04/05/2017

:00:00. > :00:00.Hello it's Thursday it's 9am, I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

:00:07. > :00:13.France's two presidential hopefuls clash in a heated TV debate

:00:14. > :00:21.over Islamic extremism, the economy and whether to leave

:00:22. > :00:23.Euro - the vote's on Sunday -

:00:24. > :00:26.TRANSLATION: Mr Macron is the candidate of savage

:00:27. > :00:27.globalisation, uberisation, economic uncertainty, social

:00:28. > :00:33.TRANSLATION: You have shown you're not the candidate

:00:34. > :00:37.The question is - do the people want your defeatist attitude?

:00:38. > :00:40.We'll be speaking to some French people in the next hour.

:00:41. > :00:43.Also today - the number of men and boys in England seeking help

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:01:11. > :01:12.She's now the richest musician

:01:13. > :01:14.under 30 in the UK - we'll talk to the man

:01:15. > :01:31.Welcome to the programme, we're live until 11am this morning.

:01:32. > :01:37.We'll be discussing why more men are seeking help

:01:38. > :01:40.for eating disorders after 10am this morning so please do get

:01:41. > :01:42.in touch if you've got experience of this -

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:02:00. > :02:01.First this morning, our royal correspondent Peter Hunt

:02:02. > :02:04.is here because a meeting has been called at Buckingham Palace

:02:05. > :02:12.There is no cause for alarm so what is it about? It is one of the cases

:02:13. > :02:14.where we deal with facts and not dwell on speculation. Organisations

:02:15. > :02:20.have meetings, the BBC is infamous for its staff meetings. The Palace

:02:21. > :02:22.is holding a meeting of several hundred people. They have been

:02:23. > :02:26.called to this meeting. They have these meetings once a year so they

:02:27. > :02:31.are not regular occurrences but they occur annually, as I say. Like any

:02:32. > :02:35.other organisation the people at the top of the house like to tell their

:02:36. > :02:39.staff first rather than you and I discussing it so that is all fine

:02:40. > :02:42.and dandy with most companies. Is the entire royal house, the royal

:02:43. > :02:47.residences of Windsor... It's not clear whether they are coming in

:02:48. > :02:50.from there but certainly all of those from London. Finance dandy for

:02:51. > :02:54.other organisations but in this information vacuum we are talking

:02:55. > :02:57.about an institution that has a 91-year-old head of state and a

:02:58. > :03:01.husband who is 95, so in this vacuum of the early hours of this morning

:03:02. > :03:05.when it first emerged on Twitter and the media it has been speculated

:03:06. > :03:11.what it was about. What I can say is that it is not about the health of

:03:12. > :03:16.the Queen or Prince Philip, 91 and 95, there is no cause for concern

:03:17. > :03:21.regarding their health. It's not abdication. There is a great Alan

:03:22. > :03:25.Bennett in bad at the uncommon reader at the staff meeting says,

:03:26. > :03:29.I'm off. That's not happening at ten o'clock this morning, that is what

:03:30. > :03:34.we know it isn't. The Queen only yesterday met Theresa May to

:03:35. > :03:40.dissolve Parliament for the general election, Prince Philip opened a new

:03:41. > :03:43.stand at Lord's. His infamous line, he is the best plaque unveiling the

:03:44. > :03:48.world, which I'm sure is the case if you are 95 going on 96 and married

:03:49. > :03:52.the woman that would become Queen in 1947. That is the case and indeed to

:03:53. > :03:55.further underline the fact they are finding they should be out and about

:03:56. > :03:58.today at an engagement later this morning so we will see them. The

:03:59. > :04:02.Queen has been slowly handing over duties to younger members of the

:04:03. > :04:06.household. Yes. This announcement, I'm desperately trying not to cross

:04:07. > :04:10.my line, which is not going to speculation, but I suppose I could

:04:11. > :04:15.call it informed comment, shall we go with that? If I call it informed

:04:16. > :04:18.comment it's not impossible this announcement is part of this process

:04:19. > :04:24.they call transition. The reality is the head of state is 91, hurt heir

:04:25. > :04:30.is in his late 60s, there has been a process as you say -- her heir.

:04:31. > :04:33.There isn't a moment when you and I can say this is when she slowed

:04:34. > :04:38.down. It has been very gradual, for example she isn't at Buckingham

:04:39. > :04:41.Palace as much as she used to do, the investitures are done more and

:04:42. > :04:44.more by Prince William, the front trips are done by others other than

:04:45. > :04:48.herself it could be an announcement other than that. If she's doing

:04:49. > :04:51.less, are there too many staff at Buckingham Palace? Do they need to

:04:52. > :04:57.move to other households? It could be that type of announcement on or

:04:58. > :05:00.it could be something to do with the big thing last year about Buckingham

:05:01. > :05:03.Palace needing repairs, they got the money from the government when it

:05:04. > :05:07.was first touted. There was a question of the Queen leaving

:05:08. > :05:13.Buckingham Palace which was dismissed recently. Are they looking

:05:14. > :05:15.at that again? Thank you, Peter, for the moment. Peter Hunt will be back

:05:16. > :05:18.when he knows even more. The two final candidates

:05:19. > :05:20.in the French presidential election have taken part

:05:21. > :05:23.in a heated head-to-head debate. Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron

:05:24. > :05:26.traded insults, with both candidates Macron said his rival,

:05:27. > :05:34.Le Pen, risked civil war with her policies,

:05:35. > :05:36.while she accused him of being For the first time, Emmanuel Macron

:05:37. > :05:44.and Marine Le Pen sat directly Right from the start of this debate

:05:45. > :06:04.they began their attacks. TRANSLATION: Mr Macron

:06:05. > :06:06.is the candidate of savage globalisation, uberisation,

:06:07. > :06:07.economic uncertainty, social brutality, of

:06:08. > :06:09."every man for himself." TRANSLATION: You have shown

:06:10. > :06:11.you are not the candidate The question is, do the people

:06:12. > :06:14.want your defeatist attitude? You say that globalisation is too

:06:15. > :06:17.hard for us, so is Europe. "Let's shut the borders and leave

:06:18. > :06:20.the euro because others At times the moderators barely

:06:21. > :06:32.managed to get a word in. "I treat the French like adults,"

:06:33. > :06:34.Mr Macron told her. Marine Le Pen spent much of her time

:06:35. > :06:43.attacking her opponent. She avoided discussion

:06:44. > :06:47.of her own proposals. Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen

:06:48. > :06:50.presented two very different visions of France and theirs was a debate

:06:51. > :06:58.marked by attacks and accusations. They head out now to the rest

:06:59. > :07:01.of the country for the final days What people here want to know is,

:07:02. > :07:13.how would it affect Britain if Marine Le pen wins,

:07:14. > :07:23.how would it affect the UK Two completely different things.

:07:24. > :07:27.Emmanuel Macron is a pro EU candidate, he wants the European

:07:28. > :07:31.Union to reform and to survive and to do well. He would regret Britain

:07:32. > :07:35.leaving the European Union. I would suspect he would be a pretty tough

:07:36. > :07:40.negotiator about the terms of Brexit as well but he is a pro-European in

:07:41. > :07:45.his heart. Marine Le Pen by contrast is not a pro-European, she is

:07:46. > :07:49.anti-European. I was at a rally the other day in Nice and she had a

:07:50. > :07:53.picture of her and Nigel Farage on the wall very prominently on one of

:07:54. > :07:57.the video screens. She would seek to have a referendum following the

:07:58. > :08:07.Brexit referendum about France's membership of the EU. Whether or not

:08:08. > :08:09.she wins, whether or not the referendum would be held are several

:08:10. > :08:12.questions down the line but there is a clear difference between their

:08:13. > :08:14.views about the European Union and how that might affect Britain. Thank

:08:15. > :08:16.you, James. Here is an eat in the newsroom with the rest of the day's

:08:17. > :08:17.news stories. There's been a sharp rise

:08:18. > :08:20.in the number of men being treated for eating disorders such

:08:21. > :08:22.as anorexia and bulimia, according Figures obtained through a Freedom

:08:23. > :08:25.of Information request showed the number of males receiving

:08:26. > :08:28.out-patient treatment in England is rising at double the rate

:08:29. > :08:30.of female patients - although women still account

:08:31. > :08:33.for the majority of people treated. Voters are heading to

:08:34. > :08:35.the polls today for local Seats on 88 councils will be

:08:36. > :08:45.decided, including all those Voters in England will select new

:08:46. > :08:52.members of 32 councils and in six English regions Metro Mayors will be

:08:53. > :08:55.elected for the first time. The first results are

:08:56. > :08:57.expected in the early hours Researchers have developed a blood

:08:58. > :09:00.test which could prevent thousands of men with advanced prostate

:09:01. > :09:02.cancer from undergoing The technique - which costs

:09:03. > :09:06.less than ?50 a time - will help doctors tell

:09:07. > :09:10.whether patients will respond to the standard drugs used

:09:11. > :09:17.to fight the disease. An Australian woman who killed her

:09:18. > :09:20.seven children and a niece in 2014 will not stand trial,

:09:21. > :09:22.because it's been ruled she wasn't A court in Queensland said

:09:23. > :09:32.40-year-old Raina Thaiday could not be

:09:33. > :09:33.held criminally responsible for the deaths because she had

:09:34. > :09:38.suffered a psychotic episode. The children, who were aged

:09:39. > :09:40.between two and 14, From midnight on Friday,

:09:41. > :09:46.shops will no longer have to accept The Bank of England says

:09:47. > :09:50.there are still 150 million They're being replaced by a new,

:09:51. > :09:53.tougher, plastic note, which is designed to last

:09:54. > :10:01.more than twice as long. Facebook's profits have jumped

:10:02. > :10:05.in the first three months of this year to more than ?2.4 billion -

:10:06. > :10:08.a 76% rise year-on-year. The social network said

:10:09. > :10:10.it is approaching two However, executives warned that

:10:11. > :10:15.growth in ad revenues would slow down, as the company is facing

:10:16. > :10:19.a limit on the number of adverts The announcement comes as its chief

:10:20. > :10:23.executive Mark Zuckerberg announced it would be hiring 3,000 more

:10:24. > :10:26.moderators to help fight hate speech, child abuse

:10:27. > :10:30.and self-harm on the site. Adele has become the richest

:10:31. > :10:33.musician under 30 according to this The singer's fortune has reached

:10:34. > :10:41.?125 million, up 50% She's the only female solo artist

:10:42. > :10:46.to make the list, which is topped We'll speak to the man

:10:47. > :10:56.who discovered her just before 10am. That's a summary of the latest BBC

:10:57. > :10:59.News - more at 9.30am. Do get in touch with us

:11:00. > :11:06.throughout the morning - use the #VictoriaLIVE

:11:07. > :11:08.and if you text, you will be charged Let's get some sport,

:11:09. > :11:14.Olly Foster is with us this morning. It's been a busy week of European

:11:15. > :11:18.football Olly and tonight, we see the last British team

:11:19. > :11:26.standing Manchester United. Manchester United are in Spain

:11:27. > :11:30.playing Celta Vigo, the first leg of their Europa League semifinal, this

:11:31. > :11:34.is the second tier of European competition. Now, here's the rub.

:11:35. > :11:38.The Europa League carries with it if you win it a place in next year's

:11:39. > :11:42.Champions League if you finish in the top four in the Premier League

:11:43. > :11:46.you also get into the Champions League. Manchester United are in a

:11:47. > :11:50.dogfight for the top four, they are faith a point from the top four but

:11:51. > :11:56.Jose Mourinho has pretty much admitted that the best chance for

:11:57. > :11:59.Manchester United to get into next season's Champions League, they've

:12:00. > :12:02.been out of it for the last couple of seasons, would be to wind up

:12:03. > :12:06.Europa League. They are three matches from doing that and have

:12:07. > :12:10.four matches left in the Premier League including tricky trips to

:12:11. > :12:14.Arsenal and Spurs. He's threatening to rest players against Arsenal this

:12:15. > :12:19.weekend. That will not make some of those other teams happy at all.

:12:20. > :12:26.Gunners fans will be pleased at that. Here is Jose Mourinho on their

:12:27. > :12:30.changing priorities this season. I think it would be a good achievement

:12:31. > :12:37.with so many problems that we have had and would allow us to be back to

:12:38. > :12:44.Champions League next season. So we have to try. That's what we are

:12:45. > :12:49.going to do. And honestly the Europa League has become for us now more

:12:50. > :12:54.important. If Manchester United make it through those two legs against

:12:55. > :12:59.Celta Vigo Ajax should be their opponents, 4-1 winners at Amsterdam

:13:00. > :13:02.last night against Lyon, Bertrand Traore on loan from Chelsea scored

:13:03. > :13:07.twice for them, so they are looking very good for that final. We will

:13:08. > :13:09.see how United get onto night in the first leg of their is.

:13:10. > :13:13.The Champions League, we have a good idea who will be in the Champions

:13:14. > :13:18.League final next month. We do, we have only had the first

:13:19. > :13:22.legs this week, real Madrid beat Atletico 3-0, Cristiano Ronaldo with

:13:23. > :13:28.a hat-trick earlier this week. Last night Juventus beat Monaco 2-0 in

:13:29. > :13:33.Monaco. Gonzalo Higuain scored twice for them. Juve, famed for their

:13:34. > :13:39.defence, they have only conceded twice in the Champions League this

:13:40. > :13:43.season. Not at all in the knockout stage, and that includes two matches

:13:44. > :13:47.against Barcelona as well. Monaco really disappointing, really free

:13:48. > :13:53.scoring but Juve looking very good to go to the final just like Real

:13:54. > :13:56.Madrid. It's that time of the season when penalty shoot outs can decide a

:13:57. > :14:02.lot of games but Uefa will try something new with spot kicks. You

:14:03. > :14:05.know the score, after extra time the captain step up and Flickr coin to

:14:06. > :14:10.see who goes first in the dreaded penalty shoot out.

:14:11. > :14:14.-- flip a coin. Whoever goes first usually wins because you ever worked

:14:15. > :14:18.out there is a 60% chance of winning if you go first. That was the last

:14:19. > :14:22.FA Cup final settled on penalties, Liverpool beaten by West Ham. Uefa

:14:23. > :14:28.says it's not fair for the team going first because it is stacked in

:14:29. > :14:32.their favour. They are driving this at the men's European under 17s

:14:33. > :14:35.championship and the women's competition in the Czech Republic.

