:00:09. > :00:13.A guilty plea from the police officer who admits he never
:00:14. > :00:17.witnessed the original plebgate row. Keith Wallis says he made the whole
:00:18. > :00:20.thing up. The Prime Minister calls his behaviour "completely
:00:21. > :00:25.unacceptable". Where does this leave the trust in our police?
:00:26. > :00:31.The President, the actress, the motorcycle and the French libel law,
:00:32. > :00:35.rumours of an affair at the top of French politics, but are the press
:00:36. > :00:38.being told to leave well enough alone.
:00:39. > :00:43.Can technology rescue the human body, we go to the bastion of the
:00:44. > :00:45.healthy lifestyle, Las Vegas. To demonstrate the next piece of
:00:46. > :00:59.fitness technology, I need these. Hello, good evening, there were many
:01:00. > :01:03.at the time within politics and the public who seemed more than happy to
:01:04. > :01:08.accept the police version of events over the plebgate row that led to
:01:09. > :01:10.Andrew Mitchell's downfall. Today an officer at the centre of the row
:01:11. > :01:16.admitted to court he lied. Accepted a charge of misconduct in public
:01:17. > :01:19.office, he may face jail. The met commissioner has offered to meet the
:01:20. > :01:23.former Chief Whip to apologise. The Prime Minister called the behaviour
:01:24. > :01:27.of Keith Wallis "completely unacceptable". But the whole sorry
:01:28. > :01:32.episode is bound to raise questions of police trust and openness.
:01:33. > :01:38.A police officer admits he lied. The Prime Minister calls the behaviour
:01:39. > :01:43."unacceptable "q the country's most senior policeman says "sorry". There
:01:44. > :01:47.really isn't any end in sight for the plebgate saga. PC Keith Wallis
:01:48. > :01:52.pleaded guilty to misconduct in public off. In an e-mail to a senior
:01:53. > :01:54.Tory MP he falsely claimed to have seen Andrew Mitchell swear at police
:01:55. > :02:09.officers in Downing Street. At first, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe
:02:10. > :02:13.gave his officers his full backing, now the Met Police Commissioner
:02:14. > :02:19.wants to meet Andrew Mitchell to apologise. But saying sorry may not
:02:20. > :02:23.be enough to satisfy MPs like Richard Ottoway, who today
:02:24. > :02:30.questioned whether Sir Bernard can stay in office. It is a black day
:02:31. > :02:35.for the Metropolitan Police police, -- Metropolitan Police, for a
:02:36. > :02:39.policeman to lie to bring down a cabinet minister is as serious as it
:02:40. > :02:43.can get. If it can happen to him it can happen to anyone. It is not just
:02:44. > :02:47.in Westminster where they are losing faith in the Met, this was the scene
:02:48. > :02:51.outside the High Court on Wednesday night. A senior police officer is
:02:52. > :02:58.drowned out by an angry crowd, after a jury concluded that Mark Duggan
:02:59. > :03:03.was killed lawfully by police. On the one hand plebgate we could see
:03:04. > :03:07.as Westminster, Conservative, white, distrust of what the police have
:03:08. > :03:11.been saying. And on the other hand you have the black community of
:03:12. > :03:16.Tottenham pointing out that actually the shooting of Mark Duggan comes on
:03:17. > :03:21.the back of the shootings of other black men. So uniting those two
:03:22. > :03:25.groups of people seems to be quite, ordinary. Both those groups of
:03:26. > :03:29.people are united in their distrust of the police. What about the rest
:03:30. > :03:34.of the public, how do they now view the police? A BBC ComRes poll found
:03:35. > :03:38.that two thirds of the public say plebgate has made no difference to
:03:39. > :03:46.whether they trust the police. While 26% said it made them less likely to
:03:47. > :03:50.trust them. And an Ipsos-Mori poll has said support for the police has
:03:51. > :03:55.held steady over the last 30 years. 5% of people say they trust them,
:03:56. > :03:59.which makes them much less trusted an doctors, teachers and scientist,
:04:00. > :04:03.but three-times more trusted than journalists and politicians. Over
:04:04. > :04:06.the last 30 years what we have found is that trust in the police hasn't
:04:07. > :04:11.variedied much at all. When you break the findings down by age,
:04:12. > :04:14.region, class, gender, there really isn't very much variation. Nearly
:04:15. > :04:18.all groups in British society tend to say, on balance, they trust the
:04:19. > :04:23.police. You are lucky I didn't knock you out to be fair. This is the
:04:24. > :04:25.voice of an unidentified Gloucestershire police officer,
