22/12/2016

:00:07. > :00:14.Very good morning. This is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:00:15. > :00:18.An international man-hunt for the main suspect in the Berlin Christmas

:00:19. > :00:22.market attack, as it emerges he was being watched until just a few

:00:23. > :00:25.months ago. He was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group.

:00:26. > :00:42.Now German police are facing questions about why they dropped

:00:43. > :00:49.their surveillance operation. Good morning everybody. It is Thursday 22

:00:50. > :00:55.December. Also this morning: a boost for rural broadband. ?400 million is

:00:56. > :00:58.going to be spent on getting remote areas faster connections. I will

:00:59. > :01:03.have more on where the money has come from and what it is going to be

:01:04. > :01:08.spent on. Investigation reveals the big rise in violent crime being

:01:09. > :01:11.carried out by the over 65. We will look at the possible causes. Good

:01:12. > :01:16.morning from Durham police headquarters. We are here as part of

:01:17. > :01:20.a series on policing Britain. I live in the call centre where they are

:01:21. > :01:24.dealing with the 999 called this morning. More on that a bit later

:01:25. > :01:29.on. In the sport, head injuries in rugby union must be taken more

:01:30. > :01:32.seriously, according to a review into an incident involving Wales

:01:33. > :01:36.international George North, which has made nine recommendations to

:01:37. > :01:41.change the way concussions are handled. And Carol has the weather.

:01:42. > :01:46.This morning across England and Wales we have some patchy fog and

:01:47. > :01:49.some frost. Some of that will be slow to clear but most will see a

:01:50. > :01:52.dry day with some sunshine and just a few showers. Scotland and Northern

:01:53. > :01:56.Ireland, still very windy, especially across Scotland, with

:01:57. > :01:58.some showers, some of which will be wintry. More in 15 minutes.

:01:59. > :02:06.Our main story: German security services are facing questions about

:02:07. > :02:10.why they ended a surveillance operation on a suspect who is now

:02:11. > :02:15.the subject of Europe wide man-hunt following the Berlin lorry attack.

:02:16. > :02:18.Anis Amri was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group. This

:02:19. > :02:24.residence permit was found in the lorry which drove to Christmas

:02:25. > :02:26.market on Monday, killing 12 people. Catriona Renton reports.

:02:27. > :02:29.Still on the run, the most wanted man in Europe.

:02:30. > :02:31.Two images of Anis Amri are shown on this poster.

:02:32. > :02:34.Police are offering a reward of 100,000 euros, and warn

:02:35. > :02:40.And he has used six different aliases, and three different

:02:41. > :02:50.Vital clues about the suspect were found inside the hijacked lorry.

:02:51. > :02:53.Amri's residence permit was found in its cab.

:02:54. > :02:57.More details are emerging rapidly about Anis Amri.

:02:58. > :03:00.His family said he left Tunisia for Italy in 2011,

:03:01. > :03:02.where he was jailed for four years for arson.

:03:03. > :03:05.Last year he moved to Germany, where his claim for asylum

:03:06. > :03:08.But German officials did not have the correct paperwork

:03:09. > :03:16.He had links to an Islamist network, and was known to the authorities.

:03:17. > :03:19.He was under surveillance, as it was believed he was planning

:03:20. > :03:22.to buy guns, possibly for use in an attack.

:03:23. > :03:25.But this was stopped because of a lack of evidence.

:03:26. > :03:31.12 people were killed and dozens injured in an attack

:03:32. > :03:33.on the Christmas market on Monday evening.

:03:34. > :03:36.So far only one of those who died has been identified,

:03:37. > :03:39.the man who should have been driving the lorry,

:03:40. > :03:50.Missing, feared dead by her family, Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, from Italy.

:03:51. > :03:54.Dalia Elkayam, from Israel, also has not been seen since.

:03:55. > :03:57.Her husband, Rami, is seriously ill in hospital.

:03:58. > :04:00.Valuable time was lost when police arrested and later released another

:04:01. > :04:12.man, giving their chief suspect time to get away.

:04:13. > :04:15.Last night the Christmas market reopened, no longer a place filled

:04:16. > :04:18.Instead, Berliners came to pay their quiet respects

:04:19. > :04:28.to the victims, as the investigation goes on.

:04:29. > :04:34.We will get the latest from Berlin in a few minutes' time. We will talk

:04:35. > :04:37.about how they are approaching that man-hunt as well.

:04:38. > :04:43.The government is to invest heavily in expanding high-speed broadband.

:04:44. > :04:48.It is expected that the funds could bring better connectivity to an

:04:49. > :04:52.extra 600,000 rural homes. Our technology correspondent has more.

:04:53. > :04:54.Connecting rural homes across the UK to fast broadband has meant

:04:55. > :04:57.an investment of ?1.7 billion of public money.

:04:58. > :04:59.And nearly all of that has gone to BT.

:05:00. > :05:05.The company's contracts with councils and local authorities

:05:06. > :05:09.mean it has to return some of that money if more than 20%

:05:10. > :05:12.of homeowners sign up when the fast broadband service arrives.

:05:13. > :05:14.Now, the Government says that this cash clawback,

:05:15. > :05:17.coupled with efficiency savings, means another ?440 million can be

:05:18. > :05:24.There is a target of reaching 95% of homes with superfast broadband

:05:25. > :05:29.Ministers believe that is within reach, and that up to 600,000 more

:05:30. > :05:33.homes and businesses could be hooked up with the new programme.

:05:34. > :05:37.But critics say BT has been using the wrong technology,

:05:38. > :05:41.connecting homeowners via a copper wire to a cabinet,

:05:42. > :05:51.rather than laying fibre-optic cables straight into homes.

:05:52. > :05:54.Rival firms, including Sky and TalkTalk, are now promising

:05:55. > :05:56.that they can deliver faster fibre connections than BT,

:05:57. > :06:10.Violent crime committed by people aged over 65 in England and Wales

:06:11. > :06:15.has increased by almost 80% since 2012. The figures obtained by

:06:16. > :06:19.Freedom of Information requests by BBC Breakfast relate to offences

:06:20. > :06:23.ranging from minor assault to murder. The rise in the number of

:06:24. > :06:25.crimes recorded is in part being put down to police changing how they log

:06:26. > :06:32.crimes. You know, I think officers might

:06:33. > :06:35.have gone to an incident five years ago and use their professional

:06:36. > :06:39.judgement. Two people in their late 60s and 70s having an argument, that

:06:40. > :06:46.my qualify now as violent crime, which they would then record. I

:06:47. > :06:49.don't think they would have done that five years ago, so I think that

:06:50. > :06:55.will have a significant impact. And we will have a full report on

:06:56. > :06:58.the rise in violent crimes among older people and what might be

:06:59. > :06:59.causing it in about ten minutes' time.

:07:00. > :07:07.Doctors and charities have called a new treatment for multiple sclerosis

:07:08. > :07:12.a landmark development. The disease most often causes difficulty in

:07:13. > :07:15.walking. It is hoped that the new treatment will offer hope for

:07:16. > :07:19.patients, after a successful trial of around 2000 people.

:07:20. > :07:25.This is really good news for people with primary progressive forms of

:07:26. > :07:30.MS, for which there are no treatments available on the NHS.

:07:31. > :07:33.Primary progressive MS means people's disability will worsen.

:07:34. > :07:37.What this drug has shown is that it can slow the progress of disability

:07:38. > :07:40.for those people, so this offers real hope for the future.

:07:41. > :07:48.The NHS will paper ten blind patients to have bionic eyes to

:07:49. > :07:52.treat an inherited form of blindness. It is a retinal implant

:07:53. > :07:56.which interprets images captured by a miniature video camera worn on a

:07:57. > :07:59.pair of glasses. Five patients will be treated at Manchester Royal eye

:08:00. > :08:03.Hospital and five at Moorfields eye Hospital in London next year. They

:08:04. > :08:05.will then be monitored for a year afterwards to see how they can on in

:08:06. > :08:13.everyday life. Spending too long looking at sites

:08:14. > :08:18.like Facebook could be making us more miserable and envious. The

:08:19. > :08:21.study from Copenhagen is the latest to suggest social media could have a

:08:22. > :08:25.negative effect on our mood. The impact is worst for those who do not

:08:26. > :08:28.leave comments, apparently, but scan through and read about the success

:08:29. > :08:32.of other people. That is interesting, isn't it? They often

:08:33. > :08:38.say that, today, because people don't really put the truth on. I am

:08:39. > :08:40.interested that not leaving comments makes people more miserable. You

:08:41. > :08:51.just rage. It has been a stellar week for the

:08:52. > :08:58.BBC Breakfast team, first with Ore winning Strictly. And Tim Muffett,

:08:59. > :09:05.you may not wash Celebrity Mastermind, and Tim took on a double

:09:06. > :09:10.Paralympic gold-medallist, a journalist, and a BBC reporter to

:09:11. > :09:14.lift the famous trophy. His specialist subject was the films of

:09:15. > :09:18.Danny Boyle. Enormous congratulations to him. Have you

:09:19. > :09:22.done it? I have done it. John Humphrys had asked me the name of my

:09:23. > :09:27.children as the first question, I don't think I would have remembered.

:09:28. > :09:32.It is terrifying! I was proud of my score, but I actually lost to Martin

:09:33. > :09:38.Lewis, the money man. He did me in. He knows far too much. I lost.

:09:39. > :09:44.Let's return to our top story and get the latest from Berlin, where

:09:45. > :09:47.authorities are hunting for a man responsible for a lorry attack which

:09:48. > :09:51.took place on Monday evening. Our correspondent Damien McGuinness is

:09:52. > :09:55.in our Berlin studio. Good morning to you. There really is a focus and

:09:56. > :09:58.a lot of criticism on the German security services.

:09:59. > :10:05.That's right, Louise. The big question, firstly, is why, if the

:10:06. > :10:08.authorities knew he had a criminal background, which they did, and they

:10:09. > :10:15.also knew he had links to Islamist extremist groups here in Germany,

:10:16. > :10:18.why he was not as observed. He had been placed under observation and

:10:19. > :10:22.his phone had been tapped for a couple of months earlier this year,

:10:23. > :10:25.at that observation was lifted even though authorities say he was judged

:10:26. > :10:29.to be potentially dangerous. The other problem and the other question

:10:30. > :10:33.the authorities are going to be facing is why he wasn't deported,

:10:34. > :10:38.because his application for asylum was rejected after he came here last

:10:39. > :10:42.year. And a lot of people now saying, well, you should have been

:10:43. > :10:46.deported back to his home country of Tunisia. The problem they are,

:10:47. > :10:49.though, Germany can legally only do that if the country of origin

:10:50. > :10:54.cooperates. In this particular case it seems Tunisia did not accept that

:10:55. > :10:58.this man was actually a Tunisian citizens. But that is still going to

:10:59. > :11:02.create a lot of questions about Germany's right to asylum, where the

:11:03. > :11:04.people who are deported should be deported, and also whether the

:11:05. > :11:10.security forces are doing enough to keep track of those people who they

:11:11. > :11:13.judge as potentially dangerous. So many questions, still. Later on

:11:14. > :11:16.Breakfast we will speak to a former undercover police officer as well.

:11:17. > :11:27.Michael is here with the sport this morning. Another winner of celebrity

:11:28. > :11:33.-- Celebrity mastermind. You did the Alan Patridge. It wasn't exactly

:11:34. > :11:44.hard to research. It was like looking in the mirror! I can't have

:11:45. > :11:48.a go at your suit after my electric blue number. Talking head injuries.

:11:49. > :11:55.George North, this incident on three December when he went off with a

:11:56. > :11:57.head injury. He seemed to be unconscious, playing for Northampton

:11:58. > :12:00.against Leicester. The review found that although Saints maybe shouldn't

:12:01. > :12:05.have brought him back on, they haven't punished Saints. A lot of

:12:06. > :12:11.people saying that is not going far enough so Doctor Barry O'Driscoll,

:12:12. > :12:14.former rugby medical adviser says he accuses the authorities of

:12:15. > :12:18.experiment players' brains, and says the current protocol isn't worth the

:12:19. > :12:19.paper it is written on. A big accusation, but there are changes

:12:20. > :12:27.coming thanks to this review. Northampton Saints will not face,

:12:28. > :12:30.for the moment, any punishment for allowing George North to be played

:12:31. > :12:34.on after being knocked out. The report has found that he shouldn't

:12:35. > :12:35.have been allowed to continue but that Saint medics had acted in his

:12:36. > :12:43.best interest. It will be at least six months

:12:44. > :12:47.before the Wimbledon champion Kvitova can play again. Surgery on

:12:48. > :12:54.her hand is said to have gone well following the knife attack on her

:12:55. > :12:58.hand, but recovery is said to be slow progress doormat process.

:12:59. > :13:03.Steve Holland has worked together with England's under 21 's and with

:13:04. > :13:08.the senior team, while Gareth Southgate was interim manager.

:13:09. > :13:16.And the ?500,000 goal. Graham Kerry's penalty earns league to

:13:17. > :13:20.Plymouth Argyle a third-round FA Cup tie against Liverpool. It is a trip

:13:21. > :13:22.to Anfield. They will be looking forward to that, won't they, the

:13:23. > :13:33.Plymouth fans. Papers. You are being joined your

:13:34. > :13:38.suit twin over there as well. You really are wearing swimsuits, I am

:13:39. > :13:43.fairly similar as well. I have let the team down. The main story is the

:13:44. > :13:46.fallout from the attack in Berlin, and they have a picture of the man

:13:47. > :13:50.they are hunting for, this international man-hunt for Anis

:13:51. > :13:54.Amri, who is being sought by German police in connection with that

:13:55. > :14:00.Berlin Christmas market attack. His picture on the front page of the

:14:01. > :14:03.Times this morning. It is one of our main headlines this morning, and on

:14:04. > :14:07.the front page of the express they have the story about the healthcare

:14:08. > :14:10.for the Queen and rinse fillip, the royal couple told to get well soon

:14:11. > :14:14.as they delay their Christmas getaway this year. The Sun has a

:14:15. > :14:18.real mix on their front page, including that story about the Queen

:14:19. > :14:23.and Prince Philip missing their Christmas trip in front of the ST,

:14:24. > :14:27.if you thought bank bailouts were over, one could be imminent in

:14:28. > :14:31.Italy. The oldest bank in the world could be bailed out and the next

:14:32. > :14:34.couple of days, 20 billion euros. We will keep an eye on that, it

:14:35. > :14:40.knock-on effect of the banking system can be quite big. And a lot

:14:41. > :14:46.of the papers today, unfair funfairs taking us for a ride. The monopoly.

:14:47. > :14:49.An issue with funfairs across the UK, a trade body oversees a lot of

:14:50. > :14:53.them, the competition in markets authority are saying that they have

:14:54. > :14:57.too much control. If you want to set up a rival funfair in a town, or

:14:58. > :15:00.your local council does, it gets quite tough to do it. The protest,

:15:01. > :15:03.things like that happen. There may be some changes in the funfair

:15:04. > :15:08.sector. Good headline, unfair funfairs.

:15:09. > :15:20.Do you know that Sting did a song called An Englishman in New York.

:15:21. > :15:26.There is the new footballing club and they are trying to find the next

:15:27. > :15:35.Messi to find new players for the city of Angels team. It could make a

:15:36. > :15:41.lot of sense. How about this for a headline? Lady and the Trampoline.

:15:42. > :15:48.Johanna Konta aiming to be world number one. And her secret is going

:15:49. > :15:53.on the trampoline and rock climbing as well.

:15:54. > :15:57.Very good for your core strength. Yes, rockclimbing is now an Olympic

:15:58. > :16:02.sport as well. Excuses, you know when you hand in

:16:03. > :16:10.things late, the classic my dog ate it, HMRC have released some notes,

:16:11. > :16:17.people explaining why they handed in a late tax return. One was, a wasp

:16:18. > :16:22.in my car caused me to have an accident and my tax return was

:16:23. > :16:29.inside and was destroyed. I had a wasp go in my shorts when I

:16:30. > :16:33.was driving once and I did crash the car. But the car wasn't damaged, so

:16:34. > :16:35.it wouldn't have affected my tax return.

:16:36. > :16:42.Did you get stung? I didn't, actually. We have this

:16:43. > :16:47.story about IKEA. They are going to try to ban teenagers living in their

:16:48. > :16:53.stall. But I don't have a picture of that, so instead I have a picture of

:16:54. > :16:58.cute pandas. They are really lovely pictures. We've now set a new cute

:16:59. > :17:04.bar. It's a little bit higher. This is

:17:05. > :17:16.the zoo in Toronto, I believe. The beheading of a snowman. The

:17:17. > :17:21.impressive! You know on Planet Earth Wendy Bob Katter was plummeting into

:17:22. > :17:26.the earth, it's a bit like that. -- when the bobcat.

:17:27. > :17:31.He arrived from China in 201380 seriously loves snowmen.

:17:32. > :17:38.He is trying to make a new head! We love that. That's what we were

:17:39. > :17:47.waiting for! We couldn't leave before the face

:17:48. > :17:49.plant. Carol's got a special, fantastic

:17:50. > :17:54.necklace, which we will hopefully see all day!

:17:55. > :17:58.It does flash, but not for now. There's a lot of weather to get

:17:59. > :18:01.through over the next few days and today we have some sunshine when we

:18:02. > :18:04.lose the fog but also some squally showers across Northern Ireland and

:18:05. > :18:10.Scotland. This morning across Northern Ireland it is still very

:18:11. > :18:13.windy. Showers wintry on the hills, at lower levels there is more likely

:18:14. > :18:18.to be rain. Across Scotland there could be sleet at lower levels, snow

:18:19. > :18:22.on the hills, hail, thunder and lightning. Watch out for ice if you

:18:23. > :18:26.are travelling and in northern England at blustery start, with

:18:27. > :18:29.showers. As we drift into Wales a lot of dry weather around this

:18:30. > :18:34.morning, but equally there are a few showers here and there and the same

:18:35. > :18:37.for south-west England. More dry weather than wet weather, but still

:18:38. > :18:44.a few showers around. Crossing southern counties of England there

:18:45. > :18:48.are also bits of that patchy fog. When it does form some of it will be

:18:49. > :18:53.slow to clear. It may take until noon before we see the back end of

:18:54. > :18:56.it. Before it does we will have sunshine and a few showers across

:18:57. > :18:59.England and Wales. For Northern Ireland and Scotland we hang on to

:19:00. > :19:05.the strong winds. Gale force, especially with exposure. Blizzard

:19:06. > :19:08.along with that snow. Sleet even at some lower levels and it will feel

:19:09. > :19:15.cold. Cold in the north and colder in the south, then it felt yesterday

:19:16. > :19:19.afternoon. Into the evening and overnight the winds ease a little

:19:20. > :19:25.bit. Showers fade for a time and there will be dry weather around. It

:19:26. > :19:30.is only in sheltered rule areas that we might see frost. By the end of

:19:31. > :19:34.the night we have the first signs of the second named storm of the

:19:35. > :19:40.season, Storm Barbara, introducing heavy rain. The prepared, as we are

:19:41. > :19:47.looking at very strong winds. Up to severe gale force. We have the rain

:19:48. > :19:52.coming in with Barbara, heavy rain at that. It will move smartly across

:19:53. > :19:58.England England and Wales will be windy and you will notice it. Also

:19:59. > :20:04.into Scotland and Northern Ireland we will have the full impact of

:20:05. > :20:07.Storm Barbara. The forecast has changed ever so slightly as the

:20:08. > :20:11.track of the low pressure has moved a bit further north, so we think now

:20:12. > :20:16.it is the far north of mainland Scotland and Northern Isles that

:20:17. > :20:20.will have cost of mph. 80 in the west and across Northern Ireland and

:20:21. > :20:25.northern England 60 mph gusts. This is enough to do structural damage

:20:26. > :20:30.and it could also cause power outages and disruption to

:20:31. > :20:33.transportation, so ferries and temperatures could be affected. If

:20:34. > :20:38.you are travelling on Friday and bear this in mind. But I will have

:20:39. > :20:40.the whole Christmas forecast through the morning. Still looking unsettled

:20:41. > :20:43.for some of us. Thank you.

:20:44. > :20:49.Love that necklace as well! Magnificent.

:20:50. > :20:56.This morning with been hearing about a rise in violent crime committed by

:20:57. > :21:01.people over 65. It is one of the many challenges facing police

:21:02. > :21:07.officers today. It is part of our series on policing in Britain. You

:21:08. > :21:10.are in a call centre this morning, Steph?

:21:11. > :21:20.Good morning. Yes, I am in the control room where they are dealing

:21:21. > :21:24.with all of the 999 and 101 calls that come in. A lot of these guys

:21:25. > :21:27.are coming to the end of their shift. If you look at the types of

:21:28. > :21:31.calls they deal with, national research shows that only one in five

:21:32. > :21:35.calls that the police get our crime related, so the rest of them are

:21:36. > :21:38.things like welfare, people concerned about their welfare,

:21:39. > :21:43.people missing, concerns about mental health as well. On that side

:21:44. > :21:45.of the room that's where they are despatching their police officers to

:21:46. > :21:50.deal with different situations and over here is where the initial calls

:21:51. > :21:53.first coming. Catherine is just finishing the end of her 12 hour

:21:54. > :22:01.shift. What has it been like overnight? It has been all right.

