10/01/2017

:00:00. > :00:11.This is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

:00:12. > :00:18.More misery for hundreds of thousands of passengers as southern

:00:19. > :00:23.rail is hit by a fresh wave of strikes. More than 2000 trains have

:00:24. > :00:37.been cancelled on some of the network's busiest commuter lines.

:00:38. > :00:45.Jeremy Corbyn says Britain can be better off after Brexit.

:00:46. > :00:48.And for the first time, he says he's not wedded to freedom

:00:49. > :00:50.of movement of EU workers into the UK.

:00:51. > :00:53.A last-minute spending spree boosted retail sales this Christmas,

:00:54. > :00:57.with more of us waiting til the last minute to snap up a bargain.

:00:58. > :01:00.But experts say it was our last big splurge before a difficult year

:01:01. > :01:07.Fifa are set to approve plans to have 48 teams

:01:08. > :01:21.And Carol has the weather. Good morning. A breezy day ahead of us.

:01:22. > :01:31.For some of us, starting on a bright note with sunshine. It is cold.

:01:32. > :01:35.Thicker cloud in the west will introduce rain going from east to

:01:36. > :01:38.west during the day. Later the wind will strengthen.

:01:39. > :01:42.And I'll have more details on the weather for you in 15 minutes.

:01:43. > :01:42.Thanks, Carol. Another strike is affecting

:01:43. > :01:46.services on Southern rail. days this week.

:01:47. > :01:50.will stop work for three The dispute about the role

:01:51. > :01:53.of the guard on trains has been Our south of England

:01:54. > :01:57.correspondent, Duncan Kennedy, Duncan, what is the mood

:01:58. > :02:05.like among passengers there? It has been crippling train lines

:02:06. > :02:13.for ten months. Commuters are out there. You have to get up early. It

:02:14. > :02:17.takes longer. I am abandoning going out to town tomorrow. We will see

:02:18. > :02:24.how things go later in the week. I have managed to get a train but it

:02:25. > :02:28.is not good. It is really packed. It seems talks between the two sides

:02:29. > :02:35.have turned nasty. They have been malicious. At best they have been

:02:36. > :02:39.deceitful and at worst, spiteful. Our reality is that we are now

:02:40. > :02:44.experiencing a new type of industrial relations in our industry

:02:45. > :02:49.that we have not seen for some time. It is a row over the on board guard.

:02:50. > :02:53.Southern ones them to take over the safety critical job of taking over

:02:54. > :02:58.the doors. But the union says the guide should do it. A report by the

:02:59. > :03:01.regulator says their plans were safe as long as they provided the right

:03:02. > :03:05.equipment and training. All of the 2000 plus services in the company

:03:06. > :03:09.will be cancelled today, tomorrow, and Friday. There will be huge

:03:10. > :03:13.disruption on Thursday as well because the trains will be in the

:03:14. > :03:18.wrong place at. That is on top of an overtime ban cutting services daily.

:03:19. > :03:23.Another three strikes are planned later this month. The issue of

:03:24. > :03:28.driver controlled trains is affecting Southern today but it

:03:29. > :03:31.could easily transferred to other franchises through Britain.

:03:32. > :03:40.Duncan Kennedy is at Horsham. A really difficult time for so many

:03:41. > :03:49.people trying to travel. Absolutely. The start of another dismal day for

:03:50. > :03:54.maybe 200,000 people. At Horsham, 5- 10,000 people who would normally use

:03:55. > :03:58.this concourse. Look inside. It is completely empty. Nothing running

:03:59. > :04:03.whatsoever. The difference compared to the strike last month is that

:04:04. > :04:07.Southern, together with other coach companies, putting on coaches to run

:04:08. > :04:13.from here, about 200, and are saying it is very much a backup service.

:04:14. > :04:16.Don't expect much from it. It will get people from Central London to

:04:17. > :04:20.other train stations where they can pick up other services. Very much

:04:21. > :04:27.picking up the slack. Bradley will not take a coach or a train. How

:04:28. > :04:30.will you get to work in London? I am driving today to Paddington to get

:04:31. > :04:35.some parking there. I will try that today and maybe buses later in the

:04:36. > :04:39.week. Another frustrating day. Not just a frustrating day, but a

:04:40. > :04:44.frustrating year. The strike today is just another day of no train. We

:04:45. > :04:49.are looking at something like 20% less trains over all on normal non-

:04:50. > :04:54.strike days. Brighton to Victoria during peak hours is limited. There

:04:55. > :05:00.is no express, there is nothing. This needs to end. It is all about

:05:01. > :05:06.who opens these doors, the driver, the guardunderstand the dispute. Can

:05:07. > :05:11.you see why no one is talking to each other? It was interesting

:05:12. > :05:17.watching the debate last night. It is frustrating. What needs to happen

:05:18. > :05:21.is the government needs to step in and mediate. If there are questions

:05:22. > :05:26.over safety, why is this being pushed out so hard? It needs to be

:05:27. > :05:30.mediated and a truce needs to be reached. Thank you. Good luck trying

:05:31. > :05:34.to get into Central London. Another strike tomorrow and Friday. Forget

:05:35. > :05:38.the trains tomorrow as the trains will not be in right place. Missouri

:05:39. > :05:46.for hundreds of thousands of people in the south this week. -- misery.

:05:47. > :05:49.Thank you for that. We will speak to the director of Souther Rails at 710

:05:50. > :05:58.this morning. A 15-year-old girl has been arrested

:05:59. > :06:01.after the death of a seven-year-old The younger girl was found

:06:02. > :06:04.with life-threatening injuries in the Woodthorpe area of the city

:06:05. > :06:06.yesterday afternoon. She was taken to hospital

:06:07. > :06:10.but died a short time later. The teenager remains in police

:06:11. > :06:12.custody and is being questioned by officers from North

:06:13. > :06:14.Yorkshire Police. Jeremy Corbyn is to outline Labour's

:06:15. > :06:17.approach to Brexit in a speech later today, saying for the first time

:06:18. > :06:20.that he is not "wedded" But he will warn that the UK cant

:06:21. > :06:25.afford to lose full access Our political correspondent,

:06:26. > :06:29.Iain Watson, is in Westminster. Iain Jeremy Corbyn has been under

:06:30. > :06:32.pressure to respond to Labour voters concerns over

:06:33. > :06:39.immigration, hasn't he? Good morning. Today we will hear

:06:40. > :06:48.that. Not just from some of his own MPs. Has a tricky position. He has

:06:49. > :06:54.to talk about the Remain voters. But he also has to reach out to those

:06:55. > :06:58.who backed Leave in many parts of England outside London. We are

:06:59. > :07:01.hearing a shift in rhetoric from Jeremy Corbyn, saying that he

:07:02. > :07:06.recognises concerns about immigration in particular. He has

:07:07. > :07:09.indeed set for the first time that they are not wedded to the principle

:07:10. > :07:13.of free movement between European countries which seems to be

:07:14. > :07:17.significant. If you look at the policies, I don't think he has

:07:18. > :07:21.changed much. We have not seen any at all. He says it is important to

:07:22. > :07:27.get access to the European single market, rather than having controls

:07:28. > :07:32.on migration. His policy on that is the same as it was before. In

:07:33. > :07:37.addition to that, he is policy is basically to try to stop employers

:07:38. > :07:41.bringing in cheap labour to undercut people already here. No policy on

:07:42. > :07:46.limiting numbers. He does not want to give false promises so no target.

:07:47. > :07:51.He will say that today. And no restrictions like his MPs are

:07:52. > :07:55.calling for on the numbers of people with no skill at all coming into

:07:56. > :07:59.Britain to work. His opponents are attacking him for that. He will also

:08:00. > :08:03.talk positively about the benefits of Brexit and the ability of a

:08:04. > :08:08.Labour government for example in the future to intervene in the industry.

:08:09. > :08:13.The Lib Dems are saying this proves that he never really campaigned to

:08:14. > :08:17.keep Britain in the EU in the first place. Thank you. Coverage of that

:08:18. > :08:21.speech a little later across the BBC.

:08:22. > :08:24.Retailers are reporting a strong end to 2016,

:08:25. > :08:26.with sales up in December compared with the previous year.

:08:27. > :08:29.According to the British Retail Consortium, many of us left it

:08:30. > :08:33.to the last minute to splash the cash, and much of it was

:08:34. > :08:41.Are you responsible for this? I left it until Christmas Eve. A lot of it

:08:42. > :08:44.was festive food. You are right. People left it late because they

:08:45. > :08:47.were expecting a bargain. All of those sales in the windows lit up.

:08:48. > :08:51.The sales are happening before Christmas and not after as it always

:08:52. > :08:55.used to. The British Retail Consortium says overall there is a

:08:56. > :08:58.1% rise on how much we spent this year rather than last year on

:08:59. > :09:03.Christmas shopping. On line sales have been good as well. 7.2% up.

:09:04. > :09:08.Shop sales on the high street went down. The on line figures always

:09:09. > :09:13.look good, but not as good as last year. Lusty was the real big arrival

:09:14. > :09:20.of on line shopping. -- last year. We have gotten used to it this year.

:09:21. > :09:25.Not the sort of increase as we saw. There has always been a worry. How

:09:26. > :09:29.long before hand do you have to order to make sure you get it? That

:09:30. > :09:34.is why they go to shops themselves. They do well. There is a warning

:09:35. > :09:38.that this year could be a tough one for retailers because we know that

:09:39. > :09:43.inflation is starting to pick up. That is a result of the fall in the

:09:44. > :09:46.value of the pound after the vote for Brexit. It has meant the value

:09:47. > :09:50.of the pound has fallen significantly. Anything imported

:09:51. > :09:54.from overseas will cost us more. In the run-up for Christmas we did not

:09:55. > :09:58.feel that much because retailers had already bought that stock. In the

:09:59. > :10:03.new year we will see prices going up. Inflation should hit about 3%

:10:04. > :10:08.this year. It could mean writers start rising on the things we pay.

:10:09. > :10:13.We will not necessarily get a pay rise at work at the same time so it

:10:14. > :10:17.may mean the money in our pockets will get a squeeze. A tough year for

:10:18. > :10:23.retailers this year. Morrisons as results at seven. We will hear from

:10:24. > :10:24.them and we expect them to do well. Sainsbury, Tesco, and others this

:10:25. > :10:30.week. An. Boris Johnson, who's

:10:31. > :10:31.visiting Washington, says he's confident Britain will be

:10:32. > :10:35.first in line for a trade deal The Foreign Secretary has been

:10:36. > :10:38.meeting senior Republican politicians who've promised to make

:10:39. > :10:42.a US-UK trade deal a priority, Barack Obama warned in April

:10:43. > :10:45.that the UK would be at the back Police in Northamptonshire have

:10:46. > :10:56.closed a stretch of the M1 motorway after a body was found in the road

:10:57. > :11:00.in the early hours of the morning. The northbound carriageway

:11:01. > :11:02.between junctions 16 and 17, near Northampton and Rugby,

:11:03. > :11:05.was shut following the discovery and is expected to remain

:11:06. > :11:07.closed for most of today. Police are investigating

:11:08. > :11:10.the circumstances of the death. The British and Irish governments

:11:11. > :11:12.say they're going to work to try to find a solution

:11:13. > :11:16.to the most serious political crisis Yesterday, the deputy First

:11:17. > :11:19.minister, Sinn Fein's Martin It came after weeks of tensions

:11:20. > :11:23.between his party and their partners in the power-sharing government,

:11:24. > :11:25.the Democratic Unionists. An ancient giant sequoia tree,

:11:26. > :11:28.known for the massive hollowed-out tunnel at its core, has been knocked

:11:29. > :11:32.over during a series of storms The historic Pioneer Cabin Tree had

:11:33. > :11:36.survived for centuries, and allowed tourists to pass

:11:37. > :11:39.through it before it came down due It featured graffiti

:11:40. > :11:42.dating back to the 1800s, when visitors were allowed to etch

:11:43. > :12:01.their names into the tree's bark. Look at it. It is quite amazing,

:12:02. > :12:06.isn't it? You can't just make stuff up. I don't know why I said three. I

:12:07. > :12:11.don't know. I was looking at the pictures.

:12:12. > :12:14.It seems even squirrels have a sweet tooth as they've been caught making

:12:15. > :12:21.The owner of a grocery store in Toronto, who filmed this unlikely

:12:22. > :12:23.thief, said the squirrels have stolen more than 40 chocolates.

:12:24. > :12:26.They've now to social media for advice about how

:12:27. > :12:45.The obvious joke, do you think they have gone for fruit and nut?

:12:46. > :12:55.Amazing. Go on. The same one again. He is not doing much to stop them.

:12:56. > :13:01.More gentle squirrel encouragement. That is what happens if you keep

:13:02. > :13:06.feeding them chocolate. It could be an Olympic sport if it carries on. I

:13:07. > :13:14.would certainly watch it. We are talking about a big vote in FIFA.

:13:15. > :13:19.This is one of the things that Infantino campaigned about, a bigger

:13:20. > :13:19.tournament. It looks as though we'll be

:13:20. > :13:22.seeing more teams involved Fifa are expected to agree plans

:13:23. > :13:27.later, to expand the tournament to 48 teams starting

:13:28. > :13:44.from the 2026 World Cup. Infantino thinks... Well, a bit more

:13:45. > :13:54.money in that. 521 million profit in it. He says it will let other

:13:55. > :13:56.countries play on the big stage. Critics say it will dilute the

:13:57. > :13:59.quality of the football. Claudio Ranieri has won FIFA's first

:14:00. > :14:06.Coach of the Year award. The Leicester City manager

:14:07. > :14:09.was in Zurich to pick up the title, recognition of his achievement

:14:10. > :14:12.in leading the 5000:1 shots to the Premier League

:14:13. > :14:14.title last season. Cristiano Ronaldo won

:14:15. > :14:16.the Player's Award. Leeds United came from behind

:14:17. > :14:19.to make it through to the Fourth Round of the FA Cup,

:14:20. > :14:22.beating Cambridge United 2-1. They'll go to either non-league

:14:23. > :14:27.Sutton United or AFC Wimbledon next. England's former captain

:14:28. > :14:29.Chris Robshaw will miss the whole of the Six Nations

:14:30. > :14:31.with a shoulder injury. The flanker is expected to be out

:14:32. > :14:45.of action for 12 weeks. I normally get excited when we talk

:14:46. > :14:54.about Six Nations because it means spring is on the way. But 12 weeks

:14:55. > :15:01.is still a long-time. Shall we have a look at the papers? Yes. Here is

:15:02. > :15:06.Ben. He is running. Let's have a look at the front of the Times. We

:15:07. > :15:11.are talking about the Golden Globes and Meryl Streep has made front

:15:12. > :15:16.pages of the papers. That was after her public spat with Donald Trump.

:15:17. > :15:28.She had a go at him. He has had a pot back. And one in four A are on

:15:29. > :15:34.say. Wigan Warriors, people who don't exercise during the week.

:15:35. > :15:41.Apparently you can do at couple of sessions of exercise and you will

:15:42. > :15:47.live longer -- Weekend warriors. That could be the way forward.

:15:48. > :15:53.Britain's most senior judge mishandling the trial of a Royal

:15:54. > :15:58.Marine found guilty of killing a wounded fighter. This is a wonderful

:15:59. > :16:03.picture of the moon. The reason why the papers are talking about it is

:16:04. > :16:09.the discovery that rather than the giant object striking earth and

:16:10. > :16:15.forming a cloud of debris they suggest multiple asteroid strikes

:16:16. > :16:22.created a moonlits, which merged. Lots of little moon is making a big

:16:23. > :16:32.moon. OK... Let's have a look at the front page... Oh, hold on. Happy New

:16:33. > :16:41.Year. The Daily Mirror, Hunt scraps before our A, and it is your

:16:42. > :16:49.fault, and there again is Rijal -- Meryl Streep and Claire Foy from the

:16:50. > :16:53.Queen. I have enjoyed reading from the papers today, there is nothing

:16:54. > :16:58.exceptional in the sports papers, but there is a really long and

:16:59. > :17:04.lovely interview with Sir Andy Murray, as we have to call him.

:17:05. > :17:08.Someone sat down with him for the first time since we heard about the

:17:09. > :17:15.knighthood as he prepares for the Australian Open and he is talking

:17:16. > :17:23.about how he anguished over whether to accept it, at the age of 29, the

:17:24. > :17:28.only second player in history as well, with more playing days in

:17:29. > :17:33.front of him, he was wondering if it was too soon or if he should say no.

:17:34. > :17:36.He had messages of congratulations from Alex Ferguson and Jose

:17:37. > :17:41.Mourinho, which he thinks is cool, as a massive fan. After tennis he

:17:42. > :17:49.fancies going to work in football. He is a big fan. He said he wants to

:17:50. > :17:57.coach a young player coming up or get involved in football. That would

:17:58. > :18:03.be interesting. He is quite good at keepy-uppy. Yes. You sent me to look

:18:04. > :18:11.at the Tube strike siesta they and the pictures are of the chaos

:18:12. > :18:16.yesterday. Crush hour in the Sun. You can see the taxi queues and

:18:17. > :18:21.people trying to get on the buses. Similar in the Mirror with people

:18:22. > :18:25.trying to get onto the extra buses. Even though the strike finished at

:18:26. > :18:29.six o'clock Tom of the trains were not in the right place, and here is

:18:30. > :18:34.the evidence -- finished at six o'clock, the trains were not in the

:18:35. > :18:42.right place. It took people a long time. And for Southern passengers,

:18:43. > :18:47.they will be facing disruption. The Tube strike has ended but much more

:18:48. > :18:55.disruption for those on Southern. Thank you. This one on the inside of

:18:56. > :19:00.the Sun, this is a homeowner nightmare. This young lady is trying

:19:01. > :19:04.to sell her house. She can't at the moment because of a dongle. One side

:19:05. > :19:14.of her bedroom officially belongs to her neighbour. Oh, my goodness.