:04:26. > :04:29.apparently making threats against a member of the public. I will make
:04:30. > :04:33.your day living hell, because you will be in the cell all day... A
:04:34. > :04:37.misconduct investigation is now under way. The footage shows that
:04:38. > :04:41.officers' conduct is being scrutinised like never before. The
:04:42. > :04:44.vast majority of officers in the vast majority of interactions they
:04:45. > :04:47.have every day, and there are millions of interactions every day,
:04:48. > :04:52.they are fine. Some are very good, some are good, most are OK, some are
:04:53. > :04:57.a bit bad, and some are awful. I think the public recognise that
:04:58. > :05:00.there is this range there. I don't think they stereotype police
:05:01. > :05:05.officers in the same sort of way that politicians seem to be doing
:05:06. > :05:09.this last few years. What is still in dispute is whether Andrew
:05:10. > :05:14.Mitchell ever used the word "pleb". But then plebgate has become about
:05:15. > :05:21.so much more than just that word. Joining us now is the former
:05:22. > :05:28.Metropolitan Police Officer, and the lawyer who represented Ian
:05:29. > :05:31.Tomlinson's widow, and the former prisons minister and close friend of
:05:32. > :05:36.Andrew Mitchell. You have talked to Andrew Mitchell today, this evening,
:05:37. > :05:39.just tell us where he is now on this one?one? 'S to see what the
:05:40. > :05:44.Metropolitan Police Commissioner is going to say to him. We know he has
:05:45. > :05:50.made a public offer to meet him. We will see just exactly how, and what
:05:51. > :05:53.shape the apology takes and exactly how contrite and how understanding
:05:54. > :05:57.the commissioner is of really the disaster that has overtaken the
:05:58. > :06:03.service around this issue. What do you think he wants to hear? I think
:06:04. > :06:09.he wants to be clear that an explanation as to the way in which
:06:10. > :06:13.the investigation was carried out, the fact that it was Channel 4 that
:06:14. > :06:17.identified the fact that this gentleman was a police officer who
:06:18. > :06:22.was giving this evidence. The fact that it was Channel 4 who identified
:06:23. > :06:27.that the CCTV tape was inconsistent with the account given by the
:06:28. > :06:34.officer who made the statement about Andrew Mitchell. The fact that
:06:35. > :06:38.within 36 hours of a pretty small incident happening at the end of
:06:39. > :06:42.Downing Street it is splashed over the front of the Sun and the police
:06:43. > :06:44.can find no evidence of a conspiracy, when they have
:06:45. > :06:54.investigated themselves. All of this, frankly, seems like the whole
:06:55. > :06:57.thing is a pretty poor show from the police from start to finish,
:06:58. > :07:05.particularly the decision of the commissioner to quickly leap to the
:07:06. > :07:09.defence of his officers, one of whom has -- pleaded guilty today. Have
:07:10. > :07:12.you spoken to Andrew Mitchell about this? He's a close friend, and of
:07:13. > :07:17.course I have spoken to him about the event. I have plainly asked him
:07:18. > :07:21.about what happened. What was absolutely clear to me is Andrew's
:07:22. > :07:26.account felt completely truthful to me, knowing Andrew. The suggestion
:07:27. > :07:31.that Andrew would use these words in the way, knowing precisely how toxic
:07:32. > :07:34.they are never made the slightest sense from the beginning. If that
:07:35. > :07:38.all made sense to you as Andrew Mitchell's friend, surely that is
:07:39. > :07:43.exactly what happened to Bernard Hogan-Howe, who trusted his own
:07:44. > :07:45.officers? The Police are in this unique position where they have to
:07:46. > :07:49.investigate themselves. It is not like the military. My background is
:07:50. > :07:53.as a soldier, loyalty goes down the chain of command as well as up. You
:07:54. > :07:58.look after your people and try to protect them. There is an element in
:07:59. > :08:01.which the police have to do that as well. They have the unique position
:08:02. > :08:04.where they got to investigate themselves. They have conducted an
:08:05. > :08:11.investigation in themselves which is, frankly, pretty laughable. Are
:08:12. > :08:15.you saying that the police cannot be trusted as a result of this? As we
:08:16. > :08:18.saw in the film, there are, of course, a very large number of
:08:19. > :08:24.police officers and one sincerely hopes that the majority of them are
:08:25. > :08:28.doing extremely good job. Working very hard on behalf of the public.
