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Hello this is Breakfast, with Sally Nugent and Dan Walker.

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A warning that home care services are in crisis

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because providers can't recruit enough staff.

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New research suggests a quarter of the Uk's home care firms

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are at risk of insolvency and many have had to pull out of contracts

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A man is questioned by police over the murder of a 1-year-old boy

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and the attempt to murder his twin sister.

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Politicians in the United States, begin hearings into Russia's alleged

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involvement in last November's presidential elections.

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We've a special report this morning looking at the extent of doping

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I'm at Hartpury College in Gloucestershire to explore some

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of the ideas they've come up with to tackle the problem

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Also this morning, on the 100th birthday of Dame Vera Lynn -

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her picture is projected where else but on the White Cliffs of Dover.

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It will turn colder for today. This week, temperatures below average and

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the sum today will be wet and windy. Home care companies say they're

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in crisis because they can't recruit enough staff to meet

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the growing demand. Research commissioned

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by the BBC's Panorama suggests nearly 1 in 4 homecare companies

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are at risk of insolvency, with 69 closing in the past

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three months alone. Amanda is one of 100,000 workers in

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the UK. Today she is with the former teacher with multiple sclerosis. She

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is paid just above the national living wage and like many care

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workers struggles to make ends meet. She is also on a zero hour contract.

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Because I did not have a content, they would not allow me to buy a

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house or anything like that. It is hard. Amanda is one of 200 employed

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by this company. It is paid by local councils to provide local care but

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it currently has 30 staff vacancies and is struggling to take on new

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clients. Last year, the company stop providing care for one council and

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handed back the contract. Conry council says it is committed to

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support its vulnerable people in the community despite financial

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challenges. But it is not alone. Almost 100 councils have had

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home-care contracts handed back to them. The government declined

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interview but in a statement that it will be bringing forward proposals

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to make sure of a more sustainable care system. With more of us living

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longer and a growing shortage of care workers, the pressure on people

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like Amanda will continue to grow. Panorama is on BBC One

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tonight at half past 8, except for viewers in Wales,

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who can see the investigation on Week In, Week Out

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at the same time. Police have arrested a man

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on suspicion of murdering a 1-year-old boy at

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a flat in North London. The man will also be questioned

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on suspicion of attempting to murder a girl, thought to be

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the boy's twin sister. Our reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn

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is in North London for us now. As you can see, the police cordon is

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still in place on Wilberforce Road. Police were called on Saturday night

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to the top floor flat of a property just behind me on this street.

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Neighbours had reported hearing shouting and screaming at witnesses

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said they saw of woman running to the middle of the street and

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appealing for help. When police arrived, they found two very young

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children with serious injuries. They are believed to be twins. They were

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taken to hospital but sadly the little boy and died a short time

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later. They put out a name of a man, Bidhya Sagar Das, widely reported

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yesterday to be the children's father. The Metropolitan police

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reported last night they had arrested that man and is being held

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at an East London police station. The little girl is still in a

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critical but stable condition. A month on from the renewed

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offensive to re-take Iraq's city of Mosul from so-called

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Islamic State, millions of people

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are facing a new crisis. Thousands have fled

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the western half of the city in recent weeks but those who remain

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are experiencing shortages of food Our Middle East correspondent

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Orla Guerin reports. In the clamour for help,

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many go empty-handed. The gunfire from Iraqi soldiers

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trying to control the crowd Survivors of the caliphate,

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now at risk from hunger. In the distance, smoke

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from an IS car bomb. But those who flee the fighting

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here end up in overcrowded camps. There are no good options

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for the people of Western Mosul. Local people here tell us this

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is the first aid supplies They say they have no running water,

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no electricity, no access People in the queue are really

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afraid that the food is going to run out before they've

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been able to get some. Barely able to walk,

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but with many mouths to feed, Hamda Mohamed, whose family

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is living on bread and water. I'm crying, she says,

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because my children don't understand The battle may be in its final phase

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but there is much to rebuild, including a divided community.

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Theresa May will travel to south Wales this morning

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with the Brexit Secretary David Davis and will meet

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The Prime Minister will reiterate her commitment again

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to what she calls the precious union of the UK.

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The visit comes as a report by the think tank the Institute

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for Government warns that the enormity of delivering

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Brexit will leave little parliamentary time

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The director of the FBI, James Comey, will give evidence

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today about alleged Russian interference

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Appearing before the House Intelligence Committee,

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he's also expected to face questions about a second explosive issue -

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President Trump's claim that his predecessor,

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Barack Obama, authorised a wire-tap of Trump Tower during the campaign.

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In a rare move, MPs from four committees -

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across Transport, Health and the Environment -

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are coming together to look at the issue of air pollution.

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They'll scrutinise whether government plans aimed

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at tackling the problem go far enough, as Andy Moore explains.

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A bus that looks clean enough, but technology shows

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Much of this pollution comes from nitrogen dioxide

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Paulette quality is -- poor air quality is contributing to a lot of

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deaths. Diesel vehicles once thought to be

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part of the solution are now seen The problem is one that cuts

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across many branches of government. The House of Commons believes

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it is best to use resources A total of four sessions will be

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held jointly by these committees. The Environmental Audit Committee,

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the Environment Food and Rural affairs committee,

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health and transport. Their job will be to look at plans

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to tackle urban air pollution. Last November, the High Court said

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the government must come up with a plan to tackle air pollution

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in the cities by the 23rd of April. A full plan must be in place

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by the end of July. Last month, the European Union

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said 16 parts of the UK were breaching air

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quality directives. It is giving the government to come

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up with a scheme to defeat the problem or face

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a multi-million pound fine. They recently announced a further

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?200 million in funding They recently announced a further

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?290 million in funding The Force's Sweetheart,

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Dame Vera Lynn, To mark the occasion, a 350

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foot image of her is being projected on to the White Cliffs

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of Dover today. A pair of wartime spitfires

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will also do a display Dame Vera said she feels

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incredibly humbled by efforts Beautiful. There have been a few

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private parties but a lovely way. Did you know that the bluebirds in

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the song are not bluebirds but the RAF servicemen in their uniforms.

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That is why they pay you the big bucks. Exactly. You could learn from

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me. It is UN happy day to day and we will be talking about what makes you

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happy. Outside the normal things. The UN says smile, share, eat

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healthily, give back, spent some time with friends and family and

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sometimes alone, listen to music, be charitable and say it all the more

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instead of none the less. No hints of chocolate. We did quite a lot of

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smiling and sharing. Healthy Breakfast... I think I failed. I

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will not go into details. Some of the front pages. The first 24-hour

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drone unit is to be launched as forces may have to rely on it as

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failing officer numbers. We talked a lot about the humanitarian crisis in

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Africa. They are talking about this six month old little girl, a victim

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of the terrible drought in Somalia. The Daily Telegraph talking about

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Dame Vera Lynn. They have an image of Dame Vera Lynn on the White

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Cliffs of Dover. And BBC demands top billing in law. The director of

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radio and education says the shows must have more TV Guide in the age

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of digital era as viewing habits are changing all the time. More of a

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push to make traditional television more well-placed. Suggestions that

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retirement posts could be hit because of the change... The U-turn

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from the budget last week. French and Saunders apparently turned down

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the offer of a job worth ?2.5 million. They did not want too much

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cake. Some of the inside pages. I love this. The little girl who looks

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exactly like Ed Sheeran. The mother 's sister put the picture on social

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media to start with and then the mother, who was 21, said she is

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amazed that it has gone viral. Apparently the little girl has

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started watching him and quite likes it. It is canning. -- uncanny. The

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mouth position as well. Absolutely brilliant. The front page of The

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Guardian. The story we are also covering, about Donald Trump and his

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wiretapping claims. How much do you spend on a date? It has been a

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while! ?129 on a date. What! Where is all that money going. The

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European counterparts, in France or Germany, ?46. In Italy, 47 pounds.

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?55 in Spain. We spend more than anyone else. Cabs. Is there an out

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fit? It is meant to be catching a, potentially a new outfits. --A taxi.

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If anyone wants to take the out on a date for 120 pounds I will be happy.

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You are cheap, are you! LAUGHTER let's have a look at the weather.

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The weather this week is changing behind this weather front, here,

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because as the front pushes south, much colder air is going to seep in

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behind it. Lastly, we had temperatures above average. This

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week, we will see temperatures below average for this stage of March. You

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can see the south or the onto double-figure temperatures that is

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in contrast with the north, which is in a single figures. A wet and windy

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start. Strong winds across the western Isles at the moment.

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Possibly touching storm fronts as that transfers into Orkney. Here is

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the weather front producing all the rain slipping southwards. Then a

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fresh of showers are going to come in behind it. By evening, we will

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notice some of those will be wintry. This morning, any winteriness will

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be largely on the hills. In between the showers in Scotland, there will

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be some sunshine, but gusty with the western Isles. The Northern Ireland,

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a quiet start of the day, but we are looking at the odd shower. Then

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across England and Wales, we run into all this rain. Some of this

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will be happy. At this, there will be sent dampness around with some

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drizzle. And quite a bit of cloud. But not as cold a start for the day.

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Tens and Ian Evans. The weather will be a little like it was yesterday.

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-- 11s. Still windy. The strongest winds in the afternoon across the

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Northern Isles. Temperatures starting to slip down. Through this

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evening and into the overnight, we will lose the rain to the

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south-east. It will be cold. Still a little breezy. Look at the showers

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coming in. Even at low levels across Northern Ireland and parts of

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Scotland, there will be some of that so. Possibly northern England as

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well. With such low temperatures, there is a risk of ice to look out

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for later on tonight and tomorrow. Tomorrow we started with the

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showers. Increasing threat the day there will be more rain at lower

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levels. Further south, there will be some rain, but dry weather in

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between. In some eastern areas, particularly in the hills, there

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will mist the showers altogether. Look at the temperatures again

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slipping down. Just relieve the far south-east that is holding on to

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double figures. Then as we go through Tuesday night, another

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finger of rain comes up in the south-west. This could deposit some

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snow on the hills and mountains in Wales. Possibly in two northern

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England, too. And it will be quite windy and cold. A cold start to the

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Dale Wednesday. Again, watch out for ice on services. Here is the

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forecast for Wednesday. A real mixture. Some rain around. Writers

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goes and also a few showers. So once again, this week, there is something

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in the forecast for almost everybody.

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Will be asking you soon what makes you happy. So get your thinking cap

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on. Should we tell everybody what makes you happy? It is Donald the

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cat. It is 6:18. We've heard a lot about doping

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in professional sport, but now there's a warning

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about the use of performance Kat is at Hartpury College,

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Gloucestershire for us this morning where a lot of work is going

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into tackling the issue, Good morning. Yes. The message at

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Hartpury College is very clear. Starkey on the side of the pitches

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is a big sign saying that doping is cheating. They say they are

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committed to keeping this College in particular it clean. It is one of

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the first colleges in the country that is signing up to a clean sport

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commitment, selling that has been pushed to make sure that doping is

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stamped out in sport, whether professional or amateur. We have all

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heard of high-profile cases in the news, like Lance Armstrong. And the

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Russian athletics scene. And Usain Bolt recently being stripped of one

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of this gold medals because of one of this tin plates -- one of this

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teammates being found guilty of doping. But doping is an increasing

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problem in amateur sport, as well. Katie Gilmore has more.

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Daim, Glory, muggy. There are many reasons why professional athletes

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take performance-enhancing drugs. Sport is overwhelmed with complex.

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Lance Armstrong has ended years of denial by admitting using points

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enhancing drugs. -- performers. But what is harder to understand is why

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amateur is would be doping. This man was a cyclist who started taking a

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number of substances to improve this performance. He was banned in 2014

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after refusing a test. This situation happened when I was 39

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years old. I did not do a lot of racing. The main thing was

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curiosity. What does this do? How much of a benefit does this give

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you? I don't think for amateurs is about winning. I think you have a

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situation where people are overweight, want to get in shape.

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And then when you want to do a mouth on or a long bike ride, so be

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competitive, they can come out more healthy. And this is far from an

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isolated case. A poll carried out by the BBC of amateur sports people and

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the UK said that half believed that the use of performance enhancing

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substances was widespread. A similar number said they are easily

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available amongst those who play sport regularly. More than one third

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said they know somebody who has used these substances, at 8% say they

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knew somebody who use steroids. -- said they had used steroids. The

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user that amateur level is alarming. But that does confirm what UK

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Anti-Doping has long suspected, and also seen, through some of our

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intelligence testing. This is the frontline in the fight to keep sport

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clean, a joint operation between and UK Anti-Doping, targeting those who

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supply drugs. However, it is not against the law to use steroids for

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personal use. So those motivated by vanity, rather than victory, are

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they really doing anything wrong? We took our findings to an in doping

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behaviour at Sheffield Hallam university. This is actually the

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dark side of exercise. You are not using the services is to improve

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your health. Your performance and how you look to other people. How

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you look to yourself. Just how serious a health issue you think

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this could be? You are using substances that are meant to treat

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diseases. You are mist using them without a prescription. You are

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cheating, but also putting your life at risk. But however the authorities

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responded the issue, athletes at every level in every sport will

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always be willing to cut corners, whatever the risks.

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So some alarming findings there in that new BBC survey out today. I am

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doing here in the early morning middle and grizzle by the

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performance last manager here at Hartpury College. A giver coming out

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so early. So 50% of amateurs warts people said that they think it is

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widespread. -- sports people. What you think of those figures? At a

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surprising? I would not necessarily say surprising. I don't think the

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problem is quite as big as that. I think that drugs are obviously

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widely available on the Internet, but whether there are as many people

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involved or if it is a little bit dramatised by the media with high

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profile cases... I am not sure that it is quite as big as that. It is

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all about educating people, really. Had you go about educating the

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hundreds of students it? Would you doing to ensure that way nor if they

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get into professional sport, high-level sport, even just as

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amateurs, that they are not tempted to take drugs? We have signed up as

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a college to the UK Anti-Doping clean sport university accreditation

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scheme. Tell us that means we are delivering a series of education to

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our student athletes. Both those that are competing at an elite

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level, and also just university teens at a lower level. It is things

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like workshops, one to ones, and helping them make important

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decisions. Even simple things are going to the doctor, understanding

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the occasions if they have medications that could be on the

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prohibited list. Things like that. Thank you for bringing us up to date

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on what you are doing. And we will bring you some more on what is

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happening here at Hartpury College. That BBC survey is part of the BBC's

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State of Sport Week. You can find out more about that on the TV and

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online. But now, back to you guys. We will have the rest of the sports

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news coming up. The Six Nations obviously has just come. Some of

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those figures in that survey are staggering. She said that 50% of

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amateur sports men and women are aware of drug is going on around

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them. So much more from her this morning.

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We'd like to know what makes you happy.

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It's the international Day of Happiness today.

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We are going to share with you pictures of things that makes us

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happy and practice. Here is the most important thing. Macaroons. Look at

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that. A certain person next to me happened to bring those in this

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morning. Our overnight workers work from 9pm through to nine a.m.. The

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next one is your dog, Sadie, which you brought in last week. There you

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are. Look at the smile on your face. Ihler Cathy, she looks confused.

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What am I doing here, mum? -- look at her there. That is beautiful. A

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hug from Carol Kirkwood. That is a rarity. She came into the studio a

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few weeks ago. It was like a royal visit. Finish the day with a big

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hug. I bet that was one of your happiest broadcasting moments. We

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would like to know what makes you happy.

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You can email us at [email protected]

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or share your thoughts with other viewers on our Facebook page.

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And you can Tweet about today's stories

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Let's have a happiness then this morning. We will do our

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Now though it's back to Sally and Dan.

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Hello this is Breakfast, with Sally Nugent and Dan Walker.

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Millions of people across the UK are being affected by air pollution

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and now, in an unusual move, MPs are joining together to look

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We'll ask one MP if it can make a difference.

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Also this morning, there's a warning children are feeling stressed,

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angry and anxious because of a social media craze.

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We'll get advice for parents from the NSPCC.

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And after nine, we have the stars of the quiz show The Chase

:31:06.:31:08.

on the sofa to talk about being in the final

:31:09.:31:14.

But now a summary of this morning's main news.

:31:15.:31:19.

Home care companies say they're in crisis because they can't recruit

:31:20.:31:22.

enough staff to meet the growing demand.

:31:23.:31:25.

Research commissioned by the BBC's Panorama suggests

:31:26.:31:27.

nearly 1 in 4 homecare companies are at risk of insolvency -

:31:28.:31:32.

with 69 closing in the past three months alone.

:31:33.:31:36.

Amanda Hopewell is one of the UK's 800,000 homecare workers.

:31:37.:31:42.

Today she is with former teacher, William Williams,

:31:43.:31:44.

Amanda is paid ?7.55 an hour, just above the national living wage,

:31:45.:31:57.

and like many care workers struggles to make ends meet.

:31:58.:32:00.

She is also on a zero hours contract, which means her hours

:32:01.:32:03.

They did look into buying a house four years ago.

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But because I did not have a content, they would not

:32:07.:32:09.

allow me to buy a house or anything like that.

:32:10.:32:12.

Amanda is one of 200 staff employed by a family-run company.

:32:13.:32:18.

It is paid by local councils to provide homecare across the areas

:32:19.:32:22.

but it currently has 30 staff vacancies and is struggling to take

:32:23.:32:25.

Last year, the company stopped providing care for one council,

:32:26.:32:34.

Conwy council says it is committed to supporting vulnerable people

:32:35.:32:41.

in communities despite financial challenges.

:32:42.:32:45.

Our research reveals that across the UK, almost 100 councils

:32:46.:32:51.

have had home-care contracts handed back to them.

:32:52.:32:54.

The UK government declined to be interviewed but in a statement said

:32:55.:32:58.

it will be bringing forward proposals later this year to ensure

:32:59.:33:01.

a more financially sustainable social care system.

:33:02.:33:08.

With more of us living longer and a growing shortage of care

:33:09.:33:12.

workers, the pressure on people like Amanda will continue to grow.

:33:13.:33:15.

Panorama is on BBC One tonight at half past 8,

:33:16.:33:22.

except for viewers in Wales, who can see the investigation

:33:23.:33:25.

on Week In, Week Out at the same time.

:33:26.:33:28.

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering

:33:29.:33:31.

a one-year-old boy at a flat in North London.

:33:32.:33:33.

The man will also be questioned on suspicion

:33:34.:33:35.

of attempting to murder a girl, thought to be the boy's twin sister.

:33:36.:33:39.

The boy died in the early hours of Sunday and the girl remains

:33:40.:33:42.

Police in Ghana say at least 17 people have died after a fallen tree

:33:43.:33:49.

hit people swimming beneath a waterfall.

