0:00:05 > 0:00:10A stark claim by doctors - winter pressures have left
0:00:10 > 0:00:13patients dying prematurely in hospital corridors.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16They say safety in A&E units in England and Wales
0:00:16 > 0:00:22is being compromised at a sometimes "intolerable" level.
0:00:22 > 0:00:25There is a clear emergency and what a number of other observers
0:00:25 > 0:00:28have clearly described as a crisis.
0:00:28 > 0:00:32The doctors' warning comes as A&E waiting time targets in England
0:00:32 > 0:00:34and Wales hit their lowest level in 14 years.
0:00:34 > 0:00:37Also on tonight's programme.
0:00:37 > 0:00:40The plastic pollution problem - the Government lays out plans to cut
0:00:40 > 0:00:44out all unnecessary plastic use.
0:00:44 > 0:00:45The desperate search continues for those still unaccounted
0:00:45 > 0:00:53for after the California mudslides.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55I am 22 years old...
0:00:55 > 0:00:58The vlogger punished by You Tube - after posting film of a suicide
0:00:58 > 0:01:01victim for his millions of followers.
0:01:01 > 0:01:04And which shops sparkled and who had a takings turkey?
0:01:04 > 0:01:08The winners and losers on the high street this Christmas.
0:01:08 > 0:01:11And coming up on Sportsday on BBC News, Roger Federer is back to
0:01:11 > 0:01:14defend his title, but how did the British hopes fair in the draw
0:01:14 > 0:01:22for the Australian Open?
0:01:36 > 0:01:38Good evening.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41Patients are dying in hospital corridors in Accident and Emergency
0:01:41 > 0:01:46departments in England and Wales because safety has been compromised
0:01:46 > 0:01:47by "intolerable" conditions.
0:01:47 > 0:01:51That's the blunt warning made in a letter to Theresa May,
0:01:51 > 0:01:58signed by 68 senior doctors who run A&E departments.
0:01:58 > 0:01:59Today there's fresh evidence of the pressure
0:01:59 > 0:02:01those units are under.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04Over 300,000 patients waited longer than they should in December.
0:02:04 > 0:02:0985% of patients were seen in four hours - the 95% target -
0:02:09 > 0:02:12the figure equals the previous low recorded last January.
0:02:12 > 0:02:18Our Heath Editor Hugh Pym has the story.
0:02:18 > 0:02:23Serious concerns about patient safety and an intolerable situation.
0:02:23 > 0:02:27Strong words from senior front line doctors in a letter
0:02:27 > 0:02:29to the Prime Minister.
0:02:29 > 0:02:32With scenes like this filmed by a patient in a hospital,
0:02:32 > 0:02:36the warnings are echoed by some medical leaders.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39There is no doubt that our emergency departments are facing the biggest
0:02:39 > 0:02:47crisis that we have had for over 15 years.
0:02:47 > 0:02:49We absolutely must work together as system leaders at every level
0:02:49 > 0:02:52in order to find both short-term and medium-term solutions.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55The letter from the A&E consultants sets out the impact of the pressure
0:02:55 > 0:02:57and their own experiences.
0:02:57 > 0:02:58Over 120 patients a day managed in corridors,
0:02:58 > 0:03:04some dying prematurely.
0:03:04 > 0:03:08An average of 10-12 hours from decision to admit a patient
0:03:08 > 0:03:10until they are transferred to a bed, and patients sleeping in clinics
0:03:10 > 0:03:12as makeshift wards.
0:03:12 > 0:03:16They say NHS winter planning failed to deliver what was needed.
0:03:16 > 0:03:18But the Prime Minister insisted that significant measures
0:03:18 > 0:03:19had been put in place.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21For the first time ever, urgent GP appointments
0:03:21 > 0:03:25being available throughout the Christmas period.
0:03:25 > 0:03:31That was a decision taken to improve the service for people,
0:03:31 > 0:03:34but also to ensure that the NHS had that better capacity to deal
0:03:34 > 0:03:35with these winter pressures.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38For the opposition, the problem is really about funding.
0:03:38 > 0:03:39The money has to go in now.
