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A guilty plea from the police officer who admits he never

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witnessed the original plebgate row. Keith Wallis says he made the whole

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thing up. The Prime Minister calls his behaviour "completely

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unacceptable". Where does this leave the trust in our police?

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The President, the actress, the motorcycle and the French libel law,

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rumours of an affair at the top of French politics, but are the press

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being told to leave well enough alone.

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Can technology rescue the human body, we go to the bastion of the

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healthy lifestyle, Las Vegas. To demonstrate the next piece of

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fitness technology, I need these. Hello, good evening, there were many

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at the time within politics and the public who seemed more than happy to

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accept the police version of events over the plebgate row that led to

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Andrew Mitchell's downfall. Today an officer at the centre of the row

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admitted to court he lied. Accepted a charge of misconduct in public

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office, he may face jail. The met commissioner has offered to meet the

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former Chief Whip to apologise. The Prime Minister called the behaviour

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of Keith Wallis "completely unacceptable". But the whole sorry

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episode is bound to raise questions of police trust and openness.

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A police officer admits he lied. The Prime Minister calls the behaviour

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"unacceptable "q the country's most senior policeman says "sorry". There

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really isn't any end in sight for the plebgate saga. PC Keith Wallis

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pleaded guilty to misconduct in public off. In an e-mail to a senior

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Tory MP he falsely claimed to have seen Andrew Mitchell swear at police

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officers in Downing Street. At first, Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe

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gave his officers his full backing, now the Met Police Commissioner

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wants to meet Andrew Mitchell to apologise. But saying sorry may not

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be enough to satisfy MPs like Richard Ottoway, who today

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questioned whether Sir Bernard can stay in office. It is a black day

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for the Metropolitan Police police, -- Metropolitan Police, for a

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policeman to lie to bring down a cabinet minister is as serious as it

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can get. If it can happen to him it can happen to anyone. It is not just

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in Westminster where they are losing faith in the Met, this was the scene

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outside the High Court on Wednesday night. A senior police officer is

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drowned out by an angry crowd, after a jury concluded that Mark Duggan

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was killed lawfully by police. On the one hand plebgate we could see

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as Westminster, Conservative, white, distrust of what the police have

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been saying. And on the other hand you have the black community of

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Tottenham pointing out that actually the shooting of Mark Duggan comes on

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the back of the shootings of other black men. So uniting those two

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groups of people seems to be quite, ordinary. Both those groups of

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people are united in their distrust of the police. What about the rest

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of the public, how do they now view the police? A BBC ComRes poll found

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that two thirds of the public say plebgate has made no difference to

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whether they trust the police. While 26% said it made them less likely to

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trust them. And an Ipsos-Mori poll has said support for the police has

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held steady over the last 30 years. 5% of people say they trust them,

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which makes them much less trusted an doctors, teachers and scientist,

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but three-times more trusted than journalists and politicians. Over

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the last 30 years what we have found is that trust in the police hasn't

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variedied much at all. When you break the findings down by age,

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region, class, gender, there really isn't very much variation. Nearly

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all groups in British society tend to say, on balance, they trust the

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police. You are lucky I didn't knock you out to be fair. This is the

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voice of an unidentified Gloucestershire police officer,

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apparently making threats against a member of the public. I will make

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your day living hell, because you will be in the cell all day... A

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misconduct investigation is now under way. The footage shows that

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officers' conduct is being scrutinised like never before. The

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vast majority of officers in the vast majority of interactions they

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have every day, and there are millions of interactions every day,

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they are fine. Some are very good, some are good, most are OK, some are

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a bit bad, and some are awful. I think the public recognise that

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there is this range there. I don't think they stereotype police

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officers in the same sort of way that politicians seem to be doing

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this last few years. What is still in dispute is whether Andrew

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Mitchell ever used the word "pleb". But then plebgate has become about

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so much more than just that word. Joining us now is the former

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Metropolitan Police Officer, and the lawyer who represented Ian

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Tomlinson's widow, and the former prisons minister and close friend of

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Andrew Mitchell. You have talked to Andrew Mitchell today, this evening,

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just tell us where he is now on this one?one? 'S to see what the

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Metropolitan Police Commissioner is going to say to him. We know he has

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made a public offer to meet him. We will see just exactly how, and what

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shape the apology takes and exactly how contrite and how understanding

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the commissioner is of really the disaster that has overtaken the

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service around this issue. What do you think he wants to hear? I think

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he wants to be clear that an explanation as to the way in which

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the investigation was carried out, the fact that it was Channel 4 that

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identified the fact that this gentleman was a police officer who

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was giving this evidence. The fact that it was Channel 4 who identified

