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with Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
Donald Trump launches a ferocious attack on the media | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
as he defends his first weeks in office. | :00:10. | :00:15. | |
This administration is running like a fine tuned machine. | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
In a long and extraordinary White House press conference he told | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
reporters their level of dishonesty was out of control. | :00:25. | :00:44. | |
Good morning, it's Friday 17th February | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
A group of British tourists are hospitalised | :00:47. | :00:48. | |
after being thrown into freezing waters following a speed-boat | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
Urgent talks are held to secure the future of Vauxhall's two car | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
Good morning. Half the food we eat we do grow in the UK but that means | :00:56. | :01:12. | |
half of it, like these peppers, is blown in from overseas. Should we be | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
growing more British food? That's what I'll be looking at this | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
morning. In sport, it's a first | :01:19. | :01:18. | |
hatrick for the big Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic since | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
joining Manchester United last summer and the veteran | :01:21. | :01:22. | |
put his side, well on their way, to the last 16 of | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
the Europa League. I do believe a nationwide rise of | :01:27. | :01:42. | |
the housewives would end this curse of queueing. | :01:43. | :01:42. | |
She might have hated it, but now researchers have come up | :01:43. | :01:45. | |
with a formula for how to to do it best. | :01:46. | :01:48. | |
Good morning. Patchy fog around this morning, some could be slow to | :01:49. | :01:56. | |
clear. Also a fairly cloudy day with light rain coming in from the West. | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
The best of the sunshine in the north and north-east. More in about | :02:01. | :02:01. | |
30 minutes. President Trump has accused | :02:02. | :02:02. | |
the media of showing During an extraordinary press | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
conference at the White House he insisted his administration was | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
running like a fine tuned machine. He told reporters their level of | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
dishonesty was out of control. Ladies and gentlemen, the President | :02:15. | :02:32. | |
of the United States. Actual notice a news conference was announced to | :02:33. | :02:36. | |
be given by the President. -- at short notice. Ostensibly to announce | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
his new choice as Labour Secretary but really it was to get a whole lot | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
of his chest. The press honestly is out of control, the level of | :02:45. | :02:48. | |
dishonesty is out of control. The idea his ministration was in | :02:49. | :02:51. | |
meltdown, nothing could be further from the truth. I'd turn on the TV | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
and open the newspapers and I hear stories of chaos, chaos, yet it's | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
the exact opposite. This administration is running like a | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
fine tuned machine. But how could he reconcile that with the travel band | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
that's been blocked by the courts? A question I asked after a little back | :03:13. | :03:14. | |
and fourth. Can I just ask you...thank you very | :03:15. | :03:31. | |
much, Mr President... Where are you from? | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
BBC. It's a good line, | :03:34. | :03:34. | |
impartial, free and fair. On the travel ban - | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
we can banter back and forth - on the travel ban, would you accept | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
that that was a good example of the smooth running | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
of government... Let me tell you... | :03:47. | :03:48. | |
..were there any mistakes in that? Wait, wait. | :03:49. | :03:51. | |
I know who you are, just wait. Let me tell you about | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
the travel ban, we had a very smooth rollout | :03:55. | :03:56. | |
of the travel ban. But we had a bad court. | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
We got a bad decision. We are going to put | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
in a new executive order next week sometime but we had a bad decision | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
that is the only thing The other thing that the President | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
is in a rage about is the suggestion that he is in | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
the pockets of the Russians, too close to Vladimir Putin, | :04:14. | :04:16. | |
too many shady business contacts. I own nothing in Russia. | :04:17. | :04:19. | |
I have no loans in Russia. Ten British tourists | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
are being treated in hospital in Norway after two speedboats hit | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
the base of a water fountain. It happened in the harbour | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
of the town of Harstad. Two people are reported to have | :04:33. | :04:34. | |
been seriously injured, but their injuries aren't described | :04:35. | :04:37. | |
as life-threatening. What started out as a pleasure | :04:38. | :04:47. | |
cruise ended in a dramatic rescue. These British tourists were left in | :04:48. | :04:52. | |
near freezing waters or around 15 minutes before being rescued after | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
they'd been flung from their boat. The party had been returning from a | :04:56. | :05:02. | |
sightseeing trip off the shores of Harstad when one of the speedboats | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
rushed to the base of a water feature that wasn't working at the | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
time. A second boat following was caught up in the incident at around | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
3pm local time. TRANSLATION: All of the passengers have been brought to | :05:19. | :05:22. | |
hospital for help and first aid. We will contact all of them later to | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
further investigate. We will also go to the boat drivers and people who | :05:27. | :05:32. | |
saw the incident. -- talk to. A Foreign Office statement said: | :05:33. | :05:40. | |
A spokesman for the Surrey based holiday company Inghams said the | :05:41. | :05:49. | |
tourists all arrived on Norway in Wednesday and were due to arrive | :05:50. | :05:51. | |
this Sunday. Ashley McVey, BBC News. Tony Blair is to announce his | :05:52. | :05:57. | |
mission to persuade people to rise The former Prime Minister will say | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
in a speech later that voters made their decisions without knowing | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
the real damage that Downing Street has said | :06:06. | :06:08. | |
it is absolutely committed to seeing Brexit through and today | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
Theresa May will meet the French Prime Minister | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
for discussions Our political correspondent Tom Bateman | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
can tell us more. What exactly is Tony Blair saying? | :06:17. | :06:25. | |
We've known for some time that Tony Blair thinks in his words Brexit | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
would be a catastrophe so nothing new in that message but what's | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
interesting about this speech he will did in the City of London later | :06:32. | :06:36. | |
on is that this is a rallying cry, really a kind of expression of | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
mission that people who are opposed to Brexit and those who campaigned | :06:41. | :06:45. | |
to Remain should continue to do so and he uses the words people should | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
rise up and persuade people who voted for Grexit should change their | :06:50. | :06:54. | |
minds in his words. He thinks the government has become defined by | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
Brexit and this is the type of Brexit that he thinks would be | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
incredibly damaging as we get more of those terms around exactly what | :07:01. | :07:05. | |
Brexit would mean. Now, you won't be surprised to hear that those who | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
campaigned to leave the European Union are furious about what he's | :07:10. | :07:17. | |
saying. One of those, Iain Duncan Smith, the Conservative MP, says | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
this is exactly what the elites got wrong about the referendum in not | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
listening to the people. And all of this while the Prime Minister | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
welcomes her French counterpart at Downing Street where she will say | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
that Britain is not seeking to cherry pick the best bits of EU | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
membership. OK, Tom, thank you very much. | :07:35. | :07:34. | |
The Business Secretary said last night's urgent talks with the French | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
government and car firm PSA were constructive, | :07:38. | :07:39. | |
after travelling to Paris to discuss the future of thousands of jobs | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Peugeot owner PSA is looking to take over the European arm | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
of General Motors, which includes the Vauxhall and Opel brands. | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
Greg Clark says he will remain in close contact with both firms | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
If this deal goes ahead, it will create the second-biggest car firm | :07:53. | :08:06. | |
in Europe. There's been an intense talks over the past few days as | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
French carmaker PSA, which owns Peugeot and Citroen, looks to take | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
over part of General Motors -- intense talks. That includes a | :08:17. | :08:21. | |
Vauxhall in the UK, which employs 10,500 staff at its two sites in | :08:22. | :08:27. | |
Luton and L Smith and tens of thousands more in its retail and | :08:28. | :08:33. | |
supply chain. -- Elsmore port. Last night they met and they made clear | :08:34. | :08:37. | |
the Vauxhall brand and its workforce are valued. But this is a deal that | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
is moving quickly and when giant companies are created, protecting | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
jobs becomes a concern, particularly when other countries are trying to | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
do the same. The French and the German governments are meeting and | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
that will be to try and secure the future for their plants and we want | :08:57. | :09:00. | |
to make sure that the UK is not sitting on the sidelines. So still a | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
lot to do, a lot to play for, but our determination is as strong as | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
ever. Unions say the British market will be key to Vauxhall's new owners | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
so they must commit to its loyal and skilled workforce. But having a | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
British seat at the table remains crucial as these talks continue. | :09:22. | :09:22. | |
Kathryn Stanczyszyn, BBC News. The founder of Facebook, | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
Mark Zuckerberg, says he fears millions of people are | :09:25. | :09:26. | |
withdrawing from what he calls In an interview with | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
the BBC, he addressed the growing controversy over fake | :09:30. | :09:32. | |
news and what he sees as a troubling drift | :09:33. | :09:35. | |
away from globalisation. Some of the UK's biggest trade | :09:36. | :09:41. | |
bodies, including the CBI, British Retail Consortium, | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
the Federation of Small Businesses, British Chambers of Commerce have | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
signed a letter to Parliament calling for Government proposals | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
on business rates appeals They say the changes, | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
which take effect in April, will force companies to pay | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
artificially high rates, even if they could prove | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
the amount should be lower. from London's New Covent Garden | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Market. Also on where we're growing our | :10:01. | :10:13. | |
fruit and veg as well. Good morning. Good morning. Business rates are a | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
bit like a council tax for companies who pay the tax based on the rental | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
value of their property and a few other things as well. It was last | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
calculated in 2010, property prices have changed a lot since then and | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
that means these new calculation is that kick in in April have also | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
changed for a lot of businesses. Three quarters will see the rates | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
stay the same awful but that still means hundreds of thousands of | :10:37. | :10:45. | |
businesses, particularly where property prices have gone up a lot, | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
will see rises. The government wants to make it harder to appeal if you | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
don't agree as a business with those changes, it wants to see businesses | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
have to have a reasonable argument and if the government thinks it's | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
unreasonable they will dismiss it earlier down the line. So what we're | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
hearing today from the trade bodies you mention is they want the | :11:04. | :11:06. | |
government to scrap those plans to allow these businesses to appeal | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
freely. Sean, thank you, we will join you later on. | :11:10. | :11:10. | |
American Scientists attempting to bring the woolly mammoth back | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
from extinction believe they are close to a major breakthrough. | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
Mammoths died out over 4,000 years ago but the team | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
from Harvard University is using DNA retrieved from specimens found | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
They claim that in the next two years they will be able to mix it | :11:22. | :11:27. | |
with Asian elephants to create new hybrid embryos. | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
But admit a living breathing mammoth is still a long way off. | :11:30. | :11:41. | |
It's a step to All Ords. It is, isn't it? Quite an extraordinary | :11:42. | :11:51. | |
story. If they can bring back the mammoths -- it is a step towards. | :11:52. | :11:58. | |
What about the Dodos? Bring back the Dodo I say, cross it with a chicken | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
or something, a hybrid! Lovely to see you! It is all about | :12:01. | :12:09. | |
Manchester United and Spurs, mixed fortunes in the Europa League, it's | :12:10. | :12:13. | |
not the Champions League but it is a chance for silverware and a chance | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
to get into the Champions League next season for the winners but a | :12:18. | :12:18. | |
mixed night. Manchester United all but got | :12:19. | :12:19. | |
the job done against St Etienne. A hat-trick from Zlatan | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
Ibrahimovic at Old Trafford put them in control of their last 32 | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
tie, going into the second But Tottenham have a fair bit | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
of work to do in their tie, they were poor last night, | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
suffering a surprise 1-0 defeat at Gent, who're eighth | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
in the Belgian league. referees is heading to the Middle | :12:36. | :12:40. | |
East. Mark Clattenburg, who took charge | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
of the European Championship and Champions League | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
finals last season, is to become Head of | :12:49. | :12:50. | |
Referees in Saudi Arabia. And Salford Red Devils | :12:51. | :12:55. | |
picked up their first win of the Super League season, | :12:56. | :13:02. | |
beating Huddersfield Giants 30-20. They prevented Huddersfield from | :13:03. | :13:10. | |
going top of the table. We only work here! I know, we've been here for | :13:11. | :13:15. | |
many years now, live, work, breed here. Are you going to stay around | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
for the papers? -- breve. If I can! Carol has the weather. | :13:23. | :13:23. | |
Fairly settled and mild but some rain in the forecast. Today it will | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
be mostly cloudy, the best of the sunshine will be in the north and | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
north-east and wherever you are it's going to feel mild. What we've got | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
is this line of cloud, that's a weak weather front and through the day it | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
will pivot northwards. Ahead of it in parts of Scotland and northern | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
England, some fog patches and in south-west England there are also | :13:47. | :13:49. | |
fog patches this morning, some of which will be slow to clear but | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
eventually they will. For many we'll be left with a lot of cloud. Where | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
we got the weak weather front that's when we see some light and patchy | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
rain, move away from that, where the fog lifts in Scotland you will see | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
some trine Imanol and east. The same in northern England, the fog patches | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
-- the same in the north and east. As we come south, the other end of | :14:13. | :14:15. | |
that weather front producing a fair bit of cloud as well but on either | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
side of it we will see some brighter breaks. But for most today the | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
forecast is going to be cloudy. Through the course of the day with | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
light winds if you do happen to see some sunshine it will feel pleasant | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
enough, quite springlike actually and you can see where we have some | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
rain out to the west. Nothing too heavy but as that weather front | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
moves northwards you'll find the cloud ahead of it will also build. | :14:42. | :14:44. | |
Temperatures today between about eight and 12. Through this evening | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
and overnight, once again we're looking at a fair bit of cloud | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
around, we'll have some spots of light rain in parts of Wales and | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
into the Midlands and another weather front coming from the west | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
will introduce more rain. The rain will be heaviest in the north-west | :14:59. | :15:01. | |
of Scotland, not just tonight but into tomorrow and temperatures | :15:02. | :15:04. | |
staying easily into the mid to high single figures. Into the weekend, it | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
is going to remain mild, there will be some sunny intervals. But there | :15:09. | :15:16. | |
will also be some rain at times in the north. By the time we get to | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
Saturday, this is the kind of scenario you can expect, quite a lot | :15:21. | :15:24. | |
of cloud, quite a lot of showers, here's the rain overnight, moving | :15:25. | :15:27. | |
into Scotland and as it sinks to northern England and north Wales, it | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
will be a weaker feature followed on by some showers. Ahead of it, some | :15:32. | :15:34. | |
brighter skies, some sunshine coming through and once again in the | :15:35. | :15:37. | |
sunshine it will feel quite pleasant for the time of year, quite | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
springlike. Then as we head on into Sunday, we see the remnants of | :15:43. | :15:45. | |
Saturday night into Sunday, another weather front starts to show its | :15:46. | :15:49. | |
hand, a warm front coming in first and behind that you will find we're | :15:50. | :15:57. | |
looking at milder conditions again. Ahead of it not a bad day, the rain | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
coming in from the west, wind picking up a bit but nothing too | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
substantial, 11, 12, maybe a bit more and as we head into the early | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
part of next week, some parts of the UK could hit 16 or 17. That would | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
take us into the exceptionally mild category for this stage in February. | :16:14. | :16:16. | |
Time to get out the shorts! Thank you! But not for long! | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
The Guardian leading with Trump denying the presidency is in a state | :16:25. | :16:33. | |
of chaos. A fabulous picture of a mammoth but they think they may be | :16:34. | :16:39. | |
able to have an embryo with mammoth genes in it but it will be years | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
before an actual mammoth walks on the earth again. In the Daily Mail, | :16:45. | :16:54. | |
we will look at this this morning later. I thought I was going to | :16:55. | :17:01. | |
sneeze and then it... You know the feeling... But it is gone now. The | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
front page of The Times, it looks like Donald Trump wants to sneeze as | :17:08. | :17:21. | |
well. The US tells Russia about friendship and spending on | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
cigarettes at the 15 EU low. A lovely story before the FA Cup. For | :17:30. | :17:41. | |
those who do not know... All leg side against Arsenal. | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
Semiprofessional. Effectively, the bottom league, you like off the foot | :17:47. | :17:53. | |
will leak. The reserve goalkeeper has become an international | :17:54. | :18:01. | |
superstar because is 20 stones, but say their normal goalkeeper had an | :18:02. | :18:11. | |
injury, he would be facing Arsenal. He has been asked by the magazines | :18:12. | :18:17. | |
to pose naked. Wade ashore if his name. -- Wayne Shaw. Can you | :18:18. | :18:27. | |
imagine? It is the reason why people love that tournament so much. He has | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
become a superstar without actually plan. Half of families testing each | :18:33. | :18:41. | |
other while in the same house! It has happened. I have woken my | :18:42. | :18:49. | |
daughter up in the morning. It is a bit of a joke. She is more likely to | :18:50. | :18:59. | |
wake than me going in, I suppose. What I want to do this morning, what | :19:00. | :19:05. | |
are the text messages? Not all of them, maybe. Is it wake up, supper | :19:06. | :19:16. | |
is ready. Food is on the table. Another lovely one. This fan tweets | :19:17. | :19:24. | |
his tennis superstar during the Super Bowl. Atlanta against the New | :19:25. | :19:35. | |
England Patriot. John Girt tweets are saying that if the Patriots come | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
back and win, will you go out on a date with me and they did win so she | :19:42. | :19:47. | |
