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A grim outlook for the economy
amid warnings that the UK | 0:00:04 | 0:00:07 | |
is in danger of losing two decades
of earnings growth. | 0:00:07 | 0:00:11 | |
The Chancellor says he hopes
to prove the predictions wrong | 0:00:11 | 0:00:14 | |
as Theresa May says the government
recognises the financial | 0:00:14 | 0:00:16 | |
pressures on people. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:20 | |
Both the Chancellor and I agree
that what the Budget | 0:00:20 | 0:00:23 | |
was about was about jobs for people
up and down the country. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:26 | |
It's about ensuring that
people are in work. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
Also this lunchtime... | 0:00:28 | 0:00:32 | |
More than 70 people are rescued
after heavy rainfall causes flooding | 0:00:32 | 0:00:34 | |
in parts of Lancashire and Cumbria. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
Jon Venables, who murdered toddler
Jamie Bulger 25 years ago, | 0:00:38 | 0:00:41 | |
is returned to prison
after being found with suspected | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
child abuse images. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
The 70th Ashes series is underway
in Australia and England have done | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
better than many expected. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:55 | |
I'm here in Brisbane,
where it's honours-even | 0:00:55 | 0:00:56 | |
between England and Australia
after day one of the Ashes. | 0:00:56 | 0:01:00 | |
And lighting up the planet
in just four years - | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
how the rapid growth of artificial
light in countries like India | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
is adding to light pollution. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:10 | |
And coming up in the
sport on BBC News... | 0:01:10 | 0:01:12 | |
Former England rugby league
international Rangi Chase has been | 0:01:12 | 0:01:14 | |
banned from all sports for two years
after testing positive | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
for cocaine in July. | 0:01:16 | 0:01:22 | |
Good afternoon and welcome
to the BBC News at One. | 0:01:41 | 0:01:44 | |
Britain is in danger of losing two
decades of earnings growth - | 0:01:44 | 0:01:46 | |
that's the warning from the economic
think tank, the Institute | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
for Fiscal Studies. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:53 | |
The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, says
he hopes to prove wrong the bleak | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
economic forecasts released
in yesterday's Budget. | 0:01:56 | 0:01:57 | |
He said the next couple of years
will bring clarity over Brexit | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
and that would increase consumer
confidence and help | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
the economy to grow faster. | 0:02:02 | 0:02:04 | |
Conservative MPs have rallied behind
the Chancellor, calling his Budget | 0:02:04 | 0:02:06 | |
solid and common-sense. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:08 | |
But Labour have accused
Mr Hammond of being "cut-off | 0:02:08 | 0:02:10 | |
from the real lives of people". | 0:02:10 | 0:02:12 | |
Our political correspondent
Eleanor Garner reports. | 0:02:12 | 0:02:21 | |
The Government's on fortunes might
not have been completely rebuilt but | 0:02:21 | 0:02:27 | |
the Chancellor's difficult day
passed off better than many had | 0:02:27 | 0:02:30 | |
hoped and at a building college in
Leeds both he and the Prime Minister | 0:02:30 | 0:02:34 | |
spelt out their plans for the
future. The Chancellor did a very | 0:02:34 | 0:02:38 | |
good job yesterday. He was setting
out how we will ensure we have an | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
economy fit for the future but both
the Chancellor and I agree that what | 0:02:42 | 0:02:46 | |
the budget was about was about jobs
for people and the country, about | 0:02:46 | 0:02:51 | |
ensuring people are in work without
income for their family. It's about | 0:02:51 | 0:03:02 | |
building the homes they need. He
might have safeguarded his own job | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
but the downgrade in economic growth
is the big problem on his hands. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
That is why we are investing in
infrastructure, in skills, why we | 0:03:08 | 0:03:10 | |
have taken big steps to encourage
high-growth businesses like the tech | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
sector which tend to be higher
productivity and lift the | 0:03:14 | 0:03:18 | |
performance of the economy overall.