:22:02. > :22:07.Quite slow at times. I don't want to tempt fate by mentioning the Q word.

:22:08. > :22:12.What kind of calls are you dealing with? You never know what's coming

:22:13. > :22:16.in next. It can range from a crime, burglaries, or just someone asking

:22:17. > :22:21.for a bit of advice or reassurance, what they don't know what to do and

:22:22. > :22:25.whether it is someone else who needs to deal with it. It was you end up

:22:26. > :22:30.doing a fair bit of counselling on the phone, I guess, trying to calm

:22:31. > :22:33.people down in situations. The thing I've noticed is you are all

:22:34. > :22:38.incredibly calm. That's a key part of your job, I guess? We've got to

:22:39. > :22:42.keep calm because the person on the other end of the phone, it might

:22:43. > :22:46.have been the first time they have from the police and you don't want

:22:47. > :22:50.to get them are upset and get them worried about what they are trying

:22:51. > :22:53.to report to you. At this time of year what's the big issue you are

:22:54. > :22:56.dealing with? A lot of alcohol-related issues, to be

:22:57. > :23:01.honest. It is the festive season. I will let you go. You are so calm and

:23:02. > :23:05.cool, I love it. How good does she look, considering she has been here

:23:06. > :23:10.for 12 hours? Very impressed! As we mentioned at the beginning, there is

:23:11. > :23:14.some research we have done for Exist this week, to show there's been a

:23:15. > :23:15.huge rise in crime committed by pensioners. We've been looking into

:23:16. > :23:28.this. He was a life. He killed his wife.

:23:29. > :23:33.Stuart in his 70s is talking to Nick, who is 60. We are convicted

:23:34. > :23:37.fraudsters. Nick is still on probation. I don't feel all that all

:23:38. > :23:41.and because people are fitter and healthier and more active, they are

:23:42. > :23:49.going to carry on doing stuff and stuff leads to problems. Problems

:23:50. > :23:52.like crime. The over 60s is now the fastest growing age group in the

:23:53. > :23:55.prison population. Figures obtained by this programme show a dramatic

:23:56. > :24:01.rise in police recorded crime for people over the age of 65. Violence

:24:02. > :24:07.crime in the pension age group, for example, is up 79% since 2012. The

:24:08. > :24:12.numbers are relatively small, up from just under 4020 12 to 7000

:24:13. > :24:16.incidents recorded last year, but almost half of all crime police

:24:17. > :24:24.recorded in this age group was violent. -- 4000 in 2012. I think we

:24:25. > :24:27.have romanticised people. Within just because they are getting older

:24:28. > :24:31.they are sweet old lady. But they are not. They are frustrated,

:24:32. > :24:37.lonely, angry. He says some older people getting more island is easily

:24:38. > :24:41.explained. The frustration of being an old person with not enough to do,

:24:42. > :24:44.with social services being cut, there's a sort of failure of the

:24:45. > :24:50.social contract with the elderly that leads to anger and resentment.

:24:51. > :24:54.So our Britain's pensioners really becoming sad adults? There are some

:24:55. > :24:57.other things going on. For years and years police recorded crime figures

:24:58. > :25:02.were massage to meet certain targets. Today, the way police

:25:03. > :25:07.records crime has completely changed. Police forces are now

:25:08. > :25:11.looking to make sure we report things accurately, ethically and

:25:12. > :25:15.that's shown by the number of crimes that have gone up over the past two

:25:16. > :25:19.or three years. I think officers might have gone through an incident

:25:20. > :25:23.five years ago and used their professional judgement. Two people

:25:24. > :25:28.in their late 60s or 70s having an argument, that might qualify now as

:25:29. > :25:32.violent crime, which they would then record. I don't think they would

:25:33. > :25:35.have done that five years ago. So this is the property, Graham. We

:25:36. > :25:40.have four bedrooms, one is an emergency room. This is the first

:25:41. > :25:43.refuge in the country specifically for older women. We filmed it when

:25:44. > :25:48.it opened last year. The charity that runs it has seen women in their

:25:49. > :25:57.60s, 70s and even 80s come here for help. Many, many times he went for

:25:58. > :26:04.me. Black eyes, just a variation of beatings over the years. This woman,

:26:05. > :26:11.who we are calling Sarah, was abused by her husband for almost 20 years.

:26:12. > :26:18.I now 63. How old is he? 65, coming up, I think. He has just got older

:26:19. > :26:22.and nasty. When you were younger, did you feel as though if you had

:26:23. > :26:28.reported what was happening at the police would take it seriously? No,

:26:29. > :26:35.no. But now it's a different world. They do take it seriously. And that

:26:36. > :26:40.is a significant change. Police are now investigating domestic violence

:26:41. > :26:43.and historic sex abuse cases much more assiduously and that's one

:26:44. > :26:49.reason for the rise in today's figures. Whether it is growing anger

:26:50. > :26:52.and resentment or the justice -- that justice is finally catching up

:26:53. > :26:54.with the families, more and more older people are ending up on the

:26:55. > :27:04.wrong side of the law. We will be talking a bit more about

:27:05. > :27:10.Ray's piece later in the programme. -- Graham's piece. I am in the

:27:11. > :27:14.armoury section of Durham's HQ. Tell us what we've got here. Basically

:27:15. > :27:20.we've got operational firearms that we deploy on a preplanned job. We've

:27:21. > :27:23.also got a lot of firearms that we expect officers to be able to make

:27:24. > :27:27.safe when they come across it, whether that be crime or seized. So

:27:28. > :27:33.essentially they've been used by criminals, some of these? Yes, and

:27:34. > :27:36.what we will do is we will train to make safe at the scene, Prime

:27:37. > :27:44.Minister to them being packaged and recovered. -- before they are

:27:45. > :27:49.packaged. These are shotguns, so these would be loaded with shotgun

:27:50. > :27:52.cartridges, usually used by the gentry for shooting grass snakes

:27:53. > :28:00.back in the old days. What about these iPhones? These are stun

:28:01. > :28:03.devices. These are classed as a disguised firearm. If you are caught

:28:04. > :28:08.in possession of one of these you could end up with five years. Five

:28:09. > :28:11.years mandatory prison sentence for something like that, because that's

:28:12. > :28:16.classified as a disguised firearm, same as this. We will talk more

:28:17. > :28:19.about this later. They give letting me in. I feel slightly scared of

:28:20. > :28:23.this room. More from me later. I don't blame

:28:24. > :28:26.you! You don't want to pick up the wrong phone!

:28:27. > :28:28.I never pressing a button on my phone again!

:28:29. > :28:30.Put that away! Time to get the news, travel and

:28:31. > :32:05.weather wherever you are. We will Welcome back. This is Breakfast with

:32:06. > :32:11.Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. We will bring you all the latest news

:32:12. > :32:18.and sport in a moment. Also on the programme, we will be analysing the

:32:19. > :32:21.Berlin market attack investigation, as the Europe wide man-hunt

:32:22. > :32:25.intensifies. Better broadband could be on the way for thousands of UK

:32:26. > :32:27.homes. We'll find out where the money is coming from and where it is

:32:28. > :32:30.going to be spent up This is Breakfast with Dan Walker

:32:31. > :32:33.and Louise Minchin. We will bring you all

:32:34. > :32:35.the latest news Also on the programme,

:32:36. > :32:39.we will be analysing the Berlin market attack investigation,

:32:40. > :32:42.as the Europe wide man-hunt Better broadband could be

:32:43. > :32:45.on the way for thousands of UK We'll find out where the money

:32:46. > :32:59.is coming from and where it is going we will be hearing about strange

:33:00. > :33:00.Christmas get traditions in the next half hour.

:33:01. > :33:02.Our main story: German security services are facing questions

:33:03. > :33:06.about why they ended a surveillance operation on a suspect who is now

:33:07. > :33:09.the subject of Europe-wide man-hunt, following the Berlin lorry attack.

:33:10. > :33:12.Anis Amri was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group.

:33:13. > :33:15.His residence permit was found in the lorry which drove

:33:16. > :33:17.into the Christmas market on Monday, killing 12 people.

:33:18. > :33:25.At a 10am we will be speaking to a former undercover police officer

:33:26. > :33:26.about how German police will be co-ordinating that man-hunt across

:33:27. > :33:33.Europe -- 8:10 a.m.. The Government is to invest heavily

:33:34. > :33:49.in expanding high-speed broadband. It is expected that the funds,

:33:50. > :33:52.which will be recouped from the Government's superfast

:33:53. > :33:53.broadband programme, could bring better connectivity

:33:54. > :33:56.to an extra 600,000 rural homes. Violent crime committed by people

:33:57. > :33:59.aged over 65 in England and Wales has increased by almost

:34:00. > :34:01.80% since 2012. The figures obtained by a Freedom

:34:02. > :34:04.of Information request by BBC Breakfast relate to offences ranging

:34:05. > :34:08.from minor assault to murder. The rise in the number of crimes

:34:09. > :34:11.recorded is in part being put down to police changing

:34:12. > :34:13.how they log crime. You know, I think officers might

:34:14. > :34:17.have gone to an incident five years ago and used their

:34:18. > :34:20.professional judgement. Two people in their late 60s

:34:21. > :34:24.or 70s having an argument, that might qualify now as violent

:34:25. > :34:27.crime, which they would then record. I don't think they would have done

:34:28. > :34:30.that five years ago, so I think that will have

:34:31. > :34:38.a significant impact. Doctors and charities have described

:34:39. > :34:41.a new treatment for multiple The disease, which affects

:34:42. > :34:53.the brain, often causes It is hoped that the ocrelizumab

:34:54. > :34:56.will offer hope for patients, after a successful trial

:34:57. > :34:59.of around 2,000 people. This is really big news for people

:35:00. > :35:02.with primary progressive forms of MS, for which there are no

:35:03. > :35:06.treatments available on the NHS. Primary progressive MS means that

:35:07. > :35:13.people's disability will worsen. What this drug has shown

:35:14. > :35:16.is that it can slow the reduction of disability for those people,

:35:17. > :35:24.so this offers real hope Firefighters are warning about the

:35:25. > :35:28.risk of carrying the cigarette batteries after one caught fire

:35:29. > :35:33.while the man was out shopping in Leeds. You can see from CCTV footage

:35:34. > :35:37.here. Investigators say he was keeping batteries in his pocket and

:35:38. > :35:42.protected. It is quite grim. People should avoid storing them alongside

:35:43. > :35:47.other metal object like keys and coins. Thankfully he is OK after

:35:48. > :35:49.that. The second time we have seen those extraordinary pictures this

:35:50. > :35:53.morning. The NHS will pay for ten blind

:35:54. > :35:57.patients to have so-called bionic eyes, to treat an inherited

:35:58. > :35:59.form of blindness. The bionic eye is a retinal implant

:36:00. > :36:02.which interprets images captured by a miniature video camera worn

:36:03. > :36:05.on a pair of glasses. Five patients will be treated

:36:06. > :36:08.at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital

:36:09. > :36:11.in London next year. They will then be monitored

:36:12. > :36:13.for a year afterwards, to see how they get

:36:14. > :36:21.on in everyday life. After decades of not being able to

:36:22. > :36:26.see anything at all, seeing movement, colour, in some cases

:36:27. > :36:35.shapes, and just knowing where things are, can be quite a

:36:36. > :36:41.significant change in a person's capabilities, really.

:36:42. > :36:49.Spending too long looking at sites like Facebook could be making us

:36:50. > :36:53.more miserable and envious, according to new Danish research.

:36:54. > :36:56.The study from the University of Copenhagen is the latest

:36:57. > :36:58.to suggest social media could have a negative

:36:59. > :37:03.The impact is worst for those who do not leave comments,

:37:04. > :37:05.apparently, but scan through and read about the success

:37:06. > :37:12.That surprised me, you think it is because they are cross inside! I

:37:13. > :37:18.hate you and your success! We will go up close and personal now, as one

:37:19. > :37:23.photographer has tried to capture the expressions of the world's

:37:24. > :37:27.tiniest animals. This gecko is one of the images taken by an amateur

:37:28. > :37:34.photographer, who spends his spare time capturing close-ups in his

:37:35. > :37:38.native Indonesia. He has also photographed this frog with a tiny

:37:39. > :37:46.cricket on its head. Seems to be quite happy with that. And these

:37:47. > :37:50.three frogs. Three frogs sitting on a camera. He says it can take a week

:37:51. > :37:57.to edit one single photograph, and he is actually a full-time nurse. I

:37:58. > :38:07.wonder whether that could be more than three frogs. I am looking for a

:38:08. > :38:11.fourth. Mike is here with the sport. I want your Christmas traditions a

:38:12. > :38:25.bit later on. We will give you a bit of time to think about it. Talking

:38:26. > :38:29.about the weird things we all do. Let's talk about rugby union. Real

:38:30. > :38:33.concern about the way that players deal with concussion. In the past it

:38:34. > :38:37.was that they came back on once they were treated. That has got a stop,

:38:38. > :38:40.according to experts, after the latest review and another incident

:38:41. > :38:44.involving George North. The rugby players Association is saying that

:38:45. > :38:48.the Northampton Saints should have been punished for allowing winger

:38:49. > :38:52.George North tube play on after being knocked out. Concussion review

:38:53. > :38:56.group found that George North should not have been able to continue, but

:38:57. > :39:00.said that Saint medics had acted at the time and the player's best

:39:01. > :39:02.interests and so wouldn't face any punishment. Others, though, believe

:39:03. > :39:11.the rules need to be updated. If there is no negligence I can't

:39:12. > :39:14.see how they can be punishment for what is effectively a system which

:39:15. > :39:18.is not under scratch with one-day professionalism. The worrying thing

:39:19. > :39:21.is that the only thing the staff at Northampton should have done is pull

:39:22. > :39:26.the player if there was any reasonable doubt.

:39:27. > :39:29.It will be at least six months before the Wimbledon champion

:39:30. > :39:39.Surgeons are confident the two-time Wimbledon champion will be able to

:39:40. > :39:42.return to the court but all the fingers on her playing hand were

:39:43. > :39:47.injured and SoHo rehabilitation will be rather slow process.

:39:48. > :39:53.Steve Holland has been given the job of England assessment manager on a

:39:54. > :39:56.permanent basis. Holland, currently Chelsea's assistant coach, has

:39:57. > :40:01.worked alongside Gareth Southgate for three years, firstly with the

:40:02. > :40:05.England under 21 team, and then the senior team during Southgate's spell

:40:06. > :40:09.as interim manager. So this isn't a huge surprise.

:40:10. > :40:11.Graham Carey's penalty earns League Two Plymouth Argyle

:40:12. > :40:13.a third-round FA Cup tie against Liverpool.

:40:14. > :40:21.Plymouth missed one penalty and won a second, which Graham Carey scored

:40:22. > :40:29.to set up a tie worth ?500,000. The next Olympic Games is predicted

:40:30. > :40:33.to cost ?12.4 billion, and even though the Tokyo organisers are

:40:34. > :40:37.looking for savings, that would make it the most expensive games ever,

:40:38. > :40:41.beating the amount spent on the Sochi Winter Olympics. It is six

:40:42. > :40:45.times more than originally expected. The Tokyo games organising committee

:40:46. > :40:50.cite the fact that they have had an earthquake and tsunami which have

:40:51. > :40:54.increased costs and they said in the original file they haven't allowed

:40:55. > :40:59.for costs like surrounding greenery and temporary toilets, which is a

:41:00. > :41:04.bit obvious. Maybe not the greenery, but you definitely need the loose.

:41:05. > :41:10.Very early to have our first Olympics aren't going to be ready

:41:11. > :41:15.story. It is traditional, isn't it? We normally wait until two years

:41:16. > :41:20.before the event. They are trying to reduce cost by revising the venues.

:41:21. > :41:22.I think it will be one of the best Olympic Games we have seen for a

:41:23. > :41:23.long time. We will talk about Christmas

:41:24. > :41:38.traditions later. The government says another ?400

:41:39. > :41:44.million will be offered to improve broadband services. John is here to

:41:45. > :41:48.explain. This is all about the circle of doom when you're trying to

:41:49. > :41:52.buffer, trying to get rid of that in the long-term. If you live somewhere

:41:53. > :41:55.a little more rural, you might be familiar with pictures like these,

:41:56. > :41:59.because you internet connection is not fast or strong enough. The

:42:00. > :42:04.government has a target of getting 95% of the country's superfast

:42:05. > :42:09.broadband. That will be 24 megabits a second, by the end of next year.

:42:10. > :42:13.This money today should help achieve that. Let's go through exactly how

:42:14. > :42:18.that might work. Andrew Ferguson joins us now, a broadband expert

:42:19. > :42:25.from think broadband .com. Let's start with the government's target,

:42:26. > :42:31.95%. How are they doing in that? So far, last week of Common confirmed

:42:32. > :42:36.around April or May we were 89%, and using a loan figures we are sitting

:42:37. > :42:40.about 92%, which is 1.3, 1.4 million, can't get superfast

:42:41. > :42:44.broadband still. ?400 million is the figure we are going to see a lot

:42:45. > :42:51.today, whereas that money coming from? Loom act that money has come

:42:52. > :42:57.over a period of years. It is not all new money today, it is a series

:42:58. > :43:01.of money which kids being announced over six months. In terms of the

:43:02. > :43:05.number of homes this may help, we are talking about 600,000. At the

:43:06. > :43:08.regulator was saying there are a million households around the

:43:09. > :43:12.country without access to decent broadband. Where is the gap? The gap

:43:13. > :43:20.is, the regulator is talking about people who get ten meg or below.

:43:21. > :43:23.That will decrease, so if the government delivers 600,000 homes,

:43:24. > :43:29.and that is? Because they are talking about up to, they are not

:43:30. > :43:40.saying the minimum, it could be 400 thousand. Unsurprisingly, whether

:43:41. > :43:44.big broadband rollout, BT has a big role to play in this. How much will

:43:45. > :43:48.they be responsible for making sure those 600,000 homes get the

:43:49. > :43:52.connection by the end of next year? Pretty much all of this investment

:43:53. > :43:56.has been recycled from the original projects, it is down to whatever BT

:43:57. > :43:59.decide to do, and also what the local authorities and devolved

:44:00. > :44:04.administrations, what they actually decide to do as well. And finally,

:44:05. > :44:07.this is obviously a lot of money and it is in areas which are not

:44:08. > :44:12.necessarily cost-effective for the likes of BT. Will customers pay more

:44:13. > :44:18.for their broadband in these areas? If you are on the standard ADSL

:44:19. > :44:21.plus, premium prices for the superfast services are generally ?5

:44:22. > :44:25.or ?10 a month more but you generally get a lot more speed for

:44:26. > :44:29.it, and you don't have to put up with the buffering symbol. Thank you

:44:30. > :44:35.very much. So next year you should have a little less of this if you

:44:36. > :44:40.are in one of those 600,000 homes, by the end of 2017. I love the way

:44:41. > :44:45.it says one moment, it is never one moment. We will be talking about

:44:46. > :44:50.that later with Karen Bradley, MP for culture, media and sport

:44:51. > :44:56.secretary. No one likes to see the wheel of doom.

:44:57. > :45:01.German security forces are facing questions about why they ended a

:45:02. > :45:04.surveillance operation on a man who is now the suspect in the Berlin

:45:05. > :45:08.lorry attack. As we've been hearing, broadband

:45:09. > :45:11.services in some rural areas will be given a boost with hundreds of

:45:12. > :45:17.millions of pounds, as the government allocates more funding.

:45:18. > :45:26.Carol is looking at the weather this morning. Good news about Barbara?

:45:27. > :45:30.Yes, indeed. There's a lot of weather going on today and into

:45:31. > :45:35.Boxing Day. The kick off with today, some sunshine than we lose the fog

:45:36. > :45:40.across southern England. The squally showers continue. Gales across parts

:45:41. > :45:43.of Scotland and Northern Ireland. Blowing in showers, some of them

:45:44. > :45:48.heavy with hail and thunder. Sleet on the hills and at lower levels,

:45:49. > :45:52.especially in Scotland. For England and Wales when we lose the patchy

:45:53. > :45:56.fog some of it will be slow to clear. We have some sunshine and

:45:57. > :46:00.fewer showers. Cold in the north today if you are heading out and

:46:01. > :46:03.called than it was yesterday in the south. Even in and overnight

:46:04. > :46:07.temperatures will drop quite quickly under the clear skies. We have an

:46:08. > :46:12.early frostbite as the breeze picks up we have temperatures picking up

:46:13. > :46:15.as well and we lose the showers in Scotland and Northern Ireland for a

:46:16. > :46:20.time. They will be replaced by heavy rain coming our way by the end of

:46:21. > :46:25.tonight. These are the first signs of Storm Barbara. There is an amber

:46:26. > :46:31.weather warning, be prepared for the strength of wind, because it will

:46:32. > :46:37.bring gales, severe gales and even storm force winds. A bus. We start

:46:38. > :46:42.the day on a windy note in England and Wales. -- for some of us. All of

:46:43. > :46:45.this rain is piling in from the north-west, heading south-eastwards.