did. It looks like happily ever after but it is just one dates. But | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
who knows! It's 6:19 and you're watching | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. President Trump's accused the media | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
of showing hatred towards him, saying their level of dishonesty | :19:59. | :20:02. | |
was out of control. The USA and Russia can work together | :20:03. | :20:06. | |
but Moscow must keep its promises. That's the opinion of the new US | :20:07. | :20:09. | |
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after his first face-to-face meeting | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
with Russia's foreign minister The two men are both | :20:14. | :20:15. | |
attending the G20 summit in Germany as the world wonders | :20:16. | :20:19. | |
what the future holds for relations Marcus Papadopoulos, | :20:20. | :20:21. | |
Editor of the magazine Politics First, joins us | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
from our London newsroom. This is an important first official | :20:25. | :20:34. | |
engagement. What do you make of what they have said? It is important to | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
have communications however there is no such thing as a in politics and | :20:40. | :20:45. | |
that is especially true regarding the relationship between Moscow and | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
Washington. It is absolutely dreadful and it is difficult to see | :20:51. | :20:57. | |
how it can get any worse however it is also difficult to see how it can | :20:58. | :21:02. | |
improve. The Russians have three demands and it concerns, legitimate | :21:03. | :21:11. | |
concerns, regarding nature. Nature is no longer a defensive | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
organisation, since the 1990s, it has become an offensive and | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
antagonistic organisation. The first of Russian demands will be for Nato | :21:22. | :21:25. | |
to pull back forces from the all ticket states and Poland. Secondly, | :21:26. | :21:33. | |
that the Americans put into writing that Nato will not invite Ukraine, | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
bowled over all Georgia to join ratio. The mistake Mikhail Gorbachev | :21:39. | :21:48. | |
made by the failing to put into writing that Nato would not expand | :21:49. | :21:56. | |
past the eastern Germany. How difficult is the balancing act | :21:57. | :22:04. | |
between those and you figures in the Trump administration, talking about | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
G20 and defence matters, they are talking about how they will handle | :22:10. | :22:17. | |
the relationship. How at odds are they with some of the things Donald | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
Trump has said with what appears to be almost a personal relationship | :22:24. | :22:28. | |
with Vladimir Putin. There is a curious and misguided sense of | :22:29. | :22:36. | |
optimism. Even if Donald Trump is genuine about changing foreign | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
policy towards Russia, he will come up against formidable opposition - | :22:41. | :22:49. | |
Congress, the Republican Party, both hostiles towards Russia. The pair | :22:50. | :22:54. | |
didn't, the State Department and the CIA, and the Defence Secretary is | :22:55. | :23:00. | |
very hardline towards Russia and said yesterday there will be no | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
military cooperation between Russia and America. On that note, the true | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
face of the Trump administration is coming through. But going back to | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
the third demand, fought American missile shield which went active | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
last year in Poland and Romania which is aimed at the Russian | :23:20. | :23:26. | |
strategic nuclear deterrent. There are other demands, less significant | :23:27. | :23:33. | |
but nonetheless, firstly for American sanctions to be lifted and | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
secondly for the Crimea to be recognised as part of the Russian | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
Federation. British and American media have been making a lot of the | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
Crimea but the reason no reason if the Americans do not choose to | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
recognise it as part of Russia, that would preclude the possibility of | :23:53. | :23:58. | |
improved relations between Moscow and Washington. You have to remember | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
the Americans never acknowledged the Baltic states as part of the Soviet | :24:04. | :24:07. | |
Union nonetheless at the CeBIT union and America were able to come lewd | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
some significant treaties. -- the Soviet Union. Thank you for your | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
time this morning. Whether it's waiting for a bus, | :24:21. | :24:21. | |
taking money out of a cash machine or doing the weekly shop, | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
they all involve one of the most we're talking, of course, | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
about queuing. That is a long queue. Would you | :24:29. | :24:40. | |
stand in that queue? No. Now new research is trying | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
to explain the science behind waiting in line and the queuing | :24:47. | :24:49. | |
rules that Brits like to adhere to. I quite like queueing, to perpetuate | :24:50. | :25:02. | |
the stereotype. I queued to Charles de Gaulle. The Germans were pushing | :25:03. | :25:09. | |
in front and we were queueing very well. In America if you barge to | :25:10. | :25:16. | |
gather as one. It is a necessary evil. If someone jumps at the Q or | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
is grabbing items while in that queue, it is a very British kind of | :25:25. | :25:26. | |
anger. Or what tactics do use to try | :25:27. | :25:27. | |
and beat the queues? The classic supermarket queue | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
situation. You can email us at | :25:32. | :25:44. | |
[email protected] Or share your thoughts with other | :25:45. | :25:46. | |
viewers on our Facebook page. Apparently you do not talk in queues | :25:47. | :26:00. | |
because you are standing too close. And if you don't say close, someone | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
comes in. Exactly. And you can Tweet | :26:05. | :26:06. | |
about today's stories using the hashtag BBCBreakfast - | :26:07. | :26:08. | |
or follow us for the latest Only half the food eaten in the UK | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
comes from our own farmers - but it is possible for us | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
to become self-sufficient? Sean is at New Covent Garden | :26:17. | :26:18. | |
in London for us this morning. Tell us the story? A beautiful | :26:19. | :26:31. | |
array. Loads and loads of fruit and veg already sold. Some British | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
cabbage. But only half the food we eat in the UK it is actually grown | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
here and the large majority of vegetables is imported from around | :26:44. | :26:47. | |
Europe and the rest of the world. How easy is it for you to start | :26:48. | :26:58. | |
stocking more British food? Every season, we have apples but the | :26:59. | :27:03. | |
majority of what you sell his going to be important. They need to | :27:04. | :27:07. | |
sustain the cold winters. Salazar will all be coming from overseas. A | :27:08. | :27:15. | |
small minority has been home-grown. Let us work controversial a couple | :27:16. | :27:20. | |
of weeks ago. -- letters. Plenty more on our website | :27:21. | :30:41. | |
at the usual address. Now though it's back | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
to Louise and Charlie. with Charlie Stayt and Louise | :30:44. | :30:45. | |
Minchin. We'll bring you all the latest news | :30:46. | :30:57. | |
and sport in a moment. Hundreds of thousands | :30:58. | :31:01. | |
of commuters could face more disruption as the Southern Rail | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
dispute shows no sign of ending. As train drivers turn down a deal, | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
we'll ask where this leaves (ANI) Also this morning, | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
It was one of the worst shipping Also this morning, it was one | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
of the worst shipping disasters ever to take | :31:16. | :31:22. | |
place in British waters, but why are so many people | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
unaware of the SS Mendi? Now 100 years on we'll be hearing | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
about the 600 South Africans And it's been a turbulent 12 months | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
for the Lake District. We'll be meeting the men who've been | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
filming a year in the life of one But now a summary of this | :31:36. | :31:39. | |
morning's main news.. But now a summary of this | :31:40. | :31:45. | |
morning's main news. US President Donald Trump has | :31:46. | :31:49. | |
launched a ferocious attack on the media while defending his | :31:50. | :31:53. | |
record during his first During an extraordinary press | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
conference at the White House he insisted his administration | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
was running like a fine tuned machine and told reporters | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
their level of dishonesty Our North America editor | :32:03. | :32:04. | |
Jon Sopel was there. Ladies and gentlemen, | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
the President of the United States. At short notice a news | :32:09. | :32:10. | |
conference was announced, to be given by the President - | :32:11. | :32:12. | |
highly unusual. Ostensibly to announce his | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
new choice as Labour Secretary but really it was to get | :32:16. | :32:17. | |
a whole lot off his chest. Because the press is honestly out | :32:18. | :32:21. | |
of control, the level of dishonesty And the idea that his | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
administration was in meltdown? Nothing could be | :32:25. | :32:28. | |
further from the truth. I turn on the TV, open | :32:29. | :32:30. | |
the newspapers and I see stories of chaos - chaos - | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
like a fine-tuned machine. But how could he reconcile that | :32:37. | :32:38. | |
with the travel ban that has been A question I asked after | :32:39. | :32:42. | |
a little back and forth. It's a good line, | :32:43. | :32:55. | |
impartial, free and fair. On the travel ban - | :32:56. | :33:01. | |
we can banter back and forth - on the travel ban, would you accept | :33:02. | :33:06. | |
that that was a good example of the smooth running | :33:07. | :33:09. | |
of government... Let me tell you... | :33:10. | :33:11. | |
..were there any mistakes in that? Let me tell you about the travel | :33:12. | :33:14. | |
ban, we had a very smooth rollout But we had a bad court. | :33:15. | :33:23. | |
We got a bad decision. We are going to put | :33:24. | :33:27. | |
in a new executive order The other thing that the President | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
is in a rage about is the suggestion that he is in the pockets | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
of the Russians. Donald Trump said his administration | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
would crack down on the leaking of classified information and then, | :33:38. | :33:46. | |
at the end, something you never see at a White House news conference - | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
the President being heckled. REPORTER: If you have no | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
connection to Russia why won't you release your tax | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
returns and prove it? We'll be talking about that more | :33:58. | :34:00. | |
shortly. Ten British tourists | :34:01. | :34:09. | |
are being treated in hospital in Norway after a speedboat hit | :34:10. | :34:11. | |
the base of a water fountain. The incident happened | :34:12. | :34:15. | |
in the harbour of the town of Harstad as a sightseeing trip | :34:16. | :34:17. | |
returned to shore. Two people are reported to have | :34:18. | :34:20. | |
been seriously injured. The Foreign Office says it is in | :34:21. | :34:22. | |
touch with Norwegian authorities. The cause of the incident | :34:23. | :34:25. | |
is not yet known. Tony Blair will make a speech later | :34:26. | :34:31. | |
today saying his mission is to persuade the British people | :34:32. | :34:34. | |
to change their minds about the vote He will say that people voted | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
without knowing the real damage that Brexit would cause, | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
including possibly the break up But former Cabinet minister | :34:42. | :34:44. | |
Iain Duncan Smith said Mr Blair's comments were arrogant | :34:45. | :34:48. | |
and utterly undemocratic. Downing Street has said | :34:49. | :34:50. | |
it is absolutely committed Urgent talks to discuss the future | :34:51. | :34:52. | |
of thousands of jobs in the British car industry have | :34:53. | :34:56. | |
been held in Paris. The owners of Peugot | :34:57. | :34:58. | |
are looking to take over the European arm of General motors, | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
which owns two Vauxhall plants Business Secretary Greg Clark says | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
he will remain in close contact with both firms as the deal | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
progresses, but union officials have warned that protecting UK jobs | :35:09. | :35:10. | |
must remain a priority. The French and the German | :35:11. | :35:23. | |
governments are meeting and that will be to try and secure the future | :35:24. | :35:25. | |
for their plants and we want to make sure that the UK is not | :35:26. | :35:30. | |
sitting on the sidelines. A deal to end much of | :35:31. | :35:36. | |
the long-running dispute on Southern Rail has been rejected | :35:37. | :35:39. | |
by members of the train Under the proposed agreement, | :35:40. | :35:41. | |
Southern would have been able to run trains without a guard | :35:42. | :35:44. | |
or onboard supervisor Southern says it's hugely | :35:45. | :35:47. | |
disappointed and will be seeking Its not unusual to be asked | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
for directions by someone from out Well, unless they happen to be | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
driving a military helicopter. A lorry driver in | :35:58. | :36:07. | |
Kazakhstan has captured the moment a pilot landed | :36:08. | :36:09. | |
on a highway to ask for help The pilot asked how to get to a city | :36:10. | :36:12. | |
in the north-west of the country, much to the amusement of the two | :36:13. | :36:21. | |
lorry drivers who were talking The country's Ministry of Defence | :36:22. | :36:24. | |
said the pilot had been taking part in a visual orientation exercise | :36:25. | :36:33. | |
when he lost his bearings. It can happen! It can happen! | :36:34. | :36:45. | |
Because of the snow there the visibility would have been very bad. | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
Haven't they got sat nav on helicopters? I don't know! Turn left | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
at the next junction, the next cloud! It wouldn't work, would it? | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
Manchester United and Spurs looking to get to the last 16 of the Europa | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
League, the second-tier competition but it gets you into the Champions | :37:03. | :37:06. | |
League if you can win it so mixed fortunes. | :37:07. | :37:06. | |
Manchester United are well on their way to the last 16 | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
after a 3-0 win over St Etienne at Old Trafford. | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
And it was a proud night for the Pogba family. | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
against older brother Florentin of St Etienne. | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
The rest of the family doing their best to support them both. | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
It was Zlatan Ibrahimovic who stole the headlines, though. | :37:23. | :37:26. | |
It's the first he scored for United and 35. | :37:27. | :37:35. | |
And manager Jose Mourinho was happy with the result, | :37:36. | :37:37. | |
Lack of concentration and when you don't have it it is difficult to | :37:38. | :37:46. | |
recover it. So in the first half it was hard and even myself on the | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
touchline, I felt that it was difficult, the communication, I | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
needed it at half-time so we were lucky, yes, to be winning at | :37:56. | :38:01. | |
halftime 1-0. Second half, different storage. | :38:02. | :38:01. | |
They got there in the end, didn't they! -- story. | :38:02. | :38:07. | |
Spurs are 1-0 down in their tie, after they lost 1-0 away | :38:08. | :38:11. | |
to Gent, a side in mid-table in the Belgian league. | :38:12. | :38:13. | |
Tottenham were pretty poor for most of the game, | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
Their chance to make amends comes at Wembley next Thursday. | :38:17. | :38:19. | |
Mark Clattenburg, one of the Premier League's highest | :38:20. | :38:21. | |
profile referees, is taking a job in Saudi Arabia. | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
He's considered one of the best referees in the game. | :38:25. | :38:27. | |
Last season he took charge of the finals in Euro 2016, | :38:28. | :38:31. | |
His new role will involve helping Saudi referees, | :38:32. | :38:35. | |
to improve their performance and he'll also take charge | :38:36. | :38:37. | |
Huddersfield missed the chance to go top of the Super League, | :38:38. | :38:48. | |
beaten by 30-20 by Salford Red Devils. | :38:49. | :38:54. | |
Gareth O'Brian scored 22 points but it was Josh Jones' | :38:55. | :38:59. | |
try five minutes from the end | :39:00. | :39:01. | |
that sealed Salford's first win of the season. | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
We showed you yesterday 15-year-old Jackson Page | :39:05. | :39:07. | |
winning through to the third round of snooker's Welsh Open. | :39:08. | :39:09. | |
I hate to tell you, but his run is over. | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
World number four Judd Trump was just too strong | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
for the local schoolboy, who'd had to get special permission | :39:16. | :39:17. | |
Page lost 4-0 but he goes back to the classroom | :39:18. | :39:26. | |
When you're playing someone like Judd, you're not going to get very | :39:27. | :39:37. | |
close at my age very often unless you play very well. I need to do a | :39:38. | :39:41. | |
lot of maturing and need to practise well to get to that standard. | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
Amazing story. Very popular back at school, do you think he will do the | :39:45. | :39:49. | |
school assembly? Why not! And Canadian tennis star | :39:50. | :39:52. | |
Eugenie Bouchard proved she is a woman of her word | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
by honouring a bet she lost Bouchard backed the Atlanta Falcons | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
to win the Super Bowl. Student John Goehrke said she should | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
go on a date with him Well, lose they did, | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
and on a date they went That's as far as it's gone as far as | :40:07. | :40:10. | |
I know but they are still friends! Press conferences by the President | :40:11. | :40:27. | |
of the United States are typically respectful with politeness and | :40:28. | :40:30. | |
Khamis. But that was in the tone last night when the president spoke | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
to the media. There were insults and heckles and this is how some of it | :40:36. | :40:37. | |
went. I turn on the TV, open the | :40:38. | :40:51. | |
newspapers and icy stories of chaos, chaos. Yet it is the exact opposite. | :40:52. | :40:57. | |
-- IAC stories. This administration is running like a fine-tuned | :40:58. | :41:05. | |
machine. I own nothing in Russia. I have no loans in Russia. I don't | :41:06. | :41:11. | |
have any deals in Russia. President Putin called me up very nicely to | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
congratulate me on the win of the election. | :41:17. | :41:18. | |
So much to talk about. Clear he watches large tranches of the media | :41:19. | :41:34. | |
and then he says the press is out of control and the level of dishonesty | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
is out of control, is it? Allowed absolutely not. You have to | :41:40. | :41:43. | |
understand that Donald Trump and the press are actually living into | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
different realities. Donald Trump sees himself as a saviour and an | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
underdog and Donald Trump once an enormous amount of credit for his | :41:54. | :41:56. | |
victory over elite and rightfully so. But he has got that now and it | :41:57. | :42:04. | |
is now time to make the transition from campaign to actual president, | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
and he hasn't managed to do that. He doesn't really take on the press, | :42:10. | :42:13. | |
doesn't he? And we saw that in the press conference last night, he | :42:14. | :42:17. | |
calls them out individually. Where does this end and where does the | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
analysis and the truth" is yellow well, you know, Donald Trump is a | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
known fighter and what you have to understand about Donald Trump is | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
Donald Trump is actually a tuned to the media. He has grown up in one of | :42:30. | :42:39. | |
the toughest media markets in the world, New York, so he knows how to | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
engage the media but he's gone way overboard. You have to understand, | :42:44. | :42:47. | |
this is the President of the United States, there are a number of issues | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
on his plate right now that he could have addressed in the press | :42:52. | :42:54. | |
conference today but unfortunately we didn't get any of that, we got | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
nothing on his plan for Obamacare, we got nothing on his plan for a | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
compression in Russia policy. There are just a number of issues that he | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
can be addressing but he is so aggrieved by what he believes as the | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
slights by the media, and rightfully so. There are gaping holes in this | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
administration that are very dangerous and questions need to be | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
asked and the media is really going to go after him very hard on many of | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
these issues. It's interesting, he does say that he reads the media | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
again and according to what he reads the administration is in meltdown, | :43:30. | :43:32. | |
he said nothing is further from the truth, though. Well, so far, and the | :43:33. | :43:39. | |
Trump administration has been in office for less than 30 days and | :43:40. | :43:44. | |
already we've seen two high-profile firings, we do know that the knives | :43:45. | :43:49. | |
are out within his inner circle. We do know that he's having a very | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
difficult time staffing up his administration. Keep in mind, there | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
are 4000 political appointees that he needs to make. And right now we | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
know that he's very far the hind President Obama in where he was in | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
2008 in actually starting up his cabinet secretaries. So Donald Trump | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
has a very long way to go and quite frankly he is not running at full | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
capacity right now, and that's just the truth. Let's talk about the | :44:20. | :44:22. | |
performance from his supporters' point of view, because this is why | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
he was voted in in many ways because of this type of performance? You're | :44:28. | :44:33. | |
right. And today that press conference, that was him speaking | :44:34. | :44:36. | |
directly to his supporters. And that's what they want to see. They | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
