03/01/2017

:00:00. > :00:08.It's Tuesday, it's 9am, I'm Joanna Gosling, in for Victoria.

:00:09. > :00:13.A man is shot dead in a police operation near the M62

:00:14. > :00:17.We'll be live at the scene with the latest details.

:00:18. > :00:20.Also today, we return to Great Yarmouth, one of the towns

:00:21. > :00:23.most in favour of Brexit, to find out how people living

:00:24. > :00:28.there feel about the EU, six months after they voted to leave.

:00:29. > :00:31.I haven't got as much faith in it as I did previously,

:00:32. > :00:38.And I just think things are slipping a little bit.

:00:39. > :00:49.Some of the most hotly-tipped films of 2017 are being released

:00:50. > :00:52.over the next few weeks, ahead of the Oscar nominations.

:00:53. > :00:55.We'll look at some of the best and ask if the row over racism

:00:56. > :01:10.Welcome to the programme, and a happy New Year.

:01:11. > :01:14.Dentists have criticised what they've called the "workplace

:01:15. > :01:18.cake culture", saying the sharing of sweet treats in the office

:01:19. > :01:25.So, is this sensible advice or an attack on the little things

:01:26. > :01:28.that make office life a bit more enjoyable?

:01:29. > :01:31.Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning.

:01:32. > :01:35.If you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

:01:36. > :01:40.A man has been shot dead by police in an operation near the M62

:01:41. > :01:44.West Yorkshire Police say the operation last

:01:45. > :01:48.night was "pre-planned", and that at least one

:01:49. > :01:53.person was arrested, but gave few other details.

:01:54. > :02:01.They say it was not related to terrorism. Another two people were

:02:02. > :02:03.arrested in a related stop in Bradford.

:02:04. > :02:05.The Independent Police Complaints Commission has sent

:02:06. > :02:07.It's the fifth fatal police shooting in England

:02:08. > :02:11.The shooting happened shortly after 6pm yesterday evening

:02:12. > :02:17.on a slip road off the M62 at Ainley Top, near Huddersfield.

:02:18. > :02:19.West Yorkshire Police say the incident took place

:02:20. > :02:22.during a preplanned policing operation, suggesting officers had

:02:23. > :02:24.acted on intelligence, rather than responding

:02:25. > :02:31.The force said a police firearm was discharged and a man died.

:02:32. > :02:34.No-one else is believed to have been injured.

:02:35. > :02:36.The Independent Police Complaints Commission was informed,

:02:37. > :02:39.and has sent its own investigators to the scene, which has

:02:40. > :02:43.Photographs from the area appear to indicate that a number

:02:44. > :02:48.of unmarked police vehicles may have stopped a car on the slip road

:02:49. > :02:53.before the shooting, though that hasn't been confirmed.

:02:54. > :02:56.Although fatal police shootings are rare, it is the fifth such

:02:57. > :02:59.incident in England and Wales in the last nine months,

:03:00. > :03:01.and the first involving West Yorkshire Police

:03:02. > :03:12.Our correspondent Phil Bodmer is at the scene.

:03:13. > :03:24.What more can you tell us? This slip road on the 62, it is the westbound

:03:25. > :03:30.slip road, it has now been closed for 15 hours since the incident last

:03:31. > :03:34.night. More police have arrived this morning, officers behind the green

:03:35. > :03:39.cord and will work and investigate the circumstances. West Yorkshire

:03:40. > :03:44.Police say this is not terror related, so that theory has now gone

:03:45. > :03:52.away. We understand it was a stop last night, a preplanned operation.

:03:53. > :03:57.Police in unmarked vehicles stopped and about of cars. The cars are a

:03:58. > :04:04.white Audi, we understand, it has bullet holes on the bonnet and on

:04:05. > :04:08.the front windscreen, and also a silver Mercedes E class was

:04:09. > :04:13.involved, and maybe a Jaguar. On the outside of those, they are boxed in

:04:14. > :04:19.by a unmarked police cars. These are very relevant events. The IPCC are

:04:20. > :04:22.taking charge of this investigation. It is the first fatal shooting

:04:23. > :04:28.involving West Yorkshire Police since 2010, and in the last decade

:04:29. > :04:33.there have been 22 police shootings in England and is, so a very rare

:04:34. > :04:37.event. This road has been cordoned off at least until 10am, but it is

:04:38. > :04:44.causing major disruption for traffic in and around Halifax. As long as

:04:45. > :04:47.that continues to be the case, drivers are being advised to try to

:04:48. > :04:49.steer clear of the area for the time being.

:04:50. > :04:52.Ben is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of the rest

:04:53. > :04:56.The Ministry of Defence says a British soldier has died in Iraq.

:04:57. > :04:58.The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion the Duke of

:04:59. > :05:00.Lancaster's Regiment, died near Baghdad,

:05:01. > :05:03.following an incident which is now being investigated.

:05:04. > :05:07.The regiment is training Iraqi and Kurdish security forces.

:05:08. > :05:10.The death wasn't the result of enemy activity.

:05:11. > :05:13.The soldier's family has been informed.

:05:14. > :05:16.Kurdish militants say a British man has been killed fighting with them

:05:17. > :05:21.against Islamic State militants in Syria.

:05:22. > :05:25.They've told the BBC that Ryan Lock, who was 20 and from West Sussex,

:05:26. > :05:27.died during an assault on the IS stronghold of Raqqa

:05:28. > :05:32.It's believed he travelled to Syria last August,

:05:33. > :05:38.and joined a Kurdish volunteer group called the YPG.

:05:39. > :05:41.It's reported that the authorities in Turkey now know the identity

:05:42. > :05:45.of the chief suspect in the mass shooting at a nightclub in Istanbul.

:05:46. > :05:49.39 people were killed and dozens wounded when an attacker opened

:05:50. > :05:54.fire on a New Year party inside the crowded Reina club.

:05:55. > :05:56.Police have carried out raids in the city,

:05:57. > :06:05.The Islamic State militant group has said it was behind the attack.

:06:06. > :06:08.Staring directly into the camera, the face of the man Turkish

:06:09. > :06:14.officials say is the main suspect in the deadly nightclub attack.

:06:15. > :06:17.This footage, released by police, appears to show him filming himself

:06:18. > :06:20.on his phone while walking through Taksim Square,

:06:21. > :06:26.It is not clear when it was recorded.

:06:27. > :06:29.Following a tipoff, armed officers carried out a raid on a house

:06:30. > :06:37.The suspect was not found, but so far 12 people have been

:06:38. > :06:39.arrested in connection with the attack that the so-called

:06:40. > :06:49.They say it was revenge for Turkey's attacks on Syria.

:06:50. > :06:52.The gunman shot his way into the club and then shot 180

:06:53. > :06:56.bullets in seven minutes, killing 39 people.

:06:57. > :07:00.The club, which sits on the bank of the Bosporus river,

:07:01. > :07:05.It is now part of a growing list of places in Turkey to be

:07:06. > :07:07.hit by deadly attacks in the last 12 months.

:07:08. > :07:10.Many of the injured remain in hospital, including

:07:11. > :07:13.Francois Al-Asmar from Lebanon, who says he owes his

:07:14. > :07:25.It passed from here, and the explosion, something

:07:26. > :07:37.But the passport, Lebanese passport, saved me, saved my heart.

:07:38. > :07:39.Now they believe they know what he looks like, Turkish

:07:40. > :07:42.authorities say they hope to find the gunman quickly and then

:07:43. > :07:50.Police in Greater Manchester have been given more time to question

:07:51. > :07:54.four men over a hit and run that killed two girls.

:07:55. > :07:57.12-year-old Helina Kotlarova died at the scene in

:07:58. > :08:02.Her cousin, 11-year-old Zaneeta Krokova, died from her

:08:03. > :08:10.The centre-left think tank the Fabian Society has warned that

:08:11. > :08:13.Labour is "too weak" to win the next election.

:08:14. > :08:15.The society, which has been developing ideas

:08:16. > :08:18.for Labour for decades, has urged the party

:08:19. > :08:21.to form an alliance with the Scottish Nationalists

:08:22. > :08:26.and the Liberal Democrats if it wants to return to power.

:08:27. > :08:33.Our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier is at Westminster.

:08:34. > :08:42.Not a great New Year message for Jeremy Corbyn. It is not the message

:08:43. > :08:45.that many Labour MPs wanted to start the year off with, but having said

:08:46. > :08:49.that, I don't think the findings in this report will be a surprise to

:08:50. > :08:53.many politicians in Westminster. It is a pretty melancholy message that

:08:54. > :08:59.Labour is too weak to win, yet too strong to die, and the Fabian

:09:00. > :09:04.Society report also says that Labour would need to win 3 million more

:09:05. > :09:08.votes than the Conservatives to win an outright majority at the next

:09:09. > :09:12.general election, something this report concludes is unthinkable at

:09:13. > :09:16.the moment. It also points to problems the party has with Brexit,

:09:17. > :09:20.with the Conservatives and Ukip targeting their leave voters and the

:09:21. > :09:27.Liberal Democrats hunting there remain voters. All the while, this

:09:28. > :09:35.report says Labour's message on Brexit is muffled and inconsistent.

:09:36. > :09:40.I put these findings to the leader's office, they said that Jeremy Corbyn

:09:41. > :09:45.was the only genuine alternative to a failed political establishment.

:09:46. > :09:48.But certainly, Labour MPs will be hoping for a little more New Year

:09:49. > :09:50.cheer when MPs get back to Westminster next week.

:09:51. > :09:54.Thousands of new starter homes have been given the go-ahead to be built

:09:55. > :09:57.The properties will be available for first-time buyers

:09:58. > :10:03.aged between 23 and 40, at 20% less than the market value.

:10:04. > :10:06.Labour says the target of 200,000 starter homes

:10:07. > :10:10.But the Housing Minister Gavin Barwell says it's

:10:11. > :10:17.There are a lot of different things that we need to do to help

:10:18. > :10:19.people in this country find more-affordable housing.

:10:20. > :10:21.We have shared ownership, the Help To Buy scheme,

:10:22. > :10:27.Right To Buy, and the fundamental solution to this is to build more

:10:28. > :10:29.homes so that housing becomes more affordable.

:10:30. > :10:33.We cannot do nothing in the meantime, so starter homes

:10:34. > :10:43.A post-mortem examination is to be held to investigate the unexplained

:10:44. > :10:46.death of a British woman in Australia, police say.

:10:47. > :10:48.Local media reported Stacey Tierney, who was 29, was found dead

:10:49. > :10:55.in a strip club in Melbourne on 19th December.

:10:56. > :11:01.Our correspondent Phil Mercer is in Sydney.

:11:02. > :11:10.This seems something of a mystery at the moment. Yes, this body was found

:11:11. > :11:15.more than two weeks ago in the gentleman's club in the heart of

:11:16. > :11:19.Australia's second city, Melbourne. There is a lot we don't know about

:11:20. > :11:25.this woman's death. We don't know the cause of death. The authorities

:11:26. > :11:32.are hoping a postmortem will answer that question. There are reports

:11:33. > :11:35.here that the woman's body lay undiscovered for about 12 hours

:11:36. > :11:43.inside the club, again we don't know why that was the case, if that

:11:44. > :11:48.report is true. Also, reports here that this woman was in the company

:11:49. > :11:52.of a group of mystery men, we don't know who they are, but no doubt they

:11:53. > :11:57.will be able to provide investigators with a very important

:11:58. > :12:00.information. We know that she was 29 years old, from Manchester, a

:12:01. > :12:04.fitness instructor, and apparently in Australia for three years,

:12:05. > :12:06.working as a dancer in various clubs around the country.

:12:07. > :12:09.Children in England are eating half their recommended daily sugar

:12:10. > :12:13.intake before they even get to school.

:12:14. > :12:15.That's the warning from health officials.

:12:16. > :12:18.Public Health England say sugary cereals, juices

:12:19. > :12:22.and spreads are to blame and, at a time of spiralling obesity

:12:23. > :12:25.levels, have launched a campaign to help us better understand

:12:26. > :12:39.We know that lots of children are eating a lot of sugar for breakfast.

:12:40. > :12:46.In total, they are eating almost three times the maximum recommended

:12:47. > :12:47.level of sugar over the day. That is contributing to the awful obesity

:12:48. > :12:49.statistics that we have. Protests are expected at railway

:12:50. > :12:51.stations this morning, in response to the latest

:12:52. > :12:53.annual fares increase. The average ticket

:12:54. > :12:56.has gone up by 2.3%. Many of today's demonstrations

:12:57. > :12:59.are organised by the campaign It says people in the UK spend six

:13:00. > :13:04.times as much on tickets And we'll have more on that coming

:13:05. > :13:10.up on the programme, where we'll be live at Kings Cross

:13:11. > :13:13.railway station and hearing That's a summary of

:13:14. > :13:16.the latest BBC News. Do get in touch with us

:13:17. > :13:32.throughout the morning. We will hear from a Paralympic

:13:33. > :13:36.athlete who says she had to wet herself on a train because the

:13:37. > :13:40.disabled toilet was broken and staff failed to help her. She says she

:13:41. > :13:45.does not want anybody else to go through the same thing.

:13:46. > :13:49.If you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

:13:50. > :13:52.Let's get some sport now with Jessica.

