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

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A man is shot dead in a police operation near the M62

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We'll be live at the scene with the latest details.

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Also today, we return to Great Yarmouth, one of the towns

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most in favour of Brexit, to find out how people living

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there feel about the EU, six months after they voted to leave.

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I haven't got as much faith in it as I did previously,

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And I just think things are slipping a little bit.

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Some of the most hotly-tipped films of 2017 are being released

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over the next few weeks, ahead of the Oscar nominations.

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We'll look at some of the best and ask if the row over racism

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Welcome to the programme, and a happy New Year.

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Dentists have criticised what they've called the "workplace

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cake culture", saying the sharing of sweet treats in the office

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So, is this sensible advice or an attack on the little things

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that make office life a bit more enjoyable?

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Do get in touch on all the stories we're talking about this morning.

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If you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

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A man has been shot dead by police in an operation near the M62

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West Yorkshire Police say the operation last

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night was "pre-planned", and that at least one

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person was arrested, but gave few other details.

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They say it was not related to terrorism. Another two people were

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arrested in a related stop in Bradford.

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission has sent

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It's the fifth fatal police shooting in England

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The shooting happened shortly after 6pm yesterday evening

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on a slip road off the M62 at Ainley Top, near Huddersfield.

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West Yorkshire Police say the incident took place

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during a preplanned policing operation, suggesting officers had

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acted on intelligence, rather than responding

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The force said a police firearm was discharged and a man died.

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No-one else is believed to have been injured.

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission was informed,

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and has sent its own investigators to the scene, which has

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Photographs from the area appear to indicate that a number

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of unmarked police vehicles may have stopped a car on the slip road

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before the shooting, though that hasn't been confirmed.

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Although fatal police shootings are rare, it is the fifth such

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incident in England and Wales in the last nine months,

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and the first involving West Yorkshire Police

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Our correspondent Phil Bodmer is at the scene.

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What more can you tell us? This slip road on the 62, it is the westbound

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slip road, it has now been closed for 15 hours since the incident last

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night. More police have arrived this morning, officers behind the green

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cord and will work and investigate the circumstances. West Yorkshire

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Police say this is not terror related, so that theory has now gone

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away. We understand it was a stop last night, a preplanned operation.

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Police in unmarked vehicles stopped and about of cars. The cars are a

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white Audi, we understand, it has bullet holes on the bonnet and on

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the front windscreen, and also a silver Mercedes E class was

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involved, and maybe a Jaguar. On the outside of those, they are boxed in

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by a unmarked police cars. These are very relevant events. The IPCC are

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taking charge of this investigation. It is the first fatal shooting

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involving West Yorkshire Police since 2010, and in the last decade

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there have been 22 police shootings in England and is, so a very rare

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event. This road has been cordoned off at least until 10am, but it is

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causing major disruption for traffic in and around Halifax. As long as

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that continues to be the case, drivers are being advised to try to

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steer clear of the area for the time being.

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Ben is in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of the rest

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The Ministry of Defence says a British soldier has died in Iraq.

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The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion the Duke of

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Lancaster's Regiment, died near Baghdad,

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following an incident which is now being investigated.

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The regiment is training Iraqi and Kurdish security forces.

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The death wasn't the result of enemy activity.

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The soldier's family has been informed.

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Kurdish militants say a British man has been killed fighting with them

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against Islamic State militants in Syria.

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They've told the BBC that Ryan Lock, who was 20 and from West Sussex,

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died during an assault on the IS stronghold of Raqqa

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It's believed he travelled to Syria last August,

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and joined a Kurdish volunteer group called the YPG.

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It's reported that the authorities in Turkey now know the identity

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of the chief suspect in the mass shooting at a nightclub in Istanbul.

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39 people were killed and dozens wounded when an attacker opened

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fire on a New Year party inside the crowded Reina club.

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Police have carried out raids in the city,

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The Islamic State militant group has said it was behind the attack.

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Staring directly into the camera, the face of the man Turkish

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officials say is the main suspect in the deadly nightclub attack.

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This footage, released by police, appears to show him filming himself

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on his phone while walking through Taksim Square,

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It is not clear when it was recorded.

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Following a tipoff, armed officers carried out a raid on a house

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The suspect was not found, but so far 12 people have been

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arrested in connection with the attack that the so-called

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They say it was revenge for Turkey's attacks on Syria.

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The gunman shot his way into the club and then shot 180

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bullets in seven minutes, killing 39 people.

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The club, which sits on the bank of the Bosporus river,

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It is now part of a growing list of places in Turkey to be

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hit by deadly attacks in the last 12 months.

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Many of the injured remain in hospital, including

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Francois Al-Asmar from Lebanon, who says he owes his

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It passed from here, and the explosion, something

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But the passport, Lebanese passport, saved me, saved my heart.

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Now they believe they know what he looks like, Turkish

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authorities say they hope to find the gunman quickly and then

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Police in Greater Manchester have been given more time to question

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four men over a hit and run that killed two girls.

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12-year-old Helina Kotlarova died at the scene in

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Her cousin, 11-year-old Zaneeta Krokova, died from her

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The centre-left think tank the Fabian Society has warned that

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Labour is "too weak" to win the next election.

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The society, which has been developing ideas

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for Labour for decades, has urged the party

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to form an alliance with the Scottish Nationalists

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and the Liberal Democrats if it wants to return to power.

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Our Political Correspondent Eleanor Garnier is at Westminster.

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Not a great New Year message for Jeremy Corbyn. It is not the message

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that many Labour MPs wanted to start the year off with, but having said

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that, I don't think the findings in this report will be a surprise to

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many politicians in Westminster. It is a pretty melancholy message that

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Labour is too weak to win, yet too strong to die, and the Fabian

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Society report also says that Labour would need to win 3 million more

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votes than the Conservatives to win an outright majority at the next

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general election, something this report concludes is unthinkable at

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the moment. It also points to problems the party has with Brexit,

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with the Conservatives and Ukip targeting their leave voters and the

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Liberal Democrats hunting there remain voters. All the while, this

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report says Labour's message on Brexit is muffled and inconsistent.

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I put these findings to the leader's office, they said that Jeremy Corbyn

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was the only genuine alternative to a failed political establishment.

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But certainly, Labour MPs will be hoping for a little more New Year

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cheer when MPs get back to Westminster next week.

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Thousands of new starter homes have been given the go-ahead to be built

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The properties will be available for first-time buyers

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aged between 23 and 40, at 20% less than the market value.

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Labour says the target of 200,000 starter homes

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But the Housing Minister Gavin Barwell says it's

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There are a lot of different things that we need to do to help

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people in this country find more-affordable housing.

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We have shared ownership, the Help To Buy scheme,

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Right To Buy, and the fundamental solution to this is to build more

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homes so that housing becomes more affordable.

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We cannot do nothing in the meantime, so starter homes

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A post-mortem examination is to be held to investigate the unexplained

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death of a British woman in Australia, police say.

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Local media reported Stacey Tierney, who was 29, was found dead

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in a strip club in Melbourne on 19th December.

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Our correspondent Phil Mercer is in Sydney.

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This seems something of a mystery at the moment. Yes, this body was found

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more than two weeks ago in the gentleman's club in the heart of

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Australia's second city, Melbourne. There is a lot we don't know about

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this woman's death. We don't know the cause of death. The authorities

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are hoping a postmortem will answer that question. There are reports

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here that the woman's body lay undiscovered for about 12 hours

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inside the club, again we don't know why that was the case, if that

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report is true. Also, reports here that this woman was in the company

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of a group of mystery men, we don't know who they are, but no doubt they

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will be able to provide investigators with a very important

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information. We know that she was 29 years old, from Manchester, a

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fitness instructor, and apparently in Australia for three years,

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working as a dancer in various clubs around the country.

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Children in England are eating half their recommended daily sugar

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intake before they even get to school.

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That's the warning from health officials.

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Public Health England say sugary cereals, juices

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and spreads are to blame and, at a time of spiralling obesity

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levels, have launched a campaign to help us better understand

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We know that lots of children are eating a lot of sugar for breakfast.

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In total, they are eating almost three times the maximum recommended

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level of sugar over the day. That is contributing to the awful obesity

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statistics that we have. Protests are expected at railway

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stations this morning, in response to the latest

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annual fares increase. The average ticket

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has gone up by 2.3%. Many of today's demonstrations

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are organised by the campaign It says people in the UK spend six

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times as much on tickets And we'll have more on that coming

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up on the programme, where we'll be live at Kings Cross

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railway station and hearing That's a summary of

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the latest BBC News. Do get in touch with us

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throughout the morning. We will hear from a Paralympic

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athlete who says she had to wet herself on a train because the

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disabled toilet was broken and staff failed to help her. She says she

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does not want anybody else to go through the same thing.

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If you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

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Let's get some sport now with Jessica.

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Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola wasn't

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Journalists received quite a frosty response from him,

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and his rather unconventional interview has caused

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Interestingly, before all that, though, before his side

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had beaten Burnley 2-1, Guardiola had said he was arriving

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at the end of his career and that the process of his goodbye

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He's only 45 at the moment, relatively young in management

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terms, but he insists he doesn't want to still be in the role

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You just wonder if he's feeling the pressure a little bit.

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Here's why Guardiola might have been a little tetchy last night.

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Manchester City had to play an hour of the match with ten men,

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after captain Fernandinho was sent off.

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City improved after the break, a couple of inspired substitutions,

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then two goals in four minutes gave them the win.

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We were not able to bring to that clip, but it was really frosty. It

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gets more and more awkward. The sending off, what

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was your view of the red You're the manager, I'm sure

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the fans would like to know. You don't seem that

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happy that you've won? More than you would believe,

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more than you would believe. I do still in the title race?

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Yesterday we were not, why are we today?

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he really did seem unhappy, didn't he?

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Things getting better for Jose Mourinho.

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He was anything but yesterday, after United beat West Ham 2-0.

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And understandably, Mourinho's smiling.

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That was their sixth straight league win.

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Perhaps United were fortunate to play the majority

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of the game against ten men, after Ferghouli was

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United went ahead in the second half.

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And they benefitted from another controversial officiating decision

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when Ibrahimovic was one of three players offside when he doubled

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So yes, the red side of Manchester looking rosy at present.

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Darts and a high quality final last night.

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And, it was Michael van Gerwen who outmanoeuvred reigning champion

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Gary Anderson to win his second PDC World Darts Championship.

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It wasn't all plain sailing for the Dutchman.

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As he was throwing for the match at 6-2 up, he was interrupted.

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Security men quickly dealt with the prankster.

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But it put van Gerwen off, delaying his coronation by another set.

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It was worth the extra wait, though, as he claimed victory in style.

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7-3 he won it, and took home the ?350,000 prize.

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So, no hat-trick of titles for Anderson.

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Thank you very much, Jess. We will see you later.

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The Brexit vote came as a shock to many people

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Yet many of those who voted to leave the EU could have told them that

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levels of dissatisfaction with Europe, especially over

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the issue of immigration, meant it should not have come

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After the vote, we visited Great Yarmouth in Norfolk

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which delivered the fifth highest leave vote with more than 70%

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Six months on, as Brexit gets closer, our reporter Michael Cowan

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has been back to speak to some of those he met at the time, to ask

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The Government now seem to be very tight-lipped.

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I've lost a lot of interest in it now.

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Though, like, again, I would still vote out.

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But, yeah, I've lost a lot of interest.

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I know it's wrong, and I regret doing that, because I still don't

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Does it bother you that MPs, for example, might now get a say

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Er, if it's how we do it, fair enough.

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If it's whether we do it or not, they should have no say whatsoever.

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Our country had just voted to leave the EU and it was summer.

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Over 70% of people here voted to leave, and the locals spoke

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My biggest fear is that the British people will be taken

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I would like to see the numbers come down.

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I would like to see some of the ones on benefits being shipped back.

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Ukip were high here in places where people are unhappy, really unhappy.

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And ultimately, I think that's what it boils down to.

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And so the only way you can show your unhappiness is to vote,

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I voted because I wanted Britain to be British laws.

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Have our laws back and not being told what to do.

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But does the promise of June 2016 still resonate here?

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This is King Street, home to the Portuguese community.

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It has become a symbol for locals of immigration into the town.