:19:15. > :19:21.Officially she doesn't own half of the bedroom and so she can't sell

:19:22. > :19:33.it. Extraordinary. I want to ask this later, thunderstorm? This is an

:19:34. > :19:39.official term, and active shower with thunder as well, turning into

:19:40. > :19:46.snow, so the water will fall as snow. I think Carol would do a

:19:47. > :19:47.better job than me. Thank you. Plenty more from these guys through

:19:48. > :19:48.the program. You're watching

:19:49. > :19:50.Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this morning:

:19:51. > :19:53.Further misery for commuters as Southern Rail drivers

:19:54. > :19:55.begin their latest walk out. Britain can be better off

:19:56. > :19:57.after Brexit, according to Jeremy Corbyn, who also says

:19:58. > :20:28.Labour is not wedded Shall we try to get to the bottom of

:20:29. > :20:32.this? Thunder snow? It is when the thunder in the snow is called

:20:33. > :20:36.thunder snow. It is quite simple. This morning we have a chilly start

:20:37. > :20:41.for some with clear skies. As the weather front comes from the west it

:20:42. > :20:48.will turn milder and colder. This morning we have cloud around. We

:20:49. > :20:53.have some breaks. That is where it will feel nippy. The cloud is thick

:20:54. > :21:00.enough for the odd shower. Some across the south-west, the Midlands

:21:01. > :21:04.and northern England as well. Into Scotland, cloud, bright spells and

:21:05. > :21:08.some showers. The weather front coming from the west producing rain

:21:09. > :21:13.for Northern Ireland. It isn't particularly heavy. It is a warm

:21:14. > :21:17.front. As it pushes to the east the temperature will go up. You can see

:21:18. > :21:23.the cloud building ahead of it, raising the sunshine. Then behind it

:21:24. > :21:27.we feed in cold air through the course of the day. Heading into the

:21:28. > :21:31.evening and overnight you will notice the wind, the strength will

:21:32. > :21:36.pick up. Northern and western Scotland will have casts to gale

:21:37. > :21:41.force, even severe gales, extending through the course of the night --

:21:42. > :21:45.gusts. Meanwhile, we have a plethora Showers coming in, some will be

:21:46. > :21:49.wintry. Here is the weather front continuing over to the new

:21:50. > :21:55.continent. The wind might cause disruption tonight. Across the tops

:21:56. > :22:01.of the Pennines we could have 70 mph, that might affect higher-level

:22:02. > :22:05.roots of the M62. Tomorrow with the strong winds it could lead to some

:22:06. > :22:10.travel disruption. We are looking at strong winds from north Wales, the

:22:11. > :22:14.north Midlands, heading northwards. The strongest winds for the north of

:22:15. > :22:18.Scotland. You will notice the winds elsewhere. If you're travelling in a

:22:19. > :22:23.high sided vehicle, light vehicle, a bike, buried in mind, it will be

:22:24. > :22:28.much colder with wintry showers in the north, increasingly pulling at

:22:29. > :22:33.lower levels as well. -- falling. Another windy day in prospect on

:22:34. > :22:38.Thursday. Not as wind in the south. The next weather coming in, this

:22:39. > :22:42.from the south-west, this will bring rain but the problem is as it

:22:43. > :22:47.engages with the cold air it could fall as snow. It might fall to snow

:22:48. > :22:52.on modest hills and possibly at lower levels. We could be looking at

:22:53. > :22:59.a combination of rain, sleet and snow for Southern counties. We over

:23:00. > :23:03.the next few days this area of low pressure will be giving us some

:23:04. > :23:07.trouble. Nor for that and we have wintry showers. It will feel much

:23:08. > :23:12.colder than has done. Some of those will fall at lower levels as well.

:23:13. > :23:15.That is Thursday. Those are the temperatures to expect, three or

:23:16. > :23:20.four in the north. It will feel much colder. Look at that, -2, -3, so get

:23:21. > :23:27.out your woollies. Thank you. Wolf whistles, car horns

:23:28. > :23:29.and concerns over safety - these are just some of the things

:23:30. > :23:33.women say they worry According to research

:23:34. > :23:36.from England Athletics, more than a third of British women

:23:37. > :23:39.have received some form of harassment while running

:23:40. > :23:59.on their own, as Holly Hamilton # you can call me runner. It has

:24:00. > :24:06.quickly become one of the UK's most popular sports with the number of

:24:07. > :24:10.people in England this is -- is abating increasing. If you are a

:24:11. > :24:14.woman it is unjust cold weather that can be more than a little

:24:15. > :24:17.offputting. With a show of hands how many people feel they have been

:24:18. > :24:25.harassed while outrunning? That is pretty much all of you. It is people

:24:26. > :24:29.trying to make fun, have a joke and stuff, so it hasn't been harassment,

:24:30. > :24:33.but you could take it that way and feel intimidated by it. And it seems

:24:34. > :24:37.they are not alone. Research from England Athletics revealed more than

:24:38. > :24:41.a third of British women have been harassed in some way while running

:24:42. > :24:45.alone. More than 60% said they feel anxious and nearly half of those

:24:46. > :24:51.asked said that was due to personal safety concerns. I got shouted at by

:24:52. > :24:55.a couple of men as I was running around, and whistled at, that was

:24:56. > :25:00.quite intimidating. You get beat with horns. I was running through a

:25:01. > :25:04.village I know and a group of lads started running at the sight of me.

:25:05. > :25:09.It was a bit intimidating. I kept running and thinking, you won't beat

:25:10. > :25:15.me, crack on. You do get the odd car that beats its horn as we go past.

:25:16. > :25:19.Races with cars. Nothing else better to do then beat them all and

:25:20. > :25:22.wolfwhistle. But British women are fit for it with most insisting it

:25:23. > :25:27.wouldn't put them off altogether. Running in a group is a lot better

:25:28. > :25:31.than if you are running on your own. When you are in a group it is the

:25:32. > :25:34.support and everything that you go through with everybody around you so

:25:35. > :25:40.it doesn't feel as intimidating as if you are running on your own.

:25:41. > :25:43.These runners say it is about safety in numbers, so all that is left to

:25:44. > :25:56.worry about is keeping up. That is fantastic. Do you run on

:25:57. > :26:03.your own? I do but I wouldn't at night. I run with a triathlon club

:26:04. > :26:06.at night because I don't feel safe. Margaret said, fat comments shouted

:26:07. > :26:11.from the same car on several occasions. I took to running at

:26:12. > :26:16.night to avoid unknown individuals. Leah says, that is why I joined the

:26:17. > :26:21.gym, less comments from mindless thugs in cars. Suzanne, cheering

:26:22. > :26:24.from youths in a van, it made me laugh and I took it as an

:26:25. > :26:26.encouragement. That is the best way to approach it, isn't it, to laugh

:26:27. > :26:27.at it. You can e-mail us at

:26:28. > :26:29.bbcbreakfast@bbc.co.uk or share your thoughts with other

:26:30. > :26:32.viewers on our Facebook page. Still to come this morning: This

:26:33. > :26:37.incredible footage has captured chimpanzees making

:26:38. > :26:41.straws to drink water. We'll speak to an evolutionary

:26:42. > :26:44.biologist about the discovery. Time now to get the news,

:26:45. > :30:13.travel and weather where you are. Plenty more on our website

:30:14. > :30:25.at the usual address. This is Breakfast with

:30:26. > :30:28.Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. Prices at the pumps are going up,

:30:29. > :30:34.and soon, motorists could be paying 25% more for fuel

:30:35. > :30:38.than they were this time last year. Also this morning, with class

:30:39. > :30:44.sizes on the increase in some places, we'll see how one

:30:45. > :30:47.secondary school copes with 46 And the "Worst Witch" book series

:30:48. > :30:51.has enchanted children for decades, and it's now

:30:52. > :30:55.being turned in to a new TV series. We'll meet one of its stars

:30:56. > :30:59.later in the programme. But now, a summary of this

:31:00. > :31:04.morning's main news. Another strike is affecting

:31:05. > :31:06.services on Southern rail. Drivers belonging to the Aslef union

:31:07. > :31:09.will stop work for three The dispute about

:31:10. > :31:12.the role of the guard on trains has been going

:31:13. > :31:15.on for nearly ten months. Our transport correspondent,

:31:16. > :31:29.Richard Westcott, has this report. It is a dispute which has been

:31:30. > :31:32.crippling London's train lines You have to get up early to go

:31:33. > :31:47.underground or get a bus. I am abandoning going

:31:48. > :31:50.out to town tomorrow. We will see how things

:31:51. > :31:53.go later in the week. I have managed to get

:31:54. > :31:56.a train but it is not good. It seems talks between the two

:31:57. > :32:00.sides have turned nasty. The tactics they have used

:32:01. > :32:05.have been malicious. At best they have been dishonest,

:32:06. > :32:07.disingenuious, deceitful, Our reality is that we are now

:32:08. > :32:12.experiencing a new type of industrial relations

:32:13. > :32:14.in our industry that we have not It's a row over the role

:32:15. > :32:22.of the on board guard. Southern wants drivers to take over

:32:23. > :32:25.the safety-critical job But the union says

:32:26. > :32:28.the guard should do it. A report by the regulator says

:32:29. > :32:32.Southern's plans were safe as long as they provided the right

:32:33. > :32:34.equipment and training. All of the 2000 plus services

:32:35. > :32:37.in the company will be cancelled There'll be huge disruption

:32:38. > :32:41.on Thursday too because the trains And that's on top of an overtime ban

:32:42. > :32:49.cutting services daily. Another three-day strike

:32:50. > :32:52.is planned later this month. The issue of driver-controlled

:32:53. > :32:55.trains is affecting Southern today, but it could easily spread to other

:32:56. > :32:58.franchises through Britain. We will be speaking to Southern

:32:59. > :33:01.rail's Passenger Services Director Nobody can hear you but we are going

:33:02. > :33:12.to carry on. Carry on. A 15-year-old girl has been arrested

:33:13. > :33:17.after the death of a seven-year-old The younger girl was found

:33:18. > :33:20.with life-threatening injuries in the Woodthorpe area of the city

:33:21. > :33:23.yesterday afternoon. She was taken to hospital

:33:24. > :33:26.but died a short time later. The teenager remains in police

:33:27. > :33:29.custody and is being questioned by officers from North

:33:30. > :33:31.Yorkshire Police. Jeremy Corbyn is to outline Labour's

:33:32. > :33:35.approach to Brexit in a speech later today, saying for the first time

:33:36. > :33:38.that he is not "wedded" Mr Corbyn's critics have previously

:33:39. > :33:42.accused him of failing to heed the concerns of traditional

:33:43. > :33:44.Labour voters who opted He'll say that Labour will demand

:33:45. > :33:49."fair rules and reasonably managed Boris Johnson, who's

:33:50. > :33:54.visiting Washington, says he's confident Britain will be

:33:55. > :33:57.first in line for a trade deal The Foreign Secretary has been

:33:58. > :34:01.meeting senior Republican politicians who've promised to make

:34:02. > :34:04.a US-UK trade deal a priority, Barack Obama warned in April

:34:05. > :34:08.that the UK would be at the back Police in Northamptonshire have

:34:09. > :34:20.closed a stretch of the M1 motorway after a body was found in the road

:34:21. > :34:24.in the early hours of the morning. The northbound carriageway

:34:25. > :34:26.between junctions 16 and 17, near Northampton and Rugby, has been

:34:27. > :34:29.shut following the discovery and is expected to remain

:34:30. > :34:36.closed for most of today. The British and Irish governments

:34:37. > :34:39.say they're going to work to try to find a solution

:34:40. > :34:42.to the most serious political crisis Yesterday, the deputy

:34:43. > :34:45.First minister, Sinn Fein's Martin

:34:46. > :34:47.McGuinness resigned. It came after weeks of tension

:34:48. > :34:50.between his party and their partners in the power-sharing government,

:34:51. > :34:52.the Democratic Unionists. Northern Ireland Secretary James

:34:53. > :34:54.Brokenshire is expected to make Concerns have been raised

:34:55. > :35:01.about the care of transgender prisoners following four deaths

:35:02. > :35:04.in just over a year at jails Nigel Newcomen, called for jails

:35:05. > :35:10.to be more flexible and proactive in managing inmates

:35:11. > :35:12.who had changed gender. In the past few months,

:35:13. > :35:14.the Ministry of Justice has revised its guidance to ensure

:35:15. > :35:17.the "great majority" of transgender inmates are dealt with according

:35:18. > :35:41.to the gender they identify with. I am taking extra care with the time

:35:42. > :35:47.checks at the moment. It is 6:35. New Year new you. If you are a

:35:48. > :35:55.cynic, you would think the plans to expand the World Cup are about the

:35:56. > :36:03.cash. Infantino wants to expand the already quite large team and mount

:36:04. > :36:07.up to 48 teams. That would create millions more from the World Cup but

:36:08. > :36:13.puts extra pressure on the host country. 16 teams will travel across

:36:14. > :36:19.the world to play one match and go back again. That is the nature of

:36:20. > :36:23.it. But Infantino says it is a good idea because it would mean more

:36:24. > :36:26.teams get to play at the World Cup on the world stage and what better

:36:27. > :36:29.way to boost football across the world. It is not about the money. He

:36:30. > :36:31.says. It looks as though we'll be

:36:32. > :36:33.seeing more teams involved Fifa are expected to agree plans

:36:34. > :36:38.later to expand the finals from 32 teams to 48 teams starting

:36:39. > :36:41.from the 2026 World Cup. There'd be 16 groups of three,

:36:42. > :36:44.and then a straight knock-out stage. Critics say it will dilute

:36:45. > :36:56.the quality of the football but one The African and Asian continents

:36:57. > :37:02.will benefit. We should not be scared. The Euros have shown that

:37:03. > :37:09.island, Welsh, these are countries that know about football. --

:37:10. > :37:14.Ireland. Now the world of football knows the techniques. The

:37:15. > :37:15.entertainment will be there for sure anyway.

:37:16. > :37:18.Claudio Ranieri has won FIFA's first Coach of the Year award.

:37:19. > :37:21.The Leicester City manager was in Zurich to pick up the title,

:37:22. > :37:23.recognition of his achievement in leading the 5000:1

:37:24. > :37:26.shots to the Premier League title last season.

:37:27. > :37:38.I think what happened last season in England was amazing, it was

:37:39. > :37:42.something strange. The god of fools said Leicester must win only this.

:37:43. > :37:43.Only this. And who else but Cristiano Ronaldo

:37:44. > :37:46.was player of the year. He added the Fifa trophy

:37:47. > :37:49.to the Ballon D'or award he picked up last month, after a season

:37:50. > :37:53.in which he captained Portugal to the European Championship and won

:37:54. > :37:55.the Champions League The FA Cup holders,

:37:56. > :38:02.Manchester United, have been drawn But here's what the Cup

:38:03. > :38:07.is all about. Wycombe Wanderers,

:38:08. > :38:08.from League Two, see Tottenham Hotspur

:38:09. > :38:10.pulled out of the hat They quite like the idea

:38:11. > :38:13.of a trip to White Hart Lane. You can see the full draw

:38:14. > :38:23.on the BBC Sport website. Look at those celebrations. We were

:38:24. > :38:29.talking yesterday about how some viewers were disappointed it was

:38:30. > :38:34.just Premier League games on the television for free to view viewers

:38:35. > :38:40.over the weekend. Look at that. That is what it is about. Lower level

:38:41. > :38:47.team is going to White Hart Lane. You have to celebrate with your

:38:48. > :38:49.phone in your hand, don't you? Jamie Vardy's party all over the Internet.

:38:50. > :38:51.Leeds United made it through last night,

:38:52. > :38:54.though they were given a scare by League Two Cambridge United,

:38:55. > :38:56.who went ahead through Oochay Ikpeazu.

:38:57. > :38:58.But Alex Mowatt scored the winner for Leeds.

:38:59. > :39:01.They'll go to either non-league Sutton United or AFC Wimbledon

:39:02. > :39:07.England's former rugby captain Chris Robshaw will miss the whole

:39:08. > :39:09.of the Six Nations with a shoulder injury.

:39:10. > :39:11.The flanker damaged his left shoulder

:39:12. > :39:14.in Harlequins' match with Worcester on New Year's Day and is expected

:39:15. > :39:21.Joe Root should be available for the start of England's one-day

:39:22. > :39:25.Root will fly out tomorrow, having stayed in the UK to be

:39:26. > :39:28.with his partner for the birth of their first child.

