07/01/2017 Breakfast

Winter pressure on Accident and Emergency, nothing new. But the Red

Cross says it amounts to a crisis. The charity claims social care cuts

means patients are sent home without the right support so they end up

back in A Red Cross volunteer support NHS staff and say they have

seen patients at home without clothes, some who don't receive the

care they need to get washed, even some who have fallen and not been

found for days. A staff recognise the problems as well. I think the

pressures on the NHS and day care is intense at the moment, but what is a

concern as the patients who have been managed within four hours, and

then the delays for admission into the hospital bed base, which

unfortunately are very significant. Our staff are working under some

pretty intolerable conditions at times trying to manage. And

sometimes they just can't manage. Figures from NHS England show that

overflowing A departments have to close their doors to new patients

more than 140 times over the last month. Compare that with the same

month in 2015, it is up more than 60%. The suspicion is it is a

combination of the cuts we have seen in social care in community services

run by the NHS and very heavy pressure in general practice. So is

the strain on the NHS costing lives? The death of two patients on

emergency trolleys at Worcestershire Royal Hospital are being

investigated. One of them had waited 35 hours per bed. The Department of

Health says it is providing billions more every year to ease pressure.

NHS England says plans are in place to deal with the extra demand. The

beds are actually not quite as full as they were this time last year but

everyone in the Health Service knows things could get worse before they

get better. We will have more on this story

later in the programme. We will be speaking

to Dr Mark Holland from the Society Police in Florida have been

questioning a man after five people were killed and dozens injured

in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale The suspect opened fire

in the baggage claim area, after seemingly retrieving his

weapon from his luggage. The FBI says it is pursuing

all leads and hasn't ruled out President Obama said

he was heartbroken for the families. Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue

reports from Fort Lauderdale. It is a familiar scene

at airports the world over, but the baggage claim hall

at the Fort Lauderdale Airport turned into a place of death

and mayhem, as a lone gunman opened fire on those waiting

to collect their luggage. Passengers scattered for cover,

hitting the ground, and reports say

the assailant had time to reload attempts were made to

attend to the wounded. Once he was done with ammunition,

he threw the gun down after one He basically through the gun

onto the ground and laid on the ground face

down, spreadeagled. The gunman has been named

as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago. Reports say he was carrying

a military ID and had a weapon in his checked baggage,

which is legal in the United States. One family member said he had been

receiving psychological treatment after leaving the National

Guard last year. This cowardly, heinous act resulted

in the deaths of five people. There were eight more people injured

by way of gunshot that In his first reaction

to the shooting, President Obama said he was heartbroken

for the families. These kinds of tragedies have

happened too often during the eight The FBI says it's ruling nothing

out, including terrorism. But the agency has confirmed it had

prior contact with Santiago in November when he was referred

for a mental health assessment. The ease with which he was able

to transport and use a weapon in an airport will raise serious

concerns about public safety. We can join Gary outside

Fort Lauderdale International Gary, this story has been

developing overnight. Well, essentially you are allowed to

carry a firearm in your checked baggage in the US. Now, there are

some restrictions, some rules. You have to be carrying it to a state

where you are allowed to possess a firearm. You have to put it in your

checked baggage, as I say, you have to put it in a locked, hard sided

container. The gun has to be unloaded. You can't have ammunition

in it, but you can carry ammunition with you. So on the face of it he

has done nothing wrong in terms of firearms laws. The crucial point

here is that he was able to collect that baggage at the belt, he was

able to go into a laboratory just near the baggage claim area,

seemingly unpack that semiautomatic weapon, load it, go back in and open

fire indiscriminately, and what's more he had time to reload and start

all over again before he laid out on the floor and gave himself up. So

aside from the motivations for what he did, there will be questions

about whether or not security in that part of the airport at that end

of the travel process is sufficient. For now, thank you very much indeed.

US intelligence officials have released a report that claims

Vladimir Putin personally ordered a cyber campaign to try and help

Donald Trump win the presidential election.

Last night, after being briefed on the findings, Mr Trump said that

hacking had absolutely no impact on the election result,

but promised to set up a team to stop such attacks in the future,

The report from American intelligence claims

Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, personally ordered what it called

an influence campaign to help Donald Trump's chances of winning

The President-elect had earlier described the Russian hacking claims

as a political witch-hunt by his opponents.

At Trump Tower, he met America's top intelligence officials

They say Russia's actions included hacking into the e-mail

accounts of the Democratic National Committee and top Democrats,

and using intermediaries such as WikiLeaks to

Russia has previously denied this, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

has said before that Moscow is not the source.

After the briefing, Mr Trump did not single out Russia.

The incoming Vice President says the US

The President-elect has made it very clear that we're going to take

aggressive action in the early days of our new administration to combat

cyber attacks and protect the security of the American people

from this type of intrusion in the future.

Donald Trump said he had tremendous respect for the work and service

done by those in the US intelligence community.

But, with two weeks to go until he moves into the White House,

questions remain over how they will all work together

The repair bill to fix the country's potholes could soon

That is according to nearly 400 councils in England and Wales,

who say the Government should increase fuel duty to pay

The Government says it is already putting ?250 million

But the Local Government Association says that is not enough,

Councils six 2 million potholes every year. That is about 12,000 for

every local authority in England and Wales. But it never seems to be

enough. Now the council the repair bill could soon reach ?14 billion.

Hard-pressed councils, who are mending, you know, pothole every

five seconds in this country just cannot get to the core of the

problem, which is actually many of our roads are just being patched

now. They need to be fully repaired. The council say the government must

do more to help. They suggest increasing fuel duty by a couple of

pence a litre, a figure they say the public would support. It is not just

the cost of repairing all these potholes that seems to be on the

increase. Today's report also found that the time it is taking appears

to be on the rise as well, going up from ten years in 2006 to 14 years

today. Last year, the government announced a ?250 million pothole

repair fund to help 100 councils fixed 4 million potholes. Today's

report by local councils suggest that is not enough, and that the

pothole problem is actually getting worse.

For the first time, the NHS is providing disabled children

with prosthetic limbs that are specially designed for sport.

13-year-old Ben from Brighton was amongst the first to benefit,

NHS England says it hopes the programme will allow several 100

children a year to receive limbs, allowing them to participate

We will be hearing from him later on in the programme.

I want to go back to the story we mentioned earlier, the shooting at

Fort Lauderdale, in Florida, which has drawn attention to possible

weaknesses in US aviation security. Local authorities say the gunman

opened fire in the baggage claim area yesterday, after retrieving

a weapon from his checked luggage. Five people were killed

in the attack and eight Joining us in the studio

is the Independent's travel editor I think for a lot of people waking

up this morning, they will be surprised to hear that it is

perfectly OK to carry a gun in your luggage, but that is the case, isn't

it? It is, not just in the US, worldwide. Certainly in the US it is

easier. You turn up at check-in and say I have a firearm in my bag and

they will make a note of that but there is no formalities. Elsewhere

it is tricky. For instance British airways requires three days of

advance notice and there are various rules about permits and so on. South

Africa and Italy say you have to have your weapon and ammunition in

separate tags. But generally it has done all over the world. What is

different about Fort Lauderdale and Florida and the US is that you have

a nation with liberal gun laws and culture of carrying firearms, which

means that when tragedy like this happens there are, very sadly... It

is very easy for somebody to be in that position, because probably on a

typical flight you might have three or four people having weapons in

their checked bags. But it does expose some really serious questions

about aviation security. Again, not just in the US, but worldwide. You

were speaking earlier to your correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue, he

was standing right outside from what I could make out the terminal to

baggage reclaim. You have a glass door and a road -- Terminal 2. There

is nothing to stop people going into that area as they have done, for

example, in Moscow. Aviation security professionals are saying

they spend all this time and effort stopping people getting weapons on

the aircraft, but that leaves the very high-profile aviation target,

airports, very exposed because whether you are going through

check-in, retrieving baggage or picking someone up at the airport,

there are really no checks on who comes and goes. We saw President

Obama in Gary's he's talking about another incident, and he has thought

about trying to do more to control guns and has failed, by his own

admission, to do much. Is there a move to try and change things within

aviation, within the plant industry, or is that equally difficult to

change? That I think is exactly right. There will be questions

about, well, yes, you have obvious targets which are airports, with

lots of people, you have a culture of not wanting any harm to come to

people in those circumstances. There seems to be, from what we have heard

so far, and issue involving someone with mental health problems in the

country with very relaxed gun laws, that happens to have taken place in

an airport, rather than specifically an aviation security issue. However

it does, once again, as with Russell 's airport, as with Istanbul, remind

us that there is all sorts of uneasy questions -- Brussels Airport. You

can come and go wherever you like as long as you are not going through to

the area where you bought the aircraft. Thank you.

