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This morning Theresa May will tell business and political leaders | :00:09. | :00:17. | |
at the World Economic Forum meeting in the Swiss resort of Davos | :00:18. | :00:20. | |
It's the Prime Minister's first Brexit speech since she said | :00:21. | :00:26. | |
on Tuesday that Britain could not possibly stay in the single | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
Also, are the British press biased against Muslims? | :00:30. | :00:38. | |
Last month nine articles about Muslims in UK news | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
outlets were corrected after they were proven to be wrong, | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
We've been speaking exclusively to the activist waging a war | :00:44. | :00:49. | |
on the false reporting which he says breeds division across the country. | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
The Sunday Times article stated in its headline enclaves of Islam and | :00:56. | :01:07. | |
the UK is 75% Muslim, and it is about to report on integration | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
across the country. But what the report actually said was one school | :01:11. | :01:14. | |
had students who thought that the majority of the country were Asian. | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
Asian rather than Muslim? This year's secondary school league | :01:17. | :01:23. | |
tables are out shortly, and for the first time, | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
a new measure is being Attainment 8 assesses each | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
student's achievement across eight GCSE subjects, | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
while Progress 8 measures how they progress | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
through secondary school. The Government's aim is to focus | :01:36. | :01:36. | |
on pupils' development rather than just exam results, | :01:37. | :01:39. | |
but will it be any better? Welcome to the programme, | :01:40. | :01:41. | |
we're live until 11 this morning. Also, has clean eating | :01:42. | :01:55. | |
become a dirty word? Tonight a BBC programme calls | :01:56. | :02:01. | |
into question the advice of healthy eating gurus who have been telling | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
us to eat clean - eating food in its most natural state | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
and avoiding anything processed. We will be speaking to the Cambridge | :02:09. | :02:10. | |
scientist taking on the gurus Have you tried clean | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
eating - are you a fan? Do get in touch on that | :02:14. | :02:21. | |
and all the stories we're talking about this morning - | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
use the hashtag #Victorialive and If you text, | :02:27. | :02:28. | |
you will be charged at the standard Several people have been | :02:29. | :02:30. | |
killed after a hotel Up to 30 guests and staff | :02:31. | :02:38. | |
were in the Rigo-piano Hotel on San Grasso mountain | :02:39. | :02:43. | |
in the central Abruzzo region. The avalanche was triggered | :02:44. | :02:45. | |
by a series of powerful earthquakes Rescuers are having to ski | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
to the hotel as roads Let's speak to Andrea | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
Vogt, a freelance Andrea, what are you hearing about | :02:52. | :03:00. | |
this? There is a very complex rescue operation under way. As you | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
mentioned, the first rescuers arrived on skis, and all of the | :03:07. | :03:09. | |
emergency vehicles have not been able to get through to the site. | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
There are believed to be up to 30 people, seven staff, and the rest | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
were guest at the hotel when the earthquake and then the avalanche | :03:19. | :03:22. | |
hit, so right now several people have been airlifted out with | :03:23. | :03:33. | |
hypothermia. There were below freezing temperatures during the | :03:34. | :03:36. | |
night, and the hotel was covered with snow and debris, part of it did | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
collapse, so very difficult conditions to survive in, and there | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
are fears that many may have perished after this earthquake | :03:47. | :03:52. | |
triggered an avalanche. It has just been hammered. Tell us more about | :03:53. | :03:59. | |
the area. Is it a popular area, a busy area with skiers? No, it is | :04:00. | :04:10. | |
quite isolated, it is a long the Gran Sasso mountain. Some of these | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
people may be the people who were displaced by the original | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
earthquake. One of the first things the rescuers will try to do is to | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
get to the guest list, but it is a very remote area, mountainous and | :04:22. | :04:27. | |
remote and difficult to get in. You may be familiar with Amatrice where | :04:28. | :04:35. | |
the earthquakes hit last August, that church tower collapsed | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
yesterday, so what we are seeing is many of these buildings that were | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
made on stable by the first earthquakes are now collapsing | :04:42. | :04:47. | |
further, so lots of things, many hamlets have not been reached, but | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
rescuers are focused right now on this hotel that was completely | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
covered with debris and snow, about four metres of snow on site. Andrea, | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
thank you very much indeed far dating us. We will keep you updated | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
with the latest on that. But now let's catch up with the latest news | :05:04. | :05:09. | |
with Annita in the newsroom. Thank you very much. | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
Theresa May will tell world leaders in Davos this morning that the UK | :05:14. | :05:16. | |
It's her first visit to the World Economic Forum as Prime Minister. | :05:17. | :05:21. | |
Many in the audience will be hostile to her plan to take Britain out | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
Let's speak to Tanya Beckett in Davos. | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
Good morning. We heard Theresa May's Brexit speech on Tuesday. Will her | :05:27. | :05:35. | |
message be slightly different today for this audience? Yes, so she is | :05:36. | :05:44. | |
talking to a group of people who live and breathe capitalism and | :05:45. | :05:48. | |
trade, so she has to really set her store as being one which is open for | :05:49. | :05:52. | |
business. Yes, Britain might be leaving the European Union, however, | :05:53. | :05:58. | |
it is very much interested in doing deals elsewhere, and in order for | :05:59. | :06:03. | |
this to work well, for Brexit to work well, that needs to be very | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
much part of the deal, so she is going to be wanting to talk to banks | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
who have already said that if Britain is coming out of the single | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
market, they need to set up subsidiaries, and people have been | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
long thinking this is the case, with what remains of the EU. She is also | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
going to want to trade ministers from other countries -- talk to | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
trade ministers from other countries to do business as soon as they can, | :06:31. | :06:34. | |
and businesses will welcome what she had to say because it offers them | :06:35. | :06:37. | |
some degree of certainty, and they like that. Any other snippets that | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
she could offer in terms of what sort of deal she might do with the | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
EU would also be welcome. They have to make some practical decisions. | :06:48. | :06:51. | |
Then she will have to face representatives from other EU | :06:52. | :06:54. | |
countries, and that might be more tricky. Tanya Beckett in Davos, | :06:55. | :06:57. | |
thank you for that. We'll bring you that speech live | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
to you in the next few minutes. This is the scene, the podium where | :07:01. | :07:08. | |
she will make that speech, and we are expecting that to happen just a | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
few minutes after half past nine. We will bring that to you live. | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
There are reports of troops from Senegal entering | :07:18. | :07:19. | |
Gambia, as the political crisis there escalates. | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
The defeated President Yayha Jammeh has ignored a midnight deadline | :07:25. | :07:27. | |
to give way to the winner of last month's election, Adama Barrow. | :07:28. | :07:29. | |
West African military forces have been preparing to move in to enforce | :07:30. | :07:32. | |
1,000 British holiday-makers have returned home from Gambia | :07:33. | :07:36. | |
with the Foreign Office advising against all but essential | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
Scientists are working to deal with three diseases | :07:39. | :07:46. | |
they fear could become global health emergencies. | :07:47. | :07:48. | |
A group of charities and governments is spending more | :07:49. | :07:50. | |
than 370 million pounds to tackle Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
A girl who was kidnapped as a baby 18 years ago | :07:53. | :08:01. | |
has defended the woman who took her from | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
Lexis Manigo was abducted by Gloria Williams, a woman | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
Miss Manigo has praised her upbringing by the woman | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
I understand what she did was wrong, but just look at my life itself, you | :08:12. | :08:23. | |
know? I understand that one mistake, but it wasn't all bad. Everything | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
that came out of it was not bad. It would be wrong if I would say, no, I | :08:29. | :08:34. | |
don't want to get to know them, you know, curiosity, I will get to know | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
them, of course. . A British man who travelled | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
to America from the UK to have sex with boys has been sentenced to 13 | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
years in a US prison. 70-year-old Paul Charles Wilkins, | :08:48. | :08:51. | |
from Cambridgeshire flew to California in January 2016 | :08:52. | :08:52. | |
and was caught in an Bomb disposal teams were called at | :08:53. | :09:07. | |
almost 600 schools after warnings of a potentially hazardous material | :09:08. | :09:13. | |
used in chemistry lessons. The army carried out hundreds of controlled | :09:14. | :09:15. | |
explosions between October and December last year. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Today is Barack Obama's final day in office as Donald Trump | :09:20. | :09:22. | |
prepares to be sworn in as the 45th US president. | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
Yesterday, the first lady Michelle Obama, | :09:26. | :09:26. | |
was captured doing a final lap of the White House, as pictures | :09:27. | :09:29. | |
In his last press conference as head of state, Mr Obama said he looked | :09:30. | :09:37. | |
forward to spending more time with his wife and his | :09:38. | :09:40. | |
Man, my daughters are something. And they just surprise and enchant | :09:41. | :09:57. | |
and... Impress me more and more every single day as they grow up. | :09:58. | :10:00. | |
President Obama. That's a summary of the latest BBC | :10:01. | :10:04. | |
News - more at 9.30. Thank you very much, Annita. Later | :10:05. | :10:15. | |
in the programme, we will be talking to the finish winner of the X Factor | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
who has signed a deal with Sony. Lots to come between now and 11, | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
including a discussion on clean eating. What do you think about | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
that? Has it changed the way you eat? Do you feel like you should eat | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
more clean as a result of all the bloggers out there talking about | :10:38. | :10:39. | |
that? Do get in touch with us | :10:40. | :10:42. | |
throughout the morning - use the hashtag Victoria live | :10:43. | :10:45. | |
and If you text, you will be charged Now let's get the sport with Hugh. A | :10:46. | :10:56. | |
shock at the Australian open? Good morning, Joanna. | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
A huge shock at the Australian Open in the last hour - defending | :11:00. | :11:03. | |
He was beaten in five sets by the wild card | :11:04. | :11:07. | |
and world number 117, Denis Istomin from Uzbekistan. | :11:08. | :11:09. | |
Istomin took the first set, but Djokovic won the next two. | :11:10. | :11:14. | |
But he never really looked comfortable. | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
Istomin then took the fourth in a tiebreak to level | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
the match, going on to win the deciding set 6-4. | :11:22. | :11:23. | |
It took 4 hours and 48 minutes, but Istomin | :11:24. | :11:25. | |
And surely the biggest winner here is Andy Murray, | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
who's looking to win his first title in Melbourne. | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
His biggest challenger already out in the second round. | :11:33. | :11:39. | |
A word on the Brits - Johanna Konta says she's looking | :11:40. | :11:41. | |
forward to staying in Melbourne for 'as long as possible' - | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
The British Number One eased to victory over Naomi Osaka | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
of Japan in straight sets - to reach the third round, | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
where she'll face former World Number 1 Caroline Wozniaki. | :11:51. | :11:52. | |
There was bad news though for Heather Watson, defeated | :11:53. | :11:54. | |
by American qualifier Jennifer Brady. | :11:55. | :12:03. | |
Kyle Edmund had high hopes, too, but went out in straight sets | :12:04. | :12:06. | |
No big shocks in last month was Mike FA Cup? | :12:07. | :12:14. | |
-- last night's FA Cup? No, Jurgen Klopp was mad Liverpool made it | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
through, but a tinge of regret for Plymouth. Jake Jervis hit the post | :12:20. | :12:26. | |
of Liverpool in the second half of the replay, however Jurgen Klopp's | :12:27. | :12:32. | |
men move onto phase Wolverhampton Wanderers at Anfield on the fourth | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
round. Newcastle and Southampton also went through after their wings | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
last night. And Manchester United top of one | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
leak this morning? Yes, better news off the field than | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
on it, they have become the richest club in football once again for the | :12:48. | :12:51. | |
first time in 11 years. They go ahead of the European champions rail | :12:52. | :13:00. | |
-- Real Madrid, third richest is Barcelona. Eight Premier League | :13:01. | :13:06. | |
clubs make the top 20 of the football money list, including | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
Leicester City for the first time. And England's cricketers hoping to | :13:10. | :13:14. | |
level their one-day series with India, they won the toss and have | :13:15. | :13:20. | |
chosen to bowl, and India are 74-3 after 17 of their 50 overs. Thank | :13:21. | :13:23. | |
you very much, Hugh. Theresa May is about to | :13:24. | :13:29. | |
speak to world leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos | :13:30. | :13:31. | |