:14:36. > :14:39.At the moment the first team goes first, then the second team and then

:14:40. > :14:49.the first team and then the second team until you have five or go to

:14:50. > :14:56.sudden death. Rather than this they want A-B-B-A so Thiney goes first

:14:57. > :15:00.and then team the ghost twice, they are calling it the advert system. --

:15:01. > :15:05.team a. Thank you. Good morning and welcome

:15:06. > :15:06.to the programme. It's been successful

:15:07. > :15:08.in policing and it's even Now staff working in one mental

:15:09. > :15:12.health unit are looking at whether bodycams can help prevent

:15:13. > :15:14.confrontational situations with patients from

:15:15. > :15:15.spiralling out of control. Staff involved in a trial

:15:16. > :15:21.in Northampton say they felt more confident with the cameras

:15:22. > :15:23.on and the use of emergency The scheme will now be

:15:24. > :15:27.assessed and could be Let's talk now to Ellie Surey

:15:28. > :15:30.who helped to develop the body cam technology -

:15:31. > :15:33.she'll be showing us some Gary Molloy was restrained over ten

:15:34. > :15:37.times during his treatment in a mental health unit -

:15:38. > :15:39.he says he's encouraged that body cams appear to be lowering the need

:15:40. > :15:42.for restraint in the trial. Joining us from Northamptonshire

:15:43. > :15:44.Trust where the technology was trialled is Dr Alex

:15:45. > :15:53.O'Neill-Kerr. Hi, he's behind you if you want to

:15:54. > :15:56.turn around and look at him. Good morning. Can you explain the link

:15:57. > :15:59.between your staff wearing a body camera and the decrease in the

:16:00. > :16:04.number of times you have to restrain a patient in an emergency situation?

:16:05. > :16:13.Well, that wasn't the purpose of doing the evaluation. No, but it is

:16:14. > :16:17.very interesting, isn't it? Very interesting indeed, and we need to

:16:18. > :16:23.do a longer period of work on that to see if that is sustained. What do

:16:24. > :16:28.you think the link could be? Well, human behaviour it is what it is.

:16:29. > :16:33.And I think the people seeing that a camera is going to be used may not

:16:34. > :16:40.then start acting out for example, staff tell me that when a camera is

:16:41. > :16:45.turned on, patience. Kicking doors or banging windows. We hope also

:16:46. > :16:48.that by using the camera early on that weekend the escalate the

:16:49. > :16:51.situation early on so we don't have to use of urgency restraint. We know

:16:52. > :16:57.that emergency restraint physical health issues. Anything we can do to

:16:58. > :17:02.reduce that would be very beneficial for patients, but also for staff,

:17:03. > :17:06.because staff also get injured when they perform restraint on patients.

:17:07. > :17:09.At the end of the day these are patients, they are not criminals, we

:17:10. > :17:14.don't want to restrain people but sometimes because of their mental

:17:15. > :17:21.health problems they behave and become aggressive unfortunately.

:17:22. > :17:29.Gary, can you describe what it is like being restrained? A really

:17:30. > :17:34.traumatic experience, so much fear based around that and because I was

:17:35. > :17:41.so ill I did not know what was going on. I felt quite honourable and

:17:42. > :17:47.humiliated at the same time. Practically what does it involve?

:17:48. > :17:53.When you are quite aggressive, and in my state of manic behaviour,

:17:54. > :17:56.sometimes five or six nurses kind of hold you down. It was back in the

:17:57. > :18:00.90s, so quite a long time ago and it was different, but it was quite

:18:01. > :18:06.extreme, they would hold your face down, it was difficult to breathe.

:18:07. > :18:12.People always did get their limbs broken and people unfortunately did

:18:13. > :18:16.die. Really extreme experience and the fear around it and the trauma of

:18:17. > :18:20.years afterwards was the difficult thing. Thankfully I have had

:18:21. > :18:28.counselling for years to deal with the trauma that continues. Did you

:18:29. > :18:34.have lashed backs? Yes, because it happened so much in that 10-year

:18:35. > :18:39.period. What do you think of the idea of cameras? Cameras could be

:18:40. > :18:43.good and bad. If it is monitoring people and how they do it is a good

:18:44. > :18:47.thing. If it develops empathy which shows how the nurses are doing the

:18:48. > :18:54.training and the restraint and then they can look at seeing how it is

:18:55. > :18:56.done through the cameras and work on that, but having your humiliation

:18:57. > :18:59.and vulnerability films could be difficult for the patient as well.

:19:00. > :19:06.So I think there are positives and negatives in it. That is

:19:07. > :19:12.interesting, but as Alex says, there has been a reduction, and it is

:19:13. > :19:18.early stages, but initial findings would suggest that is encouraging.

:19:19. > :19:24.As Alex said, it is not only unpleasant for the patient but also

:19:25. > :19:27.for the member of staff as well. Let's have a look at these cameras

:19:28. > :19:31.and if you wouldn't mind demonstrating, that would be

:19:32. > :19:34.amazing. Cameras, as much as we have police cameras, these are focused

:19:35. > :19:39.much towards a softer environment. This is one to you. Why don't you

:19:40. > :19:48.turn your chair and a bit as well. The user pushes a flick of a switch

:19:49. > :19:54.up the record. This is held on with a magnet. They would go through

:19:55. > :20:01.quite a link the process before they chose to record. This is a final

:20:02. > :20:06.point. You have a screen on the front so people can actively say

:20:07. > :20:10.they are being recorded, they are not trying to hide anything, it

:20:11. > :20:14.would only happen in the final stage of a scenario. We encrypt the data

:20:15. > :20:18.on a camera so it is secure, uploaded to a secure environment.

:20:19. > :20:24.Only people who have been granted access can review the footage. Any

:20:25. > :20:29.trust would have a policy that would ensure only specific people can

:20:30. > :20:38.access and will only review if there is a cause to do so. In terms of the

:20:39. > :20:44.results, what do you take from it so far, again, early stages but really

:20:45. > :20:49.interesting. It was a feasibility study, we wanted to see if it was

:20:50. > :20:52.practical. I have spent a lot of time with the trust and some of the

:20:53. > :20:59.feedback from the nursing staff and patients is for me personally better

:21:00. > :21:08.than I thought they would be. What were members of staff saying to you?

:21:09. > :21:11.They felt safe to, more in control of the situation, it gave them time

:21:12. > :21:18.to think about it. Even the patients saying they felt safer as well. That

:21:19. > :21:22.is something we would have liked to have had heard, and we did hear it.

:21:23. > :21:25.It is early days but we will invest hopefully with the trust to further

:21:26. > :21:33.evaluate what this could do and what benefits it could bring into the

:21:34. > :21:38.NHS. Alex, can you see this being rolled out for use in the other

:21:39. > :21:41.parts of the NHS? I think if the promising results that we've shown,

:21:42. > :21:47.and we have shown it is feasible, so that is good, the next stage is to

:21:48. > :21:50.see whether or not there is an improvement in quality and safety as

:21:51. > :21:54.we have already seen, in terms of the early data. And I would like to

:21:55. > :21:59.see it rolled out because this is not something we would particularly

:22:00. > :22:03.want to do, the emergency restraint. Anything we could do to reduce that

:22:04. > :22:14.will have a very big impact on patient care for stop we know how

:22:15. > :22:18.difficult it is for people. What about, as Gary suggested, as a

:22:19. > :22:22.patient, the act of being restrained in an emergency situation, it being

:22:23. > :22:30.filmed, it being recorded, it being kept. You could imagine that would

:22:31. > :22:33.psychologically be painful. Yes, you could, but what happened in reality

:22:34. > :22:36.as the patients by saying yes, please fill me because I want to

:22:37. > :22:42.make sure you are doing this properly. I agree there are issues

:22:43. > :22:48.around confidentiality that was part of the evaluation, can we do this

:22:49. > :22:52.safely, can we maintain data protection? And we would like to see

:22:53. > :22:59.how it might be used in terms of training for example, staff, but

:23:00. > :23:02.also for patients as a debrief. Nice says after an emergency restraint

:23:03. > :23:07.there should be a debrief, and a video that might be helpful to

:23:08. > :23:15.patients. Not everyone, but we might want to see whether further things

:23:16. > :23:18.could come out of this evaluation. We ask if we could show footage from

:23:19. > :23:24.the body can but we understand we can't because of patient

:23:25. > :23:28.confidentiality. No. Gary, you experienced this ten times.

:23:29. > :23:35.Roundabout that, through a 10-year period. When people are angry and

:23:36. > :23:40.aggressive it is more of a cry for help than someone being gratuitous

:23:41. > :23:44.violence or something. So I think the empathy and the compression is

:23:45. > :23:51.important. Anything that will lessen the pain of the restraint is the key

:23:52. > :23:59.thing. It is such a painful experience. You mean physically and

:24:00. > :24:04.mentally. Wie yes. But also the area that has been filmed, and it is

:24:05. > :24:09.quite a humiliating experience for stop so I think positives, but those

:24:10. > :24:13.areas have to be looked at as well. How much are these? We haven't

:24:14. > :24:23.finalised pricing but it will be around ?250. OK, that is quite a lot

:24:24. > :24:27.of money. I appreciate what you have all said about the potential

:24:28. > :24:29.benefits so far. So one of the things we will do everything his

:24:30. > :24:34.incredibly valuable is to understand what benefits it does actually bring

:24:35. > :24:43.to the NHS. At a time when funding for the NHS is really tight, is

:24:44. > :24:50.there actually a financial benefit? It would be a valuable investment.

:24:51. > :24:53.That is part of where we engaged with the trust, through such a

:24:54. > :24:58.lengthy process, to put something out there that actually works and

:24:59. > :25:01.does what we believe it does. So Alex, the next age view is what

:25:02. > :25:08.regarding these body cams and your members of staff? So we are going to

:25:09. > :25:13.move to putting the body cameras into our catering mental health

:25:14. > :25:16.hospital. We have two mental health units. We have already had meetings

:25:17. > :25:20.with our research Fellows to put a proper research evaluation together,

:25:21. > :25:25.in terms of juicing the emergency restraint but also looking at

:25:26. > :25:31.patient acceptability and what patients feel about use of the body

:25:32. > :25:35.camera. But I have to say, all of the quality increments we have made

:25:36. > :25:39.have saved money. I absolutely agree that I think while these things

:25:40. > :25:43.could be expensive in the long-term I think they would improve patient

:25:44. > :25:46.quality and that is the most important thing. Thank you very

:25:47. > :25:52.much, all of you. Really appreciate it. 25 past nine.

:25:53. > :25:54.Facebook are hiring three thousand extra people to moderate

:25:55. > :26:06.Users have reached nearly 2 billion. Let's talk today believe. He is our

:26:07. > :26:14.business technology correspondent. Tell us more. A very good day for

:26:15. > :26:16.Facebook, they announced their latest earnings, the judgment in the

:26:17. > :26:21.last three months of their business and compare to this time last year,

:26:22. > :26:26.they made 76% more money in the last three months, they made just over $3

:26:27. > :26:30.billion in profit. So a sign of Facebook's business being really

:26:31. > :26:35.healthy. As you mentioned, they are hurtling towards that 2 billion user

:26:36. > :26:41.mark, they probably will surpass that at some point in the next year.

:26:42. > :26:44.And they are able to turn all those users to click advertising,

:26:45. > :26:49.particularly on mobile, which has been a big growth area in the last

:26:50. > :26:53.couple of years. So Facebook feeling very confident, although as you

:26:54. > :26:57.mentioned one of the problems they do have at the moment is this

:26:58. > :27:03.concern over violent content being broadcast or uploaded to Facebook,

:27:04. > :27:10.and indeed child abuse images as well, which a BBC investigation made

:27:11. > :27:16.light of recently. So too, that they have said they will employ 3000 more

:27:17. > :27:19.people to moderate this content, and the idea perhaps is that this

:27:20. > :27:25.content won't be on Facebook for as long as it has been in the last few

:27:26. > :27:31.recent examples. Successive Facebook but an eye on making some

:27:32. > :27:34.improvements. You talked about the growth of revenue from advertising.

:27:35. > :27:43.Have Pete there, because there are only so many adverts you can get on

:27:44. > :27:49.a Facebook page, isn't there? Yes, and in deed, shares in Facebook,

:27:50. > :27:52.despite record highs, shares on Facebook went down after trading,

:27:53. > :27:55.and that is because yes, they have said they are kind of worried they

:27:56. > :27:59.have plateaued their mobile advertising. As you mentioned, there

:28:00. > :28:04.is only so much space on the news feed that the full scroll through

:28:05. > :28:08.for those advertisements to live. One thing they say they are looking

:28:09. > :28:11.to do more of is the target users on Instagram, so that is the image

:28:12. > :28:16.sharing social network that Facebook also owns. They are hoping to ramp

:28:17. > :28:21.up advertising on Instagram, perhaps putting adverts within videos and so

:28:22. > :28:25.on. So there is still space to grow but they are warning investors, you

:28:26. > :28:30.know what, we might not be able to sell or keep growing in the way we

:28:31. > :28:32.have when it comes to advertising on mobile devices. Cheers, Dave, thank

:28:33. > :28:45.you. come, the two French presidential

:28:46. > :28:53.candidates had a heated debate on French TV last night.

:28:54. > :29:00.We'll be speaking to the man that discovered Adele.

:29:01. > :29:05.Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom with a summary of todays news.

:29:06. > :29:07.The two final candidates in the French presidential

:29:08. > :29:10.election have taken part in a heated head-to-head debate.

:29:11. > :29:12.Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron traded insults, with both candidates

:29:13. > :29:20.Macron said his rival, Le Pen, risked civil war with her policies,

:29:21. > :29:21.while she accused him of being complacent

:29:22. > :29:29.A meeting of Buckingham Palace household staff this morning

:29:30. > :29:33.is 'not a cause for alarm', the BBC understands.

:29:34. > :29:36.Officials at the palace have not said what the meeting will be about,

:29:37. > :29:39.but it is reported to involve all senior staff from across the UK.

:29:40. > :29:42.It is NOT believed to be anything to do with the health of either

:29:43. > :29:47.There's been a sharp rise in the number of men being treated

:29:48. > :29:49.for eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, according

:29:50. > :29:53.Figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request showed

:29:54. > :29:56.the number of males receiving out-patient treatment in England

:29:57. > :29:58.is rising at double the rate of female patients -

:29:59. > :30:01.although women still account for the majority of people treated.