:46:46. > :46:49.It is heavy, do it you are travelling there will be a lot of

:46:50. > :46:54.surface water and spray on the roads. But the wind is the feature.

:46:55. > :46:59.If we focus on the wind and where it will be strongest, it is the north.

:47:00. > :47:04.Gusts of up to 90 mph in Scotland and the Northern Isles. The bubbly

:47:05. > :47:08.about 80 in western parts of Scotland, 70 mph in Northern Ireland

:47:09. > :47:14.and 60 in northern England. The strongest gust in Scotland are

:47:15. > :47:18.likely to do some structural damage. It will probably also cause a lot of

:47:19. > :47:24.transport disruption, for example ferries, temperatures, possibly

:47:25. > :47:28.cancellations. So do take extra care because it is the wind, but we've

:47:29. > :47:33.also got the rain. As we head into Christmas Eve, a quieter day, more

:47:34. > :47:37.like today. For England and Wales there will be sunshine around, and

:47:38. > :47:40.it will be windy. We have the rain coming in across the north of the

:47:41. > :47:45.country and although it will still be windy it won't be as windy as

:47:46. > :47:50.Friday. That leads us nicely into Christmas Day. Christmas Day we've

:47:51. > :47:54.got a cold front thinking southwards, so to start with in

:47:55. > :48:00.England and Wales a fine start to with sunshine. Look at the isobars.

:48:01. > :48:04.Another windy day. Especially windy across the northern half of the

:48:05. > :48:09.country once again. On Christmas Day the other thing to mention is there

:48:10. > :48:12.will be mild weather. Christmas Day we could have record-breaking

:48:13. > :48:16.temperatures for Christmas Day. To do that we have to be 15.6. So we

:48:17. > :48:22.could do that somewhere like Aberdeen or Wales. As the cold front

:48:23. > :48:26.moves through colder air will come in behind, so we could start

:48:27. > :48:31.Christmas Day on a very mild note and go through much of the day on a

:48:32. > :48:34.mild note. By the end of it we could have a white Christmas, the Cosby

:48:35. > :48:40.could have sleet or snow coming in behind the weather front. So mild on

:48:41. > :48:44.Christmas Day, who wants that? Thank you very much indeed. I know

:48:45. > :48:46.you will keep us up-to-date about Barbara as well today.

:48:47. > :48:52.The run-up to Christmas is one of the busiest times of year for the

:48:53. > :48:54.police forces and this week we've been looking at different challenges

:48:55. > :49:01.they face. As part of our Policing Britain

:49:02. > :49:04.series, Steph has been at the headquarters of Durham police to

:49:05. > :49:11.find out about the work involved. She was in the gun room earlier, I

:49:12. > :49:11.am sure there is a different word for it. Where

:49:12. > :49:21.are you now? And having a good look around the headquarters. I have come

:49:22. > :49:24.into what's called the silver command room. Here, complex

:49:25. > :49:30.decisions will be made about different operations. They watch the

:49:31. > :49:35.news to make sure they know what's going on as well. We have CCTV

:49:36. > :49:40.footage and maps of the area and key information. We have the silver

:49:41. > :49:45.commander here and you have essentially mocked up a drugs raid.

:49:46. > :49:49.Tell us happening. We have the silver command, so any complexes it

:49:50. > :49:55.is all operations get made in here. Away from the main control room. We

:49:56. > :49:58.have lots of different units of officers from different specialists

:49:59. > :50:03.who are coming to help advise me on the best rationale. Today we are

:50:04. > :50:09.doing some drugs raid at three different addresses in an area that

:50:10. > :50:13.we will put all of the details on the board, so who is going where,

:50:14. > :50:17.how many officers and the progress of the arrests. How often are there

:50:18. > :50:22.things going on in this room? Probably about three or four times a

:50:23. > :50:28.week. It might be for a firearms job, a complex drugs raid, such as

:50:29. > :50:33.this, or any other operation, road traffic crashes, things like that.

:50:34. > :50:38.What is your key role? You are strategically deciding what you have

:50:39. > :50:41.to do? Yes. I am making the key decisions about how to read the

:50:42. > :50:47.progress, -- held to we progress, how do we get resources together,

:50:48. > :50:51.wind we do the raids, local authority, linking that with other

:50:52. > :50:55.services, and bringing all of the different units together.

:50:56. > :50:59.Fascinating. We will come back into the room at the morning to see how

:51:00. > :51:05.it is going. Then she very much. Obviously this room is about dealing

:51:06. > :51:11.with the complex crime cases and through -- earlier I was in the call

:51:12. > :51:16.centre where they get a triple nine calls and 11 calls. If you at the

:51:17. > :51:21.statistics, you think they will be doing -- dealing with lots of calls

:51:22. > :51:28.to do with crime, but only one in five calls to 999 are crime related.

:51:29. > :51:32.Others are about mental health, people concerned about vulnerable

:51:33. > :51:35.people and a key part of the job of being a police officer is thinking

:51:36. > :51:39.about how best to support the victims of crime and that's what we

:51:40. > :51:42.will talk about now. I have a couple of guests with me. I have the

:51:43. > :51:45.victims commissioner for England and Wales and give it them is

:51:46. > :51:55.campaigner. Good morning to both of you. -- a victim's campaigner. You

:51:56. > :52:01.both know what it is like to be a victim of crime. In your case, your

:52:02. > :52:07.husband was murdered, and, Lauren, your husband was murdered. Given it

:52:08. > :52:14.was a couple of years ago, Lauren, how do you feel about it now? --

:52:15. > :52:18.your son was murdered. I think there were certain police who understood

:52:19. > :52:21.how I was feeling and were quite compassionate and there were others

:52:22. > :52:25.who didn't think they were trained as well and who sort of either

:52:26. > :52:32.talked down to me are made me feel as if... As if... I felt

:52:33. > :52:35.uncomfortable. But overall there were some amazing people. I think

:52:36. > :52:39.training could really make a difference. You clearly had a mixed

:52:40. > :52:44.experience. What you think would improve its? I think being able to

:52:45. > :52:48.understand the feeling. So they need the train behind them to understand

:52:49. > :52:54.what bereavement, especially a post- dramatic situation, is like. At 1.I

:52:55. > :52:58.had -- at one stage I had an important document delivered to me

:52:59. > :53:01.on a Friday night, when I was alone without support. To read this

:53:02. > :53:06.document about what happened to my son on the day was devastating and I

:53:07. > :53:09.didn't know who to go to and I think that a training issue, it should

:53:10. > :53:13.have been someone to deliver it at an appropriate time when I could

:53:14. > :53:16.have had that support with me at an appropriate time. In your case,

:53:17. > :53:20.you've taken on the role of victim's commissioner. What are you trying to

:53:21. > :53:24.do to change the way people are supported? On trying to change the

:53:25. > :53:29.way victims are treated, in that they are treated with dignity and

:53:30. > :53:33.respect. Like Lauren says, there are some fantastic police officers out

:53:34. > :53:38.there, but there are some atrocious ones. Until I start having victims

:53:39. > :53:44.to me saying they wouldn't recommend anyone coming forward, I will keep

:53:45. > :53:48.going. -- stop hearing victims. It is about the bedside skills. Victims

:53:49. > :53:53.are going through traumatic times and you have to understand it and

:53:54. > :53:57.when they are left on their own we've got to make sure that they are

:53:58. > :54:01.supported as well. It is a big task, one that I am quite happy to keep

:54:02. > :54:04.challenging the powers at ease. I know we will be talking to you

:54:05. > :54:06.throughout the programme. Thank you both very much for joining us this

:54:07. > :54:12.morning. More from me a little bit later.

:54:13. > :54:16.Thank you. We will be seeing you later, Steph. Tomorrow we will have

:54:17. > :54:22.a final look... Sorry about the crackers. At the Policing Britain

:54:23. > :54:27.series. It is Breakfast. Anything can happen. I was

:54:28. > :54:31.positioning them nicely. Tomorrow is about people with

:54:32. > :54:37.dementia going missing. There is a reason for this. Go!

:54:38. > :54:46.Exchanging presents, mince pies, crackers, maybe even a quick peck

:54:47. > :54:49.under the mistletoe. There are a whole host of Christmas traditions

:54:50. > :54:52.that many of us embrace at this time of year.

:54:53. > :54:57.Later we will be hearing about the origins of, I like this, one of

:54:58. > :55:01.those spinning things. What the joke? We ask people what

:55:02. > :55:02.their traditions are and what they wouldn't want to be without.

:55:03. > :55:14.Father Christmas, that's important. He comes to our house. They wake us

:55:15. > :55:18.up so they can have their stockings. I like watching the reaction of your

:55:19. > :55:24.family when we give them presents. And I also like it when you have

:55:25. > :55:30.your Nan has got you a knitted jumper and you have to give a fake

:55:31. > :55:35.reaction to it. My dad gives an Easter egg every Christmas. He

:55:36. > :55:41.thinks it is hysterical. The main thing for me is mince pies. For me

:55:42. > :55:47.it is champagne! I love it! I do. The real Christmas tree that smells

:55:48. > :55:50.like Christmas. We've got a 10-month-old little boy so we are

:55:51. > :55:55.just starting traditions with him and we have a Christmas Eve book

:55:56. > :56:00.that we will read to him before bed and new pyjamas. New pyjamas. Fresh

:56:01. > :56:04.pyjamas every Christmas Eve. Boardgames with your family seems to

:56:05. > :56:08.be the big thing. Arguments with my sisters over boardgames. It isn't

:56:09. > :56:11.Christmas without a good argument, some sort of technicality over a

:56:12. > :56:19.rule. Anything. I love all of those different ideas,

:56:20. > :56:25.especially the clean, new pyjamas. A lot of people say pyjamas on

:56:26. > :56:34.Christmas Eve. Send in your ideas. New pyjamas on Christmas Eve. This

:56:35. > :56:38.one from Tommy, he does in activity seen, the figures start on one side

:56:39. > :56:40.of the room and work their way towards the TV for the sixth of

:56:41. > :56:45.January. Lovely. Tell us your traditions. We

:56:46. > :00:04.would love to hear from you. Time to get the

:00:05. > :00:27.This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:00:28. > :00:33.This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:00:34. > :00:35.An international manhunt for the main suspect

:00:36. > :00:38.in the Berlin Christmas market attack, as it emerges Anis Amri

:00:39. > :00:40.was being watched until just a few months ago.

:00:41. > :00:43.He was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group.

:00:44. > :00:46.Now, German police are facing questions about why they dropped

:00:47. > :00:57.Also this morning: A boost for rural broadband.

:00:58. > :01:05.The government pledges to provide nearly all houses with high-speed

:01:06. > :01:08.connections within a year. Only one in five households owns their own

:01:09. > :01:15.home, that is fewer than 20 years ago.

:01:16. > :01:18.A Breakfast investigation reveals the big rise in violent crime

:01:19. > :01:23.Good morning from Durham police headquarters.

:01:24. > :01:26.We are here as part of a series on policing Britain.

:01:27. > :01:30.I'm live in the call centre where they are dealing with the 999

:01:31. > :01:41.And in sport, players who suffer concussion should not be allowed

:01:42. > :01:44.back on to the pitch, that is a finding of the review into the

:01:45. > :01:46.concussion of George North, as the sport looks to change the way

:01:47. > :01:55.concussions are handled. Some patchy fog, some of that is

:01:56. > :01:59.dance. It will lift slowly. A dry day with a few showers and some

:02:00. > :02:03.sunshine. For Scotland and Northern Ireland squally showers, some of

:02:04. > :02:08.which will have a wintry element. More details and 15 minutes. -- in

:02:09. > :02:11.15 in its. Our main story: German security

:02:12. > :02:13.services are facing questions about why they ended a surveillance

:02:14. > :02:17.operation on a suspect who is now the subject of Europe-wide man-hunt,

:02:18. > :02:19.following the Berlin lorry attack. Anis Amri was known to have ties

:02:20. > :02:23.to a radical Islamist group. His residence permit was found

:02:24. > :02:25.in the lorry which drove into the Christmas market

:02:26. > :02:28.on Monday, killing 12 people. At 8:10am we will be speaking

:02:29. > :02:31.to a former undercover police officer about how German police

:02:32. > :02:33.will be co-ordinating that Still on the run, the most

:02:34. > :02:39.wanted man in Europe. Police are offering a reward

:02:40. > :02:42.of 100,000 euros, and warn he may be His residence permit

:02:43. > :02:53.was found in the lorry. And he has used six different

:02:54. > :02:56.aliases, and three different More details are emerging

:02:57. > :02:58.rapidly about Anis Amri. His family said he left

:02:59. > :03:01.Tunisia for Italy in 2011, where he was jailed

:03:02. > :03:03.for four years for arson. Last year he moved to Germany,

:03:04. > :03:06.where his claim for asylum But German officials did not

:03:07. > :03:09.have the correct paperwork He had links to an Islamist network,

:03:10. > :03:19.and was known to the authorities. but this was stopped

:03:20. > :03:25.because of a lack of evidence. 12 people were killed and dozens

:03:26. > :03:28.injured in the attack on the Christmas market

:03:29. > :03:30.on Monday evening. So far only one of those who died

:03:31. > :03:33.has been identified, the man who should have

:03:34. > :03:35.been driving the lorry, Missing, feared dead by her family,

:03:36. > :03:41.Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, from Italy. Dalia Elkayam, from Israel,

:03:42. > :03:44.also has not been seen since. Her husband, Rami,

:03:45. > :03:52.is seriously ill in hospital. Last night the Christmas market

:03:53. > :03:55.reopened, no longer a place filled Instead, Berliners came

:03:56. > :03:58.to pay their quiet respects to the victims, as the

:03:59. > :04:14.investigation goes on. Our correspondent Damien McGuinness

:04:15. > :04:17.is in our Berlin studio. There really is a focus

:04:18. > :04:26.and a lot of criticism That's right. The German officials

:04:27. > :04:30.and authorities are going to have two aunts are certain questions to

:04:31. > :04:33.the public. One being why this man had not been deported even though

:04:34. > :04:38.his asylum application had in rejected. That is because Tunisia

:04:39. > :04:43.did not accept he was a Tunisian citizen. You need the cooperation of

:04:44. > :04:46.the country of origin to deport someone but the government is going

:04:47. > :04:50.to have to explain to people why that is the case and why it can't be

:04:51. > :04:54.got around. When you talk the Germans on the streets, that is one

:04:55. > :04:57.of the questions being asked, that he shouldn't have been there in the

:04:58. > :05:00.first place. Security services knew he had a criminal record and

:05:01. > :05:04.suspected he was potentially dangerous. He had been under

:05:05. > :05:07.surveillance, his phone had been tapped. That surveillance was lifted

:05:08. > :05:11.and security services are going to be under fire for dropping that

:05:12. > :05:15.surveillance. One newspaper editor this morning told the BBC that this

:05:16. > :05:23.could all turn into a major scandal here in Germany. Later we will be

:05:24. > :05:24.speaking to a former undercover officer about how that searches

:05:25. > :05:31.being automated. How that search is being

:05:32. > :05:37.co-ordinated. The Government is to invest ?440

:05:38. > :05:40.million in expanding high-speed It is expected that the funds,

:05:41. > :05:44.which will be recouped from the Government's superfast

:05:45. > :05:46.broadband programme, could bring better connectivity

:05:47. > :05:52.to an extra 600,000 rural homes. The government aims to deliver

:05:53. > :05:55.high-speed internet to 90% of properties by the end of next year.

:05:56. > :06:00.The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will soon make a decision about when

:06:01. > :06:04.they will travel to Norfolk this year. They postponed their annual

:06:05. > :06:09.trip to Sandringham yesterday because they both had heavy colds.

:06:10. > :06:12.They spent the day at Buckingham Palace instead, recovering. On

:06:13. > :06:13.Tuesday they hosted their traditional Christmas lunch for the

:06:14. > :06:17.extended royal family as well. Violent crime committed by people

:06:18. > :06:20.aged over 65 in England and Wales has increased by almost

:06:21. > :06:22.80% since 2012. The figures obtained by a Freedom

:06:23. > :06:25.of Information request by BBC Breakfast relate to offences ranging

:06:26. > :06:28.from minor assault to murder. The rise in the number of crimes

:06:29. > :06:32.recorded is in part being put down to police changing

:06:33. > :06:50.how they log crime. At 65 now I am more able, socially

:06:51. > :06:54.active, probably fitter, so the things that I might have done at 65

:06:55. > :07:00.in the 1950s might be different to what I would do in 2016. So that as

:07:01. > :07:04.an enabler, isn't it, for people to act in a different way.

:07:05. > :07:07.Doctors and charities have described a new treatment for multiple

:07:08. > :07:10.The disease, which affects the brain, often causes

:07:11. > :07:19.100,000 people in the UK are affected by MS.

:07:20. > :07:22.It is hoped that the ocrelizumab will offer hope for patients,

:07:23. > :07:24.after a successful trial of around 2,000 people.

:07:25. > :07:28.This is really big news for people with primary progressive forms

:07:29. > :07:31.of MS, for which there are no treatments available on the NHS.

:07:32. > :07:33.Primary progressive MS means that people's disability will worsen.

:07:34. > :07:36.What this drug has shown is that it can slow the reduction

:07:37. > :07:39.of disability for those people, so this offers real hope

:07:40. > :07:49.Firefighters are warning about the risk of carrying

:07:50. > :07:51.e-cigarette batteries, after one caught fire while the man

:07:52. > :08:05.Investigators say he was keeping batteries in his pocket

:08:06. > :08:10.people should avoid storing them alongside other metal object

:08:11. > :08:17.Thankfully, as we say, only minor injuries.

:08:18. > :08:20.The NHS will pay for ten blind patients to have so-called bionic

:08:21. > :08:23.eyes, to treat an inherited form of blindness.

:08:24. > :08:26.The bionic eye is a retinal implant which interprets images captured

:08:27. > :08:28.by a miniature video camera worn on a pair of glasses.

:08:29. > :08:31.Five patients will be treated at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital

:08:32. > :08:34.and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London next year.

:08:35. > :08:36.They will then be monitored for a year afterwards,

:08:37. > :08:43.to see how they get on in everyday life.

:08:44. > :08:52.Dense fog is causing problems at major European airports. Flights

:08:53. > :08:56.from Heathrow are likely to be delayed, flights from Gatwick and

:08:57. > :08:59.London city are also affected, and passengers are being advised to

:09:00. > :09:02.check with their airline before travelling. Carol will have the

:09:03. > :09:05.latest weather in six or seven minutes' time.

:09:06. > :09:08.Spending too long looking at sites like Facebook could be making us

:09:09. > :09:10.more miserable and envious, according to new Danish research.

:09:11. > :09:13.The study from the University of Copenhagen is the latest

:09:14. > :09:16.to suggest social media could have a negative effect

:09:17. > :09:19.The impact is worst for those who do not leave comments,

:09:20. > :09:22.apparently, but scan through and read about the success

:09:23. > :09:30.That is what the research came up with. Leave comments, and you will

:09:31. > :09:33.feel better. Well done on your lovely new job. If you want to

:09:34. > :09:34.contact us and leave comments, please do.

:09:35. > :09:37.It has been a stellar week for the BBC Breakfast team,

:09:38. > :09:43.And Tim Muffett, you may not watch Celebrity Mastermind,

:09:44. > :09:54.and Tim took on double Paralympic gold-medallist Kadeena Cox,

:09:55. > :09:56.journalist David Aaronovitch, and CBBC's Lauren Layfield,

:09:57. > :10:00.His specialist subject was the films of Danny Boyle.

:10:01. > :10:16.Both of us have failed miserably. What was your specialist subject?

:10:17. > :10:29.Mine was the gunpowder plot. I think this is probably why we failed.

:10:30. > :10:32.The Government says another ?400 million will be offered

:10:33. > :10:43.The superfast scheme is being funded by savings from other programmes and

:10:44. > :10:51.is expected to help 600,000 homes and businesses.

:10:52. > :10:54.Connecting rural homes across the UK to fast broadband has meant

:10:55. > :10:56.an investment of ?1.7 billion of public money.

:10:57. > :10:59.And nearly all of that has gone to BT.

:11:00. > :11:01.The company's contracts with councils or local authorities

:11:02. > :11:05.mean it has to return some of that money if more than 20% of homeowners

:11:06. > :11:07.sign up when the fast broadband service arrives.

:11:08. > :11:09.Now, the Government says that this cash clawback,

:11:10. > :11:12.coupled with efficiency savings, means another ?440 million can be

:11:13. > :11:18.There is a target of reaching 95% of homes with superfast broadband

:11:19. > :11:25.Ministers believe that is within reach, and that up to 600,000 more

:11:26. > :11:30.homes and businesses could be hooked up with the new programme.

:11:31. > :11:36.But critics say BT has been using the wrong technology,

:11:37. > :11:39.connecting homeowners via a copper wire to a cabinet,

:11:40. > :11:42.rather than laying fibre-optic cables straight into homes.

