:00:00. > :00:00.President Trump's most senior diplomat makes his debut
:00:07. > :00:10.The new US Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson,
:00:11. > :00:13.is meeting his counterparts - including from Britain and Russia -
:00:14. > :00:20.We'll have the latest from the summit and from Washington.
:00:21. > :00:24.Also this lunchtime: Britain's most senior judge says some press
:00:25. > :00:28.coverage of the Article 50 Supreme Court case
:00:29. > :00:33.Researchers say taking vitamin D supplements could prevent
:00:34. > :00:40.three million people in the UK getting colds or flu every year.
:00:41. > :00:42.A state of emergency in the New Zealand city
:00:43. > :00:49.of Christchurch, as wildfires take hold over nearly 5000 acres.
:00:50. > :00:53.More teams and more host countries - Fifa's president says four countries
:00:54. > :01:05.And coming up in the sport on BBC News: A decision on the future
:01:06. > :01:08.of Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger won't be made until the end
:01:09. > :01:28.of the season, following a heavy Champions League defeat.
:01:29. > :01:31.Good afternoon and welcome to the BBC News at One.
:01:32. > :01:34.President Trump's most senior diplomat is making his debut
:01:35. > :01:38.on the international stage at the G20 summit in Germany.
:01:39. > :01:41.The new US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is meeting
:01:42. > :01:44.Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov this lunchtime -
:01:45. > :01:47.at a time when contacts between the Trump administration
:01:48. > :01:53.The US State Department says Mr Tillerson will try to provide
:01:54. > :01:57.a "comforting message" to countries uneasy about apparent
:01:58. > :02:01.changes in America's foreign policy positions.
:02:02. > :02:03.We'll be live in Germany in a moment, but first this
:02:04. > :02:10.With so much attention on his own difficulties at home,
:02:11. > :02:12.Donald Trump might be thankful that, for the next couple of days,
:02:13. > :02:15.the spotlight will fall squarely on the shoulders of
:02:16. > :02:18.his new secretary of state Rex Tillerson, attending
:02:19. > :02:26.Among his first meetings was with Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
:02:27. > :02:29.The people of Gambia were delighted to be coming back
:02:30. > :02:35.Not something the United States is going to be doing.
:02:36. > :02:43.Small talk and jokes for the cameras, but Rex
:02:44. > :02:46.will want to hear reassuring words about many things, including
:02:47. > :02:49.the new administration's commitment to Nato.
:02:50. > :02:57.In a turbulent, uncertain world, much has been made of
:02:58. > :03:00.Rex Tillerson's previous role as a senior oil executive with very
:03:01. > :03:02.A relationship that will come under microscopic
:03:03. > :03:07.scrutiny when he sits down with Russia's Foreign
:03:08. > :03:12.From security to global trade, the uncertainty about where
:03:13. > :03:21.the United States now stands on many big issues is almost unprecedented.
:03:22. > :03:29.On the one hand you have chaos and a possibly compromised
:03:30. > :03:31.administration, and by that I mean the President Donald Trump
:03:32. > :03:33.and his closest advisers, some of them are deemed indicated
:03:34. > :03:36.On the other hand you have the pragmatists,
:03:37. > :03:38.for example General Mattis, Defence Secretary, trying
:03:39. > :03:41.to say to Nato allies, let's put this back on course.
:03:42. > :03:43.What is also unprecedented and unacceptable, says
:03:44. > :03:47.President Trump, is what he called a biased discredited media,
:03:48. > :03:50.at the New York Times and CNN, which he accuses of relying too
:03:51. > :03:56.heavily on leaks and hearsay to undermine his government.
:03:57. > :04:00.I think there is not the same rigour going on right now in newsrooms.
:04:01. > :04:05.The number of rubbish stories that we are seeing with reporters
:04:06. > :04:09.just rushing to publish with thinly sourced or anonymously sourced
:04:10. > :04:13.stories is not doing any favours to the impression that they are out
:04:14. > :04:23.The president again took to Twitter today to attack press coverage.