:39:29. > :39:30.The rest of the squad are already in India,

:39:31. > :39:33.including captain Eoin Morgan who was criticised by some

:39:34. > :39:39.for missing the tour of Bangladesh because of security concerns.

:39:40. > :39:45.When things have been announced like that you can plan how to deal with

:39:46. > :39:50.them. My way of dealing with that was get away from things, which I

:39:51. > :39:56.did. And I did not see a great deal of it. I think my family has seen a

:39:57. > :39:59.lot of it and were very offended, but that is part and parcel of being

:40:00. > :40:01.in the limelight sometimes. But certainly standing here I do not

:40:02. > :40:03.regret my decision. Johanna Konta's preparations

:40:04. > :40:06.for the Australian Open continue The British number one

:40:07. > :40:09.is through to the third round of the Sydney International

:40:10. > :40:12.after a comfortable straight sets win over Australia's

:40:13. > :40:26.Daria Gavrilova. Do you still have a Christmas tree

:40:27. > :40:29.in your backyard? Ours is right there. Behind the camera.

:40:30. > :40:34.LAUGHING. . This is the annual world Christmas

:40:35. > :40:38.tree throwing competition held in Germany. It includes three different

:40:39. > :40:43.types of borrowing, the high jump, which you can see there, the

:40:44. > :40:48.javelin, and this guy has a rope, I am not sure if that contravenes the

:40:49. > :40:54.rules, and spinning. That is one of the categories. It looks like it is

:40:55. > :40:59.allowed. Christopher Miloff went the service, 22.5 metres. That is a long

:41:00. > :41:04.way. Miner still on the front garden. It fell over in the wind

:41:05. > :41:08.this morning. I saw it as I was heading out. At least I have

:41:09. > :41:17.something interesting to do with it. I have always thought the welly wack

:41:18. > :41:27.is the best. My dad broke the record. 641. Breakfast.

:41:28. > :41:30.Northern Ireland is facing its most serious political crisis

:41:31. > :41:32.in a decade, following the resignation of Deputy First

:41:33. > :41:35.The departure of the Sinn Fein politician

:41:36. > :41:37.from the country's power-sharing executive means Democratic Unionist

:41:38. > :41:39.leader Arlene Foster loses her position as First

:41:40. > :41:42.To find out more, we're joined by Jon Tonge,

:41:43. > :41:44.Professor of Politics at University of Liverpool,

:41:45. > :41:49.who specialises in Northern Irish politics.

:41:50. > :41:55.I suppose it is an interesting time for you but worrying times for

:41:56. > :42:02.others. This is about, just explain to us, renewable heat scheme

:42:03. > :42:07.bringing down the government. Arlene Foster, First Minister, she was the

:42:08. > :42:12.minister in charge of the scheme for three years. She is being directly

:42:13. > :42:15.blamed by political opponents for what went on in terms of the scheme.

:42:16. > :42:22.Basically, the difference between the skin, trialled on this side of

:42:23. > :42:26.the waters, was to try to encourage people to go to more energy

:42:27. > :42:31.efficient ways of dealing with feel. -- scheme. Arlene Foster has been

:42:32. > :42:38.held responsible by her opponents by this watched scheme, find a lot of

:42:39. > :42:44.money. -- botched. That is the base of the problem. Martin McGuinness

:42:45. > :42:50.has stepped down. That means she has to take over the role. She is in a

:42:51. > :42:54.difficult position. Two resignations yesterday. One voluntary from Martin

:42:55. > :42:58.McGuinness. And another because Arlene Foster was stood down by him.

:42:59. > :43:05.You have to have a First Minister for the groups respectively. What

:43:06. > :43:08.happens next, Sinn Fein has seven days to nominate a replacement for

:43:09. > :43:15.Martin McGuinness. That will not happen. That is it. The ball is now

:43:16. > :43:19.in the Secretary of State's court to get the parties around the table to

:43:20. > :43:23.come up with a compromise. It is difficult to see where that will lie

:43:24. > :43:27.because Arlene Foster says she will not step aside for a single day in

:43:28. > :43:33.advance of an enquiry taking place into what happened. If she sticks to

:43:34. > :43:37.that position, there is no reason to suggest she will move from it, we

:43:38. > :43:43.are looking at elections in Northern Ireland. What will happen in terms

:43:44. > :43:47.of elections, it looks like the DUP and Sinn Fein will still be the

:43:48. > :43:52.largest parties. Haps Sinn Fein could become the largest and provide

:43:53. > :43:57.the First Minister. -- perhaps. But how do you restore this in northern

:43:58. > :44:03.Ireland if you have the same problem and you have no enquiry into the

:44:04. > :44:08.heating scheme? Fascinating. Could this be the end of her political

:44:09. > :44:12.career? It would be if the DUP is not returned as the largest party in

:44:13. > :44:19.Northern Ireland. If she is re-elected, the DUP will make her

:44:20. > :44:23.claim she has a mandate to carry on as First Minister from the

:44:24. > :44:25.electorate. Thank you for your time. Thank you.

:44:26. > :44:26.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:44:27. > :44:29.The main stories this morning: Further misery for commuters

:44:30. > :44:31.as Southern Rail drivers begin their latest walk out.

:44:32. > :44:33.Britain can be better off after Brexit, according

:44:34. > :44:36.to Jeremy Corbyn, who also says Labour is not wedded

:44:37. > :44:47.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:44:48. > :44:58.We are off to South Ayrshire. Good morning. It is a cloudy start. Of

:44:59. > :45:02.us. A beautiful picture here. -- it is a cloudy start for some of us. At

:45:03. > :45:07.the moment we have some clear skies. Under the clear skies temperatures

:45:08. > :45:12.have dropped. There is quite a bit of clout around. Here and there the

:45:13. > :45:16.clout is thick enough to be producing some showers, so the

:45:17. > :45:20.south-west England, the Midlands, East Anglia, northern England. And

:45:21. > :45:25.as we drift into Scotland a very similar story. Some clear skies and

:45:26. > :45:29.also some showers. Perhaps heavier across Scotland. Then we run into

:45:30. > :45:33.this area of rain. It is a warm front which is coming our way. The

:45:34. > :45:37.rain on it will be substantial. What it's going to do is move from the

:45:38. > :45:42.west to the east through the day so the cloud will build a racing and

:45:43. > :45:46.eradicating the area of sunshine for most of us. And then behind it we've

:45:47. > :45:50.got a cold front on its heels. And behind the cold front you will find

:45:51. > :45:54.it will slowly start to turn colder through the day. The thing you will

:45:55. > :45:59.notice tonight is the strengthening win. Now across the far north of

:46:00. > :46:03.Scotland we are looking at Gus DeGale even severe gales. It will be

:46:04. > :46:11.a windy night across-the-board especially from north Wales,

:46:12. > :46:18.Norfolk, north was -- looking at Gusts to gales. Elsewhere, higher

:46:19. > :46:23.levels of the M62 might be affected, and through the course of tomorrow

:46:24. > :46:27.strong winds will be an issue and might lead to travel disruption.

:46:28. > :46:33.Tomorrow it will be colder for us all. The weather fronts pushing to

:46:34. > :46:36.the new continent. There will be some sunshine but with the cold air

:46:37. > :46:40.we will see an increasing wintry showers. Even at levels across

:46:41. > :46:44.Scotland, and the hills across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

:46:45. > :46:49.It is still going to be windy tomorrow. As we head on into

:46:50. > :46:53.Thursday you can see the strong wind from these isobars in the north of

:46:54. > :46:58.the country. First eight also brings low pressure. This area of low

:46:59. > :47:02.pressure is giving us such a headache. What we think of the

:47:03. > :47:05.moment will happen is as it comes across Southern counties it will

:47:06. > :47:09.engage with the cold air. That combination means that some of us

:47:10. > :47:14.will see some sleet and snow. So if we look at the picture you can see

:47:15. > :47:18.in the north we have wintry showers. Again at lower levels at times. And

:47:19. > :47:22.we have rain coming in across South Wales in southern England. As eating

:47:23. > :47:26.gauges with the cold air we will see some of the snow on the hills and we

:47:27. > :47:31.might see some at low levels. We don't expect it to last for terribly

:47:32. > :47:34.long. But the jury on this is out and it could change. It could go

:47:35. > :47:39.further north, it could also go further south. Don't make this the

:47:40. > :47:44.last forecast that you see. These are the temperatures. In the court

:47:45. > :47:50.air and wind it will feel more like below freezing for many. -- in the

:47:51. > :47:54.cold air and wind. I like the way you work a little advert for the

:47:55. > :47:56.weather in as well. It was really good. It won't be the last one that

:47:57. > :47:57.we watch, we promise. Motorists could be paying 25% more

:47:58. > :48:01.for petrol by the end of this month, Yes, sorry, I am off the bearer of

:48:02. > :48:09.bad news. This is research from

:48:10. > :48:12.the Petrol Retailers' Association, and we can speak to

:48:13. > :48:14.them in just a sec. But to understand what we pay

:48:15. > :48:18.at the pumps, we need to look Oil prices have more

:48:19. > :48:25.than halved since summer 2015, and that meant cheaper fuel for us,

:48:26. > :48:28.even though much of what we pay This morning the Petrol Retailers'

:48:29. > :48:33.Association says it expects oil We've not seen since prices

:48:34. > :48:41.like that since June 2015. And back then, prices

:48:42. > :48:43.rose to 117p per litre. But today, many of us

:48:44. > :48:46.are already paying that, so it's expected motorists will be

:48:47. > :48:48.paying over ?1.25 Brian Madderson is Chairman

:48:49. > :49:09.of the Petrol Retailers Association. Good morning. When we see these

:49:10. > :49:14.figures, we have a tendency to get caught up in the wholesale price.

:49:15. > :49:19.What the world oil markets are doing. How does it affect what we

:49:20. > :49:29.pay at the pump? A lot of it is tax. Yes, we still have duty at 57.9 5p

:49:30. > :49:34.per litre, with 20% VAT it works out at about 65% of what we pay at the

:49:35. > :49:40.pump is tax. We are lobbying the Treasury very hard to try to reduce

:49:41. > :49:47.the duty by at least 3p per litre. That would be good for consumers

:49:48. > :49:54.around the UK. In the meantime, the other levers which are important for

:49:55. > :49:59.the prices are Brent crude, the oil price standard, and that has almost

:50:00. > :50:05.doubled since last year. Why is it rising? Because OPEC at last seemed

:50:06. > :50:09.to have come to an agreement when they met in November to cut

:50:10. > :50:15.production from February. That production cut is meant to stabilise

:50:16. > :50:20.and push prices up because all of the OPEC countries, indeed, Russia

:50:21. > :50:25.has been included in that, have got their own internal economic problems

:50:26. > :50:30.and they are desperate to get a higher price. They have held the

:50:31. > :50:38.western world to ransom before and I think this is what they are doing a

:50:39. > :50:46.game. We are looking at the likelihood of $60 per barrel --

:50:47. > :50:49.doing it again. The second thing is pound sterling against the US dollar

:50:50. > :50:54.because oil prices are in US dollars and yesterday we had a 10 week low

:50:55. > :50:59.of pound sterling when it collapsed. You may say it has come at the worst

:51:00. > :51:04.time with prices going up for everything else, even in the shops,

:51:05. > :51:08.we won't see wages go up this year and, you are right, inflation rising

:51:09. > :51:12.as a result of the fall in the value of the pound, is there anything to

:51:13. > :51:20.avoid this? Yes, pressure the Chancellor to reduce duty. Will he

:51:21. > :51:25.listen? It is a familiar tale. He never really does it. Yes, because

:51:26. > :51:32.their own research, which they did in 2014, showed that reductions in

:51:33. > :51:39.duty have got a beneficial lock onto the whole economy. Remember, the UK

:51:40. > :51:44.is a transport economy. 100% of our food moves by road and 80% of all

:51:45. > :51:47.goods. If you have got higher delivery costs, higher distribution,

:51:48. > :51:51.that will affect the whole economy and be negative. It is really good

:51:52. > :51:57.to talk to you. Thank you for explaining that.

:51:58. > :52:02.I will have the figures from Morrisons in 10 minutes. Stay tuned.

:52:03. > :52:04.Have a look at these incredible pictures.

:52:05. > :52:07.For the first time, scientists have captured incredible images

:52:08. > :52:13.of chimpanzees making straws to drink water.

:52:14. > :52:16.But what more does it tell us about the primate described

:52:17. > :52:20.Joining us in the studio now is Susanne Shultz,

:52:21. > :52:25.an evolutionary biologist from Manchester University.

:52:26. > :52:34.It looks fantastically efficient, doesn't it, so what have they done?

:52:35. > :52:39.They have developed a strategy to get water out of trees. And what is

:52:40. > :52:43.nice is it shows another new behaviour that chimps have

:52:44. > :52:46.developed. There are other populations in Africa where we see

:52:47. > :52:50.different solutions to the same problem. We can go from population

:52:51. > :52:56.to population and you see chimpanzees doing different Hades.

:52:57. > :53:00.What have they done with the stick? -- different behaviours. They have

:53:01. > :53:04.chosen the stick, they chew on the end of it and basically it makes it

:53:05. > :53:11.something that soaks up water. Sponge. They put it into a tree

:53:12. > :53:16.will, which they can access the water, then they suck on the end of

:53:17. > :53:21.the stick. Essentially like you say, it is learning how to solve a

:53:22. > :53:27.problem, and I am sure I have seen footage of chimps trying to get

:53:28. > :53:32.honey out of nests, so it is about saying, what do I need to do, I will

:53:33. > :53:37.use a straw? That is what they do better than any other close

:53:38. > :53:42.relative. They develop a toolkit of things to solve problems in their

:53:43. > :53:46.environment. They can extract honey, they do termite fishing, and other

:53:47. > :53:52.population in central Africa uses leaves, they chew up the leaves to

:53:53. > :53:57.use as a sponge. They look at the environment and solve problems. And

:53:58. > :54:03.they learn from each other. There is a baby chimp learning as well. That

:54:04. > :54:07.is another thing that is unusual. They use what we call social

:54:08. > :54:12.learning a lot. If one animal in the group solve the problem, another

:54:13. > :54:16.will come and watch them and go, I will try that as well. What does it

:54:17. > :54:20.tell us more broadly about intelligence? There have been a

:54:21. > :54:25.number of studies looking at the different kinds of behaviours

:54:26. > :54:29.primates use and what we know it is primates with big brains like

:54:30. > :54:33.chimpanzees have bigger toolkit than primates with more brains. And if we

:54:34. > :54:37.want to put this in the context of human abolition we can look at this

:54:38. > :54:43.as potentially an early springboard into our own use of technology and

:54:44. > :54:47.innovation. Because what they do is they develop new strategies and

:54:48. > :54:52.tools but not to the extent that we do. Obviously. Really fascinating.

:54:53. > :54:57.And when you see pictures from your point of view, that is a

:54:58. > :55:02.breakthrough? I'm not sure it is a massive breakthrough. Is very

:55:03. > :55:05.interesting. We have a lot of detailed information on chimpanzees

:55:06. > :55:08.from across Africa and they do lots of interesting things, so this is

:55:09. > :55:14.another interesting thing that they do. Have you ever tried drinking tea

:55:15. > :55:20.through a chocolate bar? You by the end of both and suck tea through the

:55:21. > :55:22.chocolate bar. Oh, you have to experience this. Really? It is a

:55:23. > :55:26.life changer. Thank you. Still to come this morning:

:55:27. > :55:32.The parents of actor Peter Davison used to own a sweet shop,

:55:33. > :55:51.so how did he do in an experiment No chocolate tea, that's the shore.

:55:52. > :55:53.I want you to show me this. -- that's for sure. I cannot name the

:55:54. > :59:12.chocolate bar that I use it with, This is Breakfast,

:59:13. > :00:02.with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. More misery for hundreds

:00:03. > :00:04.of thousands of passengers as Southern Rail is hit

:00:05. > :00:07.by a fresh wave of strikes. More than 2,000 trains have been

:00:08. > :00:10.cancelled on some of the rail Thank you for turning the TV on this

:00:11. > :00:38.morning. Jeremy Corbyn is to outline Labour's

:00:39. > :00:52.approach to Brexit in a speech later today, saying for the first time

:00:53. > :00:54.that he is not "wedded" Fifa are set to approve

:00:55. > :01:18.plans to have 48 teams Good morning. A quiet day in terms

:01:19. > :01:22.of weather. Some sunshine. A band of rain coming in from the west and

:01:23. > :01:26.going east through the day. Tomorrow will be very windy with some of us

:01:27. > :01:29.in the south of England seeing gales. It turns colder with some

:01:30. > :01:35.snow. More details in 15 minutes. Another strike is affecting

:01:36. > :01:39.services on Southern rail. Drivers belonging to the Aslef union

:01:40. > :01:42.will stop work for three The dispute, about the role

:01:43. > :01:45.of the guard on trains, has been going on for

:01:46. > :01:48.nearly ten months. Our transport correspondent,

:01:49. > :01:53.Richard Westcott, has this report. It's a dispute which has been

:01:54. > :01:56.crippling one of Britain's busiest You have to get up early to go

:01:57. > :02:06.underground or get a bus. I am abandoning going

:02:07. > :02:10.out to town tomorrow. We will see how things

:02:11. > :02:13.go later in the week. I have managed to get a train

:02:14. > :02:16.but it is not good at all. And it seems talks between the two

:02:17. > :02:25.sides have turned nasty. The tactics that they've used have

:02:26. > :02:27.been particularly malicious. At best they have been dishonest,

:02:28. > :02:30.disingenuious, deceitful, Our reality is that we are now

:02:31. > :02:34.experiencing a new type of industrial relations

:02:35. > :02:36.in our industry that we have not It's a row over the role

:02:37. > :02:41.of the on board guard. Southern wants drivers to take over

:02:42. > :02:43.the safety-critical job But the union says its safer

:02:44. > :02:53.for the guard to keep doing it. A report by the regulator says

:02:54. > :02:56.Southern's plans were safe as long as they provided the right

:02:57. > :02:58.equipment and training. All of the 2000 plus services

:02:59. > :03:02.in the company will be cancelled There'll be huge disruption

:03:03. > :03:05.on Thursday too because the trains And that's on top of an overtime ban

:03:06. > :03:11.which is cutting services daily. Another three-day strike

:03:12. > :03:13.is planned later this month. The issue of driver-controlled

:03:14. > :03:15.trains is affecting Southern today, but it could easily spread to other

:03:16. > :03:32.franchises through Britain. Richard Westcott, BBC News. We will

:03:33. > :03:35.speak to the director in just a few minutes.