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that the CCTV tape was inconsistent with the account given by the

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officer who made the statement about Andrew Mitchell. The fact that

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within 36 hours of a pretty small incident happening at the end of

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Downing Street it is splashed over the front of the Sun and the police

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can find no evidence of a conspiracy, when they have

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investigated themselves. All of this, frankly, seems like the whole

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thing is a pretty poor show from the police from start to finish,

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particularly the decision of the commissioner to quickly leap to the

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defence of his officers, one of whom has -- pleaded guilty today. Have

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you spoken to Andrew Mitchell about this? He's a close friend, and of

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course I have spoken to him about the event. I have plainly asked him

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about what happened. What was absolutely clear to me is Andrew's

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account felt completely truthful to me, knowing Andrew. The suggestion

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that Andrew would use these words in the way, knowing precisely how toxic

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they are never made the slightest sense from the beginning. If that

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all made sense to you as Andrew Mitchell's friend, surely that is

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exactly what happened to Bernard Hogan-Howe, who trusted his own

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officers? The Police are in this unique position where they have to

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investigate themselves. It is not like the military. My background is

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as a soldier, loyalty goes down the chain of command as well as up. You

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look after your people and try to protect them. There is an element in

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which the police have to do that as well. They have the unique position

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where they got to investigate themselves. They have conducted an

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investigation in themselves which is, frankly, pretty laughable. Are

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you saying that the police cannot be trusted as a result of this? As we

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saw in the film, there are, of course, a very large number of

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police officers and one sincerely hopes that the majority of them are

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doing extremely good job. Working very hard on behalf of the public.

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You may get on to a discussion about whether or not the police should

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wear recording device, and many of those devices I suspect will then

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see the police on the receiving end of some pretty poor behaviour from

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the public they are trying to police and how challenging being a police

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officer is. But we rightly demand the highest possible standards from

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the police, and that needs to be consistent across the piece. And

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here we have the unit, charged with protecting the Royal Family,

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diplomats and senior members of the Government, fitting up a senior

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member of the Government. It is pretty appalling. It was very clear

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for you, between your friend, a cabinet minister and the police, you

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take the word of the cabinet minister, your friend? That is my

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starting position. My point is just to let me finish, I'm not talking

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about that. The evidence supports Andrew. But then when you put the

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police next to a crowd of demonstrators or a newspaper seller,

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would youamically assume the police are -- would you automatically

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assume the police were right? We have the right to expect the highest

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professional standards from the police, a highly-trained police

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force where if they are in situations of demonstrations the

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proper and minimum use of force to achieve their objectives. These are

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things that we are entitled to expect from the police. And we're

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entitled to expect discipline and integrity from them. Would you like

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to respond to some of those thoughts you have heard from Chris? Some of

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what he has said there is quite right. People should, quite rightly,

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expect the highest ethical standards and professional and integrity from

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our police officers. And the 99. 9% of our police officers do that day

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in day out. Look at what we are dealing with here. I have given

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plenty of interviews about the plebgate, if we call it, scenario, I

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have always kept it quite clear there was a rogue officer. I was

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aware of this rogue officer from the early days. If you look at it

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separately, we had the incident at Number Ten when the time Andrew

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Mitchell left Number Ten. Then we had what happened afterwards,

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completely separate, this individual, this rogue officer, and

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then we have what happened in the Midlands. Those are completely

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separate events. The original event, when Andrew Mitchell left Number

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Ten, there was an altercation, Andrew Mitchell admitted himself

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that he had an altercation. Let's not go back over the history of it.

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I'm trying to be clear as to where I'm going. Where I'm going is this,

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there has been an investigation, by the Metropolitan Police, and by the

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IPCC, they have absolutely said there was no collision, there was no

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conspiracy, there was no, wait, I'm trying to. Let him finish. We are

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talking about a man who admitted today he had lied? There was no

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conspiracy, no collusion between those officers, the original events,

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I have no reason to doubt whatsoever. That is where Bernard

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Hogan-Howe has backed those officers 100%, and we have this

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extraordinary, we are all baffled by somebody took it upon themselves to

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lie. Who has now admitted they have lied. But they have absolutely

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proven there is no link between the two. It is not a change in a story?

