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with Rachel Burden and Charlie Stayt. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
The Prime Minister promises new laws to tackle domestic violence. | :00:08. | :00:10. | |
Theresa May says there's a lack of clarity in the current system | :00:11. | :00:13. | |
and that too many victims are being let down. | :00:14. | :00:32. | |
Good morning it's Saturday 18th February. | :00:33. | :00:34. | |
President Trump calls the media the "enemy of the American people" | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
ahead of what's being described as a campaign rally | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
The US food giant Kraft says it won't give up | :00:43. | :00:48. | |
as Unilever strongly rejects its multi-billion pound | :00:49. | :00:50. | |
On the front line with Iraqi forces - | :00:51. | :00:57. | |
we'll find out how they're preparing for an assault | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
on one of the last remaining strongholds | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
In sport, the imps of Lincoln, eye another FA Cup shock. | :01:02. | :01:09. | |
Can the non-league side, now upset Premier League Burnley | :01:10. | :01:12. | |
A treasure hunt with a twist. Why Goldfinger is worth thousands of | :01:13. | :01:29. | |
pounds are being hidden. We should get some sunshine | :01:30. | :01:41. | |
developing, a chance of rain across the North and it stays mild on | :01:42. | :01:47. | |
Sunday, if rather cloudy. More details later. | :01:48. | :01:52. | |
Theresa May is introducing a new law to combat domestic violence | :01:53. | :01:57. | |
Official figures suggest that every year more than a million women | :01:58. | :02:02. | |
experience domestic abuse in England and Wales. | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Among men, that figure stands at just over half a million. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Last year, 75,000 people were convicted of domestic abuse - | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
that's the highest number ever recorded. | :02:10. | :02:11. | |
There was also the highest ever conviction rate of 75% | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
but some charities are concerned that too many victims | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
Our political correspondent, Adam Fleming, | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
is in Westminster for us this morning. | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
Adam, Theresa May spent 6 years as Home Secretary | :02:24. | :02:25. | |
so she's already had plenty of time to address this issue. | :02:26. | :02:31. | |
Why the new law and what is different about it? She was Home | :02:32. | :02:40. | |
Secretary for six years and responsible for these area but | :02:41. | :02:44. | |
Downing Street says this has been a passion of hers. She extended the | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
law to include criminalising things like controlling behaviour and | :02:51. | :02:54. | |
giving people the right to find out if a new partner had been violent | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
before. The problem she identifies as Prime Minister is that domestic | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
violence is not just one crime contained in one piece of | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
legislation and that those laws are not necessarily clear all the time | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
which means people affected in England and Wales are treated | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
differently depending on which police force they live in. The call | :03:18. | :03:23. | |
has gone in across governments, expert and campaigners and people | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
affected by the violence to come up with ideas as to how the system can | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
be strengthen so that everybody is treated the same. A new piece of | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
legislation will be deposited here in Parliament at some point. The | :03:37. | :03:43. | |
Prime Minister is also looking at quick wins, ideas and initiatives | :03:44. | :03:47. | |
that can help people straightaway. She is also talking about the bigger | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
point that if she talks about it, police talk about it, you and I will | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
talk about it and it may give victims more courage to come | :04:00. | :04:00. | |
forward. President Donald Trump is preparing | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
to address a rally of supporters at the end of an eventful week | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
for the new US government. Yesterday, Mr Trump sought | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
to focus on his promise but later resumed his | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
criticism of the media, branding a number of news | :04:12. | :04:14. | |
organisations The president of the United States | :04:15. | :04:31. | |
may have been in office for less than a month but it is clear this is | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
a part of the job he enjoys, addressing an audience he can see | :04:36. | :04:41. | |
and hear. We love America and we are going to protect America. We love | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
our workers and we are going to protect our workers. At the tour of | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
Boeing in South Carolina he read the rate of one of his biggest campaign | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
promises. Next stop, Florida, a place that supported when he | :04:57. | :05:02. | |
supported him when he needed it most. It is unusual for a president | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
to hold a rally like this so soon after inauguration but much of what | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
Donald Trump has done so far has been unconventional, including a | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
blossoming relationship with the main media. You are dishonest | :05:21. | :05:27. | |
people. Last night he expressed his displeasure in his favourite way | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
with another critical tweet. Even journalists from organisations on | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
his side are unhappy, particularly when it comes to Russia. The | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
opposition was hacked and the Russians were responsible for it and | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
your people were on the same day to Russia when it happened, and we are | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
all asking? No, sir. He has a lot his plate, a vacancy in Cabinet, | :05:56. | :06:01. | |
accusations of chaos in the administration pulls dog he will be | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
hoping that by going directly to voters, he can at least expect some | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
warmth. Police in Malaysia say they've | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
arrested a North Korean man in connection with the death | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
of Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of the North Korean | :06:15. | :06:16. | |
leader, Kim Jong-un. He died on Monday | :06:17. | :06:18. | |
after apparently being poisoned The man is the fourth | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
suspect to be detained. Three former trade secretaries have | :06:21. | :06:25. | |
criticised plans to reform business rates | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
for the first time in seven years. Lord Tebbit, Sir Vince Cable | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
and Dame Margaret Beckett all voiced their concerns | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
over the new system, which comes into force in England | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
on the 1st of April. The government claims most | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
businesses will not see an increase. But some of the UK's biggest | :06:40. | :06:42. | |
employers' groups are condemning changes | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
to the appeals process for the property valuations | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
the new rates will be based on. The Anglo-Dutch company, | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
Unilever, which makes brands, including Marmite | :06:53. | :06:54. | |
and PG Tips, has rejected a ?115 | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
billion takeover bid from the American food | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
giant Kraft-Heinz. Unilever said there was no basis | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
for further negotiations, but Kraft has said it will continue | :07:05. | :07:10. | |
to work on a potential deal, which would make it | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
the second biggest takeover Here's more from our business | :07:15. | :07:16. | |
correspondent, Joe Lynam. Unilever makes some of the best | :07:17. | :07:27. | |
known brands in anyone's kitchen, two Philadelphia cheese to Marmite. | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
Hardly a country on earth will not know their products if you put that | :07:35. | :07:40. | |
together with Kraft. It has higher profit margins but a smaller | :07:41. | :07:46. | |
presence in growing markets such as Asia. ?150 billion is what Unilever | :07:47. | :07:52. | |
is worth. Although they enjoy lower profit margin, they have a large | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
presence in Asia and has 13 factories here including Norwich, | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
Liverpool and Gloucester but after Kraft to renege on promises in aid | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
when it bought Cadbury seven years ago, some are calling for the | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
government to intervene in this merger battle. I very concerned. | :08:11. | :08:16. | |
This is one of the practical consequences of the Brexit. Overseas | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
companies moving in and taking over British businesses that cheaply | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
potentially against the national interest. This is the first bait | :08:26. | :08:31. | |
that it will not be the last. Expect shareholders and politicians to have | :08:32. | :08:33. | |
their say in coming months. Iraqi forces are preparing to launch | :08:34. | :08:40. | |
an offensive to drive Islamic State It's the last major urban area | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
in the country that's still under From Mosul's southern front, | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
our Middle East correspondent, In towns and villages along | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
the Tigris, and across the desert, they are readying for | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
the attack on West Mosul. These are the men of Iraq's | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
emergency response division. It took 100 days to | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
take the city's east. They've been arrested | :09:05. | :09:16. | |
but the battle scars are still fresh. | :09:17. | :09:24. | |
The west of Mosul will be a different battle. | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
This mortar team is going through final weapons checks. | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
The city's dense neighbourhoods mean great care will be needed | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Nearly three quarters of a million are still in the city. | :09:34. | :09:43. | |
They'll be in the middle of this firepower. | :09:44. | :09:50. | |
When these men were in the east they experienced | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
what does the Islamic State have left? | :09:54. | :10:00. | |
and how fiercely will IS fight for its last remaining city in Iraq? | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
British boots are on the ground, too. | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
Major-General Rupert Jones is on a last-minute inspection | :10:13. | :10:14. | |
They'll be supporting the Iraqi assault on Mosul. | :10:15. | :10:21. | |
well, look, East Mosul took 100 days. | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
West Mosul could be every bit as tough, so, you know, | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
You don't retake towns and cities the size of Mosul, | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
On the parade ground, Kurdish forces. | :10:34. | :10:40. | |
And the Defence Secretary bringing a reminder | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
We're picking up information all the time now, | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
information about those foreign fighters, | :10:48. | :10:48. | |
Information, too, about some of the attacks | :10:49. | :10:57. | |
that have been planned in Western Europe. | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
So this work is not simply freeing people in Mosul from having to live | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
This won't be Iraq's last fight against IS, | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, on Mosul's southern front. | :11:09. | :11:17. | |
One of the strongest storms possibly in decades, | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
dubbed a "bombogenesis", is set to drench California | :11:21. | :11:24. | |
this weekend, prompting fears of flash floods. | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
The system is dumping torrential downpour from Los Angeles | :11:28. | :11:29. | |
to San Francisco, fuelled by an atmospheric river | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
Meteorologists describe the bombogenesis | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
as an intense extra-tropical cyclonic low-pressure area, | :11:37. | :11:38. | |
Bombogenesis, the new Word of the day. After another is an full week | :11:39. | :12:01. | |
in US politics, President Trump prepares for a rally in Florida. It | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
is being built as a campaign event at just 29 days into the presidency. | :12:07. | :12:13. | |
Good morning and thank you for your time. Can we talk about the event he | :12:14. | :12:20. | |
attended at bowing. Many people think instinctively this is more | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
comfortable territory. He was talking about jobs, the mantra of | :12:25. | :12:30. | |
jobs for the US and things to be made and bought in the US? He has | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
had a number of days of that headlines and he's going back to the | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
people that he has promised to deliver four, the average worker, | :12:43. | :12:45. | |
the average voter and that is where he feels comfortable, getting that | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
affirmation and we have seen that with his visit to Boeing and this | :12:52. | :12:58. | |
rally in Florida which speaks to how his approval numbers among his | :12:59. | :13:04. | |
supporters are high. Thinking slightly cynically that the event he | :13:05. | :13:10. | |
is attending seems odd, as a campaigning rally and he has just | :13:11. | :13:17. | |
become president. One is the wasting time on this when he could be | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
sorting out a lot of outstanding business? One of the interesting | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
features of Donald Trump as a candidate was that he was great at | :13:28. | :13:31. | |
rallies and outperformed Hillary Clinton. He was filling large | :13:32. | :13:37. | |
stadiums. Towards the end of the campaign he was during three rallies | :13:38. | :13:44. | |
and day. My guess is the reason he may be doing a 2020 campaign is to | :13:45. | :13:50. | |
try to get some of that positive feedback and get people excited | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
about his presidency again even though he still has not been | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
president for very long. Help us with some of the patterns, due you | :14:00. | :14:06. | |
think this is what we are going to see, him attending events where he | :14:07. | :14:11. | |
will get lots of plaudits from people and not his press conference | :14:12. | :14:19. | |
where he is so at odds with the press, what he has now named an | :14:20. | :14:25. | |
enemy of the people. He has become very impatient with the media. We | :14:26. | :14:34. | |
have seen in the last press conference, it was not on schedule, | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
he was rumoured to have locked in his office and said let's have a | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
press conference. I think that is how he will continue. It will be | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
press conferences, Twitter, it may be further rallies and planned | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
visits. Those are not so unusual. President George W Bush would tour | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
plans. But it would be to highlight a particular policy and what does | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
not seem to be accomplished in these visas is policy. To what extent is | :15:08. | :15:20. | |
he dropping in things that are not true, claims about his election | :15:21. | :15:22. | |
success, for example? Which everyone knows aren't true. He seems to | :15:23. | :15:28. | |
compound the problems of fake news by pushing fake news himself. Well, | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
he himself is not pushing fake news. He might be providing wrong | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
information but the press brings the news. It isn't helped cool to have | :15:39. | :15:50. | |
false facts out there -- isn't helpful. He was the one who had more | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
college votes, even on Republicans. But he was challenged and fell back | :15:57. | :16:00. | |
to saying that was the information he was given. Anneke Green, thank | :16:01. | :16:09. | |
you very much for your time this morning. A look at the morning | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
papers. The Daily Mail has a story that they've been covering all week | :16:16. | :16:18. | |
concerning the rise in business rates. They highlight one particular | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
shopkeeper who has written a scathing letter about the | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
government's approach to business, saying the whole thing needs to be | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
reviewed. It is a mixed picture across the country. | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
On the issues of the economy, the Times focuses on the housing market. | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
Homeowners, they say, waking up to ten months sometimes to sell their | :16:40. | :16:48. | |
properties. Also related to economic uncertainty, looking ahead to events | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
in the next two years related to Brexit. | :16:53. | :16:56. | |
And Tony Blair's entry into politics again makes the front page of the | :16:57. | :17:01. | |
Guardian, saying his speech sparked fury within general voters and the | :17:02. | :17:07. | |
Labour Party because they feel it could be damaging to David Ali | :17:08. | :17:15. | |
Sonboly-- Labour's prospects. On the front page of the Telegraph, | :17:16. | :17:20. | |
three former trade secretary is criticising Britain's rates. Various | :17:21. | :17:30. | |
voices joining in those calls of a review for business rates. | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
Briefly on the front page of the Sun. A father of three who | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
apparently died 27 times in 24 hours but still survived. He was playing | :17:39. | :17:45. | |
walking football at the time, which is the subject of Mike's story later | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
in the programme. Good news at the end as he was OK. | :17:52. | :17:52. | |
Here's Darren with a look at this morning's weather. | :17:53. | :17:58. | |
Good morning. On the face of it this picture doesn't look very promising. | :17:59. | :18:06. | |
A mild and misty start, especially across England and Wales, but things | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
will improve. Sunshine developing. Rain in the north. The winds are | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
stronger there, keeping mist and fog at bay. That rain will move very | :18:17. | :18:20. | |
slowly southwards. To the south of it, a great start for England and | :18:21. | :18:25. | |
Wales. Some mist and quite a lot of hill fog around. Fog around the | :18:26. | :18:29. | |
coast as well. Northwards we have rain in Northern Ireland, in the | :18:30. | :18:34. | |
south. It is moving into the north-west of England and north | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
Wales and wet weather is affecting the west of Scotland. East of | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
Scotland should have largely dry day. We have some sunshine as well. | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
As the rain clears from Northern Ireland we get some brighter skies | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
and sunshine in the afternoon. Still damp and dreary in the north-west of | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
England and north Wales. As you can see, the rest of England and Wales | :18:54. | :18:58. | |
is cheering up. Temperatures as high as 13 degrees, even around the | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
Murray Firth. This is the rain we have in northern England. It slipped | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
southwards and fizzles out. We could have wet weather in western Scotland | :19:08. | :19:11. | |
where we have the strong winds. On the whole cloudy skies in the UK. A | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
couple of breaks here and there in the east, but temperatures sticking | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
out about 6-7. A lot of cloud to start tomorrow. We have this moist | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
westerly airflow. Many western parts have cloudy skies, maybe a bit of | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
drizzle around coastal hills. In the east of Scotland and east Wales we | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
have some sunshine. Temperatures not far off today. About 11- 12 degrees | :19:36. | :19:42. | |
typically. Into Monday we can trace the air all the way back to the | :19:43. | :19:47. | |
Caribbean. And this mild air is coming over the Atlantic towards our | :19:48. | :19:52. | |
shores. They will come with a lot of cloud. That mild air trapped between | :19:53. | :19:57. | |
the weather systems, so again some rain and drizzle around western | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
hills and coast. We get sunshine in the east and we could possibly see | :20:02. | :20:04. | |
temperatures on Monday into the mid- teens. What is going on? March -- | :20:05. | :20:11. | |
much higher than it should be at this time of year! Crack on the | :20:12. | :20:18. | |
shorts! I've got them on already, you just | :20:19. | :20:23. | |
can't see! We will be back with the news at | :20:24. | :20:29. | |
6:30am. Now it is time for The Film Review. | :20:30. | :20:40. | |
Hello and welcome to The Film Review on BBC News. | :20:41. | :20:43. | |
To take us through this week's cinema releases as ever is Mark | :20:44. | :20:46. | |
We have The Great Wall in which Matt Damon goes head | :20:47. | :21:05. | |
And Moonlight, for my money, one of the best films I've | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
The Hidden Figures are both the hidden mathematical equations | :21:11. | :21:26. | |
needed to get a man into space and also the hidden people used | :21:27. | :21:30. | |
It's tag lined meet the women you don't know behind | :21:31. | :21:37. | |
It's based on the story of African American women working | :21:38. | :21:43. | |
in Nasa in the early 1960s on the mathematical formula | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
The three main characters are all struggling to be recognised | :21:47. | :21:52. | |
for their talent, both at work and at home. | :21:53. | :21:54. | |
Pastor mentioned you're a computer at Nasa. | :21:55. | :22:02. | |
They let women handle that sort of...? | :22:03. | :22:11. | |
I'm just surprised that something so taxing... | :22:12. | :22:22. | |
Mr Johnson, if I were you I'd quit talking right now. | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
I will have you know I was the first negro female student | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
On any given day I analysed levels for aerial displacement, | :22:33. | :22:40. | |
And compute over 10,000 calculations by hand. | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
So, yes, they let women do some things at Nasa. | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
And it's not because we wear skirts, it's because we wear glasses. | :22:53. | :23:01. | |
I mean, it's a really likeable film and tells a story I had't heard | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
before, a celebration of people breaking | :23:06. | :23:06. | |
A terrific performance from Kevin Costner as the head | :23:07. | :23:13. | |
of the space task force who just wants to do the job | :23:14. | :23:16. | |
What I like about it is it's a broad strokes film and the complexity | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
is left for the equations, but it knows how | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
to engage the audience and get them involved with the characters and how | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
Also, how to make the solving of these equations actually exciting. | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
It is quite difficult to make someone solving equations | :23:35. | :23:36. | |
on a blackboard look exciting, and they do it well. | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
The performances are very likeable and it's one of those films that | :23:40. | :23:43. | |
manages to take a true story and tells it in | :23:44. | :23:46. | |
It has you rooting for the main characters. | :23:47. | :23:51. | |
It is eye opening and a story I did not know before. | :23:52. | :23:54. | |
You might have heard it before, but I confess I didn't. | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
It does it really well and in a way that I think's | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
You will come out of it with a skip in your step feeling uplifted. | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Because it's not just lecturing about the sexism and racism? | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
It's telling it in a way that engages you with the characters. | :24:10. | :24:15. | |
It is very, very broad strokes, but done so in a way where it knows | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
when to use sentimentality or melodrama and does | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
It's really very entertaining which is what you need a mainstream | :24:23. | :24:30. | |
Oh dear, you're already laughing! | :24:31. | :24:37. | |
The most expensive film ever made purely in China, | :24:38. | :24:39. | |
The tag line, 1700 years to build 500 miles long. | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
So this is a spectacularly silly but spectacular film. | :24:43. | :24:48. | |
Matt Damon is a mercenary in search of magical black power | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
but he discovers the wall was built to keep out | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
He encountered one early on and he cut its hand off. | :24:59. | :25:06. | |
Everyone's very impressed that he defeated one | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
So they think, let's get him involved in our fight. | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
But will he join forces or end up trying to steal the magical powder. | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
The thing with Zhang Yimou is he does know how to stage | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
exciting set pieces and action sequences. | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
However, my own opinion is that Duncan Jones in Warcraft | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
was doing some of this stuff rather better. | :25:26. | :25:32. | |
Plus, when we get to the final battle, it is essentially a rerun | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
of a battle in Lord of the Rings, but with Matt Damon doing | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
It's colourful, there are well choreographed sequences. | :25:41. | :25:43. | |
But it is a piece of utter tomfoolery and it is rather long. | :25:44. | :25:46. | |
Yes, you would have got away with it if it was slightly shorter. | :25:47. | :25:53. | |
It probably isn't as long as it felt, it just felt like a long film. | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
However, almost not long enough is Moonlight. | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
Yes, it's just an astonishing work from director Barry Jenkins. | :26:02. | :26:12. | |
A coming of age story about a young man growing up in a neighbourhood | :26:13. | :26:16. | |
in Miami, wrestling with poverty, identity, drugs, sexuality. | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Sounds like a recipe for a downbeat neorealist film, | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
Three actors play the central character and the chapters | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
are identified by the names that he assumes or is given. | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
In the first section, having been basically abandoned | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
by his mother, who's a drug addict, he is befriended by a local dealer | :26:40. | :26:43. | |
who you will recognise from the previous clip. | :26:44. | :26:45. | |
Huh? What happened? | :26:46. | :26:55. | |
Why you didn't come home like you were supposed to? | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
Wouldn't tell me where he lived til this morning. | :26:59. | :27:18. | |
You know he is a drug dealer but is also a very paternal figure | :27:19. | :27:46. | |
and becomes a role model to some extent. | :27:47. | :27:48. | |
The film tells this story in a way which is poetic and beautiful, | :27:49. | :27:54. | |
and understands that there is hardship in this life | :27:55. | :27:56. | |
A film in which the sound of the ocean is the backdrop | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
There is the key sequence in which the young kid | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
The film has such command of the cinematic medium both | :28:09. | :28:14. | |
in the way it uses imagery and music. | :28:15. | :28:16. | |
The music is superb, from classical to original | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
compositions to pop tunes, all blended together to take | :28:22. | :28:23. | |
you inside the psychology of the characters. | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
Most importantly, it's a film which is really sympathetic | :28:27. | :28:30. | |
which gives voice to characters which in other movies would be | :28:31. | :28:36. | |
I've seen it a couple of times now and the first time I saw it | :28:37. | :28:42. | |
The second time I spent a lot of it in tears because I found it | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
so moving, so profoundly poetic and sympathetic. | :28:48. | :28:49. | |
It is heartfelt, it has elements of tragedy in it, | :28:50. | :28:52. | |
but also this really tactile sensuous feel to it. | :28:53. | :28:55. | |
It's a remarkable second feature from Barry Jenkins. | :28:56. | :29:01. | |
Obviously it is a major awards contender and for my money the best | :29:02. | :29:10. | |
I was of course refering to last year, as it came out | :29:11. | :29:18. | |
I think it's a very important film, but also a wonderful piece | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
Everything, how it looks, sounds, how it's written. | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
The fact you can feel the honesty and integrity. | :29:28. | :29:30. | |
Please tell me you loved it as much as I did. | :29:31. | :29:38. | |
I loved it and we know you loved it too. | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
It's fantastic. That's the must watch this week. | :29:42. | :29:43. | |
Best out at the moment is the film that I think I said last week, | :29:44. | :29:47. | |
even watching the trailer, "Oh, my goodness". | :29:48. | :29:49. | |
I almost lost the will to live watching it. | :29:50. | :29:52. | |
Moonlight is the best thing out, but also the best thing | :29:53. | :29:54. | |
A black comedy about father daughter estrangement. | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
I know you said you hated the trailer. | :30:00. | :30:01. | |
I don't know why they're going to remake it in English. | :30:02. | :30:09. | |
And for anyone who wants to watch a DVD? | :30:10. | :30:12. | |
So there's this documentary by Kirsten Johnson called Camera | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
She was the cinematographer on a number of films, | :30:15. | :30:20. | |
She has taken outtake footage and put it together to make | :30:21. | :30:25. | |