:33:50.:33:52.

The accident happened at Kintampo Falls,

:33:53.:33:54.

It is thought the tree had been uprooted by a powerful storm.

:33:55.:34:03.

Most of the people killed were students.

:34:04.:34:05.

The president of the app-based taxi service, Uber, has resigned

:34:06.:34:08.

after less than six months in the job.

:34:09.:34:11.

Jeff Jones said recent controversies over claims of a poor

:34:12.:34:13.

working culture and sexual harassment at the company

:34:14.:34:17.

Big changes in calculating personal injury insurance payouts come

:34:18.:34:23.

into effect today, which will mean higher compensation for some,

:34:24.:34:25.

It comes after pressure from disability groups to lower

:34:26.:34:31.

the discount rate - which determines how much the NHS,

:34:32.:34:34.

or insurance companies, must pay up front to successful

:34:35.:34:37.

claimants to cover their lifetime care.

:34:38.:34:45.

In a rare move, MPs from four committees -

:34:46.:34:47.

across Transport, Health and the Environment -

:34:48.:34:49.

are coming together to look at the issue of air pollution.

:34:50.:34:52.

They'll scrutinise whether government plans aimed

:34:53.:34:54.

at tackling the problem go far enough, as Andy Moore explains.

:34:55.:34:57.

A bus that looks clean enough, but technology shows

:34:58.:34:59.

Poor air quality is contributing to a lot of deaths.

:35:00.:35:13.

Much of this pollution comes from nitrogen dioxide

:35:14.:35:16.

Diesel vehicles once thought to be part of the solution are now seen

:35:17.:35:20.

The problem is one that cuts across many branches of government.

:35:21.:35:25.

The House of Commons believes it is best to use resources

:35:26.:35:28.

A total of four sessions will be held jointly by these committees.

:35:29.:35:35.

The Environmental Audit Committee, the Environment Food and Rural

:35:36.:35:45.

affairs committee, Health and transport.

:35:46.:35:47.

Their job will be to look at plans to tackle urban air pollution.

:35:48.:35:50.

Last November, the High Court said the government must come up

:35:51.:35:59.

with a plan to tackle air pollution in the cities by the 24th of April.

:36:00.:36:03.

A full plan must be in place by the end of July.

:36:04.:36:06.

Last month, the European Union said 16 parts of the UK

:36:07.:36:09.

were breaching air quality directives.

:36:10.:36:10.

It is giving the government to come up with a scheme to defeat

:36:11.:36:14.

the problem or face a multi-million pound fine.

:36:15.:36:17.

They recently announced a further ?290 million in funding

:36:18.:36:19.

One of the world's top surfers has made an amazing comeback

:36:20.:36:30.

after he nearly died in an accident less than 2 years ago.

:36:31.:36:33.

Owen Wright suffered a severe brain injury while taking

:36:34.:36:35.

on one of the world's most dangerous waves,

:36:36.:36:38.

But the Australian surfer's just won the first event of this year's

:36:39.:36:48.

World Surf League's Championship Tour on the Gold Coast.

:36:49.:36:54.

Understandably, there were some very emotional scenes at the end of that

:36:55.:37:03.

competition - with Wright himself saying that the win

:37:04.:37:06.

That takes quite some doing. 20 odd months after almost dying. Very well

:37:07.:37:18.

done. Let's get the sport now -

:37:19.:37:19.

and Kat is out in Gloucestershire She is speaking about the use of

:37:20.:37:30.

drugs in amateur sports but also the rest of the sporting news. A grisly

:37:31.:37:39.

day. It is the beginning of the BBC state of sport week. I am here to

:37:40.:37:45.

learn about the problems of doping not only in professional sport but

:37:46.:37:51.

amateur sport. Around 50% of sportswomen and sportsmen say it is

:37:52.:37:58.

widespread in amateur sport. We will look at what they are doing,

:37:59.:38:02.

particularly here in Hartpury College, one of the first to be

:38:03.:38:07.

accredited by anti- doping in the fight against doping. I will be

:38:08.:38:14.

talking to more people here at the college later in the morning but

:38:15.:38:19.

lets look at some of the issues in professional sport if you like.

:38:20.:38:22.

The main game of the day in the Premier League yesterday

:38:23.:38:25.

was between third and fourth place as Manchester City drew

:38:26.:38:28.

A penalty from James Milner put Liverpool ahead before

:38:29.:38:31.

Third placed City are now 12 points behind the league leaders Chelsea.

:38:32.:38:42.

It is one of the most special days in my life. How we recovered today,

:38:43.:38:54.

because Liverpool is a top, top team. I want to stay with those guys

:38:55.:38:59.

with a long, long time I want to stay here and help the club make the

:39:00.:39:02.

step forward. I am more and more

:39:03.:39:04.

fine with the result. I struggled a little bit

:39:05.:39:06.

at the final whistle to be really happy about...but of course

:39:07.:39:11.

it is a success to get a point against City and to play like this.

:39:12.:39:14.

It not happens not every day so that means, yeah, it is absolutely more

:39:15.:39:18.

than OK what we did today. Second-placed Tottenham are ten

:39:19.:39:22.

points behind the league leaders after a two-one win over Southampton

:39:23.:39:24.

at White Hart Lane. They beat managerless

:39:25.:39:27.

Middlesbrough three-one, Jesse Lingard here with

:39:28.:39:30.

the pick of the goals. Celtic are now just one win away

:39:31.:39:36.

from clinching They beat Dundee 2-1 yesterday

:39:37.:39:38.

and could wrap up the title Wigan Warriors are

:39:39.:39:42.

top of Super League. They drew 16-all with Huddersfield

:39:43.:39:47.

after previous leaders Castleford In Rugby Union,

:39:48.:39:50.

Leicester Tigers have won the Anglo Welsh Cup for the first

:39:51.:39:58.

time since 2012. Tom Brady scored their only try

:39:59.:40:00.

in a 16-12 win over Exeter Chiefs. It's Exeter's second

:40:01.:40:04.

final defeat in a row. Roger Federer has continued his

:40:05.:40:09.

impressive 2017 with victory He followed up his Australian Open

:40:10.:40:12.

title with a straight sets win over his Swiss compatriot

:40:13.:40:17.

Stan Wawrinka. In the women's final,

:40:18.:40:21.

Elena Vesnina recovered from a set and 4-1 down against fellow Russian

:40:22.:40:24.

and two time grand slam champion Svetlana Kuznetzova to win

:40:25.:40:27.

the biggest title of her career And finally Britain's slopestyle

:40:28.:40:30.

skiers enjoyed double medal success James Woods and Isabel Atkin both

:40:31.:40:39.

picked up bronze medals. That is all the sports News. I am

:40:40.:41:00.

here in Hartpury College where The Sun is just about coming up. The

:41:01.:41:06.

teams are getting out into the pictures, getting into the gymnasium

:41:07.:41:12.

is. This is one of the specialist sport colleges in the country. We

:41:13.:41:17.

will be talking to athletes about the dangers and risks of doping. But

:41:18.:41:24.

for now it is back to you. Thank you very much indeed. Loads of

:41:25.:41:28.

information on the website as well. It's the story President Trump

:41:29.:41:30.

can't seem to shake - whether his campaign team

:41:31.:41:33.

colluded with Russia Today the director of the FBI

:41:34.:41:34.

James Comey will give evidence So far the committee hasn't found

:41:35.:41:42.

any proof of interference. Our Washington reporter Laura Bicker

:41:43.:41:46.

has the story so far. I think it would be great

:41:47.:41:50.

if we got along with Russia. One question has dogged

:41:51.:41:55.

Donald Trump's road to the White House

:41:56.:41:58.

more than any other. What part did Russia play

:41:59.:42:00.

in helping him win the election? The hackers behind a cyber attack

:42:01.:42:03.

on Mr Trump's Democratic rivals were Russian, according

:42:04.:42:10.

to US intelligence. The embarrassing emails

:42:11.:42:13.

were published on Wikileaks and some, including Hillary Clinton,

:42:14.:42:16.

began to question Russia's motives We have never, in the history

:42:17.:42:19.

of our country, been in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power,

:42:20.:42:26.

is working so hard to influence And believe me, they're not doing

:42:27.:42:32.

it to get me elected. She doesn't know

:42:33.:42:37.

if it's the Russians However hard he tried,

:42:38.:42:39.

Russia was the scandal Donald Trump He would rather have a puppet

:42:40.:42:45.

as president of the United Those who analyse state-sponsored

:42:46.:42:52.

cyber threats are convinced. Where there's smoke,

:42:53.:42:58.

there's some kind of fire. There is fire but it's

:42:59.:43:02.

not the burning down of the building that might

:43:03.:43:04.

be perceived by some. Much more likely, in a smarter

:43:05.:43:08.

strategy on the part of Russia, is to identify candidates that

:43:09.:43:15.

support their positions, identify those issues that drive

:43:16.:43:17.

support to those candidates, As Donald Trump entered

:43:18.:43:20.

the White House, the press kept on digging for more details on any

:43:21.:43:26.

Russian links to his campaign. Donald Trump's close aides said

:43:27.:43:29.

they had no contact with Russian But they seemed to keep

:43:30.:43:32.

forgetting they had met The first Cabinet

:43:33.:43:38.

casualty was his national He resigned after his

:43:39.:43:43.

meetings were disclosed. Then there was his pick

:43:44.:43:48.

for Attorney-General, It turned out that he had also met

:43:49.:43:50.

with Russian ambassador. In his position of power,

:43:51.:43:56.

President Trump has continued to state he wants closer

:43:57.:43:59.

ties with Russia. The hearings this week

:44:00.:44:02.

will try to establish just how close What would I get

:44:03.:44:05.

involved with Putin for? I have nothing to do

:44:06.:44:12.

with him, I have never spoken to him, I know

:44:13.:44:15.

nothing about him other It's 6:45 and you're watching

:44:16.:44:18.

Breakfast from BBC News. Home care companies say they can't

:44:19.:44:28.

recruit enough staff to meet demand with research suggesting one in four

:44:29.:44:33.

providers are at risk Doping in UK sport is fast becoming

:44:34.:44:35.

a crisis at all levels, according to the head of the body

:44:36.:44:40.

set up to tackle the use We are getting a little bit giddy

:44:41.:44:44.

at this morning's weather. We are getting a little bit giddy

:44:45.:45:02.

here on International Day of Happiness. I wrote this down

:45:03.:45:08.

somewhere, because we got it wrong. The day of happiness. Yes. And what

:45:09.:45:16.

they do have the? Carol. Good answer. I believe it was your 40th,

:45:17.:45:27.

yesterday, is that right, Dan? I was there to say you do not look a day

:45:28.:45:33.

over 39. Get on with your weather. Happy birthday to you.

:45:34.:45:38.

Today we have a weather front sinking south. Behind it it will

:45:39.:45:48.

turn much colder. We will get temperatures below average component

:45:49.:45:54.

to usual. The south of the country will hold onto double figures. The

:45:55.:45:58.

rest of us, cold and showery. We currently have some rain around. It

:45:59.:46:03.

is also very windy across the western isles. That will transfer to

:46:04.:46:07.

the Northern Isles, as we go through the day. In fact, we could be

:46:08.:46:10.

looking at storm-force winds. Something certainly to bear in mind.

:46:11.:46:14.

That will be making this occlusion moved quite quickly. You can see

:46:15.:46:19.

that cold front moving south. That is good to be a slower process.

:46:20.:46:22.

Through this morning, very windy in the western Isles of the moment.

:46:23.:46:25.

That transfers to the Northern Isles, where we have some rain, and

:46:26.:46:29.

then we have sunshine and showers. But most of the winteriness will be

:46:30.:46:34.

on the hills. Norther Ireland, a few showers. -- Northern Ireland. We can

:46:35.:46:38.

see these weather front across England and Wales, some heavy rain

:46:39.:46:43.

coming out of this. South of it, it is dry, cloudy, and there is some

:46:44.:46:47.

drizzle around. But it is still mild. Through the day, our weather

:46:48.:46:51.

front continues to sink further south. Gusty winds around it. Behind

:46:52.:46:55.

it, some bright weather. Sunshine around. But equally one or two

:46:56.:47:00.

showers. This stage, wintry mainly on the hills. The temperatures

:47:01.:47:04.

coming down to better what we have been to. We have storm-force winds

:47:05.:47:09.

possible across Orkney. Through the evening in overnight, there goes the

:47:10.:47:12.

first run. Then it will turn quite cold behind it for all of us.

:47:13.:47:15.

Showers will increasingly turn wintry across Northern Ireland,

:47:16.:47:18.

Scotland, funnelling through the Central Lowlands, and also parts of

:47:19.:47:22.

northern England. So some of us will be seeing some of those, even at

:47:23.:47:26.

lower levels. And once again, there is a risk of ice on untreated

:47:27.:47:30.

surfaces. We start the day with wintry showers. The winteriness will

:47:31.:47:36.

likely be in the hills over the day. Mostly at lower levels. Many eastern

:47:37.:47:44.

areas in the shelter of the hills will mist altogether. You can see

:47:45.:47:47.

those maximum temperatures rarely slipping down except in the

:47:48.:47:50.

south-eastern corner. As we move through Tuesday night, we have this

:47:51.:47:54.

figure of wet and windy weather coming in from the south-west. That

:47:55.:47:58.

will deposit some snow in the mountains off Wales. But as it heads

:47:59.:48:02.

into northern England and engages with the cold air, particularly

:48:03.:48:05.

across north-eastern England, we will see a covering of snow even at

:48:06.:48:09.

lower levels. A cold night, a frosty night, and again, you might just run

:48:10.:48:13.

into a little bit of ice. During the course of Wednesday, you can see the

:48:14.:48:17.

rotation around an area of low pressure with the rain. The

:48:18.:48:20.

winteriness, if there is any left, will be mostly on the hills. Still

:48:21.:48:24.

hanging on in London two double figures. But the rest of the UK, we

:48:25.:48:28.

are back and into single figures. So get your winter woolies out again.

:48:29.:48:39.

I was too distracted thinking about where my winter woolies were. We

:48:40.:48:46.

have been taught about what make you happy. What makes you happy? Donald,

:48:47.:48:55.

my cat. And as it by magic... He looks a little to me like an evil

:48:56.:49:02.

genius. No, he is gorgeous. We got into a fight when he was very young.

:49:03.:49:06.

He was different to other tatty cats. He is perfect in my highs. --

:49:07.:49:16.

tabby. Stay happy, Carol. -- in my eyes. We will see some pictures from

:49:17.:49:19.

your messages later on. Several athletes and officials

:49:20.:49:21.

involved with last year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio have

:49:22.:49:23.

told the BBC they're angry and frustrated by the failure

:49:24.:49:26.

to provide any meaningful post It was one of the concerns there in

:49:27.:49:29.

Rio. It's exactly six months

:49:30.:49:36.

after the 2016 Games came to an end, and while Brazilian officials

:49:37.:49:39.

insist there were tangible Wyre Davies reports from the city

:49:40.:49:41.

on the broken promises The five weeks last summer, Rio de

:49:42.:49:54.

Janeiro was the centre of the sporting world. Her city for the

:49:55.:49:58.

2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The greatest show on Earth. Exactly

:49:59.:50:04.

six months later, the stage is empty. Rio's Olympic Park, which

:50:05.:50:10.

should be now operating as a sporting centre of excellence, is

:50:11.:50:16.

you really quiet. -- Host. Places where winners won a loss are now at

:50:17.:50:24.

not more than warehouses. It is a legacy, it it is not the one that

:50:25.:50:29.

those who campaign for Rio to Games had expected. I feel that the

:50:30.:50:34.

Olympic Games in Brazil was not so successful, because the legacy was

:50:35.:50:38.

not the number one. We delivered a good games, we had a lot of

:50:39.:50:43.

problems, and we keep with them, as nobody is doing anything for

:50:44.:50:48.

changing. So this make me really sad. This is the Olympic tennis

:50:49.:50:51.

arena where Andy Murray won his second consecutive Olympic gold

:50:52.:50:55.

medal. For now, this is being run like many other venues in the living

:50:56.:50:59.

park by the resilience sports ministry. Because no private

:51:00.:51:02.

company, nor the local authority, can afford or want to take on the

:51:03.:51:09.

huge running costs. Team Brazil miss its own medal targets at Rio 2016.

:51:10.:51:15.

This Ajer came a creditable ninth place, but has since lost her

:51:16.:51:18.

funding and her coach. Improving on Rio and even making the Tokyo games

:51:19.:51:22.

will be tough. TRANSLATION: A month after the

:51:23.:51:26.

games, they cut everything. My health insurers, my salary,

:51:27.:51:30.

everything. It is a huge disappointment. We made history in

:51:31.:51:34.

archery, but it is all over. It made me think my sacrifice was not worth

:51:35.:51:39.

it. The desperation to get things ready on time took precedence to

:51:40.:51:52.

legacy. I never once had a conversation about legacy in any

:51:53.:51:56.

discussion I had work under games. You have to remember that this was a

:51:57.:52:00.

games where we were scrambling to put the event on on a day by day

:52:01.:52:04.

basis. There was no time getting about what was there to happen the

:52:05.:52:07.

day after the gaze finished in September. There were undoubtedly

:52:08.:52:11.

improvements in Rio, thanks to the games. The public transport, some

:52:12.:52:16.

infrastructure, and the opening up of public spaces. I think that there

:52:17.:52:21.

are still promises that need to be delivered. But I do believe that we

:52:22.:52:25.

still have time to work on these promises, and the promise that we

:52:26.:52:29.

need to be faster on is the delivery of the Olympic Park and improvements

:52:30.:52:35.

in the sports legacy. A brand-new velodrome, built to choose expense,

:52:36.:52:40.

barely used, its track already water damage. The state-of-the-art

:52:41.:52:45.

whitewater course meant to become a public park after the games remains

:52:46.:52:52.

closed. Is this Rio's real Olympic legacy? Wyre Davis, BBC News.

:52:53.:53:01.

It is very sad. Some even as venues are not being used at all. It is

:53:02.:53:08.

6:52. You're watching BBC News. The UK pharmaceutical industry

:53:09.:53:09.

is worth billions to the UK economy and is a vital engine for developing

:53:10.:53:12.

cures and treatments. Today, drugs bosses are meeting

:53:13.:53:15.

to discuss the challenges the industry faces and

:53:16.:53:18.

how it can do better. The pharmaceutical industry employs

:53:19.:53:21.

just over 60,000 people in the UK. It invests around ?11 million every

:53:22.:53:37.

day on research and development. It costs on average just over ?1

:53:38.:53:41.

billion to bring a new drug to market. So some pretty big numbers

:53:42.:53:43.

they are. Dr Virginia Acha is from the ABPI -

:53:44.:53:48.

the body that represents the UK's What are some trees you there are

:53:49.:54:04.

two big areas that we are thinking about. How we can advance the

:54:05.:54:07.

technologies that we use today to make medicines, as well as the new

:54:08.:54:10.

types of treatments that we are thinking about. We think the UK

:54:11.:54:14.

could be a global leader for that particular area of treatment. And we

:54:15.:54:18.

are doing this in Macclesfield, which is a special place to do that.

