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Hello this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
a report finds the UK's roads are the most congested in Europe. | :00:09. | :00:13. | |
Researchers say most drivers spend more than 32 hours each year | :00:14. | :00:18. | |
stuck in traffic, as they warn of a significant cost | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
Good morning, it's Monday 20th February. | :00:21. | :00:40. | |
Almost every council in England is planning to put up taxes | :00:41. | :00:44. | |
to help meet the cost of social care. | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
Angelina Jolie talks exclusively to us | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
as she talks about her new film set in Cambodia, | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
and for the first time, about her separation | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
I don't want to say very much about that, | :00:57. | :01:05. | |
except to say that it was a very difficult time, and... | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
And we are a family, and we will always be a family. | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
and hopefully be a stronger family for it. | :01:13. | :01:16. | |
More than half a million people with a disability are self-employed. | :01:17. | :01:19. | |
I'll be looking at why it's such a popular option | :01:20. | :01:21. | |
as part of the BBC's Disability Works series. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
Can another non-league club join Lincoln in the quarter finals | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
Sutton United take on Arsenal later - | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
The holders, Manchester United will face Chelsea next | :01:30. | :01:33. | |
after coming from behind to beat Blackburn Rovers yesterday. | :01:34. | :01:42. | |
It is blast off for plans to create the first spaceport. We are in | :01:43. | :01:52. | |
Cornwall, where they will track the space Kraft. | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
After 8:00 we'll be joined by TV royalty. | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders will be on the sofa | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
as they celebrate 25 years of Ab Fab. | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
Good morning, I will start to the day and cloudy. The cloud producing | :02:02. | :02:13. | |
drizzle in the north-west where it is windy. In the sunshine we could | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
hit 16 or possibly 17 Celsius. The UK has the worst traffic | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
congestion in western Europe, with drivers spending an average | :02:22. | :02:31. | |
of 32 hours a year stuck in tailbacks | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
during peak periods. That's according to the travel | :02:35. | :02:35. | |
information company Inrix. Congestion is the most severe | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
in London, followed by Manchester The Department for Transport says | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
it's investing record amounts to keep the country moving, | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
as Jane-Frances Kelly reports. Drivers across the UK who face the | :02:44. | :02:55. | |
daily history of traffic jams are using not just their patient but | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
also time and money and surprisingly, London is the most | :03:00. | :03:06. | |
congested city in the UK drivers spending more than three days every | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
year stuck in traffic. Manchester is the second worst. Aberdeen is third | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
and surprisingly beat London as the hardest city to drive in and out. In | :03:19. | :03:26. | |
Cardiff, businesses suffer the most based on the amount of traffic | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
during daytime. Southbound was found to be the most congested route. | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
Other than drivers getting frustrated, why is this a problem? | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
Experts calculated that it costs the economy ?31 billion last year, ?1000 | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
per driver on things like fuel, being late for work and childcare. | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
There is also more traffic on the road because of growth in online | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
shopping. The Department for transport says it is making the most | :04:02. | :04:05. | |
extensive improvements to road since the 1970s but money may not be the | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
only solution. Researchers are said to stop standing still any better | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
traffic management, more flexible working hours and to consider | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
congestion charges. We'll hear from two traffic experts | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
at just after 8:00 this morning on what they think should be done | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
to ease congestion on our roads. If you have any ideas, send them | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
through. I expect you probably do. Deep cuts to services will still be | :04:29. | :04:39. | |
needed despite plans by most local authorities in England | :04:40. | :04:41. | |
to raise council tax according to the organisation | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
that represents them. The Local Government | :04:45. | :04:46. | |
Association says social care services for the elderly | :04:47. | :04:47. | |
and disabled are at breaking point and will swallow up any | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
extra money raised. Here's our Social Affairs | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
Correspondent Alison Holt. This is social care in action after | :04:54. | :05:03. | |
several false Borini is getting support to gain independence and | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
rebuild her confidence. It will help her and husband cope in her home. I | :05:10. | :05:17. | |
grateful for all they have done for me, I really am and... Without them, | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
I do not know what I would have done. It is good, really good. | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
Council fund most social care and today's surveys shows they are all | :05:30. | :05:36. | |
struggling to meet growing costs. There are 151 local authorities in | :05:37. | :05:42. | |
England, 147 planned to raise council tax. But that will not plug | :05:43. | :05:48. | |
the funding gap and that could mean cuts to other services. There has | :05:49. | :05:55. | |
been a united voice of local government to say they need more | :05:56. | :06:00. | |
funding and social care and that the crisis in social care is immediate | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
now. The funding for local government needs to be resolved | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
immediately. The government says extra money is being put into social | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
care and authorities will soon be able to put all the money they raise | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
into it. Peers get their first | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
chance to debate the so-called Brexit Bill later - | :06:21. | :06:21. | |
the legislation which kicks off the formal process | :06:22. | :06:25. | |
for Britain leaving the EU. The bill passed through | :06:26. | :06:26. | |
the Commons unamended, but it's thought opposition peers | :06:27. | :06:29. | |
in the House of Lords will seek guarantees | :06:30. | :06:31. | |
about the rights of EU citizens and the role of parliament | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
in scrutinising Brexit. Our Political Correspondent Tom | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
Bateman is in Westminster. Good morning. How likely they will | :06:38. | :06:49. | |
be changes made by the Lords? The first thing to say is for those that | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
like to see records broken, here is one, 190 peas are due to speak, more | :06:56. | :07:04. | |
than in any debate in the House of Lords and that gives you a sense of | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
the appetite of their lordship to have some influence on this process. | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
As you say, the two areas that will tried to make changes in is | :07:16. | :07:21. | |
demanding parliament gets our vote before any deal is signed off by | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Theresa May with the other EU member states and guaranteed citizens | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
rights. If they make changes to the bill, it could get back to the | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
Commons and they would wipe them. I sure they will be successful in the | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
end in making any changes to this bill and ministers are urging Lords | :07:42. | :07:48. | |
to do their patriotic duty and respect the will of the people. In | :07:49. | :07:55. | |
that case it would mean Theresa May could start the whole Brexit process | :07:56. | :07:58. | |
towards the end of next month. Iraqi government forces have | :07:59. | :08:01. | |
resumed their offensive to regain the last major stronghold | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
of so-called Islamic State in Iraq. Thousands of troops | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
are involved in the assault on western Mosul, which is | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
now in its second day. Last month, the Iraqi government | :08:09. | :08:11. | |
forces secured the eastern part Campaigners have described | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
the current maximum jail term for animal abusers in England | :08:15. | :08:21. | |
and Wales as "laughable". Battersea Dogs and Cats Home | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
is calling for prison sentences to be increased from six months | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
to five years to bring the punishment in line | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
with crimes such as fly tipping. It is images like these, | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
campaigners say, that show a need for animal abusers | :08:35. | :08:39. | |
to receive tougher sentences. These rescued dogs have been | :08:40. | :08:43. | |
underfed and badly mistreated but even the most serious acts | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
of violence against animals can carry shorter prison terms | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
than nonviolent crimes Today's report from | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
Battersea Dogs Cats Home, calls the current six-month maximum | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
sentence for animla cruelty calls the current six-month maximum | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
sentence for animal cruelty arguing it should be increased | :09:06. | :09:07. | |
tenfold to match Northern Ireland In Scotland, the | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
maximum is one year. We have a situation where | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
Northern Ireland has much stronger sentences | :09:16. | :09:17. | |
than the rest of the UK. And what we have seen is, | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
for example, some of the people involved in the international | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
dogfighting industry, coming over to Britain | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
to ply their trade here because they know | :09:28. | :09:29. | |
we are a soft touch, they know that if | :09:30. | :09:31. | |
they do get caught, they are likely to get away | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
with just a smack on the wrist. Latest figures show the average | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
prison term for someone convicted of animal cruelty is little more | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
than three months and the majority of offenders face | :09:41. | :09:42. | |
fines or community sentences. The government says it shares | :09:43. | :09:45. | |
the public's high regard and kept these strict regulations | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
under regular review, but ahead of a debate | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
on the issue in Parliament the report argues | :09:52. | :09:53. | |
that public opinion At shelters like this | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
one here in Battersea, it is often the victims of animal | :09:57. | :10:00. | |
cruelty that end up behind bars. Campaigners say it is high time | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
the perpetrators face In a BBC World News exclusive, | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
Angelina Jolie has spoken to Yalda Hakim | :10:07. | :10:15. | |
about her new film, and love for the country | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
in which it is set. She has also spoken | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
for the first time about the difficulties her family | :10:21. | :10:22. | |
have faced in the last year, since splitting from | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
husband Brad Pitt. She first visited the region of the | :10:27. | :10:39. | |
filming of Lara Croft. She later adopted a son from the area. | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
17 years ago I came to this country and fell in love with its people and | :10:46. | :10:52. | |
learned about its history and in doing so realised how little I | :10:53. | :10:59. | |
actually knew in my early 20s about the world so this country for me has | :11:00. | :11:05. | |
been... Was my awakening and my son changed my life. Do you think in | :11:06. | :11:12. | |
many ways you have come full circle? Became a mother here, your | :11:13. | :11:19. | |
humanitarian work started here. Yes. Yes. I will always... I will always | :11:20. | :11:29. | |
be very grateful to this country and I hope, I hope I have given back as | :11:30. | :11:35. | |
much as it has given me I don't think I could ever give back as | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
much. I understand this is a very sensitive issue. We know that an | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
incident occurred which led to your separation, we also note you have | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
not said anything about these but would you like to say something? | :11:50. | :12:02. | |
Only that... I do not want to say very much about that except to say | :12:03. | :12:09. | |
it was a very difficult time and... And we are a family and we will | :12:10. | :12:14. | |
always be a family and we will get through this time and hopefully be a | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
stronger family for it. You can see the full interview | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
on the BBC News website It is 6:12 a.m.. You FA Cup talking | :12:20. | :12:39. | |
today? We are. It has been quite interesting. | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
There's a place in the FA Cup quarter-finals on the line | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
for non-league Sutton United tonight. | :12:45. | :12:45. | |
They play Arsenal for the right to take on fellow giantkillers | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
Holders Manchester United will go to Chelsea after they came | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
from behind to beat Championship Blackburn Rovers 2-1. | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
Spurs cruised through - they're at home to Millwall next. | :12:56. | :12:58. | |
Harry Kane scored all three as they beat Fulham 3-0 | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
2016 Super League winners Wigan Warriors won the World Club | :13:03. | :13:08. | |
challenge for a record fourth time yesterday. | :13:09. | :13:11. | |
A hat-trick from Joe Burgess gave them a 22-6 win over NRL | :13:12. | :13:14. | |
And late last night Stuart Bingham won the Welsh Open - | :13:15. | :13:21. | |
he beat Judd Trump in the final frame to win his first tournament | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
since the World Championship in 2015. | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
It was 7-7 when I went to bed. Like the FA Cup job because they could be | :13:33. | :13:44. | |
a non- league team getting through. I think it is worth explaining. | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :13:49. | :13:56. | |
This morning, if you are stepping out, it is a very, very mild fool 's | :13:57. | :14:04. | |
top already 15 Celsius up up in Wales. You are getting the picture. | :14:05. | :14:11. | |
A mild start and it is going to be a mild day for most of the UK. For | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
some part in any sunshine we could possibly hit 17 Celsius but this | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
morning there is also a lot of cloud around, some low cloud, mist and | :14:23. | :14:28. | |
Merck and also some rain as well. Across south-west England, we | :14:29. | :14:33. | |
continue with the cloudy theme. Some murkiness and for Guinness. But look | :14:34. | :14:39. | |
at the temperatures, cloudy generally across much of England and | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
their hill fog as well. For Northern Ireland and we have a weather front | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
coming in, introducing some rain and some of that will be rain and rather | :14:50. | :14:54. | |
windy across Northern Ireland and Scotland, especially for the next | :14:55. | :14:59. | |
few hours, as it will be a cross paths of northern England. Writs | :15:00. | :15:04. | |
like the A1 may be effected via that. -- routes. In the northern | :15:05. | :15:12. | |
England and north Wales, weakening but you will notice of the rain. The | :15:13. | :15:17. | |
Hyndburn, some sunshine but also showers. With the crowd breaks, | :15:18. | :15:23. | |
don't forget we could see those temperatures of 16- 17, way above | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
average. There will be dry weather around overnight. Easy night, you | :15:30. | :15:35. | |
can see where we have the rain, as it starts to move backwards, it will | :15:36. | :15:43. | |
rejuvenate and again, overnight temperatures into the eight - ten. | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
In Southern counties, more rain coming in across the north-west. A | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
fair bit of cloud around and temperatures will be potentially in | :15:56. | :16:02. | |
the mild category. In some parts, not absolutely everywhere fool 's | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
top temperatures for some will be down. A range between seven and 13. | :16:07. | :16:14. | |
As we head into Wednesday, the weather front will still be | :16:15. | :16:20. | |
producing the clouds and rain. Temperatures by then starting to | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
come down. We are looking at seven - ten, more like where they should be. | :16:24. | :16:31. | |
In the south 11- 13. Towards the end of the week, it will not be as mild | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
and it will become a bit more on settled. | :16:37. | :16:42. | |
Shall we look at the headlines the papers? I was going to do the | :16:43. | :16:50. | |
headlines. All right, we will do those first. | :16:51. | :16:50. | |
You are watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
The main stories this morning: In a jam. | :16:53. | :16:54. | |
The UK has the worst congestion in Europe, | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
with drivers spending around 32 hours a year stuck in traffic. | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
Angelina Jolie talks exclusively to the BBC about her new film, | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
set in Cambodia, and her separation from Brad Pitt. | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
For 32 hours, I bet if you were sitting in traffic jams, I bet it | :17:11. | :17:22. | |
feels more like 48 hours, or five days. I am surprised it is so low. | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
32 hours is an awfully long time, and we are the worst. I will get my | :17:30. | :17:34. | |
stats out later, Thailand is the worst in the world. Shall we look at | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
the papers? Writes, so excited about the papers, I wanted to do it early | :17:42. | :17:47. | |
today. -- right. UK troops to prevent Afghan meltdown on the Daily | :17:48. | :17:53. | |
Telegraph, the UK facing a new refugee exodus. Michael Fallon | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
talking about this, and loads of pictures as ever of various models | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
at London Fashion Week making quite a few of the front pages this | :18:02. | :18:05. | |
morning. That is also the front page of the Times, they have a stunning | :18:06. | :18:09. | |
picture from Hindmarsh, their main story being a revolt where they say | :18:10. | :18:15. | |
Number Ten is on a collision course with small businesses. We talked | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
about this last week, ministers enraging small businesses by | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
claiming it was rooted in distortion and half-truth. The government had | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
taken a pretty tough line, businesses have taken a tough line | :18:31. | :18:35. | |
over these changes in taxes. Lots of businesses seeing a fall as well but | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
it would be until the Budget when we find out what is actually going on. | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
The Daily Mirror, she was here last week talking about staying young, | :18:46. | :18:52. | |
and all that. This is a horrible story from over the weekend, former | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
boxer Michael Watson was attacked and they are trying to get to the | :18:57. | :19:00. | |
bottom of it in launching a campaign as well. Some horrible pictures from | :19:01. | :19:04. | |
that over the weekend. And Danny Dyer, saying that his friends are | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
slightly concerned about him and he needs to calm down a bit, | :19:09. | :19:13. | |
apparently. I know you are going to the scheme later, from Sutton | :19:14. | :19:18. | |
United, which is a big game. -- this game later. This is a list of the | :19:19. | :19:26. | |
day jobs, we have a lumberjack and a special needs teacher. My favourite | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
is one that says he has no nuggets in a pre-match meal, which is | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
exactly what you need when you are about to play Arsenal. We will | :19:36. | :19:41. | |
interview him later! He needs all night, don't take any of them. It | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
talks about the fact that they get perspective from their day job which | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
means that when they play football it is maybe not as big a deal as | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
other people make it. And their dressing room is the only dressing | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
room which is... How can I describe it? Chocolate brown. They paint them | :19:57. | :20:04. | |
chocolate round. And the guy who was the manager also puts a lot of money | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
in and has a building firm, and he had loads of leftover brown paint. | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
Here use that. Now, you might be a bit surprised by this story. A US | :20:18. | :20:26. | |
food giant scrapping the bid to buy owners of PG Tips and Marmite. So | :20:27. | :20:31. | |
there was a huge deal on the cards, hundreds of billions of dollars | :20:32. | :20:37. | |
worth of deals. Teabags, Marmite, Philadelphia, baked beans, all of | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
those could have been under the same banner but late last night they | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
pulled out of the deal saying, actually, they got scared off by | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
people not wanting it to happen. Unilever were not happy. 7500 jobs | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
in the UK, they will be pleased about that. You know how we talked | :20:56. | :21:04. | |
about the fiver worth ?50 million, and one is still out there. The one | :21:05. | :21:12. | |
with the little marker on, a little gold portrait. So keep an eye out | :21:13. | :21:18. | |
for that. I noticed earlier you had to go out at the studio to go and | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
get something. It was your mobile phone. You are not alone in the | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
anxiety of being separated from your phone. I felt a little bit naked. | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
Apparently being separated from your mobile is almost as bad as PTSD. | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
They have done research on young people and they start to get | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
stressed even when they are separated from their smartphone for | :21:40. | :21:43. | |
a matter of minutes. I was just checking the pockets and didn't feel | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
it. They start exhibiting the type of attachment behaviour is usually | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
reserved for a member of the family if they are lost. Even a short time | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
apart from their phone brought on heartbeat patterns associated with | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