:03:36. > :03:38.Jeremy Corbyn is to outline Labour's approach to Brexit in a speech later

:03:39. > :03:41.today, saying for the first time that he is not "wedded"

:03:42. > :03:46.But he will warn that the UK cant afford to lose full access

:03:47. > :03:50.Our political correspondent, Iain Watson, is in Westminster.

:03:51. > :03:53.Iain Jeremy Corbyn has been under pressure to respond to Labour voters

:03:54. > :03:54.concerns over immigration, hasn't he?

:03:55. > :04:01.It is good to speak to you again. That is right on a couple of fronts.

:04:02. > :04:08.First of all, he wants more scrutiny of Theresa May's plans. Even his MPs

:04:09. > :04:12.are asking him what Labour's plans are after Brexit. He has always been

:04:13. > :04:17.pressed to do more to reach out to Labour voters who voted to leave in

:04:18. > :04:22.the referendum outside of London. He is addressing the issue of

:04:23. > :04:29.immigration head on. He is showing he recognises concerns about the

:04:30. > :04:36.efforts of immigration. He is also saying he is no longer wedded to the

:04:37. > :04:40.free movement within Europe. But his policies do not seem to be changing

:04:41. > :04:47.much at all. His solutions on immigration are similar to what he

:04:48. > :04:51.put forward before. An impact fund to help those areas with high levels

:04:52. > :04:55.of immigration put forward by Gordon Brown. He will also say they will

:04:56. > :04:59.try to prevent unscrupulous employers bringing in cheap labour

:05:00. > :05:04.from the EU to undercut workers already in Britain. Elsewhere in his

:05:05. > :05:09.speech he is talking positively about some of the benefits of

:05:10. > :05:13.Brexit, including that the future of the government could intervene on

:05:14. > :05:19.behalf of British industry. Some old EU rules could be swept aside copies

:05:20. > :05:23.of his MPs are saying privately that this proves his heart was not in the

:05:24. > :05:25.campaign to stay inside the EU in the first place. It is good to talk

:05:26. > :05:28.to you as ever. Thank you very much. A 15-year-old girl has been arrested

:05:29. > :05:31.after the death of a seven-year-old The younger girl was found

:05:32. > :05:34.with life-threatening injuries in the Woodthorpe area of the city

:05:35. > :05:37.yesterday afternoon. She was taken to hospital

:05:38. > :05:40.but died a short time later. The teenager remains in police

:05:41. > :05:42.custody and is being questioned by officers from North

:05:43. > :05:47.Yorkshire Police. Boris Johnson, who's

:05:48. > :05:48.visiting Washington, says he's confident Britain will be

:05:49. > :05:52.first in line for a trade deal The Foreign Secretary has been

:05:53. > :05:55.meeting senior Republican politicians who've promised to make

:05:56. > :05:58.a US-UK trade deal a priority, Barack Obama warned in April

:05:59. > :06:02.that the UK would be at the back The British and Irish governments

:06:03. > :06:19.say they're going to work to try to find a solution

:06:20. > :06:22.to the most serious political crisis Yesterday, the deputy First

:06:23. > :06:26.minister, Sinn Fein's Martin It came after weeks of tensions

:06:27. > :06:30.between his party and their partners in the power-sharing government,

:06:31. > :06:32.the Democratic Unionists. Our Ireland correspondent,

:06:33. > :06:38.Chris Page, reports. He joins us from Belfast. Good

:06:39. > :06:43.morning. How serious is this and what happens next? This morning, the

:06:44. > :06:48.devolved government in Northern Ireland is without its leaders. That

:06:49. > :06:52.means the administration has stopped functioning. What happens next?

:06:53. > :06:59.After seven days under the Westminster Cabinet member should

:07:00. > :07:03.call a new election to the assembly. He might have flexibility over the

:07:04. > :07:08.timing of that giving them time to bring the parties together over

:07:09. > :07:11.negotiations. He says he will do what he can to restore stability.

:07:12. > :07:18.Politicians are preparing for an election. Say it happens as seems

:07:19. > :07:24.likely, the last election was eight months ago. The DUP and Sinn Fein

:07:25. > :07:27.were ahead of the other parties. If that happens again, they are

:07:28. > :07:31.unlikely to go back to each other straightaway because the

:07:32. > :07:36.disagreement between them was so serious. This was after a scandal of

:07:37. > :07:40.a green energy scheme. There were other issues that they disagreed on,

:07:41. > :07:46.like same-sex marriage. Sinn Fein wants to bring it into Northern

:07:47. > :07:53.Ireland and DUP said no. And Sinn Fein wanted to remain after the

:07:54. > :07:57.exit. They are going to see if they can resolve differences. Northern

:07:58. > :07:59.Ireland could be without a devolved government for quite some time under

:08:00. > :08:11.those circumstances. Police in Northamptonshire have

:08:12. > :08:14.closed a stretch of the M1 motorway after a body was found in the road

:08:15. > :08:18.in the early hours of the morning. The northbound carriageway

:08:19. > :08:21.between junctions 16 and 17, near Northampton and Rugby,

:08:22. > :08:23.was shut following the discovery and is expected to remain

:08:24. > :08:26.closed for most of today. Police are investigating

:08:27. > :08:31.the circumstances of the death. There has just been an update on how

:08:32. > :08:35.Morrison's fared over Christmas. We have details. How did they do? They

:08:36. > :08:41.have done really well for a change. Expectations were a rise of 1.1%.

:08:42. > :08:47.But they are actually up by 2.9%. That is huge! A 2.9% increase in

:08:48. > :08:51.sales. That is over the really important lucrative Christmas

:08:52. > :08:56.period, nine weeks that cover November and December. The best

:08:57. > :09:00.figures for Morrison's incidentally in seven years. It is important

:09:01. > :09:04.because they have been a retailer that has really struggled of late

:09:05. > :09:11.because it is part way through a big turnaround plan. Latency problems of

:09:12. > :09:16.its take over with Safeway and all that. They say they are back on

:09:17. > :09:21.track. What is interesting if they are buying fewer items. Shoppers are

:09:22. > :09:26.going into the supermarket but spending more on less items. Maybe

:09:27. > :09:29.it is showing we are feeling better off and are trading off over

:09:30. > :09:34.Christmas. That is the figure for Morrison's. This week we will get

:09:35. > :09:41.figures for Tesco and Sainsbury is and Jon Lewis. And you have figures

:09:42. > :09:43.on how much we as a nation have been spending. Not asked.

:09:44. > :09:54.LAUGHING. . That is what people want to know,

:09:55. > :09:59.us. -- us. It is a familiar tale. If it is on line you have to be more

:10:00. > :10:04.careful. But you can buy at the last minute on the high street. And big

:10:05. > :10:09.discounts of up to 40%. We are used to them coming after Christmas but

:10:10. > :10:13.now they want more in the doors before Christmas. British Retail

:10:14. > :10:19.Consortium says we spend 1% more over the year. That is important.

:10:20. > :10:25.And on line sales were up and high street sales were down but it really

:10:26. > :10:28.was a story of trying to shop for a bargain right before Christmas to

:10:29. > :10:32.try to get people through the doors. I think this year could be a

:10:33. > :10:38.difficult one because inflation will start to filter through and prices,

:10:39. > :10:42.we believe, will start rising. You are always a bearer of bad news. But

:10:43. > :10:45.what about Morrison's! OK. Thank you.

:10:46. > :10:48.What began as a disagreement over staffing on modern trains has

:10:49. > :10:51.escalated into the worst disruption to British railways in more

:10:52. > :10:54.As another strike by train drivers gets under way this morning,

:10:55. > :10:58.the ten-month Southern Rail dispute shows no sign of coming to an end.

:10:59. > :11:02.We will be speaking to the company in a moment, but first let's get

:11:03. > :11:05.the views of some of the passengers who will be affected.

:11:06. > :11:08.Joining us from Horsham train station now is Angie Doll,

:11:09. > :11:09.Southern's Passenger Services Director.

:11:10. > :11:14.Thank you very much for coming on this morning. We have heard from

:11:15. > :11:18.some of your passengers already this morning calling the situation a

:11:19. > :11:23.nightmare. What is your answer to that and people who are sick of this

:11:24. > :11:29.disruption? We are deeply sorry we cannot provide a service today. We

:11:30. > :11:33.apologise to our passengers. The union are withdrawing labour today

:11:34. > :11:37.on a dispute that we think is totally unjustified. The action they

:11:38. > :11:41.are taking is totally disproportionate to the changes we

:11:42. > :11:46.are making. We might be struggling to hear it you but we will carry on.

:11:47. > :11:50.The drivers union say you are being inflexible and you are not making

:11:51. > :11:57.any movements or concessions. How ferries that? Well, we have made

:11:58. > :12:02.concessions. The changes we want to make are not revolutionary. The

:12:03. > :12:06.drivers on strike today are doing what we are already doing. Trains

:12:07. > :12:11.already operate with drivers closing the door. Just last week the railway

:12:12. > :12:17.Chief Inspector said this is a safe way to operate on trains. Safety is

:12:18. > :12:20.not the issue. We have been flexible and sat down at the negotiation

:12:21. > :12:24.table and have been prepared to negotiate but we need the unions to

:12:25. > :12:28.be prepared to negotiate a compromise as well with us to reach

:12:29. > :12:36.a solution. The same union came to a negotiation settlement with Scot

:12:37. > :12:41.Rail. Why haven't you succeeded? The dispute has a slight difference. It

:12:42. > :12:45.is slightly more complex than the one here. Our request to the union

:12:46. > :12:50.is your drivers are already doing this. It is not something new. We

:12:51. > :12:55.have also said that where we have had a conductor on the train we will

:12:56. > :12:57.have a separate person on the train who is safety competent going

:12:58. > :13:05.forward. To demonstrate that commitment to that we are treating

:13:06. > :13:10.100 more people than today. This is not about losing jobs. Nobody in

:13:11. > :13:13.this dispute is losing their job or salaries or anything about

:13:14. > :13:17.concessions. In fact they will be better off with salaries for people

:13:18. > :13:25.who have moved on to on board managers. And guaranteed pay passes.

:13:26. > :13:28.This dispute is about union steel and it is about an agreement they

:13:29. > :13:32.must have in order to operate the railway and we feel that what we are

:13:33. > :13:40.doing at the moment is reasonable because we already do it. 30% of

:13:41. > :13:43.trains across the whole of the UK operate like this and it is a

:13:44. > :13:48.perfectly safe way to operate. How long can this realistically go on

:13:49. > :13:52.for? Do you not have a duty of care for your passengers to resolve this

:13:53. > :13:58.as quickly as possible? Absolutely. Every opportunity our door is open

:13:59. > :14:02.to speak to the unions about a way to resolve this issue. We had said

:14:03. > :14:07.to the unions that striking is not the answer. Coming to the table and

:14:08. > :14:10.talking and listening and having an open adult conversation is what will

:14:11. > :14:14.bring this dispute to an end. Thank you for talking to us this morning.

:14:15. > :14:19.Apologies if you were struggling to hear her. Hopefully you could hear

:14:20. > :14:24.some of that at home. She is trying to represent the Southern Rail side

:14:25. > :14:28.of things in this dispute which has been causing real chaos for so many

:14:29. > :14:30.commuters. So many people. Big problems today as well.

:14:31. > :14:32.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:14:33. > :14:34.The main stories this morning: Further misery for commuters

:14:35. > :14:37.as Southern Rail drivers begin their latest walk out.

:14:38. > :14:39.Britain can be better off after Brexit, according

:14:40. > :14:42.to Jeremy Corbyn, who also says Labour is not wedded

:14:43. > :14:55.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:14:56. > :15:04.She has had some foreboding clouds today and here is another. The grey,

:15:05. > :15:09.the grey. Good morning. Yes it is a lovely picture. Today it will turn

:15:10. > :15:12.cloudy. For some of us we have a cold start with cloud breaks. We

:15:13. > :15:16.have a weather front coming from the west. Along the weather front it

:15:17. > :15:20.will turn mild. This morning you can see where we have the breaks. Where

:15:21. > :15:26.we have cloud it is producing showers for south-west England, the

:15:27. > :15:29.Midlands, Kent, East Anglia, northern England, north-east

:15:30. > :15:34.Scotland. These will fade through the morning and brighten up. This is

:15:35. > :15:38.a weather front coming in, it is a warm front. It will turn milder as

:15:39. > :15:42.it pushes from the west towards the east through the day. There is the

:15:43. > :15:47.sometime first thing. Here comes the rain with the cloud building. It is

:15:48. > :15:52.eradicating the sunshine. It will brighten up once again and we will

:15:53. > :15:56.see some sunshine to the west. Temperature-wise, 7-10, and it will

:15:57. > :16:00.cool down through the latter part of the afternoon for Northern Ireland,

:16:01. > :16:04.more than expected for the course of the night. Heading through the night

:16:05. > :16:09.it is going to turn increasingly windy. We are looking at severe

:16:10. > :16:12.gales for the north of Scotland. It is going to be windy from north

:16:13. > :16:18.Wales, the Midlands, Norfolk, northwards. By the end of the night,

:16:19. > :16:26.for the Pennines, the Southern uplands, we could have 70 mph, which

:16:27. > :16:30.might impact high your levels of the M62, for example, and tomorrow it

:16:31. > :16:34.will be a windy day anyway. Even at lower levels we are looking at gusty

:16:35. > :16:42.winds, Saint areas, north Wales, north Midlands and Norfolk

:16:43. > :16:47.northwards. Tomorrow, across Scotland, sleet or snow at low

:16:48. > :16:50.levels ever. That will come out of the showers at Northern Ireland,

:16:51. > :16:58.northern England and north Wales in the hills. Now, talking of turning

:16:59. > :17:01.cold, as we head on into Thursday, Wednesday into Thursday, you can

:17:02. > :17:05.still see a squeeze of the isobars, so it will be windy in the north,

:17:06. > :17:09.and we have this low pressure area coming from the south-west, that

:17:10. > :17:13.will bring some rain and as it engages with the cold air there is

:17:14. > :17:17.the risk of snow falling. So we could see some snow across some of

:17:18. > :17:21.the hills across the south of England, but even at lower levels we

:17:22. > :17:27.could see some snow crossing even as far east as East Anglia. The jury is

:17:28. > :17:32.out on this one, as you may have noticed, with the rain further

:17:33. > :17:38.north, but equally it might drift further south and we will sees no

:17:39. > :17:43.showers for the north of Scotland. It is going to feel cold -- we will

:17:44. > :17:47.see snow showers. Although the temperatures might be three or four,

:17:48. > :17:53.in the wind it will feel sub zero, so another day for wrapping up

:17:54. > :17:58.warmly. And as we head towards the latter part of the week, the longest

:17:59. > :18:02.north or north-westerly, it is turning cold with some further

:18:03. > :18:09.wintry showers in the forecast. I am going to leave it at that and get

:18:10. > :18:15.rid of this frog. I wanted to ask you if you can, my favourite word of

:18:16. > :18:20.the day is thunder snow. It is the same as thunder in the rain shower

:18:21. > :18:25.but the air is cold enough for the shower to fall as a snow shower and

:18:26. > :18:28.with thunder and lightning it is thunder snow. I cannot believe you

:18:29. > :18:34.asked her another question. I know. I know. I thought the answer was

:18:35. > :18:40.going to be yes. I know how you feel. Live throat clearing. Thank

:18:41. > :18:42.you. I am sure she will be fine once she has had a couple of tea.

:18:43. > :18:45.Wolf whistles, beeping car horns and concerns over safety -

:18:46. > :18:49.just some of the things women say they worry about when they go out

:18:50. > :18:51.According to research from England Athletics,

:18:52. > :18:55.more than a third of women have been subjected to some form of harassment

:18:56. > :19:00.while running on their own, as Holly Hamilton reports.

:19:01. > :19:21.It's quickly become one of the UK's most popular sports with the number

:19:22. > :19:25.of people in England increasing more than 70% in the past 10 years.

