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Hello - this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :00:00. | :00:08. | |
MPs are to be banned from employing their relatives | :00:09. | :00:10. | |
The new rules will come in after the next election | :00:11. | :00:15. | |
but there's been an angry reaction from some at Westminster. | :00:16. | :00:32. | |
The Dutch Prime Minister sees off the challenge of the far right - | :00:33. | :00:39. | |
he says the voters have rejected "the wrong sort of populism." | :00:40. | :00:47. | |
We are talking about getting more people involved in science and | :00:48. | :00:56. | |
engineering. facing a skills shortage | :00:57. | :00:57. | |
over the next few years. In sport, Manchester City are out | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
of the Champions League despite holding a two goal | :01:06. | :01:08. | |
cushion from the first leg, losing 3-1 in Monaco last night | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
to be knocked out on away goals. we meet the twelve year | :01:12. | :01:16. | |
old who's using dance And he even had time | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
to teach me a few moves. When you have no one, you get | :01:21. | :01:30. | |
bullied, you go to the corner, you are on your own but if you have | :01:31. | :01:34. | |
someone, you go over there and they are like, but you all right? And Cal | :01:35. | :01:41. | |
has the weather. As a cold front goes through, colder conditions will | :01:42. | :01:46. | |
follow. With England and Wales, cloudy and fog to the southern half | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
of England. I will tell you where in 15 minutes. | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
MPs are to be banned from employing relatives using taxpayers' money. | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
says the new rules will be brought in after the next election | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
and will encourage fair and open recruitment. | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
Relatives employed by MPs up until this time won't be affected | :02:08. | :02:10. | |
For years, the amount of taxpayers money paid to MPs relatives has been | :02:11. | :02:25. | |
under scrutiny. In 2010, a limit of one family member was introduced | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
following the expenses scandal. Now the Independent authority has gone | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
further. From the next election due in 2020, no new staff relatives will | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
be allowed to work at Westminster. The watchdog says the employment of | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
connected parties is out of step with modern employment practice | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
witching -- which requires Berendt opening recruitment to encourage | :02:50. | :02:56. | |
diversity in the workplace. 151 of the 650 MPs are known to employ | :02:57. | :03:02. | |
family members. This includes 84 conservatives, 50 from Labour and | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
ten from the SNP. Last year ?4.5 million of public funds was paid to | :03:09. | :03:13. | |
relatives. Family members employed by MPs were paid on average ?5,600 | :03:14. | :03:21. | |
more than other stuff. One Tory MP -- and P, Sir Roger Gale, who has | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
employed his wife for more than 30 years, says the block on spouses is | :03:27. | :03:30. | |
crass and says Parliament will regret it. | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
Let's talk to our political correspondent Mark Lobel - | :03:35. | :03:36. | |
Mark how is this likely to go down with MPs? | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
No evidence of a big scandal, some may be very surprised, to be honest. | :03:41. | :03:49. | |
Around one in four MPs employs a relative at the moment and as | :03:50. | :03:53. | |
someone who we have spoken too stressed, it's great value for | :03:54. | :03:57. | |
money, they can get hold of our partner 24- seven and they can trust | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
them, key factors in an office and one conservative MP says he employed | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
his wife at far less than the market rate to underline what great value | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
it was. A Labour MP said those MPs with constituents outside of London, | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
it's not only await to work together with constituents but also to work | :04:18. | :04:22. | |
together, so it is good for marriages. The Independent | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
Parliamentary watchdog does not say it's a terrible system. There is one | :04:26. | :04:32. | |
logged abuse of the system. But they also agree it's good value but they | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
say it's inappropriate and they want to change recruitment practices. | :04:37. | :04:46. | |
The Chancellor has sought to support a U-turn by saying it is good for | :04:47. | :05:00. | |
taxpayers. Writing in the Sun, the Chancellor says the Conservatives | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
are determined to keep to the spirited their commitments. | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
Early results show Prime Minister Mark Rutte has come out | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
on top, after parliamentary elections were held | :05:11. | :05:12. | |
His liberal VVD party won 31 out of 150 seats, | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
seeing off competition from Geert Wilders and the anti-Islam | :05:17. | :05:18. | |
The Dutch election is the first of three crucial eurozone | :05:19. | :05:23. | |
Within a couple of hours of polls closing, Mark Rutte was wearing a | :05:24. | :05:36. | |
smile which confirmed he will serve another term as Prime Minister. His | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
centre-right party may have lost seats but they remain by far the | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
largest in the Dutch Parliament. In his speech he chose to focus on what | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
voters had rejected. It's also an evening where the Netherlands, after | :05:52. | :05:56. | |
Brexit, after the US election, said stop to the wrong kind of populism. | :05:57. | :06:03. | |
This election drew international attention over the prospect of huge | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
gains for Geert Wilders, the man nicknamed the Dutch Trump. With this | :06:10. | :06:15. | |
anti-EU, anti-Islam platform, he was predicted to win one quarter of the | :06:16. | :06:19. | |
vote but he made few gains, bringing relief across Europe. A state from | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
the French Foreign Minister congratulated the Dutch people. The | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
President of the European Commission called this, a vote for Europe, a | :06:29. | :06:35. | |
vote against extremists. Another standout result is the breakthrough | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
of the pro- immigration Green Party who made the biggest gains of the | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
night. It is likely to be several weeks before a coalition government | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
is formed that this outcome keeps the Netherlands committed to the EU | :06:52. | :06:55. | |
and keeps populism on the fringes of this country's politics. | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
The Queen will sign government legislation into law | :07:00. | :07:01. | |
today, which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
The bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
It's thought the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50, | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
the legal mechanism to begin the withdrawal, before the end | :07:12. | :07:14. | |
President Donald Trump's new travel ban has been blocked by a judge | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
just hours before it was due to begin. | :07:19. | :07:20. | |
The government wanted to stop people from six | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
predominantly Muslim countries from travelling | :07:23. | :07:23. | |
Mr Trump has reacted angrily, accusing the judge | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
Police in the southern Indian state of Goa | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
have charged a man with the murder of an Irish woman. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
28-year-old Danielle McLaughlin's body | :07:39. | :07:39. | |
We can now speak to our India Correspondent, | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
Yogita Limaye who is in Goa for us. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
Behind me as the field were Daniele's body was found. Yesterday | :07:46. | :08:02. | |
evening, of the jewel for her here with a lot of local people who lay | :08:03. | :08:06. | |
down flowers and photographs and candles. This is quite an isolated | :08:07. | :08:11. | |
spot but to my left a couple of 100 metres is the main busy highway | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
which connects north and south Goa. Lots of big beaches and restaurants | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
which Goa is known for. Police said when her body was discovered, she | :08:21. | :08:26. | |
had facial and head injuries. Speaking with an officer involved in | :08:27. | :08:37. | |
the investigation who has told the police believe they have found the | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
main culprit. They say they have compelling evidence which includes | :08:42. | :08:43. | |
CCTV camera footage which shows the victim walking with the accused. | :08:44. | :08:47. | |
They also say they have seized a vehicle which has black stains on it | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
and some clothes with black smears on them. They are still questioning | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
the man to find out if he was working alone or with someone else. | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
Work is set to begin on the refurbishment | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase in the funding | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
the queen receives from the Treasury. | :09:03. | :09:04. | |
The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works | :09:05. | :09:07. | |
which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million. | :09:08. | :09:10. | |
Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of catastrophic | :09:11. | :09:13. | |
building failure being inflicted on a cherished national monument. | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
A team of mine-hunting US navy dolphins have been brought out | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
of retirement to help scientists work out why whales get stranded | :09:21. | :09:23. | |
The sounds of shipping and sonar have long been blamed | :09:24. | :09:30. | |
but the research suggests it could be more complicated | :09:31. | :09:33. | |
I do like the idea of a team of Dolphins coming out of retirement. | :09:34. | :09:50. | |
It is a bit like the team. The DTN. Police in New Zealand are worried | :09:51. | :10:07. | |
about beehive theft. Experts say soaring prices the native manuka | :10:08. | :10:14. | |
honey is driving the bat. Have you ever tried to buy manuka honey? You | :10:15. | :10:20. | |
need a mortgage. Very special. 6:10am is the time. Have you been | :10:21. | :10:29. | |
preparing maps? Just like that. I am talking about Manchester City | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
unsurprisingly. If you are a fan, you might be waking up dealing a bit | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
like Pep Guardiola looks in that picture. A 2- goal cushion thrown | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
away, if you like. Pep Guardiola said he struggled to get his play at | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
-- players to attack. It must be very frustrating. Watching your | :10:50. | :10:52. | |
chances bickering away into the distance. They didn't play his style | :10:53. | :11:02. | |
of football. What is the reason? Pep Guardiola will be asking some | :11:03. | :11:04. | |
serious questions. Manchester City have been knocked | :11:05. | :11:06. | |
out of the Champions League in the last 16 Despite | :11:07. | :11:09. | |
winning the first leg, a 3-1 defeat at Monaco last night | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
means they exit the competition The result leaves Leicester City | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
as the last remaining British side There was a big surprise | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
in the feature race on Day Two of the Cheltenham Festival, | :11:19. | :11:23. | |
where Special Tiara - ridden by Noel Fehily - | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
won the Queen Mother Champion Chase. Favourite Douvan finished seventh, | :11:26. | :11:28. | |
costing one punter ?500,000. Could the Commonwealth Games be | :11:29. | :11:30. | |
coming back to the UK in 2022? Glasgow hosted the last games | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
and now the organisers say they would consider a joint bid | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
from UK cities after Durban Rory McIlroy says he'll have a bad | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
taste in his mouth when he plays at Muirfield again despite the club | :11:41. | :11:48. | |
voting to accept female He says it's obscene and ridiculous | :11:49. | :11:52. | |
they had taken so long to allow Rory McIllroy said he will not be | :11:53. | :12:14. | |
having a cup of tea with the members. It left a bad taste in his | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
mouth. Rory came out and as usual, very outspoken and very honest. That | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
is have a look at the weather. Good morning to you, Carol. Good morning, | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
all. Mild start of the day. Yesterday, the warmest day of this | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
year so far. London, Kew Gardens to be precise, 18.8. Widen, 17.4dC. | :12:39. | :12:48. | |
That individually for Wales was its warmest day. In other parts of the | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
UK, pretty good for March. Today not as warm as it was yesterday but | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
still mild for many. Also looking at some cloudier skies. We do have a | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
weather front, a cold front which is coming in from the north-west, | :13:07. | :13:11. | |
slowly sinking south-west. We will see the temperatures tumble. This | :13:12. | :13:17. | |
morning, here is cold front. Patchy light rain in drizzle. Across | :13:18. | :13:24. | |
northern England and Northern Ireland, edging in with the | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
temperatures around ten, 11, maybe 12. As we go south across England | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
and Wales, more murky conditions. Fog affecting parts of the South of | :13:35. | :13:41. | |
England. Also some fog in the English Channel. That should lift. A | :13:42. | :13:46. | |
weather front continues its descent. But we -- weaker as it moves into | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
northern England and northern Wales. We are looking at bright spells and | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
sunshine and showers but some of those showers will be wintry in | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
nature and still windy across the north. Ahead of this weather front, | :14:00. | :14:05. | |
the cloud will build. The skies will be in the south-east. That is where | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
the highest temperatures will be. There is the weather front, moving | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
south. Behind, we will see a plethora of showers. Driven him in | :14:15. | :14:19. | |
this brisk wind. Quite wintry. You could see a little bit with the low | :14:20. | :14:26. | |
levels in parts of the Highlands. A chilly night to come in the north. | :14:27. | :14:30. | |
Certainly more than the night that has just gone. That is how we start | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
the day tomorrow. We have rain coming in across Northern Ireland. | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
Moving in across parts of Scotland and northern England. South of that, | :14:41. | :14:44. | |
we are looking at the cloud building. Behind it, across | :14:45. | :14:49. | |
Scotland, much fresher. Looking at some sunshine and wintry showers. | :14:50. | :14:55. | |
Their bridges further south. Then the weekend, an array of weather | :14:56. | :15:04. | |
fronts. That means through the course of this weekend, the world -- | :15:05. | :15:08. | |
the weather will be fairly unsettled. At times, windy and wept. | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
Some dry interludes as well. All that glorious sunshine yesterday was | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
just a tease. Some of us will see it again today. | :15:22. | :15:29. | |
You are watching Breakfast on BBC News. | :15:30. | :15:36. | |
MPs will be banned from employing family members at the taxpayer's | :15:37. | :15:39. | |
expense under new rules aimed at encouraging fair | :15:40. | :15:42. | |
You are watching Breakfast on BBC News. | :15:43. | :15:49. | |
MPs will be banned from employing family members at the taxpayer's | :15:50. | :15:52. | |
expense under new rules aimed at encouraging fair | :15:53. | :15:54. | |
The Dutch Prime Minister has hailed his victory over | :15:55. | :15:57. | |
the far-right in the country's elections as a rejection | :15:58. | :16:00. | |
Now for a quick look at the front pages. The Daily Mail following the | :16:01. | :16:07. | |
story you will have seen yesterday, Alexander Blackman's conviction | :16:08. | :16:09. | |
changed yesterday, his murder conviction overturned. That is | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
Claire Blackman who cannot conceal her happiness, a great deal of joy | :16:15. | :16:24. | |
amongst her family. The Daily Mirror have the expenses story that at | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
least 12 MPs face possible charges over election claims. If convicted, | :16:29. | :16:34. | |
it could trigger damaging by-elections. Many of the papers | :16:35. | :16:43. | |
musing over a sequence of events, a week since Philip Hammond did an | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
interview with us after the budget talking about changes to the | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
National Insurance, and looking at some of the quotes yesterday as he | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
gave his statement to the Commons, his quote asked about who first | :16:56. | :16:59. | |
realise the government had been in flagrant breach of the manifesto | :17:00. | :17:04. | |
commitment - Philip Hammond says, he said it in the Commons, I think it | :17:05. | :17:11. | |
was Laura Kuenssberg. Well done, Laura. Theresa May has forced Philip | :17:12. | :17:18. | |
Hammond into the U-turn over the budget, and lots of pictures like | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
this in the papers with him looking and little downcast leaving number | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
11 Downing St. I have some good rugby stories, one from union and | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
one from league. A big weekend in the Six Nations with England going | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
for the back-to-back Grand Slam for the first time since 1991 - 1992, | :17:35. | :17:41. | |
and the Times have an interview with Will Carling, looking back at his | :17:42. | :17:46. | |
time, he said his kids found out he was England captain because one of | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
his school friends told them, and they were like, no, dad, you are too | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
fat. There must be lots of parents who did something cool in the past | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
and their kids are like, no, you just do my washing, don't you? That | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
is funny. And in the Daily Express, groundbreaking moment for rugby | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
league, what is it like to play rugby league, the big sell is it is | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
fast, there are big tackles, 13 on the pitch rather than 15 in union. | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
What they will do tonight when Warrington play against Lee, they | :18:21. | :18:28. | |
will put a camera on a player's shirt, so you can see when they are | :18:29. | :18:35. | |
in the tackle. Will it not...? No, it is like a flat camera, it is in | :18:36. | :18:40. | |
the vest, brand-new technology, and for the first time you can see what | :18:41. | :18:45. | |
it is like to play the sport. Will we get the sound as well? That is a | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
bit of a problem, isn't it? There might be some fruity language. You | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
never know. I have this in the Times is about Newquay, a beautiful place | :18:56. | :19:02. | |
to go, not so much if you live there. If you take your family, | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
there are a lot of stag and hen dos. Fancy dress has been banned because | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
it is, what they say, killing the nightlife. How? The parties go in | :19:14. | :19:20. | |
the fancy dress and it puts local people off going out so much, it | :19:21. | :19:24. | |
puts local families off because it gets rowdy. It sounds a little bit | :19:25. | :19:29. | |
like they are trying to stop the fun, doesn't it? It does, yes. You | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
can't ban fancy dress. What would Victoria Beckham do, it would be a | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
disaster? Right down at the bottom, can you see the scale of the suit? | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
Wow. Is this the new fashion? Don't look at me, Charlie. She is well | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
known for wearing things that are big in proportion to her, so she | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
will often wear a huge coat or jacket. I have to say, this is the | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
biggest I have seen her go so far. It looks like a return to the 70s | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
with the platform shoes. Nothing wrong with that. See you later on, | :20:10. | :20:11. | |
thank you. 12-year-old Junior loves | :20:12. | :20:13. | |
to dance but it made him He's since gone on to become | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
the UK's Freestyle Street Dance Champion and has been | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
on stage with Justin Beiber! Now he says he wants | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
to use his experience to help others and has raised ?300,000 | :20:24. | :20:26. | |
for anti-bullying charities. I've been to meet him | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
as part of the BBC's annual # I go head over heels. We have been | :20:29. | :20:51. | |
invited here to talk to Junior. He has got a really important message | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
about bullying. In the past he had lots of problems with people having | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
a go at him because he is really an ass dancing. Let's go and meet him. | :21:02. | :21:12. | |
-- he is brilliant at dancing. Are you going to show me? Yeah. Junior's | :21:13. | :21:19. | |
dancing has always been an escape. From the age of seven he was bullied | :21:20. | :21:25. | |
relentlessly, kicked, punched and ridiculed for the street dance that | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
he loved. They were really difficult, lonely times. It all | :21:29. | :21:34. | |
started in Year 3 when a group of boys used to call me names like gay, | :21:35. | :21:40. | |
they called me gay because they didn't have think that boys could | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
dance, it was girls and women. You seem like a confident young man. I | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
have seen you dancing and you are brilliant at it. Would there have | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
been a time when if I was talking to you, you would have been a different | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
person? If you were to talk to me at primary school now I was not very | :21:58. | :22:01. | |
confident, I was a bit nervous, really, really nervous, I might not | :22:02. | :22:06. | |
know what to say. One thing you've got now which is so great is | :22:07. | :22:12. | |
friends. They always believed in me, they always tell me to go succeed, | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
go and succeed in your dream and not to be sad or put down by people, you | :22:18. | :22:23. | |
should always succeed and achieve. Junior, just talk me through who we | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
have got here, anyway, who are your mates? This is Ewan, this is George, | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