:13:53. > :13:55.Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola wasn't

:13:56. > :14:01.Journalists received quite a frosty response from him,

:14:02. > :14:03.and his rather unconventional interview has caused

:14:04. > :14:09.Interestingly, before all that, though, before his side

:14:10. > :14:13.had beaten Burnley 2-1, Guardiola had said he was arriving

:14:14. > :14:16.at the end of his career and that the process of his goodbye

:14:17. > :14:21.He's only 45 at the moment, relatively young in management

:14:22. > :14:24.terms, but he insists he doesn't want to still be in the role

:14:25. > :14:31.You just wonder if he's feeling the pressure a little bit.

:14:32. > :14:34.Here's why Guardiola might have been a little tetchy last night.

:14:35. > :14:38.Manchester City had to play an hour of the match with ten men,

:14:39. > :14:45.after captain Fernandinho was sent off.

:14:46. > :14:47.City improved after the break, a couple of inspired substitutions,

:14:48. > :14:50.then two goals in four minutes gave them the win.

:14:51. > :15:09.We were not able to bring to that clip, but it was really frosty. It

:15:10. > :15:15.gets more and more awkward. The sending off, what

:15:16. > :15:18.was your view of the red You're the manager, I'm sure

:15:19. > :15:23.the fans would like to know. You don't seem that

:15:24. > :15:26.happy that you've won? More than you would believe,

:15:27. > :15:42.more than you would believe. I do still in the title race?

:15:43. > :15:51.Yesterday we were not, why are we today?

:15:52. > :16:01.he really did seem unhappy, didn't he?

:16:02. > :16:07.Things getting better for Jose Mourinho.

:16:08. > :16:15.He was anything but yesterday, after United beat West Ham 2-0.

:16:16. > :16:16.And understandably, Mourinho's smiling.

:16:17. > :16:18.That was their sixth straight league win.

:16:19. > :16:20.Perhaps United were fortunate to play the majority

:16:21. > :16:22.of the game against ten men, after Ferghouli was

:16:23. > :16:24.United went ahead in the second half.

:16:25. > :16:26.And they benefitted from another controversial officiating decision

:16:27. > :16:29.when Ibrahimovic was one of three players offside when he doubled

:16:30. > :16:39.So yes, the red side of Manchester looking rosy at present.

:16:40. > :16:44.Darts and a high quality final last night.

:16:45. > :16:46.And, it was Michael van Gerwen who outmanoeuvred reigning champion

:16:47. > :16:53.Gary Anderson to win his second PDC World Darts Championship.

:16:54. > :16:55.It wasn't all plain sailing for the Dutchman.

:16:56. > :16:59.As he was throwing for the match at 6-2 up, he was interrupted.

:17:00. > :17:01.Security men quickly dealt with the prankster.

:17:02. > :17:04.But it put van Gerwen off, delaying his coronation by another set.

:17:05. > :17:07.It was worth the extra wait, though, as he claimed victory in style.

:17:08. > :17:09.7-3 he won it, and took home the ?350,000 prize.

:17:10. > :17:15.So, no hat-trick of titles for Anderson.

:17:16. > :17:21.Thank you very much, Jess. We will see you later.

:17:22. > :17:24.The Brexit vote came as a shock to many people

:17:25. > :17:28.Yet many of those who voted to leave the EU could have told them that

:17:29. > :17:32.levels of dissatisfaction with Europe, especially over

:17:33. > :17:35.the issue of immigration, meant it should not have come

:17:36. > :17:38.After the vote, we visited Great Yarmouth in Norfolk

:17:39. > :17:40.which delivered the fifth highest leave vote with more than 70%

:17:41. > :17:44.Six months on, as Brexit gets closer, our reporter Michael Cowan

:17:45. > :17:48.has been back to speak to some of those he met at the time, to ask

:17:49. > :18:02.The Government now seem to be very tight-lipped.

:18:03. > :18:18.I've lost a lot of interest in it now.

:18:19. > :18:21.Though, like, again, I would still vote out.

:18:22. > :18:23.But, yeah, I've lost a lot of interest.

:18:24. > :18:40.I know it's wrong, and I regret doing that, because I still don't

:18:41. > :18:49.Does it bother you that MPs, for example, might now get a say

:18:50. > :18:54.Er, if it's how we do it, fair enough.

:18:55. > :18:58.If it's whether we do it or not, they should have no say whatsoever.

:18:59. > :19:16.Our country had just voted to leave the EU and it was summer.

:19:17. > :19:19.Over 70% of people here voted to leave, and the locals spoke

:19:20. > :19:25.My biggest fear is that the British people will be taken

:19:26. > :19:30.I would like to see the numbers come down.

:19:31. > :19:37.I would like to see some of the ones on benefits being shipped back.

:19:38. > :19:41.Ukip were high here in places where people are unhappy, really unhappy.

:19:42. > :19:43.And ultimately, I think that's what it boils down to.

:19:44. > :19:49.And so the only way you can show your unhappiness is to vote,

:19:50. > :20:05.I voted because I wanted Britain to be British laws.

:20:06. > :20:09.Have our laws back and not being told what to do.

:20:10. > :20:13.But does the promise of June 2016 still resonate here?

:20:14. > :20:17.This is King Street, home to the Portuguese community.

:20:18. > :20:20.It has become a symbol for locals of immigration into the town.

:20:21. > :20:22.Between 2014 and 2015, EU citizens living in Great Yarmouth

:20:23. > :20:33.Sharon shops here, and she holds daily knitting workshops

:20:34. > :20:37.It's been six months since we last saw you.

:20:38. > :20:47.I think it's caused a lot of trouble.

:20:48. > :20:50.A lot of people moved out, round me, that are foreigners.

:20:51. > :20:58.Some of them have been born here and they are

:20:59. > :21:03.They're not coming here and taking, you know, our benefits

:21:04. > :21:11.But they've had to move because people won't leave them alone.

:21:12. > :21:13.They are real nasty, putting things through doors and everything.

:21:14. > :21:16.How do you think the government has handled Brexit so far?

:21:17. > :21:18.The government now seem to be very tight-lipped.

:21:19. > :21:21.But nothing's discussed with the people.

:21:22. > :21:24.There's no plan of action. I like a good plan.

:21:25. > :21:28.And if they say it's going to happen at the end of March...

:21:29. > :21:30.Where's the discussions and the debate programmes?

:21:31. > :21:38.You just, kind of, would like to know what is going to happen.

:21:39. > :21:40.They should have had plans set up before.

:21:41. > :21:45.And they say about a hard Brexit and a soft Brexit and...

:21:46. > :21:54.During the referendum, the country voted on the very simple

:21:55. > :21:56.question of, should we come out of the European Union?

:21:57. > :21:59.Should we be able to vote on the terms of Brexit?

:22:00. > :22:06.But also, to be able to vote on the terms of Brexit,

:22:07. > :22:13.Not the lies, not the figures they plucked out of the air and go,

:22:14. > :22:17.this is going to lie and how much is going back in the NHS when

:22:18. > :22:21.They have to be open, and they are not being open.

:22:22. > :22:28.So we don't know what's propaganda and what's true.

:22:29. > :22:31.You said Brexit was really a way for people who were angry to kick

:22:32. > :22:34.back at the government and that maybe perhaps it wasn't so much

:22:35. > :22:37.about leaving Europe but about saying to the government,

:22:38. > :22:39.we are here, you don't represent us, listen to us.

:22:40. > :22:43.Has this vote, has the decision to leave the EU given you that voice?

:22:44. > :22:54."Oh, we've got to listen to the people, we've got to do that."

:22:55. > :23:01."We're talking about it behind closed doors,

:23:02. > :23:08.we will let you know," sort of thing.

:23:09. > :23:10.Maybe we voted illinformed, but we voted from our hearts

:23:11. > :23:15.That's how we felt at the time and we voted the way we felt.

:23:16. > :23:18.I would still vote the same now, definitely.

:23:19. > :23:27.What do you want to see happen with regards to Brexit this year?

:23:28. > :23:30.I want to see clarity and ideas and people going back and forth

:23:31. > :23:37.with a structured idea about how to go about it.

:23:38. > :23:40.Deprivation is high in Yarmouth with almost 25%

:23:41. > :23:46.That's way above the national average.

:23:47. > :23:49.The town has benefited from EU funding in the past and was set

:23:50. > :23:51.to receive even more from the ?70 million pot earmarked

:23:52. > :23:56.for the wider region, but that is now in jeopardy.

:23:57. > :24:04.The daily market is one of the focal points of the community.

:24:05. > :24:09.Christine and Darren are one of the biggest fishmongers

:24:10. > :24:12.in here and the business has been in the family for 70 years.

:24:13. > :24:15.Six months ago when we first met you, you said the leave vote

:24:16. > :24:21.For the fishing industry, mainly, and so that we could fish

:24:22. > :24:23.in our own seas again and we could bring

:24:24. > :24:29.the fishing industry back into Yarmouth again, mainly.

:24:30. > :24:31.Do you think that is on the priority list for the Government?

:24:32. > :24:34.I think that's not top of their list.

:24:35. > :24:39.But they've got to do something because I think there's a lot

:24:40. > :24:42.of people who rely on it, especially the fishermen.

:24:43. > :24:46.I think a lot of them obviously did vote out.

:24:47. > :24:49.There are a lot of fishing places around here who rely on that.

:24:50. > :24:52.I suppose it is on their list but it's not going to

:24:53. > :24:56.Are you still optimistic about Brexit?

:24:57. > :25:02.I haven't got as much faith in it as I did previously,

:25:03. > :25:09.I just think things are slipping a little bit.

:25:10. > :25:13.What do you mean by that? What's slipping?

:25:14. > :25:20.I just think they are moving the goalposts further away,

:25:21. > :25:23.I don't think we're going to truly be out, I really don't,

:25:24. > :25:26.and I think there will be a lot of upset people.

:25:27. > :25:28.Have you noticed any changes at a local level?

:25:29. > :25:32.Some people say that trade has gone down and different things,

:25:33. > :25:35.but we are in winter now and trade has always been very

:25:36. > :25:39.When my grandad owned the stall, he used to shut in the winter.

:25:40. > :25:43.I've lost a lot of interest in it now, I really have.

:25:44. > :25:50.It's gone on too long now, it really has.

:25:51. > :25:54.Our economy is one of the biggest concerns for the Government.

:25:55. > :25:57.After an initial crash that saw trillions of dollars wiped off

:25:58. > :25:59.the global stock market, in the UK, it has since not

:26:00. > :26:04.Similarly, retailers have also seen a boom in sales,

:26:05. > :26:07.particularly leading up to Christmas.

:26:08. > :26:10.Interest rates, instead of going up, have gone down, which is good

:26:11. > :26:14.news for homeowners, but bad news for savers.

:26:15. > :26:16.And the value of the pound - that means how much ?1

:26:17. > :26:22.will buy us abroad - has decreased, meaning it will be

:26:23. > :26:24.more expensive to go on holiday and products that import

:26:25. > :26:27.ingredients, like Marmite and PG Tips, already cost us more.

:26:28. > :26:35.Two of our leading supermarkets, Tesco and Sainsbury's,

:26:36. > :26:37.have warned of 5% to 10% price rises this year.

:26:38. > :26:39.But are people here still excited about Brexit?

:26:40. > :26:45.Is it access to the single market which involves much

:26:46. > :26:50.We pay into the EU and in exchange, we get to trade with them,

:26:51. > :26:52.but we have to accept freedom of movement.

:26:53. > :26:54.That means unlimited numbers of EU workers coming to Britain to work.

:26:55. > :27:01.Or is it this - complete control of our borders?

:27:02. > :27:05.Because the only certainty we have here is that we cannot have both.

:27:06. > :27:08.Does it concern you when you hear things about the economy?

:27:09. > :27:10.For example, going on holiday already costs more money

:27:11. > :27:12.because the value of the pound is low.

:27:13. > :27:15.There's some beautiful holiday destinations.

:27:16. > :27:21.If people were putting more money back into our own economy,

:27:22. > :27:23.rather than feeding everyone else's economy, this country would thrive.

:27:24. > :27:26.Come to Great Yarmouth, go to Blackpool, go to Liverpool,

:27:27. > :27:29.go to different areas where you've got these beautiful seaside towns

:27:30. > :27:33.that are getting forgotten and ignored and neglected.

:27:34. > :27:35.Do you still feel excited about Brexit?

:27:36. > :27:42.I think it was the best thing we could have done.

:27:43. > :27:47.Joining the EU was the worst decision Britain ever made.

:27:48. > :27:49.Do we want access to the single market or do we want complete

:27:50. > :28:06.I understand that they do need to go somewhere and the place is a state

:28:07. > :28:12.and I agree with that, but when is it going to stop?

:28:13. > :28:18.I voted leave because I went with the flow.

:28:19. > :28:19.If there was another referendum tomorrow, hypothetically...

:28:20. > :28:23.And I knew more about it, possibly could change my mind.

:28:24. > :28:34.Even if it comes at the cost of the economy,

:28:35. > :28:36.controlling the borders, that's the most important thing?

:28:37. > :28:45.Do you think Parliament should have a vote on Brexit?

:28:46. > :28:50.I think they should get back in, put all of their heads together,

:28:51. > :29:00.54 people went for this, complete conviction,

:29:01. > :29:04.like they had six months ago, to control our borders.

:29:05. > :29:08.24 people went for single market access.

:29:09. > :29:11.We are not pollsters and our Brexit boards are not scientific,

:29:12. > :29:14.but they clearly suggest, for people here, immigration

:29:15. > :29:16.and control of our borders is still the major concern.