to reassure them that Britain is open for business post | :13:32. | :13:34. | |
Brexit, let's listen in. Theresa May is preparing for her | :13:35. | :13:48. | |
speech to world leaders in Davos. He said, you cannot have all the | :13:49. | :14:07. | |
advantages of being a member of the club if you are outside the club. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Theresa May said earlier in the week that no deal is better than a bad | :14:12. | :14:20. | |
deal, and the UK will not be a member of the single market going | :14:21. | :14:26. | |
forward. But she wants the message today to be an outward pitch to the | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
business leaders who will be there, the trade leaders, that Britain is | :14:30. | :14:30. | |
open for business, and wants new trade deals | :14:31. | :14:39. | |
as she looks ahead to global Britain, as she put it in her speech | :14:40. | :14:46. | |
on Brexit. We are expecting her to start to speak shortly on the | :14:47. | :14:55. | |
question of trade deals. For trade negotiations cannot begin until... | :14:56. | :15:01. | |
That is a picture of her earlier in the week with that catchline Global | :15:02. | :15:08. | |
Britain, but in terms of negotiating trade deals, formal negotiations | :15:09. | :15:17. | |
cannot begin until the UK is actually out of the European Union. | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
We are going to be speaking on the programme are little later to the | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
man widely tipped to be the next US ambassador to the EU, and he has | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
been speaking about the potential for a UK/ US trade deal which Donald | :15:36. | :15:42. | |
Trump himself raise just a few days ago, saying the formal negotiations | :15:43. | :15:46. | |
can't begin, but there is no reason why talks can't start, and he talks | :15:47. | :15:52. | |
potentially of a time frame of around 90 days to come up with some | :15:53. | :15:55. | |
sort of a deal, so it will be interesting to talk to him a little | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
bit later on the programme about that. We are still waiting for | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
Theresa May, so we will just move on, but we will go back as soon as | :16:03. | :16:05. | |
she starts to speak. President-elect Donald Trump takes | :16:06. | :16:12. | |
the oath of office tomorrow and it's thought about 900,000 people | :16:13. | :16:14. | |
are expected to gather in Washington But his supporters are | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
already on their way There will be a wreath laying | :16:18. | :16:20. | |
at Arlington National Cemetery with both Donald Trump and his | :16:21. | :16:23. | |
Vice President Mike Pence attending. So let's find out a bit more | :16:24. | :16:29. | |
about what's on the agenda The only thing we have to fear is | :16:30. | :17:56. | |
fear itself. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you | :17:57. | :17:58. | |
can do for your country. The inauguration is being boycotted | :17:59. | :18:31. | |
by some politicians, and in terms of the numbers going to the | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
inauguration, around 800,000 to 900,000 are expected to go, but that | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
compares with double the number actually when Barack Obama was | :18:45. | :18:52. | |
inaugurated. There has also been a lot made of the fact that various | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
performers were wanted for events who would not do it and we will be | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
speaking more about what is planned and what is anticipated on the eve | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
of Donald Trump's turning from ordinary citizen to the president. | :19:05. | :19:13. | |
We will be talking to the man who is widely tipped to be the United | :19:14. | :19:24. | |
States new ambassador to the EU. Theresa May has just arrived on | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
stage at Davos and so we will listen to her speech. | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
Thank you for the introduction and thank you for inviting me to speak | :19:34. | :19:40. | |
here at the World Economic Forum this morning. This is an | :19:41. | :19:45. | |
organisation that is, as it says in the very first line of your mission | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
statement, committed to improving the state of the world. Those of us | :19:50. | :19:55. | |
who meet here are all by instinct and outlook optimists who believe in | :19:56. | :20:03. | |
the power of public and private cooperation to make the world of | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
tomorrow better than the world of today. And we are all united in our | :20:09. | :20:16. | |
belief that that world will be built on the foundations of free trade, | :20:17. | :20:26. | |
partnership and globalisation. Yet beyond the confines of this hall, | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
those forces for good that we so often take for granted are being | :20:30. | :20:39. | |
called into question. The forces of liberalism, free trade and | :20:40. | :20:41. | |
globalisation that have had and continue to have such an | :20:42. | :20:47. | |
overwhelmingly positive impact on our world, that have harnessed | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
unprecedented levels of wealth and opportunity, that have lifted | :20:51. | :20:56. | |
millions out of poverty around the world, that have brought nations | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
closer together, broken down barriers and improved standards of | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
living and consumer choice, forces that underpins the rules -based | :21:05. | :21:11. | |
international system that is key to global prosperity and security, are | :21:12. | :21:18. | |
somehow at risk of being undermined. And as we meet here, this morning, | :21:19. | :21:24. | |
across Europe, parties of the far left and the far right are seeking | :21:25. | :21:31. | |
to exploit this opportunity. During support by feeding off an underlying | :21:32. | :21:37. | |
and keenly felt sense among some people, often those on modest to low | :21:38. | :21:42. | |
incomes, living in relatively rich countries around the West, that | :21:43. | :21:46. | |
these forces are not working for them. And those parties who embrace | :21:47. | :21:53. | |
the politics of division and despair, who offer easy answers, who | :21:54. | :21:58. | |
claim to understand people's problems and always know what and | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
who to blame, feed of something else as well. The sense among the public | :22:03. | :22:08. | |
that mainstream political and business leaders have failed to | :22:09. | :22:12. | |
comprehend there are legitimate concerns for too long. This morning, | :22:13. | :22:21. | |
I want to set out a manifesto for change, that responds to these | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
concerns, and shows that the politics of the mainstream can | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
deliver the change people need. I want to show how, by taking a new | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
approach, that harnesses the good of what works and what changes -- and | :22:36. | :22:40. | |
changes what does not we can maintain and can build support for | :22:41. | :22:47. | |
the rules -based international system. And I want to explain how, | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
as we do so, the United Kingdom, a country that has so often been at | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
the forefront of economic and social change, will step up to a new | :22:58. | :23:02. | |
leadership role as the strongest and most forceful advocate for business, | :23:03. | :23:07. | |
free markets and free trade anywhere in the world. For that is the unique | :23:08. | :23:17. | |
opportunity that Britain now has. I speak to you this morning as the | :23:18. | :23:21. | |
Prime Minister of a country that faces the future with confidence. | :23:22. | :23:26. | |
For a little over six months ago, millions of my fellow citizens upset | :23:27. | :23:32. | |
the odds by voting with determination and quiet resolve to | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
leave the European Union, and embrace the world. Let us not | :23:37. | :23:46. | |
underestimate the magnitude of that decision, it means Britain must face | :23:47. | :23:52. | |
up to a period of momentous change. We must go through a tough | :23:53. | :23:55. | |
negotiation and forge a new Rol for ourselves in the world full of it | :23:56. | :23:59. | |
means accepting that the road ahead will be uncertain at times, but | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
believing that it leads towards a brighter future for our country's | :24:05. | :24:10. | |
children and grandchildren, too. So while it would have been easy for | :24:11. | :24:13. | |
the British people to shy away from taking such a path, they fixed their | :24:14. | :24:19. | |
eyes on that brighter future, and chose a bold, ambitious course, | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
instead, they chose to build a truly global Britain. I know that this and | :24:25. | :24:30. | |
the other reasons Britain took such a decision is not always well | :24:31. | :24:36. | |
understood internationally, particularly among our friends and | :24:37. | :24:40. | |
allies in Europe. Some of our European partners feel that we have | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
turned our back on them, and I know many fear what our decision means | :24:45. | :24:49. | |
for the future of the US itself. But as I said in my speech earlier this | :24:50. | :24:53. | |
week, arid decision to leave the European Union was no rejection of | :24:54. | :24:59. | |
our friends in Europe with whom we share common interests and values | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
and so much else. -- our decision. It was no attempt to become more | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
distant from them, or to seize the corporation that has helped to keep | :25:09. | :25:15. | |
our continent secure and strong. Nor was it an attempt to undermine the | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
European Union itself. It remains overwhelmingly and compellingly in | :25:23. | :25:26. | |
Britain's national interest that the EU as an organisation should | :25:27. | :25:35. | |
succeed. It would simply restore as we see it Parliamentary democracy | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
and national self-determination. A vote to take control and make | :25:38. | :25:45. | |
decisions for ourselves. And crucially, to become even more | :25:46. | :25:49. | |
global and internationalist in action and in spirit as well. | :25:50. | :25:54. | |
Because that is who we are, as a nation. Britain's history and | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
culture is profoundly internationalist. We are a European | :25:59. | :26:04. | |
country, and proud of our shared European heritage. But we are also a | :26:05. | :26:10. | |
country that has always looked beyond Europe, into the wider world. | :26:11. | :26:15. | |
That is why we are among the most racially diverse countries in | :26:16. | :26:18. | |
Europe, one of the most multicultural members of the | :26:19. | :26:23. | |
European Union. And why, whether we are talking about India, Pakistan, | :26:24. | :26:28. | |
Bangladesh, America, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, countries in | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
Africa, Asia, or those closer to home in Europe, so many of us have | :26:32. | :26:36. | |
close friends and relatives from across the world. And it is why we | :26:37. | :26:42. | |
are by instinct a greater global trading nation that seeks to trade | :26:43. | :26:47. | |
with countries not just in Europe but beyond Europe as well. So at the | :26:48. | :26:53. | |
heart of the plan, I set out earlier this week, is a determination to | :26:54. | :26:59. | |
pursue a bold and ambitious free trade agreement between the UK and | :27:00. | :27:05. | |
the European Union. But more than that, we seek the freedom to strike | :27:06. | :27:10. | |
new trade deals with old friends and new allies, right around the world | :27:11. | :27:17. | |
as well. I am pleased we have already started discussions on | :27:18. | :27:21. | |
future trade ties with countries like Australia, New Zealand and | :27:22. | :27:25. | |
India. Countries including China, Brazil and the Gulf states have | :27:26. | :27:30. | |
already expressed their interest in striking trade deals with us. It is | :27:31. | :27:35. | |
about embracing genuine free trade, because that is the basis of our | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
prosperity. But also, the best way to cement the multilateral | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
partnerships and cooperation that helped to build a better world. For | :27:45. | :27:52. | |
the challenges we face, like terrorism, climate change and modern | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
slavery, don't stop at national borders. Nor do they stop at the | :27:57. | :28:03. | |
borders of continents. The challenges and opportunities before | :28:04. | :28:07. | |
us require us to look outwards in a spirit of cooperation and | :28:08. | :28:12. | |
partnership. That is why, as I said in my speech on Tuesday, I want the | :28:13. | :28:17. | |
UK to emerge from this period of change as a truly global Britain. | :28:18. | :28:23. | |
The best friend and neighbour to our European partners, but a country | :28:24. | :28:26. | |
that reaches beyond the borders of Europe, too, a country that gets out | :28:27. | :28:31. | |
into the world, to build relationships with old friends and | :28:32. | :28:37. | |
new allies alike. And that is exactly what we are going to do. We | :28:38. | :28:42. | |
are going to be a confident country, that is in control of its own | :28:43. | :28:47. | |
destiny once again. It is because of that that we will be in a position | :28:48. | :28:52. | |
to act in this global role. Because a country in control of its own | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
destiny is more, not less able, to play a full role in underpinning and | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
strengthening the multilateral rules -based system. A global Britain is | :29:03. | :29:09. | |
no less British because we are a hub for foreign investment, indeed, our | :29:10. | :29:15. | |
biggest manufacturer, Tata, is Indian, and you still cannot get | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
more British than a Jaguar, or a Land Rover. Britain is no less | :29:19. | :29:22. | |
British because it is home to people from around the world, in fact, we | :29:23. | :29:27. | |
derive so much of our strength from our diversity, we are a multiracial, | :29:28. | :29:33. | |
multiethnic, multi-faith democracy. We are proud of it. Britain is no | :29:34. | :29:38. | |
less British because we have led the way in multilateral organisations | :29:39. | :29:44. | |
like the UN, Nato, IMF and the World Bank over many years. Membership of | :29:45. | :29:50. | |
these bodies over the years magnifies all their members ability | :29:51. | :29:54. | |
to advance the common goods of peace, prosperity and security. I | :29:55. | :29:59. | |
believe strongly in a rules -based global order. The establishment of | :30:00. | :30:05. | |
the institutions that gave effect to it in the mid-20th century was a | :30:06. | :30:10. | |
crucial foundation for much of the growing peace and prosperity the | :30:11. | :30:11. | |
world has enjoyed. And the tragic history of the first | :30:12. | :30:22. | |
half of the last century reminds us of the cost of those institutions' | :30:23. | :30:27. | |
absence. The litany of follies of that time, the mistakes that we | :30:28. | :30:30. | |
should never forget and never repeat. So we must uphold the | :30:31. | :30:36. | |
institutions that enable the nations of the world to work together, and | :30:37. | :30:42. | |
we must continue to promote international corporation wherever | :30:43. | :30:46. | |
we can. One example of that is modern slavery. A scourge of our | :30:47. | :30:52. | |
world, which we can only defeat if we work together. Changing | :30:53. | :30:57. | |