:30:02. > :30:04.Voters are heading to the polls today for local

:30:05. > :30:08.Seats on 88 councils will be decided, including all those

:30:09. > :30:17.Voters in England will select new members of 32

:30:18. > :30:19.councils, and in six English regions Metro Mayors will be

:30:20. > :30:23.The first results are expected in the early hours

:30:24. > :30:31.Researchers have developed a blood test which could prevent thousands

:30:32. > :30:33.of men with advanced prostate cancer from undergoing

:30:34. > :30:37.The technique - which costs less than ?50 a time -

:30:38. > :30:39.will help doctors tell whether patients will respond

:30:40. > :30:47.to the standard drugs used to fight the disease.

:30:48. > :30:49.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10:00am.

:30:50. > :31:04.Oh! Olly Foster is not ready but that's fine because any moment now

:31:05. > :31:08.he will be. We will talk about the French elections. It was our fault

:31:09. > :31:10.for going too early to him. We will talk about the French elections.

:31:11. > :31:13.The choice facing French voters this weekend could not be more stark.

:31:14. > :31:16.Their next president will be either Marine Le Pen or Emmanuel Macron -

:31:17. > :31:19.and they could not be more far apart politically.

:31:20. > :31:21.Marine Le Pen is strongly anti-immigration, wants to ban

:31:22. > :31:23.the Muslim head scarf and is keen to leave the EU.

:31:24. > :31:28.Emmanuel Macron launched his own party to run for President -

:31:29. > :31:30.and has never held any elected office.

:31:31. > :31:33.He's very pro-EU - but says he wants to reform it.

:31:34. > :31:40.Here's what they had to say for themselves last night.

:31:41. > :31:42.TRANSLATION: Mr Macron is the candidate of savage

:31:43. > :31:43.globalisation, uberisation, economic uncertainty, social

:31:44. > :31:55.TRANSLATION: You have shown that you are not the candidate

:31:56. > :32:06.The question is - do the people want your defeatist attitude?

:32:07. > :32:09.You say globalisation is too hard for us, so is Europe.

:32:10. > :32:16.And again, you're protecting the big groups and the big companies.

:32:17. > :32:19.They're your friends, people you have a drink with.

:32:20. > :32:22.Madame Le Pen, the French people deserve better than this.

:32:23. > :32:38.You've been a minister of the economy, an adviser

:32:39. > :32:46.Well, if you have the recipe to reduce unemployment,

:32:47. > :32:50.Your strategy has been the same for decades,

:32:51. > :32:56.Making many lies and saying everything doesn't

:32:57. > :33:01.Because if you look, taxes have gone down.

:33:02. > :33:04.While you were doing your act for the cameras, I was meeting

:33:05. > :33:06.with workers' representatives, because I respect them.

:33:07. > :33:11.They understood very well that you have nothing to offer them.

:33:12. > :33:18.Well yes, because they are angry, and I accept that anger.

:33:19. > :33:27.You're playing with their anger, Madame Le Pen.

:33:28. > :33:29.The safety of our people, the fight against terror

:33:30. > :33:37.You don't want to take it on and I know why.

:33:38. > :33:39.Against terrorism, we need to close our borders straightaway.

:33:40. > :33:43.And that is what I will do the moment I take power.

:33:44. > :33:49.There are many countries outside of Schengen area that have been hit

:33:50. > :33:52.as hard as us by terrorist attacks, and since 2015, we've put back

:33:53. > :34:06.We can get more reaction to that debate now and look forward

:34:07. > :34:08.to the results of the election with Agnes Poirier,

:34:09. > :34:09.journalist and commentator, Pierre Briancon,

:34:10. > :34:11.a senior writer at the website Politico, who's based

:34:12. > :34:15.Mikael Sala, an adviser to Marine Le Pen

:34:16. > :34:18.and we were due to be speaking to an adviser for Emmanuel Macron

:34:19. > :34:23.but this morning she has had to pull out.

:34:24. > :34:28.But which one do you think will be feeling happier this morning?

:34:29. > :34:33.Probably Emmanuel Macron. You have to realise that that kind of debate

:34:34. > :34:39.is the climax of the second round campaigning in France and the

:34:40. > :34:43.political theatre and pantomime has been going on and we love it and we

:34:44. > :34:52.watch it, 60 million people watched it yesterday. Marine Le Pen fed

:34:53. > :34:56.terribly bad. Why do you say that? It was a car crash debate because

:34:57. > :35:00.she didn't engage in the conversation or the debate, she just

:35:01. > :35:05.attacked him personally, or on the fact that he was the minister with

:35:06. > :35:10.Francois Hollande. He attacked her as well and said she was the high

:35:11. > :35:13.priestess of fear. Yes, that's true but he had to respond in some way

:35:14. > :35:18.and was extremely calm considering all of the attacks he got. On the

:35:19. > :35:22.economy, for instance, that was extremely striking. He talked about

:35:23. > :35:27.his programme and she didn't at all, she didn't explain what she would

:35:28. > :35:33.do. The economy is not her forte. She got into a bit of a muddle about

:35:34. > :35:36.her own views on the Euro and whether France would have its own

:35:37. > :35:41.currency or continue with the Euro. She said we would have a referendum

:35:42. > :35:45.but she would also at the same time renegotiate all of the treaties, she

:35:46. > :35:51.would leave the euro but stay in the EU, it didn't make any sense. He

:35:52. > :35:55.actually was quite good at pointing out the vagueness, if not the

:35:56. > :36:00.madness of what she was proposing. Mikael Sala, you are an adviser to

:36:01. > :36:04.Marine Le Pen, you have heard from Agnes Poirier, the vagueness and

:36:05. > :36:10.madness of what your Candela proposes. What do you say to that? I

:36:11. > :36:14.have heard Agnes talk about Marine Le Pen faring badly and I'm going to

:36:15. > :36:22.tell you who is faring badly. France is faring very badly. Where it

:36:23. > :36:25.really -- Lemmy remind what Emmanuel Macron has done for the last five

:36:26. > :36:29.years, he's been the general secretary of the Elysee, the first

:36:30. > :36:32.economic adviser to Francois Hollande and then the minister of

:36:33. > :36:37.the economy, and let me tell you, during the last five years every 30

:36:38. > :36:41.seconds there has been a job slashed in France, every other minute a

:36:42. > :36:48.small business has gone bankrupt in France. In the meantime we have

:36:49. > :36:57.suffered 250 dead from terror attacks, 800 wounded. In the last

:36:58. > :37:02.year Germany has accumulated a trade surplus of 300 billion euros while

:37:03. > :37:06.France has struggled with a trade deficit of 50 billion euros. So let

:37:07. > :37:10.me tell you one thing, France is faring very, very badly. The good

:37:11. > :37:15.news is that from Monday morning, May the 8th 2017, onwards, it will

:37:16. > :37:19.change because Marine Le Pen will be elected by a vast majority of French

:37:20. > :37:24.who are sick and tired of the mess this country has been put in by

:37:25. > :37:32.Francois Hollande and Emmanuel Macron. Can I ask a question, Mikael

:37:33. > :37:34.Sala? If that's the case, use a Monday morning she will be the

:37:35. > :37:39.President, what will happen between now and then to shift the fact

:37:40. > :37:44.Emmanuel Macron is 20% ahead in the polls? Nothing is going to happen to

:37:45. > :37:51.shift, because let me tell you, in what way the polls do not reflect

:37:52. > :37:55.the reality. Don't, it's fine. Let me bring in Pierre Briancon. Hello,

:37:56. > :38:02.what has been the reaction in France? Well, the overwhelming

:38:03. > :38:14.impression, as Agnes said, Mike wrong'un heads down by a big margin,

:38:15. > :38:19.by a big distance -- Macron won hands down. She is trailing far

:38:20. > :38:25.behind. Her tactic, if it can be called so, was to destabilise him,

:38:26. > :38:28.which she tried to do with relentless attacks, refraining and

:38:29. > :38:34.refusing actually come to talk about her own platform or programme. She

:38:35. > :38:37.borrowed from the populist playbook inasmuch as substance doesn't really

:38:38. > :38:45.matter and she doesn't really care about showing a very poor grasp of

:38:46. > :38:48.issues like... Sorry, Pierre. Did you learn anything last night from

:38:49. > :38:52.that debate you didn't know before? Did the French public learn

:38:53. > :38:57.anything? Absolutely not, this was a very long two and a half hours, your

:38:58. > :39:01.short extracts gave a good indication of people talking above

:39:02. > :39:08.each other and not really listening to each other. But the contrast was

:39:09. > :39:12.very stark. Macron had to appear presidential. He had to show that he

:39:13. > :39:18.wouldn't be destabilised by her relentless attacks. I will just

:39:19. > :39:23.pause you because Mikael Sala is laughing his head off at that, why

:39:24. > :39:25.is that? Macron could be the President of a start-up company in

:39:26. > :39:30.the Silicon Valley but the President of the country will have to face of

:39:31. > :39:36.Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump, this is not serious, this is a joke. I

:39:37. > :39:41.just want to ask something. Who is lecturing us on the economy? Someone

:39:42. > :39:46.who has been in charge for the last five years. And who has caused 1.2

:39:47. > :39:53.million unemployed? Who can lecture us on this topic? Are we having a

:39:54. > :39:57.debate now? Do you mind if I answer your previous question before the

:39:58. > :40:01.gentleman came into the studio? You asked what would lead us to a Marine

:40:02. > :40:05.Le Pen victory? I will tell you three things. The first thing is the

:40:06. > :40:09.Republican Conservatives who voted for Francois Fillon in the first

:40:10. > :40:15.round, a good chunk of them will never ever vote for five more years

:40:16. > :40:20.of socialist hell because Emmanuel Macron, along with his mentor

:40:21. > :40:28.Francois Hollande, have created 35 billion in extra taxes in the last

:40:29. > :40:30.five years. The Republicans, the Conservative Republicans, will never

:40:31. > :40:36.for a great majority of them choose five years of socialist hell. I am

:40:37. > :40:40.going to let Pierre Briancon comeback in. My impression was we

:40:41. > :40:44.were talking about last night's debate so I may talk to you. The

:40:45. > :40:51.future of France, France is on the verge of... Go ahead, Pierre

:40:52. > :41:01.Briancon. The question is whether it has moved people. The overwhelming

:41:02. > :41:06.impression is that Macron won hands down. Did it move people? Don't

:41:07. > :41:12.forget that the people decide. Don't do... Don't do the Le Pen number on

:41:13. > :41:16.me, I am not a Macron representative. The question, does

:41:17. > :41:23.it move votes and can move enough votes between now and Sunday? The

:41:24. > :41:27.answer usually... The people who voted for Francois Fillon... Please,

:41:28. > :41:31.let me bring in Agnes. British people will be interested to know

:41:32. > :41:34.the outcome, we have to wait until the weekend. What difference will it

:41:35. > :41:39.make to Britain and the relationship to France if Marine Le Pen wins or

:41:40. > :41:42.Emmanuel Macron wins? Nigel Farage tweeted yesterday that he fully

:41:43. > :41:46.supported Marine Le Pen. It's obvious that Brexiteers would love

:41:47. > :41:53.to see Frexit and therefore Marine Le Pen is their choice of candidate.

:41:54. > :42:00.Now, the French might not oblige the Brexit tears and might on Sunday

:42:01. > :42:04.collect a pro-European candidate and Emmanuel Macron. So Emmanuel Macron

:42:05. > :42:10.is not going to make it easy. But Angela Merkel is not going to make

:42:11. > :42:15.it easy. And actually 27 members of the European Union are not going to

:42:16. > :42:20.make it easy for Britain. You know, it's going to be a difficult

:42:21. > :42:26.negotiation. Thank you all very much for your time. Agnes Poirier,

:42:27. > :42:30.journalist and commentator, Pierre Briancon, senior writer at Politico,

:42:31. > :42:34.based in Paris, and Mikael Sala, an adviser to Marine Le Pen. We had

:42:35. > :42:37.booked to speak to an adviser to Emmanuel Macron but she pulled out

:42:38. > :42:43.this morning. Thank you for your comments about the trials of body

:42:44. > :42:46.cameras in a mental health unit in Northamptonshire. This tweet from

:42:47. > :42:52.marine says NHS body camps should be extended to social care for elderly

:42:53. > :42:55.people and two children's units. Max says body cameras would help save

:42:56. > :43:00.money on the legal costs if there is a dispute over a problem and would

:43:01. > :43:04.make the process quicker. Neal says, I am a mental health nurse and have

:43:05. > :43:08.worked for five years on a psychiatric mental health unit and

:43:09. > :43:12.have dealt with numerous incidents involving restraint. Having camera

:43:13. > :43:14.technology on the ward can have a positive and negative affect. Some

:43:15. > :43:18.patients I've cared for have been deeply suspicious or are worried

:43:19. > :43:23.about surveillance. However, working towards a way of using this

:43:24. > :43:25.technology to help would be great providing patients gave their

:43:26. > :43:29.permission. I would like to add that restraint face down is no longer

:43:30. > :43:33.used in our units that I've worked in any way. Health monitoring and

:43:34. > :43:35.debriefs are advised I'm are enshrined in policy and safeguarding

:43:36. > :43:41.patients is paramount and restraint is used as a last resort. If you

:43:42. > :43:43.have any personal experience please get in touch.

:43:44. > :43:46.It's been ten years since Adele released her first track,

:43:47. > :43:51.and since then she's become one of the world's most

:43:52. > :43:55.She's just finished a global tour where she performed to more

:43:56. > :43:59.And she's now the richest musician under 30 in the UK and Ireland.

:44:00. > :44:02.The new rich list published by the Sunday Times shows she's now

:44:03. > :44:05.worth ?125 million - 50% more than she was last year.

:44:06. > :44:13.The last 12 months have underlined Adele's position

:44:14. > :44:26.Her third album "25" has now sold more than 20 million

:44:27. > :44:37.On her latest tour, she has performed at 122 concerts -

:44:38. > :44:50.to a total audience of more than 1 million fans.

:44:51. > :44:56.# It clearly doesn't tear you apart any more #

:44:57. > :45:02.# Or should I just keep chasing pavements?

:45:03. > :45:13.It was clear from her early music ten years ago

:45:14. > :45:15.that she was something special - winning the Criticss Choice Award

:45:16. > :45:18.at the Brits, and coming first on the BBC's Sound of 2008 list.

:45:19. > :45:21.# Should I give up, or should I just keep chasing pavements?

:45:22. > :45:41.Her second album, "21", established her as a star.

:45:42. > :45:46.It became the biggest selling album of 2011 and 2012.