0:03:39 > 0:03:44But it should have gone in earlier.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47Even if the Chancellor announced billions today, we can't
0:03:47 > 0:03:48spend it all by tomorrow.
0:03:48 > 0:03:51Is that the one that you want?
0:03:51 > 0:03:55While the debate goes on, Rosie can only reflect
0:03:55 > 0:03:57on a humiliating experience in A&E.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59She was in severe pain because of a gynaecological problem
0:03:59 > 0:04:01and was bleeding heavily.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04But she was examined in a crowded corridor.
0:04:04 > 0:04:11I think I was trolley number 12.
0:04:11 > 0:04:12There were trolleys going all the way up.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15You can't see to someone's dignity, you can't ensure they are having
0:04:15 > 0:04:18a private conversation and that if they break down in tears,
0:04:18 > 0:04:24which I think I did, I think I am pretty sure I cried
0:04:24 > 0:04:27as well, but you can't look into anybody's right to privacy
0:04:27 > 0:04:29or anything like that.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32At some hospitals, like Ipswich, they say careful planning paid off
0:04:32 > 0:04:36and, though staff were extremely busy, they coped with the pressures.
0:04:36 > 0:04:38At times over the really busy New Year period,
0:04:38 > 0:04:43there were trolleys down the corridor here.
0:04:43 > 0:04:50But at this A&E unit, things seem to have calmed a little this week,
0:04:51 > 0:04:52with fewer patients coming through the front
0:04:52 > 0:04:53door of the hospital.
0:04:53 > 0:04:56But no-one is complacent about what the weeks ahead may bring.
0:04:56 > 0:04:58The medical director told me flu was a significant concern.
0:04:58 > 0:05:01We've worked really hard to try and get our staff vaccinated.
0:05:01 > 0:05:03But we are not at all complacent.
0:05:03 > 0:05:08I think the next two months are going to be a challenging time.
0:05:08 > 0:05:10We will be looking at flu vaccination for vulnerable
0:05:10 > 0:05:11patients and staff members.
0:05:11 > 0:05:13The battle isn't over.
0:05:13 > 0:05:16And with the latest figures showing the highest number of flu cases
0:05:16 > 0:05:19in England in seven years, health leaders have called
0:05:19 > 0:05:27for vaccinations for NHS staff to be compulsory.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29Some hospitals have greater than 90% vaccination of health workers.
0:05:29 > 0:05:31Others, less than 20%.
0:05:31 > 0:05:36This has to be an issue of leadership, but we need people
0:05:36 > 0:05:38in the health care sector to protect their patients.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42We have a duty of care to our patients.
0:05:42 > 0:05:49Flu has been an even bigger problem for Scotland's hospitals,
0:05:49 > 0:05:51with the A&E waiting time target missed.
0:05:51 > 0:05:53It's the same in Wales, by a bigger margin.
0:05:53 > 0:05:56Winter has been bleak so far for the NHS in the UK,
0:05:56 > 0:05:59and there are still a couple of months to go.
0:05:59 > 0:06:01If you want to find out how your local hospital
0:06:01 > 0:06:04is performing you can use the BBC's NHS Tracker at
0:06:04 > 0:06:09www.bbc.co.uk/nhstracker
0:06:09 > 0:06:16Joining me is our political editor Laura Kuenssberg.