:54:19.:54:22.

It is our largest pharmaceutical manufacturing site in the UK. And it

:54:23.:54:27.

is the site is really significant investment. Recently, over ?130

:54:28.:54:36.

million on treatment. One of the criticisms of the industry generally

:54:37.:54:39.

is if you were all to work together as drugs companies, and there being

:54:40.:54:46.

so much competition, with a bit of solution in terms of treating

:54:47.:54:48.

illnesses, in terms of treating problems around the world, if you

:54:49.:54:54.

can work on issues more... Any more collaboratively? Basin and we have

:54:55.:55:00.

been thinking about. There has been a lot of changes how we do drug

:55:01.:55:04.

discovery. And development. You will now see partnerships that when one

:55:05.:55:09.

or two companies or even broad level programmes like the integrated

:55:10.:55:12.

medicines initiative, why we work as a group of companies on a bunch of

:55:13.:55:18.

competitive areas. The UK has been a significant player in those very

:55:19.:55:21.

important research projects. CC the UK could be a global leader in many

:55:22.:55:26.

areas like this, but recently, we have had the Brexit vote. How will

:55:27.:55:31.

that affect it? Brexiters and then we have been worrying about for many

:55:32.:55:34.

months. But it is something that we think we have a good engagement now

:55:35.:55:38.

with the government on how we want to work forward. We have four key

:55:39.:55:42.

priorities. How do you get the regulation right, and the trading

:55:43.:55:45.

arrangements? Had we make sure we have the right talent to make things

:55:46.:55:48.

were? Including manufacturing, which we are talking about today. As well

:55:49.:55:53.

as in research. So all of these things are so important to make sure

:55:54.:55:57.

that we deliver. We have the Macclesfield plan. I think there are

:55:58.:56:01.

about 50 medicines being shipped to over 100 countries. -- plant. So

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trade changes will have a big impact. Outside the industry, there

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seems to be a feeling that you focus on disease you can make money from,

:56:13.:56:16.

and develop an address in that area. Is that a concern in-house, as well?

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Is that sobbing as you will be discussing the conference like the

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one today? Didak would be in Sela gene therapy. The question is if we

:56:27.:56:30.

are doing that because it will earn profits back for companies? We have

:56:31.:56:38.

science really leading the way rather than just on the basis of

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what is go to make money. But it is important to remember that every

:56:44.:56:46.

time we develop a medicine, it goes through an assessment that judges

:56:47.:56:52.

whether it is value for money. The real question is whether the UK is a

:56:53.:56:56.

place where we want to afford our health-care? What we want to invest

:56:57.:57:00.

in? And if we do that, what kind of innovation will be dry? Is this a

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country which is go to value innovation? Great to talk to,

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Virginia. The NHS than ?16.8 billion a year on drugs. That is a lot of

:57:13.:57:14.

cash. We will be back with all Hello this is Breakfast,

:57:15.:00:38.

with Sally Nugent and Dan Walker. A warning that home care

:00:39.:00:44.

services are in crisis because providers can't

:00:45.:00:46.

recruit enough staff. New research suggests a quarter

:00:47.:00:48.

of the Uk's home care firms are at risk of insolvency and many

:00:49.:00:51.

have had to pull out of contracts A man is questioned by police over

:00:52.:00:55.

the murder of a 1-year-old boy and the attempt to

:00:56.:01:21.

murder his twin sister. Politicians in the United States,

:01:22.:01:23.

begin hearings into Russia's alleged involvement in last November's

:01:24.:01:26.

presidential elections. Good morning, I am at Hartpury

:01:27.:01:35.

College. We've a special report this morning

:01:36.:01:41.

looking at the extent of doping I'm at Hartpury College

:01:42.:01:44.

in Gloucestershire to explore some of the ideas they've come up

:01:45.:01:48.

with to tackle the problem Also this morning, on the 100th

:01:49.:01:51.

birthday of Dame Vera Lynn - her picture is projected where else

:01:52.:01:57.

but on the White Cliffs of Dover. Some of us will see some snow even

:01:58.:02:16.

at lower levels as the weather turns much colder. Today it is windy and

:02:17.:02:22.

wet and later some of us will see sunshine and showers.

:02:23.:02:25.

Home care companies say they're in crisis because they can't recruit

:02:26.:02:29.

enough staff to meet the growing demand.

:02:30.:02:31.

Research commissioned by the BBC's Panorama suggests

:02:32.:02:33.

nearly 1 in 4 homecare companies are at risk of insolvency,

:02:34.:02:36.

with 69 closing in the past three months alone.

:02:37.:02:38.

Amanda Hopewell is one of the UK's 800,000 homecare workers.

:02:39.:02:48.

Today she is with former teacher, William Williams,

:02:49.:02:51.

Amanda is paid ?7.55 an hour, just above the national living wage,

:02:52.:02:58.

and like many care workers struggles to make ends meet.

:02:59.:03:02.

She is also on a zero hours contract, which means her hours

:03:03.:03:05.

They did look into buying a house four years ago.

:03:06.:03:09.

But because I did not have a content, they would not

:03:10.:03:12.

allow me to buy a house or anything like that.

:03:13.:03:15.

Amanda is one of 200 staff employed by a family-run company.

:03:16.:03:22.

It is paid by local councils to provide homecare across the areas

:03:23.:03:28.

It is paid by local councils to provide homecare across the area

:03:29.:03:31.

but it currently has 30 staff vacancies and is struggling to take

:03:32.:03:34.

Last year, the company stopped providing care for one council,

:03:35.:03:38.

Conwy council says it is committed to supporting vulnerable people

:03:39.:03:47.

in communities despite financial challenges.

:03:48.:03:50.

Our research reveals that across the UK, almost 100 councils

:03:51.:03:55.

have had home-care contracts handed back to them.

:03:56.:03:59.

The UK government declined to be interviewed but in a statement said

:04:00.:04:03.

it will be bringing forward proposals later this year to ensure

:04:04.:04:07.

a more financially sustainable social care system.

:04:08.:04:10.

With more of us living longer and a growing shortage of care

:04:11.:04:16.

workers, the pressure on people like Amanda will continue to grow.

:04:17.:04:19.

Panorama is on BBC One tonight at 8:30, except for viewers

:04:20.:04:30.

in Wales, who can see the investigation on Week In,

:04:31.:04:33.

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering

:04:34.:04:37.

a 1-year-old boy at a flat in North London.

:04:38.:04:40.

The man will also be questioned on suspicion of attempting to murder

:04:41.:04:43.

a girl, thought to be the boy's twin sister.

:04:44.:04:45.

Our reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn is in North London for us now.

:04:46.:04:48.

As you can see, Wilberforce Road in Finsbury Park is still cordoned off.

:04:49.:05:07.

This is street has been the centre of intense police activity. Iran is

:05:08.:05:16.

it teams going in and out. -- forensic. House-to-house enquiries

:05:17.:05:20.

throughout yesterday as well. They were called here 11 o'clock on

:05:21.:05:23.

Saturday night to reports of neighbours hearing screaming and

:05:24.:05:30.

shouting and distressed woman asking for help in the middle of the road.

:05:31.:05:34.

When they got into the flat, they found two small children, one

:05:35.:05:41.

rolled, twins who had been seriously injured. The little boy died later.

:05:42.:05:48.

Yesterday it police put out an appeal because they wanted to speak

:05:49.:05:52.

to Bidhya Sagar Das, believed to be the children's father. Last night at

:05:53.:06:00.

715, the police said he had been arrested and is now held at an east

:06:01.:06:06.

end police station. The latest of the little girl, we do not know too

:06:07.:06:12.

much to stop police have said she remains in a critical but stable

:06:13.:06:18.

condition and we note that investigations will continue today

:06:19.:06:25.

and a poll -- postmortem examination has not been carried out on the

:06:26.:06:29.

little boy will happen in due course.

:06:30.:06:32.

A month on from the renewed offensive to re-take Iraq's city

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of Mosul from so-called Islamic State,

:06:36.:06:37.

millions of people are facing a new crisis.

:06:38.:06:39.

Thousands have fled the western half of the city

:06:40.:06:41.

in recent weeks but those who remain are experiencing shortages of food

:06:42.:06:45.

Our Middle East correspondent Orla Guerin reports.

:06:46.:06:48.

In the clamour for help, many go empty-handed.

:06:49.:06:51.

The gunfire from Iraqi soldiers trying to control the crowd

:06:52.:06:58.

Survivors of the caliphate, now at risk from hunger.

:06:59.:07:07.

In the distance, smoke from an IS car bomb.

:07:08.:07:11.

But those who flee the fighting here end up in overcrowded camps.

:07:12.:07:20.

There are no good options for the people of Western Mosul.

:07:21.:07:27.

Local people here tell us this is the first aid supplies

:07:28.:07:30.

They say they have no running water, no electricity,

:07:31.:07:35.

People in the queue are really afraid that the food

:07:36.:07:41.

is going to run out before they've been able to get some.

:07:42.:07:45.

Barely able to walk, but with many mouths to feed,

:07:46.:07:49.

Hamda Mohamed, whose family is living on bread and water.

:07:50.:07:56.

I'm crying, she says, because my children don't understand

:07:57.:08:01.

The battle for Mosul may now be in its final phase,

:08:02.:08:19.

there will be much to rebuild, including a divided community.

:08:20.:08:23.

Orla Guerrin, BBC News, Western Mosul.

:08:24.:08:31.

Theresa May will travel to south Wales this morning

:08:32.:08:33.

with the Brexit Secretary David Davis and will meet

:08:34.:08:35.

The visit comes as a report by the think tank the Institute

:08:36.:08:40.

for Government warns that the "enormity" of delivering

:08:41.:08:42.

Brexit will leave little parliamentary time

:08:43.:08:44.

BBC Wales' Political Editor Nick Servini joins us

:08:45.:08:48.

What will be happening today? This will be the first of Theresa May's

:08:49.:09:05.

visits to the devolved nations. On paper, it is the easy is because

:09:06.:09:10.

Wales, unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland, voted to leave the European

:09:11.:09:15.

Union. While there will be a debate about the nature of the Brexit deal

:09:16.:09:20.

on offer, but on the fundamental point, the government can say it is

:09:21.:09:25.

trying to deliver what most people in Wales voted for last June.

:09:26.:09:33.

They've been holding talks in recent months here with the UK government

:09:34.:09:38.

but the RAS signs of strain starting to emerge with the Welsh government

:09:39.:09:43.

starting to ask about the level of engagement they are getting from

:09:44.:09:47.

ministers in Westminster. They will want to have full involvement in

:09:48.:09:55.

areas like trade, the replacement of agricultural subsidies. Theresa May

:09:56.:10:01.

will be in Swansea today, she will be signing a deal, a joint effort to

:10:02.:10:09.

generate investment for all sort of areas in Wales. She's tried to make

:10:10.:10:14.

the case that she will represent all corners of the UK. South Wales is an

:10:15.:10:21.

area that has struggled to degenerate investment in the past.

:10:22.:10:23.

Thank you very much. The director of the FBI,

:10:24.:10:25.

James Comey, will give evidence today about alleged

:10:26.:10:28.

Russian interference Appearing before

:10:29.:10:29.

the House Intelligence Committee, he's also expected to face questions

:10:30.:10:32.

about a second explosive issue - President Trump's claim

:10:33.:10:35.

that his predecessor, Barack Obama, authorised a wire-tap

:10:36.:10:38.

of Trump Tower during the campaign. The Force's Sweetheart,

:10:39.:10:50.

Dame Vera Lynn, To mark the occasion, a 350

:10:51.:10:52.

foot image of her is being projected on to the White Cliffs

:10:53.:11:05.

of Dover today. A pair of wartime spitfires

:11:06.:11:07.

will also do a display Dame Vera said she feels

:11:08.:11:10.

incredibly humbled by efforts From the moment we're born

:11:11.:11:13.

until the end of our days, So you'd hope the air

:11:14.:11:24.

we inhale is fit for purpose. But air quality continues to be

:11:25.:11:28.

a problem in the UK and now MPs - across health, transport

:11:29.:11:32.

and environment committees - are joining forces to investigate

:11:33.:11:34.

how best to tackle it. It's estimated poor air quality

:11:35.:11:37.

is contributing to the early deaths of 40 thousand people

:11:38.:11:39.

in the UK each year. nitrogen dioxide and tiny particles

:11:40.:11:42.

from exhaust fumes and tyres. Pollution limits are breached by 23

:11:43.:11:47.

of the EU's 28 member states. And the government

:11:48.:11:51.

here is under legal pressure to come up with a new air

:11:52.:11:53.

plan by next month. Let's speak now to the Labour MP,

:11:54.:11:56.

Mary Creagh who's chairs the Environmental Audit

:11:57.:11:59.

Committee and will be part of this Good morning. Good morning. The

:12:00.:12:14.

asset to have another enquiry when we have just had one, why? The

:12:15.:12:20.

government is set to publish its third air pollution programme in

:12:21.:12:25.

April and it needs to be signed off in July. Before committees are

:12:26.:12:30.

coming together in an unprecedented way to see how the government can

:12:31.:12:36.

tackle the causes of a pollution not just from cars and buses but

:12:37.:12:40.

construction vehicles and agricultural equipment because we

:12:41.:12:47.

now we have 40,000 early deaths a year and we have been dragging our

:12:48.:12:52.

feet as the country for too long. How are you expecting the

:12:53.:12:55.

conclusions to change? It is important to look, as different

:12:56.:13:02.

committees, and how we solve this. Much of the solution will lie in the

:13:03.:13:07.

transport Department. We felt the government had no chance of meeting

:13:08.:13:16.

its target of getting people to use more electric cars. 60% of people by

:13:17.:13:25.

2030. Our committee had absolutely no confidence targets were going to

:13:26.:13:31.

be met and it is crucial that we do meet them if we are going to clean

:13:32.:13:35.

up the filthy air in towns and cities. What is the problem with

:13:36.:13:41.

meeting the targets? There is an issue with places where people can

:13:42.:13:49.

charge them, there is an issue with price, ?40,000 and also government

:13:50.:13:53.

is the largest purchaser of goods and services in the country and they

:13:54.:13:57.

could so real leadership by for example encouraging police,

:13:58.:14:05.

hospitals, NHS trucks around the country to purchase electric

:14:06.:14:07.

vehicles and make their contribution. There are also issues

:14:08.:14:12.

around buses. We have the bus services bill before Parliament.

:14:13.:14:19.

Cities may be able to tackle this. We do not want to see parts of the

:14:20.:14:25.

country left behind. What is the scale of the problem in the country

:14:26.:14:34.

at the moment? 30 ait out of 43 of our sales are we breach. People

:14:35.:14:38.

suffering from asthma, bronchitis, people at risk with stroke and heart

:14:39.:14:44.

disease are dying unnecessarily. The World Health Organization are

:14:45.:14:52.

estimated and the College of physicians is a 40,000 people per

:14:53.:14:57.

year are dying here. People are dying across our cities and towns.

:14:58.:15:00.

They are dying because of air pollution but there may be something

:15:01.:15:06.

different written on their death certificates. It is a silent killer

:15:07.:15:10.

and we need to come together as a country. Up until recently, a diesel

:15:11.:15:23.

cars encouraged to stop being bought? There was a huge push to get

:15:24.:15:32.

people into diesel but companies like Volkswagen were cheating on the

:15:33.:15:37.

she devises and we now know we have 10 million diesel vehicles in this

:15:38.:15:42.

country and they are a big problem. Even children in the room, we are

:15:43.:15:51.

seeing links with both wet. We did to look at measures around school,

:15:52.:15:55.

sending out a loads when there are high pollution days so that when

:15:56.:16:00.

people are vulnerable, people stay in doors. That is happening in

:16:01.:16:04.

London and it needs to happen in cities across the UK like Leeds and

:16:05.:16:07.

Manchester as well. It's 7:16 and you're watching

:16:08.:16:12.

Breakfast from BBC News. Home care companies say they can't

:16:13.:16:14.

recruit enough staff to meet demand with research suggesting one in four

:16:15.:16:19.

providers are at risk Doping in UK sport is fast becoming

:16:20.:16:21.

a crisis at all levels, according to the head of the body

:16:22.:16:29.

set up to tackle the use I think I said going bask? I think

:16:30.:16:49.

you did. Just in case you're making cup of tea and wondering... Let's

:16:50.:16:52.

get the weather from Carol this It is all changing this week.

:16:53.:16:59.

Temperatures are falling below average this week. The Marles

:17:00.:17:04.

weather will be in the south-east of the longest, but today, this copper

:17:05.:17:08.

and sinking south will open the floodgates to some cold air

:17:09.:17:10.

following in behind. Gradually, as the go through the next the Jays,

:17:11.:17:14.

from the north, you will find the temperature is going down. Behind

:17:15.:17:18.

that today, behind that rain, it will be cool and showery. We start

:17:19.:17:23.

off on a wet and windy note. Bystrom as with so they are of course the

:17:24.:17:27.

far north of Scotland. Here, this morning, and in Northern Ireland,

:17:28.:17:30.

gusts of easily 60 mph. That will transfer to the Northern today.

:17:31.:17:35.

Storm-force winds across Orkney. Showers and sunshine. Same for

:17:36.:17:41.

Northern Ireland. Then we rain into all this rain across northern

:17:42.:17:45.

England and Wales. Some heavy, some patchy. Ahead of it, a lot of cloud

:17:46.:17:50.

around, and a mild start and just one or two showers. It is in sea

:17:51.:17:55.

temperature is in the south still ten or 11. As a go through the day,

:17:56.:18:00.

the band of RAM will continue its journey, moving southwards unease

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was. Windy around it and behind it is a return to sun shine and

:18:04.:18:12.

showers. Any rated estate is likely to be the tops of the hills. And do

:18:13.:18:17.

not forget it will be very windy in Orkney. Temperatures slipping from

:18:18.:18:20.

the north-west. Double figures as we move into the south-east. That band

:18:21.:18:24.

of RAM will move away from the south-east this evening. That will

:18:25.:18:28.

open the doors to some cold weather going on. And a lot of showers.

:18:29.:18:31.

