, | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
bringing about the rise of the working class, and sparking | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
ideas like capitalism and Marxism. Now, in the West, Cuba found itself | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
at the epicentre of this shift. It was the poster child | :49:41. | :49:43. | |
for communism in the West, right in the back garden of the US, | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
the heart of capitalism. Richard Taylor has been to Cuba | :49:47. | :49:49. | |
to see how the island is now moving The iconic images are | :49:50. | :49:53. | |
strikingly familiar. Cuba today still feels | :49:54. | :50:02. | |
in some ways otherworldly, Life for most of its 11 | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
million citizens is simple. They've been living in | :50:08. | :50:16. | |
a state-enforced digital wilderness. A decade ago, you needed | :50:17. | :50:18. | |
a permit just to buy a PC. Today, if you're lucky enough | :50:19. | :50:21. | |
to own a smartphone, There's no mobile data, | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
so Cuban apps are designed to work Until recently, even basic internet | :50:25. | :50:33. | |
access could only be found at desktop computers inside state | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
communication centres. Long queues persist but now people | :50:39. | :50:40. | |
are coming to buy internet scratchcards which can finally get | :50:41. | :50:43. | |
them online elsewhere. In this Havana park, | :50:44. | :50:49. | |
small gatherings of Cubans But getting online is | :50:50. | :50:51. | |
slow, unreliable and, Luis Rondon Paz is a self-proclaimed | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
hack-tivist, and as a former government IT administrator, | :50:57. | :51:03. | |
knows the system well. Everything in Cuba is restricted, | :51:04. | :51:08. | |
filtered, as the rest of the world. Basically, they censor | :51:09. | :51:11. | |
everything that might It might be porn, gay, | :51:12. | :51:13. | |
or political things. But the biggest barrier | :51:14. | :51:20. | |
for locals - the price. A single hour of full | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
web access costs $2, They don't have the time to see | :51:26. | :51:28. | |
what's the internet, The government says expanding | :51:29. | :51:40. | |
the internet is a priority and central Havana is now conducting | :51:41. | :51:42. | |
trials of in-home net access And it boasts of a growing number | :51:43. | :51:45. | |
of public wifi hotspots, too, around 300 in | :51:46. | :51:49. | |
total, and growing. Still, not exactly blanket coverage | :51:50. | :51:51. | |
for a country 700 miles wide. Cuba blames its ageing | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
communications network on the six-decade-old trade | :51:56. | :51:57. | |
embargo with the US. Critics say that's a convenient | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
excuse for a communist state that fears losing control | :52:02. | :52:04. | |
over information. Relations with America | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
are now at best uncertain In the aftermath of the President's | :52:09. | :52:10. | |
historic visit here two years ago, prospects for American companies | :52:11. | :52:20. | |
doing digital business Company boss Eric Schmidt inking | :52:21. | :52:22. | |
a deal in December that gives Cubans fast access to content from services | :52:23. | :52:30. | |
like YouTube and Gmail. The thing is, when you're running | :52:31. | :52:33. | |
an internet-based business, the last thing you want to do | :52:34. | :52:35. | |
is traipse across town So some Cubans who are fed up | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
with the government strategy on access have come up with their | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
own rather inventive solutions. The results are found | :52:43. | :52:45. | |
on rooftops in towns and cities across the nation in the form | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
of pole-mounted antennaes which are pointed towards the local | :52:49. | :52:52. | |
communications centre, giving them internet | :52:53. | :52:56. | |
access and even wifi. The practice isn't exactly legal | :52:57. | :52:59. | |
but as I discovered that minor detail doesn't deter Cubans | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
from getting their information fix. This is the paquete semanal, | :53:05. | :53:06. | |
literally the weekly packet. It refers to a highly organised | :53:07. | :53:09. | |
service in back streets and front rooms across the country, | :53:10. | :53:12. | |
giving locals content downloaded often only hours | :53:13. | :53:15. | |
earlier via satellite. There's pirated movies, | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
news shows, documentaries, It's hugely popular with customers | :53:20. | :53:22. | |
who can fill their USB drives with an entire terabyte, | :53:23. | :53:31. | |
hundreds of hours, for the price And the rise of the paquete | :53:32. | :53:33. | |
is the price the Cuban regime itself is paying, a reaction | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
to the state dogma of keeping Cuban authorities should be less | :53:39. | :53:41. | |
afraid of the free flow of information because the need | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
for information functions People need information and people | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
will get information, no matter if you are going | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
to provide it or not. There's a political need | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
to understand differently Progress is undoubtedly too | :54:00. | :54:01. | |
slow for many Cubans. But recent overtures do | :54:02. | :54:09. | |
at least give some people Ever wondered what cats get up | :54:10. | :54:11. | |
to when no one's there? Meet Roxy and Zara, who seemed | :54:12. | :54:32. | |
agreeable to taking part If you've ever wanted to watch, | :54:33. | :54:34. | |
talk to or even play with your cats when you're not with them, | :54:35. | :54:51. | |
then this could help. Once the device is connected | :54:52. | :54:53. | |
to your home wifi, you can login anywhere you can get | :54:54. | :54:56. | |
your phone online. There's a laser game to play, | :54:57. | :55:02. | |
snacks at the tap of an icon, and a function to proudly make | :55:03. | :55:06. | |
and share videos and cat snaps. This smart collar has been around | :55:07. | :55:20. | |
a little while now and is available It allows owners to keep | :55:21. | :55:24. | |
an eye on temperature, pulse, breathing rate, | :55:25. | :55:27. | |
heart rate variability and even the positions a pet is in, | :55:28. | :55:30. | |
so could be particularly beneficial if there are health concerns | :55:31. | :55:33. | |
or an injury to keep an eye on. Meanwhile, there seems to be a game | :55:34. | :55:36. | |
of cat and mouse going on here, the latter played by | :55:37. | :55:44. | |
a remote control rodent. Although it actually consists | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
of the mouse chasing the cat, which probably says it | :55:50. | :55:52. | |
all about my day's filming. That was Lara, and this is Maria, | :55:53. | :55:55. | |
the first blockbuster robot from the ground-breaking | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
1927 film Metropolis. The visual effects in that movie | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
were absolutely stunning, given that it is | :56:04. | :56:06. | |
actually 90 years old. Next, we're going to continue our | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
look at some of the visual effects behind the latest | :56:11. | :56:13. | |
blockbuster movies. We have Adam Valdes, | :56:14. | :56:24. | |
BAFTA and Oscar nominee, to tell us more about the visual | :56:25. | :56:26. | |
effects he used to bring back Every time you see the world | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
in Jungle Book, someone has fabricated plants, trees, | :56:31. | :56:38. | |
the dead twigs and dead leaves And it's only really | :56:39. | :56:41. | |
when the surround around Mowgli makes him feel | :56:42. | :56:57. | |
present within it that the magic that this is just a photograph, | :56:58. | :57:00. | |
that we went somewhere and shot it. So we take a shot like Mowgli saying | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
goodbye to his mother and we say, John really wants some sort | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
of physical contact. It needs to be an intimate moment, | :57:10. | :57:11. | |
their eyes need to be locked We can't have a feeling that he's | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
acting to a tennis ball, We really need to feel | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
the scene emotionally. We can locate the positions | :57:20. | :57:22. | |
of his hands, the puppet And we can track it really | :57:23. | :57:25. | |
carefully in three dimensions That way we make sure | :57:26. | :57:29. | |
the contact is correct, and then we simulate the fur | :57:30. | :57:32. | |
on the mother's neck. And we actually replace the better | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
part of his hand with the digital double of his hand, so that the CG | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
hand and the CG fur of the mother wolf are actually in | :57:42. | :57:47. | |
the computer together, and when we put our lighting on that | :57:48. | :57:53. | |
and create the final images, The magic trick is blending | :57:54. | :57:56. | |
the hand into his arm. The render power required | :57:57. | :58:11. | |
to generate a movie like this, I think it was 240 million renderer | :58:12. | :58:14. | |
hours, or something like that. Which means if it was one computer | :58:15. | :58:17. | |
it would have taken 3000 years, These individual frames | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
that you see can be 40, 50, 60 hours on a computer just | :58:22. | :58:24. | |
rendering one frame. I think we'll see more and more | :58:25. | :58:29. | |
imagery where we really start to not be able to tell the difference | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
between something that's That was Adam Valdes on the magic | :58:34. | :58:35. | |
behind the Jungle Book. That's it for the shortcut of Click | :58:36. | :58:51. | |
at Robots at the London science Museum. | :58:52. | :58:53. | |
I'll put a load of photos up on Twitter for you to browse | :58:54. | :59:01. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :59:02. | :00:36. | |
The latest weapon in the war against hackers, the government | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
funds lessons in cyber security for teenagers. | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
It's hoped they'll become the experts of the future | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
and protect Britain from online attacks. | :00:45. | :00:53. | |
Good morning, it's Saturday, 11th February. | :00:54. | :01:03. | |
Also ahead, President Trump says he may issue a new order authorising | :01:04. | :01:06. | |
a travel ban after his old one was blocked by the courts. | :01:07. | :01:10. | |
Parks under threat - a new report says funding has | :01:11. | :01:12. | |
reached a tipping point and new ways of paying for them need to be | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
The latest on the battle to save hundreds of whales stranded | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
And in sport, it's one of the biggest tests yet | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
It's a first trip to Cardiff, for their coach Eddie Jones, | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
and Wales are banking on home advantage to take them top of the 6 | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
And I am in Trafalgar Square where hundreds of cyclists are staging a | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
protest following the deaths of three cyclists on London's roads in | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
just one week. A cold feeling day for all of us | :01:49. | :01:58. | |
today, limited slow to begin. A coating in some places, but for | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
many, that snow will turn back to rain. | :02:03. | :02:03. | |
Schoolchildren are to be offered lessons in cyber-security | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
to encourage more younger people to pursue a career in defending | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
It's hoped that thousands of teenagers in England will spend | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
up to four hours a week on the subject, over | :02:15. | :02:17. | |
Here's our home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds. | :02:18. | :02:25. | |
Daniel Kelly is a convicted teenage hacker facing a jail sentence. | :02:26. | :02:28. | |
In 2015, he took part in a massive digital break-in of TalkTalk. | :02:29. | :02:33. | |
What if his potential had been harnessed at an earlier age? | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
He may have ended up joining a new breed of apprentices learning | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
the cyber security trade, like these at BT's headquarters. | :02:41. | :02:49. | |
With that in mind, the government is putting up ?20 million for nearly | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
6000 schoolchildren aged 14 and over to take four hours of cyber security | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
We think that will help seriously with the shortage of cyber skills | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
We will always keep it under review, in case this needs to get bigger. | :03:02. | :03:15. | |
But getting it going at that scale shows serious ambition to make sure | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
that we can have the pipeline of talent we are going to need | :03:20. | :03:22. | |
Police are stepping up the fight, but this is not a threat that can be | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
defeated on the ground by raiding the hackers. | :03:29. | :03:30. | |
The cyber-crime battlefield will be online, and Britain's GCHQ will be | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
58,000 people are employed in the anti-hacking industry. | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
More will be needed, and the government knows it has | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
to start finding them when they're young. | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
And in a few minutes we'll be joined by Brian Lord, | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
who spent over 20 years as a Deputy Director | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
Donald Trump has said he may rewrite the presidential order imposing | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
restrictions on travel to the US to overcome the legal obstacles that | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
have frustrated his efforts so far. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
His first order, stopping travel from seven mainly-Muslim countries, | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
Our Washington correspondent David Willis has more. | :04:05. | :04:11. | |
After a federal appeals court backed a stay of his executive order, | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
Donald Trump vowed he would see his opponents in court. | :04:17. | :04:25. | |
Speaking en route to his weekend retreat in Florida, the president | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
revealed he was weighing other alternatives. | :04:32. | :04:32. | |
We will win the battle, but we also have a lot of other | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
options, including filing a brand-new order. | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
I like to keep you, I'd like to surprise you. | :04:40. | :04:48. | |
We need speed for reasons of security. | :04:49. | :04:50. | |
Unveiled at the end of a frantic first week in office, | :04:51. | :04:54. | |
the original order suspended America's refugee programme | :04:55. | :04:56. | |
and banned travellers from seven majority Muslim nations | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
It caused chaos at airports and sparked protest | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
Just how the White House might rewrite the order is not | :05:04. | :05:08. | |
Lawyers would almost certainly have to address the claim that | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
in its existing form, the order is unconstitutional | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
in that it blocks entry to the United States | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
Mr Trump has continued to insist that tough immigration | :05:20. | :05:27. | |
measures are crucial for the country's security. | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
The funding of parks has reached a tipping point and new ways | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
of paying for them may have to be found. | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
That's according to the Commons Communities | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
and Local Government Committee which says parks are suffering | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
It warns there's a danger of a return to the neglect | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
Instead of regarding parks as only a sort of leisure and recreation | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
area of service, we should be thinking | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
about them as big contributors to public health and environmental | :05:55. | :05:57. | |
And maybe they can be re-prioritised. | :05:58. | :06:03. | |
There is fundamentally a problem about the number of cuts that local | :06:04. | :06:06. | |
authorities have been experiencing and the distribution | :06:07. | :06:11. | |
across the country, and the difficult decisions | :06:12. | :06:12. | |
that most local authorities are having to make. | :06:13. | :06:17. | |
Labour has issued formal warnings to members of its front-bench team | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
who disobeyed Jeremy Corbyn's order to vote for Brexit. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
Among those who ignored Mr Corbyn were 11 shadow junior ministers | :06:23. | :06:29. | |
A 16-year-old boy has died after he was stabbed in a busy | :06:30. | :06:35. | |
The wounded teenager was taken from the Harehills area to hospital | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
for treatment, but died a short time later. | :06:40. | :06:41. | |
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder. | :06:42. | :06:48. | |
The decision to end a scheme to let unaccompanied refugee children | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
into the UK is shameful according to the Scottish First Minister | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
She's urged the Prime Minister to change her mind, saying | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
there is a moral duty to help those in need. | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
The scheme's due to end in March with 350 children being admitted far | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
fewer than some campaigners had hoped for. | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
Some distressing pictures from New Zealand where volunteers | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
are trying to save around 100 whales that have become trapped | :07:17. | :07:19. | |
Hundreds more have already died in one of the biggest ever mass | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
It's hoped the pilot whales may be able to swim to safety | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Some of the imagines in this report are distressing. | :07:29. | :07:39. | |
As they wait for high tide, volunteers do everything they can | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
to cool the whales, pouring water and covering them with cloth to help | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
regulate body temperature - temporary measures until the whales | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
Some hope that singing will prove soothing. | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
And then, the sound of success, but it is early | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
We had a group of volunteers camped out over night. | :07:56. | :08:08. | |
We had a little bit of time where the whales | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
But very quickly, this tide has come racing | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
in, and we are all up to our knees, some up to their waists in water, | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
and we are seeing some floating happening. | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
We are assisting them with their breathing until the water | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
gets deep enough for them to swim out. | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
It is a devastating image, one of the worst | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
whale strandings in the country's history. | :08:29. | :08:29. | |
It is unclear what brings them en masse into Farewell Spit. | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
Some believe they may be sick or injured, or have simply lost their | :08:34. | :08:36. | |
way. One theory is that when a whale | :08:37. | :08:36. | |
is distressed, it sends out a signal Once they are on the beach, | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
it is hard to get them both We have lost sight of 100 that were | :08:41. | :08:51. | |
released overnight, but the sad part is that 240 Wales have re- stranded | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
themselves just south of that. We will be fighting to keep them happy, | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
but it is pretty grim out here. They try to use the rising waters | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
to guide them into the sea, but some swam straight back | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
to the beach and most were stranded With dangerous conditions on the | :09:06. | :09:13. | |
water, the operation has been stood down for now. | :09:14. | :09:20. | |
Time to take a look at different pages. | :09:21. | :09:32. | |
Emily Blunt, ahead of the BAFTAs happening | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
Tim Cook, one of the bosses of Apple, calling on governments | :09:35. | :09:40. | |
to launch a campaign to fight the scourge of fake news | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
which he says is killing people's minds. | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Emily said she needed a drink before calling on the red carpet, is that | :09:50. | :10:05. | |
the worst thing? There is also anger over Brussels preparing to hit the | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
UK with a ?49 billion fine for leaving the EU. That is in the | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
Express this morning. The Daily Mail, we will be talking | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
about this later this It is the end of the Iraqi | :10:21. | :10:23. | |
historic allegations team, One of the human rights | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
lawyers who was struck off over his tactics, Phil Shiner, | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
you can see the headline, We will also be speaking | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
to the government about The Times is looking at the | :10:43. | :10:54. | |
situation with the NHS. Local doctors have said standing doctors | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
are ripping off cash-strapped holster -- hospitals with fees of | :10:59. | :11:10. | |
over ?4000 per day. The Times has a picture of a steward | :11:11. | :11:23. | |
from the HMS Mersey, it was a 13 month | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
mission tackling people And you can see the quotes here, I | :11:27. | :11:40. | |
tried to wake him for an hour. That is an excerpt from the 999 tape. | :11:41. | :11:53. | |
Schoolchildren in England are going to be offered | :11:54. | :12:01. | |
It's hoped that more than five thousand teenagers will spend up | :12:02. | :12:05. | |
to four hours a week on the subject, over the next five years. | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
President Trump is said to be considering a new executive | :12:10. | :12:11. | |
It follows reports he might not take his case to reinstate his travel ban | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
Also, coming up, one of the biggest games in world rugby. Wales hosts | :12:17. | :12:23. | |
England in the Six Nations. We hear from one player on what he makes of | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
Eddie Jones' mind games. We have been told that the roof will | :12:26. | :12:32. | |
be open in Cardiff, what does that mean about the weather? We have | :12:33. | :12:37. | |
actually got some flurries of slowdown in Cardiff. Should not | :12:38. | :12:47. | |
cause too much disruption. One of those days. It is bubbly a good day | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
to snuggle up and watch the rugby from the comfort of your sofa. We | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
will show you where the rain, sleet and snow is at the moment. Snow | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
across parts of eastern Scotland and the Pennines, eastern Wales, down | :13:05. | :13:09. | |
into the south-west and across parts of Suffolk, Kent and Sussex. A bit | :13:10. | :13:16. | |
slippery in one or two spots, snow over the hills. West of Scotland and | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Northern Ireland, frost to content with. At least you will see some | :13:22. | :13:26. | |
sunshine. Generally good conditions elsewhere. A mix of rain, sleet and | :13:27. | :13:33. | |
snow. In Wales and lower-level sites for a time. Temperatures will slowly | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
start to rise and we will see it turn back to mainly rain and | :13:41. | :13:46. | |
drizzle. A good covering of the tops of the Pennines, the hills and | :13:47. | :13:50. | |
eastern Scotland. Not just grey out there, also quite windy this | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
afternoon. Looking at the temperatures, a bit higher than | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
yesterday. That wind has been close to gale force across parts of | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
Scotland and northern England. Feeling much colder than | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
temperatures suggest. Actually to come. Frost Limited to the of | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Scotland. Lots of cloud elsewhere. Rain, drizzle, sleet and snow coming | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
and going throughout the night, but Italy through eastern England. That | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
makes for another gloomy start to tomorrow. Maybe not as much snow in | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
the afternoon compared to today. Engineering across the high ground. | :14:26. | :14:31. | |
Patchy rain elsewhere. A few breaks in rain elsewhere. In Scotland and | :14:32. | :14:37. | |
Northern Ireland we could see the sunniest of the conditions. A bit | :14:38. | :14:41. | |