Quarter past six and you are watching Breakfast. Helen is the

weather for us this morning. Is it murky? I am afraid it is a bit grey

out there. It is not all doom and gloom but it may have impact on

travelling. A thick mist and hill fog, mostly fog around the

Manchester and Liverpool regions. We will keep a lot of leaden skies this

week in Cronulla should be mostly dry and temperatures are

considerably higher than this time yesterday, especially for England

and Wales. But chilly in Ireland but largely forced free. Another spot of

rain as well. The remnants of a weather front as we had south across

the southern half of England. As I mentioned around the chest of

playing it feels sick and that may be an issue for travellers. And

across the English Channel, temperatures are said to be quite

icy for some of the airports over here and for travellers as well. We

got rid of the cold air is so it is milder across UK for the weekend.

There will be some brightness, probably across the north-east of

Scotland, eastern parts of north Island but on the whole it will be a

great day. There could be drizzle lingering in the south-west but

overnight high pressure will build and dry things up a little bit here.

Again it should be largely forced free because we keep a blanket of

cloud that stops temperature from falling. More misty, murky weather

to contend with as the breeze picks up across the west of Scotland there

is a chance to break the cloud or more. Eastern parts of Scotland and

north-east England, slightly brighter day across the south-west.

Still relatively mild with temperatures average. It will not

feel warmer but nowhere near as cold as it is across eastern parts of

Europe. -25 in Moscow! Of the most bitter weather of the season across

central and eastern parts of Europe. How about next week? It is all

change here in the UK. Weather fronts move through so a set of

benign weather this weekend. It will be replaced by something more

settled in next week. We'll be back with

the headlines at 6.30. Time now to take a look at some

of the week's big cinema releases - Hello, and a very warm

welcome to the Film Review. To take us through this week's

cinema releases is Antonia Quirtke. We are going to start with Silence,

Martin Scorsese's new film, Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield,

Adam Driver, they are playing Jesuit Passengers, starring Chris Pratt,

Jennifer Lawrence, about two passengers sleeping in suspended

animation for 120 years on their way to a new colony on a far-away planet

and they wake too early. And also, Assassin's Creed,

Michael Fassbender's big movie, Let's kick off then with Silence,

a great passion of Martin Scorsese, trying for years and

years to get this made. First talk of it in 1990

with Daniel Day Lewis, and Benicio Del Toro have

been attached to it. He was famously brought

up a devout Catholic, had a great and genuine

interest in the priesthood, at one point he was going to join

the priesthood, so Catholicism has Religion in his films,

the Last Temptation of Christ and Kundun, but even

something like Mean Streets, What is the religious

Martin Scorsese like? This is a difficult film to watch,

it is about the persecution and torture of priests

and their flock. 161 minutes, incredibly long,

and relentless, long conversations reflecting Martin Scorsese's

own ambiguity towards his own faith. I know that it has been

very highly praised, and not many people have gone to see

it, but it has been critically I think that there is a pulse

of confusion in it, I was not clear what Martin Scorsese

was trying to say. The directors he admires,

religious directors, Carl Dreier, Joe Navarre,

Robert Bresson, there is a euphoria And yet, you can't help think,

this was Scorsese's moment to join the ranks of those

kind of directors. I'm not sure that he has done it,

but I know that many people Let's take a little clip

here, for a preview. We have fought to

travel, for the Lord. If we do not do what they want,

then there could be danger They could be put in prison,

they could be taken away forever. As you were saying, a long watch,

a pretty gruelling watch, Absolutely, Andrew Garfield,

when he played Spider-Man, that role did that young actor no

favours and here he is, he has a quality of deeply inherent

youthfulness and vulnerability, anyone who saw him in

Never Let Me Go will remember that, and also, a Japanese actor,

Issey Ogato, he plays the Grand Inquisitor in this,

and he is an incredible actor, ingenious casting

for Martin Scorsese. And this is a comedic actor,

but he playing someone who does the most terrible things,

he's a comedic actor, he has wonderful kabuki gestures,

and the performance Something pretty different,

Passengers - Silence, gruelling, is Passengers

something easier? A lot fluffier, a lot more fun,

this is about two passengers in suspended animation,

hibernation for 120 years on their way to a new colony

on a new planet and for reasons we will not go into,

spoiler alerts, they wake up early. Wonderful idea, so two strangers

facing an eternity together, walking endless corridors,

gigantic spaceship, and, breaking into the entertainment

facilities, and with their little wristbands, one of the funniest

things is the ways in which there is even if no-one else existing,

you are still slaves, your life had been formalised

before you left Earth. Also this lovely simmering

sexual tension between It would have been all right

to leave it at that, but there is this derring-do,

in the third act, not entirely You can feel moments

where it is reaching for some tougher kind of glory,

think of something like Alien and wandering the corridors of that

spaceship, intensely sinister and threatening place to be,

but this place looks pretty nice. I would not mind

moving there myself! There are moments when you are shown

how jerry-built this craft is, hammering away against things,

putting fuses together to get things to work, that ought to have been

frightening and made me feel how vulnerable these people are and yet

it does not quite do that. There is a wonderful cameo,

Michael Sheen plays And you can see that he is

struggling with the part, trying to bring more to it

than is there on the page, unfortunately, it is not

on the page but it is fun. Let's talk about Assassin's Creed,

which video game players will be very familiar with,

based on the video game. Now they are based on video games(!)

this is catastrophic... Nine instalments in this video

franchise, one of those movies that has been long in production,

lots of re-shoots, rejigs, starring Michael Fassbender,

Marion Cotillard, Jeremy Irons, To even begin to describe the plot,

I am not sure there is any point! Assassins against Knights Templar,

let's take a look. This is the actual one

that your father used Your mother's death,

not something a boy should ever be So, catastrophic, you said...

charitably(!), I am surea lot of people will go

to see it nonetheless. Unbelievably incoherent,

extraordinary, it is... It opens with three

flashbacks, three flashbacks! What a flashback does in a film,

someone is standing there and saying, hang on a sec,

let me fill you in, and then they do Feels like the movie never starts,

then you are in there and you feel I went to the cinema to see this,

two people were asleep at the end of the row that I was sitting

on, that sums it up. Best movie out at the moment,

in your opinion. A Monster Calls, now this

is the most extraordinary sell, actually, it is a fantastical

terminal illness melodrama Maybe it is not for children,

it stars a 12-year-old boy. He's visited by a Yew Tree,

over a few evenings, and it is played by Liam Neeson,

it has a wonderful shape, Dickensian shape, visited three

times to be shown things that may It is a flat-out classic,

it has the emotional heft of the Railway Children,

moments of Iron Man by Ted Hughes and Pan's Labyrinth,

I think it is a masterpiece, go and see it and take

all of the family. Featured quite a lot

in the Golden Globes nominations. Hell or High Water,

Ben Foster and Chris Pine, they play bank robber Brothers,

and Jeff Bridges is the Texas Ranger who is tracking them down,

which sounds terribly familiar, that kind of plot, and features

a great deal in cinema. One of them is on a roll,

the other brother is a little too wild, the Texas Ranger is always

a step ahead of them. It feels like a movie

of the mid-1970s or early 1980s, like Midnight Run, where you come

away from it thinking, you will look through the TV

listings and think, Hell or High Water is on tonight,

unmissable, fantastic! It has slotted into that classic

film territory already, Jeff Bridges has been

nominated for a Golden Globes for his Best Supporting Actor

and he does the most fantastic thing There is a death scene and just

in a couple of seconds you see everything that Jeff Bridges

can offer as an actor, the way that he absorbs the shock,

it is a magical moment, That is it for this week, thank

you so much for watching, goodbye. Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Jon Kay and Rachel Burden. Coming up before 7:00am,