:08:29. > :08:32.You may get on to a discussion about whether or not the police should
:08:33. > :08:35.wear recording device, and many of those devices I suspect will then
:08:36. > :08:38.see the police on the receiving end of some pretty poor behaviour from
:08:39. > :08:42.the public they are trying to police and how challenging being a police
:08:43. > :08:46.officer is. But we rightly demand the highest possible standards from
:08:47. > :08:52.the police, and that needs to be consistent across the piece. And
:08:53. > :08:55.here we have the unit, charged with protecting the Royal Family,
:08:56. > :08:58.diplomats and senior members of the Government, fitting up a senior
:08:59. > :09:03.member of the Government. It is pretty appalling. It was very clear
:09:04. > :09:07.for you, between your friend, a cabinet minister and the police, you
:09:08. > :09:10.take the word of the cabinet minister, your friend? That is my
:09:11. > :09:16.starting position. My point is just to let me finish, I'm not talking
:09:17. > :09:20.about that. The evidence supports Andrew. But then when you put the
:09:21. > :09:24.police next to a crowd of demonstrators or a newspaper seller,
:09:25. > :09:29.would youamically assume the police are -- would you automatically
:09:30. > :09:33.assume the police were right? We have the right to expect the highest
:09:34. > :09:37.professional standards from the police, a highly-trained police
:09:38. > :09:40.force where if they are in situations of demonstrations the
:09:41. > :09:43.proper and minimum use of force to achieve their objectives. These are
:09:44. > :09:48.things that we are entitled to expect from the police. And we're
:09:49. > :09:51.entitled to expect discipline and integrity from them. Would you like
:09:52. > :09:54.to respond to some of those thoughts you have heard from Chris? Some of
:09:55. > :09:59.what he has said there is quite right. People should, quite rightly,
:10:00. > :10:06.expect the highest ethical standards and professional and integrity from
:10:07. > :10:09.our police officers. And the 99. 9% of our police officers do that day
:10:10. > :10:12.in day out. Look at what we are dealing with here. I have given
:10:13. > :10:17.plenty of interviews about the plebgate, if we call it, scenario, I
:10:18. > :10:21.have always kept it quite clear there was a rogue officer. I was
:10:22. > :10:25.aware of this rogue officer from the early days. If you look at it
:10:26. > :10:30.separately, we had the incident at Number Ten when the time Andrew
:10:31. > :10:33.Mitchell left Number Ten. Then we had what happened afterwards,
:10:34. > :10:36.completely separate, this individual, this rogue officer, and
:10:37. > :10:41.then we have what happened in the Midlands. Those are completely
:10:42. > :10:45.separate events. The original event, when Andrew Mitchell left Number
:10:46. > :10:49.Ten, there was an altercation, Andrew Mitchell admitted himself
:10:50. > :10:54.that he had an altercation. Let's not go back over the history of it.