0:06:16 > 0:06:21She is at Westminster and the NHS remains the big domestic challenge
0:06:21 > 0:06:26for the government?Absolutely and politicians of all stripes care
0:06:26 > 0:06:30deeply about the National Health Service because they know voters
0:06:30 > 0:06:34cared deeply about the National Health Service and in no way the
0:06:34 > 0:06:39agonising winter pressure plays out in the health service and every year
0:06:39 > 0:06:42a similar political conversation begins about the health service and
0:06:42 > 0:06:49whether it can carry on under the current model and normally that does
0:06:49 > 0:06:53not get far. People say something must be done but those remarks often
0:06:53 > 0:06:58end up with not much changing. This year there is a sense it might turn
0:06:58 > 0:07:03out to be a more significant conversation, not just because the
0:07:03 > 0:07:08statistics are dire, not just because the experiences for patients
0:07:08 > 0:07:14are so awful. But also because Tory politicians and opposition
0:07:14 > 0:07:17politicians are saying in greater number we cannot avoid having a
0:07:17 > 0:07:22bigger conversation about the way the health service is run and how
0:07:22 > 0:07:27much money it requires, we cannot put that off much longer and even
0:07:27 > 0:07:32the Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt told MPs yesterday he would like
0:07:32 > 0:07:3710-year funding deals for the NHS and in the years ahead it will need
0:07:37 > 0:07:41significantly more money. The fact is in Downing Street residence of
0:07:41 > 0:07:47number 10 and number 11 do not say that yet. They do not believe it is
0:07:47 > 0:07:53that kind of moment. But with the situation in hospitals as it is, the
0:07:53 > 0:07:58pressure on them is only going one way.We are talking about the NHS
0:07:58 > 0:08:03but what ministers wanted to focus on is the environment today.It was
0:08:03 > 0:08:07in 2015 the Tories promised a grand vision that would look ahead to the
0:08:07 > 0:08:14next 25 years but it was only today that plan emerged. This is a big new
0:08:14 > 0:08:19priority. The government say they have always cared about the
0:08:19 > 0:08:23environment but now it is top of the list and the headline from the Prime
0:08:23 > 0:08:27Minister today was a crackdown on using plastic and she went off to
0:08:27 > 0:08:30make her first big speech of the year to polish her green
0:08:30 > 0:08:36credentials. What you think I should look for? A
0:08:36 > 0:08:41grand vision we were promised, a plan to look after spaces around us
0:08:41 > 0:08:44for years to come and the Prime Minister trying to spot political
0:08:44 > 0:08:50opportunity.The environment is something personal to each of us and
0:08:50 > 0:08:55also something that collectively we hold in trust for the next
0:08:55 > 0:08:58generation and we have a responsibility to protect and
0:08:58 > 0:09:04enhance it.Top of the list, cleaning up plastics that harm
0:09:04 > 0:09:10wildlife on land and in C and more charges for plastic bags, possible
0:09:10 > 0:09:15taxes on containers and encouraging shops to use less. But with no new
0:09:15 > 0:09:19law to underline the change.In years to come I think people will be
0:09:19 > 0:09:24shocked at how today we allow so much plastic to be produced
0:09:24 > 0:09:30needlessly. It is one of the great environmental scourges. We will take
0:09:30 > 0:09:36action at every stage of production and consumption of plastic.You are
0:09:36 > 0:09:42talking about ideas taking
0:09:44 > 0:09:46talking about ideas taking place over 25 years with no legal
0:09:46 > 0:09:48guarantees.If actions speak louder than words, do you believe this
0:09:48 > 0:09:50problem is urgent? It is an inspiring plan, a long-term plan
0:09:50 > 0:09:56about the next 25 years. A plan that speaks to everybody with an interest
0:09:56 > 0:10:02in our environment. Everybody who wants to ensure future generations
0:10:02 > 0:10:08enjoy a beautiful environment and place in which to live.Looking on,
0:10:08 > 0:10:12alongside these white faced whistling ducks, campaign is pleased
0:10:12 > 0:10:17there is a plan. But not quite convinced that a government that
0:10:17 > 0:10:22believes in fracking and building high-speed rail really means it.The
0:10:22 > 0:10:27problem talking about a 25 year plan, in the absence of hard
0:10:27 > 0:10:31measures about what they will do here and now, this is a government
0:10:31 > 0:10:37where most commentators question it will last possibly 25 days. What we
0:10:37 > 0:10:43need to know the actions happening in 28 team to make a difference.
0:10:43 > 0:10:49Theresa May says conservation and conservatism have always gone hand
0:10:49 > 0:10:52in hand, but this is not just about principles, policy, the new
0:10:52 > 0:10:56environment plan, it is also about politics and how the Tories fell
0:10:56 > 0:11:03back at the election. Anxious that millions of younger voters turn to
0:11:03 > 0:11:08labour then, the Tories have tried to green their credentials, banning
0:11:08 > 0:11:14microbeads, plans to ban the sale of ivory.25 years is far too long. The
0:11:14 > 0:11:22plastic culture has to be challenged. The pollution of our
0:11:22 > 0:11:27rivers and seas by plastic waste is absolutely dreadful.The Prime
0:11:27 > 0:11:33Minister believes her promise is the right one to make. Her hope, to
0:11:33 > 0:11:37create a habitat more friendly to her political breeze.