:04:24. > :04:25.But there's also clear, undeniable evidence that his
:04:26. > :04:28.Andrew Pudzer, the President's nominee for labour secretary,
:04:29. > :04:30.withdrew late last night after cross-party
:04:31. > :04:36.These are testing times for Donald Trump, less than one
:04:37. > :04:44.We can talk to Gary O'Donoghue in Washington, and first,
:04:45. > :04:55.to our diplomatic correspondent James Robbins, at the G20 summit.
:04:56. > :05:00.It's striking that suggestion from the State Department that there will
:05:01. > :05:05.be a comforting message. What do the member states where you are want to
:05:06. > :05:10.hear from him bastion Mark it's very clear that much of the outside world
:05:11. > :05:12.represented at this G20 meeting, both the leading industrialised
:05:13. > :05:18.countries and the most rapidly emerging countries, a group of more
:05:19. > :05:21.than 20 countries, are very anxious, alarmed, frankly, at what they
:05:22. > :05:25.regard as an unpredictable, radically changing American foreign
:05:26. > :05:30.policy. They haven't even understood let alone got to grips with. Rex
:05:31. > :05:33.Tillerson has a big job to do, to reassure them. He says that's what
:05:34. > :05:39.he wants to do. It's first, most challenging meeting this afternoon,
:05:40. > :05:41.is going to be with his opposite number from Russia, Sergei Lavrov.
:05:42. > :05:46.That's going to be a really critical meeting, because this is a veteran
:05:47. > :05:50.Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, one of the longest serving on the block.
:05:51. > :05:54.He will undoubtedly be trying to size up and analyse any sense of
:05:55. > :05:58.American weakness, which is the charge, of course, against the
:05:59. > :06:02.administration from its critics, who say the administration is
:06:03. > :06:05.compromised partly by Rex Tillerson's commercial ties and
:06:06. > :06:07.links to Vladimir Putin before he left business and partly by
:06:08. > :06:11.everything that has happened in Washington over the past few days.
:06:12. > :06:16.Rex Tillerson will try to distance himself from any of that
:06:17. > :06:20.controversy, try to reassure allies and critics that the United States
:06:21. > :06:23.is going to pursue a twin track policy towards Russia, highly
:06:24. > :06:27.critical of the Ukraine for instance and in particular, and it's going to
:06:28. > :06:30.maintain sanctions, which is one of the critics make, that you seem to
:06:31. > :06:34.be showing signs in Washington of weakening them, and yet it also
:06:35. > :06:38.wants to engage on the other track of the policy with Vladimir Putin
:06:39. > :06:42.and explore ways of building a better relationship. It's clear that
:06:43. > :06:45.many of the people represented here, not least Chancellor Merkel of
:06:46. > :06:49.Germany, where this meeting is being held, are very alarmed. She's been
:06:50. > :06:55.talking about the danger of one country trying to manage the world's
:06:56. > :07:00.problems on its own. James Robbins, thank you. Let's head to Washington
:07:01. > :07:05.and Gary O'Donoghue. James Mattis has been, as we know, at Nato
:07:06. > :07:14.headquarters and again, some very, very strong comments from him? Yes,
:07:15. > :07:17.picking up on the points about developed American foreign policy,
:07:18. > :07:21.it's a work in progress at the moment. There are not clear
:07:22. > :07:25.developed areas, where the world can know exactly what the US is thinking
:07:26. > :07:30.at this stage. One of the area is perhaps where they can is on
:07:31. > :07:33.America's attitude to Nato at the moment. You will remember during the
:07:34. > :07:38.campaign Donald Trump called it obsolete. That rhetoric has all gone
:07:39. > :07:42.away. What we have had now is James Mattis, the Defence Secretary,
:07:43. > :07:46.saying that he stands behind Nato, but giving a very tough message
:07:47. > :07:53.about the responsibilities of other Nato countries to pay their way.