:10:55. > :10:58.I'm trying to be clear as to where I'm going. Where I'm going is this,
:10:59. > :11:02.there has been an investigation, by the Metropolitan Police, and by the
:11:03. > :11:06.IPCC, they have absolutely said there was no collision, there was no
:11:07. > :11:10.conspiracy, there was no, wait, I'm trying to. Let him finish. We are
:11:11. > :11:16.talking about a man who admitted today he had lied? There was no
:11:17. > :11:20.conspiracy, no collusion between those officers, the original events,
:11:21. > :11:23.I have no reason to doubt whatsoever. That is where Bernard
:11:24. > :11:26.Hogan-Howe has backed those officers 100%, and we have this
:11:27. > :11:31.extraordinary, we are all baffled by somebody took it upon themselves to
:11:32. > :11:34.lie. Who has now admitted they have lied. But they have absolutely
:11:35. > :11:39.proven there is no link between the two. It is not a change in a story?
:11:40. > :11:43.It is just one rogue element? Clearly it is not, apart from
:11:44. > :11:51.everything else the federation officers found by the West Mercia
:11:52. > :11:54.force to have a disciplinary case to answer they were due to face
:11:55. > :11:57.disciplinary proceedings, but then there was an intervention by senior
:11:58. > :12:01.officers who said that they shouldn't have case to answer. It
:12:02. > :12:04.clearly is not one rogue officer, because at least five of them are
:12:05. > :12:08.facing disciplinary proceedings, it is ridiculous to try, yet again, to
:12:09. > :12:12.say this is an isolated incident, it is not, it is systemic and there are
:12:13. > :12:17.problems throughout the Metropolitan Police and other forces. Absolutely
:12:18. > :12:20.not, historically we have heard about it, we have had a number of
:12:21. > :12:24.people who should know better. This is not a time for Andrew Mitchell
:12:25. > :12:27.and his friends to be celebrating in any shape or form. What I have seen
:12:28. > :12:32.today is absolutely shocking, we have Toby Rowland, a police officer
:12:33. > :12:36.can highest integrity, who has done his job at Number Ten. The whole
:12:37. > :12:42.policing service has been let down by this officer and he will face the
:12:43. > :12:47.consequences. But there are up to 11 other officers. The original
:12:48. > :12:54.incident, Andrew Mitchell admitted himself. This is preposterous... He
:12:55. > :12:58.stood down from the Government, it was his choice to stand down. He
:12:59. > :13:03.didn't lose his job. The wider issue, and you called it systemic,
:13:04. > :13:07.it is a big word, this hasn't eroded public trust, from what we have seen
:13:08. > :13:13.from the numbers, it has washed over the public imagination hasn't it? It
:13:14. > :13:17.is absolutely bizarre. If those statistics are to be taken at face
:13:18. > :13:19.balance. Robert Peel, going back to the founder of the police officer,
:13:20. > :13:24.said you know when the public has lost confidence by the amount of
:13:25. > :13:28.force and army on the streets. It is no coincidence we are introducing
:13:29. > :13:32.water canon this summer. I think the introduction of water canon, the
:13:33. > :13:36.massive escalation in the number of Taser, the multiplication of rubber
:13:37. > :13:40.bullets is evidence that actually policing by consent is becoming a
:13:41. > :13:44.thinner and thinner issue, it is much more by force these days. This
:13:45. > :13:48.one man who has admitted his guilt in that circumstance? We have
:13:49. > :13:54.something like eight or ten officers facing disciplinary inquiries and it
:13:55. > :13:59.is pretty odd, frankly, that with an incident that happens on a Wednesday
:14:00. > :14:04.night in doubt is on the front page of the Sun on -- Downing Street, is
:14:05. > :14:07.on the front page of the Sun on Monday morning. Someone needs to
:14:08. > :14:12.explain to me how the information came out in such a toxic way for
:14:13. > :14:16.Andrew Mitchell, with statements he plainly wouldn't use, they are then
:14:17. > :14:21.aduced in the report and the rest of it. Would you like to see Bernard
:14:22. > :14:26.Hogan-Howe go? Needs to give an explanation as to how his force have
:14:27. > :14:32.failed to actually find the evidence of the links between a Wednesday
:14:33. > :14:37.night' vent ending up on the -- a Wednesday night event ending up on
:14:38. > :14:41.the front of the Sun on a Friday morning. It brings discredit that
:14:42. > :14:45.someone comes on and attempts to defend the police in this way. The
:14:46. > :14:50.original officers will be vindicated of this, there was a thorough
:14:51. > :14:54.investigation in the most spotlight news item of 2013, Bernard
:14:55. > :14:57.Hogan-Howe should support his officers, but during the
:14:58. > :15:01.investigation a rogue officer was identified early, nobody wants to be
:15:02. > :15:05.associated with that here. The French press have strict privacy
:15:06. > :15:09.laws and a tendency to turn a blind eye to the odd presidential love
:15:10. > :15:14.affair, which is what makes today's revelations so odd, the gossip
:15:15. > :15:20.magazine Closer, published images they claim is Francois Hollande in a
:15:21. > :15:23.motorcycle helmet, visiting the apartment overnight of a French
:15:24. > :15:27.actress. This incursion into the once sacred lives of French
:15:28. > :15:36.politicians has been met with legal action by the President himself. Jim
:15:37. > :15:40.Reid went to Paris and spoke to the magazine that broke the story.