an odyssey of her career in which the stories around the side | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
of the stories become the central story. | :30:29. | :30:32. | |
It is a wonderful film about the responsibility | :30:33. | :30:34. | |
of documentary making and how you can find beauty where | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
Called Camera Person - I think you will like it very much. | :30:38. | :30:42. | |
As ever, good to see you, and see you next week. | :30:43. | :30:48. | |
You can find more film reviews and news online. And you can catch up | :30:49. | :30:57. | |
with all of our previous programmes of course on the BBC iPlayer. That's | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
it for this week. Moonlight is the one to watch. Goodbye. | :31:04. | :31:14. | |
with Rachel Burden and Charlie Stayt. | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
Coming up before seven Darren will have the weather | :31:19. | :31:24. | |
But first at 6:31, a summary of this morning's main news. | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
Theresa May is introducing a new law to combat domestic violence | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
The Prime Minister says victims of domestic violence | :31:32. | :31:38. | |
are being "let down by the legal system" | :31:39. | :31:40. | |
and is promising to increase convictions for what she describes | :31:41. | :31:46. | |
as a "life shattering and abhorrent crime". | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
Some charities are concerned to many victims are not coming forward. | :31:49. | :31:54. | |
President Donald Trump is preparing to address a rally of supporters | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
in Florida at the end of an eventful week for the new US government. | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
Yesterday, Mr Trump sought to focus on his promise to boost | :32:02. | :32:04. | |
manufacturing jobs as he visited a Boeing facility in South Carolina. | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
However, he later resumed his criticism of the media's coverage | :32:08. | :32:10. | |
of his first days in office, branding | :32:11. | :32:18. | |
Police in Malaysia say they've arrested a North Korean man | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
in connection with the death of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. | :32:28. | :32:29. | |
He died on Monday after apparently being poisoned | :32:30. | :32:31. | |
The man is the fourth suspect to be detained. | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
Three former trade secretaries have criticised plans to reform business | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
rates for the first time in seven years. | :32:38. | :32:39. | |
Speaking to the Telegraph, Lord Tebbit, Sir Vince Cable | :32:40. | :32:42. | |
and Dame Margaret Beckett all voiced their concerns over | :32:43. | :32:44. | |
the new system which comes into force in England | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
The government claims most businesses will not see an increase. | :32:48. | :32:51. | |
But some of the UK's biggest employers' groups are condemning | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
changes to the appeals process for the property valuations | :32:55. | :32:56. | |
The Anglo-Dutch company, Unilever - which makes brands including Marmite | :32:57. | :33:03. | |
and PG Tips, has strongly rejected a one-hundred-and-fifteen | :33:04. | :33:05. | |
billion-pound takeover bid from the American food giant | :33:06. | :33:08. | |
Unilever said there was no basis for further negotiations, | :33:09. | :33:10. | |
but Kraft has said it will continue to work on a potential deal, | :33:11. | :33:14. | |
which would make it the second biggest takeover | :33:15. | :33:16. | |
Iraqi forces are preparing to launch an offensive to drive Islamic State | :33:17. | :33:21. | |
The country's second-largest city was seized by the jihadist group | :33:22. | :33:26. | |
It's the last major urban area in the country that's still under | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
The British Army says it will be a difficult battle. | :33:32. | :33:39. | |
He did not retake towns and city the size of Mosul. The Iraqis know that. | :33:40. | :33:50. | |
It will be a tough fight but I confident they will prevail with our | :33:51. | :33:52. | |
support. California is being hit by what's | :33:53. | :33:53. | |
been described as possibly The extreme weather is causing | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
chaos across the state. In one neighbourhood in Los Angeles | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
a sinkhole swallowed two cars, the second on live TV as viewers | :34:01. | :34:03. | |
watched it teeter on the edge You can see now the before | :34:04. | :34:06. | |
and after pictures. Scunthorpe is a place | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
known for its steel, Golden objects are being hidden | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
around the town today for the public It's all part of an art project - | :34:18. | :34:23. | |
with clues to help people find the treasure hidden in paintings | :34:24. | :34:30. | |
which go on display this morning. You need to decode the clues and go | :34:31. | :34:46. | |
look for the treasure. What time does it open! No, you are here until | :34:47. | :34:54. | |
ten. That is amazing. What a great idea. What have you got for us? | :34:55. | :35:06. | |
There is treasure in the FA Cup. To nonleague sounds. | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
Both remaining non league sides, are up against premier league teams, | :35:12. | :35:14. | |
Sutton United will have to wait until Monday night | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
But the other non-league side, Lincoln City, who are top | :35:18. | :35:21. | |
of the national league, get things going this lunchtime. | :35:22. | :35:23. | |
They take on Premier League Burnley, who are 81 places above them. | :35:24. | :35:27. | |
Being underdogs hasn't hindered Lincoln so far though - | :35:28. | :35:29. | |
they've already knocked out Championship sides | :35:30. | :35:31. | |
We have said, going to Burnley is one in 100 chances. That is the | :35:32. | :35:46. | |
realism. But for us to come through the one we have been to and come to | :35:47. | :35:52. | |
the fifth round is probably one in 10,000 chances so we have a ready | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
had a bit of the FA Cup magic and anyone that thinks the FA Cup is | :35:58. | :35:59. | |
that has not been here. if we are looking for other upsets, | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
well Manchester City, could rest players for their away | :36:04. | :36:15. | |
tie against Huddersfield - city play in the champions | :36:16. | :36:18. | |
League on tuesday. Watford have announced they're | :36:19. | :36:38. | |
commissioning a statue of former The memorial will be put | :36:39. | :36:40. | |
at the club's ground, with the blessing | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
of Taylor's family. There will also be a pre-season | :36:44. | :36:45. | |
fixture at Vicarage Road, in honour of their most successful | :36:46. | :36:47. | |
manager, who died last month. Onto rugby union, and Saracens | :36:48. | :36:50. | |
missed the chance to return to the top of the Premiership - | :36:51. | :36:53. | |
losing 31-23 at Gloucester. The defending champions | :36:54. | :36:56. | |
suffered their second defeat in a week, in the west country - | :36:57. | :36:58. | |
with Welsh forward Richard Hibbard, bundling over for the crucial try, | :36:59. | :37:01. | |
just five minutes from time. Leinster have gone top of the Pro 12 | :37:02. | :37:08. | |
- earning a bonus point, for the six tries they ran in, | :37:09. | :37:13. | |
during their 39-10 win over Scarlets remain fourth, | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
after thrashing bottom side Zebre Josh Strauss has become | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
the second player in a week, to be ruled out of the rest | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
of Scotland's, Six Nations campaign. The number 8, suffered a kidney | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
injury, in their defeat to France, and it's been confirmed he'll take | :37:29. | :37:31. | |
no further part in the competition. On Wednesday it was announced, that | :37:32. | :37:35. | |
captain Greg Laidlaw's Six Nations, Leeds won for the first time this | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
season as they came from behind The promoted club went | :37:39. | :37:45. | |
into an early 8-0 lead. But that was wiped out quickly | :37:46. | :37:53. | |
as Leeds, ran in three quick tries, including this one from Ryan Hall, | :37:54. | :37:56. | |
on their way to that narrow victory. Elsewhere, the best British | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
clubs take, on the top Tomorrow Superleague champions Wigan | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
take on N.R.L winners, While this evening Warrington | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
Wolves, take on Brisbane Broncos. Warrington were runners-up, | :38:08. | :38:13. | |
in both the Challenge Cup final Brisbane are led by, | :38:14. | :38:15. | |
England head coach Wayne Bennett, and his opposite number knows | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
it's a rare opportunity, to test their skills, | :38:20. | :38:22. | |
against some of the best He did not get the chance to come up | :38:23. | :38:34. | |
against the Australians very often in rugby league any more. Once upon | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
a time in your club would come up against the touring team but that is | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
gone. So it is an opportunity for us and great experience for our players | :38:46. | :38:49. | |
to be exposed to one of the great teams in recent history in | :38:50. | :38:50. | |
Australia. Mo Farah will compete, | :38:51. | :38:57. | |
in his final indoor race, this afternoon, when he takes part, | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
in the five thousand metres, at the Birmingham Indoor | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
Grand Prix With Farah, switching his attention to the road, | :39:04. | :39:05. | |
next year, 2017 is his final one, And Birmingham holds happy memories, | :39:06. | :39:08. | |
for the four-time Olympic champion - he broke the two mile record, | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
here two years ago. Birmingham is amazing. 200 metres. | :39:13. | :39:20. | |
The crowd get involved. I do remember the first time I raced | :39:21. | :39:23. | |
there are broke the British record. We came back into the two mile for a | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
record. They treated me really well. There was an historic win | :39:29. | :39:30. | |
at Sandown, as for the first time Captain Guy Disney, who rides | :39:31. | :39:34. | |
with a, prosthetic leg, and he steered Rathlin Rose, | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
to an, emotional success He lost his lower right leg, | :39:42. | :39:43. | |
after being injured when his vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled | :39:44. | :39:50. | |
grenade, while he was serving He's the only amputee to be | :39:51. | :39:54. | |
granted a riders' licence, by the British | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
Horseracing Authority. Five years ago on BBC Breakfast, | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
we featured the beginnings of Walking Football, | :40:02. | :40:07. | |
when the idea was trialled at Bury. Now there are nearly a thousand | :40:08. | :40:09. | |
places to play across the UK, and among the lives it's | :40:10. | :40:13. | |
transformed is Jan Milner's. Now in her 60's, she is hoping her | :40:14. | :40:15. | |
team take a giant step towards Wembley, this month, | :40:16. | :40:22. | |
in the FA People's Cup. There was a time when all Jan Milner | :40:23. | :40:35. | |
had left was of dreams, memories of playing football. But injuries took | :40:36. | :40:42. | |
her sporting opportunities away and let her to be lonely, isolated and | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
depressed until the moment five years ago she switched on the TV | :40:47. | :40:53. | |
once more. Walking football. Her footballing ambitions were | :40:54. | :40:59. | |
rekindled. I saw it on telly and it was like a light bolt moment. Do you | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
know what? On what some of this because, wow, you now what I mean. | :41:05. | :41:12. | |
She set up her reign team. It is not put much pressure on senior joints | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
of seniors as the fast game and does. I excited. They may be looked | :41:19. | :41:25. | |
at me because of while ago I was in a dark place, I was not good but I | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
have many, many memories but sometimes they are not enough. We | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
are recreating your memories here. I scored a goal today and I really | :41:37. | :41:43. | |
happy stop it went in. I joined the team in training and I was amazed by | :41:44. | :41:49. | |
the speed and accuracy. You have not got the option of running past your | :41:50. | :41:57. | |
opponents. Sorry, I forgot. It is so hard. Not running is instinctive. It | :41:58. | :42:04. | |
does open your eyes that it is not said in tree and a slow as you would | :42:05. | :42:11. | |
like to think. This gives you the alternative to still be able to kick | :42:12. | :42:15. | |
the ball about and get the feel for the ball but are slower pace. Five | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
years ago, there was only one walking football club. Now, or | :42:22. | :42:29. | |
nearly a thousand places you can do this in. He really has transformed | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
the lives of tens of thousands of people. Before this came along, I | :42:35. | :42:39. | |
would be doing a crossword for two or three hours. When I finish, I had | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
a broken ankle, and unique, a new nose. I was widowed four years ago | :42:46. | :42:52. | |
and are doing absolutely nothing stop you do not think that when you | :42:53. | :42:56. | |
get to nearly 70 can play for all, but you can. They will play in the | :42:57. | :43:04. | |
competition in Doncaster this month and if they get through this, they | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
will be one match away from walking out winners. How pressures would | :43:09. | :43:18. | |
that be. It is not too late for you to enter a team in the FA People's | :43:19. | :43:26. | |
football club. They are expecting 40,000 because entries are free and | :43:27. | :43:29. | |
they're right categories for everyone and you can enter a team or | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
as an individual player and find a team. Get inspired to find out more. | :43:35. | :43:41. | |
You brought it to everyone's attention five years ago but this is | :43:42. | :43:49. | |
massive. All around the world. There was one World Championship in the | :43:50. | :43:53. | |
Netherlands. It has reopened up sport, football, transforming the | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
lives of tens of thousands of people. And you struggle not to run. | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
It is hard when you are a natural sprinter like me. I got booked for | :44:05. | :44:12. | |
running. It is a failed. You keep on doing it, you walk off, literally. | :44:13. | :44:20. | |
Time now is 644 ATM. You are watching Breakfast. | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
The main stories this morning: Theresa May says she will directly | :44:24. | :44:26. | |
oversee work on a new law to tackle domestic violence. | :44:27. | :44:29. | |
President Donald Trump will address supporters later at a campaign-style | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
Also coming up in the programme: The town where you don't even need | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
to look up from your phone to cross the road. | :44:37. | :44:39. | |
We'll be finding out whether these flashing lights in the Netherlands | :44:40. | :44:42. | |
are a good idea, or just encourage bad behaviour. | :44:43. | :44:52. | |
It says in the papers this morning that we are competing with the -- | :44:53. | :45:06. | |
with Majorca for temperatures. We are getting very mild air from | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
the Caribbean. Pretty mild out there at the moment this morning, but also | :45:12. | :45:18. | |
misty. Sunshine will be developing. We have some rain around and that is | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
moving very slowly southwards. To the south of the rain, across | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
England and Wales, this is where we have very misty weather. Hill fog | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
and coastal fog, which will linger through the morning. Further north, | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
dull and damp in the north-west. Starting with rain in the south of | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
Northern Ireland. That should clear southwards. Eastern Scotland should | :45:42. | :45:48. | |
be largely dry today. Much more sheltered from the stronger winds | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
and there will be sunshine. Across Northern Ireland as the rain clears | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
away across the Irish Sea we should have some sunshine. Further rain and | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
drizzle moving and across north-west England, north Wales. The rest of | :46:01. | :46:05. | |
England and Wales cheering up. A mild day wherever you are. This rain | :46:06. | :46:11. | |
we have across northern England and north Wales moves south and peters | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
out. Wet weather coming back into western Scotland. On the whole a lot | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
of cloud, with a few breaks here and there in sheltered eastern areas. | :46:21. | :46:30. | |
6-7. Tomorrow starts cloudy. Quite a moist, mild westerly airflow, which | :46:31. | :46:33. | |
means many western parts will have cloudy skies, maybe drizzle over the | :46:34. | :46:37. | |
hills and coasts. Eastern Scotland and eastern England and east Wales, | :46:38. | :46:44. | |
sunshine at times. Another mild day. Temperatures not far off where they | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
have been. Better in the north-west by the end of the day. Heading into | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
Monday we can trace the air all the way back from the Caribbean, coming | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
over the Atlantic of course, bringing mild conditions. There is a | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
weather system to the north of the UK. It will be windy on Monday. The | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
winds are bouncing over the hills. A lot of cloud around. If we get | :47:07. | :47:11. | |
sunshine, across eastern parts in particular, we have temperatures | :47:12. | :47:15. | |
into the mid- teens, which is way above the average for this time of | :47:16. | :47:19. | |
year. It could be a one-day wonder. Temperatures close to normal for the | :47:20. | :47:23. | |
rest of the week. That's it. Back to you. Thank you very much. It looks | :47:24. | :47:28. | |
absolutely lovely. We'll be back with | :47:29. | :47:29. | |
the headlines at 7am. We first meet Team Lab, | :47:30. | :47:31. | |
the 400-strong digital art The team of artists programmers, | :47:32. | :48:02. | |
engineers, CG animators, mathematicians and the like, | :48:03. | :48:08. | |
love to make an impact and here at the Pace London gallery, | :48:09. | :48:10. | |
they're presenting eight As with the work in Tokyo, | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
the idea here combines motion censors and the projectors, | :48:17. | :48:23. | |
which means you have a completely interactive piece that | :48:24. | :48:26. | |
you can touch and change. The whole room has been fully | :48:27. | :48:35. | |
calibrated so the censors can detect where everyone in the installation | :48:36. | :48:38. | |
is really, really accurately. The artwork, the project, | :48:39. | :48:41. | |
the projections, are calculated The pictures really do react | :48:42. | :48:49. | |
to whatever you do while you're This room is called | :48:50. | :48:58. | |
Flowers Bloom On People. With no-one in here, | :48:59. | :49:13. | |
it's just a black room but if you sit around for a few | :49:14. | :49:16. | |
minute, you'll find that nature Now I would say this is pretty | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
cutting-edge projectector technology but Marc Cieslak has assured me | :49:20. | :49:32. | |
he can give this a run This is a home entertainment concept | :49:33. | :49:35. | |
from Razor, a company most famous for manufacturing gaming PCs, | :49:36. | :49:47. | |
covering more lights than Blackpool The concept makes use of coloured | :49:48. | :49:49. | |
lights and projected image, working together in | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
synchronised harmony. What we have here is a concept | :49:55. | :49:59. | |
lighting rig, which is key So the lights in this room | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
will change colour depending on what's happening but it's only | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
part of what's going on. So if I just hit this button here, | :50:08. | :50:12. | |
we get the largest screen And that giant screen size is thanks | :50:13. | :50:15. | |
to a pretty expensive The projector is fitted with a 155- | :50:16. | :50:28. | |
degree fish eye lens, combined with two depth sensing | :50:29. | :50:36. | |
cameras that scans the rooms for objects and furniture, | :50:37. | :50:39. | |
and the system adjusts the image to prevent it from | :50:40. | :50:42. | |
becoming distorting. So the idea is that by having | :50:43. | :50:43. | |
a screen that envelopes, the peripheral vision of the viewer, | :50:44. | :50:46. | |
you really feel like you're thrown inside the action, | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
and it is surprisingly effective. At the moment, this system remains | :50:51. | :50:52. | |
a concept but Razor has hinted it Oh, I can see lightings | :50:53. | :51:09. | |
and stuff playing. I've been discovering some | :51:10. | :51:25. | |
of the the latest ways that the technology is being used | :51:26. | :51:27. | |
to help the visually impaired. It all starts with a spot | :51:28. | :51:33. | |
of virtual reality. It just made me so, it was happiness | :51:34. | :51:35. | |
but it made me cry and I just I'd been without full sight | :51:36. | :51:51. | |
for so many years and then all of a sudden I could see things | :51:52. | :51:55. | |
that I hadn't seen for 30 years. Here at the Beacon Centre, | :51:56. | :51:59. | |
a charity supporting those with sight loss, an interesting | :52:00. | :52:01. | |
trial is taking place. It seems some people can see things | :52:02. | :52:04. | |
in VR they could never see I'd never expected it | :52:05. | :52:17. | |
but when they put the head set on, I mean there was giraffes, | :52:18. | :52:30. | |
coming up and looking at me! What would you say to other people | :52:31. | :52:38. | |
with a similar level of vision to you about the experience | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
of being able to do this Oh, if you've got the chance, | :52:42. | :52:44. | |
you have to have a go. I mean I know it's not full sight, | :52:45. | :52:54. | |
because you've got to wear a machine, I'm not saying, | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
that but to give you the experience, There are a wide range of conditions | :53:00. | :53:03. | |
that cause sight loss. The nature of which can vary hugely, | :53:04. | :53:11. | |
and even for those with similar problems, the benefits | :53:12. | :53:15. | |
of the VR have varied. By along with the University | :53:16. | :53:17. | |
of Wolverhampton, experts are trying to understand how this | :53:18. | :53:20. | |
is possible at all. What we found quite quickly is that | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
people who had central loss, macular type conditions, | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
as they are called, are the ones Where they still had peripheral | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
vision and whether that peripheral vision is so stimulated | :53:34. | :53:39. | |
as to fill in the gaps, or, whatever wee don't understand | :53:40. | :53:42. | |
yet, is it because it's so close? Is it because there are still sight | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
receptive cells in the centre of the vision, so that | :53:48. | :53:52. | |
when they're stimulated enough, that they will fire | :53:53. | :53:54. | |
and therefore create the vision? There's a whole host of things we're | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
still trying to explore If I could use that when my | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
daughter's doing her school plays or she's singing in the choir, | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
I could never pick out who she was or what she was doing, | :54:08. | :54:10. | |
or be able to see what you are seeing and that could really be | :54:11. | :54:15. | |
quite life changing. But, however clear the virtual world | :54:16. | :54:17. | |
may seem, finding ways to ease There are eye beacons built | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
in here that connect this to the mobile app, so if somebody | :54:22. | :54:35. | |
is approaching and they have the app installed in their phone, | :54:36. | :54:40. | |
they will receive an alert to let them know about the roadworks | :54:41. | :54:43. | |
and how best to approach them. And for someone like Louise | :54:44. | :54:46. | |
with two young kids, this smart street furniture | :54:47. | :54:48. | |
could make all the difference. Because it tells you which way | :54:49. | :54:54. | |
to go, so it can still in my pocket I can have their hands, one in each, | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
and I can hear the voiceover, so it will say something | :54:59. | :55:02. | |
like the pedestrian crossing It's there for three | :55:03. | :55:04. | |
days or however long. So if I do the school run the same | :55:05. | :55:13. | |
day, I know exactly where it's going to be, I have done | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
that walk yesterday. Also this week, big claims | :55:18. | :55:20. | |
from a company that say their smart glasses can give the legally | :55:21. | :55:23. | |
blind 20/20 vision. As well as being able to stream | :55:24. | :55:25. | |
content, they've captured the user's surroundings, converting them | :55:26. | :55:28. | |
into a form, they say, is easier to identify for those | :55:29. | :55:30. | |
with limited vision. Sadly we couldn't put a pair | :55:31. | :55:33. | |
to the test just yet, and it's early days for much | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
of what is being trialled here but the possibilities | :55:38. | :55:40. | |
are certainly looking good. Now, virtual reality has been | :55:41. | :55:51. | |
grabbing all the headlines in recent years but don't forget | :55:52. | :55:55. | |
augmented reality. Now this is the idea of projecting | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
computer generated images on top A bit like this but | :56:01. | :56:03. | |
in a pair of glasses. Well a small band of augmented | :56:04. | :56:13. | |
reality pioneers have been really Here's Marc again with some | :56:14. | :56:16. | |
pretty classy eyewear. These augmented reality glasses | :56:17. | :56:25. | |
are basically a wearable computer. For the last couple of years, | :56:26. | :56:27. | |
augmented reality specs have been used primarily in an industrial | :56:28. | :56:30. | |
setting or in the workplace. These have been competed | :56:31. | :56:33. | |
by a company called ODG, and they've been designed far more | :56:34. | :56:36. | |
with the consumer in mind. They feel a lot closer to normal | :56:37. | :56:44. | |
glasses, so to get the best out So, I stand up, at the moment, | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
there's a 360-degree video playing. If I look around, I get | :56:49. | :56:56. | |
a different viewpoint here. I see a robot in front of me | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
and what looks like some kind of futuristic hospital, | :57:00. | :57:03. | |
and there's a guy over here, who seems very unhappy and another | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
guy who looks seems to be The images move | :57:08. | :57:10. | |
seemlessly with my head. If I look around I can see planet | :57:11. | :57:16. | |
earth in front of me. I can walk inside it and see | :57:17. | :57:20. | |
from outside of the planet, and appreciate it from this angle, | :57:21. | :57:25. | |
and if I stand here, yep, a Space Station that's | :57:26. | :57:38. | |
orbiting the earth as well. Now, the glasses know | :57:39. | :57:43. | |
where they are, spacially, as there are a couple | :57:44. | :57:45. | |
of cameras on front of them. All of the processing is happening | :57:46. | :57:54. | |
on the head set itself. The ODGR-8 glasses will cost around | :57:55. | :57:57. | |
?800 but they are basically Are some cheaper, lower tech AR | :57:58. | :58:00. | |
options out there, though. There are lots of low-cost virtual | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
reality headsets that make This is a low-cost augmented reality | :58:05. | :58:13. | |
headset that uses a phone. Put an AR app in it | :58:14. | :58:16. | |
and the images on the screen So, when the headset's on, | :58:17. | :58:21. | |
I can look down the screen and I scan see graphics reflected | :58:22. | :58:28. | |
from the phone just in the headset. Now, it has another trick | :58:29. | :58:32. | |
up its sleeve as well. I can see my hands in front of me | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
and use them to cast flames. That's it for the short cut | :58:39. | :58:44. | |
of Click for this week from Transcending Boundaries | :58:45. | :58:48. | |
at the Pace London gallery. The full lengths of the programme is | :58:49. | :58:50. | |
up on iPlayer for you to you watch now and there's loads of photos | :58:51. | :58:54. | |
from all of this week's items on BBC Thanks for watching. | :58:55. | :58:58. | |
See you soon. with Rachel Burden | :58:59. | :59:54. | |
and Charlie Stayt. Theresa May is introducing a new law | :59:55. | :00:02. | |
to combat domestic violence The Prime Minister says victims | :00:03. | :00:05. | |
of domestic violence are being "let | :00:06. | :00:13. | |
down by the legal system" President Donald Trump is preparing | :00:14. | :00:41. | |
to address a rally of supporters in Florida at the end of an eventful | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
week for the new US government. Yesterday, Mr Trump sought to focus | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
on his promise to boost manufacturing jobs as he visited | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
a Boeing facility in South Carolina. On the front line | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
with Iraqi forces - we'll find out how they're | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
preparing for an assault on one of the last | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
remaining strongholds In sport, the imps of Lincoln, | :00:59. | :01:00. | |
eye another FA Cup shock. Can the non-league side, | :01:01. | :01:05. | |
now upset Premier League Burnley Good morning, a mild and missed | :01:06. | :01:20. | |
start especially across England and Wales. We should get some sunshine | :01:21. | :01:27. | |
developing. It stays mild on Sunday if cloudy. More details later on. | :01:28. | :01:33. | |
Theresa May is introducing a new law to combat domestic violence | :01:34. | :01:38. | |
The Prime Minister says it is an abhorrent crime it is a priority for | :01:39. | :01:48. | |
the government. Official figures suggest that every | :01:49. | :01:49. | |
year more than a million women experience domestic abuse | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
in England and Wales. Among men, that figure stands | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
at just over half a million. Last year, 75,000 people | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
were convicted of domestic abuse - that's the highest | :01:58. | :02:00. | |
number ever recorded. There was also the highest ever | :02:01. | :02:01. | |
conviction rate of 75% but some charities are concerned | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
that too many victims Our political correspondent, | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
Adam Fleming, is in Westminster | :02:08. | :02:14. | |
for us this morning. Adam, Theresa May spent 6 years | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
as Home Secretary so she's already had plenty of time | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
to address this issue. Number ten are keen to point out | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
that this is something Theresa May is personally very engaged in. As | :02:32. | :02:37. | |
Home Secretary she did change the law when it came to domestic | :02:38. | :02:41. | |
violence, giving people the right to find out if their new partner had | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
been violent in a previous relationship and made it illegal to | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
engage in emotional abuse, to control your partner. The issue she | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