more cloud than today. Temperatures feeling even colder because of the | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
strength of the wind. The temperature profile for the rest of | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
the coming five days is one which clients. When you compare it to what | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
we have right now, ten or 11 degrees might feel like spring -- climbs. I | :14:57. | :15:06. | |
am glad I've got my jump on. We've all found good reasons to take a | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
trip to the local park, but that could soon become more difficult. | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
Pressures to find land for housing means parks are facing a period of | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
decline. That is according to a group of MPs who say they need to be | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
fundamental changes to the way that parks are managed. What have parks | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
ever done for us? It feels almost wild even though you | :15:32. | :15:45. | |
are in the centre of London. This is close to my house, we don't have far | :15:46. | :15:48. | |
to walk with the children. The perfect place to walk, it is quite | :15:49. | :15:53. | |
big and there is a cafe over there. They may be loved, but the crucial | :15:54. | :15:56. | |
question surrounds their value and of course their cost. For the past | :15:57. | :16:01. | |
six months a committee of MPs has been asking that question and | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
listening to the answers. It found that with council budgets are tight | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
many local parks are at a tipping point. What of their viability, what | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
of their future. How can they be saved? Instead of regarding parks is | :16:16. | :16:21. | |
only a leisure and recreation area of service, we should be thinking | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
about parks as the contributors to public health and to environmental | :16:28. | :16:31. | |
policy and to community cohesion. And maybe they can be re- | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
prioritise. But there is a fundamental question about the level | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
of cuts that local authorities have been experiencing. We started to do | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
some work and eventually created a ten acre nature reserve. We have | :16:44. | :16:47. | |
planted 60,000 trees to encourage flora and fauna. The innovation | :16:48. | :16:54. | |
started here on the edge of the Pennines, more than 30 years ago. It | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
is vital for the community to have this sort of open space. If it is | :17:00. | :17:02. | |
looked after and maintained, it is for their benefit. As well as the | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
nature reserve there is a community garden and a football pitch. It is | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
the result of partnerships between the council, the charity Ground work | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
and local volunteers. A model example of how public green spaces | :17:16. | :17:22. | |
can determine their own future. If it was a redundant piece of land, | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
fly tipping and things like that, from that, we were able to create | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
this community garden and help out with adding some elements to the | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
sports pitch. Really, it helped the group. It helped the group service | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
to community a lot more, and more and more people could get involved | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
with that. Long-term it is a cost saving to the council, but the | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
councils have to be responsible about what they are doing. The MPs | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
are calling on the government and local authorities to ensure they | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
have strategic lands in place for these emeralds, these green jewels | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
in the Crown. They believe parks must remain publicly owned, open to | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
all and free of charge. From flood management to healthy living to | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
biodiversity of wildlife, our parks and green spaces can be the lungs | :18:10. | :18:16. | |
and the heart of our increasingly urbanised lives. | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
I love a good park. We have been asking you to send in your pictures | :18:22. | :18:28. | |
of your local parks and tell us why you love yours. We have a view to | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
show you this morning. Karen sent us this from Craigavon Park in Northern | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
Ireland. That is a gorgeous photo. We have a sunny one by way of | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
contrast. This is Duthie Park in Aberdeen from Maddie. That is not | :18:44. | :18:50. | |
today, I don't think that is from today. Certainly not right now, | :18:51. | :18:54. | |
anyway. But that is a lovely image. We have more sunshine in one of | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
these parks. This is cheap Park from Vanessa in London, describing it as | :19:00. | :19:04. | |
full of deer and beautiful wide open spaces for bike riding and walking. | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
And the last once an hour, central park in Chelmsford. Linda takes part | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
in a running group every Saturday. So that would be this morning. She | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
was finishing her run, number 100. I'm not sure if that means 100 runs | :19:18. | :19:24. | |
that she has done. Who knows. Maybe she can tell us. We will find out. | :19:25. | :19:28. | |
Lots of people will be running in the parks this morning, nine o'clock | :19:29. | :19:32. | |
is park run, lots of people doing that. Send us some pictures and we | :19:33. | :19:36. | |
will try to show them later in the programme. In the past week, three | :19:37. | :19:39. | |
cyclists have been killed in the space of four days on London's | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
roads. This morning, campaigns are gathering to demand that ministers | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
make cycling safer. But figures nationally show that could really be | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
the case with the number of cycling deaths going down over the past | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
decade. Holly is in Trafalgar Square. Good morning. | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
Good morning. Yes, it does seem that more of us than ever are taking onto | :20:03. | :20:07. | |
the on two wheels, whether it is for fitness or fun or commuting. The | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
number of cyclists in the UK has gone up in the past two decades by | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
more than a quarter. That has meant obviously that there have been more | :20:16. | :20:18. | |
road safety initiatives in place to try to keep us safe. As you mention, | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
it seems to be working. Content to ten years ago the number of road | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
deaths has gone down. But sadly, those three deaths on the road in | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
London in the space of just one week this week has really hit home with | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
people, which has renewed calls for further investment in infrastructure | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
and further investment in roads, and there will be a protest taking place | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
this afternoon with people asking, why can't there be more cycle paths, | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
more done to try to protect people? We are going to speak to some of the | :20:47. | :20:51. | |
people who will be taking part in a protest. Andrew, I will speak to you | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
first. You are an experienced cyclist. What is it like cycling in | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
London Day today? Good morning. I have been cycling to work for 15 | :20:59. | :21:02. | |
years now, from Surrey. There and back. In many ways it is a joy. You | :21:03. | :21:07. | |
are your own boss, you can go where you want, when you want, you are | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
stuck in congestion. You come to work full of energy and it feels | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
really good. And you are going past cars that are going nowhere, filling | :21:15. | :21:18. | |
the air with rubbish, and that is what we need to change. But do you | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
feel safe when you are cycling? I have been cycling for a long time. I | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
have had some near misses and a minor can ill -- minor collision. We | :21:28. | :21:31. | |
need to recognise that the main hazard caused by the motor vehicles | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
is the 25 people per day dying from pollution. Compare to that, the | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
collision risk is small. It is tragic we have had three deaths this | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
week, but that is an unusual week. For me, you can look at me, you can | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
see that only the exercise, and the health benefits of the exercise far | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
outweigh the risk of collisions. The problem with the collisions is that | :21:52. | :21:54. | |
it is tragic for people involved and it scares people off the roads and | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
keeps them in their vehicles, they are by increasing the risk you are | :21:59. | :22:01. | |
trying to prevent. It is important to mention, we do want to say that | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
it is safe to cycle. We do not want to be scaremongering and putting | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
people off, but those deaths have highlighted a really serious issue | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
on our roads. We will speak to roost and and baby Alan, who has joined us | :22:13. | :22:16. | |
here. Ruth and, the number of deaths has gone down, but what more needs | :22:17. | :22:23. | |
to be done? -- Ruth-Anne. I cycle every day with my children, we do | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
not have a car. It is our way of getting around, when is the third of | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
three children. I find it quick and convenient and easy. We sold our car | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
because we didn't need it. But most parents I speak to say that they do | :22:38. | :22:41. | |
not feel safe, cycling with their children in London. I cannot say I | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
blame them. You just need one aggressive driver, one close pass, | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
one driver tailgating you, honking, scaring children, and it is going to | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
put you off. That is just the opposite of what we need. So | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
although it is brilliant that the deaths are going down, we need | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
people to feel safe as well. And he did quality and protective | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
infrastructure of cycle paths away from motor vehicles is what makes | :23:06. | :23:08. | |
people feel safe, and that is what will get families on two wheels, | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
which is what we need. Thank you, Ruth-Anne, and thank you, baby Alan. | :23:13. | :23:19. | |
Donnie, you are from the campaign group Stop Killing Cyclists. What do | :23:20. | :23:22. | |
you hope to achieve with this protest? All we are bringing the | :23:23. | :23:26. | |
letters to the doors of the Treasury, because we believe the | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
Chancellor is responsible for the carnage on the roads. 40,000 people | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
die from traffic pollution. Another 11,000 are dying because they are | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
afraid to cycle. We must make the roads safe. We need ?3 billion per | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
year invested in cycling infrastructure, and a Chancellor is | :23:41. | :23:42. | |
investing nothing in cycling infrastructure at the moment. We | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
will bring the protest to his doors and demand that he invests in | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
infrastructure that will save cyclists' lives. Do some cyclists to | :23:51. | :23:56. | |
take responsibility for their safety as well? So many people tell us | :23:57. | :23:59. | |
about irresponsible cyclists. Over the last four years one person has | :24:00. | :24:03. | |
been killed by a cyclist on a footpath. Yet something like 50,000 | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
are being killed because of the traffic system. The level of damage | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
being caused by cyclists is tiny compared to the traffic. We need to | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
train kids in schools to be safe but we need the infrastructure to enable | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
their parents to feel safe for the kids to cycle to school. It is | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
really urgent. Thank you for joining us this morning. The Department of | :24:27. | :24:30. | |
Transport as they are doing everything they can to try invest in | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
cycling. It has in fact rippled spending in the past five years | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
alone. I must add that this protest taking place this afternoon is also | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
a vigil to pay homage to those who died on the road this week and | :24:42. | :24:45. | |
previously, as both sides you have said, it really is a case of one | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
death being just too many. Thank you. | :24:49. | :24:52. | |
It's 7:25 and you're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
Back to our top story, ?25 million is being invested in teaching our | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
schoolchildren about cyber security in the hope they will become the | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
experts of the future to protect Britain from online attacks. We are | :25:06. | :25:14. | |
going to speak now to Brian Lord, who has spent more than 20 years as | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
a deputy director at GCHQ and now runs his own cyber security firm. | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
Thank you for joining us this morning, Mr Lord. What do you make | :25:23. | :25:27. | |
of this, this idea of getting schoolchildren to learn cyber | :25:28. | :25:30. | |
security. Do you need to -- do we need to? I think we do, and I think | :25:31. | :25:35. | |
primarily it is because there is still a lot of misinformation about | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
careers in cyber security. In fact, a lot of people don't know anything | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
about them. There are a lot of misperceptions that the school age | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
level about what a career looks like. So the more exposure they can | :25:49. | :25:54. | |
get, it's prepares them for a future career and is not only that, as that | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
generation needs to understand how to be safe online, you get a double | :25:58. | :26:02. | |
benefit. I think it is an essential initiative, yes. You say that about | :26:03. | :26:06. | |
misinformation and people not knowing what a career in cyber | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
security is like. What is it like? I think first of all there is this | :26:11. | :26:14. | |
perception that cyber security is all about techno geeks with long | :26:15. | :26:19. | |
hair and glasses wearing heavy metal T-shirts and drinking red Bull. | :26:20. | :26:23. | |
There are those, and they do an extraordinarily good job. But there | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
is a whole range of other activities, information security, | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
management systems, forensics, cyber threat intelligence analysis. A | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
whole range of professional strands there which can appeal to quite a | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
wide cross-section of children and graduates and apprentices. And at | :26:41. | :26:44. | |
the moment they do not know what there is to offer, which is why | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
there is a very slow uptake in this profession. So these lessons will be | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
extra curricular ones. For hours a week. -- four hours. For any | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
children watching, or their parents, what type of skills are you looking | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
for? Who are the young people we should see going into these lessons? | :27:03. | :27:06. | |
I don't want to pigeonhole a particular profile into it, because | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
once again, I think you risk saying, well, you have to understand | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
technology. You don't. What we actually want from children who want | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
to perhaps be interested in this area is an inquisitive mind, the | :27:21. | :27:26. | |
ability to be able to apply logic to problems, and just a general | :27:27. | :27:30. | |
interest in the modern world of technology which doesn't mean being | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
a technologist. All these children use computers, they use iPhones. | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
Just an interesting how modern world works. Obviously these lessons are | :27:40. | :27:44. | |
not going to be compulsory. So how do we get young people interested in | :27:45. | :27:48. | |
them in the first place? I mean, that is a very good point. What we | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
probably need to be able to do is being able to integrate knowledge of | :27:55. | :27:58. | |
this across all the different curricula strands. My fear is that | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
what will immediately happen is that this will be thrown into the ICT | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
domain in schools, and once again there is an element of that. But we | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
need to integrate into PH C, we need to integrate it into social logic, | :28:14. | :28:16. | |
we need to integrate it into business studies, into politics. | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
There is a whole swathe of this activity which needs to be | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
integrated into all these strands of curricular rather than pigeonholing | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
it into the IT strand, which will limit its appeal to a community. It | :28:30. | :28:36. | |
feels slightly strange to be saying that we need more teenagers to keep | :28:37. | :28:40. | |
doing cyber security to keep us safe. Are things that desperate now? | :28:41. | :28:47. | |
I think we have to not misinterpreted can say that the only | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
people who can keep us safe are teenagers. Although there probably | :28:51. | :28:54. | |
is an element to that. But, yes, this is a Twitter century threat and | :28:55. | :28:58. | |
we are dealing with a workforce who has grown up outside this threat. -- | :28:59. | :29:05. | |
21st century. To be able to get an entire workforce ready to be able to | :29:06. | :29:09. | |
deal with the explosion of technology and the inherent risks | :29:10. | :29:12. | |
that come with that technology is quite challenging for lots of the | :29:13. | :29:16. | |
workforce. However, I think it is fair to say, and I am not always | :29:17. | :29:20. | |
fair to government on this, that this initiative on schools is just | :29:21. | :29:24. | |
one of many they are doing. They are also running a major risk killing | :29:25. | :29:27. | |
programme were people can change career and move into this field, as | :29:28. | :29:31. | |
well as developing apprenticeships. -- Major reskilling programme. So it | :29:32. | :29:36. | |
is only one of a number of strands to increase the people that we do | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
need in this industry. Given that you spent 20 years in the industry, | :29:41. | :29:44. | |
how worried should we be about cyber security at the moment? I think... I | :29:45. | :29:47. | |
don't think we should panic, but I think we should be aware of it and | :29:48. | :29:52. | |
be able to deal with it quickly. I think once again, we need to be | :29:53. | :29:56. | |
careful that we don't sort of just pigeonhole the cyber threat into | :29:57. | :29:59. | |
nasty Russians doing nasty things in elections. Because there is a whole | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
swathe of activity, and primarily this is just pure online | :30:06. | :30:08. | |
criminality, that we need to be able to counter. A lot of that is just | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
about education. It is not about having deep technical skills, it is | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
just about learning how to be safe online. So I think it is something | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
we have to worry about but not panic about. Brian Lord, thank you very | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
much for your time. Still to come this morning: I'm on a | :30:23. | :30:39. | |
wooden play, 100 feet in the air. A bit of high-stakes action. We will | :30:40. | :30:52. | |
see that coming up shortly -- plank. Do you have any prior motoring | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
convictions? Hello, this is Breakfast | :30:55. | :31:26. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Steph Coming up before 8:00, | :31:27. | :31:28. | |
Matt will have the weather for you. But first, a summary of this | :31:29. | :31:33. | |
morning's main news. A 20 million-pound drive to find | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
the future experts capable of defending Britain | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
from cyber-attacks has been Lessons in cyber-security | :31:41. | :31:42. | |
will become part of the curriculum for thousands of schoolchildren | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
in England - after a Commons committee highlighted a skills | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
shortage and labelled our current And after 7:00, we'll be | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
joined by Brian Lord, who spent over 20 years | :31:52. | :32:00. | |
as a Deputy Director of Cyber Operations at GCHQ. | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
Donald Trump has said he may rewrite the presidential order imposing | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
restrictions on travel to the US in a bid overcome legal | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
obstacles which have The President unveiled the ban | :32:10. | :32:11. | |
at the end of his first week in office, barring entry | :32:12. | :32:20. | |
to travellers from seven Earlier this week, an appeals court | :32:21. | :32:22. | |
upheld the suspension The case may now proceed | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
to the Supreme Court. The funding of parks has reached | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
a tipping point and new ways of paying for them | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
may have to be found. That's according to | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
the Commons Communities and Local Government Committee, | :32:35. | :32:36. | |
which says parks are suffering It warns there's a danger | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
of a return to the neglect Instead of regarding parks as only | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
a sort of leisure and recreation area of service, we should be | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
thinking about them as big contributors to public health | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
and environmental policy And maybe they can | :32:51. | :32:52. | |
be re-prioritised. There is fundamentally a problem | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
about the number of cuts that local authorities have been experiencing | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
and the distribution of those cuts across the country, | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
and the difficult decisions that most local authorities | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
are having to make. Labour has issued formal warnings | :33:04. | :33:13. | |
to members of its front-bench team who disobeyed Jeremy Corbyn's | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
order to vote for Brexit. Among those who ignored Mr Corbyn | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
were 11 shadow junior ministers A 16-year-old boy has died | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
after he was stabbed in a busy The wounded teenager was taken | :33:26. | :33:33. | |
from the Harehills area to hospital for treatment, but died | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
a short time later. A 15-year-old boy has been arrested | :33:38. | :33:39. | |
on suspicion of murder. More than 200 more Wales have become | :33:40. | :33:52. | |
stranded on a beach in New Zealand. A warning, you may find some | :33:53. | :33:57. | |
of these pictures distressing. Hundreds more have already died | :33:58. | :33:59. | |
in one of the biggest ever mass We have heard this morning from the | :34:00. | :34:07. | |
team of volunteers working to refloat 100 survivors. | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
We got 100 Wales of that have survived overnight, and we have lost | :34:11. | :34:19. | |
sight of them. The bad part of the story is that a separate pod of 240 | :34:20. | :34:26. | |
whales have re- stranded by south of that -- whales. We will be fighting | :34:27. | :34:29. | |
to keep them happy. It is pretty grim out here. Rescue effort is | :34:30. | :34:37. | |
still under way, although it is getting towards evening so it is | :34:38. | :34:44. | |
becoming more difficult. Those are our main stories. Another big | :34:45. | :34:50. | |
