13/12/2017 Victoria Derbyshire

Hello.

It's Wednesday, it's 9 o'clock,

I'm Victoria Derbyshire,

welcome to the programme.

A baby - whose beating heart

developed on the outside of her body

- has had it successfully put back

inside her chest in what is believed

to be a first for the UK.

At just three weeks old little

Vanellope Wilkins has already

undergone three operations

at Glenfield Hospital

in Leicester but she is doing well.

She came out kicking and screaming.

And then she gave the surgeons

aggro.

Over a hundred under-performing

schools are continuing

to fail their pupils year after year

despite money and outside help.

A new report by the chief schools

inspector has revealed.

We ask her why and

what needs to change.

It means their life

chances are uncertain.

It doesn't mean that everybody's

life is written off,

but it means many of them

will have a less good experience

than they should which will knock

on all the way through,

in their educating, after school

in their careers, so it's really,

really important that we make sure

everybody gets the best

school education they can.

He's 26, he's from Aldershot

and he's been officially named

as the world's highest

earning YouTuber.

He raked in a cool

£12 million in the last year and has

over 16 million subscribers.

But some are sniffy

about his success.

We'll ask him what he thinks

about that at 9.45am.

Hello and welcome to the programme,

we're live until 11am.

We will talk about the latest Star

Wars film. How excited are you about

it? Do you not get Star Wars.

The Last Jedi got its UK premiere

at the Albert Hall last night -

the stars were there,

as were princes William and Harry.

We will have a spoiler-free verdict

on whether it matches the hype.

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Our top story this morning.

There's been a huge political upset

in the United States

where Doug Jones has become

the first Democrat in 25 years

to win a US Senate seat for Alabama.

It's a major embarrassment

for President Trump who had

supported the Republican candidate,

Roy Moore, who has yet to concede.

Our correspondent

David Willis reports.

It was a stunning political upset.

Doug Jones is the first Democrat to

be elected to the Senate in quarter

of a century. His victory reduces

the already razor-thin Republican

majority in the Senate to just one

seat.

I think that I have been

waiting all my life and now I just

don't know what the hell to say!

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

More than perhaps the strengths of

the victor, this result speaks to

the weaknesses of his opponent, Roy

Moore, a firebrand, evangelical who

believes homosexuality is immoral

and Muslims should not be allowed to

serve in Congress, saw his sizeable

lead in the polls start to falter

after a string of women came forward

to claim that he had sexually

assaulted them in one case, when the

accuser was just 14.

Roy Moore denies the allegations.

Despite calls from senior members of

his own party for him to withdraw

from the race, Mr Moore continued to

enjoy the support of President

Trump, who treated o tonight,

"Congratulations to Doug Jones on a

hard fought victory, the write-in

votes played a big factor, but a win

is a win."

Though so-called write-in votes

could prove significant, in a

further twist to a long and often

ugly campaign, that the vanquished

candidate is refusing to concede

defeat.

Votes are still coming in

and we are looking at that. May God

bless you, as you go on, may he give

you a safe journey. It's not over

and it's going to take some time.

Thank you.

For this deep south state to prefer

a pro-choice, progay rights

candidate like Doug Jones over a

hard-line Conservative such as Roy

Moore is a reflection not only of

the weakness of the Republican

candidate but a major snub to the

president who backed him. It will

also be seen as some as a victory

for the victims of sexual assault,

whose claims Roy Moore has

consistently dismissed as fake news.

Annita is in the BBC

Newsroom with a summary

of the rest of the day's news.

In what's thought to be a first

for doctors in the UK,

a baby girl has survived

after being born with her

heart outside her body.

Vanellope Hope Wilkins,

who has no breastbone,

was delivered three weeks ago

by Caesarean section.

She has had three operations

to place her heart back in her chest

at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester.

Our medical correspondent,

Fergus Walsh, spoke exclusively

to Vanellope's parents

and the medical team involved.

Good girl, yeah.

She's a beautiful girl.

Their pride and joy.

This is Vanellope,

astounding her parents

and doctors with her progress.

After three operations in three

weeks, her heart is now

back inside her chest.

Vanellope's parents say

the moment she was born

they knew she was a fighter.

She came out kicking and screaming.

And then she gave all

the surgeons aggro, didn't she?

It was a beautiful moment.

Absolutely beautiful.

If you saw her when she was first

born, to where she is now,

and what they've done...

It's beyond a miracle, isn't it?

The family knew from the first

ultrasound that Vanellope's heart

was outside her chest.

You can clearly see its unusual

position which is due to the absence

of a sternum or breastbone.

Babies with this rare condition

are usually stillborn.

But immediately as she emerged

during the Caesarean section,

doctors could see that Vanellope's

heart was beating strongly.

Three weeks on, her heart

is back where it should be,

covered with her own skin.

Vanellope is going to be

here for some considerable time.

The next step will be

getting her to breathe

without the help of a ventilator.

Then, in years to come,

she faces more surgery to create

a new sternum to protect her heart.

She faces a long road ahead, but has

already confounded predictions.

Two people have been

charged with murder,

over the deaths of three children

in a house fire

in Walkden on Monday.

14-year-old Demi Pearson,

eight-year-old Brandon

and seven-year-old Lacie died

in the house fire.

Their mother and three-year-old

sister remain in hospital.

Two 16-year-old boys were able

to escape the property.

A man and women in their 20s

from Worsley have been remanded

in custody and will appear before

Salford Magistrates'

Court later today.

More than 100 schools in England

have failed to record a "good"

inspection in over a decade,

according to the education watchdog.

Ofsted's annual report warns that

a hard core of persistently

underachieving schools

are struggling to recruit teachers

and keep head teachers.

Ofsted chief Inspector Amanda

Spielman says the schools had not

improved despite "attention

and investment".

If you prop schools up from outside,

it's great while you've got the

props there, but once that support

goes away then the school slips back

again. We've got to really

concentrate on what it is to get

everything in place, the people, the

curriculum, the systems, everything

inside the school really, really

working as strongly as it can.

Does

that mean...

And that's the point at

which we can say the job is done and

the school should be able to to go

forward strongly.

