:00:00. > :00:07.The EU will seek a balanced deal for Britain after Brexit says
:00:08. > :00:15.Jean Claude Juncker says he'll try to ensure a good deal -
:00:16. > :00:17.but Malta's Prime Minister says it shouldn't be better
:00:18. > :00:29.We want a fair deal for the United Kingdom. That deal necessarily needs
:00:30. > :00:46.to be inferior to membership. Here, Theresa May Defensor Brexit
:00:47. > :00:49.plan to MPs, but is accused of bypassing Parliament over any
:00:50. > :00:51.eventual deal. We will have the latest from Westminster and
:00:52. > :00:54.Brussels. Also on the programme
:00:55. > :00:55.this lunchtime... Thousands of British tourists
:00:56. > :00:58.are being flown out of the Gambia after a state of emergency
:00:59. > :01:00.was declared there. Unemployment falls to its lowest
:01:01. > :01:03.level for more than a decade - with 1.6 million people now
:01:04. > :01:05.out of work. And shock at the Australian Open
:01:06. > :01:08.as Britain's Dan Evans pulls off the best win of his career,
:01:09. > :01:13.beating seventh seed, Marin Cilic. And coming up in sport come's Ryder
:01:14. > :01:16.Cup captain Thomas Bjorn gets an extra world card -- wild card choice
:01:17. > :01:25.in a revamped accommodation for next year.
:01:26. > :01:32.-- revamped competition for next year.
:01:33. > :01:35.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:36. > :01:39.The President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has
:01:40. > :01:42.told the European Parliament that he will do everything he can
:01:43. > :01:44.to ensure that the negotiations over Britain's exit
:01:45. > :01:47.from the European Union end in "a good result" for all concerned.
:01:48. > :01:49.But he also admitted the negotiations would be "very,
:01:50. > :01:59.Our Europe correspondent Gavin Lee reports.
:02:00. > :02:06.A clear view from Westminster, cold comfort to EU officials meeting in
:02:07. > :02:13.Strasbourg's European Parliament today. A sad, surrealist state of
:02:14. > :02:18.affairs, that was the brief tweet from Donald Tusk, and when the
:02:19. > :02:23.sudden clarity was welcomed here, seven months after the Brexit vote,
:02:24. > :02:26.the verdict from Joseph Muscutt, the Maltese president, is that he will
:02:27. > :02:30.work to make sure that Britain doesn't get a better EU trade deal
:02:31. > :02:37.than what is already available. This is not a happy event for us. We want
:02:38. > :02:47.a fair deal for the United Kingdom, but that deal necessarily needs to
:02:48. > :02:54.be inferior than membership. This should not come as a surprise to
:02:55. > :02:57.anyone. TRANSLATION: Over the last years, I have been sorry to see that
:02:58. > :03:04.solidarity was not always forthcoming. And I deplore the fact
:03:05. > :03:12.that for the first time in the history of Europe, some countries
:03:13. > :03:18.have not applied the decisions taken in an area as sensitive as asylum,
:03:19. > :03:23.although significant progress has been made in other places. There was
:03:24. > :03:27.reason for optimism elsewhere. Hungary's Foreign Minister called
:03:28. > :03:30.for the widest possible trade deal, warning of the risk of making Europe
:03:31. > :03:36.less competitive if forcing Britain to make quick trade deals elsewhere.