this is another Ewan and this is Dylan. So, these guys are important | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
to you? Yes. Why? Because we are in the same football team. They always | :22:41. | :22:46. | |
look out for each other. Clearly, having friends around helps a lot. | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
Yes, because when you have not got anyone and you get bullied, it is | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
one of them things, you get bullied, you go to the corner, like, you are | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
on your own. Whereas if you have got someone, if someone says something | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
to you which hurts you, you go over and they will be like, are you all | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
right, what happened, what do they say? And they would be like, it is | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
OK, it is all right. I think everyone needs a mate like you. Oh, | :23:15. | :23:19. | |
thank you. Junior's friends now support him in his dream to become a | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
professional dancer and he has already been on stage with Justin | :23:24. | :23:29. | |
Bieber, raising ?300,000 for anti- bullying charities. And today he | :23:30. | :23:32. | |
even finds time to help and middle-aged man learn some steps. | :23:33. | :23:39. | |
Embarrassing? Oh, yes. Junior, do I need to warm up? Oh, no, you will be | :23:40. | :23:44. | |
all right. OK. What are you going to teach me? This move. You make it | :23:45. | :23:51. | |
look so easy. Go on, talk me through it. Put your hand up, you start with | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
your hand, it goes like that. Up and down? And then your elbow. And then | :23:56. | :24:01. | |
your shoulder. And then it goes into that shoulder and that one comes out | :24:02. | :24:09. | |
that comes out. Yes, so you go, like... Yeah. No! | :24:10. | :24:16. | |
Oh, Charlie, well done, you were quite good. The point is, that is an | :24:17. | :24:24. | |
embarrassing moment at the end of an important piece about bullying and | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
how one young man and his mates have completely overdone a bunch of | :24:28. | :24:32. | |
bullies who have tried to make their lives hell. We got you to dance on | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
TV. It happened. Yes, it really did. The UK's engineering sector employs | :24:36. | :24:39. | |
almost six million people but it's facing a major skills shortage | :24:40. | :24:42. | |
over the next few years. Steph is at Britain's biggest | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
science and technology fair to find out how the industry is hoping | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
to inspire the engineers If there is one woman who can do it, | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
it is Steph. Well, I am certainly wearing the right top for it. | :25:00. | :25:06. | |
Morning, everybody. I am at a Big Bang science fair and it won't be | :25:07. | :25:09. | |
long before this place is packed with 20,000 young people coming to | :25:10. | :25:13. | |
learn about the careers you can have in science and engineering. And it | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
is certainly going to be busy with lots of people coming in. And also | :25:17. | :25:21. | |
as part of it they run a big competition so that young people | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
from around the country have been inventing things. One of the | :25:27. | :25:30. | |
products, you can see here, this is Rees, who will show off this | :25:31. | :25:34. | |
product. Come on, show us how to do it. This is one of many inventions | :25:35. | :25:39. | |
made by boys from a school in Thirsk, for a school with the boys | :25:40. | :25:45. | |
on the autistic spectrum, and we can talk to Cameron, tell me what you | :25:46. | :25:51. | |
have got? Well, basically, it is a ride on toy for the disabled and | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
visually impaired, and it has brakes and it has parking sensors from a | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
car. And also it has a rod if someone is unsure. And it also has | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
an optional, well, it has a light as well, although that is just for fun. | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
Yes, how did you come up with the idea? Well, so that visually | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
impaired people don't like to ride bikes, like we do, we thought we | :26:18. | :26:21. | |
would make it so they can have fun as well. Yes, well, it looks | :26:22. | :26:26. | |
excellent, and we will show off a lot more of the experiment here. | :26:27. | :26:30. | |
Thank you very much, Cameron, I appreciate it. More from me a little | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
bit later on. I think Steph should win the best transportation prize. | :26:36. | :26:37. | |
Absolutely, I look forward to Plenty more on our website | :26:38. | :29:57. | |
at the usual address. Now, though, it's back | :29:58. | :29:59. | |
to Charlie and Sally. Hello this is Breakfast, | :30:00. | :30:01. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent We'll have the latest news | :30:02. | :30:10. | |
and sport in just a moment After the government's budget | :30:11. | :30:16. | |
U-turn, we'll ask what this means for the Chancellor's reputation | :30:17. | :30:21. | |
and how he plans to balance Also, this morning, from charity | :30:22. | :30:24. | |
fundraisers to memorial services, mass balloon releases | :30:25. | :30:26. | |
are increasingly popular. We'll hear claims they pose a risk | :30:27. | :30:28. | |
to wildlife and should be banned. And, he's spent years memorising | :30:29. | :30:35. | |
opera and he's only 11. We'll speak to the schoolboy | :30:36. | :30:38. | |
who is set to make musical history and become one of the world's | :30:39. | :30:45. | |
youngest conductors. But now a summary of this | :30:46. | :30:47. | |
morning's main news. MPs are to be banned | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
from employing husbands, wives, partners or any member | :30:54. | :30:55. | |
of their family under new rules. The oarliamentary expenses watchdog | :30:56. | :31:03. | |
says it will encourage fair After the expenses scandal MPs | :31:04. | :31:06. | |
were limited to employing only one relative and around a quarter | :31:07. | :31:10. | |
of MPs still do so. For years, the amount of taxpayers | :31:11. | :31:12. | |
money paid to MPs relatives has In 2010, a limit of one family | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
member was introduced Now the independent | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
authority has gone further. From the next election due in 2020, | :31:22. | :31:29. | |
no new staff relatives will be The watchdog says the employment | :31:30. | :31:32. | |
of connected parties is out of step with modern employment | :31:33. | :31:43. | |
practice which which requires Berendt opening | :31:44. | :31:44. | |
recruitment to encourage diversity 151 of the 650 MPs are known | :31:45. | :31:46. | |
to employ family members. This includes 84 Conservatives, | :31:47. | :31:58. | |
50 from Labour and 10 from the SNP. Last year, ?4.5 million of public | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
funds was paid to relatives. Family members employed by MPs | :32:03. | :32:05. | |
were paid on average ?5,600 more One Tory MP, Sir Roger Gale, | :32:06. | :32:14. | |
who has employed his wife for more than 30 years, says | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
the future block on spouses is crass and warns Parliament | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
will likely regret the decision. The Chancellor has sought to justify | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
a U-turn on tax rises for the self-employed | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
by saying it was necessary to maintain public trust | :32:34. | :32:35. | |
in the government. Philip Hammond dropped a planned | :32:36. | :32:37. | |
increase in national insurance contributions yesterday, | :32:38. | :32:40. | |
a week after announcing it Writing in The Sun, he says | :32:41. | :32:43. | |
the Conservatives are determined to keep to the spirit | :32:44. | :32:49. | |
of their commitments. The Dutch Prime Minister, | :32:50. | :32:51. | |
Mark Rutte, has claimed victory in his country's general election, | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
saying the Netherlands rejected what he described as "the wrong | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
sort of populism". Votes are still being counted, | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
but Mr Rutte's centre-right party is on course | :33:01. | :33:02. | |
to win the most seats. The indications are that | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
the far-right candidate, Geert Wilders, performed | :33:08. | :33:10. | |
worse than expected although his Freedom Party | :33:11. | :33:12. | |
is projected to gain seats. The Queen will sign government | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
legislation into law today, which clears the way for Theresa May | :33:18. | :33:19. | |
to begin talks on Britain The Bill was passed by MPs | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
and peers on Monday. It's thought the Prime Minister | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
will trigger Article 50, the legal mechanism to begin | :33:30. | :33:31. | |
the withdrawal, before the end President Donald Trump's new travel | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
ban, has been blocked by a judge just hours before | :33:35. | :33:43. | |
it was due to begin. The government wanted | :33:44. | :33:46. | |
to stop people from six predominantly Muslim | :33:47. | :33:48. | |
countries from travelling Mr Trump has reacted angrily - | :33:49. | :33:49. | |
accusing the judge of This is the opinion of many, an | :33:50. | :34:03. | |
unprecedented judicial overreach. This ruling makes us look weak | :34:04. | :34:10. | |
which, by the way, we know longer are, believe me. | :34:11. | :34:11. | |
Police in the southern Indian state of Goa, | :34:12. | :34:13. | |
have charged a man with the murder of an Irish woman. | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
28-year-old Danielle McLaughlin's body was discovered | :34:18. | :34:18. | |
in an isolated area close to a tourist resort, on Tuesday. | :34:19. | :34:21. | |
Police said a 24-year-old man has been arrested | :34:22. | :34:23. | |
While the Dolphins are helping them to understand how marine animals | :34:24. | :34:42. | |
behave around Sonar and shipping sounds. Researchers from The | :34:43. | :34:48. | |
University of California Santa Cruz think panicked Wales from the noise | :34:49. | :34:53. | |
and end up exhausted, causing them to drift off course and then into | :34:54. | :34:59. | |
trouble. And those are the main stories this morning. Now for sport. | :35:00. | :35:07. | |
I have heard of Navy SEALs but never Navy Dolphins. Retired Navy | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
Dolphins. What are they doing to mark they were on the beach, playing | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
bingo. Who knows? I am talking about Manchester City unsurprisingly. | :35:19. | :35:22. | |
Fans, after the hectic first leg, where city came back to score in 11 | :35:23. | :35:27. | |
minutes, they were on a bit of a high. They thought city had the | :35:28. | :35:31. | |
momentum but were crushing down to work with a bit of a bump this | :35:32. | :35:33. | |
morning. Manchester City have been knocked | :35:34. | :35:34. | |
out of the Champions League by Monaco on away goals - | :35:35. | :35:38. | |
they've failed to reach They held a two goal advantage | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
going into the match but Monaco through, but Manchester City | :35:42. | :35:45. | |
pressure brought a Leroy Sane goal came in final quarter of an hour | :35:46. | :35:51. | |
and it finished 3-1 on the night, with Monaco through | :35:52. | :35:59. | |
on the away goals rule. We play 45 minutes in created a lot | :36:00. | :36:10. | |
of chances but we missed 45 minutes and we spoke lots of times but these | :36:11. | :36:18. | |
days, you try to be, our strength is to be aggressive without the ball in | :36:19. | :36:24. | |
the first half, we were a little bit slow in everything which is why we | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
could not do it, because it is so complicated. | :36:29. | :36:29. | |
So Leicester are the only British team left in the Champions League, | :36:30. | :36:32. | |
and Manchester United will be hoping to be the only British side | :36:33. | :36:36. | |
in the quarter finals of the Europa League, | :36:37. | :36:38. | |
but they have to get past Rostov at Old Trafford tonight. | :36:39. | :36:41. | |
The game's one-all after the first leg and manager | :36:42. | :36:45. | |
Jose Mourinho has spent the build-up defending world record signing | :36:46. | :36:48. | |
He thinks his critics are a bit jealous. | :36:49. | :36:52. | |
It's not that he gets ten times the money, but some very good players. | :36:53. | :37:01. | |
It's not his fault that some of the pundits are in real trouble with | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
their lives and they need every point to survive and Paul is a | :37:06. | :37:09. | |
multimillionaire. It is not his fault. Envy is everywhere. | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford will be named | :37:13. | :37:14. | |
Injuries to Harry Kane and Daniel Sturridge mean the United | :37:15. | :37:18. | |
frontman - who scored on his senior England debut against Australia last | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
year will be in Gareth Southgate's squad to face Germany next week | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
It was one of the biggest shocks in the history of the Cheltenham | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
Festival after the odds-on favourite Douvan missed out on the places | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
One punter put ?500 million on Douvan - | :37:34. | :37:40. | |
but saw his money slipping away as the horse struggled and the race | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
came down to a tight finish won by Special Tiara. | :37:45. | :37:49. | |
Muirfield Golf Club may have scrapped its all-male policy | :37:50. | :37:52. | |
and been welcomed back onto to books of the Open | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
but Rory McIlroy says he is not ready to toast a new era. | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
The world number three has been very critical that women were denied | :37:59. | :38:01. | |
They sort of source sense. I still think the fact that it got to the | :38:02. | :38:16. | |
stage is horrendous. And yeah, we will go back and play the open | :38:17. | :38:20. | |
because they have let the members in but every time I go to Muirfield, I | :38:21. | :38:23. | |
will have a bad taste in my mouth. The former world champion, | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
Stuart Bingham has been charged with breaking snooker's | :38:28. | :38:30. | |
betting rules. Bingham admitted placing bets | :38:31. | :38:31. | |
on other players' matches but said he thought the rules only applied | :38:32. | :38:34. | |
to matches he was involved in. The world number three must wait | :38:35. | :38:37. | |
for the investigation into him to finish before finding | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
out his punishment. With England on the brink of a world | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
record 19th straight victory this weekend, the RFU has confirmed it | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
wants to arrange a match against the World Number Ones | :38:46. | :38:48. | |
New Zealand later this year and athings stand, England | :38:49. | :38:51. | |
are not due to play the All Blacks until the autumn | :38:52. | :38:53. | |
Internationals NEXT year. However, unless Premiership clubs | :38:54. | :38:56. | |
receive compensation they may not Wales have named an unchanged side | :38:57. | :38:58. | |
again - that's three matches in a row that they've gone | :38:59. | :39:05. | |
with the same fifteen Hooker Ken Owens will win his 50th | :39:06. | :39:08. | |
cap against France in Paris. Could the Commonwealth Games | :39:09. | :39:14. | |
be coming back the UK? Durban were stripped of the 2022 | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
Games earlier in the week. Liverpool had already put themselves | :39:18. | :39:21. | |
forward as a replacement, and now London and Birmingham have | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
also expressed an interest Officials want to make a quick | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
decision about the new host and said Glasgow hosted | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
the Games 3 years ago, It is so sad to Durban that they | :39:32. | :39:45. | |
have these difficulties. They were going to be the first African nature | :39:46. | :39:50. | |
in to post, while games. It will be fun to see it in the UK. It used to | :39:51. | :39:58. | |
be a joint bid. They do not need more velodrome is in the country. | :39:59. | :40:03. | |
They were having to share a bit. That means it might be a bit | :40:04. | :40:07. | |
desperate. You might have to travel around the country. It's not a done | :40:08. | :40:09. | |
deal yet. With crucial elections in France | :40:10. | :40:11. | |
and Germany in the next few months, the result of a parliamentary vote | :40:12. | :40:14. | |
in the Netherlands is seen as a key barometer of the political mood | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
in Europe and the strength Early results show Mark Rutte | :40:19. | :40:20. | |
is expected to remain The anti-Islamist Freedom Party, | :40:21. | :40:25. | |
led by Geert Wilders, had been gaining support but early | :40:26. | :40:28. | |
indications suggest he performed who is a politics lecturer | :40:29. | :40:31. | |
at Loughborough University. I know the results are not | :40:32. | :40:49. | |
definitely finalised but from what we know, are you surprised by what | :40:50. | :40:54. | |
you've seen? The big surprise is that the Liberals, with Mark Rutte, | :40:55. | :41:02. | |
ended so far ahead. For the rest, the field looks very fragmented. A | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
lot of parties with an equal amount of seats at the same parliament. | :41:07. | :41:13. | |
This election has been watched very closely, hasn't it? After the recent | :41:14. | :41:19. | |
Brexit vote. There was some nervousness, wasn't there? | :41:20. | :41:26. | |
Certainly. That election got so much international media because of Geert | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
Wilders and because it fell between Brexit, Trump and the elections in | :41:31. | :41:33. | |
France and Germany but this election result points to nothing new. This | :41:34. | :41:40. | |
is definitely not a landslide result for Dutch politics. The radical | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
Right has been around for ten years. Since 2002, we saw strong populist | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
contenders. It's difficult to analyse. Can you explain why the | :41:50. | :41:56. | |
result is looking like this now? Normally in previous elections, we | :41:57. | :42:03. | |
have seen two parties would finish on top. Most voters would would | :42:04. | :42:10. | |
rally around one centre-right party. It's a bit of a surprise that the | :42:11. | :42:15. | |
Liberals had so far ahead of the rest. But the rest, it is very | :42:16. | :42:21. | |
fragmented. A lot of parties with around 20, 20 seats also. Is it fair | :42:22. | :42:29. | |
to call Geert Wilders as someone like Donald Trump? You shed a lot of | :42:30. | :42:36. | |
characteristics. The antiestablishment, the appeal to the | :42:37. | :42:39. | |
ordinary people, but there are a lot of policy differences. Thank you | :42:40. | :42:44. | |
very much indeed. Our main stories this morning. MPs | :42:45. | :42:58. | |
will be banned from employing family members at the taxpayers expense of | :42:59. | :43:02. | |
the new rules aimed at in courage in fair and open recruitment. The Dutch | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
Prime Minister has claimed a victory over the far right in the country's | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
elections, calling it a rejection of the wrong sort of populism. Time for | :43:13. | :43:21. | |
a look at the weather. This morning, a mild start the day across the | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
northern half of the country. Not as mild further south. Let us look at | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
what we had yesterday. The warmest day of this year so far. That was | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
recorded in Kew Gardens in London. Gravesend, not too far behind it. | :43:37. | :43:45. | |
Hawarden in North Wales reached 17.4, making it the warmest day | :43:46. | :43:49. | |
Wales has had so far this year. Today, it will still be mild but not | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
as mild as yesterday. Cloudy skies. Starting with some fog patches. | :43:57. | :44:00. | |
Particularly across southern parts of England. A cold front coming in | :44:01. | :44:04. | |
as well. As it moves across Scotland and Northern Ireland, you will | :44:05. | :44:08. | |
notice the temperature is going to go down. It's also going to in some | :44:09. | :44:15. | |
rain. Here it is by eight o'clock. Some patchy rain ahead of it. Across | :44:16. | :44:20. | |
northern England, some murky conditions. The rain extending in | :44:21. | :44:27. | |
from Northern Ireland. You can see some patchy rain across the West of | :44:28. | :44:32. | |
Wales. As we move in across the West of England, towards the south-west, | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
some patchy fog and quite a bit of cloud. The patchy fog will lift | :44:37. | :44:42. | |
through the morning and as a band of rain descends across Scotland and | :44:43. | :44:44. | |
Northern Ireland, into northern England and North Wales, we return | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
to sunshine and showers, some of which in Scotland will be wintry. A | :44:50. | :44:56. | |
fair bit of cloud around. Locally, across parts of East Anglia, | :44:57. | :45:02. | |
especially East London and Kent, possibly 16 or more. As we head on | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
through the thing, here is the weather front. Continuing to push | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
down into the south-east. A fair bit of cloud. It's going to be a cold | :45:12. | :45:18. | |
night, a windy one of a lot of showers. Not just on high ground. We | :45:19. | :45:23. | |
could see a little bit of wet snow at low levels. That is how we start | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
tomorrow. Through the morning, more rain comes in from the Atlantic. But | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
he ran across Northern Ireland, parts of southern and central | :45:35. | :45:37. | |
Scotland and northern England and Wales. Cold enough to see some snow, | :45:38. | :45:42. | |
especially in the Scottish hills. Not unusual now. Ahead of that band | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
of rain, it will cloud over. But note that temperatures. 6-8 as we | :45:48. | :45:53. | |
push into the north. Heading into the weekend, a plethora of weather | :45:54. | :45:57. | |
fronts coming our way. You consider just romping in from the Atlantic, | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
squeezing in the isobars, telling you it's going to be windy at times. | :46:03. | :46:07. | |
So in summary, the weather for this weekend is looking unsettled. It | :46:08. | :46:11. | |
will be windy at times, the leftist conditions will be where these | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
fronts arrived but there will be some dry spells in between. | :46:16. | :46:25. | |
Just a quick look at the front pages, the front of the Daily Mail | :46:26. | :46:32. | |
following yesterday's events in the courts, Alexander Buttner and's | :46:33. | :46:35. | |
appealed against his conviction for shooting at a wounded Taliban. | :46:36. | :46:48. | |
Readers for the Daily Mail raised money in connection with that | :46:49. | :46:51. | |
appeal. Remember sitting on the sofa one week ago when you asked the | :46:52. | :46:55. | |
Chancellor might he consider changing his mind on national | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
insurance contributions? Well, yeah, did he answer that? Well, he | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
repeated at the time he was adamant they were doing the right thing for | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
the right reasons, but a week is a long time in politics and a great | :47:10. | :47:14. | |
deal has changed. The front of the Times and the U-turn. The front of | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
the Daily Mirror and the Guardian that look into the funding of the | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
general election with 12 MPs, conservative MPs, questioned in | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
connection with how the money was spent, that is also on the front of | :47:30. | :47:36. | |
the Guardian newspaper. The Daily Express says the Queen is to sign | :47:37. | :47:41. | |
the EU except Bill today, and a fantastic picture of glorious | :47:42. | :47:44. | |
sunshine yesterday McCarroll explaining that even though | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