post-traumatic stress disorder. Do you feel better? I feel even better | :22:00. | :22:04. | |
with this double animal story. Not only have you got a cat who can open | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
a door, but there is a hamster who can climb a seven football down | :22:10. | :22:16. | |
here. This hamster escaped. This lad owns a hamster, it escaped from | :22:17. | :22:22. | |
Liam's house, climbed the seven foot hall Dominic Walcott what was found | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
by someone else, a family member of his own and the pet shop, recognise | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
the hamster and they got it back. Thank you, see you later. | :22:33. | :22:34. | |
He has been in the job for just over a month, | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
but in a few short weeks, Donald Trump has managed to both | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
delight his supporters and appal his detractors. | :22:41. | :22:42. | |
Today, MPs will debate the President's upcoming state visit | :22:43. | :22:45. | |
to the UK, after two million people signed a petition against it, | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
and more than 300,000 signed one in favour. | :22:49. | :22:50. | |
Breakfast's Graham Satchell has been to an American comedy night | :22:51. | :22:52. | |
in Birmingham, where the audience shared their divided views | :22:53. | :22:55. | |
on the new US President and his policies. | :22:56. | :23:04. | |
And the thing is, living here as an American at the moment, I usually | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
have to start my gigs by just saying I am sorry. We are in a cafe in | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
Birmingham. When people find out I am an American now, the first thing | :23:16. | :23:19. | |
they say to me as Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump... American comedian | :23:20. | :23:24. | |
Eric McIlroy is playing to a split audience, some who admire Donald | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
Trump and some who loathe him. I think he is racist, misogynistic, I | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
think he is sexist. Donald Trump is decisive, Donald Trump is his own | :23:33. | :23:38. | |
man. I think is a real threat to the values of freedom and equality. I am | :23:39. | :23:41. | |
living in this country as a Muslim. I have no issues. I think is a | :23:42. | :23:46. | |
climate change denier, and I think he is pro- torture. Why are people | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
scared about him? His approaches are just archaic and shocking. You think | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
is dangerous? Very much so. Very, very, very much so. England is the | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
same, the establishment can't fix the broken country. If they are | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
going to call a dangerous, than I am dangerous. That is what I want to | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
do. And in one word, he is an absolute dig it. So you like and | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
then? I think we should let him come to the country, he greeted by Sadiq | :24:18. | :24:26. | |
Khan, after waiting for an hour and a half and Customs, because he would | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
appreciate that, and they should take out for a sour chicken masala. | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
Almost 200,000 people have signed a petition to say he should be allowed | :24:35. | :24:37. | |
to address parliament. The rights and wrongs will be in Westmead | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
today, but again our audience is deeply divided. I would love to see | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
him here, I would be happy to greet him personally, I would like to see | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
him having a drink on broad Street the same as Bill Clinton did. Not in | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
my name. He shouldn't come? No, not at all. If Justin Trudeau, the | :24:56. | :25:00. | |
Liberal prime Minister of Canada, is willing to reach out, I think he | :25:01. | :25:03. | |
should as well. -- Prime Minister true though. We could be seeing a | :25:04. | :25:14. | |
real division, not the unifying effect that state visits are | :25:15. | :25:18. | |
supposed to have. Wu makes a much under too much but certainly we have | :25:19. | :25:22. | |
to do the right thing, whatever that is. To be pragmatic? To be | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
pragmatic, yes. I think so. Given the almost chew Brudov disagreement | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
within the room, it is no small mercy that our session begins and | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
ends with laughter. And that was the first time I met Boris Johnson... | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
You can watch MPs debate Donald Trump's state visit to the UK | :25:38. | :25:40. | |
on BBC Parliament from 4:30pm this afternoon. | :25:41. | :25:45. | |
Still to come on Breakfast this morning: The UK | :25:46. | :25:47. | |
could have its own spaceports within three years, with commercial | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
rockets regularly blasting off into the stratosphere. | :25:51. | :25:52. | |
Breakfast's John Maguire is in Cornwall for us this morning. | :25:53. | :25:59. | |
Good morning. We were ready and waiting. Where were you? Good | :26:00. | :26:09. | |
morning, welcome to this station, built back in the 1960s to track | :26:10. | :26:15. | |
satellites. We have a model just here of the first satellite | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
television broadcaster in the UK, way back in 1962. We are standing at | :26:22. | :26:27. | |
the dawn of a new era in the UK's space industry. We are about to, in | :26:28. | :26:33. | |
the next few years, if everything goes according to plan, get the | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
first commercial space ports, and this place will monitor the | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
spacecraft as they explore the outer atmosphere. We will tell you all | :26:41. | :26:41. | |
about that Plenty more on our website | :26:42. | :30:01. | |
at the usual address. Now, though, it is back | :30:02. | :30:03. | |
to Dan and Louise. Hello this is Breakfast, | :30:04. | :30:06. | |
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. We'll bring you all the latest news | :30:07. | :30:14. | |
and sport in a moment, With British drivers spending 32 | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
hours a year struck in traffic, we'll find out why the UK's roads | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
are the most gridlocked in western Europe - and look at | :30:24. | :30:27. | |
potential solutions. Sepsis kills more than 40,000 | :30:28. | :30:35. | |
people every year - more than bowel, breast | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
and prostate cancer combined. We'll look at calls to raise | :30:39. | :30:40. | |
awareness of the deadly condition. Eddy and Patsy - or should we say | :30:41. | :30:52. | |
Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley - will join us right | :30:53. | :31:01. | |
here on the sofa. Probably not just like that. I was | :31:02. | :31:13. | |
thinking, to you think you will get on the sofa like that! | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
The UK has the worst traffic congestion in Europe, | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
with drivers spending an average of 32 hours a year stuck | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
That's according to research from the travel information company, | :31:23. | :31:26. | |
Inrix, which found that congestion is the most severe in London, | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
followed by Manchester and then Aberdeen. | :31:30. | :31:31. | |
The Department for Transport says it's investing record amounts | :31:32. | :31:33. | |
We'll hear from two traffic experts at just after 8:00 this morning | :31:34. | :31:44. | |
on what they think should be done to ease congestion on our roads. | :31:45. | :31:49. | |
To send your suggestions in as well, we will read some of those later. | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
Peers get their first chance to debate the so-called | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
"Brexit Bill" later - the legislation which kicks off | :31:59. | :32:00. | |
the formal process for Britain leaving the EU. | :32:01. | :32:02. | |
The bill passed through the Commons unamended, but it's thought | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
opposition peers in the House of Lords will seek guarantees | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
about the rights of EU citizens in Britain - | :32:09. | :32:10. | |
and the role of parliament in scrutinising Brexit. | :32:11. | :32:12. | |
Council tax rises are planned by most local authorities in England | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
in the coming year to help meet the increasing cost of social care. | :32:16. | :32:19. | |
The government says extra money is being put into social care | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
and councils will soon be able to keep all the money they raise | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
But the Local Government Association who represent councils say deep cuts | :32:26. | :32:30. | |
will still have to be made to other services as the cost of care | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
for the elderly and disabled will account for all | :32:35. | :32:37. | |
Campaigners have called the current maximum jail term for animal cruelty | :32:38. | :32:45. | |
Battersea Dogs Cats Home is calling for prison sentences | :32:46. | :32:53. | |
to be increased from six months to five years to bring | :32:54. | :32:56. | |
the punishment in line with crimes such as fly-tipping. | :32:57. | :32:58. | |
England and Wales currently have the lowest maximum sentence | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
Donald Trump has treated about why he made comments about an incident | :33:02. | :33:23. | |
in Sweden which did not happen. You look at what is happening last night | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
in Sweden, Sweden! Who would believe this, Sweden. They took in large | :33:30. | :33:34. | |
numbers and they are having problems like they never thought possible. He | :33:35. | :33:44. | |
said the following day that the information was from a Fox News | :33:45. | :33:46. | |
article. 6:33am. I probably need to explain | :33:47. | :34:04. | |
why I was excited about the FA Cup draw. We could have a nonleague side | :34:05. | :34:11. | |
into the final which is a good part of the draw. Although I still | :34:12. | :34:21. | |
reeling about your description of the dress! | :34:22. | :34:23. | |
Non-league Sutton United take centre stage in the FA Cup when they take | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
on Arsenal tonight for the last remaining place in the FA Cup | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
They already know who they will face in the next round after | :34:31. | :34:34. | |
Sutton or Arsenal will play the heroes of the weekend, | :34:35. | :34:37. | |
Lincoln City for a place in the semi finals. | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United came through yesterday. | :34:41. | :34:42. | |
United had to come from behind to beat Championship side, | :34:43. | :34:44. | |
Blackburn Rovers, 2-1 with Zlatan Ibrahimovich | :34:45. | :34:46. | |
United now go to manager Jose Mourinho's former club Chelsea | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
They had brilliant attitude and if we did not have this professional | :34:51. | :35:05. | |
attitude with everybody playing with focus and responsibility, we would | :35:06. | :35:07. | |
be in real trouble. Tottenham will host Millwall | :35:08. | :35:09. | |
in the next round, after Harry Kane scored a hat trick | :35:10. | :35:12. | |
against Fulham yesterday. The England striker says the win | :35:13. | :35:14. | |
will also help them later this week when Spurs attempt to come back | :35:15. | :35:17. | |
from 1-nil down in the Europa League Winning games gives you confidence | :35:18. | :35:27. | |
so we go into Thursday coming off this result and buzzing to go to | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
Wembley. We are looking forward to it. It is never easy in the FA Cup | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
as you see from the results. We came here to do a job and we did that. | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
Aberdeen have strengthened their grip on second place | :35:41. | :35:42. | |
in the Scottish Premiership after a late comeback | :35:43. | :35:44. | |
against Kilmarnock Aberdeen were a goal behind going | :35:45. | :35:46. | |
into the last ten minutes before substitutes Jayden Stockley | :35:47. | :35:49. | |
and Peter Pawlett scored to seal the victory. | :35:50. | :35:51. | |
The result cuts Celtic's lead at the top - but they're | :35:52. | :35:54. | |
Dundee picked up their first home league win over Rangers | :35:55. | :35:58. | |
Goals from Mark O'Hara and Kevin Holt put them 2-nil | :35:59. | :36:01. | |
Rangers got a goal back but they were unable to find | :36:02. | :36:05. | |
Wigan have won the World Club Challenge Series for the first | :36:06. | :36:11. | |
The series is between the best in the Northern | :36:12. | :36:14. | |
A hat-trick from winger Joe Burgess helped Wigan beat | :36:15. | :36:18. | |
Australian Champions Cronulla Sharks, 22-6. | :36:19. | :36:29. | |
Please week that. On Friday, we want to perform really well. The players | :36:30. | :36:41. | |
have so much desire and guts and determination to get these winds. | :36:42. | :36:43. | |
This wind is all for them. -- win. There was a surprise result in rugby | :36:44. | :36:53. | |
union's Premiership yesterday as leaders Wasps lost | :36:54. | :36:55. | |
to tenth place Sale Sharks. Denny Solomona scored a hat-trick | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
for the Sharks who inflicted Wasps' They remain six points | :36:59. | :37:01. | |
clear at the top. Elsewhere Newcastle | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
beat Northampton. Late last night Stuart Bingham | :37:06. | :37:06. | |
won the Welsh Open - he beat Judd Trump 9-8 in the final | :37:07. | :37:09. | |
frame to win the tournament Bingham had led 4-0 in the early | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
stages before Trump battled back But Bingham held his nerve to take | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
the final two frames, sealing his first Welsh Open | :37:18. | :37:21. | |
win with a break of 55. Hopes of a first medal for a British | :37:22. | :37:24. | |
man at an Alpine World Championships ended in disappointment | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
for Dave Ryding The 30-year-old was well placed | :37:29. | :37:30. | |
sitting in fourth place but he was more than two seconds | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
slower on his second run. By the end of the competition | :37:38. | :37:41. | |
he was in eleventh but that was still the best performance | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
by a Male British skier in 32 years. We have had a British woman winning | :37:46. | :38:01. | |
in 1936. A little bit like Wimbledon. We will get there. Are | :38:02. | :38:12. | |
you talking about the World Championships wrong Russian and them | :38:13. | :38:18. | |
later. Yes I will. They do try and disfigured and it is a fun and | :38:19. | :38:20. | |
video. 630 ait a.m.. -- 638. The legislation approved in | :38:21. | :38:42. | |
the comments but many in the Lords say they want to force through | :38:43. | :38:49. | |
changes. One of those peers joins us now. Good morning and thank you for | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
joining us. It will be under intense scrutiny today that this bill. They | :38:54. | :38:59. | |
are talking about some changes wanted to be forced through. What | :39:00. | :39:04. | |
are the prior year it is from your point of view? Two areas, first of | :39:05. | :39:09. | |
all how do we protect things that are really important to this country | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
such as the future of the United Kingdom and indeed our borders with | :39:14. | :39:18. | |
Ireland. There will be other issues such as what happens with EU | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
nationals and then there will be the question of how to keep tabs on this | :39:24. | :39:27. | |
process as it recedes, how do we know when it comes to the final | :39:28. | :39:32. | |
decision, we are not being given Wilson 's choice -- Hobson. This was | :39:33. | :39:46. | |
voted for by the British public. Some say the Lords should not be | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
interfering in that boat. Look, there was a clear majority in the | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
referendum to leave the European Union and I do not believe the laws | :39:57. | :40:02. | |
will seek to block the bill, or indeed delay hit significantly. The | :40:03. | :40:08. | |
key issue is the Lords has a job to do, to review and scrutinised | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
legislation and while people voted to leave, they are a lots of issues | :40:15. | :40:21. | |
they did not vote or express a view on, such as leaving the single | :40:22. | :40:25. | |
market or taking actions that might put at risk the future of the United | :40:26. | :40:31. | |
Kingdom stop it is right and proper for Parliament and the House of | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
Lords to debate. You say the Lords are unlikely to block it all delay | :40:37. | :40:39. | |
yet, but how would you make progress? We make progress by having | :40:40. | :40:46. | |
a debate in the next two weeks. There will be some detailed | :40:47. | :40:50. | |
amendments forward across the house and across the bench. From political | :40:51. | :40:57. | |
parties as well. They then go back to the House of Commons who can | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
either accept or reject them and I do hope that if Iraq considered | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
amendments of that come out of a genuine debate in the Lords that the | :41:07. | :41:12. | |
comments and indeed the government will see fit to give them the proper | :41:13. | :41:17. | |
consideration. With regard to these amendments if you are hoping all, if | :41:18. | :41:22. | |
the Lords are seen to be interfering - there are some people it may lead | :41:23. | :41:26. | |
to more lessons about the future of the House of Lords? There is a | :41:27. | :41:32. | |
proper debate to have about whether you have the current model of the | :41:33. | :41:39. | |
House of Lords or are elected second chamber but while we exist in the | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
current form, we have a job to do and I would be most unhappy if the | :41:45. | :41:48. | |
House of Lords, where it felt it had proper issues to consider, in | :41:49. | :41:53. | |
effect, curtailed this debate and its role because it was worried it | :41:54. | :41:58. | |
might be abolished. If you get into that sort of decision everytime we | :41:59. | :42:03. | |
are threatened, we might as well pack up and go home full of which | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
have been hearing in our news bulletin that the Local Government | :42:08. | :42:11. | |
Association that almost every council in England is planning to | :42:12. | :42:16. | |
put council tax up by 5% in order to pay for social care. When it comes | :42:17. | :42:22. | |
to the crunch, do you think that is what they will do? I think they will | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
do and I think the whole financial deal on local government this year | :42:29. | :42:33. | |
is based on the fact that council tax will go up. I do not think | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
authorities ever want to put up council tax more than they need to | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
but government funding has gone back and there is still an essential need | :42:43. | :42:47. | |
for social care and services like libraries and maintaining the roads. | :42:48. | :42:53. | |
If we want good local services, they are going to have to be paid for. | :42:54. | :42:58. | |
Thank you for your time here. Let's ironed out what is happening in the | :42:59. | :43:05. | |
weather with a rather foreboding sky behind her. A cloudy start to the | :43:06. | :43:12. | |
day but also an exceptionally mild one. Ealing North Wales -- in north | :43:13. | :43:23. | |
Wales up to 18 degrees. 13 degrees high than expected. Today and | :43:24. | :43:30. | |
tomorrow, the amber colour is showing its hand. The jet stream | :43:31. | :43:37. | |
tempered by the Atlantic Ocean but the origin is the Caribbean where it | :43:38. | :43:45. | |
is in the midst of high 20s. What we have this morning is a lot of cloud | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
around and some mist and hill fog and drizzle coming out of the vicar | :43:51. | :43:56. | |
cloud and some rain. Some of us will see some sunshine. Hill fog across | :43:57. | :44:02. | |
Wales, ploughed through the Midland and East Anglia, cloudy as you | :44:03. | :44:07. | |
continue your journey into northern England. Some heavy rain through | :44:08. | :44:15. | |
north-east Scotland, it will edge to Northern Ireland but even say the | :44:16. | :44:18. | |
temperatures are still pretty high for this time of day. Across parts | :44:19. | :44:31. | |
of its -- of East Scotland... Gusts of 50 mph in northern England so | :44:32. | :44:38. | |
take extra care. The weather front sleeping through Northern Ireland | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
into northern England but by then it will be light patchy rain. Where we | :44:43. | :44:48. | |
see the sunshine, we could hit 17 degrees Celsius, more likely 16. As | :44:49. | :44:57. | |
we head onto the evening and overnight, rain in the south | :44:58. | :45:00. | |
rejuvenate because it starts to come back northwards. Ahead of that, in | :45:01. | :45:06. | |
Scotland, under clear skies, we are looking at an overnight low of four. | :45:07. | :45:17. | |
Across parts of Wales, southern England, a lot of cloud around. Some | :45:18. | :45:23. | |
sunshine and high temperatures in that. Generally nine - 13. More rain | :45:24. | :45:31. | |
across north-west Scotland. Rain across Wales and a northern England | :45:32. | :45:37. | |
and then six down to East Anglia. A lot of cloud associated with these | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
but brighter skies further north but you can see the temperatures are | :45:43. | :45:45. | |
starting to come back down. Thank you, Carol. Always nice to see | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
you. 16% of working disabled people | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
identify as being their own boss, higher than in the | :45:57. | :45:59. | |
non-disabled population. Is this difference due | :46:00. | :46:01. | |
to the flexibility that going it alone offers disabled people, | :46:02. | :46:03. | |
or are disabled people pushed in to it through lack | :46:04. | :46:06. | |
of opportunity. It is quite a big difference in the | :46:07. | :46:18. | |
jobs market, depending if you do or do not have a disability. | :46:19. | :46:19. | |
Just under half of working-age disabled people have a job, | :46:20. | :46:22. | |
compared to more than 80% for those without a disability. | :46:23. | :46:25. | |
Self-employment is a particularly popular way for people living | :46:26. | :46:27. | |
with a disability to get into the workforce. | :46:28. | :46:29. | |
500,000 people do just that, and one is Kelly Perks-Bevington, | :46:30. | :46:32. | |
who started her professional management business after realising | :46:33. | :46:34. | |
the company she was working for wasn't sending her out on jobs | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
My condition is spinal muscular atrophy type three, which is a | :46:39. | :46:53. | |
muscle wastage disorder, and that means that I do use a wheelchair on | :46:54. | :46:57. | |
a daily basis. I just take a little bit longer to do things than | :46:58. | :47:01. | |
everybody else. There's quite a lot of things that you need to think | :47:02. | :47:05. | |
about that perhaps somebody that able-bodied wouldn't need to think | :47:06. | :47:08. | |
about. You just need that extra bit of time. I think that that is a big, | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
key factor in being self-employed and having your own business, is | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
that you can manage your time. You know what you can take, you sort of | :47:17. | :47:20. | |
know your own needs, and you can actually take time out for yourself. | :47:21. | :47:24. | |
I think that you've got that power inside you to solve those problems | :47:25. | :47:27. | |
that able-bodied people don't necessarily have to deal with. And | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
it does give you a strength to work out everyday business problems, and | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
it just makes for a fantastic is this mind, in my opinion. I think | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
maybe, in the past, my disability held me back in a business sense. | :47:42. | :47:44. | |
I've actually I think that was just the way I view that personally, and | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
it has been a journey to get to where I am now. But now I don't let | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
it stop me doing anything that I want to do. I always find a way to | :47:54. | :47:55. | |
do it, and just get around it. She is an ambassador manager | :47:56. | :47:57. | |
for Leonard Cheshire Disability. Good morning. Good morning. We heard | :47:58. | :48:08. | |
from Kelly, her story about what pushed her to go into business. Do | :48:09. | :48:12. | |
you phone from people living with a disability, is it more a choice, | :48:13. | :48:15. | |
because they want to be in the workforce, being self-employed, or | :48:16. | :48:19. | |
is it need and because companies are not making it as comfortable for | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