:29:17. > :29:24.But amongst those we spoke to, there is a waning support

:29:25. > :29:27.for the way in which the Government is handling Brexit, namely

:29:28. > :29:33.And it's telling that while the vast majority stand

:29:34. > :29:35.by that decision to leave, people here want more input,

:29:36. > :29:38.or even another vote, on the exact terms of how we leave

:29:39. > :29:43.This could become a reality when the highest court

:29:44. > :29:46.in the land, the Supreme Court, returns its decision later this

:29:47. > :29:49.month on whether MPs should have a vote on triggering Article

:29:50. > :29:58.And to watch that film again and share it, you can head to our

:29:59. > :30:03.And after 10am, we will look ahead to all the political stories

:30:04. > :30:18.Vicky on Facebook says, "If there was another vote. It would be a

:30:19. > :30:22.closer thing. I know loads of people who wish they voted differently."

:30:23. > :30:28.Janet says, "I feel no different to how I felt on 23rd June. I'm upset

:30:29. > :30:31.that the majority voted leave. Brexit does mean breaks the and foot

:30:32. > :30:35.dragging by this Government may just be storing up even more problems.

:30:36. > :30:41.Just get on with it and get the best deal you can."

:30:42. > :30:50.I believe those in power are delaying the process as something

:30:51. > :30:51.illegal might turn up to stop Britain leaving. Anything to stop us

:30:52. > :30:55.leaving. Keep on getting in touch. Still to come, it's the first day

:30:56. > :30:58.back for many and protests are being held at stations

:30:59. > :31:14.across the UK to highlight We will get people's thoughts in a

:31:15. > :31:15.moment. Let us know your thoughts as well.

:31:16. > :31:17.And later on, a former Paralympic athlete was forced

:31:18. > :31:20.to wet herself on a train because there was no

:31:21. > :31:28.Here's Ben in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:31:29. > :31:30.West Yorkshire Police say a pre-planned operation

:31:31. > :31:34.in which a man was shot dead by an officer was not

:31:35. > :31:39.The watchdog the IPCC is investigating the incident

:31:40. > :31:42.near the M62 in Huddersfield yesterday evening.

:31:43. > :31:45.Five people were arrested as part of the operation,

:31:46. > :31:51.including two from a related vehicle stop in Bradford at the same time.

:31:52. > :31:54.The Ministry of Defence says a British soldier has died in Iraq.

:31:55. > :31:57.The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion the Duke of

:31:58. > :31:59.Lancaster's Regiment, died near Baghdad,

:32:00. > :32:02.following an incident which is now being investigated.

:32:03. > :32:06.The regiment is training Iraqi and Kurdish security forces.

:32:07. > :32:09.The death wasn't the result of enemy activity.

:32:10. > :32:12.The soldier's family has been informed.

:32:13. > :32:16.Kurdish militants say a British man has been killed fighting with them

:32:17. > :32:20.against the group calling itself Islamic State in Syria.

:32:21. > :32:24.They've told the BBC that Ryan Lock, who was 20 and from West Sussex,

:32:25. > :32:27.died during an assault on the IS stronghold of Raqqa

:32:28. > :32:30.It's believed he travelled to Syria last August,

:32:31. > :32:36.and joined a Kurdish volunteer group called the YPG.

:32:37. > :32:38.It's reported in Turkey that the authorities now know

:32:39. > :32:41.the identity of the chief suspect in the mass shooting

:32:42. > :32:47.39 people were killed and dozens wounded when an attacker opened

:32:48. > :32:51.fire on a New Year party inside the crowded Reina club.

:32:52. > :32:54.Police have carried out raids in the city,

:32:55. > :33:02.The Islamic State militant group has said it was behind the attack.

:33:03. > :33:05.Police in Greater Manchester have been given more time to question

:33:06. > :33:08.four men over a hit and run that killed two girls.

:33:09. > :33:12.12-year-old Helina Kotlarova, seen here on the left,

:33:13. > :33:14.died at the scene in Oldham on New Year's Eve.

:33:15. > :33:17.Her cousin, 11-year-old Zaneeta Krokova, died

:33:18. > :33:23.from her injuries in hospital yesterday morning.

:33:24. > :33:26.The centre-left think tank the Fabian Society has warned that

:33:27. > :33:29.Labour is "too weak" to win the next election.

:33:30. > :33:31.The society, which has been developing ideas

:33:32. > :33:33.for Labour for decades, has urged the party

:33:34. > :33:36.to form an alliance with the Scottish Nationalists

:33:37. > :33:41.and the Liberal Democrats if it wants to return to power.

:33:42. > :33:44.Children in England are eating half their recommended daily sugar

:33:45. > :33:47.intake before they even get to school.

:33:48. > :33:49.That's the warning from health officials.

:33:50. > :33:53.Public Health England say sugary cereals, juices

:33:54. > :33:56.and spreads are to blame, and, at a time of spiralling obesity

:33:57. > :34:00.levels, have launched a campaign to help us better understand

:34:01. > :34:06.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:34:07. > :34:16.Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he's "arriving

:34:17. > :34:20.at the end of his career" and that City might be one of his last teams.

:34:21. > :34:23.His side beat Burnley 2-1 yesterday but Guardiola was visibly upset

:34:24. > :34:26.about the sending-off of one of his players.

:34:27. > :34:29.City are up to third in the table, but seven points adrift

:34:30. > :34:34.British number one Johanna Konta is through to the quarter-finals

:34:35. > :34:39.World number ten Konta recovered from losing the first set to beat

:34:40. > :34:46.Dutchman Michael van Gerwen has won his second

:34:47. > :34:51.Van Gerwen beat the reigning PDC champion, Scotland's Gary Anderson,

:34:52. > :34:57.7-3 in last night's final at Alexandra Palace.

:34:58. > :35:01.And, David Warner has become the first batsman to score a century

:35:02. > :35:04.in the opening session of a Test match, as Australia dominated

:35:05. > :35:11.Pakistan on the first day of the third Test in Sydney.

:35:12. > :35:15.I will have a full update just after 10am.

:35:16. > :35:18.A man has died after he was shot by police in West Yorkshire.

:35:19. > :35:21.It happened on a slip road off the M62 in Huddersfield

:35:22. > :35:26.Police say the operation last night was "pre-planned",

:35:27. > :35:30.Another two people were arrested in a related vehicle stop in Bradford.

:35:31. > :35:33.Police say the incident was not related to terrorism.

:35:34. > :35:36.The BBC reporter Rahul Tandon was driving down the motorway slip

:35:37. > :35:39.road when it happened, and we can talk to him now.

:35:40. > :35:51.We just came off the slip road at around 6pm. It is a steep incline as

:35:52. > :35:57.you come down that particular slip road. There was a series of police

:35:58. > :36:00.cars that were blocking the road, blocking us from turning left

:36:01. > :36:06.towards where the incident took place. We just sat there, another

:36:07. > :36:10.car pulled up alongside us, and traffic built up behind us. Every

:36:11. > :36:14.few minutes police cars would arrive and officers would very calmly

:36:15. > :36:20.walked towards the scene of the incident. We had no idea what the

:36:21. > :36:26.incident was. After ten or 15 minutes a couple of ambulances came,

:36:27. > :36:30.and then officers ran up the slope, asking people from the ambulance to

:36:31. > :36:33.get down there as quickly as possible, so it looked as though

:36:34. > :36:40.somebody had been badly injured. After half an hour the police

:36:41. > :36:44.knocked on the window and said, you need to get out of this area as

:36:45. > :36:48.quickly as possible, so all of the cars that had been backed up were

:36:49. > :36:52.told to reverse onto the motorway, they had blocked all of the traffic,

:36:53. > :36:58.and we were told to leave the area. We could see the two cars that were

:36:59. > :37:02.there, most people issuing it had been an accident, because it is a

:37:03. > :37:07.steep incline, we thought somebody had crashed. The first we knew was

:37:08. > :37:10.when I woke up this morning and turned on the radio.

:37:11. > :37:12.As commuters head back to work today, protests are being held

:37:13. > :37:15.at train stations across the UK to highlight the cost

:37:16. > :37:19.It comes the day after new fares were announced, with an average

:37:20. > :37:24.And passengers in the south of England are still being affected

:37:25. > :37:27.by strikes, with a week-long stoppage on the Southern rail

:37:28. > :37:38.We will speak to a group of commuters in a moment.

:37:39. > :37:45.Our reporter Daniel Boettcher is at Kings Cross station this morning.

:37:46. > :37:52.There was a protest here this morning, 30 to 40 people, it has now

:37:53. > :37:57.dispersed, and others were planned at stations across the country. This

:37:58. > :38:05.was about the increase in fares. 2.3% average rise. Part of that is

:38:06. > :38:12.1.9% on regulated fares. These are tickets that include most commuter

:38:13. > :38:20.season-ticket. That figure was set by the Government using last year's

:38:21. > :38:23.RPI inflation figures. The train operating companies said the prices

:38:24. > :38:29.of the other tickets, but the average is 2.3% in England,

:38:30. > :38:33.Scotland, and Wales. Prices have been frozen in Northern Ireland. The

:38:34. > :38:37.campaign for better transport says it is a kick in the teeth. It has

:38:38. > :38:41.done a calculation that on some commuter routes the cost per minute

:38:42. > :38:48.of those rail journeys is equivalent to calling a premium rate phone

:38:49. > :38:54.line. Action for rail gives as an example a ticket from Luton to

:38:55. > :38:59.London, a monthly season-ticket, it costs ?387, 14% of the average

:39:00. > :39:04.monthly salary. It compares it with Germany, where it says an equivalent

:39:05. > :39:13.route would cost ?85, 3% of a salary. In France, six to ?1, 2% of

:39:14. > :39:16.a monthly salary. Commuters in Britain say they are paying more

:39:17. > :39:20.than in other countries. The rail delivery group says that the

:39:21. > :39:24.increases in season tickets set by the Government, it says 97% in

:39:25. > :39:28.everyone pound paid by passengers goes into running and improving

:39:29. > :39:30.services, and the Government says it is delivering what it calls the

:39:31. > :39:36.biggest modernisation programme for more than a century. It says it has

:39:37. > :39:41.always fairly balanced the cost between taxpayers and passengers.

:39:42. > :39:46.Well, let's talk now to Kate Bell, the head of economics

:39:47. > :39:48.at Action For Rail, Lianna Etkind, a public-transport campaigner

:39:49. > :39:51.at Campaign For Better Transport, Peter Izzard, who commutes to London

:39:52. > :39:54.from Burgess Hill on Southern, spending more than ?4,000

:39:55. > :39:58.on his annual season ticket, and Jo Rossi, who commutes

:39:59. > :40:01.to London from Ashford, paying for a weekly season ticket

:40:02. > :40:17.Some people are spending 14% of their salary, what proportion are

:40:18. > :40:21.you spending? After my pension and childcare costs, it is nearly a

:40:22. > :40:25.third of my take-home pay, and not even on my part-time salary, so it

:40:26. > :40:31.is not affordable. How do you feel that costs are going up? It is

:40:32. > :40:35.incredibly unfair and it is alienating a whole portion of people

:40:36. > :40:41.who want to work flexibly, when so many organisations are welcoming and

:40:42. > :40:46.promoting flexible working. I said you spend ?4000 on an annual season

:40:47. > :40:49.ticket, you travel on the Southern Rail network, so you have been

:40:50. > :40:58.affected, so you will be getting a rebate. We get four weeks' refund,

:40:59. > :41:06.allegedly this month. I am yet to see the final details. My fair has

:41:07. > :41:10.gone up 1.8%. Now I pay ?4248 for the privilege of travelling on a

:41:11. > :41:15.service that is wholly inadequate. Any fare increase is too much. I

:41:16. > :41:20.don't think any commuter would mind paying an increase is a service was

:41:21. > :41:23.delivered. But it is not being delivered. There is no sign of an

:41:24. > :41:30.end to the DeMarco batter Southern Rail. What Southern Rail are

:41:31. > :41:33.charging, they point out they are giving a month's rebate to

:41:34. > :41:36.compensate for the problems on the network, and they say they are

:41:37. > :41:43.freezing some of the fares and any increases are pegged at inflation.

:41:44. > :41:50.Clearly, it is shallow words. I think that the rebate is welcome. I

:41:51. > :41:54.would rather have no rebate and they begin a service, a trusted service,

:41:55. > :41:56.which allows me to get home to see my wife and children in the

:41:57. > :42:04.evenings, as opposed to being late everyday. Concentrate on the key

:42:05. > :42:11.factors here, which is ending this dispute, and delivering a service

:42:12. > :42:14.that our commuters can value and the simple things in life, catch a train

:42:15. > :42:21.on time at a scheduled time and arrival. We were hearing from Daniel

:42:22. > :42:25.that rail fares here are six times higher than elsewhere in Europe,

:42:26. > :42:30.prices have gone up by 56% over the past ten years. Do you think

:42:31. > :42:36.passengers are being ripped off? Passages are ripped off, and they

:42:37. > :42:42.will find there is another year of rises which are hard to stomach.