0:11:37 > 0:11:40With tackling plastic pollution a major part
0:11:40 > 0:11:42of the Government's strategy, just how practical is it
0:11:42 > 0:11:43to live without the stuff?
0:11:43 > 0:11:46Well, they've been trying to do just that in Penzance in Cornwall,
0:11:46 > 0:11:54as Jon Kay has been finding out.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59We can remove it, we can recycle it.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01A rubbish day at St Hilary's School.
0:12:01 > 0:12:02Who has straws in their drinks?
0:12:02 > 0:12:05A lesson in pollution and waste.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09We pick up, again, hundreds of toothbrushes from beaches.
0:12:09 > 0:12:11If Theresa May wants to reach out to the young
0:12:11 > 0:12:15with her green strategy, well, these kids will be 30 at the end
0:12:15 > 0:12:17of her 25-year plan.
0:12:17 > 0:12:21What would you say to those politicians in London?
0:12:21 > 0:12:25Stop using plastic, and stop making it.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29If a turtle is swimming and it sees a plastic bottle,
0:12:29 > 0:12:32which is shaped like a jellyfish, he could see it and then swallow it,
0:12:32 > 0:12:35and then he could drown.
0:12:35 > 0:12:37Here in Penzance, they are trying to be Britain's
0:12:37 > 0:12:40first plastic-free town.
0:12:40 > 0:12:43And they're making some progress.
0:12:43 > 0:12:45Businesses like this cafe have signed up,
0:12:45 > 0:12:51and it's backed by the council.
0:12:51 > 0:12:53Well, there's plastic on that, and the apples.
0:12:53 > 0:12:55But at the local supermarket, the challenge is clear.
0:12:55 > 0:12:56Apples, wrapped in plastic.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59Sausages in a carton and in plastic.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02You could put that in a paper bag, say.
0:13:02 > 0:13:07John likes the Government's new strategy but wonders if it
0:13:07 > 0:13:12can make much difference.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15Frozen stuff in plastic, apples - plastic, leeks - plastic.
0:13:15 > 0:13:17You just can't get away from it.
0:13:17 > 0:13:21Most shoppers told us they would try plastic-free aisles,
0:13:21 > 0:13:25but some, like Roxy, worried it might not be practical.
0:13:25 > 0:13:28It wouldn't necessarily be the most hygienic route to go down, maybe?
0:13:28 > 0:13:32Having the meat next to the eggs, or the cheese, for example.
0:13:32 > 0:13:34Well, this is why people around here are so concerned
0:13:34 > 0:13:38about the long-term impact of plastic.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Look, found on a local beach recently, a lollipop stick
0:13:41 > 0:13:43from when I was growing up in the 1970s.
0:13:43 > 0:13:46It hasn't broken down at all.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51And a packet of peanuts, best before 1983.
0:13:51 > 0:13:56We've got some takeaway cutlery in the bottom here.
0:13:56 > 0:13:58Rachel was behind the Penzance campaign, and she says
0:13:58 > 0:14:03all communities can do the same.
0:14:03 > 0:14:05Litter is all over the UK, no matter where you live.
0:14:05 > 0:14:09It's exactly the same issue, it just looks different.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12If it's not a beach, it's by a river, it's
0:14:12 > 0:14:13in a hedge, it's by the road.
0:14:13 > 0:14:16The Prime Minister insists her plan has a wider vision.
0:14:16 > 0:14:19She says it's about more than plastic, about more than the coast.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23Jon Kay, BBC News, Cornwall.
0:14:23 > 0:14:25Search teams in California are still trying to find
0:14:25 > 0:14:28eight people missing following mudslides on Tuesday.
0:14:28 > 0:14:3217 people are known to have died after a torrent of mud carrying
0:14:32 > 0:14:34boulders the size of small cars smashed through the
0:14:34 > 0:14:39town of Montecito.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42More than 500 homes have been damaged or destroyed.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45James Cook is there for us.