Inside the Chancellor's read Budget | 0:03:18 | 0:03:24 | |
box, help for first time buyers plus
more money for the NHS and cash to | 0:03:24 | 0:03:28 | |
address concern over Universal
Credit. And he appeased to some of | 0:03:28 | 0:03:32 | |
his harshest critics, Conservative
fixity is, with £3 million to | 0:03:32 | 0:03:38 | |
prepare for leaving the EU. But
Labour said ordinary people have | 0:03:38 | 0:03:42 | |
been let down and accused the
Chancellor of failing to sort out | 0:03:42 | 0:03:47 | |
the country's finances. If you don't
invest in this economy, in the | 0:03:47 | 0:03:52 | |
infrastructure and schools, you will
have problems with productivity. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:56 | |
Seven years of this Government
failing to invest in our | 0:03:56 | 0:03:59 | |
infrastructure and properly in
skills and we now have a | 0:03:59 | 0:04:03 | |
productivity crisis. And now a
research group says the gloomy | 0:04:03 | 0:04:07 | |
economic news on top of the
Government's on policies will end up | 0:04:07 | 0:04:12 | |
punishing poorer communities. This
grim economic picture is affecting | 0:04:12 | 0:04:16 | |
all families and leading to lower
earnings growth across the spectrum | 0:04:16 | 0:04:20 | |
but it is the tax and benefit
policies of the Government that are | 0:04:20 | 0:04:24 | |
disproportionately taking away from
poorer families. He had very little | 0:04:24 | 0:04:29 | |
room for manoeuvre, both politically
and financially too, yet the | 0:04:29 | 0:04:33 | |
Chancellor seemed to pick off the
pressure point the Government had | 0:04:33 | 0:04:37 | |
been facing. But there is no getting
around the difficulties the UK | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
economy could be storing up for the
future. The Budget wasn't the | 0:04:41 | 0:04:46 | |
radical reboot many Tories had been
hoping for, but equally it wasn't | 0:04:46 | 0:04:50 | |
the disaster many had feared. Now
the Chancellor has silenced his | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
critics but the future certainly
remains challenging. | 0:04:55 | 0:04:57 | |
Our Assistant Political Editor
Norman Smith is in Westminster. | 0:04:57 | 0:05:05 | |
These warnings about the economy and
future will worry a lot of people, | 0:05:05 | 0:05:10 | |
has the Government done anything to
ease pressure on families and living | 0:05:10 | 0:05:15 | |
standards? Sophie, if you are of a
happy, optimistic disposition, may I | 0:05:15 | 0:05:20 | |
suggest you turn away now because
this morning we have had a whole | 0:05:20 | 0:05:24 | |
battery of independent forecasters
sketching out a pretty bleak future, | 0:05:24 | 0:05:27 | |
suggesting that we are now facing a
real economic slowdown which could | 0:05:27 | 0:05:33 | |
drag on for years and years and
years. One suggesting that living | 0:05:33 | 0:05:40 | |
standards are set to face the
biggest long-term pressure they have | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
faced since the 1950s, another
saying that wages in 2023 will be no | 0:05:43 | 0:05:49 | |
higher than they were in 2008. Happy
days it is not. The Chancellor's | 0:05:49 | 0:05:55 | |
view is we can either sit around,
stare at each other and plunge into | 0:05:55 | 0:06:01 | |
despair or try and do something
about it. His argument is that in | 0:06:01 | 0:06:06 | |
the Budget there are measures to try
to ease the pressure on family | 0:06:06 | 0:06:10 | |
budgets so the personal allowance
has been raised, fuel duty has been | 0:06:10 | 0:06:16 | |
frozen, help for home-buyers and
money going into research and | 0:06:16 | 0:06:19 | |
development to try to boost
productivity. I think the difficulty | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
is the scale, the enormity of the
changes and challenges identified by | 0:06:23 | 0:06:28 | |
these forecasters is such that it
might simply overwhelm these | 0:06:28 | 0:06:33 | |
incremental changes. For example
they point to the fact we are | 0:06:33 | 0:06:37 | |
becoming an older society, are less
productive society. Many people in | 0:06:37 | 0:06:42 | |
work are already doing maybe two or
three jobs to make up for the | 0:06:42 | 0:06:48 | |
squeeze on wages. There is in that
spare capacity to boost | 0:06:48 | 0:06:54 | |
productivity. But forecasters have
got it wrong before, spectacularly | 0:06:54 | 0:06:58 | |
wrong before, and I think we have to
hope they have got it wrong again. | 0:06:58 | 0:07:03 | |
Norman Smith in Westminster, thank
you. | 0:07:03 | 0:07:06 | |
Well, the major think tank
the Institute for Fiscal Studies has | 0:07:06 | 0:07:09 | |
been crunching the numbers
after the Budget. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:11 | |
It has calculated that
in four years' time, | 0:07:11 | 0:07:12 | |
growth in average earnings will be
£1,400 lower than was | 0:07:12 | 0:07:15 | |
predicted last year. | 0:07:15 | 0:07:16 | |
Our Economics correspondent
Andy Verity is outside | 0:07:16 | 0:07:17 | |
the IFS in Central London. | 0:07:17 | 0:07:22 | |
What have they been saying? Sophie,
as Norman was mentioning, it is all | 0:07:22 | 0:07:30 | |
about productivity. Before the
financial crisis it used to be the | 0:07:30 | 0:07:33 | |
case that each worker would produce
about 2% more than they did the | 0:07:33 | 0:07:37 | |
previous year and that drove
economic growth. You can either add | 0:07:37 | 0:07:42 | |
people to the economy to drive
economic growth, which was what we | 0:07:42 | 0:07:45 | |
have been largely doing for the last
ten years, or make each of those | 0:07:45 | 0:07:52 | |
people more productive. It is that
that is underlying the whole reason | 0:07:52 | 0:07:56 | |
for the squeeze on living standards.
If an employer isn't getting more | 0:07:56 | 0:08:02 | |
output from each employee, it is
harder for them to pay those | 0:08:02 | 0:08:05 | |
employees more than inflation. The
director for the Institute for | 0:08:05 | 0:08:09 | |
Fiscal Studies spoke to me earlier
and underlined how bad that living | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
standards squeeze was going to be.