attitudes, rooting out such abhorrent practices and prosecuting | :30:58. | :31:03. | |
the perpetrators. That is why at Davos this year I have convened a | :31:04. | :31:07. | |
high-level panel discussion to continue our co-ordinated effort to | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
save those many lives which are tragically being stolen. | :31:14. | :31:20. | |
International cooperation is vital, but we must never forget that our | :31:21. | :31:26. | |
first responsibility as governments is to serve the people, and it is my | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
firm belief that we as governments, international institutions, as Mrs | :31:33. | :31:37. | |
and individuals, need to do more to respond to the concerns of those who | :31:38. | :31:42. | |
feel that the modern world has left them behind. So in Britain, we have | :31:43. | :31:47. | |
embarked on an ambitious programme of economic and social reform that | :31:48. | :31:53. | |
aims to ensure that as we build this global Britain, we are able to take | :31:54. | :32:00. | |
people with us. A programme that aims to show how a strong Britain | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
abroad can be a better Britain at home. Because talk of greater | :32:04. | :32:09. | |
globalisation can make people fearful. For many, it means their | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
jobs being outsourced and wages undercut. It means having to sit | :32:15. | :32:21. | |
back as they watch their communities change around them, and in their | :32:22. | :32:24. | |
minds, it means watching as those who prosper seem to play by a | :32:25. | :32:30. | |
different set of rules while for many life remains a struggle as they | :32:31. | :32:36. | |
get by, but don't necessarily get on. And these tensions and | :32:37. | :32:43. | |
differences are increasingly exposed and exploited through the expansion | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
of new technologies and the growth of social media. But if we are to | :32:47. | :32:53. | |
make the case for free markets, free trade and globalisation, as we must, | :32:54. | :32:59. | |
those of us who believe in them must face up to and respond to the | :33:00. | :33:04. | |
concerns people have. And we must work together to shape new policies | :33:05. | :33:09. | |
and approaches that demonstrate their capacity to deliver for all of | :33:10. | :33:13. | |
the people in our respective countries. I believe this challenge | :33:14. | :33:20. | |
demands a new approach from government, and it requires a new | :33:21. | :33:26. | |
approach from business, too. The government, it means not just | :33:27. | :33:33. | |
stepping back and as the prevailing orthodoxy in many countries has | :33:34. | :33:36. | |
argued for so many years, not just getting out of the way, not just | :33:37. | :33:40. | |
leaving businesses to get on with the job and assuming the problems | :33:41. | :33:44. | |
will just fix themselves. It means stepping up to a new active role | :33:45. | :33:48. | |
that backs businesses and ensures more people in all corners of the | :33:49. | :33:52. | |
country share in the benefits of its success. And from business, it means | :33:53. | :33:58. | |
doing even more to spread those benefits to more people. It means | :33:59. | :34:03. | |
playing by the same rules as everyone else when it comes to tax | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
and behaviour. Because in the UK, trust in business runs at just 35% | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
among those in the lowest income brackets. And it means putting aside | :34:14. | :34:21. | |
short-term considerations and investing in people and communities | :34:22. | :34:26. | |
for the long-term. These are all things that I know the vast majority | :34:27. | :34:29. | |
of businesses do already, not just creating jobs, supporting smaller | :34:30. | :34:37. | |
businesses, training and developing people, but also by working to give | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
something back to communities, and supporting the next generation. | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
Businesses large and small are the back bone of our economies, and | :34:45. | :34:49. | |
enterprise is the engine of our prosperity. That is why Britain is | :34:50. | :34:56. | |
and will always be open for business, open to investment in our | :34:57. | :35:00. | |
companies, infrastructure, universities and entrepreneurs. Open | :35:01. | :35:04. | |
to those who wants to buy art goods and services, and open to talent and | :35:05. | :35:09. | |
opportunities from the arts to technology, finance to | :35:10. | :35:14. | |
manufacturing. But at the same time as promoting this openness, we must | :35:15. | :35:20. | |
heed the underlying feeling that there are some companies, | :35:21. | :35:23. | |
particularly those with a global reach, who are playing by a | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
different set of rules to ordinary working people. So it is essential | :35:27. | :35:31. | |
for business to demonstrate leadership, to show that in this | :35:32. | :35:37. | |
globalised world, everyone is playing by the same rules, and that | :35:38. | :35:42. | |
the benefits of economic success are there for all our citizens. This | :35:43. | :35:48. | |
work is absolutely crucial if we are to maintain public consent for a | :35:49. | :35:52. | |
globalised economy and the businesses that operate within it. | :35:53. | :35:57. | |
That is why I have talked a great deal about our country delivering | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
yet higher standards of corporate governance to help make the UK the | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
best place to invest of any major economy. That means several things. | :36:08. | :36:11. | |
It means businesses paying their fair share of tax, recognising their | :36:12. | :36:17. | |
obligations and duties to their employees and supply chains, and | :36:18. | :36:22. | |
trading in the right way. Companies genuinely investing in and becoming | :36:23. | :36:26. | |
part of the communities and nations in which they operate, and abiding | :36:27. | :36:31. | |
by the responsibilities that implies. And all of us taking steps | :36:32. | :36:37. | |
towards addressing executive pay and accountability to shareholders. And | :36:38. | :36:42. | |
that is why I welcome the World Economic Forum's compact for | :36:43. | :36:49. | |
responsive and responsible leadership that business leaders are | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
being asked to sign up to at this conference. It is this change, | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
setting clear rules for businesses to operate by while embracing the | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
liberalism and free trade that enable them to thrive, which will | :37:02. | :37:05. | |
allow us to conserve the ultimate good that is a globalised economy. I | :37:06. | :37:11. | |
have no doubt at all about the vital role business plays, not just in the | :37:12. | :37:16. | |
economic life of a nation, but in society, too. But to respond to that | :37:17. | :37:24. | |
sense of anxiety people feel, I believe we, business and government | :37:25. | :37:28. | |
working together, need to do even more to make the case. That is why | :37:29. | :37:35. | |
in Britain we are developing a new, modern, industrial strategy. The | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
term industrial strategy has fallen into something approaching disrepute | :37:41. | :37:44. | |
in recent years, but I believe such a strategy that addresses the | :37:45. | :37:47. | |
long-standing and structural weaknesses in our economy is | :37:48. | :37:52. | |
essential if we are to promote the benefits of free markets and free | :37:53. | :37:57. | |
trade as we wish. Our strategy is not about propping up failing | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
industries or picking winners, but creating the conditions where | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
winners can emerge and grow. It is about backing those winners all the | :38:09. | :38:13. | |
waiting courage than to invest in the long-term future of Britain, and | :38:14. | :38:18. | |
about delivering jobs and economic growth to every community and corner | :38:19. | :38:23. | |
of the country. We can't leave all of this to international market | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
forces alone, or just rely on an increase in overall prosperity. | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
Instead, we have to be practical and proactive. In other words, we have | :38:33. | :38:38. | |
to step up and take control to ensure that free trade and | :38:39. | :38:44. | |
globalisation work for everyone. At the same time, we have embarked on | :38:45. | :38:49. | |
an ambitious agenda of social reform that embraces the same principles. | :38:50. | :38:53. | |
Active, engaged government that steps up and works for everyone. | :38:54. | :38:58. | |
Because if you are someone who is just managing, just getting by, you | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
don't need a government that will get out of the way. You need an | :39:03. | :39:07. | |
active government that will step up and champion the things that matter | :39:08. | :39:14. | |
to you. Governments traditionally have been good at identifying, if | :39:15. | :39:18. | |
not always addressing, the problems and challenges faced by the least | :39:19. | :39:23. | |
advantage in our societies. However, the mission I have laid out for the | :39:24. | :39:29. | |
government I lead to make Britain a country that works for everyone goes | :39:30. | :39:32. | |
further. It is to build something that I have called the shared | :39:33. | :39:38. | |
society. One that doesn't just value our individual rights, but focuses | :39:39. | :39:42. | |
rather more on the responsibilities we have to one another. That | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
respects the bonds that people share, the bonds of family, | :39:48. | :39:52. | |
community, citizenship and strong institutions. And that recognises | :39:53. | :40:00. | |
the obligations we have as citizens, obligations that make our society | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
work. It is these bonds and obligations that make our society | :40:06. | :40:10. | |
strong and answer our basic human need for definition and identity. | :40:11. | :40:17. | |
And I am absolutely clear that it is the job of government to encourage | :40:18. | :40:21. | |
and nurture the Relay ships, networks and institutions that | :40:22. | :40:27. | |
provide that definition and to correct the injustice and unfairness | :40:28. | :40:30. | |
that divides us wherever it is found. Too often today, the | :40:31. | :40:37. | |
responsibilities we have to one another have been forgotten as the | :40:38. | :40:42. | |
cult of individualism has taken hold. And globalisation and the | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
democratisation of communications has encouraged people to look beyond | :40:48. | :40:54. | |
their own communities and immediate networks in the name of joining a | :40:55. | :40:59. | |
broader global community. To say this is not to argue against | :41:00. | :41:02. | |
globalisation, nor the benefits it rings. From modern travel and modern | :41:03. | :41:07. | |
media to new product in our shops and new opportunities for British | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
companies to export their goods to millions of customers all around the | :41:12. | :41:17. | |
world. But, just as we need to act to address the deeply felt sense of | :41:18. | :41:20. | |
economic inequality that has emerged in recent years, so we also need to | :41:21. | :41:27. | |
recognise the way in which more global and individualistic world can | :41:28. | :41:33. | |
sometimes loosen the ties that bind our society together, leaving some | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
people feeling locked out and left behind. I am determined to make sure | :41:38. | :41:44. | |
that centre ground mainstream politics correspondent to the | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
concerns people have today. I am determined to stand up for free | :41:50. | :41:56. | |
markets, free trade and globalisation, but also to show how | :41:57. | :42:00. | |
these forces can work for everyone. And to do so, I turn to the words of | :42:01. | :42:06. | |
the 18th-century force of Edmund Burke, who said: A state without the | :42:07. | :42:14. | |
means of some change is without the means of its own conservation. That | :42:15. | :42:21. | |
great Conservative principle, change in order to conserve, is more | :42:22. | :42:24. | |
important than ever in today's Plex geopolitical environment. And I feel | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
it is of huge relevance to those of us here in Davos this week. And it | :42:32. | :42:37. | |
is the principle that guides me as I leave Britain through this period of | :42:38. | :42:44. | |
change. As we build a new, bold, confident, global Britain and shape | :42:45. | :42:47. | |
a new era of globalisation that genuinely works for all. As we | :42:48. | :42:54. | |
harness the forces of globalisation, so that the system works for | :42:55. | :42:58. | |
everyone, and so maintain public support for that system for | :42:59. | :43:04. | |
generations to come. I want that to be the legacy of our time. To use | :43:05. | :43:11. | |
this moment to provide responsive, responsible leadership that will | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
bring the benefits of free trade to every corner of the world, that will | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
lift millions more out of poverty and towards prosperity, and that | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
will deliver security, prosperity and belonging for all of our people. | :43:27. | :43:30. | |
Thank you. APPLAUSE | :43:31. | :43:38. | |
Theresa May addressing the audience in Davos. Business leaders and trade | :43:39. | :43:45. | |
leaders among them, and the message that there has been a manifesto for | :43:46. | :43:48. | |
change, that she wants to put forward the politics of the | :43:49. | :43:52. | |
mainstream, she says can deliver the change people need. She says that | :43:53. | :43:55. | |
the UK will be stepping up to a new leadership role as the advocate for | :43:56. | :43:59. | |
free trade and global markets because the UK now has a unique | :44:00. | :44:05. | |
position, but she said it is in Britain's national interest that the | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
EU should succeed. Let's get some reaction to that speech. | :44:10. | :44:12. | |
We can go live to Norman Smith in Westminster now. | :44:13. | :44:14. | |
That combination of championing the UK's interests while trying not to | :44:15. | :44:21. | |
alienate partners in Europe? I thought it interesting, because we | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
knew that Theresa May was going to stress how Brexit would lead to a | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
more global, outward looking, confident Britain. What I didn't | :44:31. | :44:36. | |
expect was so much emphasis on the downside of globalisation and, if | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
you like, implicit criticism of many of those in her audience who are, if | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
you like, the international elite, saying in effect that too many | :44:46. | :44:48. | |
bosses of big companies with global reach were not playing by the rules, | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
were not paying their fair taxes, were not taking on board their | :44:54. | :44:58. | |
social responsibility, and were not spreading the benefits of growth and | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
wealth, and that is quite a tough message when you are talking about | :45:03. | :45:05. | |
people sitting there in front of you. And it matters, because she | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
needs those people to be on board for Brexit, bluntly because they | :45:10. | :45:14. | |
have in their hands thousands and thousands of jobs here in Britain, | :45:15. | :45:19. | |
they bring in billions of pounds of investment. These people matter, and | :45:20. | :45:25. | |
Theresa May needs them to be confident about Brexit. And she had | :45:26. | :45:30. | |