people as they ought to? I think people are people, so we have to say | :48:24. | :48:28. | |
that disabled people are part of a working community, but it is | :48:29. | :48:30. | |
certainly true that there are barriers. So if you are an | :48:31. | :48:33. | |
entrepreneur you kind of change those barriers by making your life | :48:34. | :48:38. | |
flexible, having your own income, and also following your dream. And | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
that figure I mentioned earlier, where the employment rate for people | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
living with a disability is less than 50%. It is stark, yes. Is there | :48:46. | :48:52. | |
a fundamental issue with British business that means those figures | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
excess? I think there is a deep level of misunderstanding about how | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
disabled people can happily go to work, work hard, be talented, and | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
also I think there is a lack understanding that disabled people | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
are like everybody else. They need help sometimes, or support, I think | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
the word adaptation is a good word, adapting to things. Are there | :49:15. | :49:17. | |
certain things that businesses can do quite easily to make those | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
figures better? Well, I think the first thing to do is sit down to | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
talk to people. Disability is such a personal experience. You can't put a | :49:27. | :49:31. | |
big rush of it and say this is what you do for disabled people. You need | :49:32. | :50:00. | |
to be able to say this person needs a larger screen, or flexible working | :50:01. | :50:03. | |
hours, so there are things that you can do. Have you experienced | :50:04. | :50:06. | |
difficulties with your disability, or even major positives that certain | :50:07. | :50:10. | |
businesses who know how to deal with the situation? I have, actually. I | :50:11. | :50:12. | |
have had workplaces who don't understand you needing a medical | :50:13. | :50:15. | |
appointment, and places that don't understand the screen, or it took | :50:16. | :50:19. | |
three weeks to get a screen, and I can't read it without a special one. | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
I have also had places where they have said, what can we do for you? | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
How can we make it the best person for this job? It really is about | :50:28. | :50:30. | |
sitting down, talking to people, making sure you have thought about | :50:31. | :50:34. | |
things. Often it is nothing to do with money. It is to do with inking | :50:35. | :50:37. | |
about structures. And just finally, if anybody is self-employed, you | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
have to remember, don't you, that your workers ' writes are not as | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
strong as if you are staff at a company somewhere. Is that something | :50:46. | :50:48. | |
that people should bear in mind? Again, it is not about being | :50:49. | :50:50. | |
disabled or not disabled. That implies that disabled people are | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
separate, they are not. They have the same rights as everyone else. | :50:55. | :50:57. | |
Sharing your disability gives you more rights. You are protected by a | :50:58. | :51:00. | |
quality acts, so if you tell your employer you need this, or if you go | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
to your bank and say you need help, they are responsible, legally, for | :51:06. | :51:08. | |
helping you. We will be talking more about this through the morning. | :51:09. | :51:11. | |
Hashtag is disability works if you want to follow that series | :51:12. | :51:12. | |
throughout the week. Could the UK soon boldly | :51:13. | :51:13. | |
be going where it has Detailed plans to create | :51:14. | :51:16. | |
the country's first spaceports They could see commercial satellites | :51:17. | :51:19. | |
being launched within three years, and even lead to the start | :51:20. | :51:23. | |
of space tourism. Ministers want to grab a share | :51:24. | :51:25. | |
of an industry that is potentially From Glasgow Prestwick airport, | :51:26. | :51:33. | |
destinations include us alone, also and Rome. But soon there will be | :51:34. | :51:37. | |
another one. Space -- Malta. The number one target is to see the | :51:38. | :51:40. | |
first launch from the UK by 2020. For a burgeoning and already very | :51:41. | :51:43. | |
successful space industry worth ?250 million, this is a crucial piece in | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
the jigsaw, and could be in place soon. To start with, it will | :51:50. | :51:55. | |
actually be rockets flying under an aircraft, for the first few years, | :51:56. | :51:58. | |
so it won't be that different from watching an ordinary aircraft take | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
off. But obviously, in the fullness of time, we would expect that to be | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
a proper rocket taking off, and with wings that can be deployed and able | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
to land again. To be classified as a spaceport, sites will need to be | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
licensed. They won't need to undergo major works, but will have to be | :52:16. | :52:20. | |
able to refuel rockets. The vast majority of takeoffs will be | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
horizontal rather than vertical. The carrier aircraft will climb to | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
around 40,000 feet, so above the weather, above traditional air | :52:29. | :52:34. | |
traffic... Inside the rocket will be small satellites. For the businesses | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
involved, this is the chance of a lifetime. We find ourselves with | :52:40. | :52:42. | |
this fantastic opportunity. Nobody in the US is doing this, nobody in | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
Europe is doing it, nobody around the world is doing it, and the UK | :52:47. | :52:49. | |
can capture this enormous economic potential and get way ahead of the | :52:50. | :52:54. | |
market. And lift off of the Falcon Nine to the space station. White | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
back once the exclusive playground of the superpowers, space is more | :53:00. | :53:02. | |
accessible than ever and the government wants the UK to take a | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
bigger slice of the pie. Now, the economic benefits of hosting a | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
spaceport are very enticing. At the aerospace Park over there they | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
already employ about 3000 people, and it is believed that they could | :53:14. | :53:19. | |
take on another 2000 in this area if a spaceport comes to Prestwick. The | :53:20. | :53:24. | |
and of its UK wide of housing this next generation of air travel, well, | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
they are even more significant -- aerospace travel. And here at | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
Oxfordshire they are developing the next generation of Aerospace | :53:34. | :53:37. | |
engines, capable of flying at five times the speed of sound in the | :53:38. | :53:43. | |
atmosphere and of spaceflight, the air breathing Sabre will rocket | :53:44. | :53:49. | |
engines would revolutionise travel, London to the stars in hours. It | :53:50. | :53:58. | |
could really transform Aerospace. There has been a significant gaps in | :53:59. | :54:02. | |
the last big development in this one, but this is potentially the | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
closest we are going to get to the jet engine moment in our lifetime. | :54:08. | :54:13. | |
But first, the commercial spaceport will launch satellites and could | :54:14. | :54:17. | |
bring the zero gravity flights to the UK. Then, ultimately, even space | :54:18. | :54:23. | |
tourism. The opportunities are huge, and not even the sky is the limit. | :54:24. | :54:29. | |
And John is in Cornwall for us now, at a site that is hoping | :54:30. | :54:32. | |
It looks as though that little satellite is trying to find out what | :54:33. | :54:39. | |
your thoughts at this morning as well. Good luck with that. You know | :54:40. | :54:44. | |
what they say about empty vessels. We are in Cornwall, as you say, the | :54:45. | :54:48. | |
earth is The British Heart Foundation here. 25 of these | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
antennas monitoring what is going on up in space. And it is hoped that | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
this would become mission control if and when these spaceport arrive. I | :54:58. | :55:02. | |
am joined by Ian Jones from Goonhilly and Professor Tim Harris | :55:03. | :55:05. | |
from the University of Exeter. Exciting stuff. What will you be | :55:06. | :55:11. | |
doing it, you hope? So when the rocket parts take off from the | :55:12. | :55:15. | |
aeroplane it has to start going very fast very quickly, and disappear out | :55:16. | :55:19. | |
of the range of normal tracking. So what we are going to be doing here | :55:20. | :55:23. | |
at acrid to his tracking the rocket parts up into space, up into orbit. | :55:24. | :55:27. | |
So yes, that is what we are hoping to do. And as with all rocket | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
scientist, you make it sound easy. Is it the sort of technology now | :55:33. | :55:35. | |
that is very much within our grasp, is it relatively easy? Well, of | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
course we have been tracking rocket since the early 1960s. This is | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
something we are perhaps going to be to look at in terms of the | :55:45. | :55:47. | |
technology, perhaps tracking via another satellite already in space. | :55:48. | :55:52. | |
Tim Harris, from the University of Exeter, I want to talk to you about | :55:53. | :55:55. | |
the science. We have talked about the business opportunities of the | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
burgeoning space industry. What would it mean the signs such as | :55:59. | :56:03. | |
yourself? Of course, satellites are very important for UK science. We | :56:04. | :56:07. | |
have people starting ocean acidification remotely, looking at | :56:08. | :56:10. | |
climate and weather in contact with the Met Office, and also in my | :56:11. | :56:16. | |
field, in astrophysics, we like to get above the atmosphere, which | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
causes the stars to twinkle, which makes it difficult to observe them | :56:21. | :56:24. | |
in detail from the earth's surfers, but above the atmosphere that goes | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
away. And some wavelengths don't get through the atmosphere but we can | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
study them from space. This is an exciting opportunity for UK science. | :56:34. | :56:38. | |
More from you two later on. Exciting opportunities. It is enabling | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
scientists to do things that they just haven't been able to do before, | :56:43. | :56:46. | |
obtain data, monitor things they haven't been able to before, much | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
more cheaply now if and when the spaceport is arrive in the UK in | :56:51. | :56:57. | |
just the next couple of years. I quite fancy being a space tourist, | :56:58. | :57:05. | |
do you? No. Really? I am quite happy here, thanks. I | :57:06. | :00:28. | |
Plenty more on our website at the usual address. | :00:29. | :00:31. | |
Now, though, it is back to Dan and Louise. | :00:32. | :00:33. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:34. | :00:37. | |
are the most congested in Western Europe. | :00:38. | :00:41. | |
Researchers say most drivers spend more than 32 hours each year stuck | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
in traffic as they warn of a significant cost | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
Good morning, it's Monday the 20th February. | :00:47. | :01:02. | |
Almost every council in England is planning | :01:03. | :01:07. | |
to put up taxes to help meet the cost of social care. | :01:08. | :01:13. | |
Angelina Jolie talks exclusively to us about her new film set | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
in Cambodia and for the first time about her separation | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
And we are a family, and we will always be a family. | :01:19. | :01:37. | |
and hopefully be a stronger family for it. | :01:38. | :01:41. | |
More than half a million people with a disability are self employed. | :01:42. | :01:44. | |
I'll be looking at why it's such a popular option as part | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
of the BBC's Disability Works series. | :01:49. | :01:49. | |
Can another non-league club make it to the quarter finals of the FA Cup? | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
Sutton United take on Arsenal later, the winner will play Lincoln. | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
The holders Manchester United will face Chelsea next after coming | :01:57. | :01:59. | |
from behind to beat Blackburn Rovers yesterday. | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
It is blast off for plans to create a new generation of commercial space | :02:07. | :02:15. | |
ports in the UK. With live at mission control in Cornwall, where | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
they'll be hoping to track the spacecraft of the future -- we're | :02:20. | :02:20. | |
live. After 8am we'll be joined | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
by TV royalty. Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders | :02:23. | :02:24. | |
will be on the sofa as they celebrate 25 | :02:25. | :02:27. | |
years of Ab Fab. A mild start to the day but not | :02:28. | :02:41. | |
sunny all the way through. Quite a lot of cloud around producing | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
drizzle, murky conditions, wet and windy in the north but sunshine | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
today and where we see that in parts of the south we could hit 16 or 17. | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
More on all of that in 15 minutes. Thank you, Carol, see you shortly. | :02:57. | :02:58. | |
Let's set you up for the day by talking about traffic! | :02:59. | :03:02. | |
The UK has the worst congestion in Western Europe, | :03:03. | :03:04. | |
with drivers spending an average of 32 hours a year stuck | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
This is according to the travel information company Inrix. | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
Congestion is the most severe in London, followed by Manchester | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
The Department for Transport says it's investing record amounts | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
to keep the country moving, as Jane-Frances Kelly reports. | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Drivers across the UK who face the daily misery of traffic jams | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
are losing not just their patience but also time and money. | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
Unsurprisingly, London is the most congested city in the UK, | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
with drivers spending more than three days every year stuck | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
Manchester is the second worst, with motorists wasting 39 hours | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
Aberdeen is third and perhaps surprisingly beats London | :03:42. | :03:47. | |
as the hardest city to drive in and out of during rush hour. | :03:48. | :03:56. | |
Research suggests businesses in Cardiff, suffer the most | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
from congestion, based on the amount of tailback during the daytime. | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
Outside of London, part of the A1 southbound in Belfast | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
was found to be the most congested route in the UK. | :04:09. | :04:11. | |
Other than drivers getting frustrated behind the wheel, | :04:12. | :04:13. | |
costs the economy ?31 billion last year, that's an average of nearly | :04:14. | :04:24. | |
?1,000 per driver on things like fuel, being late | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
There's also more traffic on the roads because of growth | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
The Department for Transport said it's making the most extensive | :04:31. | :04:36. | |
improvements to roads since the 1970s, investing a record | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
But money may not be the only solution. | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
Researchers say to stop us standing still, we need better traffic | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
management, more flexible working and to consider the wider use | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
We'll hear from two traffic experts at just after 8am this morning | :04:50. | :04:57. | |
on what they think should be done to ease congestion on our roads. | :04:58. | :05:02. | |
Thank you for all your suggestions you've been sending in already, | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
we'll get through some of those later in the programme. | :05:08. | :05:08. | |
Council tax rises are planned by nearly all of England's local | :05:09. | :05:11. | |
authorities in the coming year, but the organisation that represents | :05:12. | :05:14. | |
them is warning that deep cuts to services will still be needed. | :05:15. | :05:17. | |
The Local Government Association says social care | :05:18. | :05:19. | |
services for the elderly and disabled are at breaking point | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
and will swallow up any extra money raised. | :05:23. | :05:24. | |
Here's our social affairs correspondent Allison Holt. | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
After several falls, Maureen Edwards is getting support | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
to regain some independence and rebuild her confidence. | :05:35. | :05:36. | |
She needs help each day, which allows her and her husband | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
I'm grateful for all that they have done for me, I really am and... | :05:40. | :05:55. | |
Without them, I don't know what I would have done. | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
Councils fund most social care and today's surveys shows | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
the majority of them struggling to meet growing costs. | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
There are 151 local authorities in England, 147 plan to raise | :06:08. | :06:10. | |
council tax specifically to help pay for social care. | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
But councils warn that will not plug the funding gap and that could mean | :06:15. | :06:20. | |
There has been a united voice of local government to say | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
that they need more funding into social care and that the crisis | :06:27. | :06:33. | |
The funding for local government needs to be resolved immediately. | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
The government says extra money is being put into social care that | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
and authorities will soon be able to keep all the money they raise | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
The House of Lords will get its first chance to debate | :06:47. | :06:57. | |
the so-called Brexit Bill later, the legislation which kicks off | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
the formal process for Britain leaving the EU. | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
The bill passed through the Commons unamended, | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
but it's thought opposition peers will seek guarantees | :07:04. | :07:06. | |
about the rights of EU citizens in Britain | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
and the role of Parliament in scrutinising Brexit. | :07:09. | :07:17. | |
Our political correspondent Tom Bateman is in Westminster. | :07:18. | :07:20. | |
What will the tone of the debate be those yellow for anyone interested | :07:21. | :07:27. | |
in the spectator sport of watching House of Lords debate, there will be | :07:28. | :07:33. | |
a treat because 180 will speak, a record number. It gives you a sense | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
of the appetite of lords to influence and discuss and scrutinise | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
this process. Some of the Lord's will try to amend the Brexit bill, | :07:43. | :07:46. | |
that's something MPs were unsuccessful in doing because they | :07:47. | :07:51. | |
backed this bill overwhelmingly. For others it's merely a chance to have | :07:52. | :07:56. | |
a say on it all. In terms of that process, we've been hearing on | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
Breakfast from the crossbench peer Lord Kerslake. | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
The key issue is the Lord's has a job to do, it's there to review and | :08:03. | :08:09. | |
scrutinise legislation and while people voted to leave, there are a | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
lot of issues on which people didn't really vote or express a view, such | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
as leaving the single market, or indeed taking actions that might put | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
at risk the future of the United Kingdom. These are important issues | :08:23. | :08:26. | |
and it's right and proper for Parliament, and indeed the House of | :08:27. | :08:34. | |
Lords, to debate. You mention the rights of EU citizens and getting a | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
parliamentary vote on any deal before signed by Theresa May, it | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
could bounce back to the House of Commons and they could wipe off | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
those amendments. In the end ministers want no changes to the | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
bill and Theresa May confident she will get to trigger the Article 50 | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
process during the course of next month. Tom, thank you very much. | :08:55. | :09:08. | |
The NHS is at breaking point as the number of overnight hospital | :09:09. | :09:11. | |
beds continue to decline, that's the warning from | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
Its research, based on official statistics, | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
said the number of beds in England fell by a fifth | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
But Department of Health officials have disputed some of the report's | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
key findings, insisting changes in the way data is recorded means | :09:24. | :09:26. | |
historic and current figures cannot be compared. | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
Campaigners have called the current maximum jail term for animal cruelty | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
Battersea Dogs and Cats Home is calling for prison | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
sentences to be increased from six months to five years to bring | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
the punishment in line with crimes such as fly tipping. | :09:41. | :09:43. | |
England and Wales currently have the lowest maximum sentence | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
Donald Trump has explained on Twitter why he made comments | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
about a security incident in Sweden on Friday, | :09:50. | :09:51. | |
At a rally on Saturday, Mr Trump referenced Sweden, | :09:52. | :09:55. | |
along with other European cities which have been hit by attacks. | :09:56. | :10:09. | |
You look at what's happening last night in Sweden. Sweden! Who would | :10:10. | :10:18. | |
believe this, Sweden! They took in large numbers, they're having | :10:19. | :10:20. | |
problems like they never thought possible. | :10:21. | :10:30. | |
He tweeted the following day, saying the information | :10:31. | :10:32. | |
The Swedish Embassy responded, saying they look forward | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
to advising Mr Trump's administration about Swedish | :10:37. | :10:37. | |
immigration and integration policies. | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
Angelina Jolie has spoken for the first time about her | :10:40. | :10:41. | |
The Hollywood actor and director has been speaking exclusively to the BBC | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
about her new film, set in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. | :10:47. | :10:49. | |
Angelina Jolie, a UN refugee agency special envoy, | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
She later adopted Maddox, her oldest son, from Cambodia. | :10:52. | :10:55. | |
She spoke to our reporter, Yalda Hakim. | :10:56. | :11:08. | |
I'm here because 17 years ago I came to this country and fell in love | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
with its people and learned about its history, and in doing so | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
realised how little I actually knew in my early 20s about the world. So | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
this country for me has been... Was my awakening and my son changed my | :11:24. | :11:31. | |
life. The you think in many ways you've come full circle? Your | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
humanitarian work started here, you became a mother here, perhaps this | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
is some kind of crossroads for you that you've come back here? Yeah, | :11:40. | :11:47. | |