0:14:45 > 0:14:51You do not have to walk far in Montecito to see something shocking.
0:14:51 > 0:14:56There are homes like these behind me, either smashed to pieces, or
0:14:56 > 0:15:01simply swept away, all over the town. Hopes of finding anyone alive
0:15:01 > 0:15:06are very slim and more harrowing details of how this started have
0:15:06 > 0:15:11been urging, and it started in the dead of night.
0:15:11 > 0:15:12Turn around!
0:15:12 > 0:15:14The flash flood is right there!
0:15:14 > 0:15:15Get out of here, go!
0:15:15 > 0:15:16This is the moment it began.
0:15:16 > 0:15:22Oh, my God!
0:15:22 > 0:15:23And then panic.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25Close the door!
0:15:25 > 0:15:27It was 1 million miles an hour in slow motion,
0:15:27 > 0:15:33if that makes sense.
0:15:33 > 0:15:38I clicked into survival gear, survival mode.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Every second, it is just roaring and banging against the house
0:15:41 > 0:15:43and the most vicious and violent sounds you have ever heard.
0:15:43 > 0:15:46Montecito has only just grasped the scale of the disaster
0:15:46 > 0:15:48which will bear its name.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51For this idyllic little town of just 9,000 people,
0:15:51 > 0:15:55recovery will be long and hard.
0:15:55 > 0:15:56This was somebody's driveway.
0:15:56 > 0:15:58There are three cars destroyed.
0:15:58 > 0:16:01Buried inside that trouble.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03Looking at this house, it is difficult to believe anyone
0:16:03 > 0:16:05on this street survived, but many did and their
0:16:05 > 0:16:13stories are remarkable.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20People walked the dogs through here, there are trails my kids have grown
0:16:20 > 0:16:21up riding their bikes.
0:16:21 > 0:16:23Noelle fled with her three children just before the storm.
0:16:23 > 0:16:25But many of her neighbours did not.
0:16:25 > 0:16:27Really young boys were swept out of their home,
0:16:27 > 0:16:28along with their mother.
0:16:28 > 0:16:30In the middle of the night.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31And the dog is gone.
0:16:31 > 0:16:32And they are lucky to be fine.
0:16:32 > 0:16:34It is like a war zone here.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38There are homes that are just missing.
0:16:38 > 0:16:42And I walk down the street and I see balls and toys and bicycles
0:16:42 > 0:16:50and shoes and socks. And knives and hammers.
0:16:50 > 0:16:52It looks like people's lives or just lost to the ocean.
0:16:52 > 0:16:55Much of the wreckage ended up clogging the main coastal motorway.
0:16:55 > 0:16:57The mountains above are scarred by rivers of debris.
0:16:57 > 0:17:00Southern California was once famed for its agreeable climate.
0:17:00 > 0:17:02These days, it reels from drought, fire and flood.
0:17:02 > 0:17:10James Cook, BBC News, Montecito.
0:17:14 > 0:17:16The time is 17 minutes past six.
0:17:16 > 0:17:17Our top story this evening:
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Doctors claim some patients are dying prematurely
0:17:19 > 0:17:20because of winter pressures on the NHS.
0:17:20 > 0:17:28And still to come...
0:17:28 > 0:17:30We talk to Steven Spielberg about speaking truth unto power
0:17:30 > 0:17:35in his latest film, The Post.
0:17:35 > 0:17:36Coming up on Sportsday on BBC News:
0:17:36 > 0:17:39The NBA comes to London tonight for a regular-season game
0:17:39 > 0:17:47but watch chances of having a team in the capital for good?
0:17:56 > 0:17:58Our Christmas shopping choices have had some retailers rejoicing,
0:17:58 > 0:18:05but others have reported rather frugal festive trading figures.
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Tesco says it had a record Christmas, but M&S suffered falls
0:18:08 > 0:18:10in both its food and clothing sales.
0:18:10 > 0:18:15Here's Emma Simpson.
0:18:15 > 0:18:17The show's over, we've moved on.
0:18:17 > 0:18:19But the Christmas story for retailers is only
0:18:19 > 0:18:20now becoming clear.