The squeeze on living standards over | 0:08:13 | 0:08:17 | |
the decade so far is historically
unprecedented. What's remarkable is | 0:08:17 | 0:08:21 | |
it looks like we have got at least
another five years to go before we | 0:08:21 | 0:08:25 | |
get anywhere near to having earnings
back where they were in 2008. That | 0:08:25 | 0:08:31 | |
is wholly unprecedented, certainly
the worst since the mid-19th century | 0:08:31 | 0:08:36 | |
and possibly worse since even before
then. And the analysis the Institute | 0:08:36 | 0:08:43 | |
for Fiscal Studies is doing is going
on behind me in this building. The | 0:08:43 | 0:08:46 | |
unfortunate thing is they are saying
these forecasts on which these | 0:08:46 | 0:08:51 | |
gloomy predictions are being made
may be too optimistic. In fact the | 0:08:51 | 0:08:57 | |
OBR is predicting productivity will
improve by growth of 1% per year, | 0:08:57 | 0:09:01 | |
more than it's been for the last ten
years. The amount spent on housing | 0:09:01 | 0:09:06 | |
won't put much of a dent in the
problem, just 1.5 billion extra | 0:09:06 | 0:09:12 | |
pounds per year. This depends on the
forecast being right and the | 0:09:12 | 0:09:16 | |
policies being implemented, neither
of those are certain. Andy Verity, | 0:09:16 | 0:09:21 | |
thank you. | 0:09:21 | 0:09:23 | |
Dozens of people had to be rescued
from their homes in parts of Cumbria | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
and Lancashire last night
after heavy rainfall | 0:09:27 | 0:09:28 | |
caused flooding. | 0:09:28 | 0:09:29 | |
More than 70 people were helped
to safety after the emergency | 0:09:29 | 0:09:32 | |
services received hundreds of calls. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:33 | |
A number of flood warnings
are still in place. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:35 | |
Our correspondent
Danny Savage reports. | 0:09:35 | 0:09:37 | |
After hours of heavy rain,
the river in Galgate near Lancaster | 0:09:37 | 0:09:39 | |
finally burst its banks last night,
causing chaos and misery. | 0:09:39 | 0:09:44 | |
People had realised flooding
was imminent and tried | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
to get their belongings to safety. | 0:09:46 | 0:09:49 | |
It just came in faster and faster
and faster and there came a point | 0:09:49 | 0:09:52 | |
where we were bucketing it out,
bailing it out. | 0:09:52 | 0:09:55 | |
We had pumps going. | 0:09:55 | 0:09:57 | |
It came a point where it was bucket
versus river and the river won. | 0:09:57 | 0:10:00 | |
And it is now like this. | 0:10:00 | 0:10:01 | |
I have lifted as much as I can
from the ground-floor | 0:10:01 | 0:10:04 | |
but there are bikes down there,
my cooker's gone, my boiler, washing | 0:10:04 | 0:10:07 | |
machine, dishwasher, everything. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:08 | |
This morning, the water had receded
and left a familiar scene | 0:10:08 | 0:10:11 | |
of salvage and disposal. | 0:10:11 | 0:10:13 | |
The water wasn't in for long
but it doesn't have to be. | 0:10:13 | 0:10:16 | |
A few minutes is enough
to destroy and ruin. | 0:10:16 | 0:10:19 | |
No warning. | 0:10:19 | 0:10:26 | |
The warning was the people
on the street going, "Argh, | 0:10:26 | 0:10:28 | |
we need some help!" | 0:10:28 | 0:10:29 | |
Or the road was just coming
up and water was just | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
gushing everywhere. | 0:10:32 | 0:10:35 | |
Further north in Cumbria,
water caused more problems | 0:10:35 | 0:10:37 | |
in a county familiar with flooding. | 0:10:37 | 0:10:39 | |
They had prepared for the worst
here, with the emergency | 0:10:39 | 0:10:41 | |
services sent to help. | 0:10:41 | 0:10:42 | |
There was trouble
for travellers, too. | 0:10:42 | 0:10:44 | |
The West Coast Main Line
was flooded north of Preston, | 0:10:44 | 0:10:48 | |
leading to long delays,
and that dreaded alternative - | 0:10:48 | 0:10:50 | |
the rail replacement bus service. | 0:10:50 | 0:10:53 | |
North Wales was hit as well. | 0:10:53 | 0:10:55 | |
Many roads in Anglesey were flooded,
leaving people unable to get | 0:10:55 | 0:10:58 | |
to where they wanted to. | 0:10:58 | 0:11:00 | |
Pretty bad, believe me. | 0:11:00 | 0:11:05 | |
The river was flowing down
this side of the road, | 0:11:05 | 0:11:07 | |
instead of down where the river is. | 0:11:07 | 0:11:09 | |
I've never seen anything like it
in 70 years I've been living here. | 0:11:09 | 0:11:12 | |
It's just unbelievable. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:13 | |
I've never seen anything
like it in my life and I've | 0:11:13 | 0:11:16 | |
been brought up here. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:16 | |
And it was just, well, shocking. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:21 | |
Once again, the vulnerability
of parts of north-west England | 0:11:21 | 0:11:23 | |
and Wales to heavy rain
has been highlighted. | 0:11:23 | 0:11:26 | |
Is this the start of
another long, wet winter? | 0:11:26 | 0:11:29 | |
Danny Savage, BBC News, Lancashire. | 0:11:29 | 0:11:35 | |
The Labour Party says
it is suspending the MP | 0:11:35 | 0:11:37 | |
for Bury South, Ivan Lewis. | 0:11:37 | 0:11:39 | |
In a statement a party
spokesman said... | 0:11:39 | 0:11:41 | |
"The Labour Party takes
all allegations of sexual harassment | 0:11:41 | 0:11:43 | |
extremely seriously. | 0:11:43 | 0:11:44 | |
Ivan Lewis is currently suspended
from the Labour Party | 0:11:44 | 0:11:47 | |
pending an investigation." | 0:11:47 | 0:11:50 | |
One of the people who killed
the toddler James Bulger in 1993 has | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
been returned to prison for a second
time after suspected child | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
abuse images were found
on a computer linked to him. | 0:11:57 | 0:12:00 | |
Jon Venables, along
with Robert Thompson, | 0:12:00 | 0:12:03 | |
tortured and killed the two-year-old
in Liverpool when they themselves | 0:12:03 | 0:12:05 | |
were just children. | 0:12:05 | 0:12:06 | |
Our Home Affairs correspondent
Daniel Sandford is here. | 0:12:06 | 0:12:13 | |
What more do you know about this?