a fairly blunt message for them, which is you guys need to shake up | :45:31. | :45:36. | |
the way you operate. You can't carry on as before. Because this is what | :45:37. | :45:42. | |
she called cult of the individual and globalisation, people frankly | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
feel left behind it, it is weakening the bonds of communities. So it was | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
a fairly direct message to the international elite in front of her, | :45:52. | :45:54. | |
that they have got to change their ways. Thank you, Norman. | :45:55. | :46:01. | |
Almost one in 10 secondary schools are under-performing, | :46:02. | :46:02. | |
that's according to Government figures out in the last few minutes. | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
Statistics show that nearly 300 secondaries in England are falling | :46:06. | :46:08. | |
below a new Government target that measures pupils' progress | :46:09. | :46:10. | |
and achievement over eight GCSE subjects. | :46:11. | :46:11. | |
For the first time this year, schools have not been judged | :46:12. | :46:14. | |
on the proportion of pupils scoring at least five C grades at GCSE. | :46:15. | :46:17. | |
Instead, there is a new headline measure called "progress 8." | :46:18. | :46:26. | |
What exactly has changed? For many years, schools were judged on how | :46:27. | :46:37. | |
may people got five GCSEs, including Maths and English, at Grade A* to C. | :46:38. | :46:42. | |
Now, in England, there are two new measures: Progress eight and | :46:43. | :46:49. | |
Attainment eight. So what does this mean? Progress eight is how far a | :46:50. | :46:52. | |
child has progressed from the end of primary school to their GCSEs. It | :46:53. | :46:54. | |
shows whether a student has performed to expectation. And | :46:55. | :46:58. | |
Attainment eight is the results from a pupil's best eight GCSEs including | :46:59. | :47:09. | |
Maths and English So why is this happening now? It's argued that five | :47:10. | :47:12. | |
GCSEs was too narrow a measure to judge how well schools were doing. | :47:13. | :47:14. | |
So it's thought to be fairer to see a pupil's best achievement across a | :47:15. | :47:17. | |
broader spectrum of subjects. But not everybody is happy. Critics have | :47:18. | :47:19. | |
argued that the new system is too complicated for parents and children | :47:20. | :47:22. | |
to understand. Let's talk now to our education correspondent Gillian | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
Hargreaves. Before we talk more about the results just out, first of | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
all, is there much controversy over this system? Schools and head | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
teachers have long argued that a raw score of how well your pupils have | :47:35. | :47:40. | |
done in their GCSEs was not sophisticated enough, there is a | :47:41. | :47:45. | |
school and -- School in Stoke-on-Trent that was told that it | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
required improvement, it is not at the standard that the government | :47:50. | :47:52. | |
says it should be. This morning, on its website, it shows | :47:53. | :48:07. | |
that it's Progress eight score is+0.25 and that will show parents | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
that it is above average and the progress made from the age of 11 to | :48:12. | :48:16. | |
16 is above average, doing very well. That is the sort of example I | :48:17. | :48:20. | |
think of what we are now going to see, a more sophisticated tool. The | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
union state this is great but they say it should not be the only tool | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
with which parents judge a school, they need to look in the round at | :48:29. | :48:31. | |
the curriculum, whether it is the right place for their child. Might | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
be too soon for there to have been a wider evaluation for the new figures | :48:36. | :48:39. | |
to indicate whether there are many more schools like this, which have | :48:40. | :48:42. | |
shifted their place on the tables? 282 schools have not | :48:43. | :49:02. | |
met the minimum level. That is a lower number than last year, it | :49:03. | :49:06. | |
would be comparing apples and pears. Schools are getting better, but it | :49:07. | :49:12. | |
is a bit early yet to see which ones may have done well in the past and | :49:13. | :49:20. | |
are now plummeting. If you start with pupils who are getting good | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
attainment and then they get it, where does that get you? Schools, if | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
they have always had high colour calibre pupils in the past, what | :49:30. | :49:33. | |
they have not been doing is comparing themselves to other | :49:34. | :49:37. | |
schools with very able pupils. -- high calibre pupils. What progress | :49:38. | :49:43. | |
children make is being measured here, comparing children of similar | :49:44. | :49:47. | |
abilities across England. So, yes, if a school in the past has always | :49:48. | :49:53. | |
had very able pupils, it cannot rest on its laurels, because it will be | :49:54. | :49:56. | |
exposed by the new measure. Now we can speak with a month of four, | :49:57. | :50:00. | |
these kids will be affected by the new measures. -- mum of four. And | :50:01. | :50:13. | |
Alison Critchley, Chief Executive of RSA Academies which has seven | :50:14. | :50:15. | |
schools in the West Midland, who also has three daughters at | :50:16. | :50:17. | |
secondary school. You have the raft of schools and the authority, do you | :50:18. | :50:19. | |
know how Have any schools in your area | :50:20. | :50:23. | |
shifted position? Yes, as Gillian has described, addicted elite | :50:24. | :50:28. | |
schools that have served communities with people red children who have | :50:29. | :50:31. | |
come in struggling, the progress that the children make in those | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
schools is really recognised by this new measure, because it judges | :50:36. | :50:38. | |
progress made rather than purely results they get at the end. And | :50:39. | :50:42. | |
also, where schools are stretching the more able, that performance is | :50:43. | :50:50. | |
rewarded. It has definitely made a difference to where schools are | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
appearing on and acknowledging... Can you give us some specific | :50:56. | :50:58. | |
examples, has there been a dramatic shift? Yes, so, with one of our | :50:59. | :51:04. | |
schools, always around the average in terms of the proportion of | :51:05. | :51:10. | |
children getting five GCSEs at ATC grade, I have not checked on the | :51:11. | :51:12. | |
finalised version but it is now something like +0.4. Just above | :51:13. | :51:26. | |
average? -- A-C grade. If you were at +0.5 then it would mean that you | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
are getting one great above what you expect in four of your GCSEs, it is | :51:31. | :51:36. | |
about a grade in half of the GCSEs higher, it is a difficult message to | :51:37. | :51:40. | |
understand, that is the difficulty in explaining what zero point for | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
actually means. You have four children, do you understand it? I | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
have been given the low down by my eldest daughter, doing their GCSEs | :51:50. | :51:52. | |
this year, she will be in the first batch to do a harder exam, I kind of | :51:53. | :51:57. | |
understand where this is coming from and I understand the league table | :51:58. | :52:01. | |
ranking a little bit better than most parents. Yes, I think in a way | :52:02. | :52:08. | |
it is great, it allows better students to perform and show off | :52:09. | :52:15. | |
their academic capabilities. You have four... So you will be looking | :52:16. | :52:20. | |
at a new school for your child who is in year six, will this change the | :52:21. | :52:25. | |
way that you pick a school? To be honest, no, I look at the whole | :52:26. | :52:30. | |
thing, not just results, but the environment, the teachers, does it | :52:31. | :52:38. | |
look happy and school, and the curriculum itself. -- does the | :52:39. | :52:45. | |
school look happy. You think it is a good new system. Any potential | :52:46. | :52:54. | |
snags? Certainly an improvement on the five A-C measure because it | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
reflects progress, if you are trying to reduce everything a school does | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
down to one number, and rank them from top to bottom, there is no | :53:06. | :53:13. | |
measure that would show that. Making a decision about a school, you need | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
to visit. The other risk and potential downside about it is how | :53:18. | :53:23. | |
schools respond to the measure, awful lot of pressure on schools, on | :53:24. | :53:29. | |
heads, on governors, to get the best they can, and part of it is about | :53:30. | :53:38. | |
the GCSEs that children take. As well as having to do English and | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
maths, the children how to do three more subjects from the back | :53:43. | :53:47. | |
subjects, and so schools are being encouraged to put children in for | :53:48. | :53:49. | |
geography and sciences and modern foreign languages. -- eBacc. That | :53:50. | :53:53. | |
would suit lots of children, but for others, more vocational offers, | :53:54. | :53:59. | |
perhaps a better option, so look at the curriculum, so that you can get | :54:00. | :54:08. | |
them test Progress eight score. -- so you can get the best Progress | :54:09. | :54:14. | |
eight score. There is obviously a natural level of ability, how much | :54:15. | :54:17. | |
can that be affected, depending upon which school pupil goes to? It can | :54:18. | :54:25. | |
make a significant difference, the other risk of the measure, a lot of | :54:26. | :54:34. | |
schools are between +0.5 and -0.5 and there is a risk of over | :54:35. | :54:37. | |
interpreting what that might mean, it might be a set of subjects that | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
children have put in for, rather than the quality of the teaching. | :54:43. | :54:51. | |
You have a 14-year-old son at school doing GCSEs next year, have you had | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
a chance to check out where the school is now on the latest league | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
tables with this new criteria? Yes, I have, he's not taking the next | :55:02. | :55:05. | |
year, he has another few years before taking them, and so we have | :55:06. | :55:11. | |
at the talks, and we know exactly what is going on. How is the school | :55:12. | :55:16. | |
doing, has it changed its position on the league table? Not that I am | :55:17. | :55:22. | |
aware of, no. What you think about it, do you think it is a better | :55:23. | :55:35. | |
system? It is difficult to say. Less able, will not be able to take the | :55:36. | :55:38. | |
different levels because we have foundation levels, higher levels, | :55:39. | :55:44. | |
but soon, that is going to be taken away and all children will be doing | :55:45. | :55:53. | |
the same ability and the same tests. It is going to be harder for the | :55:54. | :55:56. | |
children that are struggling. What you think about that, will it make a | :55:57. | :56:03. | |
difference? Is potentially good, if schools respond by narrowing the | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
curriculum that they offer, I think the combination of the new measure | :56:09. | :56:12. | |
with the budget pressures that many schools are facing means they have | :56:13. | :56:15. | |
to look carefully at the range of options that they offer for 15 and | :56:16. | :56:21. | |
16-year-olds, if they only have a small group doing art, drama, a | :56:22. | :56:24. | |
vocational option, they may decide they are unable to offer that and | :56:25. | :56:28. | |
then children are pushed into a different set of options, which may | :56:29. | :56:32. | |
be less good for their ability. Less suitable. Thank you all very much. | :56:33. | :56:38. | |
If you want to check out how your school is doing, you can go on the | :56:39. | :56:42. | |
BBC news website and put in your postcode and the list of schools in | :56:43. | :56:45. | |
your area will come up. Let us know your thoughts. | :56:46. | :56:54. | |
Donald Trump is preparing to be sworn in as the 45th US president. | :56:55. | :56:57. | |
He has said he expects record crowds at his inauguration. | :56:58. | :57:00. | |
We will be hearing from a key member of his transition team, | :57:01. | :57:03. | |
the man tipped to be the new US ambassador to the EU, | :57:04. | :57:06. | |
Chilly start of the day across southern areas but not everywhere, | :57:07. | :57:21. | |
in Farnborough and Hampshire, -- in Hampshire, -6, now it is -3, in | :57:22. | :57:26. | |
Reading, -3 as well, and that is where we have some clear skies. Not | :57:27. | :57:35. | |
all of us have clear skies, this is quite a murky scene taken earlier in | :57:36. | :57:38. | |
Derbyshire, we have a weather front dangled across parts of the UK, | :57:39. | :57:44. | |
fairly weak but what it has been producing is a fair bit of cloud and | :57:45. | :57:48. | |
a little bit of drizzle and patchy rain. Looking to the north, clear | :57:49. | :57:54. | |
skies, -3, some sunshine. And also some sunshine across southern areas | :57:55. | :57:58. | |
and again, cold feel, but beautiful here, Fife. Through the morning, | :57:59. | :58:07. | |
hanging onto the sunshine, still cold at the moment, still some | :58:08. | :58:15. | |
little pockets of mist, particularly around Bristol, could be slow in | :58:16. | :58:19. | |
clearing, most of the mist and fog we have had has lifted, cloud | :58:20. | :58:23. | |
further north, into the afternoon, you can see in the south-west, | :58:24. | :58:29. | |
hanging onto the sunshine, we could import more cloud from the North Sea | :58:30. | :58:33. | |
through the afternoon, it will still be a beautiful day but a cold one, | :58:34. | :58:38. | |
six is the maximum in London. Moving north, damp note, fizzling through | :58:39. | :58:44. | |
the day, pushing further north, a lot of clout, in the north-east, | :58:45. | :58:47. | |
hanging onto the sunshine, a few showers at times. Cloudy start, | :58:48. | :58:56. | |
remaining cloudy, we could see some breaks in the hills, south Wales at | :58:57. | :59:00. | |
the moment, some sunshine, we should see some across West Wales, | :59:01. | :59:04. | |
generally, for Wales, cloudy picture. Through the evening and | :59:05. | :59:09. | |
overnight, it is going to be cold, some frost, some patchy mist and | :59:10. | :59:12. | |
fog, and the cloud breaking further north. Still broken across the | :59:13. | :59:22. | |
north-east, so it will be cold. For the rest of the UK, not anticipating | :59:23. | :59:27. | |
any problems with frost at all. Tomorrow, losing mist and fog, | :59:28. | :59:31. | |
sunshine across southern areas, extending into Wales. Still have a | :59:32. | :59:37. | |
weak front, still producing the odd spot of drizzle, or light rain, but | :59:38. | :59:42. | |
you can see how the cloud has eroded through the day. -- you can see how | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
the cloud has eroded. Tomorrow, a bit more of it across the northern | :59:47. | :59:51. | |
and western parts, and Northern Ireland, better chance tomorrow of | :59:52. | :59:54. | |
seeing more in the way of breaks. Temperature wise, coming down in the | :59:55. | :59:58. | |
north comic used to double figures, the king at eights and nines, | :59:59. | :00:03. | |
generally where we should be at this stage in January. -- coming down in | :00:04. | :00:10. | |
the North, used to double figures, looking at eights | :00:11. | :00:19. | |
Today's top story - many people are missing | :00:20. | :00:28. | |
after an avalanche buried a hotel used by skiers in central Italy. | :00:29. | :00:29. | |
There are believed to be up to 30 people, seven staff, and the rest | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
were guests on this hotel when the earthquake and then the avalanche | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
hit. We will bring you the latest from there in just a moment. Also, | :00:37. | :00:40. | |
