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Hello this is Breakfast, with Sally Nugent and Dan Walker. | :00:00. | :00:07. | |
A warning that home care services are in crisis | :00:08. | :00:09. | |
because providers can't recruit enough staff. | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
New research suggests a quarter of the Uk's home care firms | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
are at risk of insolvency and many have had to pull out of contracts | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
A man is questioned by police over the murder of a 1-year-old boy | :00:20. | :00:42. | |
and the attempt to murder his twin sister. | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
Politicians in the United States, begin hearings into Russia's alleged | :00:46. | :00:48. | |
involvement in last November's presidential elections. | :00:49. | :00:58. | |
We've a special report this morning looking at the extent of doping | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
I'm at Hartpury College in Gloucestershire to explore some | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
of the ideas they've come up with to tackle the problem | :01:08. | :01:14. | |
Also this morning, on the 100th birthday of Dame Vera Lynn - | :01:15. | :01:17. | |
her picture is projected where else but on the White Cliffs of Dover. | :01:18. | :01:24. | |
It will turn colder for today. This week, temperatures below average and | :01:25. | :01:39. | |
the sum today will be wet and windy. Home care companies say they're | :01:40. | :01:45. | |
in crisis because they can't recruit enough staff to meet | :01:46. | :01:50. | |
the growing demand. Research commissioned | :01:51. | :01:52. | |
by the BBC's Panorama suggests nearly 1 in 4 homecare companies | :01:53. | :01:54. | |
are at risk of insolvency, with 69 closing in the past | :01:55. | :01:57. | |
three months alone. Amanda is one of 100,000 workers in | :01:58. | :02:16. | |
the UK. Today she is with the former teacher with multiple sclerosis. She | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
is paid just above the national living wage and like many care | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
workers struggles to make ends meet. She is also on a zero hour contract. | :02:27. | :02:34. | |
Because I did not have a content, they would not allow me to buy a | :02:35. | :02:40. | |
house or anything like that. It is hard. Amanda is one of 200 employed | :02:41. | :02:48. | |
by this company. It is paid by local councils to provide local care but | :02:49. | :02:54. | |
it currently has 30 staff vacancies and is struggling to take on new | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
clients. Last year, the company stop providing care for one council and | :03:02. | :03:07. | |
handed back the contract. Conry council says it is committed to | :03:08. | :03:14. | |
support its vulnerable people in the community despite financial | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
challenges. But it is not alone. Almost 100 councils have had | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
home-care contracts handed back to them. The government declined | :03:24. | :03:30. | |
interview but in a statement that it will be bringing forward proposals | :03:31. | :03:35. | |
to make sure of a more sustainable care system. With more of us living | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
longer and a growing shortage of care workers, the pressure on people | :03:42. | :03:43. | |
like Amanda will continue to grow. Panorama is on BBC One | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
tonight at half past 8, except for viewers in Wales, | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
who can see the investigation on Week In, Week Out | :03:50. | :03:51. | |
at the same time. Police have arrested a man | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
on suspicion of murdering a 1-year-old boy at | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
a flat in North London. The man will also be questioned | :03:58. | :04:00. | |
on suspicion of attempting to murder a girl, thought to be | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
the boy's twin sister. Our reporter Kathryn Stanczyszyn | :04:05. | :04:06. | |
is in North London for us now. As you can see, the police cordon is | :04:07. | :04:26. | |
still in place on Wilberforce Road. Police were called on Saturday night | :04:27. | :04:32. | |
to the top floor flat of a property just behind me on this street. | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
Neighbours had reported hearing shouting and screaming at witnesses | :04:37. | :04:41. | |
said they saw of woman running to the middle of the street and | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
appealing for help. When police arrived, they found two very young | :04:46. | :04:52. | |
children with serious injuries. They are believed to be twins. They were | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
taken to hospital but sadly the little boy and died a short time | :04:57. | :05:06. | |
later. They put out a name of a man, Bidhya Sagar Das, widely reported | :05:07. | :05:12. | |
yesterday to be the children's father. The Metropolitan police | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
