:00:00. > :00:08.Record numbers of patients spent more than four hours waiting in A
:00:09. > :00:14.And figures leaked to the BBC suggest January's figures
:00:15. > :00:19.Which would make it the worst performing month for 13 years.
:00:20. > :00:22.We'll ask our Health Editor what the figures mean for patients.
:00:23. > :00:26.Anger at the Government's decision to close a scheme which allows
:00:27. > :00:32.unaccompanied child refugees into the UK.
:00:33. > :00:38.Don't block Brexit - the warning to the House of Lords
:00:39. > :00:41.after the Government's Bill gets strong backing in the Commons.
:00:42. > :00:45.The new law which critics say DOESN'T protect tenants
:00:46. > :00:48.The Australian man who survived spending hours struggling
:00:49. > :00:50.to keep his nose above water after his excavator
:00:51. > :00:57.And coming up in the sport on BBC News: Flanker Jack Clifford
:00:58. > :01:00.will make just his second start for England in their Six Nations
:01:01. > :01:22.Jack Nowell also comes in on the wing.
:01:23. > :01:28.Good afternoon, and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:29. > :01:31.Record numbers of patients spent more than four hours in accident
:01:32. > :01:33.and emergency units in England in December - that's according
:01:34. > :01:36.to the OFFICIAL figures - and according to data leaked
:01:37. > :01:39.to the BBC - January is set to be even worse.
:01:40. > :01:42.These figures suggest record numbers of people waited longer than 12
:01:43. > :01:47.hours for a hospital bed once seen in A, making January the worst
:01:48. > :01:50.performing month for A departments in the past 13 years.
:01:51. > :01:57.says the vast majority of patients were seen and treated quickly,
:01:58. > :01:59.and busy periods in hospitals were supported by an extra
:02:00. > :02:06.Our Health Correspondent Dominic Hughes reports.
:02:07. > :02:08.For months now, accident and emergency departments across England
:02:09. > :02:13.Last week, the BBC was given exclusive access to the Royal
:02:14. > :02:15.Blackburn Hospital, where the pressure
:02:16. > :02:23.It's just like banging your head against a brick wall.
:02:24. > :02:26.I feel as though I'm going to collapse if I don't get to lie down.
:02:27. > :02:36.Queueing for five hours in a corridor.
:02:37. > :02:39.It's not what you expect from a country like ours, is it?
:02:40. > :02:44.More patients and a shortage of beds mean longer waits,
:02:45. > :02:48.and official figures from NHS England, published this morning,
:02:49. > :02:51.show that December was the worst month on record for waiting
:02:52. > :02:57.The pressure this winter is greater than it's ever been.
:02:58. > :03:00.It has been a steep climb this year but the thing that has changed
:03:01. > :03:04.the most has been not the 2% or 3% increase in demand,
:03:05. > :03:07.but it's the 40% increase in the delays in moving patients,
:03:08. > :03:14.helping them get back home and into the community.
:03:15. > :03:16.Now new, provisional data for January, leaked to the BBC,
:03:17. > :03:18.suggests that picture has got even worse.
:03:19. > :03:21.This data appears to show that, last month, just 82%
:03:22. > :03:26.of patients were transferred, admitted or discharged within four
:03:27. > :03:28.hours, the worst performance since the target of 95%
:03:29. > :03:37.780 patients waited for more than 12 hours for a bed
:03:38. > :03:44.after being admitted to hospital - again, the worst figures on record.
:03:45. > :03:48.And more than 60,000 patients faced a wait of between four and 12 hours,
:03:49. > :03:56.The NHS in Scotland is coping better, but performances in Wales
:03:57. > :03:58.and Northern Ireland is even worse than in England, symptoms
:03:59. > :04:00.of the pressures building right across the health
:04:01. > :04:06.We don't have the resources to match it but, even worse than that,
:04:07. > :04:16.many of these figures reflect patients who are not coming
:04:17. > :04:18.in with something relatively minor but needing sorting out and then
:04:19. > :04:21.It reflects the experience of people coming in needing
:04:22. > :04:25.Every patient stacked on a trolley in a corridor,
:04:26. > :04:28.not getting to the ward they need to be in, not getting
:04:29. > :04:30.the treatment they need is, for any of us, an individual
:04:31. > :04:34.NHS sources acknowledge the system is facing unprecedented demand.
:04:35. > :04:42.These latest figures suggest there is little sign of a respite.