:45:47. > :45:52.# Never mind I'll find someone like you...#

:45:53. > :45:55.It won Record Of The Year and Album Of The Year

:45:56. > :45:59.at the Grammys, as well as Best Album at the Brits -

:46:00. > :46:01.although, controversially, her acceptance speech was cut short,

:46:02. > :46:11.Yeah, I'd like to say I got cut off during my speech for Best Album,

:46:12. > :46:18.But that finger was to the suits of the Brit Awards, not to my fans.

:46:19. > :46:20.I was about to thank the British public.

:46:21. > :46:23.In 2015, she admitted briefly to me that expectation was somewhat high

:46:24. > :46:29.Adele, a lot of expectation after 21?

:46:30. > :46:32.Yeah, I dunno, everything's always going to follow 21 after this

:46:33. > :46:38.My fifth album from now will follow 21.

:46:39. > :46:42.# When the rain is blowing in your face...#

:46:43. > :46:47.she also showed her sense of humour, pretending to be

:46:48. > :46:55.# I will offer you a warm embrace...#

:46:56. > :46:58.The clip has been watched 58 million times on YouTube.

:46:59. > :47:17.And, if she needed any more reassurance about her immense

:47:18. > :47:20.popularity, last summer's Glastonbury will have given her that

:47:21. > :47:23.as more than 100,000 fans flocked to see and hear her sing.

:47:24. > :47:25.Glastonbury, do it one more time for me.

:47:26. > :47:32.# Never mind, I'll find someone like you

:47:33. > :47:40.# I wish nothing but the best for you too

:47:41. > :47:48.Let's talk to Katie Markham, an Adele impersonator

:47:49. > :47:51.who met her during that Graham Norton sketch where the real

:47:52. > :47:53.Adele took part, pretending to be a would-be Adele,

:47:54. > :47:55.Kevin Hughes from Heart Radio who's interviewed her,

:47:56. > :48:03.and Nick Huggett who first discovered her.

:48:04. > :48:13.How? I was fortunate for someone to send me her MySpace link. Seems

:48:14. > :48:19.quite unfashionable. It really does. But it changed my life. I heard the

:48:20. > :48:23.voice, and the hairs on the back of my neck went up and I was blown

:48:24. > :48:28.away. I just thought I need to meet this girl. And when you met her?

:48:29. > :48:33.Just everything you would hope for when you meet a new artist, you

:48:34. > :48:40.know? Very confident, charismatic, just great. Amazing personality,

:48:41. > :48:50.totally, as you say. How easy was it to get a record deal? For me to get

:48:51. > :48:57.a record deal for her, I work for the record company, so I signed her.

:48:58. > :49:01.It was relatively easy, because she was unknown, you now. How does it

:49:02. > :49:05.work you go into the company and say I have met this woman, she sings,

:49:06. > :49:10.she writes, she is character Matt, she is normal, signed her. And they

:49:11. > :49:16.go yes -- charismatic. Yes, because I had a bit of a track record before

:49:17. > :49:20.that, it was Excel, a great company and they supported me. Katie,

:49:21. > :49:26.obviously you met her too during that Graham Norton sketch. What was

:49:27. > :49:29.that like? Unbelievable, unbelievable. Very surprising,

:49:30. > :49:33.because we weren't told anything about it, and we just turned up

:49:34. > :49:38.thinking it was an audition, and the next minute you know, Adele is dead

:49:39. > :49:45.in was performing. So from just walking in the meeting my idol, who

:49:46. > :49:50.I love, it was amazing, yeah. And from that meeting it has change your

:49:51. > :49:54.life as well. Describe how. Pretty much was that I have been performing

:49:55. > :50:01.as Adele for probably about five years, and just on the small side of

:50:02. > :50:04.it, but from being on the BBC, it has just catapulted me off into all

:50:05. > :50:11.the theatres now. Now someone like you, the ten one song with

:50:12. > :50:15.performing across the UK and Ireland, as the lead vocalist,

:50:16. > :50:20.performing as ten one, so it is great fun. I said I wasn't going to

:50:21. > :50:24.ask you the same, but I want to now, is that unfair because it is ten to

:50:25. > :50:34.ten. Go on, blast Oscar Ouma just literally that blah -- that bar.

:50:35. > :50:40.# Hello from the other side, I must have come a thousand times, to tell

:50:41. > :50:49.you I'm sorry for ever think that I've done, but when I call you, you

:50:50. > :50:53.never seem to be home. Wow, that is a blooming hard tuned to sing

:50:54. > :51:01.actually forced up Kevin, hello! High, the junior Gunn Victoria. She

:51:02. > :51:06.is normal, that is what I love about her. Absolutely, she sings about

:51:07. > :51:10.songs of life, love and loss. Heartbreak songs. It sounds like she

:51:11. > :51:14.might have written a drunk diary but then we get someone like you, one of

:51:15. > :51:23.the greatest songs of the 21st-century from the fourth Belling

:51:24. > :51:29.-- fourth best selling album. We needed to see her on tour, and at

:51:30. > :51:34.Glastonbury Festival, she delivers a great stand-up show in between the

:51:35. > :51:38.songs. She has this infectious personality, and she hasn't changed

:51:39. > :51:41.in the last ten years. I first met her in 2007, did one of her first

:51:42. > :51:46.radio interviews, and I realised then she was the real deal. Raw

:51:47. > :51:49.talent but self assured and confident and ridiculously

:51:50. > :51:53.personable. I don't think she has changed in the last ten years as

:51:54. > :51:57.well, so I am not surprised to see her climbing the ranks today on the

:51:58. > :52:02.Sunday Times Rich list. Let's just peel that back, she is now worth

:52:03. > :52:06.?125 million according to that which list, but you say I don't think she

:52:07. > :52:09.has changed. Some things in her life have definitely changed. Do you

:52:10. > :52:14.think it is still possible to be like you were when you are that

:52:15. > :52:18.loaded? That is a very good question. I think she has managed to

:52:19. > :52:22.get away with it in the sense that we don't read an awful lot about ten

:52:23. > :52:26.one's private life, we don't know what is going on about her family

:52:27. > :52:30.life, and away from the spotlight. But every time I have seen her on

:52:31. > :52:34.stage, and at awards ceremonies or at the Brit awards, red carpets, in

:52:35. > :52:38.my opinion she is still the same ten one, she is keeping it real, her

:52:39. > :52:40.feet on the ground and I really love that about her and I think that is

:52:41. > :52:47.why music fans around the world connect with her. Nick, is she still

:52:48. > :52:51.the same? Absolutely. Not changed at all. She is great, the girl that I

:52:52. > :52:58.met ten years ago. And she sang at your wedding. She did. Imagine

:52:59. > :53:03.having ten one sing at your wedding! At the time, no one knew who she

:53:04. > :53:10.was. Me and my wife loved her music, her voice, and I was quite nervous

:53:11. > :53:15.asking her, you know? But she agreed to do it, and I am always eternally

:53:16. > :53:19.grateful for that. She is obviously very, very busy, but as Kevin says,

:53:20. > :53:23.she does manage to keep her private life private, she doesn't play that

:53:24. > :53:27.showbiz game. She has never been interested in it, she is a musician

:53:28. > :53:32.and an artist, that is all she has ever wanted to be. She is not

:53:33. > :53:35.interested in fame also liberty. And in fact sometimes she has opened up

:53:36. > :53:43.a bit, where you get the impression that fame, that pressure hassles

:53:44. > :53:49.her. It is very hard to deal with. I have worked in the music business

:53:50. > :53:54.for a long, long time, and seen it over and over again. It brings a lot

:53:55. > :53:58.of pressure, but I think out of anyone I have worked with she has

:53:59. > :54:01.probably dealt with at the best. She is infinitely the most successful

:54:02. > :54:06.artist I have worked with. Yes, she likes to keep herself to herself, I

:54:07. > :54:10.think. It is interesting, because it shows you can be as globally famous

:54:11. > :54:14.as she is and still have a private life, if you choose not to do the

:54:15. > :54:17.showbiz thing. You don't see her on the red carpet, you never read

:54:18. > :54:22.Tittle tattle in the papers because obviously she has a very close-knit

:54:23. > :54:25.circuit around her. And that is what makes her particularly fascinating

:54:26. > :54:29.and interesting so that when she does appear on stage or a TV show,

:54:30. > :54:33.or later this year when she goes to when the stadium for her sold-out

:54:34. > :54:37.nights there, there will be a huge fizzle of interest and intrigue.

:54:38. > :54:41.Because we would like to know what Adele has to say because we don't

:54:42. > :54:44.see her every other day. She isn't on the red carpet, doesn't attend

:54:45. > :54:48.parties or premiers, and she doesn't need to. That is the key thing. She

:54:49. > :54:52.has delivered three of the quality albums that are three of the biggest

:54:53. > :54:56.selling records of all time now, phenomenal sales was that this is

:54:57. > :55:00.why she has increased her revenue by 50% in the last year. People want to

:55:01. > :55:03.buy the songs, listen to the songs and go and see her live. Thank you,

:55:04. > :55:07.Kevin, Katie and Nick. Ed Sheeran has a reputation

:55:08. > :55:10.as one of music's most And he's treated a ten year old girl

:55:11. > :55:14.with Rett's syndrome, a rare physical and mental

:55:15. > :55:17.disability, to her own private gig Melody Driscoll is unable

:55:18. > :55:21.to go to Ed's concerts # It's just something

:55:22. > :55:41.that I want to do. # Well, me - I fall in love

:55:42. > :56:33.with you every single day. In a moment, the weather and the

:56:34. > :56:37.latest news and sport. We will be on the road, I have not had a drink, we

:56:38. > :56:40.are on the road over the next couple of weeks travelling to all parts of

:56:41. > :56:48.the UK to see what you think about the election, and what things matter

:56:49. > :56:51.to you. So get in touch. We will be in the Scottish borders, the Welsh

:56:52. > :56:57.valleys, Cornwall, send me an e-mail and hopefully we can meet up. He is

:56:58. > :57:02.the latest weather, our own human sunbeam, Carol. Good morning,

:57:03. > :57:06.Victoria, I think you should have had a drink, still time! We have had

:57:07. > :57:10.a wide variety of weather, rather like yesterday, this picture is from

:57:11. > :57:15.one of our Weather Watchers, Herne Bay in Kent. We had some rain early

:57:16. > :57:18.on but there is a fair bit of cloud around in South Wales at the moment

:57:19. > :57:22.and you will hang on to a favourite of cloud as you go onto the day. The

:57:23. > :57:25.Cumbria, lovely blue skies, and we have also got blue skies in

:57:26. > :57:28.Stornoway as well. A loss of sunshine around here first thing

:57:29. > :57:33.this morning. You will hang onto it as we go through the course of the

:57:34. > :57:36.day today as well. So we do have a bit of a North- south split in the

:57:37. > :57:42.weather. So this morning, while there are some cloud around, you can

:57:43. > :57:45.see it quite nicely on the satellite picture comes across East Anglia and

:57:46. > :57:49.some high cloud as we push further north. It is the high cloud across

:57:50. > :57:53.northern England, Scotland and Northern Ireland that will melt away

:57:54. > :57:57.and you will have more or less unbroken blue skies. Through the day

:57:58. > :58:00.too, you will notice some of this cloud retreating back down to the

:58:01. > :58:03.vigilance and parts of Wales, it will brighten up in the North

:58:04. > :58:07.Midlands, Derbyshire, Staffordshire and parts of Wales. But close to the

:58:08. > :58:15.East coasts of both Scotland and England, a keen breeze will make it

:58:16. > :58:22.seem colder. A lot of sunshine in northern England, Scotland, the West

:58:23. > :58:26.Highlands, set fair for 20 Celsius. In Northern Ireland, 16 to 18, maybe

:58:27. > :58:30.19 Celsius through the day. Moving over towards Wales brightening up

:58:31. > :58:34.for the time. We will have areas of cloud coming and going as we will

:58:35. > :58:37.indeed across south-west England. But some brighter breaks. But that

:58:38. > :58:42.cloud is still thick enough just the odd shower. Showers across southern

:58:43. > :58:45.areas in the East Anglia will be fairly hit and miss through the

:58:46. > :58:49.course of the day full stop by no means will we all see one. As we had

:58:50. > :58:52.on through the evening and overnight, still this keen wind

:58:53. > :58:56.coming in from the North Sea, quite a lot of cloud, one or two showers,

:58:57. > :58:59.as we push north from the North Midlands in the northern England,

:59:00. > :59:04.Scotland and Northern Ireland, under clear skies will quite cold.

:59:05. > :59:08.Especially so in the countryside, as these temperatures indicate. Cold

:59:09. > :59:11.enough for a touch of frost. Again, rather like this morning. So

:59:12. > :59:15.tomorrow is where we will start off with the sunshine across northern

:59:16. > :59:18.England, North Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Brightening up for

:59:19. > :59:20.a time across parts of the Midlands but all this cloud in the south

:59:21. > :59:25.pushes just a little bit further north. Temperatures still down the

:59:26. > :59:28.east coast a bit lower because we still have that easterly flow but

:59:29. > :59:33.we're looking at a range of roughly ten to 15. Temperatures coming down

:59:34. > :59:36.a touch across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England to

:59:37. > :59:40.pedal we are looking at today. As we had on from Friday evening in the

:59:41. > :59:42.Saturday, as these weather systems approach, initially they will

:59:43. > :59:45.introduce some showers to the south-west, then we will see some

:59:46. > :59:49.rain coming in across south-west England to the Channel Islands. The

:59:50. > :59:53.timing and the placement of this could well change, but away from

:59:54. > :59:58.that rain, we will be looking at a fair bit of cloud, still some

:59:59. > :00:03.sunshine but still the onslaught -- the onshore flow. As we head into

:00:04. > :00:08.the weekend we lose that system, pushes away the veneer consonant,

:00:09. > :00:11.allowing it to dry up behind it, variable amounts of cloud, more in

:00:12. > :00:15.the north and we have seen. The wind changes direction, still coming from

:00:16. > :00:18.the North in some way so still feeling that bit cooler in eastern

:00:19. > :00:27.parts of the UK but that will change as we go into next week.

:00:28. > :00:33.Thank you, Carol, it's Thursday, ten o'clock, good morning.

:00:34. > :00:36.From the start it was a debate full of hostility, tension and insults

:00:37. > :00:39.as the two candidates in france's presidential election clashed ahead

:00:40. > :00:41.TRANSLATION: And again, you're protecting the big

:00:42. > :00:45.They're your friends, people you have a drink with.