Across Northern Ireland, Scotland, and northern England. It will be

:18:32.:18:36.

wintry, even at lower levels. Even in places they be Central Lowlands.

:18:37.:18:40.

Showers can across the south will come with rain. There is a risk of

:18:41.:18:44.

ice on untreated surfaces. Some into very much for the bursting of the

:18:45.:18:47.

morning. Tomorrow, we start off on a bright note across England and

:18:48.:18:51.

Wales. A fair bit of sunshine again. Some showers coming in the breeze. A

:18:52.:18:55.

lot of showers coming in across Northern Ireland and Scotland in the

:18:56.:18:59.

wind, and also northern England. As a go through the day, the

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winteriness will be largely ideal. At lower levels, it is more than

:19:04.:19:07.

likely to be rain. But that it is temperatures living down. Glasgow

:19:08.:19:12.

will have a maximum of four tomorrow. Tuesday evening, we have

:19:13.:19:17.

this next finger rain. Windy weather coming up in the south-west. As it

:19:18.:19:21.

crosses the mountains of Wales, it will deposit some slow. But as it

:19:22.:19:24.

engages with the cold air across northern England, we could well see

:19:25.:19:28.

some snow at lower levels. Particularly across north-eastern

:19:29.:19:32.

England. So you will wake up to eight covering about. Some frost

:19:33.:19:36.

across Scotland and Northern Ireland. And until Wednesday, we

:19:37.:19:41.

have all this rain rotating around an area of low pressure. And is

:19:42.:19:45.

going to be pretty wet that. The snow lies in the hills by day. This

:19:46.:19:51.

cold north Ely wind is coming in, too, so the faster it will hold onto

:19:52.:19:56.

the best averages. Heading into the weekend, temperatures will recover.

:19:57.:20:00.

But before that, if you have been busy painting in your garden, there

:20:01.:20:03.

will be some hard frost around to watch out for. Back to you.

:20:04.:20:13.

How can you forget my name? How could you forget my name? She is on

:20:14.:20:30.

all this week... Thank you Carol. It is 7:20. You're watching BBC News.

:20:31.:20:34.

We have some surprising information this morning about

:20:35.:20:38.

performance-enhancing drugs in amateur sport.

:20:39.:20:42.

Kat is at Hartpury College, Gloucestershire for us this morning

:20:43.:20:44.

- where a lot of work is going into tackling the issue,

:20:45.:20:48.

Yes. We are coming out of the wind and rain and come to the gym here at

:20:49.:20:55.

Hartpury College. The guys are doing the wait here. We have some casual

:20:56.:20:58.

looking cycling going on there. All sorts of things going on, with

:20:59.:21:02.

elastic bands, as they build up their strength and resistance in the

:21:03.:21:05.

gym here before heading out onto the pitch. The reason I have come to

:21:06.:21:09.

Hartpury College is because it is one of the first colleges in the

:21:10.:21:13.

country to be accredited by UK Anti-Doping. So it is on the

:21:14.:21:16.

frontline of the fight against doping. Not just in professional

:21:17.:21:20.

sport, but also in amateur sport, because it is a, some surprising

:21:21.:21:24.

figures coming out of a BBC survey this morning, suggesting 50% of

:21:25.:21:32.

sports men and women believe that doping is widespread in amateur

:21:33.:21:36.

sport. 35% said that they knew somebody in amateur sport who had

:21:37.:21:40.

been involved. If I walk over here, I can find Harvey and Alex, who are

:21:41.:21:46.

part of the football squad here at Hartpury College. Have you got any

:21:47.:21:51.

experience, Harvey? . Experience of being around areas that have been

:21:52.:21:57.

used doping, but I would say that we are made very aware of it,

:21:58.:22:00.

particularly in football. So we are aware of it. I have not expressed

:22:01.:22:07.

myself. And you can understand the temptation, Alex? Yes, because you

:22:08.:22:13.

are the edge. But me, I have no express with it. So I don't really

:22:14.:22:16.

know why somebody would want to take it. No, it is not selling a bed

:22:17.:22:24.

around. I am sorry. Thank you for letting us gatecrash your session.

:22:25.:22:30.

-- it is not something I have been around.

:22:31.:22:38.

There are many reasons why professional athletes

:22:39.:22:40.

And sport is overwhelmed with culprits.

:22:41.:22:43.

The disgraced cyclist, Lance Armstrong, has ended years

:22:44.:22:45.

of denial by admitting using performance-enhancing drugs.

:22:46.:22:49.

But what might be harder to understand is why amateur

:22:50.:22:52.

Dan Stevens was a former amateur cyclist.

:22:53.:22:56.

A few years ago, he started taking a number of substances

:22:57.:22:59.

He was banned in 2014 after refusing to take a test.

:23:00.:23:11.

I had always been a clean athlete, and this situation that happened

:23:12.:23:15.

with me when I was 39 years old, the real thing from me wasn't

:23:16.:23:19.

I didn't do a lot of racing on the substances.

:23:20.:23:22.

How - how much of a difference does this give you?

:23:23.:23:28.

I think in the amateur ranks, it is not about winning.

:23:29.:23:30.

It is that you have got a situation where somebody is overweight,

:23:31.:23:34.

needs to lean down, and uses it to get in shape.

:23:35.:23:37.

And then get railroaded into doing a marathon or a long bike ride,

:23:38.:23:42.

or some kind of competitive event, and they improve their fitness

:23:43.:23:45.

And they become a healthy individual, they become

:23:46.:23:54.

conscious and more health-orientated.

:23:55.:23:56.

And this is far from an isolated case.

:23:57.:23:59.

A poll carried out for the BBC of amateur sportspeople in the UK

:24:00.:24:02.

found that half believe the use of performance

:24:03.:24:04.

A similar number say those drugs are easily available among those

:24:05.:24:08.

More than a third said they personally know someone who has

:24:09.:24:12.

doped, and 8% said they had taken steroids.

:24:13.:24:14.

Certainly the figures, as regard to the prevalence

:24:15.:24:17.

of performance-enhancing substances at an amateur level,

:24:18.:24:18.

That said, they do confirm what UK Anti-Doping has long suspected,

:24:19.:24:26.

and also seen, through some of our intelligence-led testing.

:24:27.:24:33.

This is the frontline in the fight to keep sport clean,

:24:34.:24:36.

a joint operation between police and UK Anti-Doping, targeting those

:24:37.:24:39.

However, it's not against the law to use steroids for personal use.

:24:40.:24:43.

So those motivated by vanity, rather than victory,

:24:44.:24:45.

are they really doing anything wrong?

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We took our findings to an in doping behaviour at Sheffield Hallam

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This is actually the dark side of exercise.

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Using substances not to improve your health -

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you don't care about your health anymore.

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You care about your performance and how you look to other people.

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Just how serious a health issue do you think this could be?

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You're using substances that are meant to treat diseases.

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And you are actually misusing them without a prescription.

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You are not just cheating, or not cheating, if you are just

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an exerciser, but also putting your life at risk.

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But however the authorities respond to the issue,

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athletes at every level, in every sport will always be

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willing to cut corners, whatever the risks.

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Some alarming figures in that report there. I am joined here by a

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sociologist. Ruth Lea, we can see why professionals would want to go

:25:49.:25:51.

to give themselves the issue and more money. But why would averages

:25:52.:25:55.

take the risks? Well, because the whole ethos of professional sport is

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filtered down to amateur ranks. Obviously, the idea of competing as

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an amateur was for the pleasure and joy, the sheer fun of participating,

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but that is gone, now. Because I think that amateurs have absorbed

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professional values, meaning when it'll cost. Obviously, if doping

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gives you an advantage, then you're going to whatever advantages are out

:26:17.:26:22.

there. And dust doping has found its way to the amateur ranks. What can

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we do to tackle it? Hartpury College is spreading the message to its

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students. But what committed to police doping in amateur sport? In

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practical terms, we cannot. We can impose high September is -- hush at

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penalties. We do that all the time. But the crusade against doping has

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been around since 1988, and the doping crisis is larger than it has

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been in any other time in history. The point is that we could do silly

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about it, we could turn the clock back to how sport was before 1972,

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and just let athletes take what doping they required or preferred to

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with impunity, and that would not be a popular option. But that said,

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sport in the 1970s right through to the previous century, nobody really

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cant. But of course, what we have to do today is monitor at a bit more

:27:20.:27:23.

closely and ask athletes to declare what they are using so that we can

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advise. The alternative is to let it continue in this clandestine way.

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And that it is harmful and dangerous to athletes. Thank you very much

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were joining us. Some controversial thoughts, they are. Do we just leave

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it to athletes to do they -- there. We have been hearing that doping has

:27:46.:27:52.

become a big issue in amateur sport. Back with more information on this

:27:53.:27:57.

later. What I really enjoy there were some of the half-hearted

:27:58.:27:59.

stretches going on behind you. Before doing to you, those guys back

:28:00.:28:06.

there... Ab is playful bollard in amateur level knows a lot about

:28:07.:28:09.

that. Can't be bothered, but I will then my legs I look like a know it I

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am doing. -- anyone who has played football.

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You be so self conscious doing your stretches on television. You do want

:28:18.:28:22.

to go too far, do you? It's meant to be a bit of fun,

:28:23.:28:27.

but there's a warning children are feeling

:28:28.:28:31.

stressed, angry and anxious We'll get advice for

:28:32.:28:33.

parents from the NSPCC. That is all coming out. Time to get

:28:34.:28:37.

the news, Now though it's back

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to Sally and Dan. Hello, this is Breakfast

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with Dan Walker and Sally Nugent. Home care companies say they're

:32:07.:32:15.

in crisis because they can't recruit enough staff to meet

:32:16.:32:18.

growing demands. Research commissioned

:32:19.:32:20.

by the BBC's Panorama suggests nearly 1 in 4 homecare companies

:32:21.:32:24.

are at risk of insolvency - with 69 closing in the past

:32:25.:32:27.

three months alone. The Department for Health said it

:32:28.:32:37.

will announce plans for a more sustainable social care

:32:38.:32:40.

system later this year. Police have arrested a man

:32:41.:32:42.

on suspicion of murdering a one-year-old boy at

:32:43.:32:44.

a flat in North London. The man will also be

:32:45.:32:47.

questioned on suspicion of attempting to murder a girl,

:32:48.:32:49.

thought to be the boy's twin sister. The boy died in the early hours

:32:50.:32:53.

of Sunday and the girl remains Police in Ghana say at least 17

:32:54.:32:56.

people have died after a fallen tree hit people swimming

:32:57.:33:06.

beneath a waterfall. The accident happened

:33:07.:33:07.

at Kintampo Falls, It is thought the tree had been

:33:08.:33:09.

uprooted by a powerful storm. Most of the people

:33:10.:33:13.

killed were students. The president of the app-based taxi

:33:14.:33:17.

service, Uber, has resigned after less than six

:33:18.:33:20.

months in the job. Jeff Jones said recent

:33:21.:33:22.

controversies over claims of a poor working culture and sexual

:33:23.:33:25.

harassment at the company Higher compensation for some in

:33:26.:33:48.

their insurance. It comes after pressure from disability groups to

:33:49.:33:50.

lower the discount rate which determines how much the NHS or

:33:51.:34:01.

insurance companies must pay upfront to successful claimants to cover the

:34:02.:34:02.

lifetime care. In a rare move, MPs

:34:03.:34:04.

from four committees - across Transport, Health

:34:05.:34:06.

and the Environment - are coming together to look

:34:07.:34:08.

at the issue of air pollution. It's hoped the collaboration

:34:09.:34:11.

will enable them to improve the scrutiny

:34:12.:34:13.

of government plans The government says it's firmly

:34:14.:34:15.

committed to improving the UK's air quality and has recently announced

:34:16.:34:19.

additional funding to help Speaking earlier on Breakfast,

:34:20.:34:21.

the Chair of the Environmental Audit Committee, Mary Creagh,

:34:22.:34:25.

explained the importance of having I think we are at a critical moment.

:34:26.:34:32.

The government is set to publish its third pollution programme. Powerful

:34:33.:34:39.

committees are coming together in an unprecedented way to look at how the

:34:40.:34:42.

government needs to be producing this comprehensive plan to tackle

:34:43.:34:46.

the causes of air pollution not just from trucks and cars but from

:34:47.:34:52.

transport vehicles and agricultural equipment because we have 40,000

:34:53.:34:57.

early deaths per year and we have been dragging our feet as a country

:34:58.:35:04.

for too long. I have the giggles. I do not know why. Should I take over?

:35:05.:35:15.

You saved me last week. Lack of sleep does this to you.

:35:16.:35:21.

One of the world's top surfers has made an amazing comeback

:35:22.:35:24.

after he nearly died in an accident less than 2 years ago.

:35:25.:35:28.

Owen Wright suffered a severe brain injury while taking

:35:29.:35:30.

on one of the world's most dangerous waves,

:35:31.:35:32.

But the Australian surfer's just won the first event of this year's

:35:33.:35:37.

World Surf League's Championship Tour on the Gold Coast.

:35:38.:35:39.

Understandably, there were some very emotional scenes at the end of that

:35:40.:35:42.

competition - with Wright himself saying that the win

:35:43.:35:45.

What an incredible recovery. Brilliant stuff. Two years after

:35:46.:36:00.

almost dying. Just getting back in the water must have been...

:36:01.:36:08.

Elsewhere in sport. We go to Gloucestershire at Hartpury College.

:36:09.:36:16.

We have some fashionable sport on a Monday morning? I am in the gym with

:36:17.:36:30.

the senior football squad and perhaps some Premier League stars of

:36:31.:36:32.

the future. The main game of the day

:36:33.:36:36.

in the Premier League yesterday was between third and fourth place

:36:37.:36:39.

as Manchester City drew A penalty from James Milner put

:36:40.:36:41.

Liverpool ahead before Third placed City are now 12 points

:36:42.:36:45.

behind the league leaders Chelsea. It is one of the most special days

:36:46.:36:49.

of my life because after the defeat on Tuesday, Wednesday

:36:50.:36:54.

was so tough for us. And how we recovered today,

:36:55.:36:56.

with this mentality to play and attack - we could not attack

:36:57.:36:59.

more often because Liverpool I want to stay with those

:37:00.:37:02.

guys a long, long time. I don't want to change

:37:03.:37:06.

absolutely anything. In terms of the club,

:37:07.:37:08.

I want to stay here and help this I am more and more

:37:09.:37:12.

fine with the result. I struggled a little bit

:37:13.:37:16.

at the final whistle to be really happy about...but of course

:37:17.:37:20.

it is a success to get a point against City and to play like this.

:37:21.:37:23.

It not happens not every day so that means, yeah, it is absolutely more

:37:24.:37:27.

than OK what we did today. Second-placed Tottenham are ten

:37:28.:37:35.

points behind the league leaders after a 2-1 win over Southampton

:37:36.:37:41.

at White Hart Lane. They beat managerless

:37:42.:37:44.

Middlesbrough 3-1, Jesse Lingard Celtic are now just one win away

:37:45.:37:53.

from clinching They beat Dundee 2-1 yesterday

:37:54.:37:58.

and could wrap up the title Wigan Warriors are

:37:59.:38:02.

top of Super League. They drew 16-all with Huddersfield

:38:03.:38:05.

after previous leaders Castleford In Rugby Union,

:38:06.:38:07.

Leicester Tigers have won the Anglo Welsh Cup for the first

:38:08.:38:10.

time since 2012. Tom Brady scored their only try

:38:11.:38:14.

in a 16-12 win over Exeter Chiefs. It's Exeter's second

:38:15.:38:18.

final defeat in a row. Roger Federer has continued his

:38:19.:38:24.

impressive 2017 with victory He followed up his Australian Open

:38:25.:38:26.

title with a straight sets win over his Swiss compatriot

:38:27.:38:33.

Stan Wawrinka. And finally Britain's slopestyle

:38:34.:38:40.

skiers enjoyed double medal success James Woods and Isabel Atkin both

:38:41.:38:42.

picked up bronze medals. I am here

:38:43.:38:48.

in Hartpury College. I will be back later talking about

:38:49.:39:00.

drug abuse in amateur sport. Doping. Did you pass on chain

:39:01.:39:15.

letters at school? They were the notes that had to be

:39:16.:39:17.

shared by as many people as possible to supposedly avoid bad luck

:39:18.:39:21.

or prove friendship. Well, there is now a social

:39:22.:39:23.

media version of this - and some young people are finding

:39:24.:39:26.

the pressure overwhelming. which is where you send someone

:39:27.:39:28.

a photograph everyday on an app called Snapchat - are making some

:39:29.:39:33.

children anxious about friendships. Here's Newsround's Ricky

:39:34.:39:38.

Boleto to explain. Filters, face swaps and those Sydney

:39:39.:39:53.

years. Snapchat is one of the most popular apps for young people. 25%

:39:54.:40:03.

of smart phone users in the UK have downloaded the app. In case you did

:40:04.:40:13.

not know, Snapstreaks a is when you send a photo back and forth. To keep

:40:14.:40:20.

it going you have to send one every day. The longer the street, the more

:40:21.:40:26.

rewards when it comes to an end, it can cause big problems. The

:40:27.:40:34.

children's charity, NSPCC, said they have received a number of calls from

:40:35.:40:39.

young people really upset because their Snapstreaks ended. Maybe one

:40:40.:40:46.

day you forget to dig your street and you can get annoyed about it.

:40:47.:40:53.

Some people can get up to 600 and if you lost it, you get upset because

:40:54.:40:57.

all those days and all for nothing. You can get in fights with your

:40:58.:41:03.

friends. Saint why did you not send one back. It takes you quite a few

:41:04.:41:09.

days to start it and when you lose and it is annoying. I got to about

:41:10.:41:15.

30 and my dad forgot to do one. I did not get angry because everyone

:41:16.:41:22.

makes mistakes. We reach out to Snapchat to find out what they

:41:23.:41:25.

thought about this but they did not want to comment. Children is paying

:41:26.:41:30.

up to three hours a day on social media. While it is meant to be a lot

:41:31.:41:35.

of fun, experts are warning about the impact and the growing pressure

:41:36.:41:43.

to take Snapchat is taking its toll on some children.

:41:44.:41:45.

We're joined now by Emily Cherry from the NSPCC.