These are images which appear to be | 0:12:13 | 0:12:19 | |
illegal images of child abuse, there
is now a police investigation going | 0:12:19 | 0:12:22 | |
on. They were found on a computer
linked to Jon Venables during a | 0:12:22 | 0:12:28 | |
routine visit last week. He was
returned to prison and the police | 0:12:28 | 0:12:32 | |
are investigating but the issue for
the authorities is that he actually | 0:12:32 | 0:12:36 | |
pleaded guilty in 2010 to child
abuse images found on his computer. | 0:12:36 | 0:12:41 | |
He was returned to prison at that
point and released again in 2013, | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
all of that after having been
released in 2001 is quite | 0:12:45 | 0:12:50 | |
controversially, less than eight
years after the murder of James | 0:12:50 | 0:12:53 | |
Bulger. For those who don't
remember, Jon Venables was ten years | 0:12:53 | 0:12:57 | |
old when he was convicted of
murdering two-year-old James Bulger | 0:12:57 | 0:13:02 | |
after torturing him in a shopping
centre. James Bulger's mother | 0:13:02 | 0:13:07 | |
reacted strongly last night on
Facebook saying, I'm absolutely | 0:13:07 | 0:13:11 | |
fuming that once again on the loss
to know. This happened a week ago | 0:13:11 | 0:13:15 | |
and I've only got informed hours
before it hit the press. In a longer | 0:13:15 | 0:13:22 | |
statement, she said "I predicted
Venables would reoffend unless they | 0:13:22 | 0:13:25 | |
kept a tight rein on him and I pray
now that someone from the UK | 0:13:25 | 0:13:29 | |
Government will finally listen to
me". So a lot of strong words from | 0:13:29 | 0:13:36 | |
James Bulger's mother. Thank you. | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
Zimbabwe is getting ready
for the presidential inauguration | 0:13:38 | 0:13:40 | |
tomorrow of Emmerson Mnangagwa,
the former vice president whose | 0:13:40 | 0:13:43 | |
sacking a fortnight ago led
to the sudden demise | 0:13:43 | 0:13:45 | |
of Robert Mugabe. | 0:13:45 | 0:13:47 | |
Mr Mnangagwa will be only the second
leader Zimbabwe has had in 37 years. | 0:13:47 | 0:13:50 | |
Ben Brown is in the capital Harare,
where more celebrations | 0:13:50 | 0:13:53 | |
are expected tomorrow. | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
The new president will be sworn in
tomorrow, is already promising a new | 0:14:00 | 0:14:05 | |
democracy here and jobs, jobs, jobs.
Meanwhile there's an unconfirmed | 0:14:05 | 0:14:11 | |
report today that Robert Mugabe has
been granted immunity from | 0:14:11 | 0:14:15 | |
prosecution. He has said he wants to
stay and die in Zimbabwe and not go | 0:14:15 | 0:14:20 | |
into exile. We have been asking
people on the streets here in Harare | 0:14:20 | 0:14:24 | |
whether they think he and his wife
Grace should be prosecuted. | 0:14:24 | 0:14:29 | |
As for Mugabe, he can be left alone. | 0:14:29 | 0:14:31 | |
After all, it's his wealth
that he has acquired so far, | 0:14:31 | 0:14:33 | |
and he can have it all. | 0:14:33 | 0:14:35 | |
The deed has been done. | 0:14:35 | 0:14:36 | |
The thing that people have been
wanting all this time, | 0:14:36 | 0:14:38 | |
for 37 years, it's OK,
it has been done, | 0:14:38 | 0:14:40 | |
we are happy so far. | 0:14:40 | 0:14:42 | |
But his wife, well, I bet my bottom
dollar she should be prosecuted. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:46 | |
We're happy with what they have
done, removing him, | 0:14:46 | 0:14:49 | |
and it is what we have
been hoping for. | 0:14:49 | 0:14:52 | |
So you think he should
be prosecuted? | 0:14:52 | 0:14:56 | |
Yes, he had to be prosecuted
for the things he did, | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
but there's nothing we could do
about it, but we're hoping | 0:14:59 | 0:15:01 | |
he will be prosecuted. | 0:15:01 | 0:15:04 | |
And what about Grace, his wife? | 0:15:04 | 0:15:06 | |
We would want her to be
prosecuted, definitely. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:12 | |
I think he should be prosecuted
because he did a lot | 0:15:12 | 0:15:16 | |
of scandals during his era,
so I think that decision. | 0:15:16 | 0:15:22 | |
You think he should be put on trial? | 0:15:22 | 0:15:24 | |
Yeah, he must be put on trial. | 0:15:24 | 0:15:27 | |
I'm joined here by an opposition
member of Parliament. James, do you | 0:15:31 | 0:15:39 | |
think Mr Mugabe should be
prosecuted? Yes, he is a Zimbabwean | 0:15:39 | 0:15:48 | |
citizen like the rest of us. You
think he committed crimes? Yes, and | 0:15:48 | 0:15:55 | |
one of the reason I impeached him is
because he committed crimes against | 0:15:55 | 0:15:59 | |
humanity. 20,000 people died in his
role in the period between 1982 and | 0:15:59 | 0:16:06 | |
1987 and that cannot be swept under
the carpet. A new president sworn in | 0:16:06 | 0:16:11 | |
tomorrow, promising a new democracy,
do you believe him? The taste of the | 0:16:11 | 0:16:17 | |
pudding is in the eating. Until he
is in office, I really don't want to | 0:16:17 | 0:16:22 | |
judge him. Let him get into office
and his first 100 days we will be | 0:16:22 | 0:16:27 | |
able to determine whether here's a
good president. OK, thank you. | 0:16:27 | 0:16:34 | |
Certainly all Zimbabweans I think
keeping a wary eye on the new | 0:16:34 | 0:16:40 | |
president. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
Our top story this lunchtime... | 0:16:42 | 0:16:43 | |
A grim outlook for the economy -
amid warnings that the UK | 0:16:43 | 0:16:46 | |
is in danger of losing two decades