weekend in the rugby? What a day ahead. Italy and Ireland in the Six | :34:51. | :35:07. | |
Nations, then Wales against England. It is always the highlight. | :35:08. | :35:10. | |
Wales against England in Cardiff, especially, with the Welsh having | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
this chance to end England's winning run under Eddie Jones. | :35:14. | :35:15. | |
For more on the build-up to the match let's speak to former | :35:16. | :35:18. | |
Wales centre Tom Shanklin, who's at the Principality Stadium. | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
Morning Tom, what do you make of Eddie Jones and his cheeky | :35:22. | :35:30. | |
comments about Welsh tricks, and playing Tom Jones' "Delilah" | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
That's all about mind games, there was also the conversation about the | :35:34. | :35:44. | |
roof, now it is open even though it is snowing in Wales. This is all | :35:45. | :35:49. | |
part and parcel of international rugby, especially because of the | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
rivalry and the history between Wales and England. | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
of all sorts of shannigans, traffic jams to delay the team, | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
phonecalls in the night, no lighting or heating | :36:03. | :36:04. | |
There was nothing like that, at the traffic will be bad because there | :36:05. | :36:19. | |
will be 76,000 people trying to get into Cardiff. Sometimes the heat | :36:20. | :36:25. | |
doesn't work in the change rooms, that is just a fact of life. It is | :36:26. | :36:33. | |
all about mind games now! It is a big fixture! | :36:34. | :36:36. | |
What effect will be roof being open have, bearing in mind that England | :36:37. | :36:39. | |
have won 4 of 5 the previous games with the roof open? | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
I know! When the roof closes, it becomes absolutely electric. The | :36:45. | :36:52. | |
roof is open today, it is not going to make a difference between who | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
wins and who loses, but when it is closed it is just intense. So | :36:58. | :37:03. | |
intense, so loud, you can't hear anyone. But it is not a big factor. | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
One of the things people have noticed about the English setup in | :37:10. | :37:16. | |
this game is that in certain areas, they lack experience, compared with | :37:17. | :37:19. | |
Wales. Given what you described about the atmosphere in the sense of | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
the occasion, is that one area where possibly Wales have the edge going | :37:26. | :37:32. | |
in? It is. It is an inexperienced back row. The Welsh back row, the | :37:33. | :37:37. | |
experience they have got, it is certainly an area I think Wales will | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
take the lead on. Whoever can get their front foot forward, what | :37:44. | :37:49. | |
you've got is too incredible defence sides. It is how you break down | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
that. You do that by getting a quick ball on the front foot. Just two, | :37:54. | :37:59. | |
also asking about the mind games, as a player, what is it like Indy | :38:00. | :38:07. | |
tunnel in the final minutes before the match starts? Everyone 's | :38:08. | :38:22. | |
different. -- in the. It is the last few moments that you can | :38:23. | :38:25. | |
concentrate. Once you get out there, your mind goes blank and autopilot | :38:26. | :38:31. | |
takes over. You are very nervous, but these guys will have a sense of | :38:32. | :38:36. | |
how big this occasion is. It will be absolutely huge in Cardiff. It is | :38:37. | :38:40. | |
only half past seven and there are already people walking around in | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
their scarves and hats. It is quite quite in the stadium. You could hear | :38:46. | :38:55. | |
a pin drop. -- quiet. I think the fans will be just as nervous as you | :38:56. | :39:00. | |
were. We look forward to it, the coverage starts at 415 on BBC One. | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
Away from the Six Nations and history was made | :39:06. | :39:07. | |
in the Premiership last night, as Bristol's Tom Varndell, | :39:08. | :39:10. | |
became the league's all-time, top try scorer. | :39:11. | :39:12. | |
The division's bottom side were thrashed by Harlequins, | :39:13. | :39:14. | |
but Varndell scored his 91st Premiership try, to take him | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
A last gasp penalty from Rhys Priestland gave third | :39:18. | :39:26. | |
place Bath a one point victory over Northampton. | :39:27. | :39:28. | |
Elsewhere Sale Sharks beat Newcastle. | :39:29. | :39:41. | |
Scarlets moved into the top four, of the Pro 12, after an important | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
There's confusion over the future of the Rangers manager | :39:45. | :39:48. | |
Rangers said in a statement that he had resigned | :39:49. | :39:52. | |
from his position but Warburton says he wasn't aware of that | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
Rangers are third in the Scottish Premiership but 27 | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
Under-20 coach Graeme Murty is set to lead the side in topmorrow's | :40:00. | :40:14. | |
Scottish Cup tie with Greenock Morton. | :40:15. | :40:22. | |
The early kick off in the Premier League is at the Emirates | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
where Arsenal take on a rejuvenated Hull City side. | :40:26. | :40:28. | |
Arsenal are currently in fourth but have lost their last two | :40:29. | :40:31. | |
matches, which has led to renewed speculation over manager | :40:32. | :40:33. | |
Former Arsenal and England striker Ian Wright thinks this will be | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
I was with the boss last night, and to be totally honest, | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
I genuinely believe, I was with him for a few hours, | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
I just get the impression looking at him that... | :40:47. | :40:49. | |
He actually mentioned when we were talking that it's | :40:50. | :40:56. | |
In the rest of the days matches, Manchester United take on Watford, | :40:57. | :41:06. | |
Middlesbrough face Everton, Crystal Palace are at Stoke. | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
Leigh's return to rugby league's Super League got off | :41:12. | :41:13. | |
to a disappointing start as they were comfortably beaten | :41:14. | :41:16. | |
The Tigers ran in seven trys including this from winger Greg | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
Elsewhere, Huddersfield Giants beat Widnes 28-16. | :41:21. | :41:27. | |
For years now, Snowdonia in North Wales has been establishing | :41:28. | :41:30. | |
itself as a centre for extreme adventure sports, with Europe's | :41:31. | :41:33. | |
longest and fastest zipwire - and a unique surfing lake. | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
Now, former slate mines have been brought back to life, | :41:37. | :41:38. | |
to add a huge adrenalin rush to history lessons. | :41:39. | :41:41. | |
I joined a school party in one of the vast caverns | :41:42. | :41:44. | |
Beneath this sci-fi landscape, there is an industrial world waiting | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
A labyrinth of over 300 tunnels and caverns, | :41:49. | :42:00. | |
Former slate mines, now to be explored using climbing skills | :42:01. | :42:15. | |
and zipwires, giving you an insight into the life of a miner. | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
All that supports you are staples hammered into the rock. | :42:21. | :42:31. | |
But your mind paralysed has you with fear. | :42:32. | :42:43. | |
What is so incredible is when you look down and around, | :42:44. | :42:46. | |
Some working here were as young as six years old. | :42:47. | :43:00. | |
I learned about what the miners had to do. | :43:01. | :43:02. | |
We have a great safety system now, but they just had chains | :43:03. | :43:06. | |
It is crazy to think they did that for 12 hours a day. | :43:07. | :43:10. | |
This man worked in the mines, but is now a safety inspector. | :43:11. | :43:13. | |
It has given the villiage a new lease of life. | :43:14. | :43:29. | |
There is a side, we are very proud of the culture, | :43:30. | :43:32. | |
After the training, it's up to you to get around | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
You conquer your fears in your head, and then it starts to get a bit more | :43:37. | :43:49. | |
You learn more about yourself going around there than you can | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
The school pupils took it all in their stride. | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
Having seen one lad fall of the monkey bars 200 feet up... | :44:01. | :44:03. | |
I gave this a miss, taking a different route | :44:04. | :44:15. | |
They saved the steepest zip wire to last. | :44:16. | :44:43. | |
Some people do this every day. I was so petrified, nobody else seemed of | :44:44. | :44:57. | |
it. My legs were completely wobbly, they were like jelly. Some people go | :44:58. | :45:04. | |
completely quiet, I was not. That is part of coping with fear. It was a | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
great challenge over three hours. Get on the website and we will tell | :45:11. | :45:13. | |
you where to go. It is 7:45am. Let's find out what is | :45:14. | :45:26. | |
happening with the weather. When I got up at 3:30am it was snowing, and | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
I thought today would not look so good. How was it? | :45:31. | :45:36. | |
Not horrendous. But a queue of you will be waking up to a coating of | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
snow, as we have here at Blackwood near Caerphilly. That's no, as you | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
just heard, is falling near the centre of Cardiff as well, and some | :45:46. | :45:49. | |
picturesque snow across Dover Castle in Kent as well. Both those pictures | :45:50. | :45:55. | |
sent in by our Weather Watchers. We also have some snow across eastern | :45:56. | :45:58. | |
Scotland and the hills of northern England. But not everybody will have | :45:59. | :46:03. | |
snow, by any means. Some have a dry and bright start, especially in the | :46:04. | :46:05. | |
north-west of Scotland, where temperatures last night dropped to | :46:06. | :46:09. | |
minus ten. A lovely start for much of Northern Ireland. Scotland, Gray, | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
rain along the coast, sleet and snow giving a covering over the hills. | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
The same across northern England. Snow by ten o'clock, mainly across | :46:19. | :46:21. | |
the Pennines and into the Peak District. Patchy drizzle into lower | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
levels. Snow and sleet across eastern Wales, and down towards the | :46:27. | :46:29. | |
south-west. Especially across Kent and Sussex. It adds to a slow start | :46:30. | :46:36. | |
to Saturday morning. The wind is not helping. That would be close to gale | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
force, especially in north-east England and Scotland late on. Most | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
of the snow will turn back towards patchy rain and drizzle and we are | :46:44. | :46:46. | |
not expecting huge disruption by any means. The west of Scotland and | :46:47. | :46:50. | |
Northern Ireland will stay dry with sunny spells throughout. | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
Temperatures up a bit on yesterday. Factoring in the wind, however, it | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
will feel colder than yesterday. That wind will strengthen tonight | :46:59. | :47:01. | |
and into Sunday. It will continue to bring lots of cloud across the | :47:02. | :47:04. | |
country, keeping temperatures just above freezing through the night. | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
There will be clear skies at times in northern Scotland and maybe | :47:10. | :47:12. | |
Northern Ireland, so that is the best chance freight touch of frost, | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
and maybe even in the far south-west, where there will be some | :47:17. | :47:19. | |
ice in the morning. A dusting of snow across the real -- in the | :47:20. | :47:25. | |
hills. That will come and go, some dry moments, maybe bright in times | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
in southernmost counties. Always a bit dry and brighter in northern | :47:30. | :47:32. | |
parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland. But it will feel colder | :47:33. | :47:36. | |
today, given the strength of the wind. Those winds will go gradually | :47:37. | :47:40. | |
into the start of next week. We welcome back the sunshine and | :47:41. | :47:43. | |
temperatures for some of you will be back to double figures. So just bear | :47:44. | :47:46. | |
with the cold. That is very good to hear, double | :47:47. | :47:51. | |
figures. Time now is 7:47 a.m.. We'll be back with the headlines at | :47:52. | :47:55. | |
eight o'clock but now it is time for news watch with Samir Ahmed. -- | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
Newswatch. Hello, and welcome to Newswatch | :48:01. | :48:01. | |
with me, Samira Ahmed. Vital insight or just | :48:02. | :48:04. | |
demoralising coverage? The BBC's special NHS reporting | :48:05. | :48:05. | |
is in the spotlight. Is it ever justified to show | :48:06. | :48:07. | |
an image of a child who has just been killed, as Newsnight did | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
in a report about a recent US Reports about the National Health | :48:12. | :48:14. | |
Service have been especially frequent on television news | :48:15. | :48:26. | |
bulletins over the last few weeks of winter, but this | :48:27. | :48:28. | |
week more so than ever. The BBC was running a week | :48:29. | :48:31. | |
of special programmes and reports, which they branded as Health Check, | :48:32. | :48:34. | |
about the state of the NHS, including Monday's Panorama | :48:35. | :48:37. | |
and lengthy items on the 6pm and 10pm bulletins on Monday, | :48:38. | :48:39. | |
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Seven years ago this council spent | :48:40. | :48:44. | |
about a third of its budget providing care and support to people | :48:45. | :48:47. | |
who are older and disabled. But now the cost of adult social | :48:48. | :49:01. | |
care is heading towards half of its budget, with demand still | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
increasing and that is at the heart of the problems they are | :49:05. | :49:07. | |
wrestling with today. The BBC was given unrestricted | :49:08. | :49:10. | |
access to witness the pressures We have had patients here for 6-9 | :49:11. | :49:14. | |
hours and we cannot find We were in the corridor | :49:15. | :49:27. | |
for five hours. It isn't what you expect | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
from a country like ours. Hospitals like this one are running | :49:32. | :49:33. | |
at 95% capacity which means they are nearly full so with more | :49:34. | :49:36. | |
emergency cases coming in and difficulty discharging some | :49:37. | :49:39. | |
patients back into the community some of those needing surgery | :49:40. | :49:42. | |
are having to wait longer. Our health editor and special | :49:43. | :49:50. | |
correspondent and social No question about the comprehensive | :49:51. | :49:52. | |
nature of the coverage but some viewers told us by telephone | :49:53. | :49:58. | |
and webcam that they were concerned about the effect of that coverage | :49:59. | :50:01. | |
and that the BBC had Every night this week we have seen | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
the BBC 6pm and 10pm news leading with the story on the current | :50:05. | :50:13. | |
state of the NHS. We all know there are many | :50:14. | :50:16. | |
problems in the NHS, and there are many reasons for this | :50:17. | :50:19. | |
including bed blocking, immigration, lifestyles, | :50:20. | :50:22. | |
health tourism, waste, bad procurement, trivial | :50:23. | :50:23. | |
A visits and so on. And yet BBC news would rather have | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
us believe the problems are all due to so-called Tory cuts and that | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
throwing more money at the problem Please, BBC, get your house in order | :50:33. | :50:43. | |
and start reporting the news This campaign should be reserved | :50:44. | :50:51. | |
for a Panorama programme, I understand there are serious | :50:52. | :50:56. | |
problems in the NHS and I understand that things have got | :50:57. | :51:02. | |
worse by some measures, however, BBC News seems to be trying | :51:03. | :51:04. | |
to make us feel angry. We have better health | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
care than most. Please try and help us to feel | :51:08. | :51:19. | |
grateful for what we have and try to help us make things | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
better rather than constantly I am not newsworthy because I am one | :51:24. | :51:26. | |
of the thousands of people who have received treatment from the NHS over | :51:27. | :51:31. | |
the last few months who have nothing I only have praise for | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
the dedicated, professional staff who have carried out | :51:36. | :51:38. | |
treatment on their behalf. This week we have been bombarded | :51:39. | :51:40. | |
by the news on all channels telling us what is wrong with our | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
National Health Service. What you have as the BBC | :51:45. | :51:55. | |
is responsibility in terms of making sure we do not demoralise the staff | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
any more than they already are. I asked a nurse if she was impacted | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
by the adverse publicity seen She looked at me as if it | :52:04. | :52:06. | |
was a silly question. The BBC has spent the last week | :52:07. | :52:11. | |
with intensive wall-to-wall coverage of bad news about the NHS and some | :52:12. | :52:14. | |
important things are needed to be However, the effect | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
of that is to produce a downwards Come on BBC, it is not that we don't | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
need to know about these bad things and they do need addressing, | :52:24. | :52:34. | |
but I think that the benefit of the NHS and our appreciation | :52:35. | :52:37. | |
of it we should hear some Well, the health editor for BBC News | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
has been on the news for much Viewers, as you can see | :52:41. | :52:48. | |
from looking at those clips, have felt there's been so much | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
coverage focusing on the negative things, waiting times | :52:55. | :52:57. | |
and cancellations, they wonder whether the BBC is hyping | :52:58. | :52:59. | |
up a sense of crisis? There have been several strong | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
newsline is which we would want to cover as part of | :53:04. | :53:06. | |
our BBC News output. We did some research on waiting | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
times, patients who were waiting longer than 18 weeks | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
in England to get surgery. That is the target, they should be | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
seen for a routine surgery, We discovered from our data that | :53:17. | :53:19. | |
nine out of ten hospitals are running at levels | :53:20. | :53:27. | |
that are deemed to be above what is normally | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
considered safe. Institute for Fiscal Studies has | :53:31. | :53:48. | |
said that health spending in England has gone up but per person | :53:49. | :53:52. | |
it will start falling. On Thursday, very bleak figures | :53:53. | :53:55. | |
from NHS England on how the performance in December | :53:56. | :53:58. | |
was the worst since records began and looked like it was going to get | :53:59. | :54:00. | |
worse in January after documents I think it is our job to report | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
on facts and figures In terms of staff morale, | :54:05. | :54:08. | |
I take on board what people were saying there about staff | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
feeling downtrodden because of this. Equally we have had contact, | :54:14. | :54:16. | |
e-mails and calls, from staff who said it is really good | :54:17. | :54:18. | |
that the BBC is focusing on what is really going on, | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
from senior consultants to junior This is what the BBC should be doing | :54:22. | :54:24. | |
and it has not done enough One viewer said that they felt | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
the coverage felt like a downward spiral of despondency | :54:30. | :54:36. | |
and that was so overwhelming that perhaps it needs to be balanced | :54:37. | :54:39. | |
with some coverage that shows There has been quite | :54:40. | :54:42. | |
a lot of positive side. There was a big debate on health | :54:43. | :54:51. | |
involving patients and staff and other health experts, | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
including some patient testimony on the positives they | :54:55. | :54:56. | |
found with the NHS. We have had coverage throughout | :54:57. | :55:03. | |
the week on different aspects of how GPs are coming to terms | :55:04. | :55:06. | |
with the different challenges. The news channel has reports | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
on innovative schemes to link up We had a Yeovil Hospital scheme that | :55:11. | :55:13. | |
aims to look after older patients in their autumn this book facility | :55:14. | :55:22. | |
away from accident and emergency. We tried hard to talk | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
about the positives possible solutions, but equally | :55:28. | :55:29. | |
we have two state the facts It is a difficult balance | :55:30. | :55:31. | |
and we are holding an important institution to account, | :55:32. | :55:39. | |
and it should be about providing the best possible patient care | :55:40. | :55:42. | |
and the government should make sure it is funded adequately | :55:43. | :55:45. | |
and it is making efficient use Some complaints have been | :55:46. | :55:47. | |
but it is felt the BBC is politically campaigning | :55:48. | :55:59. | |
and saying it is about more funding There is the opinion that the NHS | :56:00. | :56:02. | |
should have more funding, but health spending in the UK | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
as a whole as a share of national income is below France and Germany, | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
it is falling, the ISS during the week have made clear that | :56:12. | :56:14. | |
spending will fall in a way it has never done before in terms | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
of spending per head of population. We have taken those arguments | :56:19. | :56:28. | |
and put them forward. We have been accused in the past | :56:29. | :56:30. | |
of not addressing lack of funding. We are not being political, | :56:31. | :56:34. | |
we're stating facts. Equally, we have been very clear | :56:35. | :56:37. | |
that there are some who feel the NHS could make more efficient | :56:38. | :56:44. | |
use of their resources reflected that argument, | :56:45. | :56:46. | |
it is not just about money it is about better ways of joining | :56:47. | :56:49. | |
up care, better ways When is it justified to broadcast | :56:50. | :56:52. | |
close-up images of someone The question was raised | :56:53. | :57:08. | |
after the Newsnight report on Wednesday from a village in Yemen | :57:09. | :57:11. | |
where US special forces attacked Several civilians were killed, | :57:12. | :57:14. | |
including a boy who was showing. We put that | :57:15. | :57:24. | |
point to BBC News and they told us: Finally, we have almost managed | :57:25. | :58:15. | |
to get through an additional Newswatch without mentioning | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
Donald Trump, but not quite. A programme has been running | :58:20. | :58:21. | |
about his first hundred Even some of his fans | :58:22. | :58:23. | |
are not happy with this. Thank you for all your | :58:24. | :58:37. | |
comments this week. If you want to share your opinions | :58:38. | :58:54. | |
on BBC News or appeared on the programme you can | :58:55. | :58:57. | |
call us or e-mail us You can find this on Twitter | :58:58. | :59:04. | |
and do look at our website That is all from us, we will be back | :59:05. | :59:10. | |
to hear your thoughts about BBC News Hello, this is Breakfast, with | :59:11. | :59:18. | |
Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. The latest weapon in | :59:19. | :00:25. | |
the war against hackers - the Government funds lessons | :00:26. | :00:28. | |
in cyber security for teenagers. It's hoped they'll become | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
the experts of the future and protect Britain from online | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
attacks. Good morning it's | :00:33. | :00:48. | |
Saturday, 11th February. President Trump says he may issue | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
a new order authorising a travel ban after his old one was blocked | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
by the courts. Parks under threat - | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
a new report says funding has reached a tipping point and new ways | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
of paying for them need to be found. The latest on the battle | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
to save hundreds of whales stranded And in sport - it's one | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
of the biggest tests yet, It's a first trip to Cardiff, | :01:10. | :01:19. | |
for their coach Eddie Jones, and Wales are banking on home | :01:20. | :01:23. | |
advantage to take them Good morning, a cold feeling day out | :01:24. | :01:27. | |
there for all of us today. For some a little bit of snow | :01:28. | :01:35. | |
to begin with, giving a coating in places but for many some of that | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
snow will turn back to rain, all the details coming | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
up in 15 minutes. The government is to fund lessons | :01:43. | :01:43. | |
in cyber security to encourage teenagers to pursue a career | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
in defending Britain It's hoped that thousands of pupils | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
in England will spend up to four hours a week on the subject, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
over the next five years. Here's our home affairs | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
Correspondent Tom Symonds. Daniel's a convicted teenaged Hacker | :01:59. | :02:09. | |
facing a jail sentence. In 2015 he took part in the massive digital | :02:10. | :02:16. | |
break in, of the phone company Talk Talk.. But what if his potential | :02:17. | :02:24. | |
been harnessed. He might have been part of a new breed of apprentices | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
like these. With that in mind the Government's putting up ?20 million, | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
for nearly 6,000 school-children aged 14 and above, to take four | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