want to see Donald Trump going after the media because he, along with his | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
supporters, see the media as a leaked, out of touch, Washington | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
based. And so what he is doing is he is speaking directly to them. Elite. | :44:51. | :44:56. | |
And that is also going to be a major problem for him going forward | :44:57. | :45:00. | |
because he has to govern for the entire country, not just for those | :45:01. | :45:04. | |
who elected him but for the entire country. So eventually you wonder | :45:05. | :45:09. | |
how long will congressional Republicans particularly stand | :45:10. | :45:17. | |
behind this president? It is so interesting because it is clear that | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
Donald Trump and the media in that room have a pretty toxic | :45:22. | :45:24. | |
relationship, so what happens about accountability and fact checking? I | :45:25. | :45:30. | |
think we're going to continue to see this problem and one area where I | :45:31. | :45:35. | |
think we could see... Where he could have trouble is, when there are | :45:36. | :45:38. | |
major issues that Donald Trump actually wants to get public support | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
for, we saw that with President Obama often, that he would actually | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
go to the media and he would push his ideas to the media and have them | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
address those issues. So the question will be, can Donald Trump | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
actually get members of the media who will actually go out and talk | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
about some of his policy issues? And I think... And that's where we could | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
seal problems with this administration, because right now | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
we're seeing a dwindling of the support for areas he will need, the | :46:10. | :46:14. | |
media, congressional Republicans and the courts. Thank you very much. | :46:15. | :46:21. | |
Time to get the weather with Carole. Good morning, it is you are stepping | :46:22. | :46:31. | |
out, for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, it is not particularly cold | :46:32. | :46:37. | |
but in Scotland it is. Just below freezing for a large chunk. This | :46:38. | :46:44. | |
cloud gripped around the western areas, producing spots of rain here | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
and there. Foggy patches in the south-west. Also in northern | :46:50. | :46:55. | |
England. Some will be slower to clear. Towards the west, patchy | :46:56. | :47:01. | |
rain. When the fog lift a lot of sunshine. A cloudy day for Northern | :47:02. | :47:07. | |
Ireland. The fog across parts of northern England. It will lift | :47:08. | :47:11. | |
across northern England and The Sun will come out. For Wales and the | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
rest of England, a fair amount of cloud. The other end of the weather | :47:17. | :47:23. | |
front producing all this cloud and you may get some dampness. Through | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
the course of the day, it pivots north. The cloud will build through | :47:28. | :47:34. | |
the afternoon and you can see a line of patchy rain and strengthening | :47:35. | :47:41. | |
winds out to the west. For most it will turn cloudy but where you get | :47:42. | :47:50. | |
the sunshine, 11th - 12 and maybe more. A few showery outbreaks across | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
Wales and the Midlands. Possibly as far as East Anglia. From the west, | :47:56. | :48:01. | |
heavy rain across north-west Scotland continuing on to tomorrow. | :48:02. | :48:06. | |
It will be heavy and persistent for a time. Into the weekend, a mild | :48:07. | :48:13. | |
seem continuing. Sunny intervals of but some rain in the north and here | :48:14. | :48:22. | |
it will be easier. -- breezy. On Saturday, the rain will push across | :48:23. | :48:27. | |
Scotland, still heavier times. As it moves in the northern England and | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
north Wales, it will weaken. In Scotland we will see some bright | :48:32. | :48:37. | |
skies. Some sunshine around and again if the temperature range | :48:38. | :48:43. | |
around 10- 12. In the sunshine it will fill quite pleasant. By | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
Saturday evening, another front coming up for Sunday coming in from | :48:50. | :48:53. | |
the Atlantique. Warmer conditions coming our way. -- the Atlantic. For | :48:54. | :49:07. | |
the first part of next week, it is going to get even milder than that. | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
It sounds nice. Thank you very much. After the recent shortages | :49:14. | :49:15. | |
of imported lettuces and other vegetables could the answer lie | :49:16. | :49:18. | |
in growing more British produce? Only half the food we eat | :49:19. | :49:20. | |
comes from our own farmers. Sean at London's Covent Garden | :49:21. | :49:23. | |
Market this morning to look Is that cabbage as I can see? | :49:24. | :49:40. | |
Peppers? Well done all that is a pepper. It is like being in a flower | :49:41. | :49:47. | |
bed. Some of the produce is absolutely stunning. But you would | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
have to look closely to find anything British. 95% is from Italy | :49:53. | :49:59. | |
right here. Do we want to have more British food? Will you would not be | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
able to have one of these purple head cauliflowers. You could wear it | :50:05. | :50:10. | |
in July, August, September but no chance this time of year. The trend | :50:11. | :50:22. | |
is you might get purple all the -- purple or -- we spend pounds on | :50:23. | :50:35. | |
food. Huge amounts of goes to restaurants. Tim has been looking at | :50:36. | :50:44. | |
how the future of food importing and exporting it might look like. You | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
are not going to get one of these in the UK? Is there ever going to be a | :50:52. | :50:57. | |
point where we are able to feed ourselves? No, and I do not think | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
anyone would argue that we should be feeding ourselves. Not what we are | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
saying is that the more we rely on food coming from overseas, the more | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
we did not produce food for ourselves and if something goes | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
wrong - climate change, geopolitics - that stops us receiving food, what | :51:18. | :51:25. | |
do we do. Want to recognise the value of eating locally not just | :51:26. | :51:30. | |
terms of the food produced by the way the countryside is managed and | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
so on. So that we end up with a food system that is a better mix of local | :51:35. | :51:40. | |
and global. You look at the unbelievable array of colours. A | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
cabbage is pretty much the only British thing I have seen. Does that | :51:46. | :51:52. | |
mean our taste will have to change? A do not think anyone is saying we | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
should. It is just that in the old days, we produced vegetables that we | :51:59. | :52:03. | |
no longer eat. Things like apples, we could grow them over here. It is | :52:04. | :52:10. | |
a matter of yes we rely on international trade and always will | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
but is there more we could do to support our local economy to provide | :52:15. | :52:21. | |
food, connect people back to the countryside, a whole bunch of | :52:22. | :52:27. | |
benefits that comes with it. It is not just about access if the | :52:28. | :52:33. | |
cheapest, all people want is low prices. How does that fit everything | :52:34. | :52:39. | |
you are saying about supporting local economies? Either the | :52:40. | :52:46. | |
consumers at all the retailers. I would take... I would argue with you | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
with respect to what all consumers want. A lot to do. If consumers do | :52:53. | :53:00. | |
not trust the labelling, it makes sense to choose the cheapest but | :53:01. | :53:07. | |
when we do focus groups with people understanding food issues, they | :53:08. | :53:12. | |
understand the value with buying British but we do not always trust | :53:13. | :53:16. | |
of whether or not it is British produced when it says so. How do we | :53:17. | :53:22. | |
encourage people to make the choices they want and make it transparent | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
and so we can get the local benefits to the economy? Thank you very much. | :53:27. | :53:32. | |
We will be talking mated to the chairman of Morrison's to see | :53:33. | :53:37. | |
whether supermarkets are willing to make big changes or whether we want | :53:38. | :53:45. | |
Italian olives and I imagine you are wonderful leaves, Charlie, and are | :53:46. | :53:47. | |
we willing to pay more? It was one of the worst shipping | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
disasters ever to take place in British waters, yet it's one | :53:51. | :53:53. | |
of the least well-known. More than 600 people drowned | :53:54. | :53:56. | |
when the SS Mendi sank close to the Isle of Wight | :53:57. | :53:59. | |
on 21st February 1917. Most of the victims | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
were black South African Labourers who'd been conscripted to support | :54:04. | :54:05. | |
British forces Today events get underway to mark | :54:06. | :54:07. | |
the centenary of the tragedy. Private Daniel Murphy cut, the names | :54:08. | :54:31. | |
of more than 600 killed in one of the U.K.'s worst maritime tragedies. | :54:32. | :54:41. | |
Yet, most have never heard of the sinking of the SS Mendi. 100 years | :54:42. | :54:50. | |
on in Portsmouth rehearsals are on. They were the South African that | :54:51. | :54:56. | |
history forgotten. They have become the unremembered men of the First | :54:57. | :55:01. | |
World War. SS Mendi was sailing from Cape Town to northern France when in | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
thick fog she collided with a larger ship. More than 100 members of the | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
South African native Labour call were on board. More than 600 were | :55:13. | :55:18. | |
lost. They were Labour is needed to support the British Army on the | :55:19. | :55:23. | |
Western front. They built railway lines, roads, the British Army | :55:24. | :55:31. | |
depended on them. They ensured very difficult conditions. They ensured | :55:32. | :55:42. | |
felt racial discrimination and it is time we remember them. They sang | :55:43. | :55:49. | |
this team as SS Mendi sailed from South Africa. It will be performed | :55:50. | :55:54. | |
today in their honour. The discrimination experienced by | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
members of the South African soldiers continued in death. The | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
sinking of the SS Mendi was barely mentioned in official histories of | :56:05. | :56:10. | |
World War I. Those most bodies were never recovered. These are direct | :56:11. | :56:19. | |
descendants of men who died on SS Mendi and have travelled from South | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
Africa for the commemorations. They did get on-board that chip because | :56:23. | :56:30. | |
they were patriotic. The union of South Africa and the King. It is an | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
emotional event coming here. It is only now, that SS Mendi is talked | :56:36. | :56:46. | |
about. We did not have any recognition. At last, we have come. | :56:47. | :56:53. | |
I have come to represent the family. The South African Navy and have also | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
travelled here for the commemoration. Victims of a largely | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
forgotten tragedy at sea officially recognised at last. | :57:04. | :57:11. | |
Those anniversaries leading up to the day, the 21st of February. Time | :57:12. | :57:17. | |
to get the news, travel and weather Now though it's back | :57:18. | :00:41. | |
to Louise and Charlie. with Charlie Stayt and Louise | :00:42. | :00:43. | |
Minchin. Donald Trump launches | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
a ferocious attack on the media as he defends his | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
first weeks in office This administration is running | :00:51. | :00:52. | |
like a fine-tuned machine. In a long and extraordinary | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
White House press conference he told reporters their level of dishonesty | :00:58. | :01:03. | |
was out of control. Good morning, it's | :01:04. | :01:19. | |
Friday 17th February. A group | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
of British tourists are hospitalised after being thrown | :01:22. | :01:30. | |
into freezing waters following a speedboat | :01:31. | :01:32. | |
crash in Norway. Urgent talks are held to secure | :01:33. | :01:33. | |
the future of Vauxhall's two car In sport, it's a first | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
hatrick for the big Swede Half the food we eat in the UK is | :01:38. | :01:48. | |
actually grown here but the vast majority of our fruit and veg is | :01:49. | :01:52. | |
shipped in from overseas. Should we be growing more British food? That's | :01:53. | :01:55. | |
what I'll be looking at this morning. | :01:56. | :01:56. | |
In sport, it's a first hatrick for the big Swede | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
Zlatan Ibrahimovic since joining Manchester United | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
last summer and the veteran put his side well on their way | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
I do believe a nationwide rising of the housewives would end this | :02:08. | :02:13. | |
She might have hated it, but now researchers have come up | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
with a formula for how best to queue. | :02:19. | :02:27. | |
And Carol has the weather for us. Good morning. This morning there is | :02:28. | :02:34. | |
patchy fog, especially in south-west England, northern England and parts | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
of Scotland, some will be slow to clear. It will also be a cloudy day | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
with light rain coming from the West, the lion's share of the | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
sunshine in the north and east of Scotland and north-east England. | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
I'll have more in 15 minutes. US President Donald Trump has | :02:48. | :02:48. | |
launched a ferocious attack on the media while defending his | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
record during his first During an extraordinary press | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
conference at the White House he insisted his administration | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
was running like a fine tuned machine and told reporters | :03:00. | :03:01. | |
their level of dishonesty Our North America editor | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
Jon Sopel was there. Ladies and gentlemen, | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
the President of the United States. At short notice a news | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
conference was announced, to be given by the President - | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
highly unusual. Ostensibly to announce his | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
new choice as Labour Secretary but really it was to get | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
a whole lot off his chest. Because the press is honestly out | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
of control, the level of dishonesty And the idea that his | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
administration was in meltdown? Nothing could be | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
further from the truth. I turn on the TV, open | :03:33. | :03:34. | |
the newspapers and I see stories of chaos - chaos - | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
yet it is the exact opposite. This administration is running | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
like a fine-tuned machine. But how could he reconcile that | :03:43. | :03:50. | |
with the travel ban that has been A question I asked after | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
a little back and forth. Can I just ask you...thank you very | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
much, Mr President... Where are you from? | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
BBC. It's a good line, | :04:01. | :04:01. | |
impartial, free and fair. On the travel ban - | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
we can banter back and forth - on the travel ban, would you accept | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
that that was a good example of the smooth running | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
of government... Yeah, I do. | :04:19. | :04:22. | |
Let me tell you... Wait, wait. | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
I know who you are, just wait. Let me tell you about the travel | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
ban, we had a very smooth rollout We are going to put | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
in a new executive order The other thing that the President | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
is in a rage about is the suggestion that he is in the pockets | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
of the Russians. I own nothing in Russia. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
I have no loans in Russia. Donald Trump said his administration | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
would crack down on the leaking of classified information and then, | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
at the end, something you never see at a White House news conference - | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
the President being heckled. REPORTER: If you have no | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
connection to Russia why won't you release your tax | :05:01. | :05:04. | |
returns and prove it? Ten British tourists | :05:05. | :05:06. | |
are being treated in hospital in Norway after two speedboats hit | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
the base of a water fountain. It happened in the harbour | :05:17. | :05:19. | |
of the town of Harstad. Two people are reported to have | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
been seriously injured, but their injuries aren't described | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
as life-threatening. What started out as a pleasure | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
cruise ended in a dramatic rescue. These British tourists were left | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
in near-freezing waters for around 15 minutes before being rescued | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
after they'd been flung The party had been returning | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
from a sightseeing trip off the shores of Harstad when one | :05:37. | :05:45. | |
of the speedboats crashed into the base of a water feature | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
which wasn't working at the time. A second boat following behind | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
is thought to have been caught up in the incident, which happened | :05:52. | :05:55. | |
around 3pm local time. TRANSLATION: All of the passengers | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
have been brought to hospital We will contact all of them later | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
to further investigate. We will also talk to | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
the boat drivers and people holiday company Inghams said | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
the tourists all arrived in Norway on Wednesday and were due to arrive | :06:13. | :06:33. | |
in the UK this Sunday. Tony Blair says he wants people | :06:34. | :06:39. | |
to rise up and change In a speech later the former | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
Prime Minister will say that voters made their decisions without knowing | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
the real damage that leaving Downing Street has said | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
it is absolutely committed to seeing Brexit through and today | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
Theresa May will meet the French Prime Minister | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
for discussions. Our political | :07:01. | :07:01. | |
correspondent Tom Bateman What exactly is Tony Blair going to | :07:02. | :07:11. | |
say? Tony Blair has said in the past he believes Grexit would be | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
catastrophic for Britain, that I don't think is particularly new but | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
what's interesting about this is the explicit way this is a rallying cry. | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
And expression of mission that he wants people to fight against Brexit | :07:23. | :07:27. | |
happening -- an. In his speech today he will say this, he says it's not | :07:28. | :07:32. | |
the time for retreat but he says the time to rise up in defence of what | :07:33. | :07:37. | |
we believe. He will then go on that people voted without the knowledge | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
of the true terms of Brexit saying as these terms become clear it's | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
their right to change their minds. Clearly calling on people to think | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
differently about Brexit. Is this going to change things? Certainly | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
not for the moment, I think what he's trying to do here is seek to | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
influence the Parliamentary process at this stage around the Article 50 | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
bill, which still has a bit of a way to go. I don't think he really has | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
any chance of changing that, he wants to get things up the agenda | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
and those who campaigned for Brexit say this is elitist with one leading | :08:14. | :08:16. | |
figure, Iain Duncan Smith, saying this is bullying, cajoling and | :08:17. | :08:19. | |
lecturing by Tony Blair. Tom Bateman, thank you very much. | :08:20. | :08:20. | |
Urgent talks to discuss the future of thousands of jobs in the British | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
car industry have been held in Paris. | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
The owner of Peugeot is looking to take over | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
the European arm of General motors, | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
which owns Vauxhall plants at Luton and Ellesmere Port. | :08:31. | :08:32. | |
If this deal goes ahead, it will create the second-biggest | :08:33. | :08:36. | |
There've been intense talks over the past few days as French carmaker | :08:37. | :08:41. | |
looks to take over part of General Motors. | :08:42. | :08:48. | |
That includes Vauxhall in the UK, which employs 4,500 staff at its two | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
sites in Luton and Ellesmere Port and tens of thousands more | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
Last night the Business Secretary met with the French business | :08:55. | :09:05. | |
minister and PSA executives, who made clear the Vauxhall brand | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
But this is a deal that's moving quickly and when giant companies | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
are created, protecting jobs becomes a concern, | :09:15. | :09:17. | |
particularly when other countries are trying to do the same. | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
The French and the German governments are meeting and that | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
will be to try and secure the future for their plants and we want to make | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
sure that the UK is not sitting on the sidelines. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
So still a lot to do, a lot to play for, but our determination | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
Unions say the British market will be key to Vauxhall's new owners | :09:35. | :09:44. | |
so they must commit to its loyal and skilled workforce. | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
But having a British seat at the table remains crucial | :09:49. | :09:52. | |
The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, says he fears | :09:53. | :10:02. | |
millions of people are withdrawing from what he calls | :10:03. | :10:04. | |