yesterday was beautifully sunny, it won't be late that everywhere else | :47:49. | :47:50. | |
today. They're the brains behind | :47:51. | :47:50. | |
our bridges, buildings Engineers make up about one | :47:51. | :47:52. | |
in five jobs in the UK. But engineering's trade body | :47:53. | :47:56. | |
is warning of a major skills shortage if more don't | :47:57. | :47:59. | |
join the profession. Steph is at Britain's biggest | :48:00. | :48:01. | |
science and technology fair to find out how young people | :48:02. | :48:04. | |
are being inspired to become Morning to you, Steph. Good morning, | :48:05. | :48:21. | |
Sally and Charlie, and everybody, I am at the Big Bang science fair, | :48:22. | :48:26. | |
where they expect 20,000 young people to come and visit over the | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
next couple of days, all, as you say, on expiring people into | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
science, technology, engineering and mathematics, what we need skilled | :48:37. | :48:39. | |
people in, and it is all about telling them the different jobs in | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
the industry. Another big part of it is on the inventions here. Lots of | :48:44. | :48:47. | |
young people from around the country have been competing with lots of | :48:48. | :48:50. | |
different inventions and science project ideas. Let's go and meet | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
some of them. Gia, tell us what you have come up with. I have done an | :48:57. | :49:02. | |
app which will help you with your transport, there is an alarm to help | :49:03. | :49:07. | |
read music or... So, if you are on the train, like me, quite often, you | :49:08. | :49:12. | |
are sitting on the train and all of a sudden you might not off, this | :49:13. | :49:16. | |
will help to make sure you don't miss your stop? Definitely, and | :49:17. | :49:19. | |
there is a seating feature on the busy days when you don't know which | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
carriage to get on. And there is whether information, travel | :49:25. | :49:26. | |
information and general lost property. The difference is this is | :49:27. | :49:32. | |
all in one place, you don't have to go to different websites, you don't | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
have to e-mail 100 people over a lost umbrella. How did you come up | :49:37. | :49:40. | |
with it? I catch the train every day to go to school, I have to wake up | :49:41. | :49:45. | |
at a disgusting ally, then I saw a guy Misi stop and I saw the horror | :49:46. | :49:50. | |
on his face, and I thought, it could to anyone. We need to make it a | :49:51. | :49:57. | |
positive experience. And Ellen, tell us about yours, this looks | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
interesting? It is a glove for deaf people which uses motion sensors to | :50:02. | :50:07. | |
translate it into speech, and a microphone which picks up the spoken | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
language from a response and it notes it down on the screen on the | :50:12. | :50:15. | |
inside wrist so that the deaf person can read it. Point out how that | :50:16. | :50:21. | |
would work? The sensors will be in the fingers and across the hand and | :50:22. | :50:25. | |
there will be a screen on the inside, this is where the sensors | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
will be converted into speech. And how did you come up with this, it is | :50:30. | :50:35. | |
incredible? I read an article about how deaf people struggle with | :50:36. | :50:38. | |
communication and it might lead to depression and anxiety. And I | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
thought it would be good for deaf people to become more independent in | :50:43. | :50:47. | |
society. Yeah, so you came up with this cracking idea. Good luck to | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
you. We are moving onto Louis with his teacher dressed as a beekeeper. | :50:53. | :51:00. | |
What is this all about? My project is about re- populating bees in the | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
north-east. People might not know but these are extremely important, | :51:06. | :51:11. | |
without then the economy would have crashed a long time ago and a lot of | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
them have been declining over recent years. So, what does the project | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
involved? We have four project aims, one, a safe habitat for the bees, | :51:22. | :51:27. | |
the second is to find out what's causing the decline in the bees, the | :51:28. | :51:32. | |
third one is to raise awareness in the local community and the fourth | :51:33. | :51:37. | |
is to possibly try and increase... And it means regularly putting your | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
teacher in the beehive outfits, which is always a laugh. Thank you. | :51:44. | :51:47. | |
How good are they? We have loads more. Let's chat with Paul from | :51:48. | :51:52. | |
EngineeringUK on why this is so important. Morning. Great to see | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
these inventions. What is it all about? It allows children to bring | :51:59. | :52:05. | |
their inventions to take part, and 75,000 people here will find out | :52:06. | :52:08. | |
about science and engineering. They will be lots of jobs in future so | :52:09. | :52:12. | |
this is an opportunity for the young people to bring alive the maths and | :52:13. | :52:16. | |
science they do in the classroom by making people who use it everyday. | :52:17. | :52:20. | |
Often, criticism of the engineering sector is it has an image of people | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
that it is quite outdated, isn't it, so tell us all about the jobs, | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
because they vary a lot, don't they? Well, they do, and here we have | :52:31. | :52:37. | |
clean water to sub Saharan Africa, the way in which biology and | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
engineering Company gather for human health in the future, and we have | :52:42. | :52:44. | |
things like the aeroplanes and diggers and things you may associate | :52:45. | :52:49. | |
with engineering on a large scale. So, it is the things that will | :52:50. | :52:52. | |
change the world and change macro lies in future that we want to be | :52:53. | :52:59. | |
part of. -- change our lives in future. Thank you. And here is Rhys | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
from one of the schools which has come up with this excellent design. | :53:06. | :53:09. | |
We will tell you about more of them. Show us your best moves, Rees. Look | :53:10. | :53:17. | |
at him go! No, I think a screw has come off. Oh, note! If anyone can | :53:18. | :53:27. | |
fix that, it is you. -- oh, no! Quick, running repairs. And we are | :53:28. | :53:35. | |
going to talk about Formula 1. Those youngsters will probably end up | :53:36. | :53:38. | |
working in Formula 1, where they? Yes. Kristian Horner from the Red | :53:39. | :53:45. | |
Bull team. And we are staying with children's health. | :53:46. | :53:47. | |
An increasing number of 11-16 year olds struggle with feeling unhappy, | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
self conscious and frightened but many don't ask for help, | :53:51. | :53:53. | |
that's the findings from a special survey carried out as part | :53:54. | :53:56. | |
Many of the young people questioned said they would prefer to talk | :53:57. | :54:00. | |
confidentially to someone at school about their concerns. | :54:01. | :54:03. | |
Bryony MacKenzie caught up with Jordan Stevens, | :54:04. | :54:05. | |
from the Rizzle Kicks, who started his own social media | :54:06. | :54:07. | |
campaign to get young people talking openly about mental health. | :54:08. | :54:16. | |
# Mama do the hump, mama do the hump hump, mama. | :54:17. | :54:20. | |
# Won't you please let me do the hump hump... | :54:21. | :54:22. | |
He found fame with a hip-hop duo, Rizzle Kicks, now Jordan | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
is being asked tough questions by school reporters about the tough | :54:26. | :54:28. | |
Have you or someone close to you experienced either mental | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
health issues or the stigma attached to that? | :54:34. | :54:36. | |
In school during my GCSEs I got diagnosed with ADHD. | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
I was always the hyper kid, I got told to calm down all the time | :54:41. | :54:45. | |
and it is the most infuriating thing for someone who cannot calm down. | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
Jordan began his own social media campaign to get young people talking | :54:50. | :54:56. | |
Becoming like famous gives you all this kind of stuff, | :54:57. | :55:05. | |
you know, and I was able to afford a flat and these kind of things that | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
people are like working day in day out to try and get but the reality | :55:11. | :55:14. | |
is that does not compensate for any kind of emotional stability, | :55:15. | :55:17. | |
in fact, it can often contribute to quite poor emotional stability. | :55:18. | :55:21. | |
According to a School Report survey, half of all pupils admit to having | :55:22. | :55:24. | |
negative feelings but do not ask for help. | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
Being in Year 9, sort of changing as a person, | :55:29. | :55:30. | |
it is a way to control change and it was something that | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
Florence developed anorexia when she was 14. | :55:35. | :55:39. | |
The reason I did not come out and say what I had been | :55:40. | :55:43. | |
through and what happened was because people did not | :55:44. | :55:45. | |
understand where I was coming from and, you know, it took a lot | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
of guts for me to say I had a problem and also I was in denial | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
because I was embarrassed and I thought that it was not normal | :55:54. | :55:56. | |
and it was not something that was OK. | :55:57. | :55:59. | |
Jordan wants his message to reach primary aged children. | :56:00. | :56:06. | |
To just remove the idea that it is kind of like some taboo, | :56:07. | :56:09. | |
to be open about how you feel and your mentality is, | :56:10. | :56:12. | |
Giving help to those who need it even earlier. | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
If you've been affected by any of the issues raised in that report | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
you can visit bbc.co.uk/schoolreportadvice. | :56:21. | :59:53. | |
I'm back with the latest from the BBC London newsroom | :59:54. | :59:57. | |
Plenty more on our website at the usual address. | :59:58. | :00:01. | |
Hello this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :00:02. | :00:22. | |
MPs are to be banned from employing their relatives | :00:23. | :00:24. | |
The new rules will come in after the next election - | :00:25. | :00:28. | |
but there's been an angry reaction from some at Westminster. | :00:29. | :00:40. | |
The Dutch Prime Minister sees off the challenge of the far right - | :00:41. | :00:47. | |
he says the voters have rejected "the wrong sort of populism." | :00:48. | :01:00. | |
I am at the big bang science fair to find out how we get more young | :01:01. | :01:06. | |
people interested in science and engineering. About 45,000 rent -- | :01:07. | :01:08. | |
apprentice in graduate engineers. despite holding a two goal | :01:09. | :01:12. | |
cushion from the first leg, losing 3-1 in Monaco and they're | :01:13. | :01:19. | |
out of the competition. We meet the twelve year old who's | :01:20. | :01:22. | |
using dance to spread the message When you can not got anyone and you | :01:23. | :01:36. | |
get bullied, you go to the corner come you are on your own were as if | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
you've got someone, you go over there and they will always ask if | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
you are all right? And good morning. Mild start of the day across | :01:48. | :01:50. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. Rain, fresh conditions behind it. Ahead of | :01:51. | :01:56. | |
it, for England and Wales, fairly cloudy for most of us. What you will | :01:57. | :02:00. | |
find is we see rain in the north later on. The best of the sunshine | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
and the south-east. More details on 15 minutes. | :02:06. | :02:07. | |
MPs are to be banned from employing husbands, | :02:08. | :02:11. | |
wives, partners or any member of their family under new rules. | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
The parliamentary expenses watchdog says it will encourage fair | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
After the expenses scandal MPs were limited to employing only one | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
relative and around a quarter of MPs still do so. | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
For years, the amount of taxpayers' money paid to MPs relatives has | :02:24. | :02:31. | |
In 2010, a limit of one family member was introduced | :02:32. | :02:36. | |
Now the independent authority has gone further. | :02:37. | :02:46. | |
From the next election due in 2020, no new staff relatives will be | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
151 of the 650 MPs are known to employ family members. | :02:51. | :03:07. | |
This includes 84 Conservatives, 50 from Labour and 10 from the SNP. | :03:08. | :03:15. | |
Last year, ?4.5 million of public funds was paid to relatives. | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
IPSA found family members employed by MPs were paid on average ?5,600 | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
One Tory MP, Sir Roger Gale, who has employed his wife for more | :03:24. | :03:31. | |
than 30 years, says the future block on spouses is crass and warns | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Parliament will likely regret the decision. | :03:36. | :03:37. | |
Let's talk to our political correspondent Mark Lobel. | :03:38. | :03:45. | |
Mark, how is this likely to go down with Mps? | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
It is curious in some ways. There is no evidence of abuse yet it's been | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
deemed to be slightly out of step with what people think would be | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
right. No evidence of a big scandal so I think some MPs are going to be | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
surprised to hear this news this morning, particularly as it is quite | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
a big change. A quarter of MPs employs a relative. It will not | :04:15. | :04:18. | |
affect them. It will affect new employees up to the next election. | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
Current relatives will be safe in our jobs. Still, MPs we have spoken | :04:25. | :04:29. | |
to say it will be a handy scheme, to have relatives in the office, | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
allowing Tustin them. You can get hold of them 24- seven and they are | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
great value for money. One conservative MP told us if they | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
travel outside of London, four constituencies that are far away, | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
it's not just useful for constituents to have this connection | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
with their constituents but also the partner. Scrape and marriages. | :04:53. | :04:57. | |
Another MP told us he employs his wife for far less. Underlining the | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
value for money and the good things about this system. The watchdog does | :05:02. | :05:05. | |
not dispute it is good value for money. They said there has only been | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
one instance of abuse. They say it is inappropriate and they want more | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
modern recruitment practices. A bald from you about Philip Hammond's | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
situation. The National Insurance climbdown. Last week he was telling | :05:22. | :05:27. | |
us why it was a good decision and he defended breaking the pledge. A lot | :05:28. | :05:34. | |
has changed. I think the damage on his credibility is bad. It's yet to | :05:35. | :05:39. | |
be determined. He has rowed back a bit in the sun, -- you wrote in the | :05:40. | :05:43. | |
Sun newspaper saying he wanted to restore faith in politics. The | :05:44. | :05:49. | |
people saw this as a breach of a manifesto commitment, he wanted to | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
pull back from that. I suspect it was more he did not want to have a | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
fight with his own side, but conservative MPs lining up to oppose | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
this measure and the normally more favourable press. I don't think he | :06:01. | :06:04. | |
wants that relationship to sour as they approach these very crucial | :06:05. | :06:06. | |
Brexit negotiations. The Dutch Prime Minister, | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
Mark Rutte, has claimed victory in his country's general election - | :06:11. | :06:12. | |
saying the Netherlands rejected what he described as "the wrong | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
sort of populism". The indications are that | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
the far-right candidate, Geert Wilders, performed | :06:19. | :06:20. | |
worse than expected although his Freedom Party | :06:21. | :06:21. | |
is projected to gain seats. Let's talk to our Europe | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
Correspondent Damian Grammaticas A beautiful sunny morning it is | :06:25. | :06:35. | |
there. Actually, no big shock result. Something of a surprise but | :06:36. | :06:47. | |
no big surge from the populist far right. The Prime Minister had framed | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
this in that way as an election that potentially could see that. He had | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
warned about the potential for the far right leader toppling the polls. | :06:57. | :07:02. | |
At the beginning, Geert Wilders had been at the top of the opinion | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
polls. All eyes internationally and across Europe had been on the | :07:08. | :07:10. | |
election here for that reason. What actually happened, Geert Wilders | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
significantly underperformed expectations. He secured something | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
like 13% of the vote. He has done better in previous elections, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
particularly in 2010 and has gained a few seats but he is far behind the | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
Prime Minister who secured 20% of the vote. A sort of sigh of relief | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
from around European capitals at what has happened. | :07:35. | :07:46. | |
The Queen will sign government legislation into law today, | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks on Britain leaving | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
The Bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday. It's thought the Prime | :07:53. | :08:05. | |
Minister will trigger Article 50, the legal mechanism to begin the | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
withdrawal, before the end of the month. | :08:09. | :08:09. | |
President Donald Trump's new travel ban, has been blocked by a judge | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
just hours before it was due to begin. | :08:13. | :08:14. | |
The government wanted to stop people from six predominantly Muslim | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
countries from travelling to the United States. | :08:18. | :08:21. | |
This is, in the opinion of many, an unprecedented judicial overrich. | :08:22. | :08:29. | |
This ruling makes us look week which, by the way, we know longer | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
write, believe me. Police in the southern Indian state of Gpa have | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
charged a man with the death of an Irish woman. We earlier spoke with | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
our Indian correspondent to is in Goa. Behind me is the fields where | :08:47. | :08:53. | |
Daniel's body was found. A lot of local people came. There are lots of | :08:54. | :09:14. | |
big beaches and restaurants that Goa is known for. Police say there were | :09:15. | :09:20. | |
injuries. I spoke with an officer was involved in the investigation. | :09:21. | :09:30. | |
They have compelling evidence which shows the victim walking with the | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
accused. They say they have seized a 2- wheeled vehicle with black stains | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
on it. Also some clothes with blood smears. They are questioning this | :09:40. | :09:45. | |
man to find out whether he was alone or there were others involved. | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
Work is set to begin on the refurbishment | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase in the funding | :09:56. | :09:58. | |
the Queen receives from the Treasury. | :09:59. | :10:00. | |
The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million. | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of "catastrophic | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
building failure" being inflicted on a "cherished national monument". | :10:11. | :10:12. | |
A team of US navy dolphins have come out of retirement to help scientists | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
investigate why whales become stranded in shallow water. | :10:17. | :10:18. | |
The dolphins are helping them to understand how marine animals | :10:19. | :10:21. | |
behave around sonar and shipping sounds. | :10:22. | :10:23. | |
Researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz think | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
panicked whales dive away from the noise and end up exhausted, | :10:26. | :10:28. | |
causing them to drift off course and into trouble. | :10:29. | :10:36. | |
Do you remember the whale in the Thames River? Stranded on the | :10:37. | :10:44. | |
Thames? It is really sad. Twin foals, a rarity in forcing world, | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
have been born on the farm in Suffolk. | :10:49. | :10:55. | |
called Tilly and Lilly, are just over a week | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
old and are doing well under the watchful eye of mum Rose | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
It is unusual for a mare to be allowed to carry twins to full-term | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
as it can be dangerous and lead to complications, | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
but Rose's pregnancy was too far developed to safely intervene. | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
The odds of survival for twin foals is usually just one-in-10,000. | :11:13. | :11:21. | |
Putting mobile cancer screening units in shopping centre car parks | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
could quadruple the number of people whose lung cancer is caught early, | :11:25. | :11:27. | |
according to research by leading cancer charity Macmillan. | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and around | :11:31. | :11:33. | |
three-quarters of cases are usually diagnosed at a late stage. | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
Michael Brady was offered a free scan at a supermarket in Manchester | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
and is currently receiving treatment. | :11:40. | :11:46. | |
My name is Michael Brady, I am 64 years of age and recently, I went | :11:47. | :11:53. | |
for a lung check. I have been diagnosed with cancer at the very, | :11:54. | :11:59. | |
very early stages. I am really grateful that I went to this check. | :12:00. | :12:05. | |
It's definitely saved my life because I could have gone maybe two, | :12:06. | :12:11. | |
three years and it could have spread everywhere. I feel a lot more | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
relaxed now I know that I know what I've got and we know we can treat it | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
and hopefully, they will treat it and it will go away. I hope there | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
are more of these scams about rather people to get the benefit and they | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
are definitely nothing to be scared about. | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
Dr Phil Barber is a lung cancer specialist at | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
the University Hospital of South Manchester and was involved | :12:38. | :12:39. | |
Really interesting to pick up on something. Don't be afraid to go and | :12:40. | :12:49. | |
get tested because lung cancer is one of those things, if you don't | :12:50. | :12:52. | |
think about it, it might not happen to you but if you start thinking | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
about it, you could get very worried. How much does having a scan | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
really accessible encourage people to go and get tested? That was a big | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
factor. The thing about lung cancer in general, not only is it the most | :13:06. | :13:11. | |