reported last night they had arrested that man and is being held | :05:17. | :05:24. | |
at an East London police station. The little girl is still in a | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
critical but stable condition. A month on from the renewed | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
offensive to re-take Iraq's city of Mosul from so-called | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
Islamic State, millions of people | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
are facing a new crisis. Thousands have fled | :05:35. | :05:37. | |
the western half of the city in recent weeks but those who remain | :05:38. | :05:40. | |
are experiencing shortages of food Our Middle East correspondent | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Orla Guerin reports. In the clamour for help, | :05:44. | :05:50. | |
many go empty-handed. The gunfire from Iraqi soldiers | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
trying to control the crowd Survivors of the caliphate, | :05:54. | :06:00. | |
now at risk from hunger. In the distance, smoke | :06:01. | :06:12. | |
from an IS car bomb. But those who flee the fighting | :06:13. | :06:15. | |
here end up in overcrowded camps. There are no good options | :06:16. | :06:22. | |
for the people of Western Mosul. Local people here tell us this | :06:23. | :06:31. | |
is the first aid supplies They say they have no running water, | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
no electricity, no access People in the queue are really | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
afraid that the food is going to run out before they've | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
been able to get some. Barely able to walk, | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
but with many mouths to feed, Hamda Mohamed, whose family | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
is living on bread and water. I'm crying, she says, | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
because my children don't understand The battle may be in its final phase | :06:57. | :07:32. | |
but there is much to rebuild, including a divided community. | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
Theresa May will travel to south Wales this morning | :07:36. | :07:37. | |
with the Brexit Secretary David Davis and will meet | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
The Prime Minister will reiterate her commitment again | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
to what she calls the precious union of the UK. | :07:44. | :07:45. | |
The visit comes as a report by the think tank the Institute | :07:46. | :07:49. | |
for Government warns that the enormity of delivering | :07:50. | :07:51. | |
Brexit will leave little parliamentary time | :07:52. | :07:53. | |
The director of the FBI, James Comey, will give evidence | :07:54. | :07:59. | |
today about alleged Russian interference | :08:00. | :08:01. | |
Appearing before the House Intelligence Committee, | :08:02. | :08:05. | |
he's also expected to face questions about a second explosive issue - | :08:06. | :08:08. | |
President Trump's claim that his predecessor, | :08:09. | :08:10. | |
Barack Obama, authorised a wire-tap of Trump Tower during the campaign. | :08:11. | :08:17. | |
In a rare move, MPs from four committees - | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
across Transport, Health and the Environment - | :08:20. | :08:21. | |
are coming together to look at the issue of air pollution. | :08:22. | :08:24. | |
They'll scrutinise whether government plans aimed | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
at tackling the problem go far enough, as Andy Moore explains. | :08:27. | :08:36. | |
A bus that looks clean enough, but technology shows | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
Much of this pollution comes from nitrogen dioxide | :08:39. | :08:43. | |
Paulette quality is -- poor air quality is contributing to a lot of | :08:44. | :08:58. | |
deaths. Diesel vehicles once thought to be | :08:59. | :08:58. | |
part of the solution are now seen The problem is one that cuts | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
across many branches of government. The House of Commons believes | :09:02. | :09:06. | |
it is best to use resources A total of four sessions will be | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
held jointly by these committees. The Environmental Audit Committee, | :09:10. | :09:20. | |
the Environment Food and Rural affairs committee, | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
health and transport. Their job will be to look at plans | :09:23. | :09:23. | |
to tackle urban air pollution. Last November, the High Court said | :09:24. | :09:27. | |
the government must come up with a plan to tackle air pollution | :09:28. | :09:33. | |
in the cities by the 23rd of April. A full plan must be in place | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
by the end of July. Last month, the European Union | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
said 16 parts of the UK were breaching air | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
quality directives. It is giving the government to come | :09:45. | :09:45. | |
up with a scheme to defeat the problem or face | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