:04:43. > :04:47.Our Health Editor Hugh Pym is with me now.
:04:48. > :04:54.These figures are for England, our reporter suggested there was more
:04:55. > :05:04.pressure across the UK. That's right, the number of patients
:05:05. > :05:09.treated outside the four hour limit was aged 2%, the worst figures and
:05:10. > :05:15.in Scotland and was higher, 96.2%, Wales, lower, Northern Ireland just
:05:16. > :05:19.below 70%, the same pressures everywhere although different parts
:05:20. > :05:24.of the UK reacting in slightly different ways. Let me quote yet
:05:25. > :05:28.another statistic. Almost 500,000 emergency admissions to hospitals in
:05:29. > :05:34.England in December, another record high, that is what NHS England is
:05:35. > :05:37.pointing to, the sheer volume of patients coming in is higher than
:05:38. > :05:41.anything seen before and they think staff are working very hard and
:05:42. > :05:46.coping incredibly well in the circumstances. Yet for patients
:05:47. > :05:50.there's more waiting longer than four hours on trolleys after a
:05:51. > :05:55.decision has been made to admit them to hospital but to find them a bed.
:05:56. > :05:58.That's what we've been hearing this week on BBC News, some really
:05:59. > :06:02.difficult stories and hospitals about what is happening to patients,
:06:03. > :06:06.what they are going through and have frustrated the staff are. And these
:06:07. > :06:10.are just the December figures, as the leaked to the BBC suggests, the
:06:11. > :06:15.provisional generally figures are even worse and of course winter
:06:16. > :06:17.still isn't true. Hugh, thank you very much.
:06:18. > :06:20.We'll be looking at the state of health services in the UK
:06:21. > :06:22.all this week for the BBC's NHS Health Check.
:06:23. > :06:27.You can follow the coverage online too, at bbc.co.uk/health.
:06:28. > :06:30.The Home Secretary has defended a decision which means that a key
:06:31. > :06:33.route into the UK for children caught up in Europe's migrant
:06:34. > :06:36.crisis is to close after a total of 350 arrivals.
:06:37. > :06:38.The government says it will stop receiving children via the so-called
:06:39. > :06:48.Lord Dubs, who aimed to help thousand of children get to the UK,
:06:49. > :06:51.A legal challenge to the decision will go ahead tomorrow.
:06:52. > :07:00.They may not make as many headlines but these children of Europe's
:07:01. > :07:05.migrant crisis have not gone away. Refugees are still on the move,
:07:06. > :07:10.still searching for a new home, and around 90,000 of them are youngsters
:07:11. > :07:16.with no family. Under pressure from the UK to do more, David Cameron
:07:17. > :07:20.promised to bring some of them here. Campaigners hoped 3000 would benefit
:07:21. > :07:26.but the government has announced the scheme will end, having re-homed
:07:27. > :07:32.350. That has angered some people including MPs. They are heading back
:07:33. > :07:38.to Calais, back to Dunkirk, back to the mud, the danger, back into the
:07:39. > :07:40.arms of the people traffickers and smugglers, the exploitation, abuse,
:07:41. > :07:43.prostitution rings and back into the modern slavery that this parliament
:07:44. > :07:57.and this government has pledged to end.
:07:58. > :07:59.We have a different approach to wear those most vulnerable are. We
:08:00. > :08:02.believe that they are in the region, that is why we have pledged to
:08:03. > :08:05.accept 3000 children from the region and we are committed to delivering
:08:06. > :08:08.on that. Well, I'm a refugee. I came to England at the age of six. Lord
:08:09. > :08:10.Dubs, the Labour peer who designed the programme. Having been rescued
:08:11. > :08:16.from Nazi Germany he knows what it means to be a refugee. And very
:08:17. > :08:21.disappointed. I was in Greece a month ago, desperate conditions in
:08:22. > :08:25.the refugee camps, a lot of children, some unaccompanied,
:08:26. > :08:31.bitterly cold and miserable. We owe it to them. The first young refugees
:08:32. > :08:36.arrived last October, 200 have been re-homed so far, another 150 will
:08:37. > :08:39.come before the end of next month. News that more will not follow has
:08:40. > :08:42.been described as a betrayal of vulnerable children like these and
:08:43. > :08:45.of British trolleys. The Home Secretary said there was a risk of
:08:46. > :08:49.encouraging people traffickers, she has restated the government 's
:08:50. > :08:53.commitment to other schemes, bringing thousands of refugees to
:08:54. > :09:01.the UK directly from camps in the Middle East. Dan Johnson, BBC News.
