08/01/2016

:00:07. > :00:10.I'm Joanna Gosling, welcome to the programme.

:00:11. > :00:12.There's no safe limit for alcohol - even small amounts can increase

:00:13. > :00:18.We'll have all the details on new official guidelines,

:00:19. > :00:21.we'll answer your questions and we want to know if you plan

:00:22. > :00:24.We've gathered a selection of drinkers at our own bar

:00:25. > :00:30.to discuss their drinking habits, and a doctor's here, too.

:00:31. > :00:33.Also today: Aid is on its way to the besieged Syrian town

:00:34. > :00:34.of Madaya prompted by shocking stories of people

:00:35. > :00:42.We'll talk to people with links to the town about whether enough

:00:43. > :00:45.Plus later experimental songwriter Jack Garratt tops the BBC's Sound

:00:46. > :01:06.He'll be here for his first TV interview to talk about his music.

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:01:54. > :01:55.The link between alcohol and diseases like cancer mean

:01:56. > :01:58.there is no safe limit to alcohol consumption,

:01:59. > :02:00.that's according to tough new guidelines from the UK's

:02:01. > :02:06.The limit for what men are advised to drink is now the same as that

:02:07. > :02:09.for women - 14 units of alcohol per week.

:02:10. > :02:12.But what exactly does a unit of alcohol look like?

:02:13. > :02:17.In a standard pint of beer like this or a large glass of wine like this

:02:18. > :02:20.there is roughly two units of alcohol, stronger beers and wines

:02:21. > :02:27.So under the new guidelines you could have around seven pints

:02:28. > :02:30.of beer or seven glasses of wine compared to the old guidelines

:02:31. > :02:35.where men would be allowed 21 units, or roughly 10 pints a week.

:02:36. > :02:39.So currently one of these glasses of beer or wine would be the maximum we

:02:40. > :02:40.could have each day. Women who are pregnant

:02:41. > :02:43.are being told they should So here is how the

:02:44. > :02:45.advice has changed. In a standard pint of beer,

:02:46. > :02:51.and a large glass of wine, or two shots of spirits,

:02:52. > :02:54.it is roughly two units. Stronger beers and

:02:55. > :02:57.wines will have more. Previous advice was that men should

:02:58. > :03:01.limit themselves to 21 units a week, Women should drink no more

:03:02. > :03:05.than 14 units a week, Now, though, the new advice is that

:03:06. > :03:12.men and women should both limit themselves to the same -

:03:13. > :03:15.14 units per week, roughly seven Plus the advice is to give yourself

:03:16. > :03:21.several alcohol free days each week But at home how many people actually

:03:22. > :03:29.measure out their drinks? Doctors say the link between alcohol

:03:30. > :03:36.and diseases like cancer means there is no level of drinking

:03:37. > :03:41.that is completely safe. Barbara is a student

:03:42. > :03:43.who's in her early 20s. Cider is her drink of choice

:03:44. > :03:47.and she reckons she drinks around He's a pensioner and enjoys a good

:03:48. > :03:53.tipple in the evening - which usually comes in at around

:03:54. > :03:56.a half bottle at night, which we've rounded

:03:57. > :03:59.to around four bottles week. And also with us is Jonathan,

:04:00. > :04:02.who definitely likes his pints. He reckons he sinks

:04:03. > :04:06.around 15 pints a week. We also have with us

:04:07. > :04:19.Dr Ellie Cannon, who is here to help Thank you all for joining us. Roddy,

:04:20. > :04:23.you seem to have the highest alcohol consumption around the table, not

:04:24. > :04:28.criticising but just wondering what you think about the new guidelines,

:04:29. > :04:32.you are obviously exceeding them by quite some way? I am not really

:04:33. > :04:39.exceeding the upper limit of the previous guidelines. Yes, I am

:04:40. > :04:43.exceeding the new guidelines. I am very concerned that we are being

:04:44. > :04:49.bombarded with new studies over the last 20 or 30 years that have been

:04:50. > :04:55.endless, including quite a fee which demonstrate a crossover between the

:04:56. > :05:00.health benefits of drinking and the health benefits of not drinking. I

:05:01. > :05:06.have read studies which show that about 35 units a week, I even found

:05:07. > :05:15.one that said 63 units a week with a crossover point between teetotallers

:05:16. > :05:19.and social drinkers. What I am concerned about is that every new

:05:20. > :05:22.study which comes out seems to trump the previous studies. Are we know

:05:23. > :05:28.saying that all those previous studies were bunkum? I don't know,

:05:29. > :05:31.had to Ellie can help. Would you say you are confused or you just

:05:32. > :05:35.discount everything because you don't know what to believe any more?

:05:36. > :05:39.I don't discount everything, my background is scientific I

:05:40. > :05:44.understand the scientific method. The studies that I have read,

:05:45. > :05:50.though, seem no less thorough than the research that has gone into the

:05:51. > :05:54.most recent finding. Yes, I am sceptical about the information we

:05:55. > :05:59.are given. Would you change your behaviour as a result of the new

:06:00. > :06:03.guidance? I constantly change my behaviour, but not very radically, I

:06:04. > :06:08.think. I like to have an understanding of how I am treating

:06:09. > :06:12.my body. Jonathan, what do you think about the new guidelines? I think

:06:13. > :06:16.they are a little bit silly. To start with, the old guidelines, I

:06:17. > :06:20.was not really sure what a unit equals and what is the amount you

:06:21. > :06:26.are supposed to be drinking. Or do you find what has come out today

:06:27. > :06:30.clearer, to some extent? To some extent, but on one hand we are being

:06:31. > :06:36.told that any amount of alcohol is bad, but if you are going to drink,

:06:37. > :06:40.only drink this much. I look up his pint glass of wine and I think it is

:06:41. > :06:44.laughable. If I am going to the pub, if I am just going to have one drink

:06:45. > :06:51.it would almost be better to alcohol is bad, don't drink at all. Why is

:06:52. > :06:55.it laughable to just have one page? It is a little bit about the culture

:06:56. > :06:59.in the UK, it is not like in continental Europe where you go out

:07:00. > :07:06.and have drinks and nibbles. When I go out, the pubs shut at 11. That is

:07:07. > :07:09.not saying everybody is drinking as much as they can until that point,

:07:10. > :07:12.everyone has different ways of dealing with things, but I don't

:07:13. > :07:16.drink excessively. I think it would be better to say alcohol is bad and

:07:17. > :07:19.we recommend you don't drink anything than say there is an

:07:20. > :07:23.opportune at that they will recommend that is probably quite

:07:24. > :07:29.hard to stick to. Will anything today make you look at an change

:07:30. > :07:34.your behaviour? I think what we are being told is pretty sensible. I

:07:35. > :07:38.don't think I believe that drinking alcohol is necessarily good for you.

:07:39. > :07:42.I think a lot of recommendations around taking days off are very

:07:43. > :07:46.sensible. I think more recommendations and guidance around

:07:47. > :07:50.how to act rather than limits in place, rather than saying don't

:07:51. > :07:57.drink more than that, is sensible. The impact it has on me, when it

:07:58. > :08:00.says, don't drink more than 14 units, you almost take that as a

:08:01. > :08:05.headline and discount everything else. Barbara? Guidelines are

:08:06. > :08:09.therefore for our safety and health. I am not sure it will massively

:08:10. > :08:14.change the way that I drink because the way that I drink is probably

:08:15. > :08:18.quite different to the way... Probably three pints we can average?

:08:19. > :08:24.I am not a heavy drink. I mostly do with socially, sometimes they do by

:08:25. > :08:27.myself but usually only when there is an event or something going on. I

:08:28. > :08:31.don't think it will massively change my consumption, but it is important

:08:32. > :08:35.to have a discussion about how alcohol impact health. The

:08:36. > :08:40.guidelines are guidelines, it is not law, it will not be enforced, but it

:08:41. > :08:45.is making people aware that alcohol impact your health and you should

:08:46. > :08:49.think about a more carefully. Ellie, you are our studio doctor, do you

:08:50. > :08:53.think people should sit up and take notice? It is the first time an

:08:54. > :08:58.explicit link has been drawn by the Chief Medical Officer between any

:08:59. > :09:02.amount of drinking, every sip of alcohol, she says, increases your

:09:03. > :09:05.risk of cancer. Is Barbara said, ringing as guidelines is a good way

:09:06. > :09:11.to open the discussion and get people talking. -- bringing out

:09:12. > :09:20.guidelines. Within the health profession we

:09:21. > :09:24.guidelines. Within the health cancers. I think the problem which

:09:25. > :09:27.Roddy verbalised, which I totally agree with, there are so many

:09:28. > :09:32.guidelines that come out and there are so many scientific papers that

:09:33. > :09:34.one can almost look for the answer one wants and then find it. Like you

:09:35. > :09:40.said, you found a paper that said one wants and then find it. Like you

:09:41. > :09:43.about 63 units. In fairness to the Chief Medical Officer, this is not

:09:44. > :09:45.about 63 units. In fairness to the just one study, it is a collation

:09:46. > :09:47.about 63 units. In fairness to the all about the scientific knowledge,

:09:48. > :09:51.so I genuinely believe that these guidelines are probably correct, but

:09:52. > :09:56.it gets diverted by all of the health messages we are bombarded by.

:09:57. > :10:02.-- pets die looted. I am not surprised that as the lay public you

:10:03. > :10:06.are confused and sceptical. What the Chief Medical Officer is saying,

:10:07. > :10:10.Roddy, it is about what people regard as unacceptable level of

:10:11. > :10:14.risk. Boiling down your level of alcohol consumption on a risk

:10:15. > :10:18.analysis, you have a one in ten chance at least of dying of

:10:19. > :10:22.something that is a direct result of alcohol consumption. And a nine in

:10:23. > :10:28.ten chance of dying alcohol consumption. And a nine in

:10:29. > :10:31.related to alcohol. I am concerned about the sheer volume... So on

:10:32. > :10:34.related to alcohol. I am concerned point about the risk, you are saying

:10:35. > :10:39.nine in ten chance of not, you think one in ten is a risk you are happy

:10:40. > :10:43.to take? I am going to die of something. And the trouble with

:10:44. > :10:48.writs, and I have this conversation a lot in GP surgeries, you should

:10:49. > :10:52.not be smoking, doing this or that, Roddy's risk of dying from an

:10:53. > :10:56.alcohol-related disease is combines with the risks by the arrest of his

:10:57. > :11:00.life behaviour. Perhaps he is a marathon runner and that reduces his

:11:01. > :11:05.risk, perhaps he does other positive things within his diet that reduces

:11:06. > :11:10.risk. So talking to people about the risk simply from alcohol is

:11:11. > :11:14.unnatural, really, because nobody lives like that. Happens if your red

:11:15. > :11:19.glass of wine was as a part of Mediterranean diet, with the risk be

:11:20. > :11:26.reduced? Compared to if you had your glass of wine with fast food every

:11:27. > :11:30.day? Do you see what I mean? It is part of a holistic approach to life

:11:31. > :11:34.which I think for an individual is very hard to way up. Barbara, to

:11:35. > :11:38.health concerns come into the equation for you and risk analysis

:11:39. > :11:42.when you think about how much you drink? Like Ellie just said, there

:11:43. > :11:45.are so many risks when you walk out of your door in the morning that

:11:46. > :11:50.something could happen to you or your lifestyle and have a really bad

:11:51. > :11:53.impact on your health. It is about opening the conversation and having

:11:54. > :11:58.these conversations. We want people to be open and honest about their

:11:59. > :12:01.alcohol consumption and we want the Government to guide us in the limits

:12:02. > :12:05.that are safe, but ultimately people had to make that choice for

:12:06. > :12:10.themselves about whether it is OK to have a really bad diet and drink

:12:11. > :12:14.lots of alcohol and smoke, which can increase the risk in your health of

:12:15. > :12:20.you getting ill or dying, et cetera, getting cancer et cetera. I just

:12:21. > :12:24.want to bring in some comments, lots of people are getting into it. Derek

:12:25. > :12:30.has e-mailed saying I gave up three years ago after heart failure, don't

:12:31. > :12:33.miss it but TV companies should stop showing programmes like soaps where

:12:34. > :12:37.people drink and cookery programmes where alcohol is used in large

:12:38. > :12:43.quantities. Mick says my father who lived until the age of 91 only drank

:12:44. > :12:46.up a pub on a Friday evening, on a Saturday evening he would take my

:12:47. > :12:51.wonderful mum out for a beer, no wine. Nobody got drunk or fell over.