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It is just one rogue element? Clearly it is not, apart from

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everything else the federation officers found by the West Mercia

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force to have a disciplinary case to answer they were due to face

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disciplinary proceedings, but then there was an intervention by senior

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officers who said that they shouldn't have case to answer. It

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clearly is not one rogue officer, because at least five of them are

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facing disciplinary proceedings, it is ridiculous to try, yet again, to

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say this is an isolated incident, it is not, it is systemic and there are

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problems throughout the Metropolitan Police and other forces. Absolutely

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not, historically we have heard about it, we have had a number of

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people who should know better. This is not a time for Andrew Mitchell

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and his friends to be celebrating in any shape or form. What I have seen

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today is absolutely shocking, we have Toby Rowland, a police officer

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can highest integrity, who has done his job at Number Ten. The whole

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policing service has been let down by this officer and he will face the

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consequences. But there are up to 11 other officers. The original

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incident, Andrew Mitchell admitted himself. This is preposterous... He

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stood down from the Government, it was his choice to stand down. He

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didn't lose his job. The wider issue, and you called it systemic,

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it is a big word, this hasn't eroded public trust, from what we have seen

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from the numbers, it has washed over the public imagination hasn't it? It

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is absolutely bizarre. If those statistics are to be taken at face

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balance. Robert Peel, going back to the founder of the police officer,

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said you know when the public has lost confidence by the amount of

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force and army on the streets. It is no coincidence we are introducing

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water canon this summer. I think the introduction of water canon, the

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massive escalation in the number of Taser, the multiplication of rubber

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bullets is evidence that actually policing by consent is becoming a

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thinner and thinner issue, it is much more by force these days. This

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one man who has admitted his guilt in that circumstance? We have

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something like eight or ten officers facing disciplinary inquiries and it

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is pretty odd, frankly, that with an incident that happens on a Wednesday

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night in doubt is on the front page of the Sun on -- Downing Street, is

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on the front page of the Sun on Monday morning. Someone needs to

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explain to me how the information came out in such a toxic way for

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Andrew Mitchell, with statements he plainly wouldn't use, they are then

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aduced in the report and the rest of it. Would you like to see Bernard

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Hogan-Howe go? Needs to give an explanation as to how his force have

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failed to actually find the evidence of the links between a Wednesday

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night' vent ending up on the -- a Wednesday night event ending up on

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the front of the Sun on a Friday morning. It brings discredit that

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someone comes on and attempts to defend the police in this way. The

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original officers will be vindicated of this, there was a thorough

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investigation in the most spotlight news item of 2013, Bernard

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Hogan-Howe should support his officers, but during the

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investigation a rogue officer was identified early, nobody wants to be

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associated with that here. The French press have strict privacy

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laws and a tendency to turn a blind eye to the odd presidential love

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affair, which is what makes today's revelations so odd, the gossip

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magazine Closer, published images they claim is Francois Hollande in a

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motorcycle helmet, visiting the apartment overnight of a French

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actress. This incursion into the once sacred lives of French

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politicians has been met with legal action by the President himself. Jim

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Reid went to Paris and spoke to the magazine that broke the story.

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It is a scandal made for Paris, the President, his motorbike, and claims

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of secret night rides to meet a glamorous movie star. It's all

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across seven pages of France's Closer magazine. The glossy tabloid

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claims to have evidence that President Hollande has been cheating

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on his partner, with the actress Julie Gaiie. First it was a rumour

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going around Paris, we started looking into it. We have the photos

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of Julie as she arrived at the apartment. Hollande arrives on the

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back of his scooter and goes up with his helmet on, spends the night

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there. The 59-year-old President who lives with a prominent French

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journalist, has now said he's considering legal action. He has not

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denied the story. The 41-year-old at the centre of the galeses a well

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known TV and movie actress and once appeared in Francois Hollande's

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adverts. Rumours of presidential infidelity have been circling for

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months, on this French talk show the panel couldn't resist dropping

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hints, here saying how much Mr Hollande loves Julie's new film. The

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scandal does have a serious political side, Mr Hollande won the

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presidency last year on a promise to keep his private life out of the

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headlines. Since then he has lurched from one crisis to another, the

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economy is stuttering, unemployment is rising and there are protests

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against tax rises. The latest poll ratings show his popularity has

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fallen to just 26%. The first time a French President has ever gone below

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the 30 point mark. Eight out of ten voters don't think he can win the

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next presidential election. Today's revelations come days before a big

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political relaunch and potentially embarrassing state visit to the

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Vatican. I don't think it is a scandal. When you look at Closer

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magazine you see a President in love, and scooting with just one

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bodyguard who actually delivers a bag of croissants the day after. It

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is quite endearing, on the other hand the problem is that there are a

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lot of domestic issues that the French want their head of state to

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actually resolve. And as fast as possible. The fact these claims were

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made public in the first place is a surprise to many. The French might

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be happy to talk about sex, but they don't shout about it in public.