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It is sad that social media, it should be able to be enjoyed. When

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we grew up, it was sort of chain letters and there a bit of pressure

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but it is its affecting so many children's lives. That is the key,

:42:05.:42:09.

it should be a great place for children but the row some things

:42:10.:42:13.

online that can make and wiring. With Snapstreaks it is the potential

:42:14.:42:20.

for bullying and children getting anxious and worried about this

:42:21.:42:25.

feature. The obvious question, as a parent or someone who has the

:42:26.:42:29.

responsibility for caring for children, how on earth do you

:42:30.:42:35.

intervene? Are you constantly in their phone? Are you constantly

:42:36.:42:42.

asking questions? Regular and constant conversations. The minute

:42:43.:42:49.

you get technology for the child, support them and helps and

:42:50.:42:52.

understand that they can turn to you or a trusted adult. You mention some

:42:53.:43:01.

of what children are saying to you can give us more? We had a 14 EU

:43:02.:43:08.

role girl who could not get on to Wi-Fi and the streak ended and she

:43:09.:43:12.

got worried that she was going to be bullied and everyone would hate her

:43:13.:43:16.

and she would lose all have rents. It was having a huge impact. -- lose

:43:17.:43:24.

all her friends. It is essentially bullying? It is. Is the same

:43:25.:43:34.

framework applicable. How do you deal with bullies if you fail to

:43:35.:43:42.

continue the streak? The first thing is to make children understand

:43:43.:43:45.

bullying is not OK either in the real world or on social media. A

:43:46.:43:54.

quarter of things mentioned were about bullying. We did a survey of

:43:55.:44:00.

parents and 53% of parents did not know they were age limits for social

:44:01.:44:04.

media so it is vital that parents get an understanding of what is

:44:05.:44:12.

safe. If not go to the NSPCC where we have great tools to help you. 14

:44:13.:44:17.

is the age limit. There are always kids who do not mind what other

:44:18.:44:23.

people think and are quite confident but do you think, talking about

:44:24.:44:28.

mental health, do you think there is a larger proportion now who are more

:44:29.:44:34.

concerned about what people think? We hear from teenagers who say they

:44:35.:44:41.

feel completely under siege. It is always in your pocket. It is having

:44:42.:44:48.

a huge effect on young people's mental health. It is important for

:44:49.:44:53.

everybody to help them feel more confident. When they interact on

:44:54.:45:00.

social media and it is mean and nasty, more than in a playground? It

:45:01.:45:08.

is almost like as a child you are saying it is about yourself.

:45:09.:45:12.

Children need to understand the impact of the behaviour and that

:45:13.:45:17.

digital footprint will be there for ever. Children need to be aware of

:45:18.:45:27.

that and parents need to be aware as well. There are also ethical

:45:28.:45:33.

questions from authorities to address these concerns? We would

:45:34.:45:41.

call on all social media areas to have the same level of protection as

:45:42.:45:46.

you would have it in the real life world. Keep the pressure up on

:45:47.:45:51.

social media companies and if not maybe we need more regulations.

:45:52.:45:58.

Let us know what you think about that. You can get in touch with us

:45:59.:46:03.

on the usual channels. It's 7:46 and you're watching

:46:04.:46:04.

Breakfast from BBC News. Home care companies say they can't

:46:05.:46:06.

recruit enough staff to meet demand with research suggesting one in four

:46:07.:46:11.

providers are at risk Doping in UK sport is fast becoming

:46:12.:46:14.

a crisis at all levels, according to the head of the body

:46:15.:46:18.

set up to tackle the use Here's Carol with a look

:46:19.:46:21.

at this morning's weather. She has a warning for us. It is

:46:22.:46:27.

getting colder? It certainly is. We'll use it

:46:28.:46:36.

averages last week above average. This week, they come down below

:46:37.:46:42.

average. The warmer temperatures won't come to next week in the

:46:43.:46:49.

south-east. We have had rain, careering steadily in from the west

:46:50.:46:53.

through the course of the night in Scotland. Some of that rain is quite

:46:54.:46:56.

heavy, particularly the moment across Wales and north-west England.

:46:57.:46:59.

It is a weather front that is producing this rain. A cold front.

:47:00.:47:04.

And as it continues at the centre, eventually getting to the

:47:05.:47:06.

south-east, cold air will flood in behind it. We'll so have another

:47:07.:47:09.

weather front crossing Scotland quite smartly. It is driven on by

:47:10.:47:13.

strong winds, gusting to gale-force or more. That would transfer to

:47:14.:47:22.

Orkney through the afternoon. Our a prancing southwards. In between, and

:47:23.:47:28.

showers. Some of the rain will bring hail. We could have gusts of 50 mph

:47:29.:47:33.

in Orkney. Away from the rank in the north, it sunshine and showers

:47:34.:47:37.

across Scotland, Northern Ireland, and also northern England. The

:47:38.:47:40.

south-eastern areas will stay mostly dry. Two Wales there will be some

:47:41.:47:49.

rain, but it will dry up this afternoon. This residual cloud

:47:50.:47:52.

behind the front will produce rain, all the way down into the Channel

:47:53.:47:57.

Islands, and all points out this about. So some showers in the

:47:58.:48:02.

south-west. 13 13 and 14 in the south-west. That average will not

:48:03.:48:10.

feel like eight Celsius, but lower. Through this evening in overnight,

:48:11.:48:13.

there goes the rain from the south-east. A lot of shouted back in

:48:14.:48:17.

across Northern Ireland, Scotland, and northern England. Some will be

:48:18.:48:21.

wintry, even at lower levels. There will be a good far north through the

:48:22.:48:25.

Central Lowlands, with so first thing in morning, as well. There is

:48:26.:48:29.

of course the risk of ice. But the showers across England and Wales

:48:30.:48:33.

will be largely of rain. Tomorrow, we suffered a lot of sunshine in

:48:34.:48:37.

England Wales. A few showers coming in. Most of the wintry flavour on

:48:38.:48:42.

the hills. Still mild in the south-east. Colder in the

:48:43.:48:52.

south-east. Whether that average. Only four Celsius in Glasgow

:48:53.:48:56.

tomorrow. Then on Tuesday evening, while we have this finger of wet and

:48:57.:49:00.

windy weather coming up from the south-west, it will deposits and

:49:01.:49:03.

snow in the mountains of Wales. But as it engages with the cold air

:49:04.:49:07.

across northern England, particularly in the north-east, it

:49:08.:49:10.

will readily turned to snow. So some of us on Wednesday morning will be

:49:11.:49:16.

waking up to a covering of snow. North of that, dry, cold and some

:49:17.:49:21.

frost. Until Wednesday itself, we have this rotation of rain around an

:49:22.:49:25.

area of low pressure. Windy, too, with the wind coming from the

:49:26.:49:28.

north-east. Through the day, most of the winteriness will be on the

:49:29.:49:32.

hills. Still the south-east cling on to double figures, but for much of

:49:33.:49:37.

the rest of the UK, it really will be a big difference. And that will

:49:38.:49:43.

take us into night-time frost. So few -- if you have been busy

:49:44.:49:46.

painting, beware of the frost. More of us are opting for no frills

:49:47.:49:49.

when it comes to staying away from home - and this morning

:49:50.:50:00.

a leading budget chain is announcing plans to open 15 more

:50:01.:50:03.

hotels this year. So, no frills. What do you think

:50:04.:50:18.

this change is all about? We are seeing the same revolution in

:50:19.:50:23.

low-cost accommodation as we have in our lives and so on. And fashion.

:50:24.:50:28.

The same is happening in low-cost hotels. In fact, last you, around 35

:50:29.:50:32.

million people chose to stay in budget hotels, and the industry is

:50:33.:50:37.

now worth about ?2.5 billion. So it is growing strongly. So that is a

:50:38.:50:41.

significant change. Because the company was close to bankruptcy for

:50:42.:50:48.

five years ago. Back in 2012, it Travelodge was a victim of the

:50:49.:50:51.

global financial crisis. We've invested money in improving apology

:50:52.:50:56.

of our hotels, and are now embarking on a expansion programme. I seen

:50:57.:51:01.

figures predicting for the next three years. They say that 40% --

:51:02.:51:07.

47% of hotels are expected to be Ms Budgett market. -- new hotels. Is

:51:08.:51:12.

this good news for the hotel industry? Is it that is the people

:51:13.:51:17.

at the top end of the scale? We are seeing people choose more low-cost

:51:18.:51:20.

more frequently. Especially for business companies and clients. I

:51:21.:51:27.

think that is a response to the fact that the quality has been improved

:51:28.:51:31.

so much. So I think it is changing shift in the market, that is right.

:51:32.:51:34.

What are people looking for from budget hotel? What is the important

:51:35.:51:39.

thing? I think the most important thing is the location. Travelodge

:51:40.:51:46.

started more than 30 years ago and our newest hotel will be right in

:51:47.:51:52.

the city of London. You want quality at low prices. What about staff

:51:53.:51:56.

recruitment? You employ about 10,000 people across the company. And we

:51:57.:52:01.

talk a lot about Brexit on this programme. Does it make a difference

:52:02.:52:05.

to the recruitment of staff? With the extra staff you will need to

:52:06.:52:12.

these new hotels? We have always had a good record of recruiting people.

:52:13.:52:17.

About 300 of our manager started on entry-level jobs. But then the

:52:18.:52:20.

industry on the whole, it yes, I feel be an issue. About 10% of

:52:21.:52:24.

people working hospitality and tourism in the UK are from mainland

:52:25.:52:29.

EU. I think the government will have to look at some kind of scheme to

:52:30.:52:35.

kids some open borders on that front at least. Otherwise we will have

:52:36.:52:38.

similar challenges as the hunker cooperators you spoke about earlier.

:52:39.:52:44.

For us, it is about a relentless drive productivity. We has a lot of

:52:45.:52:49.

time thinking about how you can clean a room in one alas, because we

:52:50.:52:54.

have 42,000 rooms, it makes a big difference. That is part of the true

:52:55.:52:58.

low-cost revolution. Lazar work in much hotels. You don't really have

:52:59.:53:02.

to think so much about the pennies there, but in this market, that is

:53:03.:53:06.

absolutely get to worry about most. Projects and pillows at a hotel,

:53:07.:53:10.

that is all you really need. Judge hotel on their poached eggs and the

:53:11.:53:16.

quality of the pillows. We do 2.5 million Raqqa cf. Citi bank in an

:53:17.:53:20.

egg sandwich, that is a big thing for us. Traditional, I like it.

:53:21.:53:26.

Thank you very much the joining us. -- 2.5 million breakfasters.

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All this morning on Breakfast we've been asking what makes you happy -

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it's because it's the UN International Day of Happiness.

:53:40.:53:42.

You've been sending in pictures of what makes you happy.

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This is what makes Brian happy. It looks so gay half and half Peter. A

:53:45.:53:53.

meat lovers on one side, and maybe a pepperoni on the other? -- it looks

:53:54.:54:09.

like a half and half pizza. And this is a leap 's Mac cat,

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-- Leah's cat, Carrot. We have one pizza, one K, and then about 17,000

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dogs and cats. That is about right. Projects, I think they could be

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yours. There is only about a poached egg. You get a right, you get the

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nice and firm. -- poached eggs. Lots of lovely breakfasts make me happy.

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At the end of this programme. I could have a three course breakfast.

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Do you always eat food post... I do it early, you see?- but on toast at

:54:55.:55:01.

about 530. Exercises on my list, as well. You consent is through an

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e-mail, or find us on Facebook or Twitter. It is UN International

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happy day. They are saying share is an important thing. And be happy

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alone. Have time alone. And harmony of friends as well. A bit of

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everything, really. -- and time with your friends, as well.

:55:29.:55:29.

If you're working in a tall building today,

:55:30.:55:34.

you may want to think about how much it wobbles.

:55:35.:55:36.

Apparently the movement can make people feel sick.

:55:37.:55:39.

Now the impact of wobbly sky-scrapers and bridges

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We'll speak to a civil engineer about it.

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Ours is only five floors so we did not wobble much. You do not notice

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it. Time now to get the news,

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travel and weather where you are. Until then there's plenty

:55:55.:59:15.

more on our website. Hello this is Breakfast,

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with Sally Nugent and Dan Walker A warning that home care services

:59:40.:59:43.

are in crisis because providers New research suggests a quarter

:59:44.:59:47.

of the Uk's home care firms are at risk of insolvency and many

:59:48.:59:52.

have had to pull out of contracts A man is questioned by police over

:59:53.:59:56.

the murder of a one year old boy and the attempted murder of his twin

:59:57.:00:18.

sister. Politicians in the United States,

:00:19.:00:20.

begin hearings into Russia's alleged involvement in last

:00:21.:00:23.

November's presidential elections. I'm at a college in Gloucestershire

:00:24.:00:35.

today to find out more about the extent of doping in sport. A

:00:36.:00:39.

survey's found it's a big problem in amateur sport as well.

:00:40.:00:47.

# There'll be blue birds over # The Whitecliffsofdover. #

:00:48.:00:55.

On the 100th Birthday of Dame Vera Lynn; her picture

:00:56.:00:59.

is projected where else but on the white cliffs of Dover.

:01:00.:01:02.

And on the UN's international day of happiness, you've been sharing

:01:03.:01:05.

some of the pictures that keep you cheerful.

:01:06.:01:12.

You will notice a change in the weather this morning. Wet and

:01:13.:01:22.

windier conditions as the rain pulls away, the temperatures will slide.

:01:23.:01:27.

That leads us into a colder week than we've been used to. Last week,

:01:28.:01:31.

temperatures were above average. Home care companies say they're

:01:32.:01:36.

in crisis because they can't recruit enough staff

:01:37.:01:42.

to meet growing demands. Research commissioned by the BBC's

:01:43.:01:43.

Panorama suggests nearly 1 in 4 homecare companies are at risk

:01:44.:01:47.

of insolvency with 69 closing Amanda Hopewell is one of the UK's

:01:48.:01:49.

800,000 homecare workers. Today she is with former

:01:50.:02:00.

teacher, William Williams, Amanda is paid ?7.55 an hour,

:02:01.:02:03.

just above the national living wage, and like many care workers struggles

:02:04.:02:08.

to make ends meet. She is also on a zero hours

:02:09.:02:11.

contract, which means her hours I did look into buying

:02:12.:02:15.

a house four years ago. But because I did not

:02:16.:02:22.

have a contract, they would not allow me to buy a house

:02:23.:02:25.

or anything like that. Amanda is one of 200 staff employed

:02:26.:02:28.

by a family-run company. It is paid by local councils

:02:29.:02:34.

to provide homecare across Gwynedd and Anglesey but it currently has 30

:02:35.:02:38.

staff vacancies and is struggling Last year, the company

:02:39.:02:46.

stopped providing care for one local council,

:02:47.:02:53.

Conwy, and handed back the contract. Conwy council says it is committed

:02:54.:02:55.

to supporting vulnerable people in communities

:02:56.:02:58.

despite financial challenges. Our research reveals that

:02:59.:03:03.

across the UK, almost 100 councils have had home-care contracts handed

:03:04.:03:08.

back to them. The UK government declined to be

:03:09.:03:12.

interviewed but in a statement said it will be bringing forward

:03:13.:03:16.

proposals later this year to ensure a more financially

:03:17.:03:19.

sustainable social care system. With more of us living

:03:20.:03:23.

longer and a growing shortage of care workers,

:03:24.:03:28.

the pressure on people like Amanda Panorama is on BBC One tonight

:03:29.:03:32.

at 8.30, except for viewers in Wales, who can see

:03:33.:03:40.

the investigation on Week In, A month on from the renewed

:03:41.:03:42.

offensive to re-take Iraq's city of Mosul from so-called

:03:43.:03:56.

Islamic State, millions of people Thousands have fled the western half

:03:57.:03:59.

of the city in recent weeks but those who remain

:04:00.:04:03.

are experiencing shortages of food Our Middle East correspondent

:04:04.:04:05.

Orla Guerin reports. In the clamour for help,

:04:06.:04:10.

many go empty-handed. The gunfire from Iraqi soldiers

:04:11.:04:15.

trying to control the crowd Survivors of the caliphate,

:04:16.:04:19.

now at risk from hunger. In the distance, smoke

:04:20.:04:26.

from an IS car bomb. But those who flee the fighting

:04:27.:04:29.

here end up in overcrowded camps. There are no good options

:04:30.:04:36.

for the people of Western Mosul. Local people here tell us this

:04:37.:04:46.

is the first aid supplies They say they have no running water,

:04:47.:04:49.

no electricity, no access People in the queue are really

:04:50.:04:54.

afraid that the food is going to run out before they've been able

:04:55.:05:01.

to get some. Barely able to walk,

:05:02.:05:03.

but with many mouths to feed, Hamda Mohamed, whose family

:05:04.:05:07.

is living on bread and water. I'm crying, she says,

:05:08.:05:16.

because my children don't understand The battle for Mosul may now

:05:17.:05:20.

be in its final phase, when the caliphate crumbles,

:05:21.:05:36.

there will be much to rebuild, Orla Guerrin, BBC

:05:37.:05:40.

News, Western Mosul. In a rare move, MPs from four

:05:41.:06:01.

committees across Transport, We are joined by our guest in

:06:02.:06:12.

Cardiff now. What is the significance of today's visit by

:06:13.:06:15.

Theresa May? She's going to go to all the devolved nations before

:06:16.:06:18.

triggering Article 50 at the end of the month. The visit to Wales Today

:06:19.:06:23.

on paper should be the easiest primarily because Wales voted to

:06:24.:06:26.

leave the European Union unlike Scotland and Northern Ireland which

:06:27.:06:29.

voted to remain. In a sense, that brings its own political challenge

:06:30.:06:33.

because, if relations are not good with the devolved administration in

:06:34.:06:37.

Cardiff, it doesn't bode well with what will happen elsewhere. Labour

:06:38.:06:41.

Welsh Government ministers in Cardiff have been having talks in

:06:42.:06:45.

recent months with the UK Government over Brexit. There are some early

:06:46.:06:49.

signs of strain in that relationship. The real concern and

:06:50.:06:54.

question marks from the Welsh Government is whether there's real

:06:55.:06:57.

engagement from ministers at Westminster. What they want to be

:06:58.:07:02.

involved with is any kind of trade deal, the replacement areas like ago

:07:03.:07:06.

cultural subsidies for the farming sector. So Theresa May will be in

:07:07.:07:12.

Swansea today with Carwyn Jones, the First Minister, holding talks.

:07:13.:07:17.

She'll also sign a City deal, politically important for her if

:07:18.:07:21.

she's saying she'll represent all corners of the UK. South-west Wales

:07:22.:07:24.

is a corner of the UK that's struggled to generate investment in

:07:25.:07:25.

the past. Thank you Nick. Police have arrested a man

:07:26.:07:32.

on suspicion of murdering a one-year-old boy at a flat

:07:33.:07:34.

in North London. The man will also be

:07:35.:07:36.

questioned on suspicion of attempting to murder a girl,

:07:37.:07:38.

thought to be the boy's twin sister. The boy died early hours yesterday

:07:39.:07:49.

morning and the girl is in a critical condition.