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Between 2014 and 2015, EU citizens living in Great Yarmouth

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Sharon shops here, and she holds daily knitting workshops

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It's been six months since we last saw you.

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I think it's caused a lot of trouble.

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A lot of people moved out, round me, that are foreigners.

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Some of them have been born here and they are

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They're not coming here and taking, you know, our benefits

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But they've had to move because people won't leave them alone.

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They are real nasty, putting things through doors and everything.

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How do you think the government has handled Brexit so far?

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The government now seem to be very tight-lipped.

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But nothing's discussed with the people.

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There's no plan of action. I like a good plan.

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And if they say it's going to happen at the end of March...

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Where's the discussions and the debate programmes?

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You just, kind of, would like to know what is going to happen.

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They should have had plans set up before.

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And they say about a hard Brexit and a soft Brexit and...

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During the referendum, the country voted on the very simple

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question of, should we come out of the European Union?

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Should we be able to vote on the terms of Brexit?

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But also, to be able to vote on the terms of Brexit,

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Not the lies, not the figures they plucked out of the air and go,

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this is going to lie and how much is going back in the NHS when

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They have to be open, and they are not being open.

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So we don't know what's propaganda and what's true.

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You said Brexit was really a way for people who were angry to kick

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back at the government and that maybe perhaps it wasn't so much

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about leaving Europe but about saying to the government,

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we are here, you don't represent us, listen to us.

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Has this vote, has the decision to leave the EU given you that voice?

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"Oh, we've got to listen to the people, we've got to do that."

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"We're talking about it behind closed doors,

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we will let you know," sort of thing.

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Maybe we voted illinformed, but we voted from our hearts

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That's how we felt at the time and we voted the way we felt.

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I would still vote the same now, definitely.

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What do you want to see happen with regards to Brexit this year?

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I want to see clarity and ideas and people going back and forth

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with a structured idea about how to go about it.

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Deprivation is high in Yarmouth with almost 25%

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That's way above the national average.

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The town has benefited from EU funding in the past and was set

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to receive even more from the ?70 million pot earmarked

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for the wider region, but that is now in jeopardy.

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The daily market is one of the focal points of the community.

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Christine and Darren are one of the biggest fishmongers

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in here and the business has been in the family for 70 years.

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Six months ago when we first met you, you said the leave vote

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For the fishing industry, mainly, and so that we could fish

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in our own seas again and we could bring

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the fishing industry back into Yarmouth again, mainly.

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Do you think that is on the priority list for the Government?

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I think that's not top of their list.

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But they've got to do something because I think there's a lot

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of people who rely on it, especially the fishermen.

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I think a lot of them obviously did vote out.

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There are a lot of fishing places around here who rely on that.

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I suppose it is on their list but it's not going to

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Are you still optimistic about Brexit?

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I haven't got as much faith in it as I did previously,

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I just think things are slipping a little bit.

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What do you mean by that? What's slipping?

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I just think they are moving the goalposts further away,

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I don't think we're going to truly be out, I really don't,

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and I think there will be a lot of upset people.

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Have you noticed any changes at a local level?

:25:27.:25:28.

Some people say that trade has gone down and different things,

:25:29.:25:32.

but we are in winter now and trade has always been very

:25:33.:25:35.

When my grandad owned the stall, he used to shut in the winter.

:25:36.:25:39.

I've lost a lot of interest in it now, I really have.

:25:40.:25:43.

It's gone on too long now, it really has.

:25:44.:25:50.

Our economy is one of the biggest concerns for the Government.

:25:51.:25:54.

After an initial crash that saw trillions of dollars wiped off

:25:55.:25:57.

the global stock market, in the UK, it has since not

:25:58.:25:59.

Similarly, retailers have also seen a boom in sales,

:26:00.:26:04.

particularly leading up to Christmas.

:26:05.:26:07.

Interest rates, instead of going up, have gone down, which is good

:26:08.:26:10.

news for homeowners, but bad news for savers.

:26:11.:26:14.

And the value of the pound - that means how much ?1

:26:15.:26:16.

will buy us abroad - has decreased, meaning it will be

:26:17.:26:22.

more expensive to go on holiday and products that import

:26:23.:26:24.

ingredients, like Marmite and PG Tips, already cost us more.

:26:25.:26:27.

Two of our leading supermarkets, Tesco and Sainsbury's,

:26:28.:26:35.

have warned of 5% to 10% price rises this year.

:26:36.:26:37.

But are people here still excited about Brexit?

:26:38.:26:39.

Is it access to the single market which involves much

:26:40.:26:45.

We pay into the EU and in exchange, we get to trade with them,

:26:46.:26:50.

but we have to accept freedom of movement.

:26:51.:26:52.

That means unlimited numbers of EU workers coming to Britain to work.

:26:53.:26:54.

Or is it this - complete control of our borders?

:26:55.:27:01.

Because the only certainty we have here is that we cannot have both.

:27:02.:27:05.

Does it concern you when you hear things about the economy?

:27:06.:27:08.

For example, going on holiday already costs more money

:27:09.:27:10.

because the value of the pound is low.

:27:11.:27:12.

There's some beautiful holiday destinations.

:27:13.:27:15.

If people were putting more money back into our own economy,

:27:16.:27:21.

rather than feeding everyone else's economy, this country would thrive.

:27:22.:27:23.

Come to Great Yarmouth, go to Blackpool, go to Liverpool,

:27:24.:27:26.

go to different areas where you've got these beautiful seaside towns

:27:27.:27:29.

that are getting forgotten and ignored and neglected.

:27:30.:27:33.

Do you still feel excited about Brexit?

:27:34.:27:35.

I think it was the best thing we could have done.

:27:36.:27:42.

Joining the EU was the worst decision Britain ever made.

:27:43.:27:47.

Do we want access to the single market or do we want complete

:27:48.:27:49.

I understand that they do need to go somewhere and the place is a state

:27:50.:28:06.

and I agree with that, but when is it going to stop?

:28:07.:28:12.

I voted leave because I went with the flow.

:28:13.:28:18.

If there was another referendum tomorrow, hypothetically...

:28:19.:28:19.

And I knew more about it, possibly could change my mind.

:28:20.:28:23.

Even if it comes at the cost of the economy,

:28:24.:28:34.

controlling the borders, that's the most important thing?

:28:35.:28:36.

Do you think Parliament should have a vote on Brexit?

:28:37.:28:45.

I think they should get back in, put all of their heads together,

:28:46.:28:50.

54 people went for this, complete conviction,

:28:51.:29:00.

like they had six months ago, to control our borders.

:29:01.:29:04.

24 people went for single market access.

:29:05.:29:08.

We are not pollsters and our Brexit boards are not scientific,

:29:09.:29:11.

but they clearly suggest, for people here, immigration

:29:12.:29:14.

and control of our borders is still the major concern.

:29:15.:29:16.

But amongst those we spoke to, there is a waning support

:29:17.:29:24.

for the way in which the Government is handling Brexit, namely

:29:25.:29:27.

And it's telling that while the vast majority stand

:29:28.:29:33.

by that decision to leave, people here want more input,

:29:34.:29:35.

or even another vote, on the exact terms of how we leave

:29:36.:29:38.

This could become a reality when the highest court

:29:39.:29:43.

in the land, the Supreme Court, returns its decision later this

:29:44.:29:46.

month on whether MPs should have a vote on triggering Article

:29:47.:29:49.

And to watch that film again and share it, you can head to our

:29:50.:29:58.

And after 10am, we will look ahead to all the political stories

:29:59.:30:03.

Vicky on Facebook says, "If there was another vote. It would be a

:30:04.:30:18.

closer thing. I know loads of people who wish they voted differently."

:30:19.:30:22.

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

:30:23.:30:28.

that the majority voted leave. Brexit does mean breaks the and foot

:30:29.:30:31.

dragging by this Government may just be storing up even more problems.

:30:32.:30:35.

Just get on with it and get the best deal you can."

:30:36.:30:41.

I believe those in power are delaying the process as something

:30:42.:30:50.

illegal might turn up to stop Britain leaving. Anything to stop us

:30:51.:30:51.

leaving. Keep on getting in touch. Still to come, it's the first day

:30:52.:30:55.

back for many and protests are being held at stations

:30:56.:30:58.

across the UK to highlight We will get people's thoughts in a

:30:59.:31:14.

moment. Let us know your thoughts as well.

:31:15.:31:15.

And later on, a former Paralympic athlete was forced

:31:16.:31:17.

to wet herself on a train because there was no

:31:18.:31:20.

Here's Ben in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:31:21.:31:28.

West Yorkshire Police say a pre-planned operation

:31:29.:31:30.

in which a man was shot dead by an officer was not

:31:31.:31:34.

The watchdog the IPCC is investigating the incident

:31:35.:31:39.

near the M62 in Huddersfield yesterday evening.

:31:40.:31:42.

Five people were arrested as part of the operation,

:31:43.:31:45.

including two from a related vehicle stop in Bradford at the same time.

:31:46.:31:51.

The Ministry of Defence says a British soldier has died in Iraq.

:31:52.:31:54.

The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion the Duke of

:31:55.:31:57.

Lancaster's Regiment, died near Baghdad,

:31:58.:31:59.

following an incident which is now being investigated.

:32:00.:32:02.

The regiment is training Iraqi and Kurdish security forces.

:32:03.:32:06.

The death wasn't the result of enemy activity.

:32:07.:32:09.

The soldier's family has been informed.

:32:10.:32:12.

Kurdish militants say a British man has been killed fighting with them

:32:13.:32:16.

against the group calling itself Islamic State in Syria.

:32:17.:32:20.

They've told the BBC that Ryan Lock, who was 20 and from West Sussex,

:32:21.:32:24.

died during an assault on the IS stronghold of Raqqa

:32:25.:32:27.

It's believed he travelled to Syria last August,

:32:28.:32:30.

and joined a Kurdish volunteer group called the YPG.

:32:31.:32:36.

It's reported in Turkey that the authorities now know

:32:37.:32:38.

the identity of the chief suspect in the mass shooting

:32:39.:32:41.

39 people were killed and dozens wounded when an attacker opened

:32:42.:32:47.

fire on a New Year party inside the crowded Reina club.

:32:48.:32:51.

Police have carried out raids in the city,

:32:52.:32:54.

The Islamic State militant group has said it was behind the attack.

:32:55.:33:02.

Police in Greater Manchester have been given more time to question

:33:03.:33:05.

four men over a hit and run that killed two girls.

:33:06.:33:08.

12-year-old Helina Kotlarova, seen here on the left,

:33:09.:33:12.

died at the scene in Oldham on New Year's Eve.

:33:13.:33:14.

Her cousin, 11-year-old Zaneeta Krokova, died

:33:15.:33:17.

from her injuries in hospital yesterday morning.

:33:18.:33:23.

The centre-left think tank the Fabian Society has warned that

:33:24.:33:26.

Labour is "too weak" to win the next election.

:33:27.:33:29.

The society, which has been developing ideas

:33:30.:33:31.

for Labour for decades, has urged the party

:33:32.:33:33.

to form an alliance with the Scottish Nationalists

:33:34.:33:36.

and the Liberal Democrats if it wants to return to power.

:33:37.:33:41.

Children in England are eating half their recommended daily sugar

:33:42.:33:44.

intake before they even get to school.

:33:45.:33:47.

That's the warning from health officials.

:33:48.:33:49.

Public Health England say sugary cereals, juices

:33:50.:33:53.

and spreads are to blame, and, at a time of spiralling obesity

:33:54.:33:56.

levels, have launched a campaign to help us better understand

:33:57.:34:00.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:34:01.:34:06.

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola says he's "arriving

:34:07.:34:16.

at the end of his career" and that City might be one of his last teams.

:34:17.:34:20.

His side beat Burnley 2-1 yesterday but Guardiola was visibly upset

:34:21.:34:23.

about the sending-off of one of his players.

:34:24.:34:26.

City are up to third in the table, but seven points adrift

:34:27.:34:29.

British number one Johanna Konta is through to the quarter-finals

:34:30.:34:34.

World number ten Konta recovered from losing the first set to beat

:34:35.:34:39.

Dutchman Michael van Gerwen has won his second

:34:40.:34:46.

Van Gerwen beat the reigning PDC champion, Scotland's Gary Anderson,

:34:47.:34:51.