:09:02. > :09:05.We can speak to our political editor, Norman Smith, how much anger
:09:06. > :09:12.is there about this? Genuine anger, it's such an emotive issue. That
:09:13. > :09:16.said, I don't detect any sign of a government rethink. Home Secretary
:09:17. > :09:19.must seemed to be revelling in her defiance and bullish approach,
:09:20. > :09:23.chiding crickets for adopting a high-handed approach and a high
:09:24. > :09:28.moral tone. She said Britain could be proud of its records -- chiding
:09:29. > :09:33.critics. She said we had fulfilled our obligations. As the details, she
:09:34. > :09:36.argued that most local authorities didn't have the blazers to take in
:09:37. > :09:40.refugees, the French authorities were not enthusiastic about the
:09:41. > :09:43.scheme and if we kept on with it that would simply encourage people
:09:44. > :09:47.traffickers to bring more children into Europe. All of which said, I
:09:48. > :09:52.think many MPs are generally scratching their heads as to why the
:09:53. > :10:23.government has decided to wrap up this scheme. It has only been
:10:24. > :10:26.running six months, and these schemes take time to bed down, for
:10:27. > :10:28.local authorities to get the appropriate procedures in place.
:10:29. > :10:31.It's also only taken in what, 350 children, much less than many had
:10:32. > :10:33.expected. There's also a feel about the sort of image, the sort of
:10:34. > :10:36.message it sends out about Britain, particularly in a post-Brexit world
:10:37. > :10:38.when we want to show that we are opening, welcoming, confident and
:10:39. > :10:41.tolerant. Is it a done deal? Perhaps not. Much will depend on how the
:10:42. > :10:44.public and the media react and there will also be a legal challenge so
:10:45. > :10:44.this might not be quite over yet. Norman, thank you.
:10:45. > :10:47.Downing Street has played down suggestions that the House of Lords
:10:48. > :10:49.could be abolished if it doesn't back legislation triggering
:10:50. > :10:53.A Government source had warned it would face "an overwhelming public
:10:54. > :10:56.call to be abolished" if it tried to oppose the bill -
:10:57. > :10:58.Our political correspondent Carole Walker reports.
:10:59. > :11:08.The ayes to the right, 494. The noes to the left, 122. A resounding
:11:09. > :11:13.victory for the government as MPs voted overwhelmingly for it to begin
:11:14. > :11:21.the formal Brexit negotiations. Scottish National MPs struck a
:11:22. > :11:26.defiant note, singing the EU anthem, Old To Joy. But the bill now passes
:11:27. > :11:29.unscathed to the House of Lords. Downing Street has played down an
:11:30. > :11:32.earlier suggestion there could be calls for the abolition of the House
:11:33. > :11:37.of Lords of peers try to frustrate the legislation. Yet they face some
:11:38. > :11:41.tough warnings. The message of the British people was clear, and
:11:42. > :11:46.ambiguous, they want to leave the EU and they want us to get on with it.
:11:47. > :11:50.If the House of Lords, who are not elected, try to subvert or distort
:11:51. > :11:54.the outcome of that referendum, I think that will put them in
:11:55. > :12:01.constitutionally a very difficult place. But ministers accept that the
:12:02. > :12:05.Lords do have a role to play and opposition peers have said they will
:12:06. > :12:09.try to make changes to the bill. We've always been clear we will not
:12:10. > :12:14.block, but we will not be intimidated into not debating, and
:12:15. > :12:19.looking at it in the normal way as we do every other bill. Last night's
:12:20. > :12:23.vote exposed the deep divisions in the Labour Party. More than 50
:12:24. > :12:28.Labour MPs defied the instructions of their leader and voted against
:12:29. > :12:31.the bill. Jeremy Corbyn now has to replace four Shadow Cabinet
:12:32. > :12:35.ministers who have resigned and decide what, if any, action to take
:12:36. > :12:40.against more than a dozen junior shadow ministers who also rebelled.
:12:41. > :12:42.The Labour leader dismissed suggestions that the issue had
:12:43. > :12:49.caused another crisis for his leadership. Yes, a difference of
:12:50. > :12:54.opinion from MPs who represents strongly Remain constituencies and
:12:55. > :12:57.felt they should represent their constituents, I understand that, yet
:12:58. > :13:02.it was a national referendum, rational decision, national result.