of earnings growth, Theresa May says | 0:16:46 | 0:16:49 | |
the Government recognises
the financial pressures people face. | 0:16:49 | 0:16:51 | |
Coming up... | 0:16:51 | 0:16:53 | |
Good news for coffee drinkers -
three to four mugs a day may | 0:16:53 | 0:16:56 | |
have health benefits. | 0:16:56 | 0:16:58 | |
Coming up in sport... | 0:16:58 | 0:16:59 | |
England rugby union
captain Dylan Hartley | 0:16:59 | 0:17:01 | |
will not start a match for the first
time under head coach Eddie Jones. | 0:17:01 | 0:17:05 | |
Jamie George will start
against Samoa as one of nine | 0:17:05 | 0:17:07 | |
changes to the starting 15. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:11 | |
Smaug across cities and towns in the
UK is causing increasing concern, as | 0:17:22 | 0:17:26 | |
Britain fails to hit it air
pollution targets. | 0:17:26 | 0:17:30 | |
Today, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan
called for a Clean Air Act suitable | 0:17:30 | 0:17:33 | |
for the 21st Century,
as MPs from four separate committees | 0:17:33 | 0:17:35 | |
conduct a "super enquiry" asking
whether the Government is doing | 0:17:35 | 0:17:38 | |
enough to cut illegal
levels of pollution. | 0:17:38 | 0:17:40 | |
Our environment analyst
Roger Harrabin reports. | 0:17:40 | 0:17:45 | |
A message from children to the
people who govern them - give us air | 0:17:45 | 0:17:50 | |
that's fit to breathe. These
youngsters petitioning Downing | 0:17:50 | 0:17:53 | |
Street attend schools where
pollution levels break the law. It | 0:17:53 | 0:17:57 | |
is quite bad for the children at our
school because our front playground | 0:17:57 | 0:18:00 | |
is right next to a busy road and
that's really not good for our | 0:18:00 | 0:18:06 | |
health. Members of four
Parliamentary committees are | 0:18:06 | 0:18:11 | |
conducting what is being dubbed a
super inquiry into air pollution. | 0:18:11 | 0:18:14 | |
MPs were told the UK needs a new
clean air act. The act of 1950s was | 0:18:14 | 0:18:25 | |
brought about because of the great
smoke. Factories were churning out | 0:18:25 | 0:18:32 | |
this stuff and smoke suffered
outside, leading to thousands of | 0:18:32 | 0:18:37 | |
people dying. You could see it.
Politicians in the 50s passed the | 0:18:37 | 0:18:41 | |
clean air act. Diesel vehicles are
the biggest cause of the problem. In | 0:18:41 | 0:18:46 | |
the budget yesterday, the Chancellor
did increase attacks on dirty diesel | 0:18:46 | 0:18:51 | |
cars but not vans. We only apply
this measure to cars so before the | 0:18:51 | 0:18:57 | |
headline writers start limbering up,
let me be clear, no white van man or | 0:18:57 | 0:19:03 | |
woman will be hit by these measures. | 0:19:03 | 0:19:13 | |
The Chancellor also announced £220
million for a air formed. It could | 0:19:13 | 0:19:20 | |
have been used to help people get
out of their diesel car and make a | 0:19:20 | 0:19:25 | |
switch to alternative forms of
transport. But this is a complex | 0:19:25 | 0:19:29 | |
problem. Pollution also comes from
construction machinery, from gas | 0:19:29 | 0:19:35 | |
boilers, from farming even, from
wood fires. And from our car tyres | 0:19:35 | 0:19:41 | |
as they wear down. The Government
insists it is cleaning up the air as | 0:19:41 | 0:19:45 | |
fast as it can. It says it doesn't
want to dictate policy to local | 0:19:45 | 0:19:51 | |
councils. For years, air pollution
has been a non-issue in the media, | 0:19:51 | 0:19:57 | |
but for parents, children,
pedestrians, cyclists, it's an issue | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
now and it's not likely to go away. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:06 | |
The physical and mental health
of around 15,000 former | 0:20:06 | 0:20:08 | |
professional footballers
is going to be studied | 0:20:08 | 0:20:09 | |
by researchers who are trying
to determine the long term impact | 0:20:09 | 0:20:12 | |
of heading a football. | 0:20:12 | 0:20:15 | |
The FA and the Professional
Footballers' Association have | 0:20:15 | 0:20:17 | |
commissioned the research growing
concern about the long-term | 0:20:17 | 0:20:19 | |
effect that contact sport
can have on the brain. | 0:20:19 | 0:20:21 | |
Our sports correspondent
Joe Wilson is here. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:30 | |
They are looking at 15,000 former
professional footballers. It begs | 0:20:30 | 0:20:33 | |
the question, why only now? A good
question. I am sure that is the | 0:20:33 | 0:20:39 | |
question that the family of a former
professional England player who died | 0:20:39 | 0:20:43 | |
in 2002 will be asking. He was a
centre forward and headed the ball a | 0:20:43 | 0:20:46 | |
great deal. After his death, the
coroner at the inquest made a direct | 0:20:46 | 0:20:50 | |
link between the effects of
repeatedly heading the football and | 0:20:50 | 0:20:53 | |
the brain injury that ultimately
caused his death. Research has begun | 0:20:53 | 0:20:58 | |
and has been stops start. The FA are
saying they hope this will be the | 0:20:58 | 0:21:01 | |
most con brands of studies ever
commission. -- one of the most | 0:21:01 | 0:21:08 | |
comprehensive. They are going to
compare the life experience of those | 0:21:08 | 0:21:12 | |
players to normal individuals to try
to work out if there is any concrete | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
link between heading the football
and long-term degenerative brain | 0:21:16 | 0:21:20 | |
injury. But we know it is going to
take two or three years, they say, | 0:21:20 | 0:21:25 | |
and even the doctor who is leading