7-3 in last night's final at Alexandra Palace.

:34:52.:34:57.

And, David Warner has become the first batsman to score a century

:34:58.:35:01.

in the opening session of a Test match, as Australia dominated

:35:02.:35:04.

Pakistan on the first day of the third Test in Sydney.

:35:05.:35:11.

I will have a full update just after 10am.

:35:12.:35:15.

A man has died after he was shot by police in West Yorkshire.

:35:16.:35:18.

It happened on a slip road off the M62 in Huddersfield

:35:19.:35:21.

Police say the operation last night was "pre-planned",

:35:22.:35:26.

Another two people were arrested in a related vehicle stop in Bradford.

:35:27.:35:30.

Police say the incident was not related to terrorism.

:35:31.:35:33.

The BBC reporter Rahul Tandon was driving down the motorway slip

:35:34.:35:36.

road when it happened, and we can talk to him now.

:35:37.:35:39.

We just came off the slip road at around 6pm. It is a steep incline as

:35:40.:35:51.

you come down that particular slip road. There was a series of police

:35:52.:35:57.

cars that were blocking the road, blocking us from turning left

:35:58.:36:00.

towards where the incident took place. We just sat there, another

:36:01.:36:06.

car pulled up alongside us, and traffic built up behind us. Every

:36:07.:36:10.

few minutes police cars would arrive and officers would very calmly

:36:11.:36:14.

walked towards the scene of the incident. We had no idea what the

:36:15.:36:20.

incident was. After ten or 15 minutes a couple of ambulances came,

:36:21.:36:26.

and then officers ran up the slope, asking people from the ambulance to

:36:27.:36:30.

get down there as quickly as possible, so it looked as though

:36:31.:36:33.

somebody had been badly injured. After half an hour the police

:36:34.:36:40.

knocked on the window and said, you need to get out of this area as

:36:41.:36:44.

quickly as possible, so all of the cars that had been backed up were

:36:45.:36:48.

told to reverse onto the motorway, they had blocked all of the traffic,

:36:49.:36:52.

and we were told to leave the area. We could see the two cars that were

:36:53.:36:58.

there, most people issuing it had been an accident, because it is a

:36:59.:37:02.

steep incline, we thought somebody had crashed. The first we knew was

:37:03.:37:07.

when I woke up this morning and turned on the radio.

:37:08.:37:10.

As commuters head back to work today, protests are being held

:37:11.:37:12.

at train stations across the UK to highlight the cost

:37:13.:37:15.

It comes the day after new fares were announced, with an average

:37:16.:37:19.

And passengers in the south of England are still being affected

:37:20.:37:24.

by strikes, with a week-long stoppage on the Southern rail

:37:25.:37:27.

We will speak to a group of commuters in a moment.

:37:28.:37:38.

Our reporter Daniel Boettcher is at Kings Cross station this morning.

:37:39.:37:45.

There was a protest here this morning, 30 to 40 people, it has now

:37:46.:37:52.

dispersed, and others were planned at stations across the country. This

:37:53.:37:57.

was about the increase in fares. 2.3% average rise. Part of that is

:37:58.:38:05.

1.9% on regulated fares. These are tickets that include most commuter

:38:06.:38:12.

season-ticket. That figure was set by the Government using last year's

:38:13.:38:20.

RPI inflation figures. The train operating companies said the prices

:38:21.:38:23.

of the other tickets, but the average is 2.3% in England,

:38:24.:38:29.

Scotland, and Wales. Prices have been frozen in Northern Ireland. The

:38:30.:38:33.

campaign for better transport says it is a kick in the teeth. It has

:38:34.:38:37.

done a calculation that on some commuter routes the cost per minute

:38:38.:38:41.

of those rail journeys is equivalent to calling a premium rate phone

:38:42.:38:48.

line. Action for rail gives as an example a ticket from Luton to

:38:49.:38:54.

London, a monthly season-ticket, it costs ?387, 14% of the average

:38:55.:38:59.

monthly salary. It compares it with Germany, where it says an equivalent

:39:00.:39:04.

route would cost ?85, 3% of a salary. In France, six to ?1, 2% of

:39:05.:39:13.

a monthly salary. Commuters in Britain say they are paying more

:39:14.:39:16.

than in other countries. The rail delivery group says that the

:39:17.:39:20.

increases in season tickets set by the Government, it says 97% in

:39:21.:39:24.

everyone pound paid by passengers goes into running and improving

:39:25.:39:28.

services, and the Government says it is delivering what it calls the

:39:29.:39:30.

biggest modernisation programme for more than a century. It says it has

:39:31.:39:36.

always fairly balanced the cost between taxpayers and passengers.

:39:37.:39:41.

Well, let's talk now to Kate Bell, the head of economics

:39:42.:39:46.

at Action For Rail, Lianna Etkind, a public-transport campaigner

:39:47.:39:48.

at Campaign For Better Transport, Peter Izzard, who commutes to London

:39:49.:39:51.

from Burgess Hill on Southern, spending more than ?4,000

:39:52.:39:54.

on his annual season ticket, and Jo Rossi, who commutes

:39:55.:39:58.

to London from Ashford, paying for a weekly season ticket

:39:59.:40:01.

Some people are spending 14% of their salary, what proportion are

:40:02.:40:17.

you spending? After my pension and childcare costs, it is nearly a

:40:18.:40:21.

third of my take-home pay, and not even on my part-time salary, so it

:40:22.:40:25.

is not affordable. How do you feel that costs are going up? It is

:40:26.:40:31.

incredibly unfair and it is alienating a whole portion of people

:40:32.:40:35.

who want to work flexibly, when so many organisations are welcoming and

:40:36.:40:41.

promoting flexible working. I said you spend ?4000 on an annual season

:40:42.:40:46.

ticket, you travel on the Southern Rail network, so you have been

:40:47.:40:49.

affected, so you will be getting a rebate. We get four weeks' refund,

:40:50.:40:58.

allegedly this month. I am yet to see the final details. My fair has

:40:59.:41:06.

gone up 1.8%. Now I pay ?4248 for the privilege of travelling on a

:41:07.:41:10.

service that is wholly inadequate. Any fare increase is too much. I

:41:11.:41:15.

don't think any commuter would mind paying an increase is a service was

:41:16.:41:20.

delivered. But it is not being delivered. There is no sign of an

:41:21.:41:23.

end to the DeMarco batter Southern Rail. What Southern Rail are

:41:24.:41:30.

charging, they point out they are giving a month's rebate to

:41:31.:41:33.

compensate for the problems on the network, and they say they are

:41:34.:41:36.

freezing some of the fares and any increases are pegged at inflation.

:41:37.:41:43.

Clearly, it is shallow words. I think that the rebate is welcome. I

:41:44.:41:50.

would rather have no rebate and they begin a service, a trusted service,

:41:51.:41:54.

which allows me to get home to see my wife and children in the

:41:55.:41:56.

evenings, as opposed to being late everyday. Concentrate on the key

:41:57.:42:04.

factors here, which is ending this dispute, and delivering a service

:42:05.:42:11.

that our commuters can value and the simple things in life, catch a train

:42:12.:42:14.

on time at a scheduled time and arrival. We were hearing from Daniel

:42:15.:42:21.

that rail fares here are six times higher than elsewhere in Europe,

:42:22.:42:25.

prices have gone up by 56% over the past ten years. Do you think

:42:26.:42:30.

passengers are being ripped off? Passages are ripped off, and they

:42:31.:42:36.

will find there is another year of rises which are hard to stomach.

:42:37.:42:42.

Many passengers have had a year of disruptions and substandard

:42:43.:42:44.

services, and to be asked to pay for more of the same is unacceptable. It

:42:45.:42:51.

shows that the whole system needs an overhaul, and the Government needs

:42:52.:42:54.

to take action to make it fairer. It is pointed out that 97% of everyone

:42:55.:42:59.

pound that commuters pay for their rail fares are reinvested, and the

:43:00.:43:05.

biggest modernisation programme for a century is currently being

:43:06.:43:10.

delivered. The cost of running a railway is now largely covered by

:43:11.:43:15.

income from the railways, mostly passenger fares, but we need to see

:43:16.:43:18.

in investment in the railways and in the whole economy. Rail is not just

:43:19.:43:23.

benefit passengers who use it. The benefits everybody, even if you

:43:24.:43:29.

never take a train, you will benefit from clearer roads, so the people

:43:30.:43:32.

who need to drive can get to where they need to be, from cleaner air

:43:33.:43:36.

and better health, and from the mitigating climate change, and rail

:43:37.:43:41.

plays a part in supporting all of our society and economy. The

:43:42.:43:46.

background is that while Government subsidies have decreased by ?1.1

:43:47.:43:50.

billion over the past five years, the fares have gone up by just about

:43:51.:43:55.

the same amount, just a little more. Absolutely. Our research comparing

:43:56.:44:02.

the cost of travel in the UK with that of other European countries, we

:44:03.:44:05.

are highlighting that we are not getting the best bang for our book.

:44:06.:44:11.

We see how much cheaper fares are in other countries, in Paris it would

:44:12.:44:16.

cost just ?61 to travel the same distance. Because of greater

:44:17.:44:18.

Government subsidy? And public ownership. It is not an efficient

:44:19.:44:24.

way of running a railway, the fragmented system we have. We think

:44:25.:44:30.

a better way is possible. Public transport, which makes such a big

:44:31.:44:36.

difference to lives, is much cheaper and more efficient and you get a

:44:37.:44:40.

much better service. The Government says it balances the costs fairly

:44:41.:44:44.

between taxpayer and passenger, how do you see it? We can see the

:44:45.:44:51.

improvements that are allegedly put in, the Thames Link programme will

:44:52.:44:54.

make a big difference, but we are still years away from seeing those

:44:55.:45:01.

benefits. What we are not seeing is in reality the service is taking a

:45:02.:45:06.

backward step, it is as bad as I have ever known it. Talk of

:45:07.:45:10.

investment is wonderful, but just fix the short-term problem, which is

:45:11.:45:16.

the issues today. Should there be more Government subsidy?

:45:17.:45:22.

Well, I think action needs to be taken. I'm pushed on to a high-speed

:45:23.:45:29.

rail network because the other main line stations, they have a far

:45:30.:45:33.

longer commute now so some action needs to be taken to benefit the

:45:34.:45:37.

commuters. Has it made you think about stopping commuting? Well, I

:45:38.:45:42.

love my job, but it's uneconomical for me to come into work and I know

:45:43.:45:47.

having moved down from London because of the higher house prices,

:45:48.:45:52.

there is lots of people who can't go back to work in London because it is

:45:53.:45:57.

simply unaffordable. It does make one question, especially with lower

:45:58.:46:02.

salaries outside London as well. At what point does it become unviable

:46:03.:46:06.

so you decide that you can't continue with it? Well, I think you

:46:07.:46:10.

have to think of the longer term goal in terms of career and so on

:46:11.:46:16.

and working your organisation as well because my company is very

:46:17.:46:20.

accommodating in terms of working flexibly so I have to take the

:46:21.:46:24.

financial hit for now because train companies are not moving with the

:46:25.:46:28.

times and kind of stepping up to the mark and kind of helping facilitate

:46:29.:46:32.

flexible working. Thank you very much for coming in and do let us

:46:33.:46:35.

know what you think about that as well if you are a commuter and you

:46:36.:46:39.

are affected by the increase in prices from today.

:46:40.:46:50.

Let's go back to the terror attack, the New Year terror attack in

:46:51.:47:02.

Istanbul. What can you tell us? There are reporting suggesting the

:47:03.:47:07.

that the gunman has been confirmed. According to the reports, he is a

:47:08.:47:17.

28-year-old man from Kyrgyzstan called Lakhe Mashrapov.

:47:18.:47:25.

They were not naming I had country as of yet and the officials had been

:47:26.:47:31.

investigating whether one of their citizens was involved in the attack

:47:32.:47:35.

that took place on the New Year's Eve. Now the reports suggest that we

:47:36.:47:40.

have the name and we have the ID of the attacker. Of course, now the

:47:41.:47:45.