common cause of cancer death in the city of Manchester, it's the most | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
common cause of premature death of all. It's more common than heart | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
attack and stroke. A massive problem. The problem we face with it | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
is that when we investigate patients in the normal way, with symptoms, | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
75% of them are at the late stage. They cannot be jawed. It is | :13:31. | :13:35. | |
treatable but not curable. When somebody goes into one of these | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
scanners what happens? We sent letters of invitation to patients in | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
the right age range the cancer. We invited them to come for what we | :13:46. | :13:52. | |
call a lung health check. That's like a lung MOT, if you like. We did | :13:53. | :13:58. | |
the cheque, with questions about chest symptoms, lifestyle, smoking | :13:59. | :14:02. | |
habits and we used that to calculate the risk score. If patients were | :14:03. | :14:08. | |
above a certain risk, they went on to have a scan immediately with the | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
mobile scanner that was there in the supermarket car park. The whole | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
thing was done in a few minutes as a one-stop event. Talk as to what | :14:18. | :14:24. | |
happens. You do this can and Wendy find out the information? About the | :14:25. | :14:32. | |
patient? The image comes up immediately and they reported by | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
radiologists. You get the report in a few days. They are either normal | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
or intermediate or sometimes we find what we are looking for a non- duels | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
in lung tissue. Those patients have a positive scan and they have | :14:47. | :14:47. | |
further in this division. How important is it to spot them | :14:48. | :15:01. | |
immediately? Very important. We scan 1400 patients and found a cancer for | :15:02. | :15:07. | |
every 32 scans. Very importantly, 80% of those patients had | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
early-stage cancer, stage one and two, and they were nearly all | :15:14. | :15:16. | |
offered treatment. Interesting to hear the statistics when we heard | :15:17. | :15:20. | |
from Michael and moment a goat and you think it is a no-brainer, | :15:21. | :15:25. | |
obviously, it is a great idea, so if you have those facilities on hand, | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
should everyone beyond a certain age say, you know, why not, you | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
mentioned the procedures to make it worthwhile, why shouldn't everyone | :15:38. | :15:42. | |
do that? Well, we can look at the results of this pilot project and | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
see where to go from here. That is what we are doing. I think the fact | :15:47. | :15:55. | |
that the secret force -- for success was the health check, it is no | :15:56. | :16:01. | |
frightening thing. We did the ground work beforehand spreading the news | :16:02. | :16:05. | |
in the community before we started the project and I think the fact | :16:06. | :16:09. | |
that it is in the locality and that it is done straightaway, patients | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
don't have to cross town, you know, six miles to the hospital, whatever | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
it is, so I think they were the factors. The fact it was available | :16:18. | :16:24. | |
there and then made it... The patient didn't want to have it done? | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
More generally if you don't have any symptoms, you mentioned the age and | :16:30. | :16:35. | |
if you have been a smoker in the past, should people present | :16:36. | :16:39. | |
themselves to have these checks? Well, this is targeted screening. It | :16:40. | :16:46. | |
is possible, these risk calculators are quite sophisticated. You can | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
calculate risk of lung cancer within five or six years. And they are the | :16:51. | :16:56. | |
people who we have to consider looking at. Interesting project. | :16:57. | :16:57. | |
Thank you for talking through it. Here's Carol with a look | :16:58. | :17:00. | |
at this morning's weather. Morning. Good morning. Lovely | :17:01. | :17:12. | |
Weather Watchers pictures already in. We have a misty photo from | :17:13. | :17:17. | |
Shropshire. There is also some fog around this morning and we have a | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
variety of temperatures at the moment too. In Edinburgh and | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Belfast, nine or ten, Exeter eight, Cardiff seven, London and Leeds six. | :17:27. | :17:32. | |
Today we have a weather front out in the north-west at the moment. As it | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
moves south, taking rain with it, the temperatures are high and it | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
will start to drop. This morning we have some rain across the Outer | :17:42. | :17:45. | |
Hebrides into the north-west of Northern Ireland preceded by patchy | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
rain and murky conditions especially on the hills. For northern England | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
it is a murky start with cloud around in places. Merck in Wales, | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
especially the west, dampness around, dampness in south-west | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
England and southern counties into the Midlands and East Anglia there | :18:04. | :18:07. | |
is patchy mist and fog around. That will lift gradually through the | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
course of the morning. The weather front across Scotland and Northern | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
Ireland will move south into northern England and north Wales. | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
Behind it will be blustery with sunshine and showers, some wintry, | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
whereas the head of it with a cloud around temperatures widely 11-13. | :18:24. | :18:29. | |
Where we hang on to sunshine, East Anglia into Kent and London, we | :18:30. | :18:33. | |
might hit 16, possibly a little more than that. As we go through the rest | :18:34. | :18:39. | |
of the afternoon and overnight, the weather front to the south-east, a | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
week feature with patchy rain but clear skies behind means it will be | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
a cold night with showers around, some of which will be wintry over | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
high ground. In Scotland we could see wet snow over low levels with | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
the risk of ice and frostbite it will be very patchy. Tomorrow we | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
start with bright skies for southern England and Wales. Showers to start | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
in Scotland but then we have rain across Northern Ireland, central | :19:06. | :19:10. | |
southern Scotland, northern England and Wales and ahead of that for the | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Midlands and southern Midlands the cloud will build but still | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
temperatures hang on at 11-13 whereas under front we are looking | :19:18. | :19:22. | |
at cooler conditions around eight, so it will feel fresher. Then for | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
the weekend we have an array of whether funds zooming in from the | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Atlantic one after the other and you can see from the squeeze on the | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
isobars it is going to be windy at times. So to put more detail on that | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
you can expect this weekend unsettled weather that will be windy | :19:40. | :19:46. | |
at times, also wet, especially in the wet, and we will see some dry | :19:47. | :19:51. | |
spells. It isn't going to be raining all the time. Thanks very much. And | :19:52. | :19:58. | |
one piece of breaking news that in the last few minutes of the | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for a breach of election | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
expenses. You are aware that the election commission has been looking | :20:09. | :20:12. | |
into alleged misreporting of expenses during the general election | :20:13. | :20:17. | |
campaign. We also know separately that there was a police | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
investigation ongoing and that a number of MPs will be questioned, | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
conservative MPs, questioned as part of that investigation. It concluded | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
significant failures by the party to report accurately on how much it | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
spent on campaigning in three by-elections in 2014 and in 2015 on | :20:35. | :20:40. | |
the general election. And we will bring more news on that as soon as | :20:41. | :20:42. | |
we can. The time is 7:20am. Steph is at Britain's biggest | :20:43. | :20:45. | |
science and technology fair this morning to find out how the industry | :20:46. | :20:47. | |
is hoping to inspire the engineers I might let Charlie say what she has | :20:48. | :21:04. | |
with her. Well, I called it a Carbeque. That is spot on. It is a | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
Carbeque. We are outside but it is worth it because someone has | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
breakfast on the go and this is Fraser's invention. Lots of young | :21:15. | :21:21. | |
inventions. Tell us what this is about, this is your idea? We made | :21:22. | :21:28. | |
something outside the box and this is kind of what we came up with. The | :21:29. | :21:36. | |
car was ruined when we got it, so we chopped it in half and put a | :21:37. | :21:41. | |
barbecue where the engine should be. So it is just helped to inspire them | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
and stop them from thinking they are failure. You show them the kind of | :21:47. | :21:51. | |
engineering that has gone into it with all of the welding skills as | :21:52. | :21:55. | |
part of this? Yes. And you have bacon on the go. Well done, thank | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
you. I have some of the inventors I want to introduce you to. You have | :22:01. | :22:10. | |
solved a problem a lot of us have? Yes, at school we took a survey to | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
find the problem with most people and how they West Arnhem, so | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
everyone said that the bus queues and congestion is what most people | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
waste time doing, so we thought we could do much more on the time | :22:23. | :22:26. | |
marking, school clubs, lots of things. To solve the problem we used | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
a BBC Micro bit, the RFID reader and tag, radio frequency identification, | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
so if every student and teacher had the RFID tag with information on it, | :22:41. | :22:45. | |
then the reader will read it and it can tell them whether they can go in | :22:46. | :22:53. | |
or not. Science at its best. I love that. I am going to take you back | :22:54. | :22:57. | |
indoors. We will get some Sam Wood is to take back with us and this | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
event, this science fair, is going on for the next few days with | :23:03. | :23:08. | |
thousands of young people expected, 20,000, all about inspiring them in | :23:09. | :23:12. | |
science and engineering. We need more people in the area. More from | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
me a little bit later on. Thank you very much. Enjoy the bacon butties. | :23:19. | :23:20. | |
12-year-old Junior loves to dance but it made him | :23:21. | :23:23. | |
He's since gone on to become the UK's Freestyle Street Dance | :23:24. | :23:27. | |
Champion and has been on stage with Justin Beiber! | :23:28. | :23:29. | |
Now he says he wants to use his experience to help others | :23:30. | :23:33. | |
and has raised ?300,000 for anti-bullying charities. | :23:34. | :23:34. | |
I've been to meet him as part of the BBC's annual School Report | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
We have been invited here to talk to Junior. | :23:39. | :23:59. | |
He has got a really important message about bullying. | :24:00. | :24:01. | |
In the past he had lots of problems with people having a go at him | :24:02. | :24:05. | |
Are you going to show me a little dancing? | :24:06. | :24:19. | |
Junior's dancing has always been an escape. | :24:20. | :24:27. | |
He's 12 now, in a new school, but from the age of seven | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
he was bullied relentlessly, kicked, punched and ridiculed | :24:32. | :24:33. | |
They were really difficult, lonely times. | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
It all started in year three when a group of boys used to call me | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
names like gay, they called me gay because they didn't have think | :24:43. | :24:45. | |
boys could dance, it was girls and women. | :24:46. | :24:48. | |
I have seen you dancing and you are brilliant at it. | :24:49. | :24:56. | |
Was there a time when if I was talking to you, | :24:57. | :24:59. | |
you would have been a different person? | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
If you were to talk to me at primary school now I was not very confident, | :25:02. | :25:05. | |
I was a bit nervous, really, really nervous, | :25:06. | :25:07. | |
One thing you've got now which is so great is friends. | :25:08. | :25:16. | |
They always believe in me, they always tell me to go succeed, | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
go and succeed in your dream and not to be sad or put down by people, | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
you should always succeed and achieve. | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
Junior, just talk me through who we have got here, | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
This is Ewan, this is George, this is another Ewan | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
Because we are in the same football team. | :25:42. | :25:46. | |
Clearly, having friends around helps a lot. | :25:47. | :25:57. | |
Yeah, because when you have not got anyone and you get bullied, | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
it's one of them things, you get bullied, you go | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
to the corner, like, you're on your own. | :26:04. | :26:05. | |
Whereas if you have got someone, if someone says something | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
to you which kind of hurts you, you go over and they will be like, | :26:09. | :26:12. | |
are you all right, what happened, what do they say? | :26:13. | :26:19. | |
And they would be like, it's all right, it's all right. | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
I think everyone needs a mate like you. | :26:23. | :26:24. | |
Junior's friends now support him in his dream to become | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
a professional dancer and he's already been on stage | :26:29. | :26:32. | |
with Justin Bieber, he's raised ?300,000 | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
And today he even finds time to help and middle-aged man | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
Put your hands up, you start with your hand, it goes like that. | :26:38. | :27:04. | |
And then it goes into that shoulder and that one comes out | :27:05. | :27:12. | |
I look like I have dislocated my shoulder in part of that. Is your | :27:13. | :27:27. | |
shoulder OK? It is OK and I am best not to dwell on that, and more about | :27:28. | :27:33. | |
the message which is all these don't win, do what you do, love what you | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
do and everything will be all right in the end, but it is not always | :27:39. | :27:43. | |
easy. His friends are great, really lovely. He told his story as part of | :27:44. | :27:51. | |
the BBC School Report, and you can see that [email protected]/ | :27:52. | :31:14. | |
I'm back with the latest from the BBC London newsroom | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
Now, though, it's back to Charlie and Sally. | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :31:22. | :31:31. | |
The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching | :31:35. | :31:43. | |
The decision by by the Electoral commission | :31:44. | :31:57. | |
follows an investigation into alleged mis-reporting | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
of expenses during the 2015 general election campaign. | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
Our political correspondent is Mark Lobel. | :32:02. | :32:05. | |
Local activists have been bussed in to fight marginal seats but when | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
they get there, that spending, not being accounted for in the local | :32:12. | :32:15. | |
expenses, which have their own limits. Essentially breaking the | :32:16. | :32:20. | |
rules there. The Electoral Commission's verdict is the maximum | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
fine on the Conservative Party of ?70,000, they have gone through it, | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
three details as to what they have found guilty of. The first is that | :32:30. | :32:34. | |
the conservative was missing payments worth at least ?104,000 in | :32:35. | :32:40. | |
the UK 2015 general election spending. Then this on the thing I | :32:41. | :32:44. | |
was mentioning to you, the idea that the party with spending money, | :32:45. | :32:48. | |
national money, on local campaigns are not declaring it. Separate | :32:49. | :32:56. | |
payments worth up to ?118,000. A third, payments to the value of | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
?52,000 for receipts and invoices which were not included in the | :33:03. | :33:07. | |
records. All of this undermining, they say, voters confidence in the | :33:08. | :33:14. | |
democratic process. If political parties are seen to act in this way. | :33:15. | :33:20. | |
Any response from the Conservative Party? We're just waiting to hear | :33:21. | :33:24. | |
from Conservative Party. What will be interesting is not just their | :33:25. | :33:27. | |
response to this but also how separate police investigations | :33:28. | :33:33. | |
continue which also look into these allegations first bought up by | :33:34. | :33:37. | |
Channel 4 News and something that's been going through the press over | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
the last year. Into great detail about how new people were bussed | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
into these marginal constituencies at what those records, those | :33:48. | :33:53. | |
expenses records actually show. A little more detail about the | :33:54. | :34:00. | |
findings. They have established the party 's general election returned | :34:01. | :34:06. | |
no longer complete all correct. The commission has reason to suspect | :34:07. | :34:09. | |
that an offence may have been committed but it is a matter for the | :34:10. | :34:15. | |
police as to what steps they will take. | :34:16. | :34:16. | |
MPs are to be banned from employing husbands, | :34:17. | :34:18. | |
wives, partners or any member of their family under new rules. | :34:19. | :34:21. | |
The parliamentary expenses watchdog - | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
IPSA - says it will encourage fair and open recruitment. | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
After the expenses scandal, MPs were limited to employing only | :34:28. | :34:29. | |
relative and around a quarter of MPs still do so. | :34:30. | :34:33. | |
The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, has claimed victory | :34:34. | :34:36. | |
in his country's general election, saying the Netherlands rejected | :34:37. | :34:38. | |
what he described as "the wrong sort of populism". | :34:39. | :34:41. | |
Votes are still being counted, but Mr Rutte's centre-right | :34:42. | :34:43. | |
party is on course to win the most seats. | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
The indications are that the far-right candidate, | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
Geert Wilders, performed worse than expected - | :34:52. | :34:53. | |
although his Freedom party is projected to gain seats. | :34:54. | :34:56. | |
The Queen will sign government legislation into law today, | :34:57. | :35:01. | |
which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks on Britain | :35:02. | :35:04. | |
The Bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday. | :35:05. | :35:08. | |
It's thought the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50, | :35:09. | :35:10. | |
the legal mechanism to begin the withdrawal, before the end | :35:11. | :35:14. | |
President Donald Trump's new travel ban has been blocked by a judge | :35:15. | :35:19. | |
just hours before it was due to begin. | :35:20. | :35:21. | |
The government wanted to stop people from six | :35:22. | :35:24. | |
predominantly Muslim countries from travelling | :35:25. | :35:25. | |
Mr Trump has reacted angrily, accusing the judge | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
Work is set to begin on the refurbishment | :35:30. | :35:35. | |
of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase in the funding | :35:36. | :35:38. | |
the Queen receives from the Treasury. | :35:39. | :35:40. | |
The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million. | :35:46. | :35:48. | |
Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of "catastrophic | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
building failure" being inflicted on a "cherished national monument". | :35:52. | :35:54. | |
A team of US navy dolphins have come out of retirement | :35:55. | :35:59. | |
to help scientists investigate why whales | :36:00. | :36:01. | |
The dolphins are helping them to understand how marine | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
animals behave around sonar and shipping sounds. | :36:05. | :36:11. | |
Researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz think | :36:12. | :36:14. | |
panicked whales dive away from the noise and end up exhausted, | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
causing them to drift off course and into trouble. | :36:18. | :36:30. | |
it's just the thought of retired Dolphins. What are they doing? Are | :36:31. | :36:37. | |
like a C said they had been called in. The phone rang in the retirement | :36:38. | :36:43. | |
village. C, it is for you. Come in, come in. What have you got? | :36:44. | :36:48. | |
A sad looking Pep Guardiola. In adapting something bad happens to | :36:49. | :36:54. | |
you the night before and you wake up and go, oh, there is something I | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
should be feeling bad about, it's in the back of your head and all of a | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
sudden, that's what it is. My team got knocked out last night. A lot of | :37:05. | :37:05. | |
fans will be feeling that way. Manchester City have been knocked | :37:06. | :37:08. | |
out of the Champions League by Monaco on away goals - | :37:09. | :37:11. | |
they've failed to reach City held a 2-goal advantage | :37:12. | :37:13. | |
going into the match but Monaco through, but Manchester City | :37:14. | :37:18. | |
pressure brought a Leroy Sane goal with Monaco through | :37:19. | :37:24. | |
on the away goals rule. We played 45 minutes and we created | :37:25. | :37:40. | |
a lot of chances there but we missed 45 minutes and we thought we spoke | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
lots of times but these with or without the ball | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
in the first half, we were a little bit slow in everything | :37:49. | :37:57. | |
which is why we could not do it, So Leicester are the only British | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
team left in the Champions League, and Manchester United will be hoping | :38:01. | :38:05. | |
to be the only British side in the quarter finals | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
of the Europa League, but they have to get past Rostov | :38:09. | :38:10. | |
at Old Trafford tonight. The game's 1-all after | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
the first leg and manager Jose Mourinho has spent the build-up | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
defending world record signing He thinks his critics | :38:17. | :38:18. | |
are a bit jealous. It's not Paul's fault that he gets | :38:19. | :38:29. | |
ten times the money, that some players, that | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
some very good players, It's not his fault that some | :38:35. | :38:36. | |
of the pundits are in real trouble with their lives and they need every | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
point to survive and Paul Manchester United striker | :38:42. | :38:44. | |
Marcus Rashford will be named Injuries to Harry Kane | :38:45. | :38:50. | |
and Daniel Sturridge mean the United frontman - who scored on his senior | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