Theresa May is facing a potential

backbench rebellion later when MPs

vote on amendments to the EU

Withdrawal Bill.

A group of Tory MPs, led by former

Attorney General Dominic Grieve,

want to force ministers to give

Parliament a meaningful vote

on any final Brexit deal.

The Prime Minister has said that

ministers are listening

to the concerns of Conservative MPs.

The US Secretary of State,

Rex Tillerson, says America

is willing to hold direct talks

with North Korea

without pre-conditions.

His statement appeared to be

a change from previous

demands that Pyongyang must

end its nuclear programme first.

However, Mr Tillerson did say

they would only hold talks

if there is a period

without nuclear and missile tests.

Banks say a rapid response scheme

aimed at combating fraud has already

saved customers millions of pounds

in its first year and led to more

than a hundred arrests.

Under the scheme, police arrive

at a bank branch within minutes

if staff fear someone

is being tricked into

taking out a large sum

of money to pay a criminal.

Simon Gompertz has been

finding out how it works.

A Rolls-Royce.

Some people have their heart so set

on getting one that things like this

are prime bait used by criminals

to get hold of your cash.

When I came into this bit

of inheritance, I thought, right,

I always wanted a Rolls-Royce.

Let's have a look.

It is a dream car.

They are so comfortable

and so easy to drive.

Barry Fox in Essex had a lucky

escape thanks to swift action

from his bank when he went

to withdraw the money to buy another

fictional Rolls in an eBay scam.

The fraudsters tried to lure him

into bringing cash to a pick-up

in the middle of the countryside.

So what was the danger?

You might have gone bad...

I might have gone there with £10,000

in my pocket and have been

knocked over the head

with a stick or something.

No car there at all.

No car there at all.

Warned off by the bank, he got this

car from his local dealer.

When Barry popped into his local

bank and asked for £10,000 in cash,

there was immediate

concern about him.

Now, banks often find it difficult

to explain to customers

that they might be being scammed,

but under the new arrangements,

they were able to call 999,

quote banking protocol and get

a police officer around

here within half an hour.

While in the branch,

the police checked out the car.

The situation just

did not seem right...

It wasn't where it should have been.

This was happening in Blackpool and

the car was registered in Bristol.

They check the business

details against eBay.

It was the correct business

name, but the contact

details did not match.

Banks say they've stopped

customers being defrauded

of £9 million in a year.

However, that is just the ones

going into branches.

£100 million has been lost in just

six months by people unwittingly

paying fraudsters online.

This is really good news for those

who use their branch.

Anything the banks can do

to help them is good news.

More and more of us bank on line

and certainly have to bank on line

because bank branches are closing.

So we want to see more done

to protect consumers

from being scammed online.

Automatic, preowned.

But with the Internet

playing a big part,

it is worth being wary if asked

to pay in cash.

I would tell people,

if they want cash, don't buy.

The bank-police tie-up which meant

Barry did get his dream car

will soon be in place

across the country.

For Star Wars fans

the wait is nearly over.

The eighth episode in the franchise,

the Last Jedi, gets its cinema

release at midnight tonight.

But last night the film's stars,

including British actors

Daisy Ridley and John Boyega,

were on the red carpet in London

for its European premiere.

A warning, this report

from our entertainment

correspondent, Lizo Mzimba,

contains flash photography.

The stars of Star Wars,

cinema royalty on the red carpet

with actual royalty.

Princes William and Harry,

such fans of the saga,

during filming, they secretly played

cameos as stormtroopers,

much to the excitement of the cast.

It was great, fantastic.

Fantastic.

Phenomenal.

And they've done an

official visit as well.

They got in an X-wing and all that

kind of stuff so it was fun.

The Last Jedi is the ninth

Star Wars film since the saga

began 40 years ago.

It didn't scare me enough then.

There's a huge degree

of expectation from fans.

What is Star Wars to you?

Star Wars is everything, really.

Something I've always

obviously been interested in.

It's almost a way of life, I think.

I think it's just a cracking good

story, it is all swashbuckling,

it's fun and goodies versus that is,

I think that is what

makes it so great.

Fan power like this has driven

the franchise for 40 years

and is also the reason why many

expect this film to make more

in the final two weeks of 2017

than any other film makes

in the entirety of this year.

I can't wait to see it!

That's a summary of

the latest BBC News.

More at 9.30am.

Do your children go to a failing

school? We will talk about failing

schools. Ones that fail year after

year. We will talk about that in a

moment with the Chief Inspector of

Schools. But if your children go to

a failing school, tell us your

experience and what the teachers are

doing to turn it around. The sport.

News about Chris Froome.

This is

about a drugs test he took during a

race earlier this year. Which he

went on to win. While he was racing,

just after stage 18, he tested, he

had his urine tested and it was

found that he had been taking double

the allowed dose of a really common

asthma drug, a legal asthma drug, it

is legal for cyclists to take, but

there is a certain level they are

allowed. Frome's level contained

double the dose. This is the thing

that people take across the country.

It is a drug that people will be

familiar with if they suffer from

asthma, but as I say, Frome's urine

sample contained twice the allowed

amount. Cycling's world governing

body asked Frome and Team Sky, the

team for whom he cycles for an

explanation as to why this happened.

This is standard procedure as well,

Victoria.

What is Chris Froome

saying and Team Sky saying?

Normally this would all happen

behind closed doors, but because

there is so much media interest in

Chris Froome, they say it is well

known that he has suffered from

asthma since he was a child, and

during the final week of the Vuelta,

he was struggling, so he increased

his dose on the advice of the

doctor, and he was tested every day

of the race because he was wearing

the leader's jersey. He told his

testers about his use of the

medication because his asthma was so

bad, and heaters depending on things

like dehydration, metabolism, body

weight which is a huge factor while

you are racing, sometimes the drug

is metabolised at a different rate,

so it can show up in samples. Chris

Froome said, I take my leadership

position in my sport very seriously.

He says the UCI is absolutely right

to be asking these questions and

examining these test results, and he

will provide all the information

that they require.

And let's talk about Burnley.

Amazing start of the season, and it

carries on.