this in Glasgow, who has been a | 0:21:25 | 0:21:29 | |
leading voice, in his words he wants
to establish some understanding. So, | 0:21:29 | 0:21:35 | |
whether the concrete link will be
proved, we will wait and see but | 0:21:35 | 0:21:38 | |
people say it is long overdue. You
can imagine worried parents. Your | 0:21:38 | 0:21:43 | |
kids play football, mine do. What do
parents to? It is a good point | 0:21:43 | 0:21:48 | |
because this is looking at
professional football but it is such | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
a wide mass participation sport and
you see a ten or 11-year-old heading | 0:21:52 | 0:21:56 | |
the ball, part of you wants to say,
"Well done, that's great," and part | 0:21:56 | 0:22:00 | |
of you wonders whether you should
tell them for doing that. In the | 0:22:00 | 0:22:04 | |
United States already you aren't
allowed to head a football under 11. | 0:22:04 | 0:22:09 | |
We all know the real benefits that
come with playing sport, especially | 0:22:09 | 0:22:13 | |
perhaps team sports, and the dangers
of inactivity. Indeed. Thank you. | 0:22:13 | 0:22:19 | |
A toddler has died in hospital
after being discovered seriously | 0:22:19 | 0:22:21 | |
hurt at a house in Birmingham. | 0:22:21 | 0:22:23 | |
Police say the 21-month-old girl,
found at a house in the Northfield | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
area of Birmingham on Sunday,
died at the city's children's | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
hospital yesterday evening. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:33 | |
A 30-year-old woman
and a 28-year-old man have been | 0:22:33 | 0:22:35 | |
arrested on suspicion of causing
or allowing serious | 0:22:35 | 0:22:37 | |
injury to a child. | 0:22:37 | 0:22:40 | |
There's some good news
for coffee drinkers. | 0:22:40 | 0:22:42 | |
Research published in
the British Medical Journal suggests | 0:22:42 | 0:22:44 | |
that drinking three to four
mugs of coffee a day, | 0:22:44 | 0:22:46 | |
compared to drinking none,
is more likely to benefit your | 0:22:46 | 0:22:48 | |
health than cause harm. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
Researchers say it's linked
to a lower likelihood | 0:22:50 | 0:22:52 | |
of developing heart problems. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:53 | |
Helen Briggs reports. | 0:22:53 | 0:23:03 | |
A daily caffeine fix. For many of us
it is an essential part of the day | 0:23:05 | 0:23:09 | |
but it has long been debated whether
that cup of coffee is good or bad | 0:23:09 | 0:23:13 | |
for you. | 0:23:13 | 0:23:16 | |
I think any more than two cups
of coffee kind of accelerates | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
the stress a bit more so I draw
the line at two. | 0:23:18 | 0:23:21 | |
I feel like most things
are good in moderation | 0:23:21 | 0:23:24 | |
and if you drink good coffee,
then it should be | 0:23:24 | 0:23:26 | |
good for your health. | 0:23:26 | 0:23:27 | |
I can sometimes drink about six cups
and then I can't sleep at night. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
So it's learning
what that balance is. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:34 | |
To try to find the answer,
doctors at the University | 0:23:34 | 0:23:40 | |
of Southampton sifted through 200
studies, looking at how | 0:23:40 | 0:23:42 | |
coffee affects the body. | 0:23:42 | 0:23:45 | |
They say the benefits of drinking
3-4 cups a day outweigh the risks | 0:23:45 | 0:23:52 | |
for most people. | 0:23:52 | 0:23:55 | |
Pregnant women are still advised to
limit consumption. Coffee drinking | 0:23:55 | 0:24:00 | |
was linked to a lower evidence of
heart disease and some cancers that | 0:24:00 | 0:24:05 | |
the researchers could not prove
coffee drinking was the cause. The | 0:24:05 | 0:24:08 | |
doctor who carried out the research
says unbalance coffee in moderation | 0:24:08 | 0:24:11 | |
is likely to be beneficial. Most of
the studies have been an caffeinated | 0:24:11 | 0:24:18 | |
coffee but there is less evidence on
decaffeinated but where we have | 0:24:18 | 0:24:20 | |
looked at those, they seem to find
some of the benefits that are there | 0:24:20 | 0:24:26 | |
with caffeine aided studies,
suggesting it is more than just | 0:24:26 | 0:24:31 | |
caffeine and that coffee has a lot
of active substances that might be | 0:24:31 | 0:24:33 | |
good for our long-term health. And
experts say further studies are | 0:24:33 | 0:24:39 | |
needed before drinking coffee to
prevent disease could be | 0:24:39 | 0:24:42 | |
recommended, not least because it is
often accompanied by cream, sugary | 0:24:42 | 0:24:47 | |
syrup or cake. Helen Briggs, BBC
News. | 0:24:47 | 0:24:59 | |
The UK has been told that none of
its towns and cities can now compete | 0:25:07 | 0:25:12 | |
to the European capital of culture. | 0:25:12 | 0:25:25 | |
The 70th Ashes series
is under way in Australia, | 0:25:26 | 0:25:28 | |
and England have done
better than many expected. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
They reached 196-4 at the end
of the first day in Brisbane. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:33 | |
They recovered from the loss
of Alastair Cook in the third over, | 0:25:33 | 0:25:36 | |
with Mark Stone and James Vince
sharing a partnership of 125 | 0:25:36 | 0:25:39 | |
on their Ashes debuts. | 0:25:39 | 0:25:40 | |
Our sports correspondent
Andy Swiss sent this report. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:42 | |
It is almost a national hobby.