:42:43. > :42:44.Many passengers have had a year of disruptions and substandard

:42:45. > :42:51.services, and to be asked to pay for more of the same is unacceptable. It

:42:52. > :42:54.shows that the whole system needs an overhaul, and the Government needs

:42:55. > :42:59.to take action to make it fairer. It is pointed out that 97% of everyone

:43:00. > :43:05.pound that commuters pay for their rail fares are reinvested, and the

:43:06. > :43:10.biggest modernisation programme for a century is currently being

:43:11. > :43:15.delivered. The cost of running a railway is now largely covered by

:43:16. > :43:18.income from the railways, mostly passenger fares, but we need to see

:43:19. > :43:23.in investment in the railways and in the whole economy. Rail is not just

:43:24. > :43:29.benefit passengers who use it. The benefits everybody, even if you

:43:30. > :43:32.never take a train, you will benefit from clearer roads, so the people

:43:33. > :43:36.who need to drive can get to where they need to be, from cleaner air

:43:37. > :43:41.and better health, and from the mitigating climate change, and rail

:43:42. > :43:46.plays a part in supporting all of our society and economy. The

:43:47. > :43:50.background is that while Government subsidies have decreased by ?1.1

:43:51. > :43:55.billion over the past five years, the fares have gone up by just about

:43:56. > :44:02.the same amount, just a little more. Absolutely. Our research comparing

:44:03. > :44:05.the cost of travel in the UK with that of other European countries, we

:44:06. > :44:11.are highlighting that we are not getting the best bang for our book.

:44:12. > :44:16.We see how much cheaper fares are in other countries, in Paris it would

:44:17. > :44:18.cost just ?61 to travel the same distance. Because of greater

:44:19. > :44:24.Government subsidy? And public ownership. It is not an efficient

:44:25. > :44:30.way of running a railway, the fragmented system we have. We think

:44:31. > :44:36.a better way is possible. Public transport, which makes such a big

:44:37. > :44:40.difference to lives, is much cheaper and more efficient and you get a

:44:41. > :44:44.much better service. The Government says it balances the costs fairly

:44:45. > :44:51.between taxpayer and passenger, how do you see it? We can see the

:44:52. > :44:54.improvements that are allegedly put in, the Thames Link programme will

:44:55. > :45:01.make a big difference, but we are still years away from seeing those

:45:02. > :45:06.benefits. What we are not seeing is in reality the service is taking a

:45:07. > :45:10.backward step, it is as bad as I have ever known it. Talk of

:45:11. > :45:16.investment is wonderful, but just fix the short-term problem, which is

:45:17. > :45:22.the issues today. Should there be more Government subsidy?

:45:23. > :45:29.Well, I think action needs to be taken. I'm pushed on to a high-speed

:45:30. > :45:33.rail network because the other main line stations, they have a far

:45:34. > :45:37.longer commute now so some action needs to be taken to benefit the

:45:38. > :45:42.commuters. Has it made you think about stopping commuting? Well, I

:45:43. > :45:47.love my job, but it's uneconomical for me to come into work and I know

:45:48. > :45:52.having moved down from London because of the higher house prices,

:45:53. > :45:57.there is lots of people who can't go back to work in London because it is

:45:58. > :46:02.simply unaffordable. It does make one question, especially with lower

:46:03. > :46:06.salaries outside London as well. At what point does it become unviable

:46:07. > :46:10.so you decide that you can't continue with it? Well, I think you

:46:11. > :46:16.have to think of the longer term goal in terms of career and so on

:46:17. > :46:20.and working your organisation as well because my company is very

:46:21. > :46:24.accommodating in terms of working flexibly so I have to take the

:46:25. > :46:28.financial hit for now because train companies are not moving with the

:46:29. > :46:32.times and kind of stepping up to the mark and kind of helping facilitate

:46:33. > :46:35.flexible working. Thank you very much for coming in and do let us

:46:36. > :46:39.know what you think about that as well if you are a commuter and you

:46:40. > :46:50.are affected by the increase in prices from today.

:46:51. > :47:02.Let's go back to the terror attack, the New Year terror attack in

:47:03. > :47:07.Istanbul. What can you tell us? There are reporting suggesting the

:47:08. > :47:17.that the gunman has been confirmed. According to the reports, he is a

:47:18. > :47:25.28-year-old man from Kyrgyzstan called Lakhe Mashrapov.

:47:26. > :47:31.They were not naming I had country as of yet and the officials had been

:47:32. > :47:35.investigating whether one of their citizens was involved in the attack

:47:36. > :47:40.that took place on the New Year's Eve. Now the reports suggest that we

:47:41. > :47:45.have the name and we have the ID of the attacker. Of course, now the

:47:46. > :47:49.Turkish police force will try to investigate whether this person was

:47:50. > :47:54.acting on his own or whether there was a cell behind him. The IS group,

:47:55. > :47:58.the Islamic State group, has already claimed responsibility for the

:47:59. > :48:04.attack, but was this guy alone? Or was there a particular cell

:48:05. > :48:10.supporting this man in the attack that he carried out? Of course, the

:48:11. > :48:17.manhunt is still on. The gunman is still at large. There are 12 people

:48:18. > :48:22.detained including his wife and the investigations are still being

:48:23. > :48:35.carried out. Thank you very much.

:48:36. > :48:38.In a moment we'll be speaking to two terror experts

:48:39. > :48:41.and a Turkish journalist, but first let's take a look at some

:48:42. > :49:49.I think the whole world should be united against this deadly evil

:49:50. > :49:52.and if the entire world unites, we can crush them.

:49:53. > :50:21.The world can crush these unwanted elements.

:50:22. > :50:24.Let's talk now to Chris Phillips, a former Head of the National

:50:25. > :50:30.Joining us from Oxford is Ezgi Basaran is a Turkish

:50:31. > :50:37.She says she feels frightened to go back to Istanbul as seculars

:50:38. > :50:41.Jerry Smith is a terrorism risk specialist who has worked

:50:42. > :50:54.Thank you all very much indeed for joining us. Chris, first of all,

:50:55. > :50:58.Turkey was on a state of high alert. There were, I think, 17,000 police

:50:59. > :51:02.officers on duty in Istanbul and yet this still happened. Unfortunately,

:51:03. > :51:07.there is no such thing as 100% security. Turkey know that it is at

:51:08. > :51:11.the fore front of potential terrorist attacks, but of course, an

:51:12. > :51:15.individual like this can go under the radar. It seems to be a slight

:51:16. > :51:19.sea change in the way that the terrorists are operating in that

:51:20. > :51:23.this looks like it is someone that's come from the war zone and maybe has

:51:24. > :51:26.actually returned back to the war zone. So it is an interesting and

:51:27. > :51:31.terrible thing, but unfortunately, we're going to be faced with more

:51:32. > :51:36.terrorist attacks, not dissimilar to this in 2017. When you look at that

:51:37. > :51:39.particular aspect of where it seems the person that did this came from

:51:40. > :51:44.and then went back and to and say it looks like a potential change, how

:51:45. > :51:48.easy is to spot any trends in what we're seeing? There are some

:51:49. > :51:51.similarities between attacks that are happening and others just

:51:52. > :51:54.completely different again? I would say we have got three different

:51:55. > :51:58.types of terrorist problems at the moment. We've got a group of people

:51:59. > :52:03.that have been fighting in Iraq and Syria. And of course, they are used

:52:04. > :52:06.to handling weapons and used to dealing with explosives, have been

:52:07. > :52:11.in a war zone. So we have to face them and they are being encouraged

:52:12. > :52:15.to go back to their own countries to cause terror, but we have got people

:52:16. > :52:18.who are self radicalising within communities and those are very

:52:19. > :52:22.difficult to spot and then we've also got what I call the mad, bad

:52:23. > :52:27.and sad in society who are popping up out of nowhere with probably very

:52:28. > :52:32.little knowledge of Islam, and choosing to go out in a blaze of

:52:33. > :52:35.glory. So it is very difficult for the Security Services right across

:52:36. > :52:40.Europe, right across the West to actually deal with these and don't

:52:41. > :52:45.forget this is not just a European problem this. Is across the world.

:52:46. > :52:49.Jerry Smith, how concerned should we be here from a wide every security

:52:50. > :52:54.prospective about specifically what happened in Turkey? Well, I think we

:52:55. > :53:00.have seen similar attacks to what occurred in Turkey in other parts of

:53:01. > :53:03.Western Europe. I think the UK has some slight differences obviously

:53:04. > :53:08.being an island and having some particularly gun laws are the sort

:53:09. > :53:12.of things and also we have a proty integrated security set-up. Not only

:53:13. > :53:17.with the police, the Security Services, support from the military

:53:18. > :53:20.where required, but also in a community local authority emergency

:53:21. > :53:24.planners, the way that towns and cities are designed, so all that

:53:25. > :53:31.integration is a pretty good in the UK. This is, I think, the first

:53:32. > :53:36.attack that IS has specifically claimed in Turkey, but it is not the

:53:37. > :53:46.first attack that there has been in Turkey. How do you feel about what

:53:47. > :53:52.is going on in your country? After 2015, Turkey shifted its Syrian

:53:53. > :53:59.policy. Before that, between 2013 and 2015, there was an open border

:54:00. > :54:06.policy which enabled Isis recruits, national and foreign, to move freely

:54:07. > :54:16.in and out of Turkey which helped Isis smuggling and recruitment

:54:17. > :54:20.infrastructure, but starting from 2015, Turkey's stance against Isis

:54:21. > :54:27.changed and by that time, the attacks started. There are three

:54:28. > :54:35.categories of targets in Isis mentality in Turkey. First, are the

:54:36. > :54:40.Kurds because Kurds are fighting in Syria, the most effective fighting

:54:41. > :54:51.force in Syria against Isis and second, would be the seculars. The

:54:52. > :54:56.Turks and the third is the administration officials and its

:54:57. > :55:03.electorate. Now we can see that they had gone up to a level in terms of

:55:04. > :55:11.confidence and in terms of targets. This is actually the second attack

:55:12. > :55:19.that Isis claimed responsibility through its news agency, but the

:55:20. > :55:22.first major one I can say. Chris, I know you've worked in Istanbul quite

:55:23. > :55:26.recently helping to train the Security Services there. What was

:55:27. > :55:30.the work that you were doing? Well, obviously they've got big problems.

:55:31. > :55:34.They've got a huge pool of potential terrorists in their country and

:55:35. > :55:40.they've got, they want to be westward leaning to some extent and

:55:41. > :55:43.of course, everywhere needs to be secured, every nightclub needs to be

:55:44. > :55:46.secured, the airports need to be secured. I was trying to train some

:55:47. > :55:50.of the security guards to understand the nature of the threat and what

:55:51. > :55:54.they could do and put in place. We've learned a lot from terrorism

:55:55. > :56:02.in the UK over the years. We've implemented changes. We put in

:56:03. > :56:07.defence measures in airports. They need to catch up on this stuff that

:56:08. > :56:14.we have led the world on. A security minister said that Isis is prepared

:56:15. > :56:17.to Carey out a chemical weapons attack in the UK. Being prepared and

:56:18. > :56:22.being ready to do it are two different things. Jerry, what's your

:56:23. > :56:27.prospect on the potential for something like that? As you

:56:28. > :56:30.mentioned, when you look about capability and intent, as the

:56:31. > :56:34.minister said, the intent is clearly there. This idea of mass casualties,

:56:35. > :56:40.how they're caused, in some ways, is less of an issue. They just want to

:56:41. > :56:45.cause mass casualties, mass terror, to impact. Capability is slightly

:56:46. > :56:49.different and again with chemical weapons, sometimes the sort of the

:56:50. > :56:55.headline that we see is perhaps not as bad as actually reality. So,

:56:56. > :57:00.making chemical weapons is not easy. It is not impossible. But, it is not

:57:01. > :57:05.easy. Perhaps more of a concern is the theft of industrial chemicals or

:57:06. > :57:09.the use of those and maybe just some attack on an industrial facility

:57:10. > :57:13.which allowed a leak to occur or the theft of chemicals that are being

:57:14. > :57:17.moved on our highways. Thank you very much. Thank you.

:57:18. > :57:19.Coming up, a British man with no previous experience has been killed

:57:20. > :57:21.fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria.

:57:22. > :57:29.We'll bring you the latest after the news.

:57:30. > :57:34.Let's get the latest weather update.

:57:35. > :57:43.It is very frosty again. This morning I was in my car at 3.59am

:57:44. > :57:54.shivering. I wanted to go back to bed. Jack Frost was painting with a

:57:55. > :58:00.thick paintbrush. This almost looks like some three-dimensional map of I

:58:01. > :58:06.don't know some planet or something! I think that's the roof of the car!

:58:07. > :58:12.I saw lots of roofs like that. This person, I think it was, Daisy,

:58:13. > :58:16.wanted to get a frosty message across frosty roads, frozen, cold,

:58:17. > :58:20.all of that. Tonight, it is not going to be so frosty. We have got

:58:21. > :58:24.milder weather heading our way. After that cold and frosty start as

:58:25. > :58:27.we say, we've got sunshine around, but really the best of the sunshine

:58:28. > :58:31.is going to be across southern areas. Look at the clouds in the

:58:32. > :58:37.north. They're starting to invade the UK and that's also less cold air

:58:38. > :58:42.sitting on top of the UK. So let's start with the south first. This is

:58:43. > :58:46.where we're going to be enjoying that sparkling winter sunshine.