It does, and Sean Dyche, the

manager, you should have heard him

in his post-match press conference

yesterday, he said he was the

proudest man in Proudsville last

night. They beat Stoke, moving up to

fourth in the Premier League. Ashley

Barnes scored this one, and they are

now above Liverpool, Arsenal and

Tottenham, although all those sides

play tonight. This is the highest

they have been in the top flight of

English football since 1975. It is

early days, we don't want to get

ahead of ourselves, but they are in

the Champions League places at the

moment. The last time they played in

Europe was back in 1967, and Sean

Dyche, the manager, he doesn't want

to get ahead of himself.

The reality

is we have another tough game on

Saturday. We are enjoying this, the

players have earned the right to

enjoy it, but the next game comes

quickly, that is my focus. A

different way of finding a result,

and I had to work hard for it

tonight, grind it out, real moment

of quality to win it, but that will

be parked, and we look onto the next

one.

So he is being a little

philosophical, but he said he has

taken inspiration from that amazing

league win by Leicester back in

2016, when he said Leicester blew

the roof of dreams in football. So

why shouldn't Burnley fans enjoy

this moment and get ahead of

themselves? If Leicester did it, why

shouldn't Burnley?

Show we have a

bet on whether Sean Dyche will be

England manager one day?

I think

Leicester were something like 50,000

to one, maybe we should put some

money on Burnley winning the league!

Best fact I heard, on five live this

morning, the population of Burnley

is smaller than the capacity at Old

Trafford. I love that.

Why does a school file over and over

again? In her first annual report,

the boss of the schools watchdog

says there is a group of

underperforming schools that

continue to let down pupils. Amanda

Spielman as the chief inspector of

schools, and she says of those

schools inspected this year, around

80 primary and 50 secondary schools

have not been good at any point in

over a decade. Why? I spoke to her

little earlier and asked her what

she thought about those statistics.

On the one hand it is bad news, we

shouldn't have any schools in those

states, but the number is smaller

than it was, so we really need to

focus on squeezing these kinds of

problems out of the system

completely.

But what does it mean

for pupils if their school is

failing year after year.

That's exactly why

we shouldn't have any

schools in that state?

What does it mean

for their life chances?

It means their life

chances are uncertain.

It doesn't mean that everybody's

life is written off but

it means many of them

will have a less good experience

than they should which will knock

off -- knock

on all the way through,

through their education,

after school,

in

their careers, so it's really,

really important that we make sure

everybody gets the best school

education they possibly can.

You say in this report that having

disadvantaged pupils is not enough

of a reason for a school

to continue to fail.

Yes, I'm saying that

if we get distracted by the

game of disadvantage one-upmanship,

my school's got more pupil premium

children than yours,

we can get distracted,

we can get fixated.

We need to concentrate on the things

that are really important to making

a school good, having a good

curriculum, good teaching and good

behaviour in the classroom

and corridors.

We've got to get everybody

focused on what can be

done, not on all the

difficulties to achieving it.

What is interesting is,

these schools that continually

fail and have done for over a

decade, they have had external help,

they have had outside help and yet

they are still failing.

That doesn't seem to make sense.

Perhaps the kind of help they've had

hasn't been focused enough

on building the capacity inside the

school.

What does that mean?

If you prop schools

up from outside, it's

great while you've got the props

there, but once that support goes

away, then the school

slips back again.

We've got to really concentrate

on what it is to get

everything in place so that people,

the curriculum is, the place,

everything inside the school

is working as strongly as it can.

That's the point at which we can

say the job is done and

the school should be able

to go forward strongly.

Does that mean discipline

of the students, good

senior leadership team?

What do you mean?

What are the basics?

I think it's focused

above all else, not

getting distracted by great numbers

of interventions and initiatives.

Having too many things to deal

with makes the job harder.

Keeping it as simple as it can be.

And it may be that we need

extra resource in some

of these schools to

make this possible.

But focus on what?

Be specific.

Focus on the curriculum,

the teaching and the behaviour.

That above everything else.

That's the job of good

school leaders, to make

those things work well.

Being a head, being

a senior leader in a

school is a really hard job.

It really is.

Do you understand when people get

burnt out and leave and

then the cycle begins again?

Yes indeed and that's

why this focuses

so important because part of it is

about making the job doable.

If you can keep the job

of running a good

school as simple as it can be made,

then you minimise, it's a high

stress job, but you minimise

the unnecessary stress and strain on

teachers, so I think getting this

right actually has the potential to

help retain more teachers,

have fewer people leaving because of

stress and burn-out.

You talk in your report

about multi Academy

trusts and for our audience, that

means their collection of often very

good schools and they fan out

into the community to spread good

practice.

But there aren't enough of those,

are there, to take up those

schools that aren't doing as well?

There aren't yet enough of them

and they're not necessarily

in the right places where help

is needed for the

toughest schools.

So yes, we need to look

at ways to get more support

from the schools who have the

capacity to do it into the schools

who need it most, but with the focus

on building this long-term polarity

inside the schools.

You also say in your

report which is really

interesting increases

in test scores do not

necessarily reflect

an

improvement in education standards.

What do you mean?

What I mean is, when schools

get very focused on

teaching the mark scheme

rather than teaching

a subject, teaching

a

particular type of question

they think is likely to come up

in a test rather than teaching

maths, then you

may be able to push test scores up

but that doesn't necessarily mean

that you've led formats.

It is about the substance of

education, making sure that children

learn everything they should, they

don't just get a good grade, a

lovely sticker, but they actually

learn.

And how worried are you that

schools are becoming increasingly

focused on exam results being the be

all and end all?

Our curriculum

survey work that is in progress

suggested that this is quite a

significant problem. At many stages

of education, we found it in primary

schools, in key stage three and in

the GCSE years.

Thank you very much

for talking to us.

Thank you.

Amanda Spielman.

We can now speak to Geoff Barton,

the General Secretary

of the Association of School

and College Leaders,

and Rebecca Handley-Kirk,

who took over the newly-formed

Hewett Academy in Norwich two years

ago after the previous school

was placed into special measures.

Thank you for talking to us.