:19:26. > :19:29.But if you're a woman it's not just cold weather that can be more

:19:30. > :19:33.With a show of hands, how many people feel they have been

:19:34. > :19:39.It's people trying to make fun, have a joke and stuff,

:19:40. > :19:42.so it hasn't been harassment, but you could take it that way

:19:43. > :19:44.and could feel a bit intimidated by it.

:19:45. > :19:50.Research from England Athletics has revealed that more than a third

:19:51. > :19:54.of British women have been harassed in some way while running alone.

:19:55. > :19:57.More than 60% said they feel anxious and nearly half of those asked said

:19:58. > :20:01.that was due to personal safety concerns.

:20:02. > :20:06.I got shouted at by a couple of men as I was running around,

:20:07. > :20:12.and whistled at, that was quite intimidating, yeah.

:20:13. > :20:17.I was running through a village I know and a group of lads started

:20:18. > :20:23.But I kept running and thinking, you won't beat me, crack on.

:20:24. > :20:27.You do get the odd car that pips its horn as we go past.

:20:28. > :20:33.Nothing else better to do than pip their horn and wolfwhistle.

:20:34. > :20:37.But British women are fit for it, with most insisting it wouldn't put

:20:38. > :20:42.Running in a group is a lot better than if you're running on your own.

:20:43. > :20:45.When you're in a group it's the support and everything that

:20:46. > :20:48.you go through with everybody around you, so it doesn't feel

:20:49. > :20:55.as intimidating as if you're running on your own.

:20:56. > :20:59.These runners say it's about safety in numbers,

:21:00. > :21:04.so all that's left to worry about is keeping up.

:21:05. > :21:09.We have had so many comments about that. It isn't just women who have

:21:10. > :21:16.trouble. Lots of men have the same thing. Nick says, I have been

:21:17. > :21:18.punched by the Imperial War Museum and verbally abused as well.

:21:19. > :21:21.Joining us now in the studio now are Jenny O'Brien

:21:22. > :21:25.from England Athletics and Sam Mollaghan who is a runner.

:21:26. > :21:38.Also part of This Girl Campaign - fantastic. I haven't experienced any

:21:39. > :21:42.problems or any verbal abuse. That is because I always run in a group

:21:43. > :21:46.setting. It isn't something I can talk about. Is it because you want

:21:47. > :21:54.to run in a group setting? Do you feel safer? There are so many

:21:55. > :21:59.benefits of running in a group. Great friendships have been forged

:22:00. > :22:03.from running groups. I think it is the motivation and the

:22:04. > :22:07.encouragement. If I didn't run with other people I might find it easy to

:22:08. > :22:12.give up. That is why I run in a group setting. We have had lots of

:22:13. > :22:17.people saying they have experienced the sort of stuff we are talking

:22:18. > :22:23.about, cars beeping, people running alongside, shouting things as well,

:22:24. > :22:29.how big an issue is it? We asked 2000 of our ladies past of this

:22:30. > :22:37.campaign, they found 60% had anxiety around running on Rhett -- running

:22:38. > :22:41.of their own. It could be just a look, if someone has low confidence

:22:42. > :22:45.and they are going out for the first time and somebody toots their horn,

:22:46. > :22:50.it cannot am off and mean they don't continue going up. That is why we

:22:51. > :22:56.have these groups, so we have a safe and friendly environment to get out

:22:57. > :23:00.and enjoy running. You talk about safety, lots of people talking about

:23:01. > :23:04.that, specially at night, so your recommendation is to run with a

:23:05. > :23:07.group and not on your own? Yes, as a group you are more visible. We have

:23:08. > :23:12.high visibility vests we recommend people wear. Running with a group

:23:13. > :23:17.means you are going on a pathway that is already risk assessed. The

:23:18. > :23:20.safety elements are there. You have a trained and qualified leader

:23:21. > :23:26.taking you out. You know that it is a safe environment. Some people say

:23:27. > :23:30.they don't really mind running on their own even at night with the

:23:31. > :23:33.headphones on and they see those beeps and comments as gentle

:23:34. > :23:37.encouragement and they laugh it off and get on with it. I suppose it

:23:38. > :23:42.depends on the individual as well. It is a real individual thing. I

:23:43. > :23:49.suppose I am a little thick-skinned. I am quite proud of myself or giving

:23:50. > :23:55.it a go. I am lucky that I would be able to brush it aside and keep

:23:56. > :24:01.going. I find running quite hard. I would find it more motivating to

:24:02. > :24:07.keep going. I would say, come and join us. Don't comment on what we

:24:08. > :24:11.are doing. Come and find your group. Don't you think it is a shame that

:24:12. > :24:17.we live in the 21st century and people are being put off or scared -

:24:18. > :24:22.going for a run isn't a big deal, and people shouldn't be put off by

:24:23. > :24:26.this behaviour? It is a shame. One of the messages is, if you are

:24:27. > :24:30.beating a horn making a comment, maybe you think it is a laugh and

:24:31. > :24:34.you don't realise the impact it has on the individual, and the message

:24:35. > :24:38.we want to put out is, think about that person. We want to integrate

:24:39. > :24:44.people to be healthy and happy and enjoy running and that behaviour

:24:45. > :24:47.doesn't help anyone. The number of people - what is encouraging is the

:24:48. > :24:52.number of people doing it. One woman says, I loved a good start to the

:24:53. > :24:56.day. My co-workers have in the past expressed concern about my safety

:24:57. > :25:04.when I run on my own. I always change my husband sometimes. I have

:25:05. > :25:08.my iPhone on. I put my mind at ease. My safety is something I think about

:25:09. > :25:16.each time. That is the key, be aware. Absolutely, be mindful. If

:25:17. > :25:20.you are walking, if you are on your own, make sure you are on a well lit

:25:21. > :25:27.path, tell someone where you are going, straightforward tips. We know

:25:28. > :25:31.how many people are running, 7.1 million people were running last

:25:32. > :25:35.year, so it is the second most popular sport in the UK and we want

:25:36. > :25:38.to make sure more people enjoy it. What would you say about your

:25:39. > :25:43.journey, has it changed your life? It has changed my life. Has it? It

:25:44. > :25:48.is a bit of a cliche but I cannot even begin to start with what this

:25:49. > :25:53.journey I have been on has given to me. I started running two years ago

:25:54. > :25:59.as an absolute beginner and then I got involved with This Girl Can,

:26:00. > :26:04.which was just, yes, the response from the campaign about getting

:26:05. > :26:09.women active. It was brilliant, wasn't it? On a personal note it was

:26:10. > :26:17.brilliant for me, I think my confidence and self-esteem has risen

:26:18. > :26:21.from that. And being part of the Run Together Campaign, I can pass it on

:26:22. > :26:26.to others and encourage people to come and reap the benefits. It is

:26:27. > :26:30.such... I feel great when I run. I find it really hard. When I finish I

:26:31. > :26:36.think, I am Superwoman. I know that feeling. Hating going out and

:26:37. > :26:44.eventually... It is like, when will this Finnish? When I have done it, I

:26:45. > :26:44.think, yay! So many comments. Thank you.

:26:45. > :26:49.Still to come this morning: With class sizes on the increase,

:26:50. > :26:52.we'll see how one secondary school copes with 46 children

:26:53. > :27:01.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:27:02. > :30:27.Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

:30:28. > :30:29.Now, though, it's back to Dan and Louise.

:30:30. > :30:37.This is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

:30:38. > :30:39.Another strike is affecting services on Southern rail.

:30:40. > :30:41.Drivers belonging to the Aslef union will stop work

:30:42. > :30:48.The dispute, about the role of the guard on trains,

:30:49. > :30:50.has been going on for nearly ten months.

:30:51. > :30:53.Just 16 trains will run today instead of the nearly 2,500

:30:54. > :31:11.Every day, our door is open to talk to the union to resolve this issue.

:31:12. > :31:15.Striking is not the answer. Coming and sitting around the table and

:31:16. > :31:19.talking and listening in and having an adult conversation is what will

:31:20. > :31:22.bring this dispute to an end. Jeremy Corbyn is to outline Labour's

:31:23. > :31:25.approach to Brexit in a speech later today, saying for the first time

:31:26. > :31:28.that he is not "wedded" to the principle of free movement

:31:29. > :31:31.of people across the EU. Mr Corbyn's critics have previously

:31:32. > :31:34.accused him of failing to heed the concerns of traditional

:31:35. > :31:36.Labour voters who opted He'll say that Labour will demand

:31:37. > :31:40."fair rules and reasonably managed A 15-year-old girl has been arrested

:31:41. > :31:49.after the death of a seven-year-old The younger girl was found

:31:50. > :31:52.with life-threatening injuries in the Woodthorpe area of the city

:31:53. > :31:54.yesterday afternoon. She was taken to hospital

:31:55. > :31:57.but died a short time later. The teenager remains in police

:31:58. > :32:00.custody and is being questioned by officers from North

:32:01. > :32:05.Yorkshire Police. Police in Northamptonshire have

:32:06. > :32:08.closed a stretch of the M1 motorway after a body was found in the road

:32:09. > :32:13.in the early hours of the morning. The northbound carriageway

:32:14. > :32:15.between junctions 16 and 17, near Northampton and Rugby, has been

:32:16. > :32:18.shut following the discovery and is expected to remain

:32:19. > :32:23.closed for most of today. The British and Irish governments

:32:24. > :32:25.say they're going to work to try to find a solution

:32:26. > :32:29.to the most serious political crisis Yesterday, the deputy

:32:30. > :32:32.First minister, Sinn Fein's Martin

:32:33. > :32:33.McGuinness resigned. It came after weeks of tension

:32:34. > :32:36.between his party and their partners in the power-sharing government,

:32:37. > :32:38.the Democratic Unionists. Northern Ireland Secretary James

:32:39. > :32:41.Brokenshire is expected to make Boris Johnson, who's

:32:42. > :32:55.visiting Washington, says he's confident Britain will be

:32:56. > :32:59.first in line for a trade deal The Foreign Secretary has been

:33:00. > :33:02.meeting senior Republican politicians who've promised to make

:33:03. > :33:05.a US-UK trade deal a priority, Barack Obama warned in April

:33:06. > :33:09.that the UK would be at the back The owners of a convenience store

:33:10. > :33:17.in the Canadian city of Toronto have taken to social media for help

:33:18. > :33:19.after squirrels began The grocery store owner says

:33:20. > :33:23.the squirrels have stolen more The owners have tried closing

:33:24. > :33:27.the door to stop them from getting in, but the rodents manage

:33:28. > :33:51.to sneak in anyway. I wonder if that squirrel drinks his

:33:52. > :33:57.tea. You have drunk tea through chocolate bars. I don't know how we

:33:58. > :34:08.got to this conversation. I think that a KitKat is the best one to do.

:34:09. > :34:12.It started in Australia with a Tim Tam and it is called the Tim Tam

:34:13. > :34:18.Slam. I have lived a sheltered life. I will open your eyes. We need

:34:19. > :34:24.chocolate bars. Can we do it live on Breakfast? It would be very

:34:25. > :34:31.unappealing. Let us talk about massive World Cups. They have taken

:34:32. > :34:36.it literally when we said we would talk about a big World Cup. Not

:34:37. > :34:44.talking talking about the treaty size but the size of the tournament.

:34:45. > :34:50.Gianni has a big plant to expand the amount of teams to 48. -- Infantino

:34:51. > :34:58.has a plan to. There has been criticism of whether that would

:34:59. > :35:08.dilute the skilled. I am in. Me to. Look at the Euros. Look at Iceland.

:35:09. > :35:12.I question the reasons behind it. It is already massive and goes on for a

:35:13. > :35:21.long time with many teams involved. To expand it further is certainly

:35:22. > :35:22.money at the bottom of it somewhere. According to Infantino that is not

:35:23. > :35:33.the case. 521 million extra. It looks as though we'll be

:35:34. > :35:36.seeing more teams involved Fifa are expected to agree plans

:35:37. > :35:41.later to expand the finals from 32 teams to 48 teams starting

:35:42. > :35:44.from the 2026 World Cup. There'd be 16 groups of three,

:35:45. > :35:47.and then a straight knock-out stage. Critics say it will dilute

:35:48. > :35:50.the quality of the football but one The Euros have shown that Ireland,

:35:51. > :35:59.the Welsh, these are countries that Now the world of football

:36:00. > :36:02.knows the techniques. The entertainment will be

:36:03. > :36:08.there for sure anyway. Claudio Ranieri has won FIFA's first

:36:09. > :36:11.Coach of the Year award. The Leicester City manager

:36:12. > :36:15.was in Zurich to pick up the title, recognition of his achievement

:36:16. > :36:17.in leading the 5000:1 shots to the Premier League

:36:18. > :36:23.title last season. I think what happened last season

:36:24. > :36:26.in England was amazing, The god of football said

:36:27. > :36:29.Leicester must win. And who else but Cristiano Ronaldo

:36:30. > :36:43.was player of the year. He added the Fifa trophy

:36:44. > :36:46.to the Ballon D'or award he picked up last month, after a season

:36:47. > :36:49.in which he captained Portugal to the European Championship and won

:36:50. > :36:51.the Champions League The FA Cup holders,

:36:52. > :36:59.Manchester United, have been drawn to play Wigan Athletic

:37:00. > :37:01.in the fourth round. But here's what the Cup

:37:02. > :37:03.is all about. Wycombe Wanderers, from League Two,

:37:04. > :37:06.see Tottenham Hotspur pulled out of the hat They quite like the idea

:37:07. > :37:10.of a trip to White Hart Lane. You can see the full draw

:37:11. > :37:23.on the BBC Sport website. Leeds United made it through last

:37:24. > :37:26.night, though they were given a scare by League Two Cambridge

:37:27. > :37:28.United, who went ahead But Alex Mowatt scored

:37:29. > :37:31.the winner for Leeds. They'll go to either non-league

:37:32. > :37:44.Sutton United or AFC Wimbledon next. England's former rugby captain

:37:45. > :37:47.Chris Robshaw will miss the whole of the Six Nations

:37:48. > :37:49.with a shoulder injury. The flanker damaged his left

:37:50. > :37:52.shoulder in Harlequins' match with Worcester on New Year's Day

:37:53. > :37:55.and is expected to be out of action Johanna Konta's preparations

:37:56. > :38:00.for the Australian Open continue The British number one

:38:01. > :38:03.is through to the third round of the Sydney International

:38:04. > :38:06.after a comfortable straight sets win over Australia's

:38:07. > :38:08.Daria Gavrilova. The UK has becomes the first country

:38:09. > :38:16.in the world to officially recognise The Home Country Sports Councils

:38:17. > :38:20.have approved Parkour UK's application for recognition of

:38:21. > :38:23.the sport and the National Governing Also known as Freerunning

:38:24. > :38:25.or Art du Deplacement, is the non-competitive physical

:38:26. > :38:28.discipline of training to move freely over and through any terrain

:38:29. > :38:41.using only the abilities It is great to watch but how does it

:38:42. > :38:52.differ from any other sport or physical activity in that you use

:38:53. > :38:57.only the abilities of the body? You might use a bat. You will not use

:38:58. > :39:03.one to get over a wall, will you? It is interesting to see what athletes

:39:04. > :39:10.can do and the strength that they have declined and run and jump. It

:39:11. > :39:16.is brilliant. -- to climb. Hopefully we have it in the Olympics one day.

:39:17. > :39:24.Drinking tea through biscuits and parkour. Interesting.

:39:25. > :39:27.Anyone who has ever tried to keep just a couple of teenagers in line

:39:28. > :39:31.will probably be in awe of secondary school teachers who can control

:39:32. > :39:35.But imagine being the sole adult trying to keep order among

:39:36. > :39:38.That's the reality facing maths teachers at one school,

:39:39. > :39:41.as research by BBC Yorkshire has found that the number of children

:39:42. > :39:45.in England being taught in classes of 36 or more has almost trebled

:39:46. > :39:59.This boy is 13 and goes to a high school in West Yorkshire. When he

:40:00. > :40:04.started his Year 9 maths lessons, he noticed something different about

:40:05. > :40:08.the classroom. It looked more like a university lecture theatre with one

:40:09. > :40:12.teacher and 46 children. It was quite difficult because there are so

:40:13. > :40:16.many people around you and you are distracted to talk to them and are

:40:17. > :40:21.not focusing as much on the lesson. Everyone agrees it is too much in

:40:22. > :40:26.one class. I am a maths teacher myself and I find it difficult. I

:40:27. > :40:29.understand they are good teachers but they would learn more if they

:40:30. > :40:34.were in a smaller class. Keeping control of them is more difficult.