:12:52. > :12:55.Larson says I live in France and have drugs three quarters of a

:12:56. > :12:59.bottle of red wine every day for the last 25 years, I have no cancer and

:13:00. > :13:03.do not intend to change. Why are the French and Spanish, who drink with

:13:04. > :13:09.every meal, not dropping like flies? Martin asks, Ellie, does the study

:13:10. > :13:14.allow for other parallel factors? Those who drink are more likely to

:13:15. > :13:18.be overweight and exercise less. This is not a study, this is a

:13:19. > :13:22.collation of studies, the guidance was based on a huge body of

:13:23. > :13:26.evidence. They look at what we call confounding factor does, which is

:13:27. > :13:33.what I was talking about. The drinking of the red wine or beer is

:13:34. > :13:38.not in isolation. -- factors. It is hard for people to weigh up risk.

:13:39. > :13:43.Somebody drinking two units of alcohol every day, has a very good

:13:44. > :13:47.diet, exercises and lives very well is in a different situation to

:13:48. > :13:52.somebody who drinks two units a day, is eating poorly and not exercising.

:13:53. > :13:57.That is a message that we had to convey to people, it is about your

:13:58. > :14:01.whole lifestyle, not one issue. What we are hearing today is that every

:14:02. > :14:06.sip of alcohol increases your risk of cancer. When you hear something

:14:07. > :14:09.as stark as that, does it make you think again about drinking? I guess

:14:10. > :14:13.it certainly makes you think harder, but the message has been down looted

:14:14. > :14:19.by the fact they are not saying don't drink at all, drink up to 14

:14:20. > :14:24.units a week. -- the message has been diluted. But it is part of a

:14:25. > :14:27.wider lifestyle discussion. You said you couldn't imagine going to the

:14:28. > :14:33.pub for the evening and nursing one pint. How much does peer pressure

:14:34. > :14:38.come into it? I don't think it is peer pressure so much as how much

:14:39. > :14:45.people socialise. Would you feel odd with one point if everyone was

:14:46. > :14:48.drinking lots? Absolutely not. -- one pint. What is the point of

:14:49. > :14:52.guidelines for the sake of guidelines? My question would we

:14:53. > :14:56.want to you want people to do with them? If you want to change my

:14:57. > :15:01.behaviours, great, but is setting an arbitrary limit around alcohol going

:15:02. > :15:06.to make an impact? If you are trying to convince people who are drinking

:15:07. > :15:09.heavily with bad diet and bad routines to change behaviours, I

:15:10. > :15:13.would suggest that these guidelines will not do anything. Perhaps the

:15:14. > :15:17.better thing to do would be to take a more legislative approach and say,

:15:18. > :15:21.well, currently you are allowed to have a little bit of alcohol and

:15:22. > :15:25.dry. If alcohol is bad for you, why do we change it so you can drink and

:15:26. > :15:30.drive at all? Things like that would be more likely to change behaviours

:15:31. > :15:36.than confuse guidelines. -- can't drink and drive. I think we suffer

:15:37. > :15:41.from advice overload. The newspaper I read has help advise virtually

:15:42. > :15:47.every day, a new story. -- has health advice. This week we have had

:15:48. > :15:51.antioxidants, but is now back in, I think, yesterday in Parliament they

:15:52. > :15:55.were promoting black pudding as the new wonder food. Where will it end?

:15:56. > :16:06.We have stopped taking notice. What about the way alcohol makes you

:16:07. > :16:10.feel, if you would feel better potentially by not drinking with

:16:11. > :16:14.people saying they have given up and they have never felt better. Would

:16:15. > :16:20.that make you change? Yes, it would, but I do not drink alcohol to the

:16:21. > :16:27.degree it makes me feel unwell. I never get drunk. Some people say

:16:28. > :16:33.they drink alcohol to make themselves feel better. More

:16:34. > :16:37.specifically, for me, as a student, there are student nights with cheap

:16:38. > :16:42.alcohol. People feeling like the only way to have a good time is to

:16:43. > :16:45.go out and have a drink. Maybe universities and society should

:16:46. > :16:48.promote events where people do not necessarily have to get drunk to

:16:49. > :16:54.have a good time and can meet people. I am a student going to

:16:55. > :16:58.university and meeting new people and there is emphasis on the big

:16:59. > :17:05.night, getting drunk, and discounts on alcohol. It would definitely make

:17:06. > :17:09.you go over the limit, at university, and have a negative

:17:10. > :17:13.impact on health. It is about encouraging people you can have a

:17:14. > :17:21.good time without alcohol and possibly win it, but it is finding a

:17:22. > :17:25.balance. Do guidelines from the Chief Medical Officer, Department of

:17:26. > :17:31.Health, get to the right people? Probably not. A storyline on a soap

:17:32. > :17:43.opera, would it do more good than guidelines? We saw this many times

:17:44. > :17:52.with survived -- cervical cancer. After the death of Jade Goody, that

:17:53. > :17:55.is what brought people into surgeries for screening. Is it the

:17:56. > :18:01.right way to get the message out there? We can bring in comments from

:18:02. > :18:04.people watching. A tweet from Stuart saying there is a rise in

:18:05. > :18:12.alcohol-related liver disease and it could only be good to cut down

:18:13. > :18:16.alcohol. Gary says he cannot C 18-year-old is following the

:18:17. > :18:21.guidelines. Wendy said she is worried that her husband drinks one

:18:22. > :18:27.litre of June and then they have time of drinking to prove he does

:18:28. > :18:34.not need drink. Thank you for your comments.

:18:35. > :18:46.Experimental songwriter Jack Garratt tops

:18:47. > :18:54.He'll be here for his first TV interview to talk about music.

:18:55. > :18:59.And aid is on its way to the besieged Syrian town

:19:00. > :19:01.of Madaya, prompted by shocking stories of people

:19:02. > :19:07.We'll talk to people with links to the town about whether enough

:19:08. > :19:20.Tough new guidelines on alcohol - the first major review for 20 years

:19:21. > :19:24.says there's no such thing as a safe level of drinking and even a small

:19:25. > :19:39.The Chief Medical Officer found the limits for men and women should be

:19:40. > :19:45.the same. We have discovered more harms than we were fully aware of

:19:46. > :19:48.before. That brings us to a low risk guideline for the public of 14 units

:19:49. > :19:50.over a week. Heavy rain forces many people

:19:51. > :19:52.in north-eastern Scotland to evacuate their homes as water

:19:53. > :19:55.levels reach record highs Residents, including

:19:56. > :20:00.elderly people and babies, were moved to temporary

:20:01. > :20:02.accommodation after the River Don burst

:20:03. > :20:14.its banks in Aberdeenshire. Police raiding a flat in Brussels

:20:15. > :20:17.found suicide vests, traces of explosives and fingerprints of one

:20:18. > :20:21.of the men suspected of the Paris attacks who is currently on the run.

:20:22. > :20:25.The discoveries were made in a search on 10th of December.

:20:26. > :20:28.The besieged Syrian town of Madaya could start receiving food aid

:20:29. > :20:35.The UN said people there are reported to have been

:20:36. > :20:39.It comes as medics treating refugees at camps in the Balkans say they've

:20:40. > :20:42.seen a spike of people falling ill due to freezing temperatures.

:20:43. > :20:54.The private security company G4S has suspended staff members at an

:20:55. > :20:56.institution in Kent. Jack Garratt has topped

:20:57. > :21:04.the BBC's Sound of 2016 list, The singer said he was

:21:05. > :21:08."unbelievably, overwhelmingly Carol and Bridge of Spies lead this

:21:09. > :21:16.year's nominations for the BAFTAs, with Eddie Redmayne aiming to win

:21:17. > :21:19.Best Actor for a second year And now the sport. A lot to

:21:20. > :21:36.in The Danish Girl. And now the sport. A lot to

:21:37. > :21:38.video technology could be ramped And now the sport. A lot to

:21:39. > :21:42.in top-level football. Goalline And now the sport. A lot to

:21:43. > :21:47.technology is already used but now the lawmaking body is

:21:48. > :21:51.look at using replays to on goals, red cards, penalties. The trial

:21:52. > :21:55.could happen in the FA Cup in England next season. The competition

:21:56. > :22:03.returns tonight for the start of the third-round weekend. Liverpool make

:22:04. > :22:06.the trip to Exeter City of League 2. The Liverpool boss is not happy with

:22:07. > :22:12.the intensity of the winter schedule in England. We will hear from the

:22:13. > :22:18.managers. Newspapers are reporting a training ground bust up between

:22:19. > :22:25.Chelsea's Diego Costa and Oscar. While Oscar said they are still

:22:26. > :22:30.friends, he said his team-mate is not want to fight. A bit of tongue

:22:31. > :22:35.in cheek on social media. Michel Platini has confirmed he will not

:22:36. > :22:37.run in next months fever presidential election

:22:38. > :22:38.run in next months fever banned from football he was handed

:22:39. > :22:53.before Christmas. which highlights the most exciting

:22:54. > :22:55.new artists in music. Jack Garratt was chosen

:22:56. > :22:57.by more than a hundred DJs, journalists, festival bookers,

:22:58. > :22:59.bloggers and critics. Their track record is good -

:23:00. > :23:02.having previously spotted the likes We will speak to Jack in just moment

:23:03. > :23:06.but before that let's have a look back at some of the artists who've

:23:07. > :23:39.previously taken the crown. # Should I give up, or should I just

:23:40. > :24:32.keep chasing pavements? # Can I lay by your side?

:24:33. > :24:36.# Next to you. I am pleased to say the 20 16th

:24:37. > :24:44.winner is with me now. Congratulations. Thank you very

:24:45. > :24:49.much. How are you feeling? I feel good, all right. I feel tired, I

:24:50. > :24:54.have been doing lots of talking to people about this fantastic news. I

:24:55. > :24:59.feel great. Very overwhelmed. I don't quite know the words yet I

:25:00. > :25:00.need to describe what I am feeling but I feel great. We can listen to

:25:01. > :25:36.some of your music. It is rare something comes along in

:25:37. > :25:43.music and is completely different but yours is. How did you come up

:25:44. > :25:47.with this sound? The sound I seem to have fallen into is one that I am

:25:48. > :25:53.still learning about. I am still putting together and trying to find

:25:54. > :25:58.out myself what it is but I think that is why people have seemed to

:25:59. > :26:04.say it is different from some of the things available at the moment. I

:26:05. > :26:09.never try to be alienating. I don't want people to think they cannot

:26:10. > :26:13.listen to my music because it is too different, but I like to challenge

:26:14. > :26:19.myself and that ends up challenging some listeners, but in a positive

:26:20. > :26:24.way, a great way. I want to include people, so people feel like they are

:26:25. > :26:28.having fun listening to my music. It is melodic on one level but jarring

:26:29. > :26:33.on the other and it demands your attention, you cannot have it on

:26:34. > :26:40.quietly in the background. No! I write with that in mind. The music I

:26:41. > :26:45.love is music that kind of demands your attention, kind of tracks you

:26:46. > :26:49.away from what you are doing. I like giving all my attention to music

:26:50. > :26:58.because I love music so much and I like to dissect and analyse music. I

:26:59. > :27:04.write music so that other people can do that with mine and so they can

:27:05. > :27:08.also forget about life for a second and have some kind of escapism. I

:27:09. > :27:14.write melodies for people to sing along to for that reason so people

:27:15. > :27:17.have something they can grab onto but there are moments in the

:27:18. > :27:23.background that take you from one place and drop you somewhere else. I

:27:24. > :27:28.like those surprises. I like music as surprising. And beautiful music

:27:29. > :27:33.videos. It is amazing to see it on a screen this big! Different layers

:27:34. > :27:39.and sounds in the music and you create each of those sounds. Does

:27:40. > :27:46.that make life performing difficult? Yes, but it also makes it simple, at