:11:43. > :11:45.Rival firms, including Sky and TalkTalk, are now promising

:11:46. > :11:48.that they can deliver faster fibre connections than BT,

:11:49. > :12:06.Lets get more from the culture, media and sport secretary. Thank you

:12:07. > :12:09.for joining us. As soon as we talk about this on BBC Breakfast, people

:12:10. > :12:14.get very exercised that they simply don't have sufficient broadband.

:12:15. > :12:18.When is it really going to start changing? Good morning, and as a

:12:19. > :12:23.constituency MP for a rural area, I can assure you that this is an issue

:12:24. > :12:26.which is raised with me regularly as well. I think what people should

:12:27. > :12:32.know today is that we have connected 4.5 million premises to superfast

:12:33. > :12:36.broadband, of which 1.5 million have taken up the option of superfast,

:12:37. > :12:40.and that take-up has led to more money being put into the system,

:12:41. > :12:45.which means we can connect those harder to reach premises and make

:12:46. > :12:50.sure they have faster broadband as well. You say you can, but when?

:12:51. > :12:54.Well, local authorities are delivering these schemes and I want

:12:55. > :12:57.to see it as soon as possible. But we need to recognise that there are

:12:58. > :13:02.some very difficult to reach properties and there is not a one

:13:03. > :13:07.size fits all solution. This ?440 million will help 600,000

:13:08. > :13:11.properties, and I think that is really good news, and something that

:13:12. > :13:15.will be welcomed by many of my constituents. And as far as I

:13:16. > :13:18.understand it, a lot of money goes into getting the fibre to the

:13:19. > :13:23.Cabinet which is at the roadside, but not on to houses. Is that the

:13:24. > :13:27.right strategy? Should not be going straight to the houses? As I said,

:13:28. > :13:31.there is no one size fits all solution which is right for

:13:32. > :13:35.everybody. For businesses, fibre to the premises is very important, and

:13:36. > :13:39.that is why we the announcement in the Autumn Statement of an extra ?1

:13:40. > :13:44.billion to help visitors and public what to is be able to get fibre to

:13:45. > :13:47.the premises. But for most households, superfast speeds of

:13:48. > :13:51.about 24 megabits per second will deliver really, really fast

:13:52. > :13:57.broadband access that means they can have multiple use of different

:13:58. > :14:02.devices in the premises at any one time, and that they can access the

:14:03. > :14:07.internet in a way that many others have been able to do for some time.

:14:08. > :14:17.I am looking forward to seeing this being rolled out to as many firms as

:14:18. > :14:20.possible. So you don't think it is necessary to really focus on getting

:14:21. > :14:24.it right to people's houses, then? You think the right strategy is

:14:25. > :14:28.being pursued at the moment? Well, look, I think the fact that any

:14:29. > :14:32.article you just ran it was clear there are many different options, we

:14:33. > :14:36.have a great competitive market here in the UK, and there are fibre to

:14:37. > :14:41.the premises options, there are fibre to the Cabinet options, they

:14:42. > :14:47.are different prices and different accessibility. What is important is

:14:48. > :14:50.that we get the super fast access to as many people as possible. The fact

:14:51. > :14:55.that you can get fibre to your premises for about ?20 a month is a

:14:56. > :15:00.fantastic consumer offering being made by many, many of the providers.

:15:01. > :15:06.We are making sure that we get fibre access through either to the Cabinet

:15:07. > :15:11.or to the premises, to as many premises as possible. Is it a super

:15:12. > :15:15.competitive market, as you said? In November there was a ruling that BT

:15:16. > :15:21.had to be separate from its subsidiary Open Reach. Is that the

:15:22. > :15:27.right thing to do, do you think? Off, have been working with BT Open

:15:28. > :15:31.Reach on this issue. They will report soon. We have a market in the

:15:32. > :15:35.UK where we have access to superfast broadband for nine out of ten

:15:36. > :15:40.premises, and we want to get that up to 95% by the end of next year, and

:15:41. > :15:43.we want to deliver 100% on the universal service obligation by

:15:44. > :15:50.2020, something we are legislating for at the moment in the digital

:15:51. > :15:56.economy. We understand there is an agreement on a takeover deal. Would

:15:57. > :16:01.you like Ofcom to look at that as well? No formal arrangement has been

:16:02. > :16:06.made. I have a quasi-judicial role in that process and I don't wish to

:16:07. > :16:08.make any further comment at this stage. They give for your time.

:16:09. > :16:18.This is Breakfast. The main stories: German security services are facing

:16:19. > :16:22.questions about why they ended a surveillance operation on a man who

:16:23. > :16:24.is now the suspect in the Berlin lorry attack.

:16:25. > :16:28.As we've been discussing, broadband services in some rural areas will be

:16:29. > :16:30.given a boost by hundreds of millions of pounds as the government

:16:31. > :16:40.allocates more funding. We are talking Christmas traditions

:16:41. > :16:44.today and thankfully as ever you have come up trumps, telling us the

:16:45. > :16:52.sorts of things you get involved with. Alastair says croissant with

:16:53. > :16:54.pigs in blankets in bed! I like chocolate, then wine gums,

:16:55. > :16:59.then breakfast. Loads of others. Peter says there

:17:00. > :17:03.can only be one breakfast on Christmas Day, oiled eggs.

:17:04. > :17:09.Susan says the first drink of the day has to be fizz.

:17:10. > :17:13.I would maybe have a cup of tea first, but I agree.

:17:14. > :17:18.One says his grandparents used to let him put the decorations together

:17:19. > :17:22.and now he lets his eldest daughter do the same.

:17:23. > :17:26.I bet Carol has some lovely traditions. She is going to talk to

:17:27. > :17:30.us about the weather and Barbara is on her way.

:17:31. > :17:35.She is brewing up in the Atlantic. Good morning. The weather today,

:17:36. > :17:40.compared to what we are going to get, is quiet. Some of us could see

:17:41. > :17:44.sunshine, but Scotland and Northern Ireland, squally showers. This

:17:45. > :17:48.morning there is the patchy fog. Some of that is dense and some of it

:17:49. > :17:52.will be slow to clear. Not clearing until about lunchtime. When it does

:17:53. > :17:56.for England and Wales, we have a lot of sunshine around and a few

:17:57. > :18:01.showers. For Northern Ireland and Scotland, strong winds. Dust into

:18:02. > :18:06.gale force. Squally showers. Rain, some hail, under and lightning and

:18:07. > :18:11.some sleet, even at lower levels, and hill snow. Feeling cold in the

:18:12. > :18:15.north and a bit colder than it was yesterday in the south. Through this

:18:16. > :18:20.evening and overnight under clear skies the cabbage will drop rapidly.

:18:21. > :18:27.There will be frost in lower areas and by the end of the night we've

:18:28. > :18:31.got the first signs of Storm Barbara arriving, bringing heavy rain and

:18:32. > :18:35.gales, even at this stage. Tomorrow worth noting that the Met Office has

:18:36. > :18:39.got an amber wind warning out, meaning be prepared. One level down

:18:40. > :18:44.from the top level, which we don't often see lately. Tomorrow we have

:18:45. > :18:48.the rain, which will be heavy. Something else to factor in if you

:18:49. > :18:52.are travelling, as it sinks southwards. Not getting to the far

:18:53. > :18:56.south-east until later in the day but the winds will pack a punch. If

:18:57. > :19:00.we have a look at the kinds of wind speeds you could expect, in the far

:19:01. > :19:05.north of mainland Scotland and the Northern Isles gusts of up to 90

:19:06. > :19:09.mph. Gusts of 80 mph in western parts of Scotland. Still windy

:19:10. > :19:16.across all of Scotland. Northern Ireland, 70 mph. 60 mph in northern

:19:17. > :19:20.England. With strong force winds that is likely to cause structural

:19:21. > :19:26.damage. Certainly the wind is likely to cause some travel disruption. Not

:19:27. > :19:30.just ferries and temperatures, but also flight disruption, so do check

:19:31. > :19:36.before you set out. As we go into Christmas Eve, a quieter day. The

:19:37. > :19:41.weather is more likely to be dry, England and Wales, for southern and

:19:42. > :19:47.northern Ireland some rain, still windy, but not as windy as it will

:19:48. > :19:50.be on Friday. For Christmas Day unusual weather. You can see from

:19:51. > :19:54.the isobars it will be windy wherever you are, especially in the

:19:55. > :19:58.northern half of the country. We have this cold weather front

:19:59. > :20:01.bringing rain to the south. Ahead of it we still have mild air and we

:20:02. > :20:06.could have record-breaking temperatures on Christmas Day if we

:20:07. > :20:11.beat 15.6dC. That's really warm for Christmas. As the cold front goes

:20:12. > :20:16.through it introduces colder air, so by the end of the day some parts of

:20:17. > :20:18.Scotland could end up having a white Christmas, having had a

:20:19. > :20:23.record-breaking temperature earlier in the day.

:20:24. > :20:26.That's really unusual! It is! I don't know what I am talking

:20:27. > :20:27.about, but well done, you are correct!

:20:28. > :20:30.See you later. Thank you. This morning we've been hearing

:20:31. > :20:33.about a rise in violent crime It's one of the many challenges

:20:34. > :20:37.facing police officers today. It's part of our series

:20:38. > :20:45.on Policing in Britain. Steph has gone behind the scenes at

:20:46. > :20:47.the Durham police headquarters to find out how they cope with the

:20:48. > :20:56.different pressures. Good morning! Good morning. Yes, I am in the

:20:57. > :21:00.control room where they deal with all of the 999 call that have been

:21:01. > :21:06.coming in throughout the night and this morning. Malcolm is one of the

:21:07. > :21:10.inspectors here who has been in charge of the night shift. Tell us a

:21:11. > :21:16.bit about how it has been overnight. It hasn't been as busy as it was the

:21:17. > :21:21.night before. We don't like to use the Q word. You don't like to tempt

:21:22. > :21:27.fate with the word quiet. What kinds of calls have you had? Quite a few

:21:28. > :21:34.domestics and a couple of pursuits. So domestics being people in their

:21:35. > :21:39.homes, violence? Yes, male or female partners, often drink involved. And

:21:40. > :21:46.how does this compare to other nights? The Tuesday night was very

:21:47. > :21:53.busy. Volume wise and with quite a few pursuits, quite a few aggravated

:21:54. > :21:57.assaults. It was busy. No doubt this weekend, with Christmas, will be

:21:58. > :22:02.even busier. I know you've stayed on to have a chat with us and you are

:22:03. > :22:06.desperate to go to bed, so thank you for having a chat to us. You go to

:22:07. > :22:11.bed. Thank you. You mentioned in the beginning the research the BBC has

:22:12. > :22:18.found as part of our series, looking at how crime committed by pensioners

:22:19. > :22:19.has hugely increased. Graham Satchell has been looking into this

:22:20. > :22:22.for us. Stuart, in his 70s,

:22:23. > :22:31.is talking to Nick, who is 60. I don't feel old at all,

:22:32. > :22:42.and because people are fitter and healthier and more active,

:22:43. > :22:45.they are going to carry on doing The over 60s now the fastest

:22:46. > :22:50.growing age group Figures obtained by this

:22:51. > :22:54.programme show a dramatic rise in police recorded crime

:22:55. > :22:59.for people over the age of 65. Violent crime in the pension

:23:00. > :23:02.age group, for example, The numbers are relatively small,

:23:03. > :23:10.up from just under 4,000 in 2012 to 7,000 incidents recorded last

:23:11. > :23:15.year, but almost half of all crime police recorded in this

:23:16. > :23:20.age group was violent. I think we have

:23:21. > :23:23.romanticised older people. We think that just because

:23:24. > :23:28.they're getting older They're frustrated,

:23:29. > :23:34.lonely and angry. This criminologist says some older

:23:35. > :23:36.people getting more violent The frustration of being

:23:37. > :23:42.an old person with not enough to do, with social services being cut,

:23:43. > :23:44.there's a sort of failure of the social contract

:23:45. > :23:47.with the elderly that leads So are Britain's pensioners really

:23:48. > :23:53.becoming saga louts? There are some other

:23:54. > :23:55.things going on. For years and years police

:23:56. > :24:00.recorded crime figures were massaged to meet

:24:01. > :24:04.certain targets. Today, the way police record crime

:24:05. > :24:07.has completely changed. Police forces are now looking

:24:08. > :24:09.to make sure we report things accurately, ethically

:24:10. > :24:12.and that's shown by the number of crimes that have gone

:24:13. > :24:14.up over the past two I think officers might have

:24:15. > :24:18.gone through an incident five years ago and used

:24:19. > :24:21.their professional judgement. Two people in their late

:24:22. > :24:24.60s or 70s having an argument, that might qualify

:24:25. > :24:26.now as violent crime, I don't think they would have done

:24:27. > :24:32.that five years ago. We have four bedrooms,

:24:33. > :24:38.one is an emergency room. This is the first refuge

:24:39. > :24:40.in the country specifically We filmed it when it

:24:41. > :24:45.opened last year. The charity that runs it

:24:46. > :24:48.has seen women in their 60s, 70s and even 80s

:24:49. > :24:52.come here for help. Blacked eyes, just a variation

:24:53. > :25:02.of beatings over the years. This woman, who we are

:25:03. > :25:04.calling Sarah, was abused When you were younger,

:25:05. > :25:23.did you feel as though if you had reported what was happening

:25:24. > :25:26.that the police would Police are now investigating

:25:27. > :25:37.domestic violence and historic sex abuse cases much

:25:38. > :25:41.more assiduously and that's one reason for the rise

:25:42. > :25:45.in today's figures. Whether it's growing

:25:46. > :25:51.anger and resentment, or that justice is finally

:25:52. > :25:54.catching up with offenders, more and more older people

:25:55. > :26:08.are ending up on the wrong side I've come down from the control

:26:09. > :26:12.centre into the armoury room, which as you can see is basically full of

:26:13. > :26:15.weapons. Mark is in charge of this room.

:26:16. > :26:19.What have we got here? Basically when we have a preplanned firearm

:26:20. > :26:24.operation, officers will come in here and we will issue weapons that

:26:25. > :26:28.they require for the job from this room. Our armed response vehicles

:26:29. > :26:32.can therefore still cater for the spontaneous jobs and then we will

:26:33. > :26:37.cater for the preplanned operations. The rest of the weapons you can see

:26:38. > :26:41.our full training officers, how to make different types of weapons safe

:26:42. > :26:45.when they come across them at crime scenes. It was before we can remove

:26:46. > :26:48.it from the crime scene or wherever it has been found we need to be able

:26:49. > :26:52.to make it safe. So they've been recovered from crime

:26:53. > :26:57.scenes and you have some of them here which, in all honesty, to look

:26:58. > :27:03.like guns or weapons, but they are? Basically, these two walking Caines

:27:04. > :27:12.have been handed in. -- walking canes. They are weapons and take

:27:13. > :27:18.shotgun cartridges and it's a single shot type weapon. This one here is a

:27:19. > :27:26.home-made shotgun. So basically you stick your shotgun cartridge in

:27:27. > :27:32.there. It is quite crude, fire from Nissan and slam it so it goes. This

:27:33. > :27:38.one here was originally a blank firearm and it has been converted,

:27:39. > :27:43.so we get a few of these. It is so fascinating, but I will be honest,

:27:44. > :27:46.we are not a society that is used to feeling guns and I feel quite

:27:47. > :27:50.intimidated in this room with so many guns. As chief constable, are

:27:51. > :27:54.we seeing more officers with guns? To Winnie to be worried about it?

:27:55. > :27:58.I'm glad you are intimidated, because I think most people would be

:27:59. > :28:07.and I think that's what sets us about any UK, that guns are not at

:28:08. > :28:11.normal currency. But what I would hope would reassure people is that

:28:12. > :28:13.we are ready to deal with people who are armed, but it's a rare

:28:14. > :28:19.occurrence. That's good to hear. Before we go, can you show the

:28:20. > :28:24.iPhone again? This looks at the normal iPhone but look what you can

:28:25. > :28:27.do with it! -- looks like. Five years in prison if you get caught

:28:28. > :28:31.with one of them. Anyway, more from me a little bit

:28:32. > :28:37.later. Don't pick up the phone, Steph!

:28:38. > :28:38.It has some serious juice on it! Let's get the news, travel and

:28:39. > :31:59.weather This is Breakfast with Dan Walker

:32:00. > :32:12.and Louise Minchin. Thank you for being with us on the

:32:13. > :32:17.Thursday morning. Our main story: German security

:32:18. > :32:20.services are facing questions about why they ended a surveillance

:32:21. > :32:23.operation on a suspect who is now the subject of Europe-wide man-hunt,

:32:24. > :32:26.following the Berlin lorry attack. Anis Amri was known to have ties

:32:27. > :32:29.to a radical Islamist group. His residence permit was found

:32:30. > :32:32.in the lorry which drove into the Christmas market

:32:33. > :32:34.on Monday, killing 12 people. At 8:10am we will be speaking

:32:35. > :32:38.to a former undercover police officer about how German police

:32:39. > :32:40.will be co-ordinating that The Government is to invest ?440

:32:41. > :32:45.million in expanding high-speed It is expected that the funds,

:32:46. > :32:49.which will be recouped from the Government's superfast

:32:50. > :32:50.broadband programme, could bring better connectivity

:32:51. > :33:07.to an extra 600,000 rural homes. The government aims to deliver

:33:08. > :33:09.high-speed internet to 90% of properties by the end of next year.

:33:10. > :33:12.Violent crime committed by people aged over 65 in England and Wales

:33:13. > :33:14.has increased by almost 80% since 2012.

:33:15. > :33:17.The figures obtained by a Freedom of Information request by BBC

:33:18. > :33:20.Breakfast relate to offences ranging from minor assault to murder.

:33:21. > :33:24.The rise in the number of crimes recorded is in part being put down

:33:25. > :33:30.to police changing how they log crime.

:33:31. > :33:33.Doctors and charities have described a new treatment for multiple

:33:34. > :33:37.The disease, which affects the brain, often causes

:33:38. > :33:40.It is hoped that the ocrelizumab will offer hope for patients,

:33:41. > :33:57.after a successful trial of around 2,000 people.

:33:58. > :34:03.Vladimir Putin has ordered the government to restrict the sale of a

:34:04. > :34:07.whole not intended for human consumption after 60 people died and

:34:08. > :34:11.40 were hospitalised in Siberia. The victims drank our solution

:34:12. > :34:21.containing methylated spirit. Mr Putin also wants new rules involving

:34:22. > :34:26.tougher penalties for bootleggers. -- bath solution.

:34:27. > :34:30.The NHS will pay for ten blind patients to have so-called bionic

:34:31. > :34:32.eyes, to treat an inherited form of blindness.

:34:33. > :34:35.The bionic eye is a retinal implant which interprets images captured

:34:36. > :34:38.by a miniature video camera worn on a pair of glasses.

:34:39. > :34:41.Five patients will be treated at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital

:34:42. > :34:43.and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London next year.

:34:44. > :34:46.They will then be monitored for a year afterwards,

:34:47. > :34:48.to see how they get on in everyday life.

:34:49. > :34:51.Spending too long looking at sites like Facebook could be making us

:34:52. > :34:54.more miserable and envious, according to new Danish research.

:34:55. > :34:57.The study from the University of Copenhagen is the latest

:34:58. > :34:59.to suggest social media could have a negative effect

:35:00. > :35:03.The impact is worst for those who do not leave comments,

:35:04. > :35:05.apparently, but scan through and read about the success

:35:06. > :35:19.So if you are going to look, if you don't want to feel too miserable,

:35:20. > :35:20.comment, apparently. And back in again for tiny animals.

:35:21. > :35:24.We will go up close and personal now, as one photographer has tried

:35:25. > :35:26.to capture the expressions of the world's tiniest animals.

:35:27. > :35:30.This gecko is one of the images taken by an amateur photographer,

:35:31. > :35:37.who spends his spare time capturing close-ups in his native Indonesia.

:35:38. > :35:46.It looks like it is laughing, doesn't it? Earlier we said this was

:35:47. > :35:51.a frog with... What did we say? When is a cricket not cricket, when it is

:35:52. > :35:54.an orchid mantis. That is on the head of that frog. Thank you to the

:35:55. > :35:56.eagle eyed viewers who spotted that. He says it can take a week to edit

:35:57. > :35:59.one single photograph, and he is actually

:36:00. > :36:11.a full-time nurse. With a real talent for getting

:36:12. > :36:18.triple frog action when needed. That sounded... No, no. Sort of wrong.

:36:19. > :36:23.Carol will have the weather for you, she will tell you about a storm on

:36:24. > :36:28.its way, Barbara. Storm Barbara is here, storm Michael is in the

:36:29. > :36:32.building. And a storm in rugby union. What to do with players with

:36:33. > :36:34.concussion, this is the latest incident coming from the north.

:36:35. > :36:37.The Rugby Players Association is saying that the Northampton Saints

:36:38. > :36:39.should have been punished for allowing winger George North

:36:40. > :36:44.The concussion review group found that George North should not have

:36:45. > :36:47.been able to continue, but said that Saints medics had

:36:48. > :36:50.acted at the time in the player's best interests, and so wouldn't

:36:51. > :37:05.Others, though, believe the rules need to be updated.