Helen will have the weather for you. But first, at 6:30am,

a summary of this morning's main The British Red Cross is warning

of a humanitarian crisis in NHS hospitals in England,

and is demanding the Government allocates more money

to improve social care. Dozens of A departments

were forced to divert ambulances to other hospitals last week,

while one patient died after spending 35

hours on a trolley. The Royal College of

Emergency Medicine says the system is on its knees, but the Department

of Health says it is investing more Police in Florida have been

questioning a man after five people were killed and eight injured

in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale The suspect opened fire

in the baggage claim area after seemingly retrieving his

weapon from his luggage. The FBI says it is pursuing

all leads, and hasn't ruled out US intelligence officials have

released a report that claims Vladimir Putin personally ordered

a cyber-campaign to try and help Donald Trump win the

presidential election. Last night, after being briefed

on the findings, Mr Trump said that hacking had had absolutely no impact

on the election outcome. His running mate, Mike Pence,

says a team will be set up The President-elect has made it very

clear that we're going to take aggressive action in the early days

of our new administration to combat cyber attacks and protect

the security of the American people from this type of

intrusion in the future. For the first time, the NHS

is providing disabled children with prosthetic limbs that

are specially designed for sport. 13-year-old Ben from Brighton

was amongst the first to benefit, NHS England says it hopes

the programme will allow several 100 children a year to receive limbs,

allowing them to participate A killer whale which was involved

in the deaths of three people and featured in an influential

documentary has died Tilikum featured in the film

Blackfish', which led to a global campaign against the keeping

of orcas in captivity. Sea World says staff are deeply

saddened by the death of the whale, The doors of one of the country's

biggest nightclubs reopened last night, ending months

of enforced closure. Fabric in central London

had its licence revoked in September, after Islington

Council found what it called The club was allowed to reopen

after agreeing to a raised entry age I wonder if those people are home

yet. Mike is here with the sport. A big weekend, FA Cup. One of those

special weekends of the year. I love trying to pick whether big upsets

are going to be. He and Arsenal, Bournemouth, Southampton and Crystal

Palace will be travelling nervously. The potential for an upset, the

lowest ranked team is Star Bridge, and they go to weaken today. Bobby

Gould, who won the cup in 1988, his grandson is in goal today. All those

coaches criss-crossing the country. A lot of players will be wondering

if it is Baird Bay to be on the back page.

FA Cup third round weekend got under way, with Manchester City the first

side through to round four, thanks to a 5-0 thrashing handed out

City were already out of sight by half-time,

leading 3-0, thanks to an own goal, a Yaya Toure penalty,

The gloss on an impressive night was added by John Stones.

The England defender scored his first goal since a summer

He needed goal-line technology to confirm that he had actually

Hopefully it can help us to make our players are levers, that they are

good enough to play every game, and try, in both our fans and the people

in Manchester City. And they can believe that we are good. They know

what happened in the past, but we are good guys. So they run a lot,

fight a lot, playing good. But they have to believe.

It will be a special FA Cup reunion today for one of the members

of the treble-winning Manchester United team of 1999.

Former Netherlands centre-half Jaap Stam is now the manager

of championship side Reading, who go to Old Trafford hunting

As a player, there is nothing better to play over there, in a stadium

like that in front of so many fans. And we know as well, we have our own

fans over there as well. Hopefully they are joining in and supporting

us. Non-League Barrow are playing

Rochdale and non-league Eastleigh travel to Championship

side Brentford. Sir Andy Murray, will play world

number two Novak Djokovic in the final of

the Qatar Open today. Murray beat Czech Tomas Berdych

in straight sets in their semi final, to reach his

fourth final in Doha. The win was Murray's,

28th in a row on the ATP Tour, and another title and victory

over his main rival, would be the ideal preparation

for the Australian Open. May be at the beginning of the year

you are focusing a little bit more on yourself and how you are playing

on how you want to play, moving into the Aussie Open, rather than just

solely focusing on the outcome. Newcastle Falcons produced

a stunning late comeback to beat Bath 24-22 in rugby

union's Aviva Premiership. Bath led by 12 points halfway

through the second half, but Ben Harris barged his way over

to draw Newcastle level, Man of the match Joel Hodgson,

kept his nerve to slot home the conversation, and send Bath

to their third defeat in a row. Scarlets also came from behind,

to beat Ulster 16-13, was on the receiving

end of a high tackle, Elsewhere, Leinster beat Zebre,

and Newport Gwent Dragons beat Tour de France champion Chris Froome

says he turned down the chance, to use a Therapeutic

Use Exemption in 2015 The exemption allows

athletes to take medication would normally be banned, and

although Froome had used them twice in the past, when given

the option two years ago, They basically said that your

condition is severe enough that you could use one, and I didn't feel as

if having a TUE in the last week of the Tour de France was something

that I was prepared to... It just didn't sit well morally with me, but

that was something I was going to do.

Earlier we saw how Sir Andy Murray got on.

This afternoon Sir Mo Farah is in action at the Edinburgh Cross

The four-time Olympic champion, who insists he's happy just to be

called Mo, was surprisingly beaten into second place last year.

He is using the event as part of his preparation,

for the track World Championships, in London later this year,

and admits he'll have his work cut out against some cross country

It is going to be tough, they will try and put me down and beat me as

quick as possible. I am not going to come out there and go I am not going

to... I will fight for it, but it suits certain athletes better, and

it is going to be tough. I think it might be.

He was training with his beloved that Arsenal, giving Wenger a bit of

a helping hand. There could be one less team,

on the grid for the new Formula 1 season, after Manor Racing went

into administration. Manor finished last

in the championship last year, and have failed to find

new investment needed to carry The team went into administration

two years ago, when they were known as Marussia, with

debts of ?35 million, Now as the big teams enter

the FA Cup this weekend, I am sure we will see some

silky skills on display, but none as spectacular as those

performed by players in the sport It's been one of Asia's biggest

sports for centuries and now it's It is Asia's best kept secret, the

sport that has been part of the culture in countries like Malaysia

since the 15th century. Combining football skills with the moves of

kung fu. And now, sepak takraw is taking off in the UK as well. It is

linking the martial art or the art of the body with this game, because

you need to have the agility, flexibility and things like that.

First of all, you are learning the basics of keeping up, really. And it

can be fought, head... It does hurt, I can tell you that, a little bit,

because... Look at that. That is beautiful skill. Let me show you,

this ball is quite hard, it is plastic now. Slightly softer than

the original ones, which were made of rattan, but it cause too many

injuries. If you play football, death further you can play this game

as well. So it is football meets volleyball and has now spread across

the world. And who better to recruit for the new esteem forming this year

than freestyle football world recordholder John Farnworth. Now,

the size of the ball was a surprise. But he took it in his stride. It

seems to me more power. Hey! In matches it is only three aside and

you only have three touches per team before it has to go over the net. So

there we are, we serve, the game is in play. Red shot. You do have set

positions. The server, the feeder and the striker. An acrobatic smash

at the net. And this can take some practice. Servers should know their

place. The flexibility these guys possessed is incredible. They are

getting their legs way above their head. It is like what Ibrahim of --

Ibrahimovich does. If I can do it, so can you. And if we win the point,

the celebration. It has got to be worth it for that.

They also encourage you to count in Malaysian, so I used to do one, two,

three in Malaysian. But I have forgotten it. You are surprisingly

agile for a man of your experience. We will see you again later.

From the damage they can cause to your car to the safety risk

they pose to cyclists no-one likes a pothole and there are warnings

this morning that the problem is getting worse.

A survey of 400 councils in England and Wales estimates that the repair

bill could reach ?14 billion by 2019.

Peter Fleming is from the Local Government Association

and joins us from our studio in Tunbridge Wells.