realises now as Prime Minister is that domestic violence is not one | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
goal enshrined in one piece of legislation, and some of it is not | :03:02. | :03:08. | |
very clear. The way they are treated, victims of domestic | :03:09. | :03:12. | |
violence, depends on where they live because it is up to police to | :03:13. | :03:18. | |
determine how they see fit. The Home Office, the Ministry of Justice, | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
experts, lawyers and campaigners have been asked to come up to tidy | :03:23. | :03:28. | |
all this up and will probably come up as a single bill some point in | :03:29. | :03:36. | |
the future. In the shorter term she is looking for quick fix, smaller | :03:37. | :03:42. | |
initiatives that can help people immediately. The other big thing is | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
that she feels that by being talking about this and being open about the | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
subject, it could give people who have been affected more confidence | :03:52. | :03:59. | |
to come forward. It is being widely welcomed by campaigners. It is also | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
a reminder that children are affected by domestic violence. | :04:06. | :04:11. | |
One of the strongest storms possibly in decades, | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
dubbed a "bombogenesis", is set to drench California | :04:14. | :04:15. | |
this weekend, prompting fears of flash floods. | :04:16. | :04:17. | |
The system is dumping torrential downpour from Los Angeles | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
to San Francisco, fuelled by an atmospheric river | :04:21. | :04:22. | |
Meteorologists describe the bombogenesis | :04:23. | :04:24. | |
as an intense extra-tropical cyclonic low-pressure area, | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
Some of the images we have seen coming through are quite shocking. | :04:27. | :04:40. | |
In one neighbourhood in Los Angeles a sinkhole swallowed two cars, | :04:41. | :04:43. | |
the second on live TV as viewers watched it teeter on the edge | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
You can see now the before and after pictures. | :04:47. | :04:52. | |
We will be talking live to California in a few minutes time. | :04:53. | :05:06. | |
President Donald Trump is preparing to address a rally of supporters | :05:07. | :05:09. | |
at the end of an eventful week for the new US government. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Yesterday, Mr Trump sought to focus on his promise | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
but later resumed his criticism of the media, | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
branding a number of news organisations | :05:20. | :05:20. | |
The President of the United States may have been in office | :05:21. | :05:28. | |
but it is clear this is a part of the job he enjoys - | :05:29. | :05:33. | |
addressing an audience he can see and hear. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
We love America and we are going to protect America. | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
We love our workers and we are going to protect our workers. | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
At a tour of Boeing in South Carolina, | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
he reiterated one of his biggest campaign promises. | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
Next stop, Florida, a place that supported him when he needed it | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
most, for an event that some say ispart of a strategy thatwill last | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
It is unusual for a president to hold a rally like | :06:02. | :06:11. | |
so soon after inauguration but much of what Donald Trump has done so far | :06:12. | :06:15. | |
including a worsening relationship with the mainstream media. | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
I'm not ranting and raving, I'm just telling you. | :06:21. | :06:22. | |
Last night, Donald Trump expressed his displeasure | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
in his favourite way with another critical tweet. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
Even journalists from organisations that have been on his side | :06:31. | :06:33. | |
are not happy with this turn of events, | :06:34. | :06:35. | |
particularly when it comes to Russia. | :06:36. | :06:38. | |
and the Russians were responsible for it | :06:39. | :06:42. | |
and your people were on the phone with Russia | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
on the same day it was happening, | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
and we are fools for asking the questions? | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
a vacancy for a national security adviser, | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
and accusations of chaos in his administration. | :06:56. | :07:01. | |
He will be hoping that by going directly to voters, | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
he can at least expect some warmth in the Sunshine State. | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
The Anglo-Dutch company, Unilever - which makes brands including Marmite | :07:08. | :07:16. | |
and PG Tips, has strongly rejected a one-hundred-and-fifteen | :07:17. | :07:18. | |
billion-pound takeover bid from the American food giant | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
Unilever said there was no basis for further negotiations, | :07:21. | :07:26. | |
but Kraft has said it will continue to work on a potential deal, | :07:27. | :07:30. | |
which would make it the second biggest takeover | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
Police in Malaysia say they've arrested a North Korean man | :07:37. | :07:41. | |
in connection with the death of Kim Jong-nam, | :07:42. | :07:43. | |
the half-brother of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un. | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
He died on Monday after apparently being poisoned | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
The man is the fourth suspect to be detained. | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
Three former trade secretaries have criticised plans | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
to reform business rates for the first time in seven years. | :07:56. | :07:59. | |
Lord Tebbit, Sir Vince Cable and Dame Margaret Beckett | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
all voiced their concerns over the new system, | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
which comes into force in England on the 1st of April. | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
The government claims most businesses will not see an increase. | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
But some of the UK's biggest employers' groups | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
are condemning changes to the appeals process | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
for the property valuations the new rates will be based on. | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
The Treasury has submitted plans to the EU which could speed up | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
the process of selling the government's stake | :08:27. | :08:28. | |
The taxpayer still owns around 70% of the bank - | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
which was bailed out at the height of financial crisis. | :08:34. | :08:39. | |
Part of the bailout conditions included selling off | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
around 300 branches of it's Williams Glyn business, | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
but RBS hasn't been able to find a buyer. | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
So the Treasury is suggesting it sets up a multi-million pound fund | :08:47. | :08:49. | |
Iraqi forces are preparing to launch an offensive to drive Islamic State | :08:50. | :08:59. | |
It's the last major urban area in the country that's still under | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
From Mosul's southern front, our Middle East correspondent, | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
In towns and villages along the Tigris, and across the desert, | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
they are readying for the attack on West Mosul. | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
These are the men of Iraq's Emergency Response Division - | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
It took 100 days to take the city's east. | :09:19. | :09:31. | |
but the battle scars are still fresh. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
The west of Mosul will be a different battle. | :09:37. | :09:46. | |
This mortar team is going through final weapons checks. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
The city's dense neighbourhoods mean great care will be needed | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Nearly three quarters of a million are still in the city. | :09:54. | :10:08. | |
They'll be in the middle of this firepower. | :10:09. | :10:10. | |
When these men were in the east they experienced | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
what does the Islamic State have left? | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
and how fiercely will IS fight for its last remaining city in Iraq? | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
British boots are on the ground, too. | :10:30. | :10:31. | |
Major-General Rupert Jones is on a last-minute inspection | :10:32. | :10:33. | |
They'll be supporting the Iraqi assault on Mosul. | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
well, look, East Mosul took 100 days. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
West Mosul could be every bit as tough, so, you know, | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
You don't retake towns and cities the size of Mosul, | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
On the parade ground, Kurdish forces and the Defence Secretary | :10:51. | :10:57. | |
bringing a reminder of why Britain is in this fight. | :10:58. | :11:02. | |
We're picking up information all the time now, | :11:03. | :11:05. | |
information about those foreign fighters, | :11:06. | :11:08. | |
Information, too, about some of the attacks | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
that have been planned in Western Europe. | :11:14. | :11:15. | |
So this work is not simply freeing people in Mosul | :11:16. | :11:19. | |
from having to live under this brutal regime. | :11:20. | :11:21. | |
This won't be Iraq's last fight against IS, | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, on Mosul's southern front. | :11:25. | :11:36. | |
Scunthorpe is a town known for its steel, | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
Golden objects are being hidden around Scunthorpe today | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
It's all part of an art project - with clues to help people find | :11:45. | :11:51. | |
the treasure hidden in paintings which go on display this morning. | :11:52. | :12:06. | |
There will be a lot of excitement. It is a lot of money. | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
Unilever, has rejected a 115 billion pound | :12:12. | :12:23. | |
takeover bid from the American food giant Kraft-Heinz - | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
which has household name brands like Heinz, Ketchup and Cadbury. | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
Unilever said the offer fundamentally devalued the firm | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
and there was no basis for further negotiations. | :12:32. | :12:34. | |
Unilever is Britain's third largest company, | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
and employees 7,500 employees across the UK. | :12:37. | :12:42. | |
It's best known brands include marmite, PG Tips, | :12:43. | :12:44. | |
Pot Noodle and Surf washing powder, among others. | :12:45. | :12:48. | |
Back in 2010, Kraft's takeover of Cadbury's chocolate irked those | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
with a sweet tooth, after changing the recipe of the traditional | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
After announcing a potential takeover, shares in both companies | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
surged - with Unilever's rising by 13%. | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
Kraft is likely to return with another offer for Unilever, | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
and if it happens, it would be one of the largest mergers | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
Joining us from our London newsroom is the brand strategist, | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
Thank you for your time. How do you think each site might benefit and in | :13:18. | :13:31. | |
particular what is the Kraft times interest in Unilever? It is an | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
interesting and exciting deal. For Kraft, Unilever is an attract if | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
proposition. It is one of the brands most fit for the future and by that | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
I mean they have a number of qualities and that make them better | :13:48. | :13:54. | |
prepared. One of those is a cultural invasion. Secondly, they have strong | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
commitment to diversity and backup conscious of their environmental and | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
ethical impact and they are very attractive things. Do you mean in a | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
post Brexit world? Yes and further. There is going to be some | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
uncertainty as there may be for this deal but it is the long-term that is | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
most attractive to both businesses. 115 billion pounds sounds like a lot | :14:25. | :14:31. | |
of money. Unilever said it was not enough. It must be worth whatever | :14:32. | :14:38. | |
they get paid for it. In years to come, there is a tangible value on | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
the brand. They are strange brain in that they are visible to the | :14:45. | :14:52. | |
consumer, playing civic roles. Unilever has a sustainable and | :14:53. | :14:57. | |
ethical stand and it has tangible value beyond its current price. | :14:58. | :15:05. | |
Kraft promise not to close factories and it did, could that happen and | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
you think if this takeover was to take place? Unilever has | :15:11. | :15:21. | |
successfully sacrificed some short-term profits for longer term | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
gain and that could be societal gain as well as financial gain. These | :15:26. | :15:29. | |
qualities must be things that Kraft is looking to emulate, to make | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
themselves a more trusted and culturally significant business. | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
When you look at their products it is hard to think that anyone at home | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
wouldn't have something made by Unilever. God forbid they mess | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
around with the ingredients of this, which Kraft did with Cadbury's, what | :15:47. | :15:54. | |
would happen if they started to mess around with Marmite, for goodness | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
sake? Maybe everybody would love it! May be! I can't quite see everybody | :16:00. | :16:06. | |
Loving two. These businesses have been around a long time. There's a | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
lot of jostling and positioning that will happen over the coming weeks | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
and they've got about one month to make a final offer. You can imagine | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
there's a lot of backroom, boardroom discussions going on about how they | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
can build more successful Rands that consumers love for generations to | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
come. If you work for Unilever how anxious should you be this morning? | :16:31. | :16:35. | |
Yes, this is quite unsettling and uncertain and many things going on | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
in the world today are uncertain. At the greatest benefit we can have of | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
combating uncertainty is to have a much grander, long-term plan and | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
that's what everyone has to be focused on, is what's going to be | :16:48. | :16:52. | |
right for years to come, rather than the next few weeks. Thank you very | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
much. Hard to imagine a Marmite that | :16:55. | :17:00. | |
everyone loves. Where are you on that? Yes, a little | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
bit of Marmite. You're watching | :17:04. | :17:08. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this morning: | :17:09. | :17:12. | |
Theresa May says she will directly oversee work on a new law | :17:13. | :17:15. | |
to tackle domestic violence. President Donald Trump will address | :17:16. | :17:18. | |
supporters later at a campaign-style Also coming up in the programme: | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
Choosing how much to tip on holiday can be tricky, although the point | :17:22. | :17:29. | |
is it should be your choice. Later we'll hear how service charges | :17:30. | :17:38. | |
on some cruise lines aren't Here's Darren with a look | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
at this morning's weather. Good morning. We will have a look at | :17:42. | :17:56. | |
the weather in California in a moment. In the UK things are more | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
straightforward. Sunshine developing today. A mild and misty start. Not | :18:00. | :18:06. | |
so misty for northern parts of the UK because there is a stronger wind. | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
We have rain around, which is moving slowly southwards. South of that | :18:11. | :18:14. | |
rain band of the winds are lighter. A great start for most of England | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
and Wales. There will be missed, hill fog and maybe coastal fog. | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
Further north we have the rain across the north-west of England and | :18:26. | :18:28. | |
southern parts of Northern Ireland, moving into the Irish Sea. Eastern | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
Scotland, sheltered from those stronger south-westerly winds, | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
should be largely dry and mild, with a little bit of sunshine. As the | :18:39. | :18:44. | |
rain clears from Northern Ireland we get some sunshine. North Wales, the | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
rest of England and Wales, cheering up. Wherever you are it is pretty | :18:49. | :18:53. | |
mild and we could see 13 degrees where we get some sunshine around | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
the Murray first. Rain for this even in the northern England and Wales. | :18:58. | :19:03. | |
Windy weather across western parts of Scotland. On the whole a lot of | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
cloud around overnight. A few breaks here and there, but generally about | :19:09. | :19:14. | |
6-7. Cloudy tomorrow as you can imagine and we have this quite moist | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
westerly air. Many western areas will keep cloud. Where we have | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
shelter, maybe for eastern parts of Wales, seeing some sunshine. Even | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
with the cloud it's a mild day. Temperatures typically 11- 12. As we | :19:31. | :19:38. | |
head into the beginning of next week we can trace the air all the way | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
from the Caribbean, coming over the Atlantic. There will be cloudy skies | :19:43. | :19:46. | |
for many of us on Monday. Some rain in the north. Really strong winds as | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
well bouncing over the hills. Trapped Inbetweeners weather systems | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
we have the warmer air, so it should be a mild day on Monday. Ridiculous | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
temperatures, possibly into the midteens. Across in North America | :20:00. | :20:05. | |
with got some warm air, but with also got some very wet air that's | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
been pounding California recently. You've seen this in the news of | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
course earlier in the programme. Flooding is extensive, road closures | :20:14. | :20:19. | |
and a lot of mountains is no. How a gust of 80 mph. This is something to | :20:20. | :20:29. | |
do with explosive psycho Genesis, a rapid area of low pressure wringing | :20:30. | :20:35. | |
wet and windy weather. Maybe three or four inches of rain in southern | :20:36. | :20:38. | |
parts of California. It is the wet season but this is an unusual amount | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
of rain, even for this time of the year. The weather system is moving | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
away. Tonight it should turn dry, but there's more to come. This | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
warmer weather is coming in from the Pacific. More rain and more snow on | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
Sunday. The wet weather transferring further north towards Oregon. Let's | :20:57. | :21:00. | |
have a look at what's happening across the pond. We have the wet | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
weather making the news in California. | :21:05. | :21:15. | |
Thank you. It does look as -- it looks nasty. We have someone from | :21:16. | :21:24. | |
the fire department online with us. Can you give us a sense of what is | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
causing this weather problem? It has been a very busy day for Los Angeles | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
firefighters. We've seen the sharp increase in our emergency calls and | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
this is largely due to the deluge of rain we've had. We have had in calls | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
swallow up cars, we've had people trapped. -- sink holes. Vehicles | :21:46. | :21:51. | |
were overcome on the street, in one incident in particular if the people | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
were stranded. We've had 150 powerlines down over three to four | :21:56. | :22:05. | |
hours. Some of them had deadly consequences. And large trees | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
falling. We were ready for this and we did anticipate it and we have | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
been able to handle the search. You mentioned deadly consequences. Have | :22:15. | :22:19. | |
there been fatalities? Then have. One in particular, we had a large | :22:20. | :22:26. | |
tree that had fallen in an area and took powerlines down with it. Sadly | :22:27. | :22:31. | |
there was an adult male that came into contact with those powerlines | :22:32. | :22:40. | |
or puddles of water. Our firefighters did an outstanding job | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
putting themselves in harms way and were able to cut those powerlines, | :22:44. | :22:47. | |
getting to that person, bring them to a waiting ambulance and transport | :22:48. | :22:53. | |
them to a local hospital, but sadly they were pronounced dead at the | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
hospital. You mentioned the heavy rainfall this is a sequence of | :23:01. | :23:10. | |
event, a car slipping back into a sinkhole and you say that's happened | :23:11. | :23:14. | |
a number of times? Yes, that was a very unique and dangerous incident | :23:15. | :23:21. | |
that happened in an area we call Studio City. A car was upside down | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
in a large sinkhole that was full of rushing water. There was a single | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
occupants standing on that car. About ten people on the street. The | :23:34. | :23:37. | |
firefighters jumped into action and rapidly lowered and extension ladder | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
down. The female climbed out and we transported her to work local | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
hospital. During the transport she told firefighters wanted was really | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
like for her. We are looking at some of those images. She was in the car | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
when it slipped back into the sinkhole. Is that right? That's | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
right. She told firefighters that while she was driving she felt the | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
car pitched at the left and then it tumbled into a sinkhole. The airbags | :24:08. | :24:14. | |
went off and it kind of disoriented that individual. Water started | :24:15. | :24:19. | |
rushing in, she tried to raise the windows but that wouldn't work. She | :24:20. | :24:23. | |
was then able to open the door and climb out, she got on top of the car | :24:24. | :24:29. | |
and started screaming for help. She told firefighters afterwards that | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
she thought she was going to die unfortunately at that time she heard | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
the firefighters yelled back to her. One of the things we can see is the | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
speed of the waters just below where that sinkhole is. You must be | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
worried that might be happening more? You're right. This isn't the | :24:47. | :24:52. | |
only incident in Los Angeles where we've had sinkholes. We've had | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
saturated water underneath pavements, creating problems. We've | :24:58. | :25:01. | |
also had problems with mudslides over the past couple of weeks. | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
Firefighters have remained very busy. They've done an outstanding | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
job protecting properties. I know it's a very busy time for you. Thank | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
you for your time this morning. That was somebody with a Los Angeles fire | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
department, bringing us up-to-date with the problems they are facing | :25:23. | :25:23. | |
with the severe weather. Voters will head to the polls in two | :25:24. | :25:28. | |
by-elections on Thursday, one in Stoke-on-Trent | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
and the other in Copeland. Both were prompted by | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
the resignation of their Labour MP and, in both, the party | :25:34. | :25:36. | |
faces a tough challenge Copeland is a coastal constituency | :25:37. | :25:39. | |
in the Lake District which is home to the Sellafield nuclear plant | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
and a bitter dispute over This is a constituency of beauty and | :25:44. | :25:58. | |
of contrast. Its remoteness whether Fels of the Lake District meet the | :25:59. | :26:02. | |
Irish Sea is both part of its appeal and part of the challenge of living | :26:03. | :26:08. | |
here. And for the past 70 years it has been home to the nuclear plant | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
at Sellafield, often controversial but a major employer in this area. | :26:15. | :26:22. | |
More than 10,000 people working. -- work here. It has been Labour land | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
since the 1930s but when Jamie Reed quick to return to the nuclear | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
industry, the Conservatives sensed an opportunity to prune the red | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
rose. So could history be made on Thursday? In the heart of the | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
constituency at Fountain bridge, each year the pub hosts the world's | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
biggest liar competition. What better place to discuss politics? | :26:47. | :26:54. | |
This is a senior lecturer. He tells me much has been made of the | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
Labour's leader's opposition to lose -- nuclear power. At the new plant | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
in the area has now been backed by Jeremy Corbyn. Will his leadership | :27:05. | :27:13. | |
you factor? This is a constituency which very much concentrate on local | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
issues and apart from the nuclear issue there is also the hospitals in | :27:18. | :27:24. | |
the area where certainly there is big concern for voters. It is the | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
kind of thing that analysts in by-elections absolutely love. So | :27:31. | :27:33. | |
many things to pore over and potentially a close result. To test | :27:34. | :27:41. | |
the theory, we visited a hustings at a church in Whitehaven. All seven | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
candidates are here. As for the question is, top of the agenda, the | :27:46. | :27:51. | |
future of the local hospital. Also, jobs and transport links. Will you | :27:52. | :27:58. | |
promise me and people like me in this area... And what is abundantly | :27:59. | :28:03. | |
clear is that people here care about Whitehaven rather than Westminster. | :28:04. | :28:11. | |
We are as Sellafield -- as Copeland totally different because we have | :28:12. | :28:15. | |
nuclear on our doorstep. It concerns me greatly that there is a lot of | :28:16. | :28:19. | |
political parties that are using it as a crux for their campaign, as to | :28:20. | :28:23. | |
whether the nuclear industry will be enhanced or if it will be local | :28:24. | :28:27. | |
issue. Because of what's been going on, the health service. That's a big | :28:28. | :28:34. | |
issue. Yes, unemployment as well. I mean, there's an older population | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
here as well. I mean, you need somebody... Services. The services | :28:40. | :28:47. | |
look after you. In 2015 it was a two horse race. Labour held the seat, | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
albeit by a reduced margin over the Conservatives, with Ukip coming | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
third. There were large national issues discussed at the hustings. | :28:57. | :29:02. | |
The economy, the NHS, climate change for example, at what people were | :29:03. | :29:06. | |
really concerned with was the future of the local hospitals, the local | :29:07. | :29:11. | |
schools and especially the nuclear industry. This would be a boat | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
people told me about Jeremy Corbyn, it will be a vote about Copeland. | :29:16. | :29:21. | |
The by-election results may well be seized upon by the winners as | :29:22. | :29:25. | |
symptomatic of wider political trends, but if they insist on doing | :29:26. | :29:29. | |
that they may well talk themselves into a place in the year's are the | :29:30. | :29:33. | |
big contest. -- are the deep. There are seven candidates | :29:34. | :29:37. | |
standing in the by-election You can find out more about them | :29:38. | :29:39. | |
and their policies on the BBC Still to come in the programme: | :29:40. | :29:44. | |
Changes to business rates are being described | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
as outrageous by some employers. We'll be hearing from firms who say | :29:51. | :29:52. | |
the government plans don't Hello, this is Breakfast | :29:53. | :29:55. | |
with Rachel Burden and Charlie Coming up before eight Darren | :29:56. | :30:24. | |
will have the weather. But first at 7:30, a summary of this | :30:25. | :30:29. | |
morning's main news. Theresa May is introducing a new law | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
to combat domestic violence The Prime Minister says victims | :30:33. | :30:35. | |
of domestic violence are being "let down | :30:36. | :30:41. | |
by the legal system" She wants to increase convictions | :30:42. | :30:45. | |
for what she describes as a "life Some charities are concerned that | :30:46. | :30:50. | |
too many victims remain reluctant One of the strongest storms, | :30:51. | :30:54. | |
possibly in decades - known as a "bombogenesis", | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
or weather bomb - is set to drench California this weekend, | :30:58. | :31:00. | |
prompting fears of flash floods. Torrential downpours are expected | :31:01. | :31:03. | |
from Los Angeles to San Francisco, fuelled by an "atmospheric river" | :31:04. | :31:08. | |
extending to the Pacific. Forecasters describe | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
the bombogenesis as an intense extra-tropical cyclonic | :31:13. | :31:14. | |
low-pressure area. In one neighbourhood in Los Angeles | :31:15. | :31:19. | |
a sinkhole swallowed two cars, the second on live TV as viewers | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
watched it teeter on the edge You can see now the before | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
and after pictures. on one person was actually in the | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