In an interview with the BBC, he addressed | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
the growing controversy over fake news and what he sees | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
as a troubling drift away from globalisation. | :10:11. | :10:19. | |
Some of the UK's biggest trade bodies have signed a letter | :10:20. | :10:22. | |
to Parliament calling for Government proposals on business rates appeals | :10:23. | :10:24. | |
They say the changes, which take effect in April, | :10:25. | :10:28. | |
will force companies to pay artificially high rates, | :10:29. | :10:30. | |
even if they could prove the amount should be lower. | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
from London's New Covent Garden Market. | :10:34. | :10:43. | |
Explain the rates business for us, Sean. The way they work, business | :10:44. | :10:50. | |
rates are a bit like a council tax for companies where they pay a tax | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
partly based on the rental value of the properties they do their | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
business in. There's been a revaluation recently kicking in in | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
April, the last times calculations were done was in 2010 and since then | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
property prices have changed a lot, which is why rates are changing for | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
businesses like these. Three quarters will see them stay the same | :11:10. | :11:17. | |
awful but that still means there are hundreds of thousands of businesses, | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
particularly if property prices have gone up, will see rates go up. The | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
government wants to tweet with the appeal process and they want the | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
valuations tribunal overseeing these things to be able to dismissed the | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
appeals if they think the calculations initially were | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
reasonable. What the business bodies are saying today is they are worried | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
about what that means for businesses in the appeal process and therefore | :11:38. | :11:41. | |
they want the government to drop those plans. We will be with you a | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
bit later talking about vegetables and how much we import as well. | :11:46. | :11:47. | |
Thank you. American Scientists attempting | :11:48. | :11:48. | |
to bring the woolly mammoth back from extinction believe they are | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
close to a major breakthrough. Mammoths died out over 4,000 | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
years ago but the team from Harvard University is using DNA | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
retrieved from specimens found They claim that in the next two | :11:57. | :11:58. | |
years they will be able to mix it with Asian elephants | :11:59. | :12:06. | |
to create new hybrid embryos. But admit a living breathing mammoth | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
is still a long way off. There seems no end to the dispute | :12:09. | :12:17. | |
that's caused months of chaos Yesterday the deal agreed | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
by the leaders of Aslef, the train driver's union, | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
was rejected by members. At the heart of the dispute | :12:25. | :12:40. | |
is the company's plan to introduce driver-only operated trains, | :12:41. | :12:43. | |
where there isn't a guard in charge Roughly 900 Aslef drivers | :12:44. | :12:46. | |
who work for Southern voted Nearly 46% voted in favour, | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
54% voted against. The union says they | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
understand and support the decision by members | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
and will now work to deliver a resolution in line | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
with their expectations. they are doing their best to find | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
a way forward with the unions. The RMT, which represents | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
the guards, has already scheduled Joining us from our Brighton | :13:05. | :13:06. | |
newsroom is Summer Dean from the Association | :13:07. | :13:15. | |
of British Commuters. Very good morning to you, thank you | :13:16. | :13:23. | |
for your time this morning. Just give us your reaction to the | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
sequence of events yesterday and the rejection of this deal. | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
Well, obviously the drivers have rejected the deal but I think what | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
it really highlights is that the safety benchmarks aren't being met | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
and I think that's the sort of situation that we're in. Obviously | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
they voted, it's not up to me to vote, it's not up to any passenger | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
to vote but as I say, it really highlights that drivers do have a | :13:52. | :13:54. | |
concern about safety and they do have a concern about passengers and | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
disabled passengers also. So on a practical level, for people like | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
yourself who rely on the trains, next week there's another strike. To | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
do a degree it's almost academic to commuters who the strike is by and | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
next week it's the RMT, a strike by them, what is the impact? What has | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
it been like and what will it be like once again for commuters? I | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
think it's actually really sad that commuters have come to inspect a | :14:25. | :14:27. | |
really poor service on Southern Rail, and that isn't something we | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
should expect because we're still playing the same price -- to expect. | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
But really, as I've said countless times before, disruption isn't just | :14:37. | :14:40. | |
on strike days. Yes, of course we see disruption when the RMT strike | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
and we see more disruption when Aslef, the drivers union, strike but | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
we really know that disruption is every day due to the ongoing | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
mismanagement of Southern Rail by the Department for Transport. | :14:55. | :14:57. | |
Summer, we have this false dawn as it were, this moment where it looked | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
like a deal could be reached. Now it's gone, who knows where it's | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
going to go next, we know both sides say they want to carry on those | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
talks. What do you want to see changing? How do you see this being | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
moved forward? What we really need is a politics aside approach and I | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
don't think that's a really radical thing to be calling for. We need | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
passengers to be really put back at the heart of this whole situation. | :15:25. | :15:28. | |
With no passengers there is no trains, no industry to run so really | :15:29. | :15:32. | |
what we need to do is politics aside, say what is safe for | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
passengers, how can we make sure a disabled person can turn up at a | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
station and get on a train and get to where they want to go and also | :15:42. | :15:45. | |
addressing the concerns by drivers. Of course drivers are concerned | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
about safety. What we see now is drivers being personally liable if | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
something goes wrong on a train. They face prosecution. So really | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
politics aside, we need to look at, OK, how can this work, how can | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
passengers be put at the centre of this again? And of course we're | :16:05. | :16:07. | |
still calling for the Transport Minister Chris Grayling to step up | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
within the Department for Transport, which is something that should have | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
been done a very long time ago. Summer, thank you very much. | :16:15. | :16:22. | |
Before we speak to Carol for the weather he's a sneak preview | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
of something we'll be looking at later on Breakfast. | :16:26. | :16:27. | |
The spectacular changing scenery of the Lake District. | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
Filmmakers have been documenting a year in the life of the Lakes - | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
and they've ended up with beautiful pictures like this | :16:35. | :16:36. | |
We'll be seeing more after nine o'clock. | :16:37. | :16:49. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :16:50. | :16:58. | |
Mainly cloudy day across most of the UK. Some exceptions to that. I'll | :16:59. | :17:08. | |
day after a cold start across Scotland. This weather front is | :17:09. | :17:15. | |
producing patchy rain at the moment. Either side of it, we have some fog | :17:16. | :17:24. | |
around, some of which will be slow to clear. It could take a a big | :17:25. | :17:31. | |
chunk of the morning before it goes. When the fog lifts there will be | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
sunshine. Southern England, fog patches. North-east England, | :17:37. | :17:43. | |
sunshine when it leaves. Across Wales and England, again, quite a | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
bit of cloud around with one or two breaks. With the thicker cloud, the | :17:51. | :17:57. | |
other end of weather front. It will pivot north so we will see more | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
cloud arriving at we have the sunshine. The rain not particularly | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
heavy and it will brighten up across England. If you are in an area with | :18:09. | :18:15. | |
some sunshine and light breezes, it will feel quite spring like. Through | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
the evening and overnight, we will still have showery outbreaks across | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
Wales, the Midlands and possibly as far east as East Anglia. From the | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
west, more persistent rain across north-west Scotland continuing | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
through much of Saturday. As we head into the weekend, the mild theme | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
will come in you. Temperatures easily into the 13 degrees. Rain in | :18:45. | :18:53. | |
the north. In the Saturday, coming across north-west Scott on. As it | :18:54. | :19:00. | |
sings into northern England, Northern Ireland and north Wales, it | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
will weaken but behind it there will be bliss three showers. Quite a lot | :19:05. | :19:09. | |
of cloud but it will break and then sunshine again. Generally we are | :19:10. | :19:16. | |
looking at around 11- 12 degrees stop in the Sunday, we lose a lot of | :19:17. | :19:21. | |
the fronts, pushing off into the North Sea, only to be replaced by a | :19:22. | :19:28. | |
front coming in from the Atlantic. On Sunday, a lot of dry weather | :19:29. | :19:34. | |
around, a lot of cloud, some breaks in the south-east but as the world | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
front comes in, it will introduce more rain, the heaviest across the | :19:41. | :19:50. | |
north-west. Four Monday and Tuesday, 16 - 17 for north-east Wales and | :19:51. | :19:57. | |
possibly the Midlands. That is how it is looking at the moment. | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
It's less than a week until voters in the Stoke-on-Trent Central | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
The poll, on the 23rd February, is being seen as a key electoral | :20:05. | :20:12. | |
test for Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, whose party | :20:13. | :20:14. | |
With voters across Stoke strongly backing Leave in last year's | :20:15. | :20:18. | |
referendum, how much of an impact is Brexit likely to have? | :20:19. | :20:21. | |
Graham Satchell went to the Potteries to find out. | :20:22. | :20:40. | |
It is urban and working class and they have had a Labour MP since the | :20:41. | :20:49. | |
1950s when the seat was elected. Labour. He has always been Labour. | :20:50. | :20:59. | |
Always Labour. Speak to almost anyone here and they say the same | :21:00. | :21:02. | |
thing. They have always voted Labour... That is what Labour was | :21:03. | :21:10. | |
for. The manufacturing is gone. All gone. There is indecision, | :21:11. | :21:18. | |
uncertainty. I might vote Labour, I might vote... Let's see how things | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
go on. Why either hesitant support? Some feel ignored. They do nothing | :21:26. | :21:31. | |
for you, nothing at all. They are going to do this and that but they | :21:32. | :21:38. | |
do nothing. Nothing to hope for. Not very good. Hospital closures. It is | :21:39. | :21:54. | |
a sad, really. Ukip sensed an opportunity. They voted heavily to | :21:55. | :22:03. | |
leave the EU. 69.4% wanted out. One of the highest in the country. On | :22:04. | :22:10. | |
her barge, Kay is making great cakes. You could not get more | :22:11. | :22:16. | |
traditional spoke. How did you vote in the Brexit referendum? Out. I | :22:17. | :22:26. | |
want to support of the NHS. It is pretty grounded. Who do you think | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
you will vote for this time because back am not sure. I have not made my | :22:33. | :22:38. | |
mind up. Her husband is also a traditional Labour voter. Ukip. They | :22:39. | :22:53. | |
have a very good strong majority in Stoke-on-Trent. We have just been | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
let down by Labour in the past few years. Something we heard again and | :22:59. | :23:06. | |
again. I have not really looked into it. I do not normally when stuff | :23:07. | :23:12. | |
like this comes around. It is not at the top of my pre-or at the least. | :23:13. | :23:17. | |
Just 49% of people voted here, at the last election, the lowest in the | :23:18. | :23:23. | |
country. They always vote Labour. Labour should win this seat but if | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
what we found here is representative, it will be a win | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
with little enthusiasm. Only half the food eaten in the UK | :23:32. | :23:44. | |
comes from our farmers. but it is possible for us to become | :23:45. | :23:52. | |
more self-sufficient? Sean is at New Covent Garden | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
in London for us this morning. We also talk about the art of | :23:55. | :24:06. | |
queueing. How long the queue is before you get irritated. Six people | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
in front of you. If the queue gets longer behind you is also very | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
annoying. Thank you for getting in touch. All queueing rules seem to | :24:17. | :24:22. | |
get out the window when getting on the tube. When is a queue not a cue? | :24:23. | :24:31. | |
One place it annoys me is queueing in paths. Decent staff know who to | :24:32. | :24:39. | |
serve next. It is sideways as well as behind. It is difficult to | :24:40. | :24:47. | |
negotiate. An Englishman, even if alone will perform an orderly queue | :24:48. | :24:53. | |
of one. Nice things can happen in queues, she wants to say thank you | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
to the lady with the heavy load at Aldi who let her get in front of | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
her. I love it when that happens, she says in capital letters. If you | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
just have one thing, you should let them in front of you. Do you have a | :25:15. | :25:22. | |
cue for vegetables? I mean, a glorious array of fruit and veg this | :25:23. | :25:28. | |
morning. You would do well to see these beautiful pairs grown here in | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
the UK this time of year. Purple headed cauliflowers are you might | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
get them here in the summer. Should we be trying to grow more food in | :25:40. | :25:46. | |
the UK and that might mean changing our tastes. If you want to eat more | :25:47. | :25:52. | |
of those, you might have to get used to it. If you want the stuff that | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
survives in winter. A lot of what we spend is in restaurants and in staff | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
we get at home. We will talk to Morrisons to see whether supermarket | :26:05. | :26:08. | |
customers are willing to change their tastes all we are willing to | :26:09. | :26:16. | |
pay a bit more. Earlier we saw lettuces grown in the UK but they | :26:17. | :26:21. | |
were grown under glass houses. That will be the kind of stuff we are | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
talking about. These are quite nice. These are Italian. How pretty | :26:28. | :26:36. | |
allowe? They are now OK. There was a point with issues around Europe | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
affecting what we had here. Plenty more on our website | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
at the usual address. Now though it's back | :26:47. | :30:05. | |
to Louise and Charlie. with Charlie Stayt and Louise | :30:06. | :30:07. | |
Minchin. US President Donald Trump has | :30:08. | :30:15. | |
launched a ferocious attack on the media while defending his | :30:16. | :30:17. | |
record during his first During an extraordinary press | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
conference at the White House he insisted his administration | :30:21. | :30:24. | |
was running like a fine tuned machine and told reporters | :30:25. | :30:26. | |
their level of dishonesty Donald Trump sees himself as a | :30:27. | :30:45. | |
saviour, he sees himself as an underdog and Donald Trump wants an | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
enormous amount of credit for his victory over Hillary Clinton and | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
rightfully so. But I think he's gotten that now and I think it's | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
time for him to make the transition from campaign to actual president, | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
and he just hasn't been able to do that. | :31:01. | :31:01. | |
Ten British tourists are being treated in hospital | :31:02. | :31:03. | |
in Norway after a speedboat hit the base of a water fountain. | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
The incident happened in the harbour of the town | :31:07. | :31:09. | |
of Harstad as a sightseeing trip returned to shore. | :31:10. | :31:11. | |
Two people are reported to have been seriously injured. | :31:12. | :31:13. | |
The Foreign Office says it is in touch with Norwegian authorities. | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
The cause of the incident is not yet known. | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair says he wants people to rise up | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
He will say in a speech later that voters | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
made their decisions without knowing the real damage that | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
Downing Street has said it is "absolutely committed" | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
Urgent talks to discuss the future of thousands of jobs in the British | :31:33. | :31:44. | |
car industry have been held in Paris. | :31:45. | :31:46. | |
The owners of Peugot are looking to take over | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
the European arm of General motors, which owns two Vauxhall plants | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
Business Secretary Greg Clark says he will remain in close contact | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
with both firms as the deal progresses, but union officials have | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
warned that protecting UK jobs must remain a priority. | :31:59. | :32:05. | |
The French and the German governments are meeting and that | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
will be to try and secure the future for their plants and we want to make | :32:09. | :32:12. | |
sure that the UK is not sitting on the sidelines. | :32:13. | :32:19. | |
A deal to end much of the long-running dispute | :32:20. | :32:21. | |
on Southern Rail has been rejected by members of the train | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
Under the proposed agreement, Southern would have been | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
able to run trains without a guard or onboard supervisor | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
Southern says it's hugely disappointed and will be seeking | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, says he fears that | :32:34. | :32:43. | |
millions of people who feel left behind by globalisation, | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
are withdrawing from what he calls the connected world. | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
In an interview with the BBC, he said fake news | :32:50. | :32:53. | |
and filter bubbles, where people only heard opinions | :32:54. | :32:55. | |
they already agreed with, were damaging public debate. | :32:56. | :33:01. | |
It's not unusual to be asked for directions by someone from out | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
Well, unless they happen to be driving a military helicopter. | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
A lorry driver in Kazakhstan has captured | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
the moment a pilot landed on a highway to ask for help | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
The pilot asked how to get to a city in the north-west of the country, | :33:19. | :33:26. | |
much to the amusement of the two lorry drivers who were talking | :33:27. | :33:29. | |
It has to be said, looking at those images, the conditions look bad, | :33:30. | :33:37. | |
clearly very snowy and visibility was poor. It's clearly a military | :33:38. | :33:43. | |
helicopter, not just any helicopter, it looks quite sinister, doesn't it? | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
Apparently we see him get back in. There we go. You can see the truck | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
drivers pulled up, fortunately they could see him a long way in advance, | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
the robe looks very straight and he gets his instructions, finds out | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
where he's supposed to be -- the road. Thanks very much, hops back in | :34:02. | :34:09. | |
and then he goes. Apparently he was taking part in a visual orientation | :34:10. | :34:12. | |
exercise and he lost his bearings. Happens to the best of us! | :34:13. | :34:19. | |
Presumably he failed that exercise! Presumably they have sophisticated | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
navigation systems but because of the weather, that's the thing, | :34:23. | :34:25. | |
because of the poor stability and the snow -- poor visibility. What | :34:26. | :34:34. | |
have you got? We have got the Europa League, the second-tier competition | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
but it can get you into the Champions League if you win but a | :34:38. | :34:41. | |
mixed night for the English sides last night. | :34:42. | :34:41. | |
Manchester United are well on their way to the last 16 | :34:42. | :34:44. | |
after a 3-0 win over St Etienne at Old Trafford. | :34:45. | :34:47. | |
And it was a proud night for the Pogba family. | :34:48. | :34:50. | |
against older brother Florentin of St Etienne. | :34:51. | :34:53. | |
The rest of the family doing their best to support them both. | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
It was Zlatan Ibrahimovic who stole the headlines, though. | :34:57. | :34:59. | |
It's the first he scored for United and 35. | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
And manager Jose Mourinho was happy with the result, | :35:04. | :35:05. | |
Lack of concentration and when you don't have it | :35:06. | :35:09. | |
So in the first half it was hard and even myself on the touchline, | :35:10. | :35:22. | |
I felt that it was difficult, the communication, I needed | :35:23. | :35:25. | |