:13:03. > :13:07.Theresa May has been meeting the Italian Prime Minister. She is
:13:08. > :13:10.hoping to get the approval of Parliament to begin formal EU exit
:13:11. > :13:15.negotiations with EU leaders by the end of March. Then the tough talking
:13:16. > :13:19.will really begin. Carole Walker, BBC News, Westminster.
:13:20. > :13:23.The US Senate has backed one of President Trump's most
:13:24. > :13:25.controversial cabinet nominees, Jeff Sessions as Attorney General.
:13:26. > :13:29.More than thirty years ago, Mr Sessions was denied
:13:30. > :13:32.a post as a federal judge when he was accused of racism,
:13:33. > :13:39.He will now take charge of the justice department,
:13:40. > :13:40.and more than 100 thousand employees, including
:13:41. > :13:43.Our correspondent Richard Lister sent this report.
:13:44. > :13:47.Democrats, civil liberties groups and those representing
:13:48. > :13:49.African-Americans reacted with outrage when President Trump
:13:50. > :13:51.nominated Senator Jeff Sessions to take charge
:13:52. > :13:55.Senator Sessions has always denied allegations of racism from his time
:13:56. > :14:00.as the senior lawyer in the state of Alabama.
:14:01. > :14:03.But, during his judicial confirmation hearing in 1986,
:14:04. > :14:05.he described the National Association for the Advancement
:14:06. > :14:12.He also admitted describing landmark legislation ensuring that black
:14:13. > :14:17.He's since said it was necessary and he supports it.
:14:18. > :14:20.Democrats also criticised his long-established
:14:21. > :14:23.backing of Mr Trump, saying the government's chief legal
:14:24. > :14:28.officer needed to be an independent voice.
:14:29. > :14:33.After the vote, he reached out to them.
:14:34. > :14:38.I appreciate the full debate that we've had.
:14:39. > :14:40.I want to thank those who, after it all, found sufficient
:14:41. > :14:43.confidence in me to cast their vote to confirm me
:14:44. > :14:47.as the next Attorney General of the United States of America.
:14:48. > :14:53.In a blistering Twitter attack, Senator Elizabeth Warren said:
:14:54. > :14:56."If Jeff Sessions makes even the tiniest attempt
:14:57. > :14:59."to bring his racism, sexism and bigotry into the Justice
:15:00. > :15:03."Department, he'll hear from all of us.
:15:04. > :15:07."And you'd better believe every senator who voted to put
:15:08. > :15:09."Jeff Sessions's radical hatred into the Justice Department
:15:10. > :15:15.Another of President Trump's nominees made some outspoken
:15:16. > :15:20.Judge Neil Gorsuch, the President's pick for the Supreme Court,
:15:21. > :15:23.was apparently unhappy with Mr Trump's criticism of
:15:24. > :15:26.the judge who suspended his travel ban, expressing his displeasure
:15:27. > :15:35.He certainly expressed to me that he is disheartened
:15:36. > :15:40.by the demoralising comments made by President Trump
:15:41. > :15:45.That may win Judge Gorsuch some Democratic support, as they prepare
:15:46. > :15:50.But that, too, will be a tough battle, as Democrats do all they can
:15:51. > :16:07.We know Donald Trump is angry about this, how else but through Twitter?
:16:08. > :16:11.Yes, indeed, Simon. This is a potential embarrassment for Mr Trump
:16:12. > :16:15.to be criticised by his own nominee. Mr Trump does not take well to
:16:16. > :16:19.embarrassment, it seems. His strategy appears to be to blame the
:16:20. > :16:24.messenger, the messenger in this case the Democratic senator Richard
:16:25. > :16:31.Blumenthal who made comments from Neil Gorsuch public, saying that he
:16:32. > :16:34.made Donald Trump's criticism of another judge demoralising and
:16:35. > :16:40.disheartening. In the past few minutes Donald Trump has treated
:16:41. > :16:44.that Richard Blumenthal, never fought in Vietnam when he said peers
:16:45. > :16:48.that he had, major light, now Miss represents what Neil Gorsuch told
:16:49. > :16:55.him? There are two claims, the judge's record, he did not serve in
:16:56. > :16:58.Vietnam but on some occasions he did give the impression that he had,
:16:59. > :17:02.something for which he apologised. The bigger question is whether he
:17:03. > :17:06.misrepresented what Neil Gorsuch said, and Neil Gorsuch's team came
:17:07. > :17:11.out very quickly and said that yes, those comments were accurate.