:07:54. > :07:57.Only three other countries, I think, maybe four other countries apart
:07:58. > :08:03.from the United States, pay this 2% of their annual income is towards
:08:04. > :08:07.defence, which is a prerequisite of Nato membership. James Mattis has
:08:08. > :08:12.gone further and said, look, if you don't do this, guys, we are going to
:08:13. > :08:16.have to consider moderating, his word, moderating, the US
:08:17. > :08:20.contribution to Nato. What that might mean, who knows. You can
:08:21. > :08:23.imagine it might mean things like reconsidering that deployment of a
:08:24. > :08:30.whole armoured Brigade in Poland recently, which was seen as a way of
:08:31. > :08:34.shoring up that threat from Russia deployments in the Baltic states as
:08:35. > :08:38.well. One other thing on the horizon to be aware of in terms of defence
:08:39. > :08:44.and policy towards the Middle East that will inflict on Russia, is that
:08:45. > :08:50.this 30 day review of the Islamic State strategy comes up at the end
:08:51. > :08:54.of February, and that's when we are going to hear whether or not America
:08:55. > :08:58.is prepared to do joint actions inside Syria with the Russians. Gary
:08:59. > :09:02.O'Donoghue, thank you in Washington. Britain's most senior judge has
:09:03. > :09:05.criticised sections of the press for their coverage of the ruling
:09:06. > :09:08.which said Parliament had to be consulted before the process
:09:09. > :09:11.to leave the EU could be triggered. The President of the Supreme Court,
:09:12. > :09:15.Lord Neuberger, also accused politicians of not being quick
:09:16. > :09:17.enough to defend This from our legal affairs
:09:18. > :09:34.correspondent, Clive Coleman. CHEERING
:09:35. > :09:37.If the EU referendum stirred the country's emotions, the court case
:09:38. > :09:41.about who had the right to trigger Britain leaving under Article 50,
:09:42. > :09:46.ministers alone, or parliament, raised even stronger feelings. When
:09:47. > :09:50.business woman Gina Miller won ruling preventing the government
:09:51. > :09:55.from starting the process without parliament, some in the media saw
:09:56. > :10:00.red. The coverage by parts of the press of the judges that decided the
:10:01. > :10:04.Article 50 case am here at the High Court, against the government,
:10:05. > :10:07.stunned and hurt the judiciary. The judges did not feel they could
:10:08. > :10:14.respond without compromising their position. But now the country's most
:10:15. > :10:17.senior judge, the outgoing President of the Supreme Court, clearly feels
:10:18. > :10:24.the time is right to say something. Some of the things that were said
:10:25. > :10:29.risks undermining the judiciary and unfairly undermining the judiciary,
:10:30. > :10:35.and therefore undermining the rule of law. This former tabloid editor
:10:36. > :10:40.disagrees. When you get an important issue, like Brexit, being decided by
:10:41. > :10:44.uniquely I think for the first time in 43 years by referendum, you are
:10:45. > :10:51.going to get big reactions on both sides, so I defend the right of a
:10:52. > :10:58.newspaper to give a rather large raspberry to a controversial
:10:59. > :11:02.decision will stop Lord Neuberger wasn't impressed by the response of
:11:03. > :11:05.politicians, including the Lord Chancellor Liz Truss, who has a
:11:06. > :11:12.statutory duty to defend the independence of the judiciary.
:11:13. > :11:15.Politicians acted slower than one would have liked and perhaps
:11:16. > :11:19.expressed themselves rather more organically than one would have
:11:20. > :11:22.hoped but to be fair to politicians, like judges, they learn and after
:11:23. > :11:27.the Supreme Court case decision they did precisely what they should have
:11:28. > :11:31.done. In response to that Liz Truss said in a statement, that it's right
:11:32. > :11:35.that everyone understands the importance of judicial independence
:11:36. > :11:39.and the rule of law in a free society. If sections of the press
:11:40. > :11:45.can be criticised for undermining the rule of law, then the Supreme
:11:46. > :11:50.Court itself, currently made up of ten white men and one white woman,
:11:51. > :11:55.has faced criticism for a marked lack of diversity. The process of
:11:56. > :12:00.appointing a new president and Jew new justices begins today. With
:12:01. > :12:04.steps to encourage -- and two new justices begins today. With steps to
:12:05. > :12:08.encourage more diverse candidates, including the option of part-time
:12:09. > :12:09.working. That should encourage a favourable press. Clive Coleman, BBC
:12:10. > :12:12.News. Researchers say taking vitamin D
:12:13. > :12:14.supplements could prevent more than three million people in the UK