the half-time so we were lucky, yes, to be winning at halftime 1-0. | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
Spurs are 1-0 down in their tie, after they lost 1-0 away | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
to Gent, a side in mid-table in the Belgian league. | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
Tottenham were pretty poor for most of the game, | :35:40. | :35:41. | |
Their chance to make amends comes at Wembley next Thursday. | :35:42. | :35:48. | |
Mark Clattenburg, one of the Premier League's highest | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
profile referees, is taking a job in Saudi Arabia. | :35:52. | :35:53. | |
He's considered one of the best referees in the game. | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
Last season he took charge of the finals in Euro 2016, | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
His new role will involve helping Saudi referees, | :36:00. | :36:10. | |
to improve their performance and he'll also take charge | :36:11. | :36:12. | |
We showed you yesterday 15-year-old Jackson Page | :36:13. | :36:17. | |
winning through to the third round of snooker's Welsh Open. | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
I hate to tell you, but his run is over. | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
World number four Judd Trump was just too strong | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
for the local schoolboy, who'd had to get special permission | :36:26. | :36:28. | |
Page lost 4-0 but he goes back to the classroom | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
with winnings of ?3,500 and bragging rights. | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
Well, once you win your first two everyone expects you to do more | :36:36. | :36:38. | |
but obviously most people don't realise who you're playing as well. | :36:39. | :36:42. | |
You know, when you're playing someone like Judd, | :36:43. | :36:44. | |
at my age you're not going to get very close very often | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
I need to do a lot of maturing and need to practise more to get | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
Certainly one for the future, though, isn't he? | :36:54. | :37:02. | |
And Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard proved | :37:03. | :37:04. | |
she is a woman of her word by honouring a bet she lost | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
Bouchard backed the Atlanta Falcons to win the Super Bowl. | :37:08. | :37:11. | |
Student John Goehrke said she should go on a date with him | :37:12. | :37:14. | |
Well, lose they did, and on a date they went | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
I've got more news on this, it must have gone well, apparently they are | :37:19. | :37:28. | |
going on a second date, maybe because he presented Bouchard with a | :37:29. | :37:31. | |
pair of earrings from a very expensive jewellery shop. Really? | :37:32. | :37:38. | |
Yeah. At the basketball match, there's this thing called Kiss | :37:39. | :37:41. | |
Cam... Not just the earrings, he must be pretty nice. And he looks | :37:42. | :37:47. | |
pretty good looking by all accounts! And there was the Kiss Cam at | :37:48. | :37:51. | |
half-time, it goes round the audience, it went to focus in on | :37:52. | :37:56. | |
them and they were going to oblige with a kiss but they spent too long | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
at the VIP buffets so they weren't back at their seats in time. Must | :38:01. | :38:06. | |
have been a good buffet! The law of the buffet! Have you got a thought | :38:07. | :38:11. | |
on the texting thing? There's a thing in the newspapers saying a lot | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
of families text each other when they're in the same house and new to | :38:15. | :38:19. | |
admit to this. Downstairs making a tea early in the morning, and one of | :38:20. | :38:26. | |
my daughters, I text her to say I'm awake, would you like a cup of tea? | :38:27. | :38:32. | |
Then I will go in more gently on the weekend. Jun has got in touch saying | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
I text my husband from bed to ask him to sort the rattle in the | :38:38. | :38:41. | |
dishwasher as it was keeping me awake. This is one from someone who | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
lives in a house of student teenagers, lists of texts they send, | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
dinner is ready, turn down the volume, are you up, the film is | :38:51. | :38:56. | |
starting. WhatsApp my brother-in-law to say could I have a beer. It seems | :38:57. | :39:03. | |
it's not uncommon to lie in bed and ask for a tea. The alternative is to | :39:04. | :39:07. | |
shout and then you wake the rest of the house. That's true. We will see | :39:08. | :39:13. | |
you later on. We will text you when we need you next. But none of you | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
have phones. Studio disciplined. Because we get so many texts. | :39:19. | :39:20. | |
Buzzing all the time. Whether it's waiting for a bus, | :39:21. | :39:23. | |
taking money out of a cash machine or doing the weekly shop, | :39:24. | :39:26. | |
they all involve one of the most British things you can do, | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
we're talking, of course, New research is trying to explain | :39:31. | :39:32. | |
the science behind them and what queuing rules | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
we Brits like to adhere to. We'll speak to psychologist | :39:36. | :39:38. | |
Geoff Beattie shortly, but first Allison Freeman has been | :39:39. | :39:40. | |
looking in to the history I do believe that a nationwide | :39:41. | :39:55. | |
rising of the housewives would end this terrible curse of queueing. | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
Without the British housewife this war could never have been one. We | :40:00. | :40:05. | |
have suffered enough. Despite Mrs Lovelock's efforts, we're still a | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
nation of Cuba's. In World War Two, queueing for food became associated | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
with doing your bit for the country by fairly taking your turn. And now | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
we queue from everything, for the bus to major sporting events like | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
Wimbledon, where the ticket queue has a campsite with its own code of | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
conduct. Don't want to perpetuate the stereotype of being British but | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
I quite like it. I remember coming out of Charles de Gaulle to go for | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
the Disney bus and falling out with some Germans because they were | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
pushing in front of us and we were queueing very well. In America I | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
guess you all barge together and go as one. If someone jumped the queue | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
or grabbing items while they're in the queue, it's kind of a very | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
British kind of anger, isn't it? It's a necessary evil. I work at a | :40:54. | :41:00. | |
train station and people stop join the queue because that's what they | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
meant to do. There's science behind it. Research says we don't like to | :41:05. | :41:08. | |
join a Q is there more than six people in it and if there are six | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
behind us we don't leave because we fear missing out. Also we get fed up | :41:14. | :41:17. | |
if we have to queue for more than six minutes and we like six metres | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
of space around us. And everyone has their own views on the best way to | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
queue. I like old people, they like to talk, single male people with | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
five items or less. A queue that is empty dust in case they open the | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
empty one. When there's a big shop rather than a few small ones. It | :41:39. | :41:44. | |
happens at my supermarket. You have to wait, there's nothing you can do. | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
He might just have a point. Allison Freeman, BBC News. | :41:49. | :41:50. | |
We're joined now by Geoff Beattie who is a professor of psychology | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
It all seems to be the power of six, six minutes and you get fed up, six | :41:54. | :42:02. | |
people behind you and you won't move queue is. Are we particular with our | :42:03. | :42:07. | |
queueing systems in British? We're very particular for a very good | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
reason, we don't like social and harassment and confrontation and if | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
we have a nice orderly queue we all know what the rules are and we like | :42:16. | :42:19. | |
to use because it appeals to the British sense of fair play, we may | :42:20. | :42:23. | |
be a class ridden and hierarchical society but when it comes to | :42:24. | :42:30. | |
queueing we're all equal, we don't like people to violate the rules and | :42:31. | :42:34. | |
we like everyone to know those rules. What about when somebody | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
breaks the rules, when they push in or inadvertently goes ahead of you | :42:38. | :42:40. | |
not realising there's a queue? What we don't do is we don't confront | :42:41. | :42:44. | |
them, we have that passive aggressive thing, we tut, we say | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
well I never, we signal to people and we nonverbally bond with | :42:50. | :42:53. | |
everyone else in the queue to form an outgroup against the violator. We | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
have moral indignation which other countries don't have, they would say | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
it is rule breaking and they would say something to the UK but in the | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
UK we tend not to. Is that changing? I did baseball survey in the office | :43:08. | :43:17. | |
this morning and people say they do call it out -- I did a small survey. | :43:18. | :43:21. | |
Things are changing because we are a very multicultural, diverse society | :43:22. | :43:24. | |
so the rules could be subtly changing but I like the clip you | :43:25. | :43:27. | |
played, because queueing represents our finest hour, when we sat | :43:28. | :43:31. | |
together as a nation. I like the guy in the train station where people | :43:32. | :43:34. | |
joined a queue because there was a queue! The joke is that a British | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
person will join a queue of one! There's not a passion, there are | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
rules to it and this research shows how sometimes we weigh up... It's | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
all about probability because we note use of frustrating and they can | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
be stressful, that's why hotels put mirrors by the elevator is so you | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
can look at yourself and passed the time in a different way -- elevator | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
is. Psychologically decrease the stress. Disney publicises queue | :44:00. | :44:05. | |
lengths which are over estimates because then we are pleasantly | :44:06. | :44:08. | |
surprised by the queue being shorter than expected. A lot of it is about | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
managing psychological expectations and if it speeds up towards the end | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
we like that because that's what we remember about the queue. Everyone | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
has their own bugbears, what about if someone is in the queue and then | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
a whole bunch of other people join that person? There's one person | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
ahead of you and five of their friends and the kids turn up and | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
then there's 11. We hate that and what's interesting is watching the | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
non-verbal signal in that goes on. We tend not to talk in queues, but | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
what we do is we nonverbally signal. -- non-verbal signalling. What's | :44:44. | :44:49. | |
really interesting is the ambiguity of the signal sent back to them, | :44:50. | :44:54. | |
which is you have to kind of agree because you want to avoid | :44:55. | :44:57. | |
confrontation but at the same time you're trying to signal disapproval. | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
We have a whole set of complexity nor is we have to send to keep the | :45:01. | :45:05. | |
orderliness and to stop conference confrontation and avoid social in | :45:06. | :45:10. | |
Paris and. The other thing that has come out of the research, you're | :45:11. | :45:14. | |
standing so close you don't talk. -- social embarrassment. We do stand | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
very close to people in conversations. This research says it | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
is six inches, which is within the intimate zone. It is too close for a | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
conversation. You can't have a conversation and I contact with | :45:29. | :45:32. | |
people six inches away so you have to step back. The problem with that | :45:33. | :45:35. | |
is if you step back you're breaking the queue, you're leaving spaces for | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
other people to come in and anything could happen, the world could fall | :45:41. | :45:45. | |
apart! It's no wonder it's confusing people when they arise in this | :45:46. | :45:50. | |
country, we all, as you say, seem to know these rules without ever | :45:51. | :45:54. | |
discussing them -- arrive. Their universal rules throughout the | :45:55. | :45:58. | |
country. In the US of course, each city has its own rules about | :45:59. | :46:04. | |
queueing -- they are -- there are. There's no consistency. Carol, thank | :46:05. | :46:11. | |
you. Any rules on queueing? Shop online, it's much easier, then you | :46:12. | :46:14. | |
don't get into all this! My favourite queue is the one in the | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
full Monty when they start singing along and the wiggle and so on! | :46:19. | :46:27. | |
A mild start to the day, almost across the board. As we move into | :46:28. | :46:40. | |
Belfast, Manchester and London, we are looking at seven. What is | :46:41. | :46:47. | |
happening is we do have a weak weather front. Travelling across | :46:48. | :46:54. | |
Scotland into the south-east is producing thicker cloud and spots of | :46:55. | :47:01. | |
rain. On either side, fog for south-west England, parts of | :47:02. | :47:04. | |
Scotland and northern England. Some will be slow to clear. Most of this | :47:05. | :47:10. | |
ancient across north-east Scotland and north-east England. Across parts | :47:11. | :47:16. | |
of south-west England, brightening up. A lot going on. A lot of cloud, | :47:17. | :47:23. | |
some splashes of rain, nothing too heavy. Aberdeen hanging on to the | :47:24. | :47:30. | |
sunshine at the longer is. Starting to cloud over but not completely. In | :47:31. | :47:36. | |
Northern Ireland, spots of rain in the afternoon as for Cardigan Bay. | :47:37. | :47:44. | |
Down towards the South Coast, still quite a bit of cloud with one or two | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
breaks more notably towards the south-west. Overnight, another | :47:50. | :47:56. | |
weather front coming our way. Rain for parts of Wales and possibly East | :47:57. | :48:04. | |
Anglia. In Scotland, we will have the heaviest rain overnight. On to | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
the weekend and the mild seemed continues. Some rain especially in | :48:10. | :48:18. | |
the north. Persistent heavy rain across Scotland but as the front | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
moves, it will weaken through Northern Ireland, northern England | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
and northern Wales. In the north, we are looking at last we showers. | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
South of that, cloud and sunshine and steel in the mild category. 9- | :48:35. | :48:43. | |
12 in the sunshine possibly up to 14 degrees. As we live Saturday and in | :48:44. | :48:49. | |
the Sunday, a warm front coming in from the Atlantic and milder air | :48:50. | :48:55. | |
coming our way. On Sunday, a lot of dry weather, still some showers | :48:56. | :49:01. | |
dotted around the west. More rain later. The early part of next week, | :49:02. | :49:13. | |
up to 17 degrees in some parts of the UK. Are you going to be wearing | :49:14. | :49:25. | |
my shorts! Could the answer after the shortages be in growing our own | :49:26. | :49:38. | |
food? There is a lot. I struggling to get through it. We are used to | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
nectarines and mandarins being important but three quarters of of | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
our fruit is important. About half the food we eat is great in the UK | :49:49. | :49:55. | |
but it is been looking at whether we should have more. We speak to the | :49:56. | :50:02. | |
chairman of Morrison. To your customers want more British food? Of | :50:03. | :50:10. | |
these very sophisticated supply chains have grown over the years and | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
we have got used to low-cost, high-quality food. Customers will | :50:16. | :50:24. | |
always say they have a propensity to buy local if given the opportunity | :50:25. | :50:31. | |
but price has to be part of that. I think they are happy to buy British | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
if we can get it organised at the right price. If you take something | :50:38. | :50:43. | |
like these, pretty high hand. I no expert. But to what extent are they | :50:44. | :50:51. | |
willing to pay more for it? Letters growing in glass houses, people | :50:52. | :51:04. | |
wanting to do that? -- lettuce. They would prefer to buy local if they | :51:05. | :51:09. | |
can. They like the providence of that. But you have to deliver it at | :51:10. | :51:16. | |
the right price. With the uncertainty with trade deals, under | :51:17. | :51:23. | |
Brexit and so forth, the currency has come down, making UK more | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
competitive and it is a great time for UK manufacturers and produces to | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
look to provide ball to supermarkets like Morrisons. The biggest one has | :51:34. | :51:41. | |
been price is when you talk about Brexit. What is going to happen this | :51:42. | :51:49. | |
is your? How much do you think the average basket is going to cost? It | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
is hard to call those things. It is an intensely competitive market. The | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
big four supermarkets have struggled in the wake of competition and in | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
those circumstances every one will be working hard to keep prices at | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
down. We close at two last resort? The currency will have any impact on | :52:12. | :52:20. | |
costs and in the end price but I would not be too pessimistic. | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
Everybody knows that nobody was to be putting up prices but there comes | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
a point where you have to? You do and I think it is an opportunity for | :52:32. | :52:36. | |
UK provider, manufacturers, producers, to step in and do more | :52:37. | :52:40. | |
and be more competitive because of currency. Ball familiar vegetables | :52:41. | :52:47. | |
here, are there certain things you see that you are stocking that are | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
obviously going to have more of a price pressure? There has been... | :52:52. | :52:56. | |
The obvious ones are the important things. We have not yet found a way | :52:57. | :53:04. | |
of going bananas and citrus fruit in the UK say they will come under the | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
most obvious pressure. In terms of what supermarkets can do to manage | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
the price- whistle a deal between Tesco and the biggest wholesaler, | :53:15. | :53:22. | |
are you happy with that deal? The big companies having a lot of | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
influence. It is and I think the authorities will look at whether | :53:29. | :53:32. | |
that is a good thing or not. It is not a deal we wanted to do. We are | :53:33. | :53:37. | |
happy on focusing being a food retailer. We are reproduced 25% of | :53:38. | :53:44. | |
what we sell in our factories so this is interesting today to look to | :53:45. | :53:51. | |
local manufacturing to provide more for our supermarkets. Looking for | :53:52. | :53:57. | |
more UK, more fresh and the opportunity to grow businesses. One | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
of the highlights is how difficult it is. Morrisons sell a lot of lamb | :54:05. | :54:11. | |
from the UK but the National farmers union highlighted you have a deal | :54:12. | :54:17. | |
going on for imported lamb from New Zealand and a lot were not happy. | :54:18. | :54:27. | |
Does it show how difficult it is for you to have everything from the UK? | :54:28. | :54:33. | |
95% of Labour we sell is from the UK. The New Zealand lamb is in | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
season at the moment so it was just topping the supply chain. Are we | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
willing to change our tastes? A British customers willing to go | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
British but not have the variety? The way to find out is to let them | :54:51. | :54:57. | |
make the choice of themselves. Come up with innovative new products and | :54:58. | :55:00. | |
let the customer decide. Thank you very much. The chair of Morrisons | :55:01. | :55:10. | |
there. Are you not sure, a bit of a quiz, I have been struggling. Any | :55:11. | :55:16. | |
idea what that is? I cannot really see it. A big lemon? Grapefruit. It | :55:17. | :55:24. | |
is neither. I have forgotten what the name is. This is not going to | :55:25. | :55:32. | |
work this quiz, he does not even know. You do not go to a pub quiz | :55:33. | :55:38. | |
and they give you the answers straightaway. Chives. No, it is | :55:39. | :55:48. | |
not... This is mugs beard. That is the kind of stuff they are selling. | :55:49. | :55:54. | |
We will try to fill you in on what some of these fruit are called. It | :55:55. | :55:58. | |
is not a big lemon, cannot remember what it was. Who knows if we want to | :55:59. | :56:05. | |
try yet if we do not know what it is. A quiz with a difference. Quiz | :56:06. | :56:15. | |
where we do not know the answer. Coming up, we're joined by father | :56:16. | :56:23. | |
and son as they prepare to go on tour together. Thank you for all | :56:24. | :56:37. | |
your messages. Many mum text me because I have my headphones on, | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
dinner is ready. We will be back shortly. | :56:43. | :00:02. | |
Good morning, it's Friday, 17th February. | :00:03. | :00:45. | |
A group of British tourists are hospitalised after being thrown | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
into freezing waters following a speedboat | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
Urgent talks are held to secure the future of Vauxhall's two | :00:51. | :00:55. | |
Good morning, half the food we eat in the UK is grown here but the | :00:56. | :01:10. | |
other half, including most of our fruit and veg, is imported. I will | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
be looking at whether we should be looking at growing more about what | :01:15. | :01:15. | |
food here in the UK. In sport, it's a first | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
hat-trick for the big Swede, Zlatan Ibrahimovich, | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
since joining Manchester United last summer and put his | :01:21. | :01:25. | |
side well on their way Also this morning, the Lake District | :01:26. | :01:27. | |
as you've never seen it. We'll meet the people behind | :01:28. | :01:32. | |
a documentary looking at how one of our best loved landscapes changes | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
through the seasons. Some patchy fog this morning but for | :01:35. | :01:45. | |
most cloudy but mild day with patchy rain in the West. The sunshine will | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
be across the north and east of Scotland and North East it England. | :01:51. | :01:57. | |
US President Donald Trump has launched a ferocious attack | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
on the media while defending his record during his first | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