:27:47. > :27:52.least, to think about how I will do it live because I make everything

:27:53. > :27:55.myself in the studio. I therefore thought, well, I might as well do

:27:56. > :27:59.everything on my own when I play live which is what I ended up doing

:28:00. > :28:04.stop I play different instruments at the same time and loop certain

:28:05. > :28:08.things and play certain things together, like the guitar and drums

:28:09. > :28:15.and keys and bass and singing all the while. A lot of people deemed it

:28:16. > :28:19.as being a modern one-man band. We can listen a little bit and you can

:28:20. > :28:22.talk us through it and tell us what is coming in in terms of instruments

:28:23. > :28:28.you are playing and what you have done with it. This is a song of mine

:28:29. > :28:35.called Weathered. One of the oldest I have written. This is all me on

:28:36. > :28:40.this record and there is a lot of piano and guitars and drums I am

:28:41. > :28:46.playing. When I do this live, I loop some piano riffs that drop in and

:28:47. > :28:51.out at certain parts of the song and then I have drum sample set up and

:28:52. > :28:55.the whole time I have a guitar around my neck which I swing behind

:28:56. > :29:01.my back when I do not need it and then I played bass and drums at the

:29:02. > :29:09.same time and all the while singing. Wow! How many instruments do you

:29:10. > :29:14.play? I don't know. The thing I love about music and instruments is that

:29:15. > :29:19.every instrument has a design to be playable. There is not an instrument

:29:20. > :29:25.designed so it is impossible to play and I took that as an invitation and

:29:26. > :29:30.I therefore like to pick up any instrument I see. When I was a kid,

:29:31. > :29:35.my ears and hands talked very well to each other. My mind sometimes

:29:36. > :29:39.gets in the middle of the conversation and messes things up,

:29:40. > :29:45.but because of that as a kid I encouraged myself to pick up any

:29:46. > :29:49.instrument and I would at least try to play it. My attitude is if I am

:29:50. > :29:54.given an instrument I have not seen before I will try and get something

:29:55. > :29:57.out of it in half an hour, an hour. Give me time to play around with

:29:58. > :30:01.ideas and I will give you something at the end. It might not be

:30:02. > :30:05.technically right that it will be something. An extraordinary talent.

:30:06. > :30:09.It was something I noticed at a younger age when I realised not all

:30:10. > :30:14.my friends could do those things and I realised it was part of my

:30:15. > :30:20.character. How old were you? Probably five, six. I was at primary

:30:21. > :30:26.school and realised not everyone had access to music in the way I did. I

:30:27. > :30:31.grew up in a musical household with musical parents who encouraged me to

:30:32. > :30:37.try everything under the sun. Presumably this talent has come from

:30:38. > :30:41.within you. Yes, to have been that young and realise. At that age I did

:30:42. > :30:46.not quite know what was happening, I knew I could sit at the piano and

:30:47. > :30:50.play a melody I heard the day before without music and letting my ears

:30:51. > :30:54.figure it out. The same with guitar. When I realised I could do it on

:30:55. > :30:56.multiple instruments I realised there was something greater going on

:30:57. > :31:06.I was not aware of. Your music, as a result of getting

:31:07. > :31:11.this prize and other accolades, other critical acclaim, will take

:31:12. > :31:16.you to a much wider audience. How do you feel? Incredibly excited. It is

:31:17. > :31:20.also incredibly intimidating. There is a lot of pressure with all of

:31:21. > :31:24.these accolades, as you mentioned. My job is not to win awards, my job

:31:25. > :31:29.is to make the best music that I can. I haven't asked for the awards,

:31:30. > :31:33.but they've been given to me. And I'm so grateful for that. I've been

:31:34. > :31:38.given some incredible opportunities. But my job is to work as hard as I

:31:39. > :31:42.can and create music that people enjoy, that is all I want to do,

:31:43. > :31:46.create music that people enjoy and that I enjoy making. I hope I can

:31:47. > :31:53.keep doing that for as long as I can. What do you think about stardom

:31:54. > :31:58.and success on the level of people like Adele, who have gone before you

:31:59. > :32:01.with this prize? Agog every songwriter has their own way of

:32:02. > :32:08.doing everything. The great thing about art is you can be uniquely

:32:09. > :32:12.creative. And the journey you take to that is as unique as you make it

:32:13. > :32:16.for yourself. I can't predict that I will reach the kind of astronomical

:32:17. > :32:20.heights that previous winners like Sam Smith and Adele have achieved,

:32:21. > :32:25.but I can work as hard as I can. Those guys and suddenly become the

:32:26. > :32:32.biggest selling artists in the world overnight, they worked hard and

:32:33. > :32:36.honed their talents and their craft and became world-class musicians. I

:32:37. > :32:40.can only hope to follow in those kinds of footsteps. When you talk

:32:41. > :32:45.about music, you don't make it sound like work at all, you love it. Is

:32:46. > :32:49.that about? Agog I am very fortunate in that my job is the thing that I

:32:50. > :32:53.love to do, and because of that I don't work a day in my life. I don't

:32:54. > :32:58.like getting up early in the morning, as nobody else does. But if

:32:59. > :33:03.I get to talk about music, I will put bells on if I have to. Well

:33:04. > :33:05.done, good luck with everything. Thank you very much, Jack.

:33:06. > :33:07.Next - a fascinating insight into the relationship

:33:08. > :33:10.Transcripts of candid conversations between the former US president

:33:11. > :33:13.and the former Prime Minister have been released to the BBC and they're

:33:14. > :33:16.far more down to Earth than you might imagine!

:33:17. > :33:22.# I'm in the phone booth, it's the one across the hall

:33:23. > :33:27.# If you don't answer, I'll just ring it off the wall #.

:33:28. > :33:40.You know, after January I am available for

:33:41. > :33:44.CHUCKLES I wouldn't say that, or you will be

:33:45. > :33:48.You said you wanted to continue my work with a third wing,

:33:49. > :33:51.this is it - helping Blair balance work and family.

:33:52. > :33:53.CHUCKLES I could do with a bit of help.

:33:54. > :34:01.Right, Bill, we will put you down on the

:34:02. > :34:05.Now that would be a special relationship.

:34:06. > :34:09.# Don't leave me hanging on the telephone #.

:34:10. > :34:17.But in the transcripts of conversations running to more

:34:18. > :34:20.My staff will not let me talk to you unless I have a banana at hand.

:34:21. > :34:27.Now, Bill, I thought we should have a work

:34:28. > :34:31.Intervention in Kosovo and the Northern Ireland peace

:34:32. > :34:33.process were the backdrop to this bromance.

:34:34. > :34:37.Between a second term Clinton and a first term Blair.

:34:38. > :34:40.I want to thank you for giving Tony Blair to Great Britain

:34:41. > :34:47.As they chat we get a sense of how these men view themselves.

:34:48. > :34:50.There is a limit to how many times you can do this.

:34:51. > :34:52.I had to just get there and listen to them for hours

:34:53. > :34:58.We end up being part negotiator, part therapist, and part

:34:59. > :35:02.Someday we should write a book together about these two

:35:03. > :35:08.Northern Ireland figures large, though conversations don't always

:35:09. > :35:17.I'm watching the end of an old Peter Sellers movie.

:35:18. > :35:23.I've only seen about five minutes, but Herbert Lum just

:35:24. > :35:37.I just wanted to put you in good humour since you are dealing

:35:38. > :35:43.Yeah, I just wanted to bring you up to date.

:35:44. > :35:45.Tony Blair's answers here are all redacted,

:35:46. > :35:47.just as intriguing of the reductions in this exchange.

:35:48. > :35:53.Wouldn't it be great to know what he says after that?

:35:54. > :36:02.Hey, Tony, when this all comes out who do you think they will get

:36:03. > :36:09.No chance, that is about as likely as Jeremy Corbyn

:36:10. > :36:16.For the record, none of that was made up,

:36:17. > :36:30.Coming up, we will be live in Aberdeenshire, where the elderly and

:36:31. > :36:35.very young children were among those evacuated from their homes last

:36:36. > :36:39.night after more heavy rain caused the River Don to overflow. Get in

:36:40. > :36:40.touch if you are affected eye that, using all the usual ways.

:36:41. > :36:43.The United Nations says it hopes to start delivering food on Monday

:36:44. > :36:46.to the besieged Syrian town of Madaya, after the Syrian

:36:47. > :36:47.government agreed to let aid convoys through.

:36:48. > :36:50.Shocking stories have emerged from the town of people starving

:36:51. > :36:53.Aid agencies say conditions in the rebel-held town -

:36:54. > :36:56.which is near the capital Damascus - are extremely dire -

:36:57. > :37:00.and people are struggling to survive with little food or medicine.

:37:01. > :37:02.The UN says it also has permission for access to the government-held

:37:03. > :37:08.towns of Kefraya and Fua in the north.

:37:09. > :37:10.Up to 4.5 million people in Syria live in hard-to-reach areas,

:37:11. > :37:18.including nearly 400,000 people in 15 besieged locations who do not

:37:19. > :37:20.have access to the life-saving aid they urgently need.

:37:21. > :37:23.Some are saying they've been forced to eat leaves and even earth

:37:24. > :37:31.Dibeh Fakhr is from the International Committee

:37:32. > :37:33.of the Red Cross - she's in Geneva.

:37:34. > :37:36.And here in the studio is Muzna Al-Naib from the organisation

:37:37. > :37:38.The journalist and author Ramita Navai has spent

:37:39. > :37:51.Thank you all for joining us. I know that you have been in direct contact

:37:52. > :37:58.with people in Madaya, what are they saying? People in Madaya are

:37:59. > :38:03.desperate. They have eating cats, dogs and horses. Leaves. They have

:38:04. > :38:11.been poisoned because they have been scavenging earthborn leaves -- Earth

:38:12. > :38:15.believes. Two people die every day from hunger there. Parents are

:38:16. > :38:27.desperate to get food for their newborn babies, there is no milk for

:38:28. > :38:33.children, no medicine. This has been happening for two years. Today I got

:38:34. > :38:37.a word from a Syrian grassroot aid organisation working there, and they

:38:38. > :38:43.said they have one to be nations that this will happen -- they have

:38:44. > :38:47.warned the United Nations that this will happen, but they had no

:38:48. > :38:51.response. Hunger has been used as a weapon for two years in Syria. The

:38:52. > :38:56.world knows about it, the UK Government knows about it, no one

:38:57. > :38:59.has done anything. I asked yesterday what is their reaction towards the

:39:00. > :39:06.announcement that food is coming. They said, first of all, no aid has

:39:07. > :39:15.reached so far. That means that 50 people within 24 hours will die.

:39:16. > :39:18.They need food now. The International Committee of the

:39:19. > :39:23.Red Cross should be able to get aid in on Monday, bring us up to date

:39:24. > :39:30.with the latest? Good morning. Indeed, we got the authorisation

:39:31. > :39:32.yesterday to go to Madaya, Fuaa and Kefraya to bring much-needed

:39:33. > :39:37.assistance to the people who are there. We don't know yet when the

:39:38. > :39:42.operation will take place. Our teams in Syria are preparing, we will work

:39:43. > :39:47.together. We really hope it will take place very soon. Indeed, what I

:39:48. > :39:52.can say from what we saw when we were in Madaya in October 2015, the

:39:53. > :39:57.situation was indeed very dire. We saw the hunger in the eyes of the

:39:58. > :40:01.people, we saw despair, mothers unable to breast-feed their newborn

:40:02. > :40:05.babies. The situation in Madaya and other besieged areas is very

:40:06. > :40:09.critical, and we should not forget, as you mentioned correctly at the

:40:10. > :40:13.beginning, it is not only Madaya. There are half a million people

:40:14. > :40:16.living in besieged or hard to reach our area is not getting any

:40:17. > :40:24.humanitarian assistance for a long time. What will the organisation be

:40:25. > :40:28.able to take him, how much stuff? Together with the other

:40:29. > :40:32.organisations, we will look. There is the Red Crescent and there are UN

:40:33. > :40:35.agencies. Then we can bring everything that is needed for the

:40:36. > :40:39.population. That there will definitely be food and non-food

:40:40. > :40:43.items. That'll be the top priority. The last time we were there we

:40:44. > :40:49.delivered medicines, enough for two months. I will not give details of

:40:50. > :40:56.speculate about the operation as such, I preferred to speak about it.