vehicle when it happened. President Trump is preparing | :31:33. | :31:44. | |
to address a rally of supporters in Florida at the end of an eventful | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
week for the new US government. Yesterday, he sought to focus | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
on his promise to boost manufacturing jobs as he visited | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
a Boeing facility in South Carolina. However, he later resumed his | :31:54. | :31:56. | |
criticism of the media, branding a group of news | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
organisations as "the enemy Police in Malaysia say they've | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
arrested a North Korean man in connection with the death | :32:02. | :32:06. | |
of the half-brother of the North Korean | :32:07. | :32:08. | |
leader, Kim Jong Un. Kim Jong Nam died on Monday | :32:09. | :32:10. | |
after apparently being poisoned The man is the fourth | :32:11. | :32:13. | |
suspect to be detained. Three former trade secretaries have | :32:14. | :32:19. | |
criticised plans to reform business rates for the first | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
time in seven years. Speaking to the Telegraph, | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
Lord Tebbit, Sir Vince Cable and Dame Margaret Beckett | :32:26. | :32:27. | |
all voiced their concerns over the new system which comes | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
into force in England The government claims most | :32:31. | :32:32. | |
businesses will not see an increase. But some of the UK's biggest | :32:33. | :32:40. | |
employers' groups are condemning changes to the rates | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
appeals process. Unilever - which makes brands | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
including Marmite and PG Tips, has strongly rejected | :32:48. | :32:57. | |
a 115 billion pound takeover bid from the | :32:58. | :32:59. | |
American food giant Unilever said there was no basis | :33:00. | :33:01. | |
for further negotiations, but Kraft has said it will continue | :33:02. | :33:03. | |
to work on a potential deal, which would make it | :33:04. | :33:07. | |
the second biggest takeover Kraft is famous for cost savings and | :33:08. | :33:22. | |
maximising profits but one of the things that Unilever has done | :33:23. | :33:27. | |
successfully is a sacrifice short-term profits for longer term | :33:28. | :33:35. | |
gain. It could be societal gains as well as financial. They make | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
themselves more trusted, more culturally sick of it and business | :33:39. | :33:40. | |
as well. Iraqi forces are preparing to launch | :33:41. | :33:42. | |
an offensive to drive Islamic State The country's second-largest city | :33:43. | :33:45. | |
was seized by the jihadist group It's the last major urban area | :33:46. | :33:49. | |
in the country that's still under The British Army says it | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
will be a difficult battle. You do not retake towns and cities | :33:54. | :34:10. | |
the size of Mosul, heavily defended, quickly. | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
Scunthorpe is a place known for its steel, | :34:14. | :34:15. | |
Golden objects are being hidden around the town today for the public | :34:16. | :34:20. | |
It's all part of an art project - with clues to help people find | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
the treasure hidden in paintings which go on display this morning. | :34:26. | :34:36. | |
Find the painting by working out the code. Beautiful and worth quite a | :34:37. | :34:45. | |
bit. You have to earn them. It is cryptic. Clever, I like that. How | :34:46. | :34:57. | |
clever have the FA Cup size been? We have two nonleague still remaining. | :34:58. | :35:03. | |
Both remaining non league sides, are up against premier league teams, | :35:04. | :35:06. | |
Sutton United will have to wait until Monday night | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
But the other non-league side, Lincoln City, who are top | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
of the national league, get things going this lunchtime. | :35:14. | :35:15. | |
They take on Premier League Burnley, who are 81 places above them. | :35:16. | :35:18. | |
Being underdogs hasn't hindered Lincoln so far though - | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
they've already knocked out Championship sides | :35:22. | :35:22. | |
We have said, going against Burnley it's probably a one in 100 chance. | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
But for us to come through the one we have been on and get to the fifth | :35:28. | :35:35. | |
round as a non league team is probably one in 10,000 chances | :35:36. | :35:38. | |
so Lincoln has already had a bit of the FA Cup magic and for anyone | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
who thinks the FA Cup is dead has not been in Lincoln | :35:43. | :35:46. | |
One of the talking points has been whether top flight managers take the | :35:47. | :36:05. | |
FA Cup seriously. Jose Mourinho says managers need to learn what the | :36:06. | :36:10. | |
competition means to fans. Maybe we do not have as many English managers | :36:11. | :36:15. | |
with that culture that we should. Maybe we foreign managers, not | :36:16. | :36:21. | |
everybody studies and understands the culture of this country. I try | :36:22. | :36:29. | |
always to go to it seriously. Unlike Wembley, I like the FA Cup so I have | :36:30. | :36:33. | |
to try to get to the second round. if we are looking for other upsets, | :36:34. | :36:46. | |
well Manchester City, could rest players for their away | :36:47. | :36:54. | |
tie against Huddersfield - city play in the champions | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
League on tuesday. city play in the champions | :36:58. | :36:59. | |
League on Tuesday. Watford have announced they're | :37:00. | :37:07. | |
commissioning a statue of former The memorial will be put | :37:08. | :37:09. | |
at the club's ground, with the blessing | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
of Taylor's family. There will also be a pre-season | :37:13. | :37:14. | |
fixture at Vicarage Road, in honour of their most successful | :37:15. | :37:17. | |
manager, who died last month. Onto rugby union, and Saracens | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
missed the chance to return to the top of the Premiership - | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
losing 31-23 at Gloucester. The defending champions | :37:25. | :37:27. | |
suffered their second defeat in a week, in the west country - | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
with Welsh forward Richard Hibbard, bundling over for the crucial try, | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
just five minutes from time. Leinster have gone top of the Pro 12 | :37:34. | :37:40. | |
- earning a bonus point, for the six tries they ran in, | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
during their 39-10 win over Scarlets remain fourth, | :37:45. | :37:47. | |
after thrashing bottom side Zebre Josh Strauss has become | :37:48. | :37:49. | |
the second player in a week, to be ruled out of the rest | :37:50. | :37:55. | |
of Scotland's, Six Nations campaign. The number 8, suffered a kidney | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
injury, in their defeat to France, and it's been confirmed he'll take | :37:59. | :38:02. | |
no further part in the competition. On Wednesday it was announced, that | :38:03. | :38:05. | |
captain Greg Laidlaw's Six Nations, Leeds won for the first time this | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
season as they came from behind The promoted club went | :38:09. | :38:17. | |
into an early 8-0 lead. But that was wiped out quickly | :38:18. | :38:21. | |
as Leeds, ran in three quick tries, including this one from Ryan Hall, | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
on their way to that narrow victory. Elsewhere, the best British | :38:25. | :38:29. | |
clubs take, on the top Tomorrow Superleague champions Wigan | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
take on N.R.L winners, While this evening Warrington | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
Wolves, take on Brisbane Broncos. Warrington were runners-up, | :38:35. | :38:40. | |
in both the Challenge Cup final Brisbane are led by, | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
England head coach Wayne Bennett, and his opposite number knows | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
it's a rare opportunity, to test their skills, | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
against some of the best You do not get the chance to come up | :38:51. | :38:52. | |
against the Australians very often Once upon a time your | :38:53. | :39:01. | |
club would come up against the touring | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
team but that is gone. So it is an opportunity for us | :39:06. | :39:07. | |
and great experience for our players to be exposed to one | :39:08. | :39:11. | |
of the great teams in recent There was an historic win | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
at Sandown, as for the first time Captain Guy Disney, who rides | :39:15. | :39:47. | |
with a, prosthetic leg, and he steered Rathlin Rose, | :39:48. | :39:53. | |
to an, emotional success It is the last weekend to enter the | :39:54. | :40:11. | |
FA People's cup. People like Jan Milner could join. She formed a team | :40:12. | :40:22. | |
of over 60 is playing walking football. I were in a dark place. I | :40:23. | :40:33. | |
have many memories but sometimes aren't anything. But we are creating | :40:34. | :40:38. | |
new memories here. In walking football you get penalised if you | :40:39. | :40:48. | |
run. Like I did that. We will see more of that later on. Thank you. | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
Let's talk tipping. Some cruise liners are adding as much as ?90 for | :40:57. | :41:09. | |
an eight-day trip. Unless you fill out a form to opt out. We talk to | :41:10. | :41:18. | |
the travel editor who has been investigating this. First, let's see | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
what people in Manchester had to say. I always check whether the | :41:24. | :41:32. | |
waiter or waitress is go to get the money before I do it and I will | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
either give more or not based on that. I do feel you are being forced | :41:37. | :41:44. | |
to pay it. I pay it because it is embarrassing if you don't and I do | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
not think it should be. If you are not receiving good service, I think | :41:49. | :41:54. | |
you would feel put out. I am not bothered either way. If I feel like | :41:55. | :42:00. | |
a need to tip, I just do. It does not bother me at all. Simon is here | :42:01. | :42:07. | |
with us. There are rules, when it comes to holiday companies, | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
outlining exactly what they are charging. Exactly. In travel, you | :42:12. | :42:17. | |
should be able to pay what the company says it costs. Budget | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
airlines are typical example, they like to add extras for assigned | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
seats, check baggage is but all you want is the flying you have to be | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
able to buy it at that price. The basic price. Yes. They cannot add on | :42:36. | :42:41. | |
tax or other fees. This kind of charges are going, -- are they | :42:42. | :42:49. | |
common on cruise? If you have not been on a cruise you would not know | :42:50. | :42:56. | |
it but if you have, they are. Some cruises will actually add typically | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
?10 per person per day to your on-board account unless you say I | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
will not. I will reward people individually and that is OK and they | :43:08. | :43:16. | |
make it clear. I have been looking at Norwegian Cruise lines and it is | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
different. They say they have a fixed service charge. There is no | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
indication that it is discretionary. I talk to a Norwegian Cruise line | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
and they said if you do not want to pay it you feel out a form but it is | :43:33. | :43:41. | |
skating on thin ice in terms of how optional it is an a lot of people | :43:42. | :43:45. | |
would think they cannot escape it although, as I must say, they stress | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
you can decline to pay it if you want to. People may or may not want | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
to do that. They may have a sneaking suspicion that cruise liners are | :43:58. | :44:02. | |
doing that is because they are keeping the wages low so they are | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
using it as a way to get more money but your wages will stay the same. | :44:09. | :44:16. | |
Do you know what I mean? All the analysis I have done of this | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
industry suggests that effectively you are helping to pay the wage bill | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
and they are assumed everybody will pay the mandatory amount and lots of | :44:27. | :44:32. | |
US ships, and many are run by US companies, people will happily pay | :44:33. | :44:38. | |
these charges upfront, you are tipping in advance for services you | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
have not received which I think for a lot of British people it would be | :44:43. | :44:48. | |
an odd thing to do. If you are thinking of adding some tips to my | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
bill, please do not I will tip people individually. Just checking | :44:53. | :44:56. | |
if I have anything with me, I'm sorry. I have really enjoyed it, | :44:57. | :45:03. | |
thank you very much, can you split it? If you have any thoughts, about | :45:04. | :45:12. | |
tipping, how it is done, if it is done in advance. Tell us your | :45:13. | :45:17. | |
thoughts. You have your hairdresser, taxi driver, the outline grocery... | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
The guest who comes into the studio. Here's Darren with a look | :45:22. | :45:26. | |
at this morning's weather. You could take a holiday to the | :45:27. | :45:35. | |
Caribbean or you could wait for that air to reach out shores, which is | :45:36. | :45:38. | |
what will happen next week. We have fog this morning. Very grey and | :45:39. | :45:46. | |
murky. A great picture across many parts of England and Wales. Further | :45:47. | :45:51. | |
north we have more of a breeze, lifting any mist and fog. To the | :45:52. | :45:55. | |
south of that across much of England and Wales, southern and central | :45:56. | :45:59. | |
areas in particular, are very grey and misty start. Hill fog and | :46:00. | :46:03. | |
coastal fog lingering through the morning. Further north we have this | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
rain that is still affecting southern parts of Northern Ireland | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
and moving across the Irish Sea. And some wet and windy weather in | :46:12. | :46:14. | |
western Scotland. Eastern Scotland is more sheltered from the | :46:15. | :46:20. | |
south-westerly winds. There may be sunshine. As the rain clears away | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
from some parts of Ireland it should cheer up with some sunshine. Later | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
in England and Wales some sunshine in the afternoon at a mile day. Up | :46:31. | :46:34. | |
to 13 degrees in the south-east, possibly around the Murray serve as | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
well. Rain towards the end of the day in northern England and north | :46:40. | :46:42. | |
Wales. That will peter out further south. Wet and windy weather | :46:43. | :46:46. | |
continuing in Scotland, especially in the west of the country. A few | :46:47. | :46:52. | |
breaks across sheltered eastern areas, but generally temperatures | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
staying at 6-7. In the Sunday and we start pretty cloudy. We will keep | :46:58. | :47:03. | |
this moist westerly airflow. Around western parts of the UK expat cloud | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
to continue, but Shelton eastern areas and Wales seeing sunshine. Not | :47:10. | :47:16. | |
huge amounts. Can we -- temperatures similar to today. Then we trace the | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
back from the Caribbean. It is coming over the Atlantic, picking up | :47:22. | :47:29. | |
cloud. The warmer areas trapped between these weather fronts. Low | :47:30. | :47:33. | |
pressure on into the north of the country on Monday. A lot of cloud | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
around on Monday. Windy weather, especially to the east of the hills, | :47:38. | :47:41. | |
but look at those temperatures. About nine degrees. We could be | :47:42. | :47:47. | |
getting 15 or 16. Short and sharp bursts. Temperatures nearer to | :47:48. | :47:57. | |
average. Spring isn't far away. I think I will have to get out into | :47:58. | :48:00. | |
the garden this weekend. It looks lovely. | :48:01. | :48:04. | |
What will you do, mow? Get rid of weeds! | :48:05. | :48:05. | |
We'll be back with the headlines at 8am. | :48:06. | :48:07. | |
Now it's time for Newswatch with Samira Ahmed. | :48:08. | :48:16. | |
Hello and welcome to Newswatch with me, Samira Ahmed. | :48:17. | :48:19. | |
Coming up: As more and more people use social media as their primary | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
source of news, how well is BBC journalism doing in this new world? | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
And were this week's reports about pensioners being better off | :48:29. | :48:31. | |
than those of working age misleading and divisive? | :48:32. | :48:38. | |
First, the ongoing tension between Donald Trump and the media | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
broke out into open hostilities again this week at a news | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
The BBC's Jon Sopel had this encounter with the president. | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
On the travel ban would you accept that that was a good example | :48:50. | :49:07. | |
Spiky exchanges of that kind seem likely to continue and we will no | :49:08. | :49:20. | |
doubt be examining the BBC's relationship with the White House | :49:21. | :49:22. | |
again soon, but for now let's leave it with a couple of comments posted | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
But rather more felt like these viewers. | :49:27. | :49:48. | |
And Penny Paisley agreed it was a victory on points | :49:49. | :49:51. | |
The phenomenon of items on news bulletins being used to trail | :49:52. | :50:03. | |
forthcoming BBC current affairs programmes has been noted many | :50:04. | :50:06. | |
Does this practice simply make the most of the BBC's journalism | :50:07. | :50:11. | |
across its output, or are these just plugs disguised as news? | :50:12. | :50:16. | |
Tony Francis thought two examples also on the news at six at the start | :50:17. | :50:19. | |
of this week fell into the latter category. | :50:20. | :50:21. | |
On Monday the first headline was the fact that the prisons | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
are in crisis and then the newsreader went on to say | :50:25. | :50:32. | |
there was a Panorama programme later in the evening showing | :50:33. | :50:34. | |
The second item on the BBC News at 6 o'clock was the fact that | :50:35. | :50:40. | |
a supermarket has been keeping special offers open for months | :50:41. | :50:43. | |
There was to be another BBC programme at 7:30pm to do | :50:44. | :50:53. | |
Seems to me that the BBC is not reporting news at all, | :50:54. | :51:00. | |
it is actually making its news, or trying to and at the same time | :51:01. | :51:04. | |
simply a matter of promoting your own programmes. | :51:05. | :51:06. | |
This is not what the news seems to me to be about. | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
Monday saw a number of complaints about a story which featured | :51:13. | :51:15. | |
across several bulletins and services, including | :51:16. | :51:21. | |
the News At One, introduced here by Sophie Raworth. | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
Pensioners are on average better off than those of working age | :51:26. | :51:28. | |
for the first time according to new research by the think tank | :51:29. | :51:31. | |
It says a new wave of pensioners are more likely than previous | :51:32. | :51:35. | |
generations to own their own home, have generous private pensions | :51:36. | :51:38. | |
Not mentioned in the introduction, though it was in the report that | :51:39. | :51:45. | |
followed, was that the calculation made by the Resolution Foundation | :51:46. | :51:47. | |
was based on household income after housing costs such | :51:48. | :51:50. | |
The BBC's own reality check on the news website said this | :51:51. | :51:55. | |
important factor had been mentioned little in the coverage. | :51:56. | :51:58. | |
It found that before housing costs are taken into account, | :51:59. | :52:01. | |
working age households still have higher incomes. | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
A number of older viewers felt that both the topline claim of the story, | :52:06. | :52:09. | |
that pensioners are better off than workers, and the way | :52:10. | :52:13. | |
that the statistics were reported, was unbalanced. | :52:14. | :52:15. | |
Wynne Merrill has put it with some sarcasm in his e-mail. | :52:16. | :52:20. | |
It appears that people at the end of their careers are better off | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
The facts seems to suggest that those who have worked, | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
paid off their mortgages, saved and paid into public | :52:29. | :52:30. | |
and occupational pension schemes have greater resources than those | :52:31. | :52:32. | |
Now, on Thursday the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg told the BBC | :52:33. | :52:45. | |
that fake news had damaged public debate, following criticism | :52:46. | :52:47. | |
that his site had not done enough to prevent made up or distorted | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
stories from appearing on its news feed. | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
The BBC has an interest in Facebook's reputation | :52:56. | :52:58. | |
as it is increasingly using it as a platform | :52:59. | :53:00. | |
It's part of a strategy of embracing new, digital technologies and social | :53:01. | :53:08. | |
media, a revolution in how the BBC reaches its audience. | :53:09. | :53:10. | |
Once upon a time, BBC News had only two means of broadcasting, | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
But now it is faced with a vast increasing number of ways | :53:15. | :53:23. | |
There is Twitter, where the BBC's breaking news account has almost 30 | :53:24. | :53:30. | |
million followers, Instagram where more than 3 million people | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
follow BBC News, and of course Facebook, where the corporation has | :53:34. | :53:36. | |
the largest page of any news organisation in the world. | :53:37. | :53:39. | |
In addition, it has started streaming some of it output | :53:40. | :53:45. | |
via Facebook live, as well as other live streaming apps | :53:46. | :53:48. | |
But has all this activity left some traditional licence fee paying | :53:49. | :53:54. | |
Penelope Noel thinks so, e-mailing us to say: The focus | :53:55. | :54:00. | |
on digital media discriminates against the very many people | :54:01. | :54:02. | |
who are unable to afford or use digital devices. | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
Stories like the investigation earlier this month into wildlife | :54:08. | :54:09. | |
traffickers selling baby chimpanzees are now rolled out in carefully | :54:10. | :54:19. | |
targeted ways to different digital destinations, | :54:20. | :54:21. | |
attracting significant traffic on a variety of platforms. | :54:22. | :54:23. | |
The benefit of this strategy for BBC News is obvious in capturing hard | :54:24. | :54:26. | |
to reach, younger audiences where they are already | :54:27. | :54:34. | |
spending their time online, but there are dangers as well. | :54:35. | :54:36. | |
Facebook, for instance, has faced mounting criticism | :54:37. | :54:38. | |
for publishing fake news, so how does the BBC avoid being seen | :54:39. | :54:42. | |
as just another potentially unreliable news source? | :54:43. | :54:43. | |
And does its presence on the site risk giving away its content | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
without bringing people back to spend time on the BBC's core | :54:49. | :54:51. | |
Let's explore those questions with the social media editor | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
How important are social media platforms like Facebook to BBC | :54:55. | :55:00. | |
One of the things we have to realise about Facebook is it controls | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
and manages a huge proportion of the social web. | :55:06. | :55:08. | |
Facebook owns Instagram, whatsApp, Facebook Messenger, | :55:09. | :55:09. | |
there are 1.9 billion active users on Facebook. | :55:10. | :55:18. | |
For the BBC not to be producing content and distributing it | :55:19. | :55:21. | |
It would be a loss for our audiences that inhabit those spaces | :55:22. | :55:33. | |
and want to explore more of our content and see and engage | :55:34. | :55:37. | |
and enrich themselves with the information | :55:38. | :55:38. | |
They don't pay a licence fee, certainly Facebook doesn't. | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
What is the deal that the BBC has done with them for providing them | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
Well, Facebook is an open platform and there is nothing to stop any | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
publisher from producing content and distributing it | :55:51. | :55:52. | |
We have an arrangement with Facebook in that we produce content for live | :55:53. | :55:57. | |
Outside of that we are publishing regular content all the time | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
onto Facebook, links to articles on the BBC News website, | :56:02. | :56:04. | |
videos that we are producing across BBC News, and we will | :56:05. | :56:07. | |
As we know, Facebook has this problem with fake news. | :56:08. | :56:12. | |
One wonders if there is not just a danger that the BBC is just | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
another provider on there and a lot of the audience do not notice | :56:17. | :56:19. | |
They are just looking for the story and the BBC doesn't really get | :56:20. | :56:25. | |
Well, I think this is all about our values and what is right | :56:26. | :56:32. | |
We are not compromising anything in terms of BBC values, | :56:33. | :56:47. | |
objectivity and impartiality by producing content and publishing | :56:48. | :56:49. | |
Clearly, the content that we are producing and publishing | :56:50. | :56:52. | |
into that space is alongside lots of other content. | :56:53. | :56:54. | |
We cannot vouch for the authenticity, the voracity, | :56:55. | :56:57. | |
of other people's content, but what we can do is search | :56:58. | :57:00. | |
for our own and the more content that we produce into that space that | :57:01. | :57:03. | |
people see, the more they will learn to understand and trust and value | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
the BBC and see it relevant to their lives and the things that | :57:08. | :57:10. | |
What we are learning all the time here is how to produce content | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
in a valuable way for an audience on social media. | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
And it isn't just a question of taking a television package | :57:19. | :57:21. | |
and sticking it into a Facebook page. | :57:22. | :57:23. | |
You have to think about how your audience will come to it, | :57:24. | :57:26. | |
see it, engage with it, look to share it and so forth, | :57:27. | :57:29. | |
so you are having to retailor, repurpose, reposition, | :57:30. | :57:31. | |
think about the visuals, the impact, the text that you are putting | :57:32. | :57:35. | |
at the top of the piece and so forth. | :57:36. | :57:37. | |
But also we get a lot of complaints at Newswatch that BBC News has | :57:38. | :57:41. | |
Is there a danger of trying to give social media what it wants, | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
which might be a preoccupation with stories that really are not | :57:47. | :57:49. | |
very serious and that is affecting the news content that is produced | :57:50. | :57:52. | |
I think all the time the preoccupation that I have | :57:53. | :57:56. | |
and the colleagues who work with me in social media at the BBC have, | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
is giving our audiences things that are editorially valuable | :58:01. | :58:02. | |
and interesting, but at the same time will be the kind of things | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
we know that will interest them from a social media perspective. | :58:07. | :58:09. | |
It is not about dumbing down or abandoning serious news values, | :58:10. | :58:12. | |
it is about saying, we have got a really important story to tell | :58:13. | :58:16. | |
you about Syria, we have got an important story | :58:17. | :58:18. | |
about the American election, or whatever the story happens to be | :58:19. | :58:27. | |
at any moment in time, and thinking how can we make that | :58:28. | :58:30. | |
interesting for someone who might be coming to that story for the first | :58:31. | :58:34. | |
time on a social media feed or platform? | :58:35. | :58:36. | |
It can seem sometimes as though social media is not operating under | :58:37. | :58:40. | |
the same editorial guidelines as the rest of the BBC. | :58:41. | :58:42. | |
How far are their guidelines about how you write for social media | :58:43. | :58:46. | |
similar to the traditional BBC News editorials? | :58:47. | :58:47. | |
We have a lot of guidelines and we have a lot of editorial | :58:48. | :58:51. | |
thought that has gone into them and we have very rigorous compliance | :58:52. | :58:54. | |
To my mind social media is another form of broadcasting. | :58:55. | :58:58. | |
It is not a marketing exercise, it is not an additional process | :58:59. | :59:01. | |
that we join up onto the end of a television programme, | :59:02. | :59:04. | |
We really want to reach and engage those audiences, | :59:05. | :59:08. | |
we want to encourage them to explore more of the content | :59:09. | :59:11. | |
that we are producing, but we need to take it seriously. | :59:12. | :59:22. | |
Just as a television programme, if you were writing the script | :59:23. | :59:25. | |
for the six o'clock News or the ten o'clock news, | :59:26. | :59:27. | |
you would write the first draft, somebody else would look over it, | :59:28. | :59:31. | |
there would be a process by which that script will then get | :59:32. | :59:34. | |
Exactly the same processes take place with our social media writing. | :59:35. | :59:39. | |
Thank you for all your comments this week. | :59:40. | :59:44. | |
If you want to share your opinions on BBC News and current affairs, | :59:45. | :59:48. | |
or even appear in the programme, you can call us. | :59:49. | :59:52. | |
That is all from us, we will be back to hear your thoughts about BBC News | :59:53. | :00:08. | |
coverage again next week. Goodbye. | :00:09. | :00:52. | |
Hello this is Breakfast, with Rachel Burden and Charlie Stayt. | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
The Prime Minister promises a new law to tackle domestic violence. | :00:56. | :01:00. | |
Theresa May says there's a lack of clarity in the current system | :01:01. | :01:03. | |
and that too many victims are being let down. | :01:04. | :01:17. | |
Good morning, it's Saturday 18th February. | :01:18. | :01:22. | |
Also ahead: A giant storm known as a weather bomb hits parts | :01:23. | :01:28. | |
of California causing torrential rain and a trail of devastation. | :01:29. | :01:32. | |
The US food giant Kraft says it won't give up as Unilever strongly | :01:33. | :01:35. | |
rejects its multi-billion pound takeover bid. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
President Trump calls the media the "enemy of the American people" | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
ahead of what's being described as a campaign rally he's | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
We'll find out how they're preparing to take one of the last remaining | :01:45. | :01:54. | |
strongholds of the so-called Islamic State. | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
In sport: The Imps are hoping to cause another FA Cup shock. | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Having knocked out Ipswich and Brighton, non-league | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
Lincoln City now have Premier League side Burnley in their sights. | :02:05. | :02:07. | |
It is mild and misty especially across England and Wales. We should | :02:08. | :02:19. | |
get some sunshine developing with the chance of rain across the north | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
perhaps. It stays mild if rather cloudy on Sunday. | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
Theresa May is launching a new law to combat domestic violence | :02:30. | :02:39. | |
The Prime Minister says domestic abuse is a "life shattering | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
abhorrent crime" and tackling it is a key priority | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