During an extraordinary press conference at the White House, | :02:04. | :02:07. | |
he insisted his administration was running like a fine | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
tuned machine and told reporters their level of dishonesty | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
Our North America Editor, Jon Sopel, was there. | :02:12. | :02:18. | |
At short notice, a news conference was announced to be | :02:19. | :02:24. | |
Ostensibly to announce his new choice as Labor Secretary, | :02:25. | :02:30. | |
but really it was to get a whole lot of his chest. | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
Because the press, honestly, is out of control, the level | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
And the idea that his administration was in meltdown? | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
Nothing could be further from the truth. | :02:40. | :02:42. | |
I turn on the TV, open the newspapers and I see | :02:43. | :02:44. | |
This administration is running like a fine tuned machine. | :02:45. | :02:58. | |
But how could he reconcile that with the travel ban that has been | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
A question I asked after a little back and forth. | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
Can I just ask you, thank you very much, Mr President... | :03:06. | :03:08. | |
On the travel ban, would you accept that that was a good | :03:09. | :03:25. | |
example of the smooth running of government... | :03:26. | :03:26. | |
Let me tell you about the travel ban. | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
We had a very smooth roll-out of the travel ban, | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
but we had a bad court, got a bad decision. | :03:39. | :03:41. | |
We're going to put in a new executive order next week sometime. | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
The other thing that the president is in a rage about is the suggestion | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
that he is in the pockets of the Russians. | :03:49. | :03:50. | |
Donald Trump said his administration would crack down on the leaking | :03:51. | :04:00. | |
And then, at the end, something you never see | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
at a White House news conference, the president being heckled. | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
If you have no connection to Russia, why won't you release your tax | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
And we will have more analysis of that shortly. | :04:12. | :04:21. | |
Ten British tourists are being treated in hospital | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
in Norway after a speedboat hit the base of a water fountain. | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
It happened in the harbour of the town of Harstad. | :04:29. | :04:30. | |
Two people are reported to have been seriously injured. | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
What started out as a pleasure cruise ended in a dramatic rescue. | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
These British tourists were left in near-freezing waters for around | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
15 minutes before being rescued after they'd been | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
The party had been returning from a sightseeing trip off | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
the shores of Harstad when one of the speedboats crashed | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
into the base of a water feature which wasn't working at the time. | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
A second boat following behind is thought to have been | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
caught up in the incident, which happened around | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
All of the passengers have been brought to hospital | :05:04. | :05:12. | |
We will contact all of them later to further investigate. | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
We will also talk to the boat drivers and people | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
A spokesman for the Surrey-based holiday company Inghams said | :05:21. | :05:38. | |
the tourists all arrived in Norway on Wednesday and were due to return | :05:39. | :05:41. | |
Tony Blair says he wants people to rise up and change | :05:42. | :05:48. | |
In a speech later the former Prime Minister will say that voters | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
made their decisions without knowing the real damage that leaving | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Downing Street has said it is "absolutely committed" | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
to seeing Brexit through and today Theresa May will meet the French | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
Our Political Correspondent, Tom Bateman, can tell us more. | :06:04. | :06:10. | |
I know you have had a preview of what Tony Blair is going to say but | :06:11. | :06:16. | |
what is the essence of it? We have always known he thinks people should | :06:17. | :06:20. | |
have the opportunity to think again about Brexit but what we have today | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
is a quite explicit rallying call for those who campaigned on the | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Remain site to get together and seek to try to change people's views. He | :06:34. | :06:38. | |
going to say this. This is not the time for retreat. | :06:39. | :06:47. | |
It is becoming clear that not everyone can even on the Remain | :06:48. | :07:06. | |
side, agrees with this. One of the former bosses of the official Remain | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
campaign said that the position should be not to fight Brexit but to | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
work for the best version of it. And those who campaigned to leave the EU | :07:15. | :07:19. | |
are even more critical with Conservative MP Iain Duncan-Smith | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
saying this is bullying and lecturing from Tony Blair. You. | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
Urgent talks to discuss the future of thousands of jobs in the British | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
car industry have been held in Paris. | :07:31. | :07:31. | |
The owner of Peugeot is looking to take over the European | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
arm of General Motors, which owns Vauxhall plants | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
Business Secretary Greg Clark says he will remain in close contact | :07:39. | :07:43. | |
with both firms as the deal progresses, but union officials have | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
warned that protecting UK jobs must remain a priority. | :07:47. | :07:54. | |
We will talk about that more in a few minutes time. | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
A meeting of G20 ministers in Germany is set to continue today, | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
with the focus of discussions expected to shift | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are amongst those | :08:04. | :08:12. | |
The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, says he fears that | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
millions of people who feel left behind by globalisation | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
are withdrawing from what he calls the "connected world". | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
In an interview with the BBC, he said fake news and "filter | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
bubbles", where people only heard opinions they already agreed with, | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
Some of the UK's biggest trade bodies have signed a letter | :08:29. | :08:35. | |
to Parliament calling for Government proposals on business rates | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
They say the changes, which take effect in April, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
will force companies to pay artificially high rates, | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
even if they could prove the amount should be lower. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
Sean has more for us from London's New Covent Garden Market. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
Good morning. Good morning. Quite big changes in the running for a lot | :08:54. | :09:03. | |
of small businesses and businesses like these wholesalers. Business | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
rates are a bit like council tax or businesses, where companies pay the | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
tax based on the rental value of the properties they are based in and a | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
few other things. The last time these were captivated was in 2010. | :09:14. | :09:18. | |
Since then, property rights have changed a lot so a lot of businesses | :09:19. | :09:23. | |
have seen -- will the big changes. Three good as businesses are seeing | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
rates staying the same or falling but it still means hundreds of | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
thousands of businesses, particularly those with big property | :09:30. | :09:33. | |
writers, have seen a rise. But the government wants to do, as part of | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
the appeals process, it wants the valuation Tribunal to be able to | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
look at those cases on an individual basis and if they think it is | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
unreasonable, the appeal will be dismissed. What these businesses are | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
saying is that they want the rules to be scrapped because they think it | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
is unfair on a lot of businesses. Thank you. | :09:56. | :09:57. | |
American scientists attempting to bring the woolly mammoth back | :09:58. | :09:59. | |
from extinction believe they are close to | :10:00. | :10:00. | |
Mammoths died out over 4,000 years ago but the team | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
from Harvard University is using DNA retrieved from specimens found | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
They claim that in the next two years they will be able to mix it | :10:08. | :10:15. | |
with Asian elephants to create new hybrid embryos. | :10:16. | :10:23. | |
But they admit a living, breathing mammoth is still a long way off. | :10:24. | :10:28. | |
It is early stages. But it is quite a thought. | :10:29. | :10:35. | |
Press conferences by the President of the United States are | :10:36. | :10:37. | |
Important issues are covered calmly and with politeness. | :10:38. | :10:44. | |
But that wasn't the tone during the 75 minutes that | :10:45. | :10:46. | |
Donald Trump spoke to the media at the White House last night. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Earlier I spoke to political analyst Eric Ham, in Washington. | :10:50. | :10:57. | |
And I asked him if he thought Trump had a point when he said the media | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
Donald Trump and the press are actually living in two | :11:02. | :11:07. | |
Donald Trump sees himself as a saviour. | :11:08. | :11:13. | |
He sees himself as an underdog, and Donald Trump wants an enormous | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
amount of credit for his victory over Hillary Clinton, | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
But I think he has got that now, and I think it's time for him | :11:19. | :11:27. | |
to make the transition from campaigner to actual president, | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
He does sort of really take on the press, doesn't he? | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
We saw that in that press conference last night. | :11:35. | :11:36. | |
Where does this end, and where does the analysis and the truth end? | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
Well, Donald Trump is a known fighter. | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
What you have to understand about Donald Trump is, | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
Donald Trump is actually attuned to the media. | :11:56. | :11:57. | |
He has practically grown up in one of the toughest media markets | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
in the world in New York, so he knows how to engage the media, | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
but I think he has gone way overboard right now. | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
This is the President of the United States. | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
There are a number of issues on his plate right now that he could have | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
addressed in that press conference today, but unfortunately, | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
We got nothing on his plan for Obamacare. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
We got nothing regarding his plan for a comprehensive Russia policy. | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
There are a number of issues that he can be addressing, | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
but he's so aggrieved by what he believes is the slights | :12:30. | :12:33. | |
by the media, and rightfully so, there are gaping holes in this | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
administration that are very dangerous and questions that | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
need to be answered, and the media are going to go | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
He does say he reads the media again and according to what he reads, | :12:45. | :12:52. | |
He said nothing is further from the truth, though. | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
Well, so far, the Trump administration has been in office | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
for less than 30 days, and already, we've seen two | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
We do know that the knives are out within his inner circle. | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
We know that he is having a very difficult time staffing | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
Keep in mind that there are 4,000 political appointees that he needs | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
to make and right now, we know that he is very far | :13:26. | :13:30. | |
behind President Obama and where he was in 2008 in staffing | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
So Donald Trump has a long way to go and quite frankly, | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
he is not running at full capacity right now. | :13:38. | :13:39. | |
Let's talk about the performance from his supporters' point of view. | :13:40. | :13:47. | |
This is why he was voted in in many ways, because of this | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
Today, that press conference was him speaking directly to his supporters. | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
They want to see Donald Trump going after the media, because he, | :13:57. | :14:06. | |
along with the supporters, see the media as an elite, | :14:07. | :14:09. | |
And that's going to be a major problem for him going forward, | :14:10. | :14:20. | |
because he has to govern for the entire country, | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
not just for those who elected him, but for the entire country. | :14:24. | :14:28. | |
So eventually, you wonder, how long will congressional Republicans stand | :14:29. | :14:31. | |
It's so interesting to see it, because it's really clear that | :14:32. | :14:39. | |
Donald Trump and the media in that room have a pretty | :14:40. | :14:42. | |
So what happens about accountability, about fact checking? | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
I think we're going to continue to see this problem. | :14:50. | :14:57. | |
One area where he could have trouble is when there are major issues | :14:58. | :15:02. | |
that Donald Trump wants to get public support. | :15:03. | :15:04. | |
We saw that with President Obama often. | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
He would go to the media, and he would push his ideas | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
to the media and have them address those issues. | :15:11. | :15:13. | |
So the question will be, can Donald Trump actually get | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
members of the media who will go out and talk about some | :15:18. | :15:20. | |
That is where we could see real problems with this administration, | :15:21. | :15:29. | |
because right now, we're seeing a dwindling of his support from key | :15:30. | :15:33. | |
areas that he is going to need - the media, congressional Republicans | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
President Donald Trump has accused the media | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
of showing hatred towards him as he defended his administration's | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
Several British tourists have been taken to hospital | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
after a speed-boat crashed in Norway - throwing at least ten | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
Later this morning, we will see the film that has been shot of a year in | :16:01. | :16:19. | |
the Lake District. It is following the seasons. We can see a bit of it | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
now. Beautiful images, things. They have basically been watching the | :16:26. | :16:28. | |
Lake District as it unfolds over the seasons. It looks stunning. We will | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
speak to somebody who lives there later and also someone behind this | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
film. We are always interested in how the seasons change. Carol, I | :16:40. | :16:43. | |
think this morning is evidence of things getting a little warmer. | :16:44. | :16:51. | |
There is a springlike feel. Yes, you are right. It is a cloudy start to | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
the day for many parts of the UK, but it certainly is mild. We have a | :16:56. | :17:02. | |
weak weather front draped across Scotland, through the north of Wales | :17:03. | :17:06. | |
and the Midlands and down into the south-east. It is producing some | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
spots of rain, nothing too heavy. On either side of it, there is patchy | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
fog across south-west England, parts of Scotland and northern England. | :17:15. | :17:19. | |
This will clear, and then it will be the north-east of Scotland and | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
north-east of England that see the lion's share of the sunshine. But | :17:23. | :17:27. | |
that weather front could move northwards and will produce more | :17:28. | :17:30. | |
cloud. It will be the extreme east that hangs onto the sunshine. By the | :17:31. | :17:37. | |
afternoon, our weather front is in the heart of Scotland, still | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
producing some spots of rain. Aberdeen hangs onto the sunshine. It | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
is the same across northern England. Still the odd pocket of some around. | :17:46. | :17:54. | |
-- your pocket of fog around. For the rest of England and the rest of | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
Wales, it will be predominantly cloudy, with one or two exceptions | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
in the West, where we will see a bit of sunshine. This evening, we will | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
still have that weak weather front producing the odd splash of rain | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
across Wales. You might see it towards East Anglia, but it will be | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
replaced by a new weather front coming into the West, introducing | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
more persistent rain across north-west Scotland. Into the | :18:19. | :18:22. | |
weekend, the mild theme continues. There will be sunny intervals and we | :18:23. | :18:27. | |
will hang on to rain at times in the north-west. First thing on Saturday | :18:28. | :18:33. | |
morning, it is still heavy and persistent across north-west | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
Scotland. But as it sinks across Northern Ireland and into northern | :18:39. | :18:41. | |
England, it will be a weakening feature. It will still be wet, but | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
not as heavy. Behind it, blustery showers. Some sunny intervals for | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
Northern Ireland, and ahead of that weather front, quite a bit of cloud | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
across England and Wales. But there will be some breaks. If you are in | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
the sunshine, it will feel quite springlike. From Saturday night into | :19:01. | :19:06. | |
Sunday, a new weather front comes into the West. That will introduce | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
rain later in the day, but most of us start Sunday on a cloudy note. We | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
will gradually see the cloud break and sunshine will develop, | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
especially in some eastern areas. That weather front will bring some | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
heavy rain and it will be blustery, but still mild. And it is going to | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
get even milder as we had from Monday into Tuesday. | :19:30. | :19:41. | |
So if you like it that bit warmer, this comes into the exceptionally | :19:42. | :19:49. | |
mild category in meteorology at this time of year. We are in for a treat, | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
but it's not going to last. Back to one of our main | :19:52. | :19:57. | |
stories this morning. Business secretary Greg Clark has | :19:58. | :19:59. | |
held talks in London and Paris in the last 24 hours | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
following confirmation that Vauxhall owner General Motors may | :20:03. | :20:04. | |
sell its European operations General Motors' Opel division, | :20:05. | :20:06. | |
which includes the Vauxhall brand, is headquartered in Germany and has | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
factories in five other countries, PSA, which owns Peugeot, Citroen | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
and DS, is headquartered in France. If the deal goes ahead, | :20:14. | :20:26. | |
it would make PSA the second-largest car maker in Europe, | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
with 16% of the market. There are 35,000 people | :20:30. | :20:31. | |
across in retail and manufacturing That includes 4,500 | :20:32. | :20:33. | |
employees in factories Another 7,000 people work | :20:34. | :20:41. | |
in the supply chain in the UK. We're joined by Professor David | :20:42. | :20:48. | |
Bailey from Aston Business School, At the heart of this is the fact | :20:49. | :21:01. | |
that Vauxhall, currently owned by General Motors, could be sold to a | :21:02. | :21:07. | |
French company. What are the implications of that for workers | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
here? Well, Peugeot are looking to grow in size. They want to take over | :21:12. | :21:15. | |
General Motors to achieve what they call economy is of scale and to | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
access technology. But to make that stack up, they will look at putting | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
costs. That could come to buying components, but it will also be | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
about plant closures. It will be inevitable that if this deal goes | :21:28. | :21:30. | |
ahead, there will be planned closures in Europe in coming years. | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
The question is, where will the axe fall? The plants in the | :21:36. | :21:50. | |
UK are very efficient. Managers and workers have pulled out all the | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
stops in recent years to make them successful and flexible and get | :21:55. | :21:56. | |
costs down. But we have very flexible Labour market rules in the | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
UK. It is easy to fire workers. It also causes considerable uncertainty | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
over our relationship with Europe. If you add that uncertainty in, it | :22:02. | :22:03. | |
raises a question over whether the plans will remain open in the UK in | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
the medium-term. So what can be done to emphasise the importance of those | :22:07. | :22:10. | |
operations in the UK, or make them more valuable to PSA if they do that | :22:11. | :22:17. | |
takeover? In a sense, the UK Government is on the sidelines. | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
Remember, the French government have a stake in Peugeot. The German | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