:40:57. > :41:01.That Christie converted once takes place. Our priority or our call

:41:02. > :41:06.today is to all those involved in the Syrian conflict, a 1-shot

:41:07. > :41:13.delivery of assistance to a besieged area is not the solution. What you

:41:14. > :41:16.meant Terry and organisations need its regular, unimpeded and safe

:41:17. > :41:22.access to all areas where there are huge needs in Syria today. You were

:41:23. > :41:29.there at the start of the siege in Madaya, take us back. That was a few

:41:30. > :41:32.years ago. What was it like? It is not a poor time, it looks beautiful,

:41:33. > :41:38.it is in a really beautiful mountainous area. People there are

:41:39. > :41:43.quite wealthy. That has to do with why the protests were so strong. It

:41:44. > :41:49.is economically independent of the state. So few people there a lie on

:41:50. > :41:52.state jobs, most are in agriculture. That is why they had the

:41:53. > :41:58.independence and they were brave enough to protest. It was one of the

:41:59. > :42:03.first towns to hold regular Friday protest, Madaya. While I was there,

:42:04. > :42:08.the town was besieged by government forces for three days. I was trapped

:42:09. > :42:14.in a safe house with three activists who were wanted. We were very lucky,

:42:15. > :42:19.the activists were very lucky, the road we were in was raided and we

:42:20. > :42:23.heard men screaming as they were beaten and taken away. Those men

:42:24. > :42:28.disappeared, never to be seen again. If people want to leave now, can

:42:29. > :42:32.they? It is impossible. I was speaking to people in Madaya last

:42:33. > :42:38.night, the whole town is surrounded by checkpoints and barbed wire. If

:42:39. > :42:41.you leave you are shot, if not, government forces have planted

:42:42. > :42:45.landmines all around the town. The people I was talking to are really

:42:46. > :42:50.scared. They are hungry and very cold. I would say that they have

:42:51. > :42:56.heard many promises that aid will be lasted through, they are not getting

:42:57. > :43:03.their hopes up. They said to me, it is like a prison, we feel like a

:43:04. > :43:08.walking dead. Why has Madaya become such a focus for the raging? It is

:43:09. > :43:16.not just Madaya, there are many other towns. What has changed is

:43:17. > :43:20.that the media paid attention. What happens when the media spotlight has

:43:21. > :43:27.gone? People are hungry before this and after this. This has been going

:43:28. > :43:34.on since 2011? The revolution has been going on since 2011, at least

:43:35. > :43:38.500,000 people have been killed, thousands are imprisoned and dying

:43:39. > :43:43.under torture. Bombs are falling every single day in besieged areas.

:43:44. > :43:52.And hunger and starvation is going on as a weapon. They are trying to

:43:53. > :44:00.wipe the Syrian population out. This has been going on since 2011. No one

:44:01. > :44:04.is doing anything about it. Syrians in the UK have been calling for the

:44:05. > :44:08.protection of civilians to be the priority of everything. No one is

:44:09. > :44:15.listening to us. We know that the protection of civilians is keen to

:44:16. > :44:20.fighting guys should, the key to a political solution and any relief in

:44:21. > :44:26.Syria -- the key to fighting Daesh. When we called the government in

:44:27. > :44:31.Syria not to drop bombs, they did not listen. I want to call the

:44:32. > :44:35.Government to drop food. Listen to the civilians, listen to your

:44:36. > :44:37.taxpayers. I can bet you that each mother in the UK would prefer that

:44:38. > :44:41.food would be dropped rather than mother in the UK would prefer that

:44:42. > :44:49.arms on Syria. Thank you, all three. What you think of the new guidelines

:44:50. > :44:54.on booze? We will be putting your questions to one of the authors of

:44:55. > :44:56.the new report today which says that every sip of alcohol increases your

:44:57. > :45:02.chances of getting cancer. Let's catch up on the latest weather

:45:03. > :45:17.with Carol. We have been talking

:45:18. > :45:21.These records We have been talking

:45:22. > :45:40.The previous record was millimetres. Arboyne is in

:45:41. > :45:42.Aberdeenshire. The Scottish environment protection agency has

:45:43. > :45:45.two environment protection agency has

:45:46. > :45:50.means there is imminent danger to life and to property and this is the

:45:51. > :45:57.flood line number if anybody wants to call it. The question I am asked

:45:58. > :46:01.is when this. . It. Quite soon. Next week, winter is arriving. We spoke

:46:02. > :46:06.yesterday about the season and I know you like them and I do, as

:46:07. > :46:10.well. This will be a shock to the system because already we have cold

:46:11. > :46:13.air in Scotland and parts of northern England and Northern

:46:14. > :46:25.Ireland. That will move south. You can see the blue penetrating the

:46:26. > :46:31.British Isles. The source of this is coming down from the door. That

:46:32. > :46:36.means that inland, the tendency is it will be drier. Along the coast,

:46:37. > :46:38.we are likely to see wintry showers, which is good news for the flooded

:46:39. > :46:42.areas, but we will have which is good news for the flooded

:46:43. > :46:47.snow around, which is more like you expected winter. And with the ground

:46:48. > :46:48.saturated and temperatures getting that low, it will be pretty

:46:49. > :46:57.horrible. You are right. This that low, it will be pretty

:46:58. > :47:04.morning there were icy stretches. It has been a cold start. It is cold at

:47:05. > :47:11.the moment, between -4 and 5 degrees in many parts of the UK. We have

:47:12. > :47:16.been used to ten, 11th, 12 degrees. Change is afoot. See you later. The

:47:17. > :47:21.reason for the change is because we see a change in air mass. Today we

:47:22. > :47:25.have low pressure dominating and this is producing showers and some

:47:26. > :47:31.snow on the hills in northern England and southern Scotland. We

:47:32. > :47:35.have seen rain this morning. It was raining across the north-east of

:47:36. > :47:40.Scotland earlier, but these showers are across the western parts of

:47:41. > :47:44.northern England. Those in northern England move into southern Scotland

:47:45. > :47:50.and those in the west travelling to the east, heading to East Anglia and

:47:51. > :47:54.Kent. On either side, there will be sunny spells. It will feel cold.

:47:55. > :47:59.Particularly where the temperatures are nowhere in the northern half of

:48:00. > :48:07.the country. In the afternoon we have rain, sleet and snow. And then

:48:08. > :48:10.we run into rain, sleet and snow in the Southern uplands. In Northern

:48:11. > :48:16.Ireland and northern England there will be showers and on the highest

:48:17. > :48:21.ground it could be wintry. In England and Wales, as showers

:48:22. > :48:26.stripped to the south-east, it will brighten up beautifully and so after

:48:27. > :48:31.a wet start, we are looking at a lot of sunshine, but no great shakes in

:48:32. > :48:37.terms of temperatures. Overnight, we will have rain, sleet and snow, but

:48:38. > :48:46.there will be clear skies, meaning the temperature will drop quickly.

:48:47. > :48:50.There is the risk of ice. We will have rain sweeping in from the

:48:51. > :48:55.south, which is why temperatures here are higher. The -8 in the

:48:56. > :49:02.Highlands and Grampians is what we expect over the places where we have

:49:03. > :49:07.lying snow. Bitterly cold here. At the weekend low pressure will

:49:08. > :49:13.dominate. Rattling across and at times showers and at times it will

:49:14. > :49:18.be breezy. As we head into the new week, we will see the change in

:49:19. > :49:22.temperature. On Saturday, showers moving north with hill snow. A lot

:49:23. > :49:27.of showers coming in behind across England and Wales and it will be

:49:28. > :49:36.breezy. In north of Scotland we hang on to the rain and some Hill snow.

:49:37. > :49:41.And a wintry mix at lower levels. On Sunday, if anything, it is a quieter

:49:42. > :49:44.day weather-wise. It means there will be more rain across the North

:49:45. > :49:48.and north-west of Scotland with showers around the coasts.

:49:49. > :49:51.I'm Joanna Gosling, welcome to the programme if you've

:49:52. > :49:59.No-one should be drinking every day - and every sip of alcohol

:50:00. > :50:04.That's the warning published in new guidelines by the UK's

:50:05. > :50:12.We've been asking about people what they make of the guidelines.

:50:13. > :50:19.I suggest the guidelines will not do everything and perhaps the better

:50:20. > :50:23.way is to take a legislative approach and say it currently you

:50:24. > :50:27.are allowed a little alcohol. If alcohol is bad for you, why not

:50:28. > :50:32.change it so you cannot drink and drive at all. As a student, their

:50:33. > :50:38.student nights with cheap alcohol and people feeling the only way to

:50:39. > :50:43.have a good time is to have a drink. Maybe universities and society

:50:44. > :50:47.should against where people do not necessarily have to to get drunk to

:50:48. > :50:53.have a good time. What do these guidelines mean? We will be joined

:50:54. > :50:56.by Sir Ian Gilmore, who is a liver specialist to help to write the

:50:57. > :50:57.guidelines. He will answer your questions.

:50:58. > :51:01.Homes in parts of Aberdeenshire have been evacuated after heavy rain

:51:02. > :51:15.And on a mission to make school exciting, Tim Peake chats to pupils

:51:16. > :51:21.live from space as he prepares for his first spacewalk next week.

:51:22. > :51:28.Tough new guidelines on alcohol - the first major review for 20 years

:51:29. > :51:34.says there's no such thing as a "safe level of drinking"

:51:35. > :51:38.and warns even a small amount can raise the risk of cancer.

:51:39. > :51:41.The UL's chief medical officers also found that the limits for both men

:51:42. > :51:52.We've discovered there are more harms than we were fully aware

:51:53. > :51:55.of before and that brings us to a low risk guideline

:51:56. > :51:57.for the public of 14 units over the week.

:51:58. > :51:59.Heavy rain has forced many people in northern-eastern Scotland

:52:00. > :52:01.to evacuate their homes, as water levels reached record highs

:52:02. > :52:06.Residents, including elderly people and babies,

:52:07. > :52:08.were moved to temporary accommodation after the River Don

:52:09. > :52:15.Police raiding a flat in Brussels have found suicide vests,

:52:16. > :52:19.traces of explosives, and the fingerprints

:52:20. > :52:22.of Salah Abdeslam, one of the men suspected of the Paris attacks

:52:23. > :52:33.The discoveries were made during a search on December 10th.

:52:34. > :52:36.The besieged rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya could start receiving food

:52:37. > :52:37.aid from Monday, the UN says.

:52:38. > :52:40.People there are reported to have been dying of starvation.

:52:41. > :52:44.It comes as medics treating refugees at camps in the Balkans say they've

:52:45. > :52:46.seen a sharp increase in the number of people falling ill due

:52:47. > :52:50.The private security company G4S has suspended seven members of staff

:52:51. > :52:53.from a secure training centre for young offenders in Kent.

:52:54. > :52:54.The police are investigating allegations of abuse

:52:55. > :53:03.A huge bushfire that devastated a small town is still burning out

:53:04. > :53:10.Half of the buildings in Yarloop, south of Perth, have been destroyed

:53:11. > :53:16.and three people are reported to be missing.

:53:17. > :53:24.Jack Garratt has topped the BBC's Sound of 2016 list,

:53:25. > :53:28.which celebrates new and up and coming artists in music.

:53:29. > :53:29.The singer said he was "unbelievably, overwhelmingly

:53:30. > :53:40.Carol and Bridge of Spies lead this year's nominations for the BAFTAs,

:53:41. > :53:43.with Eddie Redmayne aiming to win Best Actor for a second year

:53:44. > :53:47.in a row for his role in The Danish Girl.

:53:48. > :53:50.Let's catch up with all the sport now and join Hugh.

:53:51. > :53:58.Is football finally about to embrace video technology?