Official figures suggest that every year more than a million women | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
experience domestic abuse in England and Wales. | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
Among men that figure stands at just over half a million. | :02:52. | :02:55. | |
Last year 75,000 people were convicted of domestic abuse. | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
That's the highest number ever recorded. | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
There was also the highest ever conviction rate of 75% but some | :03:02. | :03:05. | |
charities are concerned that too many victims remain | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Our political correspondent, Adam Fleming, is in Westminster | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
Adam, Theresa May spent six years as Home Secretary so is this | :03:13. | :03:33. | |
Downing Street say not at all. She introduced pieces of legislation | :03:34. | :03:43. | |
giving people the right to find out if there partner had been convicted | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
of domestic violence in a previous relationship, and making controlling | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
your partner illegal. The problem she has identified as Prime Minister | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
is domestic violence is not one crime in one bit of legislation, it | :03:57. | :04:01. | |
is lots of different laws apply differently by different police | :04:02. | :04:04. | |
forces which means if you are affected you will be treated | :04:05. | :04:07. | |
differently depending where macula. The call has gone out to government | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
departments, experts and campaigners to find out the solutions of this is | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
the start of a process that will probably end with the new piece of | :04:18. | :04:19. | |
legislation going in front of parliament in the future. The Prime | :04:20. | :04:27. | |
Minister wants quick wins, easy and initiatives that can help people | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
straightaway. She feels there is a big social aspect and that by | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
talking about it and getting MPs and you and I talking about it that | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
might help people who have been affected to have the confidence to | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
come forward and reported to the police because the charities say it | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
is not just the police, it is also victims having the confidence to | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
come forward and report it. We will talk to one of those charities who | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
support victims of domestic abuse the programme. | :04:56. | :05:00. | |
California is being hit by what could be one | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
The so called "weather bomb" has drenched the state, | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
with reports of at least two people dead. | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
In one neighbourhood in Los Angeles a sinkhole swallowed two cars. | :05:09. | :05:10. | |
Earlier I spoke to Captain Erik Scott from the Los Angeles Fire | :05:11. | :05:17. | |
Yes, sir, it's been a very busy day for Los Angeles firefighters. | :05:18. | :05:24. | |
We've certainly seen a sharp increase in our emergency calls. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
This is largely due to the deluge of rain we've had. | :05:28. | :05:29. | |
We've had sinkholes, swallowed up cars, people trapped | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
where we had to perform swift water rescues, | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
vehicles were overcome on the streets. | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
In one incident in particular 15 people were stranded. | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
We've had 150 down power lines over three to four hours. | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
Some of which had deadly consequences. | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
And very large trees which have been falling, | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
so it's kept firefighters very very busy. | :05:51. | :05:56. | |
This is a sequence of events caught on a live camera of a car slipping | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
You mentioned that's been happening several times. | :06:02. | :06:07. | |
That was a very unique and dangerous incident that happened in an area | :06:08. | :06:12. | |
When firefighters arrived on scene we had a car that was upside down | :06:13. | :06:21. | |
in a large dark sinkhole that was full of rushing water | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
and we had a single occupant standing on top of that upside down | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
Fortunately the firefighters jumped into action. | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
They rapidly lowered a 20 foot extension ladder down to this female | :06:31. | :06:35. | |
and let her climb out and transported her | :06:36. | :06:37. | |
She told firefighters afterwards that she thought was going to die. | :06:38. | :06:47. | |
That was Captain Scott from the US Fire Department bringing us | :06:48. | :06:52. | |
up-to-date with the situation in California. | :06:53. | :06:56. | |
President Donald Trump is preparing to address a rally of supporters | :06:57. | :06:59. | |
in Florida at the end of an eventful week for the new US government. | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
Yesterday, Mr Trump sought to focus on his promise | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
to boost manufacturing jobs, but later resumed his criticism | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
of the media, branding the industry as an "enemy of the American | :07:08. | :07:09. | |
The President of the United States may have been in office | :07:10. | :07:19. | |
for less than a month but it is clear this is a part | :07:20. | :07:23. | |
of the job he enjoys, addressing an audience | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
We love America and we are going to protect America. | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
We love our workers and we are going to protect our workers. | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
At a tour of Boeing in South Carolina, | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
he reiterated one of his biggest campaign promises. | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
Next stop, Florida, a place that supported him when he needed it | :07:42. | :07:53. | |
most, for an event that some say is part of a strategy that will last | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
It is unusual for a president to hold a rally like | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
this so soon after inauguration but much | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
of what Donald Trump has done so far has been unconventional, | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
including a worsening relationship with the mainstream media. | :08:08. | :08:09. | |
I'm not ranting and raving, I'm just telling you. | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
Last night, Donald Trump expressed his displeasure | :08:13. | :08:17. | |
in his favourite way with another critical tweet. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
Even journalists from organisations that have been on his side | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
are not happy with this turn of events, | :08:24. | :08:25. | |
particularly when it comes to Russia. | :08:26. | :08:29. | |
Your opposition was hacked and the Russians were | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
responsible for it and your people were | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
on the phone with Russia on the same day | :08:36. | :08:37. | |
it was happening, and we are fools for | :08:38. | :08:39. | |
Donald Trump has a lot his plate, a vacancy for a national | :08:40. | :08:48. | |
security adviser, falling approval ratings | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
and accusations of chaos in his administration. | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
He will be hoping that by going directly to voters, | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
he can at least expect some warmth in the Sunshine State. | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
The Anglo-Dutch company Unilever, which makes brands including | :08:59. | :09:07. | |
Marmite and PG Tips, has rejected a ?115 billion takeover | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
bid from the American food giant Kraft-Heinz. | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
Unilever said there was no basis for further negotiations, | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
but Kraft has said it will continue to work on a potential deal, | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
which would make it the second biggest takeover | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
Here's more from our business correspondent. | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
Unilever makes some of the best known brands in anyone's kitchen, | :09:28. | :09:34. | |
from Philadelphia cheese to not-everyone's favourite, | :09:35. | :09:35. | |
Put those brands together with Kraft-Heinz and hardly | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
a country on earth will not know their products. | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
Kraft-Heinz is worth almost ?90 billion and includes some of these | :09:43. | :09:46. | |
It has higher profit margins but a smaller | :09:47. | :09:51. | |
presence in growing markets such as Asia. | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
Unilever is worth around ?115 billion and owns these brands, | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
which, although they enjoy lower profit margins, | :09:57. | :09:58. | |
It also has 14 factories here including Norwich, | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
Liverpool and Gloucester but after Kraft reneged on promises | :10:07. | :10:10. | |
it made when it bought Cadbury seven years | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
ago, some are calling for the government to intervene | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
This is one of the practical consequences of the Brexit vote. | :10:16. | :10:21. | |
The collpase of the pound, cheap assets, overseas companies | :10:22. | :10:29. | |
moving in and taking over British assets cheaply | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
potentially very much against the national interest. | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
Unilever has rejected Kraft's first bid but it will not be the last. | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
Expect shareholders, workers and politicians to also | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
Police in Malaysia say they've arrested a North Korean man | :10:42. | :10:47. | |
in connection with the death of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un. | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
He died on Monday after apparently being poisoned | :10:53. | :10:54. | |
The man is the fourth suspect to be detained. | :10:55. | :11:01. | |
Iraqi forces are preparing to launch an offensive to drive Islamic State | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
It's the last major urban area in the country that's still under | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
From Mosul's southern front, our Middle East | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
In towns and villages along the Tigris, and across the desert, | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
they are readying for the attack on West Mosul. | :11:22. | :11:30. | |
These are the men of Iraq's Emergency Response Division, | :11:31. | :11:32. | |
It took 100 days to take the city's east. | :11:33. | :11:44. | |
They've been rested and re-equipped, but the battle scars | :11:45. | :11:46. | |
The west of Mosul will be a different battle. | :11:47. | :11:54. | |
This mortar team is going through final weapons checks. | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
The city's dense neighbourhoods mean great care will be needed | :11:59. | :12:00. | |
Nearly three quarters of a million are still in the city. | :12:01. | :12:10. | |
They'll be in the middle of this firepower. | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
When these men were in the east they experienced | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
So the question they are asking is, what does the Islamic | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
How much weaponry and how many men, and how fiercely will IS fight | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
British boots are on the ground, too. | :12:32. | :12:40. | |
Major-General Rupert Jones is on a last-minute inspection | :12:41. | :12:41. | |
They'll be supporting the Iraqi assault on Mosul. | :12:42. | :12:48. | |
In terms of how long it will take, well, look, East Mosul | :12:49. | :12:51. | |
West Mosul could be every bit as tough, so, you know, | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
You don't retake towns and cities the size of Mosul, | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
On the parade ground, Kurdish forces and the Defence Secretary | :13:00. | :13:07. | |
bringing a reminder of why Britain is in this fight. | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
We're picking up information all the time now, | :13:12. | :13:13. | |
information about those foreign fighters, | :13:14. | :13:15. | |
Information, too, about some of the attacks | :13:16. | :13:20. | |
that have been planned in Western Europe. | :13:21. | :13:25. | |
So this work is not simply freeing people in Mosul | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
from having to live under this brutal regime. | :13:29. | :13:33. | |
This won't be Iraq's last fight against IS, | :13:34. | :13:35. | |
Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, on Mosul's southern front. | :13:36. | :13:44. | |
Scunthorpe is a town known for its steel, | :13:45. | :13:47. | |
Golden objects are being hidden around Scunthorpe today | :13:48. | :13:53. | |
It's all part of an art project with clues to help people find | :13:54. | :14:02. | |
the treasure hidden in paintings, which go on display this morning. | :14:03. | :14:07. | |
You work out the close and find out where the gold is and if you find it | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
you get to keep it. Pressure is growing | :14:12. | :14:17. | |
on the government to reassess their proposals to update business | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
rates after three former trade The new rates come into force | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
in England on April 1st. Scotland and Wales will also see | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
changes to their business Business rates are a bit | :14:27. | :14:28. | |
like the commercial version of council tax, and are based | :14:29. | :14:34. | |
on the rental value of the space It's the first time in seven years | :14:35. | :14:37. | |
rates have been reviewed. Nearly three quarters of businesses | :14:38. | :14:46. | |
will see a fall or no change but some businesses are facing | :14:47. | :14:49. | |
a sharp rise in the rates they pay. Since properties were last valued | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
in 2010, businesses have made more than a million challenges | :14:54. | :14:56. | |
to the amount they're charged. It's the sheer number of these | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
appeals the Government It's drafted proposals | :15:00. | :15:01. | |
which include a clause to dismiss any appeals for incorrect valuations | :15:02. | :15:11. | |
that are within the boundaries of That's proving controversial | :15:12. | :15:15. | |
with many business groups. Craig Beaumont is from | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
the Federation of Small Businesses, one of the business groups that | :15:19. | :15:20. | |
signed a letter Businesses are up in arms around the | :15:21. | :15:26. | |
country but we should point out that some people have done pretty well | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
out of these changes. Yes. The government has tipped the playing | :15:33. | :15:36. | |
field towards small businesses. A lot of small businesses have been | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
taken out of this altogether which is something we pushed for, to look | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
after the most vulnerable. They say them are not making any extra money | :15:46. | :15:50. | |
out of this. Do you buy that? Not quite. Some new businesses are there | :15:51. | :15:55. | |
and some have been expanded so there seems to be bit of extra tax -- | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
extra tax being taken. The important thing is what do they do if they | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
think their bill is not right? It is not just a London story. London | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
prices have risen dramatically in the last seven years. If a business | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
thinks their bill is too high they should appeal. You mentioned about | :16:17. | :16:24. | |
reasonable professional professional judgment, but they have to appeal | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
and bring evidence together at the start of the process, which is | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
really a administrative and burdensome. Even if they win their | :16:34. | :16:37. | |
appeal, at the end of that process they could have been appeal | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
dismissed because it is somehow within the boundaries of | :16:42. | :16:44. | |
professional judgment and nobody knows what that means. If there is a | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
disagreement over the valuation and that leads to the appeal process, | :16:49. | :16:54. | |
what is the alternative? The current system is burdensome and | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
problematic. You have cowboy ratings agencies. If you put yourself in the | :16:59. | :17:02. | |
mind of a small business with a big bill you will get letters in saying | :17:03. | :17:07. | |
we can help you negotiate, that is not right, we want to see action | :17:08. | :17:11. | |
against those ratings agencies and there is action coming that will | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
tighten up the rules. You should have your moment in court to make | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
your case and question the stats behind the judgment by these | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
officials. At the moment that is not there. Theatres of 15% difference, | :17:24. | :17:29. | |
so your bill is a bit higher than you think, that could take you over | :17:30. | :17:32. | |
the threshold to get the relief that you deserve, so that is not fair. | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
For a small business owner that could make the difference of ?10,000 | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
or ?20,000. There are lots of these appeals going through at the moment | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
and it is taking months if not years to get complaints resolved so they | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
had to make the system more efficient. They had to take action | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
on the appeals backlog in the previous administration set targets | :17:58. | :18:00. | |
for getting rid of the backlog and it is reducing but it is not there | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
are so there needs to be a new process but we think, at the same | :18:04. | :18:09. | |
time as bills are rising, you are taking off the ability to appeal, | :18:10. | :18:14. | |
which seems immoral. We are producing free guidance for all | :18:15. | :18:18. | |
small businesses that will be on our website so any small business owners | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
needing help can look on Google and find help. This government claims to | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
be business friendly, possibly not corporate friendly, but in terms of | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
small businesses, why are they allowing this situation to emerge? | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
They need the money, ?24 billion from the property tax. It is an | :18:40. | :18:44. | |
unfair tax. Your local High Street, a business property that has | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
premises will be hurt by this tax and the bigger the premises below | :18:49. | :18:54. | |
are the profit the tougher it is as against Amazon or other high-profile | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
businesses who are not on the hide street. Looking at a tax system that | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
will change the business community. Got a small villages and towns and | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
you will see empty units on the High Street and one of the reason is the | :19:14. | :19:19. | |
business rates system. Craig is from the Federation for small businesses. | :19:20. | :19:26. | |
We have seen pictures of the extreme weather causing chaos in parts of | :19:27. | :19:35. | |
California. It is called a Genesis. It is a tricky story for people | :19:36. | :19:39. | |
living in California. What is this situation. | :19:40. | :19:44. | |
It is the rainy season but what we have seen over the past few weeks | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
and months is pretty extreme. Some southern parts of California have | :19:52. | :19:54. | |
had two and a half times the normal rainfall in the last two months. It | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
follows a extreme drought. We have had winds of 80 mph. It is | :19:58. | :20:10. | |
the first time I have heard this Genesis term. Rapid cycle Genesis, | :20:11. | :20:20. | |
essentially a deepening area of low pressure responsible for the winds | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
and rain. Three or four inches of rain across some parts of | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
California. That area of low pressure and the wetter weather is | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
going to be pulling away in the next few hours or so but in the Pacific | :20:32. | :20:39. | |
we have this conveyor belt of warm and wet air that continues to feed | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
the system so we will see more wind and rain and maintenance no on | :20:43. | :20:49. | |
Sunday and after that the wettest weather transfers further north | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
towards Oregon. At home not a great deal of rain but across the southern | :20:54. | :21:01. | |
half of the UK great and misty. -- grey. This is my favourite picture | :21:02. | :21:09. | |
of the day so far. It is generally not as misty across the northern | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
half of the UK because of the breeze. There is also rain moving | :21:14. | :21:18. | |
slowly southwards. Still largely dry across England and Wales, grey and | :21:19. | :21:23. | |
misty, some hail and coastal fog which will linger through the | :21:24. | :21:31. | |
morning. Still some rain around across southern parts of Northern | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
Ireland. Wetter weather with stronger winds across western parts | :21:36. | :21:39. | |
of Scotland. Eastern Scotland more sheltered from this wind direction. | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
Largely dry with some sunshine. As the rain clears to parts of Northern | :21:45. | :21:48. | |
Ireland we should get some sun sign. Slowly up across England and Wales. | :21:49. | :22:02. | |
Mild for all of us. A little bit of rain and drizzle across the north of | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
England and North Wales. That will be to rout as it heads southwards. | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
Windy weather across Scotland. Particularly in the west. Cloudy | :22:14. | :22:21. | |
tonight, and a grey start, not of much mist and fog, but western areas | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
will stay cloudy with drizzle around the hills and coasts. East Wales | :22:27. | :22:35. | |
should see some sunshine. Temperatures similar to today. Some | :22:36. | :22:44. | |
rain in the north-west later. The air is coming from the Caribbean. | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
Across the Atlantic towards the UK with mild air capped between these | :22:49. | :22:51. | |
weather fronts there will be rain on Monday and it will be windy. These | :22:52. | :23:02. | |
temperatures are real, possibly even 16 degrees, crazy for this time of | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
years. Some people are going to have a | :23:05. | :23:14. | |
really nice day on Monday. I fear we are going to get caught in the rain. | :23:15. | :23:23. | |
The Prime Minister says victims of domestic violence are being "let | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
down by the legal system" and is promising to increase | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
convictions for what she describes as a "life shattering | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
Theresa May has announced new laws as part of a Domestic Violence | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
and Abuse Act, which it's hoped will raise awareness and lead | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
Let's talk now to Diana Barran, from the charity Safe Lives, | :23:38. | :23:44. | |
who joins us from our London newsroom. | :23:45. | :23:44. | |
Talk us through these new laws and what kind of a difference they might | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
make. We don't have a lot of detail yet. What the Prime Minister has | :23:51. | :23:57. | |
said as she wants to simplify the current legislation which is in many | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
different acts and has contributed to a really inconsistent response | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
across the country, but also we need to think, and we hope very much that | :24:09. | :24:13. | |
a new law will address, the needs of those victims and children who do | :24:14. | :24:18. | |
not report to the police, so about 80% of people who experienced | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
domestic abuse do not report to the police, so we need to get the | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
criminal justice bit right but we also need to respond to those who | :24:26. | :24:30. | |
for whatever reason do not get involved in the criminal justice | :24:31. | :24:34. | |
system. We know the number of prosecutions and convictions is | :24:35. | :24:38. | |
going up which presumably you would applaud but much of this is still | :24:39. | :24:45. | |
under recorded, why? There is a great stigma still associated with | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
domestic abuse and for many people there is also either confusion about | :24:50. | :24:58. | |
what support they might or might not get or sadly experience of not | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
getting a very good response. We really need to make sure that this | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
legislation leads to victims and children getting the right help at | :25:07. | :25:12. | |
the right time in the right place. We know one area that these new laws | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
may look at is the offence of controlling and coercive behaviour, | :25:19. | :25:21. | |
psychological abuse. How important is it that is addressed? That is | :25:22. | :25:29. | |
important but domestic abuse is almost always a combination of | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
different forms of violence and abuse, physical violence, sexual | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
abuse, psychological abuse is a massive part, but also financial | :25:40. | :25:42. | |
abuse. We need to treat people as human beings and respond to the | :25:43. | :25:47. | |
whole picture of what is going on for them and for their children, and | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
we must have great services for victims and children, but currently | :25:54. | :26:00. | |
one of the key problems is that only about 1% of perpetrators of domestic | :26:01. | :26:06. | |
abuse are getting any kind of sanction or behaviour change problem | :26:07. | :26:10. | |
and while 99% are returning home to their partner or are finding a new | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
partner we are never going to end this problem. We are talking | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
majority women but also a significant number of men. In terms | :26:21. | :26:23. | |
of returning home to their partner to reason me says this is a subject | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
close to half heart, but this government has overseen the closure | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
of huge numbers of refugees for women and vulnerable individuals. Is | :26:33. | :26:41. | |
that something she has to have a look at? The opportunity with our | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
site is to look at the whole picture and over the last few years we have | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
had a number of piecemeal bits of legislation and different | :26:52. | :26:56. | |
initiatives and cuts, and we have to be sure that women and children have | :26:57. | :27:05. | |
choices. A refuge is an essential provision for someone but the vast | :27:06. | :27:08. | |
majority want to be able to live safe in their home. I hope we will | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
be saying, why does she not leave -- driveable or not be saying why do | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
she not leave. If it was happening to you or IB would hope we could | :27:23. | :27:24. | |
stay safe in our home. You're watching | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. It's time now for a look | :27:31. | :27:32. | |
at the newspapers. Jon Tonge, a Political Lecturer | :27:33. | :27:40. | |
at the University of Liverpool is here to tell us what's | :27:41. | :27:43. | |
caught their eye. Where are we kicking off? The | :27:44. | :27:50. | |
fallout from the Tony Blair Brexit speech. It was heavily criticised | :27:51. | :28:00. | |
from a whole range of areas. Not just the usual suspects. The picture | :28:01. | :28:10. | |
of him wiping his finger. Yes, Tony Blair speaks from the Eurostar VIP | :28:11. | :28:15. | |
lounge according to the guardian. The problem with this speech was not | :28:16. | :28:20. | |
so much he was wrong to make it, the debate is not necessarily over, the | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
1975 referendum did not necessarily solve the debate, but he was very | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
imprecise over exactly what it was proposing. He talked about people | :28:31. | :28:35. | |
rising up against this, but does he he want a second referendum because | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
he did not like the first result, or on the terms of the deal, does he | :28:42. | :28:49. | |
want the Labour Party to go against the result? It has muddied the | :28:50. | :28:57. | |
messages for Labour in what is any super Thursday looming best week in | :28:58. | :29:00. | |
terms of the stalk and Copeland by-elections. A lot of leave voters | :29:01. | :29:11. | |
in both of those constituencies. It plays into the narrative that | :29:12. | :29:14. | |
politicians know best what is good for you and you did not know what | :29:15. | :29:17. | |
was going on and that is why you voted for Brexit. Yes. Tony Blair | :29:18. | :29:23. | |
operating as if it was when he was at the height of his powers when he | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
was enjoying huge electoral landslides, solving problems from | :29:30. | :29:35. | |
Northern Ireland to Kosovo. He is operating under reduced | :29:36. | :29:37. | |
circumstances, probably damaged goods since the Iraq war and his | :29:38. | :29:42. | |
influence is not what it was. Having said that, he is still box office. | :29:43. | :29:47. | |
The coverage shows he still matters. Where next? The bloodbath on the | :29:48. | :29:55. | |
High Street. The Daily Mail, a Tory supporter, very critical of | :29:56. | :30:00. | |
government policy on business rates. A business rates revaluation. The | :30:01. | :30:03. | |
government would point out the majority of businesses will pay you | :30:04. | :30:07. | |
less but a number they are going to the wall as a consequence of a | :30:08. | :30:12. | |
revaluation which leads to a business rates rise. Traditional | :30:13. | :30:16. | |
Conservative supporting papers like the Daily Mail and the Daily | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
Telegraph are very critical of what has been proposed. The difficulty | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
for the government is what to do about business rates. You could | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
scrap them and have a new system based on business profits, which | :30:28. | :30:31. | |
makes sense and may protect the High Street, but dangers in scrapping the | :30:32. | :30:39. | |