:07:50.:07:52.

In a rare move, MPs from four committees across Transport,

:07:53.:07:55.

Health and the Environment are coming together to look

:07:56.:07:58.

They'll scrutinise whether government plans aimed at tackling

:07:59.:08:15.

The Force's Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, is celebrating

:08:16.:08:24.

To mark the occasion, a 350 foot image of her is being projected

:08:25.:08:28.

A pair of wartime spitfires will also do a display over the cliffs.

:08:29.:08:39.

Dame Vera's daughter Virginia was here at Breakfast last week,

:08:40.:08:43.

and told us how her mum enjoyed performing on stage.

:08:44.:08:50.

It was a bit, don't put your daughter on stage, Mrs Worthington,

:08:51.:08:56.

you know, but eventually she did and then loved it. I knew the reaction

:08:57.:09:00.

she was having on people which comes over in the documentary. The

:09:01.:09:04.

reaction she had on people and how they reacted to her, pow important

:09:05.:09:10.

she was to them. A very happy birthday.

:09:11.:09:21.

Those are the main stories this morning, Carol will have the latest

:09:22.:09:24.

A BBC Panorama investigation has found growing problems

:09:25.:09:31.

in the home care sector, as companies struggle to meet rising

:09:32.:09:33.

Research by the programme found almost 100 councils have

:09:34.:09:38.

had contracts cancelled by private care providers.

:09:39.:09:41.

Around a quarter of companies were found to be at risk of insolvency.

:09:42.:09:45.

And 69 providers were found to have closed in the last

:09:46.:09:48.

Joining us now is Ken Hogg who owns a company that provides care,

:09:49.:09:53.

and one of his employees, Amanda Hopewell.

:09:54.:09:57.

And joining us from Westminster is the former chair

:09:58.:10:00.

of the Royal College of GPs, Dr Clare Gerada who's been involved

:10:01.:10:03.

in writing a report on social care for the Liberal Democrats.

:10:04.:10:09.

Good morning to you all. Ken, if I could come to you first of

:10:10.:10:16.

all, what are the challenges that you face? Recruitment and retention

:10:17.:10:21.

of staff really are the biggest issues. It's not uncommon for a home

:10:22.:10:26.

care agency to have a turnover of 30% of staff a year. It's not

:10:27.:10:31.

uncommon. And you wonder why. I mean, we recruit people, we do

:10:32.:10:35.

retain a lot of people, we train people to a very, very high level

:10:36.:10:40.

and then we lose them because they can go to the low-cost supermarkets

:10:41.:10:46.

and earn ?10. 50 an hour where I can only pay them ?7. 55 an hour. You

:10:47.:10:52.

know, being dedicated to your job is wonderful and people like Amanda are

:10:53.:10:56.

very, very dedicated to their jobs, but at the end of the day they have

:10:57.:10:59.

to live like the rest of us, they have their bills to pay. Amanda,

:11:00.:11:04.

tells us what it's like for you working for Ken and his company. You

:11:05.:11:09.

are on a zero hours contract, so how does it pan out for you? It's quite

:11:10.:11:13.

hard really because you have got long hours in the week and it's

:11:14.:11:19.

just, you can't plan anything to two out, you know, no social life with

:11:20.:11:24.

your friends or anything like that, it's just a lot of work and a lot of

:11:25.:11:29.

people out there need their care and it is very hard. Especially from 7

:11:30.:11:35.

o'clock in the morning until 10 o'clock at night. Then you're out

:11:36.:11:39.

the next morning at 7 as well so it's long days. Doctor, I'm sure you

:11:40.:11:48.

have spoken to similar people to Amanda, you have been looking at

:11:49.:11:51.

this in detail. What do you think the solution might be? We looked in

:11:52.:11:55.

detail at how we can move from something needing to be done to what

:11:56.:12:00.

should be done. We looked at different ways of revenue generation

:12:01.:12:04.

really. What we came to what our interim report is about a dedicated

:12:05.:12:09.

or hypothecated health and care tax paid through national taxation and

:12:10.:12:12.

many polls have shown that the public would be willing to pay

:12:13.:12:17.

increases in tax as long as it was ringfenced. Also looking at national

:12:18.:12:23.

insurance because those baby boomers who're approaching retirement age of

:12:24.:12:28.

which sadly I rapidly am, will pay less contributions. In fact I'll pay

:12:29.:12:32.

nothing after the age of 65 and yet my use of the Health Service will

:12:33.:12:37.

increase. So if I'm economically active, I should continue to pay

:12:38.:12:43.

twashedz my national insurance. There'll about 1.5 million

:12:44.:12:45.

pensioners who currently are economically active who pay very

:12:46.:12:49.

little or no national insurance contributions. So we looked at all

:12:50.:12:53.

of this in the mix and the final report will come out later this

:12:54.:12:58.

year. Basically, raising money through council tax is a blunt

:12:59.:13:02.

instrument and it affects the poorest areas who can't raise as

:13:03.:13:07.

much yet need more so it's a disproportionate tax and it's one

:13:08.:13:10.

that's rather unfair. Probably the way forward, as we are talking

:13:11.:13:15.

about, is a dedicated tax, health and care tax which is transparent,

:13:16.:13:19.

the public knows what is in the pot, funded through national taxation,

:13:20.:13:24.

and changes in the national insurance contributions. I can hear

:13:25.:13:29.

people up and down the land shouting at their tellies. You know, only in

:13:30.:13:33.

the last few days, the Government's made a U-turn on the change in

:13:34.:13:39.

contributions of national insurance contributions. Raising taxes in any

:13:40.:13:44.

way is never popular is it, it's never easy? Of course it isn't but I

:13:45.:13:49.

think it's rather unfair that as I continue to be economically active

:13:50.:13:53.

to my 06s, maybe up to 70, I pay less than say my sons who aren't

:13:54.:13:57.

using the system. I'm not talking about people who're not in work.

:13:58.:14:01.

When you have largely been the beneficiaries of what we call the

:14:02.:14:05.

baby boom years, the education, the schooling et cetera, so paying tax

:14:06.:14:09.

is never popular but when polls have been done, one was done by Sky, one

:14:10.:14:13.

was done by the Guardian, on the whole, people if they see the money

:14:14.:14:18.

is being ringfenced and see that it's used wisely, if the costs are

:14:19.:14:22.

transparent, then of course we can only get what we pay for. You heard

:14:23.:14:28.

your story and Amanda earning less than she would earn in a supermarket

:14:29.:14:31.

doing the hardest of the hardest jobs. I tell you, feeding and

:14:32.:14:36.

washing and bathing and caring for your mother or your grandmother is a

:14:37.:14:41.

tough job but should be rewarded as such. Ken, you had to hand the care

:14:42.:14:48.

contract back. Give us an insight as to how close your margins are. You

:14:49.:14:56.

say you would love to pay your staff more, would you like to carry on? I

:14:57.:15:01.

must say this on camera. I know that our councils have had to accept

:15:02.:15:05.

Draconian cuts in their budgets, goodness me, we all go down the same

:15:06.:15:09.

potholes in the roads don't we because we know they are not filled

:15:10.:15:12.

in and councils haven't got enough money. This is a national problem

:15:13.:15:16.

that our national Governments are going to have to tackle and not

:15:17.:15:19.

place the whole of the burden on local authorities. Our councillors,

:15:20.:15:24.

ordinary people like we are, they're no different than what we are and

:15:25.:15:29.

they are having to make some really, really tough decisions because most

:15:30.:15:34.

councils in this country, they're top budgets are usually education

:15:35.:15:38.

and social care, the top two, either or and these budgets have had no

:15:39.:15:43.

choice but to accept cuts as part of the regime that is run.

:15:44.:15:51.

This young lady sitting next to me is wonderful and she is one of many,

:15:52.:15:56.

many people who work for my company and across the land as well.

:15:57.:16:01.

Hard-working, caring, dedicated, respected by her colleagues,

:16:02.:16:04.

respected by the people that she looks after and I want this young

:16:05.:16:08.

lady and all the other people I employ to have a decent Living Wage.

:16:09.:16:15.

On that, Amanda, have had to consider changing career? Can you

:16:16.:16:19.

see yourself doing this job five years down the line? If they brought

:16:20.:16:23.

in a contract like just a small contract or something, anything for

:16:24.:16:28.

us or even wages went up, I would stay in care, but because I love the

:16:29.:16:32.

job so much, I don't want to look for anything else. Yeah, I suppose

:16:33.:16:36.

you wouldn't do it, the long hours... I must say this to you and

:16:37.:16:41.

people at home must realise this. Most employees don't want their

:16:42.:16:47.

employees to have zero-hours contracts, I have no choice because

:16:48.:16:51.

if I get a client going into hospital then the funding for that

:16:52.:16:55.

client stops immediately. No retainer is paid. So I don't know

:16:56.:16:59.

how long that person is going to be in hospital for and I mean, it's a

:17:00.:17:04.

ridiculous situation and you end up in a situation like we heard over

:17:05.:17:08.

this past couple of months really. They call it delayed discharging, we

:17:09.:17:13.

still call it bed-blocking, but it can cost I'm up to ?2,000 a week to

:17:14.:17:17.

keep a person in hospital, who actually should be at home. I want

:17:18.:17:22.

to bring you, we have a statement from the Welsh Government. This is

:17:23.:17:26.

what they are saying. "It is up to the Welsh Government's Cabinet to

:17:27.:17:30.

decide how to spend any extra money. Action is being taken to address

:17:31.:17:33.

recruitment problems in the sector and the introduction of a

:17:34.:17:37.

registration scheme for care workers in 2020 would be helping."

:17:38.:17:42.

Well, giving somebody a little bit of status by putting them on the

:17:43.:17:48.

register is fine, but will that give them a decent Living Wage at the end

:17:49.:17:51.

of the day? I don't know. All I do know is this - I think Rebecca Evans

:17:52.:17:57.

is the Minister for Social services for the Welsh Government. I would

:17:58.:18:03.

Rebecca Evans to go out on a wet, horrible night, in the middle of

:18:04.:18:07.

Anglesey, walking down somebody's path with a torch with the rain

:18:08.:18:13.

going down the back of your neck trying to open a key safe to help a

:18:14.:18:18.

little old lady to put her to bed. She has done that? In order to know

:18:19.:18:24.

what a job is about, you have to do it yourself, don't you? It is as

:18:25.:18:29.

simple as that. I have done that, not in Anglesey, but certainly in

:18:30.:18:32.

the area where I'm a General Practitioner and I can tell you, it

:18:33.:18:37.

is a very difficult job and I get paid considerably more than care

:18:38.:18:40.

workers and it is important that we address the fact that the people who

:18:41.:18:44.

look after the most vulnerable in society, care workers, are paid a

:18:45.:18:49.

decent wage. Thank you very much indeed. Ken, Amanda, it is great to

:18:50.:18:54.

have you in this morning. I'm sure we've got lots of viewers who have

:18:55.:18:58.

got things to say. Get in contact and you can do that via Facebook and

:18:59.:19:00.

Twitter. Send us an e-mail as well. Here's Carol with a look

:19:01.:19:06.

at this morning's weather. This morning we have cloud and there

:19:07.:19:16.

is rain and it's windy particularly so across the Western Isles. The

:19:17.:19:20.

other thing about the forecast, it is going to turn cold are. We've got

:19:21.:19:26.

this cold front sinking south and behind it, we see colder air coming

:19:27.:19:31.

our way as represented by the blues on the chart. You will notice a

:19:32.:19:38.

different as temperatures fall to below average with night-time frosts

:19:39.:19:42.

and some of us seeing snow. So this morning we have got a band of rain

:19:43.:19:46.

across England and Wales continuing to push steadily down towards the

:19:47.:19:50.

South East. Windy around it, but behind that, for the far north of

:19:51.:19:53.

England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, we are looking at bright

:19:54.:19:57.

spells and sunshine and showers. But still very windy in the north. So

:19:58.:20:00.

the strongest winds in morning in the Western Isles, by the afternoon,

:20:01.:20:04.

we're looking at gusts 60mph across the Northern Isles especially

:20:05.:20:07.

Orkney. Now, away from that, Scotland and Northern Ireland and

:20:08.:20:10.

Northern England seeing showers. Most of them at lower levels will be

:20:11.:20:13.

of rain, but you might see hail and in between, there will be sunshine.

:20:14.:20:18.

It is the same for Wales. Sunshine after the rain as the rain continues

:20:19.:20:22.

to push down into the South East, and also the Channel Islands. Behind

:20:23.:20:25.

it, for the south-west, there will be quite a bit of cloud for you

:20:26.:20:29.

producing showers, but slowly, it will start to brighten up.

:20:30.:20:33.

Temperature wise today, sevens, eights and nines in the north to

:20:34.:20:37.

highs of 14 Celsius as we push towards the South East. Talking of

:20:38.:20:40.

the south-east, that rain clears away through this evening. Leaving

:20:41.:20:44.

some clear skies behind. Still quite breezy and a rash of showers. Now,

:20:45.:20:48.

some of those showers will be wintry, even at lower levels across

:20:49.:20:51.

Northern Ireland, Scotland and Northern England. Funneling across

:20:52.:20:57.

the Central Lowlands so you may wake up to patchy coverings of snow

:20:58.:21:01.

tomorrow morning, across the south it is more likely to be rain you

:21:02.:21:07.

see, but watch out for ice first thing tomorrow morning. Tomorrow

:21:08.:21:10.

morning, we start off with that scenario, but the wintry flavour

:21:11.:21:14.

will be on the hills rather than at lower levels. There will be a lot of

:21:15.:21:18.

dry weather and sunshine and showers coming in across England and Wales

:21:19.:21:22.

and another breezy day, but look at the temperature continuing to come

:21:23.:21:25.

down except for this stage in the South East. Only four or six Celsius

:21:26.:21:31.

in Glasgow or Newcastle. Tomorrow night, we've got this finger of rain

:21:32.:21:35.

extending in from the south-west accompanied by gusty winds. That

:21:36.:21:40.

will deposit snow on the mountains of Snowdonia, but as it pushes up

:21:41.:21:43.

into the north of England and engages with the colder air here,

:21:44.:21:48.

well, it will fall to snow. Not just on the hills, but at lower levels

:21:49.:21:51.

particularly we think across north-east England. So again, first

:21:52.:21:55.

thing on Wednesday morning you will be waking up to snow. But

:21:56.:21:59.

increasingly through the day as temperatures rise, it will be snow

:22:00.:22:03.

on the hills, rain at lower levels and you can see the rotation of the

:22:04.:22:06.

rain on either side of it, something drier and brighter and still 11 in

:22:07.:22:10.

London, but elsewhere we are coming down. So if you have been planting

:22:11.:22:14.

Sal and Dan, remember frost by night. Watch out for the tender

:22:15.:22:18.

plants. OK, I will. I will check the tender

:22:19.:22:26.

plants this evening! Carol said it's time to get our

:22:27.:22:32.

winter woollies out! Really? I've just put mine away.

:22:33.:22:38.

Congressional hearings in Washington aren't normally big box office -

:22:39.:22:43.

but events there today have been described as American politics

:22:44.:22:45.

The question is how much the Russians were involved in last

:22:46.:22:51.

year's presidential election and the man in the dock is

:22:52.:22:56.

the director of the FBI, James Comey.

:22:57.:22:57.

Our Washington reporter Laura Bicker explains why it's

:22:58.:22:59.

I think it would be great if we got along with Russia.

:23:00.:23:08.

I've never met Putin in all fairness.

:23:09.:23:10.

One question has dogged Donald Trump's road

:23:11.:23:13.

to the White House more than any other -

:23:14.:23:15.

what part did Russia play in helping him win the election?

:23:16.:23:18.

The hackers behind a cyber-attack on Mr Trump's Democratic

:23:19.:23:22.

rivals were Russian, according to US intelligence.

:23:23.:23:29.

The embarrassing e-mails were published on WikiLeaks

:23:30.:23:31.

and some, including Hillary Clinton, began to question Russia's

:23:32.:23:33.

We have never, in the history of our country, been

:23:34.:23:37.

in a situation where an adversary, a foreign power, is working

:23:38.:23:40.

so hard to influence the outcome of the election.

:23:41.:23:47.

And believe me, they're not doing it to get me elected.

:23:48.:23:50.

She doesn't know if it's the Russians doing the hacking.

:23:51.:23:52.

However hard he tried, Russia was the scandal

:23:53.:23:58.

He would rather have a puppet as president of the United States...

:23:59.:24:02.

Those who analyse state-sponsored cyber-threats are convinced.

:24:03.:24:11.

Where there's smoke, there's some kind of fire.

:24:12.:24:15.

There is fire, but it's not the burning down of the building

:24:16.:24:18.

that might be perceived by some news accounts.

:24:19.:24:20.

Much more likely, in a smarter strategy on the part of Russia,

:24:21.:24:23.

is identify candidates that support their positions,

:24:24.:24:29.

identify those issues which drive support to those candidates,

:24:30.:24:31.

As President Trump entered the White House, the press kept

:24:32.:24:38.

on digging for more details on any Russian links to his campaign.

:24:39.:24:47.

Donald Trump's close aides said they'd no contact with Russian

:24:48.:24:50.

But they seemed to keep forgetting they had met

:24:51.:24:52.

The first Cabinet casualty was his national security

:24:53.:24:59.

He resigned after his meetings were disclosed.

:25:00.:25:02.

Then there was his pick for Attorney-General, Jeff Sessions.

:25:03.:25:06.

It turned out too that he had also met with Russian ambassador.

:25:07.:25:09.

In his position of power, President Trump has continued

:25:10.:25:11.

to state he wants closer ties with Russia.

:25:12.:25:13.

The hearings this week will try to establish just how close

:25:14.:25:16.

What would I get involved with Putin for?

:25:17.:25:25.

I have nothing to do with him, I have never spoken to him,

:25:26.:25:28.

I know nothing about him other than that he will respect me.

:25:29.:25:32.

You can watch coverage of the hearing this afternoon

:25:33.:25:34.

Millions of people across America are expected to be glued to that all

:25:35.:25:40.

day. We've

:25:41.:25:49.

been asking what makes you happy? It's the international

:25:50.:25:51.

day of happiness. Brambles the horse makes Willow

:25:52.:26:02.

happy. Nicola tweeted us a picture of her daughter, awh, gorgeous, she

:26:03.:26:08.

makes everybody happy. Zoe shared this little gem. This is up side

:26:09.:26:15.

down Dudley. Good morning, Dudley! Dudley is a man! Dudley keeps that

:26:16.:26:22.

family very happy as well. Yeah, I think Dudley looks very relaxed.