Donald Trump comes President of the United States tomorrow. We speak to | :00:41. | :00:45. | |
the man tipped to be his ambassador to the EU about the challenges | :00:46. | :00:51. | |
ahead. And is there a dirty truth behind clean eating? Ahead of | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
tonight's BBC programme that questions the advice of healthy | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
eating gurus you tell us to eat clean and avoid processed food. We | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
meet the Cambridge scientist taking on the food fad advocates. | :01:03. | :01:19. | |
Let's catch up with all the news with Annita in the newsroom. | :01:20. | :01:32. | |
A series of powerful earthquakes hit and Treacher yesterday. The latest | :01:33. | :01:48. | |
we are seeing is from the head of Italy's civil protection department | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
praising the rescuers who he says struggled through the snow to reach | :01:52. | :01:59. | |
the hotel. Saying it was a very complicated operation reached by | :02:00. | :02:04. | |
courageous men who faced unbearable conditions. | :02:05. | :02:13. | |
Let's speak to Jiovanni Grezzi from the Agence | :02:14. | :02:15. | |
He's in the Amatrice region, about 50 kilometers from where | :02:16. | :02:20. | |
What is the latest you have on the fate of the people in the hotel? The | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
latest news we have other moment is that there should be a at least 20 | :02:29. | :02:37. | |
dead, because people inside were trapped under the avalanche from | :02:38. | :02:40. | |
last night, and they have spent all night under snow, so everyone's via | :02:41. | :02:46. | |
is that there are at least 20 dead people. But somewhere I hearing have | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
been rescued from the hotel. There were two people who had gone outside | :02:53. | :03:02. | |
to their cars, so they were not stuck under the rubble from the | :03:03. | :03:13. | |
hotel, so one person, his family, children are trapped inside under | :03:14. | :03:18. | |
the avalanche. The situation is very difficult, we have one dead body, | :03:19. | :03:27. | |
but we fear the worst. Do people think that the earthquakes in the | :03:28. | :03:30. | |
region yesterday caused this avalanche? Of course, the reports | :03:31. | :03:37. | |
are that the earthquake, the earth moving, caused the avalanche, | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
because they were very strong here. It is not very far from the | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
epicentre of the earthquake, just out side Amatrice. Thank you very | :03:48. | :03:52. | |
much. Theresa May has told the World | :03:53. | :04:09. | |
Economic Forum that the UK will be open for business from Brexiteer | :04:10. | :04:11. | |
ready to embrace the world. It's her first visit | :04:12. | :04:19. | |
to Davos as Prime Minister. The Prime Minister also called | :04:20. | :04:21. | |
for businesses to do more to help those who feel "locked out and left | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
behind". It means Britain must go through a | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
tough negotiation and forge a new role for ourselves in the world. It | :04:28. | :04:30. | |
means accepting that the road ahead will be uncertain at times, but | :04:31. | :04:32. | |
believing that it leads towards a brighter future for our country's | :04:33. | :04:39. | |
children and grandchildren, too. Reports from Iran say a number of | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
firefighters have been killed after a fire caused a high building in the | :04:44. | :04:49. | |
capital Tehran to collapse. People are reported to be trapped under the | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
debris of the building which host a shopping centre. State TV showed the | :04:53. | :04:55. | |
moment when the building came down. There are reports of troops | :04:56. | :05:01. | |
from Senegal entering Gambia, as the political | :05:02. | :05:03. | |
crisis there escalates. The defeated President Yayha Jammeh | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
has ignored a midnight deadline to give way to the winner of last | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
month's election, Adama Barrow. West African military forces have | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
been preparing to move in to enforce 1,000 British holiday-makers have | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
returned home from Gambia with the Foreign Office advising | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
against all but essential And that's a summary of the news. | :05:19. | :05:40. | |
Thank you very much, Annita. Is the British press biased against | :05:41. | :05:43. | |
Muslims? One man believes that's the impression it gives, and has made it | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
his job to put it right. We have a special report on that. Now let's | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
catch up on the sport with you. A huge shock at the | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
Australian open this morning, defending champion | :05:54. | :05:54. | |
He was beaten in five sets by the wild card | :05:55. | :06:01. | |
and world number 117, Denis Istomin from Uzbekistan. | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
Istomin took the first set, but Djokovic won the next two. | :06:04. | :06:09. | |
It looked like it would have been a victory for him. | :06:10. | :06:14. | |
Istomin then took the fourth in a tiebreak to level | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
the match, going on to win the deciding set 6-4. | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
It took 4 hours and 48 minutes, but Istomin | :06:20. | :06:21. | |
And surely the biggest winner here is Andy Murray, | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
who's looking to win his first title in Melbourne. | :06:28. | :06:29. | |
His biggest challenger already out in the second round. | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
Joanna Konta eased to victory over naming Asarco, but bad news for | :06:34. | :06:51. | |
Heather Watson and Kyle Edmund, who went out. I looked to impose myself | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
on the match early, and I knew that if I was going to give her any | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
breathing room or any opportunity that she was just going to become | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
more and more dangerous, so I did try my best not to let that happen, | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
and after getting that break in the first set, I felt I did a good job | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
and also running with the momentum of it, and that also helped. | :07:12. | :07:17. | |
Liverpool, Southampton and Newcastle all through to the fourth round of | :07:18. | :07:25. | |
the FA Cup. Lucas Leiva scored the only goal the Liverpool, his first | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
for the club in seven years. They beat Plymouth Albion and will face | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
Wolves at Anfield in the next round. Two, three, four to zero would have | :07:37. | :07:45. | |
been OK. We just wanted to get the next round, no penalty shoot, | :07:46. | :07:51. | |
leaving Plymouth, as nice as it is here, as early as possible, because | :07:52. | :07:57. | |
the next game is waiting. All good. Manchester United have become the | :07:58. | :07:59. | |
richest club in football once again for the first time in 11 years. They | :08:00. | :08:04. | |
go ahead of European champions Real Madrid and the third richest club | :08:05. | :08:09. | |
Barcelona after record revenues of ?515 million last season. Eight | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
Premier League clubs are in the top 20 of the football money list, | :08:15. | :08:18. | |
including Premier League champions Leicester City for the first time. | :08:19. | :08:23. | |
England's Chris Woakes is taking three wickets as they made a great | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
start to the second one-day international against India. He took | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
the early wickets of Raul, Virat Kohli and da one. India were 25-3, | :08:33. | :08:42. | |
but Yuvraj Singh has helped steady things and is currently an 81, with | :08:43. | :08:48. | |
India 156-3 after 29 of their 50 overs as England try to level the | :08:49. | :08:55. | |
series. More sport later in the hour, Joanna. Thank you. | :08:56. | :09:05. | |
President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office tomorrow and it's | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
thought about 900,000 people are expected to gather in Washington | :09:09. | :09:10. | |
But his supporters are already on their way | :09:11. | :09:14. | |
as events kick off today - there will be a wreath laying | :09:15. | :09:16. | |
at Arlington National Cemetery to honour military veterans. | :09:17. | :09:18. | |
And also a concert later tonight - with both Donald Trump and his | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
Inauguration day tomorrow is full of tradition and ceremony | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
Let's talk now to Professor Ted Malloch - | :09:26. | :09:37. | |
a key adviser to Donald Trump during his election | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
and the man tipped to be his ambassador to the EU. | :09:40. | :09:40. | |
You have been talking to government advisers here at Downing Street. | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
Have you told them to read Donald Trump's book if you want under Stan | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
the Man? You must have had somebody in the room if you heard that! I | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
think it is the best way to understand Donald Trump, because he | :09:54. | :09:56. | |
is a transactional figure who really thinks in those terms. So explain a | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
bit more about what it is that they need to understand when they are | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
dealing with him? He views the world is a set of deals, as transactions, | :10:10. | :10:16. | |
and he positions himself. He is really a fantastic negotiator, so if | :10:17. | :10:19. | |
you are going to be across the table from him, or trying to bargain with | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
him, it is very helpful to know his mind on how he approaches a subject. | :10:25. | :10:29. | |
One of the lines of advice in the book is, the worst thing you could | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
possibly do in a deal is seen desperate to make it. That makes the | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
other guy smell blood and then you are dead. Was Theresa May's line | :10:37. | :10:43. | |
when she said about the EU/ UK deal, no deal is better than a bad one, is | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
that straight out of Donald Trump's playbook? Maybe she's reading it | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
already in preparation for the summit! I thought her speech was | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
brilliant, her finest hour, and it seems like she is saying the same | :10:59. | :11:02. | |
thing at Davos. How do you think she's playing her hand? I think she | :11:03. | :11:07. | |
is playing it very strong, and this kind of clean Brexit that is harder | :11:08. | :11:12. | |
than some people expected is very forceful. The possibility for | :11:13. | :11:17. | |
Britain to be a global Britain, which was suggested in her speech, I | :11:18. | :11:25. | |
think it is a brilliant strategy. It is the best card that Britain has to | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
play, and it's best partner will be the United States. So tell us more | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
about that, because the UK is not allowed to formally begin trade | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
negotiations until it has actually left the EU, which would be two | :11:39. | :11:43. | |
years after Article 50 is triggered, but you think there is a way around | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
that, and that potentially, you said a deal could be struck in 90 days | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
through informal discussions? I think that is possible. We're | :11:53. | :11:56. | |
talking about informal discussions, something that is off the record, | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
that is private, and the preparatory work is done, so to then have a | :12:01. | :12:05. | |
formal statement when the time allows it, this is the way diplomacy | :12:06. | :12:14. | |
works. Lawyers don't run the world. 90 days, some people are saying it | :12:15. | :12:19. | |
can take up to ten years for trade deals. How could you be so sure 90 | :12:20. | :12:25. | |
days would do it? It has been suggested by some people close to | :12:26. | :12:31. | |
both sides that if it was really desired, and you put the right | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
people together, and you use some existing frameworks, you could have | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
a minimalist agreement within 90 days and build on it from there. The | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
largest mergers and acquisitions in the world take less than 90 days. | :12:44. | :12:52. | |
You have described Arnold Trump in the context of the negotiations | :12:53. | :12:55. | |
between the US and the UK on a deal is being a white knight coming to | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
help a damsel in distress. It is sounded like the United States is | :13:02. | :13:05. | |
looking very benignly on the UK right now. Why would that be? It | :13:06. | :13:13. | |
would be because the US/ UK special relationship is a part of our | :13:14. | :13:16. | |
history as it is a part of your history. I can tell you first hand | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
Winston Churchill would be going back into the Oval Office in the | :13:22. | :13:27. | |
form of his bust, and that solid relationship is important to the | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
global economy, it is important to the transatlantic alliance, and it | :13:34. | :13:38. | |
is also the case that Donald Trump has origins in the United Kingdom. | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
He is very well disposed towards a relationship with the | :13:44. | :13:48. | |
English-speaking people. We are talking about a man who is coming | :13:49. | :13:54. | |
into office vowing to make America great again, who as we said in his | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
book on business, he makes very clear that it is all about the art | :13:59. | :14:01. | |
of the deal. What is in it for America? It is sounding like it is | :14:02. | :14:07. | |
all about what is in Britain's best interests right now. What is the | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
wider context? Is there something to be said for if there are strong | :14:12. | :14:16. | |
messages going out to the UK that actually looking to other countries | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
for good trade deals out of the EU, that sends strong signals to other | :14:20. | :14:27. | |
countries in the EU right now. It does, and it is a message in the | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
sense that it speaks volumes to other countries, but I think it is | :14:31. | :14:37. | |
also the case in any negotiation, trade negotiation, there is a kind | :14:38. | :14:43. | |
of reciprocal agreement, so it is not like the US is going to offer | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
Britain a free deal. There will be a exchange. The US having access to | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
the British economy is significant, the passing of financial services | :14:57. | :14:59. | |
between the two markets is significant. The relationship on | :15:00. | :15:03. | |
defence issues has always been important, on intelligence. So I | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
think these things will be beefed up in this new era of the special | :15:08. | :15:13. | |