England debut against Australia last year - will be in Gareth Southgate's | :38:55. | :38:57. | |
squad to face Germany next week- It was one of the biggest shocks | :38:58. | :39:01. | |
in the history of the Cheltenham Festival after the odds-on favourite | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
Douvan missed out on the places One punter put half | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
a million pounds on Douvan - and saw his money slipping away | :39:10. | :39:14. | |
as the horse struggled. The race came down to a tight finish | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
won by Special Tiara. Former snooker world champion | :39:18. | :39:24. | |
Stuart Bingham says he'll accept after admitting he broke | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
the sport's betting rules. Bingham admitted placing bets | :39:28. | :39:30. | |
on other players' matches but said he thought the rules only applied | :39:31. | :39:33. | |
to matches he was involved in. With England on the brink of a world | :39:34. | :39:36. | |
record 19th straight victory this weekend, the RFU has confirmed it | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
wants to arrange a match against the World's Number One side | :39:41. | :39:46. | |
New Zealand later this year abd as things stand, | :39:47. | :39:51. | |
England are not due to play the All Blacks until the autumn | :39:52. | :39:53. | |
Internationals next year. However, unless Premiership clubs | :39:54. | :39:56. | |
receive compensation they may not Wales have named an unchanged side | :39:57. | :39:58. | |
again, that's three matches in a row that they've gone with the same | :39:59. | :40:05. | |
fifteen in the Six nations. Hooker Ken Owens will win his 50th | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
cap against France in paris Could the Commonwealth Games | :40:09. | :40:15. | |
be coming back the UK? Durban were stripped of the 2022 | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
Games earlier in the week. Liverpool and Manchester had already | :40:19. | :40:21. | |
put themselves forward as a replacement, and now London | :40:22. | :40:23. | |
and Birmingham have also Officials have said they'd | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
consider a joint bid. Glasgow hosted | :40:27. | :40:29. | |
the Games 3 years ago, Muirfield golf club may have | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
scrapped its all-male policy and been welcomed back | :40:35. | :40:37. | |
onto to books of the Open - but Rory McIlroy says he is not | :40:38. | :40:40. | |
ready to toast a new era. The world number three has been very | :40:41. | :40:44. | |
critical that women were denied I still think the fact that it got | :40:45. | :40:47. | |
to the stage is horrendous. And yeah, we will go back and play | :40:48. | :40:59. | |
the open because they have let the members in but every | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
time I go to Muirfield, Always a brilliant interview. He | :41:04. | :41:17. | |
just says what he thinks. Christian Horner from rebel racing talking | :41:18. | :41:21. | |
Formula 1 later this morning. They have made the cars faster, will it | :41:22. | :41:23. | |
be more interesting? From charity fundraisers to birthday | :41:24. | :41:25. | |
parties releasing hundreds of multi-coloured balloons has | :41:26. | :41:29. | |
long been a popular way But what goes up must come down, | :41:30. | :41:31. | |
and animal welfare charities say that the events create | :41:32. | :41:35. | |
lots of litter that can pose a real Jennifer Birtwhistle | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
from York was left devastated when her three-year old horse died | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
after choking on the string This balloon he landed in the field | :41:45. | :42:02. | |
and it has with long of very sharp string which he was very curious and | :42:03. | :42:08. | |
a very brave little horse and he swallowed all this, so he was | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
choking on this and at the same time, this had got jammed around her | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
head as well and she outward, absolutely from choking, she would | :42:19. | :42:22. | |
have been panicking and in terrible fear and crashed into the gate in | :42:23. | :42:28. | |
panic. It has become a major issue in the major cause of concern and | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
after this, we are desperately worried about it. Really distressing | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
story. who organises balloon releases | :42:38. | :42:39. | |
for schools and charities. Cathy, if I could ask you, how often | :42:40. | :42:51. | |
do you hear stories like that? We get regular reports of animals being | :42:52. | :42:55. | |
frightened by balloon releases and it's not just domestic. Our hearts | :42:56. | :43:00. | |
go out to this lady who lost a horse but also wildlife because when these | :43:01. | :43:05. | |
balloons land, they are quite inquisitive, wild animals, as are | :43:06. | :43:08. | |
all animals, and they will ingest them and they will die a slow, | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
painful death. We have major concerns. And the release of | :43:14. | :43:18. | |
lanterns, but can cause real problems with livestock being | :43:19. | :43:24. | |
startled. There are two issues. The fear issues and also when they come | :43:25. | :43:27. | |
to land, is the possibility of ingesting it or getting into it. | :43:28. | :43:34. | |
Balloons have been around for a long time. Are you sensing there will be | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
more problems? They're becoming more the thing to do. We are seeing them | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
at parties and funerals. I understand it as a mark of respect | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
or celebration but because it's happening more, it's having more of | :43:49. | :43:54. | |
an impact on the animals. Paul, this is your business. A lot of people, | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
they have done this. Maybe at a back garden or an organised event. | :43:59. | :44:03. | |
Firstly, it is sad what has happened. The balloon that was shown | :44:04. | :44:07. | |
on the footage is actually a foil balloon. It's not what we would | :44:08. | :44:12. | |
recommend. As an industry, we have guidelines saying they should be a | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
certain size, they should be biodegradable. The balloon is | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
natural latex. The foil balloon we saw something that is more | :44:22. | :44:28. | |
dangerous. It's not biodegradable, it will float, go up at the same | :44:29. | :44:32. | |
time. They are 18 inches across. They go up, they burst, they are the | :44:33. | :44:37. | |
same size. If you put to metallic ribbon on them, they could conduct | :44:38. | :44:42. | |
electricity. They are a no-no. It's the rubber balloons we would release | :44:43. | :44:48. | |
at schools and fundraisers. And a massive response from everybody at | :44:49. | :44:54. | |
home. Lucy has written and said, we released both balloons at our | :44:55. | :44:57. | |
celebration of life services for our boys. It is an important part of the | :44:58. | :45:03. | |
grieving process. A hugely popular and for some important thing to do. | :45:04. | :45:15. | |
It is two different things. These balloons are not biodegradable. The | :45:16. | :45:23. | |
guidelines in the industry say that you should only use items that are | :45:24. | :45:25. | |
biodegradable. These balloons are not | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
biodegradable. One balloon could be over 15 square | :45:30. | :45:39. | |
miles. The pieces that come back down are very small. Where does this | :45:40. | :45:45. | |
leave you and your thinking about this, because you described well | :45:46. | :45:50. | |
what should happen, but clearly some balloons will and up where you don't | :45:51. | :45:56. | |
want them, in a field somewhere, that will happen? We fully | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
appreciate the grieving process celebration type situations and | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
there has been massive improvements over the type of balloons used, but | :46:05. | :46:10. | |
that doesn't take away the fact that horses, livestock and domestic | :46:11. | :46:13. | |
animals can be frightened from the balloon releases, and not everyone | :46:14. | :46:17. | |
is being responsible, as happened here. You mentioned lanterns as | :46:18. | :46:23. | |
well, you think they are as much of a problem as balloons, so the paper | :46:24. | :46:26. | |
lanterns people light up, surely that disappears? Unfortunately, | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
wildlife are in fact it by that because the frame of the balloon is | :46:32. | :46:36. | |
on paper. They have introduced ones that are cane rather than a wooden | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
frame, but we have had livestock ingesting the frames, or they are | :46:41. | :46:45. | |
caught in them, and there is also the fear factor when they are | :46:46. | :46:50. | |
released. They look beautiful, you know, no one is going to argue with | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
that, but the impact, you know, when the beauty is gone, is massive. We | :46:55. | :46:59. | |
were looking at the images, part of what works is when you have lots of | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
the balloons, it is the kind of scale of it that makes it so | :47:04. | :47:09. | |
impressive. Latex balloons at release at 500 with a ticket, with | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
nothing else, once they come back down to earth they will spread. We | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
have had releases where they have gone to France, Germany, Holland and | :47:19. | :47:22. | |
beyond, quite a way, and they will come down over 15 or so miles with | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
only one shattered balloon in the area, but they are a nice spectacle, | :47:27. | :47:32. | |
a good fundraiser, and balloons have been around for a long time. Foil | :47:33. | :47:41. | |
balloons in America cannot be sold so it can't be accidentally | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
released. It might have been that a child was given it. Thank you both | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
for your time this morning. Thank you. Let's go to Carol with this | :47:50. | :47:57. | |
morning's weather. Good morning. This morning it is a messy weather | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
picture, as you can see from the Weather Watchers pictures, this | :48:03. | :48:05. | |
taken outside broadcasting house in London. And there is mist as well, | :48:06. | :48:13. | |
this early Sunrise in Essex, and further north in Shropshire, you can | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
see blue skies. It is a little misty. What is happening is we have | :48:18. | :48:23. | |
mist and fog across southern areas. This cold weather front coming in | :48:24. | :48:26. | |
from the north-west is introducing some rain. And behind it you will | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
find a return to some sunshine and showers. Some of those will be | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
wintry. Here comes the rain across Scotland and Northern Ireland | :48:36. | :48:39. | |
eventually into northern England and north Wales. And after a bright | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
start the cloud will build and we will lose the mist and fog. The | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
south-east will hang onto the sunshine. We also have sunshine in | :48:47. | :48:51. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland. Quite breezy at times and showers will be | :48:52. | :48:56. | |
wintry in nature. Here is a weather front across England and were, | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
taking rain with it as it moves south-east. Quite murky conditions | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
around parts of the coast of Wales, dampness in the air and the same for | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
north coast of Devon, for example. There will be quite a bit of cloud | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
generally across England and Wales with temperatures 10- 12. Likely to | :49:15. | :49:19. | |
hang on to the sunshine in East Anglia, Essex, Kent and eastern | :49:20. | :49:22. | |
London generally. The weather front tonight pushes south-east, taking | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
cloud with it and behind it we have clear skies with a touch of frost. | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
Showers pack in across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wintry in Scotland | :49:33. | :49:37. | |
mostly on the hills and we might see it at low levels, but nothing too | :49:38. | :49:40. | |
substantial, so there is the risk of ice first thing. We start on a windy | :49:41. | :49:46. | |
note with, replaced by heavy rainfall or the, into central and | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
southern Scotland, northern England and then Wales. The cloud building | :49:51. | :49:56. | |
in, eradicating the bright start and temperatures tomorrow in double | :49:57. | :49:59. | |
figures across the south, but you will notice the difference as we | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
pushed further north, back into the cold air. 4-8 in the north, sunshine | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
and showers, some of which will be wintry. Then as we move on into the | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
weekend, weather front coming this way through Saturday and Sunday, and | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
look at the squeeze on the isobars, that tells you it is going to be | :50:19. | :50:25. | |
windy at times too. So, to put that into words this week and we are | :50:26. | :50:28. | |
looking at windy conditions with rain around, the wettest in the west | :50:29. | :50:32. | |
with the weather fronts coming in, but brief dry spells, so it is not | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
going to be raining all the time. Thank goodness, thank you very much. | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
Britain's biggest science and to the chief air stars to encourage young | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
people to become engineers and scientists were not for the future, | :50:47. | :50:49. | |
we head straight to the correspondent for us this morning, | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
explained for us the nature of the problem. Good morning, everyone, I | :50:54. | :51:01. | |
am here at the science fair, my name is Owen and I do BBC News School | :51:02. | :51:07. | |
Report, and I am here with Steph. Morning, everyone. This event is all | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
about encouraging young people do have a career in science and | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
engineering. This is obviously people learning about the body parts | :51:18. | :51:22. | |
and the medicine. I have never seen that in a body before. That is | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
something unusual as well. It is about encouraging and inspiring | :51:28. | :51:31. | |
young people. And I think I want is with a couple of inventors. I am | :51:32. | :51:36. | |
here with Joe and key. What have you invented? Creating a system | :51:37. | :51:40. | |
recognising the colour of glass balls. -- Keith. Why is it useful? | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
-- bottles. It eliminates the human workforce. It will help with health | :51:46. | :51:52. | |
and said he. Why did you come up with the idea? The University | :51:53. | :51:55. | |
approach us with a problem and we can't a solution for them. Thank | :51:56. | :52:02. | |
you. And we have Roxanne, she won the Young scientist of the year last | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
year, you have to hand that over to whoever has got it this year. I did | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
a project about past climate change in south Wales, 16,000- 8000 years | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
ago. And for you, what was it like to win? It was a rollercoaster, | :52:19. | :52:24. | |
really, but I loved the year since then, I've been able to talk to | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
young scientists and come here to meet all of the competitors again - | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
it has been a wonderful experience to win and to inspire other young | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
people. Excellent. Do you want to ask what she is doing? What are you | :52:39. | :52:43. | |
doing our? I am on a gap year volunteering but I am starting | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
geology in Bristol University in September. Excellent, and another | :52:48. | :52:51. | |
guest, a space scientist no less, Doctor Maggie. So, why are you here? | :52:52. | :53:00. | |
It is a fantastic place to come and we are trying to inspire the next | :53:01. | :53:04. | |
generation of scientists. I met Roxanne last year, because I am a | :53:05. | :53:09. | |
judge on the panel, and we need to get scientists in everyone, signing | :53:10. | :53:13. | |
up to do wonderful experiments and join us in the pursuit for science. | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
How can we encourage young people like myself to get into science and | :53:18. | :53:24. | |
engineering. Good question. It is a good question and we want to show | :53:25. | :53:27. | |
that there is a scientist in everyone. It covers a range of | :53:28. | :53:30. | |
things from climate change two satellites in space. There is | :53:31. | :53:33. | |
something for everyone, which is what we want to show, and the | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
relevant. When you do and if there and in school, what is the | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
relevance? That is what it is all about. We have kids doing relevant | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
science which is going to be used by scientists, so we want everyone to | :53:47. | :53:51. | |
participate. And we have more young inventors here as well. Tell us your | :53:52. | :53:55. | |
name, where you are from and your invention? My name is Emma and I | :53:56. | :54:01. | |
came up with a glove for deaf people which uses motion sensors to detect | :54:02. | :54:05. | |
sign language and then it speaks it through a speaker and it has a | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
microphone picking up a response and dictating it on the screen on the | :54:10. | :54:14. | |
inside screen for the deaf person. So, why is this useful? It helps | :54:15. | :54:20. | |
deaf people become independent in society and allows them to | :54:21. | :54:22. | |
communicate with other people without feeling stressed or anxious | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
or worried about anyone understanding them. How did you come | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
up with it? I read an article about deaf people and how they struggle | :54:31. | :54:36. | |
with anxiety and depression because of a lack of communication, and how | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
a lot can only communicate with family and friends. Fantastic, and | :54:41. | :54:45. | |
would you like to be a scientist? Yeah, definitely. That is what we | :54:46. | :54:51. | |
want to do, encourage young people? That is a fantastic idea, which is | :54:52. | :54:56. | |
what we need, ideas today four tomorrow, so we want to encourage | :54:57. | :55:00. | |
everybody and that is a prime example. One more to show you before | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
we go, we will head over here, we looked at this earlier, this is a | :55:05. | :55:10. | |
device which is for young disabled people, so that is another invention | :55:11. | :55:15. | |
we will find out more about later on, but would you like to hand it | :55:16. | :55:19. | |
back to the studio? Thank you for joining us. Back to you in the | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
studio. Nicely done, thank you very much, we will see you later on. | :55:25. | :55:29. | |
Thank you. We are just going to bring you some breaking news in the | :55:30. | :55:33. | |
last half hour about the Tory election expenses and the | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
Conservative Party, just to remind you, was fined ?70,000 for a breach | :55:39. | :55:42. | |
in election expenses rules from the Electoral Commission following an | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
investigation into alleged misreporting of expenses during the | :55:47. | :55:50. | |
general election campaign. Just to establish, looking at the detail of | :55:51. | :55:54. | |
the report, the investigation as to the party's general election return | :55:55. | :56:00. | |
was not complete or correct and it is significant because making a | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
false declaration under the section of the act is a criminal offence. We | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
know as well separate to this that there is a police investigation | :56:10. | :56:14. | |
ongoing and a number of Conservative MPs have been investigated. We have | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
a statement from the Conservative Party that says that the | :56:19. | :56:21. | |
Conservative Party has complied with the Electoral Commission's | :56:22. | :56:23. | |
investigation which began more than one year ago and they will pay the | :56:24. | :56:27. | |
fines imposed. Much more on that coming up on BBC Breakfast in | :56:28. | :59:53. | |
Hello this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :59:54. | :59:55. | |
The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching | :59:56. | :59:58. | |
The investigation by the Electoral Commission found | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
that there were significant failures to report accurately | :00:04. | :00:05. | |
Good morning, it's Thursday 16th March. | :00:06. | :00:22. | |
The Dutch Prime Minister sees off the challenge of the far right - | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
he says the voters have rejected the wrong sort of populism. | :00:29. | :00:33. | |
Good morning, I am at the science fair where they are trying to | :00:34. | :00:41. | |
inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. More from | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
In Sport, Manchester City throw away their Champions League chances. | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Despite holding a two-goal cushion from the first leg, | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
they lost 3-1 in Monaco and they're out of the competition. | :00:52. | :00:59. | |
And it is takeover day at the BBC. Thousands of school reporters will | :01:00. | :01:06. | |
be getting ready to share their stories with millions of people. One | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
of the big topics being talked about is young mental health. We have some | :01:12. | :01:20. | |
incredible supporters and guests. As the cold front goes through with | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
some rain it will turn a bit fresher behind. I had there will be brighter | :01:24. | :01:36. | |
skies in the South East. More details in 15 minutes. | :01:37. | :01:41. | |
The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching | :01:42. | :01:43. | |
The decision by the Electoral Commission follows an investigation | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
into alleged mis-reporting of expenses during the 2015 | :01:47. | :01:49. | |
And also during three by-elections in 2014. | :01:50. | :02:00. | |
We can speak now to our political correspondent Mark Lobel. | :02:01. | :02:04. | |
Tell us about the firing of its significance. It is embarrassing for | :02:05. | :02:11. | |
the Conservative Party and it is the record fine that the Electoral | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
Commission can dish out for this kind of thing. They said there were | :02:15. | :02:19. | |
numerous failures for their reporting of expenses in the 2015 | :02:20. | :02:23. | |
general election and three by-elections in 2014. They point out | :02:24. | :02:28. | |
missing payments of over ?100,000. They point out ?100,000 of payments | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
that were not reported or were not reported correctly. It goes back to | :02:36. | :02:43. | |
allegations of bussing in activists to constituencies like South Thanet | :02:44. | :02:52. | |
when they were fighting Nigel there -- Nigel Farage. They were buzzing | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
in people and not counting that as local spending. Invoices and | :02:57. | :03:05. | |
receipts for ?52,000 worth of spending. The Conservative Party | :03:06. | :03:09. | |
treasurer referred to the Metropolitan police over these | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
allegations. It is really bad news for the Conservative Party. Make | :03:13. | :03:20. | |
that link for us. This is the Electoral Commission report, but the | :03:21. | :03:24. | |
significant part of this is basically in the report knowing or | :03:25. | :03:28. | |
recklessly making a full step declaration under this section of | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
the act is a criminal offence, but it falls outside the remit of the | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