:40:35. > :40:38.There is only one adult in the class with them and it is difficult to

:40:39. > :40:43.make sure they are all safe. The head teacher said the move was

:40:44. > :40:47.prompted by changes to the maths exam and difficulties recruiting

:40:48. > :40:52.specialist maths teachers. It is a pilot scheme and the school says

:40:53. > :40:57.results so far are good. There is no legal limit to class sizes in

:40:58. > :41:01.secondary schools except in certain practical subjects. The government

:41:02. > :41:03.says school funding is at its highest ever level on record. BBC

:41:04. > :41:03.News. Joining us now are David Spendlove,

:41:04. > :41:08.who is an education researcher, and Helen Vickers, who is a mother

:41:09. > :41:20.of five children who is concerned Where do you live? Halifax. What

:41:21. > :41:25.concerns do you have about your children and the classes they are

:41:26. > :41:28.in? The main concern is that currently education is in crisis

:41:29. > :41:33.anyway but over the next four years we will see even further cuts to

:41:34. > :41:38.spending and education. We are already, as you just saw, in that

:41:39. > :41:43.high school not far from me, 45 children in a class. That is not

:41:44. > :41:48.acceptable. 60,000 children in the country today have a class size of

:41:49. > :41:52.over 36. If you have such a large class size it will put more pressure

:41:53. > :41:58.on the teacher. With more cuts they will be less availability. And

:41:59. > :42:02.children with special needs will also suffer. That is of concern to

:42:03. > :42:08.me because I have a daughter with dyslexia who I have already

:42:09. > :42:12.experienced great difficulty in the application of the resources needed

:42:13. > :42:17.to help her education. From a personal point of view, you have

:42:18. > :42:21.five children, presumably, between them, they have experienced

:42:22. > :42:26.different class sizes. Have you seen class sizes have an impact on

:42:27. > :42:31.learning? Yes. Because I am in a fortunate position because I have

:42:32. > :42:37.paid for my eldest son to go to private school. So he was in a class

:42:38. > :42:43.size of 15 in his secondary education. And the impact that had

:42:44. > :42:46.upon him as a child and the teacher understanding him as an individual

:42:47. > :42:52.and his need was significant. I remember going to the first actual

:42:53. > :42:57.sort of parents' evening and been reduced to tears because it was the

:42:58. > :43:04.first time a teacher spoke to me and knew my son. -- being. Is it that

:43:05. > :43:12.simple and impact? Be class sizes means a poorer standard of teaching?

:43:13. > :43:15.-- big. Not necessarily. Teachers would say they want a smaller group

:43:16. > :43:23.and so would teachers, parents. The data is mixed. The foundation that

:43:24. > :43:29.do the research and look at the research suggest that it is not and

:43:30. > :43:35.do you get about a figure of 15 where it has an impact. 20-25 will

:43:36. > :43:41.not have the impact you want. Larger class sizes will not necessarily

:43:42. > :43:44.have a detrimental effect. Depends on the child and the needs of the

:43:45. > :43:49.charred. Everything you said is absolutely correct. Does it depend

:43:50. > :43:55.as well on the subject? Are there some more suitable to be taught...

:43:56. > :44:02.Certainly. Maths, for example. Interestingly, there is data to

:44:03. > :44:05.suggest that in asthmatics, there can be problems with large groups.

:44:06. > :44:09.It would be counterintuitive to do it in that style. Every single Matt

:44:10. > :44:13.teacher is shouting at the television this morning. But the

:44:14. > :44:19.reality is that it is about the nature of teaching. -- maths. The

:44:20. > :44:25.nature of the assessment as well. Like you have said, personal

:44:26. > :44:28.relationships. What you often get in these circumstances, and I do not

:44:29. > :44:31.know what is happening in this school, but they may have learning

:44:32. > :44:35.support in addition to a teacher. It would be interesting to know what

:44:36. > :44:40.their reason for doing this is. If it is simply because of a shortage

:44:41. > :44:44.of teachers, which as I mentioned earlier, a global shortage of 5

:44:45. > :44:51.million teachers, and nationally as well, then if they are doing it for

:44:52. > :44:54.those reasons it may be because they have no choice. If there is a

:44:55. > :44:58.national and global shortage of teachers, I know you have formed a

:44:59. > :45:01.campaign group to make a difference, but how can you make a difference if

:45:02. > :45:07.there is fundamentally not enough people to teach? It is important

:45:08. > :45:12.that we raise parent awareness. That is why I am currently setting up a

:45:13. > :45:16.parent network to raise awareness in parents of actually what is going on

:45:17. > :45:23.inside schools. Many parents find schools intimidating. They do not

:45:24. > :45:27.like to find out they have some idea of what is going on but not all of

:45:28. > :45:32.it. I am hoping this will put pressure on the government to

:45:33. > :45:34.reverse the changes to help the current education crisis because

:45:35. > :45:37.schools really are suffering and are struggling. It is having an impact

:45:38. > :45:48.on school standards and children. It is a subject teachers and parents

:45:49. > :45:52.probably will watch on TV for various reasons today and do get in

:45:53. > :45:56.touch with us if you have something to say. I think there is a lot of

:45:57. > :46:01.cold weather on the way. Good morning. There is a lot of weather

:46:02. > :46:07.on the way with a bit of everything through the course of the week.

:46:08. > :46:10.Today it will turn cloudier and as the cloud and rain came in from the

:46:11. > :46:15.west it will turn milder. First thing there are some breaks in the

:46:16. > :46:21.cloud. It means they will be some sunshine and then the weather front

:46:22. > :46:25.comes from the west with some rain. Eastwood is the cloud will built and

:46:26. > :46:29.as it gets to the east you will find the rain will turn light and

:46:30. > :46:33.drizzly. The likes of Kent will hang on to the sunshine. The weather

:46:34. > :46:37.front affecting Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, the Channel Islands,

:46:38. > :46:42.introducing splashes of rain and it is the same for south-west England.

:46:43. > :46:48.They will be a fair bit of clout around. The front will extend across

:46:49. > :46:52.South Wales, brightening up with some drizzle longer coast. A dry

:46:53. > :46:56.afternoon for Northern Ireland, variable amounts of clout, bright

:46:57. > :47:00.spells and the same across western Scotland with the wind picking up.

:47:01. > :47:06.Here is the tail end of the weather front producing splashes of rain and

:47:07. > :47:11.the same across central path of England as it continues to drag its

:47:12. > :47:15.way across the east. Overnight the wind will strengthen and become an

:47:16. > :47:20.overnight feature of the weather. We are looking across the west of

:47:21. > :47:28.Scotland with severe gales possible. All areas north of that will notice

:47:29. > :47:31.the wind is going to be gusty and strong. Across the Pennines and

:47:32. > :47:38.southern opulently could have cast of up to 70 mph, which might affect

:47:39. > :47:43.higher routes. It might well lead to some disruption. It will be windy at

:47:44. > :47:47.lower levels as well. There it in mind if you are travelling on a high

:47:48. > :47:51.sided vehicle, that kind of thing. Through the course of tomorrow it

:47:52. > :47:55.will be cold and windy with a lot of dry weather around, a fair bit of

:47:56. > :48:00.sunshine, the lightest wind in the south-east, and in the cold you will

:48:01. > :48:04.notice wintry showers across Scotland will fall as wintry snow at

:48:05. > :48:08.lower-level is, but they are showers, so we won't all see them.

:48:09. > :48:13.They will be a wintry element in the hills of Northern Ireland and

:48:14. > :48:18.elsewhere. Into Thursday it will be windy across the north, as you can

:48:19. > :48:24.tell from the squeezed isobars, then low pressure comes in from the west.

:48:25. > :48:28.This is a pessimistic view on where we think the rain will be but keep

:48:29. > :48:33.your eye on the weather forecast. As the rain engages with the cold air

:48:34. > :48:37.we are likely to see sleet and snow not just on the hills but some could

:48:38. > :48:41.see it at lower levels. We don't think the rain will get this far

:48:42. > :48:45.north but it could, and we could also see some of it falling as snow

:48:46. > :48:51.or suite at lower levels. We expect that to be transient. At the other

:48:52. > :48:54.end of the country we will look at sleet and snow at lower levels and

:48:55. > :48:59.in between some dry and bright conditions. It will feel cold on

:49:00. > :49:03.Thursday with a northerly, a north-westerly wind coming this way,

:49:04. > :49:09.so temperatures of three degrees will feel more like -3 or -4, so it

:49:10. > :49:13.is a day for wrapping up warmly. And as we head on into Thursday night

:49:14. > :49:16.and Friday the wind will move to a straight northerly across the whole

:49:17. > :49:21.of the UK. That is a called direction. It means there will be

:49:22. > :49:27.some lovely crisp and sunny skies to look forward to. The most likely

:49:28. > :49:33.areas for that are in the north and the west, particularly on some

:49:34. > :49:38.areas. As you set at the top,... (INAUDIBLE).

:49:39. > :49:47.Are you still running? Yes. (INAUDIBLE).

:49:48. > :49:52.Lots of women don't want to run because of concerns about safety.

:49:53. > :49:58.About comment a lot of things. Thank you for getting in touch. One woman

:49:59. > :50:03.says, I have been running all my life on my own. I wouldn't know if

:50:04. > :50:09.anyone is talking to me. I run during the day and I will never

:50:10. > :50:14.stop. These are, I have been shouted at and peaked at, I have been spat

:50:15. > :50:21.at, had stones thrown at me from a car by a child and Dan says this

:50:22. > :50:23.isn't a gender issue. I am a 38-year-old male and I have

:50:24. > :50:29.experienced it. Yesterday we were talking about the

:50:30. > :50:35.Golden Globes, today it is the batters. British actors have been

:50:36. > :50:37.nominated at the batters. Hollywood musical La La Land has the latest.

:50:38. > :50:40.Our entertainment correspondent, Lizo Mzimba, is at the Princess Anne

:50:41. > :50:42.Theatre, where the nominations have just been announced.

:50:43. > :50:51.What can you tell us? Good morning. A lot of excitement this morning. I

:50:52. > :50:56.am joined by the film critic James King to discuss the nominations. La

:50:57. > :51:01.La Land is in the lead with 11 nominations. No great surprises. It

:51:02. > :51:07.is impossible to resist. If people go and see La La Land and say, it

:51:08. > :51:13.didn't do much for me, there might be something wrong with you. It has

:51:14. > :51:18.so much charm. It is a modern, contemporary musical. It feels

:51:19. > :51:22.classic as well. Wonderful performances. Uplifting. It sticks

:51:23. > :51:28.with you. I saw this a few months ago and haven't stopped thinking

:51:29. > :51:33.about it. It is about an aspiring actress played by Emma Stone and

:51:34. > :51:37.Ryan Gosling, jazz musician. What do they bring to the movie that is so

:51:38. > :51:42.special? It is such a charming movie. They have worked together

:51:43. > :51:48.before. It is a cliche to talk about chemistry but they have certainly

:51:49. > :51:52.got that. They perform great together. It is out on Friday.

:51:53. > :51:57.People might not have seen it. I think it will charm your socks off.

:51:58. > :52:03.Now, these are the British academy film awards, I, Daniel Blake, it has

:52:04. > :52:12.done well in some of the big categories. Best Supporting Actress

:52:13. > :52:17.nominations, actually, both are so authentic, something impossible not

:52:18. > :52:23.to react to. It is a little of a surprise. There are big Hollywood

:52:24. > :52:28.movies out there. That is about a man struggling to support himself

:52:29. > :52:32.through the state system and all of the 30 has to jump through? Yes,

:52:33. > :52:38.caused headlines, it is a Ken Loach move. He likes to make political

:52:39. > :52:43.statements. An independent film gathering pace, Moonlight, the

:52:44. > :52:50.coming of age story of a boy growing up in Miami. Best Supporting Actress

:52:51. > :52:54.for Naomi Harris? She was 10 years ago a rising star and now she is up

:52:55. > :53:01.for the Best Supporting Actress for the best role yet. She is known as

:53:02. > :53:06.Miss Moneypenny. She is so good. All of the performances are great. It is

:53:07. > :53:10.a really grown-up drama. It is the opposite of the hyperactive

:53:11. > :53:15.blockbusters. Nothing for Tom Hanks in Sully at other pilot landing the

:53:16. > :53:21.plane on the Hudson in New York. It is surprising? We take them for

:53:22. > :53:25.granted. It is another great performance. We have seen many of

:53:26. > :53:30.them before. Thank you very much. We will be here through the morning.

:53:31. > :53:36.The awards take place on the 12th of February at the Royal Albert Hall.

:53:37. > :53:41.Thank you very much. More on that later in the program.

:53:42. > :53:44.The tills were ringing out this Christmas, and we even spent

:53:45. > :53:47.a little more money than last year, according to figures out today

:53:48. > :53:52.This morning Ben is looking at where we spent itm starting out

:53:53. > :53:53.with Morrison's, who've just reported better-than-expected

:53:54. > :53:56.Yes, we will get results from the supermarkets. Tesco's, Sainsbury's,

:53:57. > :53:59.MMS and the owner of Waitrose. In the last hour Morrison's has

:54:00. > :54:02.reported a 2.9% rise in sales. They're the first of

:54:03. > :54:05.the supermarkets to give us an update and this should stand them

:54:06. > :54:08.in good stead to claim a bumper They have been struggling to win

:54:09. > :54:22.back customers. Good morning. It is interesting,

:54:23. > :54:26.2.9%, beating expectations, really beating expectations, they were

:54:27. > :54:30.thought to come in at 1.1%. What does it tell us about what we did

:54:31. > :54:35.over Christmas? This combination of what we did and what Morrison's did.

:54:36. > :54:40.What we did post Brexit, there has been a malaise, it is Christmas,

:54:41. > :54:43.let's enjoy ourselves, so we got back to spending and enjoying

:54:44. > :54:48.ourselves again. Morrison is, what they did well was putting things on

:54:49. > :54:53.stores the customers want, I also strongly focusing on customer

:54:54. > :55:00.service. A turnaround plan at Morrison's. It is interesting to see

:55:01. > :55:06.how we want to spend more money, the last hurrah before, we know things

:55:07. > :55:10.will be more expensive, with inflation, so maybe tighten the belt

:55:11. > :55:13.in the New Year? I think that is fair. The Supreme Court decision is

:55:14. > :55:17.due out on the process of Brexit fairly early this year. I think that

:55:18. > :55:22.will give a strong indication on timescale, what it's going to mean

:55:23. > :55:25.for people in terms of things like inflationary pressures, the exchange

:55:26. > :55:29.rate, difficulties are very real at the moment. I think there is pain to

:55:30. > :55:35.come down the line but Christmas was a last hurrah. Let's talk about

:55:36. > :55:38.Morrison's. Midway through a turnaround plan. Certainly coming to

:55:39. > :55:42.the end of it. They have done well here. If you delve into the figures

:55:43. > :55:47.it shows we bought fewer items, putting less in the basket, but

:55:48. > :55:52.spending more. We have always talked about supermarkets making stuff

:55:53. > :55:56.cheaper and cheaper. In this case it isn't necessarily what happened.

:55:57. > :56:01.They are doing it a little bit, 400 lines are on special discount, so

:56:02. > :56:07.they are doing that to hold off the pressure for the discount retailers

:56:08. > :56:11.like Lidl and Aldi, and they have the best range, people are splashing

:56:12. > :56:15.out on a luxury items. Conscious about food waste. Less items in the

:56:16. > :56:20.basket. People are sporting out on lotteries. What does it mean for how

:56:21. > :56:23.we shop? Retailers are having to change. There was a time when we

:56:24. > :56:29.talked about 24-hour opening. That isn't necessarily what we want. It

:56:30. > :56:33.isn't. It is a smaller amount of items in the basket shopped for more

:56:34. > :56:38.frequently. We saw news yesterday that Tesco was losing 1000 jobs at

:56:39. > :56:42.their distribution plan. That is indicative of the move away from

:56:43. > :56:43.24-hour shopping in larger locations to visiting these stores more

:56:44. > :56:47.frequently. Thank you. We'll have more on the major

:56:48. > :56:50.supermarkets in about 10 minutes with figures out showing

:56:51. > :56:53.where we bought our turkeys Time now to get the news,

:56:54. > :56:59.travel and weather where you are. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:57:00. > :00:25.with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. More misery for hundreds

:00:26. > :00:27.of thousands of passengers as Southern Rail is hit by a fresh

:00:28. > :00:31.wave of strikes. More than 2,000 trains have been

:00:32. > :00:34.cancelled on some of the rail Good morning, it's

:00:35. > :00:55.Tuesday 10th January. Jeremy Corbyn sets out his vision

:00:56. > :00:59.for Brexit and for the first time he says he's not "wedded"

:01:00. > :01:02.to the principle of free A last-minute spending spree boosted

:01:03. > :01:08.retail sales this Christmas, with more of us leaving it later

:01:09. > :01:12.to snap up a bargain. We'll get a sales update

:01:13. > :01:15.from supermarket chain Morrisons They have reported their best

:01:16. > :01:24.figures in seven years. In sport, a bigger World Cup,

:01:25. > :01:27.but will it be better? Fifa are set to approve

:01:28. > :01:40.plans to have 48 teams The BAFTA nominations have been

:01:41. > :01:41.announced, La La Land is up for 11 awards. We will talk to Dominic

:01:42. > :01:55.Cooper. A cold start, Sunshine first thing,

:01:56. > :01:57.a band of rain is moving from west to east. Tomorrow will be windy.

:01:58. > :02:00.More details in 15 minutes. Another strike is affecting

:02:01. > :02:04.services on Southern rail. Drivers belonging to the Aslef

:02:05. > :02:06.union will stop work The dispute about the role

:02:07. > :02:26.of the guard on trains has been Just 16 trains will run out of 2500.

:02:27. > :02:30.Cooper told the company were keen to bring an end to this dispute.