:15:41. > :15:46.It is a scandal made for Paris, the President, his motorbike, and claims
:15:47. > :15:53.of secret night rides to meet a glamorous movie star. It's all
:15:54. > :15:57.across seven pages of France's Closer magazine. The glossy tabloid
:15:58. > :16:04.claims to have evidence that President Hollande has been cheating
:16:05. > :16:08.on his partner, with the actress Julie Gaiie. First it was a rumour
:16:09. > :16:12.going around Paris, we started looking into it. We have the photos
:16:13. > :16:16.of Julie as she arrived at the apartment. Hollande arrives on the
:16:17. > :16:20.back of his scooter and goes up with his helmet on, spends the night
:16:21. > :16:24.there. The 59-year-old President who lives with a prominent French
:16:25. > :16:29.journalist, has now said he's considering legal action. He has not
:16:30. > :16:34.denied the story. The 41-year-old at the centre of the galeses a well
:16:35. > :16:41.known TV and movie actress and once appeared in Francois Hollande's
:16:42. > :16:45.adverts. Rumours of presidential infidelity have been circling for
:16:46. > :16:52.months, on this French talk show the panel couldn't resist dropping
:16:53. > :16:55.hints, here saying how much Mr Hollande loves Julie's new film. The
:16:56. > :16:59.scandal does have a serious political side, Mr Hollande won the
:17:00. > :17:02.presidency last year on a promise to keep his private life out of the
:17:03. > :17:06.headlines. Since then he has lurched from one crisis to another, the
:17:07. > :17:10.economy is stuttering, unemployment is rising and there are protests
:17:11. > :17:14.against tax rises. The latest poll ratings show his popularity has
:17:15. > :17:22.fallen to just 26%. The first time a French President has ever gone below
:17:23. > :17:25.the 30 point mark. Eight out of ten voters don't think he can win the
:17:26. > :17:29.next presidential election. Today's revelations come days before a big
:17:30. > :17:32.political relaunch and potentially embarrassing state visit to the
:17:33. > :17:36.Vatican. I don't think it is a scandal. When you look at Closer
:17:37. > :17:41.magazine you see a President in love, and scooting with just one
:17:42. > :17:46.bodyguard who actually delivers a bag of croissants the day after. It
:17:47. > :17:50.is quite endearing, on the other hand the problem is that there are a
:17:51. > :17:55.lot of domestic issues that the French want their head of state to
:17:56. > :17:58.actually resolve. And as fast as possible. The fact these claims were
:17:59. > :18:02.made public in the first place is a surprise to many. The French might
:18:03. > :18:07.be happy to talk about sex, but they don't shout about it in public.