:12:15. > :12:18.from getting colds or flu each year. Sunshine is needed to produce
:12:19. > :12:21.the vitamin naturally in the skin - and levels plummet
:12:22. > :12:22.during the winter. The team - from Queen Mary,
:12:23. > :12:25.University of London - says the vitamin should be added
:12:26. > :12:27.to foods like bread. Here's our health correspondent,
:12:28. > :12:30.Dominic Hughes. This is what vitamin D
:12:31. > :12:33.deficiency can look like. Softened bones bowing under
:12:34. > :12:36.the weight of the body. But now researchers say vitamin D
:12:37. > :12:41.may have other benefits apart Effectively, vitamin D boosts
:12:42. > :12:48.the production of natural antibiotic substances called antimicrobial
:12:49. > :12:50.peptides, which are toxic to We have shown the effects
:12:51. > :12:55.of vitamin D to prevent respiratory infections are on a par
:12:56. > :12:58.with those of the flu vaccine and They argue that if everyone got
:12:59. > :13:02.enough vitamin D there would be a 10% reduction in the risk
:13:03. > :13:04.of respiratory illnesses Among those with the very lowest
:13:05. > :13:10.levels of vitamin D, the benefit is even greater -
:13:11. > :13:13.a 50% reduction. And across the whole UK population,
:13:14. > :13:17.that would equate to more than 3 million people avoiding
:13:18. > :13:21.a cold or flu each year. Sunlight on the skin
:13:22. > :13:25.is the best source of vitamin D but the increased use of sunscreen,
:13:26. > :13:28.and our weather, means exposure It is possible to get vitamin
:13:29. > :13:34.D through some foods. For example, cereals, particularly
:13:35. > :13:37.those marketed at children, have vitamin D added
:13:38. > :13:40.as a supplement. You can also get it
:13:41. > :13:43.from oily fish or from eggs, although you would have to eat ten
:13:44. > :13:45.every day to ensure What researchers are arguing is that
:13:46. > :13:49.vitamin D should be added as a supplement to products
:13:50. > :13:52.like milk so that we all But some scientists believe that
:13:53. > :13:58.fortifying food with vitamin The recommendation is more around
:13:59. > :14:04.that we should all take a supplement in the winter months,
:14:05. > :14:07.in autumn, and in those groups that are at risk,
:14:08. > :14:10.so people with darker skin or who aren't outside
:14:11. > :14:12.as much, they should take While the specific benefits of
:14:13. > :14:17.vitamin D are still being debated, sunshine and supplements seem to be
:14:18. > :14:24.the best sources. A 15-year-old girl has pleaded not
:14:25. > :14:27.guilty to the murder of Katie Rough was found
:14:28. > :14:32.with severe injuries in a playing field last month,
:14:33. > :14:36.and died later in hospital. The teenage defendant appeared
:14:37. > :14:39.at Leeds Crown Court this morning via videolink -
:14:40. > :14:42.charged with murder, The Malaysian authorities have
:14:43. > :14:50.confirmed that the man who died after being poisoned
:14:51. > :14:52.at Kuala Lumpur Airport is the half-brother
:14:53. > :14:55.of the North Korean leader, Three people - two women and a man -
:14:56. > :15:00.are now in custody, in connection From Kuala Lumpur,
:15:01. > :15:07.Karishma Vaswani reports. It has been almost a week
:15:08. > :15:10.since the mysterious death of a man at Kuala Lumpur airport on Monday
:15:11. > :15:14.and still no answers. Malaysia confirmed for the first
:15:15. > :15:17.time today that the dead man is North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's
:15:18. > :15:21.half-brother Kim Jong-nam, I think he carries two
:15:22. > :15:28.different identities. Probably this is an
:15:29. > :15:31.undercover document. Two women, one shown
:15:32. > :15:39.here in police custody, Officials say one is an Indonesian,
:15:40. > :15:43.while the other was carrying A third suspect, a Malaysian male,
:15:44. > :15:50.has also been detained. But we don't know what they have
:15:51. > :15:54.to do with Kim Jong-nam's death and we still don't know how he died
:15:55. > :15:57.or what he was doing in Malaysia, but we do know that he did come
:15:58. > :16:02.here fairly frequently. We understand this is one
:16:03. > :16:05.of the restaurants Kim Jong-nam used The owner said that he would
:16:06. > :16:11.regularly come here and would I spoke to the owner
:16:12. > :16:19.of the restaurant on the phone. He was too scared
:16:20. > :16:20.to speak in person. Did Kim Jong-nam ever tell
:16:21. > :16:23.you that he was worried for his life, that someone
:16:24. > :16:37.might kill him? But at the North Korean Embassy
:16:38. > :16:41.in Kuala Lumpur, all was quiet. Instead, the focus in Pyongyang has
:16:42. > :16:44.been on the 75th celebrations North Korea hasn't said anything