Beating England is what Australia | 0:25:42 | 0:25:44 | |
have done so often hear and their
fans flocked to the stadium with the | 0:25:44 | 0:25:48 | |
confidence to match the visitors'
caution. Without Ben Stokes, | 0:25:48 | 0:25:52 | |
England's low-key line-up began as
the Ashes underdogs and after opting | 0:25:52 | 0:25:56 | |
to bat, it didn't take long to see
why. Mitchell Starc snaring Alastair | 0:25:56 | 0:26:00 | |
Cook for just two. The script seemed
worryingly familiar. Australia's | 0:26:00 | 0:26:07 | |
pace man floundering in. Instead of
a collapse, a comeback. Not many | 0:26:07 | 0:26:13 | |
expected James Vince to be picked
for this tour but he set about | 0:26:13 | 0:26:16 | |
showing why, as Australia's passion
was dampened with a rain delay | 0:26:16 | 0:26:21 | |
helping England feel even more at
home. The hosts' much hyped attack | 0:26:21 | 0:26:27 | |
looking toothless until this.
Stoneman in statically bold for 53 | 0:26:27 | 0:26:34 | |
before a moment of brilliance in the
field from Nathan Lyon. After his | 0:26:34 | 0:26:39 | |
pre-Ashes fighting talk, some way to
back it up. Vince ran out for 83 and | 0:26:39 | 0:26:44 | |
suddenly the pendulum had beard
Australia's way. Joe Root surviving | 0:26:44 | 0:26:49 | |
an LBW decision but not for long.
The review showed he was out, the | 0:26:49 | 0:26:53 | |
skipper gone for 15. Before a view
morale boosting blows from Moeen Ali | 0:26:53 | 0:27:00 | |
help to guide England through to the
close. For the fans, a first day of | 0:27:00 | 0:27:06 | |
fluctuating fortunes. England's
impressive start followed by | 0:27:06 | 0:27:10 | |
Australia's late resurgence. The
early signs suggest this could be a | 0:27:10 | 0:27:13 | |
competitive series. I think about
moment it is reasonably even. The | 0:27:13 | 0:27:20 | |
first hour tomorrow will determine
how we look back at day one. Getting | 0:27:20 | 0:27:26 | |
through that new ball early in the
morning and hopefully building up | 0:27:26 | 0:27:30 | |
towards 300, 350, 400 if we go well.
And absorbing start to the Ashes but | 0:27:30 | 0:27:35 | |
England know the hard work has only
just begun. | 0:27:35 | 0:27:41 | |
Satellite images of the Earth
at night have revealed that | 0:27:41 | 0:27:44 | |
artificial light is getting brighter
and brighter every year. | 0:27:44 | 0:27:46 | |
Light pollution is expanding
across the planet by more than 2% | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
a year thanks to more and more
lights going on in South | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
America, Africa and Asia. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:52 | |
Scientists say the increase in light
pollution will have negative | 0:27:52 | 0:27:55 | |
consequences for human health
and the environment - | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
as our science reporter,
Victoria Gill, explains. | 0:27:57 | 0:28:03 | |
As the sun goes down on towns
and cities, the lights go on. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:06 | |
And those lights are getting
brighter all the time. | 0:28:06 | 0:28:10 | |
These images, gathered by a sensor
on a Nasa satellite, | 0:28:10 | 0:28:14 | |
show that more and more
of our planet is now | 0:28:14 | 0:28:16 | |
artificially lit. | 0:28:16 | 0:28:20 | |
I can remember back to the time
when I was a grad student and first | 0:28:20 | 0:28:23 | |
saw the pictures of Earth at night. | 0:28:23 | 0:28:25 | |
I was really astounded by how
beautiful they were. | 0:28:25 | 0:28:27 | |
But, of course, you have to think
that this is a very dramatic | 0:28:27 | 0:28:31 | |
physical change to the biosphere
and it actually costs | 0:28:31 | 0:28:33 | |
a massive amount of money,
so it's really kind of a problem. | 0:28:33 | 0:28:36 | |
In developing nations, including
India, the increase was dramatic, | 0:28:36 | 0:28:38 | |
from this in 2012... | 0:28:38 | 0:28:43 | |
to this in 2016. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:45 | |
The researchers expected that most
developed nations would actually | 0:28:45 | 0:28:48 | |
darken as they changed the type
of street lighting they used, | 0:28:48 | 0:28:53 | |
from older orange glaring lamps
to more efficient LED bulbs. | 0:28:53 | 0:28:56 | |
But that hasn't happened. | 0:28:56 | 0:29:03 | |
Urban bright spots in the UK
and other nations in Europe continue | 0:29:03 | 0:29:06 | |
to glow even more intensely
intensely, as towns and cities | 0:29:06 | 0:29:08 | |
increased their outdoor lighting. | 0:29:08 | 0:29:10 | |
That orangey glow in the sky
above the city, it's all too | 0:29:10 | 0:29:13 | |
familiar to so many of us. | 0:29:13 | 0:29:14 | |
It stops most of us from seeing
a natural night sky but it also has | 0:29:14 | 0:29:18 | |
an impact on our health. | 0:29:18 | 0:29:19 | |
Night-time lighting,