yeah. I'll always... I'll always be very grateful to this country and I | :11:48. | :11:54. | |
hope... I hope I've given back as much as it's given me. I don't think | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
I could ever give back as much as this country's given me. I | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
understand this is a very sensitive issue. We know that an incident | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
occurred which led to your separation. We also know you haven't | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
said anything about this. But would you like to say something? | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
Uh... Only that... | :12:18. | :12:27. | |
I don't want to say very much about that, except to say | :12:28. | :12:30. | |
that it was a very difficult time, and... | :12:31. | :12:32. | |
And we are a family, and we will always be a family. | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
And we will get through this time, and hopefully be a stronger | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
That was Angelina Jolie. You can see the full interview with her on the | :12:39. | :12:49. | |
BBC News website. We promised you we would return to cruelty to animals. | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
In 2015, just 9% of those convicted of animal cruelty were sent | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
to prison, serving an average of three months in jail. | :12:56. | :12:57. | |
That's something one animal rescue charity wants to change. | :12:58. | :13:00. | |
Battersea Dog and Cats Home is calling for the maximum sentence | :13:01. | :13:03. | |
in England and Wales to be increased from six months | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
We're joined now by its CEO, Claire Horton, who's brought | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
along her dog, Wilma, and by Elaine Chin, who's | :13:10. | :13:12. | |
a volunteer with Freshfields Animal Rescue in Liverpool. | :13:13. | :13:14. | |
Good morning to all of you! I was going to say both of you but Wilma | :13:15. | :13:26. | |
is here as well. Very well controlled. No hands, she's very | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
good! Why do you want to raise the maximum sentence? Well, frankly the | :13:32. | :13:38. | |
situation with sentencing in this country, particularly in England and | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
Wales, particularly for serious offences of animal cruelty is | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
shocking. We are the lowest in Europe at just six months, and other | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
countries, including Ireland and Northern Ireland, are up at five | :13:51. | :13:55. | |
years, which much more reflects the sort of punishment is expected for | :13:56. | :14:01. | |
very serious and very horrific crimes against animals. Tell us | :14:02. | :14:05. | |
about Wilma, she is a rescue dog, isn't she? Wilma is from Battersea | :14:06. | :14:10. | |
dogs and Cats home, I've had her for about six years and when she came in | :14:11. | :14:15. | |
I saw her from the day she came in, very poor state, very thin. She's 14 | :14:16. | :14:19. | |
now but she was nine when she came in, just had puppies, they were | :14:20. | :14:24. | |
nowhere to be found, very bad skin and ears and plenty of operations to | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
get her right. Completely neglected, horrendous state. She's very | :14:31. | :14:34. | |
interested in your jacket! What have you been seeing? When we talk about | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
the abuse and cruelty towards animals? Endless cases. It gets | :14:40. | :14:45. | |
worse and worse and worse. We've had animals that have been brought in, a | :14:46. | :14:50. | |
dog brought in who obviously had been owned by adults who were | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
addicts and they used to put alcohol in his drinking bowl and forced him | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
to inhale cannabis. When he came in he had had some corrosive substance | :15:01. | :15:05. | |
thrown over him, acid or whatever, and he had dreadful scarring on him. | :15:06. | :15:10. | |
We've got a dog at the moment in foster care who thankfully his hair | :15:11. | :15:17. | |
owner has gone to prison -- her own. The nature of the abuse is too | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
graphic to describe, even the police were horrified. Dreadful abuse. This | :15:23. | :15:27. | |
is an elderly dog, 11 years old, now needs a home, and that's all she's | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
ever known in her life. What happens to the animals when they come in? | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
They need a lot of care and let's to help them? This is the thing, I'm | :15:37. | :15:43. | |
from Freshfields animal rescue, a local charity in Liverpool, I say at | :15:44. | :15:48. | |
the door they must see the vet. As Claire has described with Wilma, | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
sometimes we embarked on a long and intensive and expensive course of | :15:53. | :15:59. | |
treatment to get the dog or the cat or whatever the animal is right. | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
There's also an emotional journey to go on to restore the animal's faith | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
and get trust again and help it to feel safe. I'm sure the vast | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
majority of people watching will say it's disgusting and how deep could | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
do that to an animal but I'm sure some people will be doing this this | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
week and even today. How would a longer prison sentence deter those | :16:22. | :16:25. | |
kinds of people from hurting animals in a certain kind of way? | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
There is something about, the punishment needs to reflect the | :16:31. | :16:37. | |
crime, and we don't see that at the moment. Birmingham did prison | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
research, showing that increased prison sentences to deter the | :16:43. | :16:45. | |
perpetrators of the most serious crimes. Some of these animals are so | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
badly hurt that they will either die at the hands of their owners or | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
their abuses, or they will have to be euthanasia now found. And that | :16:55. | :16:57. | |
happens way too often for that to be right. -- euthanased. We take on | :16:58. | :17:12. | |
lots of very nice animals from homes who can't take care of them, but | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
some from homes where they have been starved or abused, we will take a | :17:17. | :17:20. | |
lot of stray animals. A good third of the dog that came in, and cats | :17:21. | :17:24. | |
that came in last year were strays, and many of them were extremely | :17:25. | :17:28. | |
poorly looked after and had had very difficult start in life. You can see | :17:29. | :17:35. | |
that. RSPCA in 2015 prosecuted and successfully prosecuted over 930 | :17:36. | :17:39. | |
offenders who were punished, but none of those people, some even for | :17:40. | :17:45. | |
the most serious crimes, received anything more than six months. And | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
she is a beautifully behaved dog. She has been with you, six years or | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
so? Six years. How did you choose her? It was my second day at a busy | :17:56. | :18:01. | |
and I wanted to follow an animal through its journey, and she has | :18:02. | :18:03. | |
been with me in mind. You are watching | :18:04. | :18:12. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
morning: In a jam. The UK has the worst | :18:15. | :18:16. | |
congestion in Europe, with drivers spending around 32 | :18:17. | :18:18. | |
hours a year stuck in traffic. In an exclusive interview | :18:19. | :18:21. | |
with the BBC, Angelina Jolie has spoken for the first time | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
about her separation from Brad Pitt. Thank you for your texts, tweets and | :18:25. | :18:36. | |
messages about that story. We will read some of those later in the | :18:37. | :18:38. | |
programme. Here is Carol with a look | :18:39. | :18:38. | |
at this morning's weather. It is exceptionally mild. | :18:39. | :18:48. | |
Unfortunately that doesn't mean we have wall-to-wall blue skies. There | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
is a lot of cloud around but to give you an idea of the current | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
temperatures, in Aberdeen at the moment is 13 Celsius. At this time | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
of day, at this time of year, it should be freezing. That is a big | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
hike up. Belfast, Manchester and Norwich 11, Cardiff and London ten. | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
These temperatures would be good as maximum temperatures at this time of | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
year. It is not just today, even in some tomorrow, look at the Amber | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
colours coming from the Atlantic Ocean. The source of this is the | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
Caribbean, it is tangled up in the jet stream, so it is not dry. We | :19:22. | :19:25. | |
have a lot of moisture, hence all the cloud that we currently have, | :19:26. | :19:29. | |
the mist and murk and also the hill fog. For some of us we also have a | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
weather front coming in across the north-west, producing thick cloud | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
and some heavy rain. In the south-west it is a murky start. | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
There is a lot of cloud around, there is hill fog. It is damp as | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
well, drizzle coming out of the thickest cloud, but these | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
temperatures, 11 and ten, not bad at all. For Wales you have hill fog, | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
northern England you have hill fog, Northern Ireland and Scotland, the | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
rain coming in the northern Scotland will fringe in the Northern Ireland | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
as we go through the course of the day and it is windy in Scotland and | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
Northern Ireland and will remain so throughout the day. It will be | :20:05. | :20:07. | |
particularly windy through the North of England. If you are on the A1, | :20:08. | :20:12. | |
bear that in mind, especially in a high sided vehicles. The rain will | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
turn more patchy in nature as it moved south, bright and breezy | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
behind it. Still some showers piling on, and further south although there | :20:20. | :20:25. | |
will be a lot of cloud around, parts of east and north-east Wales, the | :20:26. | :20:28. | |
South of England, where that sunshine breaks, the temperature | :20:29. | :20:33. | |
could hit 17 Celsius. 17 Celsius in February happens once every five to | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
seven years. Now, as we move through the evening and overnight there is | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
no weather front down in the south. It is going to rejuvenate and pivot | :20:42. | :20:45. | |
back northwards. Ahead of its clearer skies, cool in some of the | :20:46. | :20:49. | |
mountains and Scotland will see some snow. Tomorrow that band of rain | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
moves a little bit further north, not terribly far north. A lot of | :20:54. | :20:56. | |
cloud associated with it. Some breaks in the cloud as we push | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
further north but more rain piling in across the north-west, quite | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
windy. Like today, where we see some breaks, the temperature will be way | :21:05. | :21:08. | |
above average for the time of year. But it will be down by a good four | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
degrees in parts of Scotland compared to what we are looking at | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
today. So then moving from Tuesday into Wednesday we've got a weather | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
front lines across central parts of England and Wales, producing some | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
rain. Quite a lot of cloud around. Behind it, although it is brighter, | :21:25. | :21:28. | |
you can see how the temperature is slowly dropping back down to where | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
it should be at this stage in February. Quite mild, it has been | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
very nice. It has been a lovely weekend, thanks, Carol. | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
Baked beans, whiskey, that is what morning's business stories. | :21:42. | :21:49. | |
Baked beans, whiskey, that is what we have got. Breakfast of kings. | :21:50. | :21:51. | |
It wasn't on for very long, but now the deal is off. | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
On Friday, the American food company Kraft Heinz said it wanted to buy | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
the British-Dutch company Unilever, but last night it walked away | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
The takeover would have been worth ?115 billion, | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
one of the biggest in corporate history, combining dozens | :22:07. | :22:09. | |
of household names, from Unilever's Ben Jerry's | :22:10. | :22:11. | |
and Marmite, to Kraft Heinz's baked beans and Philadelphia cheese. | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
Online retail giant Amazon has said it will create 5,000 new full-time | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
The firm said it was looking for a range of staff, | :22:19. | :22:26. | |
including software developers and warehouse staff. | :22:27. | :22:29. | |
There will be jobs at Amazon's head office in London, | :22:30. | :22:31. | |
as well as in the Edinburgh customer service centre, | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
The recruitment will take Amazon's workforce in the UK | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
Single-malt scotch whisky topped ?1 billion worth of exports | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
for the first time last year, reflecting a return to growth | :22:42. | :22:44. | |
for exports of scotch more widely, with nearly ?4 billion of overseas | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
That follows a dip for two years because of falling demand | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
from China, Venezuela and Brazil with serious economic difficulties. | :22:55. | :22:56. | |
The return to growth for scotch whisky has been driven | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
by the success of single-malts, appealing to luxury | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
There you go, it is very popular, isn't it? It is, especially at this | :23:02. | :23:11. | |
time of the morning. All right, some! What is in your Breakfast cup? | :23:12. | :23:13. | |
We only have tea over here. He has been in the job | :23:14. | :23:20. | |
for just over a month, but in a few short weeks, | :23:21. | :23:24. | |
Donald Trump has managed to both delight his supporters | :23:25. | :23:27. | |
and appal his detractors. Today, MPs will debate | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
the President's upcoming state visit to the UK, after two million people | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
signed a petition against it, and more than 300,000 | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
signed one in favour. Breakfast's Graham Satchell has been | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
to an American comedy night in Birmingham, where the audience | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
shared their divided views on the new US President | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
and his policies. And the thing is, living | :23:43. | :23:44. | |
here as an American at the moment, I usually have to start my gigs | :23:45. | :23:47. | |
by just saying I'm sorry. When people find out | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
I'm an American now, the first thing they | :23:51. | :23:54. | |
say to me is Trump. Trump, Trump, Trump, | :23:55. | :24:03. | |
Trump, Trump, Trump... American comedian Eric McIlroy | :24:04. | :24:05. | |
is playing to a split audience. Some who admire Donald Trump, | :24:06. | :24:08. | |
and some who loathe him. I think he's a racist, misogynistic, | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
I think he's a sexist. I think he's a real | :24:13. | :24:15. | |
threat to the values I'm living in this | :24:16. | :24:21. | |
country as a Muslim. I think he's a climate | :24:22. | :24:24. | |
change denier, and I think he's | :24:25. | :24:29. | |
pro-torture. His approaches are just | :24:30. | :24:29. | |
archaic and shocking. Breaking the establishment | :24:30. | :24:34. | |
and fixing the broken country. If they are going to call that | :24:35. | :24:50. | |
dangerous, then I'm dangerous. And, in one word, he | :24:51. | :24:53. | |
is an absolute bigot. I think we should let him | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
come to the country, I think he should be | :24:58. | :25:05. | |
greeted by Sadiq Khan, after waiting for an hour | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
and a half in Customs, because he would appreciate that, | :25:08. | :25:14. | |
and he be taken out Almost 200,000 people have signed | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
a petition to say he should be The rights and wrongs | :25:18. | :25:22. | |
will be discussed today, but again our audience | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
is deeply divided. I'd be happy to greet him | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
personally, I'd like to see him having a drink on Broad Street, | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
the same as Bill Clinton did. If Prime Minister Trudeau, | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
liberal Prime Minister of Canada, is prepared to reach | :25:36. | :25:46. | |
out with an open hand, We could be seeing a real division, | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
not the unifying effect that state Whether we roll the red | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
carpet out in all senses, some people might | :25:54. | :26:10. | |
find that a bit much. But certainly we have | :26:11. | :26:13. | |
to do the right thing, Given the almost vituperative | :26:14. | :26:15. | |
disagreement within the room, it is no small mercy | :26:16. | :26:21. | |
that our session begins And that was the first time | :26:22. | :26:23. | |
I met Boris Johnson... You can watch MPs debate | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
Donald Trump's state visit to the UK on BBC Parliament from | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
4:30pm this afternoon. Plenty more on our website | :26:31. | :29:48. | |
at the usual address. Now, though, it is back | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
to Dan and Louise. Hello, this is Breakfast, | :29:52. | :29:53. | |
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. The UK has the worst traffic | :29:54. | :30:01. | |
congestion in Europe, with some drivers spending a total | :30:02. | :30:04. | |
of three days a year stuck That's according to | :30:05. | :30:07. | |
research from the travel information company, Inrix, | :30:08. | :30:10. | |
which found that congestion followed by Manchester and then | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
Aberdeen. The Department for Transport says | :30:17. | :30:20. | |
it's investing record amounts We'll hear from two traffic experts | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
at just after 8am this morning on what they think should be done | :30:23. | :30:32. | |
to ease congestion on our roads. Thanks for all your suggestions, | :30:33. | :30:43. | |
we'll get to those a little later as well. | :30:44. | :30:43. | |
Council tax rises are planned by most local authorities in England | :30:44. | :30:46. | |
in the coming year to help meet the increasing cost of social care. | :30:47. | :30:50. | |
The government says extra money is being put into social care | :30:51. | :30:53. | |
and councils will soon be able to keep all the money they raise | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
But the Local Government Association who represent councils say deep cuts | :30:57. | :31:01. | |
will still have to be made to other services as the cost of care | :31:02. | :31:05. | |
for the elderly and disabled will account for all | :31:06. | :31:07. | |
Nearly all local authorities have taken the opportunity to raise the | :31:08. | :31:20. | |
adult social care precept and raise council tax. It does not surprise | :31:21. | :31:25. | |
me, there's been a united voice of local government to say they need to | :31:26. | :31:29. | |
have more funding into social care and that the crisis in social care | :31:30. | :31:31. | |
is immediate now. The funding for local government | :31:32. | :31:33. | |
needs to be resolved immediately. The House of Lords will get | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
its first chance to debate the so-called Brexit Bill later, | :31:37. | :31:39. | |
the legislation which kicks off the formal process for | :31:40. | :31:42. | |
Britain leaving the EU. The bill passed through | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
the Commons unamended, but it's thought opposition peers | :31:45. | :31:46. | |
will seek guarantees about the rights of EU | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
citizens in Britain and the role of parliament | :31:49. | :31:50. | |
in scrutinising Brexit. The NHS is at breaking point | :31:51. | :32:00. | |
as the number of overnight hospital beds continue to decline, | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
that's the warning from Its research, based | :32:04. | :32:05. | |
on official statistics, said the number of beds | :32:06. | :32:08. | |
in England fell by a fifth But Department of Health officials | :32:09. | :32:11. | |
have disputed some of the report's key findings, insisting changes | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
in the way data is recorded means historic and current | :32:16. | :32:18. | |
figures cannot be compared. Iraqi government forces have | :32:19. | :32:26. | |
resumed their offensive to regain the last major stronghold | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
of so-called Islamic State in Iraq. Thousands of troops | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
are involved in the assault on western Mosul, which is | :32:32. | :32:33. | |
now in its second day. Last month, the Iraqi government | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
forces secured the eastern part Some important bee news | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
for you this morning. Researchers have discovered | :32:40. | :32:46. | |
that the insects make a ridiculously cute noise when they | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
bump into each other. Excuse me, excuse me, coming | :32:50. | :33:11. | |
through! It sounds a bit like ducks quacking. It is a high-pitched | :33:12. | :33:13. | |
little crack. -- quack. identified by scientists | :33:14. | :33:19. | |
at Nottingham Trent University, is made when bees accidentally | :33:20. | :33:24. | |
collide with other bees in the hive. It's made when they vibrate | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
their wing muscles and it can't be heard by human ears, | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
only with a special microphone. That's why we can hear it now. It's | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
interesting, I want to know the noise a wasp makes when he stings | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
you. We know the sound we make! Have some of that! Ouch! Coming up on the | :33:41. | :33:48. | |
programme, Carol will be here later. I don't think wasps speak when they | :33:49. | :33:54. | |
do it! You've been watching too many cartoons! I think I probably have! | :33:55. | :33:59. | |
I'll be talking about the FA Cup. I'm not sure that was the right word | :34:00. | :34:04. | |
for the bee noise. It was apologetic, wasn't it? They will be | :34:05. | :34:09. | |
cheering hopefully, Lincoln city, they know who they have in the next | :34:10. | :34:11. | |
round of the FA Cup. Non-league Sutton United take centre | :34:12. | :34:13. | |
stage in the FA Cup when they take on Arsenal tonight for the last | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
remaining place in the FA Cup It will be on an artificial pitch. I | :34:17. | :34:20. | |
know you're going to that game, Dan! And whoever wins tonight will play | :34:21. | :34:25. | |
the big winners from this weekend, Lincoln City for a place | :34:26. | :34:28. | |
in the semi-finals. While Tottenham Hotspur | :34:29. | :34:32. | |
and Manchester United United had to come from behind | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
to beat Championship side Blackburn Rovers 2-1 | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
with Zlatan Ibrahimovic United now go to manager | :34:47. | :34:48. | |
Jose Mourinho's former club Chelsea and if we didn't have this | :34:49. | :34:51. | |
professional attitude with everybody playing with focus | :34:52. | :35:00. | |
and responsibility, He does say Focus there in case | :35:01. | :35:01. | |
you're wondering! Harry Kane scored a hat-trick | :35:02. | :35:14. | |
against Fulham yesterday. The England striker says the win | :35:15. | :35:16. | |
will also help them later this week when Spurs attempt to come back | :35:17. | :35:20. | |
from 1-0 down in the Europa League Winning games, it | :35:21. | :35:23. | |