a multi-million pound fine. They recently announced a further | :09:50. | :09:53. | |
?200 million in funding They recently announced a further | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
?290 million in funding The Force's Sweetheart, | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
Dame Vera Lynn, To mark the occasion, a 350 | :10:01. | :10:09. | |
foot image of her is being projected on to the White Cliffs | :10:10. | :10:25. | |
of Dover today. A pair of wartime spitfires | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
will also do a display Dame Vera said she feels | :10:28. | :10:30. | |
incredibly humbled by efforts Beautiful. There have been a few | :10:31. | :10:50. | |
private parties but a lovely way. Did you know that the bluebirds in | :10:51. | :10:55. | |
the song are not bluebirds but the RAF servicemen in their uniforms. | :10:56. | :11:02. | |
That is why they pay you the big bucks. Exactly. You could learn from | :11:03. | :11:11. | |
me. It is UN happy day to day and we will be talking about what makes you | :11:12. | :11:17. | |
happy. Outside the normal things. The UN says smile, share, eat | :11:18. | :11:26. | |
healthily, give back, spent some time with friends and family and | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
sometimes alone, listen to music, be charitable and say it all the more | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
instead of none the less. No hints of chocolate. We did quite a lot of | :11:37. | :11:44. | |
smiling and sharing. Healthy Breakfast... I think I failed. I | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
will not go into details. Some of the front pages. The first 24-hour | :11:51. | :12:00. | |
drone unit is to be launched as forces may have to rely on it as | :12:01. | :12:06. | |
failing officer numbers. We talked a lot about the humanitarian crisis in | :12:07. | :12:15. | |
Africa. They are talking about this six month old little girl, a victim | :12:16. | :12:22. | |
of the terrible drought in Somalia. The Daily Telegraph talking about | :12:23. | :12:28. | |
Dame Vera Lynn. They have an image of Dame Vera Lynn on the White | :12:29. | :12:35. | |
Cliffs of Dover. And BBC demands top billing in law. The director of | :12:36. | :12:44. | |
radio and education says the shows must have more TV Guide in the age | :12:45. | :12:51. | |
of digital era as viewing habits are changing all the time. More of a | :12:52. | :12:56. | |
push to make traditional television more well-placed. Suggestions that | :12:57. | :13:03. | |
retirement posts could be hit because of the change... The U-turn | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
from the budget last week. French and Saunders apparently turned down | :13:09. | :13:15. | |
the offer of a job worth ?2.5 million. They did not want too much | :13:16. | :13:25. | |
cake. Some of the inside pages. I love this. The little girl who looks | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
exactly like Ed Sheeran. The mother 's sister put the picture on social | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
media to start with and then the mother, who was 21, said she is | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
amazed that it has gone viral. Apparently the little girl has | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
started watching him and quite likes it. It is canning. -- uncanny. The | :13:51. | :14:03. | |
mouth position as well. Absolutely brilliant. The front page of The | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
Guardian. The story we are also covering, about Donald Trump and his | :14:09. | :14:21. | |
wiretapping claims. How much do you spend on a date? It has been a | :14:22. | :14:33. | |
while! ?129 on a date. What! Where is all that money going. The | :14:34. | :14:38. | |
European counterparts, in France or Germany, ?46. In Italy, 47 pounds. | :14:39. | :14:50. | |
?55 in Spain. We spend more than anyone else. Cabs. Is there an out | :14:51. | :15:01. | |
fit? It is meant to be catching a, potentially a new outfits. --A taxi. | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
If anyone wants to take the out on a date for 120 pounds I will be happy. | :15:10. | :15:17. | |
You are cheap, are you! LAUGHTER let's have a look at the weather. | :15:18. | :15:29. | |
The weather this week is changing behind this weather front, here, | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
because as the front pushes south, much colder air is going to seep in | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
behind it. Lastly, we had temperatures above average. This | :15:39. | :15:42. | |
week, we will see temperatures below average for this stage of March. You | :15:43. | :15:48. | |
can see the south or the onto double-figure temperatures that is | :15:49. | :15:54. | |
in contrast with the north, which is in a single figures. A wet and windy | :15:55. | :15:58. | |
start. Strong winds across the western Isles at the moment. | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
Possibly touching storm fronts as that transfers into Orkney. Here is | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
the weather front producing all the rain slipping southwards. Then a | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
fresh of showers are going to come in behind it. By evening, we will | :16:12. | :16:15. | |