:18:08. > :18:12.France has some of the toughest privacy laws in the world. In theory
:18:13. > :18:15.at least it is a crime to publish information about someone's private
:18:16. > :18:19.life without their express permission. Past French Presidents
:18:20. > :18:28.have never had this level of intrusion. France so Is Mitterrand
:18:29. > :18:33.kept a mistress and had a daughter in his presidency. And Jacques
:18:34. > :18:37.Chirac was known as a ladies' man, confessing there were women he loved
:18:38. > :18:41.a lot as discreetly as possible. Closer magazine said this evening it
:18:42. > :18:45.would take the story off its website after a privacy complaint from the
:18:46. > :18:48.actress. At the same time its entire print run has already sold out
:18:49. > :18:52.across Paris. TRANSLATION: We have taken one article off the website,
:18:53. > :18:56.but it had nothing to do with the voracity of the information. We took
:18:57. > :19:01.off the article because a lawyer asked us to. We don't want to be
:19:02. > :19:06.sudden, for the on -- sued, for the on-line version at least. A day of
:19:07. > :19:09.rumour and intrigue in Paris, for a President dubbed Mr Normal, a man
:19:10. > :19:15.seen by many without a strong permity, some think this scandal
:19:16. > :19:20.could be more of a boost an setback. Jacques Myard is a French MP from
:19:21. > :19:23.the UNP party in Paris, and with me is Benedicte Paviot, the London
:19:24. > :19:28.correspondent for the international channel France 24. I will start with
:19:29. > :19:33.you, here we have a print run that has run out, and yet the French
:19:34. > :19:38.privacy laws, as stringent as ever, does that strike you as a kind of
:19:39. > :19:45.crunch moment. The public want it but the ls won't permit it? It is
:19:46. > :19:49.not a crunch moment. The same editor of Closer, was defending and saying
:19:50. > :19:56.that it was really important because the world was interested when
:19:57. > :20:02.Katherine Middleton, or the Duchess of Cambridge had taken her top off
:20:03. > :20:09.in a private villa in the heart of Provence, and it was captured with a
:20:10. > :20:16.long lens. This is not a watershed moment, President Sarkozy that was
:20:17. > :20:20.the moment. When Carla Brunei posed on the top of the palace, I found
:20:21. > :20:24.that wholly inappropriate. She who was so successful at first of
:20:25. > :20:28.banning President Sarkozy from wearing Rolex watches and big
:20:29. > :20:34.sunglasses et cetera, and being the bling, bling President, she really
:20:35. > :20:39.helped tone that down. She then to pose on the Elysee Palace for many
:20:40. > :20:46.people was disrespectful. You can't just get good press when it suits
:20:47. > :20:48.you. Normally French Presidents are distant, they have a certain
:20:49. > :20:52.distance, a Government and Prime Minister. The watershed moment was
:20:53. > :20:57.with President Sarkozy, this is a man who has, she is now called his
:20:58. > :21:01.official partner, this is the first time we have a President who is not
:21:02. > :21:04.married. President Sarkozy was the first to get married, to get
:21:05. > :21:12.divorced and to have a child. We have another first. Jacques Myard me
:21:13. > :21:17.when you put it like that it is hard to have a President say it is a
:21:18. > :21:21.deplorable invasion of privacy, surely we have moved on. The British
:21:22. > :21:28.don't find that kind of invasion of privacy anything new at all? It is
:21:29. > :21:34.not very new. It is a long tradition in France that men and women have
:21:35. > :21:40.you know a love affair. The point is it seems very annoying because it is
:21:41. > :21:45.very strange as a President on a motorbike is visiting his
:21:46. > :21:52.girlfriend, you know. I think this is the case, this is not the case of
:21:53. > :21:56.scandalous liaison, a scandalous love affair, but this is the way it
:21:57. > :22:01.happens. It seems very strange that the President is riding a motorbike
:22:02. > :22:06.behind his guard and visiting his girlfriend like that. There are many
:22:07. > :22:12.other ways to meet a woman you love and you don't need to hide like
:22:13. > :22:19.that. I think this is very clumsy. No different, sorry, Jacques Myard,
:22:20. > :22:24.what about President Giscardt, when he infamously, allegedly, he would
:22:25. > :22:28.pose a problem because he would disappear very often, had an
:22:29. > :22:38.accident allegedly on the river banks of the Seine with a milk cart.