government is going all to protect plants and research in Germany. They | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
support their industry in lots of ways through things like part-time | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
wage subsidies, so you have two government is very omitted to | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
manufacturing and the automotive industry. They are meeting this | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
weekend to discuss the merger, and there is an issue about the British | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
government being left on the side of this unfolds. PSA are saying, we are | :22:43. | :22:50. | |
getting assurances from General Motors and Peugeot -- the government | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
are saying they are getting insurance. But that has meant | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
nothing in the past. The big decision will be made in 2018 about | :23:00. | :23:02. | |
where to locate the production of the next Astra model, due to be | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
built in 2021. At that point, the British government will have to be | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
active in supporting the car industry in the UK and making the UK | :23:11. | :23:17. | |
and attractive place to invest. And does Brexit and what will happen in | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
the future have a part to play in the negotiation? This is a French | :23:22. | :23:23. | |
company and you talked about the ties with Germany. Is Brexit part of | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
the factors that will be part of the decision-making process? Very much | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
so. Two factors straightaway. We have seen a big depreciation in the | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
value of sterling since the Brexit vote. That means components imported | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
into the UK to places like Ellesmere Port have become more expensive. | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
General Motors have talked about extreme trillion dollar headwind | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
negative effect from that depreciation. Secondly, the decision | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
on where to locate the next Astra model will be due in 2018, slap bang | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
in the middle of our article 50 negotiations. Great uncertainty of | :23:59. | :24:01. | |
the future of our trading relationship with Europe. The | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
government has said the UK is leaving the single market. We don't | :24:05. | :24:06. | |
know what the trading relationship will be in the future. Is the new | :24:07. | :24:13. | |
entity, the Peugeot- General Motors Alliance, going to locate production | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
in the UK, given that uncertainty? Professor, thank you for your time. | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
Only half the food eaten in the UK comes from our farmers - | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
Sean is at a market in London for us this morning. | :24:27. | :24:36. | |
I am not sure whether he has and said Leave remembered the answers to | :24:37. | :24:43. | |
his own quiz! Of course I have. This will be a three-minute education on | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
these vegetables. This is a pak choi, imported like three quarters | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
of our fruit and veg. We get more of our eggs and meat and stuff like | :24:55. | :25:00. | |
that. Beautiful tomatoes here this morning. Lovely Italian produce. | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
That is where most of this is from, Italy, and there is a report out | :25:05. | :25:12. | |
today. Tim, you authored this report looking at whether we should grow | :25:13. | :25:16. | |
more British food. Can we? We certainly can. We will never replace | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
the sorts of things we have here. But with apples and other fruit and | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
vegetables, we can grow and eat more of those. I am not saying we should | :25:26. | :25:33. | |
be self-sufficient. We will never be self-sufficient, but how do we | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
stimulate our local farming economy so we have a nice countryside and | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
trust our supply chains to deliver food that is less wasteful? We can | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
do a range of different things. Before I move onto more complicated | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
veg, is that a big Swede or turned? Looks like a turnip. To answer your | :25:50. | :25:56. | |
questions from the we have Helen from new Covent Garden market. That | :25:57. | :26:07. | |
is not a big lemon, is it? It is a type of lemon, but when you cut it, | :26:08. | :26:10. | |
it is mainly kissed, there was hardly any flesh inside. You use | :26:11. | :26:18. | |
that in cooking. A lot of stuff here is used in cooking. And this? | :26:19. | :26:24. | |
Italian sea vegetable. You could use it like you reduce samphire. Why is | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
it called monk's beard? Because it looks like a green monk's beard! I | :26:31. | :26:37. | |
have never seen a monk's beard. And this? That is kohlrabi, grown in the | :26:38. | :26:49. | |
UK, but it is not our season yet. And is that part of the problem? We | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
will have to get used to seasons if we want more British produce? You | :26:54. | :26:58. | |
can get foreign vegetables in season in the UK. Now the news, travel and | :26:59. | :30:18. | |
This is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin. | :30:19. | :30:31. | |
US President Donald Trump has launched a ferocious attack | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
on the media while defending his record during his first | :30:35. | :30:38. | |
During an extraordinary press conference at the White House | :30:39. | :30:42. | |
he insisted his administration was running like a fine | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
tuned machine and told reporters their level of dishonesty | :30:47. | :30:48. | |
Donald Trump sees himself as a saviour, he sees himself | :30:49. | :30:55. | |
as an underdog and Donald Trump wants an enormous amount of credit | :30:56. | :31:01. | |
for his victory over Hillary Clinton and rightfully so. | :31:02. | :31:03. | |
But I think he's gotten that now and I think it's time for him | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
to make the transition from campaign to actual president, and he just | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
Tony Blair says he wants people to rise up and change | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
In a speech later the former Prime Minister will say voters | :31:16. | :31:23. | |
made their decisions without knowing the real damage that leaving | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
Downing Street has said it is absolutely committed | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
Ten British tourists are being treated in hospital | :31:30. | :31:34. | |
in Norway after a speedboat hit the base of a water fountain. | :31:35. | :31:38. | |
The incident happened in the harbour of the town of Harstad | :31:39. | :31:41. | |
as a sightseeing trip returned to shore. | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
Two people are reported to have been seriously injured. | :31:45. | :31:48. | |
The Foreign Office says it is in touch with Norwegian authorities. | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
The cause of the incident is not yet known. | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
Urgent talks to discuss the future of thousands of jobs in the British | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
car industry have been held in Paris. | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
is looking to take over the European arm of General motors, | :32:05. | :32:09. | |
which owns Vauxhall plants at Luton and Ellesmere Port. | :32:10. | :32:12. | |
Business Secretary Greg Clark says he will remain in close contact | :32:13. | :32:14. | |
with both firms as the deal progresses, but union officials have | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
warned that protecting UK jobs must remain a priority. | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
The French and the German governments are meeting and that | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
will be to try and secure the future for their plants and we want to make | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
sure that the UK is not sitting on the sidelines. | :32:28. | :32:37. | |
Firefighters in Australia are struggling to contain a grass fire | :32:38. | :32:41. | |
that's destroyed at least 15 homes in New South Wales. Lightning | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
strikes during storms are thought to have triggered many of the fires. No | :32:46. | :32:49. | |
members of the public have been injured. People have been told it is | :32:50. | :32:54. | |
too late to try to leave the area and are being advised to seek | :32:55. | :32:55. | |
shelter from the heat. It's not unusual to be asked | :32:56. | :33:03. | |
for directions by someone from out Well, unless they happen to be | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
driving a military helicopter. A lorry driver in Kazakhstan has | :33:07. | :33:10. | |
captured the moment a pilot landed on a highway to ask for help | :33:11. | :33:13. | |
after apparently losing his way. The pilot asked how to get to a city | :33:14. | :33:20. | |
in the the north-west of the country, much | :33:21. | :33:23. | |
to the amusement of I think he then gets the directions | :33:24. | :33:36. | |
and off they go. Did he leave the helicopter just running while he | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
hopped out and got the directions? And then jumped back in and took off | :33:40. | :33:43. | |
again? You are right, I didn't know whether it was the pilot or | :33:44. | :33:48. | |
co-pilot. I assumed it was the co-pilot. It looked like he got | :33:49. | :33:58. | |
straight in and it took off. Which side is the steering wheel? | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
Coming up here on Breakfast this morning. | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
Breast cancer affects one in eight women in the UK. | :34:09. | :34:10. | |
Now it's hoped the success of a new scan which doesn't use | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
radiation will help detect the tumours that are difficult | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
He's certainly not the one and only popstar in the Hawkes family. | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
Chesney joins us with his father, Chip, as they prepare to go | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
And after 9.00am, it's been a turbulent 12 months | :34:24. | :34:31. | |
We'll be meeting the men who've been filming a year in the life of one | :34:32. | :34:37. | |
Mike's here right now. It's a small world sometimes. Chesney. Just | :34:38. | :34:52. | |
explain. I did a panto a few years ago. I did get to sing with him on | :34:53. | :35:00. | |
stage. Poor audience! Was it a duet? A little bit. And I think he put a | :35:01. | :35:08. | |
custard pie in my face. Good to have a catch-up with him! | :35:09. | :35:09. | |
Moving on quickly. Manchester United are well | :35:10. | :35:19. | |
on their way, to the last 16 after a 3-0 win over St Etienne | :35:20. | :35:23. | |
at Old Trafford. And it was a proud night | :35:24. | :35:28. | |
for the Pogba family - Manchester United's Paul lining up | :35:29. | :35:33. | |
against older brother The rest of the family doing | :35:34. | :35:35. | |
their best to support them both. It was Zlatan Ibrahimovic who stole | :35:36. | :35:42. | |
the headlines, though - And manager Jose Mourinho | :35:43. | :35:47. | |
was happy with the result - Lack of concentration | :35:48. | :35:51. | |
and when you don't have it So in the first half it was hard | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
and even myself on the touchline, I felt that it was difficult, | :35:57. | :36:03. | |
the communication, I needed the half-time so we were lucky, yes, | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
to be winning at half-time 1-0. Spurs are 1-0 down in their tie | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
after they lost 1-0 away to Ghent - a side in mid-table | :36:11. | :36:20. | |
in the Belgian league. Tottenham were pretty poor for most | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
of the game, by all accounts. Their chance to make amends comes | :36:24. | :36:26. | |
at Wembley next Thursday. We showed you yesterday 15-year-old | :36:27. | :36:36. | |
Jackson Page winning through to the third | :36:37. | :36:39. | |
round of snooker's Welsh Open. I hate to tell you, | :36:40. | :36:41. | |
but his run is over. World number four Judd Trump | :36:42. | :36:43. | |
was just too strong for the local schoolboy, who'd had to get special | :36:44. | :36:46. | |
permission to miss lessons. Page lost 4-0, but he goes | :36:47. | :36:48. | |
back to the classroom with winnings of ?3,500 | :36:49. | :36:51. | |
from his fantastic journey. When you win the first two everyone | :36:52. | :37:06. | |
expects you to do more. Most people don't realise who you are playing, | :37:07. | :37:11. | |
playing someone like Judd you are not going to get close often unless | :37:12. | :37:16. | |
you play really well. A lot of maturing and need to practise more | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
to get to that standard. One for the future certainly. | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
And Canadian tennis star Eugenie Bouchard proved | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
she is a woman of her word by honouring a bet she lost | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
Bouchard backed the Atlanta Falcons to win the Super Bowl. | :37:31. | :37:35. | |
Student John Goehrke said she should go on a date with him if they lost. | :37:36. | :37:39. | |
Well, lose they did, and on a date they went - | :37:40. | :37:42. | |
It must've gone well, because apparently they're | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
going on a second date - possibly because Goehrke presented | :37:47. | :37:55. | |
Bouchard with a pair of expensive earrings! | :37:56. | :38:05. | |
The kiss-cam was meant to go to them but they went to the buffet. | :38:06. | :38:13. | |
Thank you very much. It is less than a week until voters | :38:14. | :38:27. | |
in the Stoke-on-Trent central constituency choose their new MP. | :38:28. | :38:30. | |
The poll is being seen as a key electoral test for Labour leader | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
whose party is defending the seat. With voters strongly backing Leave, | :38:36. | :38:41. | |
how much of an impact is Brexit likely to have? Graham Satchell went | :38:42. | :38:47. | |
to the skat potteries to find out. This is pretty safe | :38:48. | :38:52. | |
Labour territory. It is urban and working class | :38:53. | :38:53. | |
and they have had a Labour MP here since 1950 when the seat | :38:54. | :38:56. | |
was first created. Speak to almost anyone | :38:57. | :38:58. | |
here and they say the same thing. I've had enough of Labour | :38:59. | :39:16. | |
because there's no ports, There is indecision, | :39:17. | :39:19. | |
uncertainty in the air. They do nothing for | :39:20. | :39:29. | |
you, nothing at all. They are going to do this they're | :39:30. | :39:44. | |
going to do that and the other Immigration, Brexit, Europe - | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
key factors in this by-election. In the referendum, Stoke voted | :39:48. | :40:11. | |
heavily to leave the EU. On her barge, Kay | :40:12. | :40:13. | |
is making oat cakes. You could not get more | :40:14. | :40:24. | |
traditional Stoke. How did you vote in | :40:25. | :40:26. | |
the Brexit referendum? Out. | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
I just look at the NHS. Who do you think you will | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
vote for this time. Her husband is also | :40:37. | :40:44. | |
a traditional Labour voter. They have a very good strong | :40:45. | :40:51. | |
majority in Stoke-on-Trent. We have just been let down by Labour | :40:52. | :41:05. | |
so much in the past few years. We end our visit at the ski slopes | :41:06. | :41:12. | |
and something we heard I do not normally when stuff | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
like this comes around. It is not at the top | :41:16. | :41:25. | |
of my priority list. At the last general election, | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
just 49% of people voted here, Labour should win this seat | :41:29. | :41:30. | |
but if what we found here is representative, it will be | :41:31. | :41:41. | |
a win with little enthusiasm. There are ten candidates | :41:42. | :41:44. | |
standing in the by-election in Stoke-on-Trent Central next | :41:45. | :41:51. | |
Thursday. You can find out more about them - | :41:52. | :41:53. | |
and their policies - Over 50,000 women are diagnosed | :41:54. | :41:56. | |
with breast cancer every year in the UK and getting an early | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
diagnosis is vital Now radiowave technology | :42:04. | :42:05. | |
is being trialled which could offer a less painful and more accurate way | :42:06. | :42:14. | |
to spot the early signs, Melanie White could never | :42:15. | :42:17. | |
face having a mammogram. I was very tender on certain parts | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
of my body for years It is the way they say, "You may | :42:24. | :42:26. | |
experience some discomfort." Tell the truth, "It's | :42:27. | :42:32. | |
painful, isn't it?" Thanks to this machine, | :42:33. | :42:34. | |
she's now been able Maria, as it's known, | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
has got transmitters and receivers arranged under a ceramic cup, | :42:39. | :42:49. | |
which the breast sits in. I said I know about this radar | :42:50. | :43:06. | |
thing. People have got to want to go back. | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
It is been built on technologies similar to ground-penetrating radar | :43:10. | :43:12. | |
One in five cancers are not detected through mammograms and they also use | :43:13. | :43:21. | |
radiation so for young women in particular you have to come back | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
year on year and doctors have to consider whether it is worth | :43:27. | :43:29. | |
A recent study has shown that this radio wave technology to be | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
And now doctors are about to start a second clinical trial to find out | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
if it could even be safer for younger women. | :43:40. | :43:42. | |
It could save lives eventually because one of the difficulties | :43:43. | :43:45. | |
with mammograms, when you are younger, they tend to be dense | :43:46. | :43:47. | |
This is different, the density does not matter. | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
So in a young patient with denser tissue, this machine picks up | :43:53. | :43:59. | |
as well as it would do a patient that didn't have | :44:00. | :44:02. | |
It is like having a good meal in a restaurant, | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
Melanie is encouraging other women to take part in this new clinical | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
trial where it is also hoped doctors can find out how well patients | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
Let's talk now to Eluned Hughes, who is head of public health | :44:16. | :44:25. | |
and information at Breast Cancer Now. | :44:26. | :44:32. | |
Listening to Melanie, the lady we saw on the report, she said | :44:33. | :44:39. | |
brilliant, painless, safe. That sounds like a glowing | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
recommendation, what are your thoughts? It is interesting, at the | :44:44. | :44:46. | |
moment mammograms are the most effective method of diagnosing | :44:47. | :44:52. | |
breast cancer early, but this looks at whether it could be better in | :44:53. | :44:55. | |
some of the ways where we know mammograms maybe not as good. | :44:56. | :44:59. | |
Forward with dense breasts where we know it is more difficult to see a | :45:00. | :45:05. | |
change on an x-ray, this could be able to spot a change -- for women | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
with dense breasts. Because it does not compress the breasts it could be | :45:10. | :45:15. | |
more comfortable for women. They are painful? That is one of the risks, | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
people feel pain in different ways and it is quite short lived but it | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
is not necessarily a comfortable procedure. Is this the way forward, | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
some cancers are still not picked up by mammograms? It is really early | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
days to say how useful it will be, at the moment it is just a clinic | :45:35. | :45:42. | |
setting where somebody has already spotted an unusual change, to see if | :45:43. | :45:44. | |
it can be as effective as a mammogram in terms of diagnosing | :45:45. | :45:47. | |
about change. We are yet to see if it will work in screening for | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
possible breast cancer, but it is really important to look at the | :45:53. | :45:55. | |
techniques of diagnosing cancer early and making sure that if women | :45:56. | :46:00. | |
need treatment they can get it as soon as possible. Looking at some of | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
the statistics from your own charity, 1000 women still die of | :46:05. | :46:11. | |
breast cancer every month in the UK. The issue, is it about the issue you | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
mentioned of early diagnosis, people checking and seeking help early? We | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
know early diagnosis is a big factor in terms of survival, the sooner | :46:21. | :46:24. | |
breast cancer is picked up, the easier it is to treat. For those | :46:25. | :46:32. | |
women who maybe don't do as well, so sometimes older women, women with | :46:33. | :46:36. | |
more unusual signs and symptoms, they tend to be picked up a little | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
bit later. It is about everybody knowing that breast cancer is | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
something important to be on the lookout for, check regularly, know | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
what is normal for you and if you spot anything unusual, go to your | :46:50. | :46:54. | |
GP, get it checked out and go to your regular mammograms, women over | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
50 are invited for screening every three years. What is the take-up, do | :46:59. | :47:05. | |
people go? About seven in ten people take up that invitation. There are | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
some concerns about that declining and we need to work out exactly why | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
that is, it may be because of concern about the risk and benefits, | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
it might be because of people not being able to change an appointment | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
if it does not work for them or not knowing it is important. Some people | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
are put off because it is painful, it is working with women and the | :47:27. | :47:29. | |
screening service to make sure it works for them. Because we know the | :47:30. | :47:37. | |
benefits outweigh the risks, making sure women attend if it is something | :47:38. | :47:42. | |
they want to do. Thank you very much, Eluned Hughes from Breast | :47:43. | :47:51. | |
Cancer Now. Carol is talking about warmer weather on the way, but not | :47:52. | :47:55. | |
for long? By the end of the week we will cease | :47:56. | :48:00. | |
in thing cooler again, but we have beautiful pictures from the Weather | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
Watchers. John increased them this, Mr and Fogg, as you can clearly see. | :48:05. | :48:14. | |
-- John in Crieff said this in. This beautiful picture is from Clacton on | :48:15. | :48:19. | |
Sea. There is some cloud around, but where we have the breaks on the | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
cloud, temperatures are lower. South and west, not as low. In Cardiff it | :48:24. | :48:30. | |
is eight Celsius at the moment. We have a weak weather front draped | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
across western Scotland and North Wales through the Midlands down into | :48:35. | :48:37. | |
the south-east. It is of value because I, producing a lot of cloud. | :48:38. | :48:42. | |
There are splashes of rain attached to it. Fog across parts of | :48:43. | :48:48. | |
south-east Scotland and northern England. That will lift, some will | :48:49. | :48:53. | |