hours of cyber security lessons after school each week. We think | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
that will help seriously with this shortage of cyber skills we have | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
got. Now we will always keep it under review in case this needs to | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
get bigger, but getting it going at this scale shows serious ambition, | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
to make sure that we can have the pipeline of talent we are going to | :02:58. | :03:00. | |
need the years ahead. While the police are stepping up the fight, | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
this is not a threat which can be defeated on the ground by raiding | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
the hackers. The cyber crime battlefield will be online, and | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
Britain's GCHQ will be the command centre. 58,000 people are employed | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
in the growing anti-hacking industry. But more will be needed, | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
and the Government knows it has to start fining them, when they are | :03:23. | :03:23. | |
young. Donald Trump has said he may rewrite | :03:24. | :03:32. | |
the presidential order imposing restrictions on travel to the US | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
to overcome the legal obstacles that His first order - stopping travel | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
from seven mainly-Muslim countries - Our Washington correspondent, | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
David Willis, has more. After a federal appeals court backed | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
a stay of his executive order, Donald Trump vowed he would see his | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
opponents in court. Speaking on Air Force One, en route | :03:51. | :03:52. | |
to his weekend retreat in Florida, the President revealed | :03:53. | :03:55. | |
he was actively weighing But we also have a lot of other | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
options, including just filing We need speed, for reasons | :03:58. | :04:09. | |
of security, so it could very Unveiled at the end of a frantic | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
first week in office, the original order suspended | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
America's refugee programme and banned travellers from seven | :04:22. | :04:22. | |
majority Muslim nations It caused chaos at airports | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
and sparked protests Quite how the White House might | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
rewrite the order isn't clear, although lawyers would almost | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
certainly have to address the claim that in its existing form, | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
the order is unconstitutional, in that it blocks entry | :04:42. | :04:43. | |
to the United States Mr Trump has continued to insist | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
that tough immigration measures are crucial | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
to America's national security. The funding of parks has reached | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
a tipping point and new ways of paying for them may have | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
to be found. That's according to | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
the Commons Communities and Local Government Committee | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
which says parks are suffering It warns there's a danger of a | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
return to the neglect of the 1980s. Instead of kind of regarding parks | :05:11. | :05:19. | |
as a kind of only a leisure and recreation area of service, | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
we should be thinking about parks as big contributors to public | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
health, and to environmental policy and to community cohesion, | :05:26. | :05:31. | |
and maybe they can be reprioritised. But there is fundamentally a problem | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
about the level of cuts that local authorities have been experiencing, | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
the distribution of the cuts across the country and the very, | :05:39. | :05:40. | |
very difficult decisions that many local authorities | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
are having to make. Labour has issued formal warnings | :05:44. | :05:51. | |
to members of its front-bench team who disobeyed Jeremy Corbyn's order | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
to vote for Brexit. Among those who ignored Mr Corbyn | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
were eleven shadow junior ministers A 16-year-old boy has died | :05:57. | :06:02. | |
after he was stabbed The wounded teenager was taken | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
from the Harehills area to hospital for treatment, | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
but died a short time later. A 15-year-old boy has been arrested | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
on suspicion of murder. The decision to end a scheme to let | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
unaccompanied refugee children into the UK is shameful according | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
to the Scottish First She's urged the Prime Minister | :06:22. | :06:23. | |
to change her mind saying there is a moral duty to help | :06:24. | :06:27. | |
those in need. The scheme's due to end in March | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
with 350 children being admitted far fewer than some campaigners had | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
hoped for. Volunteers have told Breakfast | :06:33. | :06:42. | |
in the past few hours than 200 more whales have become stranded | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
on a beach in New Zealand. Hundreds more have already died | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
in one of the biggest ever mass It's hoped the pilot whales may be | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
able to swim to safety Just to warn you, you might find | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
some of the scenes in this report As they wait for high tide | :06:55. | :07:13. | |
volunteers do whatever they can to cool them. Pouring water and | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
covering the creatures in cloths helps to regulate body temperature. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
Temporary measures until they can be released into the ocean. | :07:23. | :07:28. | |
Some hope singing will prove soothing. | :07:29. | :07:32. | |
And then the sound of success. But it is early days. | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
Very quickly the tide has come in and we are up to our knees. Some up | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
to their waists in water and we are getting a bit of floating and we are | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
helping assist the whaling with the breathing until the water is deep | :07:47. | :07:50. | |
enough they can swim It's a devastating image, would be testify | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
worst in the country's history, it is unclear what brings them into the | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
beech. Some believe they may be sick or injured or have lost their way, | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
another theory is when a single whale is beached it sends out a | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
distress signal attracting other members of the pod. Once ashore it | :08:08. | :08:12. | |
is hard to get them back in to the ocean. We have the whales off that | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
have survived overnight and we have lost sight of them, but the bad part | :08:19. | :08:24. | |
of the story is a separate pod of 240 whales have come on and | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
restranded south of that. So, we have been fighting to keep those | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
ones happy, but it is grim out hire. Lifting and moving can prove | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
difficult so it is all down to the tide but with dangerous conditions | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
on the water, the operation has been stood down for now. | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
One other story. Hundreds of people have been competing in a sport that | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
combines dancing and flying indoors. Have a look at this. This is the | :08:55. | :08:59. | |
wind games. That, that doesn't look like real people does it. You can | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
compete in pairs as you can see, fours or as a solo contestant and | :09:04. | :09:09. | |
you get marks for speed and accuracy. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
That is so... How do they not crash into each other? That is a very | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
strange image, the winds games, I never knew they existed. Nine | :09:19. | :09:20. | |
minutes past eight is the time now, we will have the sport coming up | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
with Mike. The weather for the weekend with Matt in the next few | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
The unit which was set up to investigate claims British troops | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
abused Iraqi civilians is being scrapped, | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
after being described by MPs as an "unmitigated disaster". | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
The work of the Iraq Historic Allegations Team | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
cost 34 million pounds, but has led to no | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
Mark Lancaster, Minister for Defence Personnel | :09:39. | :09:51. | |
Good morning. Thank you for joining us. So, I mean tell us how you ended | :09:52. | :10:00. | |
up being falsely accused of the war crimes. It was on 200414th May, | :10:01. | :10:07. | |
blistering heat, was given a command to dismount from my vehicle we were | :10:08. | :10:12. | |
in, and launch a full frontal assault on a heavily defended | :10:13. | :10:19. | |
trench, occupied by the militia Mehdi Army. Obviously you did what | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
you had to do in the situation and when you came back, how did you find | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
out that you were then being accused of doing something wrong? That day | :10:28. | :10:38. | |
was a five hours intense violent battle which you know, in extreme | :10:39. | :10:44. | |
circumstances decision making had to be had, I was a young commander at | :10:45. | :10:49. | |
23 years old. Thinking that what I did on the ground was the right | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
thing to do and the right decisions that I had made. It wasn't perfect | :10:53. | :10:57. | |
but the guys on the ground with me, and I, we survived to, to get home | :10:58. | :11:05. | |
then, and to then find out about these allegations was hard breaking. | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
What kind of impact it did it have, your family must have been gutted as | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
well? It questioned my integrity as a commander, you know. Like, you | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
know, we go to war, we go on operations for this great country, | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
and you know, to have your actions questioned, when you get home, and | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
the allegations were at the highest order. Unlawful killing. Mutilation, | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
and then mistreatment of prisoners of war. That just did not happen, | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
and I just don't know where they got the fuel from, I really don't. | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
Obviously now that has been completely thrown out, there was no | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
evidence, and lots of cases, there was something like 3500 cases that | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
this unit they were looking at, it has been closed down, how do you | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
feel about it? Steph, it is good news, it is good news. Long overdue, | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
clearly, but it is good news. Look, we had holes in our systems which | :12:05. | :12:15. | |
were exploited, by bloodthirsty dishonest, greedy, with zero | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
integrity organisations to you know, put people's lives and turn them | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
upside down. This has been going on for year, its has had lasting impact | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
on you and your family and other soldier, you say it was long overdue | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
this closure, what do you think the Government should have done then? I | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
can only speak on behalf of me, my soldiers an my regiment and the | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
inquiry which lasted for ten years, because of the seriousness of the | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
allegations, they should have looked into them into so much detail, | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
before you know, releasing it as a public inquiry, going into a court. | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
Radio, I have never had, I have never been in that situation before, | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
never, and having to get cross-examined into an intimidation | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
environment like that, where I have people questioning and questioning | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
and questioning my action, I sort of question my actions also, because I | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
was, you know, getting told that many times they did it wrong, you | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
know, I started to think did I do it wrong? But I knew me and my fellow | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
soldiers and my regiment's integrity and values an standards of the | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
British arm were of the highest order. What impact has it an on your | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
regiment and the soldiers you were with? It is tarnished, without a | :13:37. | :13:41. | |
doubt. I can speak for my and my soldiers and what they have put it | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
through, for that period of time, it was damaging to the glee of careers, | :13:47. | :13:55. | |
marital split ups and fuelling the fire of PTSD, and the trauma that we | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
had seen on the battlefield. Not just me, we had been war fighting | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
for the last ten years so there is a lot of it going on, but just to get | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
these allegations thrown at you, is, it is a bitter pill to swallow. Is | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
there anything the Government could do now? They have done something | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
now, they have put something into place, the cases are now dropped. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
Any extra they should be doing in hindsight? That is for the | :14:22. | :14:24. | |
Government to decide, and lessons learned. The MoD and the Government | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
have big lessons to learn and do that post action review on the | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
lessons, that, you know, need to be learned and I will leave it like | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
that. Thank you so much for. Coming in to tell us your story. We really | :14:37. | :14:39. | |
appreciate that. Listening to that from the news room | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
is the minister for veterans. Thank you for your time. | :14:46. | :14:49. | |
I hope you were able to hear what he was saying. It is a searing | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
condemnation of an ordeal that he and many other soldiers were put | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
through, what is your immediate thought when you hear the personal | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
and professional impact that the inquiry had? It very moving. I can | :15:04. | :15:15. | |
empathise I joined in army in 19988, I still serve as a reserve, din't | :15:16. | :15:20. | |
serve in Iraq and I absolutely understand and feel for our service | :15:21. | :15:23. | |
personnel who have been through this, I hat was set up for the right | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
reasons, so that our service personnel wouldn't have to go to the | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
international criminal court, but unfortunately in the process it was | :15:33. | :15:35. | |
abused and that is why the Government took the action it did, | :15:36. | :15:44. | |
after the inquiry, by reporting Phil Shine tore the regulatory authority | :15:45. | :15:47. | |
and why after two years, after he has been struck off, we are able to | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
brick this to an end, and so it is just a great #145i78 what was done | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
for the right reasons has been abused. So the Iraq historic | :15:56. | :16:04. | |
allegations team, why wasn't it shut down sooner, because we heard their | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
account from Brian Wood, he was cross-examined, the ordeal that he | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
went through, what stage were there any indications that this set up was | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
fundamentally flawed and if there were signs earlier on why was it not | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
at least paused or halted before people had to go through that? Well, | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
I hope everybody accepts that the Government does have a duty to | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
investigate allegations and that is why in good faith this inquiry, this | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
team was set up. Clearly, after the inquiry, it became clear when the | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
judge gave his judgment, that he felt many of the allegations lacked | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
any basis whatsoever. It was at that point, that the Government took the | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
unprecedented step to report Phil Shiner and that has taken some two | :16:52. | :16:56. | |
yearses. I regret it has taken two years but at least we have a | :16:57. | :17:00. | |
positive outcome. There will be lessons to learned from this as we | :17:01. | :17:04. | |
move forward. It has taken longer than I hoped for but the Government | :17:05. | :17:07. | |
has taken positive accuse sunnion and today we see the is outcome of | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
that. Where then does this leave the other side of the coin, which is the | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
notion that as a result of what has happened here, that genuine cases | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
may now get ignored? Well, that won't be the case, because we do | :17:21. | :17:25. | |
feel that we will move down from about 3,000 cases to probably about | :17:26. | :17:28. | |
20, they will be properly investigated by the Royal Naval | :17:29. | :17:32. | |
police, that is a process that has been running in parallel and now | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
will move forward but equally it is important that is brought to a swift | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
conclusion, so we hope that will be done by, towards the end of the | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
summer. You mentioned your own experience at the begin of the | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
interview, it was interesting talking to Brian a moment ago about | :17:48. | :17:51. | |
the damage he thought that was done possibly more generally, to, if you | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
like, the image of British service personnel and the image of this | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
nation, in relation to wider international irissue, that can be | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
very long-standing, regardless of the fact that now the evidence has | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
been thrown out entirely. Well, I accept that, but that simply | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
underlines why the Government must investigate this, we must give the | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
confidence to the wider public that when allegations are made they are | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
investigated. We can't simply sweep things under the carpet: I regret | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
this process, which is set up in good faith was abused by the likes | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
of Phil Shiner. Now we have got through that process we can move | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
forward. Focus on the few allegations which may have some | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
substance but they will be properly investigated and that hopefully will | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
bring confidence we look at these things properly. Thank you for your | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
time. School-children in England are going | :18:40. | :18:53. | |
to be offered lessons in cyber security, it is hoped that more than | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
5,000 teenagers will spend up to four hours a week on the subject | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
over the next five years. President Trump is said to be considering a | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
new executive order on immigration, it follows reports it might not take | :19:06. | :19:13. | |
his case to reinstate his case to the travel ban to the Supreme Court. | :19:14. | :19:17. | |
We are being warned public parks are at threat because of a lack of | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
funding. We he few find out of how we can keep green spaces free for | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
future generations. We will talk about that later. If | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
you are out in the park this morning, if it is snowy, sunny send | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
Here's Matt with a look at this morning's weather. | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
Good morning. If you are heading off to the park today, certainly wrap up | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
well, it will be a chilly day, raw winds developing and as some have | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
been capturing there has been a dusting of snow. A few centimetres | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
here and there, makes for a pretty start but slippery on some of the | :19:58. | :20:02. | |
roads and pavements but not snow every where, we have rather grey | :20:03. | :20:05. | |
skies for the bullet to have country but a bit of sunshine for one or | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
two, Northern Ireland, western Scotland sunnier spots this morning | :20:10. | :20:12. | |
and throughout the day. Temperatures in the north-west high land down to | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
minus ten through the night. It is rain and drizzle round the coast, | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
sleet and snowover land. Same for northern England. A coating of snow | :20:21. | :20:25. | |
in the Pennines and Peak District. It will be mainly sleet and snow for | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
eastern wails, and the south-west, as well as the far south-east, Kent, | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
Suffolk and Sussex, that will give a further coating of snow. For most it | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
will turn back to rain through the day. Temperatures will rise a bit | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
and as I said some of that snow will melt, not causing much in the way of | :20:44. | :20:50. | |
problems. Still snow on the hills, Scotland and Northern Ireland still | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
have the sunshine, a cold day in store. It won't feel above freezing | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
because of the wind. It is is the layers needed. A few flakes the of | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
snow will continue through the night. Mainly over the hills. There | :21:07. | :21:11. | |
will be some to lower level, the wint continuing to strengthen. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
Touching gale force in some parts. Lightest winds in northern Scotland. | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
The best chance of frost into Sunday morning. Not as much sunshine | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
tomorrow, same too for Northern Ireland, compared with today. It is | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
a cloudy day, maybe more brightens in the south, for most it is another | :21:27. | :21:31. | |
grey day, a wind away day, bringing in further patchy rain, sleet and | :21:32. | :21:36. | |
snow, and it will make it feel even colder probably than today, given | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
the winds will be that bit stronger. If it is too much for you just have | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
a bit of faith because things are set to get that bit milder. If you | :21:45. | :21:49. | |
get a bit of sunshine to go with that, compared to what we have that | :21:50. | :22:02. | |
will feel like spring. We will have a look at The Papers | :22:03. | :22:04. | |
now. David Davies, Former Chief Executive | :22:05. | :22:11. | |
of the Football Association is here to tell us what's | :22:12. | :22:13. | |
caught his eye. You picked out some of your stories | :22:14. | :22:27. | |
for us. We have had had NHS week, stories highlighted and that is | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
where you started. Yes, you would be a Health Secretary in a winter like | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
this one? Queues in the corridor, cancelled appointment, A | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
nightmares, at the centre of it Jeremy Hunt. I think I am right in | :22:46. | :22:49. | |