:03:37. > :03:39.The clarity of Theresa May's message has brought more questions, and the
:03:40. > :03:44.scepticism across Europe about whether a clean break from the EU is
:03:45. > :03:47.possible. There are less than ten weeks to go until Article 50 is
:03:48. > :03:51.triggered, and with what Theresa May has now clearly set out, negotiators
:03:52. > :03:53.on both sides will beginning to starting to formulate their opening
:03:54. > :03:55.positions. Theresa May has been
:03:56. > :03:57.defending her plans for the UK During Prime Minister's Questions,
:03:58. > :04:02.she told MPs that she wanted to put the divisions over Brexit
:04:03. > :04:06.in the past, and work for an "outward-looking, prosperous,
:04:07. > :04:08.tolerant and independent" Britain. But she was critisised by the Labour
:04:09. > :04:10.leader, Jeremy Corbyn, for not giving MPs a proper
:04:11. > :04:15.opportunity to scrutinise the deal. Here's our political
:04:16. > :04:26.correspondent, Iain Watson. If newspapers had a vote, Theresa
:04:27. > :04:31.May would be guaranteed a landslide election victory. But there was a
:04:32. > :04:34.less dashing response when she faced MPs for the first time since her
:04:35. > :04:39.speech. The Labour leader said she should have delivered it here, in
:04:40. > :04:47.Parliament. Restoring Parliamentary democracy whilst sidelining
:04:48. > :04:53.Parliament. Mr Speaker, it's not so much the Iron Lady, as the irony
:04:54. > :04:58.lady. Jeremy Corbyn did not just attack the venue for the speech, but
:04:59. > :05:01.the content, particularly the Prime Minister's warning that Britain can
:05:02. > :05:07.become a low tax, low regulation economy if she failed to get a good
:05:08. > :05:11.deal. Can I urge her to stop her threats of a bargain basement
:05:12. > :05:15.Brexit? The Prime Minister quoted Jeremy Corbyn herself to argue that
:05:16. > :05:20.Labour had no Brexit plan of their own. She has said leave the single
:05:21. > :05:23.market then at the same time so she wants to have access to the single
:05:24. > :05:28.market. I'm not quite sure how that's going to go down in Europe. I
:05:29. > :05:37.think we have to have a deal that ensures we have access to the
:05:38. > :05:43.market. LAUGHTER I've got a plan, he doesn't have a
:05:44. > :05:48.clue. One of her own MPs urged her to debate each part of her plan here
:05:49. > :05:52.in the House of Commons. Would she consider at least publishing all of
:05:53. > :05:57.those 12 objectives in a White Paper, so that we can debate them
:05:58. > :06:02.here in this place on behalf of all our constituents? What we usually
:06:03. > :06:05.see at Prime Minister's Questions as the opposition attacking the
:06:06. > :06:09.government, and the government responding, but Brexit cuts through
:06:10. > :06:15.party lines and party loyalties, so there are some conservatives who are
:06:16. > :06:18.worried that Theresa May's decision to come out of the single market,
:06:19. > :06:22.and within the Labour Party some of Jeremy Corbyn's own backbenchers
:06:23. > :06:25.thinks he is not taking a strong enough stance and opposing the Prime
:06:26. > :06:29.Minister's approach. This former Shadow Chancellor said his own party
:06:30. > :06:34.leadership should have been more vocal in standing up ownership of
:06:35. > :06:36.the single market. For me, that is a pretty black-and-white issue and it
:06:37. > :06:40.is something we should call out and say it is bad for our economy, that
:06:41. > :06:44.is our GTI think as Labour the numbers of Parliament. Back in the
:06:45. > :06:49.Commons, it was argued that leaving the single market would hit jobs and
:06:50. > :06:54.incomes. Does the Prime Minister believes this is a price worth
:06:55. > :07:01.paying for her Little Britain Brexit? I repeat what I said
:07:02. > :07:05.earlier, we will be working for the best possible deal to get access to
:07:06. > :07:08.the single market. Sow divisions within the political parties were on
:07:09. > :07:11.display even before we begin the formal process of leaving the EU.
:07:12. > :07:15.Iain Watson, BBC News. In a moment, we'll talk
:07:16. > :07:17.to our assistant political editor Norman Smith in Westminster,
:07:18. > :07:24.but first our Europe correspondent A rather conciliar truth tone struck
:07:25. > :07:28.in the European Parliament, though it was made -- conciliar tree tone
:07:29. > :07:33.struck, though it was made clear that negotiations will be difficult.
:07:34. > :07:37.That's right, given that most European politicians, especially in
:07:38. > :07:42.a place like Strasbourg here, view Brexit with incompetence ability.