notice some of those will be wintry. This morning, any winteriness will | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
be largely on the hills. In between the showers in Scotland, there will | :16:20. | :16:22. | |
be some sunshine, but gusty with the western Isles. The Northern Ireland, | :16:23. | :16:28. | |
a quiet start of the day, but we are looking at the odd shower. Then | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
across England and Wales, we run into all this rain. Some of this | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
will be happy. At this, there will be sent dampness around with some | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
drizzle. And quite a bit of cloud. But not as cold a start for the day. | :16:41. | :16:49. | |
Tens and Ian Evans. The weather will be a little like it was yesterday. | :16:50. | :16:55. | |
-- 11s. Still windy. The strongest winds in the afternoon across the | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
Northern Isles. Temperatures starting to slip down. Through this | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
evening and into the overnight, we will lose the rain to the | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
south-east. It will be cold. Still a little breezy. Look at the showers | :17:07. | :17:10. | |
coming in. Even at low levels across Northern Ireland and parts of | :17:11. | :17:13. | |
Scotland, there will be some of that so. Possibly northern England as | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
well. With such low temperatures, there is a risk of ice to look out | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
for later on tonight and tomorrow. Tomorrow we started with the | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
showers. Increasing threat the day there will be more rain at lower | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
levels. Further south, there will be some rain, but dry weather in | :17:34. | :17:37. | |
between. In some eastern areas, particularly in the hills, there | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
will mist the showers altogether. Look at the temperatures again | :17:42. | :17:44. | |
slipping down. Just relieve the far south-east that is holding on to | :17:45. | :17:48. | |
double figures. Then as we go through Tuesday night, another | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
finger of rain comes up in the south-west. This could deposit some | :17:52. | :17:55. | |
snow on the hills and mountains in Wales. Possibly in two northern | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
England, too. And it will be quite windy and cold. A cold start to the | :18:01. | :18:05. | |
Dale Wednesday. Again, watch out for ice on services. Here is the | :18:06. | :18:08. | |
forecast for Wednesday. A real mixture. Some rain around. Writers | :18:09. | :18:13. | |
goes and also a few showers. So once again, this week, there is something | :18:14. | :18:16. | |
in the forecast for almost everybody. | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
Will be asking you soon what makes you happy. So get your thinking cap | :18:23. | :18:33. | |
on. Should we tell everybody what makes you happy? It is Donald the | :18:34. | :18:35. | |
cat. It is 6:18. We've heard a lot about doping | :18:36. | :18:53. | |
in professional sport, but now there's a warning | :18:54. | :18:55. | |
about the use of performance Kat is at Hartpury College, | :18:56. | :18:58. | |
Gloucestershire for us this morning where a lot of work is going | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
into tackling the issue, Good morning. Yes. The message at | :19:03. | :19:09. | |
Hartpury College is very clear. Starkey on the side of the pitches | :19:10. | :19:13. | |
is a big sign saying that doping is cheating. They say they are | :19:14. | :19:16. | |
committed to keeping this College in particular it clean. It is one of | :19:17. | :19:19. | |
the first colleges in the country that is signing up to a clean sport | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
commitment, selling that has been pushed to make sure that doping is | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
stamped out in sport, whether professional or amateur. We have all | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
heard of high-profile cases in the news, like Lance Armstrong. And the | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Russian athletics scene. And Usain Bolt recently being stripped of one | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
of this gold medals because of one of this tin plates -- one of this | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
teammates being found guilty of doping. But doping is an increasing | :19:45. | :19:48. | |
problem in amateur sport, as well. Katie Gilmore has more. | :19:49. | :19:52. | |
Daim, Glory, muggy. There are many reasons why professional athletes | :19:53. | :19:59. | |
take performance-enhancing drugs. Sport is overwhelmed with complex. | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
Lance Armstrong has ended years of denial by admitting using points | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
enhancing drugs. -- performers. But what is harder to understand is why | :20:11. | :20:16. | |