:58:47. > :58:49.Temperatures around six Celsius in Plymouth. There could be one or two

:58:50. > :58:52.spots warmer at four or five Celsius. Notice the further north

:58:53. > :58:56.you go, the thicker the clouds get. You might get brightness to the east

:58:57. > :58:59.of the Pennines, but in the north-west, here, certainly western

:59:00. > :59:03.parts of Scotland, much milder, not far off ten Celsius, and there will

:59:04. > :59:07.be some rain on and off during the day as well. Notice the winds,

:59:08. > :59:12.north-westerly winds of the Atlantic. They keep on dragging the

:59:13. > :59:21.milder air which is sit k up there, pushing it southwards. The mild air

:59:22. > :59:26.is sitting on top of us. Jack Frost off he goes. It is more like plus

:59:27. > :59:30.four Celsius or plus five Celsius. Colder further north. Maybe a touch

:59:31. > :59:34.of frost in Scotland, but generally speaking tomorrow, frost-free in the

:59:35. > :59:38.morning. A bit of cloud across south-western areas and then it

:59:39. > :59:41.looks like the sunshine is out. Actually, this is going to be a

:59:42. > :59:46.trend for something colder the middle part of the week. The middle

:59:47. > :59:52.part of the week we've got an area of high pressure building on top of

:59:53. > :59:56.us. This equals generally clear skies across the UK. And that means

:59:57. > :00:01.that all the warmth that we will have gathered, will escape again and

:00:02. > :00:04.temperatures will dip away. So Thursday morning, another very

:00:05. > :00:08.frosty one, but look at that, things warm up significantly by the time we

:00:09. > :00:12.get towards the end of the week. So that means that the end of the week

:00:13. > :00:16.rather than being frosty it is going to be soggy and mild!

:00:17. > :00:17.Hello, it's Tuesday, I'm Joanna Gosling.

:00:18. > :00:21.A man is shot dead in a police operation near the M62

:00:22. > :00:26.Police say it is not related to terrorism.

:00:27. > :00:29.We'll be speaking to the former Paralympian who was forced

:00:30. > :00:32.to wet herself on a train because there were no

:00:33. > :00:44.We'll look at some of the best new film releases and ask if the row

:00:45. > :00:52.over racism in Hollywood is driving change.

:00:53. > :00:57.Here's Ben in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:00:58. > :00:59.West Yorkshire Police say a pre-planned operation

:01:00. > :01:02.in which a man was shot dead by an officer was not

:01:03. > :01:08.The police watchdog the IPCC is investigating the incident,

:01:09. > :01:12.which took place near the M62 in Huddersfield yesterday evening.

:01:13. > :01:16.Five people were arrested as part of the operation,

:01:17. > :01:25.including two from a related vehicle stop in Bradford at the same time.

:01:26. > :01:31.Our reporter was stuck in traffic with his family after police closed

:01:32. > :01:35.the road, he has been talking to us. All the cars that had been backed up

:01:36. > :01:40.on the slip road were told to reverse onto the motorway, they had

:01:41. > :01:44.blocked traffic, and we were told to leave the area. We could see down

:01:45. > :01:49.the bridge because that were there, most able assumed it had been an

:01:50. > :01:52.accident, because it is a steep incline, we thought somebody had

:01:53. > :01:56.crashed into another. The first we knew about it is when I turned on

:01:57. > :01:59.the radio this morning and found out it was a very different incident.

:02:00. > :02:02.It's reported in Turkey that the authorities now know

:02:03. > :02:04.the identity of the chief suspect in the mass shooting

:02:05. > :02:08.39 people were killed and dozens wounded when an attacker opened

:02:09. > :02:19.fire on a New Year party inside the crowded Reina club.

:02:20. > :02:22.The Ministry of Defence says a British soldier has died in Iraq.

:02:23. > :02:25.The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion the Duke of

:02:26. > :02:26.Lancaster's Regiment, died near Baghdad,

:02:27. > :02:28.following an incident which is now being investigated.

:02:29. > :02:31.The regiment is training Iraqi and Kurdish security forces.

:02:32. > :02:34.The death wasn't the result of enemy activity.

:02:35. > :02:39.The soldier's family has been informed.

:02:40. > :02:43.Kurdish militants say a British man has been killed fighting with them

:02:44. > :02:46.against the group calling itself Islamic State in Syria.

:02:47. > :02:50.They've told the BBC that Ryan Lock, who was 20 and from West Sussex,

:02:51. > :02:53.died during an assault on the IS stronghold of Raqqa

:02:54. > :02:57.It's believed he travelled to Syria last August,

:02:58. > :03:03.and joined a Kurdish volunteer group called the YPG.

:03:04. > :03:06.Police in Greater Manchester have been given more time to question

:03:07. > :03:09.four men over a hit and run that killed two girls.

:03:10. > :03:13.12-year-old Helina Kotlarova, seen here on the left,

:03:14. > :03:16.died at the scene in Oldham on New Year's Eve.

:03:17. > :03:19.Her cousin, 11-year-old Zaneeta Krokova, died

:03:20. > :03:24.from her injuries in hospital yesterday morning.

:03:25. > :03:27.Protests have been held at railway stations this morning in response

:03:28. > :03:34.The average ticket has gone up by 2.3%.

:03:35. > :03:37.Many of today's demonstrations are organised by the campaign

:03:38. > :03:42.It says people in the UK spend six times as much on tickets compared

:03:43. > :03:48.Children in England are eating half their recommended daily sugar

:03:49. > :03:52.intake before they even get to school.

:03:53. > :03:54.That's the warning from health officials.

:03:55. > :03:57.Public Health England say sugary cereals, juices

:03:58. > :04:00.and spreads are to blame and, at a time of spiralling obesity

:04:01. > :04:04.levels, have launched a campaign to help us better understand

:04:05. > :04:12.We know that lots of children are eating a lot of sugar for breakfast.

:04:13. > :04:16.In total, they are eating almost three times the maximum recommended

:04:17. > :04:25.That is contributing to the awful obesity statistics that we have.

:04:26. > :04:27.That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:04:28. > :04:44.More on the British man who has died in Syria fighting alongside Kurdish

:04:45. > :04:46.forces in a moment. We will find out why he chose to go.

:04:47. > :04:48.Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

:04:49. > :04:52.If you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

:04:53. > :04:54.Here's some sport now with Jessica Creighton.

:04:55. > :04:57.Manchester City are back up to third in the Premier League

:04:58. > :05:02.But they had to play for an hour with only ten men after captain

:05:03. > :05:05.Fernandinho was sent off for a reckless challenge.

:05:06. > :05:08.Gael Clichy eventually gave them the lead,

:05:09. > :05:11.but Pep Guardiola was clearly unhappy about the sending off.

:05:12. > :05:17.Guardiola was pretty frosty in his post-match interview.

:05:18. > :05:21.He was speaking to our reporter Damian Johnson.

:05:22. > :05:24.The sending off, what was your view of the red card for Fernandinho?

:05:25. > :05:28.You're the manager, I'm sure the fans would like to know.

:05:29. > :05:33.You don't seem that happy that you've won?

:05:34. > :05:36.More than you would believe, more than you would believe.

:05:37. > :05:52.Yesterday we were not, why are we today?

:05:53. > :05:59.And Jurgen Klopp wasn't too happy either, after Liverpool twice threw

:06:00. > :06:01.away the lead at struggling Sunderland.

:06:02. > :06:06.Sadio Mane had put Liverpool 2-1 up, but Jermain Defoe's second penalty

:06:07. > :06:11.Liverpool stay second, but are now five points behind

:06:12. > :06:18.West Ham's Sofiane Feghouli was sent off as Manchester United

:06:19. > :06:26.The goals came from Juan Mata and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

:06:27. > :06:28.World number ten Johanna Konta has continued her winning

:06:29. > :06:32.She's through to the quarter-finals of the Shenzhen Open in China.

:06:33. > :06:37.The Briton recovered from a set down and being a break down in the second

:06:38. > :06:48.She wrapped up the match in just over an hour and a half.

:06:49. > :06:50.Michael van Gerwen has won his second World Darts Championship.

:06:51. > :06:52.He beat reigning PDC champion Gary Anderson 7-3

:06:53. > :06:57.It wasn't all plain sailing for the Dutchman, though,

:06:58. > :07:00.as just as he was throwing for the match at 6-2 up,

:07:01. > :07:10.Security men quickly dealt with the prankster.

:07:11. > :07:13.But it put van Gerwen off, delaying his coronation by another set.

:07:14. > :07:17.It was worth the extra wait, though, as he claimed victory in style

:07:18. > :07:21.to take the ?350,000 pound prize and end Anderson's hopes

:07:22. > :07:27.David Warner blasted his way to a century before lunch

:07:28. > :07:31.on the opening day of the third Test against Pakistan in Sydney.

:07:32. > :07:35.Warner took just 78 balls to get to three figures.

:07:36. > :07:38.Only four other players have managed to score a century in the very

:07:39. > :07:45.Warner was eventually out for 113, but Matt Renshaw rammed home

:07:46. > :07:50.He's playing in only his fourth Test.

:07:51. > :07:52.He was actually born in Middlesbrough, but has lived

:07:53. > :08:04.He's 167 not out, with Australia on 365-3.

:08:05. > :08:09.That is all the sport, I am back with the headlines at 10:30am.

:08:10. > :08:11.A 20-year-old from Sussex has been killed fighting so-called

:08:12. > :08:14.His name is Ryan Lock, a chef from Chichester,

:08:15. > :08:18.who had no military experience whatsoever before travelling to join

:08:19. > :08:25.Let's speak to our correspondent Emma Vardy.

:08:26. > :08:41.He went to school and haven't, his family are from haven't and

:08:42. > :08:47.Chichester, and he was a chef in the UK before travelling out to fight in

:08:48. > :08:49.Syria. He travelled in August, and we understand he had told friends

:08:50. > :08:54.and family he was going on holiday to Turkey, but later revealed he had

:08:55. > :09:02.travelled to join up with the Kurdish militant group the YPG in

:09:03. > :09:06.Syria. A number of other British volunteers have done the same,

:09:07. > :09:12.choosing to fight against so-called Islamic State of their own accord.

:09:13. > :09:16.The YPG confirmed his death in a letter to his family and said that

:09:17. > :09:19.he had been killed fighting in the battle for the Syrian city of

:09:20. > :09:26.fracture, which has been an Islamic State stronghold. He had no previous

:09:27. > :09:31.military experience whatsoever, is it clear what it was that made him

:09:32. > :09:34.decide to go off and fight? No, but many who have been out there to

:09:35. > :09:39.fight talk about wanting to be part of the Kurdish struggle, wanting to

:09:40. > :09:46.fight against the evil, as they see it, of Islamic State. His father has

:09:47. > :09:50.said he had a heart of gold, his family are said to be in absolute

:09:51. > :09:53.grief at the news of his death. I spoke to the father of the first

:09:54. > :10:01.British volunteer to die fighting against Islamic State, he went to

:10:02. > :10:04.visit Ryan's father and offer his condolences and his perspective as a

:10:05. > :10:10.parent of somebody who has chosen to go and do this. Ryan is reported to

:10:11. > :10:14.be the third British man to be killed fighting against Islamic

:10:15. > :10:16.State, although the numbers are difficult to verify. The Foreign

:10:17. > :10:21.Office has warned strongly against travelling to Syria and has warned

:10:22. > :10:25.that whichever side somebody may decide to fight on, they could be

:10:26. > :10:28.breaking with this camera laws. Many in the Kurdish community will see

:10:29. > :10:44.him and others as martyrs. You were an activist who spoke to

:10:45. > :10:52.Ryan's family. Very difficult, it will be, for them to come to terms

:10:53. > :11:00.with this. Yes. Incredibly difficult time on Sunday. The family are

:11:01. > :11:07.completely and utterly devastated and deep in grief at the moment. Not

:11:08. > :11:10.really wanting to think about all of the issues surrounding Isis or the

:11:11. > :11:17.Kurds or YPG, they are just really... They have found out...

:11:18. > :11:21.Ryan fell on the 21st of December that there has been a process by

:11:22. > :11:25.which the YPG have tried to confirm that it was him, and that

:11:26. > :11:36.confirmation came through to them on Friday, and we went to pay our

:11:37. > :11:41.condolences and offer our help in terms of any possible retrieving of

:11:42. > :11:45.the body at a later date. But the whole of the Kurdish community all

:11:46. > :11:51.around the world, their hearts are with the family today. Do you know

:11:52. > :11:57.when they knew that he was fighting? When he went off in August, he said

:11:58. > :12:02.he was going on holiday. I am not too sure exactly when they found out

:12:03. > :12:06.that he was fighting in Syria, but I believe that when he had arrived in

:12:07. > :12:12.Syria, he had posted on his Facebook account that he had arrived in Syria

:12:13. > :12:18.and he was sorry that he had not been totally honest with them. And

:12:19. > :12:25.he was fighting Isis. How many people are doing this from the UK?

:12:26. > :12:30.Over the past five years there has been quite a number. Internationally

:12:31. > :12:35.there has been quite a few hundred. There are even international

:12:36. > :12:41.brigades now fighting with the YPG forces. But in terms of Britons, at

:12:42. > :12:49.the moment there are probably about a dozen. Why? These are people

:12:50. > :12:54.without previous military experience. It is something that is

:12:55. > :13:01.difficult to get your head around, but essentially... The wanting to

:13:02. > :13:05.say today is that I would never encourage anybody to go there. There

:13:06. > :13:12.are other ways to support the Kurdish cause, to support the fight

:13:13. > :13:19.against Isis. We need campaigners and raising awareness of the issues

:13:20. > :13:24.around this. But what is their motivation? You just have to look at

:13:25. > :13:28.our daily news. You had a piece about the bombing in Istanbul by

:13:29. > :13:37.Isis. All of the grotesque and morbid videos that we see Isis Post

:13:38. > :13:43.on a weekly basis. Is there a route? One thing being upset about what is

:13:44. > :13:48.happening, but finding your way to a battlefield, that requires help from

:13:49. > :13:53.somewhere. Exactly. There are Facebook pages and people take

:13:54. > :14:00.themselves off to Kurdistan. Once they are there, it is quite easy.