:07:43. > :07:47.There was no big well-prepared -- with incomprehensible at it was the
:07:48. > :07:52.we're working with a view snippet from a speech, and we are working
:07:53. > :07:54.with a view clips from a news Conference, but the tone from
:07:55. > :08:00.Jean-Claude Juncker, who is going to be a very important figure on the
:08:01. > :08:03.European side sounded pretty conciliatory. He was pleased with
:08:04. > :08:06.what he called clarifications from Theresa May, and although the talks
:08:07. > :08:09.were going to be very difficult, he was going to do his best to make
:08:10. > :08:13.sure there was a good outcome, fair for both sides. Everyone here will
:08:14. > :08:20.tell you the same thing. They can't afford to let Britain look like it
:08:21. > :08:26.is better off after leaving, so at the end of this we will be left with
:08:27. > :08:28.a semantic debate, I think, whether British negotiators and European
:08:29. > :08:32.negotiators understand the same thing when they say that a deal is
:08:33. > :08:33.fair and reasonable for both sides. That is where a lot of the talking
:08:34. > :08:36.is going to come. Our Assistant Political Editor
:08:37. > :08:43.Norman Smith is in Westminster. How much pressure is the Prime
:08:44. > :08:49.Minister and at Westminster? You would think Mrs May would be under
:08:50. > :08:53.huge pressure, that she would be really feeling the heat, because,
:08:54. > :08:58.let's be clear, she has pretty much put her head on the block with a
:08:59. > :09:02.proposed Brexit deal. More than that, she has massively ratcheted up
:09:03. > :09:09.the stakes, by suggesting will walk away from any deal if we don't like
:09:10. > :09:12.it by insisting that she wants to strike an agreement within two
:09:13. > :09:18.years, which many people think is hopelessly ambitious and
:09:19. > :09:22.unachievable, and by seeking what looks like, pretty much, a special,
:09:23. > :09:25.golden deal for Britain, where we get everything we want from the
:09:26. > :09:29.single market and the customs union, and we get rid of all the nasty
:09:30. > :09:35.things we don't like. And yet, I have to say, Theresa May was oozing
:09:36. > :09:40.confidence in the Commons today. She was on a roll, she was swatting away
:09:41. > :09:44.criticism from the Labour leader, saying I have a plan, I'm sticking
:09:45. > :09:49.to it, it's called leadership, you should try it. And I think the
:09:50. > :09:55.reason for that optimism is a view that Brussels will blink first is
:09:56. > :09:58.when it comes to Brexit, that they will not want to damage trading
:09:59. > :10:03.links with Britain, they will not want to go down the road of tariffs.
:10:04. > :10:07.Secondly, I think she knows she has to walk the walk to get her game
:10:08. > :10:11.face on, if she's going to go into these negotiations, but above all, I
:10:12. > :10:15.think she has looked at what happened to her predecessor, David
:10:16. > :10:19.Cameron, who also went to get a deal and came back with one that was
:10:20. > :10:24.widely derided, and I think she has concluded that if she is going to
:10:25. > :10:30.get a good deal, she has to be prepared to bang the negotiating
:10:31. > :10:33.table, and, if necessary, to leave the negotiating table.
:10:34. > :10:35.The Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, has said other
:10:36. > :10:38.countries are "queuing up" to sign trade deals with the UK
:10:39. > :10:44.Mr Johnson also said the UK would not be
:10:45. > :10:46."hauling up the drawbridge", despite new migration controls
:10:47. > :10:53.He was speaking as he arrived for a two-day visit to India.
:10:54. > :10:56.I think that the Prime Minister set out a very powerful,
:10:57. > :11:00.very positive vision yesterday, for how we can do a deal that
:11:01. > :11:05.will not just benefit our friends in the rest of the EU,
:11:06. > :11:08.but also drive growth in the rest of the world.
:11:09. > :11:12.And one of the points I am going to be making here in India
:11:13. > :11:15.is that we think we can do free trade deals that will be for
:11:16. > :11:18.the benefit of both our countries, both Britain and India,
:11:19. > :11:21.Our economics editor Kamal Ahmed is in Davos.