:37:06. > :37:12.The protocols these players go through when they go off the field

:37:13. > :37:16.is not worth the player it is written on. It is experimenting on

:37:17. > :37:23.players' brains, five, ten, 30 minutes... If you have to take a

:37:24. > :37:28.player off to have a concussion assessment you must suspect

:37:29. > :37:32.concussion and they should stay off. Experimenting in that part of the

:37:33. > :37:36.game which is most brutal, it means when a player goes back the impacts

:37:37. > :37:40.will be huge, and this is what is wrong. In that review has made nine

:37:41. > :37:42.recommendations, so watch this space.

:37:43. > :37:45.It will be at least six months before the Wimbledon champion

:37:46. > :37:49.Surgeons are confident the two-time Wimbledon champion will be able

:37:50. > :37:52.to return to the court, but all the fingers on her playing

:37:53. > :37:55.hand were injured, and doctors say her rehabilitation will be

:37:56. > :38:02.Graham Carey's penalty earns League Two Plymouth Argyle

:38:03. > :38:05.a third-round FA Cup tie against Liverpool.

:38:06. > :38:09.It went to extra time at Rodney Parade.

:38:10. > :38:12.Plymouth missed one penalty and won a second, which Graham Carey scored

:38:13. > :38:19.Steve Holland has been given the job of England assessment manager

:38:20. > :38:22.Holland, currently Chelsea's assistant coach, has worked

:38:23. > :38:25.alongside Gareth Southgate for three years, firstly with the England

:38:26. > :38:28.under-21s, and then the senior team, during Southgate's spell

:38:29. > :38:42.At the World Darts Championship, the three-time semifinalist James Wade

:38:43. > :38:47.made it through to the second round. The man nicknamed the Machine had a

:38:48. > :38:53.few faults against his Dutch opponent, beating him 3-0.

:38:54. > :38:55.And the next Olympic Games is predicted

:38:56. > :38:58.and even though the Tokyo organisers are looking for savings,

:38:59. > :39:01.that would make it the most expensive games ever,

:39:02. > :39:03.beating the amount spent on the Sochi Winter Olympics.

:39:04. > :39:05.It is six times more than originally expected.

:39:06. > :39:09.The Tokyo Games Organising Committee cite the fact that they have had

:39:10. > :39:11.an earthquake and tsunami, which have increased costs,

:39:12. > :39:14.and they said in the original file they hadn't allowed for costs

:39:15. > :39:16.like surrounding greenery and temporary toilets.

:39:17. > :39:21.And Christmas as expensive as well. The terrible link. Talking about

:39:22. > :39:27.Christmas traditions, you have some in your family. Gemma says every

:39:28. > :39:30.year they bring down their mum's old Christmas tree with the icicle

:39:31. > :39:35.lights. It goes in the roof with a black bin bags over it every year

:39:36. > :39:39.but we bring it out and she says the year the light do not work it will

:39:40. > :39:43.go in the bin. They have a drumroll and they switch the lights on, and

:39:44. > :39:51.they have never let them down. That is lovely. I love your one, Dan. We

:39:52. > :39:56.have a family pantomime. It is the same script, always Cinderella, but

:39:57. > :40:02.a different theme every year. So Strictly Cinderella, Cinderella on

:40:03. > :40:07.Ice, Cinderella on Water, I am a Cinderella get me out of here... We

:40:08. > :40:12.do a murder mystery, so this year I am Alfred Hitchcock on Christmas

:40:13. > :40:17.Eve. You look like you are the organiser of this, Michael. It is my

:40:18. > :40:21.mum, actually. She sent us the part so that we can get it ready in

:40:22. > :40:26.advance. I make sure we all go out, and we lay a trail of flour wherever

:40:27. > :40:32.we are, and they have to find the right trail. We have to negotiate,

:40:33. > :40:36.because it is also my husband's birthday. So basically we have to

:40:37. > :40:45.negotiate and protect... He is allowed a whole hour. He gets one

:40:46. > :40:50.hour for his birthday. We really have to protect it, this is his

:40:51. > :40:57.birthday for one whole hour. That is a nice tradition to have. Keep

:40:58. > :41:01.sending them in, they are great to hear. We hear lots about how

:41:02. > :41:05.difficult it is the own your own home and get the first rung on the

:41:06. > :41:09.property ladder. Homeownership rates amongst 25 -year-olds have dropped

:41:10. > :41:12.by more than half in a generation, a staggering statistic. It is amazing

:41:13. > :41:16.how much has changed in the last couple of decades. Lots of different

:41:17. > :41:20.reasons, which we will have a look at. These figures from the Local

:41:21. > :41:23.Government Association have been looking at this issue of home

:41:24. > :41:28.ownership among 25 your olds, and they found that only 20% of

:41:29. > :41:33.25-year-old is now owned their own home. In context, a couple of

:41:34. > :41:36.decades ago it was more like 50%. We asked a handful of young people out

:41:37. > :41:40.Christmas shopping in Manchester about their plans for owning their

:41:41. > :41:45.own home. I think it would be financially hard, but obviously with

:41:46. > :41:49.the help of mum and dad, I think it is possible, but it will be very

:41:50. > :41:53.hard. But Mac it is not even something I can consider at the

:41:54. > :41:59.moment. The kind of money that someone my age terms is never going

:42:00. > :42:03.to be anywhere near enough to start thinking about looking at mortgages,

:42:04. > :42:08.things like that. The best thing you can do is rent. I think it will take

:42:09. > :42:14.me a while to save up for a deposit, and I think it is a sign of

:42:15. > :42:18.independence. I'm 24, and I recently moved back with mum and dad, trying

:42:19. > :42:26.to save for a deposit. That is where I am at. At the moment I live with

:42:27. > :42:31.my mum and dad, looking at buying a house rather than renting, because I

:42:32. > :42:36.feel it is a bit throwaway money, renting, but it is a struggle trying

:42:37. > :42:39.to save up. My Nan has helped me out a bit, and I managed to get a

:42:40. > :42:50.promotion recently, so getting there. So you need a helpful man and

:42:51. > :42:55.a promotion, it seems. -- helpful Nan. What more do you need, a

:42:56. > :43:00.helpful Nan, a promotion, how difficult is it for 25 your olds to

:43:01. > :43:03.get on the housing ladder? It is hugely difficult, and the

:43:04. > :43:07.fundamental reason is we have a shortage of housing. We should be

:43:08. > :43:10.building 250,000 new homes here and we have been falling woefully short

:43:11. > :43:15.of that target for many years. It stands to reason that, you restrict

:43:16. > :43:18.the supply, the price of it is going to go up. There is still a huge

:43:19. > :43:22.appetite for home ownership among my generation. Although a lot of people

:43:23. > :43:27.have embraced the renting lifestyle, there are still so many people who

:43:28. > :43:31.see it as a way of having your own asset and having a home you can call

:43:32. > :43:35.your own. You see headlines in the papers all the time, cheapest

:43:36. > :43:39.mortgage rates of all time. If you can't get on the housing ladder now,

:43:40. > :43:43.when will you be able to? It is all very well having cheap mortgage

:43:44. > :43:48.rates, but with rising housing prices, you need a huge deposit to

:43:49. > :43:52.get on the housing ladder, and at the same time you are paying more

:43:53. > :43:56.and more of your net income on renting. So I think this new report

:43:57. > :44:00.shows that without state subsidies, the average amount that renters are

:44:01. > :44:07.spending on housing is 61%. That is huge. 20 years ago we did not have

:44:08. > :44:10.student loans are size they are now, students graduating with tens of

:44:11. > :44:14.thousands of pounds of debt. Is it even possible to get a mortgage

:44:15. > :44:18.within the first few years of leaving university, when you have

:44:19. > :44:22.that debt on your bank balance? It is interesting that we have become

:44:23. > :44:25.so accustomed to debt. If our generation have come out of

:44:26. > :44:29.university they have been used to living on an overdraft and then they

:44:30. > :44:33.have a student debt. It is really quite strange for them to get into

:44:34. > :44:37.the mindset of saving 10% of their income every month, that they would

:44:38. > :44:40.need so much more to be able to get on the housing ladder anyway, so

:44:41. > :44:44.they need help from the bank of mum and dad. What about looking at the

:44:45. > :44:47.other side, the spending habits which might have changed? These days

:44:48. > :44:51.you have mobile phone bills, TV subscriptions, are we spending a bit

:44:52. > :44:55.more in our early 20s than we might have been 20 or 30 years ago? I

:44:56. > :44:58.think that is possibly a fair point, because the older generation would

:44:59. > :45:02.say that houses were not handed out free when we were younger. We still

:45:03. > :45:06.had to save a huge amount and buy property that was a bit down at

:45:07. > :45:09.heel, that needed the life breathed back into it. I think this

:45:10. > :45:14.generation perhaps wants to have the housing set up in a much more clean

:45:15. > :45:17.cut way, you know, we see all these pictures on it to Grahm, on

:45:18. > :45:19.Facebook, on Twitter, on social media, of the perfect lifestyles,

:45:20. > :45:23.and perhaps our generation wants to set foot in a house and not

:45:24. > :45:27.necessarily have to put the work into it, and have the roll up their

:45:28. > :45:32.sleeves and do it up. Thank you very much. Still pretty tricky for 25

:45:33. > :45:36.-year-olds at the minute. As we have talked about it often, you have to

:45:37. > :45:40.get the deposit and it is taking longer and longer, isn't it?

:45:41. > :45:45.The main stories: German security services are facing questions

:45:46. > :45:48.about why they ended a surveillance operation on a man who is now

:45:49. > :45:52.the suspect in the Berlin lorry attack.

:45:53. > :45:56.Broadband services in some rural areas will be given a boost

:45:57. > :45:58.worth hundreds of millions of pounds,

:45:59. > :46:04.as the government allocates more funding.

:46:05. > :46:10.Let's get the weather forecast from Carol. Barbara is in town and she is

:46:11. > :46:15.not pretty? That's right. Storm Barbara is

:46:16. > :46:18.moving across the Atlantic now and will affect us tomorrow. Different

:46:19. > :46:22.degrees of how we will be affected, but today we have patchy fog in

:46:23. > :46:26.southern counties of England. That could take until lunchtime to clear.

:46:27. > :46:34.Then we will have squally showers. Lots of e-mails about the word

:46:35. > :46:38.squally coming in. That's when the wind speed changes by more than ten

:46:39. > :46:41.knots for the duration of one minute and then goes back down. These

:46:42. > :46:46.conditions are dangerous. So you could have a wind speed of 30 mph,

:46:47. > :46:52.gusting to 54 a minute, then back down to 30. What we have is patchy

:46:53. > :46:56.fog in the south of England, which will slowly lift. Then we have

:46:57. > :47:01.sunshine. A few showers for England and Wales. Squally showers continue

:47:02. > :47:05.across Northern Ireland and Scotland, the gusty winds around the

:47:06. > :47:10.showers. We also have a wintry element to it, with Hale, thunder,

:47:11. > :47:14.and sleet at lower levels. It will be cold in the northern half and

:47:15. > :47:17.cooler than it was this time yesterday and through the afternoon

:47:18. > :47:22.across southern counties. It evening and overnight temperature under

:47:23. > :47:26.clear skies will drop quickly and in rural areas we will have frost. Just

:47:27. > :47:30.malaria is because the breeze is picking up. In Scotland and Northern

:47:31. > :47:39.Ireland for a time the showers fade, the wind eases and then here comes

:47:40. > :47:42.Storm Barbara. By the morning parts of north-west Scotland will have

:47:43. > :47:48.gales. The Met Office has an amber weather warning out, this is to be

:47:49. > :47:53.prepared. One down from the top level, which is red, for wind. Wind

:47:54. > :47:57.will be a feature of the weather. We've also got heavy rain, which

:47:58. > :48:01.will produce a lot of surface water and spray if you are travelling.

:48:02. > :48:06.Towards the south-east and getting into the south-east after dark.

:48:07. > :48:10.Behind it we have showers. The winds will pack a punch. Storm force gusts

:48:11. > :48:16.of wind across the far north of Scotland and into the Northern

:48:17. > :48:22.Isles. Across western areas, 80 mph. Windy across Northern Ireland, up to

:48:23. > :48:26.70 mph, and 60 across the north of England. Likely to be travel

:48:27. > :48:31.disruption, possibly some structural damage, especially further north. As

:48:32. > :48:35.we get into Christmas Eve things are quieter and more like today. There

:48:36. > :48:40.will be some dry weather in England and Wales variable amounts of cloud,

:48:41. > :48:44.but we have rain across the north of the country, eventually getting into

:48:45. > :48:47.northern England and also north Wales, accompanied by gusty winds.

:48:48. > :48:51.The difference between squally and gusty. Into Christmas Day and

:48:52. > :48:57.interesting day. Look at the isobars. That's telling you it will

:48:58. > :49:01.be windy across the land, but the tightest squeeze in the north. Here

:49:02. > :49:04.we will have the strongest winds and again gusting to gale force. We also

:49:05. > :49:09.have the weather fronts sinking south. This is a cold fronts are

:49:10. > :49:16.behind it we import cold air. For it sink south we could have very high

:49:17. > :49:19.temperatures for Christmas Day. Record-breaking potentially. We have

:49:20. > :49:25.to be 15.6 for that. Aberdeen for example could hit 16. If it does it

:49:26. > :49:29.will be a record breaker. Then cold air comes in and we could see a

:49:30. > :49:33.white Christmas in parts of Scotland.

:49:34. > :49:38.Just tell us a bit, you've been talking about Storm Barbara and what

:49:39. > :49:42.might she mean for travel plans? She could have an impact?

:49:43. > :49:46.Absolutely. We could have slight delays or cancellations for the

:49:47. > :49:49.fairies, power outages, that kind of thing if you are travelling in a

:49:50. > :49:53.light vehicle that could be quite treacherous as well. And the

:49:54. > :49:57.strongest winds are going to be across the far north of mainland

:49:58. > :50:01.Scotland and the Northern Isles. Here we have gusts of up to 90 mph

:50:02. > :50:06.will stop across the rest of Scotland it will be very windy,

:50:07. > :50:10.especially in the north. Gus of 80 mph, do the same thing applies. For

:50:11. > :50:16.Northern Ireland we have 70 mph, still take X care. Strong winds. In

:50:17. > :50:22.northern England we have gusts of up to 60 mph. -- take extra care. Into

:50:23. > :50:27.southern England the winds inland are more likely to be about 30 mph,

:50:28. > :50:32.so noticeable but not as strong as the north. And we heard earlier

:50:33. > :50:35.there have been a few problems in Heathrow and Gatwick as well. We

:50:36. > :50:36.will keep you up-to-date with that. Thank you.

:50:37. > :50:41.The run-up to Christmas is also a busy time of year for our police

:50:42. > :50:45.forces. We've been looking at the different

:50:46. > :50:50.challenges they face. This morning as part of our special policing

:50:51. > :50:53.series, Steph has been behind the scenes of the new headquarters at

:50:54. > :50:55.Durham police headquarters to find out about the work involved. Good

:50:56. > :51:01.morning. What you are seeing here is one of

:51:02. > :51:06.the call handlers. This is not the team who will deal with the 999 call

:51:07. > :51:11.that come in and they will decide who to dispatch to. Police say it

:51:12. > :51:22.has been fairly quiet overnight, but I've also been told not to say the

:51:23. > :51:25."quiet" word. Overall crime is falling, by the violent crime has

:51:26. > :51:31.seen a rise. That's what we are going to talk about. We've got the

:51:32. > :51:34.president of the police officers association, the chief Constable

:51:35. > :51:39.here, and the youth violence consultant and campaigner. First of

:51:40. > :51:43.all, why do you think violent crime is on the rise? Two things. The

:51:44. > :51:48.first is that violent crime encompasses a wide area, so

:51:49. > :51:53.harassment, stalking, things like that are included. The 60% of all

:51:54. > :51:57.violent crime doesn't involve any injury. But when we look at the top

:51:58. > :52:04.end, which is knife crime, if you actually ask offenders what induces

:52:05. > :52:08.them to still committed that crime it is the fear of getting caught. So

:52:09. > :52:13.if they don't fear getting caught then they are more likely to commit

:52:14. > :52:18.that sort of serious crime. What do you think on that? You work with

:52:19. > :52:22.young people and people who have been involved in gangs and knife

:52:23. > :52:27.crime. I would say it is the need for a better partnership with the

:52:28. > :52:34.community and with services, that will prevent a young person from

:52:35. > :52:38.even carrying out a crime. It is and prevention, it is getting into the

:52:39. > :52:41.minds of young people, why they feel the need to carry knives in the

:52:42. > :52:45.first place. So you don't think stop-and-search is good? I think it

:52:46. > :52:49.is necessary but the challenge for the police if they never have the

:52:50. > :52:54.proportionality and it keeps breaking down relations between the

:52:55. > :52:57.community and police. As someone who has been on the frontline as a

:52:58. > :53:01.police officer for over 20 years, what do you think? I think young

:53:02. > :53:07.people carrying weapons, there are number of reasons. Some of them

:53:08. > :53:13.carry for protection, there is a gang culture at the moment which

:53:14. > :53:19.actually... People feel they have to be safe leaving their homes and all

:53:20. > :53:21.the rest of it. When it comes to stop-and-search, it is necessary,

:53:22. > :53:25.however it needs to be intelligence led, do we need to have the

:53:26. > :53:29.intelligence there to be able to stop the right people with regards

:53:30. > :53:33.to the crimes we are looking at. There has been a fall in

:53:34. > :53:37.stop-and-search cases, by about a quarter. The thing that made a

:53:38. > :53:41.difference? The evidence isn't there to be able to answer that question,

:53:42. > :53:47.but what I am really pleased with is four out of ten stop searches now

:53:48. > :53:52.result in an arrest and further action. So it is very clear that

:53:53. > :53:57.police officers are listening to the sort of advice about Janet and Kat

:53:58. > :54:05.have spoken about, but it has to be fair. If the public sees it as being

:54:06. > :54:08.done with procedural justice and if the police officers are seeing to be

:54:09. > :54:13.acting in a fairway, in a proportionate way, then they will

:54:14. > :54:16.help the police. We don't want young people to carry knives, we want the

:54:17. > :54:21.community to help us to dissuade people from carrying knives in the

:54:22. > :54:23.first place. So you are all talking about the partnerships and

:54:24. > :54:28.relationships between the community and the police officers. Do you see

:54:29. > :54:33.that actually been a reality, that there could be a relationship there?

:54:34. > :54:38.I would like to hope there could be one, but I don't see one at present.

:54:39. > :54:42.What would change it, what would make the community happy to liaise

:54:43. > :54:48.with police? I think the sergeants, the commanders, actually having

:54:49. > :54:54.conversations with the mentors and youth workers within their areas and

:54:55. > :55:00.understanding the young people. Once that's done then I think we can say

:55:01. > :55:03.safely that we are building better relations and also for the police

:55:04. > :55:08.when they stop-and-search it isn't what's being done, it is how it is

:55:09. > :55:12.being done and the level of either aggression or condescending tone or

:55:13. > :55:16.sarcasm that's against young people is what makes young people and the

:55:17. > :55:20.police not have the relationship that they could have. And that

:55:21. > :55:24.results in lower convictions because if you are dealing with young people

:55:25. > :55:29.in a particular way and unfortunately one of their peers get

:55:30. > :55:35.murdered, to them come and get them to give evidence or co-operate with

:55:36. > :55:38.police will be far and few between. There is the diversity issue as

:55:39. > :55:43.well. How can police better reflect communities they serve? You have to

:55:44. > :55:47.have effective engagement at the root of it and there needs to be

:55:48. > :55:52.some sort of long-term plan around diversity. At the minute it's a bit

:55:53. > :55:54.ad hoc. You will go from different constabularies with different

:55:55. > :55:59.measures being put in place. Positive action potentially isn't

:56:00. > :56:04.used as effectively as it could be and it just needs to be a long-term

:56:05. > :56:09.plan which is consistent across all constabularies, equals the issues

:56:10. > :56:12.that black and Asian officers and communities face within the UK are

:56:13. > :56:16.more or less similar up and down the country, but there's nothing in

:56:17. > :56:20.place to address those issues. There's so much more we could talk

:56:21. > :56:24.about. Thank you very much your time. We will be showing off more of

:56:25. > :56:26.this fascinating headquarters in little bit later in the programme.

:56:27. > :56:33.Hopefully go back to the armoury as well! And keep your traditions

:56:34. > :56:35.coming in. Andy has a pork pie with bread and butter every single

:56:36. > :56:38.Christmas Day. Excellent. Time for the news, travel

:56:39. > :00:09.and An international manhunt for the

:00:10. > :00:13.main suspect in the Berlin Christmas market attack as it emerges he was

:00:14. > :00:15.being watched until a few months ago.

:00:16. > :00:21.Anis Amri was known to have ties to a radical face questions about why

:00:22. > :00:34.they dropped their surveillance investigation. -- a radical group.

:00:35. > :00:42.German authorities face questions. Good morning.