system. Remember Margaret Thatcher and the poll tax? The Conservatives | :30:40. | :30:44. | |
have to be careful if they go for scrapping business rates and it is | :30:45. | :30:46. | |
not on their immediate agenda. Taxes come in all shapes and forms, | :30:47. | :30:56. | |
don't they? Liverpool City Council say if you shop a dog owner whose | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
pet dog fouls the pavement, you can have a year free of paying your | :31:02. | :31:06. | |
council tax. This leads to all sorts of possibilities, how many people | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
would shop their neighbours to win the prize, which is valuable. You | :31:11. | :31:15. | |
pay more than ?1000 normally in council tax in Liverpool and how do | :31:16. | :31:18. | |
you know that people were staged such an event, take the photograph, | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
to try and claim a prize? Talk us through that one! How would it work? | :31:24. | :31:31. | |
Get a friend to walk the dog, get them to file the pavement, and share | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
the winnings! There could be problems with the administrations of | :31:36. | :31:42. | |
this scheme... -- foul. You are so devious! But, it is an attractive | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
idea in terms of raising headlines about the problem of dog mess. The | :31:46. | :31:50. | |
council leader in Liverpool says that he is sick of Liverpool | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
pavement smelling of dog mess. It is a problem. You will come back in one | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
hour's time. And talk to us some more. We will see you there. Now, | :31:59. | :32:00. | |
the headlines in just a moment. Hello, this is Breakfast with | :32:01. | :32:33. | |
Rachel Burden and Charlie Stayt. Coming up before nine - | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
Darren will have your weather, but first a summary of this | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
morning's main news: Theresa May is introducing a new law | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
to combat domestic violence The Prime Minister says victims | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
of domestic violence are being "let down by the legal system" | :32:48. | :32:53. | |
in England and Wales. She wants to increase convictions | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
for what she describes as a "life Some charities are concerned that | :32:57. | :32:59. | |
too many victims remain California is being hit | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
by what could be one The so called "weather bomb" has | :33:05. | :33:11. | |
drenched the state with reports In one neighbourhood in Los Angeles, | :33:12. | :33:15. | |
a sinkhole swallowed two cars. Earlier I spoke to Captain | :33:16. | :33:22. | |
Erik Scott from the Los It was a very unique and dangerous | :33:23. | :33:33. | |
incident which happened in an area we call Studio City. We had a car | :33:34. | :33:40. | |
that was upside down in a large and dark sinkhole which was full of | :33:41. | :33:43. | |
rushing water. What we had was a single occupant standing on top of | :33:44. | :33:49. | |
the upside down car, about ten feet below the street. Fortunately, | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
firefighters jumped into action and rapidly lowered a ten foot extension | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
ladder down to the female and led her to climb out and transported her | :33:57. | :34:02. | |
to a local hospital. She told firefighters afterwards that she | :34:03. | :34:02. | |
thought she would die. President Trump is preparing | :34:03. | :34:08. | |
to address a rally of supporters in Florida at the end of an eventful | :34:09. | :34:10. | |
week for the new US government. Yesterday, he sought to focus | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
on his promise to boost manufacturing jobs as he visited | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
a Boeing facility in South Carolina. However, he later resumed his | :34:17. | :34:18. | |
criticism of the media, branding a group of news | :34:19. | :34:20. | |
organisations as "the enemy Three former trade secretaries have | :34:21. | :34:23. | |
criticised plans to reform business rates for the first time | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
in seven years. Speaking to the Telegraph, | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
Lord Tebbit, Sir Vince Cable and Dame Margaret Beckett | :34:34. | :34:35. | |
all voiced their concerns over the new system which comes | :34:36. | :34:37. | |
into force in England The government claims most | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
businesses will not see an increase. But some of the UK's biggest | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
employers' groups are condemning changes to the rates appeals | :34:45. | :34:47. | |
process. They have to pay a fee, first, to | :34:48. | :34:59. | |
appeal. That is the first thing. Their second, they need to bring all | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
of their evidence at the start of the process, which is really admin | :35:04. | :35:06. | |
is to tip and burdensome. That is the start. Even if they win their | :35:07. | :35:11. | |
repeal, they could have it dismissed because somehow it is within the | :35:12. | :35:15. | |
boundaries of professional judgment, and nobody knows what that means -- | :35:16. | :35:17. | |
even if Unilever - which makes brands | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
including Marmite and PG Tips, billion-pound takeover bid | :35:21. | :35:36. | |
from the American food giant Unilever said there was no basis | :35:37. | :35:39. | |
for further negotiations, but Kraft has said it will continue | :35:40. | :35:42. | |
to work on a potential deal, which would make it | :35:43. | :35:45. | |
the second biggest takeover Brand Strategist, Trevor Hardy, | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
told Breakfast that the British firm Those are the main | :35:48. | :35:51. | |
stories this morning. Now Mike, it is one of those days, | :35:52. | :35:56. | |
the little guys against the big guys? Unprecedented, we've had two | :35:57. | :36:05. | |
non-league sides in this round. No league side has gone further | :36:06. | :36:08. | |
since QPR, I know that they are Richard Keen chip club, but in 1914 | :36:09. | :36:13. | |
there were a non-league sign and they got through! -- Eynon | :36:14. | :36:18. | |
championship club. Both remaining non league sides, | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
are up against Premier League Sutton United will have to wait | :36:24. | :36:29. | |
until Monday night for their match with Arsenal... | :36:30. | :36:32. | |
But the other non-league side, Lincoln City, who are top | :36:33. | :36:34. | |
of the national league, They take on Premier League Burnley, | :36:35. | :36:36. | |
who are 81 places above them. Being underdogs hasn't hindered | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
Lincoln so far though - they've already knocked out | :36:41. | :36:42. | |
Championship sides We have said, going against Burnley | :36:43. | :36:44. | |
it's probably a one in 100 chance. We've only beaten them | :36:45. | :36:49. | |
once in 100 games. But for us to come through the one | :36:50. | :36:56. | |
we have been on and get to the fifth round as a non league team | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
is probably one in 10,000 chances so Lincoln has already had a bit | :37:01. | :37:03. | |
of the FA Cup magic and for anyone who thinks the FA Cup is dead | :37:04. | :37:07. | |
has not been in Lincoln One of the big talking points this | :37:08. | :37:10. | |
season has been whether top flight managers are taking the FA | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
Cup seriously. Tomorrow Manchester United play | :37:15. | :37:16. | |
Blackburn Rovers at Ewood park, and their manager Jose Mourinho says | :37:17. | :37:22. | |
that foreign managers need to learn Maybe we do not have as many English | :37:23. | :37:33. | |
managers as we should? Maybe we, foreign managers, not everybody | :37:34. | :37:41. | |
studies and understands the culture of this country. The trial is to go | :37:42. | :37:49. | |
serious. I like Wembley and the FA Cup, so I have to try and get to the | :37:50. | :37:51. | |
second round. No Dan Walker on the sofa today | :37:52. | :37:59. | |
as he's with his Football Focus If we are looking for other | :38:00. | :38:03. | |
upsets....well, Manchester City, could rest players for their away | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
tie against Huddersfield - City play in the Champions | :38:09. | :38:18. | |
League on Tuesday. Middlesbrough are at home to last | :38:19. | :38:20. | |
round giant killers Oxford United, Millwall face Premier League | :38:21. | :38:27. | |
champions Leicester City, Wolverhampton Wanderers welcome | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
Chelsea in the late kick off. Tomorrow, there's a London derby | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
with Fulham/Tottenham at two, that's followed by Blackburn | :38:32. | :38:33. | |
against Manchester United. Watford have announced they're | :38:34. | :38:35. | |
commissioning a statue of former The memorial will be put | :38:36. | :38:37. | |
at the club's ground, with the blessing of | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
Taylor's family. There will also be a pre-season | :38:41. | :38:41. | |
fixture at Vicarage Road, in honour of their most successful | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
manager, who died last month. Onto rugby union, and Saracens | :38:45. | :38:48. | |
missed the chance to return to the top of the Premiership - | :38:49. | :38:50. | |
losing 31-23 at Gloucester. The defending champions suffered | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
their second defeat in a week, in the west country - | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
with Welsh forward Richard Hibbard, bundling over for the crucial try, | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
just five minutes from time. Leinster have gone top of the Pro 12 | :39:01. | :39:10. | |
- earning a bonus point for the six tries they ran | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
in during their 39-10 Scarlets remain fourth, | :39:14. | :39:16. | |
after thrashing bottom Josh Strauss has become the second | :39:17. | :39:18. | |
player in a week to be ruled out ruled out of the rest | :39:19. | :39:26. | |
of Scotland's Six Nations campaign. The number eight suffered a kidney | :39:27. | :39:32. | |
injury in their defeat to France, and it's been confirmed he'll take | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
no further part in the competition. On Wednesday it was announced that | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
captain Greg Laidlaw's Six Nations Leeds won for the first time | :39:40. | :39:42. | |
this season as they came from behind to beat, | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
Leigh Centurions 17-14. The promoted club went | :39:48. | :39:49. | |
into an early 8-0 lead... But that was wiped out quickly | :39:50. | :39:56. | |
as Leeds ran in three quick tries, including this one from Ryan Hall, | :39:57. | :39:59. | |
on their way to that Elsewhere, the best British | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
clubs take on the top Tomorrow Superleague | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
champions Wigan take on NRL winners, Cronulla Sharks. | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
While this evening Warrington Warrington were runners-up in both | :40:11. | :40:13. | |
the Challenge Cup final Brisbane are led by, | :40:14. | :40:18. | |
England head coach Wayne Bennett, and his opposite number knows | :40:19. | :40:23. | |
it's a rare opportunity to test their skills, | :40:24. | :40:25. | |
against some of the best You do not get the chance to come up | :40:26. | :40:27. | |
against the Australians very often Once upon a time your club | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
would come up against the touring So it is an opportunity for us | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
and great experience for our players to be exposed to one of the great | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
teams in recent There was an historic win | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
at Sandown, as for the first time Captain Guy Disney, who rides | :40:45. | :40:56. | |
with a prosthetic leg, and he steered Rathlin Rose | :40:57. | :41:08. | |
to an emotional success He lost his lower right leg, | :41:09. | :41:10. | |
after being injured when his vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
grenade, while he was serving He's the only amputee to be | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
granted a riders' licence, by the British Horse | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
Racing Authority. They took some convincing, but when | :41:22. | :41:27. | |
he did a trek to the South Pole with Prince Harry, they changed their | :41:28. | :41:28. | |
minds! We've heard about the FA Cup, | :41:29. | :41:31. | |
well it's the last weekend to enter There are many different categories | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
including walking football - a sport which has got tens | :41:36. | :41:38. | |
of thousands of people active again, like Jan Milner, who's sporting | :41:39. | :41:41. | |
ambitions was reawakened five years Well, not just Charlie, | :41:42. | :41:43. | |
but when we ran a feature on the first walking football club | :41:44. | :41:58. | |
at Bury, now there are has formed a team in Doncaster, | :41:59. | :42:00. | |
of over 60-year-olds playing I was in a dark place, I was not | :42:01. | :42:10. | |
good. I have many memories. But sometimes they are not enough, you | :42:11. | :42:14. | |
know? And what has happened, we create new memories here. One of the | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
that you do not doing walking football is wrong, I was booked | :42:19. | :42:26. | |
there! You can see what happened when I joined Jan at half past nine. | :42:27. | :42:31. | |
And you can go to the website to get involved. You have until tomorrow | :42:32. | :42:33. | |
night. Thank you. Cooperative Bank customers have | :42:34. | :42:35. | |
been told the company The bank has over four million | :42:36. | :42:37. | |
customers including 1.4 million people with current accounts | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
and 225,000 people with mortgages. The bank had nearly 300 | :42:42. | :42:43. | |
UK branches in 2013, but now there are just | :42:44. | :42:46. | |
over 100 left. It reported a loss of more | :42:47. | :42:47. | |
than ?600m for 2015 and it's already said it expects to have made | :42:48. | :42:51. | |
a significant loss in 2016 as well. Paul Lewis from Money Boxes with us | :42:52. | :43:12. | |
now. Firstly, anyone who has an account or mortgage, what is their | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
situation? Well, the situation is as it was one week ago. I think, if I | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
was one of them, I am not, but if I was I would hold tight and see what | :43:24. | :43:25. | |
happens. The bank is for sale anything bad will happen in the | :43:26. | :43:31. | |
immediate future, but it could be sold as a horse in bits. Your | :43:32. | :43:36. | |
account and your mortgage would move to another bank. But, that would not | :43:37. | :43:39. | |
in itself be a disaster. Even if the worst possible thing | :43:40. | :43:56. | |
happened, there is no suggestion of this, the bank, or indeed any bank, | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
did go out of business completely, then your savings are protected up | :44:00. | :44:01. | |
to ?85,000, and I'm told almost no one has that much in the | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
co-operative bank. And your mortgage and current account would be moved | :44:05. | :44:06. | |
somewhere else. There is no need for customers to panic that has you | :44:07. | :44:09. | |
hinted, it is still in a bit of a mess. Yes, a bank in a mess, who | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
would want to buy it? We do not know, people I've been speaking to | :44:15. | :44:17. | |
have said it probably would not be bought as a | :44:18. | :44:24. | |
-- bought as a whole. But Cooperative Bank may be able to | :44:25. | :44:31. | |
carry on. It's been able to do so because the regulator, the Bank of | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
England, has said it can take five years to sort itself out. That would | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
take us up to 2018, and as you said, it is expected to make another loss, | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
the fifth consecutive year that it has lost money. The Bank of England | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
could well say, have a bit longer to sort yourself out. It may not even | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
be sold. As I said, if it is? Customers will still have their | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
accounts and savings are protected, and their mortgages. The there. It | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
is a worrying time, of course the key thing is their ethical policy -- | :45:03. | :45:09. | |
their mortgages will still be there. If it is sold, that could go and if | :45:10. | :45:14. | |
it is broken up, that could go. Yes, did that make them unique in the | :45:15. | :45:19. | |
marketplace? If people were attracted to them for that reason, | :45:20. | :45:25. | |
are there other banks with a similar ethos? Not really, a lot of their | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
customers are there because of it, surveys have shown that. It will not | :45:30. | :45:35. | |
let anyone involved in the arms trade or genetic testing or what it | :45:36. | :45:39. | |
calls sweatshop labour have an account with the bank and will not | :45:40. | :45:42. | |
invest money in those kinds of organisations. So, it is pretty | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
unique, well, completely unique, in terms of the high street bank. I | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
think that people would find it difficult to find an alternative for | :45:52. | :45:55. | |
day-to-day banking, if Cooperative Bank disappeared. That is why the | :45:56. | :46:00. | |
bank tells me it is so central to their success and millions of | :46:01. | :46:03. | |
customers that it does have, that any future buyer would be foolish to | :46:04. | :46:07. | |
get rid of it. Of course, a future buyer who owned the whole thing | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
could get rid of it if they wanted, it depends what the motivation for | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
buying it is. We will leave it there for now, thank you. More on that | :46:16. | :46:23. | |
story on Money Box on radio for later today. | :46:24. | :46:26. | |
Here's Darren with a look at this morning's weather. | :46:27. | :46:29. | |
It's quite one? It is not the kind of weather for jumping out of bed | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
and heading outside quickly this morning. | :46:36. | :46:37. | |
We have if you weather watcher pictures to begin with. It | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
highlights this grey and misty start. This was taken in East | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
Sussex, affecting the southern half of the UK primarily, most of England | :46:48. | :46:51. | |
and Wales, Cambridgeshire and a hint of something brighter to come. A lot | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
of club to come, some missed until fall, but it should brighten in the | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
south of the UK. Further north, a stronger wind. Not as misty or | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
foggy, rain about, moving slowly southwards. By the afternoon, it | :47:06. | :47:10. | |
will be much brighter across England and Wales, some sunshine coming | :47:11. | :47:21. | |
through, mild, about 13 degrees is possible, north-west England is | :47:22. | :47:23. | |
going to Sebring and Tristan at times, especially late in the | :47:24. | :47:27. | |
afternoon, that in eastern Scotland, there is another dose of ring -- | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
going to see some rain at times. It's the FA Cup fifth round later. | :47:32. | :47:40. | |
It will be pretty mild, temperatures on the high side for this time of | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
year. Some rain comes into northern England and Northern Wales during | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
the evening. It peters out, wet and windy weather comes back into | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
western Scotland and breaks for eastern Scotland. On the whole, | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
cloudy skies with temperatures at about six or 7 degrees. But a | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
particular cold start, it is their westerly breeze, bringing in moist | :48:04. | :48:10. | |
air. A lot of cloud, the best chance of sunshine is eastern areas, | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
eastern Scotland and some parts of Wales. 11 or 12 degrees today, rain | :48:15. | :48:21. | |
nudges into the far north-west later today. Where is the air coming from? | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
It comes all the way from the Caribbean. We won't get the | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
Caribbean sunshine, but we will get some milder air. It will be trapped | :48:31. | :48:33. | |
between these weather fronts on Monday. Bumpy over the east of high | :48:34. | :48:41. | |
ground, some cloud about, but if we have sunshine in eastern areas, we | :48:42. | :48:46. | |
could get temperatures in the mid teens but only briefly. Back to you | :48:47. | :48:47. | |
two. Thank you. You have to do something | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
with the weather but I've noticed the numbers are coming down, you | :48:53. | :48:57. | |
were promising 15 an hour ago! It was 17, but there is some | :48:58. | :49:04. | |
uncertainty as to how warm it will be at the sunshine, it could be that | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
we are cloudy but it is muggy air, warmer air for this time of year. | :49:09. | :49:13. | |
Maximum temperatures of eight or 9 degrees commit you cannot complain | :49:14. | :49:16. | |
really! And I thought you promised away your shorts -- I thought you | :49:17. | :49:22. | |
promised to wear your shorts! I've got changed now! | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
Scunthorpe is a place known for its steel, | :49:27. | :49:27. | |
but from today it will get to experience a gold rush. | :49:28. | :49:30. | |
Shiny - and valuable - objects are being hidden around | :49:31. | :49:32. | |
the town today for the public to find and keep. | :49:33. | :49:35. | |
It's all part of an art project - with clues hidden in paintings | :49:36. | :49:38. | |
Our Entertainment Correspondent Colin Paterson went | :49:39. | :49:41. | |
Scunthorpe. Not the most obvious place for a gold rush, but today, | :49:42. | :50:02. | |
these five objects, each worth at least ?2500, will be hidden around | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
the town and it is finders keepers! It sounds great but I don't think | :50:07. | :50:12. | |
I'll be taking part... Why not? No, no... ?2500? Some kids can find | :50:13. | :50:21. | |
them. How good are went hunting for things? Very good! What would you it | :50:22. | :50:29. | |
on? On quite a fancy date! This is the idea of this artist. I liked the | :50:30. | :50:34. | |
idea of participation and providing people with a new way of thinking, | :50:35. | :50:39. | |
and this artwork, with all of these layers, have content and stories to | :50:40. | :50:44. | |
tell, and should inspire the public. Luke Jerram enlisted a code maker | :50:45. | :50:49. | |
from GCHQ to create five puzzles, which have been turned into | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
paintings. Each answer will reveal the location of an object. We are | :50:54. | :50:57. | |
not allowed to haul you -- show you the whole of any of the paintings in | :50:58. | :51:02. | |
focus, in case treasure hunters work out the code in advance. At 10am | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
this morning, anyone who would like ago will be allowed into the 2021 | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
Visual Arts Centre to try and break the codes. We've had interest from | :51:12. | :51:18. | |
people on Twitter from miles away, and apparently there are treasure | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
hunters from across the world who fly in to solve puzzles like this. | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
This is footage of one of the objects being hidden, we are told | :51:27. | :51:29. | |
none of them have been buried in case treasure hunters begin to | :51:30. | :51:39. | |
demolish local parks. The 518 carat models are models of artefacts from | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
the towns museum. This is 200 million years old... Really? I like | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
the idea of objects that have been found in the area, coming to the | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
museum, copied and hidden for people to find. So there are new versions | :51:53. | :51:57. | |
for people to look for. Part of it makes me think of monopoly! It is | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
like the worlds poshest Monopoly set! Organisers expect at least one | :52:03. | :52:05. | |
treasure to be found today, but believe hardest puzzle could take | :52:06. | :52:10. | |
years to solve. Scunthorpe, once known for steel, now it is all about | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
gold! Colin Paterson, BBC News. They are pretty little things, and | :52:14. | :52:23. | |
valuable! And that line from Colin, the world's poshest Monopoly set! If | :52:24. | :52:27. | |
I found them, I would not play Monopoly! | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
If you want to join in the treasure hunt, the five paintings featuring | :52:31. | :52:35. | |
clues will be displayed at Scunthorpe's 2021 | :52:36. | :52:37. | |
Visual Arts Centre from today until the 29th of April. | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
Scottish singer-songwriter Amy MacDonald is no | :52:41. | :52:41. | |
stranger to chart success - aged just 29 she's already released | :52:42. | :52:44. | |
four albums and sold millions of records worldwide. | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
But the This Is The Life singer says despite all that she doesn't | :52:50. | :52:53. | |
consider herself a celebrity and loves the fact that she is still | :52:54. | :52:56. | |
able to walk down the street without being recognised. | :52:57. | :53:03. | |
Do you really not get recognised anywhere? Yeah, it is brilliant, | :53:04. | :53:09. | |
even countries where I've had a lot of success and a lot of support, I | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
can still go shopping and nobody even twigs! Presumably, if you are | :53:14. | :53:22. | |
in a city doing a day, there must be times people recognise you? Not | :53:23. | :53:25. | |
really, once in the Netherlands I was performing at a big festival, | :53:26. | :53:29. | |
and was meant to be picked up at the Hotel and I got a bit lost and found | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
myself wandering amongst the crowd and not one person even looked | :53:34. | :53:35. | |
twice! Going to your own gay? Yes! -- going to your own gig? Yes, I was | :53:36. | :53:50. | |
among the crowd and nobody noticed! Let's have a look at the song that | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
made you famous... # The people they were dancing | :53:55. | :53:58. | |
# To the music vibe # And the boys kiss the girls with | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
the Coles and their hair # And the songs they get louder each | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
one better than before # And you are singing the songs | :54:09. | :54:13. | |
thinking this is the life # Where you going to sleep tonight? | :54:14. | :54:20. | |
# And you're singing the songs thinking this is the life | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
# And you wake up in the morning and your head feels twice the size | :54:25. | :54:33. | |
# Where you going to sleep tonight? You were very honestly reflecting on | :54:34. | :54:37. | |
how different you looked then to now? Yes, a chubby teenager! I did | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
not say that! That's one of the problems with your business, you | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
grow up, albeit you do not like the celebrity thing, there is evidence | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
of that? Yes, evidence of terrible outfits and dodgy haircuts that you | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
can never escape! We have dragged up pictures from ten years ago! Awful! | :54:56. | :55:00. | |
Health and fitness is a big part of your life now, isn't it? When I got | :55:01. | :55:06. | |
into touring, I began to make sure that I kept myself fit and healthy. | :55:07. | :55:11. | |
I realised it has made a massive difference to my voice and I feel | :55:12. | :55:14. | |
like I can sing a bit more. It is so physically draining. After these | :55:15. | :55:22. | |
massive tours as well? Yes, crazy, after months on end, on stage | :55:23. | :55:25. | |
belting it out, and with my new album, it is the same. I've written | :55:26. | :55:31. | |
an album full of big songs which require a lot of energy to perform, | :55:32. | :55:34. | |
I do not know why not written a really slow one yet! Be single from | :55:35. | :55:46. | |
the album is called Dream On. # I'm on top of the world and I'm on | :55:47. | :55:49. | |
the right track # I'm on top of the world and I | :55:50. | :55:56. | |
won't look back # I'm on top of the world | :55:57. | :56:00. | |
and I won't look back # The time is now, I'm on top of the | :56:01. | :56:10. | |
world and I'm on the right track # I'm on the top of the world and I | :56:11. | :56:23. | |
won't look back. Talk about weight loss, that's quite extreme! I was on | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
a diet for weeks! What is the thinking behind the tiny thing, it | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
looks fantastic! It was something a bit different, I find when you try | :56:33. | :56:37. | |
to come up with ideas for videos, you get sent a lot of scripts, and a | :56:38. | :56:43. | |
lot of the time they are the same. Nothing is that different all the | :56:44. | :56:46. | |
same, but that stuck out, and I thought it sounded cool. I did the | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
whole green screen thing and I felt like I was a character in Lord of | :56:51. | :56:53. | |
the rings or something! Pretending I was climbing up and downstairs. It | :56:54. | :56:58. | |
was nice to do something different to what I've done before. You are a | :56:59. | :57:02. | |
solo artist, and you've always written your own songs but you say | :57:03. | :57:07. | |
this is more of a collaborative process? Yes, with the album, I | :57:08. | :57:12. | |
wrote a view of the songs with my bandmates, and it was a natural | :57:13. | :57:16. | |
progression. With my bass player, Jimmy, news been with me from day | :57:17. | :57:21. | |
one. I've known him 11 years. -- he has been with me from day one. You | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
begin to jam and come up with things during a sound check. Jimmy and I | :57:26. | :57:30. | |
have written about 100 songs but they are all joke songs. The classic | :57:31. | :57:36. | |
one that we sing all the time, "I'm eating my feelings!" I don't think | :57:37. | :57:42. | |
it will get onto the album... Now you said it, everyone will want to | :57:43. | :57:48. | |
hear it! We decided to sit down and try to write something properly. It | :57:49. | :57:53. | |
was really difficult at first. It is strange putting your ideas out | :57:54. | :57:57. | |
there. But when we got into the swing of things, it clicked. I wrote | :57:58. | :58:01. | |
a good few songs and was pleased with the outcome. Anybody who knows | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
you know is that you do a very brilliant Bruce Springsteen cover in | :58:06. | :58:10. | |
your own style. And you got to meet him as well? Was it one of those | :58:11. | :58:13. | |
moments where you pinch yourself and go, life is pretty good! It was a | :58:14. | :58:18. | |
crazy moment, I did not expect to see him. I was performing in Hyde | :58:19. | :58:25. | |
Park in London, he was a headliner. I went back to my dressing room and | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
from quite far-away I've thought, that looks like Bruce Springsteen... | :58:30. | :58:34. | |
But he's on his own, there is nobody with him, no entourage or security. | :58:35. | :58:38. | |
Then, I realised it was him and said hello, and he was happy to chat | :58:39. | :58:45. | |
away. I mentioned Bob who has mixed a few of my albums, he worked | :58:46. | :58:51. | |
closely with Bruce Springsteen, as soon as I mentioned his name, it was | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
like a magic password and I was in the circle! And we stood and chatted | :58:57. | :59:03. | |
and he was lovely. Really, really an amazing man and an incredible | :59:04. | :59:07. | |
performer. Will you be doing live stuff in the UK? Yes, I'm on tour, I | :59:08. | :59:11. | |