0:18:20 > 0:18:23So who are some of the winners and losers?
0:18:23 > 0:18:29Tesco has done well, with sales up today,
0:18:29 > 0:18:31so have many of the other grocers.
0:18:31 > 0:18:34But food sales, usually a bright spot for Marks & Spencer,
0:18:34 > 0:18:36went into reverse, and there have been profit warnings at Debenhams,
0:18:36 > 0:18:40Mothercare and Moss Bros.
0:18:40 > 0:18:45Things are certainly more challenging here on the high street.
0:18:45 > 0:18:47Take House of Fraser, a business under pressure.
0:18:47 > 0:18:50It saw another fall in sales today.
0:18:50 > 0:18:53And you don't have to go far to see how the gap
0:18:53 > 0:18:59between the weaker and the stronger players is widening.
0:18:59 > 0:19:02Here at John Lewis, it's had no problem pulling customers in.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05It's one of the winners today.
0:19:05 > 0:19:10There's a sort of slight air of caution about people's attitudes,
0:19:10 > 0:19:12for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons,
0:19:12 > 0:19:20but there is demand there.
0:19:21 > 0:19:24You just have to go and find it, and you have
0:19:24 > 0:19:25to create the conditions
0:19:25 > 0:19:27where people want things, and of course that comes down
0:19:27 > 0:19:28to having fabulous product.
0:19:28 > 0:19:31And it actually means you have to be outstanding at online and shops.
0:19:31 > 0:19:33This small but fast-growing online retailer is doing
0:19:33 > 0:19:34very nicely with shops.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36very nicely without shops.
0:19:36 > 0:19:39And is expecting to grow sales by 90% this year,
0:19:39 > 0:19:43but some are predicting problems for the high street ahead.
0:19:43 > 0:19:48This is going to be the year of retail distress.
0:19:48 > 0:19:51We've already seen bits of distress percolating
0:19:51 > 0:19:53through even before Christmas, and I think that the weaker players
0:19:53 > 0:20:01are going to find it too tough to really survive.
0:20:02 > 0:20:04It's been a season of mixed fortunes for retailers.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07The new year heralds the clearance sales and some uncertainty
0:20:07 > 0:20:11about what 2018 will bring.
0:20:11 > 0:20:18Emma Simpson, BBC News.
0:20:18 > 0:20:21A lingerie company has lost its most prestigious customer - the Queen -
0:20:21 > 0:20:23after its director wrote a book revealing details of
0:20:23 > 0:20:24royal bra fittings.
0:20:24 > 0:20:27Rigby & Peller had held the royal warrant since 1960,
0:20:27 > 0:20:32and said it was "deeply saddened" by the decision to cancel it.
0:20:32 > 0:20:34Company director June Kenton published her book
0:20:34 > 0:20:42'Storm In a D Cup' last year.
0:20:44 > 0:20:47YouTube has cut some business ties with a popular video blogger -
0:20:47 > 0:20:49Logan Paul - after he was criticised for posting a video
0:20:49 > 0:20:52YouTube has cut some business ties with a popular video blogger -
0:20:52 > 0:20:54appearing to show the body of a suicide victim.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58The 22-year-old said he felt ashamed after filming at a location in Japan
0:20:58 > 0:20:59known to be a frequent site of suicides.
0:20:59 > 0:21:02Logan Paul's channel has more than 15 million subscribers.
0:21:02 > 0:21:07Here's our Media Editor, Amol Rajan.
0:21:07 > 0:21:15We are going to take a break from vlogging and each other.Low-budget,
0:21:15 > 0:21:18confessional and often astonishingly popular. This couple announced they
0:21:18 > 0:21:23were breaking up on YouTube in a video seen 15 million times. They
0:21:23 > 0:21:32are part of a phenomenon called vlogging or
0:21:32 > 0:21:36vlogging or video blogging, very often on YouTube. The industry has
0:21:36 > 0:21:46created a vast new fleet of online celebrities.