:00:43. > :00:46.Also on the programme. A boost for oral broadband. The Government

:00:47. > :00:49.pledges to provide nearly all houses with high-speed connections within a

:00:50. > :00:55.year. We have made 1.6 million cars in the

:00:56. > :01:01.UK this year, the most since 1999, 80% of them are sold abroad.

:01:02. > :01:05.An investigation reveals a big rise in violent crime being carried out

:01:06. > :01:10.by the over 65 is. We look at the possible causes.

:01:11. > :01:14.Good morning, I am at Durham Police headquarters, as part of hours

:01:15. > :01:19.series on policing in Britain, so I will show you around the building.

:01:20. > :01:21.And we will have a chat with the newly promoted Sergeant. More from

:01:22. > :01:23.me later. Rugby players' brains are at risk,

:01:24. > :01:27.according to an expert after a review into an incident,

:01:28. > :01:29.involving Wales international George North, a doctor says

:01:30. > :01:41.suspected concussion must be A real Christmas!

:01:42. > :01:42.Mince pies. That is Christmas. And obviously, Christmas pudding.

:01:43. > :01:46.They're the traditions we think of as quintessentially festive -

:01:47. > :01:47.but what's really behind our Christmas customs ?

:01:48. > :01:58.Good morning. We have got patchy fog across Southern counties of England

:01:59. > :02:20.this morning which will be German security forces face

:02:21. > :02:27.questions about why they were ended as a veil operation on a suspect now

:02:28. > :02:32.the subject of a Europe-wide manhunt following the Berlin lorry attack.

:02:33. > :02:35.Anis Amri had ties to a radical Islamist group and his residence

:02:36. > :02:39.permit was found in the lorry that killed 12 people on Monday.

:02:40. > :02:43.Still on the run, the most wanted man in Europe.

:02:44. > :02:48.Police are offering a reward of 100,000 euros, and warn he may be

:02:49. > :02:51.His residence permit was found in the lorry.

:02:52. > :02:54.And he has used six different aliases, and three different

:02:55. > :03:04.More details are emerging rapidly about Anis Amri.

:03:05. > :03:10.His family said he left Tunisia for Italy in 2011,

:03:11. > :03:12.where he was jailed for four years for arson.

:03:13. > :03:15.Last year, he moved to Germany, where his claim for asylum

:03:16. > :03:18.But German officials did not have the correct paperwork

:03:19. > :03:27.He had links to an Islamist network, and was known to the authorities.

:03:28. > :03:29.He had been under surveillance, but this was stopped

:03:30. > :03:33.12 people were killed and dozens injured in the attack

:03:34. > :03:45.on the Christmas market on Monday evening.

:03:46. > :03:47.The man who should have been driving the lorry,

:03:48. > :03:55.Missing, feared dead by her family, Fabrizia Di Lorenzo, from Italy.

:03:56. > :03:58.Dalia Elkayam, from Israel, also has not been seen since.

:03:59. > :04:00.Her husband, Rami, is seriously ill in hospital.

:04:01. > :04:02.Last night the Christmas market reopened, no longer a place filled

:04:03. > :04:05.Instead, Berliners came to pay their quiet respects

:04:06. > :04:14.to the victims, as the investigation goes on.

:04:15. > :04:20.We will speak to a former undercover police officer about how the German

:04:21. > :04:24.police of coordinating the search and what should be their priorities.

:04:25. > :04:26.The Government is to reinvest more than ?440 million to improve

:04:27. > :04:28.high-speed broadband coverage across the UK.

:04:29. > :04:30.It is expected the funds, which have been recouped

:04:31. > :04:32.from the superfast broadband programme, could bring better

:04:33. > :04:37.connectivity to an extra 600,000 rural homes.

:04:38. > :04:42.Our technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones reports.

:04:43. > :04:44.Connecting rural homes across the UK to fast broadband has meant

:04:45. > :04:46.an investment of ?1.7 billion of public money.

:04:47. > :04:53.And nearly all of that has gone to BT.

:04:54. > :04:55.The company's contracts with councils or local authorities

:04:56. > :04:59.mean it has to return some of that money if more than 20% of homeowners

:05:00. > :05:05.sign up when the fast broadband service arrives.

:05:06. > :05:07.Now, the Government says that this cash clawback,

:05:08. > :05:09.coupled with efficiency savings, means another ?440 million can be

:05:10. > :05:16.There is a target of reaching 95% of homes with superfast broadband

:05:17. > :05:23.Ministers believe that is within reach, and that up to 600,000 more

:05:24. > :05:30.homes and businesses could be hooked up with the new programme.

:05:31. > :05:33.But critics say BT has been using the wrong technology,

:05:34. > :05:36.connecting homeowners via a copper wire to a cabinet,

:05:37. > :05:40.rather than laying fibre-optic cables straight into homes.

:05:41. > :05:44.Rival firms, including Sky and TalkTalk, are now promising

:05:45. > :05:47.that they can deliver faster fibre connections than BT,

:05:48. > :05:57.The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are expected to make a decision this

:05:58. > :06:00.morning about when they will travel to Norfolk for Christmas.

:06:01. > :06:02.They postponed their annual trip to Sandringham yesterday,

:06:03. > :06:09.They spent the day at Buckingham Palace recovering.

:06:10. > :06:11.On Tuesday, they hosted their traditional Christmas lunch

:06:12. > :06:23.You can see fog which is affecting some of the airport in London, more

:06:24. > :06:27.Violent crime committed by people aged over 65 in England and Wales

:06:28. > :06:29.has increased by almost 80% since 2012.

:06:30. > :06:31.The figures, obtained by a freedom of information

:06:32. > :06:33.request by BBC Breakfast, relate to offences ranging

:06:34. > :06:37.The rise in the number of crimes recorded is, in part,

:06:38. > :06:40.being put down to police changing how they log crimes and people

:06:41. > :06:56.Doctors and charities have described a new treatment for multiple

:06:57. > :07:00.sclerosis as a landmark development. This disease most often causes

:07:01. > :07:06.difficulty with walking. 100,000 people are affected by MS in the UK

:07:07. > :07:08.and it is hoped this will offer new hope to patients after a successful

:07:09. > :07:12.trial of nearly 2,000 people. This is really big news for people

:07:13. > :07:14.with primary progressive forms of MS, for which there are no

:07:15. > :07:17.treatments available on the NHS. Primary progressive MS means that

:07:18. > :07:19.people's disability will worsen. What this drug has shown

:07:20. > :07:22.is that it can slow the reduction of disability for those people,

:07:23. > :07:34.so this offers real hope Firefighters are warning of the

:07:35. > :07:40.risks of carrying E cigarette batteries after one caught fire in

:07:41. > :07:44.somebody's pocket. The man was left minor injuries when the device

:07:45. > :07:49.caught fire. He was out shopping in Leeds. Investigators said he was

:07:50. > :07:53.keeping batteries in his pocket protected and that people should

:07:54. > :07:57.avoid storing them alongside other metal objects such as keys and

:07:58. > :08:01.coins. And he had minor injuries, but other people around him had a

:08:02. > :08:02.lucky escape. Fortunately, that couple had already

:08:03. > :08:05.walked past his pocket. The NHS will pay for 10 blind

:08:06. > :08:08.patients to have so-called "bionic eyes" to help treat an inherited

:08:09. > :08:11.form of blindness. The bionic eye is a retinal implant

:08:12. > :08:13.which interprets images captured by a miniature video camera worn

:08:14. > :08:16.on a pair of glasses. Five patients will be treated

:08:17. > :08:18.at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital

:08:19. > :08:21.in London next year. They will be monitored for a year

:08:22. > :08:32.afterwards to see how they get After decades of not really being

:08:33. > :08:39.able to see anything at all, seeing movement, colour in some cases,

:08:40. > :08:47.shapes and just knowing where things are can be just quite significant

:08:48. > :08:51.change in a person's capabilities really.

:08:52. > :08:54.Dense fog is causing problems with flights at some of Britain's

:08:55. > :08:57.Departures from Heathrow are likely to be severely delayed

:08:58. > :09:02.Flights from Gatwick and London City are also affected.

:09:03. > :09:04.Passengers are advised to check with their airline

:09:05. > :09:10.Spending too long looking at sites like Facebook could make people

:09:11. > :09:14.miserable and envious, according to Danish researchers.

:09:15. > :09:16.The study from the University of Copenhagen is the latest

:09:17. > :09:18.to suggest social media could have a negative

:09:19. > :09:25.The impact is worse for those who don't leave comments,

:09:26. > :09:33.but scan through the success stories of others, it found.

:09:34. > :09:42.It does not say what happens if you do read the comments, that could

:09:43. > :09:43.make it worse. That is often the most interesting

:09:44. > :09:45.That is often the most interesting bit!

:09:46. > :09:48.It's been a stellar week for the BBC Breakfast team,

:09:49. > :09:50.first with Ore Oduba's Strictly victory and now, Breakfast

:09:51. > :09:52.reporter Tim Muffett has won Celebrity Mastermind.

:09:53. > :09:54.You'll be used to him covering stories from around the UK,

:09:55. > :09:57.but last night, Tim took on double Paralympic gold medalist

:09:58. > :09:58.Kadeena Cox, journalist David Aaronovitch and CBBC's

:09:59. > :10:16.One of my favourite things is his marvellously understated way of

:10:17. > :10:22.accepting his victory. Just a nod of the head.

:10:23. > :10:25.Yes, you write, I am victorious! Huge congratulations, really well

:10:26. > :10:28.done. Thank you for being with us this morning.

:10:29. > :10:32.We can return now to our top story and get the latest from Berlin,

:10:33. > :10:34.where authorities are hunting for the man responsible for

:10:35. > :10:44.After the attack, police detained a Pakistani asylum seeker but released

:10:45. > :10:48.him after finding no evidence linking him to be attack.

:10:49. > :10:53.A Europe-wide manhunt is under way for a 24-year-old Tunisian asylum

:10:54. > :10:57.seeker called Anis Amri. His identity documents were found in the

:10:58. > :11:02.lorry but police did not issue an arrest warrant until 48 hours after

:11:03. > :11:06.the attack which gave him a two date head start on security forces.

:11:07. > :11:09.And it emerged he has been under surveillance by security services

:11:10. > :11:10.and he was discussed by counterterrorism police as recently

:11:11. > :11:17.as last month. Joining us now in the studio

:11:18. > :11:23.is Peter Bleksley, a former More details about this man

:11:24. > :11:28.emerging, do you think mistakes have been made? Clearly, he was kept

:11:29. > :11:31.under surveillance according to reports and there must have been a

:11:32. > :11:36.reason for that. There would have been a reason as to why they stopped

:11:37. > :11:41.that surveillance. Clearly, their timing of that was poor as it would

:11:42. > :11:45.appear. Why did they stop that? It is a question of resources, I

:11:46. > :11:50.suspect. And priorities. You cannot keep every suspect under

:11:51. > :11:56.surveillance 24/7 ad hoc committee is very challenging for security

:11:57. > :12:01.services. But bits and pieces are creeping out about his previous

:12:02. > :12:03.activity, his criminal past. And there will quite rightly be

:12:04. > :12:08.questions as to why did they stop that surveillance? There is a huge

:12:09. > :12:14.forensic investigation ongoing and the principal evidence is the lorry

:12:15. > :12:18.at the scene he was meant had be known on that Monday evening in

:12:19. > :12:22.Berlin and that will be pored over now? Yes, that lorry and the cap

:12:23. > :12:29.will contain a wealth of forensic evidence and will help investigators

:12:30. > :12:33.pieced together the history. Where was this lorry hideout, what

:12:34. > :12:40.happened in that cab? How did the unfortunate driver meet his death?

:12:41. > :12:44.There may be DNA, fingerprints, other evidence they have not

:12:45. > :12:50.disclosed to the public. The other striking thing is that we appear to

:12:51. > :12:55.have quite different of CCTV in the UK than in Germany and that is to do

:12:56. > :12:59.with privacy rules. There does not seem to be much evidence of where he

:13:00. > :13:04.went to next. Yes, we are the most watched nation on Earth. Our civil

:13:05. > :13:10.liberties questions around CCTV and it is a fact of life and if you move

:13:11. > :13:14.around a city in all likelihood in the UK, you will be captured on CCTV

:13:15. > :13:20.many hundreds of times each day. Other European cousins, European

:13:21. > :13:24.neighbours, they are not so keen on CCTV. They have more strident and

:13:25. > :13:29.stringent privacy laws so they do not have the blanket coverage that

:13:30. > :13:35.we have. How easy is it for somebody like this ring search across Europe,

:13:36. > :13:39.an international search going on 48 hours, how easy is it to grow

:13:40. > :13:45.underground? Can he be found? He will need help to be on the run for

:13:46. > :13:49.any length of time can he needs money, food, shelter, change of

:13:50. > :13:55.clothing, and he will need help with that. He is very much a wanted man.

:13:56. > :13:58.His picture is Europe-wide. Every law enforcement agency across Europe

:13:59. > :14:04.and perhaps further afield will be aware of his photograph and the fact

:14:05. > :14:09.that he is very much wanted. He will need help. Is he being harboured

:14:10. > :14:12.somewhere in the community that is perhaps detached from police and

:14:13. > :14:19.security services? We shall see. But the one thing I can guarantee is

:14:20. > :14:24.that he be found. At the moment, police are warning he is potentially

:14:25. > :14:29.extremely dangerous. Yes, of course. There have been reports a firearm

:14:30. > :14:33.was involved in the hijacking of the truck. We will see a lot of armed

:14:34. > :14:38.police involved in this operation to find him. He left the identity card

:14:39. > :14:43.in the cab, did he do it deliberately as a calling card to

:14:44. > :14:47.say catch me if you can always some kind of mistake? Either way, he is

:14:48. > :14:51.now identified, there is a 100,000 euros bounty on his head, he is very

:14:52. > :14:55.much wanted. He is going to be found. Thank you very much for your

:14:56. > :14:59.time. So many questions, he is your's

:15:00. > :15:03.number one wanted man at the moment. You're watching

:15:04. > :15:05.Breakfast from BBC News. German security services are facing

:15:06. > :15:08.questions about why they ended a surveillance operation on the man

:15:09. > :15:11.who's now the suspect Broadband services in some rural

:15:12. > :15:15.areas will be given a boost worth hundreds of millions of pounds

:15:16. > :15:17.as the government Here's Carol with a look

:15:18. > :15:31.at this morning's weather. It is not looking too good at their

:15:32. > :15:42.places? Tomorrow will be the scenario, but

:15:43. > :15:46.there is patchy fog affecting southern counties that will take

:15:47. > :15:51.until to clear. When it does come across England and Wales we are

:15:52. > :15:54.looking at some sunshine and Northern Ireland and Scotland, we

:15:55. > :16:02.continue with squally showers. That is the forecast. Showers, rain,

:16:03. > :16:08.thunder and lightning, hill snow and sleet at lower levels. Being blown

:16:09. > :16:14.around in the gales around the squally showers. It means, when the

:16:15. > :16:19.wind speed changes by more than ten knots, about 11 miles an hour for at

:16:20. > :16:25.least a minute and then it reverts back to what it was, and we are

:16:26. > :16:29.talking gusts. Cooler in the far south and it was yesterday but it

:16:30. > :16:32.will be cooler generally further north. Heading on through the

:16:33. > :16:36.evening and overnight, the temperature will drop quickly under

:16:37. > :16:40.clear skies. Battocchio frost around but not a lot because the breeze

:16:41. > :16:44.will pick up. Showers across Scotland and Northern Ireland will

:16:45. > :16:49.fade for a time. Storm Barbra arrives introducing heavy rain and

:16:50. > :16:53.gale force winds across north-west Scotland. It is no plus Scotland and

:16:54. > :16:57.the Northern Isles but the Met office has this amber wind warning.

:16:58. > :17:03.This is where we will see the strongest winds. I will come onto

:17:04. > :17:07.the winds in more detail, but heavy rain moving from the north-west

:17:08. > :17:10.heading south eastwards. If you are travelling there will be surface

:17:11. > :17:14.water and spray on the roads and it will be a windy day where ever you

:17:15. > :17:18.are. The strongest winds will be in the northern half of the country.

:17:19. > :17:23.Gusts across the far north of Maine in Scotland and the northern

:17:24. > :17:32.islands, 90 mal an hour is storm force. 60 mal an hour gusts across

:17:33. > :17:36.northern England. Particularly the further north you are, more likely

:17:37. > :17:40.to encounter some structural damage. Likely to be some delays to

:17:41. > :17:45.transport with planes, ferry crossings, bridge crossings for

:17:46. > :17:51.example. Do take extra care if you are on the move. On Christmas Eve, a

:17:52. > :17:56.little bit quieter. The England and Wales, dry weather around and

:17:57. > :18:00.sunshine. The Scotland and Northern Ireland, gusty winds as opposed to

:18:01. > :18:03.squally winds. Rain to a company that. Temperatures seven to about 10

:18:04. > :18:28.Celsius. As we have to beat 15 point six

:18:29. > :18:33.Celsius. It is possible, somewhere like Aberdeen could hit 16 Celsius.

:18:34. > :18:37.This front going south is a cold front bearing rain and behind it we

:18:38. > :18:43.start to pull in once again colder air. He might start in Aberdeen with

:18:44. > :18:46.16 Celsius in the day. The cold front with the rain going through

:18:47. > :18:50.and we could return to wintry showers. We could have the

:18:51. > :18:54.combination of record-breaking temperatures on Christmas Day, but

:18:55. > :18:55.also a white Christmas. But we're not expecting a white Christmas in

:18:56. > :19:05.the South. Britain built more cars in the first

:19:06. > :19:20.11 months of 2016 than any full year since 2004,

:19:21. > :19:22.data from an industry body showed on Thursday,

:19:23. > :19:24.putting the sector on course to make more vehicles this year

:19:25. > :19:31.than in any other since 1999. Demand around the world of the cars

:19:32. > :19:38.continues to grow. For in every five cars being sent overseas. The

:19:39. > :19:42.world's oldest bank looks set to be bailed out by the Italian government

:19:43. > :19:49.as part of a 20 billion euros rescue package.

:19:50. > :19:51.Italy's Monte dei Paschi di Siena had hoped to raise E5bn.

:19:52. > :19:54.However, the bank admitted on Wednesday evening that it

:19:55. > :19:55.had failed to secure an "anchor" investor.

:19:56. > :19:59.Monte dei Paschi is now likely to be bailed out by the Italian government

:20:00. > :20:01.from a E20bn fund the state is setting up to rescue

:20:02. > :20:05.The competition watchdog is probing the 100 million funfair market

:20:06. > :20:07.amid concerns that punters are being taken for a ride.

:20:08. > :20:09.The Competition and Markets Authority is alleging

:20:10. > :20:11.that the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is restricting

:20:12. > :20:13.competition and reducing the potential for new attractions

:20:14. > :20:25.That is it from me this morning. Back with more business news next

:20:26. > :20:26.week. Happy Christmas, thank you very

:20:27. > :20:28.much. This morning we've been hearing

:20:29. > :20:30.about a rise in violent crime It's just one of the many challenges

:20:31. > :20:34.facing police officers today. As part of our Policing Britain

:20:35. > :20:37.series, Steph has gone behind the scenes at the Durham Police

:20:38. > :20:39.headquarters to find out how they cope with

:20:40. > :20:48.the different pressures. I think she is back in the control

:20:49. > :20:53.room again. I am. This is the main control room

:20:54. > :20:57.where they will be taking all of the emergency calls that come in from

:20:58. > :21:01.this area. These guys will be taking the calls and deciding which police

:21:02. > :21:05.officers to send to which locations to deal with all the different

:21:06. > :21:10.crimes they are getting here today. They deal with something like 1000

:21:11. > :21:13.calls here. But if you look at the National picture, it is only one in

:21:14. > :21:18.five calls which are crime related. These guys are dealing with

:21:19. > :21:23.vulnerable and missing people, mental health concerns and welfare.