:22:39. > :22:43.This is true, this is why this is very new. In France we have a huge
:22:44. > :22:49.tradition of polygamy for everyone. Nobody is going to blame him on
:22:50. > :22:54.that. Of course we will smile because in fact he will have a
:22:55. > :23:01.private problem with his official girlfriend, who is normally with him
:23:02. > :23:05.in the Elysse Palace, I think he will have to explain himself to her,
:23:06. > :23:09.you know. These are just allegations of course, do you think that the
:23:10. > :23:12.voters care, do you think it will affect his political standing?
:23:13. > :23:16.Traditionally we know two things, traditionally we know that there is
:23:17. > :23:23.this, as Myard was rightly saying, there is a long list of Presidents,
:23:24. > :23:28.whether it is President Mitterrand, or Sarkozy, we could go through the
:23:29. > :23:33.Presidents and the last 30 years. Normally there is great tolerance of
:23:34. > :23:36.infidelities. And by the way, who is to say that all the British
:23:37. > :23:44.ministers in the Government, or some of them, aren't, as we speak, having
:23:45. > :23:48.secr trysts et cetera, I'm not saying they are, let's be clear.
:23:49. > :23:51.There is a great tradition in France, and number one in France
:23:52. > :23:55.this does not affect your poll rating, and number two, the real
:23:56. > :23:59.number one is if it doesn't affect your job, it is not in the public
:24:00. > :24:03.interest. So it is not just about the strict private laws. Why,
:24:04. > :24:07.Jacques Myard, would he then take this to the courts. We know there is
:24:08. > :24:14.a threat of legal action, do you think he's genuinely worried? Of
:24:15. > :24:19.course everyone has a trite protect his private life. But since there
:24:20. > :24:26.has been the rumour in Paris, I think it is a mistake to bring that
:24:27. > :24:30.to a court. That will emphasise the rumour and say if there is some
:24:31. > :24:35.smoke it means there is a fire. But, in fact, I think that in terms of
:24:36. > :24:39.politics, it will affect the President only because you know he's
:24:40. > :24:43.dealing with these kinds of things, and not focussing on his job, that
:24:44. > :24:47.is to try to solve the economic problems and unemployment. This is
:24:48. > :24:54.the main point. It will pass very quickly. Have we got a new French
:24:55. > :24:59.First Lady? We will bring you back next week when we know.
:25:00. > :25:03.Late last year the tech giant, Gooling, made -- Google, made for
:25:04. > :25:08.them a low-key announcement that they would start a health project.
:25:09. > :25:12.They think technology can rescue the human body. They are not alone, the
:25:13. > :25:17.health tech world has exploded, at the world's biggest techno in Las
:25:18. > :25:21.Vegas this week, one in three gadgets were health-related. David
:25:22. > :25:37.Grossman put his body on the line to test a few out. If only can I just
:25:38. > :25:42.get to Vass Vegas, then I could really get -- Las Vegas, then I
:25:43. > :25:46.could get fit and healthy. That is not phrase you hear often, but among
:25:47. > :25:48.the bright lights of America's most excessive city, could lie our
:25:49. > :26:04.technological salvation. We use technology for everything, in
:26:05. > :26:07.our appliances, cellphone, computers, health and fitness is
:26:08. > :26:11.such an important part of our lives it makes sense. I'm a hiker, camper,
:26:12. > :26:15.sailor, I travel around the world, I love that, that's my life. This
:26:16. > :26:22.allows me to do everything. And I do it by myself. All right I'm ready
:26:23. > :26:26.for my close up! At the consumer electronic show in Las Vegas, the
:26:27. > :26:30.world is getting a closer look at some pretty amazing health and
:26:31. > :26:33.fitness technology. We have had fitness trackers that log your
:26:34. > :26:38.activity for a couple of years. Now think of an ailment or part of a
:26:39. > :26:44.body and there is someone here who wants to gadgetify it. Like this
:26:45. > :26:53.device which will tell you how fat bits of your body are. How much body
:26:54. > :27:02.fat do you have? 3%. There are pints of milk with more fat than you. 3%.