Rebecca, taking over a failing

school. Tell our audience about the

challenges.

Lots of challenges.

Firstly we have to look at the

behaviour of the students on the

teaching and learning that is going

on in the classrooms and the

opportunities available to the

students. It is really an approach

across-the-board, and it needs

strong leadership to make sure it

happens.

And because it was failing

to ten years, student numbers

dropped because people don't want to

send their kids there.

Absolutely,

student numbers still continue to

drop. They are looking more positive

than except Ember, but it is a long

haul to turn around public

perceptions to see that the school

is changing.

And let's talk about

your exam results this summer. There

was a 19% improvement in maths and

English GCSEs. Is that reputation,

that message, getting out there in

the community?

It is a long process.

That first set of results were

fantastic, and we are looking to

make some improvements again this

year, but it takes a few years for

that to filter through to the

general public, so we are still

looking at lower pupil numbers than

you would want.

Had you make sure

parents are engaged in an side? I

saw Usai as if that is a really big

deal.

It is one of our biggest

challenges, making parents aware

that they have a big influence into

their child's education.

Let me

bring in Geoff Barton. You said

Ofsted judgments themselves can be

stigmatising and make things worse.

What do you mean?

We can do, and if

we listen to the language, talking

about failing schools, think we need

to be careful with that, because

what Ofsted appear to be saying is

that since 2005, 130 schools in

England have not got a good or

outstanding judgment, and those

parents who deserve with their

communities to expect that there

will be a good school there. But

what they also say is there are no

quick fixes.

But the schools have

been failing for ten years.

I'm not

talking in terms of failing, I'm

talking about not getting a good or

outstanding Ofsted report in ten

years. Schools are rooted in their

communities, and we heard Amanda

Spielman who I think is doing a

great job in many ways as Chief

Inspector, but she system fixate on

exam results, and then you hear that

schools are judged by their exam

results aren't Ofsted look at that

in their judgments. The kinds of

things that you and I would expect a

great school to do, and you implied

it earlier, which is to reach out to

the community to give great stuff in

the classroom and around the

classroom, extracurricular work,

that is more difficult and

challenging schools because you

can't recruit the staff and hold on

to the leadership, and Ofsted are

saying that today. So the big

question is, what do we do to give a

long-term sense that these schools

are beacons of hope instead of what

they can be witches beacons of

despair.

The Department for

Education says we are targeting the

areas that need most support through

our opportunity investment scheme

and the schools most in need of

improving school performance.

Absolutely right, when 90% of

schools are good and outstanding,

that should be celebrated.

We did

talk about that.

All help needs to

go to those schools, and part of

that is getting leaders who are on a

mission to stay with those

communities and be known by those

communities, for a leadership team

is not to be squandering money

supply teachers who are there for

half a term.

Sometimes you can't

help but, if a teacher leaves or

gets pregnant or is burnt out.

It is

more difficult if you call it a

failing school also that the

community has lost faith in it. We

need to send resources to the

schools. Ofsted would do us a favour

if what they did was to inside their

best inspectors to work with those

schools to hold up there to help

those schools in the longer-term,

because what we need is the best

leaders to go and stay with those

schools and communities and give a

real sense in places that those

schools matter huge amount.

Rebecca,

tell our audience what motivates

you.

The students, really. It is

seeing those outcomes and seeing

happy students leaving school with

lots of opportunities and choices,

that they can choose to do anything

they want to do in the future, and

that is vital, opening as many doors

as possible for them.

And do you

ever think this is too much, this is

exhausting, too challenging, and

actually, it might be a job for

someone else?

It is a big challenge,

but I have an awful lot of support

around me, and that has been vital

in the improvements at my academy. I

have an executive principle I can

speak to with any concerns, and the

Academy supporters with teaching and

learning and behaviour, so it is

about the support network to keep me

in post and pushing for those

improvements.

A couple of people

watching you commenting, David says

schools don't fail students, parents

do it, it starts at home. Another

commentor says generations of

children leaving school unprepared

for the real world, and a couple

more. Duncan says it is easy to

blame teachers intact challenging

schools, although I don't thing we

have had that conversation this

morning. Smaller class sizes are

simple solution, although nothing is

ever simple, but fair enough. And on

Twitter, we need to stop talking

about failing schools and start

inspiring children with more than

maths and Italy should sounds.

Thank you both very much for coming

on the programme. Good luck,

Rebecca, thank you. She took over

the newly formed Hewitt Academy in

Norwich couple of years ago after

the school was placed in special

measures, and Geoff Barton, from the

Association of School and College

leaders.

Still to come.

We'll be speaking to the mother

of baby Vanellope Wilkins --

the baby born with her

heart outside her body.

She's had to have three

operations to save her life -

her mother now wants to highlight

the case to bring hope

to other families.

We will talk to the highest earning

YouTuber about how he does it.

The BBC News headlines this morning:

In a major political upset

in America, Doug Jones has become

the first Democrat in 25 years

to win a US Senate seat for Alabama.

It follows a bitter campaign

against Republican Roy Moore,

who has so far refused

to concede the result.

President Donald Trump congratulated

Doug Jones on a hard fought victory.

A baby girl, born with her heart

outside her body, has survived

in what's thought to be a first

in the UK.

Vanellope Hope Wilkins,

who is three-weeks-old,

has undergone three operations

at Glenfield Hospital,

in Leicester, to place her heart

back within her chest.

The condition, ectopia cordis,

is extremely rare, with only a few

cases per million births.

Her parents have described

her as a fighter.

We will talk to her mum in the next

few minutes.

Two people have been

charged with murder,

over the deaths of three children

in a house fire

in Walkden on Monday.

14-year-old Demi Pearson,

eight-year-old Brandon

and seven-year-old Lacie died

in the house fire.

Their mother and three-year-old

sister remain in hospital.

Two 16-year-old boys were able

to escape the property.

A man and women in their 20s

from Worsley have been remanded

in custody and will appear before

Salford Magistrates'

Court later today.

More than 100 schools in England

have failed to record a "good"

inspection in over a decade,

according to the

education watchdog.