:17:12. > :17:15.President Trump must know that but clearly wants to avoid that battle,
:17:16. > :17:19.easier to blame a Democrat. In any event he had an important victory
:17:20. > :17:21.last night, the confirmation of Jeff Sessions after a very divisive
:17:22. > :17:36.battle on the Senate floor. Jeff Sessions is someone who was a
:17:37. > :17:38.very early supporter of Donald Trump, locking step with him in
:17:39. > :17:40.terms of many of his policies and he will now be sworn in as Attorney
:17:41. > :17:44.General later today. Thank you,. All that as the new director
:17:45. > :17:47.of the CIA - Mike Pompeo - arrives in Turkey for his first
:17:48. > :17:50.foreign trip since taking office. Let's speak to our correspondent
:17:51. > :17:58.Mark Lowen, who's in Istanbul. Top of the agenda is the fight
:17:59. > :18:01.against Islamic State. Turkey is hugely against the involvement of
:18:02. > :18:05.the Kurdish militia in Syria, because it sees that militia of
:18:06. > :18:10.links to its own Kurdish militants in Turkey, the PKK, whom Turkey and
:18:11. > :18:14.the West classify as a terrorist organisation. Turkey wants
:18:15. > :18:19.assurances from the US that they might lessen their support from the
:18:20. > :18:23.Kurdish militia in Syria. They will discuss the so-called safe zones in
:18:24. > :18:26.Syria, cleared of armed groups perhaps for refugees to go back to.
:18:27. > :18:30.Turkey has called for that and Donald Trump has voiced support for
:18:31. > :18:35.it in recent days, although Russia is lukewarm. There's also the
:18:36. > :18:39.Turkish parrot who's been living in the US for 18 years and whom Turkey
:18:40. > :18:44.claims orchestrated the failed coup last year, although he denies
:18:45. > :18:47.involvement. Turkey wants its extradition as soon as possible,
:18:48. > :18:51.though they will have to go through a judicial process. This is a bridge
:18:52. > :18:56.building exercise with the new Trump White House, after relations with
:18:57. > :18:59.Barack Obama soured considerably. It will be helped by some similarities
:19:00. > :19:02.between presidents Erdogan and Trump, both are populist leaders,
:19:03. > :19:05.both are not particularly known for their thick skins and both have a
:19:06. > :19:09.dubious relationship with press freedom, although its more extreme
:19:10. > :19:15.here in Turkey, the world's biggest jailer of journalists. This is a
:19:16. > :19:18.very -- visits which will be of substance but also symbolism, as
:19:19. > :19:20.Turkey attempts a reset with the new Trump White House. Mark Lowen, thank
:19:21. > :19:21.you. Figures for December show A
:19:22. > :19:26.departments in England had their worst-performing month
:19:27. > :19:28.on record - and January And coming up: Try time -
:19:29. > :19:34.Tom Vardell runs in his 90th, leaving just one more score needed
:19:35. > :19:41.for the Premiership record. Coming up in sport at 1:30pm:
:19:42. > :19:44.The chairman of British Cycling, Bob Howden, has stepped down,
:19:45. > :19:46.as the organisation braces itself for the results of a report
:19:47. > :19:49.into whether there was a culture of bullying in its
:19:50. > :20:00.performance programme. MPs and housing lawyers say
:20:01. > :20:02.private tenants in England are still being unfairly evicted
:20:03. > :20:05.because a new law on so-called The law was introduced in 2015
:20:06. > :20:11.to stop people who've complained about rogue landlords -
:20:12. > :20:13.or their properties - being wrongly forced
:20:14. > :20:15.out of their homes. Radio One's Newsbeat reporter
:20:16. > :20:20.Dan Whitworth has more. Damp, mould, faulty electrics,
:20:21. > :20:24.and broken windows and boilers that They're all classed
:20:25. > :20:29.as category one hazards. In other words, they're so bad
:20:30. > :20:34.they pose a risk to people's health. And they're things Amjid Chowdri
:20:35. > :20:37.from Leeds City Council's Rogue Landlords Unit
:20:38. > :20:40.is all too familiar with. That's damp that's been
:20:41. > :20:44.leaking from outside You might expect tenants
:20:45. > :20:48.to complain about problems That's partly because they
:20:49. > :20:52.fear being forced out of their home as a result -
:20:53. > :20:55.a practice known Something which is
:20:56. > :20:59.supposed to be illegal. This is rented out, private rented
:21:00. > :21:02.accommodation, people living here? People paying to rent here, making
:21:03. > :21:06.complaints, nothing happening, and then they could be under threat
:21:07. > :21:08.of a revenge eviction That's the reason why they're not