amateur is would be doping. This man was a cyclist who started taking a | :20:17. | :20:21. | |
number of substances to improve this performance. He was banned in 2014 | :20:22. | :20:27. | |
after refusing a test. This situation happened when I was 39 | :20:28. | :20:33. | |
years old. I did not do a lot of racing. The main thing was | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
curiosity. What does this do? How much of a benefit does this give | :20:38. | :20:43. | |
you? I don't think for amateurs is about winning. I think you have a | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
situation where people are overweight, want to get in shape. | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
And then when you want to do a mouth on or a long bike ride, so be | :20:56. | :21:02. | |
competitive, they can come out more healthy. And this is far from an | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
isolated case. A poll carried out by the BBC of amateur sports people and | :21:10. | :21:15. | |
the UK said that half believed that the use of performance enhancing | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
substances was widespread. A similar number said they are easily | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
available amongst those who play sport regularly. More than one third | :21:24. | :21:30. | |
said they know somebody who has used these substances, at 8% say they | :21:31. | :21:35. | |
knew somebody who use steroids. -- said they had used steroids. The | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
user that amateur level is alarming. But that does confirm what UK | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
Anti-Doping has long suspected, and also seen, through some of our | :21:46. | :21:50. | |
intelligence testing. This is the frontline in the fight to keep sport | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
clean, a joint operation between and UK Anti-Doping, targeting those who | :21:56. | :22:00. | |
supply drugs. However, it is not against the law to use steroids for | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
personal use. So those motivated by vanity, rather than victory, are | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
they really doing anything wrong? We took our findings to an in doping | :22:09. | :22:13. | |
behaviour at Sheffield Hallam university. This is actually the | :22:14. | :22:20. | |
dark side of exercise. You are not using the services is to improve | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
your health. Your performance and how you look to other people. How | :22:24. | :22:27. | |
you look to yourself. Just how serious a health issue you think | :22:28. | :22:32. | |
this could be? You are using substances that are meant to treat | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
diseases. You are mist using them without a prescription. You are | :22:37. | :22:41. | |
cheating, but also putting your life at risk. But however the authorities | :22:42. | :22:45. | |
responded the issue, athletes at every level in every sport will | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
always be willing to cut corners, whatever the risks. | :22:49. | :22:54. | |
So some alarming findings there in that new BBC survey out today. I am | :22:55. | :23:01. | |
doing here in the early morning middle and grizzle by the | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
performance last manager here at Hartpury College. A giver coming out | :23:06. | :23:12. | |
so early. So 50% of amateurs warts people said that they think it is | :23:13. | :23:18. | |
widespread. -- sports people. What you think of those figures? At a | :23:19. | :23:24. | |
surprising? I would not necessarily say surprising. I don't think the | :23:25. | :23:28. | |
problem is quite as big as that. I think that drugs are obviously | :23:29. | :23:32. | |
widely available on the Internet, but whether there are as many people | :23:33. | :23:41. | |
involved or if it is a little bit dramatised by the media with high | :23:42. | :23:45. | |
profile cases... I am not sure that it is quite as big as that. It is | :23:46. | :23:49. | |
all about educating people, really. Had you go about educating the | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
hundreds of students it? Would you doing to ensure that way nor if they | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
get into professional sport, high-level sport, even just as | :23:58. | :24:01. | |
amateurs, that they are not tempted to take drugs? We have signed up as | :24:02. | :24:08. | |
a college to the UK Anti-Doping clean sport university accreditation | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
scheme. Tell us that means we are delivering a series of education to | :24:13. | :24:18. | |
our student athletes. Both those that are competing at an elite | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
level, and also just university teens at a lower level. It is things | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
like workshops, one to ones, and helping them make important | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
decisions. Even simple things are going to the doctor, understanding | :24:32. | :24:36. | |
the occasions if they have medications that could be on the | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