Ofsted's annual report warns that

a hard core of persistently

underachieving schools

are struggling to recruit teachers

and keep head teachers.

Ofsted chief Inspector

Amanda Spielman says

the schools had not improved

despite "attention and investment".

That's a summary of

the latest BBC News.

Here's some sport

now with Katherine.

Good morning.

Chris Froome is facing questions

from Cycling's world governing

body after returning

an "adverse" drugs test.

The Team Sky rider had double

the allowed level of legal asthma

drug, Salbutamol, in his

urine during the Vuelta

a Espana in September.

Burnley manager Sean Dyche says

"football is about dreams"

after his side moved into fourth

place in the Premier League

with victory over Stoke.

England have named their team

for the decisive third Ashes Test

which starts tonight.

Johnny Baistow is moved up

the batting order to sixth.

If England lose, the series is lost.

And Tyson Fury has vowed to reclaim

boxing titles he says

are "rightfully his"

after being given permission to

fight again following a drugs ban.

He wants to take on IBF and WBA

heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua.

That's it for now, Victoria. Back to

you. Some breaking news. It is the

latest unemployment figures. Let's

have a look. Bear with me. I have

got the average earnings figures.

Average earnings increased by 2.5%

in the year to October, that's up on

the previous month, but we had the

inflation yesterday. Not as high as

inflation which is the key figure

and in terms of unemployment, it has

fallen by 26,000.

More reaction on that to come.

The parents of a baby girl,

born with her heart

on the outside of her body,

say they want their experience

to bring hope to other families

in the same situation.

Three-week-old Vanellope Wilkins has

undergone three operations

at Glenfield Hospital in Leicester.

She is doing well. In a moment, we

will talk to Vanellope's mum. First,

let's see her fight against the

odds.

It was an amazing experience.

It was overwhelming, wasn't it?

It was very overwhelming.

There was a part where we were just

staring at each other

because we didn't want to be told

what was happening while it was

happening but as soon

as we heard her cry, that was it.

We just had a little cry, didn't we?

Yes, it was like we held our breath.

For her.

She's been lucky, if you like, in

that she has a structurally normal

heart, which most of these babies

don't have and she didn't have any

other abnormalities

with the chromosomes, with,

sometimes the bowel is outside

the body as well.

She's not had any of those problems.

But she's also proved very resilient

and she's had a great team to

support her.

There was a little girl

in there called the glitch and when

she was born, it fitted

perfectly, didn't it?

Yeah.

Little glitch, that she...

Her heart was in the wrong

place, wasn't it?

Like a glitch, it wasn't real,

and it could be fixed.

She's got more strength

than you could

ever imagine.

She fighting it all the way

and she is defying

everything, isn't she?

All they say can't be

done, she's doing it.

I'm joined now by Vanellope's mother

Naomi Findlay and consultant

paediatric cardiologist Frances

Bu'Lock.

Naomi, hello.

Hi.

Hi. How are you?

I'm all right,

thank you. Very well.

And how is

your little girl?

She's doing

remarkably well.

Is she?

She is a

little miracle, she really is.

remarkably well.

Is she?

She is a

little miracle, she really is.

Tell our audience when you first saw

the scan of your little girl inside

you.

Well, we went for a scan at

nine weeks I was and it was, well,

you could see clearly that the heart

was not in the right place. It

wasn't something I was expecting to

hear. You go from having two normal

healthy boys to potentially having

quite a poorly, well we didn't know

it was a little girl at the time,

but a poorly baby. So it was tough

to digest that kind of information

and what they said, the problem was

with her.

And what did doctors say

to you about her chances of

survival?

Literally next to none.

There was a very, very, very slim

chance that she would not survive at

all. Either she would die in the

womb or when she was born, through

delivery, she wouldn't survive.

Right. And how did you and your

husband respond to that?

Not very

well to be honest with you. It

wasn't something that we

particularly wanted to hear. But as

time went on and the more scans we

went to and the more we saw her grow

and her heartbeat, it wasn't

something that we believed was

actually going to happen. We

believed that she was a fighter and

she was going to come into this

world and she did. So...

Do you mind

me asking Naomi if having an

abortion was discussed?

It was on

quite a few occasions and it was not

something that I was going to

entertain. I always said to my

partner if it happens naturally, ie

if she does pass away in the womb,

it was something that I would have

been able to get over, but to give

it that helping hand, when I saw

what I saw on the scans, I couldn't,

I haven't got that in me to do, to

ever do that. So it was not an

option for me at all.

Tell us about

the birth because she was due just

before Christmas, but obviously she

was born prematurely by C-section,

as I understand it there were dozens

of staff on hand. What were you

expecting? What are you told in

terms of the birth of Vanellope?

Well, the first ten minutes when she

arrived, it was a very crucial

point. We didn't know, nobody knew

how she would cope with being

outside of the womb. So, very much

the ten minutes we, I think,

everybody was holding their breath

even the medics. The other thing

they said was that she may not come

out crying. They may have to help

her with that. And I don't know if

anyone has actually seen the birth,

but she actually came out, covering

her own heart. It's like she had her

hand over her own heart protecting

it and came out kicking and

screaming, she did and it was a real

sense of relief. I think that then

is when we actually decided it was

all right to breathe for ourselves

if you know what I mean? It was an

absolute miracle and it was alreal

pleasure to see that miracle being

born.

Wow. Naomi I'm going to bring

in the consultant who you know well.

Introduce yourself. What was your

role in what has been your role in

helping Vanellope survive.

Hi. I am

a paediatric cardiologist so I look

after babies who are born with heart

problems and part of that I look at

after or help with babies that are

still in the womb. So I met Naomi

and Dean at around 16 weeks

gestation. I was called two weeks

earlier to say that this baby was

around and would I have a look at it

and I said it needs to be a bit

bigger so we can see the heart

properly and provide appropriate

advice. So, we first met at 16 weeks

and then we have met on a number of

occasions since.

I wonder if you

could... Sorry to interrupt. I

wonder if you could tell our

audience about the intricate process

through three operations of trying

to put Vanellope's heart back inside

her chest.

