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