commission's civil sanctioning powers. It is in the lap of the | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
police and we know they are already conducting investigations into a | :03:42. | :03:46. | |
number of MPs. This verdict from the Electoral Commission is very much | :03:47. | :03:51. | |
concerned about undermining voters' confidence in the democratic | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
process, to see that things are done fairly. The Conservative Party have | :03:56. | :04:00. | |
responded to this verdict from the Electoral Commission, which is | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
separate from the police investigation, and they say they | :04:04. | :04:07. | |
regret this and they will continue to keep their internal processes | :04:08. | :04:12. | |
under review to ensure that being fined for a reported error never | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
happens to the Conservative Party. They are admitting a mistake. They | :04:16. | :04:21. | |
point to the fact the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats were found | :04:22. | :04:26. | |
in the past for this kind of activity, but they say they have | :04:27. | :04:29. | |
changed their practices for reporting expenses and hope that | :04:30. | :04:34. | |
will reflect in the correct reporting of expenses in the future. | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
We will have more on that story. Breaking news in the last hour. | :04:40. | :04:42. | |
The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, has claimed victory | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
in his country's general election, saying the Netherlands rejected | :04:46. | :04:47. | |
what he described as "the wrong sort of populism".The indications | :04:48. | :04:53. | |
The indications are that the far-right candidate, | :04:54. | :04:55. | |
Geert Wilders, performed worse than expected although his Freedom | :04:56. | :04:57. | |
Let's talk to our Europe Correspondent Damian Grammaticas | :04:58. | :05:01. | |
The expected shock did not happen. It did not and that is why what we | :05:02. | :05:15. | |
have already seen from around Europe, other capitals, other | :05:16. | :05:22. | |
leaders, other centrist politicians from Germany, Paris, Brussels, and | :05:23. | :05:27. | |
congratulations coming here from the Dutch Prime Minister, a liberal, who | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
has not been unseated. Mark Rutte had framed this election to the | :05:34. | :05:38. | |
people in which the wrong kind of populism could try following Brexit | :05:39. | :05:44. | |
and the US election result. He told Dutch voters the eyes of the world | :05:45. | :05:50. | |
worked on them. There was a big turnout, almost 80% of people voted. | :05:51. | :05:57. | |
80% of them did not vote for the extreme right. Geert Wilders secured | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
just 13%, way below expectations at the beginning of the campaign where | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
it was thought it could top the polls. The Dutch Prime Minister has | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
held on and that is why there is this relief around Europe. | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
MPs are to be banned from employing husbands, wives, | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
partners or any member of their family under new rules. | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
The Parliamentary expenses watchdog IPSA says it will encourage fair | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
After the expenses scandal MPs were limited to employing only one | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
relative and around a quarter of MPs still do so. | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
The Queen will sign government legislation into law today | :06:33. | :06:36. | |
which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks on Britain | :06:37. | :06:39. | |
The Bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday. | :06:40. | :06:43. | |
It's thought the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50, | :06:44. | :06:45. | |
the legal mechanism to begin the withdrawal, before | :06:46. | :06:47. | |
President Donald Trump's new travel ban has been blocked | :06:48. | :06:53. | |
by a judge, just hours before it was due to begin. | :06:54. | :06:55. | |
The government wanted to stop people from six predominantly Muslim | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
countries from travelling to the United States. | :06:59. | :07:01. | |
Mr Trump has reacted angrily, accusing the judge | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
This is, in the opinion of many, an unprecedented, judicial overreach. | :07:04. | :07:21. | |
This ruling makes us look weak, which, by the way, we no longer are, | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
Police, in the southern Indian state of Goa have charged a man | :07:26. | :07:29. | |
28-year-old Danielle McLaughlin's body was discovered on Tuesday. | :07:30. | :07:33. | |
Earlier we spoke to our India Correspondent, | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
Behind me is the field where Danielle's body was found on Tuesday | :07:36. | :07:44. | |
morning. Yesterday evening there was a vigil for her here. A lot of local | :07:45. | :07:52. | |
people came here and laid flowers, photographs and candles. This is an | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
isolated spot, but just a couple of hundred meters to my left is the | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
main, busy highway in South Goa. There are lots of big beaches, and | :08:02. | :08:06. | |
restaurants. The police said when her body was discovered she had | :08:07. | :08:10. | |
injuries on her face and head. I have been speaking with an officer | :08:11. | :08:15. | |
in the investigation and he has to be that the police believe they have | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
found the main culprits and they have compelling evidence with CCTV | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
camera footage that shows the victim walking with the accused. They have | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
also seized a two wheeled vehicle which has blood stains on it and | :08:30. | :08:33. | |
clothes with blood smears in it. They are asking this man if he was | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
working out a loan or if there were others who were brought in. | :08:39. | :08:40. | |
Work is set to begin on the refurbishment | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase | :08:44. | :08:45. | |
in the funding the queen receives from the Treasury. | :08:46. | :08:47. | |
The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million. | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of "catastrophic | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
building failure" being inflicted on a "cherished national monument". | :08:56. | :08:59. | |
A team of navy dolphins have been brought out of retirement | :09:00. | :09:02. | |
in the the United States to help scientists work out why whales | :09:03. | :09:06. | |
The sounds of shipping and sonar have long been blamed, | :09:07. | :09:16. | |
but the research suggests it could be more complicated | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
It is thought they'd dive away from the noise and then they end up | :09:22. | :09:31. | |
exhausted and drift away and end up in trouble. | :09:32. | :09:40. | |
More difficult news for the Conservative Party this morning. The | :09:41. | :09:47. | |
Electoral Commission has fined the party ?70,000 after a day that the | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
party was criticised for its U-turn on a plan to introduce national in | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Stewart for self-employed people. Criticism came from not only | :09:56. | :10:04. | |
the opposition but also from within his own party, | :10:05. | :10:06. | |
including from Dominic I want you to give me your thoughts | :10:07. | :10:18. | |
on the ?70,000 fine for the Conservative Party. It is serious | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
and we have been cooperating with the relevant authorities from the | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
outset and we will comply with any fines. There are lessons for the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
future. I do not know all the details, but it is something we take | :10:32. | :10:39. | |
very seriously. It is more than embarrassing that we are in a | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
position now where the Conservative Party, according to this report, | :10:44. | :10:51. | |
broke numerous times, there were numerous failures by a large, well | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
resourced and experienced party. The rules are established for all | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
political parties. Where the rules are not followed it undermines | :11:01. | :11:05. | |
voters' confidence in our democratic processes. That is why this | :11:06. | :11:09. | |
particular part of the investigation is crucial. It comes down to the | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
electoral process and our trust in our politicians and the political | :11:14. | :11:21. | |
system. Yes, absolutely, which is why we have cooperated with the | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
authorities from the outset and complied with any measures that are | :11:25. | :11:28. | |
ordered and learned lessons for the future. I was asked to come and talk | :11:29. | :11:33. | |
about Nixon. I did not know any details about this because it did | :11:34. | :11:36. | |
not reflect any campaigns I was involved in. We will talk about the | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
National insurance rise in the moment. You are a Conservative MP | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
and we had a statement from the Conservative Party and this will go | :11:49. | :11:51. | |
to the heart of what you do the trust people have you. This is the | :11:52. | :11:59. | |
response. They have said they accept in March 2016 the party had made an | :12:00. | :12:04. | |
administrative error. The political parties of all colours have made | :12:05. | :12:07. | |
reporting mistakes from time to time. The Conservative Party issued | :12:08. | :12:15. | |
a statement saying lots of other people have done it as well, is that | :12:16. | :12:21. | |
not embarrassing at the very least? That is your paraphrasing of the | :12:22. | :12:25. | |
statement. Apologies, I have just read from the statement, I am | :12:26. | :12:30. | |
reading literally verbatim from the statement. My apologies to you. I | :12:31. | :12:36. | |
have giving you a clear answer. We take this very seriously, we do not | :12:37. | :12:41. | |
know the details of it, it is not about the campaign I was involved | :12:42. | :12:45. | |
in. We were co-operating from the outset. We were obviously comply. It | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
is very serious and we need to learn the lessons. If you want to talk | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
about the detail, you need to ask the chairman of the party by someone | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
else to come on because I was asked to come on about national insurance | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
and it is something I can involved in. Absolutely, thank you for | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
indulging in these questions. So, this turnaround. Philip Hammond | :13:09. | :13:14. | |
spoke to us and we could go in which he was very vociferously defending | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
his policy and the curious thing about the place was we asked time | :13:19. | :13:21. | |
and time again did he think he had broken the pledge and his opinion | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
was that he had not. Did he does get this wrong, wrong and wrong? If you | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
look at the budget package as a whole, taking the edge of business | :13:35. | :13:47. | |
rates, it is hugely welcome. There was one increase around national | :13:48. | :13:50. | |
insurance changes for the self-employed. There were concerns | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
expressed by people like me and small businesses and things like | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
that. He has looked at this again and very swiftly within a matter of | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
days he has ironed the crease. I think the public liked to have | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
senior politicians who acknowledge their concerns and moved to Ireland | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
are creases like that and get things right. I think it is a sign of | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
strength, not weakness. That is an interesting take. Philip Hammond has | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
many nicknames, it is all about the detail, it is all about the numbers | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
coming he knows what he is doing. This is the exact opposite of that. | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
Apparently, he said this in the Commons, he did not even know he had | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
broken the pledge until a reporter listening to his speech told him so. | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
It would appear he did not know about the pledge the Conservative | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Party had made and if he did, he was prepared to ignore it. People will | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
be curious about this, do you stick by the pledges of your Conservative | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
manifesto? With respect it is a ridiculous question because it is | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
precisely because we take those promises seriously, and there are a | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
lot of promises made both in the manifesto and in the course of the | :15:06. | :15:09. | |
campaign at lots of different times. I made it clear we needed to adhere | :15:10. | :15:13. | |
to the spirit and the letter of the promises we have made. That is why | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
those concerns were raised and that is why he has moved swiftly within | :15:18. | :15:22. | |
days to iron out those creases and make it clear that change will not | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
go ahead and we are sticking to the promises we made. It is precisely | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
because we take those commitments seriously that we have made the | :15:31. | :15:36. | |
change. I understand the media will go wild at this, but the public like | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
to see politicians hold their hand up and listen to their concerns and | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
when we get something that is not right, moved to address it as | :15:45. | :15:53. | |
swiftly as possible. I find this curious, you have just accuse me of | :15:54. | :15:59. | |
asking an absurd question. You say you're blaming this on the media. | :16:00. | :16:04. | |
That day we had business experts fear saying what you said, and all | :16:05. | :16:11. | |
he did was wait until how bad it had got was apparent. The only reason he | :16:12. | :16:14. | |
changed his mind was that there was a lot of fuss made about it, not by | :16:15. | :16:19. | |
the media, but by the people it hurt. And what this does is it makes | :16:20. | :16:26. | |
us all wonder what will go wrong next? We are going into the Brexit | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
negotiations, what will go up next, and you are smiling now, as if this | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
is an absurdity, that I am making the stuff up, but people do worry | :16:37. | :16:41. | |
about these things. I didn't make anything up and I have not suggested | :16:42. | :16:45. | |
it is the media's fault. I said he had a crease in his budget of its | :16:46. | :16:50. | |
the whole range of issues that go together to putting a budget to get | :16:51. | :16:53. | |
that he has moved swiftly to iron out that crease, and while the media | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
gets very exercised about changes of heart, tweaks, the public take a | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
rather different view. They like to see politicians listen to their | :17:04. | :17:07. | |
concerns, addressed them and resolve things so if they look again at them | :17:08. | :17:10. | |
and think they need to be straightened out, that is the simple | :17:11. | :17:14. | |
point I made. I am one of the people that said I think this needs to be a | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
dad again. You have made a point about credibility. Jeremy Corbyn, | :17:19. | :17:24. | |
when he did his response to Philip Hammond's budget speech Frankie was | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
ridiculous. He sounded like an old man lost in the field ranting at the | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
win. We will take the test of credibility this Prime Minister, | :17:33. | :17:36. | |
this Chancellor, against Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonald every day, | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
any week of the year. I really pricey eight you talking to us this | :17:41. | :17:43. | |
morning, thank you for your time. And you. | :17:44. | :17:47. | |
And you're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :17:53. | :17:56. | |
The weather is quite messy today because we have a bit of this and | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
that, which will see in a minute. If you are in Edinburgh or Lossiemouth, | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
it is a mild start though it will not necessarily stay like that. | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
Fast, Newcastle and London all at nine, Cardiff seven. We have a | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
weather front which will be slipping southwards, a cold front. As it | :18:16. | :18:19. | |
slips out, bringing its reign with it, behind it we will see | :18:20. | :18:23. | |
temperatures dipped just touch. Not hugely but you will notice the | :18:24. | :18:26. | |
difference and it will also be a blustery day. Whereas further south | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
still, we have some patchy mist and fog, especially across southern | :18:32. | :18:34. | |
counties of England, but that will gradually lift, and when it does it | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
will brighten up for some, particularly where we have some | :18:38. | :18:39. | |
breaks at the moment. It will be quite warm across East Anglia, Essex | :18:40. | :18:43. | |
and Kent, but you can see the East End of the cloud and some dampness | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
in the air. Meanwhile, the weather front moves across Northern Ireland | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
in the northern England and North Wales and behind it for both | :18:53. | :18:55. | |
Scotland and Northern Ireland it will be a return to sunshine, some | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
showers and on higher ground in the Highlands especially some of it will | :19:01. | :19:03. | |
fall as sleek and snow. Here is the rain across northern England and | :19:04. | :19:07. | |
North Wales. Not particularly heavy. As we come south of that in the | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
south Wales, still this dampness in the air. The same across the north | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
of Devon, quite a lot of cloud generally across south-west England | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
extending through the Midlands and southern counties. Brighter skies | :19:19. | :19:23. | |
today will be across parts of East Anglia, Essex and Kent, and it is | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
here that we could see temperatures in the sunshine get up to 16, | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
possibly a bit more. Generally in England and Wales it is tens or 11 | :19:31. | :19:35. | |
is we're looking at. Through the evening and overnight, and our | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
weather front continues to journey southwards, taking its patchy rain | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
and cloud with it. Behind it and didn't clear skies it will be cold | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
and we will have a look showers Parling in across Scotland and | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
Northern Ireland, some them could be wintry -- piling in. Here too it | :19:49. | :19:55. | |
will be cold under the clear skies, a touch of frost and maybe some ice | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
around. Tomorrow we start of the those showers, but they will soon be | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
replaced by rain coming across Northern Ireland, in the central and | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
southern Scotland, northern England and eventually Wales. It will be a | :20:08. | :20:09. | |
bright start before that rain arrives and you can see how the | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
cloud builds as we go through the day but we are still hanging onto | :20:14. | :20:21. | |
double-figure temperatures in the south. In the north that will feel | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
quite fresh. In the south, unsettled with wind and rain, but equally some | :20:27. | :20:28. | |
dry spells as well. Steph is at Britain's biggest | :20:29. | :20:34. | |
science and technology fair this morning to find out how the industry | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
is hoping to inspire I am here from BBC school report and | :20:38. | :20:54. | |
I am at the big bank science fair, and they are doing a mock operation. | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
The Big Bang Theory and says all about inspiring young people. I am | :20:59. | :21:05. | |
here with Steph. And you are doing a cracking job, Holly. Also some young | :21:06. | :21:11. | |
inventors. Good morning, team. Good morning. . .Edu invented, Gaby? We | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
are designing a photo by rector, and we are going to turn out the into | :21:19. | :21:25. | |
biofuel. Had a G, with that? Our school was renovating the pond, and | :21:26. | :21:28. | |
wanted to get rid of all the algae and we thought we don't want to put | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
it to waste. Tell me a bit about that, you have a little model. Grate | :21:33. | :21:38. | |
a mod pod, a 1-person car that runs on electricity and we are helping to | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
stop the CO2 level in the is here and help traffic. We wanted to, we | :21:44. | :21:54. | |
found out 80% of the population drive alone in Britain and the | :21:55. | :21:57. | |
average person spends more than 36 hours a year in traffic. Said he | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
wanted to solve the traffic. I always get that as well when my mind | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
goes blank, especially when I am on TV. Do you want to hand back to the | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
studio. Thank you. And back to the studio. What we liked about Holly, | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
she can talk and walk at the same time. I know, that is a skill and a | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
half expect thank you very much. 12-year-old Junior loves | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
to dance but it made him He's since gone on to become | :22:25. | :22:26. | |
the UK's Freestyle Street Dance Champion and has been | :22:27. | :22:30. | |
on stage with Justin Beiber! Now he says he wants | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
to use his experience to help others and has raised ?300,000 | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
for anti-bullying charities. I've been to meet him | :22:38. | :22:38. | |
as part of the BBC's annual We have been invited | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
here to talk to Junior. He has got a really important | :22:42. | :22:55. | |
message about bullying. In the past, he's had | :22:56. | :23:02. | |
lots of problems with people having a go at him | :23:03. | :23:04. | |
because he is brilliant at dancing. Are you going to show | :23:05. | :23:07. | |
me a little dancing? Junior's dancing has | :23:08. | :23:16. | |
always been an escape. He's 12 now, in a new school, | :23:17. | :23:23. | |
but from the age of seven he was bullied relentlessly, kicked, | :23:24. | :23:26. | |
punched and ridiculed for the street They were really | :23:27. | :23:29. | |
difficult, lonely times. It all started in year three | :23:30. | :23:36. | |
when a group of boys used to call me names like gay, they called me gay | :23:37. | :23:39. | |
because they didn't think that boys I have seen you dancing | :23:40. | :23:42. | |
and you are brilliant at it. Was there a time when if | :23:43. | :23:54. | |
I was talking to you, you would have been | :23:55. | :23:56. | |
a different person? If you were to talk to me at primary | :23:57. | :23:58. | |
school now I was not very confident, I was a bit nervous, | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
really, really nervous, One thing you've got now, | :24:03. | :24:04. | |