:02:31. > :02:34.Every opportunity, our door is open to speak to the unions to find a way

:02:35. > :02:41.to resolve this issue. We have said to them striking is not the answer.

:02:42. > :02:44.Sitting around the table, talking, listening, having an open

:02:45. > :02:47.conversation is what will bring this dispute to an end.

:02:48. > :02:49.Our South of England Correspondent Duncan Kennedy

:02:50. > :03:04.So many people will be affected, what can they do? They reckon about

:03:05. > :03:10.300,000 travel journeys are affected on these strike days. It affects

:03:11. > :03:15.people in Kent, Sussex, Surrey and bits of Hampshire. Here, between

:03:16. > :03:19.five and 10,000 people would normally be crowding around this

:03:20. > :03:25.concourse. I will show you what it is like today, absolutely deserted,

:03:26. > :03:30.no trains running whatsoever. The station manager looks after 32

:03:31. > :03:33.stations in this area, he said it is the same across all of them, they

:03:34. > :03:42.are all deserted. There is one difference, compared with before

:03:43. > :03:47.Christmas, they are putting on some coaches, not to London, but to

:03:48. > :03:52.Dorking. That is to try to get them some of the way through their

:03:53. > :03:57.journey. About 200 buses have been put on by the rail company to try to

:03:58. > :04:00.take up some of the slack. They realise there will not be 300,000

:04:01. > :04:07.people who will take these buses, but they say they are trying to do a

:04:08. > :04:11.little bit to help. The story is all about the doors that are opened or

:04:12. > :04:16.not by people like these, these are some of the drivers holding their

:04:17. > :04:21.ticket. They say it is not safe for them, they have a ten carriage

:04:22. > :04:24.coach, to open the doors themselves. People can get their limbs trapped,

:04:25. > :04:29.they cannot always see the doors on the rumoured stations, they should

:04:30. > :04:37.not do it themselves, the doors should be opened by the gods.

:04:38. > :04:41.Southern say the drivers can open them themselves, it is now safe for

:04:42. > :04:45.them to do so, and the guards should be doing other duties. It is not

:04:46. > :04:49.about getting rid of them, they should be helping passengers. On

:04:50. > :04:54.that argument, about who opens or does not open the door, the two

:04:55. > :05:01.sides are as far apart as ever. As one union official said last week,

:05:02. > :05:04.it still applies this week, not only are they not on the same planet,

:05:05. > :05:09.they are not even in the same universe of. No talks planned

:05:10. > :05:13.between either side, so the misery for passengers goes on.

:05:14. > :05:15.Jeremy Corbyn is to outline Labour's approach to Brexit

:05:16. > :05:17.in a speech later today, saying for the first time

:05:18. > :05:20.that he is not "wedded" to the principle of free movement.

:05:21. > :05:23.But he will warn that the UK can't afford to lose full access

:05:24. > :05:34.Our political correspondent Iain Watson is in Westminster.

:05:35. > :05:42.Many people will be waiting to see exactly what he has to say. Yes, he

:05:43. > :05:46.has said time and again that Theresa May requires more scrutiny over her

:05:47. > :05:52.plans for Brexit, but even some of his own MPs ask him what his plan

:05:53. > :05:56.is. They want him to address the issue of immigration and some of the

:05:57. > :06:01.concerns of Labour voters who voted to leave in the referendum. He is

:06:02. > :06:07.speaking in Peterborough today, 60% of voters decided they want to leave

:06:08. > :06:10.there. There is a change of tone from Jeremy Corbyn, he says Labour

:06:11. > :06:15.is not wedded to freedom of movement. But in some ways he is

:06:16. > :06:19.prepared to cohabit with freedom of movement, because he says that there

:06:20. > :06:24.is an important economic decision to be made, and if access to the single

:06:25. > :06:27.market is at risk by putting restrictions on the free movement of

:06:28. > :06:33.Labour, it looks as though he will come down in favour of getting

:06:34. > :06:38.access to European markets. But he says he has policies that will

:06:39. > :06:42.reduce EU migration, they are existing policies, but they are

:06:43. > :06:46.items to stop unscrupulous employers bringing in cheap Labour to undercut

:06:47. > :06:50.workers who are here and to reinstitute something which the last

:06:51. > :06:54.Labour Government did, riding funds to those areas which are feeling the

:06:55. > :06:57.greatest impact from immigration. The Conservatives say Labour is too

:06:58. > :07:04.divided to bring about a successful Brexit. Jeremy Corbyn says that

:07:05. > :07:08.there are some benefits to Brexit, especially a future Labour

:07:09. > :07:12.Government could intervene to help British industry, something that is

:07:13. > :07:16.currently prevented by EU rules, but the Liberal Democrats say it proves

:07:17. > :07:20.that German Corbyn has never fully committed to being in the EU in the

:07:21. > :07:26.first place, that is why his heart was not in the referendum campaign.

:07:27. > :07:27.You will be able to hear and see that speech from Jeremy Corbyn on

:07:28. > :07:30.the BBC later. A 15-year-old girl has been

:07:31. > :07:32.arrested after the death Police found the younger child

:07:33. > :07:35.with life-threatening injuries in the Woodthorpe area

:07:36. > :07:48.of the city yesterday afternoon. She was taken to hospital but died a

:07:49. > :07:52.short time later. The teenager is being questioned by officers.

:07:53. > :07:55.Police in Northamptonshire have closed a stretch of the M1 motorway

:07:56. > :07:58.after a body was found in the road in the early hours of the morning.

:07:59. > :08:00.The northbound carriageway between junctions 16 and 17,

:08:01. > :08:02.near Northampton and Rugby, has been shut following

:08:03. > :08:08.the discovery and is expected to remain closed for most of today.

:08:09. > :08:11.We've just had an update on how the supermarket chain Morrisons

:08:12. > :08:26.The start of a busy week for the retailers, we will get an update on

:08:27. > :08:30.how they did over the Christmas period. It is when they make most of

:08:31. > :08:36.their money. Morrison's report a 2.9% rise in sales over Christmas.

:08:37. > :08:42.That is the strongest performance in seven years for them. It is also a

:08:43. > :08:46.big-time for the retailers, we will get Tesco, Marks Spencer,

:08:47. > :08:49.Sainsbury this week, and Waitrose. All of them reporting over the

:08:50. > :08:54.course of the week, telling us what we bought and how we bought it. It

:08:55. > :08:59.looks set to be a good Christmas for them. Figures from the British

:09:00. > :09:05.Retail Consortium say we spent half ?1 billion more than we did at the

:09:06. > :09:08.same time last year, last Christmas was not particularly strong for

:09:09. > :09:12.them, but also this time we have splashed out a bit before what we

:09:13. > :09:16.think could be a tough year in terms of inflation and prices going up.

:09:17. > :09:20.There is a warning that the prices we pay in the shops could start

:09:21. > :09:23.rising, because of a fall in the value of the pound. That makes

:09:24. > :09:27.things we buy overseas more expensive. For the first time in a

:09:28. > :09:32.long time we could see food prices going up. We have talked about price

:09:33. > :09:36.was bringing prices down, but they could start rising this year.

:09:37. > :09:39.The British and Irish Governments say they're going to work

:09:40. > :09:41.to try to find a solution to the most-serious political crisis

:09:42. > :09:45.Yesterday, the Deputy First minister, Sinn Fein's Martin

:09:46. > :09:48.It came after weeks of tension between his party and their partners

:09:49. > :10:05.in the power-sharing Government, the Democratic Unionists.

:10:06. > :10:11.Northern Ireland has an uncertain future, the power-sharing agreement

:10:12. > :10:14.has lasted for almost ten years, but they have often disagreed. The

:10:15. > :10:19.latest disagreement was over a green energy scheme which went wrong.

:10:20. > :10:24.Overly generous subsidies were paid to businesses who switched to

:10:25. > :10:29.environmentally friendly fuels. Pool one ?500 million over budget. Sinn

:10:30. > :10:33.Fein wanted the First Minister, Arlene Foster, to temporarily stand

:10:34. > :10:37.down for an investigation, but she refused. Yesterday the Deputy First

:10:38. > :10:42.Minister Martin McGuinness announced he was quitting. Because they have a

:10:43. > :10:46.joint office, that decision effectively puts Arlene Foster out

:10:47. > :10:51.of her job as well. In a video on social media, she said Sinn Fein had

:10:52. > :10:57.been selfish. At a time when we are dealing with Brexit, needing to

:10:58. > :11:00.create more jobs and invest in our health and education system,

:11:01. > :11:06.Northern Ireland needs stability. But because of their selfish

:11:07. > :11:12.actions, we now have instability. Martin McGuinness used to be an IRA

:11:13. > :11:16.commander. Arlene Foster survived an IRA bombing of her school bus.

:11:17. > :11:21.Demolition should in Government. Going to be easy, but you thought it

:11:22. > :11:24.would down so quickly. The last Stormont semi-election was eight

:11:25. > :11:31.months ago. Now a fresh poll is looking likely.

:11:32. > :11:33.A humanitarian crisis, unprecedented demand

:11:34. > :11:37.Those are just some of the contrasting headlines

:11:38. > :11:42.On Breakfast yesterday, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt

:11:43. > :11:48.admitted there was a serious situation in a number of hospitals.

:11:49. > :11:51.In 2000 the then-Labour Government set a target that every patient

:11:52. > :11:55.should be seen within four hours, a goal that hasn't been

:11:56. > :12:03.Since that target was announced, there are nine million more visits

:12:04. > :12:07.to A and the Government claims 27th December 2016 was the busiest

:12:08. > :12:15.Mr Hunt told Parliament 30% of people visiting emergency

:12:16. > :12:20.He also cast doubt on the future of the four-hour

:12:21. > :12:35.If we are going to protect the standard, it is a promise to sort

:12:36. > :12:36.out or urgent problems within four hours, but not all health problems,

:12:37. > :12:39.however minor. Chris Hopson, the chief

:12:40. > :12:41.executive of NHS Providers, was quoted by Mr Hunt

:12:42. > :12:44.on Breakfast yesterday. He agrees with the Health Secretary

:12:45. > :12:47.that there is not a humanitarian He joins us from our

:12:48. > :12:58.London newsroom. The humanitarian crisis came from

:12:59. > :13:03.the British Red Cross, what would you say is going on? We know a

:13:04. > :13:09.number of things. There is record demand coming into A departments.

:13:10. > :13:15.We know that many hospitals are struggling to cope with that extra

:13:16. > :13:20.demand. But thanks to the sterling efforts of over 1.2 million NHS

:13:21. > :13:25.staff, most are able to just about cope with that demand. On the one

:13:26. > :13:30.hand, it is not just normal winter pressures, and that is an under

:13:31. > :13:35.exaggeration. But humanitarian crisis and the NHS in meltdown is an

:13:36. > :13:40.over exaggeration. We owe it to the staff and patients to try to avoid

:13:41. > :13:44.any hyperbole. On the one hand, let's be clear, we are really

:13:45. > :13:49.struggling to cope with this demand, but we are not in meltdown. Let's

:13:50. > :13:54.nail down a few things, what about the impact on patients from those

:13:55. > :14:01.trusts which you have mentioned that just about coping? Is it long waits

:14:02. > :14:07.on colleagues? We know there is a standard whereby the NHS would like

:14:08. > :14:14.to see and aims to see 95% of patients within four hours. We know

:14:15. > :14:17.that that performance measure was running at about 75% at the moment,

:14:18. > :14:22.so we have got a large number of people who are having to wait very

:14:23. > :14:27.long times. What we also know, and this is where we are nervous, is

:14:28. > :14:30.there are some places where we are having patients having to wait more

:14:31. > :14:34.than 12 hours, and where they are having to wait on trolleys. In those

:14:35. > :14:41.circumstances, the risk to them considerably escalate. There are a

:14:42. > :14:47.very small number of trusts who are seeing those kind of weight and

:14:48. > :14:52.where the risk to patient safety is significantly elevated. Really to be

:14:53. > :14:56.careful, it looks like we are dancing on the head of a pin and

:14:57. > :15:00.playing semantics, but if you cut some of the media coverage, you get

:15:01. > :15:07.the sense that anybody who went into A was a huge risk. Equally, it is

:15:08. > :15:10.important not to underplay what is going on, the NHS is under very

:15:11. > :15:16.significant pressure. It is not just normal winter pressures. Lots of

:15:17. > :15:18.detail that you gave. You are talking about patients waiting for

:15:19. > :15:24.more than 12 hours. If that is your mother or child and you said that

:15:25. > :15:29.the risk is seriously elevated, that is extremely worrying.

:15:30. > :15:35.Yes, it is extremely worrying and that's why everybody in the NHS will

:15:36. > :15:39.do everything to avoid that and why by and large if you look at the vast

:15:40. > :15:44.majority of trusts, that's not happening, but we do know there are

:15:45. > :15:47.a very small number of trusts where for short periods of time that is

:15:48. > :15:50.happening and that is extremely concerning. But again, it is a

:15:51. > :15:55.function of the fact that we have got record numbers of people coming

:15:56. > :15:58.into A, equally though to be fair to NHS staff and we need to

:15:59. > :16:02.recognise their contribution, we are treating record numbers of patients

:16:03. > :16:05.within the four hour standards. So it is, we just need to be careful

:16:06. > :16:10.about how we calibrate what we say here. OK, also. Very concerning,

:16:11. > :16:14.what do you think needs to be done at that high end, at the end we have

:16:15. > :16:18.been talking about and I understand what you're saying about other parts

:16:19. > :16:22.of the NHS. What needs to be done to stop patients being put in

:16:23. > :16:26.potentially dangerous situations? Well, so what happens is that

:16:27. > :16:30.because we have real-time information in each hospital, if a

:16:31. > :16:34.hospital starts to see the number of trolley waits escalating or the

:16:35. > :16:37.number of 12 hour waits escalating then clearly there will be a whole

:16:38. > :16:41.series of management actions are taken where everybody absolutely

:16:42. > :16:44.rallies round and ensures that those then get dealt with. So what you

:16:45. > :16:49.tend to see happening is again, I want to stress it, a very small

:16:50. > :16:54.number of hospitals, you do see for a short to medium length of time you

:16:55. > :16:59.see a number of trolley waits and a number of 12 hour waits growing.

:17:00. > :17:03.Management moves very, very quickly. That then gets dissipated and sorted

:17:04. > :17:06.out, but then there is a danger that as for example, what we see is a

:17:07. > :17:10.really good example is what we tend to see on a Monday morning, as

:17:11. > :17:14.people as the weekend is over, people then start to come into A

:17:15. > :17:16.on a Monday and what you tend to see in some of those places again the

:17:17. > :17:19.numbers start to rise again, but again, what I wanted to reassure

:17:20. > :17:24.your viewers is that, every single member of the NHS staff, who are

:17:25. > :17:28.working absolutely as hard as they can, will do all they can to manage

:17:29. > :17:33.this risk and as I said what is important to realise is that that

:17:34. > :17:37.very, very highly elevated risk is actually, is confined to a small

:17:38. > :17:41.number of hospitals and although the NHS is under huge pressure at the

:17:42. > :17:45.moment by and large, we are just about keeping our head above water,

:17:46. > :17:50.but it really is in many places just about. Which hospitals? I don't have

:17:51. > :17:55.the absolute. It changes from day-to-day, but it is a very small

:17:56. > :17:58.number. OK, briefly Jeremy Hunt was talking yesterday, wasn't he, in the

:17:59. > :18:02.House of Commons about this four hours which this standard and saying

:18:03. > :18:07.to protect the four hour standard we need to be clear it is a promise to

:18:08. > :18:11.sort out all urgent health problems within four hours. Is that

:18:12. > :18:16.acceptable that that needs to be changed that standard? Well, I think

:18:17. > :18:20.what Jeremy Hunt has pointed to and I think he deserves credit for it is

:18:21. > :18:23.the fact that we have now reached the point where the NHS simply can't

:18:24. > :18:28.do everything that it is being asked to do on the money available and we

:18:29. > :18:32.need a proper national debate about what the NHS, what service the NHS

:18:33. > :18:37.is going to provide and it seems to me not an unreasonable question to

:18:38. > :18:42.ask is are we given, that we have got nine million extra people coming

:18:43. > :18:46.into A compared to six or seven or eight years ago, can we provide that

:18:47. > :18:51.four hour standard for absolutely every single patient? I think it is

:18:52. > :18:54.a legitimate question to ask, but it really hits that underlying point if

:18:55. > :18:57.you look at the demand for health and social care services in this

:18:58. > :19:01.country, it is rising very, very rapidly and we need a debate as a

:19:02. > :19:04.nation about either we spend more on our health and care services, in

:19:05. > :19:07.which case we can preserve everything that we've got and

:19:08. > :19:10.hopefully improve, but to be honest, unless we spend more, then we're

:19:11. > :19:14.going to have to ask questions like that which is can we carry on

:19:15. > :19:20.providing absolutely everything to everybody, given the demand is going

:19:21. > :19:21.to be going up? Chris Hobson, thank you for your time on Breakfast this

:19:22. > :19:28.morning. Thank you. Here's Carol with a look

:19:29. > :19:39.at this morning's weather. As we go through the day, you will

:19:40. > :19:42.notice the cloud will encroach from the west. So for many central and

:19:43. > :19:46.eastern areas, it is a chilly start, but there is some sunshine, but as

:19:47. > :19:49.the weather front comes in from the west, the cloud will build ahead of

:19:50. > :19:52.it. The rain will push eastwards. It will brighten up behind it, and by

:19:53. > :19:56.the time we see the rain in the east, it will be weakening in

:19:57. > :20:01.nature. So turning more drizzly. But even into the afternoon across

:20:02. > :20:04.Northern England, the cloud will be building ahead of that cloud. The

:20:05. > :20:09.cloud building too across Eastern Scotland. Just a few showers dotted

:20:10. > :20:11.around the west. But a lot of dry weather by afternoon and for

:20:12. > :20:15.Northern Ireland, you said goodbye to the weather front so drying up

:20:16. > :20:19.nicely, but starting to cool down. For Wales, again, we've got the

:20:20. > :20:22.thicker cloud. Some spots of light rain or drizzle and it is the same

:20:23. > :20:25.into south-west England. But for Cornwall, particularly the further

:20:26. > :20:30.west that you are, it will start to brighten up too. This drizzly rain

:20:31. > :20:34.extends into the Channel Islands and you can see all the cloud around the

:20:35. > :20:37.weather front so it is the far east of England so East Anglia and the

:20:38. > :20:40.South East that hangs on to the sunshine for the longest. Through

:20:41. > :20:44.the evening and overnight, that drizzly rain continues to push away.