:11:22. > :11:35.I think, Sophie, of course in this situation where you have the world's
:11:36. > :11:39.fifth or sixth largest economy, depending on how you measure it, no
:11:40. > :11:43.country is going to say to and bullion Foreign Secretary, do you
:11:44. > :11:46.know what, we don't a deal with you. Of course there are some
:11:47. > :11:49.opportunities. Boris Johnson has said that we could start sketching
:11:50. > :11:54.those possibilities out. He talks about writing on the back of an
:11:55. > :11:57.envelope what kind of free trade deal we can do, which can then be
:11:58. > :12:02.put in place once we've actually left the European Union. But anyone
:12:03. > :12:06.who has done trade negotiation now is the last thing they are done is
:12:07. > :12:11.written on the back of an amber lope. I went in a few weeks ago to
:12:12. > :12:14.see some of the officials in the US Embassy, for example, the trade
:12:15. > :12:20.deals. They brought out huge legal documents about how they approach
:12:21. > :12:23.trade deals, so the notion that we can sign these trade deals quickly I
:12:24. > :12:27.think is a difficult one to prosecute. Boris Johnson is in
:12:28. > :12:32.India, for example, where there has been big clashes on immigration.
:12:33. > :12:37.India wants to have easier access to Britain, in terms of immigration
:12:38. > :12:41.into the country of skilled workers. Britain has not given that. So on
:12:42. > :12:46.all these deals, there is always tension. Britain, of course, as
:12:47. > :12:50.well, was more attractive, maybe, to some countries, because it was a
:12:51. > :12:54.gateway into the EU. That Gateway may now be closed, but we must never
:12:55. > :12:58.forget and this is where Boris Johnson does have some leveraged,
:12:59. > :13:04.Britain has a big economy, a fast-growing economy, still robust,
:13:05. > :13:10.and it is a big consumer market. So we are an attractive proposition,
:13:11. > :13:12.but free trade deals are very difficult negotiations.
:13:13. > :13:15.Thousands of British holiday-makers are being flown home from The Gambia
:13:16. > :13:16.after a state of emergency was declared there.
:13:17. > :13:19.The Foreign Office is advising people to avoid all but essential
:13:20. > :13:22.travel to the country, after its President refused
:13:23. > :13:28.to accept that he lost last month's election.
:13:29. > :13:38.It is not very good news, it is basically that we are going to
:13:39. > :13:43.evacuate everyone back home today. Today? Yes, today. It is not what
:13:44. > :13:46.they wanted to hear, tourists in the Gambia have been told it is not
:13:47. > :13:51.safer them to stay. Thomas Cook has five aircraft to bring almost a
:13:52. > :13:58.thousand of its package tourists home. For those now gathering at
:13:59. > :14:04.Banjul airport, it's been a stressful day. We just think really
:14:05. > :14:08.it is overkill and they are just trying to frighten people. To me, it
:14:09. > :14:13.feel stupid, because this will all be over within 24 and is the 48
:14:14. > :14:17.hours. Asking us to leave is unnecessary I think at the moment,
:14:18. > :14:22.but I understand that we need to do it. Tension in the Gambia has been
:14:23. > :14:27.building for weeks. Residents are fleeing the capital, as are some
:14:28. > :14:32.government ministers, as the political crisis threatens to become
:14:33. > :14:35.violent. At its centre, this man, Azzedine Yahya Jammeh, who has
:14:36. > :14:42.refused to accept the results of last month's elections and declared
:14:43. > :14:49.a state of emergency -- President Yahya Jammeh. If it is allowed to
:14:50. > :14:56.continue, it may lead to a state of public emergency. Opposition leader
:14:57. > :14:58.Adama Barrow was due to be sworn in tomorrow. A group of West African
:14:59. > :15:02.nations has threatened military action if he is not given power, so
:15:03. > :15:24.last night the British government issued this warning to tourists.
:15:25. > :15:30.The Gambia's reputation as a safe haven in the sun is now in jeopardy,
:15:31. > :15:34.with thousands of tourists queueing up to leave, and the country edging
:15:35. > :15:39.closer to instability and conflict. Richard Lister, BBC News.
:15:40. > :15:42.Unemployment has fallen to its lowest level
:15:43. > :15:46.The jobless total dropped by just over 50,000
:15:47. > :15:48.between September and November - and now stands at 1.6 million.
:15:49. > :15:51.The figures also show that average earnings were up by 2.7%
:15:52. > :15:54.But, as our economics correspondent Andy Verity reports,
:15:55. > :15:57.after years of rapid growth, the number of people in employment
:15:58. > :16:08.is no longer growing - and hasn't done since July.