:14:01. > :14:03.And the YPG of the most effective fighting force against Isis, they

:14:04. > :14:10.have been the one force that has consistently fought Isis right to

:14:11. > :14:14.the outside of Raqqa, they don't need international volunteers,

:14:15. > :14:21.really. But once people are out there... It is a bit like the

:14:22. > :14:24.Spanish Civil War, the fight against fascism, there were international

:14:25. > :14:30.brigades that fought against fascism, and it is very similar to

:14:31. > :14:32.those times. Once they are out there, the YPG will give them

:14:33. > :14:38.training and facilitate them to fight. Mostly, they encourage them

:14:39. > :14:42.to stay behind the front lines. But many of these fighters are highly

:14:43. > :14:49.motivated and thoughtful. They have thought this through. Even the short

:14:50. > :14:56.time Ryan was there, he was bombed in a village by Turkish airplay is,

:14:57. > :15:02.and he lost many of his colleagues in that bombing, two other

:15:03. > :15:09.international volunteers as well. But he changed units and he wanted

:15:10. > :15:14.to fight on the front line against -- in the Raqqa operation. We don't

:15:15. > :15:18.want people to go, but when they are they that are doing incredibly brave

:15:19. > :15:24.things in the fight against Isis. We have to acknowledge that.

:15:25. > :15:27.A Foreign Office spokesperson said, "The UK has advised for some time

:15:28. > :15:31.Anyone who does travel to these areas for whatever reason,

:15:32. > :15:40.At 10.30am, we'll be speaking to the former

:15:41. > :15:43.Paralympian who was forced to wet herself on a train because there

:15:44. > :15:48.Brexit will inevitably be top of the political agenda for much

:15:49. > :15:50.of 2017 as the Government prepares to trigger the formal

:15:51. > :15:54.Six months after the vote that came as a surprise to many,

:15:55. > :15:57.our reporter Michael Cowan has returned to Great Yarmouth

:15:58. > :15:59.in Norfolk where the result was never in ever doubt.

:16:00. > :16:02.The town delivered the fifth highest leave vote with more than 70%

:16:03. > :16:34.Our country had just voted to leave the EU and it was summer.

:16:35. > :16:36.But are people here still excited about Brexit?

:16:37. > :16:40.Is it access to the single market which involves much

:16:41. > :16:45.We pay into the EU and in exchange, we get to trade with them,

:16:46. > :16:46.but we have to accept freedom of movement.

:16:47. > :16:49.That means unlimited numbers of EU workers coming to Britain to work.

:16:50. > :16:52.Or is it this - complete control of our borders?

:16:53. > :16:55.Because the only certainty we have here is that we cannot have both.

:16:56. > :16:58.Does it concern you when you hear things about the economy?

:16:59. > :17:00.For example, going on holiday already costs more money

:17:01. > :17:02.because the value of the pound is low.

:17:03. > :17:04.There's some beautiful holiday destinations.

:17:05. > :17:08.If people were putting more money back into our own economy,

:17:09. > :17:13.rather than feeding everyone else's economy, this country would thrive.

:17:14. > :17:16.Come to Great Yarmouth, go to Blackpool, go to Liverpool,

:17:17. > :17:19.go to different areas where you've got these beautiful seaside towns

:17:20. > :17:21.that are getting forgotten and ignored and neglected.

:17:22. > :17:22.Do you still feel excited about Brexit?

:17:23. > :17:27.I think it was the best thing we could have done.

:17:28. > :17:29.Joining the EU was the worst decision Britain ever made.

:17:30. > :17:32.Do we want access to the single market or do we want complete

:17:33. > :17:42.I understand that they do need to go somewhere and the place is a state

:17:43. > :17:45.and I agree with that, but when is it going to stop?

:17:46. > :17:53.I voted leave because I went with the flow.

:17:54. > :17:56.If there was another referendum tomorrow, hypothetically...

:17:57. > :17:59.And I knew more about it, possibly could change my mind.

:18:00. > :18:10.Even if it comes at the cost of the economy,

:18:11. > :18:12.controlling the borders, that's the most important thing?

:18:13. > :18:19.Do you think Parliament should have a vote on Brexit?

:18:20. > :18:25.I think they should get back in, put all of their heads together,

:18:26. > :18:36.54 people went for this, complete conviction,

:18:37. > :18:38.like they had six months ago, to control our borders.

:18:39. > :18:42.24 people went for single market access.

:18:43. > :18:45.We are not pollsters and our Brexit boards are not scientific,

:18:46. > :18:49.but they clearly suggest, for people here, immigration

:18:50. > :18:53.and control of our borders is still the major concern.

:18:54. > :18:59.But amongst those we spoke to, there is a waning support

:19:00. > :19:03.for the way in which the Government is handling Brexit, namely

:19:04. > :19:08.And it's telling that while the vast majority stand

:19:09. > :19:10.by that decision to leave, people here want more input,

:19:11. > :19:13.or even another vote, on the exact terms of how we leave

:19:14. > :19:18.This could become a reality when the highest court

:19:19. > :19:21.in the land, the Supreme Court, returns its decision later this

:19:22. > :19:24.month on whether MPs should have a vote on triggering Article

:19:25. > :19:34.And to watch that film again and share it, you can head to our

:19:35. > :19:45.Let's talk now to Rachel Johnson, columnist at the Mail on Sunday.

:19:46. > :19:48.Rossalyn Warren, a freelance journalist and commentator

:19:49. > :19:56.Stephen Bush, special correspondent at the New Statesman magazine.

:19:57. > :20:04.Who we have predicted so much that ended up happening in 2016. I want

:20:05. > :20:08.predictions from you for 2017. Do you think we will start to get

:20:09. > :20:12.clarity because the Government position is triggering Article 50 by

:20:13. > :20:16.the end of March? Absolutely. I think, well, eventually after a year

:20:17. > :20:21.of turmoil in 2016, with a lot of things left up in the air and many

:20:22. > :20:25.things still left uncertain, too as we have seen in the video clip to

:20:26. > :20:28.the British public, I think the public need clarity now and I think

:20:29. > :20:32.there will be elements to that drawn out this year. In there isn't

:20:33. > :20:35.clarity, Rachel, how much of a problem is that for the Government?

:20:36. > :20:38.Hearing our voters there, there is anger out there that the clarity

:20:39. > :20:41.isn't coming through, isn't there? Well, there is something like a

:20:42. > :20:47.timetable which is that Article 50 is going to be triggered by the end

:20:48. > :20:51.of March. But I'm wondering whether there is going to be so much

:20:52. > :20:57.uncertainty across national elections in Europe, it lies behind

:20:58. > :21:03.some of the prevarication that we have seen this from Government

:21:04. > :21:12.pronouncements. In a sense, if Marie Le Pen win ins France, she will take

:21:13. > :21:16.France out of the euro which could trigger a reconfiguration of the

:21:17. > :21:25.European project with an inner core and outer core. Us leaving is going

:21:26. > :21:31.to look like a teddy bears' picnic. Our local matter of leaving the EU,

:21:32. > :21:34.however, hard, soft, red, white or blue will be a sideshow. What do you

:21:35. > :21:38.think will happen with Brexit, Stephen? I think it will be

:21:39. > :21:42.triggered in March. One of the odd things about this court case, it is

:21:43. > :21:46.a fight the Government didn't need to pick. We know they have got the

:21:47. > :21:50.votes to trigger it in Parliament, it will be triggered. The tricky

:21:51. > :21:53.thing for them is we are going to have a lot of election ins Europe

:21:54. > :21:57.where this idea the Government has and you can keep your Brexit stance

:21:58. > :22:01.secret, it might work here, but it will be an issue in the French

:22:02. > :22:04.elections and the Dutch and the German elections, what's your

:22:05. > :22:07.response to Brexit? It will be hard for the Government not to give a

:22:08. > :22:13.running commentary on other people's running commentaries. Elections

:22:14. > :22:17.elsewhere, as you mentioned, what about the prospect por for an early

:22:18. > :22:22.election here? Downing Street have been firm on why they don't want

:22:23. > :22:27.one. Their argument, they are worried you could end up with a

:22:28. > :22:32.coalition of the remain parties or some other chaotic event and people

:22:33. > :22:36.want stability, that's broadly true, but her majority is small. And the

:22:37. > :22:40.opposition is very weak. You can see the argument for it. I think she

:22:41. > :22:44.might be forced into one, but I don't think she will do it

:22:45. > :22:48.willingly. What do you think, Rachel Well, she has been categorical there

:22:49. > :22:53.won't be an election until 2020 and I don't think Labour want one, the

:22:54. > :23:00.Corbyn Labour... If Labour are weak is that a good time? There gives her

:23:01. > :23:04.an incentive, but we have the fixed term parliaments Act, you repeal it

:23:05. > :23:07.or engineer a collapse of your own Government, as far as I understand

:23:08. > :23:14.it, but Stephen probably knows more. That's right. It is a poorly written

:23:15. > :23:18.bit of legislation. It is not clear in the collapsing your own

:23:19. > :23:21.Government, dhauz mean Jeremy Corbyn would become Prime Minister and

:23:22. > :23:24.Theresa May, or some Conservative grandee would become Prime Minister.

:23:25. > :23:27.It is really difficult to get an early election unless you start

:23:28. > :23:33.losing votes in the House regularly. She does only have a majority of 11

:23:34. > :23:37.now because she lost one, thanks to Zac Goldsmith. It is going to get

:23:38. > :23:42.trickier for her to get stuff done. Predictions on Jeremy Corbyn because

:23:43. > :23:45.still questions about his leadership and prediction from one think-tank

:23:46. > :23:49.today that Labour could struggle to get 150 seats in the next election,

:23:50. > :24:01.do you think he will survive the year? They won't want an Lech any

:24:02. > :24:06.time soon. -- election any time soon. I think he will stick it out

:24:07. > :24:10.as we have seen in the last year oar so. He has managed to claw his way

:24:11. > :24:14.through and I don't see that changing any time this year

:24:15. > :24:19.personally. The vultures are circling. We have had Len McCluskey

:24:20. > :24:24.and we have had also Keir Starmer who queried his stance on freedom of

:24:25. > :24:29.movement. And so, I feel that, you know, nevertheless even if he is a

:24:30. > :24:33.dead man, the dead man will carry on walking. Stephen? Yes, Jeremy Corbyn

:24:34. > :24:39.will be leader of the Labour Party at least until the next election and

:24:40. > :24:43.potentially for sometime. He has ridden so many storms, hasn't he?

:24:44. > :24:51.You must wonder whether the appetite starts to wane after that? Jeremy

:24:52. > :24:57.Corbyn is's career has been riding storms. That's not going to change.

:24:58. > :25:02.30 years of behaviour won't change over the next 12 months. In some

:25:03. > :25:07.ways, there is an interesting comparison where the Labour Party

:25:08. > :25:12.membership is on Corbyn. They said, "We voted for this. We want you to

:25:13. > :25:18.make a success of it." They are not going to blame the person they voted

:25:19. > :25:26.for, they are going to blame remainers for not making Brexit work

:25:27. > :25:31.and Labour MPs for not making Corbyn work. Let's turn to European

:25:32. > :25:37.politics. You mentioned it and obviously, Rachel throwing up the

:25:38. > :25:42.prospect of what happens if the incumbents lose in France and

:25:43. > :25:47.Germany. In Germany, 59% according to polls want Angela Merkel to

:25:48. > :25:51.continue as chancellor after the election in February. How will you

:25:52. > :25:59.call for things at this stage for what you think is likely to happen?

:26:00. > :26:04.Well, I mean, it is a mug's game being Mystic Meg. It has been

:26:05. > :26:10.confounded every single time. I want Merkel to win because I really

:26:11. > :26:13.believe Germany, we need leadership in Europe and Germany, she has

:26:14. > :26:18.proved a wonderful internationalist. I mean, you can query what she did

:26:19. > :26:21.on open borders, but I think, that she putting herself down for a

:26:22. > :26:28.fourth term was brave, it was correct. I hope she wins, but if she

:26:29. > :26:32.doesn't win, if this whole immigration thing has really cleared

:26:33. > :26:37.her pitch, I think, Europe is in absolute turmoil, that's the end

:26:38. > :26:44.game. As I said earlier, the only solution I see then is you have an

:26:45. > :26:49.outer core and inner core where Italy, Italy, Spain, Greece spin off

:26:50. > :26:54.and you have Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and a bit of the Nordic

:26:55. > :26:57.rim. Around the euro and all the other countries reclaim their

:26:58. > :27:03.original currencies. How would you call the French and German elections

:27:04. > :27:07.this year, Stephen? Merkel will win. She will come first. If she is

:27:08. > :27:10.defeated it will be by the left. I think she will be chancellor again

:27:11. > :27:17.for a long time. France is more difficult to call. But the thing we

:27:18. > :27:21.forget about both Brexit and Trump although they are very different

:27:22. > :27:26.from Le Pen particularly Brexit, they were both going with the grain

:27:27. > :27:29.of British politics, anti-Europeanism. In France, the

:27:30. > :27:32.tradition of voting against the parties of theks trem and the second

:27:33. > :27:35.round of their election is very strong. I think she will find it

:27:36. > :27:41.hard to win. Much harder than Brexit would.