:53:59. > :54:04.Remember this moment? Maradona's famous goal against England and

:54:05. > :54:09.incidents like that could be a thing of the past after football

:54:10. > :54:12.authorities rubber-stamped a trial in video technology. This might have

:54:13. > :54:18.been 30 years ago, but it is talked about as one of the most

:54:19. > :54:21.controversial World Cup incidents. The international lawmaking body

:54:22. > :54:26.have recommended experimenting with video technology for things like

:54:27. > :54:32.girls and red cards. A final decision will be made at the board's

:54:33. > :54:36.final meeting in March. We are trying to nail some of the

:54:37. > :54:42.fundamental moments in football that we think video assistance can assist

:54:43. > :54:48.the referee. They include girls and penalties. The reality is it is a

:54:49. > :54:53.referee, it is a difficult job, one person and two eyes. In many games

:54:54. > :54:57.we have sometimes 20 cameras, millions of people watching the

:54:58. > :55:01.game. We have to do what we can to assist the referee. The game is

:55:02. > :55:06.getting faster and the stakes are higher and we have to support the

:55:07. > :55:11.referee to make the right decisions. If it is approved, we could see

:55:12. > :55:17.video technology used in next season's FA Cup and Scottish cup.

:55:18. > :55:21.Both tournaments return this weekend and in England there is a David and

:55:22. > :55:28.Goliath encounter as Exeter City take on Liverpool tonight. It is

:55:29. > :55:32.live on BBC One from 730 B. The 500 mile trip to the West Country is

:55:33. > :55:43.Liverpool's 10th game since December, which is disappointed

:55:44. > :55:46.Jurgen Klopp. At this moment, it is not too much joy. Of course.

:55:47. > :55:56.Jurgen Klopp. At this moment, it is then we have five, six days.

:55:57. > :56:01.Jurgen Klopp. At this moment, it is until Friday. Wednesday. So it is

:56:02. > :56:11.almost a break! LAUGHTER. I think about flying on holiday! I

:56:12. > :56:15.say it is a normal game -- not a normal game. They have to find a way

:56:16. > :56:19.of playing their best and I have to find a way of getting the players to

:56:20. > :56:24.play their best and to feel free in their play and to be full of energy

:56:25. > :56:30.and endeavour. I understand the practicalities of the challenge. Off

:56:31. > :56:34.the field of play, a sour moment for Michel Platini, the man many

:56:35. > :56:39.believed might take charge of world football. But after Fifa handed him

:56:40. > :56:44.an eight-year ban after what they football. But after Fifa handed him

:56:45. > :56:49.deem to be a disloyal payment, he will not stand in the election next

:56:50. > :56:53.month. He said injustice is revolting him and he is trying to

:56:54. > :56:58.fight it. That is all the sport but we will be back at 10:30am, speaking

:56:59. > :57:01.to the editor of the Liverpool pod casts.

:57:02. > :57:03.Thank you for joining us this morning.

:57:04. > :57:05.Welcome to the programme if you've just joined us,

:57:06. > :57:12.we're on BBC 2 and the BBC News Channel until 11 this morning.

:57:13. > :57:21.A lot of you getting in touch about our interview with Jack Garrett.

:57:22. > :57:25.Harriet said, congratulations for winning Sound Of 2016. What a nice

:57:26. > :57:31.guy. Said she saw him play in a cellar somewhere and knew he would

:57:32. > :57:34.go interstellar! Also this morning, we will answer your questions on the

:57:35. > :57:39.new alcohol guidelines keep your questions coming will stop there is

:57:40. > :57:43.still time if you want to join the conversation. Text messages are

:57:44. > :57:44.charged at the standard network rate and you can watch the programme

:57:45. > :57:48.online where ever you are. And you can also subscribe

:57:49. > :57:51.to all our features on the news app, by going to "add topics"

:57:52. > :57:57.and searching "Victoria Derbyshire." In the first new guidelines to be

:57:58. > :58:02.published on alcohol for twenty years, the UK's

:58:03. > :58:04.Chief Medical Officers say there is no safe limit for drinking

:58:05. > :58:07.and even consuming small amounts The advice is that everyone should

:58:08. > :58:12.have alcohol-free days and avoid binge drinking - and the limit

:58:13. > :58:16.for men is now the same as women, But what does a unit

:58:17. > :58:24.of alcohol look like? In a standard pint of

:58:25. > :58:27.beer or a large glass - 175ml - of wine there is roughly

:58:28. > :58:32.two units of alcohol - stronger beers and wines

:58:33. > :58:35.will have more. So under the new guidelines

:58:36. > :58:38.you could have around seven pints of beer or seven glasses of wine

:58:39. > :58:40.compared to the old guidelines where men would be allowed 21 units

:58:41. > :58:44.or roughly ten pints a week. Women who are pregnant

:58:45. > :58:46.are being told they should So what exactly do the new

:58:47. > :58:51.guidelines mean you can drink In a standard pint

:58:52. > :59:00.of beer, and a large glass of wine, or two shots

:59:01. > :59:04.of spirits, it is roughly two units. Stronger beers and

:59:05. > :59:08.wines will have more. Previous advice was that men should

:59:09. > :59:10.limit themselves to 21 units a week, around a pint

:59:11. > :59:15.and a half per day. Women should drink no more

:59:16. > :59:17.than 14 units a week, Now, though, the new advice is that

:59:18. > :59:22.men and women should both limit themselves to the same -

:59:23. > :59:25.14 units per week, roughly seven Plus the advice is to give yourself

:59:26. > :59:31.several alcohol free days each week But at home how many people actually

:59:32. > :59:39.measure out their drinks? Doctors say the link

:59:40. > :59:46.between alcohol and diseases like cancer means there is no level

:59:47. > :59:56.of drinking that is completely safe. Sir Ian Gilmore - helped to write

:59:57. > :00:03.the guidelines and is chair of the Alcohol Health Alliance

:00:04. > :00:11.as well as being a liver specialist Thank you for coming in. Good

:00:12. > :00:14.morning. They have got people talking and a lot of people unhappy.

:00:15. > :00:19.How did you arrive at the guidelines? They needed updating. It

:00:20. > :00:25.was 20 years since the last guidelines, which were for daily

:00:26. > :00:29.limits coming on top of guidelines previously for weekly limits and

:00:30. > :00:33.there was confusion about whether we should talk about daily or weekly.

:00:34. > :00:39.Science has moved on with a lot of evidence gathered that needed to be

:00:40. > :00:43.taken into account. Why reduce the limits for men? Nothing has changed

:00:44. > :00:49.for women in terms of the maximum per week, but it is men who will see

:00:50. > :00:57.a difference. The guidelines are the same for women as they work in 1987,

:00:58. > :01:01.up to 14 units. Men are more at risk in the short-term harm from alcohol,

:01:02. > :01:06.violence and accidents, which is not surprising. The other reason is that

:01:07. > :01:12.there probably is some beneficial effect on the heart, but that effect

:01:13. > :01:16.is smaller than previously thought because heart disease is getting

:01:17. > :01:22.less frequent. People do more exercise, there are drugs for BP,

:01:23. > :01:26.but if there is any beneficial effect, it probably only kicks in

:01:27. > :01:32.for women and not men, and probably only over the age of 55.

:01:33. > :01:36.Loads of people are commenting, Nigel Farage from Ukip has said

:01:37. > :01:43.there should be a mass protest over what he calls nannying guidelines,

:01:44. > :01:48.he says it is over the top. I suspect Nigel has not read them.

:01:49. > :01:51.They are not a nanny state. They are saying, if you wish to keep your

:01:52. > :01:56.risks at a low level, you would be advised to do the following. We're

:01:57. > :02:00.not telling people what to do, but if we suppress the fact that there

:02:01. > :02:04.is an emerging link between alcohol and cancer, we would be criticised.

:02:05. > :02:08.It is only right that people should know when evidence is emerging, it

:02:09. > :02:13.is not just one study, there is an emerging body of evidence linking

:02:14. > :02:17.alcohol to cancer as well is better known diseases like cirrhosis and

:02:18. > :02:20.high blood pressure. People have the right to make their decision based

:02:21. > :02:26.on knowing the risks, that is not nanny state. Everything will sip of

:02:27. > :02:31.alcohol increases your chance of getting cancer? -- every single sip

:02:32. > :02:36.of? Wobble two drinks a day will increase the risk, possibly 12-macro

:02:37. > :02:42.a week. For breast cancer it does not seem that there is a safe limit,

:02:43. > :02:46.but within the recommended limits, the so-called low with guidelines,

:02:47. > :02:51.the risks are very small. Everything in life carries a risk, driving to

:02:52. > :02:56.work in the morning carries a risk. The risks of drinking within the

:02:57. > :02:59.recommended guidelines is very low. Your chances of dying of an

:03:00. > :03:05.alcohol-related disease are probably about 1% or less if you drink 14

:03:06. > :03:09.units a week. Gill has e-mailed to ask why do we hear so little about

:03:10. > :03:13.the different strengths of alcohol? People always say guidelines are

:03:14. > :03:16.confusing, and when there are variables and you try to boil it

:03:17. > :03:23.down to something straightforward like these being the acceptable...

:03:24. > :03:28.What is the amount you should be drinking purdah, it is not take into

:03:29. > :03:32.account different strengths. -- amount you should be drinking each

:03:33. > :03:37.day. We thought long and hard about units. They have been criticised

:03:38. > :03:40.greatly. When they were brought out, it was on the rationale that a half

:03:41. > :03:44.pint of ordinarily be, a small glass of wine or a pub measure of spirits

:03:45. > :03:50.are all one unit. That is fairly simple. But drinks have got stronger

:03:51. > :03:55.and glasses have got larger. Whatever system you bring in, you

:03:56. > :04:00.run into the same problem. There is no internationally agreed standard.

:04:01. > :04:04.Most countries talk about a standard drink, a standard drink in Australia

:04:05. > :04:09.or the States is roughly similar to one of our units. Neal asks if we

:04:10. > :04:15.are to make alcohol changes we would need to think of cultural changes,

:04:16. > :04:19.how do you begin that? These guidelines are only part of a

:04:20. > :04:23.package. We need follow-up work to see whether people pay attention.

:04:24. > :04:27.They had to be linked to other measures. We would love to see a

:04:28. > :04:32.mass media campaign around this, trying to get the information over

:04:33. > :04:37.to the public. We would love to see changes to labelling on bottles. At

:04:38. > :04:43.the moment, alcohol is exempt from EU regulations on calories. That as

:04:44. > :04:49.a whole different argument? The Government at the moment relies on

:04:50. > :04:53.voluntary agreements with the drinks industry on labelling, we would like

:04:54. > :04:58.to see mandatory health warnings and readable warnings on bottles. How

:04:59. > :05:01.would you envisage a bottle of wine like this, I suppose, thinking of

:05:02. > :05:07.health warnings on cigarette packets, should it be similar? Not

:05:08. > :05:10.many people will realise there is a health warning on bottles at the

:05:11. > :05:15.moment encouraging women who operate them not to drink, it is so small

:05:16. > :05:19.that if you don't have a magnifying glass you would probably not know it

:05:20. > :05:28.is there. We want any warnings to be readable. Visual like on cigarette

:05:29. > :05:32.packets? Yes. Describe what your ideal bottle would look like? It

:05:33. > :05:34.would not obscure the whole bottle but it would have to be readable.

:05:35. > :05:43.There are recommendations being given to Government of sites at

:05:44. > :05:46.fault. Needs action. With voluntary agreements, why would the industry

:05:47. > :05:51.want to put labels on bottles telling people to be careful

:05:52. > :05:55.drinking their product? As a liver specialist you see the impact on a

:05:56. > :05:59.liver of alcohol, most of this do not see that. Do you think if we all

:06:00. > :06:04.saw that it would impact on our behaviour? I think the link with

:06:05. > :06:09.cancer is important. If you talk about cirrhosis of the liver, some

:06:10. > :06:13.of the disease, people go blank. But people know about cancer, almost

:06:14. > :06:17.every family in the country has been touched by cancer in some way. It is

:06:18. > :06:23.important that this is brought to people's attention. Joel asks

:06:24. > :06:29.whether we can ask you if you drink, and how much? I do, and I drink

:06:30. > :06:37.within these guidelines. I think it is important that doctors play a

:06:38. > :06:40.role in this. Doctors are the vanguard of smoking cessation in

:06:41. > :06:45.this country. They have not always been the vanguard of reducing

:06:46. > :06:50.alcohol consumption. All health professionals will have an important

:06:51. > :06:54.role. Edward asks, I am mystified by these guidelines. How can you say

:06:55. > :07:00.there is no safe level of drinking and then set a limit of 14 units? It

:07:01. > :07:04.does not make sense. If there is no safe limit, the level should be is

:07:05. > :07:09.the row? Everything carries risks, it is risky getting out of bed but

:07:10. > :07:13.it is risky staying in bed, you might get a deep vein thrombosis.