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France has some of the toughest privacy laws in the world. In theory

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at least it is a crime to publish information about someone's private

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life without their express permission. Past French Presidents

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have never had this level of intrusion. France so Is Mitterrand

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kept a mistress and had a daughter in his presidency. And Jacques

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Chirac was known as a ladies' man, confessing there were women he loved

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a lot as discreetly as possible. Closer magazine said this evening it

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would take the story off its website after a privacy complaint from the

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actress. At the same time its entire print run has already sold out

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across Paris. TRANSLATION: We have taken one article off the website,

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but it had nothing to do with the voracity of the information. We took

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off the article because a lawyer asked us to. We don't want to be

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sudden, for the on -- sued, for the on-line version at least. A day of

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rumour and intrigue in Paris, for a President dubbed Mr Normal, a man

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seen by many without a strong permity, some think this scandal

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could be more of a boost an setback. Jacques Myard is a French MP from

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the UNP party in Paris, and with me is Benedicte Paviot, the London

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correspondent for the international channel France 24. I will start with

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you, here we have a print run that has run out, and yet the French

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privacy laws, as stringent as ever, does that strike you as a kind of

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crunch moment. The public want it but the ls won't permit it? It is

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not a crunch moment. The same editor of Closer, was defending and saying

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that it was really important because the world was interested when

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Katherine Middleton, or the Duchess of Cambridge had taken her top off

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in a private villa in the heart of Provence, and it was captured with a

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long lens. This is not a watershed moment, President Sarkozy that was

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the moment. When Carla Brunei posed on the top of the palace, I found

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that wholly inappropriate. She who was so successful at first of

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banning President Sarkozy from wearing Rolex watches and big

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sunglasses et cetera, and being the bling, bling President, she really

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helped tone that down. She then to pose on the Elysee Palace for many

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people was disrespectful. You can't just get good press when it suits

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you. Normally French Presidents are distant, they have a certain

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distance, a Government and Prime Minister. The watershed moment was

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with President Sarkozy, this is a man who has, she is now called his

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official partner, this is the first time we have a President who is not

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married. President Sarkozy was the first to get married, to get

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divorced and to have a child. We have another first. Jacques Myard me

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when you put it like that it is hard to have a President say it is a

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deplorable invasion of privacy, surely we have moved on. The British

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don't find that kind of invasion of privacy anything new at all? It is

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not very new. It is a long tradition in France that men and women have

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you know a love affair. The point is it seems very annoying because it is

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very strange as a President on a motorbike is visiting his

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girlfriend, you know. I think this is the case, this is not the case of

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scandalous liaison, a scandalous love affair, but this is the way it

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happens. It seems very strange that the President is riding a motorbike

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behind his guard and visiting his girlfriend like that. There are many

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other ways to meet a woman you love and you don't need to hide like

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that. I think this is very clumsy. No different, sorry, Jacques Myard,

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what about President Giscardt, when he infamously, allegedly, he would

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pose a problem because he would disappear very often, had an

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accident allegedly on the river banks of the Seine with a milk cart.

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This is true, this is why this is very new. In France we have a huge

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tradition of polygamy for everyone. Nobody is going to blame him on

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that. Of course we will smile because in fact he will have a

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private problem with his official girlfriend, who is normally with him

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in the Elysse Palace, I think he will have to explain himself to her,

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you know. These are just allegations of course, do you think that the

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voters care, do you think it will affect his political standing?

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Traditionally we know two things, traditionally we know that there is

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this, as Myard was rightly saying, there is a long list of Presidents,

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whether it is President Mitterrand, or Sarkozy, we could go through the

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Presidents and the last 30 years. Normally there is great tolerance of

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infidelities. And by the way, who is to say that all the British

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ministers in the Government, or some of them, aren't, as we speak, having

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secr trysts et cetera, I'm not saying they are, let's be clear.

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There is a great tradition in France, and number one in France

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this does not affect your poll rating, and number two, the real

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number one is if it doesn't affect your job, it is not in the public

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interest. So it is not just about the strict private laws. Why,

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Jacques Myard, would he then take this to the courts. We know there is

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a threat of legal action, do you think he's genuinely worried? Of

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course everyone has a trite protect his private life. But since there

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has been the rumour in Paris, I think it is a mistake to bring that

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to a court. That will emphasise the rumour and say if there is some

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smoke it means there is a fire. But, in fact, I think that in terms of

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politics, it will affect the President only because you know he's

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dealing with these kinds of things, and not focussing on his job, that

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is to try to solve the economic problems and unemployment. This is

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the main point. It will pass very quickly. Have we got a new French

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First Lady? We will bring you back next week when we know.

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Late last year the tech giant, Gooling, made -- Google, made for

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them a low-key announcement that they would start a health project.