gives you confidence so we go into Thursday now, | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
coming off this result, and we'll buzzing | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
to go out at Wembley. You know, it is never easy in the FA | :35:30. | :35:31. | |
Cup as you see yesterday, We had to make sure we come | :35:32. | :35:36. | |
here and done our job Aberdeen have strengthened | :35:37. | :35:41. | |
their grip on second place in the Scottish Premiership | :35:42. | :35:44. | |
after a late comeback Aberdeen were a goal behind | :35:45. | :35:46. | |
going into the last ten minutes before substitutes Jayden Stockley | :35:47. | :35:50. | |
and Peter Pawlett scored The result cuts Celtic's | :35:51. | :35:52. | |
lead at the top Dundee picked up their first | :35:53. | :35:55. | |
home league win over Goals from Mark O'Hara | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
and Kevin Holt put them 2-0 Rangers got a goal back | :36:00. | :36:03. | |
but they were unable to find Wigan have won the World | :36:04. | :36:07. | |
Club Challenge Series The series is between | :36:08. | :36:10. | |
the best in the Northern A hat-trick from winger | :36:11. | :36:14. | |
Joe Burgess helped Wigan beat Australian champions | :36:15. | :36:20. | |
Cronulla Sharks 22-6. and I wanted us | :36:21. | :36:28. | |
to perform really well. It's not the stuff, it's not | :36:29. | :36:39. | |
the coaching stuff - and shown such guts | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
and determination to get these wins. There was a surprise result in rugby | :36:45. | :36:48. | |
union's Premiership yesterday as leaders Wasps lost | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
to tenth place Sale Sharks. Denny Solomona scored | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
a hat-trick for the Sharks who inflicted Wasps' third league | :36:56. | :36:57. | |
defeat of the season. Wasps remain six points | :36:58. | :36:59. | |
clear at the top. Elsewhere, Newcastle | :37:00. | :37:02. | |
beat Northampton. Late last night Stuart Bingham | :37:03. | :37:03. | |
won the Welsh Open. He beat Judd Trump 9-8 in the final | :37:04. | :37:05. | |
frame to win the tournament Bingham had led 4-0 in the early | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
stages before Trump battled back to lead 8-7 | :37:10. | :37:13. | |
in the evening session. But Bingham held his nerve to take | :37:14. | :37:15. | |
the final two frames, sealing his first Welsh Open | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
win with a break of 55. At those World Biathlon Championship | :37:19. | :37:26. | |
they had one of those anthem issues. This time it was for | :37:27. | :37:36. | |
the Russian National anthem. They all look a little bit confused. | :37:37. | :37:48. | |
One of the TV commentators comes rushing in and says to stop and | :37:49. | :37:50. | |
tells them to start singing. SING there were huge apologies. Is one of | :37:51. | :38:05. | |
those when you get handed a microphone and are made to sing in | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
front of the public. Not fun! Terrible that they got the wrong | :38:09. | :38:14. | |
anthem. It's happened a few times around the world at various | :38:15. | :38:16. | |
different events. You should take your own CD I think! Not a bad idea | :38:17. | :38:23. | |
just in case. And learn the words to the national anthem, it's that | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
second verse! Very awkward. Thank you very much. | :38:27. | :38:30. | |
Sepsis kills around 44,000 people in the UK every year, | :38:31. | :38:33. | |
more than bowel, breast and prostate cancer combined. | :38:34. | :38:35. | |
Today, the UK Sepsis Trust will present a report | :38:36. | :38:37. | |
to the director of NHS England calling for more to be done | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
We're joined now by doctor Ron Daniel from the charity, | :38:41. | :38:49. | |
and by Stephanie Jennings who first developed the condition | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
Lovely you see U-boats, thank you for coming on. Whenever talk about | :38:53. | :38:59. | |
sepsis, it's important we reiterate what it is -- you both. People are | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
still a bit confused. So Doctor, what is it? Alouettes the way the | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
body responds to infection, it is infection, it is triggered by an | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
infection. It could be a cut or a bike but the immune system going | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
into overdrive damages the body's organs -- cut or a bike. It can be | :39:19. | :39:24. | |
life-threatening. Stephanie. You had pneumonia and then you started | :39:25. | :39:29. | |
feeling increasingly ill? -- bite. I contracted pneumonia in January, | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
2015. It felt like a normal cold but then I got the feeling something was | :39:35. | :39:46. | |
seriously wrong. It got to the point where I felt I was dying and this | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
was it, then I got it again in the middle of February because the | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
pneumonia didn't clear completely. Four months later, because of all | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
the antibodies I had to clear the sepsis, it ravaged my bowl, they | :40:01. | :40:06. | |
took the: Away in May, 2015 which left me with a colostomy bag. -- the | :40:07. | :40:12. | |
colon. You really went through it! When did they say it was sepsis? | :40:13. | :40:17. | |
They didn't tell me for a long time in hospital, they were almost | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
frightened to because of how ill I was. You can see the pictures, you | :40:22. | :40:26. | |
were extremely ill. Absolutely. It was touch and go and I was told if I | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
hadn't gone to the hospital the night I did I wouldn't be here. Is | :40:31. | :40:35. | |
that a problem many doctors find, it is hard to know the symptoms because | :40:36. | :40:38. | |
it manifests itself in different ways, sepsis? It does, and we need | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
to firstly heighten public awareness, which we're doing today, | :40:44. | :40:49. | |
but we need health officials to be thinking sepsis, it's a complicated | :40:50. | :40:53. | |
condition to diagnose and health officials need to be on the lookout | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
to get this right. What should people and health officials be | :40:58. | :41:01. | |
looking for? You said you felt like you were going to die, that's one of | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
the things, when you feel that ill, that's on the list. Absolutely, it | :41:06. | :41:10. | |
is one of the six key symptoms. The context is, you've got an infection, | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
you know what that feels like and you feel worse. You start to think | :41:15. | :41:19. | |
sepsis, slurred speech, confusion, pain in the muscles and joints, not | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
passing any hearing, a sense you're going to die and your skin changing | :41:25. | :41:32. | |
colour and you're going to die. -- urinal. You talk about diagnosis and | :41:33. | :41:38. | |
treatment, how do they tell? Is it a simple blood test, how do they | :41:39. | :41:42. | |
you've got it? It's a clinical diagnosis and that means we need a | :41:43. | :41:45. | |
clinical expert assessing the patient, looking at a multitude of | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
things, some will be blood tests and ordering a picture. If they get | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
early treatment like you did it can make a difference to recovery? | :41:56. | :42:01. | |
Absolutely. We know there is a burden of survival if we get this | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
wrong, people have psychological and physical problems, something | :42:06. | :42:08. | |
relatively difficult to measure, like fatigue problems and that kind | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
of thing. And this is included in the report, there's a huge economic | :42:13. | :42:16. | |
cost as well as the human cost of sepsis because people can't go back | :42:17. | :42:20. | |
to work quickly if we get it wrong. How long were you off work for? I | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
didn't go back to work for ten months, I retrained to do something | :42:26. | :42:33. | |
else because I wasn't well enough physically and mentally, I couldn't | :42:34. | :42:36. | |
get out of bed and the shock of being in intensive care was very | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
harrowing. That cost, it's worth mentioning the figures, how much is | :42:40. | :42:43. | |
it going to potentially cost the NHS? Potentially to our economy it | :42:44. | :42:49. | |
could be ?16 billion a year and these estimates are conservative, it | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
is at least ?1 billion to ?2 billion just for the NHS due to bed days in | :42:55. | :43:01. | |
hospital. How are you now? I'm really well. Thank you very much for | :43:02. | :43:06. | |
coming in. Carol has been talking about how my old things are, good | :43:07. | :43:08. | |
morning. It is mild, these are the current | :43:09. | :43:17. | |
temperatures. Rhyl, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, London, | :43:18. | :43:20. | |
Cardiff. These temperatures would be pretty good at maximum temperature | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
time at this time of year, but for minimum, Aberdeen at the moment is | :43:25. | :43:29. | |
13. The average at this time in February is freezing at this time of | :43:30. | :43:34. | |
day. Through the course of the day, the average temperatures again | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
between round about nine and 12 Celsius. But today we're looking at | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
widely between 12 and 14, and locally we could see 16 or 17. | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
Tomorrow for some it will still be mild as you can see with the amber | :43:50. | :43:52. | |
colours coming up. We're importing our air at the moment, it's moist | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
but not necessarily sunny from the Caribbean which is why we're seeing | :43:57. | :43:59. | |
the higher temperatures, tempered by the Atlantic. A lot of cloud across | :44:00. | :44:04. | |
our shores this morning and we have thicker cloud in the north-west, | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
producing heavy rain in north-west Scotland and that will go into | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
Northern Ireland and as it continues its descent south-east across | :44:13. | :44:14. | |
northern England and eventually north Wales, it will weaken. A windy | :44:15. | :44:19. | |
start in the northern half of the country and for a time this morning | :44:20. | :44:22. | |
particularly in the Pennines and generally northern England. As we | :44:23. | :44:27. | |
come south, although it's a cloudy, murky start to the day, it will | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
remain fairly cloudy but some will see some breaks, more notably in | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
parts of the south-east and where the sun comes out for any length of | :44:36. | :44:39. | |
time, we could in parts of the south-east hit 16 or 17, as we could | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
in parts of east or north-east Wales away from the band of rain. Rain | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
clears Northern Ireland and Scotland leaving clearer skies, some sunshine | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
and showers but still a blustery day. Across northern England we | :44:53. | :44:59. | |
still have the rain sinking steadily south, as it will do through the | :45:00. | :45:02. | |
night, getting in through much of Wales and in through parts of the | :45:03. | :45:05. | |
south-east but the heaviest rain will always be in the west. That's a | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
weather front that will flip round and move north through the night. | :45:10. | :45:12. | |
Still mild in southern areas, cold in the north and we'll see snow | :45:13. | :45:16. | |
above around 500 metres in the Scottish mountains. Tomorrow we | :45:17. | :45:20. | |
start off with all this rain in Wales, the Midlands and the | :45:21. | :45:23. | |
south-eastern corner. A lot of cloud around it as well, some hill fog but | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
there will be some brighter breaks and then more rain in the north and | :45:28. | :45:36. | |
west and gets into Northern Ireland. Here it will be breezy. Tomorrow in | :45:37. | :45:39. | |
Scotland, some temperatures will come down around four degrees | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
compared to today but we still hang on to milder conditions in the | :45:44. | :45:46. | |
south. Then it does turn colder, or more like it should be for all of us | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
as we head towards the middle and the end of this week. I rather | :45:51. | :45:53. | |
enjoyed the mildness, though. 16% of working disabled people | :45:54. | :45:55. | |
identify as being their own boss. That is slightly higher | :45:56. | :45:58. | |
than in the non-disabled population. Is this difference due | :45:59. | :46:01. | |
to the flexibility that going it alone offers disabled people, | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
or are disabled people pushed in to it through lack | :46:05. | :46:06. | |
of opportunity? It is all part of the disability | :46:07. | :46:21. | |
works week across BBC News. Look at the hashtag online or go to our to | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
see more. Just under half of working-age | :46:25. | :46:26. | |
disabled people have a job, compared to more than 80% for those | :46:27. | :46:29. | |
without a disability. Self-employment is a particularly | :46:30. | :46:32. | |
popular way for people living with a disability to get | :46:33. | :46:34. | |
into the workforce. There are seven million people | :46:35. | :46:38. | |
of working age in the UK who have a disability | :46:39. | :46:41. | |
or a health condition, Is that a personal choice, | :46:42. | :46:43. | |
or because too many businesses aren't supportive of those | :46:44. | :46:48. | |
living with a disability? Graeme Whippy is an accessibility | :46:49. | :46:52. | |
manager at Open Inclusion, and Selina Mills is from | :46:53. | :46:55. | |
Leonard Cheshire Disability. You work with employers to try and | :46:56. | :47:04. | |
improve access to the workplace. Think of us as the barrier removal | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
people. We try to provide better customer service for disabled | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
customers. We have seen quite a decent growth in that area of | :47:16. | :47:18. | |
self-employment for people living with a disability. What do you think | :47:19. | :47:23. | |
has been driving it? I think in the general population more people are | :47:24. | :47:26. | |
starting their own companies anyway, so there is a general thing. But | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
what is interesting is it is not that disabled people want to be | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
entrepreneurs, it is that disability itself, and the barriers in the | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
working world, have forced people to look at their own abilities. So | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
problem-solving, resilience, flexibility, are great things if you | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
are an entrepreneur. The two work well together so for some people, | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
and it does depend on your character, it is a really good place | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
to go and work for yourself. That sort of makes you think that | :47:55. | :47:59. | |
businesses are missing out if... With so much talent there, that | :48:00. | :48:02. | |
people are thinking it might be better to go their own way | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
sometimes. Absolutely, why on earth would you want to turn away as part | :48:07. | :48:10. | |
of 20% of the working population when you are looking for someone to | :48:11. | :48:16. | |
work for and you would need to spend thousands of pounds replacing that | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
person, for people who become disabled. If you are a very small | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
business and you hear the argument of how much cost it takes to make a | :48:25. | :48:29. | |
place more suitable, it must be something you hear quite a bit. | :48:30. | :48:34. | |
Absolutely, but the truth is that employing a disabled person can | :48:35. | :48:38. | |
often have no additional cost, or it can be very low cost. Things like | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
additional flexibility for working hours, it is not ramps and power | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
doors and expensive stuff. Often just very low adaptations to the | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
workplace, and flexibility. Is flexibility the strongest reason for | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
people with disabilities to go down the self-employment route? No, | :48:56. | :49:00. | |
absolutely not. If you have a great passion and idea you want to go | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
after that idea whether you are disabled or not. People are people. | :49:05. | :49:08. | |
But the thing that is really interesting is it gives you a sense | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
of ownership. So you can really own your own project, and if you are | :49:13. | :49:17. | |
lucky and it works and takes off, and some businesses don't, it is | :49:18. | :49:21. | |
definitely a risk, you really have this chance to fulfil something you | :49:22. | :49:24. | |
are passionate about and have financial independence. I wouldn't | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
say it is just flexibility. And it is not a general panacea. | :49:30. | :49:35. | |
Absolutely. If you have an intellectual disability, your | :49:36. | :49:40. | |
chances of being employed are reduced to one in seven. We need to | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
reduce the barriers that are stopping those people from getting | :49:46. | :49:49. | |
full-time employment. What is the biggest barrier? If you are a | :49:50. | :49:54. | |
business out there and listening to this, and I am going to come out of | :49:55. | :49:58. | |
it with one thing. Firstly, I am missing a trick. Doesn't matter if | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
you are a small business owner or a big company, there is value in | :50:03. | :50:05. | |
employing disabled people because they bring different kinds of ideas, | :50:06. | :50:09. | |
just like people from any other different perspective. And if people | :50:10. | :50:14. | |
can not have low expectations, not make assumptions, see the person, | :50:15. | :50:21. | |
not the disability. And you can follow it all week on the hashtag | :50:22. | :50:23. | |
disability works. Could the UK soon boldly | :50:24. | :50:24. | |
be going where it has Detailed plans to create | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
the country's first spaceports, which are like airports, | :50:28. | :50:30. | |
but for rockets, are They could see commercial satellites | :50:31. | :50:32. | |
being launched within three years, and even lead to the start | :50:33. | :50:35. | |
of space tourism. Ministers want to grab a share | :50:36. | :50:38. | |
of an industry that is potentially worth billions of pounds, | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
and John Maguire is in Cornwall for us, at a site they are hoping | :50:42. | :50:44. | |
will become mission control. From Glasgow Prestwick airport, | :50:45. | :50:51. | |
destinations include Barcelona, But soon there will be | :50:52. | :50:53. | |
another one - space. The number one target | :50:54. | :50:59. | |
is to see the first launch For a burgeoning and already very | :51:00. | :51:01. | |
successful space industry, worth ?250 million, this | :51:02. | :51:08. | |
is a crucial piece in the jigsaw, To start with, it will actually be | :51:09. | :51:12. | |
rockets flying under an aircraft, for the first few years, | :51:13. | :51:22. | |
so it won't be that different from watching an ordinary | :51:23. | :51:24. | |
aircraft take off. But obviously, in the fullness | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
of time, we would expect that to be a proper rocket taking off, | :51:30. | :51:32. | |
and with wings that can be deployed To be classified as a spaceport, | :51:33. | :51:35. | |
sites will need to be licensed. They won't need to undergo major | :51:36. | :51:43. | |
works, but will have to be able The vast majority of takeoffs | :51:44. | :51:46. | |
will be horizontal, The carrier aircraft will climb | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
to around 40,000 feet, so above the weather, | :51:53. | :51:55. | |
above traditional air traffic... Inside the rocket will | :51:56. | :51:58. | |
be small satellites. For the businesses involved, | :51:59. | :52:01. | |
this is the chance of a lifetime. We find ourselves with this | :52:02. | :52:08. | |
fantastic opportunity. Nobody in the US is doing this, | :52:09. | :52:09. | |
nobody in Europe is doing it, nobody around the world is doing it, | :52:10. | :52:13. | |
and the UK can capture this enormous economic potential, and get way | :52:14. | :52:17. | |
ahead of the market. And lift-off of the Falcon 9 | :52:18. | :52:19. | |
to the Space Station. Once the exclusive playground | :52:20. | :52:25. | |
of the superpowers, space is more accessible than ever, | :52:26. | :52:28. | |
and the Government wants the UK Now, the economic benefits | :52:29. | :52:30. | |
of hosting a spaceport At the aerospace park over there, | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
they already employ about 3,000 people, and it is believed | :52:35. | :52:39. | |
that they could take on another 2,000 in this area if a spaceport | :52:40. | :52:41. | |
comes to Prestwick. The benefits UK-wide of housing this | :52:42. | :52:44. | |
next generation of aerospace travel, well, they are even | :52:45. | :52:47. | |
more significant. And, here at Oxfordshire, | :52:48. | :52:55. | |
they are developing the next generation of aerospace engines, | :52:56. | :52:57. | |
capable of flying at five times the speed of sound in | :52:58. | :53:00. | |
the atmosphere, and of spaceflight. The air-breathing Sabre rocket | :53:01. | :53:03. | |
engines would revolutionise travel. There has been a significant gap | :53:04. | :53:05. | |
since the last big development But this is potentially the closest | :53:06. | :53:22. | |
we are going to get to the Whittle But first, the commercial spaceport | :53:23. | :53:31. | |
will launch satellites, and could bring zero-gravity | :53:32. | :53:40. | |
flights to the UK. Then, ultimately, | :53:41. | :53:42. | |
even space tourism. The opportunities are huge, | :53:43. | :53:44. | |
and not even the sky is the limit. John is in Cornwall for us now at a | :53:45. | :54:03. | |
site which hopes to be mission control. So many questions. When are | :54:04. | :54:08. | |
you going into space? When am I going into space? Good question. It | :54:09. | :54:12. | |
could be much safer down here, no one can hear you scream, is the good | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
thing about space. These antennas will hopefully become mission | :54:18. | :54:21. | |
control, as you say, and they will be able to track the spacecraft. We | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
have talked about business and we will talk about the science. We have | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
Natasha Stevens and Tim Parry. What is the big benefit of us launching | :54:30. | :54:33. | |
satellites from the UK rather than what we do now, which is go to other | :54:34. | :54:38. | |
missions around the world? It is important to remember that those big | :54:39. | :54:41. | |
international missions will still exist as collaborations because | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
we're not about rockets and orbital missions from a vertical launch. It | :54:48. | :54:50. | |
is the small-scale satellite which will be going up. It will be at a | :54:51. | :54:54. | |
faster pace, which is important for the British industry. We will see | :54:55. | :54:57. | |
technological and engineering developments being able to be tested | :54:58. | :55:00. | |
a lot quicker because they will not have to piggyback on those big | :55:01. | :55:05. | |
missions, a launch window of the ring much larger. It is quite an | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
important thing to keep going forward with the developments -- | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
something much larger. And what excites you about the potential? The | :55:14. | :55:17. | |
idea of using these microsatellites as test technology for missions in | :55:18. | :55:23. | |
my field, in astrophysics, to get above the atmosphere, the | :55:24. | :55:26. | |
wavelengths we can't see from the ground and get rid of the turbulent | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
atmosphere which spoils our observations from the ground and do | :55:30. | :55:33. | |
them in space, it will be an opportunity for UK science. To talk | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
to both of you, and a lot of the time we talk about these things, and | :55:39. | :55:46. | |
they seem like far-flung dreams. In terms of the amount of time | :55:47. | :55:49. | |
involved, this will become a reality if all goes according to plan and | :55:50. | :55:56. | |
just a few years' time. Are you going to go? I am ready to broaden | :55:57. | :55:58. | |
my horizons. Time now to get the news, | :55:59. | :56:01. | |
travel and weather where you are. This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker | :56:02. | :59:20. | |
and Louise Minchin. A report finds the UK's roads | :59:21. | :59:57. | |