relationship. In the context of you being the frontrunner to be the new | :15:14. | :15:17. | |
EU Ambassador, that message coming from the United States shake things | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
up a bit, doesn't it? Imported European countries, the key members | :15:22. | :15:25. | |
of the European Union, going to elections, the message that they may | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
be better off outside the constraints of EU trade. These other | :15:32. | :15:37. | |
things that European countries themselves to decide. The United | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
States certainly did not pressure, quite the opposite, the British | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
people to vote for Brexit, if I recall President Obama was wrought | :15:47. | :15:50. | |
over to tell them to get an order in four remain. So the US under Donald | :15:51. | :15:57. | |
Trump will be a very different order, and in his interview with | :15:58. | :16:06. | |
Michael Gove in Bild magazine that was released suggested this in stark | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
terms. I keep saying you are the frontrunner to be the US ambassador | :16:10. | :16:14. | |
to the EU, I think all the existing ambassadors are out of post on | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
Friday. Would you expect to be told then, before, whether you are in or | :16:18. | :16:19. | |
out? These are political appointments, | :16:20. | :16:25. | |
and I think that, certainly in the coming weeks, all those | :16:26. | :16:30. | |
announcements will be made. And indeed, all the cabinet, as of this | :16:31. | :16:36. | |
morning, is in place. Donald Trump announces agriculture Secretary this | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
morning, and so now we will get onto the next of appointment. Let's talk | :16:41. | :16:50. | |
now to Benjamin Marchi and Tim Young - two Republican voters who are | :16:51. | :16:52. | |
heading to the inauguration celebrations later today. | :16:53. | :17:03. | |
On the eve of this inauguration, we are looking now to a president about | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
him a lot is known, about whom it is thought that things are known, and | :17:11. | :17:15. | |
much is feared, how do you see him? I don't think he's that feared, you | :17:16. | :17:19. | |
know, it is interesting because a lot of the media has spun it that he | :17:20. | :17:26. | |
is more feared... It is the coasts where the media is, media from Los | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
Angeles and New York are a little more worried about what is going to | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
do than people in the flyover states. Although they are not the | :17:34. | :17:45. | |
popular vote, they represent a majority of the country. How do you | :17:46. | :17:48. | |
feel about America's place in the world? I am ecstatic about our place | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
in the world right now, right now, for a change, I think Donald Trump | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
is going to give us a posture wholly different from the last eight years, | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
one which will be more respected and appreciated throughout the world. We | :18:07. | :18:17. | |
will not be drawing unintentional red lines. More divisive? It will | :18:18. | :18:22. | |
not be that divisive, there will be naysayers out there. There will be | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
naysayers who nit-pick and pull apart things that he says, art at | :18:27. | :18:32. | |
the end of the day, we are excited about him truly making America great | :18:33. | :18:39. | |
again and the team news putting together continues to give people | :18:40. | :18:42. | |
that I talk to on irregularly 's is a lot of confidence in his ability | :18:43. | :18:54. | |
to lead the free world. What do you think will happen, will he hit the | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
ground running? That is what I have been told from insiders as well, | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
complete 180, it is interesting, the symbolism, the term of the unknown | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
soldier is where the wreath will be laid, there is always a changing of | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
the guard, this is a significant changing of the guard, all the | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
policies, almost unanimously, all of his policies, Barack Obama's | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
policies, will be flipped with the new changing of the guard under | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
Donald Trump. You are both heading off to the celebrations today, ahead | :19:26. | :19:27. | |
of the inauguration tomorrow. the Finnish pop star Saara Aalto | :19:28. | :19:33. | |
who came second in The X Factor has already signed a record | :19:34. | :19:41. | |
deal with Sony. We will speak to Saara | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
in her first interview of 2017. We've forgiven the avocado | :19:44. | :19:52. | |
for its high fat content and deemed We're swapping full fat | :19:53. | :19:56. | |
lattes for sugar-free, and using gadgets to swirl | :19:57. | :20:01. | |
courgettes into a gluten-free But can the food we eat | :20:02. | :20:06. | |
really "clean" our bodies Cambridge University scientist | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
Dr Giles Yo In a moment, we'll talk to Dr Yo, | :20:12. | :20:19. | |
and also to the founder of a healthy food festival and a woman who says | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
she was so obsessed by clean eating But first, let's watch part | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
of Dr Yo's programme, where he goes on a journey | :20:29. | :20:31. | |
to America and sees the extreme side of the lifestyle | :20:32. | :20:34. | |
at a Californian ranch, where cancer patients are being | :20:35. | :20:36. | |
treated with alkaline food. VOICEOVER: Up ahead, the pH miracle | :20:37. | :20:50. | |
branch. -- ranch. A millionaire 's paradise, funded by alkaline eating. | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
He has a moat, he has a moat here. I don't see any alligators coming to | :20:56. | :21:03. | |
eat me, Robert? | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
Hello, yes. Hello, I'm Giles. | :21:06. | :21:10. | |
Dr Giles! Very pleased to meet you. | :21:11. | :21:11. | |
Is this where miracles happen, this is your miracle ranch? | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
I want to know how Robert thinks we can use food to stay well. | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
Are you familiar with the fishbowl metaphor? | :21:23. | :21:28. | |
OK, the fishbowl metaphor begs a question, and the question is, | :21:29. | :21:32. | |
if the fish is sick, what would you do? | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
Treat the fish or change the water? I'd change the water, right? | :21:38. | :21:40. | |
he means eat alkaline food to stop ourselves becoming acidic. | :21:41. | :21:45. | |
The human body, in its perfect state of health, | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
Robert invites me to share in his daily alkaline routine. | :21:48. | :21:58. | |
My brain needs to prepare... I'll join you. | :21:59. | :22:09. | |
Tastes like green tea. It tastes like cold green tea. | :22:10. | :22:26. | |
STUDIO: Social media has seen the clean eating | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
But it's not all good news, nutritionists have reported the rise | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
of a psychological condition known as orthorexia, | :22:32. | :22:33. | |
Dr Yeo cooks with one of Instagram's biggest health bloggers, | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
Deliciously Ella, who promotes a plant-based diet. | :22:38. | :22:38. | |
She's one of the most popular brands associated | :22:39. | :22:41. | |
and he examines how far her plant-based cooking | :22:42. | :22:46. | |
She tells him the idea of "clean" has lost its way. | :22:47. | :22:52. | |
The gurus of clean are doing nothing wrong in helping people eat more | :22:53. | :22:59. | |
healthily but with their growing influence comes a | :23:00. | :23:01. | |
responsibility to ground their promises improved. Now, one of the | :23:02. | :23:06. | |
most influential figures on the movement says it has lost its way. | :23:07. | :23:11. | |
My problem with the word clean is that it has become too complicated, | :23:12. | :23:16. | |
loaded, now bit implies dirty, that is negative, we should not have | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
that. I think it is sad to me that clean has been taken so far out of | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
how it was originally meant to be used by people, as far as I | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
understood it, it meant natural, unprocessed, now it doesn't mean | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
that, it means diet, it means fad. Let's talk more about it. Dr Giles | :23:34. | :23:47. | |
Yeo from the University of Cambridge went on this journey to investigate | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
clean eating. Rose Lloyd Owen runs a healthy eating food and yoga | :23:53. | :23:57. | |
festival featuring Deliciously Ella and many of the top clean-eating | :23:58. | :24:03. | |
bloggers. And also joining us, Kerry Armstrong, who says she was so | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
obsessed by clean eating that became dangerously ill and believed certain | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
food was 'unclean. Until I became physically unwell, I have never | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
thought anything about type, if you look at a search engine, how do you | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
get better, I began researching it, and I thought I had been poisoning | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
myself, I took it to Olympic standards, I went from eating any to | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
within 18 months weighing six stone, and only eating watermelon. I took | :24:25. | :24:31. | |
it as extreme as you can get it, my teeth were crumbling, hair falling | :24:32. | :24:34. | |
out, never left the house, completely fixated with the idea of | :24:35. | :24:40. | |
cleaning myself to get well again. This is a concept that you have | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
looked at for your programme... That is an extreme example, but having | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
looked closely at it, what is your assessment on whether food can make | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
you ill, can make you well? It depends, as with everything, it's | :24:54. | :24:57. | |
depends, for example, if we start with what I agree with, in terms of | :24:58. | :25:02. | |
when I look at the food, undoubtedly, we have a broken food | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
environment we need to fix, a lot of the diseases we have are not diet | :25:07. | :25:14. | |
related, we have got to fix obesity, we have got to fix the food | :25:15. | :25:17. | |
environment we are in, that is why I went on the journey. The problem is, | :25:18. | :25:24. | |
if you take what I think without control verse is a healthy diet, eat | :25:25. | :25:30. | |
more eat less meat, but then wrap it around pseudoscience to say that it | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
can suddenly cure you, it can cure you of cancer, any number of other | :25:34. | :25:39. | |
ailments, then I have a problem. The phrase that is being used now is | :25:40. | :25:50. | |
orthorexia, the of session with clean eating, how money people are | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
susceptible to it becoming a disorder? It is almost like a | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
variant of anorexia, orthorexia, where you have a controlled | :25:59. | :26:05. | |
psychosis in order to keep control of your life. -- control psychosis. | :26:06. | :26:11. | |
It is tied up in social media, the clean phenomenon, a lot of the food | :26:12. | :26:15. | |
gurus that are out there reach millions of followers, what happens | :26:16. | :26:19. | |
is, while the vast majority of those millions of followers will treat it | :26:20. | :26:24. | |
as it is, that looks like a pretty plate of food, I'm going to have | :26:25. | :26:28. | |
that, but you will have a percentage of human beings... Completely | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
randomly, what I did was I joined Instagram, for the show, I did this | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
and that, and I posted a picture of my breakfast, a sausage and egg and | :26:38. | :26:44. | |
muffin, and a cup of tea. I lost 10% of my followers in 24 hours, because | :26:45. | :26:50. | |
of the people who were following me. Couldn't bear to look at a sausage. | :26:51. | :26:58. | |
I was funny, I documented it, but imagine you are susceptible, imagine | :26:59. | :27:04. | |
that this is my life, I have worked hard for this plate of food but for | :27:05. | :27:07. | |
some reason, a percentage of people don't want it, and they are banned | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
in you, that is where the problem begins, those people feel bad. Rose, | :27:13. | :27:19. | |
you have said that you are a founder of a healthy eating festival, can | :27:20. | :27:23. | |
you believe that people cannot bear to look at a picture of a sausage? | :27:24. | :27:35. | |
That is a little crazy, we have a festival in a couple of weeks, and | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
the ethos we have there is to bring in all sorts of different eating, | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
all sorts of different ways of eating, and celebrate everybody, | :27:46. | :27:53. | |
everybody... Does it celebrate eating a sausage, eating a packet of | :27:54. | :27:59. | |
biscuits, if you feel like it, it is not something you should do all the | :28:00. | :28:05. | |
time, but... Absolutely... This is about extremes. Nobody is saying it | :28:06. | :28:10. | |
should be extreme, nobody is saying it should be all or nothing, but | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
this is where the problem is, none of these guys are saying, you must | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
do this, you should do this 100% of the time, very much advocate a | :28:20. | :28:25. | |
70/30, spaghetti is not going to kill you but how about making it out | :28:26. | :28:30. | |
of celeriac, courgette, because essentially, you are getting more | :28:31. | :28:33. | |
vegetables into your diet, and that is better for you. There will be | :28:34. | :28:37. | |
people who interpret that as, therefore, there is this lovely | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
healthy option which looks beautiful in Instagram, eating the pasta is | :28:41. | :28:52. | |
bad. And like anything, with anything, that becomes big, there | :28:53. | :28:56. | |
will be people who take it too literally and take the wrong message | :28:57. | :29:00. | |
and I think no one is giving that message out, simply trying to find | :29:01. | :29:04. | |
more interesting and delicious ways of cooking vegetables. You have | :29:05. | :29:10. | |
talked about how you initially started wanting to make yourself | :29:11. | :29:14. | |
feel better, and it went down a very extreme path, when you were... Tell | :29:15. | :29:18. | |
us about the images you were seeing... The messages that you were | :29:19. | :29:23. | |
taking on board from the environment around you. To be honest, pet, we | :29:24. | :29:29. | |
could go on all day about why it is social and media's full, or my | :29:30. | :29:38. | |
friend, what I am not taking responsibility, I forgot, plain and | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
simple, it is not what goes into my mouth that makes me worthwhile as a | :29:42. | :29:46. | |
person, it is what comes out of it. I elevated food to a place it does | :29:47. | :29:50. | |
not belong, it is not my salvation. I was spiritually bankrupt, I was | :29:51. | :29:55. | |
looking for mindfulness within my plate, you do not get spiritual | :29:56. | :29:58. | |