0:21:46 > 0:21:51celebrities. Many vloggers have a prolific following. This 22-year-old
0:21:51 > 0:21:57American is a YouTube star or awards.I think this definitely
0:21:57 > 0:22:02marks the moment in YouTube history. This morning YouTube cut business
0:22:02 > 0:22:07ties with him after he posted a video from Aokigahara Forest,
0:22:07 > 0:22:12intimate as a suicide spot. He issued an apology to his subscribers
0:22:12 > 0:22:16on YouTube.I have made a severe and continuous lapse of my judgment and
0:22:16 > 0:22:22I don't expect to be forgiven. I'm simply here to apologise.In a
0:22:22 > 0:22:32statement, YouTube said:
0:22:33 > 0:22:38Vlogging is now hugely popular business with the likes of Logan
0:22:38 > 0:22:43Paul making money in a variety of ways. They get paid up to £3 per
0:22:43 > 0:22:471000 clicks and can top up their income through merchandising and
0:22:47 > 0:22:50deals with brands and they do all of that without the more stringent
0:22:50 > 0:22:56controls apply to traditional media. The boss of Britain's biggest media
0:22:56 > 0:23:00agency wants to see smarter regulation.I would definitely like
0:23:00 > 0:23:04to see vloggers with this much reach and influence to have the sorts of
0:23:04 > 0:23:08regulation traditional broadcasters have got to adhere to, particularly
0:23:08 > 0:23:12around content that can be dangerous, can be glamorising or
0:23:12 > 0:23:18condo owning anti-social behaviour, dangerous behaviour, that can be
0:23:18 > 0:23:21copied by children.I'm going to be the biggest entertainer on the
0:23:21 > 0:23:29planet...Logan Paul is a new kind of celebrity. For all of the glory
0:23:29 > 0:23:34of the open work, the danger is that his kind of immaturity exposes
0:23:34 > 0:23:39audiences to material that is in nobody's interests.I'm just getting
0:23:39 > 0:23:46warmed up.
0:23:46 > 0:23:48The Oscar-winning director Steven Spielberg has told the BBC
0:23:48 > 0:23:50he believes President Trump is using the same tactics
0:23:50 > 0:23:52as Richard Nixon used during his presidency
0:23:52 > 0:23:54to "try to silence the press."
0:23:54 > 0:23:56The story of 1970s battle between the media and the Nixon
0:23:56 > 0:23:59administration is the subject of his latest film, The Post.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02He spoke to our Arts Editor, Will Gompertz.
0:24:02 > 0:24:04This is a devastating security breach that was leaked
0:24:04 > 0:24:05out of the Pentagon.
0:24:05 > 0:24:09Before the Watergate Scandal, there were the Pentagon Papers.
0:24:09 > 0:24:13The first expose a of a cover-up in the Nixon government
0:24:13 > 0:24:15by the Washington Post, led by its legendary editor Ben
0:24:15 > 0:24:18Bradlee and publisher Kay Graham.
0:24:18 > 0:24:20Do you have the papers?
0:24:20 > 0:24:21Set in 1971.
0:24:21 > 0:24:22Yes.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26But you have described it as a timely movie.
0:24:26 > 0:24:32Well, obviously if you flip the 1 and the 7, or the 7 and the 1,
0:24:32 > 0:24:35you really get to see the great arc of the pendulum that has brought us
0:24:35 > 0:24:38right back to the same tactics that Richard Nixon used
0:24:38 > 0:24:42to try to silence the press.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44I'm talking about the current administration and their absolute
0:24:44 > 0:24:45broadsiding of media, social media, news,
0:24:45 > 0:24:53anybody that offends.
0:24:53 > 0:24:55You know, there is a label that is immediately attached
0:24:55 > 0:25:03to them, well, that can't be true, because they're all fake news.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07I mean, it's a lot more insidious today, by the way,
0:25:07 > 0:25:08than it was in 1971.
0:25:08 > 0:25:11If you publish, we'll be in the Supreme Court next week.
0:25:11 > 0:25:12Meaning?
0:25:12 > 0:25:15We could all go to prison.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18There's been another massive press expose the last six months,
0:25:18 > 0:25:20it looks like the endemic sexual harassment and exploitation
0:25:20 > 0:25:22of women in Hollywood.
0:25:22 > 0:25:25I mean, you're a really senior figure in Hollywood and you've
0:25:25 > 0:25:29been around a long time.