:00:46. > :00:46.TRANSLATION: Madame Le Pen, the French people

:00:47. > :00:56.We will speak to politicians who are friends with both of the candidates

:00:57. > :00:58.later on. Anorexia is sometimes seen as

:00:59. > :01:01.an illness suffered mainly by women. But the number of young men

:01:02. > :01:08.seeking help for eating Logically I know that I need to eat

:01:09. > :01:09.to live and it doesn't make a blind bit of difference because every time

:01:10. > :01:15.I try any I can't. We'll be speaking to a man who's

:01:16. > :01:17.experienced anorexia, as well as someone from

:01:18. > :01:19.an eating disorder charity. New figures suggest fewer people

:01:20. > :01:29.in Britain drink alcohol. We'll be asking what this says

:01:30. > :01:36.about our changing habits. And if you are young or don't really

:01:37. > :01:39.drink, or somebody who has chosen to give up alcohol altogether as a

:01:40. > :01:41.lifestyle choice, get in touch and we will get you on the programme in

:01:42. > :01:45.the next hour. Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

:01:46. > :01:50.with a summary of today's news. The two final candidates

:01:51. > :01:54.in the French presidential election have taken part

:01:55. > :01:57.in a heated head-to-head debate. Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron

:01:58. > :01:59.traded insults, with both candidates Macron said his rival, Le Pen,

:02:00. > :02:05.risked civil war with her policies, while she accused him

:02:06. > :02:16.of being complacent Staff at Buckingham Palace have been

:02:17. > :02:18.called to a household meeting this morning but the BBC has been told

:02:19. > :02:22.there is no cause for alarm. Officials at the palace have not

:02:23. > :02:29.said what the meeting will be about, But it is not believed to involve

:02:30. > :02:32.anything about the health of the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh.

:02:33. > :02:35.There's been a sharp rise in the number of men being treated

:02:36. > :02:37.for eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia, according

:02:38. > :02:40.Figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request showed

:02:41. > :02:42.the number of males receiving out-patient treatment in England

:02:43. > :02:45.is rising at double the rate of female patients -

:02:46. > :02:49.although women still account for the majority of people treated.

:02:50. > :02:51.Voters are heading to the polls today for local

:02:52. > :02:54.Seats on 88 councils will be decided, including all those

:02:55. > :03:01.Voters in England will select new members of 32 councils and in six

:03:02. > :03:04.English regions Metro Mayors will be elected for the first time.

:03:05. > :03:06.The first results are expected in the early hours

:03:07. > :03:18.The number of new cars registered in the UK fell nearly 20% in April

:03:19. > :03:21.compared to the same period last year, according to the Society

:03:22. > :03:25.The SMMT says many people had rushed to buy in March, ahead of changes

:03:26. > :03:28.to the Vehicle Excise Duty regime, which came into force

:03:29. > :03:31.Registrations of electric and hybrid cars fell for the first

:03:32. > :03:36.Researchers have developed a blood test which could prevent thousands

:03:37. > :03:37.of men with advanced prostate cancer from undergoing

:03:38. > :03:43.The technique - which costs less than ?50 a time -

:03:44. > :03:45.will help doctors tell whether patients will respond

:03:46. > :03:50.to the standard drugs used to fight the disease.

:03:51. > :03:53.An Australian woman who killed her seven children and a niece in 2014

:03:54. > :03:55.will not stand trial, because it's been ruled she wasn't

:03:56. > :04:00.A court in Queensland said 40-year-old Raina Thaiday could not

:04:01. > :04:04.be held criminally responsible

:04:05. > :04:08.for the deaths because she had suffered a psychotic episode.

:04:09. > :04:10.The children, who were aged between two and 14,

:04:11. > :04:17.From midnight on Friday, shops will no longer have to accept

:04:18. > :04:21.The Bank of England says there are still 150 million

:04:22. > :04:29.They're being replaced by a new, tougher, plastic note,

:04:30. > :04:32.which is designed to last more than twice as long.

:04:33. > :04:35.Facebook's profits have jumped in the first three months of this

:04:36. > :04:38.year to more than ?2.4 billion - a 76% rise year-on-year.

:04:39. > :04:39.The social network said it is approaching two

:04:40. > :04:45.However, executives warned that growth in ad revenues would slow

:04:46. > :04:49.down, as the company is facing a limit on the number of adverts

:04:50. > :04:55.The announcement comes as its chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced

:04:56. > :04:58.it would be hiring 3,000 more moderators to help fight

:04:59. > :05:11.hate speech, child abuse and self-harm on the site.

:05:12. > :05:14.That's a summary of the latest BBC News - more at 10.30am.

:05:15. > :05:20.Thank you. We have breaking news from Buckingham Palace, the Duke of

:05:21. > :05:24.Edinburgh who is 95 will no longer carry out public engagements from

:05:25. > :05:29.autumn of this year. Buckingham Palace has announced that in the

:05:30. > :05:33.last few seconds. That was what the meeting was all about and the Royal

:05:34. > :05:37.Household were called to a meeting at Buckingham Palace at 10am this

:05:38. > :05:42.morning and the breaking news is Prince Philip, who is 95, will no

:05:43. > :05:48.longer carry out public engagements from the autumn of this year. That

:05:49. > :05:53.just in from Buckingham Palace. In fact, Prince Philip will celebrate

:05:54. > :05:58.his 96th birthday in June. He was out and about yesterday, those other

:05:59. > :06:02.pictures of him at Lord's looking remarkably well for a 95-year-old

:06:03. > :06:08.doing one of his public engagements yesterday. Being handed a cricket

:06:09. > :06:15.bat. He does like his cricket. We are told it was his decision, it is

:06:16. > :06:19.his decision, to no longer carry out public engagements. That will begin

:06:20. > :06:24.from the autumn of this year. So finally, aged 95, the Duke of

:06:25. > :06:29.Edinburgh is going to retire effectively. The Queen, as you know,

:06:30. > :06:33.returned 91 last month, has been slowly handing over some of her

:06:34. > :06:38.duties, although she still carries out around 300 engagements a year,

:06:39. > :06:43.which is astonishing for a 91-year-old. But the breaking news

:06:44. > :06:46.from Buckingham Palace in the last minute is Prince Philip will no

:06:47. > :06:52.longer carry out public engagements from the autumn of this year. He is

:06:53. > :06:56.in good health. He had a cold at Christmas, but who didn't? The Queen

:06:57. > :07:00.certainly did, but broadly speaking he is in very good health. The

:07:01. > :07:10.pictures you can see from yesterday when he went to Lord's. He met

:07:11. > :07:15.various officials from Lord's and various former cricketing legends, I

:07:16. > :07:20.can see, as they joke about that bat which looks rather ancient. Duke of

:07:21. > :07:26.Edinburgh who is 95, from the autumn of this year, will no longer carry

:07:27. > :07:31.out any public engagements. That is just in from Buckingham Palace. One

:07:32. > :07:36.would imagine he will still be seen alongside the Queen, perhaps at some

:07:37. > :07:39.of her engagements, but we will no doubt get more details from our

:07:40. > :07:46.royal correspondent in the next few minutes. Prince Philip to stand down

:07:47. > :07:53.then from royal duties for good. He is retiring aged 95.

:07:54. > :07:59.That's the news from Buckingham Palace in the last couple of

:08:00. > :08:02.minutes. As you know, they had a meeting of the Royal Household at

:08:03. > :08:09.Buckingham Palace this morning. We knew that staff, members of the

:08:10. > :08:12.Royal Household, were called, we think, anyway, from Windsor Castle,

:08:13. > :08:16.possibly Sandringham, not sure if people came down from Balmoral for

:08:17. > :08:21.this announcement, but they clearly wanted to tell the members of staff

:08:22. > :08:24.first before they told the media, which is absolutely fair enough, and

:08:25. > :08:29.here is the full statement from Buckingham Palace. His Royal

:08:30. > :08:33.Highness the Duke of Edinburgh has decided that he will no longer carry

:08:34. > :08:38.out public engagements from this autumn. In taking this decision the

:08:39. > :08:42.Duke has the full support of the Queen. Prince Philip will attend

:08:43. > :08:46.previously scheduled engagements between now and August, both

:08:47. > :08:50.individual and accompanying the Queen. Thereafter the Duke will not

:08:51. > :08:54.be accepting new invitations for visits and engagements, although he

:08:55. > :08:59.may still choose to attend certain public events from time to time. The

:09:00. > :09:05.Duke of Edinburgh is patron, President or a member of over 780

:09:06. > :09:08.organisations of which he will continue to be associated, although

:09:09. > :09:13.he will no longer play an active role by attending engagements.

:09:14. > :09:16.The statement concludes from Buckingham Palace that Her Majesty

:09:17. > :09:20.will continue to carry out a full programme of official engagements

:09:21. > :09:29.with the support of members of the Royal family. So, Prince Philip is

:09:30. > :09:35.retiring at the age of 95. He will stand down from royal duties for

:09:36. > :09:40.good from the autumn, as the statement says, though, between now

:09:41. > :09:44.and then he will be attending all the things in his diary. All of

:09:45. > :09:49.those previously scheduled engagements between now and August

:09:50. > :09:55.he will go to, both individually and accompanying the Queen. Thereafter,

:09:56. > :10:01.the statement says, he will not be accepting any invitations to attend

:10:02. > :10:06.engagements although he may choose to attend certain public events from

:10:07. > :10:09.time to time. Patron of 780 organisations. The statement says he

:10:10. > :10:15.will continue to be associated with those but will not play an active

:10:16. > :10:21.role by attending engagements for those organisations he is a patron,

:10:22. > :10:25.member or President. Nicholas Witchell is here, the Royal editor

:10:26. > :10:28.for the BBC. It is a surprise they would feel it

:10:29. > :10:32.necessary to bring staff in and briefed staff before putting out the

:10:33. > :10:37.statement but that is what they've done. They have brought staff in

:10:38. > :10:42.from royal households in wanting to tell them for making this public.

:10:43. > :10:47.The Duke, 96, in a couple of months' time, June the tenth, he will be 96,

:10:48. > :10:50.he still has a number of engagements in the diary over the coming months,

:10:51. > :10:57.but clearly as the statement says he has decided to call it a day in

:10:58. > :11:00.terms of public engagements come the autumn. We shouldn't forget that of

:11:01. > :11:05.course they will be celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary in

:11:06. > :11:08.November. It does say that he will occasionally choose to attend

:11:09. > :11:14.certain public events from time to time. So we can expect him to see

:11:15. > :11:17.him on that occasion. And on a number of engagements between now

:11:18. > :11:22.and then, the Trooping of the Colour a week after his 96th birthday. But

:11:23. > :11:26.that familiar role to which we have become so accustomed over these

:11:27. > :11:33.decades of him just in support of the Queen, clearly he feels that he

:11:34. > :11:36.now wishes to curtail that. And we are told, and I am sure it is

:11:37. > :11:42.correct, that he has the full support of the Queen in taking that

:11:43. > :11:45.decision. It means that she will continue. Slowly she has been

:11:46. > :11:50.handing over duties herself, she is 91 of course, but she is going to

:11:51. > :11:56.continue. Absolutely, of that there is no question and no doubt. She

:11:57. > :12:01.will continue, albeit with a somewhat light and workload. Her

:12:02. > :12:05.officials are quite discreet in the way that they are lightening the

:12:06. > :12:12.load. They are trying to limit the number of audiences, say, with

:12:13. > :12:15.judges, with ambassadors, with senior military people. Just finding

:12:16. > :12:21.little ways to make it easier for somebody of her age to fulfil her

:12:22. > :12:25.constitutional role as head of state with less time having to stand up,

:12:26. > :12:28.rather fewer meetings, but still paying full regard to those

:12:29. > :12:33.important public occasions when she would be expected to be seen as head

:12:34. > :12:36.of state, and if you look at the Royal diary there are a number of

:12:37. > :12:40.engagements in the coming weeks that they will be attending together.

:12:41. > :12:45.They are due in Pangbourne in Berkshire for example next week both

:12:46. > :12:51.together. It's his decision, the statement says, as you point out.

:12:52. > :12:54.She's fully supporting it. Apart from his age, which it sounds

:12:55. > :12:59.bizarre to say, what is behind this? He just wants to spend more time

:13:00. > :13:03.with his family, or his dogs, or what? I am sure there is a bit of

:13:04. > :13:09.that, yes, people would say he is entitled to do that. He didn't quite

:13:10. > :13:12.go this far on the occasion of his 90th birthday. But you may remember

:13:13. > :13:19.that interview with Fiona Bruce for a BBC documentary in which he said

:13:20. > :13:22.he would be scaling back his public work. But thereafter there was very

:13:23. > :13:27.little evidence of him actually doing so. He gave up a number of

:13:28. > :13:32.patronage is and that kind of thing. But he has continued with a number

:13:33. > :13:37.of engagements, meetings with people, there he is yesterday at

:13:38. > :13:41.Lord's opening the new Warner stand wearing his MCC tie and plainly

:13:42. > :13:44.still enjoying the sort of thing. He still attends, for example,

:13:45. > :13:49.receptions for recipients of the gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. I've

:13:50. > :13:53.seen him quite recently doing that. The remarkable thing is he still

:13:54. > :13:57.takes time. He doesn't skimp on those events because he realises

:13:58. > :14:01.that these are young people for whom this is a big occasion receiving

:14:02. > :14:05.their gold Duke of Edinburgh Award and he gives, as it were, full value

:14:06. > :14:09.on those occasions. I think he does still enjoy it and gains energy, as

:14:10. > :14:12.it were, from some of those engagements and still cracks the

:14:13. > :14:17.same jokes, the familiar joke yesterday about I am the world's

:14:18. > :14:24.most experienced plaque unveiling, he's cracked that thousands of

:14:25. > :14:28.times. Still funny! It still gets a laugh. He will be around in terms of

:14:29. > :14:33.public engagements until the autumn, and I would think we will still see

:14:34. > :14:36.him after that. You mentioned the Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme, he

:14:37. > :14:40.founded that in 1956, designed to give young people a sense of

:14:41. > :14:45.responsibility to themselves, to their communities, and it is quite

:14:46. > :14:49.an astonishing schema. Millions and millions of people have taken part

:14:50. > :14:54.in it from around the world. They have had it has spread beyond

:14:55. > :14:58.these shores and has taken root and is a significant scheme in a number