saying when he was reappointed as Health Secretary he expected to get | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
sacked, when David Cameron left, so perhaps he wishes he was, but here | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
we have in a number of The Papers NHS crisis is completely | :23:01. | :23:06. | |
unacceptable, he says. And the Daily Mirror says the man responsible. The | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
problem is everyone is as ever looking for blame, but the, I regret | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
to say that the problems of the NHS and the problems of an ageing | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
population and what comes with it, has been talked about in this | :23:22. | :23:28. | |
country to my knowledge for 20 years, and by successive Governments | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
and it is harsh, blaming him, and him alone. One of the arguments is | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
about perhaps we should be paying more tax, and of course, this is | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
something that the Archbishop of Canterbury is talk take about and | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
saying the rich should be paying more. It's the old problem, should | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
the church ever get involved in politics, wasn't there in a previous | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
generation, many, many generations ago, there was a king who once said | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
will no-one rid me of this troublesome priest? That was about | :24:03. | :24:08. | |
Thomas a Beckett. This goes on in our society, the Archbishop of | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
Canterbury stoking a fresh row, the Daily Mail tells us as he called for | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
the rich to pay more tax, inevitably he is saying some people will have | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
to pay more in the future and then the, they go to the Tory MP, in this | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
case Philip Davies, who says if Mr Well by wants to volunteer to pay | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
more income tax he can send his cheque to HMRC and they will be | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
pleased. That is what they always say, that debate has gone on. My own | :24:40. | :24:44. | |
view is the church is damned if it gets involved and it is called | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
irrelevant if it doesn't. The next story you will choose, those are two | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
things we talked about so far, huge, sometimes people feel powerless to | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
affect, the NHS and religion, this is one that is every day life. Life. | :24:59. | :25:03. | |
Little things that can make a big difference. I have to declare an | :25:04. | :25:07. | |
interest about this story, because not very long ago, for the first | :25:08. | :25:13. | |
time in my life, somebody offered to stand up for me, o on the tube, and | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
they obviously took pity on me, and in, at my age, and I didn't know | :25:20. | :25:25. | |
whether to laugh or cry. I wanted to say thank you, thank you, but it's a | :25:26. | :25:31. | |
sign of the time. This, if there a pregnant woman onboard who is the | :25:32. | :25:37. | |
most likely to get up? Women are less likely, they pretend not to | :25:38. | :25:42. | |
notice an expectant mother. The younger generation are more | :25:43. | :25:45. | |
considerate of elderly or pregnant passengers than their older | :25:46. | :25:48. | |
counterparts. Now that doesn't surprise me, some of the rudeness | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
that I see from dare I is a my own generation, on tube trains is far | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
greater than anything I ever see from the young. It is that classic | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
isn't it, where a pregnant lady will get on and everyone, you know, looks | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
to the floor, that annoys me. I have to say on buses and tubes, I often | :26:07. | :26:12. | |
think I see the opposite, which like to think, I see it a, a lot of | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
people being much more engaged and offering up more often. Do you see | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
the opposite? Yes I see a lot of that. There is a conclusion guys, | :26:22. | :26:24. | |
that is really good news for everybody. The conclusion of this, I | :26:25. | :26:29. | |
think it is an Italian, this survey has been done, it has been done in | :26:30. | :26:36. | |
the UK as well, and around 97% of Brits, consider themselves to be | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
nice people. Well that is OK. What is your definition of Nice? OK. Did | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
you take the seat when it was offered to me. I didn't because I | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
was only one station away, if I had been 21 stations, well I probably | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
would have done. And you are perfectly fine I am not bad. Do you | :26:55. | :27:00. | |
want to take a moment to address the issues of the FA this week? Maybe | :27:01. | :27:06. | |
people don't know the ins and outs are thinking we have a butch of -- | :27:07. | :27:12. | |
bunch of MPs having a go at an organisation, and where does this | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
get us? That, what you are talking about is precisely the problem, the | :27:17. | :27:23. | |
problem of perception, -- perception. People say whue should | :27:24. | :27:28. | |
fans bother about the governance of the FA? It does matter, because the | :27:29. | :27:33. | |
whole question is, there are no agreed priority, you can't tell me | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
what the agreed priorities of English football are today. I can't | :27:38. | :27:40. | |
tell you either. You would hope it is to run the FA in... Hang on. | :27:41. | :27:47. | |
There aren't any agreed priorities because people come from the Premier | :27:48. | :27:51. | |
League which has priority, the FA has its priority, the Football | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
League has its priorities, there is no one way of governing one agreed | :27:56. | :27:59. | |
set of priorities for the English game as a whole. That is part and | :28:00. | :28:06. | |
parcel, because there is not enough independence, there are not enough | :28:07. | :28:08. | |
women, there are not enough representatives of the society in | :28:09. | :28:12. | |
which we live. So what is the point of them? Hang hang on a minute, the | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
point of them is there are, thousands, hundreds of thousands of | :28:18. | :28:21. | |
good people doing wonderful work, welcome back the FA, week in, week | :28:22. | :28:27. | |
out, running football in the park, running women's teams, developing, | :28:28. | :28:32. | |
but the corporate governance, what we expect, from corporate governance | :28:33. | :28:36. | |
in business in this society, we don't see. So just help us with this | :28:37. | :28:41. | |
one, so this group of 60 plus... People like me. White middle aged | :28:42. | :28:47. | |
men, who run the FA, they get threatened with what is it, ?30 | :28:48. | :28:51. | |
million you might lose, do you honestly think that that will make | :28:52. | :28:54. | |
them think, for a second? And of course what you will say is that is | :28:55. | :29:00. | |
a third of the cost of Manchester United's signing Paul Pogba from | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
Juventus or where ever. And that is, I absolutely take that point, but | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
that money is football development, at the grass roots, and that is very | :29:11. | :29:13. | |
important, and that money will have to come from somewhere else, by the | :29:14. | :29:18. | |
way, presumably, you would think the Premier League, but that will be a | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
debate within football, but the Government does have other weapons | :29:24. | :29:27. | |
of course, and for example, nobody could ever successfully bid for a | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
World Cup, without the support of its Government and this Government | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
is saying, we will not do that, unless and until the FA reforms | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
itself. That is punishing the wrong teem isn't it. That is the whole | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
point. You have to ask whose fault that is. I have confidence that this | :29:47. | :29:51. | |
time we have created, we are creating an atmosphere where change | :29:52. | :29:55. | |
will come from within, and the existing chairman, is confidence | :29:56. | :29:57. | |
that he can -- confident he can pull it through. On that note we will | :29:58. | :30:02. | |
stop and you will come back in an hour's time. | :30:03. | :30:06. | |
Still to come this morning. Make cycling safer, that is the call | :30:07. | :30:11. | |
from campaigners in London after three riders were killed in the past | :30:12. | :30:15. | |
four days on the dam's roads. We will talk about that in a few | :30:16. | :30:18. | |
minutes time and headlines in a moment. | :30:19. | :30:51. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
Matt will have the weather and Mike will have the sport. Now a summary | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
of the morning's main news. A ?20 million drive to find | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
the future experts capable of defending Britain | :31:04. | :31:05. | |
from cyber-attacks has been Thousands of schoolchildren | :31:06. | :31:07. | |
in England will learn about cyber security in lessons - | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
after a Commons committee highlighted a skills shortage | :31:11. | :31:12. | |
and labelled our current handling Donald Trump has said he may rewrite | :31:13. | :31:14. | |
the presidential order imposing restrictions on travel to the US | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
in a bid overcome legal obstacles which have | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
frustrated his efforts so far. The President unveiled the ban | :31:23. | :31:27. | |
at the end of his first week in office, barring entry | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
to travellers from Earlier this week an appeals court | :31:31. | :31:31. | |
upheld the suspension The case may now proceed | :31:32. | :31:36. | |
to the Supreme Court. The funding of parks has reached | :31:37. | :31:43. | |
a tipping point and new ways of paying for them may have | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
to be found. That's according to | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
the Commons Communities and Local Government Committee | :31:49. | :31:50. | |
which says parks are suffering It warns there's a danger of a | :31:51. | :31:51. | |
return to the neglect of the 1980s. Labour has issued formal warnings | :31:52. | :32:00. | |
to members of its front-bench team who disobeyed Jeremy Corbyn's order | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
to vote for Brexit. Among those who ignored Mr Corbyn | :32:04. | :32:08. | |
were 11 shadow junior ministers Those are the main stories this | :32:09. | :32:35. | |
morning. Now look at the sport. The song Delilah has been played to the | :32:36. | :32:41. | |
England players by Eddie Jones in the gym. He is a famous Welsh | :32:42. | :32:48. | |
singer. It is mind games. How does that work? Did Eddie Jones' first | :32:49. | :32:54. | |
trip as England coach. He has been full of mind games and he has got | :32:55. | :32:59. | |
his wish, the roof will be open for this one and history tells us that | :33:00. | :33:06. | |
England have won four out of five matches with the roof open in | :33:07. | :33:11. | |
Cardiff. Whales wanted it shut -- Wales wanted it shut for the | :33:12. | :33:20. | |
atmosphere. Both camps have been telling us how they have prepared. | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
Tom Jones is out of my error. The players were not too happy hearing | :33:27. | :33:35. | |
Delilah in the gym. It is not a hit they are happy with. They would | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
prefer songs of the moment. That we have looked at something that we can | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
control and that is all we can do. Standing in the doorway and the | :33:47. | :33:49. | |
doorway gets little bit smaller. You come out and there are 75,000 fans. | :33:50. | :33:55. | |
We hope it will be a good 80 minute game. You realise we are in a very | :33:56. | :34:00. | |
fortunate place. You get to enjoy the anthem before. Hopefully we can | :34:01. | :34:07. | |
put some smiles on faces. The build-up starts on BBC One at | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
4:15pm. Ireland will be hoping to bounce | :34:11. | :34:12. | |
back from their surprise defeat They face Italy in Rome in the early | :34:13. | :34:14. | |
game, while Scotland are in Paris History was made in the Premier | :34:15. | :34:30. | |
League as Tom Varndell became the all-time try scorer, he scored his | :34:31. | :34:38. | |
91st Premiership try to take him beyond Mark Cueto's record. | :34:39. | :34:42. | |
A last gasp penalty from, Rhys Priestland, gave third place | :34:43. | :34:45. | |
Bath, a one point victory over Northampton. | :34:46. | :34:46. | |
Elsewhere Sale Sharks beat Newcastle. | :34:47. | :34:48. | |
Scarlets moved into the top four, of the Pro 12, | :34:49. | :34:50. | |
Tom Williams scored one of their two tries. | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
The top two of Munster, and Ospreys, both won, and so did Ulster. | :34:54. | :34:58. | |
On to football. The big news tonight, I was walking across the | :34:59. | :35:09. | |
park and two big men said, he's gone, he's gone back into work! I | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
thought was it Mark Wolverton? But there is confusion now. Here is down | :35:16. | :35:28. | |
macro -- Dan. I don't think he will be in charge this weekend. We are | :35:29. | :35:36. | |
going to try to get to the bottom of that today. We have a nice piece on | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
Scottish football. Neil Lennon will be talking to us. There is the first | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
Edinburgh derby for Neil Lennon since he took over. There trying to | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
get to the bottom of the Mark Waugh button issue in Scotland. And we | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
also have a fascinating interview with Henrik Mick tarry in. He was | :35:56. | :36:05. | |
not played by Jose Mourinho. The Qatari -- we will ask what it is | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
like to arrive with that price tag. His attitude is a very interesting | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
one will stop here is a bit of the interview. If I was 22, 23 years old | :36:16. | :36:23. | |
when I came to Manchester, I would suffer, maybe I would have many | :36:24. | :36:27. | |
problems, because I would take things very seriously. If I wouldn't | :36:28. | :36:32. | |
play, I be would sad, I would be mad. Maybe I wouldn't talk to my | :36:33. | :36:37. | |
friends or my family. But I said this is life. If you just smile to | :36:38. | :36:44. | |
your life, the world will smile too. I just kept smiling and working and | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
now I am happy. It is fascinating because he did not arrive with a | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
fanfare of Zlatan Ibrahimovic, he was almost under the radar. I think | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
that is at Mike Bushell attitude! Just smile and things will be OK. | :37:01. | :37:06. | |
Have you seen Mike's mining peace? There was not a lot of smiling | :37:07. | :37:16. | |
there. I do noisy scared. If you have no idea what we are talking | :37:17. | :37:20. | |
about, Mike has been down a mine. We will see that in a moment. We have | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
an interview with Paul Clement who arrived at Swansea in the bottom | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
three and when he arrived everyone said he has Championship experience, | :37:30. | :37:35. | |
he must be prepared for going down. He is manager of the month and has | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
turned things around. I know you played Ian Wright's clip last night | :37:41. | :37:48. | |
saying is this the final season for Arsene Wenger? So we have that as | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
well. And also Danny Mills and Martin Keown to discuss that from 12 | :37:54. | :38:00. | |
o'clock on BBC One. It will be the full 60 minutes. You go and get | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
ready. Sheffield Wednesday are on course to reach the play-offs in the | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
Championship after beating Birmingham city and their spending | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
in the transfer window is paying off already. | :38:14. | :38:28. | |
That's new boy Jordan Rhodes, after just nine minutes, | :38:29. | :38:30. | |
A special moment as he went off to celebrate with his dad | :38:31. | :38:34. | |
Further goals from another signing Sam Winnall, | :38:35. | :38:36. | |
Leigh's, return to rugby league's Super League, | :38:37. | :38:39. | |
got off to a disappointing start, as they were taught | :38:40. | :38:42. | |
The Tigers ran in seven trys including this | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
Elsewhere, Huddersfield Giants beat Widnes 28-16. | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
Barry Hawkins is into the final of snooker's, | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
Barry Hawkins is into the final of snooker's | :38:54. | :38:55. | |
He eased past Liang Wenbo of China 6-1 - finishing in style | :38:56. | :38:59. | |
He'll now face either Marco Fu or Ryan Day on Sunday. | :39:00. | :39:02. | |
What we were talking about was that Snowdonia has been building itself | :39:03. | :39:11. | |
as a centre for adventure sports. There is the fastest zip wire and a | :39:12. | :39:18. | |
surfing lake and now former slate mines have been brought back to life | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
to add a huge adrenaline rush to history lessons. I don't think I | :39:23. | :39:26. | |
have ever been as scared as when I joined a school party in the vast | :39:27. | :39:28. | |
case at Blaenau Ffestiniog. Beneath this sci-fi landscape, there | :39:29. | :39:41. | |
is an industrial world waiting to be discovered again. Another of 300 | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
tunnels and caverns, 24 stories deep. Former slate mines to be | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
explored using climbing skills and zip wires, giving you an insight | :39:53. | :39:56. | |
into the life of a minor 200 feet the rock face. Tell me this is not | :39:57. | :40:03. | |
real, that this is a horrible dream? There are staples hammered into the | :40:04. | :40:08. | |
rock. Of course, your faith due to a harness and special clips which | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
cannot be unhooked at the same time but your mind paralyse is you with | :40:12. | :40:15. | |
fear. I am on a wooden plank 100 feet in the air across an old | :40:16. | :40:22. | |
quarry! See you later. What is incredible as when you stop for a | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
moment and look down and look around and realise this is where people | :40:26. | :40:29. | |
work! How terrifying must that have been? Some forced to work here were | :40:30. | :40:36. | |
as young as six years old. When I first came here I learned what the | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
miners had to do with the tools. We have a great safety system but they | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
just used chains around their legs and hang on the edge of the war. It | :40:45. | :40:47. | |
is crazy that they would do that for 12 hours a day in the pitch black. | :40:48. | :40:53. | |
Erol worked on the open minds here until the 1970s but now he is back | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
working as a safety inspector. It has given them a new lease of life. | :40:59. | :41:06. | |
It brings people and money in. There is a saying that line-up is been | :41:07. | :41:09. | |
York ruled the world so we are very proud of the culture and we have | :41:10. | :41:14. | |
embraced that culture -- Plan A demurred ruled the world. Once it | :41:15. | :41:18. | |
had the training it is up to you to get around the three-hour course. | :41:19. | :41:24. | |
Once you have conquered the fears in your head, it starts to become more | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
enjoyable now. The sensation when you have achieved it is outstanding. | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
You learn more about yourself than you do looking at your iPhone. The | :41:35. | :41:40. | |
ten and 11-year-old school pupils took it in their stride. Having seen | :41:41. | :41:47. | |
one lad fall of the monkey bars 200 feet up... It was really scary, I | :41:48. | :41:53. | |
thought I would fall. I gave it a miss heading for the final heart | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
stopping challenge. This is the stairway to heaven. | :41:58. | :42:08. | |
And they say the steepest zip wire -- and they saved the steepest zip | :42:09. | :42:22. | |
wire to last. Some people do this everyday! Mad! What is it about fear | :42:23. | :42:27. | |
that it gets worse with age? I did not think I was scared of heights | :42:28. | :42:33. | |
and to that. There are vast caverns, 24 stories of them. And the | :42:34. | :42:39. | |
darkness. It is an amazing place to bring back to life. | :42:40. | :42:46. | |
And the youngsters on the trip are learning as well? Once you have had | :42:47. | :42:50. | |
your training, you have three hours to get yourself around. You are | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
responsible for your own safety. You can go to the website for more | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
places to go. I can't believe you have finally found something you are | :42:59. | :43:00. | |
scared of! Oh, yes! Your heating bills are likely to go | :43:01. | :43:11. | |
this year because the three big gas and electricity suppliers have | :43:12. | :43:17. | |
announced price rises. British Gas has announced its customers will | :43:18. | :43:22. | |
have prices frozen until August. We can talk to Paul Lillis, the | :43:23. | :43:28. | |
presenter of Radio 4's money box programme. -- Paul Lewis. | :43:29. | :43:36. | |
It is announce the big companies are putting up their prices? Last year | :43:37. | :43:42. | |
they announced a fall but now they are going up. That is partly because | :43:43. | :43:48. | |
the wholesale price is going up. But also they are blaming government | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
schemes, that schemes to help with installation costs and also this ?11 | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
billion programme of changing every metre to what they call a smart | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
meter. That is adding costs. The Scottish Government have said a | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
third of the rise is due to government schemes -- ScottishPower | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
have said. It can be tricky to work out what it means to you. Can you | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
give us an update of what it might mean in terms of pounds in the | :44:20. | :44:31. | |
pocket? The problem is it is all about averages. Npower says about | :44:32. | :44:37. | |
?109 a year on top of what you pay now. ScottishPower says about 80 odd | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
pounds on top of what you pay now. But that is a typical person who | :44:43. | :44:49. | |
takes gas and electricity and uses an average amount. Because | :44:50. | :44:53. | |
electricity is going up more than gas, if you just use electricity, | :44:54. | :44:56. | |
then your average prices will go up a lot more. And if you are a small | :44:57. | :45:03. | |
user, although the pound's rise will be less, the percentage rise will | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
actually be more with some of these rises. So it is complicated but they | :45:09. | :45:11. | |
are going up basically. British Gas is frozen. SSE and E.On are also | :45:12. | :45:19. | |
frozen for now. That may end in March. British Gas says it will end | :45:20. | :45:25. | |
in August. And what about those on prepayment meters? They often get | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
the worst deal? They do but Ofgem the regulator says they are paying | :45:30. | :45:32. | |
pretty much the same as everyone else. It means lower bills for | :45:33. | :45:39. | |
people prepaid gas users but for electricity users only they could | :45:40. | :45:42. | |
actually see a slight rise because the cap has been fixed a bit above | :45:43. | :45:46. | |
what many are paying now. At least it will protect them in future. It | :45:47. | :45:52. | |
is an interesting development that the prepay meters, the price will be | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
capped and it will change every few months. The cap will be there for | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
2020. I think prepayment people are getting a fairer deal than they used | :46:02. | :46:07. | |
to. Thank you, that is Paul Lillis from Moneybox on Radio 4 at midday | :46:08. | :46:16. | |
today. -- that is Paul Lewis. Now Matt has got the weather. | :46:17. | :46:23. | |
Hello. Even though the temperatures are not unusually low, the | :46:24. | :46:30. | |
wind-chill will affect things. This was a scene taken earlier by one of | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
our Weather Watchers. A familiar shop for many with a dusting of snow | :46:36. | :46:45. | |
here and there. The sum it is greying damp but others have a sunny | :46:46. | :46:59. | |
day -- for some it is grey and damp. In Scotland you will have to get on | :47:00. | :47:02. | |
to the hills to see the snow falling. Further south are some | :47:03. | :47:11. | |
coatings of snow. In the west it will turn to rain and drizzle. | :47:12. | :47:17. | |
Inland the temperatures are starting to rise. Snow will continue over the | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
higher ground for many. For most it will be patchy rain and drizzle. The | :47:22. | :47:33. | |
wind is picking up. The winds will knock the temperatures right down. A | :47:34. | :47:40. | |
cold day in store. A chilly night come tonight. Frost in the far north | :47:41. | :47:47. | |
of Scotland. Most will see generally cloudy conditions. A little bit icy. | :47:48. | :47:52. | |
Patchy rain and drizzle continues. Particularly for England and whales. | :47:53. | :48:01. | |
Temperatures just above freezing. -- for England and Wales. The brightest | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
conditions in northern Scotland and Northern Ireland. Maybe bright | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