:26:23.:26:27.

That's the best way to watch us, slightly up side down.

:26:28.:26:34.

That is potentially smiling! Yeah. That's a dog smile on Breakfast.

:26:35.:26:38.

Keep sending your pictures in. You can e-mail us at

:26:39.:26:42.

[email protected] or share your thoughts with other

:26:43.:26:43.

viewers on our Facebook page. And you can Tweet about today's

:26:44.:26:46.

stories using #BBCBreakfast or follow us for the latest

:26:47.:26:48.

from the programme. Lots of people sending in pictures

:26:49.:26:56.

I will be here just after 9am. And a horse. More coming up.

:26:57.:30:30.

Hello this is Breakfast, with Sally Nugent and Dan Walker.

:30:31.:30:35.

Home care companies say they're in crisis because they can't

:30:36.:30:38.

recruit enough staff to meet growing demands.

:30:39.:30:40.

Research commissioned by the BBC's Panorama suggests nearly one in four

:30:41.:30:44.

home care companies are at risk of insolvency - with 69 closing

:30:45.:30:47.

The Department for Health said it will announce plans for a more

:30:48.:30:53.

sustainable social care system later this year.

:30:54.:30:59.

Police have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering

:31:00.:31:02.

a one-year-old boy at a flat in north London.

:31:03.:31:04.

The man will also be questioned on suspicion

:31:05.:31:06.

Our reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn is in north London now.

:31:07.:31:14.

It is a horrible case. What can you tell us about the latest we are

:31:15.:31:25.

hearing this morning? Forensic teams were here late into last night. It

:31:26.:31:32.

is on Wilberforce Road, at one of the cream properties behind me, the

:31:33.:31:37.

top floor flat. They were called at 11pm on Saturday when the flat

:31:38.:31:42.

became a crime scene and neighbours reported hearing screaming and

:31:43.:31:46.

shouting and also saw a distressed woman who had run out into the

:31:47.:31:50.

street. Police say they got to the flat and found a one-year-old boy,

:31:51.:31:56.

and girl, twins, both seriously hurt and they were taken to hospital, one

:31:57.:32:02.

by land ambulance, the other by air ambulance, but, sadly, the little

:32:03.:32:07.

boy died shortly afterwards. Police asked to speak to a man, Bidhya

:32:08.:32:16.

Sagar Das, believed to be the children's father. He was then

:32:17.:32:22.

arrested at 715 last night. We are told he is being held at a London

:32:23.:32:28.

police station. Police say a postmortem may well take place this

:32:29.:32:35.

morning. The little girl was transferred from one hospital to

:32:36.:32:40.

another yesterday because she needed specialist care. She is described as

:32:41.:32:45.

being in a critical, but stable, condition. Thanks.

:32:46.:32:47.

Police in Ghana say at least 17 people have died after a fallen

:32:48.:32:51.

tree hit people swimming beneath a waterfall.

:32:52.:32:52.

The accident happened at Kintampo Falls, a popular

:32:53.:32:54.

It is thought the tree had been uprooted by a powerful storm.

:32:55.:33:00.

Most of the people killed were students.

:33:01.:33:05.

The president of app-based taxi service Uber has resigned after less

:33:06.:33:07.

Jeff Jones said recent controversies over claims of a poor working

:33:08.:33:14.

culture and sexual harassment at the company made him leave.

:33:15.:33:18.

Big changes in calculating personal injury insurance pay-outs

:33:19.:33:22.

come into effect today, which will mean higher

:33:23.:33:24.

compensation for some, but more costs for the industry.

:33:25.:33:27.

It comes after pressure from disability groups

:33:28.:33:31.

to lower the discount rate that determines how much the NHS,

:33:32.:33:34.

or insurance companies, must pay up front to successful

:33:35.:33:36.

claimants to cover their lifetime care.

:33:37.:33:38.

In a rare move, MPs from four committees -

:33:39.:33:41.

across Transport, Health and the Environment -

:33:42.:33:43.

are coming together to look at the issue of air pollution.

:33:44.:33:46.

It's hoped the collaboration will enable them to improve

:33:47.:33:48.

the scrutiny of government plans to reduce pollution.

:33:49.:33:52.

The government says it's firmly committed to improving the UK's air

:33:53.:33:55.

quality and has recently announced additional funding to help

:33:56.:33:58.

One of the world's top surfers has made an amazing comeback

:33:59.:34:13.

It comes less than two years after being injured in an accident.

:34:14.:34:18.

Owen Wright suffered a severe brain injury while taking on one

:34:19.:34:21.

of the world's most dangerous waves, in Hawaii, in 2015.

:34:22.:34:23.

But here the Australian surfer is, winning he first

:34:24.:34:25.

event of this year's World Surf League's Championship

:34:26.:34:27.

of that competition - with Wright himself saying

:34:28.:34:32.

Plenty of friends and family there, as he managed to get out of the

:34:33.:34:42.

water and you can see what it meant to him and all those who gathered to

:34:43.:34:46.

see him back. What a hero. That brings you up to

:34:47.:34:48.

date. If you're working in a tall building

:34:49.:34:52.

today, you may want to think Apparently the movement can

:34:53.:34:56.

make people feel sick. We'll speak to a civil

:34:57.:34:59.

engineer about it. This may seem like an ordinary

:35:00.:35:08.

choir, but they've just won an award for raising hundreds of thousands

:35:09.:35:11.

of pounds for charity Not all of them! The studio is not

:35:12.:35:13.

that big! And a bit later, we

:35:14.:35:27.

have a treat for you. We have ALL of the chasers

:35:28.:35:31.

here on the sofa to talk about being in the final

:35:32.:35:34.

of Let's Sing and I love the costumes.

:35:35.:35:45.

We have four of the five. Because Paul is a stand-up comedian at the

:35:46.:35:48.

weekend and he had a gig and could not take part.

:35:49.:35:51.

He missed out on dressing up and singing and dancing. All of that to

:35:52.:35:53.

come. We have information this morning on

:35:54.:36:01.

the amount of doping in sport. We will have more in a moment. Kat bowl

:36:02.:36:09.

have more in a moment, but first you will bring us up to date.

:36:10.:36:15.

You will not see any half-hearted stretching because the netball girls

:36:16.:36:22.

are in and netball girls do things properly. No netball in the

:36:23.:36:26.

bulletin. We start with the Premier League.

:36:27.:36:27.

The main game of the day in the Premier League yesterday

:36:28.:36:29.

was between third and fourth place as Manchester City drew

:36:30.:36:32.

A penalty from James Milner put Liverpool ahead before

:36:33.:36:35.

Third-placed City are now 12 points behind the league leaders Chelsea.

:36:36.:36:41.

It is one of the most special days of my life,

:36:42.:36:45.

because after the defeat on Tuesday, Wednesday

:36:46.:36:47.

And how we recovered today, with this mentality to play

:36:48.:36:52.

and attack - we could not attack more often because Liverpool

:36:53.:36:55.

I want to stay with those guys a long, long time.

:36:56.:36:59.

I don't want to change absolutely anything.

:37:00.:37:00.

In terms of the club, I want to stay here and help this

:37:01.:37:04.

I am more and more fine with the result.

:37:05.:37:08.

I struggled a little bit at the final whistle to be really

:37:09.:37:14.

happy about...but of course it is a success to get a point

:37:15.:37:16.

It happens not every day so that means, yeah,

:37:17.:37:27.

Second-placed Tottenham are ten points behind the league leaders

:37:28.:37:31.

after a two-one win over Southampton at White Hart Lane.

:37:32.:37:33.

They beat managerless Middlesbrough three-one,

:37:34.:37:37.

Jesse Lingard here with the pick of the goals.

:37:38.:37:42.

Celtic are now just one win away from clinching

:37:43.:37:44.

They beat Dundee 2-1 yesterday and could wrap up the title

:37:45.:37:49.

Wigan Warriors are top of Super League.

:37:50.:37:55.

They drew 16-all with Huddersfield after previous leaders Castleford

:37:56.:37:57.

Leicester Tigers have won the Anglo Welsh Cup

:37:58.:38:05.

Tom Brady scored their only try in a 16-12 win over Exeter Chiefs.

:38:06.:38:12.

It's Exeter's second final defeat in a row.

:38:13.:38:15.

Roger Federer has continued his impressive 2017

:38:16.:38:18.

He followed up his Australian Open title with a straight sets win

:38:19.:38:23.

over his Swiss compatriot Stan Wawrinka.

:38:24.:38:28.

In the women's final, Elena Vesnina recovered from a set

:38:29.:38:33.

and 4-1 down against fellow Russian and two time grand slam champion

:38:34.:38:36.

Svetlana Kuznetzova to win the biggest title of her career

:38:37.:38:39.

And finally, Britain's slopestyle skiers enjoyed double medal success

:38:40.:38:46.

James Woods and Isabel Atkin both picked up bronze medals.

:38:47.:38:55.

That concludes the sports news and we can get back to the reason we are

:38:56.:39:06.

here in the Hartpury College in Gloucestershire, which is one of the

:39:07.:39:09.

first to sign up to a clean sport commitment to fight against doping

:39:10.:39:13.

in sport and we are here to talk about that because a BBC survey

:39:14.:39:19.

found doping in amateur sport, not just professional sport, it is

:39:20.:39:24.

pretty widespread. We have heard high profile cases, Lance Armstrong,

:39:25.:39:28.

the Russian athletics team before the Olympics and Usain Bolt stripped

:39:29.:39:31.

of a medal because a Jamaican team-mate got caught cheating. It

:39:32.:39:35.

turns out it is a problem among amateur athletes. We have been

:39:36.:39:37.

looking into the issue. There are many reasons why

:39:38.:39:39.

professional athletes take And sport is overwhelmed

:39:40.:39:43.

with culprits. The disgraced cyclist,

:39:44.:39:52.

Lance Armstrong, has ended years of denial by admitting

:39:53.:39:55.

using performance-enhancing drugs. But what might be harder

:39:56.:39:56.

to understand is why amateur Dan Stevens was a former

:39:57.:39:59.

amateur cyclist. A few years ago, he started taking

:40:00.:40:02.

a number of substances He was banned in 2014

:40:03.:40:04.

after refusing to take a test. I had always been a clean athlete,

:40:05.:40:12.

and this situation that happened with me when I was 39 years old,

:40:13.:40:21.

the real thing for me wasn't I didn't do a lot of

:40:22.:40:24.

racing on the substances. How much of a difference

:40:25.:40:27.

does this give you? I don't think in the amateur ranks,

:40:28.:40:37.

it is about winning. It is that you have got a situation

:40:38.:40:40.

where somebody is overweight, needs to lean down, and uses it

:40:41.:40:43.

to get in shape. And then get railroaded into doing

:40:44.:40:45.

a marathon or a long bike ride, or some kind of competitive event,

:40:46.:40:49.

and they improve their And they become a healthier

:40:50.:40:52.

individual, they become more body conscious

:40:53.:40:55.

and more health-orientated. And this is far from

:40:56.:40:56.

an isolated case. A poll carried out for the BBC

:40:57.:40:58.

of amateur sportspeople in the UK found that half believe the use

:40:59.:41:01.

of performance enhancing A similar number say those drugs

:41:02.:41:05.

are easily available among those More than a third said

:41:06.:41:10.

they personally know someone who has doped,

:41:11.:41:14.

and 8% said they had taken steroids. Certainly the figures,

:41:15.:41:19.

as regard to the prevalence of performance-enhancing substances

:41:20.:41:24.

at an amateur level, That said, they do confirm what UK

:41:25.:41:25.

Anti-Doping has long suspected, and also seen, through some

:41:26.:41:32.

of our intelligence-led testing. This is the front line in the fight

:41:33.:41:37.

to keep sport clean, a joint operation between police

:41:38.:41:40.

and UK Anti-Doping, targeting However, it's not against the law

:41:41.:41:42.

to use steroids for personal use. So for those motivated by vanity,

:41:43.:41:54.

rather than victory, are they really We took our findings

:41:55.:41:57.

to an expert in doping behaviour This is actually the dark

:41:58.:42:03.

side of exercise. Using substances not

:42:04.:42:06.

to improve your health - you don't care about

:42:07.:42:09.

your health any more. You care about your performance

:42:10.:42:11.

and how you look to other people. Just how serious a health issue do

:42:12.:42:15.

you think this could be? You're using substances that

:42:16.:42:20.

are meant to treat diseases. And you are actually misusing them

:42:21.:42:22.

without a prescription. You are not just cheating,

:42:23.:42:28.

or not cheating, if you are an exerciser, but putting

:42:29.:42:31.

your life at risk. But however the authorities

:42:32.:42:33.

respond to the issue, athletes at every level,

:42:34.:42:35.

in every sport will always be willing to cut corners,

:42:36.:42:38.

whatever the risks. Some really alarming figures in the

:42:39.:42:51.

report. What they are committed to act Hartpury, here, is educate

:42:52.:42:56.

students. They have over 1500 students and they will educate them

:42:57.:43:02.

and bring them up in a world of sport where they prove doping is not

:43:03.:43:06.

a benefit to athletes and hopefully that will stamp out doping in

:43:07.:43:10.

amateur sport and perhaps in professional sport where a lot of

:43:11.:43:15.

students go on to excel. Ruth, you are the performance Lifestyle

:43:16.:43:18.

manager and it is up to you to teach students about anti-doping and you

:43:19.:43:22.

have an educational system to tell them what is right and wrong, but

:43:23.:43:27.

how do you know they are not giving in to temptation? I guess we can

:43:28.:43:32.

never know 100%, we do our best to ensure they have the education and

:43:33.:43:38.

understand consequences and when they are competing they are

:43:39.:43:41.

competing clean and hopefully they can make important choices and holds

:43:42.:43:52.

hold their head high. Thanks for coming here. Looking very smart in

:43:53.:43:56.

your suit, surrounded by Lycra! Why do you think amateur athletes are

:43:57.:44:02.

tempted into doping? I imagine what has happened over the past 20 years

:44:03.:44:07.

is professional sport has become so dominant its values and ethos has

:44:08.:44:14.

trickled down to the amateur world. Although the original intention of

:44:15.:44:21.

amateur sport was to put -- to participate with the joy of

:44:22.:44:24.

competing, that has somehow been lost and if you want evidence, go to

:44:25.:44:29.

any park on Sunday morning and listen to parents and coaches on the

:44:30.:44:33.

touchline, while kids are playing ordinary games of football for farm.

:44:34.:44:39.

And you will think you are witnessing wannabe Pep Guardiolas or

:44:40.:44:47.

Jose Mourinhos. People screaming at their kids as if their life depended

:44:48.:44:52.

on it. You have been outspoken, that in your opinion you cannot regulate

:44:53.:44:57.

doping. You can say to students it is not good for you, but at the end

:44:58.:45:02.

of the day, it is impossible to police. That is what Ruth

:45:03.:45:08.

acknowledges. In practical terms you cannot police. You can test and

:45:09.:45:12.

punish people who violate this but you can never control doping because

:45:13.:45:17.

the witches are in professional sport. It is a dog eat dog kind of

:45:18.:45:27.

ethos and I think anything that confers a competitive advantage,

:45:28.:45:31.

athletes will take. Doping apparently does and will never read

:45:32.:45:37.

sport of it. I suppose that leads me to the logical conclusion that what

:45:38.:45:43.

should we do about it, and maybe we should access at it, that it is part

:45:44.:45:48.

and parcel of modern sport and somehow monitor it to try to

:45:49.:45:54.

regulate it, but not penalise athletes who do take dope. Let's not

:45:55.:46:01.

forget, we enjoyed sport pre-1972, which is when anti-doping policies

:46:02.:46:06.

were introduced and I think we can as easily appreciate and enjoy sport

:46:07.:46:11.

even if there was doping that was rampant. That is a big claim. Would

:46:12.:46:16.

you enjoy watching sport if perhaps what you saw on the television could

:46:17.:46:20.

actually not be believed, athletes had been doping. Would you watch the

:46:21.:46:25.

Olympics where everybody had been doping, who knows? This is part of

:46:26.:46:30.

the BBC's state of sport week. You can follow the debate and have your

:46:31.:46:36.

say. Thanks for coming down. For now, back to the studio. Do you know

:46:37.:46:47.

that there is a man trying to take your picture, behind you? The other

:46:48.:46:55.

way! Watch out! They are everywhere! Good to see the netball team

:46:56.:47:01.

preparing nice and early. Some serious weights. Very impressive. I

:47:02.:47:05.

am sure Carol does that in her training regime. What a beautiful

:47:06.:47:12.

weather picture. Good morning, both, this is one picture from a weather

:47:13.:47:17.

watcher taken in to run this morning, a lovely sunrise, in East

:47:18.:47:23.

Yorkshire, much more cloud, as there currently is and in Wales, it is

:47:24.:47:28.

murky and wet. We have fairly low cloud. A satellite picture you can

:47:29.:47:33.

see Worley have the brakes and the cloud coming south across Scotland

:47:34.:47:37.

and Northern Ireland, some showers and a lot of sunshine. This bright

:47:38.:47:42.

light is a weather front which through the day will continue to

:47:43.:47:47.

take cloud and rain steadily towards the south-east opening the

:47:48.:47:49.

floodgates behind and for colder air. Last week we had temperatures

:47:50.:47:55.

above average, this week they will be widely below average. So we have

:47:56.:48:00.

a wet start to the day, that rain across northern England and Wales

:48:01.:48:04.

continuing to push steadily south-east, windy ahead of it, a lot

:48:05.:48:09.

of cloud and General drizzle. Behind that band of rain for Northern

:48:10.:48:12.

England, North Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland as we go

:48:13.:48:17.

through the afternoon, some sunshine and also showers. They windy start

:48:18.:48:21.

to the Western Isles, by this afternoon gusts of 60 miles an hour

:48:22.:48:26.

across the Northern Isles, especially Orkney. Showers persist

:48:27.:48:29.

across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, and it will

:48:30.:48:35.

trigger element in the Scots hills, brightens up in Wales in the

:48:36.:48:39.

afternoon, this is the cloud behind the weather front which will

:48:40.:48:43.

continue its descent with heavier and persistent rain extending into

:48:44.:48:47.

the south-eastern channel islands but running up and touch behind it

:48:48.:48:51.

across South West England. Even shoot we cannot avoid a shower.

:48:52.:48:56.

Maybe in the north, less cold in the south although not such a pretty

:48:57.:48:59.

picture even at 14 Celsius because of the wind and rain. This evening,

:49:00.:49:06.

cold behind it and we will see a good rash of showers coming in,

:49:07.:49:11.

especially across northern England and is getting into northern

:49:12.:49:20.