Thank you for joining us on a Saturday morning. The figure for the

cost of these repairs, ?14 billion is a huge amount. A couple of people

have disputed it. How did you come up with a? It is ?12 billion at the

moment and the rate of increase that we are seeing, it will easily top

?14 billion by 2019. I think the issue is that this is about a

backlog from many, many years of government underinvestment in what

is known as local roads, which in fact a 97% of the road network in

this country. So all the money goes on the major roads, the motorways

and that kind of thing. So the government is in charge of what is

known as National roads, that is 3% of the total road network. They

spend about ?1.1 million per mile on keeping those up to scratch, and

give councils ?27,000 a mile for everything else. You know that the

big bugbear people have with this is that when potholes are... If you are

lucky enough for them to be repaired, when they are filled it is

quite often a bit of a hatchet job are not long-term repair so it

doesn't solve the problem ultimately. Absolutely, and this is

what we are saying. All the councils can do, and they are doing one

pothole every 15 seconds in this country we are repairing, but we are

just catching it up. We have been absolutely honest about that. That

is all we can do. We need major investment in this country in the

road structure, in infrastructure. And stopping this sort of patch and

mend mentality, and giving us enough money to actually replace some of

these local roads that desperately need proper money spent on them.

What is causing the problems? Is it simply road use getting more

expensive, more cars on the road, heavier cars? I think it is a

mixture of lots of things. It is the historical backlog of government

underfunding of the road network, coupled with increased traffic,

weather, the fact that a patch the road is not as good as a new road,

clearly the patch is a weak point in the road -- a patched road. We could

save money in the long-term if money was spent on the local government

network. It is very easy to blame on underfunding when this is a council

responsibility and perhaps councils haven't been efficient enough in

dealing with this in the past. As I said, we are repairing a pothole

every 15 seconds. Councils are being innovative about the way they repair

roads but frankly the government does fund road repairs. They are not

finding it at the level that it needs to be. Councils have got

competing necessities. They have seen their budgets reduced on

average by about 40% over the last few years. You know, there are

increasing costs in other areas, such as adult social care. So it is

not a council issue. The government funds the road network, and we are

saying if we use 2p out of the current fuel duty we could solve

this problem. Thank you very much, Peter Fleming. It is one of those

things which is deeply irritating to many motorists. Get in touch if you

have been affected, if your vehicle has been damaged, if your bike has

been damaged, if you have been injured as a result.

You can tweet about the stories we show today using our hash tag or

followers online. The potholes are weather-related. C what Helen has in

store for us this weekend. I am worried you will not see any

potholes this morning in some parts of the country. It is murky out

there. Just a word of caution, really, for the Cheshire Plain. It

is murky in many areas with a lot of cloud of Scotland and Northern

Ireland but largely crossed free for the certainly so in the south where

the temperature is about 15 degrees higher than this time yesterday. It

does not necessarily feel that much warmer users will not have to scrape

your cars this morning. A weak weather fronts a lot of misty cloud

and it's fairly widespread light rain and drizzle. Damp and grey out

their but gradually through the day that rain and drizzle will ease the

way, lingering in the south-west. For the most part it is dry and best

chance for bright weather will be the stump parts of Scotland

north-east England. Leaden skies to much of the day at. Temperatures up

on recent days that you can will fill chilly with a blanket cloud.

That we could have the positive of arresting falling temperature so

overnight it will be frost free except perhaps the blend of

north-east Scotland. But will again be a really great one tomorrow

morning for most of us. The improvement, I suppose, without our

the front across the south-west there is a better chance of bright

weather and there will be some breaks in the cloud here and there.

Not ruling out but, unfortunately, not guaranteed. It looks cloudy for

all of the FA Cup third round matches today and tomorrow. In fact

there will be a be drizzle around today. Temperatures are just

creeping above average for this time of year in early January. We are

doing quite well because just across the Channel at the moment there is

the potential for icy conditions in freezing rain across on the low

country and look at these temperatures for tomorrow across the

likes of Moscow. -20 five. Bitterly cold at the moment across that part

of Europe. That air will stay stagnant next few days. As to the UK

it is far more mobile into next week which means more wind and more rain.

Look at those temperatures. -11! Take care, Helen.

We're back with the headlines at seven o clock.

First, let's get all the latest technology news with Spencer Kelly

Right, let's get 2017 started in style, shall we?

Lots of people queuing for photos of a sign.

A motorcycle vest with built-in airbag?

Every January, Las Vegas hosts the massive Consumer Electronics

Show, and if you have a product to launch,

And that's why I am being followed by a drone,

specifically, the hover camera Passport drone.

First one I have seen which follows you not by tracking a signal

from your mobile phone, but instead by locking on to a face

You can tell it which face to follow by tapping on it in the accompanying

And the latest version will let you scan and upload your face

to the drone so it can find and recognise you automatically.

The theory is that you then don't need the phone at all.

The drone knows and loves your face, just like a loyal puppy.

And, with guarded blades and sensors underneath to help it steer clear

of obstacles, it certainly seems safe and light enough to fly

in amongst other people, or indeed to grab it out of the air

Unbelievably, CES is now in its 50th year, and in that time it's got

The show has spread beyond the walls of the Las Vegas Convention Centre

to the surrounding hotels, and we have seen all sorts of ideas

The event might have grown, but the technology,

The TV screens have got so thin that they blend into the walls,

so thin you can peel them on and off.

And in amongst the major companies are a number of tiny companies.

Marc has been checking some of them out.

Most people understand that if I do this with my fingers it means

However, if I am wearing this strap when I make that gesture my hand

becomes part of the telephone itself and can send and receive calls.

The strap has a little body conducting unit in here which sends

vibrations down my hand and when I stick my finger

in my ear, they become amplified sound.

There is a microphone just in the strap there,

The finished thing looks like a normal watch strap and can be

Now, when you want to hang up, that's simplicity itself.

All you've got to do is take your hand away

Health is once again a big theme here at CES.

And, whilst more people than ever are following gluten-free,

dairy-free or other sorts of specialist diets,

they don't necessarily need to be unless they've had

And that's something that this device aims to overcome by helping

people create the perfect diet for their own personal digestive

Air connects via bluetooth, and its mission is to miniaturise

a breath test that gastroenterologists have been

It analyses reaction to various forms of carbohydrate,

This is based on the idea that, if you consume a food that you can't

break down, then it will ferment in the gut, and from that point

chemicals will disperse into the bloodstream.

That blood will be making its way into the lungs, and then

when you breathe out you'll be able to analyse how well that food

So, once it learns what works for you, it should be able to help

you customise your diet as the finished app's food database

indicates how likely you are to react to any given food.

So, if you find the answer, all that's left to do is actually

stick to the lifestyle and diet you need to.

This year's big theme at CES was cars.

And, as always, it's often the most outrageous concepts that grab

Rinspeed has previously proposed a car with its own deployable drone.

Well, now it's got one that has a space-age cockpit,

with more glass than a greenhouse, which is quite fortunate because it

Yes, that's a garden in the dashboard.

Well, so you get a nice smell when you're driving,

of course, and you can even take part of it

Don't forget to switch the fan on, so you get that lovely whiff.

Actually, a lot of the more serious car stuff is happening in small

steps, incrementally, so it's harder to grab the headlines.

That said, Marc Cieslak has just been for a couple

There's a certain German car-maker that boasts of building

But here at CES 2017, most of the motor manufacturers seem

intent on building the ultimate self-driving machine.

It isn't just motor manufacturers that are showing off

They're doing it with the help of tech companies, as well.

This vehicle is fitted with a system called BB8,

which has been created by NVIDIA, a company most famous

for manufacturing high-end graphics chips.

Artificial intelligence software which learns helped by sensors have

trained BB8 to be able to make driving decisions.

Here, an obstacle has just appeared in the route

that we were going to take to get to the other end of this track.

The car has decided that they'd better not drive into that obstacle,

Driving around a car park is one thing but how do these autonomous

Electronic supplier Delphi has partnered with driver assistance

and sensor outfit Mobileye and created a mini fleet

of autonomous Audi SUVs which are driving around

There are 24 different sensors spread out across the body of this

car which allow it to drive autonomously and what I am struck

by is that you don't notice any of them.