:21:09. > :21:12.coming forward to the council And that's exactly
:21:13. > :21:15.what happened to Helen. She was living with her mum,
:21:16. > :21:18.sister and baby daughter in a rented home with lots
:21:19. > :21:23.of problems, including damp. After months of complaining we got
:21:24. > :21:31.a firm of solicitors that deals with properties in these
:21:32. > :21:33.states of disrepair. They checked the property,
:21:34. > :21:36.they agreed it was damp So they wrote out to our landlord
:21:37. > :21:40.and instructed that work needed Within a week of him receiving that,
:21:41. > :21:46.we received a section 21 eviction Because of what happened
:21:47. > :21:50.to people like Helen, a new law was introduced in October
:21:51. > :21:56.2015 to try to stop retaliatory or so-called revenge evictions,
:21:57. > :21:59.but we've seen exclusive figures gathered in a Freedom of Information
:22:00. > :22:01.request from hundreds of councils right across England that show more
:22:02. > :22:05.than half haven't More than a quarter don't even
:22:06. > :22:12.record figures and fewer than one We're talking about here landlords
:22:13. > :22:18.who are trying to avoid carrying out their responsibilities
:22:19. > :22:20.as a landlord, to keep their properties in
:22:21. > :22:22.a good state of repair. If they are asked a simple question
:22:23. > :22:26.like, "Will you do a repair for me," they threaten someone
:22:27. > :22:28.with an eviction to shut them up. Now, they're the landlords
:22:29. > :22:30.we have to get at. They're going to be in the worst
:22:31. > :22:33.properties, sometimes with people living in the worst conditions,
:22:34. > :22:35.so that's the biggest The government says revenge
:22:36. > :22:39.evictions are rare and that because of the new law it's given
:22:40. > :22:43.local councils all the powers Thankfully for Helen,
:22:44. > :22:48.she was able to find a new home. I don't have to contact him
:22:49. > :22:56.unless something does pop up. Four men, who were part of a gang
:22:57. > :23:05.that sexually exploited teenage girls in Rochdale,
:23:06. > :23:08.are facing deportation to Pakistan. The men, who are British nationals
:23:09. > :23:12.of Pakistani origin, were jailed for between six
:23:13. > :23:13.and 22 years. Immigration judges have rejected
:23:14. > :23:17.appeals against plans to strip them MPs will put pressure on the FA
:23:18. > :23:24.today - as they consider a no-confidence motion
:23:25. > :23:26.on the organisation's The Commons Culture,
:23:27. > :23:30.Media and Sport Select Committee will examine whether the FA can
:23:31. > :23:33."comply fully with its duties". Let's speak to our sports
:23:34. > :23:45.correspondent Richard Conway. Is in Westminster. What are the
:23:46. > :23:50.consequences if they find against the FA posture Mark this debate
:23:51. > :23:54.today is largely symbolic, but it's a sign of the pressure that MPs are
:23:55. > :23:57.putting under the Football Association to change their ways.
:23:58. > :24:02.This debate about FA governance has been going on for nearly 50 years
:24:03. > :24:07.now. There's been very little change in the interim. MPs want to see the
:24:08. > :24:10.FA change its board of directors and its FA Council, which is effectively
:24:11. > :24:15.football's parliament. It wants to be more representative of the people
:24:16. > :24:19.who play, watch and administer the sport in 2017. If they fail to
:24:20. > :24:22.reform it, if they fail to live up to new standards which were set by
:24:23. > :24:26.Sport England and the government late last year, then they could be
:24:27. > :24:29.at risk of losing ?30 million of public funding over the next four
:24:30. > :24:41.years. In addition to that, guarantees if they ever wanted to
:24:42. > :24:44.stage a World Cup or European Championship, could be at risk. So
:24:45. > :24:46.there is tangible things up with force the FA. The FA leadership
:24:47. > :24:49.wants change to take place. It wants to modernise. But it must convince
:24:50. > :24:51.those councillors and board members but it's in the interest of the
:24:52. > :24:54.governing body to do so. Greg Clarke asked Greg Clarke says he will
:24:55. > :24:56.resign if he doesn't get the necessary support in the coming
:24:57. > :24:59.months. This debate is a sign of that growing pressure but the FA is
:25:00. > :25:04.determined in the coming few weeks it will show that it can change and
:25:05. > :25:06.show the government it has a plan to modernise the organisation. Richard
:25:07. > :25:10.Shares in Twitter Richard Conway, thank you.