are the most congested Researchers say some drivers | :59:58. | :00:01. | |
are spending more than three days a year stuck in traffic, | :00:02. | :00:05. | |
as they warn of a significant Almost every council in England | :00:06. | :00:08. | |
is planning to put up taxes to help Angelina Jolie talks exclusively | :00:09. | :00:33. | |
to us about her new film set in Cambodia, and for the first time, | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
about her separation from Brad Pitt. And we are a family, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
and we will always be a family. And we will get through this time, | :00:46. | :00:56. | |
and hopefully be a stronger Online retailer Amazon has said it | :00:57. | :00:58. | |
will create 5,000 new full-time jobs I'll have more on that | :00:59. | :01:05. | |
in 15 minutes. Can another non-league club make it | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
to the quarterfinals of the FA Cup? The holders Manchester United | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
will face Chelsea next, after coming from behind to beat | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Blackburn Rovers yesterday. plans for the first UK commercial | :01:19. | :01:35. | |
spaceport are progressing, the Government wants flights by 2020. | :01:36. | :01:39. | |
We are in Goonhilly in Cornwall where they will monitor the | :01:40. | :01:40. | |
spacecraft. Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
will be on the sofa as they celebrate 25 years of Ab | :01:44. | :01:47. | |
Fab. Good morning, the weather this week | :01:48. | :02:00. | |
is topsy-turvy, a very mild day-to-day, cloudy with hill fog and | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
some wet and windy conditions in the north. | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
Tomorrow is similar, then by the end of the week we will see some snow, | :02:09. | :02:13. | |
then it is milder by the weekend. More details in 15 minutes. | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
Let's set you up for the day by talking about traffic! | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
The UK has the worst congestion in western Europe, | :02:21. | :02:22. | |
with some drivers spending an average of three days | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
a year stuck in tailbacks during peak periods. | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
This is according to the travel information company Inrix. | :02:30. | :02:31. | |
Congestion is the most severe in London, followed by Manchester, | :02:32. | :02:34. | |
The Department For Transport says it's investing record amounts | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
to keep the country moving, as Jane-Frances Kelly reports. | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
Drivers across the UK who face the daily misery of traffic jams | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
are losing not just their patience but also time and money. | :02:48. | :02:53. | |
Unsurprisingly, London is the most congested city in the UK, | :02:54. | :02:55. | |
with drivers spending more than three days every year stuck | :02:56. | :02:59. | |
Manchester is the second worst, with motorists wasting 39 hours | :03:00. | :03:04. | |
Aberdeen is third, and perhaps surprisingly beats London | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
as the hardest city to drive in and out of during rush-hour. | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
Research suggests businesses in Cardiff suffer the most | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
from congestion, based on the amount of tailbacks during the daytime. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
Outside of London, part of the A1 southbound in Belfast was found | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
to be the most congested route in the UK. | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
Other than drivers getting frustrated behind the wheel, | :03:30. | :03:31. | |
Experts calculated that hold-ups cost the economy | :03:32. | :03:42. | |
?31 billion last year, that's an average of nearly ?1,000 | :03:43. | :03:44. | |
per driver on things like fuel, being late for work and childcare. | :03:45. | :03:51. | |
There's also more traffic on the roads because of a growth | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
The Department For Transport said it's making the most extensive | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
improvements to roads since the 1970s, investing | :03:59. | :03:59. | |
But money may not be the only solution. | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
Researchers say, to stop us standing still, we need | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
better traffic management, more flexible working | :04:06. | :04:07. | |
and to consider the wider use of congestion charges. | :04:08. | :04:09. | |
We'll hear from two traffic experts later this morning | :04:10. | :04:20. | |
on what they think should be done to ease congestion on our roads. | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
Council tax rises are planned by nearly all of England's local | :04:28. | :04:29. | |
But the organisation that represents them is warning that deep cuts | :04:30. | :04:36. | |
The Local Government Association says social care services | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
for the elderly and disabled are at breaking point, | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
and will swallow up any extra money raised. | :04:43. | :04:44. | |
Here's our social affairs correspondent Alison Holt. | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
After several falls, Maureen Edwards is getting support | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
to regain some independence and rebuild her confidence. | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
She needs help each day, which allows her and her husband, | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
I'm very grateful for all that they've done for me, | :05:03. | :05:08. | |
Without them, I don't know what I would have done. | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
Councils fund most social care, and today's survey shows | :05:13. | :05:27. | |
the majority of them struggling to meet growing costs. | :05:28. | :05:31. | |
There are 151 local authorities in England. | :05:32. | :05:33. | |
147 plan to raise council tax specifically to help pay | :05:34. | :05:35. | |
But councils warn that won't plug the funding gap, and that could mean | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
There has been a united voice of local government to say | :05:42. | :05:51. | |
that they need to have more funding into social care, | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
and that the crisis in social care is immediate now. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
The funding for local government needs to be resolved immediately. | :05:57. | :05:58. | |
The Government says extra money is being put into social care | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
and authorities will soon be able to keep all the money they raise | :06:03. | :06:05. | |
And you can see how much social care costs where you live by visiting | :06:06. | :06:17. | |
You can type in your postcode and discover how much it costs | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
The House Of Lords gets its first chance to debate the so-called | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Brexit Bill later, the legislation which kicks off the formal process | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
The bill passed through the Commons unamended, but it's thought | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
opposition peers will seek guarantees about the rights of EU | :06:33. | :06:34. | |
citizens in Britain, and the role of parliament | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
Our political correspondent Tom Bateman is in Westminster. | :06:37. | :06:46. | |
Good morning, it's likely to get quite a lot of scrutiny. | :06:47. | :06:54. | |
It will be a busy time in the House Of Lords. More than 190 is due to | :06:55. | :07:02. | |
speak, a record number for any debate in | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
that gives you a sense of the desired they have to scrutinise and | :07:07. | :07:11. | |
talk about the Brexit process and the bill that passed to them from | :07:12. | :07:16. | |
the House Of Commons. They will not try to stop it but me tried to | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
change the bill, add amendments about EU citizens's rights, now, | :07:22. | :07:31. | |
what about the Government? They have urged them not to meddle with the | :07:32. | :07:35. | |
bill, to get it through Parliament as quickly as possible. When Mr | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
having said Beasley peers should do that picture at its duty and respect | :07:41. | :07:50. | |
the will of the people. -- the Prime Minister having said that peers | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
should do its parliamentary duty. The NHS is at breaking point, | :07:53. | :07:59. | |
as the number of overnight hospital That's the warning from | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
the British Medical Association. Its research, based on official | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
statistics, said the number of beds in England fell by a fifth | :08:06. | :08:07. | |
between 2006 and 2016. But Department Of Health officials | :08:08. | :08:10. | |
have disputed some of the report's key findings, insisting changes | :08:11. | :08:13. | |
in the way data is recorded means historic and current | :08:14. | :08:15. | |
figures cannot be compared Two senior Ukip officials | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
have resigned in protest at their leader's handling | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
of the Hillsborough controversy. Paul Nuttall has been embroiled | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
in a row after his website incorrectly claimed he'd lost close | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
friends in the tragedy. In a statement, the chair | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
of Ukip's Merseyside branch condemned Mr Nuttall's | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
"unprofessional approach and crass insensitivity", | :08:36. | :08:36. | |
and suggested there could be more Donald Trump has been | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
back on Twitter. This time to clear up comments | :08:39. | :08:49. | |
he made at a rally over the weekend. Speaking to supporters | :08:50. | :08:52. | |
in Florida about immigration, he appeared to suggest there had | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
been some sort of terror attack in Sweden on Friday, | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
but left many people confused You look at what's happening last | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
night in Sweden - Sweden! They took in large numbers | :09:00. | :09:09. | |
and they are having problems He tweeted the following day, | :09:10. | :09:15. | |
saying, it was "in reference to a story that was broadcast | :09:16. | :09:23. | |
on Fox News concerning The Swedish Embassy responded saying | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
they look forward to advising Mr Trump's administration | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
about Swedish immigration Angelina Jolie has spoken | :09:32. | :09:32. | |
for the first time about her separation from Brad Pitt, | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
in an exclusive The actor and director has been | :09:39. | :09:39. | |
filming in Cambodia, the country where she adopted her son | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
Maddox in 2002. She's been speaking to our | :09:44. | :09:45. | |
reporter Yalda Hakim. I'm here because 17 years ago I came | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
to this country and fell in love with its people and learned | :09:53. | :09:57. | |
about its history and in doing so realised how little I actually | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
knew in my early 20s about the world Was my awakening and my | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
son changed my life. Do you think that in many ways | :10:08. | :10:18. | |
you have come full circle? You know, your humanitarian work | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
started here, you became a mother here, that perhaps this is some sort | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
of crossroads for you and it's I will always be very grateful | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
to this country and I hope... I hope I have given back | :10:27. | :10:40. | |
as much as it has given me. I don't think I ever could give back | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
as much as this country I understand this is | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
a very sensitive issue. We know that an incident occurred | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
which led to your separation, we also know you have not | :10:52. | :10:57. | |
said anything about this I don't want to say very much | :10:58. | :11:00. | |
about that except to say And we are a family and we will | :11:01. | :11:14. | |
always be a family and we will get through this time and hopefully be | :11:15. | :11:21. | |
a stronger family for it. You can see the full | :11:22. | :11:32. | |
interview with Angelina Jolie Thank you for being with us on this | :11:33. | :11:35. | |
Monday morning. Traffic jams are the source | :11:36. | :11:43. | |
of misery for millions of motorists. And, as more of us take | :11:44. | :11:46. | |
to the roads, there's an increased As we've been hearing, | :11:47. | :11:49. | |
the UK is the worst country But we're also at the forefront | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
of trialling solutions like Smart Motorways which use | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
the hard shoulder as an extra lane. Let's have a look at the kind | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
of congestion we're talking about. This is the M4 near | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
Brentford right now. Just look at that | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
slow-moving traffic. We're joined now by motoring | :12:11. | :12:15. | |
campaigner Quentin Willson, and Colin Bamford, Professor | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
of Transport and Logistics Good morning. Lots of people who are | :12:18. | :12:28. | |
going out today will not be surprised by these figures. Colin, | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
why is it we have such bad traffic? The bottom line is we have basically | :12:36. | :12:42. | |
too many cars and too many people using their cars, often | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
unnecessarily. That is in order to make short trips when, in fact, they | :12:49. | :12:52. | |
could either walk, cycle or use other modes of transport. It is | :12:53. | :12:58. | |
interesting this week with it being the school half-time the degree of | :12:59. | :13:02. | |
congestion in many places will be considerably less than it would | :13:03. | :13:05. | |
otherwise be during school term time. | :13:06. | :13:12. | |
Let us talk about solutions, what should be done? | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
The reason we have this congestion in Europe, we are 27th in the road | :13:16. | :13:22. | |
network league of the world which is shocking, is because we have | :13:23. | :13:25. | |
historically under invested in roads. A report is published on | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
Wednesday in front of the all-party parliamentary group saying ?55 | :13:30. | :13:35. | |
billion on a railway that goes nowhere when we should be spending | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
this on roads is an act of folly. If you want to know the reasons for | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
congestion, we have not spent enough on roads over a long period. | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Government would argue there is money being spent on roads, and | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
Smart Motorways make a difference. They do, but the money apportioned | :13:55. | :13:59. | |
in the Autumn Statement is too small. | :14:00. | :14:02. | |
If we carry on, we will be looking at a cost to UK Society of ?307 | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
billion in terms of congestion in the next 15 years, reducing | :14:09. | :14:14. | |
productivity, competitiveness, add quality, the cost to the NHS from | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
pollution will be seismic. We need a joined up strategy. You | :14:19. | :14:26. | |
cannot say, give up cars. 83% of all journeys on our roads are by cars. | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
What is the alternative? If we went on public transport tomorrow | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
morning, it would be broken by the afternoon. | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
A Department for Transport spokesman said, we are making extensive | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
improvement is to roads since the 1970s, ?23 billion. | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
The crux seems to be how to keep the traffic flowing. | :14:49. | :14:56. | |
The 20 years we have had an anti-car rhetoric, roads being narrowed, more | :14:57. | :15:00. | |
traffic lights. It is not difficult to understand how to make roads slow | :15:01. | :15:06. | |
and takeaway pinch points. Spending ?55 billion minimum on a row away | :15:07. | :15:09. | |
when you should be opening up the roads so we don't get congestion is, | :15:10. | :15:16. | |
to me, the way ahead -- on a railway. | :15:17. | :15:23. | |
I am an economist and in my view, what is required is a radical | :15:24. | :15:28. | |
overhaul of the way in which we charge motorists and other road | :15:29. | :15:33. | |
users are using the network. Congestion charges? | :15:34. | :15:39. | |
How would you make them pay? Various ways. The most extensive | :15:40. | :15:46. | |
scheme is one in Singapore whereby it is pay-as-you-go. In London, the | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
congestion charge is seen as a way of reducing the volume of | :15:51. | :15:51. | |
congestion. Singapore there was a lot of support | :15:52. | :16:02. | |
for that cause. I think in Manchester they threw the | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
opportunity of the congestion charge and 85% of the people said no | :16:06. | :16:11. | |
thanks. We're in a situation where we need a radical re-think about the | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
way in which we tackle the congestion problems. The report that | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
you referred to in the news bulletin also talked about homeworking and | :16:22. | :16:24. | |
there maybe a way in which employers... You need connectivity | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
of broadband across the country and we don't have that either. We don't | :16:30. | :16:36. | |
pay vehicle ex-excise duty and consumers will not buy road charging | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
unless it is like the Continental model where we invest it in roads. | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
If you look at the Netherlands they're very close to introducing | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
the national system of road users charging. The problem with the way | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
in which we pay to use roads is that the prices are all to pot. Where | :16:58. | :17:05. | |
someone is using the road in a peak period in effect they're not paying | :17:06. | :17:10. | |
what is seen as adequate to use that road. On trains you pay more for | :17:11. | :17:16. | |
travelling at a peak period. That's right. Lots of you making the point. | :17:17. | :17:23. | |
Lorraine says, "Public transport woeful and expensive unless you live | :17:24. | :17:28. | |
in London." Stewart says there is nothing to public information. Allow | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
drivers to turn left on red traffic lights and Mike says maybe more | :17:35. | :17:39. | |
flexible working times, car sharing and road works could be done more | :17:40. | :17:46. | |
efficiently. The only thing I want to say is good luck on your journeys | :17:47. | :17:48. | |
today. Here's Carol with a look | :17:49. | :17:52. | |
at this morning's weather. This picture was taken in Cheshire. | :17:53. | :18:09. | |
Durham 13 Celsius, Belfast 12 Celsius, London 11 Celsius and | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
Cardiff ten Celsius. Is this mild weather going to last? Well, it will | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
last today and tomorrow, but look how the day changes. As we go | :18:18. | :18:20. | |
through the middle of the week and towards the end of the week the | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
blues replace the milder yellows, but it is only temporarily, but when | :18:25. | :18:28. | |
we see the blues some of us will see snow. By the time we get into the | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
weekend, mild air starts to come across our shores. There is some | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
rain across Scotland which is heavy. If you're travelling there will be | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
excess spray around. It will continue into Northern England and | :18:45. | :18:48. | |
Northern Ireland. It is windy. Windy across Northern Ireland and Scotland | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
and for a time this morning across the north of England. We could have | :18:52. | :18:59. | |
gusts of 50mph. Further south, we're starting off on quite a grey note. A | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
lot of cloud around. Hill fog, misty and murky conditions. Into the | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
afternoon, we hang on to a lot of cloud, but here and there, we will | :19:08. | :19:10. | |
see brighter breaks and somewhere in the south-east this afternoon, could | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
hit 16 Celsius, possibly 17 Celsius. Here is our weather front across | :19:15. | :19:18. | |
Wales and Northern England, moving out of Northern Ireland. So some | :19:19. | :19:21. | |
cooler conditions following, but good temperatures for the time of | :19:22. | :19:24. | |
year. Sunshine and the same for Scotland. Brighter skies, a wee bit | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
cooler and windy and still showers. Through the evening and overnight, | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
our band of rain sinks further south into the Midlands, also through | :19:34. | :19:36. | |
Wales, towards the south-west, weakening as it does so. So we won't | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
see a lot initially in the South East, but it pivots and it starts to | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
reverse and go north again and that will mean it will be rejuvenate. | :19:45. | :19:50. | |
Behind it, colder. Cold enough for wintry showers above 500 meters, we | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
will see snow in the Scottish mountains. Tomorrow, here is our | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
band of rain across England and Wales. A lot of cloud around, | :19:59. | :20:01. | |
breezy, some breaks in the cloud. Still mild. Further north, we have | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
got hill fog, but there will be breaks as well. Then we've got rain | :20:07. | :20:12. | |
coming into the north-west. A merger taking place here, but not quite. As | :20:13. | :20:16. | |
we head on into Wednesday, we still have our rain ensconced across parts | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
of England and Wales. Another band coming in from the north, but note | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
the difference in temperatures, Dan and Lou. | :20:23. | :20:27. | |
We normally talk about mergers in the business news, but there you go, | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
Carol! Tonight, Arsenal take on non-league | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
side Sutton United in the 5th round of the FA Cup, | :20:38. | :20:39. | |
which means the Gunners will be up against the lowest-ranked team | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
left in the competition. Sutton are 17th in | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
the National League. Arsenal sit fourth | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
in the Premier League. That means there's 105 | :20:51. | :20:52. | |
places between them. Arsenal are no strangers | :20:53. | :20:58. | |
to FA Cup glory. They've won | :20:59. | :21:00. | |
the trophy 12 times. Sutton have never won | :21:01. | :21:01. | |
the tournament, but this is the furthest they've ever got | :21:02. | :21:03. | |
in the competition. The game is on Sutton's plastic | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
pitch at Gander Green Lane, their ground which can | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
fit 5,000 people. That's compared to Arsenal's 60,000 | :21:10. | :21:16. | |
capacity Emirates Stadium. Sutton will have to watch out | :21:17. | :21:18. | |
for Alexis Sanchez if he's picked He's their highest scorer | :21:19. | :21:21. | |
with 20 goals this season. Sutton's highest goal scorer is team | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
captain Jamie Collins, We're joined by Sutton's | :21:25. | :21:26. | |
chairman Bruce Elliot Good morning to you gentlemen. We | :21:27. | :21:41. | |
can see the plastic pitch behind you there. It is lovely to have you on | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
the programme. Bruce, I know you've spent weeks being interviewed | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
talking about this wonderful run that the team have been on. How are | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
you feeling about tonight? This is Arsenal who in their last game | :21:54. | :22:00. | |
played Bayern Munich and here they come to Beganeder Green Lane to take | :22:01. | :22:04. | |