You can't really see any of those sensory devices.

This car is an indicator, if you like, of how autonomous

vehicles will look in the future, which is pretty much like any car

Those sensors include lidar, radar, and cameras all around the vehicle.

Here, we can see what the car sees through them.

Identifying other vehicles as well as pedestrians,

and behaving accordingly, as it weaves its way through traffic.

So, I'm a rear passenger in the back of this self-driving car.

And so far zero dramas, apart from looking forward

and noticing that the driver doesn't have his hands

I could be forgiven for thinking that I am actually being driven

The thing is, we've been driving around in prototype self-driving

How long is it going to be before cars like this are available

There is quite a wide consensus among the industry that 2021

is the time where the technology will be ready, and after a number

of years where society will start gaining confidence in this kind

of technology, then society would be at the point where the driver can be

With that 2021 goal in mind, Mobileye announced that,

in partnership with BMW and Intel, it will be testing 40 autonomous

vehicles on real American and European roads in the second

Autonomous automobiles are most definitely on their way.

Now, if you are someone who preferS the wind to be rushing

through your hair, CES also offers plenty for riders

This is surely the most fun you can have on a beach

The Super 73 is an electric bike that can hold enough charge

Its top speed is 27mph, which on Newport Beach is certainly

Don't press on it just yet and you have the two

The bike was funded via Kickstarter, where it raised almost $500,000,

and now each bike is being carefully crafted here in Orange County

We have every machine needed to create an entire bike.

There's some days where we have got, you know, 30, 40 bikes being welded

That's to ensure that everything is done properly,

safely, and will hold up for a lifetime.

The batteries in these things are getting more affordable,

they're getting lighter, so it means at CES this year we're

seeing a host of interesting ways to help us get around.

Chinese company LeEco unveiled these bikes.

They're powered by normal pedals, but they have the Android mobile

operating system built in so you can track your progress.

And then there is things like the Movpack.

This is a regular backpack, that with one movement you can turn

it into an electric skateboard, that's actually easier to ride

But it's perhaps more futuristic ideas like this one from Honda that

This concept car is more about having something that

you don't necessarily own, but you kind of just call it up

whenever you need a vehicle to pop to the shops or do some

It will drive itself to you, pick you up, and when you are done

with it you can just let it go itself.

And we will have to stop the CES coverage right there,

because this is the short cut of Click.

In the meantime, you can follow us on Twitter.

Thank you very much for watching, and we will see you soon.

Hello, this is Breakfast, with Rachel Burden and Jon Kay.

The British Red Cross warns of a humanitarian crisis in NHS

The charity says the Government needs to provide more money

It is after dozens of A departments were forced to divert

Good morning, it is Saturday 7 January.

Also ahead: An American army veteran has been arrested after five people

were shot dead at Fort Lauderdale airport in Florida.

Donald Trump promises to look at ways of combating future cyber

attacks on US elections, after a briefing from intelligence

A bump in the road - councils predict a huge rise

in the repair bill for potholes in England and Wales.

We will meet the schoolboy putting his new running blade

into action, as children in England are given sporting prosthetics

In sport, it is a stroll for City in the FA Cup,

as Manchester City put five past West Ham United to go

Good morning. It is grey and murky out there, with some fog around,

especially over the hills. But in contrast to yesterday, nowhere near

as cold. I will have all the details for the weekend in around 15

minutes. Join me if you can. First, our main story:

The British Red Cross is warning of a humanitarian crisis in NHS

hospitals in England, and is demanding the Government

allocates more money Dozens of A departments

were forced to divert ambulances The Royal College of

Emergency Medicine says the system is on its knees, but the Department

of Health says it is investing more Winter pressure on accident

and emergency, nothing new. But the Red Cross says it

amounts to a crisis. The charity claims social care cuts

mean patients are sent home without the right support,

so they end up back in A Red Cross volunteers support NHS

staff, and say they have seen patients sent home without clothes,

some who don't receive the care they need to get washed,

even some who have fallen and not A staff recognise

the problems as well. I think the pressures on the NHS,

and especially in emergency care, is particularly

intense at the moment. But what is a concern

is the patients who have been managed within four hours,

and then the delays for admission into the hospital bed base,

which unfortunately Our staff

are working under some pretty intolerable conditions,

at times, trying to manage. And sometimes they

just can't manage. Figures from NHS England show that

overflowing A departments had to close their doors to new patients

more than 140 times over Compare that with the

same month in 2015. The suspicion is it's a combination

of the cuts that we've seen in social care, in community

services run by the NHS, and very heavy pressure

on general practice. So is the strain on

the NHS costing lives? The deaths of two patients

on emergency trolleys at Worcestershire Royal Hospital

are being investigated. One of them had waited

35 hours for a bed. The Department of Health says

it is providing billions more every NHS England says plans are in place

to deal with the extra demand. Beds are actually not quite as full

as they were this time last year, but everyone in the Health Service

knows things could get worse before We will have more on this story

later in the programme. We will be speaking

to Dr Mark Holland from the Society Police in Florida have been

questioning a man after five people were killed and eight injured

in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale The suspect opened fire

in the baggage claim area after seemingly retrieving his

weapon from his luggage. The FBI says it is pursuing

all leads, and hasn't ruled out Our correspondent, Gary O'Donoghue,

reports from Fort Lauderdale. It is a familiar scene

at airports the world over, but the baggage claim hall

at the Fort Lauderdale Airport turned into a place of death

and mayhem, as a lone gunman opened fire on those waiting

to collect their luggage. Passengers scattered for cover,

hitting the ground, and reports say the assailant had time to reload

before opening fire once again, as attempts were made

to attend to the wounded. Once he was done with ammunition,

he threw the gun down, and I was about ten

feet away from him. He basically through the gun

onto the ground and laid on the ground face

down, spreadeagled. The gunman has been named

as 26-year-old Esteban Santiago. Reports say he was carrying

a military ID and had a weapon in his checked baggage,

which is legal in the United States. One family member said he had been

receiving psychological treatment after leaving the National

Guard last year. This cowardly, heinous act resulted

in the deaths of five people. There were eight more people

injured by way of gunshot, that were transported

to local hospitals. In his first reaction

to the shooting, President Obama said he was heartbroken

for the families. These kinds of tragedies have

happened too often during the eight The FBI says it is ruling nothing

out, including terrorism. But the agency has confirmed it had

prior contact with Santiago in November, when he was referred

for a mental health assessment. The ease with which he was able

to transport and use a weapon in an airport will raise serious

concerns about public safety. We can join Gary outside

Fort Lauderdale International Gary, this story has been

developing overnight. Lets pick up on the point you made

at the end of your peace. Lots of people in the UK will be alarmed and

astonished to hear that you can carry your weapon in baggage and

just pick it up at reclaim in the States. How does it work? Well, it

is legal to transport a firearm in your checked baggage here in the

United States. There are restrictions. You have to declare it

to the airline when you arrive. It has to be locked inside a hard case.

It has to be unloaded. You can carry ammunition with it, and of course

that means once you get to baggage claim at the other end you can get

it. It seems what happened here is Santiago did go and get his

semiautomatic out of his case, out of his bag, go back into the baggage

hall and start shooting pretty indiscriminately. And I think it

will raise questions even here. These shootings are not infrequent

here as window in the United States, and there will be calls for gun

control, and there will be pushed back from the gun lobby. That is a

pretty familiar dance. But I think what people will wonder is, look, we

put all this security in place when people are going into the airport.

Should it be quite so easy for somebody to get it out of their bag

at the other end and still be in the airport and be able to cause this

much death and mayhem. Thank you very much indeed.

US intelligence officials have released a report that claims

Vladimir Putin personally ordered a cyber campaign to try and help

Donald Trump win the presidential election.