:27:42. > :27:45.I think that 2017 will see a continued growth for far-right

:27:46. > :27:50.parties across Europe and they have always existed across Europe, but

:27:51. > :27:57.brought forward a set of policies across a board as we say a

:27:58. > :28:02.particularly high anti-migrant, anti-refugee sentiment by a lot of

:28:03. > :28:07.these parties will be more evident this year. With Merkel her biggest

:28:08. > :28:10.criticism has been the open border policy, but I think there is a

:28:11. > :28:16.divide there in what the media depict about her in saying that she

:28:17. > :28:20.has lost a lot of faith, Germans lost a lot of faith in her, but the

:28:21. > :28:27.polls have said they continue to support her. So and I think with

:28:28. > :28:31.Trump's selection, of course, I don't think, he helped ignite

:28:32. > :28:34.something in Europe that sort of ignited the far-right policies here

:28:35. > :28:46.and far-right parties here, but as we say, they have existed for a long

:28:47. > :28:49.time, but he sort of brought that, I forget what was said, but this is

:28:50. > :28:52.our time. This is a turning point for us and our parties to take that

:28:53. > :29:00.step forward and to be accepted in our countries. You think that 2017

:29:01. > :29:05.will be the year of revolution as well as 2016. Please, no! It will be

:29:06. > :29:06.interesting. We will have to check-in with you several times.

:29:07. > :29:09.Thank you very much indeed. We can show you now some incredible

:29:10. > :29:13.footage from the US now of two year old twins,

:29:14. > :29:15.Bowdy and Brock. Their parents decided to share this

:29:16. > :29:18.video to raise awareness of the dangers of not bolting heavy

:29:19. > :29:25.furniture to the wall. It looks who have rishg. Neither of

:29:26. > :29:29.the boys were injured, thank goodness.

:29:30. > :29:33.It is extraordinary, isn't it, to watch it?

:29:34. > :29:39.The little boy who is on top. Look, he tries to lift up the chest of

:29:40. > :29:43.drawers to get his brother out. Amazingly, the brother who is under

:29:44. > :29:50.the chest of drawers is not injured and look, he manages to get out with

:29:51. > :29:53.the help of his brother, but just shocking images and the parents have

:29:54. > :29:59.chosen to put the pictures out to let all parents out there know just

:30:00. > :30:05.drill furniture to the wall to stop anything like that happening.

:30:06. > :30:08.Still to come, in a moment, we'll talk to a Paralympic athlete

:30:09. > :30:11.was forced to wet herself on a train because there was no

:30:12. > :30:14.And at 10.45am, we look forward to this month's film releases

:30:15. > :30:26.and we'll be asking if Hollywood is taking diversity seriously.

:30:27. > :30:29.Here's Ben in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:30:30. > :30:31.West Yorkshire Police say a pre-planned operation

:30:32. > :30:34.in which a man was shot dead by an officer was not

:30:35. > :30:40.The police watchdog the IPCC is investigating the incident,

:30:41. > :30:44.which took place near the M62 in Huddersfield yesterday evening.

:30:45. > :30:47.Five people were arrested as part of the operation,

:30:48. > :30:58.including two from a related vehicle stop in Bradford at the same time.

:30:59. > :31:01.Kurdish militants say a British man has been killed fighting with them

:31:02. > :31:03.against the group calling itself Islamic State in Syria.

:31:04. > :31:07.They've told the BBC that Ryan Lock, who was 20 and from West Sussex,

:31:08. > :31:09.died during an assault on the IS stronghold of Raqqa

:31:10. > :31:13.It's believed he travelled to Syria last August,

:31:14. > :31:20.and joined a Kurdish volunteer group called the YPG.

:31:21. > :31:24.We have been talking to a Kurdish activist who visited his family on

:31:25. > :31:35.Sunday to inform them of his death. They are completely and utterly

:31:36. > :31:41.devastated and deep in grief. Not really wanting to think about the

:31:42. > :31:45.issues surrounding Isis or the Kurds or YPG. He fell on the 21st of

:31:46. > :31:50.December but there has been a process by which the YPG try to

:31:51. > :31:51.confirm it was him. That confirmation came through to them on

:31:52. > :31:54.Friday. The Ministry of Defence says

:31:55. > :31:57.a British soldier has died in Iraq. The soldier, from the 2nd

:31:58. > :31:59.Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment,

:32:00. > :32:00.died near Baghdad, following an incident

:32:01. > :32:02.which is now being investigated. The regiment is training Iraqi

:32:03. > :32:06.and Kurdish security forces. The death wasn't the result

:32:07. > :32:09.of enemy activity. The soldier's family

:32:10. > :32:14.has been informed. It's reported in Turkey

:32:15. > :32:16.that the authorities now know the identity of the main suspect

:32:17. > :32:19.in the mass shooting It's understood he's 28-year-old

:32:20. > :32:26.Iakhe Mashrapov from Kyrgyzstan. 39 people were killed and dozens

:32:27. > :32:29.wounded when an attacker opened fire on a New Year party

:32:30. > :32:35.inside the crowded Reina club. Police in Greater Manchester have

:32:36. > :32:38.been given more time to question four men over a hit and run that

:32:39. > :32:42.killed two girls. 12-year-old Helina Kotlarova,

:32:43. > :32:45.seen here on the left, died at the scene in

:32:46. > :32:48.Oldham on New Year's Eve. Her cousin, 11-year-old

:32:49. > :32:51.Zaneeta Krokova, died from her injuries in

:32:52. > :32:57.hospital yesterday morning. Join me for BBC

:32:58. > :33:07.Newsroom Live at 11am. We will be line at the scene of the

:33:08. > :33:11.police shooting in West Yorkshire. Here's some sport now

:33:12. > :33:13.with Jessica Creighton. Manchester City manager

:33:14. > :33:15.Pep Guardiola says he's "arriving at the end of his career" and that

:33:16. > :33:19.City might be one of his last teams. His side beat Burnley 2-1 yesterday,

:33:20. > :33:24.but Guardiola was visibly upset about the sending-off of one

:33:25. > :33:26.of his players. City are up to third in the table,

:33:27. > :33:28.but seven points adrift British number one Johanna Konta

:33:29. > :33:33.is through to the quarter-finals World number ten Konta recovered

:33:34. > :33:39.from losing the first set to beat Dutchman Michael van

:33:40. > :33:44.Gerwen has won his second Van Gerwen beat the reigning PDC

:33:45. > :33:50.champion, Scotland's Gary Anderson, 7-3 in last night's final

:33:51. > :33:55.at Alexandra Palace. And, David Warner has become

:33:56. > :33:58.the first batsman to score a century before lunch in a Test in Australia,

:33:59. > :34:01.as his side dominated Pakistan on the first day

:34:02. > :34:09.of the third Test in Sydney. More on the BBC News channel through

:34:10. > :34:12.the day. A Paralympic athlete and MBE-awarded

:34:13. > :34:16.disabilities campaigner says she was forced to wet herself

:34:17. > :34:19.on train because it didn't Anne Wafula Strike says

:34:20. > :34:23.that she was left humiliated after the three-hour journey

:34:24. > :34:27.on a CrossCountry train with no Despite her embarrassment,

:34:28. > :34:31.she has decided to go public in the hope it will bring change

:34:32. > :34:35.for disabled people. We can talk to Anne Wafula Strike

:34:36. > :34:38.from her home in Harlow in Essex. And with us in the studio is

:34:39. > :34:50.Sue Bott from Disability Rights UK. Tell us what happened, you were on

:34:51. > :35:00.the train and realised there was no working disabled toilet for you to

:35:01. > :35:05.use? I was coming from a very inspiring meeting. As you do when

:35:06. > :35:12.you are travelling, you want to relieve yourself. I was appalled

:35:13. > :35:18.that when I went to check, the toilet was boarded up with a big

:35:19. > :35:26.sign, out of order. I asked the Ticketmaster is they could help in.

:35:27. > :35:30.She could not do anything, because she was also helpless. She decided

:35:31. > :35:34.they would get me off at the next station to see if I could use the

:35:35. > :35:38.toilet and then get me on board again, but when you go to that

:35:39. > :35:44.station, there was nobody there, so there was not anybody to come up

:35:45. > :35:48.with a ramp and help me. I had some passengers who were willing to get

:35:49. > :35:52.me out, but she realised that even if they took me out, I would still

:35:53. > :35:56.need somebody on the station who would have access to help me get

:35:57. > :36:02.across to the other side to use the toilet and bring me back. The next

:36:03. > :36:07.stop for me was Peter. Between then and Peterborough, I could not hold

:36:08. > :36:12.it anymore, I had to do it. Humiliating, but I had to do it. How

:36:13. > :36:17.did you feel through the whole process, you were in the hands of

:36:18. > :36:25.others, needing help, and there was nothing that they could do? When you

:36:26. > :36:30.are in that situation, that is when you really feel disabled. I rarely

:36:31. > :36:35.feel disabled, because I like to get about and do things, I like to be in

:36:36. > :36:39.the community, to support others, but when that happened to me, I

:36:40. > :36:44.realised that sometimes when you are different, you are so isolated. The

:36:45. > :36:50.world this qualifies you from having a normal life. When you have a

:36:51. > :36:56.disability, you don't just have to have equal rights in the community.

:36:57. > :37:01.It knocked my confidence. When you were on the train, you are talking

:37:02. > :37:06.about it now, which presumably is not easy, to raise awareness, but

:37:07. > :37:16.when you were on the train you must have felt vulnerable? I felt very

:37:17. > :37:25.vulnerable. I felt really exposed. I felt humiliated. I just felt like I

:37:26. > :37:32.was in this big world, nobody was taking notice that I existed. I

:37:33. > :37:38.needed to use the toilet. We are talking about a basic need, basic

:37:39. > :37:42.right, that a human being deserves. I don't think this should be

:37:43. > :37:50.happening in this century. When did you decide that you wanted to start

:37:51. > :37:54.to talk about it publicly? When it first happened to me, I could not

:37:55. > :38:02.look at myself in the mirror, because I was so embarrassed that I

:38:03. > :38:06.had wet myself. One day I woke up and I looked at myself in the mirror

:38:07. > :38:10.and I said,... I realised I am not the only one who is experiencing

:38:11. > :38:14.this, I know so many other people with disabilities going through

:38:15. > :38:22.different and difficult issues, and I say to myself, I have got to

:38:23. > :38:26.speak. I am just hoping that by me going public, it will end all of

:38:27. > :38:29.these things we go on about, self-censorship, and we should

:38:30. > :38:33.realise that when bad things are happening to us, we need to have a

:38:34. > :38:38.voice and speak, because when that was going on, I did not have a

:38:39. > :38:43.voice, it was all taken away from me. I feel that I now have a voice

:38:44. > :38:49.to speak out against it, I should not just sit and lie in the bed and

:38:50. > :38:56.want to have bigotry when it was all taken away during that incident --

:38:57. > :39:04.want to have dignity and allow others to suffer the same. What do

:39:05. > :39:12.you think about this? I am appalled. You are very brave for coming out

:39:13. > :39:22.and explaining what happened to you. I really hope that it does a lot of

:39:23. > :39:27.good. I am sure this has happened to disabled people in the past, but

:39:28. > :39:38.they have not felt confident or been able to come and speak publicly

:39:39. > :39:46.about it. Unfortunately, we still have a tick box mentality towards

:39:47. > :39:53.disability and access. We tick the box that the toilet is there on the

:39:54. > :39:59.train, we don't think about how we need to consider that it is working

:40:00. > :40:05.all the time. It takes somebody like Anne to talk about it to get people

:40:06. > :40:12.to understand why it is important that those facilities are there and

:40:13. > :40:16.usable. Absolutely. As somebody who does not use a wheelchair, it is

:40:17. > :40:26.fine, you can get off at the next stop if the toilet is not working.

:40:27. > :40:31.But Anne does not have that option. That is what I would have done. I

:40:32. > :40:38.would have crawled to get to the next toilet. But unfortunately, as a

:40:39. > :40:44.wheelchair user, you don't have that luxury, of the Isles on the train

:40:45. > :40:52.are quite tight. I agree, it is ticking a box. We have a legislation

:40:53. > :40:55.that is supposed to protect disabled people to have equal rights with

:40:56. > :41:01.everybody else, but the problem is that I don't think these

:41:02. > :41:05.legislations are tough enough. Companies and organisations are

:41:06. > :41:10.getting away with a lot. In the process of ticking a box to say that

:41:11. > :41:14.we have a toilet, we have a ramp. What is the point of having that

:41:15. > :41:20.when it is not functional, when it is not working? One person says, I

:41:21. > :41:24.was on a train yesterday, I am not disabled, but over the loudspeaker

:41:25. > :41:28.the person said the disabled toilets are out of order. I found it

:41:29. > :41:32.outrageous and something that should not have happened. Cross-country

:41:33. > :41:35.trains say what happened was clearly unacceptable and they are

:41:36. > :41:45.investigating. What reaction have you had since speaking out?

:41:46. > :41:50.Everybody is outraged. We are having so many people coming out and

:41:51. > :41:56.speaking about what they have suffered with the train companies.