across southern counties of England and Wales. Snow over the higher | :48:13. | :48:20. | |
ground. Nothing hugely significant and an added wind-chill your day. If | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
you are cranking the heating up this weekend you may be able to step back | :48:26. | :48:30. | |
next week because there will be some sunshine back in the country on | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
Monday and Tuesday. Temperatures climbing back into double figures | :48:35. | :48:37. | |
and heading higher still as we go into Wednesday. | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
Can I ask, I am distracted by your tie, what is on it? It is flowers. | :48:44. | :48:55. | |
When you say distracted... I am not criticising it! That is a nice Thai! | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
He is smiling but he is offended! We have all found good reasons to | :49:00. | :49:15. | |
take a trip to our local park but it can be difficult. Council budgets | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
and pressures to find land for housing means parks are facing a | :49:19. | :49:23. | |
period of decline. MPs say there needs to be a fundamental change to | :49:24. | :49:26. | |
the way they are managed. What have parks ever done for us? We | :49:27. | :49:42. | |
have taken up tennis. It feels wild even though we are in the centre of | :49:43. | :49:49. | |
London. Disclosed to our house. It is somewhere to take the children. | :49:50. | :49:55. | |
There is a cafe over there. The crucial question surrounds their | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
value and the cost. For the past six months, a committee of MPs has been | :50:01. | :50:03. | |
asking the question and listening to the answers. It found with council | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
budgets so tight, many local parks are at a tipping point. What of | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
their viability, what of the future? How can they be saved? | :50:14. | :50:21. | |
Instead of regarding parks is only a leisure and recreation area | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
of service, we should be thinking about parks as the contributors to | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
public health and to environmental policy and to community cohesion. | :50:28. | :50:29. | |
And maybe they can be re-prioritised. | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
But there is a fundamental problem about the level of cuts that local | :50:36. | :50:39. | |
We started to do some work and eventually created | :50:40. | :50:42. | |
We have planted 60,000 trees to encourage flora and fauna. | :50:43. | :50:48. | |
The innovation started here on the edge of the Pennines, | :50:49. | :50:50. | |
It's vital for the community to have this sort of open space. | :50:51. | :50:57. | |
If it's looked after and maintained, it's for their benefit. | :50:58. | :51:00. | |
As well as the nature reserve there is a community garden | :51:01. | :51:03. | |
It is the result of partnerships between the council, | :51:04. | :51:07. | |
the charity Groundwork and local volunteers. | :51:08. | :51:10. | |
A model example of how public green spaces can | :51:11. | :51:13. | |
It was a redundant piece of land, fly tipping and things like that, | :51:14. | :51:21. | |
from that, we were able to create this community garden and help out | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
with adding some elements to the sports pitch. | :51:25. | :51:31. | |
It helped the group service the community a lot more, | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
and more and more people could get involved with that. | :51:38. | :51:39. | |
Long-term it is a cost saving to the council, | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
but the councils have to be responsible | :51:43. | :51:43. | |
The MPs are calling on the government and local | :51:44. | :51:52. | |
authorities to ensure they have strategic plans in place | :51:53. | :51:54. | |
for these emeralds, these green jewels in the crown. | :51:55. | :51:56. | |
They believe parks must remain publicly owned, | :51:57. | :51:58. | |
From flood management to healthy living to biodiversity of wildlife, | :51:59. | :52:05. | |
our parks and green spaces can be the lungs and the heart | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
Watching that with us here, Helen Griffiths is the chief executive of | :52:11. | :52:31. | |
a charity which seeks to preserve open spaces and a member of | :52:32. | :52:36. | |
residents group. People really care about their open spaces. Marina, | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
your group which you set up, because you are in a place where there | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
wasn't much outdoor space and as you explain it to us, maybe we can see | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
the before and after shots which will really illustrate it. Tell us | :52:50. | :52:55. | |
what you had. This is the before shot. It was a disused landlocked | :52:56. | :53:01. | |
council garage site. The houses back all round it. A few houses back onto | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
it and they have gates onto the site now. Residents got together and | :53:06. | :53:10. | |
thought there has to be something we can do with this. It was just being | :53:11. | :53:17. | |
used for fly-tipping and kids congregating. We came up with some | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
ideas and started raising some funding and put things in place. Now | :53:22. | :53:27. | |
it is a well used site for all ages. We have a new group coming from a | :53:28. | :53:32. | |
nursery, from three-year-old up to eight-year-olds. You have vegetable | :53:33. | :53:39. | |
plots as well. We do vegetables, fruit trees, flowers. There are | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
seating areas and a barbecue on site. It is just a well used site. | :53:44. | :53:52. | |
That is really transformed. It must have taken a lot of dedication? We | :53:53. | :53:55. | |
are all really passionate and proud of what we have achieved. We have | :53:56. | :53:58. | |
had school groups who have come on site and done things and then they | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
have gone and done things on their own sites in schools. The Cubs, | :54:04. | :54:10. | |
scouts, everyone uses it. Everyone is saying it is extraordinary. But | :54:11. | :54:18. | |
Nina, the bad parts of the story, reading the figures, some park | :54:19. | :54:24. | |
management funds are being cut up to 97%? Absolutely. The story bit | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
marina told about the fantastic transformation of the site and the | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
way it plays into the community, it is one of the most universal public | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
services to have access to green space from cradle to grave. | :54:38. | :54:43. | |
Unfortunately, local authorities are suffering a terribly challenging | :54:44. | :54:47. | |
time in being able to continue to maintain those spaces, because of | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
the levels of cuts they have experienced over the past few years. | :54:52. | :54:57. | |
And unfortunately, the cuts which are projected to continue. A report | :54:58. | :55:00. | |
says parks are at a tipping point and they really are. Is there | :55:01. | :55:07. | |
anything that can be done which does not involve money? Are there other | :55:08. | :55:14. | |
ways communities can help? There are range of solutions. The | :55:15. | :55:17. | |
recommendation from the report are really welcomed. We are starting to | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
understand the value of our parks. This should go beyond the cost of | :55:23. | :55:25. | |
cutting the grass. We should consider the impacts on all the | :55:26. | :55:30. | |
health and social agendas they can help us to achieve in tackling | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
obesity, anti-social behaviour. I think there is a lot of work to do | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
to revalue and protect those spaces which is the work my organisation | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
has done for along time, to safeguard for future generations | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
access to green spaces. Once they have been developed they are never | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
coming back into recreational use. In terms of funding, I do think and | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
as the report recommends, we are going to need innovative solutions, | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
which will involve community groups like Marina Pospelova and involved | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
and taking some sort of ownership over the site to help with | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
contributing to the ongoing maintenance of that. That low and | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
was council loans so when you first put the idea that there was -- that | :56:16. | :56:27. | |
land was council owned. First we approached the residents to make | :56:28. | :56:30. | |
sure they were OK with the idea and then we went to our council office. | :56:31. | :56:37. | |
They put ?15,000 into it. I applied for lottery funding and after the | :56:38. | :56:47. | |
site was built we approached the local school because we knew the | :56:48. | :56:50. | |
schoolchildren would come on site and they funded us for the big poly- | :56:51. | :56:56. | |
tunnel we now have. It has really helped the children in the area. It | :56:57. | :57:02. | |
can help with other areas of your life, obesity and things like that, | :57:03. | :57:06. | |
have you seen it has made a difference in the community? I have | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
found it has brought the community spirit back which was lacking in the | :57:12. | :57:15. | |
area. More of the elderly will come out. They will fit on the benches, | :57:16. | :57:20. | |
chat and go, that five minutes of being in the fresh air rather than | :57:21. | :57:24. | |
looking at four walls has changed things. We have seen the pictures, | :57:25. | :57:32. | |
it is a complete transformation from what was a derelict area. If your | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
local park is a bit rubbish, people say it is looking rundown, if people | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
go to their local authority and they say they haven't got any money, what | :57:42. | :57:47. | |
happens next? I think it is a really difficult challenge. One of the | :57:48. | :57:51. | |
challenges in having the parks in the state of decline in demise is it | :57:52. | :57:56. | |
threatens the future so much more. If a space is not being well used by | :57:57. | :58:01. | |
the community, the likelihood of being redeveloped for other | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
purposes, it becomes much more likely. I think finding ways for us | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
to collectively address the issue, and that is the approach we need to | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
take, because parks do play such a role in all those different areas. | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
We need to not be looking solely at the Parc's maintenance budget when | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
we look at how parks are funded and how they contributed. We have been | :58:24. | :58:29. | |
asking people to send in their park pictures so let's have a look at | :58:30. | :58:36. | |
some which were sent in. This caught our eye, a beautiful sunrise. It was | :58:37. | :58:44. | |
snapped by Vince. This is Django the springer spaniel doing what he does | :58:45. | :58:53. | |
best! This park is in London. It is funny, sometimes the parks in big | :58:54. | :58:58. | |
cities can be the best maintained in some circumstances. 61% of park | :58:59. | :59:10. | |
users are in urban areas. This is Woodford Park in Berkshire, it is | :59:11. | :59:13. | |
the same picture again, where is this one from Rita? This one is used | :59:14. | :59:24. | |
for sports. It is not just sitting around, they are used for practical | :59:25. | :59:36. | |
uses as well. And this is in Preston. Ben is heading to his 99th | :59:37. | :59:43. | |
park run. That makes a difference as well. Absolutely. We want to come | :59:44. | :59:52. | |
for a visit to your park now! You are welcome any time! | :59:53. | :59:54. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :59:55. | :59:56. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. | :59:57. | :00:27. | |
The latest weapon in the war against hackers - | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
the Government funds lessons in cyber security for teenagers. | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
It's hoped they'll become the experts of the future | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
and protect Britain from online attacks. | :00:35. | :00:53. | |
Good morning it's Saturday, 11th February. | :00:54. | :00:54. | |
President Trump says he may issue a new order authorising a travel ban | :00:55. | :00:57. | |
after his old one was blocked by the courts. | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
Parks under threat - a new report says funding has | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
reached a tipping point and new ways of paying for them need to be found. | :01:05. | :01:10. | |
The latest on the battle to save hundreds of whales stranded | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
And in sport - it's one of the biggest tests yet, | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
It's a first trip to Cardiff, for their coach Eddie Jones, | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
and Wales are banking on home advantage to take them | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Good morning, a cold feeling day out there for all of us today. | :01:25. | :01:33. | |
For some a little bit of snow to begin with, giving a coating | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
in places but for many some of that snow will turn back to rain, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
all the details coming up in 15 minutes. | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
The government is to fund lessons in cyber security to encourage | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
teenagers to pursue a career in defending Britain | :01:48. | :01:49. | |
It's hoped that thousands of pupils in England will spend up to four | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
hours a week on the subject, over the next five years. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
Here's our home affairs Correspondent Tom Symonds. | :01:57. | :02:02. | |
Daniel Kelly's a convicted teenage hacker, facing a jail sentence. | :02:03. | :02:05. | |
In 2015, he took part in the massive digital break-in | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
But what if his potential had been harnessed at an earlier age? | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
He might have ended up joining a new breed of apprentices learning | :02:15. | :02:22. | |
the cyber security trade like these at BT's headquarters. | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
With that in mind, the government is putting up ?20 million, | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
for nearly 6000 schoolchildren aged 14 and above to take four hours | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
of cyber security lessons after school each week. | :02:31. | :02:37. | |
We think that will help seriously with this shortage | :02:38. | :02:39. | |
Now, of course, will always keep it under review, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
in case this needs to get bigger, but getting it going on that scale, | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
I think shows serious ambition to make sure that we can | :02:47. | :02:49. | |
have the pipeline of talent that we will need in the years ahead. | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
While the police are stepping up the fight, this is not a threat | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
which can be defeated on the ground by raiding the hackers. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
The cyber crime battlefield will be online and Britain's GCHQ | :02:59. | :03:00. | |
58,000 people are now employed in the growing anti-hacking industry. | :03:01. | :03:14. | |
But more will be needed and the government knows | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
it has to start finding them when they are young. | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
Donald Trump has said he may rewrite the presidential order imposing | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
restrictions on travel to the US to overcome the legal obstacles that | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
His first order - stopping travel from seven mainly-Muslim countries - | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
Our Washington correspondent, David Willis, has more. | :03:37. | :03:48. | |
After a federal appeals court backed a stay of his executive order, | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
Donald Trump vowed he would see his opponents in court. | :03:52. | :03:53. | |
Speaking on Air Force One, en route to his weekend retreat in Florida, | :03:54. | :04:00. | |
the President revealed he was actively weighing | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
But we also have a lot of other options, including just filing | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
We need speed, for reasons of security, so it could very | :04:08. | :04:19. | |
Unveiled at the end of a frantic first week in office, | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
the original order suspended America's refugee programme | :04:24. | :04:25. | |
and banned travellers from seven majority Muslim nations | :04:26. | :04:27. | |
It caused chaos at airports and sparked protests | :04:28. | :04:33. | |
Quite how the White House might rewrite the order isn't clear, | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
although lawyers would almost certainly have to address the claim | :04:38. | :04:43. | |
that in its existing form, the order is unconstitutional, | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
in that it blocks entry to the United States | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
Mr Trump has continued to insist that tough immigration | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
measures are crucial to America's national security. | :04:53. | :04:54. | |
The funding of parks has reached a tipping point and new ways | :04:55. | :05:02. | |
of paying for them may have to be found. | :05:03. | :05:04. | |
That's according to the Commons Communities | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
and Local Government Committee which says parks are suffering | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
It warns there's a danger of a return to the neglect of the 1980s. | :05:09. | :05:14. | |
It warns there's a danger of a return to the neglect of the 1980s. | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
Instead of kind of regarding parks as a kind of only a leisure | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
and recreation area of service, we should be thinking about parks | :05:23. | :05:25. | |
as big contributors to public health, and to environmental policy | :05:26. | :05:27. | |
and to community cohesion, and maybe they can be reprioritised. | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
But there is fundamentally a problem about the level of cuts that local | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
authorities have been experiencing, the distribution of the cuts | :05:38. | :05:38. | |
across the country and the very, very difficult decisions that many | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
local authorities are having to make. | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
Labour has issued formal warnings to members of its front-bench team | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
who disobeyed Jeremy Corbyn's order to vote for Brexit. | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
Among those who ignored Mr Corbyn were eleven shadow junior ministers | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
A 16-year-old boy has died after he was stabbed | :05:58. | :06:05. | |
The wounded teenager was taken from the Harehills area | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
to hospital for treatment, but died a short time later. | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of murder. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
The decision to end a scheme to let unaccompanied refugee children | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
into the UK is shameful according to the Scottish First | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
She's urged the Prime Minister to change her mind saying | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
there is a moral duty to help those in need. | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
The scheme's due to end in March with 350 children being admitted far | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
fewer than some campaigners had hoped for. | :06:32. | :06:41. | |
Volunteers have told Breakfast in the past few hours than 200 more | :06:42. | :06:44. | |
whales have become stranded on a beach in New Zealand. | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
Hundreds more have already died in one of the biggest ever mass | :06:47. | :06:49. | |
It's hoped the pilot whales may be able to swim to safety | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
Just to warn you, you might find some of the scenes in this report | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
As they wait for high tide, volunteers do whatever | :06:59. | :07:10. | |
Pouring water and covering the creatures in cloths helps | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
Temporary measures until the whales can be released into the ocean. | :07:14. | :07:22. | |
Some hope singing will prove soothing. | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
Very quickly, this tide has come racing in, and now we're | :07:27. | :07:38. | |
Some people are up to their waists in water, and we are starting | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
to get a bit of floating, and we're helping assist the whales | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
with their breathing until the water gets deep enough they can swim. | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
It's a devastating image, one of the worst whale strandings | :07:49. | :07:51. | |
It's unclear what brings them en masse onto the beech. | :07:52. | :07:55. | |
Some believe they may be sick or injured, or have | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
Another theory is tht when a single whale is beached it sends | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
out a distress signal, attracting other members of the pod. | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
Once ashore, it is hard to get them back in to the ocean. | :08:05. | :08:07. | |
We worked hard and got those 100 whales off that had survived | :08:08. | :08:14. | |
overnight and we have lost sight of them, but the bad part | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
of the story is a separate pod of 240 whales have come | :08:19. | :08:20. | |
So we have been fighting to keep those ones happy, | :08:21. | :09:15. | |
Hundreds of people from across the world have been competing this | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
week in a sport that combines dancing and flying - indoors. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
You can compete in pairs, fours or as a solo contestant. | :09:21. | :09:24. | |
You get marks for speed and accuracy. | :09:25. | :09:25. | |
Matt will give us the weekend weather later. | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
The Iraq Historic Allegations Team, which has been investigating claims | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
of abuse by British forces against Iraqi civilians, | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
will be shut down after MPs called the operation an "unmitigated | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
A report yesterday blamed the Ministry of Defence | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
for empowering law firms to bring cases on "an industrial scale", many | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
Earlier Mark Lancaster told us the Government did the right thing in | :09:44. | :09:58. | |
scrapping the unit. IHAT was set up for the right | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
reasons so that our service personnel wouldn't have to go to the | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
international criminal court, but unfortunately in the process, it was | :10:07. | :10:09. | |
abused and that is why the Government took the action it did. | :10:10. | :10:17. | |
We also spoke to Brian Wood who was falsely accused of war crimes in | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
Iraq. I was a young commander at 23 years old, thinking that what I did | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
on the ground was the right thing to do, and the right decisions that I | :10:26. | :10:29. | |
had made. It wasn't perfect but the guys on the ground with me and I, we | :10:30. | :10:38. | |
survived. To get home and to then find out about these allegations, it | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Joining us now from our London newsroom is John Cooper, | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
a human rights lawyer who has defended armed forces | :10:46. | :10:47. | |
Thank you for your time, it is interesting hearing Brian Wood, one | :10:48. | :10:56. | |
of those accused. What are your thoughts when you hear him talking | :10:57. | :11:01. | |
about the ordeal that he and his colleagues, those who fought, went | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
through. As one who has represented members of the Armed Forces and | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
bereaved members of the armed force, have nothing but sympathy for his | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
experience, it is a very important principle in our democratic country | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
that the same law that applies to civilians must apply to all people. | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
That takes into account an must take into account the stresses of war but | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
that doesn't mean that people don't have the same basic | :11:27. | :11:28. | |
responsibilities. So, as it stands now, do you then have a concern, | :11:29. | :11:35. | |
because of this sequence of events, and Phil Shiner in particular, the | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
attention to what he was doing, how he was going about his business, are | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
you concerned now, that legitimate cases won't get the attention they | :11:44. | :11:49. | |
need? Let me make this clear, I am not here as an apologist for Phil | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
Shiner. The conduct he committed is rightly being kit sighed. Neither am | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
I here as an apologist for the IHAT debacle which I will agree it was, | :11:59. | :12:03. | |