Yes, I mean, the biggest

hurdle as Naomi already said was

getting her born safely and getting

things arranged so all the right

people were around at the right time

to manage that. So, there was a big

logistic sort of organisational

information discussion to get her

delivered at the cardiac unit and we

had to have the obstetricians there

and the neo-natal specialist and

then the cardiac surgical team and

get the baby out safely and get the

heart covered and get her breathing

stabilised and get drips and lines

in and then swap Naomi out of the

theatre and bring Vanellope into the

theatre and start the process of

recattery ating her heart to where

it should have been.

Woup. And so

how would you say she is now?

I

think she's, she's doing really,

really well. She is is certainly

very active. She had a rough week

the week before, when we actually

got the skin closed, that was a

really big operation for her. And

caused a lot of swelling. She is

getting over that. She opens her

eyes and she wriggles and waves her

arms. We have to stop her pulling

her breathing tube out. She is

showing considerable promise.

Wow,

that's incredible. Look at the smile

on your face, Naomi, it was huge

relief, when she was born, but to

hear her crying, that sound means

life, doesn't it?

It did. It meant

that we had made the best decision

to go, for me, to certainly stick

with what I felt as my mother

instincts. It was the best feeling

ever, I think. Almost as normal as

my two other births considering. I'm

very proud of her. And I'm very

grateful for the team at Glenfield

that have got her to this part in

her life as well. Snoop given her

that start. I'm very grateful to

them. So...

Well, thank you both.

Thank you very much for talking to

us. Naomi, we wish you love and

strength and continued happiness

with your little girl and your two

boys as well obviously. Thank you

very much for talking to. Frances,

thank you very much. Still to come

before 10:

His videos have been

seen ten billion times.

He's taken his live

show around the world -

selling over a quarter

of a million tickets.

And he's the world's

highest earning YouTuber.

Dan TDM is in the studio

in just a moment.

The Government's EU withdrawal bill,

the so-called Great Repeal Bill,

is its flagship piece

of legislation for Brexit.

But now Theresa May faces

the threat of defeat

as Conservative backbench rebels

are threatening to vote against it.

So her own side are threatening to

vote against it.

The rebels, led by former Attorney

General Dominic Grieve, want

a cast-iron legal guarantee that MPs

will be able to vote on any Brexit

deal before it's finalised.

Norman is in Westminster.

What is this in plain English?

It is

who is running Brexit, is it the

Prime Minister or is it parliament?

The Government's view is that Mrs

May has to have a free hand to

negotiate the sort of deal she

wants, but, she says, MPs will still

get a vote, albeit it will be after

she has signed the deal. Not good

enough, say MPs, friend number of

reasons, one because they say they

want an absolute guarantee there

will be a vote written in law, it

isn't at the moment. They also want

stripped out powers the Government

has kept to itself to implement bits

and pieces of the withdrawal

agreement without consulting

Parliament, and they want the power

to shape the sort of Brexit deal Mrs

May is going to do, because at the

moment is a take it or leave it

vote. If you don't like the deal she

has done, you can vote against it,

but we will leave the EU anyway. And

for the first time, really, Mrs May

could be facing potential defeat,

and much of that may hinge on one

man. He is with me now, here's the

former Attorney General Dominic

grieve, regarded as the linchpin of

this revolt, and there has been a

huge amount of pressure, but there

has also been some movement from the

government. They are talking to

people like you, trying to reassure

people like you. So will you now

back off and ensure that this goes

through as the Government want?

It

is important to understand that the

difference between the government

and myself on this issue is quite

difficult to understand and follow.

The Government has issued a written

ministerial statement today which

sets out a process after we reach

agreement, probably in the summer or

early autumn of next year, which is

one with it which I entirely agree.

There will be a vote, and there will

then be legislation to implement the

treaty and put it into our law using

statutory instruments to do it prior

to our leaving on March the 29th.

The question which is at the heart

of this evening's debate is, in

those circumstances, why is clause

nine in the current bill? Because

clause nine as it stands gives the

Government the power to ignore that

process and try to do everything by

statutory instrument. I don't

believe the Government wants to do

that, but it becomes very hard to

understand why the Government can't

simply accept my amendment which

says that the powers in clause nine

can't be used until Parliament has

determined these issues at the end

of next year.

So given all that, are

you going to vote against the

Government tonight, and is the

Government facing likely defeat as a

result of it?

The sensible thing

would be for the Government to

accept my amendment. If they do that

and if they have some unhappiness

honesty tales, then the Government

-- some happiness on the details,

then they can come back at report.

But I have been pressing them for

four weeks, I think this makes

complete sense and if they think

there is another way of approaching

this, come up with an amendment of

your own, and until last Friday

afternoon, I thought they would do

that. They didn't. Then on Monday,

the balloon goes up, ever be start

getting hysterical, people say it is

sabotaging Brexit, battle lines are

drawn. None of this is in anyway

necessary. The Government should

show greater flexibility in the way

it approaches MPs raising issues,

and we should be able to resolve

this without my having to rebel

against the government, something

which on an issue of a national

importance, I have never done in the

course of my career.

Dominic Grieve,

thank you very much. I think it will

be a very close vote tonight, and

you get a sense of the Government

this is about more than Brexit, they

see it is about Mrs May's authority,

so they are really throwing

everything at it.

Much more on that

on BBC news throughout the day, plus

the result and I'd.

He's 26, from Aldershot,

he secretly loves watching cartoons,

his first car was a VW polo,

and he met the girl who would become

his wife when he was only 11.

And as it happens, Dan TDM,

or Daniel Middleton,

is the world's-highest earning

YouTuber this year after making

more than £12 million

over the last 12 months.

He became successful by streaming

videos of himself playing

Pokemon and then Minecraft.

Your children probably watch them.

I have got so many tweets from mum

saying, I will have to record this

so we can watch it later when the

kids get back from school!

He now has more than 16 million

subscribers worldwide,

and his channel, which was

originally aimed at five-

to ten-year-olds, has had more

than ten billion views

for all his videos.

Hello. How are you?

I'm good, thank

you, very good.

Thank you for coming

on our programme. Please tell our

audience, how do you go from working

in a supermarket five years ago to

any £12 million this year?