:07:14. > :07:18.Everything in life carries some risk, it is a matter of trading

:07:19. > :07:24.risks. If somebody sticks to the 14 unit maximum, they are very unlikely

:07:25. > :07:30.to suffer alcohol-related harm, but the more you go above that, the more

:07:31. > :07:35.likely it is. People drinking 35, 40 or 50 units a week, not unknown,

:07:36. > :07:40.they are beginning to put themselves at risk of 10% plus of dying of an

:07:41. > :07:44.alcohol-related cause. Thank you very much for joining us.

:07:45. > :07:47.Pupils at a school in Hertfordshire were able to make a special call

:07:48. > :07:49.this morning to speak to British astronaut Tim Peake

:07:50. > :07:51.on the International Space Station as he flew overhead.

:07:52. > :07:53.They had a few problems making contact with,

:07:54. > :07:56.but persevered and eventually were able to hear Tim's voice -

:07:57. > :08:02.They asked him questions ranging from queries about liquid hydrogen

:08:03. > :08:05.to whether a helium balloon rises in space - before the seven-minute

:08:06. > :08:12.call was terminated because the ISS went out of range.

:08:13. > :08:14.TIM PEAKE: Hello Golf Bravo One Sierra Alpha this

:08:15. > :08:21.Sierra, I read you loud and clear, over.

:08:22. > :08:23.GB1SS from GB1SAN, great to hear you, Tim.

:08:24. > :08:25.This is Jessica Mike Six Papa Lima Juliet

:08:26. > :08:26.from Sandringham School in St Albans.

:08:27. > :08:28.Are you ready for your first question, over?

:08:29. > :08:37.What do you think Isaac Newton would say if he knew the name

:08:38. > :08:40.of your mission was based on his book, over?

:08:41. > :08:54.I would like to think that Sir Isaac Newton would be honoured

:08:55. > :08:57.that we would choose the mission name in honour of his life's work,

:08:58. > :08:59.and his understanding of physics and the

:09:00. > :09:01.universe, which all of us are hoping to build upon.

:09:02. > :09:06.Our science correspondent Rebecca Moralle at Sandringham school now.

:09:07. > :09:16.Over to you. Here at the school, space mania has taken over. The kids

:09:17. > :09:22.here are taking part in a challenge set by Tim Peake himself, getting

:09:23. > :09:27.them to cycle the distance to the International Space Station, 400

:09:28. > :09:31.kilometres. Rather than than me! The big event this morning has been

:09:32. > :09:33.kilometres. Rather than than me! The radio linkup with Tim Peake. I am

:09:34. > :09:39.joined by two of the students who played a key role in this, Jessica

:09:40. > :09:41.Lee and Philip Fletcher, both from year ten. Jessica, you were in

:09:42. > :09:45.Lee and Philip Fletcher, both from charge of the radio contact. You had

:09:46. > :09:51.to take an exam for this, what was that like? It was quite something,

:09:52. > :09:54.we only had a few days to fit a few weeks' course into it and pass the

:09:55. > :10:00.exam, I am really chuffed I have done it. It was nerve racking, there

:10:01. > :10:04.was a lot of hissing, it took awhile to get him through? We were four

:10:05. > :10:07.minutes late to establish contact, but I don't think that mattered once

:10:08. > :10:12.minutes late to establish contact, we got contact, was so happy we hope

:10:13. > :10:15.Tim Peake speak. Philip, you asked a question, what did you ask? I asked

:10:16. > :10:23.him about his EML question, what did you ask? I asked

:10:24. > :10:27.are performing, the electromagnetic limitation experiment, and how they

:10:28. > :10:29.perform the rapid cooling of metals on board. It is very interesting

:10:30. > :10:36.science. Do you think science right in his answer? I think

:10:37. > :10:40.so! That is why I asked, I science right in his answer? I think

:10:41. > :10:44.answer and he gave a good one. He explained how they perform it using

:10:45. > :10:48.gases and the small explained how they perform it using

:10:49. > :10:52.metals they use. I think it will be a very exciting breakthrough in

:10:53. > :10:54.science. Jessica, when you were speaking to Tim, he was 400

:10:55. > :10:59.kilometres above the Earth going speaking to Tim, he was 400

:11:00. > :11:05.28,000 kilometres an hour. What was it like hearing his voice when it

:11:06. > :11:08.came through? It was such a surreal experience, I don't think it has hit

:11:09. > :11:13.me how big this event was, that we spoke to somebody for hundred

:11:14. > :11:19.kilometres above the surface of the Earth. I think I will be in shock

:11:20. > :11:25.tonight! You kept calm, especially when he could not get through. Did

:11:26. > :11:30.you feel nervous? I felt nervous watching. I was surprised how calm I

:11:31. > :11:34.was. When we had to keep repeating the calling, I started to get

:11:35. > :11:39.nervous. But I was so happy when we got hold of him. One of the big

:11:40. > :11:46.important things during this mission is to inspire young will to get into

:11:47. > :11:51.science. Do you think it is working? Yeah. I am definitely inspired to

:11:52. > :11:56.take up science and stem subject, technology maths and all of these. I

:11:57. > :12:02.want to be a spaceman when I grow up, like Tim, it would be amazing

:12:03. > :12:06.explanation Jessica, is more important -- very important to get

:12:07. > :12:11.more women and girls into science, it is this inspire you? Definitely,

:12:12. > :12:16.the traditional views of what women can do and what jobs they can work

:12:17. > :12:19.and have changed, I would like to think of myself as representing that

:12:20. > :12:24.women don't just had to be a housewife or work in traditional

:12:25. > :12:29.jobs, I am very honoured. Would you fancy going up there, becoming an

:12:30. > :12:33.astronaut? Definitely, I think even as a little child everybody would

:12:34. > :12:37.love to be in space and experience the feeling of looking down on the

:12:38. > :12:42.place you live, definitely. He is doing a spacewalk next week, will

:12:43. > :12:48.you both be glued to the screen, watching? Yeah. I am so interested

:12:49. > :12:54.to see how it works. It is just black. If something goes wrong... It

:12:55. > :12:59.is all that stuff, very interesting. Jessica and Philip, thank you very

:13:00. > :13:04.much. As you can see, the students are very inspired by this mission in

:13:05. > :13:08.space. For Tim himself, he will have to start getting busy for the

:13:09. > :13:13.spacewalk, he is preparing his suit at the moment. It is happening next

:13:14. > :13:20.Friday. It is a busy first few weeks in space for our astronaut, Tim.

:13:21. > :13:24.Coverage of the spacewalk next week. Awards season is here, we will be

:13:25. > :13:28.looking at this year's BAFTA nominations, with Cate Blanchett up

:13:29. > :13:30.for best actress and Eddie Redmayne hoping to win Best actor for a

:13:31. > :13:34.second year running. The private security company G4S has

:13:35. > :13:37.suspended seven members of staff at a secure training centre

:13:38. > :13:39.for young offenders in Kent. The police are investigating

:13:40. > :13:41.allegations of unnecessary Danny Shaw is our Home

:13:42. > :13:43.Affairs Correspondent - and Paul Cook is managing director

:13:44. > :13:57.of G4S children's services Danny, tell us what the allegations

:13:58. > :14:02.are? These are serious allegations, it will be merged after a reporter

:14:03. > :14:08.from BBC Panorama did some secret filming at G4S, they got a job there

:14:09. > :14:14.last year. They presented a dossier of evidence. Within this dossier was

:14:15. > :14:18.allegations of inappropriate use of force by staff against some of the

:14:19. > :14:21.teenagers held that, allegations of assault, inappropriate use of

:14:22. > :14:27.language, some allegations amounting to bullying, those are the kind of

:14:28. > :14:32.things being alleged. What happened is that seven members of staff were

:14:33. > :14:38.suspended. They include four team leaders and two duty operations

:14:39. > :14:44.managers, all male members of staff. Some of the less experienced members

:14:45. > :14:47.of staff of those suspended. As well as that we understand that the

:14:48. > :14:53.allegations related to ten of the young people held at the centre at

:14:54. > :14:58.Medway. These are all boys aged between 14 and 17. Those are the

:14:59. > :15:03.people who the allegations relate to. There is clearly an

:15:04. > :15:06.investigation ongoing. While that is taking place, my understanding is

:15:07. > :15:11.that no more young people will be moved to the centre, it currently

:15:12. > :15:17.holds around 56 young people, mostly boys, teenage boys, many convicted

:15:18. > :15:21.of serious offences. That should be remembered as well. But clearly this

:15:22. > :15:27.is a very serious matter. We will be speaking to be an ageing director of

:15:28. > :15:29.G4S children services after you. Give us more background on G4S, this

:15:30. > :15:41.is not the first controversy? It is a big company that has

:15:42. > :15:47.operations also abroad. It runs secure training centres and what

:15:48. > :15:55.happened last year is the contract for G4S to run a centre in

:15:56. > :15:58.Northamptonshire was removed after a damning inspection reports, but the

:15:59. > :16:08.contract to run Medway was renewed until 2021. They have a troubled

:16:09. > :16:13.history of Medway. There was a riot after it opened in 1988. It had a

:16:14. > :16:16.troubled beginning but settle down in recent years that these

:16:17. > :16:22.allegations painted in a different light. As for G4S, not only the

:16:23. > :16:29.problems here but the Olympics fiasco, many will remember that. As

:16:30. > :16:33.well as the fact that three of its former staff went on trial,

:16:34. > :16:37.acquitted of the manslaughter of a person escorted out of the country,

:16:38. > :16:42.that happened last year. There is a long history to this company,

:16:43. > :16:48.although it will say it runs many of its operations very well. We can

:16:49. > :16:55.bring in Paul Cook, the managing director of G4S children's services

:16:56. > :16:59.in the UK. Did G4S have any idea what was going on before Panorama

:17:00. > :17:04.did its undercover reporting? Good morning, thank you very much for

:17:05. > :17:09.giving me the opportunity to speak to you. These are extremely shocking

:17:10. > :17:14.allegations and have their part in our business or in any establishment

:17:15. > :17:19.that looks after young people. We were unaware of these allegations

:17:20. > :17:25.until the Panorama sent them to us and we took immediate action to

:17:26. > :17:29.report them to the police and local authorities, safeguarded the CCTV

:17:30. > :17:34.footage and documentation to aid the police enquiry and we suspended the

:17:35. > :17:39.staff. What is extremely disappointing is that although it is

:17:40. > :17:46.a secure facility, it is not in isolation. There are other agencies

:17:47. > :17:51.who work at the centre and the youth justice board have a monitor there.