:16:09. > :16:10.This farmer and food processor near King's Lynn in Norfolk supplies
:16:11. > :16:13.root vegetables like carrots to all the major food retailers
:16:14. > :16:20.It is being forced to offer higher wages to attract the people it needs
:16:21. > :16:26.to do the work, regardless of the living wage.
:16:27. > :16:29.It says that is because the supply of workers from
:16:30. > :16:32.the rest of the European Union has now gone into reverse.
:16:33. > :16:33.We are struggling to fill positions at the
:16:34. > :16:37.It is a very fluid marketplace with inflation in wages
:16:38. > :16:40.in our sector at the minute, which is being driven by some EU
:16:41. > :16:42.citizens going home and moving from the UK
:16:43. > :16:52.In the three months to the end of November, the number of
:16:53. > :16:55.unemployed people dropped by 52,000 to 1.6 million.
:16:56. > :17:00.It remains at its lowest rate in 12 years, 4.8%.
:17:01. > :17:03.The average weekly pay packet was ?477,
:17:04. > :17:10.up by ?12 compared to a year ago, or 2.7%.
:17:11. > :17:12.Businesses cannot always pass on the higher cost of labour by
:17:13. > :17:22.Simon will have to wait until he renegotiates his contract
:17:23. > :17:23.with his customers, the food companies and
:17:24. > :17:26.retailers, and they will not want big price increases.
:17:27. > :17:28.All of us are looking to try and recoup some of
:17:29. > :17:33.And I think the load has got to be shared by all and that
:17:34. > :17:35.If tighter labour markets are offering modestly
:17:36. > :17:39.paid workers the chance to bid up their wages,
:17:40. > :17:44.many economists will see that as positive.
:17:45. > :17:47.I think we are seeing quite a robust end to the UK
:17:48. > :17:49.economy, it is very consistent with all the other economic
:17:50. > :17:53.Hiring has not slowed down materially, and people are finding
:17:54. > :17:58.jobs and finding jobs actually with improved wage levels.
:17:59. > :18:01.But there has been a marked change since the
:18:02. > :18:05.For 20 years now the number of people in work in the UK
:18:06. > :18:09.In the three months to the end of November,
:18:10. > :18:13.it dipped slightly and it is now no higher than it was in July.
:18:14. > :18:20.A wheelchair user has partially won his case at the Supreme Court
:18:21. > :18:24.Doug Paulley took legal action because he couldn't board a bus
:18:25. > :18:29.in Leeds when a woman with a pram refused to move.
:18:30. > :18:31.Our disability correspondent Nikki Fox reports.
:18:32. > :18:34.As he makes his way to the Supreme Court on one
:18:35. > :18:36.of the most important days of his life, Doug Paulley
:18:37. > :18:39.is about to find out whether his nearly five-year legal
:18:40. > :18:42.battle will end in victory for all disabled people who need
:18:43. > :18:52.This all began back in 2012 when Doug was unable to catch a bus
:18:53. > :18:54.because the space for wheelchairs was occupied by a mum
:18:55. > :18:58.She refused to move, which meant that Doug could not get on.
:18:59. > :19:01.Inside court, all seven judges unanimously agreed that
:19:02. > :19:05.First Group's policy of requesting and not requiring a person to vacate
:19:06. > :19:13.As it does not go as far as insisting someone
:19:14. > :19:18.I feel like it will create a cultural shift and that is
:19:19. > :19:23.So people will be aware of the fact that the wheelchair area
:19:24. > :19:27.is for wheelchair users and that they should take priority.
:19:28. > :19:31.The impact of today's judgment will still have wider implications.
:19:32. > :19:37.For example, any service provider with a space for disabled people
:19:38. > :19:40.will not just have to request that a non-disabled person move,
:19:41. > :19:45.For example, a bus driver may refuse to move from a bus stop in order
:19:46. > :19:52.First Group admit they may have to amend the training
:19:53. > :19:55.they provide their bus drivers following the verdict today.
:19:56. > :19:57.We really welcome the fact that the court has confirmed that
:19:58. > :20:00.a driver is not required to remove a passenger from a bus
:20:01. > :20:02.if they are refusing to move from this space.
:20:03. > :20:06.That is really important for drivers to have that clarity.