Turkish police force will try to investigate whether this person was

:47:46.:47:49.

acting on his own or whether there was a cell behind him. The IS group,

:47:50.:47:54.

the Islamic State group, has already claimed responsibility for the

:47:55.:47:58.

attack, but was this guy alone? Or was there a particular cell

:47:59.:48:04.

supporting this man in the attack that he carried out? Of course, the

:48:05.:48:10.

manhunt is still on. The gunman is still at large. There are 12 people

:48:11.:48:17.

detained including his wife and the investigations are still being

:48:18.:48:22.

carried out. Thank you very much.

:48:23.:48:35.

In a moment we'll be speaking to two terror experts

:48:36.:48:38.

and a Turkish journalist, but first let's take a look at some

:48:39.:48:41.

I think the whole world should be united against this deadly evil

:48:42.:49:49.

and if the entire world unites, we can crush them.

:49:50.:49:52.

The world can crush these unwanted elements.

:49:53.:50:21.

Let's talk now to Chris Phillips, a former Head of the National

:50:22.:50:24.

Joining us from Oxford is Ezgi Basaran is a Turkish

:50:25.:50:30.

She says she feels frightened to go back to Istanbul as seculars

:50:31.:50:37.

Jerry Smith is a terrorism risk specialist who has worked

:50:38.:50:41.

Thank you all very much indeed for joining us. Chris, first of all,

:50:42.:50:54.

Turkey was on a state of high alert. There were, I think, 17,000 police

:50:55.:50:58.

officers on duty in Istanbul and yet this still happened. Unfortunately,

:50:59.:51:02.

there is no such thing as 100% security. Turkey know that it is at

:51:03.:51:07.

the fore front of potential terrorist attacks, but of course, an

:51:08.:51:11.

individual like this can go under the radar. It seems to be a slight

:51:12.:51:15.

sea change in the way that the terrorists are operating in that

:51:16.:51:19.

this looks like it is someone that's come from the war zone and maybe has

:51:20.:51:23.

actually returned back to the war zone. So it is an interesting and

:51:24.:51:26.

terrible thing, but unfortunately, we're going to be faced with more

:51:27.:51:31.

terrorist attacks, not dissimilar to this in 2017. When you look at that

:51:32.:51:36.

particular aspect of where it seems the person that did this came from

:51:37.:51:39.

and then went back and to and say it looks like a potential change, how

:51:40.:51:44.

easy is to spot any trends in what we're seeing? There are some

:51:45.:51:48.

similarities between attacks that are happening and others just

:51:49.:51:51.

completely different again? I would say we have got three different

:51:52.:51:54.

types of terrorist problems at the moment. We've got a group of people

:51:55.:51:58.

that have been fighting in Iraq and Syria. And of course, they are used

:51:59.:52:03.

to handling weapons and used to dealing with explosives, have been

:52:04.:52:06.

in a war zone. So we have to face them and they are being encouraged

:52:07.:52:11.

to go back to their own countries to cause terror, but we have got people

:52:12.:52:15.

who are self radicalising within communities and those are very

:52:16.:52:18.

difficult to spot and then we've also got what I call the mad, bad

:52:19.:52:22.

and sad in society who are popping up out of nowhere with probably very

:52:23.:52:27.

little knowledge of Islam, and choosing to go out in a blaze of

:52:28.:52:32.

glory. So it is very difficult for the Security Services right across

:52:33.:52:35.

Europe, right across the West to actually deal with these and don't

:52:36.:52:40.

forget this is not just a European problem this. Is across the world.

:52:41.:52:45.

Jerry Smith, how concerned should we be here from a wide every security

:52:46.:52:49.

prospective about specifically what happened in Turkey? Well, I think we

:52:50.:52:54.

have seen similar attacks to what occurred in Turkey in other parts of

:52:55.:53:00.

Western Europe. I think the UK has some slight differences obviously

:53:01.:53:03.

being an island and having some particularly gun laws are the sort

:53:04.:53:08.

of things and also we have a proty integrated security set-up. Not only

:53:09.:53:12.

with the police, the Security Services, support from the military

:53:13.:53:17.

where required, but also in a community local authority emergency

:53:18.:53:20.

planners, the way that towns and cities are designed, so all that

:53:21.:53:24.

integration is a pretty good in the UK. This is, I think, the first

:53:25.:53:31.

attack that IS has specifically claimed in Turkey, but it is not the

:53:32.:53:36.

first attack that there has been in Turkey. How do you feel about what

:53:37.:53:46.

is going on in your country? After 2015, Turkey shifted its Syrian

:53:47.:53:52.

policy. Before that, between 2013 and 2015, there was an open border

:53:53.:53:59.

policy which enabled Isis recruits, national and foreign, to move freely

:54:00.:54:06.

in and out of Turkey which helped Isis smuggling and recruitment

:54:07.:54:16.

infrastructure, but starting from 2015, Turkey's stance against Isis

:54:17.:54:20.

changed and by that time, the attacks started. There are three

:54:21.:54:27.

categories of targets in Isis mentality in Turkey. First, are the

:54:28.:54:35.

Kurds because Kurds are fighting in Syria, the most effective fighting

:54:36.:54:40.

force in Syria against Isis and second, would be the seculars. The

:54:41.:54:51.

Turks and the third is the administration officials and its

:54:52.:54:56.

electorate. Now we can see that they had gone up to a level in terms of

:54:57.:55:03.

confidence and in terms of targets. This is actually the second attack

:55:04.:55:11.

that Isis claimed responsibility through its news agency, but the

:55:12.:55:19.

first major one I can say. Chris, I know you've worked in Istanbul quite

:55:20.:55:22.

recently helping to train the Security Services there. What was

:55:23.:55:26.

the work that you were doing? Well, obviously they've got big problems.

:55:27.:55:30.

They've got a huge pool of potential terrorists in their country and

:55:31.:55:34.

they've got, they want to be westward leaning to some extent and

:55:35.:55:40.

of course, everywhere needs to be secured, every nightclub needs to be

:55:41.:55:43.

secured, the airports need to be secured. I was trying to train some

:55:44.:55:46.

of the security guards to understand the nature of the threat and what

:55:47.:55:50.

they could do and put in place. We've learned a lot from terrorism

:55:51.:55:54.

in the UK over the years. We've implemented changes. We put in

:55:55.:56:02.

defence measures in airports. They need to catch up on this stuff that

:56:03.:56:07.

we have led the world on. A security minister said that Isis is prepared

:56:08.:56:14.

to Carey out a chemical weapons attack in the UK. Being prepared and

:56:15.:56:17.

being ready to do it are two different things. Jerry, what's your

:56:18.:56:22.

prospect on the potential for something like that? As you

:56:23.:56:27.

mentioned, when you look about capability and intent, as the

:56:28.:56:30.

minister said, the intent is clearly there. This idea of mass casualties,

:56:31.:56:34.

how they're caused, in some ways, is less of an issue. They just want to

:56:35.:56:40.

cause mass casualties, mass terror, to impact. Capability is slightly

:56:41.:56:45.

different and again with chemical weapons, sometimes the sort of the

:56:46.:56:49.

headline that we see is perhaps not as bad as actually reality. So,

:56:50.:56:55.

making chemical weapons is not easy. It is not impossible. But, it is not

:56:56.:57:00.

easy. Perhaps more of a concern is the theft of industrial chemicals or

:57:01.:57:05.

the use of those and maybe just some attack on an industrial facility

:57:06.:57:09.

which allowed a leak to occur or the theft of chemicals that are being

:57:10.:57:13.

moved on our highways. Thank you very much. Thank you.

:57:14.:57:17.

Coming up, a British man with no previous experience has been killed

:57:18.:57:19.

fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria.

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We'll bring you the latest after the news.

:57:22.:57:29.

Let's get the latest weather update.

:57:30.:57:34.

It is very frosty again. This morning I was in my car at 3.59am

:57:35.:57:43.

shivering. I wanted to go back to bed. Jack Frost was painting with a

:57:44.:57:54.

thick paintbrush. This almost looks like some three-dimensional map of I

:57:55.:58:00.

don't know some planet or something! I think that's the roof of the car!

:58:01.:58:06.

I saw lots of roofs like that. This person, I think it was, Daisy,

:58:07.:58:12.

wanted to get a frosty message across frosty roads, frozen, cold,

:58:13.:58:16.

all of that. Tonight, it is not going to be so frosty. We have got

:58:17.:58:20.

milder weather heading our way. After that cold and frosty start as

:58:21.:58:24.

we say, we've got sunshine around, but really the best of the sunshine

:58:25.:58:27.

is going to be across southern areas. Look at the clouds in the

:58:28.:58:31.

north. They're starting to invade the UK and that's also less cold air

:58:32.:58:37.

sitting on top of the UK. So let's start with the south first. This is

:58:38.:58:42.

where we're going to be enjoying that sparkling winter sunshine.

:58:43.:58:46.

Temperatures around six Celsius in Plymouth. There could be one or two

:58:47.:58:49.

spots warmer at four or five Celsius. Notice the further north

:58:50.:58:52.

you go, the thicker the clouds get. You might get brightness to the east

:58:53.:58:56.

of the Pennines, but in the north-west, here, certainly western

:58:57.:58:59.

parts of Scotland, much milder, not far off ten Celsius, and there will

:59:00.:59:03.

be some rain on and off during the day as well. Notice the winds,

:59:04.:59:07.

north-westerly winds of the Atlantic. They keep on dragging the

:59:08.:59:12.

milder air which is sit k up there, pushing it southwards. The mild air

:59:13.:59:21.

is sitting on top of us. Jack Frost off he goes. It is more like plus

:59:22.:59:26.

four Celsius or plus five Celsius. Colder further north. Maybe a touch

:59:27.:59:30.

of frost in Scotland, but generally speaking tomorrow, frost-free in the

:59:31.:59:34.

morning. A bit of cloud across south-western areas and then it

:59:35.:59:38.

looks like the sunshine is out. Actually, this is going to be a

:59:39.:59:41.

trend for something colder the middle part of the week. The middle

:59:42.:59:46.

part of the week we've got an area of high pressure building on top of

:59:47.:59:52.

us. This equals generally clear skies across the UK. And that means

:59:53.:59:56.

that all the warmth that we will have gathered, will escape again and

:59:57.:00:01.

temperatures will dip away. So Thursday morning, another very

:00:02.:00:04.

frosty one, but look at that, things warm up significantly by the time we

:00:05.:00:08.

get towards the end of the week. So that means that the end of the week

:00:09.:00:12.

rather than being frosty it is going to be soggy and mild!

:00:13.:00:16.

Hello, it's Tuesday, I'm Joanna Gosling.

:00:17.:00:17.

A man is shot dead in a police operation near the M62

:00:18.:00:21.

Police say it is not related to terrorism.

:00:22.:00:26.

We'll be speaking to the former Paralympian who was forced

:00:27.:00:29.

to wet herself on a train because there were no

:00:30.:00:32.

We'll look at some of the best new film releases and ask if the row

:00:33.:00:44.

over racism in Hollywood is driving change.

:00:45.:00:52.

Here's Ben in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:00:53.:00:57.

West Yorkshire Police say a pre-planned operation

:00:58.:00:59.

in which a man was shot dead by an officer was not

:01:00.:01:02.

The police watchdog the IPCC is investigating the incident,

:01:03.:01:08.

which took place near the M62 in Huddersfield yesterday evening.

:01:09.:01:12.

Five people were arrested as part of the operation,

:01:13.:01:16.

including two from a related vehicle stop in Bradford at the same time.

:01:17.:01:25.

Our reporter was stuck in traffic with his family after police closed

:01:26.:01:31.

the road, he has been talking to us. All the cars that had been backed up

:01:32.:01:35.

on the slip road were told to reverse onto the motorway, they had

:01:36.:01:40.

blocked traffic, and we were told to leave the area. We could see down

:01:41.:01:44.

the bridge because that were there, most able assumed it had been an

:01:45.:01:49.

accident, because it is a steep incline, we thought somebody had

:01:50.:01:52.

crashed into another. The first we knew about it is when I turned on

:01:53.:01:56.

the radio this morning and found out it was a very different incident.

:01:57.:01:59.

It's reported in Turkey that the authorities now know

:02:00.:02:02.

the identity of the chief suspect in the mass shooting

:02:03.:02:04.

39 people were killed and dozens wounded when an attacker opened

:02:05.:02:08.

fire on a New Year party inside the crowded Reina club.

:02:09.:02:19.

The Ministry of Defence says a British soldier has died in Iraq.