:16:45. > :16:51.about the death of Kim Jong-nam and it is highly unlikely
:16:52. > :16:54.it ever will. In this secretive regime, unanswered
:16:55. > :17:05.questions are a way of life. The new US Secretary
:17:06. > :17:11.of State, Rex Tillerson, is meeting his counterparts -
:17:12. > :17:15.including from Britain and Russia - And still to come: All aboard
:17:16. > :17:21.for a celebration of the Wrens. We're in Portsmouth
:17:22. > :17:24.for the 100th birthday are in Europa League action this
:17:25. > :17:37.evening, with United's Paul Pogba facing off against older brother
:17:38. > :17:39.Florentin, as Saint-Etienne visit The prime minister of New Zealand
:17:40. > :17:51.is in Christchurch to monitor the efforts to fight a huge wildfire
:17:52. > :17:54.which has led to the evacuation Two separate fires which began
:17:55. > :18:00.in hills to the south of the city on Monday have combined,
:18:01. > :18:03.to cover a total of The city's mayor has warned
:18:04. > :18:08.that the fire could pose These are the fatal fires that have
:18:09. > :18:19.burnt a ferocious path through It's taken more than two days
:18:20. > :18:27.to bring them under control. An aerial battle is winning
:18:28. > :18:30.the war against the flames, involving 14 helicopters
:18:31. > :18:37.and three planes. The cost, the life of a pilot -
:18:38. > :18:41.a highly decorated former serviceman turned firefighter who crashed
:18:42. > :18:45.while on duty. He was trying to help
:18:46. > :18:49.save the lives in these homes. A dozen were reduced
:18:50. > :18:52.to charred remains. Miraculously, the residents
:18:53. > :18:57.were left unharmed. Visiting the displaced,
:18:58. > :19:00.New Zealand's Prime Minister. There's a whole lot of people here
:19:01. > :19:03.have been traumatised by the events, some who have lost their homes,
:19:04. > :19:06.many who have been evacuated, and this is a community that knows
:19:07. > :19:10.how to stick together A big pall of smoke now sits over
:19:11. > :19:19.the country's second-biggest city. The fire is contained
:19:20. > :19:22.but not under control. Wildfires here are rare,
:19:23. > :19:27.but that's of little comfort now. My neighbours up the hill
:19:28. > :19:30.are absolutely terrified because they are surrounded
:19:31. > :19:35.by forest and gorse and long dried We've been up pretty much all night,
:19:36. > :19:40.since we were evacuated, The blackened hillsides
:19:41. > :19:45.are now yielding clues It's believed it started
:19:46. > :19:50.in two separate locations, French prosecutors say they will
:19:51. > :20:02.continue their investigations into the centre-right presidential
:20:03. > :20:06.candidate Francois Fillon, who's been accused of cheating
:20:07. > :20:09.the parliamentary payments system. He's denied paying his wife
:20:10. > :20:12.and children inflated parliamentary salaries for minimal
:20:13. > :20:16.or fictitious work. Let's talk to our Paris
:20:17. > :20:32.correspondent, Hugh Schofield. What is Francois Fillon saying about
:20:33. > :20:35.this? Is he continuing with his campaign? Absolutely. He hasn't got
:20:36. > :20:40.what he wants. He wanted the prosecutor to say there is not
:20:41. > :20:45.enough here to proceed. But the prosecutor, this kind of interim
:20:46. > :20:48.statement, has said, we are going to continue with our investigations
:20:49. > :20:53.because there is enough evidence to allow us to do that. He hasn't got
:20:54. > :20:58.what he wanted but, at the same time, it isn't the worst news. The
:20:59. > :21:01.prosecutor could have said, there is enough before Russell ready to
:21:02. > :21:05.recommend that he be placed under formal investigation, in which time
:21:06. > :21:11.he would have had to step down. So what we have got is more of this
:21:12. > :21:15.drip drip agony for Francois Fillon, which means he can't properly
:21:16. > :21:19.campaign. From the constituencies, reports are coming from his agents
:21:20. > :21:23.in the field saying, it's terrible for us out here, nobody wants to
:21:24. > :21:28.hear about your proposals, just whether you are honest. What it
:21:29. > :21:33.means is that Francois Fillon, the centre-right candidate, has slumped
:21:34. > :21:36.in the polls. He is in third, which is significant because, remember, in
:21:37. > :21:40.the French system, it is number one and number two in the first round
:21:41. > :21:45.who go through to the second round and, right now, those two people are
:21:46. > :21:50.going to be Marine Le of the Front National and the newcomer, Emanuel
:21:51. > :21:55.in -- Emanuel Mammana, the centrist, who is number two. Francois Fillon
:21:56. > :22:00.needs to fight back hard if he is to get second place. -- Emanuel Makron.