Part of

me is not sure. I just do something

that I love putted out there for

anyone to watch. And it turns out a

lot of people like what I do, they

couldn't ask for more than than

that, it's crazy.

Effectively, you

are an entrepreneur. You craft and

edit your videos, you come up with

the idea for them, there is the

technical side to them, you sell

merchandise and go on tour. In that

sense, you're an example of a

British success story. Are you

treated as a successful

entrepreneur, people sniffy about

what you do?

I think both. YouTube

is a very new thing, as a website it

is not that old in the grand scheme

of things, competitively. So people

can make assumptions about what I do

when they 20 minute video, they

maybe think it takes 20 minutes to

make, which is not the case, it is

completely the opposite. So I guess

there is a misconception to what I

do.

Do you think people go, anyone

can make a video and put it on you

Tube and make a million. Do you get

that kind of attitude?

I guess that

is partly true, that is how I

started, I just made videos and put

them up people to see, and if they

watched, was great. So that is kind

of partly true.

But do you feel like

a businessman?

I guess I do, I have

had to learn along the way, making

videos is my main thing but when you

start merchandising, and especially

with the tour as well, there is a

steep learning curve where I had to

negotiate deals and I guess there is

that part of the business when you

start branching further than just

making videos.

In the last couple of

weeks, you have posted a video about

finding the worst flavour of

jellybean, which has had formally

and views. Let's have a quick look

at this video.

I am going to regret this.

Ooh, they do not look

like jelly beans at all.

They look like little rocks of sour.

Actually, I'm going

to go and get a bowl.

Be right back.

Got one.

Here we go.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, they smell...

Oh, they do not smell good.

I haven't even put them in my mouth

yet and they smell disgusting.

Right, sour jellybeans are going in.

Let's mix them up,

mix them up real nice.

And just with that other video,

we're going to throw it back

again and play exactly

the same game.

I'm going to be playing,

Would You Rather?

So, the way it works is,

here are the rules.

We play Would You Rather

but instead of

choosing what I would pick,

I need to guess what everybody else

would pick, the majority vote.

So, 4 million views. What is it

about that that is so popular?

Specifically that one, people want

to see you eat things, like those

jellybeans, there was a blood

flavour, squid flavour, snort

flavour. People want to see you

eating them because they don't

necessarily want to do it

themselves, and it is funny to watch

the reaction is, I guess.

Do you

ever struggle for ideas for your

videos?

Not really, that one was

random. My mother-in-law bought me

the jellybeans for my birthday, they

thought, this would make a great

video idea, so video ideas can come

from literally anywhere. If I ever

struggle for ideas, I go online and

ask my fans, they can ask the

questions, there is so much out

there that can help me if I am

struggling for ideas, but the beauty

of the Internet is it is pretty much

unlimited.

The question everyone

wants to know is, including young

kids, because they now things like

when I grow up I want to go on

YouTube, how'd you make your money

on YouTube?

Sure most people that

watch YouTube have experienced the

ads that play before a video or come

up during a video. Those are what we

get paid for. Advertisers pay

YouTube to display those ads, and we

get paid a proportion of that when

it is displayed on our video. So we

get paid off the views, basically.

And how long was it before

advertisers like furniture stores

would come to you, how many views

before they came tune said, we want

to put an ad on you.

YouTube manages

that, you don't necessarily have

control over the ads, they have an

algorithm that displays appropriate

ads to the person watching, so

similar to other things like

Facebook, it depends on your

browsing history. So YouTube manages

all that, you just get a cut after

that happens, so you don't manage

that at all.

You talked about your

fans, your audience is predominantly

children and young teens. How much

responsibility do you feel to them?

Loads, absolutely loads. It would be

weird not to feel responsibility,

especially when you meet them

face-to-face, and I have met so many

during the tour. You realise how

much the videos mean to them and

more importantly the parents as

well. I feel like I have got a

really good rapport with parents,

they always say that I am a YouTube

that they can feel safe letting

their kids watch, they watch

together and become fans as well, it

is great.

And you will have seen

Jack Maynard apologising for

homophobic and racist language he

had used in the past online. He had

to leave I'm a Celebrity. Have you

checked your past online history for

any comments?

I like to think I am

just a decent person anyway, so I'd

think I have anything could find.

You just have to be careful what you

put out there, regardless of whether

you are on YouTube or not. If you

put something online, it is

therefore ever, you don't know who

has kept it, so just be careful in

general, not necessarily if you are

well known, if you are just putting

a post on your Facebook, be super

careful.

Or just be nice! How about

that! My 13-year-old wants to know

if you have effectively become an

advert for certain games like

Minecraft or Pokemon, or are you

independent?

Both. Predominantly,

99% of my content, I just choose to

play whatever. Every now and then

the company will approach me with a

game, and they offer me early

gameplay to play, and they offer me

money for that, so it is exactly the

same as being paid to advertise

something. But most of the time I am

offering content so they let me make

videos of their game.

He wants to

know if Minecraft pay you to play

Minecraft.

No, they just have a

really good rapport with everyone in

their terms and conditions you can

make whatever content you like with

it.

You will know the chatter around

YouTube recently is that it can be

unsafe for children and young

people, particularly last week on

the programme we were talking to the

police, warning about live

streaming, kids live streaming on

the comments they were getting from

paedophiles suggesting that they

remove items of clothing for

example. What you say about that?

With anything that is popular,

people will use it for the wrong

reasons, no matter what it is. The

key thing is to just keep an eye on

what your kids are doing online,

don't let them have their own

devices. Don't leave them to their

own devices. There are firewalls,

great things, in terms of YouTube

there is the kids that which is very

good at filtering content for kids.

There are lots of ways to parental

control most things, so experience

it with your kids and keep an eye on

what they are doing, basically.

And

what do you say is the good that

comes from a generally?

There are so

many good ideas coming out every

second of every day, countless hours

are uploaded, so it is just great

entertainment that is made by

ordinary people, which is awesome.

There is only one woman on the

YouTube Rich list, and she is at

number ten. Why aren't there more

successful female YouTube is?