:02:20.:02:22.

The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion the Duke of

:02:23.:02:25.

Lancaster's Regiment, died near Baghdad,

:02:26.:02:26.

following an incident which is now being investigated.

:02:27.:02:28.

The regiment is training Iraqi and Kurdish security forces.

:02:29.:02:31.

The death wasn't the result of enemy activity.

:02:32.:02:34.

The soldier's family has been informed.

:02:35.:02:39.

Kurdish militants say a British man has been killed fighting with them

:02:40.:02:43.

against the group calling itself Islamic State in Syria.

:02:44.:02:46.

They've told the BBC that Ryan Lock, who was 20 and from West Sussex,

:02:47.:02:50.

died during an assault on the IS stronghold of Raqqa

:02:51.:02:53.

It's believed he travelled to Syria last August,

:02:54.:02:57.

and joined a Kurdish volunteer group called the YPG.

:02:58.:03:03.

Police in Greater Manchester have been given more time to question

:03:04.:03:06.

four men over a hit and run that killed two girls.

:03:07.:03:09.

12-year-old Helina Kotlarova, seen here on the left,

:03:10.:03:13.

died at the scene in Oldham on New Year's Eve.

:03:14.:03:16.

Her cousin, 11-year-old Zaneeta Krokova, died

:03:17.:03:19.

from her injuries in hospital yesterday morning.

:03:20.:03:24.

Protests have been held at railway stations this morning in response

:03:25.:03:27.

The average ticket has gone up by 2.3%.

:03:28.:03:34.

Many of today's demonstrations are organised by the campaign

:03:35.:03:37.

It says people in the UK spend six times as much on tickets compared

:03:38.:03:42.

Children in England are eating half their recommended daily sugar

:03:43.:03:48.

intake before they even get to school.

:03:49.:03:52.

That's the warning from health officials.

:03:53.:03:54.

Public Health England say sugary cereals, juices

:03:55.:03:57.

and spreads are to blame and, at a time of spiralling obesity

:03:58.:04:00.

levels, have launched a campaign to help us better understand

:04:01.:04:04.

We know that lots of children are eating a lot of sugar for breakfast.

:04:05.:04:12.

In total, they are eating almost three times the maximum recommended

:04:13.:04:16.

That is contributing to the awful obesity statistics that we have.

:04:17.:04:25.

That's a summary of the latest BBC News.

:04:26.:04:27.

More on the British man who has died in Syria fighting alongside Kurdish

:04:28.:04:44.

forces in a moment. We will find out why he chose to go.

:04:45.:04:46.

Do get in touch with us throughout the morning.

:04:47.:04:48.

If you text, you will be charged at the standard network rate.

:04:49.:04:52.

Here's some sport now with Jessica Creighton.

:04:53.:04:54.

Manchester City are back up to third in the Premier League

:04:55.:04:57.

But they had to play for an hour with only ten men after captain

:04:58.:05:02.

Fernandinho was sent off for a reckless challenge.

:05:03.:05:05.

Gael Clichy eventually gave them the lead,

:05:06.:05:08.

but Pep Guardiola was clearly unhappy about the sending off.

:05:09.:05:11.

Guardiola was pretty frosty in his post-match interview.

:05:12.:05:17.

He was speaking to our reporter Damian Johnson.

:05:18.:05:21.

The sending off, what was your view of the red card for Fernandinho?

:05:22.:05:24.

You're the manager, I'm sure the fans would like to know.

:05:25.:05:28.

You don't seem that happy that you've won?

:05:29.:05:33.

More than you would believe, more than you would believe.

:05:34.:05:36.

Yesterday we were not, why are we today?

:05:37.:05:52.

And Jurgen Klopp wasn't too happy either, after Liverpool twice threw

:05:53.:05:59.

away the lead at struggling Sunderland.

:06:00.:06:01.

Sadio Mane had put Liverpool 2-1 up, but Jermain Defoe's second penalty

:06:02.:06:06.

Liverpool stay second, but are now five points behind

:06:07.:06:11.

West Ham's Sofiane Feghouli was sent off as Manchester United

:06:12.:06:18.

The goals came from Juan Mata and Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

:06:19.:06:26.

World number ten Johanna Konta has continued her winning

:06:27.:06:28.

She's through to the quarter-finals of the Shenzhen Open in China.

:06:29.:06:32.

The Briton recovered from a set down and being a break down in the second

:06:33.:06:37.

She wrapped up the match in just over an hour and a half.

:06:38.:06:48.

Michael van Gerwen has won his second World Darts Championship.

:06:49.:06:50.

He beat reigning PDC champion Gary Anderson 7-3

:06:51.:06:52.

It wasn't all plain sailing for the Dutchman, though,

:06:53.:06:57.

as just as he was throwing for the match at 6-2 up,

:06:58.:07:00.

Security men quickly dealt with the prankster.

:07:01.:07:10.

But it put van Gerwen off, delaying his coronation by another set.

:07:11.:07:13.

It was worth the extra wait, though, as he claimed victory in style

:07:14.:07:17.

to take the ?350,000 pound prize and end Anderson's hopes

:07:18.:07:21.

David Warner blasted his way to a century before lunch

:07:22.:07:27.

on the opening day of the third Test against Pakistan in Sydney.

:07:28.:07:31.

Warner took just 78 balls to get to three figures.

:07:32.:07:35.

Only four other players have managed to score a century in the very

:07:36.:07:38.

Warner was eventually out for 113, but Matt Renshaw rammed home

:07:39.:07:45.

He's playing in only his fourth Test.

:07:46.:07:50.

He was actually born in Middlesbrough, but has lived

:07:51.:07:52.

He's 167 not out, with Australia on 365-3.

:07:53.:08:04.

That is all the sport, I am back with the headlines at 10:30am.

:08:05.:08:09.

A 20-year-old from Sussex has been killed fighting so-called

:08:10.:08:11.

His name is Ryan Lock, a chef from Chichester,

:08:12.:08:14.

who had no military experience whatsoever before travelling to join

:08:15.:08:18.

Let's speak to our correspondent Emma Vardy.

:08:19.:08:25.

He went to school and haven't, his family are from haven't and

:08:26.:08:41.

Chichester, and he was a chef in the UK before travelling out to fight in

:08:42.:08:47.

Syria. He travelled in August, and we understand he had told friends

:08:48.:08:49.

and family he was going on holiday to Turkey, but later revealed he had

:08:50.:08:54.

travelled to join up with the Kurdish militant group the YPG in

:08:55.:09:02.

Syria. A number of other British volunteers have done the same,

:09:03.:09:06.

choosing to fight against so-called Islamic State of their own accord.

:09:07.:09:12.

The YPG confirmed his death in a letter to his family and said that

:09:13.:09:16.

he had been killed fighting in the battle for the Syrian city of

:09:17.:09:19.

fracture, which has been an Islamic State stronghold. He had no previous

:09:20.:09:26.

military experience whatsoever, is it clear what it was that made him

:09:27.:09:31.

decide to go off and fight? No, but many who have been out there to

:09:32.:09:34.

fight talk about wanting to be part of the Kurdish struggle, wanting to

:09:35.:09:39.

fight against the evil, as they see it, of Islamic State. His father has

:09:40.:09:46.

said he had a heart of gold, his family are said to be in absolute

:09:47.:09:50.

grief at the news of his death. I spoke to the father of the first

:09:51.:09:53.

British volunteer to die fighting against Islamic State, he went to

:09:54.:10:01.

visit Ryan's father and offer his condolences and his perspective as a

:10:02.:10:04.

parent of somebody who has chosen to go and do this. Ryan is reported to

:10:05.:10:10.

be the third British man to be killed fighting against Islamic

:10:11.:10:14.

State, although the numbers are difficult to verify. The Foreign

:10:15.:10:16.

Office has warned strongly against travelling to Syria and has warned

:10:17.:10:21.

that whichever side somebody may decide to fight on, they could be

:10:22.:10:25.

breaking with this camera laws. Many in the Kurdish community will see

:10:26.:10:28.

him and others as martyrs. You were an activist who spoke to

:10:29.:10:44.

Ryan's family. Very difficult, it will be, for them to come to terms

:10:45.:10:52.

with this. Yes. Incredibly difficult time on Sunday. The family are

:10:53.:11:00.

completely and utterly devastated and deep in grief at the moment. Not

:11:01.:11:07.

really wanting to think about all of the issues surrounding Isis or the

:11:08.:11:10.

Kurds or YPG, they are just really... They have found out...

:11:11.:11:17.

Ryan fell on the 21st of December that there has been a process by

:11:18.:11:21.

which the YPG have tried to confirm that it was him, and that

:11:22.:11:25.

confirmation came through to them on Friday, and we went to pay our

:11:26.:11:36.

condolences and offer our help in terms of any possible retrieving of

:11:37.:11:41.

the body at a later date. But the whole of the Kurdish community all

:11:42.:11:45.

around the world, their hearts are with the family today. Do you know

:11:46.:11:51.

when they knew that he was fighting? When he went off in August, he said

:11:52.:11:57.

he was going on holiday. I am not too sure exactly when they found out

:11:58.:12:02.

that he was fighting in Syria, but I believe that when he had arrived in

:12:03.:12:06.

Syria, he had posted on his Facebook account that he had arrived in Syria

:12:07.:12:12.

and he was sorry that he had not been totally honest with them. And

:12:13.:12:18.

he was fighting Isis. How many people are doing this from the UK?

:12:19.:12:25.

Over the past five years there has been quite a number. Internationally

:12:26.:12:30.

there has been quite a few hundred. There are even international

:12:31.:12:35.

brigades now fighting with the YPG forces. But in terms of Britons, at

:12:36.:12:41.

the moment there are probably about a dozen. Why? These are people

:12:42.:12:49.

without previous military experience. It is something that is

:12:50.:12:54.

difficult to get your head around, but essentially... The wanting to

:12:55.:13:01.

say today is that I would never encourage anybody to go there. There

:13:02.:13:05.

are other ways to support the Kurdish cause, to support the fight

:13:06.:13:12.

against Isis. We need campaigners and raising awareness of the issues

:13:13.:13:19.

around this. But what is their motivation? You just have to look at

:13:20.:13:24.

our daily news. You had a piece about the bombing in Istanbul by

:13:25.:13:28.

Isis. All of the grotesque and morbid videos that we see Isis Post

:13:29.:13:37.

on a weekly basis. Is there a route? One thing being upset about what is

:13:38.:13:43.

happening, but finding your way to a battlefield, that requires help from

:13:44.:13:48.

somewhere. Exactly. There are Facebook pages and people take

:13:49.:13:53.

themselves off to Kurdistan. Once they are there, it is quite easy.

:13:54.:14:00.

And the YPG of the most effective fighting force against Isis, they

:14:01.:14:03.

have been the one force that has consistently fought Isis right to

:14:04.:14:10.

the outside of Raqqa, they don't need international volunteers,

:14:11.:14:14.

really. But once people are out there... It is a bit like the

:14:15.:14:21.

Spanish Civil War, the fight against fascism, there were international

:14:22.:14:24.

brigades that fought against fascism, and it is very similar to

:14:25.:14:30.

those times. Once they are out there, the YPG will give them

:14:31.:14:32.

training and facilitate them to fight. Mostly, they encourage them

:14:33.:14:38.

to stay behind the front lines. But many of these fighters are highly

:14:39.:14:42.

motivated and thoughtful. They have thought this through. Even the short

:14:43.:14:49.

time Ryan was there, he was bombed in a village by Turkish airplay is,

:14:50.:14:56.

and he lost many of his colleagues in that bombing, two other

:14:57.:15:02.

international volunteers as well. But he changed units and he wanted

:15:03.:15:09.

to fight on the front line against -- in the Raqqa operation. We don't

:15:10.:15:14.

want people to go, but when they are they that are doing incredibly brave

:15:15.:15:18.

things in the fight against Isis. We have to acknowledge that.

:15:19.:15:24.

A Foreign Office spokesperson said, "The UK has advised for some time

:15:25.:15:27.

Anyone who does travel to these areas for whatever reason,

:15:28.:15:31.

At 10.30am, we'll be speaking to the former

:15:32.:15:40.

Paralympian who was forced to wet herself on a train because there

:15:41.:15:43.