England. And the hills wintry, even at lower levels a fall of snow, in

:49:21.:49:24.

the central lowlands they will get over as far as Edinburgh and we are

:49:25.:49:29.

also looking at snow showers in the Highlands, watch out for ice if you

:49:30.:49:36.

are on the move earlier in the day. Tomorrow, still wintry showers

:49:37.:49:38.

although increasingly throughout the day the wintry mess will be on the

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hills. Any showers in the south are likely to be of rain. Another

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blustery day as well, temperatures up to six Celsius in Newcastle,

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that's about it 11 in the south-east, temperatures coming down

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although not as early as elsewhere. Tuesday night sees this band of rain

:50:00.:50:04.

moving north, depositing snow on the mountains of Wales, as it engages

:50:05.:50:08.

with the colder air across northern England we should see snow at lower

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levels, especially in the North East, that is what you will wake up

:50:13.:50:17.

to during Wednesday morning. So today, a wet and windy start, things

:50:18.:50:22.

still relatively mild, but it will change as we go through the course

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of this week. Sally and done. Thank you, Carol. Well done. We will see

:50:27.:50:33.

you tomorrow. Now, if you work in a tall building

:50:34.:50:38.

and often feel tired and grumpy, it might not be just your job

:50:39.:50:41.

that's to blame. Engineers say spending time in high

:50:42.:50:44.

rise buildings can lead to tiredness and depression -

:50:45.:50:47.

because they sway Now a ?7 million study will look

:50:48.:50:49.

in to the impact of wobbly bridges and sky scrapers

:50:50.:51:03.

on our health. We're joined now by two

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of the experts involved, Dr Antony Darby, Head

:51:05.:51:06.

of Civil Engineering at the University of Bath,

:51:07.:51:08.

and Aleksandar Pavic, Professor of Vibration Engineering

:51:09.:51:10.

at the University of Exeter. What a great job title. You have

:51:11.:51:17.

introduced me to a new thing already. Good morning. Good morning

:51:18.:51:23.

to you. Can it really have that much of an impact on how we feel if the

:51:24.:51:28.

building we work in this there is some evidence which is coming from

:51:29.:51:33.

New Zealand, Wellington, one of the windiest cities in the world, there

:51:34.:51:39.

is evidence that some people in some circumstances, in some environments

:51:40.:51:43.

for some buildings, demonstrating the effects of mild motion sickness.

:51:44.:51:54.

Do all buildings move? We are in a building five floors in total, is it

:51:55.:51:59.

moving fractionally? Absolutely. All buildings move all the time. Loads

:52:00.:52:09.

on buildings vary. Wind loading, changes, people moving around the

:52:10.:52:15.

building cost buildings to vibrate. This is the millennium Bridge when

:52:16.:52:19.

it first came out and people were very concerned about this. Bridges

:52:20.:52:22.

are something else you are looking at. That is what we look at as well.

:52:23.:52:33.

Tall buildings in particular, a lot of tall buildings are being built at

:52:34.:52:39.

the moment, 400 of them planned for London in the next 20 years, and

:52:40.:52:43.

those are particularly prone to swaying. This is why this research

:52:44.:52:53.

is really important to be down right now. Is this why there is

:52:54.:52:58.

competition between architects and wealthy firms to go taller and

:52:59.:53:03.

taller? There is. You see at every few years, a new list of tall

:53:04.:53:08.

buildings. And they can sway metres! When you are right at the top of the

:53:09.:53:13.

building. We need to understand now what the consequences of that motion

:53:14.:53:19.

are. From a business point of view, it's a lot of money, ?7 million,

:53:20.:53:25.

spent to try to work this out. If people are getting tired and

:53:26.:53:28.

depressed, and you say that buildings in the feature will be

:53:29.:53:34.

built increasingly upwards then from a building point of view it could

:53:35.:53:38.

have a financial impact on visitors who work there. Indeed, this

:53:39.:53:43.

facility is therefore us to get to the bottom of what is going on. It

:53:44.:53:49.

will be crucial as well to sort out potential remedial measures. We

:53:50.:53:53.

believe that the environment, if it is quiet or busy, it plays a crucial

:53:54.:54:01.

role. For instance if you are standing and moving maybe you are

:54:02.:54:04.

resetting your body so that you can cope. All these are crucial research

:54:05.:54:09.

questions which we need to investigate and this facility will

:54:10.:54:15.

allow it. Which buildings that we might know of other worst offenders?

:54:16.:54:20.

Which wobbled a most? Is it about what they are built out of, or is it

:54:21.:54:28.

the height? All those factors. We are using new materials, trying to

:54:29.:54:34.

be more sustainable, and those buildings are perfectly safe, but

:54:35.:54:41.

they do inevitably move more than we are used to. What is interesting is

:54:42.:54:50.

that vibrations dictates structures, so they dictate the structures, not

:54:51.:54:58.

size considerations. It's all about day-to-day performance. And

:54:59.:55:01.

vibrations rather than strength dictate the size of the columns, the

:55:02.:55:11.

beams and such in modern buildings. I went up a crane in South Africa at

:55:12.:55:15.

once and I genuinely have not recovered because that was moving

:55:16.:55:19.

all over. They were building a water tower and for some reason we decided

:55:20.:55:24.

to go up to the top of it, the worst idea I've ever had. Thank you very

:55:25.:55:26.

much, gentlemen. Several athletes and officials

:55:27.:55:28.

involved with last year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio have

:55:29.:55:31.

told the BBC they're angry and frustrated by the failure

:55:32.:55:33.

to provide any meaningful It's exactly six months

:55:34.:55:36.

after the 2016 Games came to an end, and while Brazilian officials insist

:55:37.:55:44.

there were tangible Wyre Davies reports from the city

:55:45.:55:48.

on the broken promises For five weeks last summer,

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Rio de Janeiro was the centre of the sporting world,

:55:52.:55:55.

host city for the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games -

:55:56.:55:58.

the greatest show on Earth. Exactly six months later,

:55:59.:56:02.

the stage is empty. Rio's Olympic Park, which should

:56:03.:56:08.

by now be operating as a sporting centre of excellence,

:56:09.:56:11.

is eerily quiet. Arenas where medals were won

:56:12.:56:14.

and lost are now little Venues that should have been

:56:15.:56:17.

dismantled, some to be rebuilt If there is a legacy here,

:56:18.:56:22.

it is not the one that those who campaigned for the Rio

:56:23.:56:35.

Olympic Games had expected. I feel that the Olympic Games

:56:36.:56:37.

in Brazil was not so successful, because the legacy

:56:38.:56:40.

was not the number one. We - we delivered a good Games,

:56:41.:56:42.

we had a lot of problems, and we keep with them, and nobody

:56:43.:56:45.

is doing anything for changing. This is the Olympic tennis arena

:56:46.:56:48.

where Andy Murray won his second For now, this is being run,

:56:49.:56:52.

like many other venues in the Olympic Park,

:56:53.:56:57.

by the Brazilian Sports Ministry, because no private company,

:56:58.:56:59.

nor the local authority, can afford, or want to take on,

:57:00.:57:03.

the huge running costs. Team Brazil missed its own medal

:57:04.:57:13.

targets at Rio 2016. This archer, Ane Marcelle,

:57:14.:57:15.

came a creditable ninth place, but has since lost her

:57:16.:57:17.

funding and her coach. Improving on Rio, and even

:57:18.:57:19.

making the Tokyo Games, TRANSLATION: A month

:57:20.:57:22.

after the Games, they cut everything - my health insurance,

:57:23.:57:34.

my salary, everything. We made history in archery,

:57:35.:57:36.

but it's all over. It made me think my

:57:37.:57:41.

sacrifice was not worth it. Such was Rio's desperation to get

:57:42.:57:43.

things ready on time, legacy was the last thing on any

:57:44.:57:45.

one's minds, says one official, who had worked previously

:57:46.:57:48.

on the London Games, I never once had a conversation

:57:49.:57:50.

about legacy at any point or in any discussion I had

:57:51.:57:55.

working on the Games. You have to remember that this

:57:56.:57:58.

was a Games where we were scrambling to put the event on on

:57:59.:58:01.

a day-by-day basis. There was no time to think

:58:02.:58:11.

about what was going to happen the day after the Games

:58:12.:58:14.

finished in September. There were undoubtedly

:58:15.:58:16.

improvements in Rio, In public transport,

:58:17.:58:17.

some infrastructure, I think that there are still promise

:58:18.:58:19.

that need to be delivered. But I do believe that we still have

:58:20.:58:24.

time to work on these promises, and the promise that we need to be

:58:25.:58:28.

faster on is the delivery of the Olympic Park,

:58:29.:58:31.

and improvements in the sporting - A brand-new Velodrome,

:58:32.:58:34.

built at huge expense, barely used, its track

:58:35.:58:43.

already water-damaged. A state-of-the-art whitewater

:58:44.:58:48.

course, meant to become a public water park after the Games,

:58:49.:58:50.

remains closed off. It is very sad. You saw all those

:58:51.:59:04.

things in their full glory, and people were saying what will it be

:59:05.:59:08.

like in six months and now we are seeing. It's just coming up to nine

:59:09.:59:12.

o'clock. It is International Day of

:59:13.:59:23.

Happiness. All morning we have been happy.

:59:24.:59:27.

Thanks for the pictures and messages you have sent him about what makes

:59:28.:59:34.

you happy. This is John. In Loch Lomond.

:59:35.:59:40.

Thomas has discovered something clever.

:59:41.:59:45.

This is a hot cross bun burger. Yes! I can see gherkins. Get rid of

:59:46.:59:52.

the gherkin and that is a winner. I have had a doughnut burger before.

:59:53.:59:58.

That was right up there. Michelle sent us this birthday cake she made

:59:59.:00:02.

for a cake decoration exam. I hope she passed with flying

:00:03.:00:06.

colours because it is incredible. It makes you happy. Thanks for your

:00:07.:00:13.

pictures. We have had so many animals. Owls. It was a highlight.

:00:14.:00:21.

One person said they were slightly perturbed. What else makes you

:00:22.:00:28.

happy? Singing. We will talk to people really happy this morning.

:00:29.:00:28.

The Roscommon Solstice Choir. Last night they were recognised in

:00:29.:00:48.

the Epic awards. I am delighted to say there are 120 members of the

:00:49.:00:49.

choir. We have three this morning. # But it's not the isle

:00:50.:00:56.

I left behind.# # After the dance is ended

:00:57.:01:18.

And all the stars are gone # Many's the heart that's aching

:01:19.:01:21.

If you could reach them all.# They are with us this morning. A

:01:22.:01:48.

huge number of people in your choir, 120 people, how do you make that

:01:49.:01:53.

work? We have two fantastic directors, they are very young, 25

:01:54.:02:02.

and 27, and they are so charismatic. So enthusiastic about the choir and

:02:03.:02:07.

we have a range of ages in the choir from 18, up to 86. It works. We are

:02:08.:02:17.

one big happy family and have one goal, raising money, helping

:02:18.:02:21.

charities to raise money. How did you get involved? I got involved

:02:22.:02:28.

three years ago and I love it. It is therapeutic, sing. What is it about

:02:29.:02:32.

singing that is therapeutic? It clears your brain and head. Very

:02:33.:02:37.

therapeutic, I find. Have you made friends in the choir? I have. It is

:02:38.:02:42.

a great way of meeting people. Fantastic. How many men are in the

:02:43.:02:49.

choir? A looks like there were slightly more women! We have more

:02:50.:02:57.

this year than we had. When I joined, there were 11, but we are

:02:58.:03:02.

over 20 now. It is increasing every year. The balance is still good. The

:03:03.:03:10.

sound you get from that number of men with the four part harmonies

:03:11.:03:15.

leasing is enough. Maybe too many men might drown it out. But we would

:03:16.:03:20.

take more if they are interested. Do you have a limit on how many you

:03:21.:03:25.

would like to have. You have 120 at the moment, are you looking for new

:03:26.:03:30.

members? This publicity, people might say, can I get involved?

:03:31.:03:36.

Anybody can get involved. There are no auditions. We have different

:03:37.:03:42.

abilities within the choir. We sound fantastic together. It is more the

:03:43.:03:47.

therapy of singing than the actual performing. What was your wedding

:03:48.:03:57.

performance, the song? We have an anthem, Roscommon and seven, and it

:03:58.:04:04.

was written by Paddy from Roscommon. It brings pride in our county and we

:04:05.:04:09.

love singing it, it is very popular. We have a member of the choir who

:04:10.:04:17.

sings how happy we are all together. Tell us about the money you have

:04:18.:04:24.

raised. What is the total? Around 150,000. Amazing. Last year, we

:04:25.:04:33.

raised about 40000 and 5000 of that was for Home Concern in London.

:04:34.:04:39.

Members of the choir travelled to London to sing for that charity and

:04:40.:04:45.

more people joined her and came out and volunteered to do work for the

:04:46.:04:51.

charities so -- they joined up. We get the enjoyment and go out and

:04:52.:04:55.

sing and hopefully the people who listen get enjoyment and charities

:04:56.:05:00.

make money. If you are wondering, that is not a wine glass. The trophy

:05:01.:05:11.

is actually very small. But it is still as important, no matter what

:05:12.:05:15.

size it is. Thanks. Congratulations. Enjoy yourselves.

:05:16.:05:21.

We have singing and dancing coming up shortly. The chasers will be here

:05:22.:05:26.

We have a full studio. Suddenly it to talk about Comic Relief.

:05:27.:07:15.

We have a full studio. Suddenly it is busy.

:07:16.:07:18.

We're used to seeing them as the no-nonsense brainboxes

:07:19.:07:23.

Competing against contestants on ITV's quiz show The Chase.

:07:24.:07:28.

But this weekend, the chasers are in the final of Let's Sing

:07:29.:07:31.

Mark, Jenny, Ann and Shaun impressed viewers two

:07:32.:07:37.

weeks ago with their renditions of the Wizard of Oz.

:07:38.:07:42.

If you have not seen it, hold onto your hats.

:07:43.:07:50.

# We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz.

:07:51.:07:54.

# Because, because, because, because of the wonderful things he does.

:07:55.:08:03.

# We're off to see the wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz.

:08:04.:08:11.

Wow. That was some performance. We need to know the secrets behind the

:08:12.:08:22.

outfits. It is so different to what you would normally do. We talk about

:08:23.:08:27.

reality TV and being outside your comfort zone and that is a perfect

:08:28.:08:31.

example. It is very different. We are used to being in control of our

:08:32.:08:37.

emotions, sitting in a seat, we are at high and nobody can assail us and

:08:38.:08:43.

to be standing there, ready to be singing on live television with

:08:44.:08:47.

millions watching, the comfort zone is somewhere in the distance. How

:08:48.:08:52.

did you manage it? I am rarely nervous but I was

:08:53.:08:57.

nervous before doing this. We knew that Jenny was our secret weapon

:08:58.:09:01.

because we knew she could sing and nobody knew she coped. So could you.

:09:02.:09:08.

I am OK, but Jenny is really good. There was a SuBo moment. There was a

:09:09.:09:17.

gasp and I could not hear the backing music after that. A good

:09:18.:09:22.

start, it reduces the nerves. The pressure is on, actually. I would

:09:23.:09:27.

not have wanted to be the other is ready to start their queue because

:09:28.:09:32.

the chair was enormous. Can Jenny hear the backing music? I could not

:09:33.:09:38.

hear myself. Shaun, you were the tin man. Talk to us about the outfit. I

:09:39.:09:43.

heard once you had it on you could not sit down. I had to stand the

:09:44.:09:49.

best part of the whole of the rendition and it was really hot

:09:50.:09:53.

inside, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. At the dress rehearsal I was in the

:09:54.:09:58.

room next to him and I could hear the wardrobe with it, one, two, 3Com

:09:59.:10:06.

in. Saying, yes, we've got it! And Shaun saying, wait, I am falling

:10:07.:10:11.

over! Where did the idea come from? It was not ours, they told us what

:10:12.:10:17.

we were doing and we said, OK, we have seen it. I did it in the school

:10:18.:10:21.

play when I was nine. You did not think it was a bit too silly? Did

:10:22.:10:29.

you think, great? I remember thinking, is it corny, when

:10:30.:10:39.

everybody else is doing Uptown Funk. They all knew what we were doing.

:10:40.:10:47.

Those songs mean a lot to people and they voted, so we have not done it

:10:48.:10:53.

too much injustice. Mark, who does not like an eight foot lion?

:10:54.:11:03.

Especially in the Beyonce wig. We did not have backing singers or

:11:04.:11:10.

dancers. Radley's VAT was wonderful because it almost lowered

:11:11.:11:12.

expectations and suddenly it was, they can sing. My choral tradition

:11:13.:11:18.

is after rugby matches in South Wales where you belt up the volume

:11:19.:11:24.

and do not worry about the quality. How are you going to cope having to

:11:25.:11:28.

do it again? Everybody knows you are good now. We are going to raise the

:11:29.:11:34.

level of expectations. Lesley Joseph was the wicked witch in this one, do

:11:35.:11:39.

you have a surprise? Hopefully we will keep that a secret. She might

:11:40.:11:46.

not be available next Saturday. I don't know. There might be another

:11:47.:11:51.

person. We do not know. I would not tell you if we did. Regular viewers

:11:52.:12:01.

of The Chase will know that Paul was not part of that. He had work

:12:02.:12:04.

commitments. He is a stand-up comedian at the weekend. He was not

:12:05.:12:10.

working that Saturday, the problem was he was not available for

:12:11.:12:13.

rehearsals and that is why he could not do it and he posted he was

:12:14.:12:21.

insanely jealous. I bet. At my 30th birthday, I was born in 1982 and he

:12:22.:12:29.

did a piano and karaoke mega mix of the greatest hits of 1982 that he

:12:30.:12:34.

came up with himself, played the piano, sang it and gave out song

:12:35.:12:38.

sheet so everybody could sing along. That is an entertainer at heart.

:12:39.:12:44.

How far can you go with this? Saturday night, that is it. We are

:12:45.:12:50.

chasers and we will rehearse hard and work hard. The ambition. We are

:12:51.:12:55.

there to win. We are up against good people, but they are up against us.

:12:56.:13:01.

That is what we see on The Chase day in, day out, I like the dedication.

:13:02.:13:07.

Will you win? Yes. It is up to the great British public and all I can

:13:08.:13:13.

say is vote for us. You are cramming in rehearsals, get as much done as

:13:14.:13:18.

you can and we will see you on Saturday.

:13:19.:13:20.

The final for 'Lets sing and Dance For Comic Relief'

:13:21.:13:22.

is on this BBC One on Saturday evening at five to 7.

:13:23.:13:26.

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