well-being from what you eat, it is how you live and contribute, and I | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
had walked that, taken that out of perspective. -- warped that. To make | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
myself well, I had to leave food alone, have it be in experience, | :30:10. | :30:13. | |
because foods does not love you back but people can. That is how I got | :30:14. | :30:18. | |
well. It has nothing to do with healthy eating. Food elevated to a | :30:19. | :30:23. | |
place it does not belong... It is a good phrase, how much you think that | :30:24. | :30:29. | |
is happening? Food keeps us alive, it ought to be elevated to... We put | :30:30. | :30:36. | |
it in us, it makes us who we are. I definitely agree that we should | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
respect the food that we eat but respecting the food that we eat, or | :30:40. | :30:43. | |
pasting something on there that does not actually do... That is where I | :30:44. | :30:50. | |
think issues begin to happen. One thing of what you said: | :30:51. | :30:59. | |
Saying that I can't blame other be bought for it, but the problem is | :31:00. | :31:05. | |
you are still living within a particular environment that foisted | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
that upon you. But that isn't me taking responsibility. I don't have | :31:09. | :31:13. | |
to react to that, and to keep myself safe from something like that, when | :31:14. | :31:18. | |
you know who you are, social media cannot do hate you, and you will not | :31:19. | :31:25. | |
get sick like this. I agree, I think eating disorders have existed for a | :31:26. | :31:30. | |
long time. And they are thinking disorders first and foremost. Yes, | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
unfortunately it is in your mind, what you are seeing may influence | :31:36. | :31:41. | |
your mind, but the problem is within you wait before you go on social | :31:42. | :31:46. | |
media. Can I just interrupted. When you say it is all in the mind, you | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
paste eating disorders into some form of weird mental condition. I | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
didn't mean that. But we are still trying to understand it, there is a | :31:56. | :32:00. | |
susceptibility, a genetic susceptibility. But that makes me | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
feel hopeless, but I am not, I am strong, I have done it. I have | :32:06. | :32:11. | |
studied obesity, and I know that there are people who are susceptible | :32:12. | :32:14. | |
to obesity, and equally there will be people who are susceptible to | :32:15. | :32:26. | |
accepting there is a biological, genetic input in part. I'm not | :32:27. | :32:32. | |
saying I'm giving up, but why am I well now, then? I'm sorry, let me | :32:33. | :32:40. | |
come in. It is a longer discussion. Your programme is on tonight, BBC | :32:41. | :32:48. | |
Two, 9pm. Thank you very much to all of you. Keep letting us know your | :32:49. | :32:50. | |
thoughts on that one. Still to come: Is the British press | :32:51. | :32:56. | |
out to get Muslims? - one man believes that's | :32:57. | :32:58. | |
the impression it gives - and has made it his job | :32:59. | :33:00. | |
to put it right. The Finnish pop star Saara Aalto | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
who came second in The X Factor has already signed a record | :33:04. | :33:08. | |
deal with Sony. We will speak to Saara | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
in her first interview of 2017 With the news here's Annita | :33:14. | :33:16. | |
in the BBC Newsroom. At least 20 people have reportedly | :33:17. | :33:25. | |
been killed after a hotel was hit by an avalanche in central | :33:26. | :33:35. | |
Italy. Up to 30 guests and staff | :33:36. | :33:37. | |
were in the Rigopiano Hotel on San Grasso mountain | :33:38. | :33:40. | |
in the Abruzzo region. The avalanche was triggered | :33:41. | :33:42. | |
by a series of powerful earthquakes Giovanni Groetzki from the news | :33:43. | :33:49. | |
agency is in the region about 50 kilometres from where the avalanche | :33:50. | :33:53. | |
struck. The latest news we have at the moment is that there should be | :33:54. | :34:00. | |
at least 20 dead, because people inside were trapped under the | :34:01. | :34:05. | |
avalanche from last night, they spent all night under snow, so we | :34:06. | :34:14. | |
fear, everyone's fear is that there are at least 20 dead people. | :34:15. | :34:19. | |
Theresa May has told the World Economic Forum that the UK | :34:20. | :34:22. | |
will be open for business after Brexit, and ready to 'embrace | :34:23. | :34:24. | |
the world.' It's her first visit to Davos as Prime Minister - | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
she also called for businesses to do more to help those who feel "locked | :34:28. | :34:31. | |
Reports from Iran say a number of firefighters have been killed, | :34:32. | :34:43. | |
after a fire caused a high-storey building in the capital | :34:44. | :34:46. | |
Dozens more people are reported to be trapped under the debris | :34:47. | :34:50. | |
of the 17-storey Plasco building, which hosts a shopping centre. | :34:51. | :34:52. | |
State TV showed the moment when the building came down. | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
The leading contender to be the new US ambassador to the EU says that | :34:59. | :35:05. | |
Donald Trump 's presidency will spark a new era of US UK relations. | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
He said a trader could be negotiated in as little as 90 days and said | :35:13. | :35:15. | |
Donald Trump looked favourably on the UK. I think the US/ UK special | :35:16. | :35:21. | |
relationship is a part of our history as it is a part of your | :35:22. | :35:25. | |
history. I can tell you first hand Winston Churchill will be going back | :35:26. | :35:28. | |
into the Oval Office in the form of his bust, and that solid | :35:29. | :35:35. | |
relationship is important to the global economy, it is important to | :35:36. | :35:39. | |
the transatlantic alliance, and it is also the case that Donald Trump | :35:40. | :35:47. | |
has origins in the United Kingdom. He is very well disposed towards a | :35:48. | :35:50. | |
relationship of the English-speaking people. That is a summary of the | :35:51. | :35:56. | |
latest news. Do join me for BBC newsroom live at 11 o'clock. | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
I have to just read quick to have seen. Gabriella Simmon-Bird just | :36:01. | :36:13. | |
heard that Sarr alto will be an the show, and I got so excited, I | :36:14. | :36:17. | |
started clapping. Let's get some support with you. No round of | :36:18. | :36:24. | |
applause from the! Novak Djokovic has gone out of the Australian open. | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
The defending champion beaten in five sets by the wild card world | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
number 117 Denis Istomin in a match that lasted nearly five hours. The | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
British number one Johanna Konta is the third round, beating Naomi | :36:39. | :36:46. | |
Asarco, and she faces Caroline Wozniacki next, Heather Watson and | :36:47. | :36:51. | |
Kyle Edmund are both out. Liverpool beat Plymouth Argyle, Lucas Leiva | :36:52. | :36:56. | |
with their only goal of the game. Southampton and Newcastle also went | :36:57. | :37:00. | |
through. Manchester United have returned to the top of football's | :37:01. | :37:03. | |
money list for the first time since 2004, overtaking Real Madrid who | :37:04. | :37:08. | |
have held the top spot for the last 11 years. And Yuvraj Singh has made | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
a century of India to frustrate England's bowlers. They are 208-3, | :37:16. | :37:24. | |
England hoping to level the series. We will be back more after 11 | :37:25. | :37:25. | |
o'clock. Are large sections of the British | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
press biased against Muslims? Last month there were nine | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
corrections to articles concerning Muslims in the British | :37:34. | :37:35. | |
media - this month The activist behind most of these | :37:36. | :37:38. | |
complaints and corrections says inaccurate media reporting | :37:39. | :37:43. | |
about Muslims has led But critics argue there | :37:44. | :37:45. | |
is an attempt to prevent The most high-profile apology last | :37:46. | :37:49. | |
month was given to a Muslim family falsely accused of being extremists | :37:50. | :37:56. | |
by columnist Katie Hopkins Zahid Mahmood last month received | :37:57. | :37:58. | |
very public apology. Daily Mail columnist | :37:59. | :38:07. | |
Katie Hopkins had suggested that he and his brother | :38:08. | :38:09. | |
were extremists with links to Al-Qaeda, after US authorities | :38:10. | :38:11. | |
refused to let them and their family On December 19th, the paper | :38:12. | :38:14. | |
and Hopkins were forced to apologise and pay ?150,000 in damages | :38:15. | :38:23. | |
to the family. Type my name, teach my kids, | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
look, you will never see me on any of this, | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
it wouldn't come up. How did it then feel to have that | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
article written about you? It's cutting wounds and putting | :38:32. | :38:42. | |
salt on it, you know? We haven't overcome the emotional | :38:43. | :38:44. | |
trauma that we went through, with the kids, in front | :38:45. | :38:46. | |
of their eyes, and then two days later being accused | :38:47. | :38:50. | |
on the national media - it was worldwide media, not just | :38:51. | :38:52. | |
in the UK, it was worldwide. The apology to Zahid and his family | :38:53. | :39:00. | |
came alongside eight other corrections to articles | :39:01. | :39:03. | |
concerning Muslims last month. This is far higher than previous | :39:04. | :39:06. | |
months, and is partly down Miqdaad Versi is an activist | :39:07. | :39:08. | |
and also Assistant Secretary General He has taken it upon himself | :39:09. | :39:16. | |
to start systematically monitoring stories concerning Muslims, | :39:17. | :39:23. | |
and has so far put in more than 50 complaints to newspapers | :39:24. | :39:26. | |
and to Ipso, the press regulator. Not all succeed, but he was behind | :39:27. | :39:33. | |
eight corrections last month. How much of a problem | :39:34. | :39:35. | |
are these inaccuracies? Nowadays, things just spread | :39:36. | :39:39. | |
virally on social media, and that's what the problem really | :39:40. | :39:42. | |
is, that these individual stories get traction, | :39:43. | :39:44. | |
and far right websites, extremist websites, take it up, | :39:45. | :39:51. | |
and that's the problem. Then when there is a correction, | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
that doesn't go as far, it doesn't go to those far right | :39:56. | :39:58. | |
websites, so the individuals who saw it in the first place have this view | :39:59. | :40:01. | |
that this is reality. Five of the corrections | :40:02. | :40:08. | |
in December related to The Sunday Times article | :40:09. | :40:14. | |
stated in its headline, "Enclaves of Islam see UK as 75% | :40:15. | :40:18. | |
Muslim." And it's about a report | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
by Louise Casey on integration In reality, what the report actually | :40:23. | :40:24. | |
said was one school had students who thought that the majority | :40:25. | :40:37. | |
of the country were Asian. And it was to do with one | :40:38. | :40:41. | |
school only, rather So this was entirely incorrect, | :40:42. | :40:47. | |
which the Sunday Times acknowledged, Also last month, the Daily Mail had | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
to correct an article The correction read, | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
"A headline on an earlier version of this article said that | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
Malia Bouattia claimed that young Muslims are travelling to join Isis | :41:00. | :41:04. | |
in Syria due to cuts to education. It also said that Miss Bouattia had | :41:05. | :41:07. | |
refused to condemn Isis. The correct position is that | :41:08. | :41:12. | |
Miss Bouattia claimed that young Muslims are travelling to join Isis | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
in Syria for reasons including Government cuts to education | :41:16. | :41:17. | |
and mass unemployment, and Miss Bouattia | :41:18. | :41:19. | |
has condemned Isis." This one is The Sun On Sunday mixing | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
up two black Muslims, one who is fighting against extremism | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
and one who's accused of extremism. And this one is by ITN News, | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
where they seem to misinterpret a poll, claiming that half of UK | :41:33. | :41:39. | |
Muslims would not report extremism, So previously we had individuals | :41:40. | :41:42. | |
taking on the press where they felt they had been misreported, | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
but now you are taking on any story that you think's inaccurate | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
about Muslims or Islam, That's right, so because nobody else | :41:51. | :41:52. | |
seems to be doing this, there've been so many articles | :41:53. | :41:58. | |
about Muslims overall that have been entirely inaccurate, | :41:59. | :42:01. | |
and they create this idea within many Muslim communities that | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
media's out to get them. And the reason that's the case | :42:06. | :42:09. | |
is that nobody's challenging these newspapers and saying, | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
"That's not true." The Muslim Council of Britain has | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
been unequivocal on this, it's raised this issue again | :42:18. | :42:19. | |
and again that inaccurate reporting leads to hostility against Muslims, | :42:20. | :42:22. | |
and that's a problem not just for Muslim communities | :42:23. | :42:24. | |
but for the wider society. The Independent Press | :42:25. | :42:32. | |
Standards Organisation, Ipso, confirmed that it is receiving | :42:33. | :42:34. | |
lots of complaints It also pointed out that the two | :42:35. | :42:36. | |
articles about which it's had the most complaints | :42:37. | :42:42. | |
since it was formed in 2014 I think I, like anyone else, want | :42:43. | :42:45. | |
a press that's going to be accurate, that's going to care about the facts | :42:46. | :42:57. | |
and verifying them, but I think this campaign | :42:58. | :43:00. | |
of complaints that we've seen, particularly over the last six | :43:01. | :43:02. | |
months, it looks like, I don't think that's really | :43:03. | :43:04. | |
what's driving it. I think what we're seeing | :43:05. | :43:06. | |
here is a quite concerted attempt to often ringfence Islam | :43:07. | :43:09. | |
from criticism and to try and chill discussion about a lot of issues, | :43:10. | :43:12. | |
and I think for me the standout case of this was a story that was run | :43:13. | :43:16. | |
by both The Sun and the Mail Online in May last year, a suspected honour | :43:17. | :43:19. | |
killing, so both papers ran with this, they referred to it | :43:20. | :43:22. | |
as an Islamic honour killing, And so a complaint was made | :43:23. | :43:25. | |
which stated that Islam doesn't condone honour killings, | :43:26. | :43:34. | |
that this is a cultural thing, not a religious thing, | :43:35. | :43:36. | |
and as a result of this, Ipso ruled and required | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
the newspapers to print, and this is almost a direct quote, | :43:41. | :43:44. | |
that the religion of Islam does not I thought that was just | :43:45. | :43:47. | |
absolutely staggering, because, as we all know, | :43:48. | :43:51. | |
a religion is just an assortment of ideas and principles, | :43:52. | :43:54. | |
these things are contested. What these papers were effectively | :43:55. | :43:58. | |
asked to do, and what they did, was to print one accepted | :43:59. | :44:01. | |
interpretation of religion, and to me this was just | :44:02. | :44:03. | |
like back-door blasphemy law. Do you worry about a chilling | :44:04. | :44:15. | |
effect, that your constant critique will make people scared | :44:16. | :44:18. | |