0:25:29 > 0:25:31Do you ever think, you know what, I think I could
0:25:31 > 0:25:35have done a bit more to stop this?
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Well, you know, I can only basically react to that question
0:25:37 > 0:25:40within my own workplace environment.
0:25:40 > 0:25:42Within my organisation, there weren't incidences,
0:25:42 > 0:25:45except for a couple of years and years ago, that I would say
0:25:45 > 0:25:47gave me the experiences to be the authority
0:25:47 > 0:25:51on that question you ask.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53What happened in those incidences?
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Just a couple of incidences, I don't want to go into detail on them,
0:25:56 > 0:25:59but they happened years and years ago, where we had
0:25:59 > 0:26:00to let somebody go.
0:26:00 > 0:26:03People are concerned about having a woman in charge of the paper.
0:26:03 > 0:26:06Think she doesn't have the resolve to make the tough choices.
0:26:06 > 0:26:10Thank you for your frankness.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13My prediction is that this watershed moment for women,
0:26:13 > 0:26:15in extolling the courage of women who, like Katherine Graham,
0:26:15 > 0:26:19with the Pentagon Papers, with her decision to publish or not
0:26:19 > 0:26:22to publish, so many women have found their voices and they have
0:26:22 > 0:26:25been given so much support.
0:26:25 > 0:26:29Not just by other women, but also by certain men.
0:26:29 > 0:26:31I think this is not just another news cycle.
0:26:31 > 0:26:36I think this is a permanent change in the culture.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Maybe.
0:26:38 > 0:26:40But as Kay Graham showed with her courageous leadership
0:26:40 > 0:26:42of the Washington Post, exposing deeply rooted corrupt
0:26:42 > 0:26:45behaviour is one thing - changing it is quite another.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49Will Gompertz, BBC News.
0:26:49 > 0:26:50Time for a look at the weather.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Here's Helen Willetts.
0:26:56 > 0:27:01It's been a tale of two halves today, such contrast in the weather
0:27:01 > 0:27:07so let's start with the western side of the UK, the sunnier parts.
0:27:07 > 0:27:13Further east we have the remnants of all weak weather front which has
0:27:13 > 0:27:17brought rain to Scarborough. The rain is tending to peter out but
0:27:17 > 0:27:21there's an awful lot of cloud. Where we have had clear skies the fault is
0:27:21 > 0:27:28beginning again and in Northern Ireland for the second day the fog
0:27:28 > 0:27:32didn't clear. It should clear more readily tomorrow. There will be for
0:27:32 > 0:27:36in western parts of England and dance was the south as well, and
0:27:36 > 0:27:43given that temperatures in cities could be freezing it could mean
0:27:43 > 0:27:50freezing fog tomorrow. Again, it is going to be an issue for the rush
0:27:50 > 0:27:53hour, Scotland and north-west England, for a time Northern
0:27:53 > 0:27:58Ireland, parts of eastern Wales into many parts of the Midlands and
0:27:58 > 0:28:04Central and southern England. It will be widespread but more patchy.
0:28:04 > 0:28:07It eventually clears from most parts but we have that complication of the
0:28:07 > 0:28:11weather front with its cloud around and the drizzly showers again, so
0:28:11 > 0:28:15yes of course there will be some sunshine and some breaks in the
0:28:15 > 0:28:19cloud, lifted by the freshening breeze, but it is then starting to
0:28:19 > 0:28:23change weather-wise. This comes through tomorrow night, rain from
0:28:23 > 0:28:26Northern Ireland and a fairly stiff breeze as well so we shouldn't have
0:28:26 > 0:28:30as much frost going into Saturday morning. But we have that rain
0:28:30 > 0:28:36stagnating in the west, a lot of cloud further east so I think we
0:28:36 > 0:28:39will keep a lot of cloudy and grey weather this weekend. But then it
0:28:39 > 0:28:41all changes into next week because once the weather front fizzles out,
0:28:41 > 0:28:46we have this one coming in from the Atlantic. Firstly heavy rain and
0:28:46 > 0:28:49gales, then rather wintry weather on the cards.
0:28:49 > 0:28:52That's all from the BBC News at Six so it's goodbye from me