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