:17:52. > :17:56.They have a contract with children's charity Barnardo 's to see every

:17:57. > :18:00.child each week. The NHS have staff you see children twice a day as well

:18:01. > :18:03.as the children being able to take private calls in their rooms which

:18:04. > :18:09.includes opportunities to ring helplines as well as visitors and

:18:10. > :18:13.their youth offending team. So these allegations were not picked up by

:18:14. > :18:19.any of us and that is extremely concerning. Is it your job to pick

:18:20. > :18:27.up any allegations? Absolutely, and we do that. But you did not. Just to

:18:28. > :18:35.come in there, you did not pick up the allegations until a reporter

:18:36. > :18:39.went in. There was no allegation made relating to these allegations

:18:40. > :18:45.by any of the young people or by any of the other staff or by anybody

:18:46. > :18:51.speaking to the other agencies. So none of those was picked up. That is

:18:52. > :18:55.what will form part of a wider review once the police investigation

:18:56. > :19:01.has been completed. So these young people are being let down? Obviously

:19:02. > :19:08.if the staff behaved in the way described in Panorama, that is

:19:09. > :19:12.appalling behaviour, and it will not be accepted and we expect that

:19:13. > :19:19.investigation to thoroughly look at that and following that, when we

:19:20. > :19:24.know the outcome of that, all of us connected with the system will see

:19:25. > :19:29.systems are in place to protect young people and if there are

:19:30. > :19:34.failings, we will immediately take steps to rectify them. What does

:19:35. > :19:37.your company do to try to ensure correct standards are maintained at

:19:38. > :19:47.all times, whatever the conditions staff operate under? First of all,

:19:48. > :19:49.staff recruited. They have a vigorous vetting programme that

:19:50. > :19:56.includes their references, employment history and an enhanced

:19:57. > :20:01.disclosure and barring scheme undertaken by the scheme, which not

:20:02. > :20:04.only looks at whether people have criminal convictions, or whether

:20:05. > :20:09.there is soft information about them. They might associate with

:20:10. > :20:13.people who are inappropriate. They would not be recruited. They take an

:20:14. > :20:20.eight week training course, some of it delivered by ourselves, they meet

:20:21. > :20:23.the youth Justice board, Barnardo's have traders. Until that is

:20:24. > :20:27.completed and the checks are done the board will not approve anyone to

:20:28. > :20:31.go on site to work with young people. We have a range of

:20:32. > :20:37.mechanisms ourselves to try to ensure by speaking to young people,

:20:38. > :20:41.direct visits, walks around the site regularly, and young people have

:20:42. > :20:46.access to complaints boxes and can speak to people at any time. Those

:20:47. > :20:50.are the processes as well as the external agencies I have described

:20:51. > :20:55.that people have access to, are in place currently. The fact

:20:56. > :20:59.whistle-blowers went to the media and apparently not anyone within the

:21:00. > :21:04.organisation, seems to indicate whether it is fair or not that they

:21:05. > :21:09.felt they would not have had a proper hearing, is that a fair

:21:10. > :21:13.assumption to make? I don't believe it is a fair assumption because

:21:14. > :21:16.there are other people on site anybody could go to. The youth

:21:17. > :21:24.Justice board are there all the time. Staff have access to

:21:25. > :21:26.performance monitors and to Barnardo's, health care

:21:27. > :21:32.professionals, as well. There are a range of people permanently on site

:21:33. > :21:36.who are not our own staff. A lot of staff to report issues directly to

:21:37. > :21:41.us if they feel anybody has not behaved appropriately and they are

:21:42. > :21:46.immediately actioned and referred to the safeguarding team and local

:21:47. > :21:50.authorities and so staff to report if they have concerns themselves.

:21:51. > :21:58.The taxpayer plays G4S ?140,000 per child per and to look after children

:21:59. > :22:02.in Medway. G4S has lost a contract previously as a result of previous

:22:03. > :22:10.controversy, is this a contract that should now be looked at? It will run

:22:11. > :22:14.several more years. Do you think, in spite of your position, it would be

:22:15. > :22:21.right for the contract to be looked at? The first task is for us to

:22:22. > :22:25.fully cooperate as we are doing and safeguard information for the police

:22:26. > :22:30.investigation, which it is doing. Once that is concluded we will look

:22:31. > :22:32.at issues and ensure all the children we have there are safely

:22:33. > :22:38.looked after and that is our priority. Those other matters you

:22:39. > :22:40.talked about are down the line, the first priority is to ensure the

:22:41. > :22:45.investigation is first priority is to ensure the

:22:46. > :22:46.place and any actions we will act upon. Paul Cook, thank you very

:22:47. > :22:48.much. As people are evacuated from their

:22:49. > :22:58.still to come before 11. As people are evacuated from their

:22:59. > :23:05.homes in Aberdeenshire, we will have the latest on the situation.

:23:06. > :23:08.Award season is here - we'll be taking a look at this years

:23:09. > :23:10.BAFTA nominations with Eddie Redmayne aiming to win

:23:11. > :23:12.Best Actor for a second year in a row.

:23:13. > :23:24.The private security company G4S has suspended seven members of staff

:23:25. > :23:27.from a secure centre for young offenders in Kent. Police are

:23:28. > :23:29.investigating allegations of abuse and mistreatment.

:23:30. > :23:31.There's no such thing as a "safe level of drinking -

:23:32. > :23:34.the first major review for 20 years warns even a small amount can

:23:35. > :23:38.Tough new guidelines have cut recommended drinking limits and made

:23:39. > :23:40.them the same for both men and women.

:23:41. > :23:43.We've discovered there are more harms than we were fully aware

:23:44. > :23:46.of before and that brings us to a low risk guideline

:23:47. > :23:55.for the public of 14 units over the week.

:23:56. > :23:58.Rescue teams have had to evacuate dozens of people from their homes

:23:59. > :24:01.in northern-eastern Scotland as heavy rain caused the river Don

:24:02. > :24:10.Water levels reached record highs in some areas.

:24:11. > :24:12.Food aid could be delivered to residents of the besieged

:24:13. > :24:14.rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya from Monday,

:24:15. > :24:20.Food aid could be delivered to residents of the besieged

:24:21. > :24:22.rebel-held Syrian town of Madaya from Monday,

:24:23. > :24:25.Many people there are reported to be starving to death.

:24:26. > :24:28.It comes as medics treating refugees at camps in the Balkans say they've

:24:29. > :24:31.seen a sharp increase in the number of people falling ill due

:24:32. > :24:35.Police raiding a flat in Brussels have found suicide vests,

:24:36. > :24:36.traces of explosives, and the fingerprints

:24:37. > :24:39.of Salah Abdeslam, one of the men suspected of the Paris attacks

:24:40. > :24:45.The discoveries were made during a search on December 10th.

:24:46. > :24:51.Jack Garratt has topped the BBC's Sound of 2016 list,

:24:52. > :24:54.which celebrates new and up and coming artists in music.

:24:55. > :24:55.The singer said he was "unbelievably, overwhelmingly

:24:56. > :25:06.Carol and Bridge of Spies lead this year's nominations for the BAFTAs,

:25:07. > :25:09.with Eddie Redmayne aiming to win Best Actor for a second year

:25:10. > :25:27.in a row for his role in The Danish Girl.

:25:28. > :25:30.Armed police are patrolling parts of Manchester after a spate of

:25:31. > :25:34.suspected gang shootings. Six out of eight shootings

:25:35. > :25:37.in the past two weeks have been One man's been arrested on suspicion

:25:38. > :25:41.of attempted murder. Greater Manchester Chief Constable

:25:42. > :25:43.Ian Hopkins says it's worrying but it's not a return to the levels

:25:44. > :25:46.of violence which earned the city We can speak now to Tony Lloyd,

:25:47. > :25:50.who's the Police and Crime Commissioner for the Greater

:25:51. > :25:55.Manchester Police force area. I think he might have just

:25:56. > :26:02.disappeared. We will try to get back in touch with Tony Lloyd. Let's go

:26:03. > :26:04.back to that as soon as we can. Apologies for that. I heard a noise

:26:05. > :26:12.that indicated it was disappearing. Let's return to the flooding

:26:13. > :26:14.which has been going Heavy rain has been hitting northern

:26:15. > :26:18.and eastern Scotland in recent days, with the worst hit areas

:26:19. > :26:20.near Inverurie in Aberdeenshire. The main railway line

:26:21. > :26:22.between Aberdeen and Dundee Severe flood warnings remain

:26:23. > :26:25.in place in Inverurie and Kintore, where the River Don

:26:26. > :26:27.has burst its banks. Aberdeen airport -

:26:28. > :26:29.situated close to the river - was forced to close overnight

:26:30. > :26:32.after heavy rain caused a hole Richard Brown is the head

:26:33. > :26:41.of hydrology at the Scottish Environment Protection Agency

:26:42. > :26:50.and he is in our Inverness studio. Thanks for joining us. What do you

:26:51. > :26:58.make of the levels of flooding we are seeing? Good morning, as you

:26:59. > :27:00.have highlighted, a serious situation has developed in the

:27:01. > :27:05.north-east of Scotland following severe weather earlier in the month

:27:06. > :27:11.and December's whether, as well. This morning we have 37 community

:27:12. > :27:19.level flood warnings and in addition two severe flood warnings in the

:27:20. > :27:25.communities of Inverurie and Kintore. When you get rain at the

:27:26. > :27:29.level we are seeing, levels already being broken for January, is there

:27:30. > :27:34.much that can be done? The main thing people can do is be aware of

:27:35. > :27:37.what is going on around them, with the latest information on the flood

:27:38. > :27:54.line system. Perhaps we could remind viewers. Oh wait 459 881188. --

:27:55. > :27:59.08459 881188. What is the best advice to people affected right now

:28:00. > :28:03.than to fear the flood waters will affect them? The best advice is to

:28:04. > :28:09.be aware of what is going on and keep away from fast moving water.

:28:10. > :28:13.The issue of a severe warning is not taken lightly, it means a danger to

:28:14. > :28:17.life as well as property and the advice is to listen to emergency

:28:18. > :28:24.services' advice. We have seen evacuations overnight. The situation

:28:25. > :28:28.today will improve gradually. Peak water levels have been recorded on

:28:29. > :28:33.some of the main rivers in the north-east. In one of our other jobs

:28:34. > :28:38.-- the agency's other jobs is monitoring waters across Scotland.

:28:39. > :28:46.Our gauging station upstream of Inverurie, last night that level,

:28:47. > :28:58.the flow was eclipsed from previous records. How do flood to compare

:28:59. > :29:03.with what has gone before? Well, as I have said, the levels exceeded

:29:04. > :29:07.anything we have recorded in 45 years. Just upstream of Inverurie,

:29:08. > :29:14.and across other parts of the north-east of Scotland. Write down

:29:15. > :29:19.into Tayside, the flooding over the past week and especially last night

:29:20. > :29:25.and today was well forecast. We work closely with the Met Office and we

:29:26. > :29:27.give the best advice to police and emergency partners and local

:29:28. > :29:31.authorities to ensure people can take whatever action possible to

:29:32. > :29:35.mitigate damage. Number one is keeping out of the effects of the

:29:36. > :29:40.flood water and doing what they can by moving valuable property

:29:41. > :29:45.upstairs. Every time there is flooding, there are questions about

:29:46. > :29:48.flood management, whether the right flood management provisions are in

:29:49. > :29:52.place, whether lessons can be learned next time. Looking at what

:29:53. > :29:57.is going on, do you see anything that might be learned from this to

:29:58. > :30:05.try to prevent something extant? We are always learning from what has

:30:06. > :30:08.taken place in the past. We are looking to implement the flood risk

:30:09. > :30:12.management act which comes from a European directive and from that we

:30:13. > :30:15.have a set of strategies for the first time across Scotland, which

:30:16. > :30:20.will be launched on Monday by the government minister. This will be

:30:21. > :30:24.followed by local flood risk management plans coming into force

:30:25. > :30:28.across Scotland and it means for the first time a consistent national

:30:29. > :30:32.risk-based approach will be taken to flood risk management and the

:30:33. > :30:36.measures taken will be prioritised and put into effect over the coming

:30:37. > :30:41.years. Thank you very much for joining us.

:30:42. > :30:44.Medics working at refugee aid camps in the Balkans say they're seeing

:30:45. > :30:46.a spike in the number of migrants falling ill,

:30:47. > :30:50.Temperatures have fallen to as low as minus 11 degrees in the region.

:30:51. > :30:52.The BBC's Global Health Correspondent Tulip Mazumdar has

:30:53. > :30:54.travelled from Macedonia, through Serbia to the border

:30:55. > :30:59.This is the town of Sid, and it's right at the Serbian

:31:00. > :31:03.As you can see, these people are getting ready for the final leg

:31:04. > :31:06.of their journey out of Serbia towards Croatia.

:31:07. > :31:10.It's been a very long and cold journey to get here.

:31:11. > :31:12.They have hit the time where there has been the most snow

:31:13. > :31:15.that there has been in the last few months, about four inches,

:31:16. > :31:18.it has hit minus eight degrees at night.