but the point you made is right at the top of this issue, there is | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
still accountability, there must be proper investigation, and the | :12:09. | :12:13. | |
concern is that there won't be. I hope that when allegation are | :12:14. | :12:15. | |
brought against any individual, particularly in this field, they are | :12:16. | :12:18. | |
completely exonerated. But confidence and the perception of | :12:19. | :12:23. | |
justice for all, civilian in this country and the law applying to the | :12:24. | :12:26. | |
same to military personnel means there should be proper | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
investigation, my concern goes this way, that now we are going to have | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
the military invest spating the military, -- investigating. This has | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
been outlawed as crimes in this country are concerns or allegations, | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
but if there are allegation when people have lost their lives in | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
military premises the civilian police have precedence, to ensure | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
that there is independence, what we won't have here is an independent | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
body, IHAT was a disaster, misconceived on many fronts but | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
there is a vacuum and that causes concern for any right minded | :13:01. | :13:02. | |
individual, including members of the Armed Forces. So what do you see as | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
the middle ground then, that can stop the accusation, of not being | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
not enough being done to investigate legitimate claims but at the same | :13:16. | :13:16. | |
time protecting those who shouldn't be investigated? Those are two | :13:17. | :13:20. | |
counter balancing principles which the police day in, day out have to | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
consider the civilian police, in my opinion, the civilian police should | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
have a precedence and conduct of these investigations, now I hear the | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
argument it is difficult to investigate potential crimes that | :13:33. | :13:42. | |
have committed overseas but police officers in this country, skilled | :13:43. | :13:42. | |
police officerings, are doing that day in, day out in fraud | :13:43. | :13:43. | |
investigation, when it comes to investigations overseas involving a | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
death and fatality, we only have to look at the Madeleine McCann | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
incident. We have a track record of police being able to investigate | :13:53. | :13:54. | |
overseas, that is not a problem. So the direct answer to your question | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
is the civilian police should investigate proper allegations, I | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
don't know whether these allegations, the 1500 that remain | :14:03. | :14:06. | |
have credence, what I will say is this, we are already being told the | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
military police will whittle the remaining cases down to about 20. | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
How are they going to do this? It is a rather swift announcement to make, | :14:17. | :14:20. | |
one would hope they have come to that conclusion after carefully | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
considering the 1500, and if they have, and they have whittle it it | :14:24. | :14:26. | |
down to 20, I am please for the members of the Armed Forces and | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
their families but in whittling down 1500 to 20, so quickly, does give me | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
cause for concern as to how deep their inquiry has gone. It is | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
interesting you are talking about the alarm bells and the idea of the | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
military investigating the military. In the same breath and we asked this | :14:43. | :14:50. | |
of Mark Lancaster earlier on, the sign, was enough attention paid to | :14:51. | :14:56. | |
what Phil Shiner was doing? Were through rumours in your profession? | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
It must be a fairly tight Knight group of people, were there rumour, | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
did no-one call it up soon enough as to what was going on? As far as we | :15:05. | :15:11. | |
are concerned no, certainly not. We are all independent practitioners, | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
certainly the bar and the solicitor works within their own firm, there | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
was no concern whatsoever. When they were raised and brought before his | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
own professional tribunal, they properly dell with the matter and | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
all professional tribunals in the law, be it is the bar, Council for | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
barristers or the bar standards board for barristers or the | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
solicitor's regulatory authority, they give no favour, once it was | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
brought to their attention firm steps were taken, and, but I nit is | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
very important, to emphasise again here and now, that was one | :15:48. | :15:55. | |
individual, there many hundreds of human rights lawyers practise, often | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
doing work for no payment whatsoever, and human rights lawyers | :15:59. | :16:01. | |
aren't just involved with military work, they are involved with making | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
sure elderly people have proper homes to go to, we have proper | :16:06. | :16:08. | |
education, freedom of speech, we have rights to fair trial, let us | :16:09. | :16:13. | |
not throw the baby out with the bath water on the human rights' lawyers | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
prospective. One potential bad apple doesn't change that. One bad | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
journalist doesn't make the whole cad rein any way poor. Let us get | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
perspective here. Thank you very much for your time. | :16:29. | :16:31. | |
Here's Matt, with a look at this morning's weather. | :16:32. | :16:42. | |
A bit wintry. A typical scene, a slight dusting of snow, not causing | :16:43. | :16:52. | |
huge problems. It makes for a few slippery roads an pavement, most of | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
the snow will turn back to rain. I have managed to locate a bit of | :16:57. | :16:59. | |
sunshine from our weather watchers here in Northern Ireland, just a | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
short while ago, cracking but frosty start and in western Scotland, got | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
down to minus 10 in parts of the Highlands but the exception rather | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
than the rule. Most grey starts, raw in the wind, patchy rain and drizzle | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
east in Scotland and eastern England to the north, on the hills we are | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
seeing sleet and snow. It is sleet and snow in wail, the Midlands and | :17:22. | :17:25. | |
the far south-east. It will come and do. It will turn back to rain and | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
sleet and it will feel particularly raw because of the wind. The wind | :17:31. | :17:35. | |
strengthens through the day, parts of south-east Scotland, northern | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
England could get close to gale force and blowy in western Wales, it | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
will continue to feed in patchy rain drizzle and a bit of sleet in the | :17:43. | :17:49. | |
afternoon, the driegtest -- driest bigoter weather is in eastern | :17:50. | :17:52. | |
Scotland. A few lair required if you are outdoors and that will be the | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
case if you are off to watch the rugby in Cardiff between Wales and | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
England. Not too much trouble on the roads and through the night it will | :18:02. | :18:06. | |
be mainly rain or drizzle for many. There will be sleet and snow in | :18:07. | :18:09. | |
places overnight. Giving a dusting of snow, more especially to the | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
hills. Temperatures above freezing, a few breaks in the west and to | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
northern Scotland and Northern Ireland. But as for Sunday, it is a | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
great cloud that will dominate once more, and further rain or drizzle at | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
times. Mainly this stretch from East Anglia, Wales, through into northern | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
England and Scotland. Snow over the hiring ground, far north of | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
Scotland, Northern Ireland, a bit of sunshine, not as much as today. It | :18:35. | :18:39. | |
is here where we will see the best of any of the brightness as we go | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
into Monday, across southern areas but notice over the necks few days | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
the temperature trend is an upward one, if you a not enjoying the chill | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
in the air, bear with it, things will turn milder necks week and feel | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
more spring like. Is that new graph Matt? We have used it a few time, | :18:58. | :19:04. | |
you change it according to the situation. You haven't been paying | :19:05. | :19:05. | |
attention! Volunteers have told Breakfast | :19:06. | :19:19. | |
in the past few hours than 200 more whales have become stranded | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
on a beach in New Zealand. Hundreds more have already died | :19:23. | :19:24. | |
in one of the biggest ever mass It's hoped the pilot whales may be | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
able to swim to safety Just to warn you, you might find | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
some of the scenes in this report You are right, we worked hard and | :19:32. | :19:48. | |
got the 100 Wales off that survived overnight, and, we have lost sight | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
of them, but the bad part of the story is a separate pod of 240 | :19:54. | :19:59. | |
whales have come on and restranded just south of that, so, we have been | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
fighting to keep those ones happy, but yes, it is pretty grim out here. | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
So what, overnight you said that many of the whales had died, they | :20:09. | :20:15. | |
had just not survived. No, overnight most of them survived but what has | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
happened and those ones got refloated and rebelieve successful. | :20:22. | :20:28. | |
Another pod of pilot whales, 240 at last count have stranded further | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
south where we were doing our work. People have been trying to care for | :20:32. | :20:38. | |
them all afternoon. So you say the tide is coming in, and now, in | :20:39. | :20:43. | |
theory does that mean this is a possible time they may be able to | :20:44. | :20:47. | |
work themselves free again? Yes, that is possible. It's not something | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
that usually happens, and, we could have kept people out there a bit | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
longer but we have had a few people who got hypothermic and we have | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
large schools of stingrays coming in, so it is too dangerous to leave | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
people out there. Now, there is a lot of speculation about why it is | :21:08. | :21:10. | |
that more of the whales are there than usual, this is I think the | :21:11. | :21:13. | |
biggest stranding there has been in living memory in New Zealand. Are | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
you any clearer about why so many are at that particular place at that | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
time. Yes, well, there is always a lot of marine mammal activity round | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
this area, and there are a lot of these pilot whales, in the Southern | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
Ocean this is a class sieve stranding spot, a beautiful | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
location, but if you a whale it is lethal. There is a big swathe of | :21:42. | :21:47. | |
sand, and the water is very shallow for a long way, and so as the whales | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
come in, they get disorientated and trapped and it is all down hill from | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
there. So looking ahead now, Andrew, it is going to be dark in a few | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
hours' time. You said the tide is come. What are your hopes for the | :22:01. | :22:06. | |
next few hours, 12 hours or so? My hope for the next few hours is all | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
these people we have taken off the beach manage to get somewhere warm | :22:11. | :22:13. | |
and have a good meal and prepare themselves for another big push | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
tomorrow morning, like I said, it is way too risky to have anything going | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
on from now, so we trying to keep refreshed and go for another push in | :22:25. | :22:27. | |
the morning to work on whatever whales we have left to deal with. | :22:28. | :22:34. | |
That Odyssey Pavilionration is ongoing. We will keep you | :22:35. | :22:40. | |
up-to-date. It is coming up to 23 minutes past nine. | :22:41. | :22:41. | |
Time for a look the newspapers. David Davies, Former Chief Executive | :22:42. | :22:56. | |
of the Football Association is here to tell us what's | :22:57. | :22:58. | |
caught his eye. We will start with Trump. There is | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
stuff going on on Twitter. Hillary Clinton has made a come back. She | :23:04. | :23:08. | |
has. He continues to be everywhere. If you see that picture in the Daily | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
Mirror. Wouldn't you like to be inside his mind? Perhaps you | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
wouldn't, I don't know. But, I think he must have some self-doubt, hear | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
is dear old Hillary Clinton. I suspect President Trump taught he | :23:25. | :23:30. | |
had seen her off but she helping him with a short tweet saying 3-0, that | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
he is losing these battles in the court. Law courts. I just detect | :23:35. | :23:41. | |
this week there's been a subtle difference in Donald Trump. He is at | :23:42. | :23:48. | |
last, he is changing his mind a bit on China, he's being rather nicer to | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
one or two people, the Mexicans of course, are undermining him a bit, | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
why he isn't building the wall yet, they seem to be plotting as to how | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
they will come through and overand under the wall, when it is finally | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
built. So reality is dawning, on even this President. Nonetheless, | :24:08. | :24:11. | |
Air Force One, the latest line is that he pledges that if he can't get | :24:12. | :24:17. | |
that, bill through the courts just have another one. He will have | :24:18. | :24:22. | |
another one, but you know, the reality of this job, he, ultimately, | :24:23. | :24:29. | |
I mean his popularity levels are at are low but it is entirely true that | :24:30. | :24:35. | |
for example on his, the existing policy, that is causing so much | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
controversy in the court, he appears to have a majority. And a | :24:40. | :24:45. | |
majority... That put him in. On the other side, he lost the popular vote | :24:46. | :24:53. | |
substantially. Not but a few Al Gore 100 votes or so, but three, four | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
million I think. So it is a difficult line for him. You are | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
going to talk about back pain. This will mean a lot for a lot of people. | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
It is so prevalent. The Guardian is highlighting what I think is one of | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
the great medical disasters of certainly my life time millions of | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
people suffer from back pain and they get contradictory advice, I | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
declare my interest. I had a back interest some 25 years ago, touch | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
wood, which was a great success but a lot of people struggle, they are | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
told exercise, it doesn't get better, so they go to see somebody | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
else who says rest, rest, rest. And here we have in this, in this story, | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
low back and neck pain is a widespread and expensive condition | :25:42. | :25:52. | |
worldwide, costing the US alone, ?88 billion, $88 billion, despite | :25:53. | :25:54. | |
evidence that most treatments don't work. It it is amazing. How is back | :25:55. | :26:04. | |
right now? Touch wood, OK. It was a great triumph for me, personally, at | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
the time, buzz it was, there was the question I ask is, am I go, is it | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
going to be worse, what are the risks of, what is the percentage | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
risk of something getting worse? I was told many my case it was 15, 20% | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
on this unusual back operation, that I had, and it worked. So, I am very | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
grateful. Pleased to hear about that. Wine tasting now? Is that what | :26:29. | :26:34. | |
we are saying? Experts are out of fashion, and not just experts in | :26:35. | :26:39. | |
politics, after Michael Gove in the election an Brexit. Experts | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
generally. And in a blind test, where the labels were hidden they | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
were asked to identify different red wines by smell, and the predictive | :26:49. | :26:54. | |
powers were found to be no better than those of novices, there were 12 | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
professional, 20 novices and there was no difference in the outcome. | :26:59. | :27:02. | |
Isn't that because it is totally subjective though, whether you like | :27:03. | :27:07. | |
wine or not? That is what I think. I am volunteering to be in the next | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
group of novices, in this, I think it is... Smelling not tasting. To be | :27:13. | :27:17. | |
fair it was smelling, but that is meant to be the one or two experts | :27:18. | :27:22. | |
who I have listened to, they tell me they can tell whether it is good or | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
bad from the smell. Just drink it! Give us a quick line on sport, that | :27:28. | :27:34. | |
is your thing. Netball. Controversy in netball buzz the Government is to | :27:35. | :27:41. | |
spend 17 million encouraging women to play netball: A columnist this | :27:42. | :27:46. | |
express says netball, about as friendly and inclusive as the hunger | :27:47. | :27:50. | |
game, I would sooner break rocks with a teaspoon. I love netball. | :27:51. | :27:55. | |
That was one of my favourite sports at school. 165,000 adult women are | :27:56. | :28:01. | |
playing netball, but the rivalry, when we were pushing, in my time, | :28:02. | :28:06. | |
women's football, girls football, you cannot believe how it used to | :28:07. | :28:10. | |
upset some of the other sports, dare I say including netball and hockey. | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
But, I love them all. I think they are great sports. I love netball. | :28:15. | :28:20. | |
Good to see you. It is just coming up to 29 minutes past nine. We are | :28:21. | :28:27. | |
on BBC One until 10.00, when Matt takes over in the Saturday Kitchen. | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
What you got for us? Our special guest used to be in the brilliant | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
band The Saturdays, she is going solo. It is Una Healy. You are here | :28:38. | :28:43. | |
to face food heaven or hell. Scary times. What is your idea of heaven? | :28:44. | :28:51. | |
A lovely juice I can cod. Hell? A mackerel. We have two great chefs. I | :28:52. | :29:05. | |
am cooking OK pus with a sauce. Nice cod, mackerel and octopus and from a | :29:06. | :29:10. | |
restaurant serving English and Russian food... I am cooking crispy | :29:11. | :29:16. | |
chicken with sprout Shaw. That sounds very English. All that and | :29:17. | :29:25. | |
wine. See you at ten. Sprout Shaw! That is a new one. | :29:26. | :29:34. | |
What did she get here? Probably nowt! A special bond of five-a-side | :29:35. | :29:39. | |
football, journalist James Brown will be here to tell us about the | :29:40. | :29:43. | |
story inspired by the death of one of his team-mates. Stay with us. | :29:44. | :29:46. | |
Headlines Hello, this is Breakfast, with | :29:47. | :30:15. | |
Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. Coming up before ten, | :30:16. | :30:19. | |
Matt will be here with the weather. But first, a summary of this | :30:20. | :30:22. | |
morning's main news. A ?20 million drive to find | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
the future experts capable of defending Britain | :30:25. | :30:27. | |
from cyber-attacks has been Thousands of schoolchildren | :30:28. | :30:28. | |
in England will learn about cyber security in lessons - | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
after a Commons committee highlighted a skills shortage | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
and labelled our current handling Donald Trump has said he may rewrite | :30:39. | :30:40. | |
the presidential order imposing restrictions on travel to the US | :30:41. | :30:44. | |
in a bid overcome legal obstacles which have | :30:45. | :30:48. | |
frustrated his efforts so far. The President unveiled the ban | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
at the end of his first week in office, barring entry | :30:53. | :30:55. | |
to travellers from seven Earlier this week an appeals court | :30:56. | :30:57. | |
upheld the suspension The case may now proceed | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
to the Supreme Court. The funding of parks has reached | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
a tipping point and new ways of paying for them may have | :31:09. | :31:11. | |
to be found. That's according to | :31:12. | :31:13. | |
the Commons Communities and Local Government Committee | :31:14. | :31:14. | |
which says parks are suffering It warns there's a danger of a | :31:15. | :31:17. | |
return to the neglect of the 1980s. Labour has issued formal warnings | :31:18. | :31:28. | |
to members of its front-bench team who disobeyed Jeremy Corbyn's order | :31:29. | :31:31. | |
to vote for Brexit. Among those who ignored Mr Corbyn | :31:32. | :31:33. | |
were 11 shadow junior ministers Hundreds of people from across | :31:34. | :31:37. | |
the world have been competing this week in a sport that combines | :31:38. | :31:47. | |
dancing and flying - indoors. You can compete in pairs, | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
fours or as a solo contestant. Going as two might be difficult | :31:54. | :32:13. | |
enough but wait, two go out and income four of them. | :32:14. | :32:18. | |
I don't understand how they control their body. You get marks for speed | :32:19. | :32:24. | |
and accuracy. Just watching it makes me feel a bit dizzy. | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
Have you seen that? I saw a team who were going to participate in the | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
world outdoor skydiving championships. This year, the | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
British team are in with a chance of a medal at the world indoor | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
Championships. It requires a lot of practice. It looks fun. | :32:45. | :32:51. | |
Building up to one of the biggest sporting events of the year. Wales | :32:52. | :33:00. | |
have the chance to end the winning run of Eddie Jones. He is filling | :33:01. | :33:08. | |
the shoes of Warren Gatland. It is a fascinating match with shenanigans | :33:09. | :33:09. | |
going on in the week. One of the oldest fixtures in rugby | :33:10. | :33:12. | |
union will kick off later today when Wales welcome England | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
to Cardiff on the second Our sports correspondent Joe Wilson | :33:16. | :33:17. | |
is at the Principality stadium Good morning, you have got the place | :33:18. | :33:28. | |
to yourself just about. Let's first of all talk about Eddie Jones | :33:29. | :33:33. | |
playing Tom Jones the Welsh singer and playing Delilah to the England | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
team. You have been talking about all the shenanigans. Is this a sign | :33:38. | :33:41. | |
that Eddie Jones is worried about this one? I don't know. The thing | :33:42. | :33:47. | |
about Eddie Jones is we have to take everything he says with a certain | :33:48. | :33:51. | |
degree of a pinch of salt. What he does is generate interest in not | :33:52. | :33:57. | |
only England but rugby union. It is a Saturday morning and we are not | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
talking about football and that is unusual at this time of year. In | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
terms of the specific shenanigans, I saw a couple of daffodils poking | :34:06. | :34:10. | |
through the snow this morning. No sign of any goats yet. What we do | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
have I'm delighted to say is perhaps the most important thing, the trophy | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
itself. This is a redesigned Six Nations trophy. It is it decided to | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
reflect the Six Nations which came in in 2000. Italy have not yet | :34:27. | :34:39. | |
lifted this and neither have Scotland. Scotland will be in a | :34:40. | :34:41. | |
great position if they win in France tomorrow. That will be Sunday's | :34:42. | :34:43. | |