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They think technology can rescue the human body. They are not alone, the

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health tech world has exploded, at the world's biggest techno in Las

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Vegas this week, one in three gadgets were health-related. David

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Grossman put his body on the line to test a few out. If only can I just

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get to Vass Vegas, then I could really get -- Las Vegas, then I

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could get fit and healthy. That is not phrase you hear often, but among

:25:43.:25:46.

the bright lights of America's most excessive city, could lie our

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technological salvation. We use technology for everything, in

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our appliances, cellphone, computers, health and fitness is

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such an important part of our lives it makes sense. I'm a hiker, camper,

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sailor, I travel around the world, I love that, that's my life. This

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allows me to do everything. And I do it by myself. All right I'm ready

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for my close up! At the consumer electronic show in Las Vegas, the

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world is getting a closer look at some pretty amazing health and

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fitness technology. We have had fitness trackers that log your

:26:31.:26:33.

activity for a couple of years. Now think of an ailment or part of a

:26:34.:26:38.

body and there is someone here who wants to gadgetify it. Like this

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device which will tell you how fat bits of your body are. How much body

:26:45.:26:53.

fat do you have? 3%. There are pints of milk with more fat than you. 3%.

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What do you think I have about? 5%! I like this chap! In many cases they

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are exploiting the processing and connectivity of smartphones, like

:27:09.:27:12.

this ECG heart monitor. It is quite comfortable. It can send real time

:27:13.:27:18.

data to your doctor. You don't have to make a doctor's appointment or go

:27:19.:27:23.

through the process of calling up and making an appointment and

:27:24.:27:28.

getting hooked up to this device. You basically strap this on in the

:27:29.:27:31.

morning, it is really comfortable, you don't really see it, and you

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know you are doing something good for your health. The transmitter

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picks up this value and sends it to my receiver. I can show where I was,

:27:39.:27:44.

that was breakfast, that was lunch. That constant monitoring and

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connectivity is transforming diabetic care as well. The next

:27:48.:27:53.

generation of glucose monitors could liberate millions. So many people

:27:54.:27:56.

are afraid right now and they don't know where they are. Little kids,

:27:57.:28:00.

their parents won't let them do sleepovers or they are afraid, they

:28:01.:28:04.

make them up to check their fingers. They get this, and communicate to

:28:05.:28:10.

smartphone, moms across the room or across town and alert their parents

:28:11.:28:14.

when the kid goes high or low. To demonstrate the next piece of

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fitness technology I need these. Hold on, hold on. You get a yellow

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line. That is not bad. What does that mean? That means you tapped him

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slightly. If you are going to hit him, that would be good. The Rebok

:28:29.:28:33.

check light is designed to be worn under a helmet or whilst playing

:28:34.:28:39.

sport, using a traffic light system to indicate a potential head injury.

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In that zone you need to get assessed, even if it is are you

:28:46.:28:49.

doing OK or a more rigorous assessment depending on what we are

:28:50.:28:52.

doing and the resources available to us. With the explosion in wearable

:28:53.:28:57.

technology that we are seeing at this show, people are taking

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technology to parts of the body it has never been before. Places you

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wouldn't necessarily expect. For example your feet. This is a smart

:29:06.:29:12.

sock. Now why would you want a smart sock? Let me show you. As I'm

:29:13.:29:26.

running my foot, or the sock is sending data in real time to this

:29:27.:29:32.

smartphone. Why might that be useful? Well let's stop this and

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talk to one of the people behind it. He's easy to spot, the only person

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by the pool with a plastic foot! We can capture, not just how far and

:29:49.:29:52.

fast you walk or run, but also how well you walk and run. Is that just

:29:53.:29:58.

for athletes or are there other uses? No there are multiple use, you

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can think about golf, you can think about fall detection for elderly

:30:03.:30:12.

patients for example. We detect what doctors call gait analysis. Seeing

:30:13.:30:21.

how well you walk or run. So we have a basketball, what is it doing here?

:30:22.:30:26.

It is a digital coach, it is what is inside the basketball that is

:30:27.:30:29.

important. Nine sensors inside the ball, it measures the motion of what

:30:30.:30:33.

you are going to put into the ball when you shoot it. It will measure

:30:34.:30:42.

the forces. So in the future, it seems, there will be no excuse for

:30:43.:30:50.

anybody not having a body like this. Or you could do what I have done,

:30:51.:30:55.

become a robot, now I don't have to worry about health at all. If you

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will excuse me, I'm off to the buffet! That's all we have time for,

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but Jeremy is back on Monday, until then, have a great weekend. Good

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night.

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