:20:07. > :20:08.I'm really happy with today's ruling.
:20:09. > :20:11.It's great that after five years of fighting and campaigning
:20:12. > :20:15.by so many people, that we have got a ruling that says that disabled
:20:16. > :20:19.people to have the right to catch a bus and that the bus company must
:20:20. > :20:24.make all reasonable efforts to make that possible.
:20:25. > :20:27.Today's Supreme Court ruling is not clear-cut but it does pave the way
:20:28. > :20:30.for a closer look at legislation when it comes to prioritising access
:20:31. > :20:49.The EU will seek a balanced deal for Britain after Brexit says
:20:50. > :20:52.the head of the European commission - but any deal has to
:20:53. > :20:54.be "inferior" to full membership of the EU.
:20:55. > :21:05.Our American road trip has become a river trip today. Donald Trump says
:21:06. > :21:07.he wants to get the country moving again but how is he going to do that
:21:08. > :21:10.and how can he afford it. Dan Evans earns the biggest win
:21:11. > :21:15.of his career, stunning 7th seed Marin Cilic in the second
:21:16. > :21:17.round of the Australian During the US election campaign
:21:18. > :21:30.Donald Trump pledged to make America great again,
:21:31. > :21:32.but as he prepares to take office In the week that Donald Trump
:21:33. > :21:38.will be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States,
:21:39. > :21:43.Jon Kay is on a road trip through the heart of America
:21:44. > :21:45.on 'Route 45' to find out how Americans are feeling about Trump's
:21:46. > :21:48.presidency and whether he can deliver what he's pledged to when it
:21:49. > :21:52.comes to rebuilding America. Today as he continues
:21:53. > :21:54.on his journey south - If you want to understand
:21:55. > :22:05.Donald Trump's election win, Next to Route 45, the Ohio River
:22:06. > :22:17.meets the Mississippi. It's an essential artery for the US
:22:18. > :22:22.economy, carrying 18 million tons But things aren't
:22:23. > :22:31.what they used to be. The locks which boats pass
:22:32. > :22:36.through here have seen better days. Nearly 100 years old,
:22:37. > :22:39.they regularly break down, A boat could be waiting out for 52
:22:40. > :22:52.hours before coming through? Mark, the lock keeper,
:22:53. > :22:55.says it's a struggle The concrete is starting
:22:56. > :22:58.to break up and crumble. Every time it gets hit
:22:59. > :23:01.by a boat as it lands on it, it puts pressure on it and causes
:23:02. > :23:05.more cracks and more stress on it, we patch it together
:23:06. > :23:08.and try and keep it going, Donald Trump has pledged $1 trillion
:23:09. > :23:16.to rebuild America's rivers, A promise that's won him plenty
:23:17. > :23:22.of support round here. But he hasn't said where
:23:23. > :23:28.the money will come from. We drive on, into
:23:29. > :23:32.America's rural South. There are two million
:23:33. > :23:36.farms in this country. Will a property developer president
:23:37. > :23:46.understand this business? At the University of Tennessee,
:23:47. > :23:49.students are learning how to weigh Stick it in, press it
:23:50. > :23:58.forward, pull it out. There are going to be some are gonna
:23:59. > :24:02.be more willing to go forward Donald Trump won nearly 80%
:24:03. > :24:10.of the vote in the Martin area. They like his confidence and in turn
:24:11. > :24:17.they have confidence in him. He might have a few mess-ups
:24:18. > :24:20.on the way, but eventually But is farming compatible
:24:21. > :24:26.with Trump's plans for building? What about the land,
:24:27. > :24:30.the environment? Donald Trump is a man
:24:31. > :24:33.you associate with skyscrapers and New York City, not with farming
:24:34. > :24:36.and places like this. Do you think he understands
:24:37. > :24:40.you and what you want to do? I think he's going to help the small
:24:41. > :24:43.town people also out. I don't think he's just
:24:44. > :24:46.going to be the big city man What about farming, does
:24:47. > :24:52.he understand farming? Not as well as some
:24:53. > :24:56.agriculture people. Whether it's agriculture
:24:57. > :24:59.or infrastructure, in these communities away from Washington,
:25:00. > :25:01.many feel Trump will be a president Someone not just following
:25:02. > :25:22.the political herd. And we continued the road trip
:25:23. > :25:23.tomorrow, continuing south to Mississippi.