drama. With a weight of international caps, you have to say | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
the Wales when a very strong position but England, it is such a | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
long time since they lost to anybody as we have heard so many times, | :34:51. | :34:56. | |
winning is a habit. England showed last weekend even though they were | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
not for a good against France they found the composure to win that | :35:00. | :35:05. | |
game. History shows that the roof matters. Given the record the | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
England have with the roof being open, so different to when it is | :35:10. | :35:15. | |
closed? Absolutely. If you are in Eddie Jones' shoes, why would you | :35:16. | :35:20. | |
choose anything else than to have the roof open. There is just a light | :35:21. | :35:24. | |
drizzle falling at the moment. Rugby union is an outdoor sport. This | :35:25. | :35:29. | |
place. Be a cauldron even if you take the roof off. What I love about | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
this stadium which was originally called the Millennium Stadium and is | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
now the Principality Stadium, even though you get 70,000 people in here | :35:41. | :35:44. | |
it feels smaller because the seats are so close to the action. We will | :35:45. | :35:48. | |
have a great feeling here whether the roof is open or not. They're all | :35:49. | :35:54. | |
the back row forwards who have not been to Cardiff before, how they | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
deal with the occasion as well as dealing with Wales. And there is the | :35:59. | :36:07. | |
interim coach who has to decide whether to risk George North and Dan | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
Biggar after the knocks in the last game? We saw them training in the | :36:12. | :36:16. | |
light training session here yesterday. It has been a big talking | :36:17. | :36:22. | |
point. I wonder if it could be another shenanigan mind game from | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
Rob Howley? There is the possibility that neither of those guys will | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
start the game for Wales. Sam Davies could come on and make an impact | :36:33. | :36:35. | |
like he did last weekend against Italy. It is interesting, Rob | :36:36. | :36:42. | |
Howley's position, because he is like the caretaker coach or the | :36:43. | :36:47. | |
supply teacher. Does he do something different to changing into his team | :36:48. | :36:51. | |
or does he hand them back to Warren Gatland and say not too much damage | :36:52. | :36:58. | |
done? I cannot wait for it all to begin! The coverage begins at 4:15pm | :36:59. | :37:00. | |
on BBC One this afternoon. Away from the Six Nations | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
and history was made in the Premiership last night, | :37:05. | :37:06. | |
as Bristol's Tom Varndell, became the league's | :37:07. | :37:08. | |
all-time, top try scorer. The division's bottom side | :37:09. | :37:10. | |
were thrashed by Harlequins, but Varndell scored his 91st | :37:11. | :37:12. | |
Premiership try, to take him A last gasp penalty from, | :37:13. | :37:14. | |
Rhys Priestland, gave third place Bath, a one point victory over | :37:15. | :37:21. | |
Northampton. Elsewhere Sale Sharks | :37:22. | :37:23. | |
beat Newcastle. Scarlets moved into the top | :37:24. | :37:26. | |
four of the Pro 12, Tom Williams scored one | :37:27. | :37:28. | |
of their two tries. The top two of Munster and Ospreys, | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
both won, and so did Ulster. The big football news this | :37:34. | :37:36. | |
morning is confusion, over the future of the Rangers | :37:37. | :37:38. | |
manager Mark Warburton this morning. Rangers said in a statement, | :37:39. | :37:41. | |
that he had resigned from his position, but Warburton | :37:42. | :37:43. | |
says he wasn't aware of that, Rangers are third in | :37:44. | :37:46. | |
the Scottish Premiership, Rangers play Greenock Morton | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
tomorrow, in the Scottish cup fifth round, and under-20 coach | :37:51. | :38:01. | |
Graeme Murty, is set to lead Celtic are the early kick off today | :38:02. | :38:03. | |
- they play Inverness. There is one game in | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
the Premiership today - The early kick off in the Premier | :38:08. | :38:10. | |
League is at the Emirates, where Arsenal take on a rejuvenated | :38:11. | :38:14. | |
Hull City. Arsenal are currently in fourth, | :38:15. | :38:17. | |
but have lost their last two matches, which has led to renewed | :38:18. | :38:19. | |
speculation over manager Former Arsenal and England striker | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
Ian Wright thinks this will be I was with the boss last night and | :38:23. | :38:36. | |
if I am going to be totally honest, I get the impression that that is | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
it. I genuinely believe... I was with him for a few hours last night. | :38:42. | :38:45. | |
He did not say I am leaving at the end of the season, but I get the | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
impression looking at him, that is it. I think that's it. He actually | :38:50. | :38:55. | |
mentioned while we were talking last night that he is coming to the end. | :38:56. | :38:57. | |
I have never heard him say that. Elsewhere, Manchester | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
United take on Watford. And there's a big one in the late | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
kick off with second place Sheffield Wednesday | :39:05. | :39:08. | |
are still on course to reach the play offs at least, | :39:09. | :39:13. | |
in the Championship, Their spending in the transfer | :39:14. | :39:15. | |
window is already paying off. That's new boy Jordan Rhodes, | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
after just nine minutes, A special moment as he went off | :39:20. | :39:21. | |
to celebrate with his dad Further goals from another | :39:22. | :39:25. | |
signing Sam Winnall, Leigh's return to rugby | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
league's Super League, got off to a disappointing start, | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
as they were taught The Tigers ran in seven | :39:33. | :39:34. | |
tries including this Elsewhere, Huddersfield Giants | :39:35. | :39:37. | |
beat Widnes 28-16. England's Danny Willett is well | :39:38. | :39:47. | |
placed to win golf's Last year's Masters champion | :39:48. | :39:49. | |
will head into the final round with a three shot lead | :39:50. | :39:54. | |
over his nearest rival after Willet made six birdies, | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
including one on each Barry Hawkins is into | :39:58. | :40:00. | |
the final of snooker's He eased past Liang Wenbo of China | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
6-1 - finishing in style He'll now face either Marco Fu | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
or Ryan Day on Sunday. In tennis Great Britain's women | :40:11. | :40:16. | |
continue their Fed Cup It's all rather complicated, | :40:17. | :40:18. | |
but if they beat Croatia in today's promotion play-off they'll progress | :40:19. | :40:24. | |
to another play off. If they win that they'll get | :40:25. | :40:27. | |
into the second tier So far it's going well - | :40:28. | :40:30. | |
Heather Watson is one set up Heather Watson has just won her | :40:31. | :40:48. | |
first rubber to give Great Britain a 1-0 lead. | :40:49. | :40:51. | |
For years now Snowdonia in North Wales has been establishing | :40:52. | :40:53. | |
itself as a centre for extreme adventure sports, with Europe's | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
longest and fastest zipwire - and a unique surfing lake. | :40:57. | :40:58. | |
Now former slate mines have been brought back to life, | :40:59. | :41:03. | |
to add a bit of an adrenalin rush to history lessons. | :41:04. | :41:06. | |
I joined a school party in one of the vast caverns, | :41:07. | :41:09. | |
Beneath this sci-fi landscape, there is an industrial world | :41:10. | :41:20. | |
A labrynth of 300 tunnels and caverns, 24 storeys deep. | :41:21. | :41:28. | |
Former slate mines to be explored using climbing skills and zip wires, | :41:29. | :41:36. | |
giving you an insight into the life of a minor 200 feet the rock face. | :41:37. | :41:49. | |
Tell me this is not real, that this is a horrible dream? | :41:50. | :41:52. | |
All that supports you are staples hammered into the rock. | :41:53. | :42:03. | |
Of course, you have a harness and two special clips | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
which cannot be unhooked at the same time but your mind | :42:07. | :42:08. | |
I am on a wooden plank 100 feet in the air across an old quarry! | :42:09. | :42:13. | |
What is incredible is when you stop for a moment and look down and look | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
around and realise this is where people worked! | :42:18. | :42:19. | |
Some forced to work here were as young as six years old. | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
When I first came here I learned what the miners | :42:25. | :42:26. | |
We have a great safety system but they just used to wrap chains | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
around their legs and hang on the edge of the wall. | :42:33. | :42:34. | |
It is crazy that they would do that for 12 hours a day | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
Ewell worked on the open mines here until the 1970s | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
but now he is back working as a safety inspector. | :42:42. | :42:43. | |
It has given them a new lease of life. | :42:44. | :42:45. | |
There is a saying that Blaenau Ffestiniog rooved the world | :42:46. | :42:51. | |
so we are very proud of the culture and we have embraced that culture. | :42:52. | :43:00. | |
Once you've had the training it is up to you to get around | :43:01. | :43:03. | |
Slowly but surely you conquer the fears in your head, it starts | :43:04. | :43:16. | |
The sensation when you have achieved it is outstanding. | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
You learn more about yourself than you do looking at your iPhone. | :43:21. | :43:22. | |
The ten and 11-year-old school pupils took it in their stride. | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
Having seen one lad fall off the monkey bars 200 feet up... | :43:27. | :43:29. | |
It was really scary, I thought I would fall. | :43:30. | :43:35. | |
I gave it a miss, heading for the final heart stopping challenge. | :43:36. | :43:44. | |
And they save the steepest zip wire to last. | :43:45. | :44:05. | |
I think the fear does get worse as you get older. I felt like a hobbit | :44:06. | :44:21. | |
in Lord of the rings. The youngsters take it in their stride, even the | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
chap who fell off. He had a harness on. | :44:27. | :44:30. | |
And a really fascinating way to learn about history of the minds. | :44:31. | :44:35. | |
The youngsters were only six and they had a chain which they had to | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
put in the rocks themselves with just a Campbell. They were working | :44:40. | :44:45. | |
in the dark -- just a candle. Amazing. Do you want to give a | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
prediction for the score for England and whales? -- England and Wales. | :44:51. | :45:09. | |
Whales 15, England 22. You are watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :45:10. | :45:19. | |
Schoolchildren in England are going to be offered lessons in cyber | :45:20. | :45:25. | |
security. President Trump is said to be | :45:26. | :45:28. | |
considering a new executive order on immigration. He may not take his | :45:29. | :45:34. | |
case to reinstate the travel ban to the Supreme Court. | :45:35. | :45:40. | |
Now it is time to find out what is happening with the weather. There is | :45:41. | :45:41. | |
a bit of snow around at the moment. Yes, there certainly is for some. | :45:42. | :45:56. | |
This was the view of one of our Weather Watchers in County Durham. | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
There is a centimetre or two on the ground. You will still be able to | :46:02. | :46:05. | |
get around your day without too much hindrance. It is not a completely | :46:06. | :46:13. | |
wintry picture. In the Shetland Isles, as you can see, Sun clear | :46:14. | :46:25. | |
skies. Clouding over in Northern Ireland. The north-west islands | :46:26. | :46:31. | |
continue to see some sunshine. Eastern Scotland have rain and | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
drizzle along the coasts. Some rain and sleet inland. We will see the | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
snow pep up on the hills of northern England. It is sleet, snow and | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
drizzle anywhere across the South. If you are in parts of Sussex and | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
ethics and also Kent, the snow will get heavier in the next hour or two. | :46:51. | :46:57. | |
It is pushing him off the North Sea. Elsewhere, when you have seen some | :46:58. | :47:00. | |
flurries of snow this morning, it will turn to sleet or rain and | :47:01. | :47:08. | |
drizzle. The best of the weather across the North of Scotland and the | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
West of Ireland. Temperatures, much of the muchness wherever you are. | :47:13. | :47:19. | |
The wind strengthens through tonight. It will bring more cloud, | :47:20. | :47:26. | |
rain, drizzle, sleet and snow in. A few clearer skies towards parts of | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
Northern Ireland, Devon and Cornwall. If you do see those | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
breaks, there will be a touch of frost. Most Frost free but every bit | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
as cold into tomorrow morning. It will probably feel colder given the | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
winds are stronger. A few brighter Brent to the day -- brighter breaks | :47:45. | :47:52. | |
to the day. What we do see from the cloud is the mix of rain, drizzle, | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
sleet and health snow and temperatures feeling close to | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
freezing rather than for 6 degrees. If it is too cold for you, there is | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
a bit of light at the end of the tunnel. Temperatures slowly rise on | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
Monday. Still chilly for Scotland and Ireland. Many of you by the time | :48:12. | :48:16. | |
of it to Wednesday will see temperatures into double figures. It | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
will feel a bit more like spring which is fantastic news for those of | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
you entering a week off for half term. So there is some light at the | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
end of the tunnel. Back to you both. Have a lovely | :48:29. | :48:30. | |
weekend! In the past week, three cyclists | :48:31. | :48:36. | |
have been killed in the space of four days on London's roads, | :48:37. | :48:39. | |
and campaigners are gathering this morning to demand | :48:40. | :48:41. | |
ministers make cycling safer. But figures nationally show that | :48:42. | :48:43. | |
could already be the case, with cycling deaths falling over | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
the past decade. Our reporter Holly Hamilton has more | :48:47. | :48:48. | |
on this, she's in Trafalgar Square Morning, Holly. Good morning. It | :48:49. | :48:59. | |
does seem that more people than ever are taking to the roads on two | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
wheels. In the past two decades, the number of cyclists has gone up by | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
more than a quarter. There have been plenty of road safety initiatives | :49:09. | :49:11. | |
that have been put in place by the government, and it does seem to be | :49:12. | :49:15. | |
working. In the past ten years, the number of road deaths has been going | :49:16. | :49:21. | |
down. Sadly, three deaths in one week in London has prompted a | :49:22. | :49:33. | |
protest here in Trafalgar Square later this afternoon. One of those | :49:34. | :49:38. | |
taking part joins me now. You are quite an experienced cyclist. | :49:39. | :49:46. | |
You cycle with baby Owen. What is it like? I cycle in London every day. | :49:47. | :49:57. | |
We do not have a car so this is my car equivalent. I have three | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
children and we go everywhere by bike because I find it the most | :50:02. | :50:05. | |
quickest and convenient. My husband and I work long hours and it is the | :50:06. | :50:11. | |
only way we can get from a to B and get the children to school and | :50:12. | :50:18. | |
nursery. My overwhelming experience is positive. Especially with a bike | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
like this. I get a lot of positive feedback from people. But a lot of | :50:23. | :50:27. | |
people stop me to say they think it is great but they feel too scared to | :50:28. | :50:34. | |
cycle. Ultimately, that is what we have to work on. It is tragic that | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
we have had deaths this week. It is great that the death rate overall is | :50:40. | :50:44. | |
improving but until people feel safe, which I'm afraid most people | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
would not feel safe cycling alongside a bus or an HGV with a | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
baby, and I totally sympathise with those people and I can see why. We | :50:54. | :50:59. | |
need to be concentrating on separating bicycles from HGVs and | :51:00. | :51:04. | |
buses and keeping them separate. What are you hoping to achieve from | :51:05. | :51:08. | |
this protest which you will be attending this afternoon? We are | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
asking for what I think is a pretty modest request which is 10% of the | :51:13. | :51:18. | |
transport budget for 2020 to be allocated to protected cycling and | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
walking infrastructure. Given that most of us will walk or cycle at | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
some point in our lives feels like not throw much to ask for but it | :51:26. | :51:29. | |
feels very far-off from what we have at the moment. The UN is calling for | :51:30. | :51:39. | |
20% by 2025. We have thousands of people dying from air pollution | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
related to diseases and inactivity, type two diabetes and heart disease. | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
I am actually a doctor is well. So we cannot afford not to have people | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
walking and cycling really, but we have to make it safer and more | :51:54. | :51:58. | |
pleasant for them to do. I think a lot of campaigners this afternoon | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
will agree with you. One of the things you mentioned is that HGVs | :52:03. | :52:07. | |
are an issue for you. We are joined by Rod McKenzie fund the Road | :52:08. | :52:12. | |
haulage Association. One of those who died this week, it was an HGV | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
that was involved, how serious is this issue? We do not know the | :52:17. | :52:22. | |
circumstances and one road death is one too many. We are committed to | :52:23. | :52:29. | |
road safety. An HGV driver's training is all about safety, | :52:30. | :52:34. | |
protecting vulnerable road users. This stuff really matters. You see | :52:35. | :52:40. | |
lorries going around with four stickers on, that is a fleet | :52:41. | :52:44. | |
operator scheme which is designed to produce the very best safest | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
training. But everyone has a stake in this. All road users must play | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
their part. There are some great cyclists out there but there are | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
also some dangerous cyclists who bring cycling into an area of risk. | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
We think it is about education. Everyone needs better training to be | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
safer from the roads. Thank you for joining us this morning. I think the | :53:10. | :53:14. | |
messages everyone has the same goal. Everyone wants no deaths on our | :53:15. | :53:18. | |
roads. The Department for Transport have said they are doing everything | :53:19. | :53:22. | |
they can to increase the amount of investment on our infrastructure and | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
it has tripled in the past five years. The event taking place here | :53:26. | :53:30. | |
in Trafalgar Square is a protest. It is also a memorial to those who have | :53:31. | :53:36. | |
died. Everyone is in agreement that one death is one too many. Thank | :53:37. | :53:39. | |
you. There's something quite unique | :53:40. | :53:42. | |
about the bond between a group of middle-aged footballers | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
who gather once or twice a week But it wasn't until our next guest, | :53:47. | :53:48. | |
journalist James Brown suddenly lost one of his team mates | :53:49. | :53:53. | |
that he realised just how So much so that he decided | :53:54. | :53:56. | |
to write a book about it. Morning to you. Tell us the tale. | :53:57. | :54:09. | |
This is a group of middle-aged men? I have been playing amateur football | :54:10. | :54:13. | |
all my life. 14 months ago a friend died. He was the organiser of our | :54:14. | :54:20. | |
team. I realise that the funeral I have never seen any of the mourners | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
in clothes before, they were always in shorts and tight tops. It was | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
very sad that James passed away. He had not been ill or anything. I just | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
thought about this world of passionate footballers. We play in | :54:35. | :54:39. | |
rain and shine. No one cheers us on. You're basically living out the | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
dream. Every week someone scores an amazing goal. If it had been on | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
Match Of The Day it would be goal of the week. I really wanted to get | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
into that world of what I call sporting karaoke. What is | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
interesting is the point you make that you can play together every | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
week for years and years but actually not know that much about | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
each other? James was a friend who introduced me to the game but I play | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
three games a week, the majority of the guys I do not know their | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
surnames, I don't know what they do for a living, I don't know if they | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
are married or they have kids. I know what their personalities are | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
like on the pitch. That particular game I have been playing for 17 | :55:23. | :55:28. | |
years. The feedback I have got from other players, I have asked for a | :55:29. | :55:34. | |
lot of stories through Twitter and so on, people say the same thing. It | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
might be through workmates or an ever expanding group and the game | :55:39. | :55:43. | |
evolves all the time, unless you are in the legal something. Do think | :55:44. | :55:47. | |
that is why people like it so much. It is not as if you are living each | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
other's lives, you're not next-door neighbours. It is when you don't | :55:52. | :55:56. | |
have to deal with all the other stuff, is that part of the | :55:57. | :55:59. | |
attraction? Definitely when you get older. When you get the | :56:00. | :56:05. | |
responsibilities of family, work, pressures of health, this is just an | :56:06. | :56:11. | |
escape. It is a very noisy version of yoga. You clear your mind, you | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
have to look at what everybody is doing. If you make a great save or | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
score a great goal, that stays in your mind for ages. What do you | :56:20. | :56:26. | |
cover in your book? I start with James' death. I cover all of the | :56:27. | :56:31. | |
things that go on every day, every week. Anybody who lives in an | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
inner-city sees people at lunchtime with big coats and football kits. | :56:37. | :56:41. | |
Every time the ball goes over a fence in an outdoor pitch it will | :56:42. | :56:45. | |
not come back first time, you stand around and wait for a kid to throw | :56:46. | :56:49. | |
it back. There are goalkeepers who wear gloves but cannot catch the | :56:50. | :56:53. | |
ball. There are fact guys who can shoot, skinny guys who cannot | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
tackle, there is everything, the camaraderie. I love playing | :56:59. | :57:05. | |
football. I was never good enough to be a professional footballer but I | :57:06. | :57:09. | |
think it is that love of playing. Half a million people play every | :57:10. | :57:14. | |
week. Did the death of the guy you play with, did that make you think a | :57:15. | :57:21. | |
bit harder about whether you should know people better? Did you think, | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
we should spend time together or did you settle back again? The thing | :57:27. | :57:32. | |
that was really touching was the following week, nobody organised us | :57:33. | :57:37. | |
but we went to the middle and we stood there and shut up for a minute | :57:38. | :57:42. | |
and thought about him. Specifically, James was the organiser of our game | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
and they are the unsung heroes. Not the guys who play at Power league or | :57:48. | :57:52. | |
goals, the ones who play amongst themselves, who get the bids, who | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
make sure we have got a ball. He was the one who kept the score. We never | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
know the score any more. It is moving. There will be people this | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
morning heading out in the rain or the snow or whatever. James' book is | :58:07. | :58:17. | |
called Above Head Height. Now before we go we have been | :58:18. | :58:21. | |
talking about parks and a lot of you have been sending in your pictures. | :58:22. | :58:29. | |
We have a misty sunrise. James has snapped this one. This was last year | :58:30. | :58:37. | |
apparently but it is a nice picture! And this is Ruby having an afternoon | :58:38. | :58:45. | |
run in water with her owner -- a run in Rotherham. We have some great | :58:46. | :58:56. | |
amateur autocracies here. -- some great amateur photographers here. If | :58:57. | :59:01. | |
you are at in the park, have a great day. We are back tomorrow at 6am. | :59:02. | :59:03. | |
That | :59:04. | :59:04. |