:21:24. > :21:26.Lots of different things. We will be speaking to the Chief Inspector

:21:27. > :21:29.later on. You mentioned about one of the findings from our research to do

:21:30. > :21:35.with pensioners and the fact there has been a big rise in the number of

:21:36. > :21:36.people over 65 committing crimes. Graham Satchell has been looking

:21:37. > :21:38.into it. Stuart, in his 70s,

:21:39. > :21:46.is talking to Nick, who is 60. I don't feel old at all,

:21:47. > :21:53.and because people are fitter and healthier and more active,

:21:54. > :21:55.they are going to carry on doing The over 60s now the fastest

:21:56. > :22:05.growing age group Figures obtained by this

:22:06. > :22:09.programme show a dramatic rise in police recorded crime

:22:10. > :22:14.for people over the age of 65. Violent crime in the pension

:22:15. > :22:17.age group, for example, The numbers are relatively small,

:22:18. > :22:23.up from just under 4,000 in 2012 to 7,000 incidents recorded last

:22:24. > :22:26.year, but almost half of all crime police recorded in this

:22:27. > :22:32.age group was violent. I think we have

:22:33. > :22:37.romanticised older people. We think that just because

:22:38. > :22:39.they're getting older They're frustrated,

:22:40. > :22:45.lonely and angry. This criminologist says some older

:22:46. > :22:47.people getting more violent The frustration of being

:22:48. > :22:56.an old person with not enough to do, with social services being cut,

:22:57. > :22:58.there's a sort of failure of the social contract

:22:59. > :23:00.with the elderly that leads So are Britain's pensioners really

:23:01. > :23:11.becoming saga louts? There are some other

:23:12. > :23:12.things going on. For years and years police

:23:13. > :23:14.recorded crime figures were massaged to meet

:23:15. > :23:17.certain targets. Today, the way police record crime

:23:18. > :23:20.has completely changed. Police forces are now looking

:23:21. > :23:25.to make sure we record things accurately, ethically

:23:26. > :23:30.and that's shown by the number of crimes that have gone

:23:31. > :23:33.up over the past two I think officers might have

:23:34. > :23:38.gone through an incident five years ago and used

:23:39. > :23:40.their professional judgement. Two people in their late

:23:41. > :23:42.60s or 70s having an argument, that might qualify

:23:43. > :23:44.now as violent crime, I don't think they would have done

:23:45. > :23:49.that five years ago. We have four bedrooms here,

:23:50. > :23:53.one is an emergency room. This is the first refuge

:23:54. > :23:56.in the country specifically We filmed it when it

:23:57. > :24:00.opened last year. The charity that runs it, Eva,

:24:01. > :24:03.has seen women in their 60s, Blacked eyes, just a variation

:24:04. > :24:17.of beatings over the years. This woman, who we are

:24:18. > :24:19.calling Sarah, was abused When you were younger,

:24:20. > :24:38.did you feel as though if you had reported what was happening

:24:39. > :24:39.that the police would Police are now investigating

:24:40. > :24:54.domestic violence and historic sex abuse cases much

:24:55. > :24:57.more assiduously and that's one reason for the rise

:24:58. > :25:01.in today's figures. Whether it's growing

:25:02. > :25:03.anger and resentment, or that justice is finally

:25:04. > :25:07.catching up with offenders, more and more older people

:25:08. > :25:24.are ending up on the wrong side I have come from the call centre

:25:25. > :25:28.area to what is called the Silver command room. It is in here they

:25:29. > :25:35.will basically make big decisions around complex cases. So it might be

:25:36. > :25:38.a firearms operation or drugs raid. These guys are strategically trying

:25:39. > :25:43.to work out how best to solve the crime is maybe going on. They use

:25:44. > :25:47.this room about three times a week. It is not happening every day, these

:25:48. > :25:53.serious crimes. It is very calm in here. A lot going on in terms of the

:25:54. > :25:56.decision-making. They have done a mock-up of drugs raids, so they have

:25:57. > :26:01.been working on that this morning and the information is on the board

:26:02. > :26:07.about who might be detained already, about whether subjects might be. It

:26:08. > :26:11.is fascinating. Although I am curious about subject number one who

:26:12. > :26:16.has been detained. I am wondering what the scrubbed dab bit sad. Maybe

:26:17. > :26:21.we will find out that later on and I will be showing you around the

:26:22. > :26:26.headquarters later on. Steph, we can imagine all sorts of

:26:27. > :26:29.different things. Conspiracy to something, we will

:26:30. > :26:35.work it out. Conspiracy to steal the biscuits.

:26:36. > :26:46.Christmas traditions are always important.

:26:47. > :26:50.One family dress up their pony. Now I am really jealous. I have been

:26:51. > :26:59.looking for one of those for my pony for ages. It started with the pony's

:27:00. > :27:07.mum 30 years ago. Louise has treated in to say, making

:27:08. > :27:11.streams of party poppers above the dining table.

:27:12. > :27:14.And Diane says she always makes her own crackers.

:27:15. > :27:18.Here they are. Keep sending those in. We will talk more about

:27:19. > :30:38.Christmas traditions later on. See you in a few minutes.

:30:39. > :30:53.Hello, this is Breakfast with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:30:54. > :30:57.It is Thursday morning. We can tell you about the main stories.

:30:58. > :30:59.German security services are facing questions about why they ended

:31:00. > :31:01.a surveillance operation on a suspect who's now the subject

:31:02. > :31:05.of a Europe-wide manhunt, following the Berlin lorry attack.

:31:06. > :31:07.They began watching Anis Amri in March.

:31:08. > :31:12.But the operation was halted six months later even though

:31:13. > :31:15.he was known to have ties to a radical Islamist group.

:31:16. > :31:17.Our correspondent Damien McGuinness is in our Berlin studio.

:31:18. > :31:31.Good morning. There is more emerging about this man. What can you tell

:31:32. > :31:36.us? It seems that he left Tunisia in 2011 and spent four years in Italy

:31:37. > :31:44.where he was convicted and charged for offences such as arson so he has

:31:45. > :31:49.a criminal record. He moved to Germany and applied for asylum but

:31:50. > :31:51.the application was rejected. He was not deported because Tunisia would

:31:52. > :31:58.not accept he was a Tunisian citizens. That will be a big

:31:59. > :32:03.question now that will be debated in Germany. What to do about failed

:32:04. > :32:09.asylum seekers who cannot be deported because there are around

:32:10. > :32:12.106,000 such cases in Germany of people whose asylum application has

:32:13. > :32:19.been projected that they cannot be deported. The other big question is

:32:20. > :32:23.why security services stopped monitoring the suspect even though

:32:24. > :32:26.they had grounds to believe he could be dangerous. We will have more

:32:27. > :32:28.throughout the day on the BBC News channel.

:32:29. > :32:31.The Government is to reinvest more than ?440 million to improve

:32:32. > :32:32.high-speed broadband coverage across the UK.

:32:33. > :32:34.It is expected the funds, which have been recouped

:32:35. > :32:40.from the Government's superfast broadband programme,

:32:41. > :32:43.could bring better connectivity to an extra 600,000 rural homes.

:32:44. > :32:46.The Government aims to deliver high-speed internet to 95 per cent

:32:47. > :32:52.of properties by the end of next year.

:32:53. > :32:55.Violent crime committed by people aged over 65 in England and Wales

:32:56. > :32:59.has increased by almost 80% since 2012.

:33:00. > :33:01.The figures, obtained by a Freedom of Information

:33:02. > :33:04.request by BBC Breakfast, relate to offences ranging

:33:05. > :33:10.The rise in the number of crimes recorded is, in part,

:33:11. > :33:13.being put down to police changing how they log crimes and people

:33:14. > :33:27.A woman and child have died in a house fire in Essex. The pair were

:33:28. > :33:31.trapped in the house in Braintree and died at the scene. Two of the

:33:32. > :33:32.women managed to escape and were taken to hospital.

:33:33. > :33:35.Doctors and charities have described a new treatment for multiple

:33:36. > :33:40.The disease, which affects the brain, most often causes people

:33:41. > :33:46.100,000 people in the UK are affected by MS

:33:47. > :33:48.and it's hoped Ocrelizumab will offer hope to patients,

:33:49. > :33:56.after a successful trial of 2,000 people.

:33:57. > :33:59.The NHS will pay for 10 blind patients to have so-called "bionic

:34:00. > :34:02.eyes" to help treat an inherited form of blindness.

:34:03. > :34:05.The eye is a retinal implant which interprets images captured

:34:06. > :34:09.by a miniature video camera worn on a pair of glasses.

:34:10. > :34:12.Five patients will be treated at Manchester Royal Eye Hospital

:34:13. > :34:16.and five at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London next year.

:34:17. > :34:19.They will be monitored for a year afterwards to see how they get

:34:20. > :34:27.Health care and social care services provide vital support for some

:34:28. > :34:31.of the most vulnerable people in the country.

:34:32. > :34:33.But the ombudsman responsible for dealing with complaints

:34:34. > :34:39.says people are falling through the cracks because the two

:34:40. > :34:40.sectors aren't communicating with each other.

:34:41. > :34:42.In a new report they're calling for the complaints

:34:43. > :34:46.We can speak to Local Government Ombudsman Jane Martin now,

:34:47. > :35:00.Good morning. Why is the system fragmented and what issues is it

:35:01. > :35:03.causing? The Local Government Ombudsman, we have investigated

:35:04. > :35:08.complaints over 40 years but we have also been able to investigate with

:35:09. > :35:12.the Parliamentary ombudsman and the report today is a response to what

:35:13. > :35:20.we have seen which is people coming with social care complaints, or

:35:21. > :35:22.health complaints, also have health and social care combined issues and

:35:23. > :35:29.we created the joint team to try to make things easier. Despite the best

:35:30. > :35:33.efforts of councils and health bodies to integrate care locally, in

:35:34. > :35:38.fact there is fragmentation which can cause things to go badly wrong

:35:39. > :35:41.and when they do it has a significant impact on people

:35:42. > :35:48.involved. Is it something that could be easily changed? You would have to

:35:49. > :35:54.put that question to the councils and NHS themselves but what we are

:35:55. > :35:59.trying to do is to call for bodies locally to make it easier to make

:36:00. > :36:03.their voices heard and make complaints in a seamless way. A key

:36:04. > :36:08.issue is lack of coordination and the report could have been called

:36:09. > :36:13.working better together because we are seeing a lack of information,

:36:14. > :36:16.often people working in organisations do not themselves

:36:17. > :36:20.understand who was responsible and who is paying, which is no good if

:36:21. > :36:26.the complainant is having to pick up the pieces. You have been involved

:36:27. > :36:32.since 2010. Has it been getting worse in that time? Certainly we

:36:33. > :36:37.have seen an increase in social care complaints and we issued a report

:36:38. > :36:42.this year setting that out. We have seen an increase in complex cases

:36:43. > :36:46.and it is clear that although there is greater integration in the system

:36:47. > :36:51.there is also complexity and when you have more than one body

:36:52. > :36:54.involved, things can go badly wrong. The cases we highlight show issues

:36:55. > :36:59.like when people transition from hospital to home care and when they

:37:00. > :37:06.have complex disabilities and it is difficult for them to get care they

:37:07. > :37:08.need. Getting bodies to work together better, so many

:37:09. > :37:16.organisations face problems with that. The draft Bill is under

:37:17. > :37:21.consultation. Are you able to hear me? Have you gone completely? I

:37:22. > :37:27.think sadly we have lost Jane. If you could put your earpiece back

:37:28. > :37:34.in... There we go. Can you hear me again? I can hear you. You can do a

:37:35. > :37:39.David Coleman impression for the last one! I mentioned about big

:37:40. > :37:43.organisations and how it can be difficult to talk among the

:37:44. > :37:47.different strands. The draft Bill is under consultation and we're all

:37:48. > :37:51.talking about a joined up approach but the old ombudsman service

:37:52. > :37:58.probably suffers from the same problems? This is why we want the

:37:59. > :38:02.changes made. We are doing as much as we can be tween the organisations

:38:03. > :38:06.to join up the service we give to the public but we are aware there is

:38:07. > :38:12.too much complexity and that is why we are calling for one public

:38:13. > :38:17.service ombudsman and we are pleased we have draft legislation that will

:38:18. > :38:22.be consulted on. We believe we will offer a better service if we can

:38:23. > :38:25.have one place the public can come to, particularly around health and

:38:26. > :38:29.social care complaints, which are causing difficulty at the moment.

:38:30. > :38:34.You can put sound engineer on your CV now, also! Have a good Christmas.

:38:35. > :38:38.It's the busiest time of the year for police officers and Steph

:38:39. > :38:41.will be back in a few minutes with another behind-the-scenes look

:38:42. > :38:47.Most families will be putting out a mince pie and a sherry

:38:48. > :38:55.But has the Elf on the Shelf made an appearance in your house?

:38:56. > :38:57.We'll be talking about Christmas traditions past and present

:38:58. > :39:12.And we'll be meeting the firefighters hoping to enter

:39:13. > :39:14.the Christmas charts with their chip pan parody

:39:15. > :39:32.They are called the Everly Pregnant Brothers. And they did the Bob

:39:33. > :39:35.Marley classic. No Oven No Pie. It has a serious message about to chip

:39:36. > :39:44.pans. They are a major cause of fire.

:39:45. > :39:49.But we are here to talk about a serious issue in rugby union and

:39:50. > :39:55.George North and his injuries. The latest George North incident. He has

:39:56. > :39:58.been involved in five occasions, treated for suspected concussion.

:39:59. > :40:03.This time he was allowed back on and the authorities say he should have

:40:04. > :40:06.stayed. They have not published Northampton but it has called for

:40:07. > :40:07.changes. The Rugby Players Association say

:40:08. > :40:09.Northampton Saints should have been punished for allowing

:40:10. > :40:12.the Welsh wing George North to play on after appearing

:40:13. > :40:14.to be knocked out. A concussion review group

:40:15. > :40:16.found North should not have been allowed to continue,

:40:17. > :40:18.but said Saints' medics had acted in the player's best interests

:40:19. > :40:21.and so wouldn't face any punishment. A former medical adviser

:40:22. > :40:37.in the game says the The protocol they go through off the

:40:38. > :40:43.field is not worth the paper it is written on. It is experimenting on

:40:44. > :40:48.players' brains. First it was five minutes, Ben ten, then 30 minutes.

:40:49. > :40:56.If you take a player off to have a concussion assessment, he has two

:40:57. > :40:59.stay off and our regulations say he must a off but they are

:41:00. > :41:02.experimenting in a part of the game that is the most brutal and when the

:41:03. > :41:06.player goes back, impacts will be huge and this is wrong. The review

:41:07. > :41:09.team has made nine recommendations. It'll be at least six months

:41:10. > :41:14.before Petra Kvitova is able to practise again,

:41:15. > :41:15.following the knife Surgeons are confident

:41:16. > :41:18.that the two-time Wimbledon champion will be able

:41:19. > :41:20.to return to the court, but all the fingers on her

:41:21. > :41:23.playing hand were injured and her rehabilitation

:41:24. > :41:27.will be a slow process. League Two Plymouth Argyle have

:41:28. > :41:30.earned a trip to Liverpool in the third round of the FA Cup,

:41:31. > :41:32.after beating Newport County, It went to extra time

:41:33. > :41:37.at Rodney Parade. Plymouth missed one penalty but won

:41:38. > :41:40.a second, which Graham Carey scored to set up a tie at Anfield worth

:41:41. > :41:48.around half a million pounds. The next Olympic Games

:41:49. > :41:50.is predicted to cost ?12.4 billion and,

:41:51. > :41:51.even though the Tokyo organisers are looking for savings,

:41:52. > :41:55.that would make it the most expensive Games ever,

:41:56. > :41:57.beating the amount spent on the Sochi Winter Olympics,

:41:58. > :42:08.and it's six times more They are saying production and

:42:09. > :42:12.construction costs have gone up because of the recent tsunami and

:42:13. > :42:17.earthquake. Christmas traditions. You said earlier that you have a

:42:18. > :42:23.pantomime in your household. Did you say you did Cinderella underwater?

:42:24. > :42:27.Yes, you do not actually go underwater. There is a theme each

:42:28. > :42:32.year so the ugly sisters would come in like this.

:42:33. > :42:37.I might suggest that to our committee! We will talk about

:42:38. > :42:40.Christmas traditions shortly. The run-up to Christmas

:42:41. > :42:42.is the busiest time of the year This week we've been

:42:43. > :42:45.looking at the different This morning, as part

:42:46. > :42:48.of our Policing Britain series, Steph has been allowed behind

:42:49. > :42:51.the scenes at the new headquarters of Durham Police to find out

:42:52. > :43:02.about the work involved. She is outside now.

:43:03. > :43:07.Good morning. Good morning, everyone. It is fascinating to see

:43:08. > :43:11.so many elements we would not normally see and this is an armed

:43:12. > :43:17.response vehicle and Sam is in charge. Tell me what we have got.

:43:18. > :43:21.This will deploy to a scene of firearms incident sent to from the

:43:22. > :43:25.command room. We have ballistic protection such as shields. Method

:43:26. > :43:33.of entry equipment. To gain entry to the property, and we have a medic

:43:34. > :43:37.kit, which is a comprehensive first aid kit. You have to be trained in

:43:38. > :43:41.so many things because you are a firearms officer but you need

:43:42. > :43:45.medical knowledge. I am a trauma medics say we deal with a higher

:43:46. > :43:51.level of trauma incidents, especially when we deal with road

:43:52. > :43:56.traffic incidents. Why are you doing that, often because you are first on

:43:57. > :44:01.the scene? Usually be the first responders and have a duty of care

:44:02. > :44:07.to those seriously injured. We can go back into the armoury which is a

:44:08. > :44:14.place you visit quite a lot. You have been promoted as a Sergeant,

:44:15. > :44:18.congratulations. In your job, when you see firearms officers, you

:44:19. > :44:23.think, do you get scared, given what you are going to phase? That is

:44:24. > :44:28.where training comes into its own. It is 11 weeks to complete the

:44:29. > :44:32.initial course and you face the majority of your fears in training

:44:33. > :44:37.so when you deploy live you have confidence to deal with any

:44:38. > :44:45.situation. It is highly unlikely you would ever in your career have to

:44:46. > :44:47.shoot anyone? Fingers crossed. But there is the potential threat.

:44:48. > :44:53.Because you have a weapon now, you have to come into this room. I need

:44:54. > :45:00.to download the pistol and re-present that. There is one in the

:45:01. > :45:07.chamber, there is the round. Make sure it is safe before I clear it.

:45:08. > :45:12.Fire off the action just to double check. And ensure that is clear and

:45:13. > :45:16.present it. You have to hand it. You have to handed back in two marks, in

:45:17. > :45:18.charge of the armoury section. We will look in there. Thanks very

:45:19. > :45:29.much. So this weapon has come back in,

:45:30. > :45:31.this room is amazing, I feel a bit intimidated walking in because there

:45:32. > :45:40.are so many weapons here. Explain what we have got? Basically we have

:45:41. > :45:47.firearms issued on preplanned operations, so if we need to bolster

:45:48. > :45:55.up the ARV... The armed response vehicle? Yes, we can send that

:45:56. > :46:00.officers as support. What is this stuff? This doesn't look like any

:46:01. > :46:04.form of... Basically we expect our armed officers to make different

:46:05. > :46:08.types of weapons safe, so when we get peculiar weapons that we seize

:46:09. > :46:13.or are handed in, we keep a certain amount to train with, so officers

:46:14. > :46:19.will learn to make disguised firearms such as walking stick canes

:46:20. > :46:24.safe, then we've got improvised firearms, we've also got converted

:46:25. > :46:28.blank fires and then we've also got disguised stun devices. That just

:46:29. > :46:43.looks like a phone but clearly isn't? Yes, this one is based on the

:46:44. > :46:51.iPhone four... You would get a nasty shock with that! This would be

:46:52. > :46:56.classed as a disguised firearm, so would these. With this type of thing

:46:57. > :47:00.is is a mandatory minimum sentence of five years, so you don't want to

:47:01. > :47:04.be in possession of one of these. That is worth knowing, not that I

:47:05. > :47:07.would ever carry one! Thank you very much, you will hear more from me

:47:08. > :47:10.shortly, but first we have got to speak to the wonderful Carol to find

:47:11. > :47:14.out what is happening in the weather. Squalling wind is the only

:47:15. > :47:16.thing I have heard but it is her mum's Brad Pitt as well, so happy

:47:17. > :47:25.birthday to Carol's mum! Thank you! Happy birthday, ma'am, if

:47:26. > :47:38.you are watching, 21 again! We have got some fog which will

:47:39. > :47:41.lift, but we do have squally showers across Northern Ireland and

:47:42. > :47:45.Scotland. They will continue through the day, they will have rain, hail,

:47:46. > :47:50.thunder and lightning, some hill snow and some sleet at lower levels.

:47:51. > :47:54.For England and Wales, one or two showers but really more dry weather

:47:55. > :48:00.around and most of the fog should tend to lift by a round lunchtime.

:48:01. > :48:01.It will feel cold in the zero in the combination of those elements,

:48:02. > :48:22.cooler in the south than it did yesterday. As we head through

:48:23. > :48:25.the evening and overnight, under the clear skies very quickly the

:48:26. > :48:28.temperature will drop and we're looking at some frost. There will

:48:29. > :48:33.not be a lot of it because the wind is going to pick up but by the end

:48:34. > :48:36.of the night we will see the first sight of storm Barbara in the shape

:48:37. > :48:39.of heavy rain in Northern Ireland and northern and western Scotland,

:48:40. > :48:41.accompanied by gales by tomorrow morning. Tomorrow, the Met office

:48:42. > :48:45.has an Amber weather warning for wind from northern and north-western

:48:46. > :48:49.Scotland. Here, we are looking at a severe gales and storm force winds.

:48:50. > :48:52.The rain across though West will be heavy, combined with the wind it

:48:53. > :48:55.will be tricky travelling conditions. That will continue to

:48:56. > :48:59.move south, getting to the south-east after dark, but look at

:49:00. > :49:05.the temperatures. But it is the wind that will pack a punch with Barbara.