start the tour in Europe at the beginning of March which takes me | :59:12. | :59:14. | |
right through until April when I will be back in the UK, performing | :59:15. | :59:19. | |
at the Royal Albert Hall in and on. Which is the one I'm really excited | :59:20. | :59:25. | |
to do -- in London. And you are getting married this year? Not this | :59:26. | :59:29. | |
year, I don't have time! When it happens, it will be a last minute... | :59:30. | :59:33. | |
A quick one! And we are loving your shoes! Can we see? They are | :59:34. | :59:38. | |
fantastic. Wherever I go, people talk about my shoes, it has become | :59:39. | :59:41. | |
my thing! Thank you so much for coming in. | :59:42. | :59:44. | |
Amy MacDonald joins us in the studio now. | :59:45. | :59:47. | |
Choosing how much to tip on holiday can be tricky, | :59:48. | :59:54. | |
although it should always be your choice. | :59:55. | :59:56. | |
But later we'll be hearing how service charges on some cruise lines | :59:57. | :59:59. | |
aren't as optional as they seem. stay with us - headlines are next. | :00:00. | :00:28. | |
Hello this is Breakfast, with Rachel Burden and Charlie Stayt. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
The Prime Minister promises a new law to tackle domestic violence. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Theresa May says there's a lack of clarity in the current system | :00:34. | :00:36. | |
and that too many victims are being let down. | :00:37. | :00:49. | |
Good morning, it's Saturday 18th February. | :00:50. | :00:53. | |
Also ahead: A giant storm known as a weather bomb hits parts | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
of California causing torrential rain and leaving a trail | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
The US food giant Kraft says it won't give up as Unilever strongly | :00:59. | :01:08. | |
rejects its multi-billion pound takeover bid. | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
President Trump calls the media the "enemy of the American people" | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
ahead of what's being described as a campaign rally he's | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
We'll find out how they're preparing to take one of the last remaining | :01:17. | :01:29. | |
strongholds of the so-called Islamic State. | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
In sport: The Imps are hoping to cause another FA Cup shock. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Having knocked out Ipswich and Brighton, non-league | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
Lincoln City now have Premier League side Burnley in their sights. | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
And it's a treasure hunt with a twist. | :01:44. | :01:49. | |
We'll hear why gold figures worth more than ?10,000 are being hidden | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
It is mild and misty especially across England and Wales. We should | :01:53. | :02:02. | |
get some sunshine developing. The chance of rain across the north. It | :02:03. | :02:06. | |
stays mild if rather cloudy on Sunday. | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
Theresa May is launching a new law to combat domestic violence | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
The Prime Minister says domestic abuse is a "life shattering | :02:17. | :02:21. | |
abhorrent crime" and tackling it is a key priority | :02:22. | :02:23. | |
Official figures suggest that every year more than a million women | :02:24. | :02:29. | |
experience domestic abuse in England and Wales. | :02:30. | :02:34. | |
Among men that figure stands at just over half a million. | :02:35. | :02:36. | |
Last year 75,000 people were convicted of domestic abuse. | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
That's the highest number ever recorded. | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
There was also the highest ever conviction rate of 75% but some | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
charities are concerned that too many victims remain | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
Our political correspondent, Adam Fleming, is in Westminster | :02:50. | :02:54. | |
Adam, Theresa May spent six years as Home Secretary. | :02:55. | :03:02. | |
What is the purpose of these new laws or the consultation? Theresa | :03:03. | :03:18. | |
May introduced several pieces of legislation when she was Home | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Secretary but as Prime Minister she is taking the view of the whole of | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
the government needs to look at the whole of this area and look at a | :03:26. | :03:36. | |
whole range. Survivors of domestic abuse, how different police forces | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
in different parts of England and Wales approach it and what laws | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
govern what is illegal and what is not. Tightening them up, clarifying | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
what domestic abuse is, which will probably come needed a big piece of | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
legislation which will be put before Parliament in the near future. The | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
scale of some of the challenges were set out by a campaigner for a | :03:59. | :04:07. | |
domestic abuse charity. We must have great services for victims and | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
children but currently one of the key problems is that only about 1% | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
of perpetrators of domestic abuse are getting any kind of sanction or | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
behaviour change problem and while 99% are returning home to their | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
partner or are finding a new partner we are never going to end this | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
problem. One of the other thing Minister is Minister is doing is the | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
social aspect. She feels that by raising the and giving this issue, | :04:35. | :04:43. | |
getting it as a big item high on hard agenda, perhaps victims will | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
have more confidence to come forward. She is calling for the | :04:47. | :04:53. | |
government to look for quick wins, initiatives that can help people | :04:54. | :04:54. | |
now. California is being hit | :04:55. | :05:00. | |
by what could be one The so called "weather bomb" | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
has drenched the state, with reports of at least | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
two people dead. In one neighbourhood in Los Angeles | :05:07. | :05:08. | |
a sinkhole swallowed two cars. Earlier I spoke to Captain | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
Erik Scott from the Los Yes, sir, it's been a very busy day | :05:12. | :05:13. | |
for Los Angeles firefighters. We've certainly seen a sharp | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
increase in our emergency calls. This is largely due | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
to the deluge of rain we've had. We've had sinkholes, | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
swallowed up cars, people trapped where we had to perform | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
swift water rescues, vehicles were overcome | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
on the streets. In one incident in particular 15 | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
people were stranded. We've had 150 down power lines over | :05:33. | :05:37. | |
three to four hours. Some of which had | :05:38. | :05:42. | |
deadly consequences. And very large trees | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
which have been falling, This is a sequence of events caught | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
on a live camera of a car slipping You mentioned that's been | :05:48. | :05:56. | |
happening several times. That was a very unique and dangerous | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
incident that happened in an area When firefighters arrived on scene | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
we had a car that was upside down in a large dark sinkhole | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
that was full of rushing water and we had a single occupant | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
standing on top of that upside down Fortunately the firefighters | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
jumped into action. They rapidly lowered a 20 foot | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
extension ladder down to this female and let her climb out | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
and transported her She told firefighters afterwards | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
that she thought was going to die. President Donald Trump is preparing | :06:35. | :07:03. | |
to address a rally of supporters in Florida at the end of an eventful | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
week for the new US government. Yesterday, Mr Trump sought | :07:07. | :07:09. | |
to focus on his promise to boost manufacturing jobs, | :07:10. | :07:11. | |
but later resumed his criticism of the media, branding the industry | :07:12. | :07:13. | |
as an "enemy of the American The President of the United States | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
may have been in office for less than a month | :07:17. | :07:20. | |
but it is clear this is a part of the job he enjoys, | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
addressing an audience We love America and we are | :07:24. | :07:25. | |
going to protect America. We love our workers and we are going | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
to protect our workers. At a tour of Boeing | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
in South Carolina, he reiterated one of his | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
biggest campaign promises. Next stop, Florida, a place that | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
supported him when he needed it most, for an event that some say | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
is part of a strategy that will last It is unusual for a president | :07:40. | :07:43. | |
to hold a rally like this so soon after | :07:44. | :07:53. | |
inauguration but much of what Donald Trump has done so far | :07:54. | :07:57. | |
has been unconventional, including a worsening relationship | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
with the mainstream media. I'm not ranting and raving, | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
I'm just telling you. Last night, Donald Trump | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
expressed his displeasure in his favourite way | :08:04. | :08:08. | |
with another critical tweet. Even journalists from organisations | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
that have been on his side are not happy with | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
this turn of events, particularly when it | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
comes to Russia. Your opposition was hacked | :08:16. | :08:18. | |
and the Russians were responsible for it | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
and your people were on the phone with | :08:22. | :08:22. | |
Russia on the same day it was happening, | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
and we are fools for Donald Trump has a lot his plate, | :08:26. | :08:27. | |
a vacancy for a national security adviser, | :08:28. | :08:36. | |
falling approval ratings and accusations of chaos | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
in his administration. He will be hoping that | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
by going directly to voters, he can at least expect some warmth | :08:41. | :08:42. | |
in the Sunshine State. The Anglo-Dutch company Unilever, | :08:43. | :08:45. | |
which makes brands including Marmite and PG Tips, | :08:46. | :09:02. | |
has rejected a ?115 billion takeover bid from the American | :09:03. | :09:05. | |
food giant Kraft-Heinz. Unilever said there was no basis | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
for further negotiations, but Kraft has said it will continue | :09:08. | :09:09. | |
to work on a potential deal, which would make it | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
the second biggest takeover Iraqi forces are preparing to launch | :09:13. | :09:14. | |
an offensive to drive Islamic State It's the last major urban area | :09:15. | :09:19. | |
in the country that's still under From Mosul's southern | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
front, our Middle East In towns and villages along | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
the Tigris, and across the desert, they are readying for | :09:28. | :09:44. | |
the attack on West Mosul. These are the men of | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
Iraq's Emergency Response Division, It took 100 days to | :09:47. | :09:48. | |
take the city's east. They've been rested and re-equipped, | :09:49. | :09:54. | |
but the battle scars The west of Mosul will be | :09:55. | :09:56. | |
a different battle. This mortar team is going | :09:57. | :10:07. | |
through final weapons checks. The city's dense neighbourhoods mean | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
great care will be needed Nearly three quarters of a million | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
are still in the city. They'll be in the middle | :10:13. | :10:22. | |
of this firepower. When these men were in | :10:23. | :10:30. | |
the east they experienced So the question they are asking is, | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
what does the Islamic How much weaponry and how many men, | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
and how fiercely will IS fight British boots are | :10:37. | :10:42. | |
on the ground, too. Major-General Rupert Jones | :10:43. | :10:50. | |
is on a last-minute inspection They'll be supporting | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
the Iraqi assault on Mosul. In terms of how long it will take, | :10:54. | :10:58. | |
well, look, East Mosul West Mosul could be every bit | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
as tough, so, you know, You don't retake towns | :11:02. | :11:05. | |
and cities the size of Mosul, On the parade ground, Kurdish forces | :11:06. | :11:10. | |
and the Defence Secretary bringing a reminder of why | :11:11. | :11:18. | |
Britain is in this fight. We're picking up information | :11:19. | :11:22. | |
all the time now, information about those | :11:23. | :11:24. | |
foreign fighters, Information, too, | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
about some of the attacks that have been planned | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
in Western Europe. So this work is not simply | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
freeing people in Mosul from having to live under | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
this brutal regime. This won't be Iraq's | :11:39. | :11:44. | |
last fight against IS, Quentin Sommerville, BBC News, | :11:45. | :11:47. | |
on Mosul's southern front. Three former trade secretaries have | :11:48. | :12:00. | |
criticised plans to reform business rates for the first time | :12:01. | :12:02. | |
in seven years. Speaking to the Telegraph, | :12:03. | :12:04. | |
Lord Tebbit, Sir Vince Cable and Dame Margaret Beckett | :12:05. | :12:06. | |
all voiced their concerns over the new system, | :12:07. | :12:08. | |
which comes into force in England The government claims most | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
businesses will not see an increase, but some of the UK's biggest | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
employers' groups are condemning changes to | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
the rates appeals process. They have to pay a fee first | :12:20. | :12:22. | |
to appeal, that's the first thing, and they will have to bring | :12:23. | :12:26. | |
all their evidence together at the start of the process, | :12:27. | :12:29. | |
which is really administrative Then even if they win that appeal, | :12:30. | :12:31. | |
at the end of that process they could have that appeal | :12:32. | :12:37. | |
dismissed because it is somehow within the boundaries | :12:38. | :12:40. | |
of professional judgment, After another eventful | :12:41. | :12:41. | |
week in US politics, President Trump is heading back | :12:42. | :12:52. | |
to familiar territory as he prepares It is being billed as a "campaign | :12:53. | :12:54. | |
event" just 29 days Jan Halper-Hayes, who is a member | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
of President Trump's transition team, joins us now | :12:59. | :13:05. | |
from our London newsroom. Concentrating on recent events, the | :13:06. | :13:15. | |
event Mr Trump held at the Boeing factory. This was safe territory, he | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
was talking about jobs, this was one of his issues during the election | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
campaign, America first, American jobs. Yes. Tell us more about that | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
message and hope even that is to what he is trying to achieve. The | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
thing is that during the Obama administration they find out that | :13:40. | :13:42. | |
even though I were employment numbers went down what was created | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
was the contract workforce because of bat here so people were having to | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
have to back off the contract workforce because of bat here so | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
people were having to have to magazine that jobs -- having to have | :13:54. | :14:01. | |
two or three jobs. There is going to be a heavy tax ringing back in and | :14:02. | :14:08. | |
that has made several companies, forward, and others, decide that | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
they are going to build the plants and create the jobs in the United | :14:14. | :14:20. | |
States. He chose Boeing as the location but looking back, people | :14:21. | :14:23. | |
like clear messages, that is one of the reasons he won the election, but | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
if you look back during the campaign trail he said... Boeing is building | :14:28. | :14:35. | |
a brand-new 747 year force jet, he said the costs were out of control | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
and he said cancel the Boeing order and he said this plane is totally | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
out of control and Boeing is doing a number. Did you know that Boeing | :14:44. | :14:49. | |
came back with a $600,000 reduction on it? That is one of the reasons he | :14:50. | :14:56. | |
went to Boeing. Because he threatened and they responded? Yes. | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
We can see he threatened, he basically expressed an opinion which | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
many of us taxpayers, because it is our money, feel. It is $500 screws, | :15:07. | :15:17. | |
$1500 toilet seats. The defence department, what they spend, is | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
absolutely ridiculous. It was great that that happened. The rally he is | :15:22. | :15:28. | |
attending later today in Florida, why is he holding an election rally | :15:29. | :15:34. | |
29 days after being inaugurated? I am not sure that... I know the | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
campaign staff is doing it so that is why they are calling it a | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
campaign event because they have to distinguish legally between who | :15:45. | :15:49. | |
arranges these things. I think it is because he has decided that he is | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
fed up with what he calls the fake news or the ferry fake news and he | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
wants to take his message back to the people and I think he is right. | :15:59. | :16:05. | |
The fake news thing is absolutely compelling and the media has been | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
dragged into this row which is ongoing. The fake news then, help me | :16:10. | :16:15. | |
with some of the problem speed will have with this, because in his press | :16:16. | :16:22. | |
conference two days ago he was claiming specifically that his | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
victory was the biggest win since Ronald Reagan, which was factually | :16:29. | :16:33. | |
incorrect. When challenged, his answer was, I was just given that | :16:34. | :16:40. | |
information, I don't know. Yes. Everyone has seized upon that. He | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
does tend, and perhaps he needs to think about this, to be flippant | :16:46. | :16:49. | |
about those things. Everything is huge, everything is great. Let's try | :16:50. | :16:57. | |
to understand this fake news. The story with Flynn is that he did not | :16:58. | :17:07. | |
tell Vice President all of the information in his conversations | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
with the Russians. Then when asked he said, well, I can't quite | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
remember everything we talked about. It was a violation of trust. That | :17:18. | :17:23. | |
was the reason that they asked for his resignation. It has come out | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
from coming the FBI they have found that he has done nothing wrong. It | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
was all so that the intelligence services really wanted to go after | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
Flynn. Instead of making it all about Russia it would have been | :17:40. | :17:43. | |
really good to be able to talk about what was going on behind the scenes | :17:44. | :17:52. | |
and why Flynn had decided not to tell the truth, but also how he was | :17:53. | :17:55. | |
running his own intelligence operation out of the White House and | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
the intelligence services felt threatened by it. That is far more | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
interesting. One of the things people draw attention to is that | :18:06. | :18:12. | |
when there is a question asked of Mr Trump, for example the question | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
about what he knew when, which is a perfectly legitimate question, the | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
press would routinely ask that of a political leader, the response is | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
always an aggressive response along the lines of, this is part of what | :18:26. | :18:31. | |
the media is trying to do, instead of literally just answering simple | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
questions in terms of timelines. That ends up with this war of words | :18:36. | :18:39. | |
when no one is answering any questions. Let me speak personally | :18:40. | :18:46. | |
because from your perspective or the media perspective, I do not mean to | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
single you out, in your mind you are asking a question, I can tell you | :18:52. | :18:57. | |
that I have got to the point where I have said, especially on radio, if | :18:58. | :19:01. | |
you are just going to stay negative like this I am going to hang up. I | :19:02. | :19:09. | |
have walked out of a TV studio because the negativity that we get | :19:10. | :19:14. | |
bombarded with really grates on as. It is too much. There is not a | :19:15. | :19:21. | |
balance of positive things. He has accomplished more in the first four | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
weeks than most presidents have at least in my lifetime. Some people | :19:26. | :19:31. | |
watching maybe have sympathy with what you're saying and maybe not. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
Some things do not matter much. If he has a spat with an individual you | :19:37. | :19:45. | |
can see it doesn't matter but consistency matters, world affairs. | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
Over Nato, during the campaign trail, Trump said he would not feel | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
bound by the article, which says an attack on one is an attack on all. | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
He said he would not feel bound by that. In amongst a lot of other | :20:00. | :20:07. | |
things about needle. Today we have Mike pence saying US strongly | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
supports Nato, the US will be unwavering in its support from other | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
members of Nato. Are you going to accuse me of being negative for | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
drawing attention to something which appears to be completely at all that | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
was what he said during the campaign trail? No. I understand how you | :20:25. | :20:31. | |
would make that conclusion. People from the very beginning have taken | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
him literally or have taken him what he says isolated instead of | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
seriously connecting things. You would have also read that it was | :20:42. | :20:46. | |
made clear at the Nato meeting that if people do not pay their fair | :20:47. | :20:53. | |
share the US is not going to support Nato in the same way any more. That | :20:54. | :20:58. | |
was his biggest thing, he felt it was obsolete, and Donald Rumsfeld | :20:59. | :21:06. | |
had said that during the Bush era. There are 27 nations that do not | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
contribute anything. Britain, the US, Germany, are carrying the whole | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
thing. That is what he is fed up with because it goes with his | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
America first. There is something else about him as a leader that | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
follows. He has picked people who do not agree with him. People might | :21:26. | :21:32. | |
find that very confusing, how could madness, when he is confirmed and | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
has been picked by Donald Trump, say our commitment to needle is | :21:37. | :21:44. | |
unshakeable? He does not want yes men or women, people who totally | :21:45. | :21:51. | |
agree with him. My final thought, it is opinion from you, people hearing | :21:52. | :21:59. | |
about these rosy having with the media, a lot of will think it sounds | :22:00. | :22:06. | |
insular, an elitist argument, the president arguing with the big | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
networks, or carers? Do you think Trump is able to step away from us? | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
This morning, his latest tweet is that the media are the enemy of the | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
American people. Are we going to get to a point, it is on the 29 days | :22:22. | :22:26. | |
then, when we can move on? Him as well as the media he is accusing of | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
this. He has an enormous amount of support for what he is doing and a | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
lot of people agree with him. The media in the US is extremely liberal | :22:41. | :22:50. | |
and yes Hillary Clinton won the so-called popular vote but if you | :22:51. | :22:53. | |
think about how things are spread out we have 3141... Sorry, that was | :22:54. | :23:00. | |
not the question. You're talking about the election again. Can we | :23:01. | :23:07. | |
move on? His dealings, what gets talked about. I can try to make my | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
point better. You want to move on from it. His supporters agree with | :23:13. | :23:20. | |
the points he is making. I do not think he is necessarily going to | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
move on the way other people want him to. I caution people, stop | :23:24. | :23:30. | |
putting a mould or expectation, because Donald Trump is not going to | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
meet them. Until you accept Donald Trump for how he behaves, how he | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
deals with things, only then will you begin to understand him and not | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
be so bothered by it. We have been hearing about the | :23:42. | :24:00. | |
extreme weather in California, a weather bomb. | :24:01. | :24:06. | |
You had never heard of it. This is a new term. We have gone | :24:07. | :24:14. | |
from long-term drought into sudden floods. It is the wet season but | :24:15. | :24:18. | |
there has been more vain than you would expect and snow in the | :24:19. | :24:25. | |
mountains, 80 mph winds. Because of this, a weather bomb, a rapidly | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
deepening area of low pressure, this was the cloud from it. This cloud in | :24:30. | :24:37. | |
the last 24 hours or so has brought three or four inches of rain across | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
parts of California. The worst of the wind and rain has been across | :24:41. | :24:46. | |
the south. That area of low pressure is not as deep or intends or windy | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
and is going to be pushing away. Briefly drier but there is more | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
gathering out in the Pacific. We have this conveyor belt of warm wet | :24:57. | :25:00. | |
air which will run in off of the Pacific. The wetter weather towards | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
Oregon. Here at home not much wet weather but not a great deal of | :25:09. | :25:16. | |
sunshine. Ritzy mist the and grey. Further north, not as misty, the | :25:17. | :25:24. | |
wind is stronger. There is this area of rain moving slowly southwards | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
away from Northern Ireland into north-west England and Wales and | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
some or wet and windy weather arriving in the north-west of | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Scotland later. East of Scotland much more sheltered from the | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
south-westerly winds and should be drier and brighter. 13 degrees | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
possible in Aberdeenshire. A little sunshine for Northern Ireland in the | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
afternoon. Especially north-west England and North Wales, away from | :25:48. | :25:54. | |
here it should slowly brighten up, a little sunshine coming through Andy | :25:55. | :26:01. | |
mild day. Much more cloud for the football at Burnley. Reuters guys | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
away from this corner of the UK. There will be some rain and drizzle | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
for northern England and North Wales this evening which will fade out as | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
it goes southwards. A few breaks in the cloud in eastern Scotland. | :26:20. | :26:26. | |
Generally cloudy. Not too cold. Temperatures six or 7 degrees. Not | :26:27. | :26:31. | |
as much mist and fog. Towards the west we will have some drizzle | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
around the hills and coasts. Further east will be drier and brighter. The | :26:37. | :26:44. | |
air is coming from the Caribbean. We will not be getting the Caribbean | :26:45. | :26:52. | |
sunshine but in between mild air across the UK. That is going to be | :26:53. | :26:56. | |
windy. There will be some rain in the north and west but if we get | :26:57. | :27:02. | |
some sunshine 15 maybe 16 degrees, chiefly, early next week. | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
Teasing us with the prospect of warmer weather. | :27:09. | :27:16. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :27:17. | :27:18. | |
It's time now for a look at the newspapers. | :27:19. | :27:20. | |
Jon Tonge, a Political Lecturer at the University of Liverpool | :27:21. | :27:22. | |
is here to tell us what's caught their eye. | :27:23. | :27:25. | |
We were talking about politics moment ago and interest in Trump and | :27:26. | :27:34. | |
Brexit, your university has a huge increase in applications to study | :27:35. | :27:37. | |
politics. Politics departments around the country are reporting a | :27:38. | :27:43. | |
huge increase in applications, which is the silver lining, students want | :27:44. | :27:47. | |
to know more about what is happening. Politics departments have | :27:48. | :27:53. | |
never been busier. Great for businesses. You want to talk about | :27:54. | :27:57. | |
house prices. The story in the Times says that sellers are struggling to | :27:58. | :28:02. | |
shift their houses, taking up to a year in some parts of the country to | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
get rid of houses. 15 years ago we had the highest level of home | :28:08. | :28:11. | |
ownership anywhere in Europe. We are below the European average. House | :28:12. | :28:16. | |
ownership is going out of fashion, people cannot sell houses and we | :28:17. | :28:20. | |
have people returning to negative equity where your mortgage is worth | :28:21. | :28:25. | |
more than your house as people discount their houses to try to get | :28:26. | :28:29. | |
rid of them. How governments can address it is open to question. This | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