prohibited list. Things like that. Thank you for bringing us up to date | :24:41. | :24:45. | |
on what you are doing. And we will bring you some more on what is | :24:46. | :24:49. | |
happening here at Hartpury College. That BBC survey is part of the BBC's | :24:50. | :25:00. | |
State of Sport Week. You can find out more about that on the TV and | :25:01. | :25:02. | |
online. But now, back to you guys. We will have the rest of the sports | :25:03. | :25:11. | |
news coming up. The Six Nations obviously has just come. Some of | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
those figures in that survey are staggering. She said that 50% of | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
amateur sports men and women are aware of drug is going on around | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
them. So much more from her this morning. | :25:24. | :25:26. | |
We'd like to know what makes you happy. | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
It's the international Day of Happiness today. | :25:32. | :25:33. | |
We are going to share with you pictures of things that makes us | :25:34. | :25:38. | |
happy and practice. Here is the most important thing. Macaroons. Look at | :25:39. | :25:45. | |
that. A certain person next to me happened to bring those in this | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
morning. Our overnight workers work from 9pm through to nine a.m.. The | :25:53. | :26:00. | |
next one is your dog, Sadie, which you brought in last week. There you | :26:01. | :26:07. | |
are. Look at the smile on your face. Ihler Cathy, she looks confused. | :26:08. | :26:14. | |
What am I doing here, mum? -- look at her there. That is beautiful. A | :26:15. | :26:23. | |
hug from Carol Kirkwood. That is a rarity. She came into the studio a | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
few weeks ago. It was like a royal visit. Finish the day with a big | :26:28. | :26:34. | |
hug. I bet that was one of your happiest broadcasting moments. We | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
would like to know what makes you happy. | :26:38. | :26:38. | |
You can email us at [email protected] | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
or share your thoughts with other viewers on our Facebook page. | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
And you can Tweet about today's stories | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
Let's have a happiness then this morning. We will do our | :26:47. | :30:19. | |
Now though it's back to Sally and Dan. | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
Hello this is Breakfast, with Sally Nugent and Dan Walker. | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
Millions of people across the UK are being affected by air pollution | :30:29. | :30:38. | |
and now, in an unusual move, MPs are joining together to look | :30:39. | :30:41. | |
We'll ask one MP if it can make a difference. | :30:42. | :30:46. | |
Also this morning, there's a warning children are feeling stressed, | :30:47. | :30:49. | |
angry and anxious because of a social media craze. | :30:50. | :30:51. | |
We'll get advice for parents from the NSPCC. | :30:52. | :31:05. | |
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. | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
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 | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
trade changes will have a big impact. Outside the industry, there | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
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? | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
Is that sobbing as you will be discussing the conference like the | :56:21. | :56:26. | |
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 | :56:39. | :56:43. | |
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 | :57:01. | :57:04. | |
country which is go to value innovation? Great to talk to, | :57:05. | :57:12. | |
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 | :06:33. | :06:35. | |
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 | :18:01. | :18:03. | |
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 | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
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? | :24:46. | :24:51. | |
We took our findings to an in doping behaviour at Sheffield Hallam | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
This is actually the dark side of exercise. | :24:55. | :24:59. | |
Using substances not to improve your health - | :25:00. | :25:01. | |
you don't care about your health anymore. | :25:02. | :25:09. | |
You care about your performance and how you look to other people. | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
Just how serious a health issue do you think this could be? | :25:13. | :25:17. | |
You're using substances that are meant to treat diseases. | :25:18. | :25:19. | |
And you are actually misusing them without a prescription. | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
You are not just cheating, or not cheating, if you are just | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
an exerciser, but also putting your life at risk. | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
But however the authorities respond to the issue, | :25:29. | :25:30. | |