Last night, after being briefed on the findings, Mr Trump said that

hacking had absolutely no impact on the election result,

but promised to set up a team to stop future attacks,

The report from American intelligence claims

Russia's President, Vladimir Putin, personally ordered what it called

an influence campaign to help Donald Trump's chances of winning

The President-elect had earlier described the Russian hacking claims

as a political witch-hunt by his opponents.

At Trump Tower, he met America's top intelligence officials

They say Russia's actions included hacking into the e-mail accounts

of the Democratic National Committee and top Democrats, and using

intermediaries such as WikiLeaks to release the information.

Russia has previously denied this, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange

has said before that Moscow is not the source.

After the briefing, Mr Trump did not single out Russia.

And the incoming vice president says the US

The President-elect has made it very clear that we're going to take

aggressive action in the early days of our new administration to combat

cyber attacks and protect the security of the American people

from this type of intrusion in the future.

Donald Trump said he had tremendous respect for the work and service

done by those in the US intelligence community.

But, with two weeks to go until he moves into the White House,

questions remain over how they will all work together to keep

The repair bill to fix the country's potholes could soon

That is according to councils in England and Wales,

who say the Government should pay for the repairs from fuel duty.

The Government says it us already putting ?250 million into fixing

the problem, but the Local Government Association says

that is not enough, as Duncan Kennedy reports.

Councils fix 2 million potholes every year.

That is about 12,000 for every local authority in England and Wales.

Now, the councils claim the repair bill could soon reach ?14 billion.

Hard-pressed councils, who are mending, you know,

a pothole every five seconds in this country,

just cannot get to the core of the problem, which is actually

many of our roads are just being patched now.

The councils say the Government must do more to help,

and suggest increasing fuel duty by a couple of pence a litre,

a figure they say the public would support.

But it is not just the cost of repairing all these potholes that

Today's report also found that the time it is taking appears

to be on the rise as well, going up from ten years in 2006

Last year, the Government announced a ?250 million pothole repair fund

to help 100 councils fixed 4 million potholes.

But today's report by local councils suggest that is not enough,

and that the pothole problem is actually getting worse.

Michelle Obama has delivered her final speech as First Lady

of the United States, with an impassioned call on young

people to have hope and fight for their rights.

Speaking at a ceremony in the White House, she ended

tearfully, saying the role of First Lady had been the greatest

Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and

use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless

promise. Lead by example, with hope. Never fear. And know that I will be

with you, rooting for you, and working to support you for the rest

of my life. So I want to close today by simply saying thank you. Thank

you for everything you do for our kids and for our country. Being your

first lady has been the greatest honour of my life, and I hope I have

made you proud. There was a lot of Facebook chatter

a week ago saying that she was considering standing in some kind of

political role. I think there would be huge support for her, but not

straightaway. Definitely support from the lady behind you, gearing

up! Patients sent home without clothes,

others suffering falls and not being found for days,

still more not washed because there is no carer

there to help them. That is the damning

indictment on the NHS from the British Red Cross,

which has called the resulting strain on hospitals in England

a humanitarian crisis. Let's speak now to Dr Mark Holland

from the Society for Acute Medicine. Humanitarian crisis? It is a strong

term. It is probably not 1 million miles away from the truth. I think

we've been predicting that we would face a winter from hell. I think

that time has arrived. I think we saw the last two Winters being very

bad. We know that we have got record numbers of people in hospital beds

who are fit to go home but there is no social care to get them out of

hospital. Therefore when people arrive at hospital there is a bed

available for them to go into. And we have seen over the last week or

so that people who should be in a speciality bed are ending up in a

non- speciality bed, or there are beds being created in the hospital,

what we call contingency beds. And the people I speak to across the

country, e-mails I have received this week and things I have been

reading in the media make us conclude that probably the term

humanitarian crisis has some validity to it. It is very strong

words, as you say. There are obviously some hospitals which are

getting it right, which are managing to link up with social services,

which are getting people out of hospitals and into good care. Why is

that not being practised everywhere? I think it is being practised

everywhere but I think that the structures across the country are

different so we know that there are some organisations where hospitals,

acute care settings and social care are lined up in a proper, managerial

structure. And that is the right thing to do. Why is that not

happening everywhere? I don't know why it is not happening everywhere

but it should be happening everywhere. Absolutely it should be

happening everywhere and no one should deny that that is the case.

The government says there is more money going on, the systems should

be working. They deny it is a humanitarian crisis but they say we

shouldn't be in a situation where there are these kinds of problems.

The point we have reached at the moment over the Christmas and New

Year period that they are describing as the humanitarian crisis is a

build-up of what has been going on for a while. So as we went into this

autumn it was 6000 people to the discharge, and although they say

that there is more money going into the system, I think there is some

debate about how those figures are actually quoted, and that quite

often money is moved from one Budget to another Budget. So for example a

couple of years ago we had the better care fund, where money was

taken from the acute sector to give to the social care sector. And in

different areas, so for example we are based here in the north-west, in

Manchester, and actually you have got lots of people in this part of

the world who have quite significant health issues of a day-to-day basis.

So across the country, the actual distribution of health and

healthiness isn't the same. And if you get to areas where you get more

stress on the system, that is going to put more stress on particular

areas at particular times of more stress.

What about the role of families in all of this to support people

leaving hospital? At the moment I look after and 89-year-old father

who was in hospital for six weeks. To trigger social care was the

devil's work. When you get your hands on social care and if you are

paying for it yourself it can often not always be that affordable for

people. I think families do play a part but apparently about half of

the people who are nonprofessional carers have significant health

problems of their own. Many people will think that yes, we get pinned

points in the winter because the weather is bored and people fall in

flippin' you get flu outbreaks in that kind of thing but it has not

been particularly cold and there have been no major flu epidemics.

Why this year? Why humanitarian crisis right now? Because we have

struggled over the last couple of years and we have had a buildup in

the number of people who are medically fit for discharge from

hospital. We have many people are now acute hospices at the moment who

do not need to be in those beds because they need social care. And

you say this is overwhelmingly the reason that is going on? I think it

is the big reason. It gives us a win to stress that we face every year

and everyone in the NHS will get stressed every year. But this year

it has come to a point where we have so few beds in the system to bring

people into that it has gotten to a tipping point which we have

predicted a long time. Thank you very much. We have had a few cold

stunts but a lot of foggy weather as well. Quite murky out there and if

you look quite carefully you can just about make out Helen against

the light. Good morning. Good morning. Yes, this was sent in from

a weather Watch are already out and about this morning. Thank you. Just

to convey the fact that it is very murky out there. This is

Staffordshire. We are concerned about the extent of the fog,

particularly church, Lancashire. Down to 100 metres. A significant

motorway network in that part of the country so it is likely to cause

some issues and it could well have an impact on the airports as well.

Further south, the remnants of a weather front or around. So it is

damp and murky it is quite damp across southern parts of the country

and that rain and drizzle will take awhile to die away. Possibly

lingering for the day. Then we have met and mist across north-west of

England. Further north still it is grey and cloudy. Slightly better

chance at seeing a little bit of brightness coming through across the

eastern side and north-eastern parts of England but on the whole we have

a blanket cloud cover. It could be grey. In contrast to yesterday when

temperatures reached about miners six, they are currently at eight or

nine at the moment. The sunshine will not have much influence but

eight or 10 degrees is up on what we have been seeing. A little bit above

average. It will not feel that much warmer because of the cloud but not

as bitter as it has been. As we go through the evening and overnight

the benefit of the cloud is that the temperature will not fall. We should

largely, largely beef frost free. It could be cold in the glance of

Scotland but there is increasing weather front coming through here in

the latter part of tomorrow. As the breeze strengthens although it would

be misty murky to start the day I am hopeful that the increasing breeze

that will help to break it up a little bit, particularly in the

north of the country and allow some brightness to come through. Again,

the second half of the weekend for most of us seems cloudy although I

not like to rule out the odd limb of sunshine from time to time. Usable

weather, dry and relatively mild compared to what we have had and

compared with the rest of Europe where we have potential freezing

rain through today across the low countries. That cold air vent

tomorrow really stagnates. In fact it is that today is well but it is

stagnating across central and eastern parts of Europe. As the cold

area will stay across Eastern Europe. Wetter and windy weather

heading our way into next week. That will clear the fog we but for the

meantime, largely dry but murky. We hope we will see you through the

morning despite the fog. Donald Trump says he's had

a constructive meeting with American intelligence officials,

who've released a report saying Russia was behind a series of cyber

attacks designed to influence The President-elect insists

the hacking played no part in his victory, but says he'll

appoint a team to devise ways of combating any

future interference. Let's remind ourselves what's been

happening over the last 18 months. Back in September 2015,

An FBI agent found a Russian-linked In July 2016, Wikileaks released

private e-mails from Democratic officials just days before

the National Convention. In October 2016, The FBI and the CIA

announce they believe the Russian government was behind the hacking,

and their aim was to interfere So what does Donald

Trump think of it all? Well, he's made it clear he doesn't

believe intelligence chiefs, tweeting only this week:

The "Intelligence" briefing on so-called "Russian hacking"

was delayed until Friday, perhaps more time

needed to build a case. And less than 24-hours before that

briefing one of his top intelligence advisers - former CIA

director James Woolsey - They were able to come up with the

identities of the intermediary is between the Russian government and

the people who did some of the hacking. They did not have that

before. And that, I think, was one thing that got the attention of a

lot of people including me. Dr Leslie Vinjamuri from the US

and the Americas Programme at Chatham House joins us now

from our London newsroom. Thank you very much for your time.

Let us look at the evidence here for Russian involvement in all of this.

The CAI and the FBI, the National Security agency believes this was

directed not just from Moscow but from Vladimir Putin himself. Looking

across the report that we have all been able to see there is not much

evidence of that. Well, remember that those are very considerable

problems always her intelligence which is how much can you declassify

and put into the public domain without putting at risk your sources

and/or methods? And the report is very clear that, of course, the

information that they are ultimately relying on for the high confidence

they express cannot be declassify. The report is thorough, pointed and

clear in its findings but you are correct, there is a lot of

information that is simply not there because it cannot be declassified.

Tell us more about the influence campaign they describe. They are

various means that alleged to have been used by the Russians to

influence on the outcome of the election. There are cyber attacks in

which they successfully got into the probity malls and the e-mail is of

many top party officials in the credit National committee as well as

Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, John Podesta. And then there is what

they refer to as an influence campaign which was aimed at putting

the information, this information into the public domain to try and

undermine the public's face in the electoral process. There were trolls

who were targeting particular individuals who were seen as being

putting information out against Russian interests. And so there was

a very broad and sustained campaign over the course of many months to

really shake the information that the public had access to, and the

United States especially. We now know there was all sorts of fake and

false news being bandied around on all sorts of social media outlets

that were not necessarily connected to this particular Russian campaign

is alleged by American security services but the critical question

is did this impact on the outcome of the election? On added appeaser is

no conclusion. Remember, the point of the report is not to contest the

electoral results. The point is to say that there is confirmed evidence

of a high level of confidence that the integrity of the electoral

process has been hampered, that individuals, that the end of e-mail

was hacked and that there was a clear violation of cyberspace. Cyber

attacks are crucial and very secure, a very clear risk to any democracy

when it comes to protecting the electoral process. Briefly, how does

the President-elect deal with this now? You cannot seem to be at odds

with the security services client he? And I think this is one of the

concerns for the state of affairs and now which is that Donald Trump,

even before he was briefed yesterday in late afternoon had really gone on

the attack without seeing the intelligence. He has rejected the

idea that he needs daily intelligence briefings as this

information is come out when President Obama initially issued

sanctions against Russia. His instinct has been to take it

personally, to go on the attack against the intelligence community.

This is deeply problematic, considering that this is a man who

very soon will be president of the United States of America who will be

in a position to rely on the intelligence agencies and a healthy

degree of scepticism is wise but as was said in the committee hearings,

disparagement is something altogether very different. This is,

I think, a very useful way of characterising what the

President-elect has been doing, which is to disparage the integrity

and undermine the confidence, try to undermine the confidence in the

intelligence agencies across the United States. Thank you very much.

It is extraordinary when you read the report, it is like a work of

fiction almost. And as soon as he stopped tweeting about that he

started tweeting about the new series of the presence. In the

ratings having dropped from when he did the show. -- new series of the

apprentice. For the first time, the NHS

is providing disabled children with prosthetic limbs, that

are specially designed for sport. NHS England says it hopes to equip

several 100 children a year with the limbs, to allow them

to participate in more sport. Here's our Health

correspondent Robert Pigott. How have you been doing since you

had your leg? When Ben Moore made the decision at the age of ten to

have the stunted right leg amputated, his dream of a future in

sport seemed remote. Would you like to put it on for me? Three years on,

he is one of the first children to receive a running blade on the NHS.

As if he were changing issue, he can swap his false leg for the blade and

feel a new freedom and energy. This spring is the bit that makes me go

faster. I used to not be able to, like, be able to run as fast or able

to kick a ball as well. But now I have a good amount of power in my

leg and I have got the right size. So I can do loads of skills and hit

a ball really well. The blade in the treatment cost around ?1000. But

Clare Johnson, the expert in prosthetic limbs says the NHS will

more than recoup the cost by keeping children active. We hope that will

give them a level playing field so that he can compete with his peers

and be able to participate in a lot more sport. It does help in the

wider scheme of things and, hopefully, give a longer longevity

to their lives by giving them the opportunity to do sport. Ben is

among 2500 children in England limbs that are either absent or do not

work properly. The NHS hopes to fit several 100 of them with a sport

prosthetic every year. The scheme not only opens the way to sport for

a group of disabled youngsters but comes with an added message. At a

time when so many teenagers are couch potatoes, it makes an example

of an extraordinary few who have overcome all the odds to carve a

life in sport. A new blade for me can do a lot more than my prosthetic

can do. Now I can run with more freedom. His mother says that

running blade can change a disabled child's whole outlook on life. He

seems more confident and more eager to get out and about. He is wanting

to put it on and go out more and do more sport, do more activity. Now he

has the blade, the sky is the limit. Ben says he is now training for the

Paralympics. He is aiming for 2020 for the very least. 2020? Who knows.

He will be there, surely. Bound to be. Coming up for the end of the

programme. Two years ago he was running boot camps in his local

park. Now Joe Wicks is a publishing

and social media sensation. He'll be here to give us his recipe

for success just before ten. Hello, this is Breakfast

with Jon Kay and Rachel Burden. Coming up before 8:00am,

Helen will have the weather. But first, at 7:30am,

a summary of this morning's main The British Red Cross is warning

of a humanitarian crisis in NHS hospitals in England,

and is demanding the Government allocates more money

to improve social care. Dozens of A departments

were forced to divert ambulances to other hospitals last week,

while one patient died after spending 35

hours on a trolley. The Department of Health says

it is investing more money But Dr Mark Holland from the Society

for Acute Medicine says that it has And we have seen over the last week

or so that people who should be in a speciality bed

are ending up in a non-speciality bed, or there are beds being created

in the hospital, And the people I speak

to across the country, e-mails I have received this week

and things I have been reading in the media make us conclude that

probably the term humanitarian Police in Florida have been

questioning a man after five people were killed and eight injured

in a shooting at Fort Lauderdale The suspect opened fire

in the baggage claim area after seemingly retrieving his

weapon from his luggage. The FBI says it is pursuing

all leads and hasn't ruled out US intelligence officials have

released a report that claims Vladimir Putin personally ordered

a cyber campaign to try and help Donald Trump win the

presidential election. Last night, after being briefed

on the findings, Mr Trump said that hacking had had absolutely no impact

on the election outcome. His running mate, Mike Pence,

says a team will be set up A killer whale which was involved

in the deaths of three people and featured in an influential

documentary has died Tilikum featured in the film

Blackfish, which led to a global campaign against the keeping

of orcas in captivity. Sea World says staff are deeply

saddened by the death of the whale, which was thought

to be 36 years old. Those are the main

stories this morning. loads more to come. Thank you for

joining us. It is time for the sport. A big weekend, and Mike is

warming his hands. I am on the tea leaves, trying to predict where the

FA Cup upsets are going to be. Some saying Preston and Bolton, some

saying the north-west. It is a bag, what are you talking about? There is

too much water in it. Somewhere there will be an upset. Some player

will be making the back players tomorrow. Mystic mike. A new career.