varies depending where you are in the country. People thought it was a | :28:35. | :28:38. | |
London problem because there was stamp duty on expensive properties | :28:39. | :28:43. | |
concentrated in London but reports suggest that house sellers are | :28:44. | :28:47. | |
discounting by 20% across the country so it is no longer | :28:48. | :28:50. | |
London-based because people cannot afford to get on the housing market. | :28:51. | :28:56. | |
Homeownership is barely above 50%. We soon might get to the position | :28:57. | :29:03. | |
where it is a minority position. This does not personally affect you, | :29:04. | :29:07. | |
but you still take an interest in the FA Cup. It has been in decline | :29:08. | :29:22. | |
since 1903 since Bury last won it! It is good to see Jose Mourinho | :29:23. | :29:26. | |
saying that we should show the competition respect, it is the | :29:27. | :29:31. | |
oldest competition. There are things you could do to improve it, I would | :29:32. | :29:37. | |
like to see a Champions League place for the winner, although that is not | :29:38. | :29:41. | |
going to happen. People would field stronger teams. You could scrap | :29:42. | :29:47. | |
replays and semi-finals at Wembley. Something needs to be done because | :29:48. | :29:51. | |
we are at risk of losing what was or was precious. The average fan still | :29:52. | :29:56. | |
loves it. Big clubs, huge academies, holding players who do not get a run | :29:57. | :30:01. | |
out, one of the criticisms about the development of the English game is | :30:02. | :30:05. | |
young players do not get the chance. At least in the FA Cup they are | :30:06. | :30:11. | |
getting games. You can argue you can bring youngsters into the Premier | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
League and play them there, there is nothing to stop you doing that, you | :30:15. | :30:19. | |
do not have to have 11 changes from the previous week, it devalues the | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
competition. Nobody is saying it will go back to its former glory but | :30:26. | :30:27. | |
it is time for action. There will be a change in the ?1 | :30:28. | :30:37. | |
coin? Yes, we will have a 12 sided Pound coin from the 28th of March, | :30:38. | :30:41. | |
you only have until October to raid your piggy banks to get rid of your | :30:42. | :30:48. | |
pound coins, because after that they will be different currency. Act | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
quickly! Royal Mint say they are bringing it in because nearly 3% of | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
current ?1 coins are fake, this new pound coin will be the most secure | :31:00. | :31:07. | |
currency in the world. Thank you. That's us done, thank you, good to | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
see you this morning. We are on BBC One until 10am this morning when | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
Michael roux Junior takes over in the Saturday Kitchen. | :31:18. | :31:26. | |
Good morning, Charles and Rachel! Our special guest is taking a rest | :31:27. | :31:31. | |
from all of the drama in East Enders, it's Diane Parish. And you | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
are here to face your food heaven and hell? My heaven is Scarlets! | :31:35. | :31:42. | |
Suite, we like them! Sweet, juicy and delicious. -- scallops. What is | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
your food hell? I do not like oysters, I do not trust them! You | :31:49. | :31:53. | |
are in good hands here, we have two good chefs with us today... What is | :31:54. | :31:58. | |
on your menu? I'm going to do a calamari with mayonnaise, and then | :31:59. | :32:08. | |
pork stuffed with ham, roast peppers, and that's all. Fried. | :32:09. | :32:16. | |
Making you feel hungry already! And Luca, what are you cooking on your | :32:17. | :32:22. | |
debut? A twist on steak and chips, cooked on the bone with pickled | :32:23. | :32:27. | |
walnuts, celeriac and blue cheese! Pickled walnuts! See you at 10am! | :32:28. | :32:35. | |
That all sounds lovely, headlines in a moment... | :32:36. | :33:07. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Rachel Burden and Charlie Stayt. | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
Coming up before ten, Darren will have your weather. | :33:15. | :33:16. | |
But first, a summary of this morning's main news. | :33:17. | :33:18. | |
Theresa May is introducing a new law to combat domestic violence | :33:19. | :33:21. | |
The Prime Minister says victims of domestic violence are being "let | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
down by the legal system" in England and Wales. | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
She wants to increase convictions for what she describes as a "life | :33:31. | :33:33. | |
Earlier on Breakfast, a domestic violence campaigner told us | :33:34. | :33:39. | |
the Government has a lot of work to do. | :33:40. | :33:45. | |
We must have great services for victims and children, but currently, | :33:46. | :33:53. | |
one of the key problems is only about 1% of perpetrators of domestic | :33:54. | :34:01. | |
abuse are getting any kind of sanction or behaviour change | :34:02. | :34:05. | |
problem, and 99% are returning home to their partners or finding a new | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
partner, and we are never again to end this problem. -- never going to | :34:09. | :34:14. | |
end this problem. California is being hit | :34:15. | :34:16. | |
by what could be one The so called "weather bomb" has | :34:17. | :34:18. | |
drenched the state with reports In one neighbourhood in Los Angeles | :34:19. | :34:23. | |
a sinkhole swallowed two cars. Captain Erik Scott is from | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
the Los Angeles Fire Department. It was a very unique and dangerous | :34:28. | :34:29. | |
incident which happened in an area We had a car that was upside | :34:30. | :34:32. | |
down in a large and dark sinkhole which was | :34:33. | :34:36. | |
full of rushing water. What we had was a single | :34:37. | :34:39. | |
occupant standing on top of the upside down car, | :34:40. | :34:42. | |
about ten feet below the street. Fortunately, firefighters | :34:43. | :34:45. | |
jumped into action and rapidly lowered a 20 foot extension | :34:46. | :34:52. | |
ladder down to the female and led her to climb out and transported her | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
to a local hospital. She told firefighters | :34:56. | :34:57. | |
afterwards that she Three former trade secretaries have | :34:58. | :34:59. | |
criticised plans to reform business rates for the first time | :35:00. | :35:10. | |
in seven years. Speaking to the Telegraph, | :35:11. | :35:12. | |
Lord Tebbit, Sir Vince Cable and Dame Margaret Beckett | :35:13. | :35:14. | |
all voiced their concerns over the new system which comes | :35:15. | :35:16. | |
into force in England The government claims most | :35:17. | :35:18. | |
businesses will not see an increase. But some of the UK's biggest | :35:19. | :35:22. | |
employers' groups are condemning changes to the rates appeals | :35:23. | :35:24. | |
process. They have to pay a fee, | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
first, to appeal. The second, they need to bring | :35:29. | :35:30. | |
all of their evidence at the start of the process, | :35:31. | :35:35. | |
which is really administrative Even if they win their appeal, | :35:36. | :35:37. | |
they could have it dismissed because somehow it is within | :35:38. | :35:45. | |
the boundaries of professional judgment, and nobody | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
knows what that means. Unilever - which makes brands | :35:48. | :35:49. | |
including Marmite and PG Tips, takeover bid from the | :35:50. | :36:03. | |
American food giant Unilever said there was no basis | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
for further negotiations, but Kraft has said it will continue | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
to work on a potential deal, which would make it the second | :36:11. | :36:13. | |
biggest takeover in corporate Those are the main | :36:14. | :36:15. | |
stories this morning. A big day of FA Cup action today? | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
Yes, Michelle Bushell! I like Michelle! I'm sure that you shall | :36:21. | :36:29. | |
roux Junior's cuisine is far superior! It's the fifth round now, | :36:30. | :36:36. | |
the chance to reach the last date, never before have we had two | :36:37. | :36:40. | |
non-league sides at this stage of the competition because a lot of the | :36:41. | :36:47. | |
teams are resting players like Leeds, they got a lot of stick for | :36:48. | :36:49. | |
resting their players. Not since QPR in 1914, | :36:50. | :36:52. | |
has a non league side reached the last eight of the FA | :36:53. | :36:57. | |
Cup, even though of course Rangers are now a championship club...but | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
non league Sutton or Lincoln could emulate that | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
feat this weekened. Sutton on Monday against Arsenal at | :37:05. | :37:11. | |
home and this lunchtime, non-league Lincoln City get things going, | :37:12. | :37:13. | |
when they take on Premier League Burnley, who are | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
81 places above them. Being underdogs hasn't hindered | :37:17. | :37:18. | |
Lincoln so far though - they've already knocked out | :37:19. | :37:20. | |
Championship sides We have said, going against Burnley | :37:21. | :37:21. | |
it's probably a one in 100 chance. But for us to come through the one | :37:22. | :37:30. | |
we have been on and get to the fifth round as a non league team | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
is probably one in 10,000 chances so Lincoln has already had a bit | :37:38. | :37:40. | |
of the FA Cup magic and for anyone who thinks the FA Cup is dead | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
has not been in Lincoln One of the big talking points this | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
season has been whether top flight managers are taking the FA | :37:47. | :37:52. | |
Cup seriously. Tomorrow Manchester United play | :37:53. | :37:54. | |
Blackburn Rovers at Ewood Park, and their manager Jose Mourinho says | :37:55. | :38:05. | |
that foreign managers need to learn Expect Manchester United to take it | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
seriously... Burnley/Lincoln City | :38:09. | :38:16. | |
is the lunchtime kick off, if we are looking for other upsets - | :38:17. | :38:26. | |
well Manchester City, could rest players for their away | :38:27. | :38:28. | |
tie against Huddersfield - City play in the Champions | :38:29. | :38:36. | |
League on Tuesday. Middlesbrough are at home to last | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
round giant killers Oxford United, Millwall face Premier League | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
champions Leicester City, Wolverhampton Wanderers welcome | :38:45. | :38:45. | |
Chelsea in the late kick off...and a reminder that in Scotland today, | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
the runaway leaders Celtic can extend their lead back to 27 points | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
with victory over Motherwell...they could potentially win the title | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
as early as next weekend. It is also the semifinals of the | :38:54. | :38:57. | |
Irn-Bru cup, Queen of the South against Dundee United. | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
Watford have announced they're commissioning a statue of former | :39:01. | :39:02. | |
The memorial will be put at the club's ground, | :39:03. | :39:05. | |
with the blessing of Taylor's family. | :39:06. | :39:06. | |
There will also be a pre-season fixture at Vicarage Road, | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
in honour of their most successful manager, who died last month. | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
Onto rugby union, and Saracens missed the chance to return | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
to the top of the Premiership - losing 31-23 at Gloucester. | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
The defending champions suffered their second defeat in a week, | :39:20. | :39:25. | |
in the west country - with Welsh forward Richard Hibbard, | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
bundling over for the crucial try, just five minutes from time. | :39:29. | :39:35. | |
Leinster have gone top of the Pro 12 - earning a bonus point | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
for the six tries they ran in during their 39-10 | :39:40. | :39:41. | |
Scarlets remain fourth, after thrashing bottom | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
Josh Strauss has become the second player in a week to be | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
ruled out of the rest of Scotland's Six Nations campaign. | :39:48. | :39:50. | |
The number eight suffered a kidney injury in their defeat to France, | :39:51. | :39:53. | |
and it's been confirmed he'll take no further part in the competition. | :39:54. | :39:56. | |
On Wednesday it was announced that captain Greg Laidlaw's Six Nations | :39:57. | :39:58. | |
Leeds won for the first time this season as they came | :39:59. | :40:09. | |
from behind to beat, Leigh Centurions 17-14. | :40:10. | :40:11. | |
The promoted club went into an early 8-0 lead... | :40:12. | :40:13. | |
But that was wiped out quickly as Leeds ran in three quick tries, | :40:14. | :40:16. | |
including this one from Ryan Hall, on their way to that | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
Elsewhere, the best British clubs take on the top | :40:20. | :40:29. | |
Tomorrow, Superleague champions Wigan take on NRL | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
winners, Cronulla Sharks. While this evening Warrington | :40:35. | :40:36. | |
Warrington were runners-up in both the Challenge Cup final | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
Brisbane are led by England head coach Wayne Bennett, | :40:41. | :40:45. | |
and his opposite number knows it's a rare opportunity | :40:46. | :40:47. | |
to test their skills, against some of the best | :40:48. | :40:49. | |
You do not get the chance to come up against the Australians very often | :40:50. | :40:57. | |
Once upon a time your club would come up against the touring | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
So it is an opportunity for us and great experience for our players | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
to be exposed to one of the great teams in recent | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
In the Welsh Open snooker, Judd Trump edged out | :41:11. | :41:21. | |
There was an historic win at Sandown, as for the first time | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
Captain Guy Disney, who rides with a prosthetic leg, | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
and he steered Rathlin Rose to an emotional success | :41:30. | :41:31. | |
He lost his lower right leg, after being injured when his vehicle | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, while he was serving | :41:36. | :41:38. | |
He's the only amputee to be granted a riders' licence, | :41:39. | :41:41. | |
by the British Horse Racing Authority. | :41:42. | :41:43. | |
They took some convincing, but when he did a trek | :41:44. | :41:45. | |
to the South Pole with Prince Harry, they changed their | :41:46. | :41:47. | |
It's a brilliant story. It is amazing. It opens the gates for | :41:48. | :41:56. | |
others to follow in his footsteps. Speaking of footsteps... At a | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
walking pace! The patter of tiny Mike footsteps! We are talking | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
walking football! Five years ago on BBC Breakfast, | :42:09. | :42:11. | |
we featured the beginnings of Walking football, | :42:12. | :42:13. | |
when the idea was trialled Now there are nearly 1,000 places | :42:14. | :42:15. | |
to play across the UK, and among the lives it's transformed | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
is Jan Milner's. Now in her 60's, she is hoping | :42:21. | :42:22. | |
her team take a giant step towards Wembley, | :42:23. | :42:25. | |
this month, in the FA People's Cup. There was a time when all Jan Milner | :42:26. | :42:30. | |
had left were her dreams, memories of playing football, | :42:31. | :42:33. | |
three decades ago. DREAM COMMENTATOR: What a save | :42:34. | :42:37. | |
from the goal keeper, But injuries took her | :42:38. | :42:39. | |
sporting opportunities away and led to her being lonely, | :42:40. | :42:45. | |
isolated and eventually depressed, until the moment five years ago | :42:46. | :42:47. | |
she switched on the TV one morning. Teams might consider | :42:48. | :42:50. | |
trying walking football. (ECHOING) walking football, | :42:51. | :42:52. | |
walking football... And her footballing | :42:53. | :42:55. | |
ambitions were rekindled. I saw it on telly and it | :42:56. | :43:06. | |
were like a light bolt moment. And I thought, you know what, | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
I want some of this because, So Jan formed her own team | :43:10. | :43:14. | |
of over-60s, to play in a version of football that does not | :43:15. | :43:18. | |
put as much pressure on senior joints and heart | :43:19. | :43:21. | |
that the full-speed game does. They've made me look | :43:22. | :43:23. | |
at me because a while ago I were in a dark | :43:24. | :43:31. | |
place, I wasn't good. I have many, many | :43:32. | :43:33. | |
memories but sometimes And sometimes what's happened, | :43:34. | :43:35. | |
we are creating new memories here. I scored a goal today and I will be | :43:36. | :43:38. | |
laughing for that forever. I joined Jan's team | :43:39. | :43:45. | |
in training and was amazed by the speed and accuracy | :43:46. | :43:47. | |
of the passing through feet. All footballers could learn | :43:48. | :43:54. | |
something from this. You have not got the option | :43:55. | :43:56. | |
of running past your opponent. It does open your | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
eyes that it is not sedentary and as slow | :44:00. | :44:11. | |
as you would like to think. This gives them the alternative | :44:12. | :44:13. | |
to still be able to kick a ball about and get the feel | :44:14. | :44:16. | |
for the ball but at slower pace When I first featured this | :44:17. | :44:19. | |
on Breakfast five years ago, there was only one | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
walking football club - that was a terrible pass - | :44:25. | :44:26. | |
now, there are nearly a thousand And it really has transformed | :44:27. | :44:29. | |
the lives of tens of Before this came along, | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
I would be doing a crossword for two When I finished at 35, | :44:36. | :44:46. | |
I had a broken ankle, OI had a new ankle, | :44:47. | :44:50. | |
a new knee, a new nose. I was widowed four years ago | :44:51. | :44:52. | |
and doing absolutely nothing. You do not think that when you get | :44:53. | :44:55. | |
to nearly 70 you can play Jan's team will now have home | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
support when they play in the FA People's Cup Walking Football | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
competition in Doncaster this month and if they get through this, | :45:04. | :45:05. | |
they will be one match It is not too late to enter the FA | :45:06. | :45:26. | |
People's cup. There are various categories, not just walking | :45:27. | :45:31. | |
football. To find out more, go to the BBC Get Inspired website. It | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
transforms lives! No running, just walking. | :45:36. | :45:45. | |
Voters will go head-to-head in the polls in two by-elections on | :45:46. | :45:50. | |
Thursday, one in Stoke-on-Trent and the other is here in Copeland. Both | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
were prompted by the resignation of their labour MP, and in both, the MP | :45:56. | :46:00. | |
faces a tough challenge to maintain the seat. It's a coastal | :46:01. | :46:08. | |
constituency which is home to the Sellafield nuclear plant and a | :46:09. | :46:11. | |
bitter dispute over local hospital services... It's a constituency of | :46:12. | :46:16. | |
beauty and contrast. Its remoteness whether Fells of the Lake District | :46:17. | :46:20. | |
meet the Irish Sea is both part of its appeal, and part of the | :46:21. | :46:25. | |
challenge of living here. And, for the last 70 years, it has been home | :46:26. | :46:31. | |
to the nuclear plant at Sellafield, often controversial but a major | :46:32. | :46:35. | |
employer in the area. More than 10,000 people work here. | :46:36. | :46:51. | |
It has been Labour land since the 1930s, but when Jamie Reed | :46:52. | :46:54. | |
quit to return to the nuclear industry, the Conservatives sensed | :46:55. | :46:56. | |
an opportunity to prune the red rose. | :46:57. | :46:58. | |
So could history be made on Thursday? | :46:59. | :47:00. | |
In the heart of the constituency at Calder Bridge, each year | :47:01. | :47:02. | |
the pub hosts the World's Biggest Liar competition. | :47:03. | :47:04. | |
What better place to discuss politics? | :47:05. | :47:07. | |
He tells me much has been made of the Labour leader's opposition | :47:08. | :47:15. | |
But the proposed new plant in the area has now | :47:16. | :47:25. | |
Or, are voters minds on other matters closer to home? | :47:26. | :47:33. | |
This is a constituency which very much concentrates on local issues | :47:34. | :47:35. | |
and apart from the nuclear issue there is also the hospitals | :47:36. | :47:38. | |
in the area where certainly there is big concern for voters. | :47:39. | :47:41. | |
It is the kind of thing that analysts in by-elections absolutely | :47:42. | :47:43. | |
So many things to pore over and potentially a close result. | :47:44. | :47:57. | |
To test the theory, we visited a hustings | :47:58. | :47:59. | |
As for the questions, top of the agenda - | :48:00. | :48:04. | |
How many jobs will you promise me, and people like me in this area...? | :48:05. | :48:26. | |
And what is abundantly clear is that people here care about Whitehaven | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
We are, as Copeland, totally different because we have | :48:30. | :48:32. | |
It concerns me greatly that there is a lot of political | :48:33. | :48:36. | |
parties that are using it as a crux for their campaign, | :48:37. | :48:39. | |
as to whether the nuclear industry will be enhanced or if it | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
Because of what's been going on, the health service. | :48:44. | :48:51. | |
I mean, there's an older population here as well. | :48:52. | :48:57. | |
Labour held the seat, albeit by a reduced margin over | :48:58. | :49:10. | |
the Conservatives, with Ukip coming third. | :49:11. | :49:13. | |
There were large national issues discussed at the hustings. | :49:14. | :49:15. | |
The economy, the NHS, climate change, for example, | :49:16. | :49:17. | |
but what people were really concerned with was the future | :49:18. | :49:23. | |
of the local hospitals, the local schools and especially | :49:24. | :49:25. | |
But these people tell me it isn't about Jeremy Corbyn, | :49:26. | :49:34. | |
The by-election results may well be seized upon by the winners | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
as symptomatic of wider political trends, but if they insist on doing | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
that they may well talk themselves into a place in the year's | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
There are seven candidates standing in the by-election on Thursday, find | :49:47. | :50:04. | |
out more about them and their policies on the BBC website. Now, a | :50:05. | :50:10. | |
last look this morning at the weather. Darren has all of the | :50:11. | :50:15. | |
details. It is mild? 15 degrees, 16 degrees? | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
Yes, potentially, over the next day or two, but you often find a lot of | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
cloud at this time of year. I found some blue skies and a little | :50:25. | :50:28. | |
sunshine. This was a picture from a Weather Watcher a little while ago. | :50:29. | :50:36. | |
From Yorkshire. More low cloud and misty conditions in the south, this | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
is East Sussex. So improvements in England and Wales, some sunshine but | :50:42. | :50:46. | |
an area of rain slipping slowly southwards over the Irish Sea. Wet | :50:47. | :50:51. | |
and windy weather pushing in the North West of Scotland. Eastern | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
Scotland is likely to be much drier and brighter, and it could be 13 | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
degrees in Aberdeenshire. We should get an improvement in the weather in | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
Northern Ireland, as sunshine and rain trickles to the far north of | :51:04. | :51:06. | |
England and into North Wales. Away from here, much more dry with a bit | :51:07. | :51:10. | |
of drizzle around and low cloud. It should brighten with sunshine | :51:11. | :51:15. | |
pushing through with temperatures at 11 or 12 degrees. A lot of cloud | :51:16. | :51:20. | |
right through the day, the FA Cup fifth round of calls. Something | :51:21. | :51:24. | |
brighter. It will be mild, more low cloud for the game at Burnley. In | :51:25. | :51:30. | |
the evening, rain and drizzle in North England and North Wales, going | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
southwards, that will peter out. We will have wet and windy weather in | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
Scotland, eastern Scotland, there will be some breaks in the club. | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
Generally speaking, a lot of cloud overnight. Temperatures at six or 7 | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
degrees. A great start tomorrow. We will find in the westerly flow, the | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
western side of the UK, some cloud and drizzle around. But getting into | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
more sheltered areas, may be used Wales for a while, some sunshine and | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
some brighter skies. Temperatures on par with those of today. Rain in the | :52:03. | :52:08. | |
north-west later on. You can trace this warm air to the Caribbean, we | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
will not get the sunshine or the heat, but more mild conditions from | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
across the UK, temperatures peaked on Monday between these two weather | :52:18. | :52:21. | |
friends. A lot of cloud on Monday, windy, bumpy winds -- these two | :52:22. | :52:28. | |
weather fronts. Temperatures as high as 15 or 16 degrees, it depends on | :52:29. | :52:31. | |
the amount of sunshine. That's all from me, have a lovely day. More | :52:32. | :52:34. | |
from me tomorrow. Scunthorpe is a town | :52:35. | :52:41. | |
known for its steel, but from today it will get | :52:42. | :52:43. | |
to experience a gold rush. Golden objects are being hidden | :52:44. | :52:46. | |
around Scunthorpe today It's all part of an art project - | :52:47. | :52:48. | |
with clues hidden in paintings Our Entertainment Correspondent | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
Colin Paterson went Not the most obvious | :52:54. | :52:55. | |
place for a gold rush, but today, these five objects, | :52:56. | :53:10. | |
each worth at least ?2500, will be hidden around the town, | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
and it is finders keepers! It sounds great but I don't think | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
I'll be taking part... How good are you at | :53:19. | :53:21. | |
hunting for things? This is the idea of this | :53:22. | :53:30. | |
artist, Luke Jerram. I'm interested in art which has an | :53:31. | :53:43. | |
idea of participation. I liked the idea of participation | :53:44. | :53:50. | |
and providing people with a new way of thinking, | :53:51. | :53:52. | |
and this artwork, with all of these layers, have content | :53:53. | :53:56. | |
and stories to tell, Luke Jerram enlisted | :53:57. | :53:57. | |
a code maker from GCHQ to create five puzzles, | :53:58. | :54:00. | |
which have been turned Each answer will reveal | :54:01. | :54:02. | |
the location of an object. We are not allowed to show | :54:03. | :54:10. | |
you the whole of any of the paintings in focus, | :54:11. | :54:12. | |
in case treasure hunters work out At 10am this morning, | :54:13. | :54:15. | |
anyone who would like a go will be allowed into the 2021 | :54:16. | :54:21. | |
Visual Arts Centre to try We've had interest from people | :54:22. | :54:23. | |
on Twitter from miles away, and apparently there are treasure | :54:24. | :54:37. | |
hunters from across the world who This is footage of one | :54:38. | :54:40. | |
of the objects being hidden, we are told none of them have been | :54:41. | :54:44. | |
buried in case treasure hunters The five 18-carat models are models | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
of artefacts from the town's museum. I like the idea of objects that have | :54:48. | :54:52. | |
been found in the area, coming to the museum, | :54:53. | :55:00. | |
copied and hidden So there are new versions | :55:01. | :55:01. | |
for people to look for. Part of it makes me | :55:02. | :55:08. | |
think of Monopoly! It is like the world's | :55:09. | :55:10. | |
poshest Monopoly set! Organisers expect at least one | :55:11. | :55:14. | |
treasure to be found today, but believe the hardest puzzle | :55:15. | :55:17. | |
could take years to solve. Scunthorpe, once known for steel - | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
now it is all about gold! If you want to join in the treasure | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
hunt, the five paintings featuring clues will be displayed | :55:25. | :55:37. | |
at Scunthorpe's 20-21 Visual Arts Centre from today | :55:38. | :55:39. | |
until the 29th of April. We've all seen restaurant receipts | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
where a suggested service But it's now emerged that some | :55:46. | :55:48. | |
cruise lines are adding as much as ?90 per person to the cost | :55:49. | :55:53. | |
of an eight-day trip. It appears as a compulsory service | :55:54. | :55:57. | |
charge unless you fill So just how optional | :55:58. | :56:00. | |
is tipping cruise ship staff Simon Calder, travel editor | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
of the Independent, has been What is the procedure? It is | :56:06. | :56:23. | |
accepted, unless you particularly don't want to, tipping a fair amount | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
of money. In the olden days they would say, they looked after your | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
cabin and would tip the waiters and so on. Now large numbers of cruise | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
lines so that they are going to stipulate a charge that you will | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
pay, and add it to your on-board bill. And, almost all of them say of | :56:43. | :56:48. | |
course, if you want to report Michael Cole reward people | :56:49. | :56:53. | |
individually, you can. But Norwegian Cruise line say that there is a | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
fixed service charge -- if you want to reward people individually. | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
Nowhere could find that you could reduce it or eliminate it | :57:02. | :57:06. | |
completely. The crucial thing is if it is part of the overall cost of | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
the trip, they need to advertise it including the charge. I've | :57:12. | :57:13. | |
subsequently talked to them and said, if you want to reduce it, you | :57:14. | :57:18. | |
can. I think some people would say it is skating on thin ice. If you do | :57:19. | :57:24. | |
not pay the tips, does it mean that staff are underpaid, is it included | :57:25. | :57:29. | |
as part of the salary? The whole business model is that effectively | :57:30. | :57:32. | |
you are often paying ?10 per person per day, effectively which is going | :57:33. | :57:39. | |
into a people to help pay the wages of everyone. A lot of British people | :57:40. | :57:42. | |
feel uncomfortable with that, they do not want to do what many | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
Americans do which is paid tips up front so you are actually paying in | :57:48. | :57:50. | |
advance for service that you have not had yet. It turns upside down | :57:51. | :57:56. | |
the whole idea of tipping. Mind you, since we spoke about it a couple of | :57:57. | :58:00. | |
hours, we've had a lot of heckling. Someone said, I hope you realise | :58:01. | :58:04. | |
that tips maker blizzard stunt or part of the cruise income, shame on | :58:05. | :58:09. | |
you. Fair enough, I tip individuals but I do not want to find on why | :58:10. | :58:13. | |
Bill at the end of the cruise that I've been charged an extra ?10 a day | :58:14. | :58:21. | |
that was not included in the upfront price -- make up a huge part of the | :58:22. | :58:25. | |
cruise income. It is entirely optional, if you want | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
to do that, it is fine, but a lot of people say that they do not. By the | :58:30. | :58:34. | |
way, I've had people pointing out that when you buy a drink, or | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
anything on-board, generally you get an 18% tip added which is | :58:41. | :58:44. | |
non-negotiable, but you kind of know that. A ?5 beer will actually cost | :58:45. | :58:46. | |
you ?6. Simon, thank you. Christian will be here with Rachel | :58:47. | :58:49. | |
from six in the morning. | :58:50. | :58:54. |