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:25:18. > :25:22.Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones is with me.
:25:23. > :25:28.Were the figure is expected to be better than that? Yes, Twitter has
:25:29. > :25:31.been going through a hard time for quite a while because it's not
:25:32. > :25:35.growing much and investors have been worried about that. But there was
:25:36. > :25:38.the thought with all the buzz around the US presidential election from
:25:39. > :25:44.all the rows taking place on Twitter, and the key fact that the
:25:45. > :25:46.most famous tweeter in the world, Donald Trump, was bringing a lot of
:25:47. > :25:53.focus on the service, there was an appealing, a theory that that would
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:26:01. > :26:03.to give the service a secure future. That's not happening. There's very
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:26:09. > :26:11.advertisers seem to be staying clear. They may be very interested
:26:12. > :26:15.in what hearing what Donald Trump is going to say, but they are not
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:26:19. > :26:20.An Australian man has survived after spending hours struggling
:26:21. > :26:23.to keep his nose above water, after his digger toppled into a dam.
:26:24. > :26:26.Daniel Miller had been using the excavator at his remote
:26:27. > :26:29.farm north of Sydney, when the rim gave way,
:26:30. > :26:31.and he was pinned down by the three-tonne machine.
:26:32. > :26:33.He said he adopted a yoga pose - and spent the whole time thinking
:26:34. > :26:36.about his wife and two young children - until a neighbour
:26:37. > :26:45.There's no way, I'm not letting my daughter...
:26:46. > :26:47.I was thinking about how they're going to find me,
:26:48. > :26:52.That wasn't going to happen - well, not without a fight.
:26:53. > :27:00.So then I went to a very almost robotic state of, just count to 60.
:27:01. > :27:11.Think about 60 seconds, think about 60 seconds.
:27:12. > :27:16.As Wales and England prepare to go head-to head
:27:17. > :27:19.in the Six Nations on Saturday, one player who's not playing
:27:20. > :27:22.on the biggest stage could be about to break the Premiership's
:27:23. > :27:25.Bristol winger Tom Varndell needs just one more try to pass
:27:26. > :27:28.Mark Cueto's record of 90 Premiership tries, and could do
:27:29. > :27:30.it when his side face Harlequins tomorrow night,
:27:31. > :27:35.There aren't many who can keep up with Tom Varndell.
:27:36. > :27:38.One of the fastest rugby players around, you usually have to wait
:27:39. > :27:43.With Leicester, Wasps and Bristol, he's turned pace into points -
:27:44. > :27:46.so many that one more try would take him to the
:27:47. > :27:50.Obviously scoring tries is what I love to do,
:27:51. > :27:56.Especially being the wing on the end of most of the moves.
:27:57. > :27:58.Any player wants to leave their mark on the game.
:27:59. > :28:01.If I can do that with my try scoring that would be fantastic.
:28:02. > :28:05.Varndell has played 12 seasons at English rugby's highest level.
:28:06. > :28:09.In that time he's appeared in 176 Premiership games
:28:10. > :28:12.and run in 90 tries, a figure that puts him
:28:13. > :28:15.level with Mark Cueto, that master try scorer
:28:16. > :28:20.A man who knows the miles which go into every finish.
:28:21. > :28:24.His biggest asset is his speed, he's lightning quick.
:28:25. > :28:27.He was always one of the fastest guys in the Prem.
:28:28. > :28:30.From an athletic point of view there isn't anyone better out
:28:31. > :28:32.there than him and that's credit to him.
:28:33. > :28:35.I think he's creeping into his 30s now, so to still keep
:28:36. > :28:37.in the shape that he's in, he's doing really well.
:28:38. > :28:39.There is a difference between the two men.
:28:40. > :28:44.Cueto played 55 times for his country.
:28:45. > :28:49.Varndell just four, despite a flying start.
:28:50. > :28:57.COMMENTATOR: A dream debut for Tom Varndell at 20.
:28:58. > :29:11.England represents a Varndell rarity - a chance missed.
:29:12. > :29:14.I would have loved to have more opportunity.
:29:15. > :29:18.I'd love to give more of a shot, I think.