Brexit will inevitably be top of the political agenda for much

:15:44.:15:48.

of 2017 as the Government prepares to trigger the formal

:15:49.:15:50.

Six months after the vote that came as a surprise to many,

:15:51.:15:54.

our reporter Michael Cowan has returned to Great Yarmouth

:15:55.:15:57.

in Norfolk where the result was never in ever doubt.

:15:58.:15:59.

The town delivered the fifth highest leave vote with more than 70%

:16:00.:16:02.

Our country had just voted to leave the EU and it was summer.

:16:03.:16:34.

But are people here still excited about Brexit?

:16:35.:16:36.

Is it access to the single market which involves much

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We pay into the EU and in exchange, we get to trade with them,

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but we have to accept freedom of movement.

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That means unlimited numbers of EU workers coming to Britain to work.

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Or is it this - complete control of our borders?

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Because the only certainty we have here is that we cannot have both.

:16:53.:16:55.

Does it concern you when you hear things about the economy?

:16:56.:16:58.

For example, going on holiday already costs more money

:16:59.:17:00.

because the value of the pound is low.

:17:01.:17:02.

There's some beautiful holiday destinations.

:17:03.:17:04.

If people were putting more money back into our own economy,

:17:05.:17:08.

rather than feeding everyone else's economy, this country would thrive.

:17:09.:17:13.

Come to Great Yarmouth, go to Blackpool, go to Liverpool,

:17:14.:17:16.

go to different areas where you've got these beautiful seaside towns

:17:17.:17:19.

that are getting forgotten and ignored and neglected.

:17:20.:17:21.

Do you still feel excited about Brexit?

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I think it was the best thing we could have done.

:17:23.:17:27.

Joining the EU was the worst decision Britain ever made.

:17:28.:17:29.

Do we want access to the single market or do we want complete

:17:30.:17:32.

I understand that they do need to go somewhere and the place is a state

:17:33.:17:42.

and I agree with that, but when is it going to stop?

:17:43.:17:45.

I voted leave because I went with the flow.

:17:46.:17:53.

If there was another referendum tomorrow, hypothetically...

:17:54.:17:56.

And I knew more about it, possibly could change my mind.

:17:57.:17:59.

Even if it comes at the cost of the economy,

:18:00.:18:10.

controlling the borders, that's the most important thing?

:18:11.:18:12.

Do you think Parliament should have a vote on Brexit?

:18:13.:18:19.

I think they should get back in, put all of their heads together,

:18:20.:18:25.

54 people went for this, complete conviction,

:18:26.:18:36.

like they had six months ago, to control our borders.

:18:37.:18:38.

24 people went for single market access.

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We are not pollsters and our Brexit boards are not scientific,

:18:43.:18:45.

but they clearly suggest, for people here, immigration

:18:46.:18:49.

and control of our borders is still the major concern.

:18:50.:18:53.

But amongst those we spoke to, there is a waning support

:18:54.:18:59.

for the way in which the Government is handling Brexit, namely

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And it's telling that while the vast majority stand

:19:04.:19:08.

by that decision to leave, people here want more input,

:19:09.:19:10.

or even another vote, on the exact terms of how we leave

:19:11.:19:13.

This could become a reality when the highest court

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in the land, the Supreme Court, returns its decision later this

:19:19.:19:21.

month on whether MPs should have a vote on triggering Article

:19:22.:19:24.

And to watch that film again and share it, you can head to our

:19:25.:19:34.

Let's talk now to Rachel Johnson, columnist at the Mail on Sunday.

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Rossalyn Warren, a freelance journalist and commentator

:19:46.:19:48.

Stephen Bush, special correspondent at the New Statesman magazine.

:19:49.:19:56.

Who we have predicted so much that ended up happening in 2016. I want

:19:57.:20:04.

predictions from you for 2017. Do you think we will start to get

:20:05.:20:08.

clarity because the Government position is triggering Article 50 by

:20:09.:20:12.

the end of March? Absolutely. I think, well, eventually after a year

:20:13.:20:16.

of turmoil in 2016, with a lot of things left up in the air and many

:20:17.:20:21.

things still left uncertain, too as we have seen in the video clip to

:20:22.:20:25.

the British public, I think the public need clarity now and I think

:20:26.:20:28.

there will be elements to that drawn out this year. In there isn't

:20:29.:20:32.

clarity, Rachel, how much of a problem is that for the Government?

:20:33.:20:35.

Hearing our voters there, there is anger out there that the clarity

:20:36.:20:38.

isn't coming through, isn't there? Well, there is something like a

:20:39.:20:41.

timetable which is that Article 50 is going to be triggered by the end

:20:42.:20:47.

of March. But I'm wondering whether there is going to be so much

:20:48.:20:51.

uncertainty across national elections in Europe, it lies behind

:20:52.:20:57.

some of the prevarication that we have seen this from Government

:20:58.:21:03.

pronouncements. In a sense, if Marie Le Pen win ins France, she will take

:21:04.:21:12.

France out of the euro which could trigger a reconfiguration of the

:21:13.:21:16.

European project with an inner core and outer core. Us leaving is going

:21:17.:21:25.

to look like a teddy bears' picnic. Our local matter of leaving the EU,

:21:26.:21:31.

however, hard, soft, red, white or blue will be a sideshow. What do you

:21:32.:21:34.

think will happen with Brexit, Stephen? I think it will be

:21:35.:21:38.

triggered in March. One of the odd things about this court case, it is

:21:39.:21:42.

a fight the Government didn't need to pick. We know they have got the

:21:43.:21:46.

votes to trigger it in Parliament, it will be triggered. The tricky

:21:47.:21:50.

thing for them is we are going to have a lot of election ins Europe

:21:51.:21:53.

where this idea the Government has and you can keep your Brexit stance

:21:54.:21:57.

secret, it might work here, but it will be an issue in the French

:21:58.:22:01.

elections and the Dutch and the German elections, what's your

:22:02.:22:04.

response to Brexit? It will be hard for the Government not to give a

:22:05.:22:07.

running commentary on other people's running commentaries. Elections

:22:08.:22:13.

elsewhere, as you mentioned, what about the prospect por for an early

:22:14.:22:17.

election here? Downing Street have been firm on why they don't want

:22:18.:22:22.

one. Their argument, they are worried you could end up with a

:22:23.:22:27.

coalition of the remain parties or some other chaotic event and people

:22:28.:22:32.

want stability, that's broadly true, but her majority is small. And the

:22:33.:22:36.

opposition is very weak. You can see the argument for it. I think she

:22:37.:22:40.

might be forced into one, but I don't think she will do it

:22:41.:22:44.

willingly. What do you think, Rachel Well, she has been categorical there

:22:45.:22:48.

won't be an election until 2020 and I don't think Labour want one, the

:22:49.:22:53.

Corbyn Labour... If Labour are weak is that a good time? There gives her

:22:54.:23:00.

an incentive, but we have the fixed term parliaments Act, you repeal it

:23:01.:23:04.

or engineer a collapse of your own Government, as far as I understand

:23:05.:23:07.

it, but Stephen probably knows more. That's right. It is a poorly written

:23:08.:23:14.

bit of legislation. It is not clear in the collapsing your own

:23:15.:23:18.

Government, dhauz mean Jeremy Corbyn would become Prime Minister and

:23:19.:23:21.

Theresa May, or some Conservative grandee would become Prime Minister.

:23:22.:23:24.

It is really difficult to get an early election unless you start

:23:25.:23:27.

losing votes in the House regularly. She does only have a majority of 11

:23:28.:23:33.

now because she lost one, thanks to Zac Goldsmith. It is going to get

:23:34.:23:37.

trickier for her to get stuff done. Predictions on Jeremy Corbyn because

:23:38.:23:42.

still questions about his leadership and prediction from one think-tank

:23:43.:23:45.

today that Labour could struggle to get 150 seats in the next election,

:23:46.:23:49.

do you think he will survive the year? They won't want an Lech any

:23:50.:24:01.

time soon. -- election any time soon. I think he will stick it out

:24:02.:24:06.

as we have seen in the last year oar so. He has managed to claw his way

:24:07.:24:10.

through and I don't see that changing any time this year

:24:11.:24:14.

personally. The vultures are circling. We have had Len McCluskey

:24:15.:24:19.

and we have had also Keir Starmer who queried his stance on freedom of

:24:20.:24:24.

movement. And so, I feel that, you know, nevertheless even if he is a

:24:25.:24:29.

dead man, the dead man will carry on walking. Stephen? Yes, Jeremy Corbyn

:24:30.:24:33.

will be leader of the Labour Party at least until the next election and

:24:34.:24:39.

potentially for sometime. He has ridden so many storms, hasn't he?

:24:40.:24:43.

You must wonder whether the appetite starts to wane after that? Jeremy

:24:44.:24:51.

Corbyn is's career has been riding storms. That's not going to change.

:24:52.:24:57.

30 years of behaviour won't change over the next 12 months. In some

:24:58.:25:02.

ways, there is an interesting comparison where the Labour Party

:25:03.:25:07.

membership is on Corbyn. They said, "We voted for this. We want you to

:25:08.:25:12.

make a success of it." They are not going to blame the person they voted

:25:13.:25:18.

for, they are going to blame remainers for not making Brexit work

:25:19.:25:26.

and Labour MPs for not making Corbyn work. Let's turn to European

:25:27.:25:31.

politics. You mentioned it and obviously, Rachel throwing up the

:25:32.:25:37.

prospect of what happens if the incumbents lose in France and

:25:38.:25:42.

Germany. In Germany, 59% according to polls want Angela Merkel to

:25:43.:25:47.

continue as chancellor after the election in February. How will you

:25:48.:25:51.

call for things at this stage for what you think is likely to happen?

:25:52.:25:59.

Well, I mean, it is a mug's game being Mystic Meg. It has been

:26:00.:26:04.

confounded every single time. I want Merkel to win because I really

:26:05.:26:10.

believe Germany, we need leadership in Europe and Germany, she has

:26:11.:26:13.

proved a wonderful internationalist. I mean, you can query what she did

:26:14.:26:18.

on open borders, but I think, that she putting herself down for a

:26:19.:26:21.

fourth term was brave, it was correct. I hope she wins, but if she

:26:22.:26:28.

doesn't win, if this whole immigration thing has really cleared

:26:29.:26:32.

her pitch, I think, Europe is in absolute turmoil, that's the end

:26:33.:26:37.

game. As I said earlier, the only solution I see then is you have an

:26:38.:26:44.

outer core and inner core where Italy, Italy, Spain, Greece spin off

:26:45.:26:49.

and you have Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, and a bit of the Nordic

:26:50.:26:54.

rim. Around the euro and all the other countries reclaim their

:26:55.:26:57.

original currencies. How would you call the French and German elections

:26:58.:27:03.

this year, Stephen? Merkel will win. She will come first. If she is

:27:04.:27:07.

defeated it will be by the left. I think she will be chancellor again

:27:08.:27:10.

for a long time. France is more difficult to call. But the thing we

:27:11.:27:17.

forget about both Brexit and Trump although they are very different

:27:18.:27:21.

from Le Pen particularly Brexit, they were both going with the grain

:27:22.:27:26.

of British politics, anti-Europeanism. In France, the

:27:27.:27:29.

tradition of voting against the parties of theks trem and the second

:27:30.:27:32.

round of their election is very strong. I think she will find it

:27:33.:27:35.

hard to win. Much harder than Brexit would.

:27:36.:27:41.

I think that 2017 will see a continued growth for far-right

:27:42.:27:45.

parties across Europe and they have always existed across Europe, but

:27:46.:27:50.

brought forward a set of policies across a board as we say a

:27:51.:27:57.

particularly high anti-migrant, anti-refugee sentiment by a lot of

:27:58.:28:02.

these parties will be more evident this year. With Merkel her biggest

:28:03.:28:07.

criticism has been the open border policy, but I think there is a

:28:08.:28:10.

divide there in what the media depict about her in saying that she

:28:11.:28:16.

has lost a lot of faith, Germans lost a lot of faith in her, but the

:28:17.:28:20.

polls have said they continue to support her. So and I think with

:28:21.:28:27.