on Sutton United? Good morning, Dan. It is surreal. We have had three | :22:05. | :22:09. | |
weeks of build-up and personally I'm relieved that the day has now come! | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
We're looking forward to hopefully what will be a very special evening | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
for Sutton United football club tonight. Paul, how have the town | :22:19. | :22:23. | |
been preparing? We were there for Football Focus before the Leeds game | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
and the Wimbledon match as well and I mean, you often say well, there is | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
anticipation, but Sutton have been there on numerous occasions already | :22:32. | :22:37. | |
this season? Oh, absolutely. There is a real big atmosphere. The | :22:38. | :22:40. | |
council have got the Sutton flag flying. The town has got the posters | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
and flags. There is a buzz for the big match atmosphere. In terms of | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
your dreams this season, Bruce, when you were planning out the season, | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
what did you estimate for the FA Cup? | :22:57. | :23:02. | |
Well, our ambition each year is to reach the first round proper of the | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
FA Cup. That's the target. So the fact that we've managed to get as | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
far as the fifth round is something very special and obviously it is the | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
first time for this football club that we got that far and we're | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
delighted that Lincoln got through against Burnley and two non-league | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
clubs at this stage of the FA Cup and if by any chance we could get | :23:24. | :23:28. | |
through tonight, and those two non-league sides will be playing | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
each other for a place in the semifinals. That's the state I'm in, | :23:32. | :23:36. | |
you see, three weeks of complete mayhem, I don't know what round it | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
will be if we got through. So I think we'll worry about that after | :23:41. | :23:45. | |
tonight! I was going to ask you about the draw. I know you have got | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
to get past Arsenal. Were you happy with the draw which means if you're | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
there, there will be a non-league side in the semis, or would you have | :23:55. | :23:58. | |
preferred a side like Manchester United or Chelsea? If I'm being | :23:59. | :24:04. | |
honest, it don't like the draw being before you know whether you got | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
through. I prefer to know whether you're going to be playing in the | :24:08. | :24:16. | |
next round, but yeah, I mean, look, I think linkoning, they are probably | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
hoping that Arsenal win so they can go to the Emirates. My preference | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
would have been Chelsea or Manchester United away, but I think | :24:24. | :24:30. | |
we've got a lot to worry about tonight before we dreaming anymore. | :24:31. | :24:33. | |
Paul, you have been a fan for a long time. Those who know their history | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
will remember Sutton's name being involved in this competition for | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
many years, the win over Coventry City in the 80s, but if it goes your | :24:43. | :24:46. | |
way, that would eclipse even that moment, wouldn't it? Oh, it | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
certainly would. I wasn't at the ground, I was on the train outside | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
the ground listening to the cheers as Matt Hanlon scored his goal and | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
the final whistle went in 1989. This is the biggest day in the club's | :25:00. | :25:05. | |
history and it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of guys. They do so much | :25:06. | :25:09. | |
for the community and Bruce and so many of the others are volunteers, | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
but they really work with the kids and with wider community groups and | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
that's why all of those people are behind the club here today. Well, it | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
is great to talk to you, have a fantastic evening and I will see you | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
later. I have got my tickets. We look forward to seeing you later. | :25:24. | :25:30. | |
We've got the giraffe ready for you! For those of you who don't know what | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
that's about, the giraffe is a mascot. They have got a full sized | :25:35. | :25:40. | |
giraffe, not an actual giraffe! It's a stuffed giraffe. That's the mascot | :25:41. | :25:42. | |
of Sutton United. It wasn't on for very long, | :25:43. | :25:51. | |
but now the deal is off. The American food company | :25:52. | :25:57. | |
Kraft Heinz wanted to buy the British-Dutch company Unilever, | :25:58. | :25:59. | |
but not anymore. The take-over would have been worth | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
?115 billion combining familiar brands from Unilever's Ben | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
and Jerry's and Marmite, to Kraft Heinz's baked beans | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
and Philadelphia Cheese. Online retail giant Amazon has said | :26:09. | :26:13. | |
it will create 5,000 new full-time It said it was looking for a range | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
of staff from software developers The recruitment will take | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
Amazon's workforce in the UK Single malt Scotch whisky has topped | :26:21. | :26:28. | |
?1 billion worth of exports for the first time last year, | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
reflecting a return to growth for exports of Scotch more | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
widely including blends. It's time to get the news, | :26:41. | :26:46. | |
travel and weather where you are. Hello this is Breakfast, | :26:47. | :30:17. | |
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. I am just jotting down some notes, | :30:18. | :30:34. | |
for the interview! Shall I read while you do that? | :30:35. | :30:35. | |
The UK has the worst traffic congestion in Europe, | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
with some drivers spending a total of three days | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
a year stuck in tailbacks during peak periods. | :30:41. | :30:41. | |
That's according to research from the travel | :30:42. | :30:43. | |
information company, Inrix, which found that congestion | :30:44. | :30:45. | |
is the most severe in London, followed by Manchester and then | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
The Department for Transport says it's investing record amounts | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
Thank you for your comments on that this morning. | :30:52. | :30:58. | |
Council tax rises are planned by most local authorities in England | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
in the coming year to help meet the increasing cost of social care. | :31:02. | :31:04. | |
The government says extra money is being put into social care | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
and councils will soon be able to keep all the money they raise | :31:08. | :31:10. | |
But the Local Government Association, who represent | :31:11. | :31:13. | |
councils, say deep cuts will still have to be made to other | :31:14. | :31:16. | |
services as the cost of care for the elderly | :31:17. | :31:18. | |
and disabled will account for all of the extra money raised. | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
The House of Lords will get its first chance to debate | :31:26. | :31:27. | |
the so-called "Brexit Bill" later - the legislation which kicks | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
off the formal process for Britain leaving the EU. | :31:31. | :31:32. | |
The bill passed through the Commons unamended, but it's thought | :31:33. | :31:34. | |
opposition peers will seek guarantees about the rights of EU | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
citizens in Britain and the role of Parliament in scrutinising | :31:38. | :31:39. | |
The NHS is at "breaking point" as the number of overnight hospital | :31:40. | :31:48. | |
beds continue to decline - that's the warning from | :31:49. | :31:50. | |
Its research, based on official statistics, said the number of beds | :31:51. | :31:56. | |
in England fell by a fifth between 2006 and 2016. | :31:57. | :31:59. | |
But Department of Health officials have disputed some | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
of the report's key findings, insisting changes in the way | :32:02. | :32:03. | |
data is recorded mean historic and current figures | :32:04. | :32:05. | |
Two senior Ukip officials have resigned in protest | :32:06. | :32:17. | |
at their leader's handling of the Hillsborough controversy. | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
Paul Nuttall has been embroiled in a row after his website | :32:21. | :32:24. | |
incorrectly claimed he'd lost close friends in the tragedy. | :32:25. | :32:27. | |
In a statement, the chair of Ukip's Merseyside branch | :32:28. | :32:29. | |
condemned Mr Nuttall's "unprofessional approach | :32:30. | :32:32. | |
and crass insensitivity", and suggested there could be more | :32:33. | :32:34. | |
Donald Trump has been back on Twitter. | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
This time to clear up comments he made at a rally over the weekend. | :32:41. | :32:45. | |
Speaking to supporters in Florida about immigration, | :32:46. | :32:47. | |
he appeared to suggest there had been some sort of terror attack | :32:48. | :32:50. | |
in Sweden on Friday, but left many people confused | :32:51. | :32:52. | |
You look at what's happening last night in Sweden - Sweden! | :32:53. | :33:00. | |
They took in large numbers and they are having problems | :33:01. | :33:07. | |
He tweeted the following day, saying it was "in reference | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
to a story that was broadcast on Fox News concerning | :33:13. | :33:15. | |
The Swedish Embassy responded, saying they look forward to advising | :33:16. | :33:18. | |
Mr Trump's administration about Swedish immigration | :33:19. | :33:20. | |
Researchers have discovered that the insects make a ridiculously | :33:21. | :33:32. | |
cute noise when they bump into each other. | :33:33. | :33:45. | |
This sound, identified by scientists at Nottingham Trent University, | :33:46. | :33:51. | |
is made when bees accidentally collide with other bees in the hive. | :33:52. | :33:55. | |
It's made when they vibrate their wing muscles and it can't be | :33:56. | :33:58. | |
heard by human ears, only with a special microphone. | :33:59. | :34:04. | |
It's quite sweet, it sounds like they're saying sorry. It's quite an | :34:05. | :34:12. | |
apologetic little noise. Coming up here on Breakfast | :34:13. | :34:16. | |
this morning... Wake-up, come on, darling! What time | :34:17. | :34:24. | |
is it? Eddy and Patsy - or should | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
we say Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley - | :34:30. | :34:34. | |
will be right here on the sofa. Pele described him as the world's | :34:35. | :34:41. | |
best football player, but George Best lost his | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
life to alcohol. We'll meet the director behind | :34:47. | :34:48. | |
a new, no-holds-barred film about his life, | :34:49. | :34:50. | |
both on and off the pitch. One of these groups is going to be | :34:51. | :34:58. | |
in this show. The winner of the BBC's | :34:59. | :35:01. | |
top talent show, Let It Shine, will be | :35:02. | :35:03. | |
crowned this weekend. We'll be joined by three | :35:04. | :35:05. | |
of the finalists hoping to star But first, here's | :35:06. | :35:08. | |
Karthi with the sport. We were talking to the guys from | :35:09. | :35:22. | |
Sutton United who are taking on the mighty Arsenal. It should be an easy | :35:23. | :35:28. | |
victory but it could be another great pick-up shock. The pitch has | :35:29. | :35:32. | |
the potential to make a slight difference, the artificial pitch | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
with the Premier League players are not used to. But whoever wins will | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
end up playing Lincoln City, another non-league side. Maybe some of us | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
are hoping there is a shock tonight because you know you would get a | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
non-league side in the quarter finals which would be fantastic. | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
One hundred and five places separate non-league Sutton United who face | :35:51. | :35:53. | |
the Premier League's Arsenal in the fifth round of | :35:54. | :35:55. | |
They already know who they will face in the quarterfinals | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
The winners later will play the heroes of the weekend, | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
Lincoln City, for a place in the semifinals. | :36:03. | :36:04. | |
While Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United | :36:05. | :36:06. | |
United had to come from behind to beat Championship side | :36:07. | :36:10. | |
Blackburn Rovers 2-1, with Zlatan Ibrahimovich | :36:11. | :36:11. | |
United now go to manager Jose Mourinho's former club, Chelsea, | :36:12. | :36:15. | |
They had brilliant attitude and if we did not have this | :36:16. | :36:24. | |
professional attitude with everybody playing with focus | :36:25. | :36:25. | |
and responsibility, we would be in real trouble. | :36:26. | :36:31. | |
Tottenham will host Millwall in the next | :36:32. | :36:33. | |
round after Harry Kane scored a hat-trick against | :36:34. | :36:35. | |
The England striker says the win will also help them later this week | :36:36. | :36:40. | |
when Spurs attempt to come back from 1-0 down in the Europa League | :36:41. | :36:43. | |
Aberdeen have strengthened their grip on second place | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
in the Scottish Premiership after a late comeback | :36:49. | :36:50. | |
Aberdeen were a goal behind going into the last ten minutes | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
before substitutes Jayden Stockley and Peter Pawlett scored | :36:55. | :36:56. | |
The result cuts Celtic's lead at the top, but they're | :36:57. | :36:59. | |
Dundee picked up their first home league win over | :37:00. | :37:03. | |
Goals from Mark O'Hara and Kevin Holt put them | :37:04. | :37:06. | |
Rangers got a goal back but they were unable | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
The England all rounder, Ben Stokes, has just become the most | :37:11. | :37:21. | |
expensive foreign player in Indian Premier League history. | :37:22. | :37:26. | |
The team that have bought him are called Rising Pune Supergiants | :37:27. | :37:29. | |
and they have paid ?1.7 million for Stokes for the 2017 season. | :37:30. | :37:32. | |
He overtakes the previous record, held by former England | :37:33. | :37:36. | |
He was the first foreign ?1 million player three years ago. | :37:37. | :37:48. | |
Big-money. And Ben Stokes can do the lot. Thank you. | :37:49. | :37:52. | |
It's 25 years since they first staggered onto our screens as Eddy | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
and Patsy, but it's not just British fans who think Jennifer Saunders | :37:56. | :37:57. | |
and Joanna Lumley are "Absolutely Fabulous". | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
The sitcom is one of the BBC's biggest hits, | :38:01. | :38:02. | |
and has been sold to more than 240 countries across the world so far. | :38:03. | :38:06. | |
Its two stars are here right now, but first let's take a look | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
What we need is a princess with a press following | :38:10. | :38:20. | |
Not someone who looks like she runs up her own. | :38:21. | :38:24. | |
Well, her people were a bit cagey about which designer she favoured. | :38:25. | :38:30. | |
The only label she wears is drip dry. | :38:31. | :38:32. | |
Darling, finish the Beaujolais and walk away from it. | :38:33. | :38:40. | |
Yes, French, Italian, whatever you like, sweetie. | :38:41. | :38:47. | |
Oh, darling, no one's eating that sort of food any more. | :38:48. | :38:49. | |
But there's a fabulous new Japanese in Mayfair. | :38:50. | :38:51. | |
All right, darling, whatever, whatever. | :38:52. | :38:56. | |
They need some decisions about this month's cover. | :38:57. | :39:00. | |
Oh really, whatever can they need to know? | :39:01. | :39:02. | |
A model in make-up with a vacant look on her face. | :39:03. | :39:08. | |
Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley join us on the sofa now. | :39:09. | :39:14. | |
Wonderful to see you, thank you so much. Look out young we were! It's | :39:15. | :39:23. | |
shocking! We are still alive, let's face it, that's a triumph. Welcome | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
along, it is lovely to see you, what are you doing here? We are | :39:30. | :39:34. | |
celebrating. What are we doing here? It's far too early for that! Is 25 | :39:35. | :39:41. | |
years, slightly longer, but the international success because it is | :39:42. | :39:44. | |
the BBC worldwide showcase in Liverpool at the moment where they | :39:45. | :39:53. | |
sell everything BBC worldwide. And we are in celebration of our | :39:54. | :39:59. | |
longevity. It's like, lifetime achievement, that means you're | :40:00. | :40:03. | |
nearly dead! Did you think, a quarter of a century ago when you | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
came up with the idea, but it would be watched in 240 countries and | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
celebrated around the world? Did you? We did the pilot and hoped we | :40:12. | :40:17. | |
would get one series. Then we hoped we would be offered other work and | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
nothing happened. We had to keep going. But it's extraordinary. | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
Jennifer writes in fits and starts, in America they like you to do 50 | :40:28. | :40:32. | |
episodes a year and Jennifer does six if she feels like it and not if | :40:33. | :40:36. | |
she doesn't and we had a five-year gap in the middle. I wrote other | :40:37. | :40:40. | |
stuff. Eventually she wrote some of us and we did some more work. You do | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
nag her to write more? She nags me to do the film. That was exhausting! | :40:47. | :40:54. | |
I was so tired, I'm still tired. And you eventually give up and just do | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
it. Just to get her off my back! It was good, wasn't it? But you don't | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
argue. You have never had an argument with Dawn French in all the | :41:05. | :41:10. | |
years you worked together. What is your relationship like? A bit of | :41:11. | :41:16. | |
scratching but no real arguments. There is no point, is there? And I | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
don't think he would have this relationship if you did have | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
arguments. I think we would have packed it in. And what is it about | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
their relationship and the curious family environment that has | :41:30. | :41:34. | |
worldwide resonance? I think it must do, and it is the family | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
relationships that make the show appeal to other countries and the | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
rest of it. It is a weird one but obviously it resonates. These two | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
completely normal women being terrorised by a boring | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
fundamentalist daughter! I suppose that resonates. Talking about the | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
fact that it has been watched all over the world, it has been | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
translated into many languages. Have a look. Wake up. What time is it? | :42:04. | :42:15. | |
Six in the morning. Judging by your reaction, that could | :42:16. | :43:10. | |
be a thing, we should rewrite it in Spanish! That was explored. And the | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
people who dug us have taken such care to get the pitch right and | :43:16. | :43:22. | |
follow the way we sound -- dub us. It was really good, I even | :43:23. | :43:26. | |
understood what was going on! Well, you wrote it. That doesn't mean | :43:27. | :43:32. | |
anything! You thought you were speaking them. We obviously were! | :43:33. | :43:41. | |
Obviously everything is a product of its time but if you were to do it | :43:42. | :43:44. | |
now, how would you make the characters different? We would | :43:45. | :43:51. | |
probably have scooters and walkers! Of anything, Patti admired Ivana | :43:52. | :43:57. | |
Trump and now look what has happened. She would have to have it | :43:58. | :44:07. | |
like this. Trump would be such a rich area. They would have to go and | :44:08. | :44:13. | |
meet him. A tour of America? Mar-a-Lago, here we come. I don't | :44:14. | :44:20. | |
know how much you're still interested in the world of PR, has | :44:21. | :44:25. | |
that had to change? It has completely changed I think. It is | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
quite a new thing when we started out, this idea of PR, big parties, | :44:30. | :44:37. | |
it was very phenomenon. I think now, everybody is over PR, everybody has | :44:38. | :44:45. | |
Facebook and Twitter. There are some huge things now was there weren't | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
there, a big party or an event, it was one in a million and now there | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
are 20 week. And they are very grand and beautiful so people are not as | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
impressed or amazed by it. Look at you, darling! You are watching this, | :44:59. | :45:06. | |
it is quite entertaining. This is quite as common sight now with the | :45:07. | :45:11. | |
gutter press. And in some ways you were the adventures of alternative | :45:12. | :45:12. | |
facts! LAUGHTER | :45:13. | :45:22. | |
Probably, yes. That is the strangest phrase to have crept in. We would | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
have loved it. Do you fancy writing something? Don't even go there. | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
Would it be easier now to get it commissioned? Starting from scratch, | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
it would not be that easy, I don't think anything is that easy to get | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
commissioned any more. I wonder if they would get it, I wonder if it | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
would be too sensitive, because there are many things which they | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
might say, this is too damaging in today's world because this is pretty | :45:53. | :45:54. | |
hard-hitting and a very dysfunctional family. The mother is | :45:55. | :46:02. | |
attached to a drip, there. LAUGHTER The mother is a kleptomaniac. To | :46:03. | :46:09. | |
explain it now to a TV executive would be quite hard. Yes, it would | :46:10. | :46:16. | |
be an interesting pitch. We did not really had to pitch it, we were just | :46:17. | :46:19. | |
about to get away with it. -- half to pitch it. The movie was a big | :46:20. | :46:26. | |
success, are you going to do another one? No, I read that in the paper. | :46:27. | :46:36. | |
Yes, I got in first. LAUGHTER Nothing more? No, nothing. It is | :46:37. | :46:43. | |
nice to leave it buzzing and alive, while we are still here. Our | :46:44. | :46:49. | |
director is a big fan and he would love it if you could throw to camera | :46:50. | :46:56. | |
as we are about to do the weather. Sweetie, darling. The weather. That | :46:57. | :47:03. | |
is the best intro I have ever had in my life. We have had some gorgeous | :47:04. | :47:12. | |
photos sent in, lovely blue skies. It is not blue skies everywhere. | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
North Queensferry, plenty of cloud and dampness in the air. In London | :47:18. | :47:23. | |
it is a cloudy start to the day, but everywhere it is mild. London is 11 | :47:24. | :47:29. | |
Celsius, but in other places it is 15, 13, 12, ten. We are in pretty | :47:30. | :47:36. | |
good shape in terms of the temperatures, they are way above | :47:37. | :47:39. | |
where they should be at this time of day. Is it going to last? Till the | :47:40. | :47:45. | |
end of tomorrow, but then things will change from the North. The blue | :47:46. | :47:51. | |
moves across our shores, indicating it will be colder by the end of the | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
week. We will have some hill snow, and by the weekend the milder air | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
will start to make a return. This morning we have rain around. Rain in | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
the North West of Scotland and that will continue to push south through | :48:06. | :48:09. | |
the course of the day, weakening as it does so. For the rest of the | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
south of England it will be a cloudy start, and maybe by the time it we | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
get to the evening, fairly cloudy, with rain at rejuvenating, and | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
behind it clear skies and snow in the hills of Scotland. Above 500 | :48:24. | :48:27. | |
metres. But still miles further south. Sorry about the graphics. | :48:28. | :48:34. | |
Tomorrow morning, we start off with cloud and rain, and hill fog. Quite | :48:35. | :48:40. | |