which is so great, is friends. They always believe in me, | :24:05. | :24:17. | |
they always tell me to go succeed, go and succeed in your dream and not | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
to be sad or put down by people, you should always | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
succeed and achieve. Junior, just talk me | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
through who we have got here, This is Ewan, this is George, | :24:30. | :24:31. | |
this is another Ewan Because we are in the | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
same football team. They're always, like, proper caring, | :24:37. | :24:48. | |
and they always look out Clearly, having friends | :24:49. | :24:50. | |
around helps a lot. Yeah, because when you have not got | :24:51. | :24:55. | |
anyone and you get bullied, it's one of them things, | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
you get bullied, you go to the corner, like, | :24:59. | :25:00. | |
you're on your own. Whereas if you have got someone, | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
if someone says something to you which kind of hurts you, | :25:05. | :25:07. | |
you go over and they will be like, are you all right, what happened, | :25:08. | :25:11. | |
what did they say? And they would be like, | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
it's all right, it's all right. I think everyone needs | :25:16. | :25:18. | |
a mate like you. Junior's friends now support him | :25:19. | :25:20. | |
in his dream to become a professional dancer and he's | :25:21. | :25:26. | |
already been on stage with Justin Bieber, | :25:27. | :25:29. | |
he's raised ?300,000 And today he even finds time | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
to help and middle-aged man Put your hands up, you start | :25:32. | :25:39. | |
with your hand, it goes like that. And then it goes into that shoulder | :25:40. | :25:59. | |
and that one comes out - It is in person, we all know it is | :26:00. | :26:28. | |
embarrassing. You did really well, better than at the Christmas | :26:29. | :26:30. | |
party... Newsround's Ricky Boleto | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
is at Broadcasting House in Central London, and will be | :26:34. | :26:34. | |
hosting School Report Morning, Ricky. You just saw junior | :26:35. | :26:44. | |
doing some dancing, teaching you how to dance, how did he do? He did | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
ready well. You just said he didn't do really well in the rehearsal, now | :26:51. | :26:56. | |
you are saying he did well. He did OK! Welcome to the launch of BBC | :26:57. | :27:01. | |
school report Newsday. We have these school reporters who will be telling | :27:02. | :27:06. | |
us their stories in a short while, give everyone a wave. And we have | :27:07. | :27:11. | |
some special guests, Rizzle Kicks, who will be telling us a lot more. | :27:12. | :27:13. | |
And now the time for the news, Now though it's back | :27:14. | :30:33. | |
to Charlie and Sally. Hello, this is Breakfast | :30:34. | :30:41. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. The Conservative Party has been | :30:42. | :30:44. | |
fined ?70,000 for breaching The decision by the Electoral | :30:45. | :30:49. | |
Commission follows an investigation into alleged mis-reporting | :30:50. | :30:56. | |
of expenses during three by-elections in 2014 and the 2015 | :30:57. | :30:58. | |
general election campaign. Conservative MP Dominic Raab | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
says they are taking We take this very seriously, I don't | :31:02. | :31:13. | |
know any of the details of it, it's not about the campaign I was | :31:14. | :31:17. | |
involved in. We proactively work or operating from the outset, we will | :31:18. | :31:22. | |
obviously comply, no caveats at all, it is very serious and we need to | :31:23. | :31:25. | |
learn the lessons, public trust is crucial. | :31:26. | :31:26. | |
We can speak now to our political correspondent Mark Lobel. | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
So, ?70,000 fine has broken jug in the morning while we have been on | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
air, the biggest ever fined by the electoral commission. Talk us | :31:38. | :31:41. | |
through how significant it is. That is right, bad news for the | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
Conservative party, the biggest find the electoral commission can dish | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
out. It was for the failure to report electoral expenses correctly, | :31:48. | :31:56. | |
three by-elections in 2014, ?20,000 worth of the fine going toward | :31:57. | :32:00. | |
incorrect reporting of election expenses for the last general | :32:01. | :32:04. | |
election that brought David Cameron to power, ?5,000 worth of the fine | :32:05. | :32:08. | |
is allocated to missing expenses, things that were not reported that | :32:09. | :32:14. | |
should have been. It is significant because not just the swirl of | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
misreporting and what that says about the democratic process and | :32:19. | :32:21. | |
voters' confidence that elections take place in a fairway in Britain, | :32:22. | :32:27. | |
but also because there were suspicions already that the | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
Conservatives were using what was called the battle bus in the 2015 | :32:31. | :32:34. | |
election to fight marginal constituencies, one of which one | :32:35. | :32:38. | |
they fought Nigel Barrage in South Thanet, and whether some of the | :32:39. | :32:43. | |
phones that were used to fund that were actually spent on local | :32:44. | :32:47. | |
campaigns that should have been recorded differently. The electoral | :32:48. | :32:56. | |
commission was asked this specifically, about whether they | :32:57. | :32:58. | |
were looking into the intention of this misreporting, whether they had, | :32:59. | :33:00. | |
the Conservatives knew what they were doing in misreporting the | :33:01. | :33:04. | |
money, shifting the funds to another account, and they said that is not | :33:05. | :33:07. | |
their remit and that is something the police will be looking into and | :33:08. | :33:12. | |
the electoral commission have referred the Conservatives' | :33:13. | :33:13. | |
treasurer to the Metropolitan Police. | :33:14. | :33:17. | |
Just worth looking at the Conservative party's spokesman's | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
response, saying they have complied fully with the electoral commission | :33:22. | :33:25. | |
investigation since it began a year ago and will pay the fines that have | :33:26. | :33:29. | |
been imposed and also a reminder that we will speak to the chief | :33:30. | :33:32. | |
executive of the electoral commission, whose report that is, in | :33:33. | :33:34. | |
just a few minutes. The Dutch Prime Minister, | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
Mark Rutte, has claimed victory in his country's general election, | :33:38. | :33:39. | |
saying the Netherlands rejected what he described | :33:40. | :33:41. | |
as "the wrong sort of populism". Votes are still being counted, | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
but Mr Rutte's centre-right party The indications are that | :33:45. | :33:46. | |
the far-right candidate Geert Wilders performed | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
worse than expected, although his Freedom party | :33:51. | :33:53. | |
is projected to gain seats. MPs are to be banned | :33:54. | :33:58. | |
from employing husbands, wives, partners or any member | :33:59. | :34:00. | |
of their family under new rules. The Parliamentary expenses watchdog | :34:01. | :34:02. | |
IPSA says it will encourage fair After the expenses scandal, MPs | :34:03. | :34:07. | |
were limited to employing only one relative and around a quarter of MPs | :34:08. | :34:12. | |
still do so. President Donald Trump's new travel | :34:13. | :34:21. | |
ban has been blocked by a judge just The Government wanted to stop people | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
from six predominantly Muslim countries from travelling | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
to the United States. Mr Trump has reacted angrily, | :34:29. | :34:30. | |
accusing the judge of A team of US navy dolphins have come | :34:31. | :34:32. | |
out of retirement to help scientists investigate why whales become | :34:33. | :34:39. | |
stranded in shallow water. The dolphins are helping them | :34:40. | :34:43. | |
to understand how marine animals behave around sonar | :34:44. | :34:45. | |
and shipping sounds. Researchers from the University | :34:46. | :34:51. | |
of California Santa Cruz think panicked whales dive away | :34:52. | :34:53. | |
from the noise and end up exhausted, causing them to drift off | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
course and into trouble. Dolphins out of retirement, there | :34:58. | :35:10. | |
you go. It is like the dolphin A team, coming to the rescue. | :35:11. | :35:12. | |
Victoria Derbyshire is on at 9.00 this morning on BBC Two. | :35:13. | :35:18. | |
On the programme, living with extreme acne, and the difficulty | :35:19. | :35:24. | |
getting treatment. A lack of trained dermatologist is having a huge | :35:25. | :35:28. | |
impact on patients. I'm supposed to be going out tonight, I really don't | :35:29. | :35:35. | |
want to. Not only is it breaking out, it's also soak each cheek, but | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
it hurts, it is painful as well. We will have a special report from | :35:41. | :35:45. | |
Radio 1's Newsbeat team. Join us after Breakfast on BBC Two, the BBC | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
News Channel, and online. Carol will have the weather | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
in about ten minutes, but also coming up on Breakfast this | :35:51. | :35:54. | |
morning: The Conservative Party have been | :35:55. | :36:01. | |
fined ?70,000 for breaching rules on election expenses. We will hear from | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
the electoral commission in a few minutes. | :36:05. | :36:06. | |
With just over a week to go until the start | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
of a new Formula 1 season, we'll ask Red Bull team boss | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
Christian Horner what new cars, a new calendar and new owners mean | :36:15. | :36:17. | |
He's spent years memorising opera and he's only 11! | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
We'll speak to the schoolboy who is set to make musical | :36:21. | :36:23. | |
history as he becomes one of the world's | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
First, Formula one in a minute... We hope, I am looking over your | :36:26. | :36:39. | |
shoulder though at a rather glum looking Pep Guardiola, and | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
unsurprisingly said. Manchester City out of the Champions League, the | :36:43. | :36:46. | |
first time Pep Guardiola has not reached the semifinals in his entire | :36:47. | :36:49. | |
career. I wonder what he is thinking. | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
They said when he took over at Manchester City that this would be | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
his biggest challenge and it is definitely proving that way. | :36:58. | :37:00. | |
Manchester City have been knocked out of the Champions League | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
by Monaco on away goals - they've failed to reach | :37:05. | :37:06. | |
City held a two-goal advantage going into the match but Monaco | :37:07. | :37:10. | |
At that point they were heading through, but Manchester City | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
pressure brought a Leroy Sane goal which put them back ahead overall. | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
The crucial Monaco goal came in final quarter-of-an-hour. | :37:20. | :37:21. | |
It finished 3-1 on the night, with Monaco through | :37:22. | :37:23. | |
We played 45 minutes and created a lot of chances but we missed 45 | :37:24. | :37:38. | |
minutes and we spoke lots of times these days, you try to be, | :37:39. | :37:44. | |
our strength is to be aggressive without the ball | :37:45. | :37:51. | |
and in the first half we were a little bit slow | :37:52. | :37:54. | |
in everything which is why we could not do it, | :37:55. | :37:56. | |
So Leicester are the only British team left in the Champions League, | :37:57. | :38:00. | |
and Manchester United will be hoping to be the only British side | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
in the quarter finals of the Europa League, | :38:04. | :38:05. | |
but they have to get past Rostov at Old Trafford tonight. | :38:06. | :38:08. | |
The game's 1-1 after the first leg, and manager Jose Mourinho has spent | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
the build-up defending world record signing Paul Pogba's performances. | :38:12. | :38:13. | |
He thinks his critics are a bit jealous. | :38:14. | :38:21. | |
It's not Paul's fault that he gets ten times the money | :38:22. | :38:29. | |
that some very good players did in the past. | :38:30. | :38:34. | |
It's not his fault that some of the pundits are in real trouble | :38:35. | :38:43. | |
with their lives and they need every point to survive and Paul | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford will be named | :38:47. | :38:51. | |
Injuries to Harry Kane and Daniel Sturridge mean | :38:52. | :38:55. | |
the United frontman, who scored on his senior England | :38:56. | :38:57. | |
debut against Australia last year, will be in Gareth Southgate's squad | :38:58. | :38:59. | |
to face Germany next week, rather than the Under-21s. | :39:00. | :39:01. | |
With England on the brink of a world record 19th straight | :39:02. | :39:04. | |
victory this weekend, the RFU has confirmed it | :39:05. | :39:06. | |
wants to arrange a match against the world's number one side | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
As things stand, England are not due to play | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
the All Blacks until the Autumn Internationals next year. | :39:13. | :39:16. | |
However, unless Premiership clubs receive compensation, they may not | :39:17. | :39:18. | |
Muirfield golf club may have scrapped its all-male policy | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
and been welcomed back onto to books of the Open, but Rory McIlroy says | :39:24. | :39:26. | |
The world number three has been very critical that women were denied | :39:27. | :39:31. | |
I still think that it got to this stage is horrendous. | :39:32. | :39:51. | |
And, yeah, we'll go back and play the Open because they have let | :39:52. | :40:00. | |
women members in, but every time I go to Muirfield | :40:01. | :40:02. | |
now I will have a bad taste in my mouth. | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
All eyes will be on the grid for start of the new Formula | :40:06. | :40:08. | |
It marks the dawn of a new era for the sport following the departure | :40:09. | :40:13. | |
of Bernie Ecclestone after almost 40 years in charge. | :40:14. | :40:15. | |
Organisers say rule changes mean the cars will be faster, | :40:16. | :40:17. | |
making racing more exciting and attractive to a new | :40:18. | :40:19. | |
Head of Red Bull Racing, Christian Horner joins us now. | :40:20. | :40:23. | |
Thank you so much for coming in, how is it looking with ten days to go to | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
the start of the new season? No Bernie Ecclestone, what will be | :40:30. | :40:34. | |
different without him at the helm of the sport? It will certainly be | :40:35. | :40:37. | |
different without Bernie being around, he has been a central part | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
of Formula one for so long now, but with just over one week to go until | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
Melbourne, personnel are starting to travel out of the race over this | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
coming weekend, it is exciting to get going again, the cars will look | :40:52. | :40:56. | |
a bit different this year and there is the excitement of the new season. | :40:57. | :40:59. | |
We can see the new cars on the screen now, to the untrained eye | :41:00. | :41:02. | |
they look like any other Formula one car, but they are faster, aren't | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
they, and that is one of the key changes? Is there a worry that | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
faster cars, they will go a bit faster but would it make the sport | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
more exciting all will it just become a faster procession, will it | :41:17. | :41:24. | |
make overtaking harder? You are giving me all of the hard questions | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
this morning! They will test the drivers a lot harder, we are already | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
seeing the drivers have had to step it up a gear and I think that is a | :41:34. | :41:36. | |
good thing to really test these guys. I think the racing will be | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
close, Ferrari have looked like they have come up with a good car, | :41:41. | :41:47. | |
Mercedes was sure the absolute favourites, and Red Bull hopefully | :41:48. | :41:52. | |
can get in the mix as well. How will it be different for you this season, | :41:53. | :41:56. | |
with new people at the helm of the sport? Will the fans see any | :41:57. | :42:04. | |
difference? I think that it will be different, Bernie has ruled Formula | :42:05. | :42:09. | |
one with an iron fist over the last ball, five decades, so it is going | :42:10. | :42:15. | |
to be different with this new generation of management. It will be | :42:16. | :42:18. | |
interesting to see what their plans are for the future, I think the fans | :42:19. | :42:25. | |
won't see an immediate difference but there are plans in the pipeline. | :42:26. | :42:32. | |
They are very tech savvy and TV savvy, so maybe changes down the | :42:33. | :42:38. | |
line? I think they will try to engage fans more in the sport, | :42:39. | :42:44. | |
social media and those platforms already to give fans more | :42:45. | :42:48. | |
behind-the-scenes into what is going on in in the sport, so I think | :42:49. | :42:53. | |
things will be different but it is more interesting what their longer | :42:54. | :43:01. | |
term and plans are. There is so much secrecy around the cars, it is like | :43:02. | :43:04. | |
a military operation. What extent did you go to to make sure, day one, | :43:05. | :43:08. | |
the first race on the grid, they don't know what you have got? We are | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
obsessed with that so it is espionage and everything else in | :43:14. | :43:16. | |
Formula One, James Bond stuff! We do our best to protect our IP and our | :43:17. | :43:23. | |
philosophy until the last possible moment, and that is common up and | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
down the pit lane, taking pictures of each other's cars, trying to get | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
a glimpse of the underbody and so on, but that is common practice. | :43:33. | :43:37. | |
Does that mean, presumably people go from teens to team, some bosses go | :43:38. | :43:41. | |
from team to team, how does that work, surely they take their | :43:42. | :43:46. | |
secrets? Do you recruit from your opponents? They don't take it on a | :43:47. | :43:50. | |
piece of paper or on a CD, which has got a few teams into trouble! | :43:51. | :43:55. | |
Inevitably whatever they go with in their head it is difficult to | :43:56. | :44:00. | |
control, which is why you often see contractual tilings between | :44:01. | :44:03. | |
personnel and teams and riders, often long gardening period before a | :44:04. | :44:08. | |
technical person can move from one team to another. The last few | :44:09. | :44:13. | |
seasons, all the talk has been about this Hamilton Ross Burden rivalry, | :44:14. | :44:16. | |
and at the end of last season Nico Rosberg won the title and then | :44:17. | :44:20. | |
surprised everybody by announcing his retirement, so there is no big | :44:21. | :44:27. | |
Roger Rafer in tennis type rivalry, who did you think will be | :44:28. | :44:30. | |
challenging for the world championship next season? I think it | :44:31. | :44:34. | |
will be fascinating, Lewis is now the de facto number one in that team | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
but we have got two really exciting talent in Max Verstappen, 19 years | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
of age, what he's doing is incredible. Daniel Ricciardo for me, | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
he was the driver of the year last year, so the talent we have in our | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
cars is exciting. Sebastian Vettel will be looking to come back strong | :44:53. | :44:57. | |
this year in the Ferrari as well, so I think it will be an exciting | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
season ahead. James Hunt was my favourite driver because he had that | :45:02. | :45:06. | |
sense that he could swan around doing what he did and then jump in | :45:07. | :45:09. | |
the car and beat people but it is not like that any more, is it? It is | :45:10. | :45:16. | |
so disciplined down. Absolutely, these drivers are athletes, they | :45:17. | :45:18. | |
train and work hard for the preparation going into the Grand | :45:19. | :45:22. | |
Prix event, it is huge, there are not many James Hunts out there! But | :45:23. | :45:27. | |
they are in great condition. Thank you very much. | :45:28. | :45:30. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :45:31. | :45:37. | |
For some it is a cloudy start to the day. But not all of us, as you can | :45:38. | :45:45. | |
see by this lovely picture taken earlier in Flintshire in Wales. Some | :45:46. | :45:51. | |
lovely blue skies in Scotland. But there is a lot of cloud around and | :45:52. | :45:55. | |
these are the current temperatures. In the north it is mild. Not as mild | :45:56. | :46:01. | |
further south but it will change. Today we have a weather front of | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
which is sinking southwards, taking rain with it and we see fresh | :46:07. | :46:12. | |
conditions coming our way. Some patchy mist and fog to lift across | :46:13. | :46:15. | |
southern counties, but when that goes there will still be a lot of | :46:16. | :46:19. | |
cloud. The exception in the far south-east where we will see some | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
sunshine. In the sunshine, the temperatures will be around 16 | :46:24. | :46:28. | |
degrees. The rain continues to move to Scotland, Northern Ireland and to | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
England and Wales. Behind the band of rain we see a return to sunshine | :46:33. | :46:38. | |
in showers. In Scotland, the showers will be more wintry, but more likely | :46:39. | :46:44. | |
over the hills. As we move across northern England into North Wales, | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
we also have quite a bit of cloud and the rain. But the rain not | :46:49. | :46:54. | |
particularly heavy. Damp conditions across South Wales, again murky | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
conditions and across south-west England, you may see some dampness | :46:59. | :47:02. | |
in areas and a lot of cloud across the Midlands towards the Isle of | :47:03. | :47:07. | |
Wight. The evening and overnight period, this weather front moves | :47:08. | :47:11. | |
southwards, taking its cloud and patchy rain with it. Under Cleary | :47:12. | :47:16. | |
Raqqa clearer skies it will be called. Showers across Scotland, | :47:17. | :47:21. | |
some of those wintry, not just on the hills. We could see wet snow and | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
sleet on the hills. By the end of the night we will see the first | :47:27. | :47:29. | |
signs of rain coming in across Northern Ireland. That rain will be | :47:30. | :47:34. | |
heavy as it moves across Northern Ireland, into central and southern | :47:35. | :47:39. | |
Scotland, northern England and into Wales. You can see the cloud | :47:40. | :47:43. | |
building ahead of it so after a nice dry and bright start, the cloud will | :47:44. | :47:51. | |
fill in. Breezy conditions in the South and windy in the North. | :47:52. | :47:53. | |
Temperatures tomorrow, lower than today in the North and we're looking | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
at six to eight and further south, ten to 13. At the weekend we have an | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
array of whether fronts crossing our shores. Isobars telling us it will | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
be windy. This weekend can be summed up by saying, at times it will be | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
dry, there will be rain, heaviest in the West and at times it will be | :48:12. | :48:13. | |
windy. Let's return now to the news | :48:14. | :48:19. | |
that the Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching | :48:20. | :48:22. | |
the rules on election expenses. It follows an investigation | :48:23. | :48:24. | |
by the Electoral Commission. It's Chief Executive Claire Bassett | :48:25. | :48:26. | |
joins us now from our Can you tell us exactly what you | :48:27. | :48:39. | |
found they had done wrong? Our investigation reporting today looked | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
at the Conservative Party's National spending return for three | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
by-elections in 2014 and the Parliamentary general election in | :48:47. | :48:53. | |
2015. As a result, we found a high number of mistakes and errors and, | :48:54. | :49:00. | |