:31:19. > :31:22.If we come over this way, you will be able to see people

:31:23. > :31:28.And over here is Sanja Djurica from the International Medical Corps

:31:29. > :31:36.Has the snow had an impact on the number of people coming,

:31:37. > :31:40.the dropping temperatures over the last couple of weeks?

:31:41. > :31:44.Yes, it has a little bit of input, because one month ago,

:31:45. > :31:51.or a few weeks ago, we had an average of 6,000-7,000

:31:52. > :31:54.In the last couple of the weeks, that number has dropped

:31:55. > :32:04.And what sort of condition are people in when they come here,

:32:05. > :32:11.They are frozen like the two of us now.

:32:12. > :32:17.frostbite, and in general, medical conditions that

:32:18. > :32:22.are connected to the very cold weather.

:32:23. > :32:24.The last few days, the snow came finally, and of course,

:32:25. > :32:32.Even during the day, the temperature is around -10.

:32:33. > :32:39.So it's not very nice being outside or travelling in these conditions.

:32:40. > :32:41.And something that has really struck me is the number of children.

:32:42. > :32:44.We can see just here, three very small children,

:32:45. > :32:50.there are a couple there waving at us, hello.

:32:51. > :32:52.What impact does it have on the kids especially?

:32:53. > :32:57.Well, I mean, the kids are the most resilient, fortunately.

:32:58. > :33:10.So they kind of manage to cope somehow with the situation.

:33:11. > :33:30.It is worrying, because we are seeing more and more children

:33:31. > :33:34.These people are beginning their journey out of Serbia.

:33:35. > :33:37.It does continue along this freezing track into Croatia.

:33:38. > :33:42.Most of them heading towards Germany and perhaps further

:33:43. > :33:54.But the road ahead is long, cold and very challenging.

:33:55. > :33:57.Armed police are patrolling parts of Manchester after a spate

:33:58. > :34:11.We can speak to Tony Lloyd, the police and crime commission for the

:34:12. > :34:17.Greater Manchester area. What is behind this? These reports of guns

:34:18. > :34:23.being discharged on the streets of Manchester is outrageous. Not simply

:34:24. > :34:28.for those involved, but the potential for damage to innocent

:34:29. > :34:37.bystanders. What seems to be behind it is quite low-level insults etc.

:34:38. > :34:42.We know that in some contexts there are rival criminal gangs involved.

:34:43. > :34:48.None of this justifies the use of guns. That is why we have a very

:34:49. > :34:51.serious response from Greater Manchester Police to bring this

:34:52. > :34:57.under proper control. Manchester Police to bring this

:34:58. > :35:00.get a grip on this when, since the 22nd of December, there have been

:35:01. > :35:06.eight incidents involving guns across the city and it seems, as you

:35:07. > :35:10.say, most of those have been caused by gang related incidents? Every one

:35:11. > :35:17.of those is a serious incident, that is why police have taken the step of

:35:18. > :35:20.making sure that the public have reassurance, there are armed police

:35:21. > :35:24.on the streets. But the really important thing is getting things

:35:25. > :35:28.under control, working with the community. In Greater Manchester

:35:29. > :35:32.there has been a transformation over the last decade and relations

:35:33. > :35:37.between the police and the public agencies working together and, of

:35:38. > :35:41.course, people within the local communities. It will be people in

:35:42. > :35:45.the local community who will help the police bring this to an end. But

:35:46. > :35:52.I would make an appeal, through the different community leaders, to the

:35:53. > :35:58.mums, dads, brothers and sisters. If you know people involved in this, it

:35:59. > :36:01.is time to bring this to an end. Preferably by involving the police

:36:02. > :36:06.but most certainly by Binny -- bringing pressure to bear on those

:36:07. > :36:11.involved to put an end to this kind of stupidity. It is criminally

:36:12. > :36:16.dangerous and can potentially have the loss of life. We simply don't

:36:17. > :36:19.want to see that again in the streets of Manchester. Do police

:36:20. > :36:25.have the resources needed to deal with this? We know that cuts in

:36:26. > :36:30.policing have had an impact and it would be foolish to pretend

:36:31. > :36:34.otherwise. We have lost 2000 police officers in Greater Manchester. But

:36:35. > :36:40.we have around 60 dedicated officers working in and around the areas with

:36:41. > :36:44.the shootings. Many, any hundreds of police officers, directly and

:36:45. > :36:50.indirectly, working to help the dedicated officers. On top of that

:36:51. > :36:55.we have the armed response available. In those terms, the

:36:56. > :37:00.police numbers won't be allowed to frustrate... A lack of police

:37:01. > :37:03.numbers will not be allowed to frustrate proper investigation and

:37:04. > :37:07.reassurance for the public, that is what the public of Greater

:37:08. > :37:11.Manchester would expect. This is a pretty, we are talking about the

:37:12. > :37:15.potential for serious harm, it will be a priority for the Chief

:37:16. > :37:21.Constable and, certainly, for me. When you say this is a priority and

:37:22. > :37:26.that cuts have had an impact, does this mean that other areas will

:37:27. > :37:30.suffer because of this? If police are obligated to work on this

:37:31. > :37:34.particular area of activity they are not working on other areas. That is

:37:35. > :37:41.a statement of the obvious. There is not the luxury in Greater Manchester

:37:42. > :37:45.Police of spare resources. We have just had a Budget announcement from

:37:46. > :37:50.the Chancellor each sees cuts in the Greater Manchester Police, which is

:37:51. > :38:00.not what the public want. There is a wake-up call for central government.

:38:01. > :38:03.Actually, policing conurbations like Greater Manchester, not just Greater

:38:04. > :38:06.Manchester, requires adequate policing to make sure we can cover

:38:07. > :38:08.the full range of things that the public would expect. Tony Lloyd,

:38:09. > :38:11.thank you very much. Awards season is underway -

:38:12. > :38:14.and it's the turn of the British Academy to announce

:38:15. > :38:16.the nominations for the BAFTA Film Stephen Fry revealed the contenders

:38:17. > :38:19.- Dame Maggie Smith, Cate Blanchett and Alicia Vikander

:38:20. > :38:22.are on the best actress list. Eddie Redmayne is in the running

:38:23. > :38:25.for his second BAFTA as best actor up against Bryan Cranston

:38:26. > :38:28.and Matt Damon. Lizo Mzumba was at BAFTA

:38:29. > :38:31.HQ in central London The BAFTA nominations,

:38:32. > :38:33.yes, were announced here Joining me now to discuss them

:38:34. > :38:37.is the film critic James King. First of all, James,

:38:38. > :38:40.BAFTA seem to have embraced two very With nine nominations,

:38:41. > :38:43.Bridge of Spies, the Cold War Yeah, they do seem different

:38:44. > :38:49.on the face of it, but I also think that both have a very

:38:50. > :38:51.traditional epic gloss Beautifully told stories by

:38:52. > :38:58.Todd Haynes and Stephen Spielberg, the directors, so, yes,

:38:59. > :39:00.very different themes, perhaps but, ultimately,

:39:01. > :39:02.I think they are both quite nostalgic and romantic

:39:03. > :39:07.in the way that they are made. In the top five films

:39:08. > :39:09.for best film overall, BAFTA doesn't really seem to have

:39:10. > :39:11.embraced British film I mean, the British film category

:39:12. > :39:22.itself is very strong. You see Brooklyn in there and Amy

:39:23. > :39:25.in there amongst other things. But I was a little bit surprised

:39:26. > :39:28.that they didn't break On the plus side that is properly

:39:29. > :39:33.just because it's been a good year. The Revenant is just behind the top

:39:34. > :39:39.two with eight nominations, a very visceral, intense performance

:39:40. > :39:41.from Leonardo DiCaprio. He seems to be the runaway

:39:42. > :39:44.favourite for the BAFTA I think voters like it

:39:45. > :39:49.when an actor suffers, And, boy, did Leonardo

:39:50. > :39:52.suffer for that role. In fact, I think a lot of people

:39:53. > :39:55.suffered making that movie, It's set in Montana,

:39:56. > :39:59.South Dakota, about a guy Lost, left for dead

:40:00. > :40:04.out in the wilderness. So it was tough to make

:40:05. > :40:06.for everyone involved. But voters like to see that actors

:40:07. > :40:09.have really gone through the mill. Do I think it's the best

:40:10. > :40:11.Leo performance ever? I think he's done roles that

:40:12. > :40:15.are perhaps more interesting with more range but,

:40:16. > :40:17.let's be honest, it feels like his time, doesn't it,

:40:18. > :40:19.to win something. And Alicia Vikander nominated

:40:20. > :40:21.for best actress for The Danish Girl and best supporting

:40:22. > :40:24.actress for Ex Machina. The last 12 months have been

:40:25. > :40:37.particularly good for her. The Man From U.N.C.L.E,

:40:38. > :40:39.Testament Of Youth, as well as Ex Machina and The Danish

:40:40. > :40:43.Girl. She is the actress everyone

:40:44. > :40:45.is going to at the moment, and I can understand why,

:40:46. > :40:49.because she seems to bring a real class and intelligence

:40:50. > :40:55.to all of her performances. There's no such thing

:40:56. > :40:58.as a safe level of drinking - the first major review for 20 years

:40:59. > :41:01.warns even a small amount can Earlier I spoke to a group that

:41:02. > :41:18.have a mixture of drinking habits There are so many guidelines that

:41:19. > :41:22.come out and so many scientific papers, one can almost look for the

:41:23. > :41:27.answer one wants and then find it. You found a paper that said about 63

:41:28. > :41:32.units. In fairness to the Chief Medical Officer, this is not just

:41:33. > :41:35.one study, it is a collation of all of our scientific knowledge, and I

:41:36. > :41:39.do genuinely believe that these guidelines are probably correct, but

:41:40. > :41:44.it gets diverted by all of the health message is that we are

:41:45. > :41:48.bombarded white -- bombarded by. I am not surprised as the late public

:41:49. > :41:52.that you guys are confused and sceptical. What the Chief Medical

:41:53. > :41:56.Officer is saying is that it is about what people regard as an

:41:57. > :42:00.acceptable level of risk. Winding down your level of alcohol

:42:01. > :42:05.consumption on a risk analysis, you have a one in ten chance, at least,

:42:06. > :42:08.of dying of something that is a direct result of alcohol

:42:09. > :42:14.consumption. And a nine in ten chance of dying of something not

:42:15. > :42:18.related to alcohol. People talk about the nanny state, I am

:42:19. > :42:22.concerned about the sheer volume... Sorry, just on the point about Ritz,

:42:23. > :42:27.you say nine in ten chance of not, one in ten is a risk you are happy

:42:28. > :42:32.to take? I am going to die of something. And the trouble with

:42:33. > :42:35.risk, and I have this conversation a lot in GP surgeries, you should not

:42:36. > :42:39.be smoking or doing this or doing that, Roddy's risk of dying from an

:42:40. > :42:44.alcohol-related diseases combined with the risks of the rest of his

:42:45. > :42:48.life behaviour. Perhaps he is a marathon runner, and that reduces

:42:49. > :42:53.his risk. Perhaps eaters other positive things within his diet that

:42:54. > :42:58.reduce the risk. -- perhaps he does other positive things. Talking about

:42:59. > :43:03.the risk simply from alcohol is a natural, nobody lives like that. We

:43:04. > :43:06.are hearing that every sip of alcohol increases your risk of

:43:07. > :43:12.cancer. Do something as stark as that make you think again about

:43:13. > :43:15.drinking? I guess it certainly makes you think harder, but I think the

:43:16. > :43:18.message has been deleted by the fact they are not saying don't drink at

:43:19. > :43:25.all, they are saying drink up to 14 units. It is part of the wider

:43:26. > :43:30.lifestyle discussion. For me as a student, there are loads of student

:43:31. > :43:36.nights, really cheap alcohol, people feeling that the only way to have a

:43:37. > :43:38.good time is to have a drink. Maybe universities and society in general

:43:39. > :43:42.should promote events where you do not necessarily have to get drunk to

:43:43. > :43:45.have a good time. As a student, going to university and meeting new

:43:46. > :43:46.people, that is relevant to me. Thank you for your company today,

:43:47. > :43:49.and for all your messages, which really do help to

:43:50. > :43:53.inform our conversations.