:22:01. > :22:03.A woman and her son have been arrested by City of London Police
:22:04. > :22:05.after they allegedly faked her death in order
:22:06. > :22:08.Officers say the woman's teenage son and his guardian tried
:22:09. > :22:11.Our correspondent Helena Lee is here.
:22:12. > :22:23.The City of London Police has told us that this 18-year-old and his
:22:24. > :22:28.guardian claimed that the woman had died in a car crash in Zanzibar in
:22:29. > :22:33.east Africa last year. It is alleged they tried to claim against a life
:22:34. > :22:38.insurance policy worth ?140,000 in her name. It is also alleged that.
:22:39. > :22:45.Humans including a death certificate and also accident reports were
:22:46. > :22:51.produced. -- alleged that falls documents. They couldn't verify the
:22:52. > :22:55.woman cars death so they refused to pay the claim. They passed it onto
:22:56. > :23:01.police and they found that the woman was alive and living in Canada. She
:23:02. > :23:05.to the UK, she was arrested and questioned by police. Her son was
:23:06. > :23:09.also arrested and questioned and both of them have been bailed and
:23:10. > :23:14.they are expected to return to a police station in Birmingham in
:23:15. > :23:16.April. The guardian who was with the 18-year-old who was 24, he was also
:23:17. > :23:18.interviewed under caution. Social care for elderly people
:23:19. > :23:21.is on the brink of collapse in some parts of England,
:23:22. > :23:23.according to the charity Age UK. It says more than 50,000 people
:23:24. > :23:26.are now not receiving any help, despite struggling with essential
:23:27. > :23:30.daily tasks such as washing, Our Health Correspondent,
:23:31. > :23:37.Sophie Hutchinson, reports. For ten years, Elaine Yates has
:23:38. > :23:41.cared for her husband. They managed to get some
:23:42. > :23:43.social care but Elaine, who runs a support group for carers,
:23:44. > :23:48.says it's much harder to get now. When Michael first came
:23:49. > :23:51.into the system, it was a lot easier, because we had our own care
:23:52. > :23:56.manager that grew to know us and could help support
:23:57. > :24:01.us in what we needed, whereas today, people coming
:24:02. > :24:07.into the system don't get that type of support,
:24:08. > :24:09.they don't have their Today's report by Age UK says,
:24:10. > :24:13.since 2010, in England, there has been a rise of 50%
:24:14. > :24:16.in the number of elderly people who don't get the help they need
:24:17. > :24:20.with essential daily activities. These are getting out of bed,
:24:21. > :24:22.bathing, dressing, using the toilet, The charity's particularly concerned
:24:23. > :24:29.about more than 50,000 people who struggle with three or more
:24:30. > :24:33.of these activities While social care is run
:24:34. > :24:38.in different ways across the UK, cuts have meant councils in England
:24:39. > :24:41.have had to reduce the amount they spend on social care,
:24:42. > :24:45.and Age UK says emergency funding is now needed to avert a complete
:24:46. > :24:51.collapse of services in some areas. We are seeing the beginnings
:24:52. > :24:53.of something that's And that's because,
:24:54. > :24:57.if there is going to be any extra money for social care,
:24:58. > :25:00.it's not coming yet. That is a real concern because,
:25:01. > :25:03.every day we have an ageing population, we have more people over
:25:04. > :25:08.85, in particular, who need care. The Government says it
:25:09. > :25:10.recognises the pressures on the system and is working
:25:11. > :25:14.on a sustainable solution. There is now a growing expectation
:25:15. > :25:18.a rescue package may be included Fifa's president Gianni Infantino
:25:19. > :25:28.says the 2026 Football World Cup could be hosted by more
:25:29. > :25:30.than one country. He says this could involve up
:25:31. > :25:33.to four different nations, Our sports news correspondent