:41:57. > :42:01.It is not on. We are talking about a basic right. I have not had any

:42:02. > :42:11.apology or any communication from the cross-country trains group. To

:42:12. > :42:16.me, it is not enough if I ask them to give me my big city back. What I

:42:17. > :42:25.would ask them is, what are you going to do about this? What do you

:42:26. > :42:30.want to happen now? I would like to call on change, we need to see

:42:31. > :42:39.change happen. Companies and organisations should be fined if

:42:40. > :42:44.they do not appear -- adhere to the legislations, they should be fined

:42:45. > :42:49.when this happens. The sad thing is that when people come out and

:42:50. > :42:53.complain, you are easily send maybe an apology letter and a ?10 voucher,

:42:54. > :43:00.and that is not what I am looking for. I am looking for changes, I am

:43:01. > :43:05.looking for... When people with disabilities are travelling, using

:43:06. > :43:08.public transport, we need to be treated as equal members of the

:43:09. > :43:14.community, so the changes need to come in pretty soon, and such

:43:15. > :43:18.companies should pay huge fines. One person has tweeted to say, the train

:43:19. > :43:24.should have been withdrawn, Anne has nothing to be ashamed of. There has

:43:25. > :43:30.been a brief statement from the train company, saying what happened

:43:31. > :43:35.to Anne was completely unacceptable and they are investigating. They say

:43:36. > :43:37.the circumstances were unacceptable. It is the first time they have been

:43:38. > :43:47.aware of such a situation happening. At 10:45am we'll be looking ahead

:43:48. > :43:51.to this month's film releases, and asking if Hollywood is making

:43:52. > :44:04.progress on diversity. One of the best movies of the year

:44:05. > :44:06.coming out in the run-up to the Oscars nominations.

:44:07. > :44:09.Four years ago, a British backpacker was found stabbed to death

:44:10. > :44:11.on a houseboat in Srinagar in Indian Kashmir.

:44:12. > :44:14.Two months later, a Dutch man, Richard de Wit,

:44:15. > :44:18.He has always maintained he is not guilty.

:44:19. > :44:21.The trial process has been repeatedly interrupted.

:44:22. > :44:27.The last hearing, in December, was the 84th since proceedings began.

:44:28. > :44:29.We're now joined in Guernsey by Vic and Kate Groves,

:44:30. > :44:47.Why is this case taking so long? That is quite a long story. I

:44:48. > :44:53.suppose you could point the finger at a number of people. Of the 84

:44:54. > :44:58.hearings you mentioned, 64 have been unproductive. That has been caused

:44:59. > :45:02.by such things as witnesses not showing up, by the accused not being

:45:03. > :45:07.brought to court because of civil unrest or strikes, because the

:45:08. > :45:14.accused has fired his lawyer for times, we have lost 25 hearings

:45:15. > :45:19.because he has no legal representation in court. In a way,

:45:20. > :45:25.the tale has been wagging the dog, we have had no witnesses processed

:45:26. > :45:31.since 2015. It must be horrendous for you to be having to go through

:45:32. > :45:34.this on top of your loss already. We have got more used to it now,

:45:35. > :45:40.because we can see it coming. In the old days, when the trial started, we

:45:41. > :45:43.were looking forward to the dates come up because we thought some

:45:44. > :45:49.progress would be made and we were looking forward to hearing what was

:45:50. > :45:53.coming out of court. But as the proceedings have gone along through

:45:54. > :46:01.time, we can almost predict whether or not any progress will be made.

:46:02. > :46:05.But it does not lessen the fact that this is something that we can not

:46:06. > :46:06.live with much longer, because it is dragging on in an inexcusable

:46:07. > :46:16.manner. We saw a beautiful picture of Sarah.

:46:17. > :46:24.She looks gorgeous. Tell us about Sarah. Sarah, she was the embodiment

:46:25. > :46:36.of every wonderful quality that you would hope for in a child. She was

:46:37. > :46:44.adventurous, kind, caring to the enth degree. Just, she wanted to

:46:45. > :46:50.give part of herself to people in the world who were less privileged

:46:51. > :46:58.than she had been and so she decided that she would make a plan to go

:46:59. > :47:03.travelling to areas where she could perhaps help to improve the lives of

:47:04. > :47:12.some of the people in those destinations. Obviously, just

:47:13. > :47:18.beautiful words from you about your daughter. How important is it that

:47:19. > :47:24.you see justice done? Well, I think it is the definition of justice that

:47:25. > :47:27.we're interested in. We want to reach a safe conclusion but because

:47:28. > :47:31.of the nature of the trial, we are on the second judge shortly I think

:47:32. > :47:35.to be the third judge. The second public prosecutor and the fourth

:47:36. > :47:40.defence counsel, over time things have changed and the way the court

:47:41. > :47:42.case has been handled, the quality of the examination,

:47:43. > :47:45.cross-examination of witnesses, the quality, the very poor quality of

:47:46. > :47:49.the documentation that's come out, we just want to know that when we

:47:50. > :47:53.get to the end of the trial, whatever that verdict is, and it

:47:54. > :47:58.could be either, we want to believe in it, trust in it, we want it to be

:47:59. > :48:01.a safe verdict to use the legal terminology. Right now, I don't

:48:02. > :48:05.think we have that level of confidence and really things have

:48:06. > :48:09.got to move up a notch or two or three before we could ever get to

:48:10. > :48:13.the point where we would have confidence. We wish you the very

:48:14. > :48:16.best and we're very sorry for your loss. Thank you very much. Thank

:48:17. > :48:22.you. Thank you. Thank you for talking to us.

:48:23. > :48:25.A spokesperson from the Foreign Office has told us, "Our sympathies

:48:26. > :48:27.have been with the Groves family since Sarah's tragic death

:48:28. > :48:29.and we will continue to help them however we can.

:48:30. > :48:32.We have been providing support to them since her death

:48:33. > :48:34.and are in regular contact, liaising with the Indian

:48:35. > :48:41.With all the Christmas TV over for another year -

:48:42. > :48:45.January feels like a good time to go to the cinema and check out

:48:46. > :48:50.all the new films being released just in time for the awards season.

:48:51. > :48:52.The Oscars are next month and this year's top contenders

:48:53. > :48:54.include La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea

:48:55. > :49:02.And with two of the big releases, Moonlight and Loving,

:49:03. > :49:05.tackling race issues and featuring diverse casts, is Hollywood

:49:06. > :49:06.finally responding to the criticism of racism?

:49:07. > :49:10.In 2016, for the second year in a row, all of the acting nominees

:49:11. > :49:12.at the Academy Awards were white, sparking an outcry and

:49:13. > :49:14.the Oscars So White movement with some actors boycotting

:49:15. > :49:20.We will discuss that in just a moment but first let's take a look

:49:21. > :50:05.It's conflict and it's compromise and it is very, very exciting.

:50:06. > :50:34.I believe that the characters that read about on the page end up

:50:35. > :50:52.being more real than the men who stand beside us.

:50:53. > :50:55.By the power invested in me by the district of Colombia, I now

:50:56. > :51:10.What are you doing in bed with that woman?

:51:11. > :51:22.Let's talk now to film critic, Ros Try-Hane, and in the US,

:51:23. > :51:31.Thank you for joining us. I want to run through because a lot of titles

:51:32. > :51:36.we will not be familiar with obviously, but they will become the

:51:37. > :51:40.big names to watch for the Oscars. Let's start with La La Land. It is

:51:41. > :51:47.out on 13th January and there has been so much hype around it. It was

:51:48. > :51:54.in the Venice Film Festival. It is a feast to the eyes. Ryan Gosling and

:51:55. > :52:04.Emma Stone. Beautiful, old school glamour Hollywood. That's lovely.

:52:05. > :52:12.Nocturnal Animals, is big. Hackshaw Ridge, Mel Gibson. An amazing story

:52:13. > :52:18.of courage as well as loving which deals with courage and who do you

:52:19. > :52:24.want to love, have the power to love in 1950s America. So that's an

:52:25. > :52:31.incredible story and Fences which is relevant to today with lost

:52:32. > :52:36.children, with the refugee crisis. A little five-year-old boy gets lost

:52:37. > :52:40.in Calcutta gets adopted by an Australian family. It is one to

:52:41. > :52:46.watch. An extraordinary every day story rather than a by optic or

:52:47. > :52:53.space movie. There is some British interest in the form of Rebecca Hall

:52:54. > :53:02.playing a news reporter... Yes. That's Christine. That will be, a

:53:03. > :53:07.difficult film to watch, I think. But also it touches on depression

:53:08. > :53:13.and an interesting story. A story that's not told every day. I think

:53:14. > :53:17.that's, at least, it seems like more diverse stories are coming ot of

:53:18. > :53:21.Hollywood rather than relying on the tried and tested ever since the

:53:22. > :53:26.Oscars So White campaign came out last year. We mentioned the Oscars

:53:27. > :53:30.So White last year. There is interesting themes in some of the

:53:31. > :53:35.movies this year that would sort of presumably make what happened last

:53:36. > :53:38.year at the Oscars, a thing of last year and for it to be different this

:53:39. > :53:43.year because there are issues of race being looked at in some of the

:53:44. > :53:47.movies. They won't have gone into production so quickly that it is in

:53:48. > :53:53.response to what happened... Definitely not. What do you think

:53:54. > :53:58.about it? There is a move away now from just focussing on race, but the

:53:59. > :54:03.diversity argument on discussion stills feel like we are focussing on

:54:04. > :54:08.race or sex, diversity for me means also looking at other stories.

:54:09. > :54:12.Telling maybe the same story, but in a different way, different

:54:13. > :54:18.experiences. Non-white, different cultures as well. So I feel that you

:54:19. > :54:23.know, Lion does this well because it is not necessarily just about an

:54:24. > :54:27.Indian boy being adopted bay white couple in Australia. It is about a

:54:28. > :54:37.family. It is about loss. It is about universal things. Loving,

:54:38. > :54:41.whilst it is a couple, they trance centre the narrative and they look

:54:42. > :54:49.at universal issues of love. I think that helps. The story of Loving is a

:54:50. > :54:55.fascinating one. 1958, they married against the laws. They were

:54:56. > :55:02.convicted. That's an interesting look at American history and the

:55:03. > :55:08.race laws Noah in that history? Absolutely. Here in the US it has

:55:09. > :55:17.been a tumultuous year on screen and off. During the Oscars So White

:55:18. > :55:20.campaign earlier in 2016, a movie called Birth Of The Nation was

:55:21. > :55:26.released. Many people saw it as a correction to the problem of

:55:27. > :55:30.diversity in Hollywood. This was a film about the slave vote led by

:55:31. > :55:37.Matt Turner two centuries ago and the film was bought for a huge

:55:38. > :55:42.amount of money and kind of primed for Oscars season and it has fallen

:55:43. > :55:44.of the map because of allegations against its writer, director and

:55:45. > :55:49.star, but Loving is a film that could come in and get a lot of

:55:50. > :55:55.attention here in award season. It is a really beautiful, slow, sturdy

:55:56. > :55:58.film about two people who happen to make history simply because of their

:55:59. > :56:04.marriage and their love for each other. It is in not an overtly

:56:05. > :56:07.political film, but it packs a political punch through its human

:56:08. > :56:11.characters all the same. I think a couple of other racial films that

:56:12. > :56:20.could get a lot of attention in the next two months are Fences and

:56:21. > :56:25.Moonlight. Fences is directed and stars Denzil Washington. It is about

:56:26. > :56:31.a black family in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and Moonlight is a very

:56:32. > :56:35.personal and emotional film about a young, gay black man growing up in

:56:36. > :56:38.inner city Miami and we will be hearing more about those over the

:56:39. > :56:43.coming months. So what do you think the impact and fall-out of the

:56:44. > :56:47.Oscars So White controversy has been? Well, as you said, that

:56:48. > :56:51.happened too recently for it to have any impact on the actual production

:56:52. > :56:55.of these film, but when the Academy starts to vote, which they already

:56:56. > :57:03.have, for their nominees, I think it will be something that they will

:57:04. > :57:07.keep in mind. They don't want the embarrassment of nominating one or

:57:08. > :57:10.two African-American actors or film-makers this year. So with a

:57:11. > :57:15.glut of terrific racial films to choose from, I think it is verien

:57:16. > :57:18.lookly that we will behaving the same discussion come awards night

:57:19. > :57:23.next month that we had at this time last year. They have changed the

:57:24. > :57:27.make up of who can vote, they have got new younger people in to join

:57:28. > :57:30.the voting committee, although, does it actually make a huge difference

:57:31. > :57:34.in terms of the numbers? Well, it hasn't yet. This has been an effort

:57:35. > :57:40.that's been going on for several years now to make the Academy

:57:41. > :57:46.membership young are and more diverse. Academy membership is for

:57:47. > :57:52.life, so yound up with older people making up the bulk of the academy.

:57:53. > :57:57.Some called that an ageist argument, but it is something the academy

:57:58. > :58:01.feels it needs to rectify, we will see a different crop of nominees and

:58:02. > :58:06.it could be this year. It is great to talk to you. Some great movies.

:58:07. > :58:10.If you could see one, which would it be? Loving. OK. The nominations for

:58:11. > :58:22.the Oscars are out on 24th January. I will see you soon. Victoria is

:58:23. > :58:32.here tomorrow. Have a lovely afternoon. Bye-bye.

:58:33. > :58:37.we've run at almost completely 100% capacity.

:58:38. > :58:43.We've got lots of patients now competing. There's no beds.

:58:44. > :58:46.I do the right thing all the time in this job,