:14:59. > :15:01.of other countries, principally Commonwealth countries, but

:15:02. > :15:06.elsewhere. He still takes a considerable interest in that. The

:15:07. > :15:09.other things, of course, for which he has made a significant

:15:10. > :15:15.contribution over the years, the World Wildlife Fund as it used to

:15:16. > :15:19.be, environmental matters, he was a pioneering voice before the voice of

:15:20. > :15:24.his elder son was raised on environmental matters. On that and

:15:25. > :15:30.on a range of issues, on industrial matters, if we go back to the 1950s

:15:31. > :15:32.and 1960s, you've got to remember the Duke of Edinburgh has quite a

:15:33. > :15:38.significant intellectual curiosity about life in general, and about

:15:39. > :15:44.spiritual matters. He has written a number of little monograph books

:15:45. > :15:47.just exploring spiritual matters. So it's that curiosity which I think

:15:48. > :15:52.has occasionally led him to be, shall we say, somewhat impatient

:15:53. > :15:56.with things and people that he has encountered, and sometimes those

:15:57. > :16:00.jokes we were just referring to haven't always worked. He is

:16:01. > :16:03.remembered for that. But I think he is remembered and will continue to

:16:04. > :16:14.be remembered, of course, for the way in which he has supported the

:16:15. > :16:17.Queen. is a for this meeting, as you say, because they wanted to tell the

:16:18. > :16:26.staff before telling the media, which I suppose is Veron. It did

:16:27. > :16:32.seem quite traffic to do that. Yes, and in the middle of the night, this

:16:33. > :16:38.leaked out, as it were, and certainly all kinds of completely

:16:39. > :16:43.erroneous impressions were formed. It underlines what an utterly

:16:44. > :16:45.unreliable source of information is social media, because of the

:16:46. > :16:50.nonsense that was on social media for a number of hours, and then

:16:51. > :16:54.there was some clarification and guidance that this had nothing to do

:16:55. > :16:59.with any health issue. And here we are now finally a statement from

:17:00. > :17:03.Buckingham Palace that he has the sided, the joke of Edinburgh, that

:17:04. > :17:08.he will no longer carry out public engagements from the autumn of this

:17:09. > :17:13.year. There we see him in that familiar role, a role in which we

:17:14. > :17:17.will see rather less of him from the autumn, with the Queen, is that at

:17:18. > :17:21.St George's travel or Westminster Abbey, I'm not quite sure. But the

:17:22. > :17:26.role to which we have become so very accustomed to seeing him over these

:17:27. > :17:38.years. As I say, it will continue for those major locations from time

:17:39. > :17:44.to time. This is the full statement from the Buckingham Palace. The Duke

:17:45. > :17:48.of Ember has decided he will no longer carry out public engagements

:17:49. > :17:51.from the autumn of this year. In taking this decision, the joke has

:17:52. > :17:58.the full support of the Queen. Prince Philip will attend -- the

:17:59. > :18:03.Duke will attend. He will no longer be accepting new invitations for

:18:04. > :18:12.visits and engagements where he may still attend public events from time

:18:13. > :18:17.to time. The Duke of Edinburgh is patron of over 780 organisations, he

:18:18. > :18:21.will no longer play an active role in attending engagements. Her

:18:22. > :18:24.Majesty will carry out a full programme of official engagements

:18:25. > :18:29.with the support of members of the Royal family. So Prince Philip is

:18:30. > :18:36.retiring, finally, at the age of 95. But as you say, Nick, they have this

:18:37. > :18:41.humongous wedding anniversary coming up. Yes, in November, 70 years,

:18:42. > :18:44.which is extraordinary assault. I am not quite sure what you call a 70th

:18:45. > :18:47.wedding anniversary, but significant I guess is the word you will use. Of

:18:48. > :18:58.course he will be attending that. The other I suppose significant

:18:59. > :19:06.thing is it will mean that the Prince of Wales will now take on a

:19:07. > :19:12.more significant role as the senior male member of the family, which in

:19:13. > :19:17.a sense he has always been, as the heir to the throne, but with his

:19:18. > :19:24.father now as it were retiring from most public engagements, I would

:19:25. > :19:31.imagine we will see more of the Queen and Prince Charles perhaps

:19:32. > :19:34.comforting her on significant events that previously we would have

:19:35. > :19:40.expected to see the joke of Edinburgh by her side. We will just

:19:41. > :19:44.have to see how that works out. Nearly 800 associations he is

:19:45. > :19:48.patron, president or a member. The public engagements associated with

:19:49. > :19:52.that, they will have to be shared out now, amongst the Prince of Wales

:19:53. > :19:56.and the grandchildren? Yes, that is what he has continued and is

:19:57. > :20:01.continuing to do. There are any number of lunches and dinners that

:20:02. > :20:04.he attends. Not many of them terribly physically demanding, you

:20:05. > :20:09.would not expect them to be for a 95-year-old, almost 96-year-old, but

:20:10. > :20:12.nonetheless you have two concentrate and remember who people are and make

:20:13. > :20:16.polite conversation with any number of different people, whether it is a

:20:17. > :20:20.lunch or a dinner, or going to Lord's yesterday, as we saw that,

:20:21. > :20:26.cricket has been quite an interest and a passion. He was not a bad

:20:27. > :20:35.cricketer himself years ago. Because he retains that interest, even

:20:36. > :20:39.though he has been in his 90s, he continued with public engagement,

:20:40. > :20:41.notwithstanding the age of 90 he said I will be pulling back

:20:42. > :20:47.significantly, which he hasn't actually done. He did a bit, but now

:20:48. > :20:52.is the moment when finally he is pulling back. It is hard to retire,

:20:53. > :20:57.I think. He will obviously have had, sessions with the Queen about this,

:20:58. > :21:00.perhaps they will have talked about whether she should retire too, but

:21:01. > :21:07.she is not going to because this is a job for life. She can't retire,

:21:08. > :21:12.and she knows that. The load can be lightened, but there are certain

:21:13. > :21:16.functions that only she can perform, so long as she is physically and

:21:17. > :21:22.mentally capable of doing that, and she certainly is those things, and

:21:23. > :21:29.so she will continue in the role. And she knows, as you say, that it

:21:30. > :21:33.is a role for life and it is upon that basis that she has continued

:21:34. > :21:44.and be in Monaco for, what is it now, 65 years. -- she has been

:21:45. > :21:49.monarch for 65 years. The grandchildren, William and Harry,

:21:50. > :21:52.with Kate, will they step up and do more? Yes, we already seeing

:21:53. > :21:58.significant evidence of that and I think that accepted. We know that

:21:59. > :22:04.William and Kate, Catherine, are relocating to London. He is giving

:22:05. > :22:08.up his role as a ambulance pilot. And whether this has been a matter

:22:09. > :22:13.of discussion within the family specifically or whether just in

:22:14. > :22:18.general terms, we don't know and we won't know, but clearly within the

:22:19. > :22:23.family it has been self evident to the younger members, that with

:22:24. > :22:26.grandparents who are in their 90s, there are inevitably was going to be

:22:27. > :22:30.a greater load falling on them and a great expectation on them to do

:22:31. > :22:35.more. Now, William has on occasions of the past been criticised for not

:22:36. > :22:38.doing enough. I spoke to him, did an interview with him last year and put

:22:39. > :22:43.to him this whole work-shy William stuff, and he said it can wear you

:22:44. > :22:48.down, if you take on too much of the Royal duty and responsibility at too

:22:49. > :22:54.young an age. But I think that he accepts the moment has come, most

:22:55. > :22:58.especially now with his grandfather taking this step back, when he will

:22:59. > :23:04.have two, yes of course, and he will have to do that quite willingly and

:23:05. > :23:08.happily step up and accept more of the Royal burden. Stay with us. For

:23:09. > :23:12.those who are just joining us, let me bring you the breaking news that

:23:13. > :23:16.Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, is going to retire from

:23:17. > :23:22.royal duties the good from this autumn. Nick was mentioning that the

:23:23. > :23:25.head of Prince Philip was a 90th birthday, he spoke to our colleague

:23:26. > :23:29.Fiona Bruce. He mentioned then he might be starting to scale back his

:23:30. > :23:36.duties. I wreck and I have done my bit, I want to enjoy myself a bit

:23:37. > :23:41.now. -- I reckon I have done my bit to that with less responsibility,

:23:42. > :23:46.less frantic rushing about, less preparation, less trying to think of

:23:47. > :23:50.something to say. On top of that, the memory is going, I can't

:23:51. > :23:55.remember names and things. Yes, I am just sort of winding down. That was

:23:56. > :24:01.a few years ago. He is finally winding down. The Queen's former

:24:02. > :24:08.press secretary is on the phone now. Good morning. How do you react to

:24:09. > :24:12.this news? I think it is a natural process really. He did say six years

:24:13. > :24:16.ago, and we have to remember it was six years ago when he turned 90,

:24:17. > :24:19.that he would be scaling back. I think he has made the right

:24:20. > :24:24.decision. He said himself that the memory is a bit dodgy, and with most

:24:25. > :24:30.elderly peeled for the short term memory does go. -- most elderly

:24:31. > :24:34.people. He probably feels he can't give it his all with that slight

:24:35. > :24:40.handicap, short-term memory. He has made a wise decision. He will

:24:41. > :24:47.probably still continued carriage driving, carrying on with the Godin

:24:48. > :24:51.gauge and as an when it arises. But in terms of on the road every day

:24:52. > :24:56.all day, that will be a thing of the past. It is a very wise decision.

:24:57. > :25:00.Let's make it very clear, he is still robust, still very healthy as

:25:01. > :25:03.we saw the other day at Lord's cricket ground, and still able to

:25:04. > :25:11.crack a joke. So what will he do then with this time? I think he

:25:12. > :25:14.might sit at his computer. He was the first person in Buckingham

:25:15. > :25:18.Palace to use a computer, long before other people would. He is a

:25:19. > :25:22.bit of a technophile, and he will probably sit down and start writing

:25:23. > :25:26.his memoirs, putting down on paper something that could go into the

:25:27. > :25:29.archives for historians. He has a great story to tell and a lot to

:25:30. > :25:33.tell, so that will keep him occupied. His patronage is will

:25:34. > :25:36.still contact him, you will still be there to advise if they want the

:25:37. > :25:43.advice, and he will still be supporting his patronage is. And I

:25:44. > :25:49.think on very rare occasions we might see him in support of the

:25:50. > :25:53.Queen when she is out and about. We were told it was his the session, he

:25:54. > :26:00.has the full support of the Queen. You would expect that? I would have

:26:01. > :26:03.expected that decision. Look, the man is 96, most 96-year-olds have

:26:04. > :26:07.got their feet up. It has taken a long time for him to put his feet up

:26:08. > :26:10.and I very much doubt he will put his feet up. He will still be

:26:11. > :26:14.involved in something, even if it is just from his office, in phone

:26:15. > :26:21.calls, in talking to his patronage is, maybe even visiting the moniker

:26:22. > :26:29.on a private visit. Not giving up life. -- visiting the monarch. The

:26:30. > :26:34.Queen at 91 is going to be carrying on as normal with the support of the

:26:35. > :26:39.rest of the family for stock yes, although she has slowly been handing

:26:40. > :26:45.over duties and yet she still carries out something like 300 a

:26:46. > :26:48.year. That is a lot. It is a sizeable number. She will still do

:26:49. > :26:52.audiences. You have got the rumour machine does work that we don't see,

:26:53. > :26:56.that we don't hear about. We know about it, we know she goes through

:26:57. > :27:02.her red boxes about three times a day. She read every word put in

:27:03. > :27:03.front of her, she makes notes, she gets audiences with the Prime

:27:04. > :27:22.Minister, she meets ministers. In terms of taking some of the

:27:23. > :27:26.pressure from those engagements which Prince Philip is stepping back

:27:27. > :27:30.from, we know the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are moving to London

:27:31. > :27:37.from Norfolk. That will help shoulder the burden a little more.

:27:38. > :27:41.It will help considerably. The Duke of Cambridge has made a very wise

:27:42. > :27:47.decision to give up helicopter flying. We wouldn't have thanked him

:27:48. > :27:50.had he sort of turned his back on all his training and gone straight

:27:51. > :27:54.into Royal duties after all the taxpayer did pay them to train in

:27:55. > :27:57.the air force, and he did put it to very good use as an air ambulance

:27:58. > :28:02.helicopter pilot but I think it is time to move on. He is in his 30s,

:28:03. > :28:05.his grandfather is stepping back, and he needs to step up to the plate

:28:06. > :28:13.and that is exactly what he will do. We will see a lot more of him, not

:28:14. > :28:15.necessarily on things like conservation, but more things with

:28:16. > :28:21.substance, some of the things that the joke of Edinburgh was doing.

:28:22. > :28:23.Yes. This meeting which happened at ten o'clock we are told -- the joke

:28:24. > :28:36.of Edinburgh. -- the Duke of Edinburgh. It is

:28:37. > :28:42.briefing the staff and the household and what is happening. There will be

:28:43. > :28:47.a lot of coming and going. With Prince Philip not stepping back from

:28:48. > :28:51.Royal duties, the people involved in his work will be assigned to other

:28:52. > :28:55.duties. It is keeping everyone informed. Buckingham Palace is a

:28:56. > :28:59.very good communicator. It communicates with the media, via

:29:00. > :29:03.social media, Twitter, YouTube, you name it, and it communicates with

:29:04. > :29:07.its star. It doesn't keep its staff in the dark. It keeps them informed

:29:08. > :29:15.right the way through on what is happening. They have done it the

:29:16. > :29:20.right way. So that no rumours can go out. He is not ill, he robust health

:29:21. > :29:24.as we saw at Lord's cricket ground a couple of days ago. Thank you very

:29:25. > :29:35.much, Dickie Kenta we can go live to Buckingham Palace

:29:36. > :29:39.now. Sarah Campbell is there. There are as usual hundreds of tourists

:29:40. > :29:44.behind you, I am not with the news has filtered through to them but

:29:45. > :29:47.what can you tell us from there? The media speculation started as you

:29:48. > :29:51.would expect very early on this morning, when it was known that this

:29:52. > :29:55.meeting was happening. I think if we can pan around, you will get a sense

:29:56. > :29:59.of how many broadcasters are here. They are from Australia, they are

:30:00. > :30:05.from New Zealand, from Europe, from America, other broadcasters from the

:30:06. > :30:10.UK. I think it just gives us a sense of how this news will be of

:30:11. > :30:13.interest. It will be under stood around the world because the Duke of

:30:14. > :30:16.Edinburgh is one of the most recognised faces, not just in the

:30:17. > :30:21.United Kingdom, to the Commonwealth but across the globe. The crowds

:30:22. > :30:26.certainly seem to be building up outside Buckingham Palace. Whether

:30:27. > :30:30.that is because the news is filtering through, it probably is.