of covering these issues? Not really, because in reality | :44:19. | :44:20. | |
newspapers report on a range All I'm asking for is | :44:21. | :44:22. | |
responsible reporting. For Zahid, this is not just | :44:23. | :44:29. | |
about incorrect reporting, though. He feels the response to both | :44:30. | :44:33. | |
the original article by Katie Hopkins and her apology | :44:34. | :44:35. | |
was very reactionary. First, they were all against us, | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
when Katie Hopkins published the article, and then when she made | :44:42. | :44:43. | |
an apology a year later, then they all turned against her, | :44:44. | :44:50. | |
so there's no middle ground. The upsetting part is not the actual | :44:51. | :44:53. | |
element of Katie Hopkins, it's the mindset of people, | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
how they can very easily be led against somebody | :44:58. | :45:01. | |
or in favour of somebody. I feel proud to be living | :45:02. | :45:04. | |
in London as a Muslim. Where people from different | :45:05. | :45:10. | |
backgrounds, different countries, different tribes, different | :45:11. | :45:12. | |
languages, faith, beliefs, But there are elements | :45:13. | :45:13. | |
which are actually destroying these relationships and this unity | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
which we have within the community. How do you feel about | :45:18. | :45:24. | |
Katie Hopkins now? In fact, my wife and I would | :45:25. | :45:25. | |
formally like to invite her to our In fact, my wife and I would | :45:26. | :45:32. | |
formally like to invite her to our We have no grudge against her, | :45:33. | :45:38. | |
and we would like her to learn and know that we are as British | :45:39. | :45:43. | |
as she is. In fact, my wife's grandfather | :45:44. | :45:46. | |
and great-grandfather both fought They fought for the very | :45:47. | :45:48. | |
freedom of this country. Many people wouldn't | :45:49. | :45:59. | |
be so forgiving. This is what I've been brought up | :46:00. | :46:01. | |
with, this is the teaching of the Prophet Muhammad, | :46:02. | :46:03. | |
peace be upon him, that he has taught us | :46:04. | :46:05. | |
to remove evil with goodness. She made allegations, | :46:06. | :46:10. | |
we want to show her the goodness, and we want to invite her to our | :46:11. | :46:12. | |
house so she can first-hand meet us. STUDIO: Last month, the Daily Mail | :46:13. | :46:27. | |
and columnist Katie Hopkins apologised to Zahid Mahmood | :46:28. | :46:29. | |
after suggesting he and his who is behind these complaints | :46:30. | :46:31. | |
regarding inaccurate media And Tom Slater, who is | :46:32. | :46:41. | |
Deputy Editor of Spiked Online As you saw there in the film, | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
Zahid Mahmood who received an apology from Katie Hopkins | :46:46. | :46:48. | |
after she labelled him an extremist We got in touch with Katie | :46:49. | :46:51. | |
and put this offer to her what impact do you think this is | :46:52. | :47:00. | |
having? It is not just me saying this, this is academise from | :47:01. | :47:02. | |
Leicester University, Cambridge University, European Commission on | :47:03. | :47:04. | |
racism and intolerance, all are saying the same thing, reckless | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
reporting leads to hate crime, leads to hostility against Muslims. This | :47:10. | :47:15. | |
is not just me saying it, this is nationally, academics, | :47:16. | :47:17. | |
internationally, human rights activist, those who are looking at | :47:18. | :47:21. | |
this issue at the United Nations level, specifically talking about | :47:22. | :47:26. | |
how media has caused hostility against Muslims in the UK. Do you | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
think newspapers and journalists have to be more wary of what is | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
being said in that context, if there is a link between what is said in | :47:38. | :47:41. | |
the papers and what is happening in the community? First and foremost, I | :47:42. | :47:46. | |
am dubious of the link that is set between reporting and people's | :47:47. | :47:50. | |
reactions, that projects a quite low view of the public, that they can be | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
whipped into a frenzy by a you force headlines but we all want a press | :47:56. | :47:59. | |
that is going to be factual and care about accuracy but I do not believe | :48:00. | :48:03. | |
that is what is driving this, I think the mail online, the example | :48:04. | :48:06. | |
referred to in the film, perfect example, newspapers effectively | :48:07. | :48:12. | |
required to print what is according to him, the acceptable version of a | :48:13. | :48:18. | |
particular religion, that is like something out of the days of the | :48:19. | :48:21. | |
Star chamber, I cannot believe it so is going along with this, unless you | :48:22. | :48:27. | |
have a direct line, there is no requirement to print these things. | :48:28. | :48:32. | |
-- Ipso. Did you read the tips are ruling? It did not say that. It | :48:33. | :48:40. | |
didn't say that, -- did you read the Ipso ruling? That is what the ruling | :48:41. | :48:45. | |
was, the fact that the mail online chose to respond and they decided to | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
explain the reasoning, and apologise in the way they did, that is a | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
choice for the Mail Online, they did not ask them to make a theological | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
decision. That means ask you a question, when there are statements, | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
like the Sun saying, supermarket terror, gunmen... Here we go... | :49:05. | :49:18. | |
Gunmen screaming opens fire in Spanish supermarket while carrying | :49:19. | :49:22. | |
bag filled with petrol and gunpowder... Similar stories in the | :49:23. | :49:28. | |
Daily Mail and the express. The reality is, these are factually | :49:29. | :49:32. | |
incorrect, you can tell they are not factually correct because the sun | :49:33. | :49:36. | |
decided to make changes, changing the article entire it, it is of the | :49:37. | :49:42. | |
reality, it just wasn't true. -- changing the article entirely. | :49:43. | :49:48. | |
Stories across-the-board are found to be inaccurate, are you saying | :49:49. | :49:51. | |
that stories that relates to Islam needs to be monitored more | :49:52. | :49:56. | |
carefully? I'm not talking about favours, I'm talking about fairness. | :49:57. | :50:01. | |
We have a situation right now where people have a low view of the press, | :50:02. | :50:05. | |
I believe in journalism and the fact that we want to have a strong press | :50:06. | :50:13. | |
out there, we will seek a challenge authority, but when there is | :50:14. | :50:16. | |
inaccuracy is, that undermines really good reporting. Forge gnarly, | :50:17. | :50:23. | |
we have seen examples. You have said that it is OK for editors to keep | :50:24. | :50:32. | |
this... -- unfortunately, we have seen examples. These newspapers did | :50:33. | :50:39. | |
print corrections under their own polishing, but it is under pressure, | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
the sun and the mail Online printed the same sentence, that tells us | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
what is going on in this instance, we should all care about | :50:48. | :50:49. | |
corrections, some of the corrections we are talking about, these | :50:50. | :50:56. | |
newspapers repeated this misreading, this misrepresentation of a | :50:57. | :50:59. | |
particular statistic, but you'd suggest this is spreading hate, and | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
I disagree with that for two reasons: look at the Sunday Times | :51:04. | :51:06. | |
retraction, they made the point that this story was published before the | :51:07. | :51:11. | |
story came review came out, that is a product of churn-alism, which is a | :51:12. | :51:19. | |
big problem, and it encourages a climate which sees issues which | :51:20. | :51:24. | |
affect Muslims as something as touchy, and the reason that | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
something like the Casey Report exploded as it did, as most | :51:29. | :51:33. | |
egalitarian would have, there is a feeling that integration is not | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
going as well as we would like all stop we should be allowed to talk | :51:37. | :51:40. | |
about that. Looking closely at any story, and saying, where there are | :51:41. | :51:45. | |
factual inaccuracies, they need to be corrected. I think there is | :51:46. | :51:48. | |
definitely a moral obligation on newspapers to correct things but | :51:49. | :51:51. | |
what we're looking at here is something much broader, I see this | :51:52. | :51:59. | |
as a much broader context, not just about is fellow here, it is a | :52:00. | :52:03. | |
broader climate, this hyper session with Islamophobia, it is a chilling | :52:04. | :52:07. | |
discussion, what has been done quite successfully is to conflate | :52:08. | :52:11. | |
criticism of Islam, discussion of issues that affect the Muslim | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
community, with criticism of those as individuals, they have racialised | :52:16. | :52:19. | |
discussion and that is inimical to free speech. There has been 25 | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
corrections in the last year, 13 in the last six weeks, every week there | :52:25. | :52:29. | |
has been two corrections on average on issues related to Muslims, let's | :52:30. | :52:33. | |
listen to the academics who say that this is a problem, who say this is | :52:34. | :52:38. | |
causing hate rhyme. Rather than listen to opinions by individuals, | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
listen to academics, facts, hopefully we can have a stronger | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
press, so we can have responsible reporting for all. Thank you both | :52:46. | :52:46. | |
very much. It was only last month that Finnish | :52:47. | :52:52. | |
pop star Saara Aalto came but the 29-year-old has already | :52:53. | :52:55. | |
signed a record deal with Sony. She entered the show after years | :52:56. | :52:59. | |
of performing as a singer where she couldn't get a record | :53:00. | :53:02. | |
deal because she wanted | :53:03. | :53:04. | |
to sing in English. In a moment we will talk with Saara | :53:05. | :53:06. | |
in her first interview of 2017 but first here she is performing | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
in the semi-finals of The X Factor, with the song that she sang | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
in her first audition, You came second, it was a journey, | :53:14. | :53:39. | |
you thought you were out, then you are back in after a month of being | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
out, and then you were in the bottom two quite a few times and had to | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
sing to stay in the show. That must have tested your resilience? It did, | :53:48. | :53:53. | |
definitely, it was a journey, I feel it was all worth it and somehow it | :53:54. | :53:57. | |
made me stronger each week, so I am quite happy that it happened like | :53:58. | :54:01. | |
that. Probably didn't feel like it at the time. I feel like it was | :54:02. | :54:09. | |
meant to be. You were pretty well-established in Finland when you | :54:10. | :54:12. | |
went on the show, you went on because you wanted to be able to | :54:13. | :54:17. | |
sing in English, why wasn't the Finnish market enough for you? Well, | :54:18. | :54:22. | |
I was ten when I saw the Spice Girls performing on television and I was | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
like, that is where I want to be, I want to be an international singer, | :54:27. | :54:30. | |
that is when I composed my music in English even though I could not | :54:31. | :54:35. | |
quite speak English yet. It has always been my way of doing and I | :54:36. | :54:38. | |
always see myself singing all around the world, and if you sing in | :54:39. | :54:43. | |
finish, you have two stay in Finland. I just have this passion, | :54:44. | :54:49. | |
for languages, to see the world, to sing to everybody, and that is why I | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
came here. Have talent shows change, when I was a kid, they were very | :54:55. | :54:58. | |
much for amateurs, someone who had no other prospect of getting a | :54:59. | :55:04. | |
singing career, or a career in the public eye, unless they went on | :55:05. | :55:13. | |
those talent shows to break out. There are people like you who have | :55:14. | :55:16. | |
had a degree of success and now people like you are on talent shows. | :55:17. | :55:21. | |
Every show they have people who asked Artin, and they dream about | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
being singers, but in every show they also have people who have been | :55:27. | :55:31. | |
working for it for and years. But, you know, nowadays, it is very hard | :55:32. | :55:37. | |
to get your face out there, you need help and these kind of shows are a | :55:38. | :55:41. | |
very good platform for people to really show their talent. Your | :55:42. | :55:45. | |
girlfriend was the person who suggested that you go on the show, | :55:46. | :55:49. | |
she didn't really feature very much in your personal story on the show, | :55:50. | :55:53. | |
people have questioned why, why do you think that was? Well, actually, | :55:54. | :55:58. | |
me and my girlfriend were always on social media together, giving | :55:59. | :56:05. | |
interviews, I think those BTs that were on the show, the video clips, I | :56:06. | :56:09. | |
think we had so many things that we wanted to fit in and they were only | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
one minute long, we did not have time to go into my personal life. -- | :56:14. | :56:19. | |
VTs. I didn't even realise that myself because I was with my | :56:20. | :56:22. | |
girlfriend all the time, very openly. You work on mental health | :56:23. | :56:29. | |
shops for kids, in Finland. Why do you do that? We have this no fear | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
project, together, lectures for young people, going for their | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
dreams, being who they are, that is the most important thing in life, | :56:41. | :56:44. | |
that is why I want to be a singer, that is why I want to encourage | :56:45. | :56:48. | |
young people or old people to live their life as they are. I think | :56:49. | :56:54. | |
people need love and encouragement. Do you feel you are living the | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
dream? Yes, definitely, definitely. Do you see yourself as a role model? | :57:01. | :57:05. | |
At least that is the response that I get, which is really nice, I get | :57:06. | :57:10. | |
e-mails, and private messages on social media, young girl saying that | :57:11. | :57:15. | |
I give them a lot of strength, and encouragement. So that is the best | :57:16. | :57:22. | |
feedback that I can get, really. Gabriella, I mentioned a tweet from | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
her, she said she spontaneously clapped at home when she said you | :57:27. | :57:29. | |
were coming on the show, she wanted a shout out, so it would mean the | :57:30. | :57:38. | |
world. Hello, Gabriela, I am so glad that you tweeted to me and I am so | :57:39. | :57:42. | |
glad if I can bring you any happiness and joy for your life, I | :57:43. | :57:47. | |
wish you all the best. And everybody, always remember, love | :57:48. | :57:50. | |
will always win in the end! For you, a record deal with Sony, what is | :57:51. | :57:56. | |
next! We have the X Factor tour coming up, and then we have an arena | :57:57. | :58:04. | |
concert. Already so sold out, it is going to be huge. I have two prepare | :58:05. | :58:08. | |
for that. And then, writing new songs and hopefully getting my first | :58:09. | :58:12. | |
angle out as soon as possible. Of course, we must take our time and | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
find the best song. Great to have you with us. Thank you very much. | :58:18. | :58:23. | |
Thank you for your company as well. I will see the same time tomorrow, | :58:24. | :58:25. | |
have a good afternoon. | :58:26. | :58:28. |