:25:24. > :25:25.Latest figures show Accident and Emergency departments
:25:26. > :25:27.in Wales have again failed to meet their targets
:25:28. > :25:30.Meanwhile, the Chief Inspector of Hospitals in England has
:25:31. > :25:32.warned that patient safety is being compromised
:25:33. > :25:40.Our health editor, Hugh Pym, is with me.
:25:41. > :25:47.The system in Wales is under a lot of pressure. All reminders about
:25:48. > :25:55.pressure right across the system across the UK. Today we have figures
:25:56. > :25:58.from December in Wales, and the key for hours percentage of patients
:25:59. > :26:03.treated or assessed should be 95% but in December it was 81%, well
:26:04. > :26:09.short of that. No other part of the UK it has to be said is hitting 95%
:26:10. > :26:12.of England and Scotland are ahead, Northern Ireland is behind Wales. We
:26:13. > :26:16.also learned from Wales that possible chiefs are saying in
:26:17. > :26:22.December of those admitted to A 20% of patients were over the age of
:26:23. > :26:26.85. That was double normal levels. Another indication of the kind of
:26:27. > :26:34.pressure that the NHS is facing. There has been a high-level warning
:26:35. > :26:38.that the NHS needs more money. So Mike Richards 's chief inspector of
:26:39. > :26:41.hospitals in England at the Care Quality Commission. So not just a
:26:42. > :26:45.warning from another think tank, this is a regulator saying because
:26:46. > :26:49.of the strain on the NHS he is concerned about patient safety and
:26:50. > :26:51.thinks that more money will be required. This is what he had to
:26:52. > :26:53.say. I believe the government will need
:26:54. > :26:56.to put more money into the NHS, but if it does, and when it does,
:26:57. > :26:59.I think it's very important I think we need to transform
:27:00. > :27:04.the NHS, we need to have much greater integration between GPs,
:27:05. > :27:05.primary care, care homes and hospitals,
:27:06. > :27:10.and that is beginning to emerge. And those new models of care
:27:11. > :27:26.will are important and can deliver Now the government says it has given
:27:27. > :27:29.the NHS in England the money requires, although that is
:27:30. > :27:32.contested. The government also says it is pushing for further
:27:33. > :27:36.integration but I think this warning from a very senior player in the
:27:37. > :27:41.world of health, that more needs to be done is quite significant. Given
:27:42. > :27:44.how volatile the debate is about the NHS generally.
:27:45. > :27:47.Police say that there are now more than 1000 cases of alleged
:27:48. > :27:49.historical child sexual abuse in football
:27:50. > :27:51.The figures come from the National Police Chiefs' Council.
:27:52. > :27:53.They say the estimated number of victims now stands
:27:54. > :28:01.And almost 200 potential suspects have been identified.
:28:02. > :28:03.The Mobile operator EE has been fined ?2.7 million
:28:04. > :28:07.for overcharging tens of thousands of customers.
:28:08. > :28:10.The penalty was imposed by telecoms regulator Ofcom -
:28:11. > :28:14.after an investigation found that the UK's biggest mobile network
:28:15. > :28:17.overcharged customers using the '150' customer services
:28:18. > :28:20.number within the EU and billed them even
:28:21. > :28:25.EE has apologised and says it has put measures in place to prevent
:28:26. > :28:32.Britain's Dan Evan has pulled off the best win of his career
:28:33. > :28:35.at the Australian open as he knocked out the number 7 seed Marin Cilic
:28:36. > :28:40.Less of a surprise was Andy Murray's easy victory over
:28:41. > :28:42.Russia's Andrey Rublev which takes him through
:28:43. > :28:55.Dan Evans is no stranger to winning against the odds. On the verge of
:28:56. > :28:59.quitting tennis a couple of years ago he has now beaten to the top ten
:29:00. > :29:04.players in the world in the last couple of weeks. Today's big scalp,
:29:05. > :29:10.Marin Cilic, who looked too much for Dan Evans in the first set. He won
:29:11. > :29:13.it 6-3 as Evan struggled with the sinking sun. As the shadows
:29:14. > :29:19.lengthened Evans came to die. Breaking the Cilic serve to take the
:29:20. > :29:25.second set. And belief blossoming in the darkness, he dominated the third
:29:26. > :29:32.as well. The fourth set turned into a battle but Evans was edging it.