Trump's selection, of course, I don't think, he helped ignite

:28:28.:28:31.

something in Europe that sort of ignited the far-right policies here

:28:32.:28:34.

and far-right parties here, but as we say, they have existed for a long

:28:35.:28:46.

time, but he sort of brought that, I forget what was said, but this is

:28:47.:28:49.

our time. This is a turning point for us and our parties to take that

:28:50.:28:52.

step forward and to be accepted in our countries. You think that 2017

:28:53.:29:00.

will be the year of revolution as well as 2016. Please, no! It will be

:29:01.:29:05.

interesting. We will have to check-in with you several times.

:29:06.:29:06.

Thank you very much indeed. We can show you now some incredible

:29:07.:29:09.

footage from the US now of two year old twins,

:29:10.:29:13.

Bowdy and Brock. Their parents decided to share this

:29:14.:29:15.

video to raise awareness of the dangers of not bolting heavy

:29:16.:29:18.

furniture to the wall. It looks who have rishg. Neither of

:29:19.:29:25.

the boys were injured, thank goodness.

:29:26.:29:29.

It is extraordinary, isn't it, to watch it?

:29:30.:29:33.

The little boy who is on top. Look, he tries to lift up the chest of

:29:34.:29:39.

drawers to get his brother out. Amazingly, the brother who is under

:29:40.:29:43.

the chest of drawers is not injured and look, he manages to get out with

:29:44.:29:50.

the help of his brother, but just shocking images and the parents have

:29:51.:29:53.

chosen to put the pictures out to let all parents out there know just

:29:54.:29:59.

drill furniture to the wall to stop anything like that happening.

:30:00.:30:05.

Still to come, in a moment, we'll talk to a Paralympic athlete

:30:06.:30:08.

was forced to wet herself on a train because there was no

:30:09.:30:11.

And at 10.45am, we look forward to this month's film releases

:30:12.:30:14.

and we'll be asking if Hollywood is taking diversity seriously.

:30:15.:30:26.

Here's Ben in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of today's news.

:30:27.:30:29.

West Yorkshire Police say a pre-planned operation

:30:30.:30:31.

in which a man was shot dead by an officer was not

:30:32.:30:34.

The police watchdog the IPCC is investigating the incident,

:30:35.:30:40.

which took place near the M62 in Huddersfield yesterday evening.

:30:41.:30:44.

Five people were arrested as part of the operation,

:30:45.:30:47.

including two from a related vehicle stop in Bradford at the same time.

:30:48.:30:58.

Kurdish militants say a British man has been killed fighting with them

:30:59.:31:01.

against the group calling itself Islamic State in Syria.

:31:02.:31:03.

They've told the BBC that Ryan Lock, who was 20 and from West Sussex,

:31:04.:31:07.

died during an assault on the IS stronghold of Raqqa

:31:08.:31:09.

It's believed he travelled to Syria last August,

:31:10.:31:13.

and joined a Kurdish volunteer group called the YPG.

:31:14.:31:20.

We have been talking to a Kurdish activist who visited his family on

:31:21.:31:24.

Sunday to inform them of his death. They are completely and utterly

:31:25.:31:35.

devastated and deep in grief. Not really wanting to think about the

:31:36.:31:41.

issues surrounding Isis or the Kurds or YPG. He fell on the 21st of

:31:42.:31:45.

December but there has been a process by which the YPG try to

:31:46.:31:50.

confirm it was him. That confirmation came through to them on

:31:51.:31:51.

Friday. The Ministry of Defence says

:31:52.:31:54.

a British soldier has died in Iraq. The soldier, from the 2nd

:31:55.:31:57.

Battalion the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment,

:31:58.:31:59.

died near Baghdad, following an incident

:32:00.:32:00.

which is now being investigated. The regiment is training Iraqi

:32:01.:32:02.

and Kurdish security forces. The death wasn't the result

:32:03.:32:06.

of enemy activity. The soldier's family

:32:07.:32:09.

has been informed. It's reported in Turkey

:32:10.:32:14.

that the authorities now know the identity of the main suspect

:32:15.:32:16.

in the mass shooting It's understood he's 28-year-old

:32:17.:32:19.

Iakhe Mashrapov from Kyrgyzstan. 39 people were killed and dozens

:32:20.:32:26.

wounded when an attacker opened fire on a New Year party

:32:27.:32:29.

inside the crowded Reina club. Police in Greater Manchester have

:32:30.:32:35.

been given more time to question four men over a hit and run that

:32:36.:32:38.

killed two girls. 12-year-old Helina Kotlarova,

:32:39.:32:42.

seen here on the left, died at the scene in

:32:43.:32:45.

Oldham on New Year's Eve. Her cousin, 11-year-old

:32:46.:32:48.

Zaneeta Krokova, died from her injuries in

:32:49.:32:51.

hospital yesterday morning. Join me for BBC

:32:52.:32:57.

Newsroom Live at 11am. We will be line at the scene of the

:32:58.:33:07.

police shooting in West Yorkshire. Here's some sport now

:33:08.:33:11.

with Jessica Creighton. Manchester City manager

:33:12.:33:13.

Pep Guardiola says he's "arriving at the end of his career" and that

:33:14.:33:15.

City might be one of his last teams. His side beat Burnley 2-1 yesterday,

:33:16.:33:19.

but Guardiola was visibly upset about the sending-off of one

:33:20.:33:24.

of his players. City are up to third in the table,

:33:25.:33:26.

but seven points adrift British number one Johanna Konta

:33:27.:33:28.

is through to the quarter-finals World number ten Konta recovered

:33:29.:33:33.

from losing the first set to beat Dutchman Michael van

:33:34.:33:39.

Gerwen has won his second Van Gerwen beat the reigning PDC

:33:40.:33:44.

champion, Scotland's Gary Anderson, 7-3 in last night's final

:33:45.:33:50.

at Alexandra Palace. And, David Warner has become

:33:51.:33:55.

the first batsman to score a century before lunch in a Test in Australia,

:33:56.:33:58.

as his side dominated Pakistan on the first day

:33:59.:34:01.

of the third Test in Sydney. More on the BBC News channel through

:34:02.:34:09.

the day. A Paralympic athlete and MBE-awarded

:34:10.:34:12.

disabilities campaigner says she was forced to wet herself

:34:13.:34:16.

on train because it didn't Anne Wafula Strike says

:34:17.:34:19.

that she was left humiliated after the three-hour journey

:34:20.:34:23.

on a CrossCountry train with no Despite her embarrassment,

:34:24.:34:27.

she has decided to go public in the hope it will bring change

:34:28.:34:31.

for disabled people. We can talk to Anne Wafula Strike

:34:32.:34:35.

from her home in Harlow in Essex. And with us in the studio is

:34:36.:34:38.

Sue Bott from Disability Rights UK. Tell us what happened, you were on

:34:39.:34:50.

the train and realised there was no working disabled toilet for you to

:34:51.:35:00.

use? I was coming from a very inspiring meeting. As you do when

:35:01.:35:05.

you are travelling, you want to relieve yourself. I was appalled

:35:06.:35:12.

that when I went to check, the toilet was boarded up with a big

:35:13.:35:18.

sign, out of order. I asked the Ticketmaster is they could help in.

:35:19.:35:26.

She could not do anything, because she was also helpless. She decided

:35:27.:35:30.

they would get me off at the next station to see if I could use the

:35:31.:35:34.

toilet and then get me on board again, but when you go to that

:35:35.:35:38.

station, there was nobody there, so there was not anybody to come up

:35:39.:35:44.

with a ramp and help me. I had some passengers who were willing to get

:35:45.:35:48.

me out, but she realised that even if they took me out, I would still

:35:49.:35:52.

need somebody on the station who would have access to help me get

:35:53.:35:56.

across to the other side to use the toilet and bring me back. The next

:35:57.:36:02.

stop for me was Peter. Between then and Peterborough, I could not hold

:36:03.:36:07.

it anymore, I had to do it. Humiliating, but I had to do it. How

:36:08.:36:12.

did you feel through the whole process, you were in the hands of

:36:13.:36:17.

others, needing help, and there was nothing that they could do? When you

:36:18.:36:25.

are in that situation, that is when you really feel disabled. I rarely

:36:26.:36:30.

feel disabled, because I like to get about and do things, I like to be in

:36:31.:36:35.

the community, to support others, but when that happened to me, I

:36:36.:36:39.

realised that sometimes when you are different, you are so isolated. The

:36:40.:36:44.

world this qualifies you from having a normal life. When you have a

:36:45.:36:50.

disability, you don't just have to have equal rights in the community.

:36:51.:36:56.

It knocked my confidence. When you were on the train, you are talking

:36:57.:37:01.

about it now, which presumably is not easy, to raise awareness, but

:37:02.:37:06.

when you were on the train you must have felt vulnerable? I felt very

:37:07.:37:16.

vulnerable. I felt really exposed. I felt humiliated. I just felt like I

:37:17.:37:25.

was in this big world, nobody was taking notice that I existed. I

:37:26.:37:32.

needed to use the toilet. We are talking about a basic need, basic

:37:33.:37:38.

right, that a human being deserves. I don't think this should be

:37:39.:37:42.

happening in this century. When did you decide that you wanted to start

:37:43.:37:50.

to talk about it publicly? When it first happened to me, I could not

:37:51.:37:54.

look at myself in the mirror, because I was so embarrassed that I

:37:55.:38:02.

had wet myself. One day I woke up and I looked at myself in the mirror

:38:03.:38:06.

and I said,... I realised I am not the only one who is experiencing

:38:07.:38:10.

this, I know so many other people with disabilities going through

:38:11.:38:14.

different and difficult issues, and I say to myself, I have got to

:38:15.:38:22.

speak. I am just hoping that by me going public, it will end all of

:38:23.:38:26.

these things we go on about, self-censorship, and we should

:38:27.:38:29.

realise that when bad things are happening to us, we need to have a

:38:30.:38:33.

voice and speak, because when that was going on, I did not have a

:38:34.:38:38.

voice, it was all taken away from me. I feel that I now have a voice

:38:39.:38:43.

to speak out against it, I should not just sit and lie in the bed and

:38:44.:38:49.

want to have bigotry when it was all taken away during that incident --

:38:50.:38:56.

want to have dignity and allow others to suffer the same. What do

:38:57.:39:04.

you think about this? I am appalled. You are very brave for coming out

:39:05.:39:12.

and explaining what happened to you. I really hope that it does a lot of

:39:13.:39:22.

good. I am sure this has happened to disabled people in the past, but

:39:23.:39:27.

they have not felt confident or been able to come and speak publicly

:39:28.:39:38.

about it. Unfortunately, we still have a tick box mentality towards

:39:39.:39:46.

disability and access. We tick the box that the toilet is there on the

:39:47.:39:53.

train, we don't think about how we need to consider that it is working

:39:54.:39:59.

all the time. It takes somebody like Anne to talk about it to get people

:40:00.:40:05.

to understand why it is important that those facilities are there and

:40:06.:40:12.

usable. Absolutely. As somebody who does not use a wheelchair, it is

:40:13.:40:16.

fine, you can get off at the next stop if the toilet is not working.

:40:17.:40:26.

But Anne does not have that option. That is what I would have done. I

:40:27.:40:31.

would have crawled to get to the next toilet. But unfortunately, as a

:40:32.:40:38.

wheelchair user, you don't have that luxury, of the Isles on the train

:40:39.:40:44.

are quite tight. I agree, it is ticking a box. We have a legislation

:40:45.:40:52.

that is supposed to protect disabled people to have equal rights with

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everybody else, but the problem is that I don't think these

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legislations are tough enough. Companies and organisations are

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getting away with a lot. In the process of ticking a box to say that

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we have a toilet, we have a ramp. What is the point of having that

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when it is not functional, when it is not working? One person says, I

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was on a train yesterday, I am not disabled, but over the loudspeaker

:41:21.:41:24.

the person said the disabled toilets are out of order. I found it

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outrageous and something that should not have happened. Cross-country

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trains say what happened was clearly unacceptable and they are

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investigating. What reaction have you had since speaking out?

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Everybody is outraged. We are having so many people coming out and

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speaking about what they have suffered with the train companies.