especially the blue light from LEDs, | 0:29:19 | 0:29:23 | |
can reset our internal body clocks,
depriving us of valuable sleep. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:28 | |
And in the environment,
it can disrupt cues that nocturnal | 0:29:28 | 0:29:31 | |
animals like bats rely on. | 0:29:31 | 0:29:33 | |
It has even been found to shift some
fundamental seasonal clockwork, | 0:29:33 | 0:29:37 | |
influencing the timing of plant
flowering and bird migration. | 0:29:37 | 0:29:41 | |
Scientists say that images
like these are evidence that we're | 0:29:41 | 0:29:44 | |
losing our natural night-time. | 0:29:44 | 0:29:45 | |
Victoria Gill, BBC News. | 0:29:45 | 0:29:50 | |
Time for a look at the weather. | 0:29:50 | 0:29:52 | |
Here's Tomasz Schafernaker. | 0:29:52 | 0:29:54 | |
It is going to be a lot colder this
weekend. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:02 | |
It certainly is. Frost is on the way
before I shed light on the forecast, | 0:30:02 | 0:30:06 | |
I am going. About the dreadful rain
in the north because that was | 0:30:06 | 0:30:11 | |
terrible. I want to point out that
it was actually a relatively small | 0:30:11 | 0:30:13 | |
area and it was disastrous in the
area itself but many areas didn't as | 0:30:13 | 0:30:16 | |
much rainfall. It was a persistent
area of rain that kept coming and | 0:30:16 | 0:30:22 | |
coming and in the space of one hour
in one or two locations, that's when | 0:30:22 | 0:30:26 | |
we have most of the rainfall and we
had the wind in so many parts of the | 0:30:26 | 0:30:30 | |
UK. But now I think the worst of the
rain and wind has cleared and we are | 0:30:30 | 0:30:34 | |
in for a cold snap. The air in the
jet stream is bringing colder air | 0:30:34 | 0:30:42 | |
from the North. This is what happens
around the globe, you get these tips | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
and peaks and troughs of mild and
cold so we are in this tip of cold | 0:30:45 | 0:30:50 | |
air and with that, also, wind and
air coming all the way from the far | 0:30:50 | 0:30:54 | |
north, from the Norwegian Sea, and
that will be in place across the UK | 0:30:54 | 0:30:57 | |
for quite a few days, probably for
the rest of this month and we will | 0:30:57 | 0:31:02 | |
experience some chilly weather.
Let's start the forecast, 4pm across | 0:31:02 | 0:31:07 | |
Scotland. Wintry showers and we have
had a doze of snow already, nothing | 0:31:07 | 0:31:11 | |
unusual and perhaps surprising this
late in the season we are seeing | 0:31:11 | 0:31:15 | |
some of that's no. Towards the
south, a clear end to the day but | 0:31:15 | 0:31:18 | |
one thing to point out is that
temperatures will drop very rapidly | 0:31:18 | 0:31:20 | |
through the course of this evening
so rather than temperatures rising | 0:31:20 | 0:31:23 | |
through the day, they will be
dipping away, such as the extent of | 0:31:23 | 0:31:27 | |
that cold air coming out of the
North. Through tonight, briefly, | 0:31:27 | 0:31:34 | |
some rain still for a time across
the South, clearing away, maybe the | 0:31:34 | 0:31:37 | |
far south of England by the early
hours of Friday morning, so most of | 0:31:37 | 0:31:40 | |
us wake up to clear skies, chilly
weather and a frost from the North | 0:31:40 | 0:31:45 | |
Midlands northwards. That is where
it will be frosty first thing on | 0:31:45 | 0:31:50 | |
Friday. Friday, a bright, crisp,
sunny day for many of us that there | 0:31:50 | 0:31:54 | |
will be some showers across Scotland
and Northern Ireland and maybe one | 0:31:54 | 0:31:59 | |
or two pesky ones developing in the
far south and south-west of the | 0:31:59 | 0:32:02 | |
country. From then onwards, it is
really chilly. We have wings are | 0:32:02 | 0:32:07 | |
straight from the North so some
frosty nights on the way. It will | 0:32:07 | 0:32:10 | |
feel chilly, particularly across the
North, and it is not to sunshine | 0:32:10 | 0:32:14 | |
because there will be showers
around, particularly on Saturday, | 0:32:14 | 0:32:18 | |
across many northern and
north-western areas but by far the | 0:32:18 | 0:32:20 | |
best of the weather on Saturday will
be across the south, the south-east | 0:32:20 | 0:32:25 | |
and eastern areas. Sunday morning
dawns on a very chilly note. There | 0:32:25 | 0:32:28 | |
will be a widespread frost around
and a lot of bright weather for the | 0:32:28 | 0:32:35 | |
day itself and look at the
temperatures, you have to go down to | 0:32:35 | 0:32:37 | |
the Channel Islands before you get
temperatures of around 10 degrees, | 0:32:37 | 0:32:40 | |
quite tropical compared to what will
be happening in the far north of the | 0:32:40 | 0:32:44 | |
country with temperatures into
single figures. So, yes, colder | 0:32:44 | 0:32:48 | |
weather for sure on the way. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:52 |