:29:33. > :29:37.And Cilic was struggling to keep up. With a wicked Cilic seven, Evans
:29:38. > :29:42.took his chance. And what to do after the biggest Grand Slam winner
:29:43. > :29:45.of your career, get straight on the phone, of course. With seven
:29:46. > :29:48.through, Andy Murray was just getting started, he beat Russian
:29:49. > :29:53.teenager Andrey Rublev in straight sets but the whack -- the match was
:29:54. > :29:59.not without drama. For a time it looked like the world number one's
:30:00. > :30:02.Melbourne chances were gone. Andy Murray has an appointment with an
:30:03. > :30:08.ice pack but Dan Evans is unlikely to be feeling any of his aches and
:30:09. > :30:11.pains tonight. Not a bad day of work for a player once described as the
:30:12. > :30:18.most wasted talent in British tennis. A train from China has big
:30:19. > :30:24.campus first ever to make the journey across Asia and Europe and
:30:25. > :30:29.arrived in the UK. The engine took 80 days to make the trip to the UK,
:30:30. > :30:32.half the time of the equivalent journey by sea. They travelled
:30:33. > :30:33.through Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus before heading to the
:30:34. > :30:44.Channel Tunnel. At this time of the year a place in
:30:45. > :30:52.the sun might hold some appeal. Or maybe not. This is the scene from
:30:53. > :30:56.just outside Benidorm. And that train journey would have been
:30:57. > :31:01.conducted across a pretty cold Europe at the moment. Some of that
:31:02. > :31:07.cold air has made its way into the south-east. So you get a glorious
:31:08. > :31:12.start the day if frosty. -7 overnight in some places in Kent.
:31:13. > :31:17.And about 8 degrees on the other hand across many parts of northern
:31:18. > :31:22.Scotland thanks to low from the Atlantic for the high pressure still
:31:23. > :31:25.dominant, fairly settled but quite a variety. And we keep that team going
:31:26. > :31:31.over the next couple of hours. If you are thinking about the school
:31:32. > :31:38.run or a dog walk, some rain around across the Northern Isles. Coming
:31:39. > :31:48.down to be weather front then it is pretty miserable, quite murky across
:31:49. > :31:52.the West Midlands. The best of the guaranteed sunshine perhaps that the
:31:53. > :31:55.southern counties of England and perhaps just creeping into parts of
:31:56. > :32:03.Wales. But not doing much for those temperatures, stuck around four or 5
:32:04. > :32:06.degrees. And as soon as the sun goes down, the temperatures will again
:32:07. > :32:14.fall away. Not so much where you keep that cloud. Somewhere in the
:32:15. > :32:19.south again looking at around minus four degrees. So here we go again on
:32:20. > :32:23.Thursday, something of a repeat performance with the best of the
:32:24. > :32:27.Sunshine across southern counties. Some gaps further north are
:32:28. > :32:32.possible. But again the temperature is nothing to write home about
:32:33. > :32:37.despite what you see the sunshine. Five, six, 7 degrees. And the
:32:38. > :32:43.weather pretty much the same on Friday. There is a general evening
:32:44. > :32:48.out of those temperatures. And here's the thing, getting into the
:32:49. > :32:52.weekend high pressure is still the dominant feature. But if it looks
:32:53. > :32:56.threatening in the Atlantic do not worry, high pressure will be
:32:57. > :33:02.dominant on Saturday and on through the weekend which will be mainly dry
:33:03. > :33:06.with some sunshine. If you want to get involved with Weather Watchers,
:33:07. > :33:09.those are the details. A reminder of our main
:33:10. > :33:11.story this lunchtime. The EU will seek a balanced deal
:33:12. > :33:14.for Britain after Brexit says the head of the European commission
:33:15. > :33:19.- but any deal has to be "inferior" That's all from the BBC News at One
:33:20. > :33:23.- so it's goodbye from me -