:30:31. > :30:33.It is all over social media app the moment and people tend to gravitate

:30:34. > :30:38.towards Buckingham Palace when there is a big Royal story. There may be a

:30:39. > :30:41.chance that they get a glimpse of the royal couple, because it is

:30:42. > :30:46.business as usual as far as they are concerned, they are chewed to be at

:30:47. > :30:47.St James's Palace at about 11:30am for a service for members of the

:30:48. > :30:59.orders of merit. As we know as of August it will be a

:31:00. > :31:04.change of view for the Royal family, we are used to seeing the Duke of

:31:05. > :31:08.Edinburgh accompanying the Queen on public engagements but from August

:31:09. > :31:12.it will just be the Queen. I wonder if you'd expect, Sarah, it will be

:31:13. > :31:17.the Prince of Wales, Prince Charles, who we will see alongside the Queen

:31:18. > :31:21.at some of her public engagements. That is a good question. There has

:31:22. > :31:24.certainly been a period of transition, I suppose, going on over

:31:25. > :31:29.the last couple of years with the Prince of Wales taking over more

:31:30. > :31:34.duties. But Prince William as well is moving back from Norfolk to

:31:35. > :31:38.London so he will be another key member of the Royal family, Prince

:31:39. > :31:43.Harry as well, very much part of the coming to the fore in terms of

:31:44. > :31:46.taking on royal duties. I think you would expect other members of the

:31:47. > :31:50.Royal family but of course the Prince of Wales to take over some of

:31:51. > :31:53.the engagements of the Duke of Edinburgh. But certainly nothing at

:31:54. > :31:56.the moment officially along those lines. Those are some of the things

:31:57. > :32:04.I think will become evident over the next few months. Thank you for the

:32:05. > :32:07.moment, Sarah Campbell, our royal correspondent outside Buckingham

:32:08. > :32:10.Palace. Nicholas Witchell is still here, and for those just tuning in

:32:11. > :32:17.its probably worth giving them the full announcements. The statement

:32:18. > :32:19.from Buckingham Palace says His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh

:32:20. > :32:22.has decided that he will no longer carry out public engagements from

:32:23. > :32:27.the autumn of this year. In taking this decision and the Duke has the

:32:28. > :32:30.full support of the Queen. He will attend previously scheduled

:32:31. > :32:33.engagements between now and August individually and accompanying the

:32:34. > :32:37.Queen, quite a number of those engagements but thereafter he goes

:32:38. > :32:41.on the Duke will not accept new invitations for visits and

:32:42. > :32:42.engagements, although he may choose to attend certain public events from

:32:43. > :32:51.time to time. "The Duke of Edinburgh is patron,

:32:52. > :32:53.president or a member of over 780 organisations,

:32:54. > :32:56.with which he will continue to be associated, although he will no

:32:57. > :32:58.longer play an active role "Her Majesty will continue to carry

:32:59. > :33:02.out a full programme of official engagements with the support

:33:03. > :33:10.of members of the Royal Family." Several points of interest, no

:33:11. > :33:14.surprise he is finally stepping back, doing what he said he was

:33:15. > :33:18.going to do six years ago when he said on the occasion of his 90th

:33:19. > :33:21.birthday he reckoned he had done his bit then. He has since then

:33:22. > :33:27.continued to pursue quite an active round of engagements, Trooping the

:33:28. > :33:31.Colour, although not in that location in the carriage with the

:33:32. > :33:35.Queen. It will be interesting, it will be the Prince of Wales, who I

:33:36. > :33:40.would imagine, will take his place at significant Royal events like

:33:41. > :33:42.Trooping the Colour, the State Opening of Parliament, that is

:33:43. > :33:46.happening on June the 19th so he will still be there with the Queen

:33:47. > :33:51.for that. It is a non-ceremonial State Opening of Parliament in the

:33:52. > :33:55.new parliament after the selection. Just picking up the election point,

:33:56. > :34:00.one thing that rather surprises me is that Buckingham Palace has made

:34:01. > :34:04.this announcement during a general election campaign. Now, albeit this

:34:05. > :34:08.is a day, because of the local elections, there is no political

:34:09. > :34:12.news, but normally the Royals disappear as much as possible and

:34:13. > :34:16.make as little news as possible during an election campaign. This is

:34:17. > :34:23.an announcement which has no constitutional significance, because

:34:24. > :34:26.the Duke of Edinburgh, in the nicest way possible, has no constitutional

:34:27. > :34:30.significance as the consort of the Queen but it is still quite

:34:31. > :34:36.surprising. Maybe this is something they have been planning now for a

:34:37. > :34:39.matter of weeks. Maybe they were quite taken aback when the Prime

:34:40. > :34:43.Minister announced she wanted to have a general election and they

:34:44. > :34:46.wanted just to get it out as quickly as possible. Sorry to interrupt, I

:34:47. > :34:52.wonder if the Queen would have mentioned it to the Prime Minister

:34:53. > :34:55.Theresa May yesterday. I am sure. We were speculating what is keeping the

:34:56. > :34:58.Prime Minister so long, she was with the Queen for half an hour at

:34:59. > :35:01.Buckingham Palace when they discussed the dissolution of

:35:02. > :35:04.Parliament and the coming general election. I would imagine this would

:35:05. > :35:09.be one of the things that they will have talked about. I am quite sure

:35:10. > :35:13.the Prime Minister would have been informed in advance. It would have

:35:14. > :35:16.been an opportunity for her to discuss, and I am sure, say nice

:35:17. > :35:20.things about the way the Duke of Edinburgh has supported her over

:35:21. > :35:27.these years. We to believe they will perhaps be a statement from Downing

:35:28. > :35:32.Street about his retirement from public life at some point today.

:35:33. > :35:39.Thank you, Nick, you may go. Nicholas Witchell, our royal editor,

:35:40. > :35:43.let's talk to Sarah Campbell, our royal correspondent at Buckingham

:35:44. > :35:48.Palace. When he said he would roll back his public engagements when he

:35:49. > :35:52.was 90 it didn't happen, why? He said I've done my bit and it's time

:35:53. > :35:56.to take a rest. And you're right, he didn't. There has been a slight

:35:57. > :36:00.slowing down, it wouldn't be true to say he's doing the same as he was

:36:01. > :36:04.ten years ago. There are key things like long haul travel, the Queen and

:36:05. > :36:07.Duke of Edinburgh no longer undertake long haul engagements. It

:36:08. > :36:11.was decided that was too much. Last year around his 90th birthday he

:36:12. > :36:15.announced he was going to get rid of a few of the patronage is, but only

:36:16. > :36:22.a few, and bearing in mind he is still involved with something like

:36:23. > :36:25.780 organisations. That is still quite a small number. The question

:36:26. > :36:29.is why didn't he take a step back? You would think somebody after the

:36:30. > :36:33.age of 90 would want to take a step back but it is kind of a question

:36:34. > :36:36.you would have to ask him. Throughout his life he has been a

:36:37. > :36:44.pretty dynamic character. As we know he started off in the Royal navy,

:36:45. > :36:55.during the Second World War. People say if he had stuck with it, he is

:36:56. > :36:59.an active sportsman, involved in environmental groups like the World

:37:00. > :37:01.Wildlife Fund and talking about global environmental issues long

:37:02. > :37:07.before it became quite fashionable, if you like, to do so. He was a big

:37:08. > :37:11.carriage writer, great cricketer, he's had a very full and active

:37:12. > :37:15.life, and I suspect the thought of just sitting back and kicking up his

:37:16. > :37:18.heels was a little bit of an anathema to him which might explain

:37:19. > :37:23.why a long after most people have given up their working life he has

:37:24. > :37:28.carried on. This e-mail from Heather says what a lovely announcement this

:37:29. > :37:32.morning, about time he put his royal shoes up and relaxed a little, well

:37:33. > :37:36.served, enjoy your retirement can be automated thank you for your loyalty

:37:37. > :37:42.and support to your wife, our Queen, and our country. I suppose there

:37:43. > :37:47.might be an outpouring of affection for him as he steps back. Do you

:37:48. > :37:52.know what, I think you might be right. In terms of the longevity of

:37:53. > :37:57.his public service, and that's effectively what has been, 1952 when

:37:58. > :38:04.the Queen Aksu did the throne, that was the party had to put aside his

:38:05. > :38:08.personal ambitions. He said his role was to support the Queen and that's

:38:09. > :38:11.what he's done for more than 60 years. I'm not sure many people in

:38:12. > :38:17.this country that for more than 60 years they have put public service

:38:18. > :38:21.before pretty much anything else. I think you are right, there will be

:38:22. > :38:26.lots of people in the charities to which he is linked, many youngsters

:38:27. > :38:30.who have taken part in the Duke of Edinburgh Awards scheme with a sense

:38:31. > :38:33.of thanks to him for starting a scheme which for many people has

:38:34. > :38:40.been incredibly important to them. Just as a public figure, a

:38:41. > :38:45.recognition of what he has done promoting Brand Britain around the

:38:46. > :38:49.world, but also supporting the Queen in what is a task, being the Queen,

:38:50. > :38:55.but what has really helped, and she said this on several occasions,

:38:56. > :38:58.having the Duke constantly by her side supporting her. You are right,

:38:59. > :39:02.I think we will hear from lots of the members of the public to say

:39:03. > :39:07.thank you for the service you have given. And probably an understanding

:39:08. > :39:11.that he has got to the age of 95 and acceptance that maybe it's about

:39:12. > :39:15.time that he can do what he wants if he wants to just watch television

:39:16. > :39:21.all day, why not? Especially as we start at 9am each weekday morning!

:39:22. > :39:25.Prince Philip. So, impact on other members of the Royal family, the

:39:26. > :39:30.fact that from autumn he will no longer carry out public duties. He

:39:31. > :39:37.Siddle patron, President or a member of over 780 organisations. -- he is

:39:38. > :39:40.still. He will continue to be associated with them but will no

:39:41. > :39:45.longer play an active role by attending any other engagements. It

:39:46. > :39:49.is feasible to see those engagements will be spread amongst other members

:39:50. > :39:52.of the family. And to a certain extent that started to happen last

:39:53. > :39:57.year. A number of the organisations he was involved with, they were sort

:39:58. > :40:04.of handed out, divided amongst the other members of the Royal family. I

:40:05. > :40:08.presume that that process will continue over the coming months. It

:40:09. > :40:10.says on the statement that Her Majesty will continue to carry out a

:40:11. > :40:15.full programme of official engagements with the support of

:40:16. > :40:19.members of the Royal family. There will undoubtedly be gaps to be

:40:20. > :40:21.plugged. You will see the Duke of Edinburgh on the news, in the papers

:40:22. > :40:25.come out and about giving engagements but there are many more

:40:26. > :40:29.engagements that don't ever make it onto the news. Those kind of gaps

:40:30. > :40:32.will have to be plugged by other members of the Royal family. I am

:40:33. > :40:38.sure there is a team within Buckingham Palace and the press team

:40:39. > :40:43.sorting out how that will happen. For the moment, Sarah, thank you.

:40:44. > :40:46.Back with you in the next ten minutes or so. If you are just

:40:47. > :40:49.tuning in, good morning. The breaking news is the Duke of

:40:50. > :40:55.Edinburgh, Prince Philip, is retiring from the autumn. Aged 95,

:40:56. > :40:56.he is going to step back from this autumn from royal duties. The

:40:57. > :41:01.official statement says: "The Duke of Edinburgh has decided

:41:02. > :41:04.that he will no longer carry out public engagements from the autumn

:41:05. > :41:06.of this year. "In taking this decision,

:41:07. > :41:08.the Duke has the full "Prince Philip will attend

:41:09. > :41:12.previously scheduled engagements between now and August,

:41:13. > :41:14.both individually and "Thereafter, the Duke will not be

:41:15. > :41:17.accepting new invitations for visits and engagements,

:41:18. > :41:19.although he may still choose to attend certain public

:41:20. > :41:23.events from time to time. "The Duke of Edinburgh is patron,

:41:24. > :41:27.president or a member of over 780 organisations,

:41:28. > :41:32.with which he will continue to be associated, although he will no

:41:33. > :41:35.longer play an active role "Her Majesty will continue to carry

:41:36. > :41:40.out a full programme of official engagements with the support

:41:41. > :41:53.of members of the Royal Family." So, the Duke of Edinburgh is going

:41:54. > :41:57.to retire later this year. Let's talk to someone who has worked with

:41:58. > :42:02.him on environmental projects and has met him on several occasions.

:42:03. > :42:06.Good morning, tell us what he is like to work with. Good morning, I

:42:07. > :42:11.don't know if I could say I've worked with him that closely but I

:42:12. > :42:16.find him to be a wonderful gentleman of the old school, someone who is

:42:17. > :42:21.very self-effacing, dignified, never spoke of himself or put himself

:42:22. > :42:27.forward, always put others forward. I always noted that comedians were

:42:28. > :42:33.very happy to laugh at his jokes, laugh at the way he made jokes, etc.

:42:34. > :42:41.He is actually a very funny person. It's very dry wit. I found it maybe

:42:42. > :42:45.even a little bit mean sometimes how comedians have dealt with him.

:42:46. > :42:50.Because in the background, again in a dignified way, he's done

:42:51. > :42:55.tremendous work for the environment, being the President of the WWF for

:42:56. > :42:58.many years and then starting the Alliance on religion and

:42:59. > :43:00.conservation, to make sure religious organisations who have a lot to say

:43:01. > :43:06.about the environment, are able to have their voice in this sphere.