as a result, have find them ?70,000, which is the highest ever fine we | :49:01. | :49:05. | |
have issued. The Tory party insist they declared all local spending in | :49:06. | :49:09. | |
the 2015 general election, but you found this wasn't the case and you | :49:10. | :49:14. | |
disagree? It is important to remember we were looking at the | :49:15. | :49:17. | |
national spending return, not the local spending by the candidates. | :49:18. | :49:23. | |
That is a matter for the police and CPS. We focused on the national | :49:24. | :49:28. | |
spending return by the party. We found there was a high number of | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
spending items that money had been spent on where money was missing, | :49:33. | :49:38. | |
money had been incorrectly proportioned and there were no | :49:39. | :49:42. | |
invoice in some cases for the spending. If one party has spent | :49:43. | :49:47. | |
more than they said they did on a campaign, how could that affect the | :49:48. | :49:52. | |
results? That is very hard for me to say, because this is early days and | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
we were looking at the party spending. How it might have impacted | :49:57. | :50:02. | |
local results, will be a case for the police and CPS looking at the | :50:03. | :50:10. | |
candidate spends. You have fined the maximum amount, ?70,000, under what | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
circumstances could there be an audit to maybe rerun a local | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
election? The circumstances for that to happen are extremely limited. | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
They relate to whether a sitting MP can continue to do that. That | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
wouldn't results from this report from the investigation we are | :50:29. | :50:33. | |
publishing today. You said you had significant difficulties in simply | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
getting hold of some of the information, what happened? | :50:39. | :50:41. | |
Regrettably we did come an investigation has taken some time. | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
One of the reasons for that is delays getting information from the | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
party. We repeatedly asked that, issued statutory notices and then | :50:50. | :50:56. | |
had to resort to a court order. They say they complied fully with the | :50:57. | :51:01. | |
investigation since it began almost a year ago, and they don't agree | :51:02. | :51:06. | |
with you? We are pleased the party have accepted the fines and our | :51:07. | :51:12. | |
findings. It is a matter of record that we had to sort a core daughter | :51:13. | :51:17. | |
and that is the case. What happens to the fine? It goes back to the | :51:18. | :51:24. | |
Treasury. Are there more investigations you are carrying out | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
at the moment? There are ongoing investigations by the police and | :51:30. | :51:35. | |
CPS. We have concluded our investigation into the UK general | :51:36. | :51:38. | |
election national spending for the three main parties and this is the | :51:39. | :51:43. | |
third report and find we have issued. We will monitor campaign | :51:44. | :51:48. | |
spending, but we have concluded this aspect of it. Thank you very much | :51:49. | :51:53. | |
indeed. Chief executive of the electoral commission. | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
This morning, we have met some inspiring young people. | :52:00. | :52:07. | |
We have, we have seen some inspiring dancing as well! | :52:08. | :52:10. | |
Thousands of 11 to 16 year-olds will be turning their classrooms | :52:11. | :52:12. | |
into newsrooms today for the BBC's annual School Report. | :52:13. | :52:14. | |
Newsround's Ricky Boleto will be hosting School Report live | :52:15. | :52:16. | |
at Broadcasting House in Central London. | :52:17. | :52:18. | |
Very good morning. We are all talking about Charlie's dance moves | :52:19. | :52:26. | |
this morning, aren't we? What do we think? Love it. Thousands of | :52:27. | :52:32. | |
children across the UK will be filing their school reports and | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
appearing on all the different BBC outlets. We will be talking to some | :52:36. | :52:42. | |
school reporters this morning. How are you feeling this morning? | :52:43. | :52:46. | |
Feeling very good. We have a host of special guests with others. There | :52:47. | :52:53. | |
was a survey for BBC School Report, 1000 children between the ages of 11 | :52:54. | :52:58. | |
and 16, if found 70% of those children have experienced one or | :52:59. | :53:02. | |
more negative feelings over the last 12 months. That includes anxiety, | :53:03. | :53:07. | |
feeling upset and unhappy. And 50% of those children said they had not | :53:08. | :53:12. | |
asked for help. We will be speaking to those guys, including Julia here. | :53:13. | :53:15. | |
How are you enjoying your morning? Let's find out more from Jordan. He | :53:16. | :53:28. | |
is from Rizzle Kicks. We have been finding more about his social media | :53:29. | :53:29. | |
campaign. # Mama do the hump mama do | :53:30. | :53:31. | |
the hump hump, mama. # Won't you please let me | :53:32. | :53:33. | |
do the hump hump...#. He found fame with a hip-hop duo, | :53:34. | :53:36. | |
Rizzle Kicks, now Jordan is being asked tough questions | :53:37. | :53:38. | |
by school reporters about the tough Have you or someone close | :53:39. | :53:41. | |
to you experienced either mental health issues or the stigma | :53:42. | :53:47. | |
attached to that? In school during my GCSEs I got | :53:48. | :53:49. | |
diagnosed with ADHD. I was always the hyper kid, | :53:50. | :53:53. | |
I got told to calm down all the time and it is the most infuriating thing | :53:54. | :53:57. | |
for someone who cannot calm down. Jordan began his own social media | :53:58. | :54:04. | |
campaign to get young people talking Becoming like famous gives | :54:05. | :54:10. | |
you all this kind of stuff, you know, and I was able to afford | :54:11. | :54:18. | |
a flat and these kind of things that people are like working day in day | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
out to try and get but the reality is that does not compensate for any | :54:22. | :54:25. | |
kind of emotional stability, in fact, it can often contribute | :54:26. | :54:28. | |
to quite poor emotional stability. According to a School Report survey, | :54:29. | :54:31. | |
half of all pupils admit to having negative feelings but | :54:32. | :54:34. | |
do not ask for help. Being in Year nine, sort | :54:35. | :54:43. | |
of changing as a person, it is a way to control change | :54:44. | :54:45. | |
and it was something that Florence developed | :54:46. | :54:48. | |
anorexia when she was 14. The reason I did not come out | :54:49. | :54:51. | |
and say what I had been through and what happened | :54:52. | :54:54. | |
was because people did not understand where I was coming | :54:55. | :54:56. | |
from and, you know, it took a lot of guts for me to say I had | :54:57. | :54:59. | |
a problem and also I was in denial because I was embarrassed | :55:00. | :55:03. | |
and I thought that it was not normal and it was not | :55:04. | :55:06. | |
something that was OK. Jordan wants his message to reach | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
primary aged children. To just remove the idea | :55:11. | :55:15. | |
that it is kind of like some taboo, to be open about how you feel | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
and your mentality is, Giving help to those | :55:19. | :55:20. | |
who need it even earlier. Jordan is here now. Were you able to | :55:21. | :55:36. | |
talk to a teacher or someone when you were younger, you are going | :55:37. | :55:39. | |
through a mental health problem, what did you do? I got diagnosed | :55:40. | :55:45. | |
with ADHD quite late in my school career. There was an on-site | :55:46. | :55:50. | |
therapist, but it is difficult to build up the courage to speak to | :55:51. | :55:55. | |
someone like a teacher or be open to your friends. What about now? Is it | :55:56. | :56:00. | |
still hard for kids, children aren't talking about these mental health | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
problems, why? The idea behind the campaign I did last year, I Am Whole | :56:06. | :56:12. | |
there is just the fear that he will be perceived in a negative way. It | :56:13. | :56:18. | |
is difficult to understand what is going on inside someone's head and | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
the person with the issue can find it hard to describe what they are | :56:24. | :56:26. | |
feeling. You need to create a safe environment so they are not scared. | :56:27. | :56:32. | |
How has the response been so far? Has been great. Loads of celebrities | :56:33. | :56:40. | |
involved. Come with me, Junior has been teaching Charlie how to dance. | :56:41. | :56:45. | |
One of your stories has been featured today, tell us more about | :56:46. | :56:53. | |
it? I was good at dancing but the bullies thought it was just the | :56:54. | :56:57. | |
girls. So they called you names because you like to dance. When you | :56:58. | :57:01. | |
have proved them wrong. You have been jammed sync with Justin Bieber | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
on the stage and X Factor winners as well, how did that come about? I had | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
to audition out of 10,000 people to dance with Justin Bieber. I went on | :57:11. | :57:17. | |
tour with Sam Bailey last year. She asked me to go back on tour with her | :57:18. | :57:23. | |
again. Nice one! How do you feel taking part in BBC School Report? It | :57:24. | :57:30. | |
is amazing being here and I am honoured to be here. What do we | :57:31. | :57:35. | |
really think of Charlie's dance move? It was good. Very diplomatic. | :57:36. | :57:43. | |
We have one of the co-hosts on the surgery and Radio 1. We are hearing | :57:44. | :57:47. | |
more about children suffering from mental health, is it arise, or are | :57:48. | :57:53. | |
we better at talking about it? I think it is a bit of both. There is | :57:54. | :57:58. | |
a lot of pressure and stress in terms of exams on children and we | :57:59. | :58:01. | |
are not teaching them the right skills to do with that pressure and | :58:02. | :58:05. | |
stress. What kind of skills can we give them, what tips would you have? | :58:06. | :58:11. | |
Feelings are acceptable, we are human and we go through feelings. | :58:12. | :58:16. | |
But understand yourself, get to know how you are feeling and what works | :58:17. | :58:20. | |
are you as an individual, will help you feel better. In this BBC School | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
Report survey found 80% of children were also very positive. So the | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
picture overall is very positive? Yes, we just need to be better at | :58:31. | :58:34. | |
talking about it, making sure children feel accepted and they can | :58:35. | :58:40. | |
talk about how they are feeling. Thank you, come over here, we have | :58:41. | :58:49. | |
our BBC School reporters from Walworth Academy. What is it like | :58:50. | :58:53. | |
being at the BBC here today? It is exciting. Your school report was | :58:54. | :59:00. | |
about top tips how young people can cope with stresses with exams and | :59:01. | :59:04. | |
general life. It is quite stressful being a teenager, can you give those | :59:05. | :59:06. | |
tips? The first was to stay social media | :59:07. | :59:16. | |
free. That is impossible, I have my phone with me now! It is hard on the | :59:17. | :59:24. | |
21st secretary -- 21st century. What about Tip number two? That is | :59:25. | :59:30. | |
medication. Are you doing meditation? Kind of, when I am | :59:31. | :59:36. | |
stressed I go to my room and think about how I should improve things. | :59:37. | :59:46. | |
And what is the final tip? Staying active. Good advice. BBC School | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
report is happening all day today, a special programme is happening at | :59:52. | :59:54. | |
11am this morning so make sure you tune into that, it will be streamed | :59:55. | :59:58. | |
live on the BBC School report website and the Red Button but for | :59:59. | :00:01. | |
now I will leave you with these guys. Thank you so much for joining | :00:02. | :00:06. | |
us this morning talking about mental health in young people. Very good | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
work, Jordan, loving your skills. Charlie, what do you think of these | :00:10. | :00:18. | |
moves, a bit better? They are very good, Ricky, but I notice you | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
haven't been involved! We can linger on you for a moment. I was going to | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
say, not all of the reports are about mental health, one of the | :00:25. | :00:29. | |
reports is about the history of the dab. So there we go, I have done the | :00:30. | :00:35. | |
dab on Breakfast, back to you in the studio! | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
What were those tips there, be active and meditate? | :00:40. | :00:43. | |
Had you ever tried meditation? I am not that good at it. I love it, | :00:44. | :00:48. | |
I will try to teach you to steal your mind. It will never happen, | :00:49. | :00:49. | |
will it?! Britain's biggest science | :00:50. | :00:51. | |
and technology fair starts today to encourage more young people to | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
become the engineers of the future. Our newest business correspondent | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
Alanta is there for us. Good morning Alanta. Good morning, | :00:57. | :01:08. | |
I'm dab, a school news reporter for BBC. Over here we have liquid | :01:09. | :01:16. | |
nitrogen experiments and here we have robots. It is all about | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
introducing young people to science and explaining to them what it is | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
all about. I am with Steph, good morning, Steph. Sorry about the | :01:27. | :01:31. | |
announcement suddenly going off! Alanta did not even get fazed by it! | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
This is all about inspiring young people and there are lots of young | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
inventors here as well. Alanta, tell us who we have here. We have a | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
listen here. Hello, this is my team, we are from Monkseaton School. Why | :01:48. | :01:53. | |
did you come up with this project? We wanted to raise awareness of what | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
people can do to expand their life span. We found out that we will live | :01:58. | :02:03. | |
longer so I guess that is good for us! Well, there you go, that is good | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
news for the ladies but not so good for you, lads. But you have got some | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
brilliant inventions. What did you come up with? I am George, this is | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Ed, we decided to investigate whether birds have a favourite | :02:18. | :02:20. | |
colour and if so what is that colour. How did you come up with | :02:21. | :02:27. | |
this? We are budding ornithologist and interested in the power of | :02:28. | :02:30. | |
colour so it was the perfect combination. Did you find a colour | :02:31. | :02:34. | |
that they might? The birds visited the blue Peter most frequently and | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
therefore we decided blue was their favourite colour. There you go, we | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
did not know that, Alanta, before we started. Michael is here as well, | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
what is your invention? I'm developing a control system to | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
improve efficiency in industry to provide real-time information to | :02:53. | :02:55. | |
trade workers. How will this be useful? It is about reducing | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
production time and increasing profits, taking a problem from the | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
industry and finding a solution. You are in the middle of your A-levels | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
as well as doing this! It is exhausting! Good luck to you. We | :03:09. | :03:14. | |
have one more person we would like you to meet. This is Doctor Maggie, | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
a space scientist. How can you encourage young people to get into | :03:20. | :03:23. | |
science? There are lots of ways, for instance here we have but magnetic | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
levitation, people controlling cars with robots, something for everyone, | :03:28. | :03:34. | |
but also Touristic Scientific, a series of experiments that kids are | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
doing and scientists are using the results in their research, science | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
is for everybody so they should get involved! How did you get into | :03:43. | :03:47. | |
science? When I was about three years old I watched a cartoon called | :03:48. | :03:50. | |
the clangers, creatures that lived in space and I wanted to join them, | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
so now I build machines that go into space, I am getting closer! Thank | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
you, that is very interesting. You asked earlier, have you ever been to | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
space? No, it is my dream, since I was a kid, I applied when team Peter | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
apply, but he got the job. One day I hope to get out there! -- when Tim | :04:10. | :04:16. | |
Peake applied. How brilliant being part of the School Report day, shall | :04:17. | :04:20. | |
we have a big goodbye from everybody here? Thanks very much, goodbye! Do | :04:21. | :04:27. | |
you want to hand back to the studio? Back to the studio! Very well done, | :04:28. | :04:34. | |
perfect, Alanta that was perfect. Keep soldiering on through the | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
announcements, well done. She can hear you, she has had the | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
earpiece and everything, she is flying! | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
Well done, Alanta! They need one of those brilliant young people to | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
invent a device to disable the tannoy. | :04:53. | :04:52. | |
That would be hope you can join me then, | :04:53. | :06:26. | |
bye-bye. We have met some incredibly talented | :06:27. | :06:42. | |
children this morning. All through this programme, and we have got | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
another one now. And musical maestro is with us. | :06:45. | :06:46. | |
Whilst most 11-year-olds might be more interested | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
in downloading the latest hits, Matthew Smith is getting ready | :06:49. | :06:50. | |
He's preparing for a concert which will see him make musical | :06:51. | :06:58. | |
history by becoming one of the world's youngest conductors. | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
We'll speak to Matthew and his teacher Derek in a moment. | :07:01. | :07:02. | |
Good morning to both of you, we will have a quick glimpse of you giving | :07:03. | :07:12. | |
your conducting. MUSIC. | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
One, two. Matthew and Derek are here with us, | :07:18. | :08:14. | |
good morning to you both. That looks really impressive, what is it like | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
watching yourself do that? Very interesting. What made you realise | :08:18. | :08:23. | |
that you wanted to conduct? How did it start? At the start I didn't | :08:24. | :08:29. | |
really know what conducting was until Derek told me to learn this | :08:30. | :08:35. | |
piece, so I learned it in a few days and then we went to a Symphony | :08:36. | :08:41. | |
Orchestra and he told them, I have a nine-year-old boy who wants to | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
conduct you, but at that time they didn't really believe that, but now | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
it is the right time and I can conduct. When you say you've learned | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
the piece, did you learn it on an instrument? Know, learning it from | :08:52. | :08:55. | |
YouTube, so I had to watch this other boy do it. Derek, talk us | :08:56. | :09:01. | |
through, what is it Matthew has got? It is a brave thing to stand in | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
front of an orchestra and be in charge in that situation. What is it | :09:07. | :09:12. | |
Matthew has got? I have been teaching him violin for four years | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
and in the first couple of lessons I thought, you sort of instantly spot | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
talent. And within five, I didn't mess around, but all four fingers | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
down on the violin, which you don't normally do, I gave him the bow, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
gave him the violin, it wasn't a great violin but he seems to managed | :09:32. | :09:35. | |
to get a really nice sound out of it. So first of all a gifted | :09:36. | :09:39. | |
musician and then the step to conducting? Well, I just had this | :09:40. | :09:43. | |
hunch that he could do anything, he has music coming out of every pore. | :09:44. | :09:49. | |
This little film you can see online, if you put seven-year-old conductor | :09:50. | :09:54. | |
into Google, I showed that Matthew and I said, OK, over Christmas, | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
watch that and I will give you a conducting lesson after Christmas. | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
It wasn't really a lesson, he just conducted all the way through. When | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
you watch this, it is not simply just about waving a bat on, is it? | :10:08. | :10:13. | |
It is very technical at times. How difficult was it to learn? It is | :10:14. | :10:19. | |
very difficult because you have to think about what to do next at the | :10:20. | :10:23. | |
same time as doing it now. Matthew, are you allowed to have your own | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
style or did you have to do things in a particular way? I think of | :10:27. | :10:31. | |
conductors, some of them are quite elaborate and flamboyant, but do you | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
have to stick to certain rules around conducting? I think you do | :10:36. | :10:39. | |
have to keep the timing, but you can change the style with it. Have you | :10:40. | :10:43. | |
thought about your style, what style did you have? I wanted quite fast. | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
Literally, you want the piece of work, you want the musicians to play | :10:50. | :10:56. | |
quickly? Yes. How do you keep everybody in line? An orchestra is a | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
big thing, if you are conducting the brass section, how do you know what | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
the strings are doing? I've used both of my hands, my left hand is | :11:05. | :11:08. | |
focusing on the left side of me, my right side is focusing on the right | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
side of me, so the brass up there, I do this to them, and the violin, I | :11:14. | :11:20. | |
control them like this. Sally is going to have a go in a second, can | :11:21. | :11:27. | |
you pass the baton... I will use my pen. | :11:28. | :11:33. | |
You have to use your imagination, everybody at home. Matthew, I will | :11:34. | :11:40. | |
follow you. MUSIC. | :11:41. | :11:49. | |
So that is the end of a note? Sally was using the other... | :11:50. | :11:57. | |
I am left-handed. You cannot conduct with a left hand. Sally's career was | :11:58. | :12:03. | |
short lived! Violinists, some of them are left-handed, they have to | :12:04. | :12:07. | |
play right-handed. Traditionally, who is the most trouble in the | :12:08. | :12:14. | |
orchestra? The brass section. Have you had any trouble with the | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
orchestra so far? Not really, they all behave. What piece of music | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
would you be conducting? Di Fledermaus. That is a challenging | :12:26. | :12:34. | |
piece. What are the challenges? You have to keep the right speed because | :12:35. | :12:40. | |
sometimes I do forget, but I get myself back into it. Do you have any | :12:41. | :12:44. | |
help keeping the right speed, do you have a metronome or anything? No, I | :12:45. | :12:50. | |
have listened to it lots of times and if I feel I am in the wrong | :12:51. | :12:54. | |
place I just have to get back to it. Do you get nervous? Not really. | :12:55. | :13:03. | |
Well, good luck, Sally's conducting career is already over. | :13:04. | :13:07. | |
You can dance, I cannot conduct! Lovely to see you this morning, | :13:08. | :13:08. | |
thank you. Matthew will lead the | :13:09. | :13:09. | |
Nottingham Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall | :13:10. | :13:10. | |
in the city on April 2nd. We'll be here tomorrow | :13:11. | :13:13. | |
from 6am on BBC One. I'm going to go and be a rebel | :13:14. | :13:24. | |
left-handed conductor. See you tomorrow, goodbye! | :13:25. | :13:29. |