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It is not on. We are talking about a basic right. I have not had any

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apology or any communication from the cross-country trains group. To

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me, it is not enough if I ask them to give me my big city back. What I

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would ask them is, what are you going to do about this? What do you

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want to happen now? I would like to call on change, we need to see

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change happen. Companies and organisations should be fined if

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they do not appear -- adhere to the legislations, they should be fined

:42:40.:42:44.

when this happens. The sad thing is that when people come out and

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complain, you are easily send maybe an apology letter and a ?10 voucher,

:42:50.:42:53.

and that is not what I am looking for. I am looking for changes, I am

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looking for... When people with disabilities are travelling, using

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public transport, we need to be treated as equal members of the

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community, so the changes need to come in pretty soon, and such

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companies should pay huge fines. One person has tweeted to say, the train

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should have been withdrawn, Anne has nothing to be ashamed of. There has

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been a brief statement from the train company, saying what happened

:43:25.:43:30.

to Anne was completely unacceptable and they are investigating. They say

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the circumstances were unacceptable. It is the first time they have been

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aware of such a situation happening. At 10:45am we'll be looking ahead

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to this month's film releases, and asking if Hollywood is making

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progress on diversity. One of the best movies of the year

:43:52.:44:04.

coming out in the run-up to the Oscars nominations.

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Four years ago, a British backpacker was found stabbed to death

:44:07.:44:09.

on a houseboat in Srinagar in Indian Kashmir.

:44:10.:44:11.

Two months later, a Dutch man, Richard de Wit,

:44:12.:44:14.

He has always maintained he is not guilty.

:44:15.:44:18.

The trial process has been repeatedly interrupted.

:44:19.:44:21.

The last hearing, in December, was the 84th since proceedings began.

:44:22.:44:27.

We're now joined in Guernsey by Vic and Kate Groves,

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Why is this case taking so long? That is quite a long story. I

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suppose you could point the finger at a number of people. Of the 84

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hearings you mentioned, 64 have been unproductive. That has been caused

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by such things as witnesses not showing up, by the accused not being

:44:59.:45:02.

brought to court because of civil unrest or strikes, because the

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accused has fired his lawyer for times, we have lost 25 hearings

:45:08.:45:14.

because he has no legal representation in court. In a way,

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the tale has been wagging the dog, we have had no witnesses processed

:45:20.:45:25.

since 2015. It must be horrendous for you to be having to go through

:45:26.:45:31.

this on top of your loss already. We have got more used to it now,

:45:32.:45:34.

because we can see it coming. In the old days, when the trial started, we

:45:35.:45:40.

were looking forward to the dates come up because we thought some

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progress would be made and we were looking forward to hearing what was

:45:44.:45:49.

coming out of court. But as the proceedings have gone along through

:45:50.:45:53.

time, we can almost predict whether or not any progress will be made.

:45:54.:46:01.

But it does not lessen the fact that this is something that we can not

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live with much longer, because it is dragging on in an inexcusable

:46:06.:46:06.

manner. We saw a beautiful picture of Sarah.

:46:07.:46:16.

She looks gorgeous. Tell us about Sarah. Sarah, she was the embodiment

:46:17.:46:24.

of every wonderful quality that you would hope for in a child. She was

:46:25.:46:36.

adventurous, kind, caring to the enth degree. Just, she wanted to

:46:37.:46:44.

give part of herself to people in the world who were less privileged

:46:45.:46:50.

than she had been and so she decided that she would make a plan to go

:46:51.:46:58.

travelling to areas where she could perhaps help to improve the lives of

:46:59.:47:03.

some of the people in those destinations. Obviously, just

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beautiful words from you about your daughter. How important is it that

:47:13.:47:18.

you see justice done? Well, I think it is the definition of justice that

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we're interested in. We want to reach a safe conclusion but because

:47:25.:47:27.

of the nature of the trial, we are on the second judge shortly I think

:47:28.:47:31.

to be the third judge. The second public prosecutor and the fourth

:47:32.:47:35.

defence counsel, over time things have changed and the way the court

:47:36.:47:40.

case has been handled, the quality of the examination,

:47:41.:47:42.

cross-examination of witnesses, the quality, the very poor quality of

:47:43.:47:45.

the documentation that's come out, we just want to know that when we

:47:46.:47:49.

get to the end of the trial, whatever that verdict is, and it

:47:50.:47:53.

could be either, we want to believe in it, trust in it, we want it to be

:47:54.:47:58.

a safe verdict to use the legal terminology. Right now, I don't

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think we have that level of confidence and really things have

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got to move up a notch or two or three before we could ever get to

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the point where we would have confidence. We wish you the very

:48:10.:48:13.

best and we're very sorry for your loss. Thank you very much. Thank

:48:14.:48:16.

you. Thank you. Thank you for talking to us.

:48:17.:48:22.

A spokesperson from the Foreign Office has told us, "Our sympathies

:48:23.:48:25.

have been with the Groves family since Sarah's tragic death

:48:26.:48:27.

and we will continue to help them however we can.

:48:28.:48:29.

We have been providing support to them since her death

:48:30.:48:32.

and are in regular contact, liaising with the Indian

:48:33.:48:34.

With all the Christmas TV over for another year -

:48:35.:48:41.

January feels like a good time to go to the cinema and check out

:48:42.:48:45.

all the new films being released just in time for the awards season.

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The Oscars are next month and this year's top contenders

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include La La Land, Lion, Manchester by the Sea

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And with two of the big releases, Moonlight and Loving,

:48:55.:49:02.

tackling race issues and featuring diverse casts, is Hollywood

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finally responding to the criticism of racism?

:49:06.:49:06.

In 2016, for the second year in a row, all of the acting nominees

:49:07.:49:10.

at the Academy Awards were white, sparking an outcry and

:49:11.:49:12.

the Oscars So White movement with some actors boycotting

:49:13.:49:14.

We will discuss that in just a moment but first let's take a look

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It's conflict and it's compromise and it is very, very exciting.

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I believe that the characters that read about on the page end up

:50:06.:50:34.

being more real than the men who stand beside us.

:50:35.:50:52.

By the power invested in me by the district of Colombia, I now

:50:53.:50:55.

What are you doing in bed with that woman?

:50:56.:51:10.

Let's talk now to film critic, Ros Try-Hane, and in the US,

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Thank you for joining us. I want to run through because a lot of titles

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we will not be familiar with obviously, but they will become the

:51:32.:51:36.

big names to watch for the Oscars. Let's start with La La Land. It is

:51:37.:51:40.

out on 13th January and there has been so much hype around it. It was

:51:41.:51:47.

in the Venice Film Festival. It is a feast to the eyes. Ryan Gosling and

:51:48.:51:54.

Emma Stone. Beautiful, old school glamour Hollywood. That's lovely.

:51:55.:52:04.

Nocturnal Animals, is big. Hackshaw Ridge, Mel Gibson. An amazing story

:52:05.:52:12.

of courage as well as loving which deals with courage and who do you

:52:13.:52:18.

want to love, have the power to love in 1950s America. So that's an

:52:19.:52:24.

incredible story and Fences which is relevant to today with lost

:52:25.:52:31.

children, with the refugee crisis. A little five-year-old boy gets lost

:52:32.:52:36.

in Calcutta gets adopted by an Australian family. It is one to

:52:37.:52:40.

watch. An extraordinary every day story rather than a by optic or

:52:41.:52:46.

space movie. There is some British interest in the form of Rebecca Hall

:52:47.:52:53.

playing a news reporter... Yes. That's Christine. That will be, a

:52:54.:53:02.

difficult film to watch, I think. But also it touches on depression

:53:03.:53:07.

and an interesting story. A story that's not told every day. I think

:53:08.:53:13.

that's, at least, it seems like more diverse stories are coming ot of

:53:14.:53:17.

Hollywood rather than relying on the tried and tested ever since the

:53:18.:53:21.

Oscars So White campaign came out last year. We mentioned the Oscars

:53:22.:53:26.

So White last year. There is interesting themes in some of the

:53:27.:53:30.

movies this year that would sort of presumably make what happened last

:53:31.:53:35.

year at the Oscars, a thing of last year and for it to be different this

:53:36.:53:38.

year because there are issues of race being looked at in some of the

:53:39.:53:43.

movies. They won't have gone into production so quickly that it is in

:53:44.:53:47.

response to what happened... Definitely not. What do you think

:53:48.:53:53.

about it? There is a move away now from just focussing on race, but the

:53:54.:53:58.

diversity argument on discussion stills feel like we are focussing on

:53:59.:54:03.

race or sex, diversity for me means also looking at other stories.

:54:04.:54:08.

Telling maybe the same story, but in a different way, different

:54:09.:54:12.

experiences. Non-white, different cultures as well. So I feel that you

:54:13.:54:18.

know, Lion does this well because it is not necessarily just about an

:54:19.:54:23.

Indian boy being adopted bay white couple in Australia. It is about a

:54:24.:54:27.

family. It is about loss. It is about universal things. Loving,

:54:28.:54:37.

whilst it is a couple, they trance centre the narrative and they look

:54:38.:54:41.

at universal issues of love. I think that helps. The story of Loving is a

:54:42.:54:49.

fascinating one. 1958, they married against the laws. They were

:54:50.:54:55.

convicted. That's an interesting look at American history and the

:54:56.:55:02.

race laws Noah in that history? Absolutely. Here in the US it has

:55:03.:55:08.

been a tumultuous year on screen and off. During the Oscars So White

:55:09.:55:17.

campaign earlier in 2016, a movie called Birth Of The Nation was

:55:18.:55:20.

released. Many people saw it as a correction to the problem of

:55:21.:55:26.

diversity in Hollywood. This was a film about the slave vote led by

:55:27.:55:30.

Matt Turner two centuries ago and the film was bought for a huge

:55:31.:55:37.

amount of money and kind of primed for Oscars season and it has fallen

:55:38.:55:42.

of the map because of allegations against its writer, director and

:55:43.:55:44.

star, but Loving is a film that could come in and get a lot of

:55:45.:55:49.

attention here in award season. It is a really beautiful, slow, sturdy

:55:50.:55:55.

film about two people who happen to make history simply because of their

:55:56.:55:58.

marriage and their love for each other. It is in not an overtly

:55:59.:56:04.

political film, but it packs a political punch through its human

:56:05.:56:07.

characters all the same. I think a couple of other racial films that

:56:08.:56:11.

could get a lot of attention in the next two months are Fences and

:56:12.:56:20.

Moonlight. Fences is directed and stars Denzil Washington. It is about

:56:21.:56:25.

a black family in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and Moonlight is a very

:56:26.:56:31.

personal and emotional film about a young, gay black man growing up in

:56:32.:56:35.

inner city Miami and we will be hearing more about those over the

:56:36.:56:38.

coming months. So what do you think the impact and fall-out of the

:56:39.:56:43.

Oscars So White controversy has been? Well, as you said, that

:56:44.:56:47.

happened too recently for it to have any impact on the actual production

:56:48.:56:51.

of these film, but when the Academy starts to vote, which they already

:56:52.:56:55.

have, for their nominees, I think it will be something that they will

:56:56.:57:03.

keep in mind. They don't want the embarrassment of nominating one or

:57:04.:57:07.

two African-American actors or film-makers this year. So with a

:57:08.:57:10.

glut of terrific racial films to choose from, I think it is verien

:57:11.:57:15.

lookly that we will behaving the same discussion come awards night

:57:16.:57:18.

next month that we had at this time last year. They have changed the

:57:19.:57:23.

make up of who can vote, they have got new younger people in to join

:57:24.:57:27.

the voting committee, although, does it actually make a huge difference

:57:28.:57:30.

in terms of the numbers? Well, it hasn't yet. This has been an effort

:57:31.:57:34.

that's been going on for several years now to make the Academy

:57:35.:57:40.

membership young are and more diverse. Academy membership is for

:57:41.:57:46.

life, so yound up with older people making up the bulk of the academy.

:57:47.:57:52.

Some called that an ageist argument, but it is something the academy

:57:53.:57:57.

feels it needs to rectify, we will see a different crop of nominees and

:57:58.:58:01.

it could be this year. It is great to talk to you. Some great movies.

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If you could see one, which would it be? Loving. OK. The nominations for

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the Oscars are out on 24th January. I will see you soon. Victoria is

:58:11.:58:22.

here tomorrow. Have a lovely afternoon. Bye-bye.

:58:23.:58:32.

we've run at almost completely 100% capacity.

:58:33.:58:37.

We've got lots of patients now competing. There's no beds.

:58:38.:58:43.

I do the right thing all the time in this job,

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