:25:34. > :25:50.Richard Conway is here. Possibly as many as four. What is he
:25:51. > :25:59.suggesting? The reasons behind this are that Fifa agreed that the 2026
:26:00. > :26:02.World Cup would be completed by 48 countries, expansion. That brings
:26:03. > :26:07.logistical hosting issues for smaller nations. So what Gianni
:26:08. > :26:11.Infantino is saying is that he wants to expand the number or encourage
:26:12. > :26:14.co-hosting between three or even four different countries. At the
:26:15. > :26:21.moment, the favourite for the 2026 bed is America. That leaves open the
:26:22. > :26:25.possibility of a co-hosting agreement between Canada and Mexico,
:26:26. > :26:29.despite the difficulties with the Trump administration between those
:26:30. > :26:34.two countries, becomes a real possibility. In the wider context,
:26:35. > :26:37.it is politically astute by Gianni Infantino. Lots of smaller nations
:26:38. > :26:42.will welcome the chance to play a part in the World Cup. He has a real
:26:43. > :26:44.election in 2019 and he will hope they remember this.
:26:45. > :26:47.100 years ago, the Women's Royal Naval Service was founded to free up
:26:48. > :26:50.more men for active service at sea during the First World War.
:26:51. > :26:53.It was the start of a hugely significant change in the role
:26:54. > :26:58.Wrens, as they became known, served as cooks, stewards,
:26:59. > :27:01.dispatch riders and telegraphists, and went on to play
:27:02. > :27:05.key roles in the Navy in the Second World War and beyond.
:27:06. > :27:09.Our correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, is in Portsmouth, where events
:27:10. > :27:25.Welcome to the heart of this expedition in the naval dockyard.
:27:26. > :27:31.You join me at the start of this royal naval service for women back
:27:32. > :27:35.in 1917, but don't be fooled into thinking this is a dry exhibition.
:27:36. > :27:41.This is about the people who were women and made up the service. Look
:27:42. > :27:47.at this photo, 1919, the first parade of Wrens, and alongside, this
:27:48. > :27:52.permit to go home dating December 1918. That was her Christmas leave
:27:53. > :27:54.to go and see her family, all part of this exhibition.
:27:55. > :27:57.At 90 years old, Wyn Price still has an affection for the sea.
:27:58. > :28:00.Whether it is her admiration for these World War II motor boats
:28:01. > :28:03.or the time she joined as a 17-year-old in 1944,
:28:04. > :28:05.the Wrens have always held a strong bond over her
:28:06. > :28:13.You had to go in what they was short of and they
:28:14. > :28:22.I couldn't cook so I opted for a steward.
:28:23. > :28:24.Proud then and honoured now to be celebrating 100
:28:25. > :28:45.No, the ones before me were pioneers.
:28:46. > :28:48.The new Wren is welcomed by a Petty Officer
:28:49. > :28:50.and ushered into the presence of a chief officer.
:28:51. > :28:52.The Women's Royal Naval Service was formed in 1917 but
:28:53. > :28:56.it was in the Second World War they came of age.
:28:57. > :29:00.It is by her orders that the mail boat
:29:01. > :29:02.stops at the ships named on that precious letter.
:29:03. > :29:06.This may have been the extent of the seaborne presence
:29:07. > :29:08.but the Wrens' 17,000 volunteers were vital to take the strain off
:29:09. > :29:13.men in the Navy's non-fighting roles.
:29:14. > :29:16.Without the Wrens we wouldn't have the service that we have today
:29:17. > :29:19.so they very much laid the foundations for the women who are
:29:20. > :29:23.It is a nice opportunity to look back and
:29:24. > :29:26.celebrate the achievements of the past 100 years and even
:29:27. > :29:31.The new exhibition charts this vital service
:29:32. > :29:36.When the women integrated with the men in
:29:37. > :29:39.1993, out went the title Wrens, but they continued to embody the
:29:40. > :29:44.standards and professionalism of the Royal Navy.