I

personally know loads of female

YouTube, I don't see a gender gap at

all. Literally anyone can do it. In

terms of the list, I think six out

of ten of them are gamers which

generally has higher views, because

they can upload a few videos

everyday, and they are longer

content, as well, so they make more

money. So I guess people that... For

example Zoella, she doesn't upload

so often, so it doesn't generate the

income.

She was criticised for

selling an advent calendar for £50,

criticised by her fans. You have to

be aware of that stuff when you are

selling merchandise?

You do have to

be careful, that comes back to what

you are talking about before about

making sure you have thought

everything through very carefully.

If someone is making a decision on

your behalf, make sure you trust

them and you have everything in

place, that you are confident that

everything you put out there with

your name attached to it is what you

believe in.

Are you going to be doing this when

you are 50, eating funny flavour

jellybeans?

We will see!

Thank you for coming on the

programme. We will bring you the

latest news and sport at ten, but

before that the weather with Simon.

Bottom Yesterday morning,

temperatures were low. Now, this

morning, temperatures have been

much, much higher. Much less cold

this morning. Temperatures about two

to five Celsius. We have got snow

around, but I suspect that snow is

becoming slushy, thinner and this

snowman, a sorry state of affairs.

Look at the carrot that's fallen off

there. There is still some wintry

stuff in the forecast over the next

few days. For the moment we have got

rain and showers moving south and

east ward across many parts of the

UK, but further north, there will be

sunshine, there will be showers and

those showers will be of snow over

the higher ground, but into the

evening, the snow showers could come

down to lower levels. One or two

showers into northern England, but

it is a drier afternoon across

northern England, Wales, the

Midlands and south-west England

compared to this morning. A few

showers dotted around the coast and

a blustery wind coming in from the

west, but there is sunshine.

a blustery wind coming in from the

west, but there is sunshine. The

South East will remain cloudy and

wet into this afternoon.

Temperatures around about eight to

ten Celsius. For Northern Ireland,

similar to Scotland really with

wintry showers moving in. Through

this evening, keeping a close eye on

the situation for Wales and northern

England and snow here, that could

come down to low levels.

A few of the showers continuing in

the north and the west overnight

tonight, but again, with a fair

amount of cloud around, it won't be

as cold as it was on Monday night

into Tuesday. Temperatures staying

above freezing. Through Thursday,

some sunshine, but some showers

around south-west England, Wales,

northern England, south-west

Scotland. With that, we will see

some of that falling to snow over

the higher ground. Temperatures down

a touch compared to today, about one

to three Celsius in northern areas

and four to sex Celsius further

south and on Thursday, this weather

front moves southward and you notice

that the white lines, north to

south, so track them, back to where

they come from, and then we have to

go to the Arctic again. So, as we go

into Friday and in the end of the

week, this colder air, this Arctic

air will dig southward across many

areas.

And that will bring the threat of

snow showers particularly on Friday

in northern and eastern parts of the

UK, but rain for most of us on

Friday. A dry day with sunshine, but

with the northerly wind you will

probably feel the difference in the

temperatures, but there will be a

wind-chill. That's it from me.

Bye-bye.

Cheers, Simon, thank you very much.

Hello.

It's Wednesday, it's ten o'clock,

I'm Victoria Derbyshire.

A baby who was born with her heart

on the outside of her body has it

had put back into her chest. Baby

Vanellope has under gone three

operations at hospital. Her mother

told us that doctors warned her that

the baby may not survive.

There was a very, very slim chance

that she would not survive at all.

Either she would die in the womb or

when she was born, through delivery,

she wouldn't survive.

The little baby is doing well. You

can watch the interview on our

programme page.

Voters in Alabama have delivered

a blow to President Trump

and his Republican party,

electing a Democrat, Doug Jones,

as their new senator.

They rejected Mr Trump's choice

of candidate, Roy Moore,

who faced allegations

of sexual misconduct.

And you have all heard me say this

at one point other another in this

campaign. I have always believed

that the people of Alabama have more

in common than divide us.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

We will be speaking to Democrat and

Republican voters and find out why

this is such an important moment in

American politics.

His videos have been

seen ten billion times.

He's taken his live show around

the world, selling over a quarter

of a million tickets.

He's 26.

He's the world's richest YouTuber.

He told us he has had to become

business savvy too.

I had to

negotiate deals and yeah, I guess

there is that part of business when

you start branching further than

just making the videos.

Good morning.

Here's Annita in the BBC Newsroom

with a summary of today's news.

In a major political upset

in America, Doug Jones has become

the first Democrat in 25 years

to win a US Senate seat for Alabama.

It follows a bitter campaign

against Republican Roy Moore,

who has so far refused

to concede the result.

President Donald Trump congratulated

Doug Jones on a hard fought victory.

A baby girl, born with her heart

outside her body, has survived

in what's thought to be a first

in the UK.

Vanellope Hope Wilkins,

who is three weeks old,

has undergone three operations

at Glenfield Hospital,

in Leicester, to place her heart

back within her chest.

The condition, ectopia cordis,

is extremely rare, with only a few

cases per million births.

Her parents say she was a fighter

from the moment she was born.

She actually came out, covering her

own heart. It's like she had her

hand over her own heart protecting

it and came out kicking and

screaming she did.

And it was a real sense of relief. I

think that then is when we actually

decided it was all right to breathe

for ourselves now if you know what I

mean? It was an absolute miracle and

it was alreal pleasure to see that

miracle being born.

Two people have been

charged with murder,

over the deaths of three children

in a house fire

in Walkden on Monday.

14-year-old Demi Pearson,

eight-year-old Brandon

and seven-year-old Lacie died

in the house fire.

Their mother and three-year-old

sister remain in hospital.

Two 16-year-old boys were able

to escape the property.

A man and women in their 20s

from Worsley have been remanded

in custody and will appear before

Salford Magistrates'

Court later today.

Unemployment has fallen

by 26,000 between August

and October to 1.43 million,

official figures show.

The jobless rate remained at 4.3%.

Wage growth is behind inflation. The

Office for National Statistics said

average weekly wages rose by 2.3%.