:49:06. > :49:09.To put numbers on that, across the north of mainland Scotland and the

:49:10. > :49:15.Northern Isles, just as much as 90 mph. In the West, 80 mph but we

:49:16. > :49:21.could see similar in the East of Scotland. 70 mph wind speed across

:49:22. > :49:25.Northern Ireland, 60 across northern England. Barbara has moved a little

:49:26. > :49:30.bit further north, so the strongest winds have moved by the North as

:49:31. > :49:34.well, which is why it is the far north of Scotland looking at 90 mph,

:49:35. > :50:07.but those could do structural damage,

:50:08. > :50:11.disruption to transportation, including flights, ferries, bridges,

:50:12. > :50:13.so do keep in touch with the weather forecast. On Christmas Eve, a lot

:50:14. > :50:15.quieter, especially for England and Wales. It will be breezy, sunshine

:50:16. > :50:18.and dry weather. For Northern Ireland and Scotland, later northern

:50:19. > :50:21.England and Wales, rain and gusty wind as opposed to squalling wind

:50:22. > :50:24.like today. As we move into Christmas Day, between these two

:50:25. > :50:27.weather front it is a warm sector and actually on Chris tmas Day it is

:50:28. > :50:30.going to be exceptionally mild, we could have record-breaking high

:50:31. > :50:34.temperatures for if we exceed 15.6 Celsius, that is there will be a lot

:50:35. > :50:37.of in so as well as the wet and windy weather laterand behind it

:50:38. > :50:40.colder conditions coming in so as well as the wet and windy weather

:50:41. > :50:43.later on, some of us a white Christmas. Steph, I bet you didn't

:50:44. > :50:47.expect record-breaking temperatures and a white Christmas on the same

:50:48. > :50:50.day! I certainly didn't, but you deliver so much to this nation that

:50:51. > :50:53.it doesn't surprise me! While Carol was doing the weather, I zipped up

:50:54. > :50:57.from the armoury room to the main cool centre, dealing with the 999

:50:58. > :51:00.calls coming in throughout the day, they deal with something like 1000

:51:01. > :51:02.calls per day, not just crime related but people calling about

:51:03. > :51:05.vulnerable or missing people, mental health.

:51:06. > :51:09.Only one in five calls nationally to 999 deal with crime. Earlier we were

:51:10. > :51:13.talking about crime in the over 65, now we will look at youth offending.

:51:14. > :51:17.The figures on this nationally are something like 17,000 under 25s in

:51:18. > :51:21.prison, about a quarter of the prison population. We have got some

:51:22. > :51:24.guests, Lord McNally, chair of the youth Justice board, and Baroness

:51:25. > :51:29.Hallen new love, victims commissioner for England and Wales.

:51:30. > :51:33.Lord McNally, looking at youth offending and in particular rear

:51:34. > :51:37.fenders, there are something like 900 young people who are

:51:38. > :51:42.persistently offending. Are they a lost cause or can we do something to

:51:43. > :51:48.stop this reoffending? No, that would be a council for display and

:51:49. > :51:52.the youth Justice board over 16 years of existence has made inroads

:51:53. > :51:58.into that but it is still a big problem at the moment. That is why

:51:59. > :52:02.the Secretary of State has just announced a new series of

:52:03. > :52:07.initiatives that will look at this reoffending, which is the one that

:52:08. > :52:13.people get most worried about, it is the revolving door of prison that

:52:14. > :52:18.worries people. But I think, if you are going, which is what we want to

:52:19. > :52:23.do, with a cross disciplinary education led response, then we have

:52:24. > :52:28.got to carry victims and the public with us. The public quite often have

:52:29. > :52:33.the view of, lock them up and throw away the key. That doesn't work.

:52:34. > :52:40.They can really blight a community, though? I am sure that viewers

:52:41. > :52:43.watching you can think of housing estates where one individual, one

:52:44. > :52:51.family can ruin the lives of everybody else on estate. But how

:52:52. > :52:55.you get at that, one of the things, again, that the Secretary of State

:52:56. > :53:01.has put forward, we have got to get upstream of the actual offending.

:53:02. > :53:05.What does that mean? You can say that by the time a child is in front

:53:06. > :53:09.of the youth magistrate, you might be ten years too late in dealing

:53:10. > :53:16.with the factors that have got them into crime, so I think we've got to

:53:17. > :53:19.make sure that things like the troubled families initiative and our

:53:20. > :53:25.Youth Offending team's work closely together to try and identify

:53:26. > :53:29.children when they are on the cusp of criminality, and take measures

:53:30. > :53:33.that will divert them from it. I think one of the good things that

:53:34. > :53:38.has happened over the last ten years, and why we have seen falls in

:53:39. > :53:44.the number coming into the criminal justice system, is that the police

:53:45. > :53:48.themselves have stopped targeting and now play a much more positive

:53:49. > :53:56.role in diverting young people from the criminal justice system into

:53:57. > :53:59.therapies and responses which can avoid crime. Baroness new love, from

:54:00. > :54:07.your perspective, the victims' perspective, what is your thought on

:54:08. > :54:11.it? We have two educate people to understand that actions can have

:54:12. > :54:14.horrendous circumstances, but I agree some victims are traumatised

:54:15. > :54:18.when the services are not listening to them and we have to get this

:54:19. > :54:21.right. Before I was in this role, I used to go to prisons and speak to

:54:22. > :54:26.youngsters to understand what goes on out there, but it is also making

:54:27. > :54:29.sure the youngsters know they are accountable and responsible for what

:54:30. > :54:34.they are doing and want to change their ways. How do you do that,

:54:35. > :54:39.talking to them when they are jungle, what does it involve? It is

:54:40. > :54:42.telling them hard-hitting facts, but it is really like, we saw it with

:54:43. > :54:46.the riots when a lot of them blamed the state, but to make communities

:54:47. > :54:50.feel safer we have to work together in partnership to understand,

:54:51. > :54:54.because when you go through day in, day out being abused in the

:54:55. > :54:58.community, it is terrifying, so people watching this will be saying,

:54:59. > :55:09.I am being abused now, I am scared to go out, and I get a lot of

:55:10. > :55:12.letters because anti-social behaviour is such a huge thing.

:55:13. > :55:14.People have got to understand that we need to live in a safer

:55:15. > :55:17.environment, and it's not right for children to throw bricks, abuse the

:55:18. > :55:19.system. So much more we could cover, thank you for your time this

:55:20. > :55:22.morning. I appreciate it. I will just show you a little bit more of

:55:23. > :55:26.these offices, we talked about the call centre, Catherine, the chief

:55:27. > :55:31.inspector, is in charge of it all. What is your job here? I oversee the

:55:32. > :55:38.control room, we take about 30,000 calls a month, 6000 of which are 909

:55:39. > :55:41.calls and I see how we deploy to them, who resigned and when we send

:55:42. > :55:45.them, making sure our response and call handling and dealing with the

:55:46. > :55:49.incidences is appropriate. What I have noticed more than anything is

:55:50. > :55:53.how calm it is. It is actually boring, for want of a better word,

:55:54. > :55:58.and I mean that in a really good way! It doesn't feel manic, it feels

:55:59. > :56:01.calm and collected, and that is important? Yes, well trained call

:56:02. > :56:06.handlers, they don't know what they will get from one minute to the

:56:07. > :56:09.next, so they need to be calm and treat every call as if it was the

:56:10. > :56:13.first of the day and they are well-trained, good at risk as and it

:56:14. > :56:18.is a lovely environment to work in. You have walked me to the next

:56:19. > :56:22.location, thank very much. While! This is the silver command room,

:56:23. > :56:31.look at this young officer! What is your name? Deacon. And what is your

:56:32. > :56:37.job, are you the mascot? The Durham police mascot. Who is next to you?

:56:38. > :56:40.What is the job here of Deacon? Decanters are very important job, he

:56:41. > :56:44.keeps us in check all day and sometimes comes out on patrol with

:56:45. > :56:51.us, and he highlight any criminals or targets with them for us to

:56:52. > :56:55.intercept on that day. And do you love it, Deacon?

:56:56. > :56:59.High-5 for that, love your work. That is it from me here, the silver

:57:00. > :57:04.command room, complex decisions being made about operations that are

:57:05. > :57:07.being run. Someone earlier asked about this gentleman here being on

:57:08. > :57:10.Facebook, it is because they have to assess everything that is going on,

:57:11. > :57:15.they have to be across all of the different outlets, which is why they

:57:16. > :57:18.have also got us on, the news in the background. Fascinated by being here

:57:19. > :57:21.in the last couple of days, and I'm sure you will all agree that has

:57:22. > :57:27.been a lot to see. And how cool is Deacon?! He is signing one of his

:57:28. > :57:32.cards for you now. I will take them back for the team!

:57:33. > :57:39.Thank you, Deacon! Be careful, Steph, if you are taking

:57:40. > :57:43.biscuits, he is watching you. The future reference, do not let

:57:44. > :57:45.Deacon near the gun cupboard! It has been a highlight today, seeing staff

:57:46. > :57:48.there. Tomorrow we'll take a final look

:57:49. > :57:52.at Policing Britain - we'll hear about the problems many

:57:53. > :57:55.forces face due to a rise in the number of people

:57:56. > :57:57.with dementia going missing. It's only three days

:57:58. > :58:09.until Christmas. I have been lent an advent calendar,

:58:10. > :58:13.number 22 has not been opened. You did in! We will have a look

:58:14. > :58:15.behind Alba Breakfast advent calendar with the help of our

:58:16. > :58:17.friends from a local primary school. ALL: We wish you a Merry Christmas

:58:18. > :58:20.and happy New Year! Hello.

:58:21. > :58:30.Merry Christmas to everybody. What's your favourite

:58:31. > :58:38.Christmas song? TOGETHER: # We wish

:58:39. > :59:02.I think they could have put in more effort than that.

:59:03. > :59:07.That was as bad as a flaky mince pie from those two, they had no future

:59:08. > :59:11.in the music business! Look, this is a heart.

:59:12. > :59:17.How cued. I especially put it in there for you. I will leave it

:59:18. > :59:20.there. No offence. He did not give this to me. We are talking about

:59:21. > :59:24.Christmas traditions. and maybe even having a quick peck

:59:25. > :59:28.under the mistletoe - there are a host of Christmas

:59:29. > :59:31.traditions that many of us embrace Thank goodness for hiding the

:59:32. > :59:34.mistletoe. We're going to be finding

:59:35. > :59:38.out in just a minute. but first we've been asking

:59:39. > :59:41.you what your favourite Leaving things out

:59:42. > :59:43.for Father Christmas, They have to wake us

:59:44. > :59:49.up before they can have their stockings

:59:50. > :59:51.in the I like to see what they're

:59:52. > :59:54.opening as well. I like watching the reaction

:59:55. > :59:56.of your family as well when And I also like it

:59:57. > :00:00.when you've got your nan who's got you a knitted jumper

:00:01. > :00:04.and you've got to put on a fake My dad used to buy us an Easter egg

:00:05. > :00:08.every year for Christmas. And obviously the Christmas pudding,

:00:09. > :00:16.that's Christmas for me. A real Christmas tree that

:00:17. > :00:23.smells like Christmas. We've got a ten-month-old

:00:24. > :00:24.little boy so we're just starting

:00:25. > :00:29.traditions with him now. We've got a Christmas Eve book that

:00:30. > :00:33.we're going to read to him You've always had new

:00:34. > :00:37.pyjamas on Christmas Board games with your family seems

:00:38. > :00:42.to be the big thing. Arguments with my sisters

:00:43. > :00:45.over board games. It's not Christmas without a good

:00:46. > :00:47.argument over some sort of... ..technicality on a rule somewhere,

:00:48. > :00:51.something along those lines! Etymologist and author

:00:52. > :01:03.Mark Forsyth joins us. This is a tradition in my family,

:01:04. > :01:08.the utter chaos. An absolute mess. Where should we

:01:09. > :01:15.start? Christmas trees, how long have we have them and white? That is

:01:16. > :01:21.why I wanted to buy the book, why do we have a tree indoors and do these

:01:22. > :01:24.strange things? What is the boxing on Boxing Day? Trees go back to

:01:25. > :01:30.medieval Germany when they performed plays on Christmas Eve about Adam

:01:31. > :01:36.and Eve and the Garden of Eden and the one thing they had to have

:01:37. > :01:41.onstage as a prop, it was a tree. They would chop down a tree, an

:01:42. > :01:48.evergreen, bring it indoors and decorate it with freight. I do not

:01:49. > :01:56.whether you saw a couple of days ago on Australian lady who found a tiger

:01:57. > :02:01.steak hiding in her Christmas tree. That is scary. Intensely venomous,

:02:02. > :02:06.even by the standard of Australian snakes but it is a miracle, like a

:02:07. > :02:14.true Christmas tree comeback. In Germany they were called paradise

:02:15. > :02:19.baum. The Nativity story is a part of many people'sChristmas but Jesus

:02:20. > :02:24.was not born at this time of year? There is nothing in the Bible about

:02:25. > :02:29.what date he was born. The only clue, and I hate to say this, the

:02:30. > :02:33.shepherds were abiding in the fields at night watching their flock and

:02:34. > :02:37.shepherds do that in spring, summer and autumn but not in the winter

:02:38. > :02:41.because it is too cold and the grass is not growing in the field. We

:02:42. > :02:51.could be a few months out? Mince pies. They relate... They used to

:02:52. > :02:55.have proper mince, meet mince. Christmas is filled with meat, it is

:02:56. > :03:00.everywhere, to do with the fact that farmers at this time of year did not

:03:01. > :03:05.have much to do and they would go out hunting. Or they would slaughter

:03:06. > :03:09.animals for the winter because they did not have the hated keep them. If

:03:10. > :03:16.you think we have a lot now, they used to be more. There would be

:03:17. > :03:20.Christmas dish of a swan, stuffed with a goose, stuffed with a

:03:21. > :03:26.pheasant, stuffed with a pigeon, all the way down. Does that remind you

:03:27. > :03:33.of anything? The Christmas song about birds descending in size. That

:03:34. > :03:39.is the recipe. It is interesting to see traditions in different

:03:40. > :03:44.countries. Tell us about Peru. A massive dustup! I found so many

:03:45. > :03:51.strange stories and one favourite was in the high Andes, they have a

:03:52. > :03:55.tradition where on Christmas Day the village gathers in fancy dress in

:03:56. > :04:01.the town square and you can call out anybody who has been annoying you

:04:02. > :04:06.all year. You can have a one-on-one, no rules, except no biting, but that

:04:07. > :04:12.is it. This could solve a lot of family... Families tend to get

:04:13. > :04:19.fractious at Christmas time. Have a mince pie fight. We do this

:04:20. > :04:23.unintentionally but in the Andes it is deliberate. People have talked

:04:24. > :04:31.about Christmas traditions and it is clear people have a set way to

:04:32. > :04:38.approach the day. Lots of different traditions. Everyone has that thing

:04:39. > :04:44.that is important. There are new ones invented all the time and going

:04:45. > :04:49.back 20 years ago people would not have heard about Black Friday, or

:04:50. > :04:53.the John Lewis advert. Used to go the village banking on people'sdoors

:04:54. > :05:03.demanding beer. I might try that! We can look at

:05:04. > :05:08.some of our viewers' traditions. Andy from Barnsley always takes this

:05:09. > :05:12.knitted nativity scene to his workplace, crafted by his mother,

:05:13. > :05:21.Christine. That is amazing. Jill's dog Humphrey

:05:22. > :05:25.gets in the spirit by dressing up. And from Wiltshire, always making

:05:26. > :05:31.her crackers. Diane. Jeanette from Gloucester does not

:05:32. > :05:35.just decorate her own home, she dresses her 1940s dolls house with

:05:36. > :05:37.Christmas paper chains. That is impressive.

:05:38. > :05:41.Mark's book is called A Christmas Cornucopia.

:05:42. > :05:47.We are off to get a goose for Christmas Day and stuff it with

:05:48. > :05:49.various other things. We'll be talking to a group hoping

:05:50. > :05:59.to make it into the Christmas charts in a minute, but first a last,

:06:00. > :06:01.brief look at the headlines where you are this morning.

:06:02. > :07:35.nine Celsius. I will be back at nine Celsius. I will be back at

:07:36. > :07:44.1:30pm. Christmas might be time

:07:45. > :07:48.for indulging in plenty of food and drink, but a new song is hoping

:07:49. > :07:51.to send an important message, as well as bidding

:07:52. > :07:54.for the number one spot. The parody track is a collaboration

:07:55. > :07:58.between South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue service and Sheffield

:07:59. > :08:02.band the Everly Pregnant Brothers, and it's all about the dangers

:08:03. > :08:05.of cooking after a few drinks. # I nipped into kitchen

:08:06. > :08:33.to cook up some grub. # Now me house is on fire and I'm

:08:34. > :09:00.out in street # I'm in me pyjamas,

:09:01. > :09:03.me 'jamas # Oh-oh-oh,

:09:04. > :09:24.me chip pan's on fire. It is so good. That is the lead

:09:25. > :09:26.singer, big Sean, who by day is a funeral director who cannot be with

:09:27. > :09:26.us. Klive Humberstone and Richard Bailey

:09:27. > :09:28.from the Everly Pregnant Brothers along

:09:29. > :09:30.with Martin Blunden from the South Yorkshire Fire

:09:31. > :09:38.and Rescue Service. Good morning. We will talk about the

:09:39. > :09:47.serious issue but how did you get together? Did you approach this lot?

:09:48. > :09:57.We had a chip pan fire and the local paper picked it up. Pete tweeted

:09:58. > :10:02.about it. Our communications team tweeted back and said, do you fancy

:10:03. > :10:07.recording a song about chip pan fire because they are really serious? And

:10:08. > :10:13.the response was it sounded a great idea. You record the song. How has

:10:14. > :10:21.it got to this stage when millions are watching it online? We are

:10:22. > :10:25.loving every second but do not know. We recorded the video and were going

:10:26. > :10:31.to put it out and the Fire Service said why not bring it out as a

:10:32. > :10:38.Christmas single. The words, did you change the words, because they have

:10:39. > :10:43.a serious message, anyway? A lot of our sons are parodies of famous

:10:44. > :10:47.songs and Sean is a great lyricist. He will do it straight off his head.

:10:48. > :10:56.He does not even write down the lyrics. He changes the words and

:10:57. > :11:00.talks about a love of beer, food... We have to apologise because it is

:11:01. > :11:11.songs you love and once you hear our version... Louise has been singing

:11:12. > :11:15.No Oven No Pie this morning. In terms of the serious side, chip pan

:11:16. > :11:20.fires are a cause of concern and damaging home in people as well. It

:11:21. > :11:27.is strange in 2016 we still have chip pan fires in the UK. It is an

:11:28. > :11:34.issue the Fire and Rescue Service are tackling and in South Yorkshire

:11:35. > :11:38.we have had 1000 chip pan related fires in the last three years in

:11:39. > :11:42.Yorkshire and 200 injuries and two fatalities as a result and we

:11:43. > :11:46.decided to do something significantly about it this year

:11:47. > :11:50.which led to this song but it is a great way... I can hear you that Max

:11:51. > :12:05.Eaves mining. It the song talks about somebody having

:12:06. > :12:10.a drink and coming back at it can happen, you forget you have put the

:12:11. > :12:17.Sudan. It is these cooking fires that cause a serious problem. We had

:12:18. > :12:22.one in Doncaster on Monday, which wrecked the kitchen and also that

:12:23. > :12:26.family's Christmas. Somebody distracted by the door, phone, the

:12:27. > :12:32.kids. I live in Sheffield and know how popular you are in the city but

:12:33. > :12:37.this could take you to a different place. You could be Christmas number

:12:38. > :12:44.one this year. Who knows? Yes. And when people turn up to your gigs,

:12:45. > :12:50.somebody thought you were an Everly Brothers tribute band. That is not

:12:51. > :12:55.what you are doing? No. They sat halfway through the show and decided

:12:56. > :13:02.to leave. What has it been like the last weeks? Astonishing. It has gone

:13:03. > :13:08.absolutely crazy. 5.5 million views on the look north site alone. And

:13:09. > :13:14.some firefighters in the video, they will be working on Christmas Day. We

:13:15. > :13:20.had read watch in central Sheffield and fire control. They have been

:13:21. > :13:23.involved and we have had five people particularly involved, Dave,

:13:24. > :13:33.Michelle, Marie, Nick and Stewart, and the rest of Red Watch control

:13:34. > :13:39.supporting it. It is a charity single and we have worked with age

:13:40. > :13:43.UK and with Shelter, two great charities working with those most

:13:44. > :13:48.honourable. You are playing this weekend. Is this at the start of the

:13:49. > :13:54.end? We did it last week. It was the O2. I thought you had one this week.

:13:55. > :13:59.We had famous guests at the O2 with Joe Root joining us and he was

:14:00. > :14:03.fantastic. You are going to save the official goodbye.

:14:04. > :14:04.Chip Pan by The Everly Pregnant Brothers is

:14:05. > :14:17.That's all from Breakfast this morning.

:14:18. > :14:27.Naga and Jon will be here tomorrow morning.

:14:28. > :14:34.It's like having the family here for Christmas.

:14:35. > :14:39.It's going to be great. ..the Bake Off cast.

:14:40. > :14:42.Tastes amazing. James, you're cheating.