take longer to clear, bright skies across south-east Scotland and | :48:54. | :48:57. | |
northern England. The weather front upwards from the Midlands pivots | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
back towards the north-east, it -- introducing more cloud. | :49:02. | :49:06. | |
Aberdeenshire will hang on to the sunshine for the longest day. The | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
cloudy afternoon with spots of rain across Northern Ireland, for | :49:11. | :49:13. | |
northern England, the further east you are, the more likely you are to | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
hang onto sunshine but cloud continues to build. Showers across | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
West Wales, some getting into south-west England, some breaks in | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
the south-west. Across the Midlands towards Hampshire heading east, | :49:26. | :49:28. | |
underwriter cloud, with the odd break. Through the evening and | :49:29. | :49:36. | |
overnight, hanging onto some showers in Wales, the Midlands and possibly | :49:37. | :49:39. | |
East Anglia, but later another weather front comes in, introducing | :49:40. | :49:44. | |
more rain. The heaviest and most persistent will be across north-west | :49:45. | :49:48. | |
Scotland. That leads us into the weekend, as Louise said, it will get | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
a milder and stay milder into the early part of next week. There will | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
be cloud and sunny intervals and looking at a rain across the | :49:58. | :49:59. | |
north-west. The overnight rain on Friday will be | :50:00. | :50:04. | |
with 's first thing on Saturday across north-west Scotland, still | :50:05. | :50:12. | |
heavy persistent. We will see the rain we can, it will still be wet | :50:13. | :50:15. | |
with Shell is behind it. Northern Ireland will have sunny intervals, | :50:16. | :50:20. | |
ahead of it for the Midlands into the south-east and south-west, quite | :50:21. | :50:23. | |
a bit of cloud with some breaker breaks. | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
Saturday into Sunday, a new weather front starts to come in from the | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
West, behind it we will see much milder and macro coming our way, a | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
largely dry day on Sunday with some showers in the West, later in the | :50:36. | :50:40. | |
day the rain comes in, temperatures widely between 11, 12 of 13 or 14. | :50:41. | :50:46. | |
This is what some others can expect on Monday or Tuesday, not | :50:47. | :50:49. | |
wall-to-wall blue skies but some will see the dizzy heights of 16 or | :50:50. | :50:54. | |
17 Celsius. Looking forward to it! Thank you for | :50:55. | :50:56. | |
keeping us company. We won't tell you who are next guest | :50:57. | :50:59. | |
is, just listen to this... But Chesney Hawkes isn't the only | :51:00. | :51:02. | |
one on the sofa this morning, Good morning, both, lovely to see | :51:03. | :51:08. | |
you. How wonderful. but first let's take a quick look | :51:09. | :51:18. | |
at them in rehearsal together. # Trying to make me forget who I | :51:19. | :51:35. | |
really am. # You tell me I know best, I'm not | :51:36. | :51:37. | |
the same as all the rest. They are chuckling, what are you | :51:38. | :51:55. | |
saying about your dad? Look at the concentration, he has not played | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
bass for a long time, there are lots of chords in that song and he looked | :52:00. | :52:05. | |
at me like, I have got it right. Are you not bass player? I was, with the | :52:06. | :52:11. | |
Tremeloes, played on the records, and then I put it to one side when I | :52:12. | :52:14. | |
left the band and just started playing guitar. I thought, well, | :52:15. | :52:22. | |
pick it up. I am glad I did, I really enjoy it. It is my | :52:23. | :52:29. | |
instruments, really. Growing up, music was big in the house? Gosh, | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
yes. There was no way the three others were ever going to be | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
accountants or anything. Everywhere in the house there were pianos, | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
guitars propped up in corners, electric pianos in cupboards, music | :52:42. | :52:47. | |
everywhere. He lived and breathed it can he still does. I tried to put | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
off many times. Didn't do a very good job. Chesney was just made for | :52:53. | :52:58. | |
it. Both givers as sense of the era, people who have not heard of the | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
Tremeloes before, they were very successful? | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
15 or 16 hits, couple of number ones. Mid to late 60 's? 66. Is that | :53:10. | :53:25. | |
you? That is dad. Look at that handsome brute! Look at my hair! | :53:26. | :53:33. | |
That was... Was that before you were born? I was born in 71... It you | :53:34. | :53:44. | |
were born then. This was the 70s. Dad took me two shows. Some of my | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
earliest memories were watching from the wings, dad with his shirt undone | :53:51. | :53:53. | |
to his navel and his leather trousers. What fun! You would not | :53:54. | :54:03. | |
believe it, that I used to be a hunk! I can see that quite clearly! | :54:04. | :54:09. | |
Did you try to put all of the children of the music industry? | :54:10. | :54:14. | |
Chesney was the main one, he definitely didn't want to go to work | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
or finish school, didn't want to go to college. I just said, you know, | :54:19. | :54:29. | |
when you leave school, if you are not making a living within six | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
months, you will go to college. Within six months he was making more | :54:35. | :54:41. | |
than I was! We have played it lots of times, The One and Only, a | :54:42. | :54:46. | |
massive success. It featured in lots of things, movies, used in lots of | :54:47. | :54:53. | |
other places? Is has been in films, lots of adverts and television | :54:54. | :54:57. | |
stuff. It is still doing very well in that respect. We spoke to James | :54:58. | :55:03. | |
Blunt yesterday, who obviously had one very particular song he is very | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
well known for, how do you feel about this song? It has been 25 | :55:08. | :55:12. | |
years now, it has been very much part of my whole life, really. I | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
have had ups and downs with it but I am very much friends with it now. We | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
split up for a while and got back together, now we are like friends | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
with benefits. Is that similar to you and the Tremeloes, you had lots | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
of hits them? We were just a band and it went on and on and on. We had | :55:34. | :55:42. | |
hits over ten years. It just carried on. That is all I knew. Is this the | :55:43. | :55:48. | |
first time you have been on tour together? Yes. How did it come | :55:49. | :55:54. | |
about? It was Chesney's idea, we have always messed about with | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
guitars and pianos, doing party pieces, we have never really played | :56:00. | :56:02. | |
on stage together. The dog sometimes if I am doing a gig near dad we will | :56:03. | :56:07. | |
get together and do Silence Is Golden or something, sometimes I | :56:08. | :56:14. | |
will play with him, this has been a dream for some time. My brother, his | :56:15. | :56:19. | |
other son, is the drummer in this band. Are there more musicians in | :56:20. | :56:25. | |
the family? My sister is also a singer. Four. It is like the | :56:26. | :56:37. | |
fabulous Hawkes family on tour. He gets the biggest changing room, he | :56:38. | :56:42. | |
is good either. Chesney, you live in LA, you do good to hear...? It | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
sounds ridiculous and flush, I literally commute between London and | :56:49. | :56:52. | |
LA, I am constantly on a plane at the moment. Mike Bushell was here a | :56:53. | :56:58. | |
moment ago, you want to did panto with him? In Northampton, his | :56:59. | :57:04. | |
hometown. He is local boy done good there, he would come out and they | :57:05. | :57:09. | |
do... He would do a segment with us where he would sing something. He | :57:10. | :57:15. | |
said he did a duet with you. I am not sure that is completely true, he | :57:16. | :57:19. | |
also said I threw custard pie in his face, which was true. I adjusted it | :57:20. | :57:29. | |
to him backstage, for old times sake if I had on a tiny bit with Chesney, | :57:30. | :57:33. | |
I would also make a P Diddy duet with you. He did really, I am | :57:34. | :57:35. | |
joking! Thank you. Chip and Chesney Hawkes's tour, | :57:36. | :57:37. | |
From the Tremeloes to the One It runs until March. We will talk | :57:38. | :57:46. | |
about fruit and veg, should we be eating more fruit and veg that is... | :57:47. | :57:52. | |
I was going to say built in the UK, you know what I mean, grown in the | :57:53. | :57:57. | |
UK? Sean is trying to answer that and he has his own quiz. Very good! | :57:58. | :58:06. | |
Not a bad effort. They are starting to close up so you can get away with | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
more, we will pay for the Pap about as gone on the floor. They peak in | :58:11. | :58:15. | |
the early hours of the morning, it is a long day but it starts early. | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
We're talking about all this fruit and veg, particularly this stall, of | :58:20. | :58:28. | |
this is from Italy, we import from around the world. We are better at | :58:29. | :58:33. | |
growing our own and eating room for meat, eggs, dairy etc, but are we up | :58:34. | :58:39. | |
for growing more in the UK, potentially paying more? Let's talk | :58:40. | :58:44. | |
to Adam from The Grocer magazine, how you're juggling skills? Is not | :58:45. | :58:50. | |
very good. I will not put you on the spot. Looking at some of this | :58:51. | :58:57. | |
cracking lovely purple aubergine. It is on trend, I am told, purple. That | :58:58. | :59:02. | |
is why you get a lot of the stripe your machines, what chance about | :59:03. | :59:06. | |
being grown in the UK? Non-at this time of the year. You would have to | :59:07. | :59:11. | |
pay a fortune, you could grow it in the Arctic Circle with enough fuel | :59:12. | :59:15. | |
but it is cost, the cost effectiveness. It is about | :59:16. | :59:21. | |
expectations as consumers, we want to eat Mediterranean diet, right | :59:22. | :59:24. | |
around the year. It is unrealistic to expect, as much as we like as | :59:25. | :59:32. | |
consumers to buy British goods, to expect this to grow that at this | :59:33. | :59:33. | |
time of year. Some of this stuff you could grow | :59:34. | :59:43. | |
here in the UK in the winter? You can certainly grow the turnip and | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
this you will grow in season but not at this time of year unless you are | :59:50. | :59:54. | |
producing huge amounts of fuels and it becomes prohibitively expensive. | :59:55. | :59:58. | |
This idea of seasonal vegetables is a great idea in principle, but it's | :59:59. | :00:04. | |
like turning off social media to stop fake news, you are not going to | :00:05. | :00:10. | |
do it. We have remarkable global supply chains and they are there | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
because people want to eat these all year-round. If we want to eat more | :00:16. | :00:21. | |
British food are we going to return to the menus of the 70s? No, we are | :00:22. | :00:26. | |
not. The consumer wants it and supermarkets, it's their job to | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
deliver it. What is interesting about this initiative it's about | :00:30. | :00:34. | |
trying to find a way to get more stuff into the supermarkets from | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
local farmers and local suppliers. It's not been easy to do. | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
Supermarket like giant supply chains where everything is shipped out | :00:44. | :00:47. | |
everywhere. Now we are talking about supermarkets trying to source | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
locally and getting the produce shipped directly into that store. | :00:52. | :00:55. | |
That's really difficult to do, if they can pull it off it makes it | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
easier and consumers can respond. But it can't be prohibitively | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
expensive. With Brexit, with the change in sterling, the devaluation | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
of sterling, it means potentially the gap, the price gap potentially | :01:08. | :01:11. | |
closes. Could be more competitive. Thank you very much. | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
That's it from this morning. We have just about figured out to do with | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
this. I am so glad. I still don't know what I will cook with them, but | :01:24. | :01:26. | |
I will think of something. It was one of the worst shipping | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
disasters ever to take place in British waters yet it's one | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
of the least well-known. More than 600 people drowned | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
when the SS Mendi sank close to the Isle of Wight on 21st | :01:36. | :01:43. | |
February 1917. Most of the victims were black | :01:44. | :01:44. | |
South African labourers who had been conscripted to support British | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
forces in the First World War. Today, events get under way to mark | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
100 years since the tragedy honouring the contribution | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
of the Foreign Labour Corps and the memory of those | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
who died that day. Private Daniel Mafika, | :01:58. | :01:59. | |
Private Daniel Nkonyama. The names of more than 600 | :02:00. | :02:10. | |
killed in one of the UK's Yet, most have never heard | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
of the sinking of the SS Mendi. 100 years on in Portsmouth, | :02:14. | :02:26. | |
final rehearsals for a series of events to remember those | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
who lost their lives. They were the South African | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
Native Labour Corps. They have become the unremembered | :02:33. | :02:34. | |
men of the First World War. SS Mendi was sailing from Cape Town | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
to northern France when, in thick fog, near the Isle | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
of Wight, she accidentally More than 800 members | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
of the South African Native Labour They were labourers needed | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
to support the British Army They built railway lines, | :02:54. | :03:01. | |
they built roads - They endured very | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
difficult conditions. They endured a great deal of racial | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
discrimination and I think it's It is thought they sang this hymn as | :03:15. | :03:29. | |
the Mendi set sail from South Africa T will be performed today in their | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
honour. The discrimination experienced by | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
many members of the South African Labour Corps in life continued in | :03:39. | :03:45. | |
death. The sinking of the SS Mendi was barely mentioned in official | :03:46. | :03:48. | |
histories of World War I. Most bodies were never recovered. The few | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
that were are now buried in Portsmouth. | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
These are direct descendents of men who died on the Mendi and have | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
travelled from South Africa for the centenary commemorations. They got | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
on board that ship because they were patriotic. They were serving the | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
union of South Africa and the King. It's an emotional event coming here. | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
It is only now after the new tone of South Africa that SS Mendi is talked | :04:22. | :04:30. | |
about. We We didn't have any recognition. At last we have come to | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
present the - representing the family. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
The South African Navy band have also travelled here for the | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
commemorations. Victims of a largely forgotten tragedy at sea, officially | :04:44. | :04:45. | |
recognised at last. Let's take a last look | :04:46. | :04:54. | |
at the headlines where Whether covered in snow or sprinkled | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
with blossoms the dramatic landscape of the Lake District is always | :04:58. | :06:48. | |
captivating. A new documentary charting a year | :06:49. | :06:49. | |
in the life of the Lake District is promising a unique view | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
of life for the people It's called The Lake | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
District: A Restless Year. We'll be speaking to some of those | :06:57. | :07:04. | |
involved in a moment but first let's take a look at some | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
of the spectacular scenery. On whatever scale, there | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
are few places in Britain where change is more dramatic | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
and important than here. But by seeing hours, | :07:17. | :07:22. | |
days - even months - pressed into a few seconds, | :07:23. | :07:33. | |
these changes can now be revealed. And by charting the key | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
events in the calendar through each of the seasons, | :07:38. | :07:47. | |
it is possible to uncover Joining us in the studio | :07:48. | :07:55. | |
is the producer Simon Blakeney and stonemason David Birkett | :07:56. | :08:16. | |
who is part of the documentary. Lovely to see you both. Thank you so | :08:17. | :08:28. | |
much. Simon, tell us about it, it's the - anybody who has been there | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
knows it's a special place, why film there? It's a stunning location. We | :08:33. | :08:38. | |
wanted to have a place that really encapsulated a year in Britain, a | :08:39. | :08:42. | |
year in wildlife and people and everything and we couldn't come up | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
with somewhere that would be better than the Lake District, it's a | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
stunning backdrop and has a wide range of things to film, it was | :08:51. | :08:55. | |
lovely to film. I am fascinated when you have these definitive programmes | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
and look at a place and you have time and you want to look at it | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
properly, what do you film first, it's day one, where do we point the | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
camera? We do research. The nice thing about this show is that we had | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
the year, obviously had to catch the stages of the year and we choose | :09:12. | :09:15. | |
from the outset to base it around the sort of rural life but with | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
everything else and how that affected it and how the weather | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
affected it. The first thing we filmed was the lambing. It flowed | :09:24. | :09:29. | |
nicely but it did take a lot of research from us and my colleagues | :09:30. | :09:35. | |
in the Lake District, as well. You are a stonemason, I am not joking, I | :09:36. | :09:42. | |
have always wanted to meet one, because it's incredible work. I grew | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
up on the farm that features heavily in the programme and yeah, started | :09:49. | :09:56. | |
stonewalling with my grandfather there. It's neverending. It's hard | :09:57. | :10:05. | |
work. It is, but we are Cumbrian, it's what we like doing. We don't | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
like easy things. It's a mixle bag, you can be on a hillside or building | :10:12. | :10:14. | |
gardens at Chelsea or working on nice houses and one skill leads on | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
to the other, it's fascinating. There is enormous skill involved | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
obviously and incredibly time-consuming presumably, does it | :10:24. | :10:27. | |
take time to be building these walls? A lot of the contracts now | :10:28. | :10:32. | |
are high on the hillside. So there is a lot of time getting there. The | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
whole day you have to commit to a big day so that's the time but once | :10:38. | :10:45. | |
you learn the basics of it it's like a mechanical act your body has to do | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
and we are not building posh houses on hillsides, we are building stone | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
fences really. Once you learn that basic mechanics you can do it | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
anywhere. David, you witness firsthand the changing of the | :10:58. | :11:01. | |
seasons. You see it all unfolding, have you a particular favourite time | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
of year in The Lakes? I used to tell everybody that May was the most | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
special time in the Lakes but I don't know why, but I would say | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
April now, April is the new May! It's warmer sooner? I wouldn't want | :11:16. | :11:20. | |
to go down those lines but we always used to get a beautiful band of | :11:21. | :11:25. | |
weather in May. What happens in summer everything goes like a sticky | :11:26. | :11:32. | |
green and in May you get the Hawthorns, and bluebells and catch | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
that thin air before it goes hazy and it seems to have moved into | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
April now. If I had to pick one month it would be April. Sounds | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
lovely. How do you choose what you are going to film? A lot of it was | :11:43. | :11:52. | |
working with people like David and we spent a lot of time with a farmer | :11:53. | :11:59. | |
and speaking to organisations, and tell the story of the changing | :12:00. | :12:03. | |
things, as it changes its face I suppose as the seasons pass through | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
and picking stories that gave us that change. In amongst it some | :12:08. | :12:11. | |
engaging stories about people and animals. The documentary obviously | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
glorifies the scenery and the people there. Has it been hard when you | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
were growing up there to get work? Often you hear in these beautiful | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
places everyone goes to look at how lovely it is but it's hard to earn a | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
living, has that been a problem? For me personally, no. I think there is | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
a lot of people think this is the case and people move away looking | :12:35. | :12:41. | |
for work. But very few people, especially in my field, it's not | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
really that many people want to go and get cold and wet every day. | :12:47. | :12:52. | |
Tourism is a massive industry. Yeah, we tried to show that, obviously | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
that farming historically has been kept the Lake District alive and now | :12:59. | :13:01. | |
tourism is taking over from that in a large part but a lot of the time | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
tourists come to see the environment that's been created by the way of | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
life, by farming and people like David who build the walls, it was | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
lovely to show that mix of the two. It's beautiful images. Thank you | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
both for coming in this morning. The Lake District: A Wild Year | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
is on BBC Two tonight at 9.00pm. But now it's time for the final | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
episode of Countryfile Winter but it can also be | :13:25. | :13:29. | |
the most spectacular season | :13:30. | :13:41. |