:43:07. > :43:09.Also bringing together a symposia and conferences about science and

:43:10. > :43:14.religion, another area that really needs to be developed in society. He

:43:15. > :43:21.has taken the lead in some very far-reaching areas, maybe even a

:43:22. > :43:25.little before his time. An area that has been ignored, considering who he

:43:26. > :43:31.is and the potency, the influence, that the Royals can have, as we've

:43:32. > :43:34.seen recently with the Princes on the mental health issue. He's been

:43:35. > :43:38.doing this quietly in the background for many years and I have to Mendis

:43:39. > :43:41.admiration for the work he has done. Tell us a bit more about the

:43:42. > :43:52.projects he has worked with you on. We have a project called mother

:43:53. > :43:56.Earth in the Sanskrit and it is about Hindu responses to the in

:43:57. > :43:58.Brian Moote and we launched it at Windsor Castle in 2009 in the

:43:59. > :44:03.presence of Ban Ki-Moon and the Prince. The fact they gave their

:44:04. > :44:09.name to this and helped push it forward was tremendous, very much on

:44:10. > :44:15.international development. We hear jokes about the Prince joking about

:44:16. > :44:21.foreigners etc but here he is giving his name to a project that is about

:44:22. > :44:24.Hindu responses to the environment. Sorry to interrupt. Where do you

:44:25. > :44:29.think that kind of intellectual curiosity comes from? You may not

:44:30. > :44:34.know the answer but what do you think? Here is a person has been an

:44:35. > :44:40.international practically since he was born, he knows the issues, the

:44:41. > :44:46.meta- issues of politics and global discourse. He is able to stand back

:44:47. > :44:53.and see the bigger picture. For him to understand, with the WWF as

:44:54. > :44:56.President, as a secular organisation they said they couldn't include

:44:57. > :45:00.religious responses to the environment. He and Ban Ki-Moon at

:45:01. > :45:07.the UN saw that without religious involvement in this issue they are

:45:08. > :45:11.shooting themselves in the foot because religions have such a major

:45:12. > :45:13.influence. In every scripture in the world, not only Christianity, he

:45:14. > :45:18.could see way beyond that, in every scripture in the world there are

:45:19. > :45:21.wonderful discourses about the environment and the need to preserve

:45:22. > :45:25.the environment and sustainability and how it is all connected with God

:45:26. > :45:29.and that the world is God's Garden and must be protected and cared for

:45:30. > :45:33.etc. He understood that and that takes a great breadth of vision and

:45:34. > :45:40.a very nonsectarian vision and he had it in bucketloads. Thank you for

:45:41. > :45:42.joining us. Shaunaka Das, who has worked on environmental projects

:45:43. > :45:49.with Prince Philip, who is retiring aged 95. He will be 96 by the time

:45:50. > :45:52.he officially retires which is this autumn, it is birthday in June. The

:45:53. > :45:56.leader of the Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn has just given a statement,

:45:57. > :45:59.commenting on the news that Prince Philip is to retire from carrying

:46:00. > :46:02.out royal engagements. I'd like to pay tribute of Prince Philip

:46:03. > :46:05.following his decision to retire from public service. He dedicated

:46:06. > :46:09.his life to supporting the Queen and our country with a clear sense of

:46:10. > :46:13.public duty. The Duke of Edinburgh Award scheme inspired young people

:46:14. > :46:18.for more than 60 years in over 140 nations. We thank Prince Philip for

:46:19. > :46:20.his service to the country and wish him all the best in his well earned

:46:21. > :46:29.retirement. And this from Downing Street. This

:46:30. > :46:33.is from the Prime Minister, Theresa May. On the half the whole country I

:46:34. > :46:36.want off our deepest gratitude and good wishes to His Royal Higness,

:46:37. > :46:40.the Duke of Edinburgh, following today's announcement he will stand

:46:41. > :46:46.down from public duties in the autumn. His inspirational Duke of

:46:47. > :46:52.Edinburgh would in his patronage of good causes. His contribution to the

:46:53. > :46:57.Commonwealth and the wider world will be of huge benefit to us for

:46:58. > :47:00.years to come. A statement from Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of the

:47:01. > :47:05.Labour Party, and from the Prime Minister, Theresa May, and an e-mail

:47:06. > :47:10.from Audrey. I say thank you to Prince Philip for his service to our

:47:11. > :47:13.country. Enjoy your retirement. Jamie thinks it is time to talk

:47:14. > :47:18.about something else. Sadly that is not going to happen, Jamie, because

:47:19. > :47:25.we will talk to the Mira's royal correspondent, Victoria Murphy. How

:47:26. > :47:28.do you react to this news? It is a very big announcement perhaps made

:47:29. > :47:30.even bigger by the fact there was all that frenzied speculation in the

:47:31. > :47:35.hours leading up to this announcement today. It leaked late

:47:36. > :47:40.last night there was a meeting called in Buckingham Palace this

:47:41. > :47:44.morning, of all staff, led by the Lord chamber Lynne, which led to

:47:45. > :47:48.frenzied specular shall as to what this meeting could be about, and now

:47:49. > :47:53.we know. We know the announcement is that the Duke of Edinburgh is

:47:54. > :47:56.retiring from public life. It is a big announcement, he has given his

:47:57. > :48:02.life to public service since he married the Queen. He has finally

:48:03. > :48:06.almost 96 conceded that perhaps he just can't quite do that full

:48:07. > :48:09.schedule of engagements he has been doing up until now. The statement

:48:10. > :48:18.makes clear it is absolutely his own decision. That's right. A lot of

:48:19. > :48:21.people think it must have come about because of his health, but I am told

:48:22. > :48:26.this is nothing to do with any kind of imminent health scare for the

:48:27. > :48:31.Duke of Edinburgh, just that he has finally decided the time is right to

:48:32. > :48:34.stop doing that gruelling schedule of public engagements and it gives

:48:35. > :48:37.him a bit of time to focus on other things. Of course when he is doing

:48:38. > :48:40.public engagements, he and the Queen will spend their time Monday to

:48:41. > :48:43.Friday in Buckingham Palace during the week and this gives them a

:48:44. > :48:47.little bit more time to perhaps spend time at his royal residence,

:48:48. > :48:50.where the Queen and Philip call home a bit more, Sandringham and Windsor

:48:51. > :48:54.and places where they are a bit more out of the spotlight. But what

:48:55. > :48:57.should really be stressed, and has been stressed the need, is that this

:48:58. > :49:02.does not mean that the Queen is about to do the same. The Queen is

:49:03. > :49:06.very much carrying on her working timetable, and Philip has her full

:49:07. > :49:11.support and stubbing his, and she has his full support in carrying on

:49:12. > :49:16.hers. What impact will it have on other members of the Royal family,

:49:17. > :49:20.fact stepping back? Inevitably it will have an impact, we have seen

:49:21. > :49:24.this happen over a few years, with Philip Scaling down his engagements.

:49:25. > :49:31.He and the Queen had not been doing any overseas travel for a while, he

:49:32. > :49:34.has handed over a view patronages when he turned 90. Currently patron

:49:35. > :49:38.of around 780 organisations, and we are told he will not give those up

:49:39. > :49:45.but he obviously will not be carrying out engagements on those.

:49:46. > :49:47.As he would be carrying out engagements, it falls to younger

:49:48. > :49:51.members of the Royal family to step in and do a little bit more. This is

:49:52. > :49:54.the kind of theme that has been going on for quite a long time in

:49:55. > :49:59.the Royal household. William and Kate have the opportunity a few

:50:00. > :50:02.years ago to have their life out of the spotlight to do a little bit

:50:03. > :50:12.less while they were enjoying those first few years after getting

:50:13. > :50:18.married. They will be doing a busy duty of

:50:19. > :50:23.we are seeing things gradually changing the Royal household, the

:50:24. > :50:30.younger royals going more. Philip is doing a lot less. The Queen will do

:50:31. > :50:32.a lot less as well. Let's talk about the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme

:50:33. > :50:38.because for many people inspirational, this was designed

:50:39. > :50:42.back in 1956 to give young people a sense of responsibly tipped to

:50:43. > :50:45.themselves and their communities, and millions of young people have

:50:46. > :50:51.taken part in this award scheme from around the world. It is absolutely

:50:52. > :51:01.one of his biggest achievements. While he is the kind of person who

:51:02. > :51:05.would never like to take credit, and likes to take part in, it has helped

:51:06. > :51:14.so many young people matters what the Royal family do best, to start

:51:15. > :51:18.charities and organisations that really do help ordinary people and

:51:19. > :51:26.fill that gap where perhaps politicians aren't doing enough.

:51:27. > :51:29.Thank you very much, Victoria Murphy, the Royal correspondence for

:51:30. > :51:34.the Daily Mirror. Prince Philip is retiring from autumn of this year.

:51:35. > :51:38.That is the breaking news. The Prime Minister has thanked him on behalf

:51:39. > :51:44.the whole country. Her statement we don't offer gratitude to the Duke of

:51:45. > :51:49.Edinburgh following the announcement he will step down from public duties

:51:50. > :51:53.from the autumn. His inspirational Duke of Edinburgh awards and his

:51:54. > :51:56.patronage of hundreds of charities and good causes, his contribution to

:51:57. > :52:02.United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the wider world will be of huge

:52:03. > :52:05.benefit to us all for years come. Our viewers are split between saying

:52:06. > :52:09.good on you Prince Philip, thank you for your service to the country,

:52:10. > :52:13.time to put your feet up and enjoy your retirement and those who say it

:52:14. > :52:18.is time to move on and talk about something else. We are going to talk

:52:19. > :52:22.to Christopher Lee, an historian, you wrote the sceptred isle for

:52:23. > :52:27.Radio 4. You know the Philip. We meet him. I tell you what can you

:52:28. > :52:39.say he is going to retire, I do believe it. Really? He is 95, nearly

:52:40. > :52:47.96. So is my grampa. Knowing him, he just keeps busy. He is retiring from

:52:48. > :52:50.public duties, which in a big year can mean 250 appearances, different

:52:51. > :52:57.things, and he can't do that without doing said three a day. But there

:52:58. > :53:03.are things he keeps his eye on. He has just recently stood down as

:53:04. > :53:08.Master of Trinity house, for example, and princess and has taken

:53:09. > :53:13.over, but he still goes to Trinity house for official occasions, and I

:53:14. > :53:18.suspect he might still go to Trinity house for official occasions, and he

:53:19. > :53:23.climbs into the livery of master, which has been going since 1514. He

:53:24. > :53:27.is not that sort of guy. He wants to keep on keeping on but perhaps less

:53:28. > :53:34.publicly. That's right, and not doing as many first of two you

:53:35. > :53:37.remember the Jubilee? Which one? The Diamond Jubilee, coming down the

:53:38. > :53:42.river and all the younger members of the Royal family fidgeting around

:53:43. > :53:51.and slinking off on the front row. Not the Duke, there he was, standing

:53:52. > :53:56.like an Admiral in the rain. Caught a urinary infection as a result, but

:53:57. > :54:01.was up five days later, still standing in the rain. That is the

:54:02. > :54:06.sort of mentality. At the same time, as you say, he is 95, and that takes

:54:07. > :54:10.a bit of getting around. He has a great charm, I won't tell you who it

:54:11. > :54:17.is, but they've got an idea of which one is going to get to 100. Would we

:54:18. > :54:23.know the great charm? Yes, you would, he was in government with Mrs

:54:24. > :54:28.Thatcher. And anyway, what you don't do is say how are you? Because there

:54:29. > :54:33.is a great suspicion that you have got a bet on how long they are going

:54:34. > :54:41.to live. It is that sort of lighter side of getting old. But he has

:54:42. > :54:45.views on everything. He has views on whether you should have offshore

:54:46. > :54:51.turbines, not because it is bad for the country with energy, but far

:54:52. > :55:00.more because they are a danger to navigation, or they could be. He is

:55:01. > :55:06.a wizard at energy, and for example at Sandringham, it must be 20 years

:55:07. > :55:14.ago now, he put a load of plates, what do you call them, the solar

:55:15. > :55:20.panels right across. He did? He got somebody to do it. But it was his

:55:21. > :55:25.idea. Because he was doing 280 visits! But what is fascinating, he

:55:26. > :55:29.did not stand there, look up and see what happens. You talk to him and he

:55:30. > :55:35.has got exact figures. He's on it. Yes. If you talk you have to know

:55:36. > :55:40.what you're talking about. From what you are saying, it sounds like he is

:55:41. > :55:46.not going to be watching daytime TV, then, when he retires. Not usually,

:55:47. > :55:51.no. But then he was at Lord's this week. I know, and he looked in

:55:52. > :55:55.fantastic health, robust health, happy, smiling, chatting the former

:55:56. > :56:02.cricketing legends, wearing his MCC tie. And when he chats, again it is

:56:03. > :56:06.not simply casual talk. He doesn't do the have you come far thing, but

:56:07. > :56:11.when he says what is keeping you busy now, he actually wants to know.

:56:12. > :56:14.And the chances are in that office that he runs, which has always been

:56:15. > :56:21.the most efficient office in Buckingham Palace, absolutely on the

:56:22. > :56:26.game, he is briefed on everybody he is likely to meet, even people that

:56:27. > :56:34.he will never meet. And he takes it in. In fact, I don't think he has

:56:35. > :56:37.ever stopped being an Admiral. Admirals are like that. They have to

:56:38. > :56:43.be. And that is what he is. And admirals never retire, as the Navy

:56:44. > :56:49.now is forced so what is he going to do then from the autumn? -- as the

:56:50. > :56:54.Navy knows. He will continue with things like his interest in Trinity

:56:55. > :56:59.house, things he has kept on. He has not done the Duke of Edinburgh award

:57:00. > :57:10.scheme for a number of years now. But he keeps an eye, asks questions.

:57:11. > :57:16.Also he won't sit back with the sound turned up. He will be saying

:57:17. > :57:22.why aren't you doing this, why aren't we doing this, why did you do

:57:23. > :57:25.that? It is an instinct. This was the first man in the palace to put

:57:26. > :57:32.in computers, for example, in his office. So physically he may be

:57:33. > :57:36.stepping back, but intellectually... I don't think so, there is nothing

:57:37. > :57:40.wrong with his mind, it is not as if he is sitting there dribbling in the

:57:41. > :57:45.corner with a coronet or whatever on his head. No, he has got this sense

:57:46. > :57:50.of waking up every morning, looking around and saying this will do, now

:57:51. > :57:54.what are we going to do? He will want to know about the big issues,

:57:55. > :57:59.you will know every single touch, nuance on Brexit for example. He

:58:00. > :58:02.takes an interest. So he will be taking an interest of course in the

:58:03. > :58:06.general election, which is on the way. Thank you very much,

:58:07. > :58:10.Christopher Lee, very nice to talk to you. BBC Newsroom Live is coming

:58:11. > :58:14.up next. More on the news that the Duke of Edinburgh is stepping back

:58:15. > :58:18.from public duties, Royal duties, for good from this autumn. Thank you

:58:19. > :58:41.for watching. Back tomorrow, have a good day.

:58:42. > :58:42.This is perhaps the most unstable moment

:58:43. > :58:54.This is perhaps the most unstable moment