:27:03. > :27:08.What do you think I have about? 5%! I like this chap! In many cases they
:27:09. > :27:12.are exploiting the processing and connectivity of smartphones, like
:27:13. > :27:18.this ECG heart monitor. It is quite comfortable. It can send real time
:27:19. > :27:23.data to your doctor. You don't have to make a doctor's appointment or go
:27:24. > :27:28.through the process of calling up and making an appointment and
:27:29. > :27:31.getting hooked up to this device. You basically strap this on in the
:27:32. > :27:34.morning, it is really comfortable, you don't really see it, and you
:27:35. > :27:38.know you are doing something good for your health. The transmitter
:27:39. > :27:44.picks up this value and sends it to my receiver. I can show where I was,
:27:45. > :27:47.that was breakfast, that was lunch. That constant monitoring and
:27:48. > :27:53.connectivity is transforming diabetic care as well. The next
:27:54. > :27:56.generation of glucose monitors could liberate millions. So many people
:27:57. > :28:00.are afraid right now and they don't know where they are. Little kids,
:28:01. > :28:04.their parents won't let them do sleepovers or they are afraid, they
:28:05. > :28:10.make them up to check their fingers. They get this, and communicate to
:28:11. > :28:14.smartphone, moms across the room or across town and alert their parents
:28:15. > :28:20.when the kid goes high or low. To demonstrate the next piece of
:28:21. > :28:25.fitness technology I need these. Hold on, hold on. You get a yellow
:28:26. > :28:28.line. That is not bad. What does that mean? That means you tapped him
:28:29. > :28:33.slightly. If you are going to hit him, that would be good. The Rebok
:28:34. > :28:39.check light is designed to be worn under a helmet or whilst playing
:28:40. > :28:45.sport, using a traffic light system to indicate a potential head injury.
:28:46. > :28:49.In that zone you need to get assessed, even if it is are you
:28:50. > :28:52.doing OK or a more rigorous assessment depending on what we are
:28:53. > :28:57.doing and the resources available to us. With the explosion in wearable
:28:58. > :29:01.technology that we are seeing at this show, people are taking
:29:02. > :29:05.technology to parts of the body it has never been before. Places you
:29:06. > :29:12.wouldn't necessarily expect. For example your feet. This is a smart
:29:13. > :29:26.sock. Now why would you want a smart sock? Let me show you. As I'm
:29:27. > :29:32.running my foot, or the sock is sending data in real time to this
:29:33. > :29:42.smartphone. Why might that be useful? Well let's stop this and
:29:43. > :29:48.talk to one of the people behind it. He's easy to spot, the only person
:29:49. > :29:52.by the pool with a plastic foot! We can capture, not just how far and
:29:53. > :29:58.fast you walk or run, but also how well you walk and run. Is that just
:29:59. > :30:02.for athletes or are there other uses? No there are multiple use, you
:30:03. > :30:12.can think about golf, you can think about fall detection for elderly
:30:13. > :30:21.patients for example. We detect what doctors call gait analysis. Seeing
:30:22. > :30:26.how well you walk or run. So we have a basketball, what is it doing here?
:30:27. > :30:29.It is a digital coach, it is what is inside the basketball that is
:30:30. > :30:33.important. Nine sensors inside the ball, it measures the motion of what
:30:34. > :30:42.you are going to put into the ball when you shoot it. It will measure
:30:43. > :30:50.the forces. So in the future, it seems, there will be no excuse for
:30:51. > :30:55.anybody not having a body like this. Or you could do what I have done,
:30:56. > :30:59.become a robot, now I don't have to worry about health at all. If you
:31:00. > :31:11.will excuse me, I'm off to the buffet! That's all we have time for,
:31:12. > :31:13.but Jeremy is back on Monday, until then, have a great weekend. Good
:31:14. > :31:16.night.