Sam Allardyce going back to his old club.

FA Cup third round weekend got under way, with Manchester City the first

side through to round four, thanks to a 5-0 thrashing handed out

City were already out of sight by half-time,

leading 3-0, thanks to an own goal, a Yaya Toure penalty,

The gloss on an impressive night was added by John Stones.

The England defender scored his first goal since a summer

He needed goal-line technology to confirm that he had actually

Hopefully it can help us to make our players believers,

that they are good enough to play every game, and try,

in both our fans and the people in Manchester City, and they can

They know what happened in the past, but we are good guys.

So they run a lot, fight a lot, playing good.

It will be a special FA Cup reunion today for one of the members

of the treble-winning Manchester United team of 1999.

Former Netherlands centre-half Jaap Stam is now the manager

of championship side Reading, who go to Old Trafford hunting

As a player, there is nothing better than to play over there,

in a stadium like that in front of so many fans.

And we know, as well, we have our own fans over

Hopefully they are joining in and supporting us.

Non-League Barrow are playing Rochdale, and non-League Eastleigh

travel to Championship side Brentford.

Sir Andy Murray will play world number two Novak Djokovic

in the final of the Qatar Open today.

Murray beat Czech Tomas Berdych in straight sets in their semi-final,

The win was Murray's 28th in a row on the ATP Tour,

and another title and victory over his main rival would be

the ideal preparation for the Australian Open.

We played at the end of last year. The ultimate goal was to find a way

to win the match. Maybe at the beginning of the year

you are focusing a little bit more on yourself, and how

you are playing, and how you want to play, moving

into the Aussie Open, rather than just solely

focusing on the outcome. Newcastle Falcons produced

a stunning late comeback to beat Bath 24-22 in rugby

union's Aviva Premiership. Bath led by 12 points halfway

through the second half, but Ben Harris barged his way over

to draw Newcastle level, Man of the match Joel Hodgson,

kept his nerve to slot home the conversation and send Bath

to their third defeat in a row. Scarlets also came from behind,

to beat Ulster 16-13, Scarlets scrum-half Aled Davies

was on the receiving end of a high tackle as he tried

to cross the line. Elsewhere, Leinster beat Zebre,

and Newport Gwent Dragons beat Earlier we saw how

Sir Andy Murray got on. This afternoon, Sir Mo Farah

is in action at the Edinburgh The four-time Olympic champion,

who insists he is happy just to be called Mo, was surprisingly beaten

into second place last year. He is using the event as part

of his preparation for the track World Championships in London

later this year, and admits he will have his work cut out

against some cross-country Them guys will try and hunt me down

and beat me as quick as possible. That is what makes cross-country

exciting. I am not going to come

out there and go, oh, I will fight for it,

but it suits certain athletes Now, as the big teams enter

the FA Cup this weekend, I am sure we will see some

silky skills on display, but none as spectacular as those

performed by players in the sport It has been one of Asia's biggest

sports for centuries, It is Asia's best-kept secret,

the sport that has been part of the culture in countries

like Malaysia since the 15th century, combining football skills

with the moves of kung fu. And now, sepak takraw is taking

off in the UK as well. It is linking the martial art,

or the art of the body, with this game, because you need

to have the agility, First of all, you are learning

the basics of kicking up, really. It does hurt, I can tell you that,

a little bit, because... This ball is quite hard,

it is plastic now. Slightly softer than the original

ones, which were made of rattan, If you play football,

therefore you can play this So it is football meets volleyball,

and has now spread across the world. And who better to recruit

for the newest team forming this year than freestyle football world

recordholder John Farnworth. Now, the size of the

ball was a surprise. In matches it is only three a side,

and you only have three touches per team, before it has

to go over the net. You do have set positions,

the server, the feeder The flexibility these guys

possess is incredible. They are getting their legs

way above their head. It is like what Zlatan

Ibrahimovic does. And if we win the point,

the celebration. So three touches, and the way to do

it is to count to three in Malay. I need to bring the ball in and show

you how hard at how small it is. I think they have one of those at

home, my husband used to live in Indonesia so we have one of those in

the house. I think what we need is met. High kicks around the TV! With

or without the ball is. Have the cold and dark January

nights left you craving sunshine? If the answer is yes,

you are not alone. Today is predicted to be

the busiest day of the year It is being dubbed Sunshine

Saturday, with over 27,000 of us But is it really

the best day to book? The Independent's travel editor

Simon Calder and Alistair Rowland from Co-operative

Travel join us now. Good morning. Sunshine, it doesn't

feel like Sunshine Sunday looking at the weather forecast but you are

going to be busy. Yes, it is a perfect day. We like the fog, we

don't like the snow. Today 1.5% of all transactions happen, so it is a

great day for booking. Is it something as simple as the weather

impact on sales, as people look at the window and think another grade

a? I think it is an odd thing that largely the stock which is available

has been on sale since last May. -- grey day. It is today people think

about it more and today is the biggest single day. You notice the

adverts on TV, and if we are booking or thinking of booking is this a

good time to do it, to get deals, or are they cashing in on the fact that

we are desperate to go somewhere? Well, a bit of both, really. It is a

great day if you're selling holidays, and there are some good

deals out there. The thing is, of course, that if you are constrained

to travel during the school holidays, then price is basically

doubled compared with term time. And if you know the resort you want to

go to, the property you want to go to, you may well find that there is

a really good deal out there. You have to make sure that you are

counting all the extra costs, if they are charging you extra for

baggage and so on, worked that out. But do be slightly sceptical. When

they say free child places you might find they are only available at the

very tail end of August or that the price has gone up. And talking about

the discounts you will be offered, unlike a car or a camera you can't

say that is how much the holiday should cost. Holidays are very fluid

pricing so it can come up as well as down. If you are tempted by a low

deposit, and with credit card bills coming in who wouldn't be, bear in

mind that if you subsequently decide to cancel the trip holiday company

will come after you for the full deposit so even if you don't get

your holiday there will be asking you for more money. Have you got any

idea of the average spend for a family on holiday these days? The

average price for a holiday somewhere between ?450 and ?500 per

person but that is spread across the year. It tends to be much higher in

the school holidays and significantly lower in term time.

People say the travel industry are so greedy, that is not the case.

Most companies lose money during the term times and they only make it up

during the school holidays. What you say to that? There will so

people, millions of families who feel like they are being done over.

Balking earlier is better than booking late. Particularly this year

and last year. Western Mediterranean resorts are filling up. So to get

the right room, the right hotel, you need to book early. I think

particularly this year, the deals you can get with low deposits are

really good for the consumer. People should take advantage while they

have the opportunity. It will be more expensive later. You have a

couple of places, a couple hot destinations this year? Spain is

always doing well. So was Portugal. Greece is doing quite better as

well. In the long haul, Cuba, Mexico, the Caribbean. Thank you

very much. We will ask you some more questions a bit later so if you have

any questions or want some advice then get in touch. We don't need to

go anywhere, do it? No, not what we have beautiful weather like we have

here. That was almost convincing Helen.

Wonderful Weather Watcher picture. We just picked this one up. This is

from Dudley and these are drizzled drops coming down captured in the

camera. Although we look weather this weekend, the cloud is sick

because it sunk down to give us for. A little damp in places. Obviously

the fog is the main concern of you are travelling there could be

disruption to airport travel as well. Freezing rain and icy

conditions across the low countries so if you travel further afield

check with your travel operator because it is quite nasty with icy

conditions. Temperatures are considerably higher than they were

this time yesterday by some 15 degrees in places. It does not

necessarily feel that much warmer but you will not be scraping ice

from cars. In the south was drizzly rain, remnants of a weather front

elsewhere. Just the thickness of the cloud in the fog where you are. It

is not foggy everywhere but it is great. There will be brightness

eventually breaking through the rain and drivel from the -- drizzle could