athletes at every level, in every sport will always be | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
willing to cut corners, whatever the risks. | :25:34. | :25:34. | |
Some alarming figures in that report there. I am joined here by a | :25:35. | :25:48. | |
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 | :25:56. | :25:59. | |
filtered down to amateur ranks. Obviously, the idea of competing as | :26:00. | :26:03. | |
an amateur was for the pleasure and joy, the sheer fun of participating, | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
but that is gone, now. Because I think that amateurs have absorbed | :26:08. | :26:13. | |
professional values, meaning when it'll cost. Obviously, if doping | :26:14. | :26:16. | |
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 | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
we do to tackle it? Hartpury College is spreading the message to its | :26:28. | :26:31. | |
students. But what committed to police doping in amateur sport? In | :26:32. | :26:35. | |
practical terms, we cannot. We can impose high September is -- hush at | :26:36. | :26:44. | |
penalties. We do that all the time. But the crusade against doping has | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
been around since 1988, and the doping crisis is larger than it has | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
been in any other time in history. The point is that we could do silly | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
about it, we could turn the clock back to how sport was before 1972, | :26:58. | :27:02. | |
and just let athletes take what doping they required or preferred to | :27:03. | :27:08. | |
with impunity, and that would not be a popular option. But that said, | :27:09. | :27:15. | |
sport in the 1970s right through to the previous century, nobody really | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
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 | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
advise. The alternative is to let it continue in this clandestine way. | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
And that it is harmful and dangerous to athletes. Thank you very much | :27:33. | :27:38. | |
were joining us. Some controversial thoughts, they are. Do we just leave | :27:39. | :27:45. | |
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 | :28:10. | :28:14. | |
am doing. -- anyone who has played football. | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
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 | :28:38. | :32:00. | |
to Sally and Dan. Hello, this is Breakfast | :32:01. | :32:06. | |
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. | :41:46. | :41:50. | |
It is sad that social media, it should be able to be enjoyed. When | :41:51. | :41:59. | |
we grew up, it was sort of chain letters and there a bit of pressure | :42:00. | :42:04. | |
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. | :53:27. | :53:36. | |
All this morning on Breakfast we've been asking what makes you happy - | :53:37. | :53:39. | |
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. | :53:43. | :53:44. | |
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, | :54:10. | :54:23. | |
-- Leah's cat, Carrot. We have one pizza, one K, and then about 17,000 | :54:24. | :54:34. | |
dogs and cats. That is about right. Projects, I think they could be | :54:35. | :54:37. | |
yours. There is only about a poached egg. You get a right, you get the | :54:38. | :54:44. | |
nice and firm. -- poached eggs. Lots of lovely breakfasts make me happy. | :54:45. | :54:47. | |
At the end of this programme. I could have a three course breakfast. | :54:48. | :54:54. | |
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 | :55:02. | :55:08. | |
e-mail, or find us on Facebook or Twitter. It is UN International | :55:09. | :55:16. | |
happy day. They are saying share is an important thing. And be happy | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
alone. Have time alone. And harmony of friends as well. A bit of | :55:21. | :55:28. | |
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 | :55:40. | :55:41. | |
We'll speak to a civil engineer about it. | :55:42. | :55:49. | |
Ours is only five floors so we did not wobble much. You do not notice | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
it. Time now to get the news, | :55:54. | :55:54. | |
travel and weather where you are. Until then there's plenty | :55:55. | :59:15. | |
more on our website. Hello this is Breakfast, | :59:16. | :59:39. | |
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 | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
hills. Any showers in the south are likely to be of rain. Another | :49:44. | :49:47. | |
blustery day as well, temperatures up to six Celsius in Newcastle, | :49:48. | :49:55. | |
that's about it 11 in the south-east, temperatures coming down | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
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 | :50:09. | :50:12. | |
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 | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
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 | :51:04. | :51:04. | |
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, | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
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. |