:29:19. > :29:20.What I like about the England set up at the moment is they are giving
:29:21. > :29:24.They are sticking with them, developing them, allowing them
:29:25. > :29:25.to build into the international game and play to their strengths.
:29:26. > :29:27.England definitely focus on what players can do now,
:29:28. > :29:30.If you play wing there's no time for looking back.
:29:31. > :29:31.As he prepares to go full throttle into his next shot at the record
:29:32. > :29:33.against Harlequins on Friday, Varndell has signed
:29:34. > :29:39.A career played out in fast forward is set to carry on running.
:29:40. > :29:46.Patrick Gearey, BBC News, in Bristol.
:29:47. > :29:57.Do we need to dress warmly to go to Wales? You are right, we need to
:29:58. > :30:02.dress warmly. Let me show you a wonderful picture from Wales. This
:30:03. > :30:06.is this morning, isn't it beautiful? Perfectly still, fantastic
:30:07. > :30:10.reflection. The frost means enjoying some sunshine. That's not the case
:30:11. > :30:14.for all parts of the UK. This is more like the picture across the UK
:30:15. > :30:19.at the moment. This is the rain coming down. Look at the extent of
:30:20. > :30:23.the cloud on the satellite picture. The difference today, is that
:30:24. > :30:27.yesterday in West Wales was 11. Today, the cold air has arrived on
:30:28. > :30:31.the western side of the UK and it's currently 4-5d. A few showers close
:30:32. > :30:36.to the Cornwall coast, but they are more likely to be on the eastern
:30:37. > :30:39.side of the UK. There was a little bit of sleepiness on Mike Harwood
:30:40. > :30:44.screen as I came in this morning. It's a bit wintry out there. Wash
:30:45. > :30:48.there was sleepiness on my car windscreen. Northern Ireland is much
:30:49. > :30:56.cloudy this afternoon compared with yesterday. Very little change in
:30:57. > :31:00.overnight, there is a greater chance of wintry showers falling at lower
:31:01. > :31:03.levels and pushing west. With temperatures around freezing,
:31:04. > :31:08.there's an ice worry on untreated roads and pavements come the morning
:31:09. > :31:11.rush on Friday. Friday, spot the difference really. It's the west the
:31:12. > :31:16.best for sunshine, Easter gain rather grey with some showers and
:31:17. > :31:20.it's cold enough for them to fall as sleet or snow. Potentially at lower
:31:21. > :31:26.levels as the day goes on. We are importing cold air all the time,
:31:27. > :31:29.just 2-4dC. I can't offer anything higher than that, unfortunately, for
:31:30. > :31:32.the foreseeable future. We keep the easterly winds through tomorrow
:31:33. > :31:35.night and Saturday. A slight difference tomorrow night. The
:31:36. > :31:40.weather system might push something more organised in the way of sleet
:31:41. > :31:48.and snow further west. Don't be surprised to see a light covering of
:31:49. > :31:52.snow on Saturday morning. If you are heading westwards, it should be dry
:31:53. > :31:55.for the match in Cardiff and it will be cold, especially because of the
:31:56. > :31:58.strengthening easterly wind. That will been with us particularly for
:31:59. > :32:03.England and Wales on Saturday. Scotland and Northern Ireland faring
:32:04. > :32:08.better. You haven't the wind. Similar on Sunday, a lot of cloud
:32:09. > :32:14.throughout the weekend. Temperatures perhaps marginally higher, 5-6, but
:32:15. > :32:18.it's going to feel cold because of the wind, really. There's a subtle
:32:19. > :32:22.difference later Sunday into Monday. Is of easterly, we are picking up a
:32:23. > :32:25.slight south-easterly, so there's a bit of Mediterranean influence. It
:32:26. > :32:30.will not be warm. It will be just slightly less cold. But the centre
:32:31. > :32:34.of a high pressure in Scotland, with no winds, there will be severe
:32:35. > :32:38.frosts as we head into next week as well. So frosty by night, cold by
:32:39. > :32:41.day, a lot of cloud and some wintry showers. When there are warnings
:32:42. > :32:50.issued they will be on the website. But cold, in a word.
:32:51. > :32:52.A reminder of our main story this lunchtime.
:32:53. > :32:54.Figures for December show A departments in England
:32:55. > :32:56.had their worst-performing month on record - and January
:32:57. > :33:02.That's all from the BBC News at One, so it's goodbye from me -
:33:03. > :33:06.and on BBC One we now join the BBC's news teams where you are.