:29:45. > :29:47.The pioneers really set the bar high, I think,
:29:48. > :29:50.and they had to prove themselves, which they did really well,
:29:51. > :29:58.and after that it was for the other women to embrace that change
:29:59. > :30:01.and they took it forward and it has continued to go forward.
:30:02. > :30:03.Women now make up 10% of the Royal Navy.
:30:04. > :30:06.100 years after they became the first of the free services
:30:07. > :30:09.to officially recruit women, the new exhibition is a moment
:30:10. > :30:12.for early Wrens to reflect, commemorate and cherish
:30:13. > :30:23.their connections with Britain's maritime heritage.
:30:24. > :30:29.This is all about the personal detail, the letters and photographs
:30:30. > :30:34.and uniforms. It all opens to the public on Saturday and the
:30:35. > :30:37.exhibition lasts for the rest of the year.
:30:38. > :30:43.Time for a look at the weather with Stav.
:30:44. > :30:51.Thank you. With the milder air across the UK and seems like this in
:30:52. > :30:55.Norfolk, some good spells of sunshine, it's going to feel
:30:56. > :31:01.positively springlike. This was the picture earlier in Norfolk. Cloud
:31:02. > :31:05.has built a bit. A big contrast to the north of the UK where, across
:31:06. > :31:10.Scotland, we have strong winds, cloud and showers, close to the low
:31:11. > :31:15.pressure. You can see where the sunshine is, in the south and east,
:31:16. > :31:20.although cloud beginning to feel in a bit. Southern counties should hold
:31:21. > :31:25.onto the sunshine all day. That low pressure across Scotland is moving
:31:26. > :31:29.off to the North Sea and the winds getting lighter. Some rain coming
:31:30. > :31:33.into Northern Ireland. Lots of sunshine in the south, with decent
:31:34. > :31:37.temperatures in south Devon, potentially 13 or 14 Celsius.
:31:38. > :31:42.Double-figure values in the sunshine across the south. What cloud
:31:43. > :31:46.developing in the Midlands, a few showers, and rain developing in
:31:47. > :31:49.north Wales and north-west England and stretching into Northern
:31:50. > :31:53.Ireland. Sunshine and blustery showers across Scotland. These will
:31:54. > :31:58.gradually ease through the day along with the wind. That area of low
:31:59. > :32:02.pressure moving off towards Scandinavia. It turns dry with clear
:32:03. > :32:09.spells for Scotland. Some clear spells in the south west, so it will
:32:10. > :32:13.be chilly with a touch of frost and some and fog. In central areas,
:32:14. > :32:18.Northern Ireland, the Midlands and south-east, holding the cloud and
:32:19. > :32:23.some outbreaks of rain. It will be fairly mild. Friday generally drier,
:32:24. > :32:28.a bit of rain in the north-west, but it should lift and allow some
:32:29. > :32:34.sunshine to develop. A cloudy day generally for Friday. It will still
:32:35. > :32:37.be mild with all the air coming in from the south and south-west.
:32:38. > :32:41.Double-figure 's foremost and feeling quite pleasant in the
:32:42. > :32:45.sunshine in the north-east. There will be areas of sunshine in
:32:46. > :32:50.central, southern and eastern parts of the UK, with the north-west
:32:51. > :32:55.seeing the biggest cloud and outbreaks of rain. The majority of
:32:56. > :32:58.England and Wales should stay dry with some good, sunny spells.
:32:59. > :33:03.Double-figure values for most. On Sunday, it's the north-west corner
:33:04. > :33:08.seeing the strongest winds and the biggest outbreaks of rain will stop
:33:09. > :33:11.the driest weather in central, southern and eastern areas.
:33:12. > :33:12.Double-figure values again. Those mild temperatures lasting into the
:33:13. > :33:15.start of next week. The new US Secretary
:33:16. > :33:17.of State, Rex Tillerson, is meeting his counterparts -
:33:18. > :33:20.including from Britain and Russia - On BBC One we now join the BBC's
:33:21. > :33:31.news teams where you are.