breezy. Another band of rain from North West Scotland. We are looking | :48:41. | :48:47. | |
at a breezy day. We almost have the two bans merging, but not quite. | :48:48. | :48:52. | |
Tomorrow, still mild in the south, and we might even have higher than | :48:53. | :48:57. | |
14 Celsius. Wednesday, we still have rain in parts of England and Wales, | :48:58. | :49:03. | |
and cloud. Further north, brighter breaks, but note the temperatures | :49:04. | :49:12. | |
are starting to come down. But still 11-13 in the South. Thursday is when | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
we start to see the colder air, and we are looking at hill snow. At the | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
moment we think that will be in parts of the Southern uplands and | :49:25. | :49:27. | |
into northern England but that is a long way off and that could change. | :49:28. | :49:32. | |
As we head into the weekend, something milder starts to return, | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
but it will remain fairly unsubtle. In case you are interested, it is | :49:38. | :49:43. | |
mild because we are importing our air, tropical maritime air, from the | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
Caribbean, tempered by the Atlantic and the jet stream, so we're not | :49:49. | :49:51. | |
having sunny skies, but that is the reason for it. | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
Thanks for joining us. See you soon. We can import the weather on a | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
regular basis. Could the UK soon boldly be | :50:02. | :50:04. | |
going where it's never been before? Detailed plans to create | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
the country's first "spaceports" - which are like airports | :50:08. | :50:09. | |
but for rockets - They could see commercial satellites | :50:10. | :50:11. | |
being launched within three years, and even lead to the start | :50:12. | :50:19. | |
of space tourism. Ministers want to grab | :50:20. | :50:21. | |
a share of an industry that's potentially worth | :50:22. | :50:23. | |
billions of pounds. And John Maguire is in Cornwall | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
for us at a site they're hoping Good morning. No Caribbean air in | :50:28. | :50:39. | |
Cornwall this morning, it is cold, but these are the antenna I they | :50:40. | :50:45. | |
have here, 25 across the site here at Goonhilly. That they have here. | :50:46. | :50:51. | |
They will be tracking the spacecraft as they take off. It is not the | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
atmospherics they will be concerned about down here, it is what is going | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
on at way above our heads. These are exciting times. | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
From Glasgow Prestwick Airport, destinations include Barcelona, | :51:04. | :51:05. | |
But soon there will be another one - space. | :51:06. | :51:13. | |
The number one target is to see the first launch | :51:14. | :51:15. | |
For a burgeoning and already very successful space industry, | :51:16. | :51:25. | |
worth ?250 million, this is a crucial piece in the jigsaw, | :51:26. | :51:27. | |
To start with, it will actually be rockets flying under an aircraft, | :51:28. | :51:36. | |
for the first few years, so it won't be that different | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
from watching an ordinary aircraft take off. | :51:40. | :51:42. | |
But obviously, in the fullness of time, we would expect that to be | :51:43. | :51:45. | |
a proper rocket taking off, and with wings that can be deployed | :51:46. | :51:48. | |
To be classified as a spaceport, sites will need to be licensed. | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
They won't need to undergo major works, but will have to be able | :51:55. | :51:57. | |
The vast majority of takeoffs will be horizontal, | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
The carrier aircraft will climb to around 40,000 feet, | :52:01. | :52:07. | |
so above the weather, above traditional air traffic... | :52:08. | :52:09. | |
Inside the rocket will be small satellites. | :52:10. | :52:12. | |
For the businesses involved, this is the chance of a lifetime. | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
We find ourselves with this fantastic opportunity. | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
Nobody in the US is doing this, nobody in Europe is doing it, | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
nobody around the world is doing it, and the UK can capture this enormous | :52:25. | :52:27. | |
economic potential, and get way ahead of the market. | :52:28. | :52:30. | |
And lift-off of the Falcon 9 to the Space Station. | :52:31. | :52:34. | |
Once the exclusive playground of the superpowers, space is more | :52:35. | :52:37. | |
accessible than ever, and the Government wants the UK | :52:38. | :52:39. | |
Now, the economic benefits of hosting a spaceport | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
At the aerospace park over there, they already employ about 3,000 | :52:46. | :52:52. | |
people, and it is believed that they could take on another | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
2,000 in this area if a spaceport comes to Prestwick. | :52:56. | :53:09. | |
The benefits for the UK, wide of housing, this next | :53:10. | :53:12. | |
generation of aerospace travel, well, they are even | :53:13. | :53:14. | |
And here at Oxfordshire they are developing the next | :53:15. | :53:17. | |
generation of aerospace engines, capable of flying at five times | :53:18. | :53:19. | |
the speed of sound in the atmosphere, and of spaceflight. | :53:20. | :53:22. | |
The air-breathing Sabre rocket engines would revolutionise travel. | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
There has been a significant gap since the last big development | :53:29. | :53:40. | |
But this is potentially the closest we are going to get to the Whittle | :53:41. | :53:45. | |
But first, the commercial spaceport would launch satellites, | :53:46. | :53:56. | |
and could also bring zero-gravity flights to the UK. | :53:57. | :53:58. | |
Then, ultimately, even space tourism. | :53:59. | :54:01. | |
The opportunities are huge, and not even the sky is the limit. | :54:02. | :54:08. | |
Lots of incredible potential. We have a from the University of | :54:09. | :54:17. | |
Plymouth, and also Ian Jones from Goonhilly. What do you expect your | :54:18. | :54:25. | |
staff to be doing in the future? We hope to be working with the | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
spaceport when it happens, and be tracking the spacecraft as they | :54:30. | :54:34. | |
launch from the aeroplane. There are potential spaceports around the UK, | :54:35. | :54:38. | |
the closest one to hear would-be Newquay. They are in coastal areas | :54:39. | :54:44. | |
and promote areas. That is important for safety. You need a long runway, | :54:45. | :54:50. | |
especially for the spacecraft returning to Earth, but for launches | :54:51. | :54:57. | |
into orbit, potentially you need not such a long runway, but you need the | :54:58. | :55:05. | |
coastal spaceport, indeed. Doctor, at the moment we will send our | :55:06. | :55:09. | |
satellites overseas to be blasted off into space, what is the | :55:10. | :55:13. | |
advantage of having those take-offs in the UK? It is a big difference | :55:14. | :55:18. | |
between the scale of the mission, the smaller satellite being able to | :55:19. | :55:22. | |
launch in the UK means progress will happen faster and allow for faster | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
development because we won't be waiting on launch windows from large | :55:27. | :55:32. | |
emissions. In the past, we have waited to tag onto a much larger | :55:33. | :55:40. | |
launch -- from large missions. And then if the window gets shifted, so | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
does the piggyback of the satellite you are trying to launch, and so we | :55:45. | :55:49. | |
will have two not rely on this any more, so hopefully this will allow | :55:50. | :55:52. | |
for much faster progress. What does it mean the scientists? It is a very | :55:53. | :55:58. | |
exciting time to be involved in pantry science and the international | :55:59. | :56:01. | |
collaborations will continue, like the Rosetta mission -- involved in | :56:02. | :56:07. | |
App Planet treat science. Those things will continue, but in terms | :56:08. | :56:13. | |
of British science, it allows us to aim for a more widespread Friday of | :56:14. | :56:17. | |
different things. We will be able to increase at sensing, the satellite | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
observation of the Earth -- we will be able to increase certain things. | :56:23. | :56:28. | |
Using weather satellite, that is a big thing in the UK, having the Met | :56:29. | :56:34. | |
office just up the road in Exeter, it is a very important thing for us | :56:35. | :56:37. | |
to develop and to support, the British economy, as well. Thanks for | :56:38. | :56:47. | |
joining us. T minus three years until potentially be first | :56:48. | :56:49. | |
spaceports in the UK, the first flights by around 2020. Exciting. | :56:50. | :56:58. | |
John, thanks. Three years away, potentially. You can buy yourself a | :56:59. | :57:03. | |
ticket. You don't fancy space travel? No. | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
His prowess on the pitch and good looks made him one | :57:08. | :57:09. | |
But despite being described by Pele as "the greatest | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
footballer in the world", George Best's life was | :57:14. | :57:16. | |
Now, more than a decade after his death, a new documentary | :57:17. | :57:22. | |
We'll speak to its director in a moment, but first, | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
When I actually made my debut I'd been playing in the A team, | :57:27. | :57:35. | |
I'd no thoughts in my head that I was going to play. | :57:36. | :57:42. | |
But Sir Matt said, "You're playing today, son". | :57:43. | :57:43. | |
I just couldn't wait to get out there. | :57:44. | :58:04. | |
I was born with something and I didn't have to | :58:05. | :58:06. | |
If I was playing against a player in particular who was giving me | :58:07. | :58:13. | |
a hard time, getting stuck in, I would stand on the ball and tell | :58:14. | :58:16. | |
The film's director, Daniel Gordon, is here with us now. | :58:17. | :58:25. | |
Why did you choose to do this documentary now? The opportunity to | :58:26. | :58:34. | |
tell his story in depth, and in a cinematic way. It is a cinema | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
release. I felt that we utilise about George Best and his life and | :58:41. | :58:43. | |
what a great footballer he is, but we have not dealt with the dark | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
side. When you think about the George Best Ory, people think, they | :58:49. | :58:51. | |
know everything there is to know about this guy -- George Best story. | :58:52. | :58:56. | |
But you have found a different story. The opportunity to get to the | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
archive was something we wanted and we found footage of him playing, | :59:01. | :59:09. | |
which was shot on film in the 60s, and never seen since. That was the | :59:10. | :59:14. | |
thing, and to learn how he had peaked when he was 22, never | :59:15. | :59:19. | |
achieved that high again, those things which we thought we knew, but | :59:20. | :59:25. | |
we just didn't. We introduced him as the first superstar of football. | :59:26. | :59:30. | |
Yes, and being the first, no one had done that before. To see the | :59:31. | :59:35. | |
paparazzi that followed him and the protection that wasn't there for | :59:36. | :59:39. | |
him. The fact that Manchester United as a club, and people, did not know | :59:40. | :59:43. | |
how to deal with that. With the pressure that brought on him and his | :59:44. | :59:49. | |
family. And about his life, thrust into this | :59:50. | :59:56. | |
position, and clearly the issue with alcohol, it may be that stupid | :59:57. | :59:59. | |
question because it would never happen but how would he have been | :00:00. | :00:04. | |
dealt with by the modern culture? And if a manager would have looked | :00:05. | :00:07. | |
after him in a different way, he would have had people around him, | :00:08. | :00:12. | |
don't do that, George, because he was allowed to spiral out of | :00:13. | :00:17. | |
control. There is an amazing scene from 1922 -- 1972, he goes off and | :00:18. | :00:22. | |
he decide he is going to quit at only 25 and he makes a public plea | :00:23. | :00:30. | |
to says I'm mental and physical wreck. The press report on this | :00:31. | :00:34. | |
alcohol and almost glorify it but it is a cry for help and nobody knew | :00:35. | :00:39. | |
it. I think today the intervention would be a lot sooner. We have got | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
the clip. I feel now that I can't play | :00:42. | :00:47. | |
like I could before. So I don't want to play a lower | :00:48. | :00:50. | |
standard than I'm used to myself. And I don't think I can | :00:51. | :00:54. | |
play to a high standard, Why can't you play at | :00:55. | :00:56. | |
a high standard any more? Because I'm not physically fit | :00:57. | :01:01. | |
and I don't think I'm mentally Over this last few years | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
they've got worse and maybe I built the image in the first place | :01:06. | :01:17. | |
and it backfired on me. At the moment, how would | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
you describe your mental state? At the moment I think | :01:24. | :01:28. | |
I'm a complete wreck. It's searingly honest. And that is | :01:29. | :01:41. | |
just four years after that amazing game in Europe. Imagine one of the | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
biggest stars in the game today. But nobody understands what he's talking | :01:47. | :01:51. | |
about there. And I wanted George to have a present and a character in | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
the bill and some of those quotes are from interviews he gave over the | :01:55. | :02:00. | |
years -- in the film. It is like he is talking from the grave, telling | :02:01. | :02:06. | |
his story honestly. But imagine Lionel Messi or another coming out | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
and saying that, people would know what to do but then they had no | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
idea. And such striking looks, he looked like a rock star. And the | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
saddest thing is, at the end he looks anything but. And you go back | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
to the glorious images that you know of George Best. That was part of his | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
downfall, he was able to make mistakes and let people down and not | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
do nice things to people but he would look with these amazing eyes | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
and that great smile and everyone would forgive him and he would get | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
away with it because his looks were also his downfall. I remember | :02:43. | :02:45. | |
interviewing him a few months before he died and he said, I want people | :02:46. | :02:50. | |
to remember the great football I was but also this, because I've got my | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
issues and I've done this to myself awake. It is a story of addiction | :02:54. | :03:00. | |
addicted to various things -- in a way. He was addicted to football at | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
beginning, Hugh McIlvanney said he was addicted to football and you | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
think that is a great thing to be addicted to but actually he was | :03:12. | :03:16. | |
constantly looking for that high. He had these 60,000 people adoring him | :03:17. | :03:20. | |
every week and then 100,000 people in the European cup final and he was | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
constantly looking for that and he could never replace it. He moves on | :03:24. | :03:28. | |
to women and alcohol. And you're right, it is a story of addiction. | :03:29. | :03:33. | |
What did his family think of it? They were involved at the beginning, | :03:34. | :03:37. | |
his two ex-wives are both in the film. I believe Callum is doing | :03:38. | :03:43. | |
another project and he was not able to be involved. I would like to | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
think they see it as an honest portrayal as the full story. It | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
looks fascinating. Thank you very much. | :03:52. | :03:52. | |
George Best: All By Himself is out in cinemas on Friday. | :03:53. | :03:58. | |
We'll be joined by three of the finalists taking part | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
in the BBC's latest talent show, "Let It Shine". | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
First, though, here's a last, brief look at the headlines | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
I'll be back at 1.30pm for the lunchtime news. | :04:08. | :05:47. | |
It's a prize many talented singers could only dream of. | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
The chance to star in a musical penned by Take That's Gary Barlow. | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
That's what the contestants on BBC One's new talent show Let It Shine | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
have been battling it out for, and now, after seven weeks, | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
the competition has been whittled down to just three groups. | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
I think it would be fair to describe some of it is brutal. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
This weekend will see them go head-to-head to be | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
We'll speak to three of the finalists in a moment, | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
but first, let's take a look at their performances | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
Three of the finalists from Let It Shine, Yazdan Qafouri, | :06:22. | :07:33. | |
Jonnie Halliwell and Bradley Johnson join us now. | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
You were saying you have seen that about 20 times already! It is so | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
surreal, it happened, what day is it? The day before yesterday. It's | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
amazing. Are you critical watching yourself back? Yes, I think everyone | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
is, we know what our performances should be like and even though the | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
audience might not pick up on it, every tiny think we do wrong, we | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
analyse but it's all about the next time. What has the process been | :08:06. | :08:10. | |
like? It is amazing to be here, a few days away from the final. When | :08:11. | :08:14. | |
you first got into it, did you think it would be like this? Has it been | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
weird? I think when you go into it, you don't know what to expect. I | :08:20. | :08:26. | |
went into it with open arms and it has been an amazing experience, | :08:27. | :08:30. | |
every round is a new challenge and meeting so many different people. It | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
has just been amazing and you don't know what's around the corner. There | :08:35. | :08:40. | |
I am, giving it a pink suit! You carry it off well! What has it been | :08:41. | :08:46. | |
like? You are thrown together with people and you have to make it work. | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
It feels like we've been together for years. The process as being so | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
long, we went from an eight piece band a five piece and you are | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
bonding, performing with 4-mac of your best mates. It is horrible to | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
be in the situation where you could get split up. I'm grateful that we | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
haven't been. That has been tough. That thing off -- sing off is | :09:07. | :09:17. | |
intense. But the judges pick is a bit of soap that obviously a belief | :09:18. | :09:22. | |
in us to carry on. I am sure you have seen these sorts of programmes | :09:23. | :09:27. | |
before. Do you think the mechanics of Lepik shine are working? The | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
different judges, the guest judge -- Let It Shine. It's a great format, | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
there's nothing like it. I think the things we're doing, the and singing. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
How was it performing with Take That? Madness! When they walked in | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
and doing the rehearsals and stuff you look and think, wow. They are | :09:54. | :09:58. | |
unbelievable performers, and to walk out on stage. On a Saturday night, | :09:59. | :10:04. | |
performing with Take That. At one point Mark looked at us and I | :10:05. | :10:13. | |
totally forgot what I was doing! It all comes together this weekend with | :10:14. | :10:17. | |
Robbie Williams as the final guest judge. And he's one of my heroes. No | :10:18. | :10:25. | |
pressure! He's going to tell us what he thinks of us and it's one of your | :10:26. | :10:32. | |
heroes. It's also a great opportunity. It could be you three, | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
others as well, going into this role in Gary's new stage play, I don't | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
want to talk about the negative side but it doesn't happen, are you | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
confident you could do other things in the industry? It would be nice to | :10:48. | :10:51. | |
do it a great opportunity for us to show we can do them every Saturday | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
night and obviously to be in the show would be a dream. It is eight | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
shows a week and it runs for a year so it's a big challenge and you have | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
got to be committed and ready for that. But hopefully, yeah, it will | :11:03. | :11:06. | |
bring good opportunities to everybody in the final. We know you | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
have interim judges but also Gary Barlow. Let's have a look at him. | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Some of the harmonies were a little bit off but I have to say I think | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
we're probably not going to see a better dance break tonight. | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
All the boys were dancing so well, getting into character. | :11:25. | :11:31. | |
When you were in the centre, Mark, unbelievable. | :11:32. | :11:38. | |
If you have more time together, the unison and the harmonies, | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
work on them, work on them, work on them. | :11:41. | :11:45. | |
You had four days to get it ready? We got put together as a group so | :11:46. | :11:54. | |
four days to get it together from Monday morning, not knowing what we | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
were doing and then Saturday night, we were proud of it because we were | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
so slick and we looked like a group! And how much do you know about what | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
the others will be doing this weekend? Are you in the zone? It had | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
all been done this weekend is the final and it's surreal. But it's | :12:13. | :12:19. | |
amazing to be in the scenario where there are 15 talented lads yet and I | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
don't know how the public will call it but I'm grateful I've got as far | :12:25. | :12:28. | |
as I have. What has been the most challenging? I think the hours, | :12:29. | :12:36. | |
working long days and you're thinking about it all the time and | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
you can't get to sleep at night. It's intense and hard work and | :12:40. | :12:47. | |
sweaty and it's just so difficult. But it's all worth it. And the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
nerves on Saturday night had to be quite something? It's strange | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
because you're nervous but when it comes to it, you've only got those | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
three or four minutes to do what you have to do all stop you don't even | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
think about it. You forget that it's live. I've got four minutes, this is | :13:04. | :13:09. | |
it. People ask if you're nervous but you get a countdown and you're in | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
the zone and you just think, go for it, as long as you try your best, | :13:15. | :13:17. | |
hopefully it's enough to get through. I think you forget, behind | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
the red light there are millions of people! It is always best to do | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
that! I didn't see it as performing to the audience in the theatre. Very | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
good luck, all three of you. Have a great weekend. | :13:33. | :13:34. | |
Jon and Steph will be back with Breakfast tomorrow from six. | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
They'll be joined by the singer, Rag n' Bone Man. | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
Now it's time for Britain's Home Truths. | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
We'll leave you with Gregg Wallace, who's looking at changes to inner | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
Us Brits have a passion for property, and, of course, | :13:46. | :13:53. | |
our national obsession is house prices. | :13:54. | :13:57. |