:20:45. > :20:48.We will see more showers fade in through the course of the night too,

:20:49. > :20:52.but the most notable feature will be the wind. Touching severe gales,

:20:53. > :20:57.those are the gusts across Northern Scotland with wintry showers, so

:20:58. > :21:00.some atrocious mountain conditions, anywhere from North Wales and the

:21:01. > :21:03.Midlands and the Wash will be windy through the night and through the

:21:04. > :21:08.course of tomorrow. It might well lead to disruption. Across the

:21:09. > :21:13.southern Uplands and the Pennines, we could have gusts up to 70mph. No

:21:14. > :21:17.That could affect the higher level routes of the M62 for example. Take

:21:18. > :21:21.care if you're in a high sided vehicle a light vehicle, a bike, you

:21:22. > :21:25.know the drill. Tomorrow, a fine day for many in the sense, it will be

:21:26. > :21:29.dry and sunniment wintry showers in the north. The lightest winds will

:21:30. > :21:32.be in the South East, but the same areas from North Wales, North

:21:33. > :21:37.Midlands, the Wash, it is going to be a windy day. And it will feel

:21:38. > :21:40.cold as well. By the time we get to Thursday, still windy as you can

:21:41. > :21:44.tell from the isobars across the northern half of the country, but

:21:45. > :21:47.not as windy. Than we've got an area of low pressure scooting in from the

:21:48. > :21:51.south-west, it will be tracking eastwards. Now, this really is

:21:52. > :21:55.giving us a headache as to how far north it is going to go. So

:21:56. > :21:59.depending on that, will depend on where we see some snow because it

:22:00. > :22:03.will engage with the cold air coming down. So what we think at the moment

:22:04. > :22:07.is across some southern counties and it may not be as pessimistic as this

:22:08. > :22:10.is showing, we will see rain, but some of us will see sleet and snow

:22:11. > :22:14.even at lower levels. We don't expect it to last and in the

:22:15. > :22:18.northern end of the country, once again we are looking at further snow

:22:19. > :22:22.showers. So as we go through the day, add in the factor of the wind,

:22:23. > :22:26.the three and four Celsius that you can see will feel sub-zero. So a lot

:22:27. > :22:30.going on with the weather, Dan and Lou.

:22:31. > :22:38.You make me shiver just thinking about it.

:22:39. > :22:40.Parkour is the daredevil pursuit of jumping over walls,

:22:41. > :22:43.buildings and structures, and from today, it will be

:22:44. > :22:48.classed as an official sport by the Government.

:22:49. > :22:50.The new status means it could be promoted within schools,

:22:51. > :22:54.but some have concerns over the safety of thrill seekers.

:22:55. > :23:05.Let's take a look at parkour in action.

:23:06. > :24:13.Eugene Minogue is the CEO of Parkour UK.

:24:14. > :24:23.Lovely to talk to you this morning, Eugene. There are concerns about the

:24:24. > :24:28.safety which we'll get to. What does parkour becoming a sport mean to you

:24:29. > :24:31.and to the sport? Well, it means officially we get the recognition

:24:32. > :24:36.and acknowledgement that parkour is a sport. It has been around for

:24:37. > :24:41.approximately 30 years or so. It has been in the UK for 12 to 15 years

:24:42. > :24:45.now. So it really means that it receives the same status alongside

:24:46. > :24:53.other recognised sports. So will we see our kids learning it in school?

:24:54. > :24:59.It is already been in schools. It is delivered in schools and colleges

:25:00. > :25:03.for over ten years now. We work closely with the Association of

:25:04. > :25:07.Physical Education around how we deliver parkour running into schools

:25:08. > :25:12.safely and appropriately. We saw George there taking part. He is well

:25:13. > :25:16.into his 80s. I suppose it is done by young people, but it is not a

:25:17. > :25:21.sport exclusively for young people? Absolutely. Literally anybody can do

:25:22. > :25:26.it. A lot of people say to me, you know, when can I start parkour? My

:25:27. > :25:31.answer to them is when did you stop? We all do this instinctively as

:25:32. > :25:35.human beings, we move freely, as children and then society and norms

:25:36. > :25:40.around that tell us not to do stuff or tell us to move in places as

:25:41. > :25:43.opposed to spaces. So parkour is just really reminding that you have

:25:44. > :25:47.got an obligation to play as a human being and all we're doing is

:25:48. > :25:52.reintroducing that and getting people to move in a way that we were

:25:53. > :25:56.built to. The brain sometimes tell you maybe I shouldn't jump over

:25:57. > :25:59.those railings because there is a danger and there is a fear factor

:26:00. > :26:03.and that's a big element and people watching this this morning may have

:26:04. > :26:08.legitimate concerns about that. Do you understand those? Of course.

:26:09. > :26:16.With any sport, there are sporting risks. What we do at parkour UK is

:26:17. > :26:20.to better manage those risks through a very skilled, very qualified

:26:21. > :26:22.workforce, through our member organisations that deliver the

:26:23. > :26:27.activities, whether that's to older people and for parkour for mental

:26:28. > :26:30.health, or parkour physical literacy or family parkour sessions or just

:26:31. > :26:36.general parkour sessions and whether it is in schools, universities and

:26:37. > :26:43.hospitals and we manage the risk properly. Eugene, best of luck and

:26:44. > :26:48.congratulations on parkour becoming a sport.

:26:49. > :26:53.Mike Bushell had a go. Did he say we have an obligation to play as a

:26:54. > :26:55.human? Yes. Let's leave you with that short. It is time for the news,

:26:56. > :30:15.travel and weather wherever you are. Plenty more on our website

:30:16. > :30:19.at the usual address. Now though it's back

:30:20. > :30:21.to Dan and Louise. Hello, this is Breakfast

:30:22. > :30:31.with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. Another strike is affecting services

:30:32. > :30:34.on Southern rail this morning. Drivers belonging to the Aslef

:30:35. > :30:36.union will stop work Just 16 trains will run today

:30:37. > :30:42.instead of the nearly 2500 The dispute - about the role

:30:43. > :30:46.of the guard on trains - has been going on for

:30:47. > :30:49.nearly ten months. A 15-year-old girl has been

:30:50. > :31:04.arrested after the death Phil Bodma is in York for us and can

:31:05. > :31:09.tell us a little more. What more do you know? Louise, this forensics

:31:10. > :31:14.tent is the centre Of this investigation. A seven-year-old girl

:31:15. > :31:19.has died, a 15-year-old girl is helping police with enquiries

:31:20. > :31:23.following what happened here in the Woodthorpe district of York

:31:24. > :31:28.yesterday at about 4. 4. 30. We know police were called to this address.

:31:29. > :31:34.The girl was taken to hospital but died a short time later. Now, a

:31:35. > :31:38.teenager remains in police custody, is being questioned by officers in

:31:39. > :31:42.connection with this. A spokesman from North Yorkshire Police said

:31:43. > :31:45.they were called at 4. 30 yesterday afternoon and the investigation into

:31:46. > :31:48.the circumstances surrounding the girl's death continues, he said. A

:31:49. > :31:53.tweet last night from the York City tweet last night from the York City

:31:54. > :31:57.East policing team said, a difficult late shift for all York

:31:58. > :31:58.staff with the tragic death of a seven-year-old, thoughts with the

:31:59. > :32:02.family. Those investigations continue. There's quite a lot of

:32:03. > :32:08.media attention here this morning and that police cordon is likely to

:32:09. > :32:11.stay in place for some time whilst the enquiries continue.

:32:12. > :32:14.Jeremy Corbyn is to outline Labour's approach to Brexit

:32:15. > :32:16.in a speech later today, saying for the first time

:32:17. > :32:19.that he is not "wedded" to the principle of free movement

:32:20. > :32:23.Mr Corbyn's critics have previously accused him of failing to heed

:32:24. > :32:26.the concerns of traditional Labour voters who opted to leave the EU.

:32:27. > :32:29.He'll say that Labour will demand "fair rules and reasonably managed

:32:30. > :32:36.The British and Irish governments say they're going to work

:32:37. > :32:40.to try to find a solution to the most serious political crisis

:32:41. > :32:44.Yesterday, the deputy First minister, Sinn Fein's Martin

:32:45. > :32:48.McGuinness resigned after weeks of tension between the party

:32:49. > :32:50.and its partners in the power-sharing government,

:32:51. > :33:01.Our Ireland Correspondent Chris Page joins us now from Belfast.

:33:02. > :33:09.An expert was saying one voluntary one forced resignation really? Well,

:33:10. > :33:16.that is right. Equatorial Guinea has resigned as Deputy First Minister.

:33:17. > :33:18.-- Martin McGuinness has resigned. The Government Stormont's stopped

:33:19. > :33:24.functioning and the morning papers are painting a bleak picture. To

:33:25. > :33:28.give you an idea, end of the road is one headline and another, into the

:33:29. > :33:31.unknown. So what happens next? Looks like Northern Ireland is facing the

:33:32. > :33:36.prospect of new elections. Having said that, the Northern Ireland

:33:37. > :33:42.secretary James Brokenshire hasn't given up hope of bringing the

:33:43. > :33:48.parties together to talk. If there is an election, the DUP and Sinn

:33:49. > :33:51.Fein may be the largest parties and because the disagreement is so

:33:52. > :33:55.serious, it's unlikely they would want to go back into Government with

:33:56. > :33:59.each other straightaway. We could then be into a long, complex

:34:00. > :34:03.negotiation on all of the issues the parties disagree on. There are

:34:04. > :34:06.differences on everything from same-sex marriage to Brexit and

:34:07. > :34:08.Northern Ireland could be without a devolved Government under those

:34:09. > :34:15.circumstances for quite some time. Thank you very much.

:34:16. > :34:21.Victoria Derbyshire is on at 9:00am this morning on BBC Two.

:34:22. > :34:23.Good morning, Victoria, what are you covering today?

:34:24. > :34:26.As you've been reporting, Nicole Kidman's new film Lion has

:34:27. > :34:29.been nominated for five Baftas, including Kidman herself

:34:30. > :34:34.We have an exclusive interview with her today in which she talks

:34:35. > :34:37.about her own desire to become a mum again aged 49.

:34:38. > :34:40.I would have liked probably two or three more children.

:34:41. > :34:56.Join us after Breakfast, on BBC Two, the BBC News Channel and online.

:34:57. > :35:04.Coming up here on Breakfast this morning.

:35:05. > :35:07.The Worst Witch book series has enchanted children for decades,

:35:08. > :35:10.and it's now being turned into a new TV series.

:35:11. > :35:12.We'll meet one of its stars later in the programme.

:35:13. > :35:15.Peter Davison's parents used to own a sweet shop,

:35:16. > :35:19.so how did he do in an experiment to go without sugar for 15 days?

:35:20. > :35:27.And, the awards season is well under way, and this morning it's

:35:28. > :35:32.We'll take a look at who's been nominated.

:35:33. > :35:40.But first let's get the sport with Kat.

:35:41. > :35:49.News own a bigger, some would say better World Cup? Some would, not

:35:50. > :35:53.you Dan, you are continually cynical about the plans. Questions? Yes,

:35:54. > :35:56.about what the motivation is behind it, whether it's to boost the

:35:57. > :36:00.profile of football in some countries by allowing them to play

:36:01. > :36:04.in the World Cup, get themselves on the world stage or whether it's

:36:05. > :36:07.about the cold, hard cash. We are speaking to one of our

:36:08. > :36:12.correspondents in Zurich later on but yes it looks as though we'll see

:36:13. > :36:17.more teams involved in the World Cup in future as Fifa delegates are

:36:18. > :36:23.expected to vote in favour of an expanded tournament today. The

:36:24. > :36:28.option is for a 48-team World Cup, consisting of 16 groups of three. In

:36:29. > :36:33.each group, the three teams would play each other and then the top two

:36:34. > :36:38.teams from each group would go on to qualify for a last 32 knockout

:36:39. > :36:46.stage. That makeses a total of 80 matches.

:36:47. > :36:49.Live to our correspondent Richard Conway who is in Zurich and is

:36:50. > :36:54.covering this big vote for us later on today. Who is right then, is it

:36:55. > :36:58.all about raising the profile of football across the road or is Dan

:36:59. > :37:06.right to be cynical that it does come down to raising millions of

:37:07. > :37:11.pounds in extra profit for Fifa? Well, I think the answer lies across

:37:12. > :37:15.three different sections; political sport and financial. Now, if you

:37:16. > :37:19.take each three, financially Fifa will raise around a billion dollars

:37:20. > :37:27.or ?800 million in extra revenue from this. They say they'll put that

:37:28. > :37:31.money back into football worldwide. Politically, the elected Fifa

:37:32. > :37:36.President promised an expanded World Cup so he's delivering on that

:37:37. > :37:41.promise and, in sporting terms, well, lots of countries, 211 Fifa

:37:42. > :37:46.members, lots of countries in Africa and Asia are saying it's been 32

:37:47. > :37:50.countries since 1998, there's European dominance in the tournament

:37:51. > :37:53.at the moment and they want a bigger say, they want to get more of their

:37:54. > :37:57.countries to the party every four years and they see this as their

:37:58. > :38:00.chance so they'll vote in favour of the measures later today. I think

:38:01. > :38:05.the answer lies across the three different areas.

:38:06. > :38:10.What about the fact that there's 80 matches in this new proposed World

:38:11. > :38:15.Cup from 2026, how does that work logistically, are we going to have a

:38:16. > :38:20.giant tournament that rumbles on for months? One of the big issues going

:38:21. > :38:24.into this decision has been the European clubs, the European club

:38:25. > :38:26.association represents 400 of Europe's biggest club sites,

:38:27. > :38:31.providing 80% of the players at World Cups. They are not happy with

:38:32. > :38:35.the proposals. They say there's already too much football being

:38:36. > :38:41.played. One thing Fifa will say today, I've seen one of their

:38:42. > :38:46.reports that's looked into this, they say that because a 48-team

:38:47. > :38:50.tournament, 16 groups of three teams, this will mean it could be

:38:51. > :38:55.played in 32 days and the finalists will play seven games, the same

:38:56. > :39:00.number as played at the moment with 32 teams, so Fifa will dispel the

:39:01. > :39:03.thought of too many games being played. They are trying to see this

:39:04. > :39:07.as perhaps a good solution to grow the game without putting too much

:39:08. > :39:13.more demand on the players who take part.

:39:14. > :39:18.Richard, in an unrelated issue, how cold is it in Zurich there at the

:39:19. > :39:24.moment? Pretty cold! This is Fifa's garden behind me. It's very snowy,

:39:25. > :39:27.about minus two or three. We were outside the awards last night and it

:39:28. > :39:32.was minus five, this is why we do this, coming here today, all the

:39:33. > :39:35.executives are inside, we'll be invited in at some point this

:39:36. > :39:47.morning to get warm and have a cup of tea. Get a hat on! That snow is

:39:48. > :39:52.on its way to us as well this week! Claudio Ranieri's won Fifa coach of

:39:53. > :39:58.the year award. He was in Zurich to pick up the title, recognition of

:39:59. > :40:03.his achievement in leading the 5,000-1 shots to the title last

:40:04. > :40:09.season. I think what happened last season in England was amazing, it

:40:10. > :40:11.was something strange. The God of football said Leicester must win.

:40:12. > :40:21.Only this, only this. And who else but Cristiano Ronaldo

:40:22. > :40:23.was Player of the Year. He added the Fifa trophy

:40:24. > :40:26.to the Ballon D'Or award he picked up last month,

:40:27. > :40:28.after a season in which he captained Portugal to the European

:40:29. > :40:30.Championship and won the Champions League

:40:31. > :40:33.and Club World Cup with Real Madrid. We had the draw for the fourth

:40:34. > :40:36.round of the FA Cup last night. The holders Manchester United

:40:37. > :40:38.will play Wigan Athletic - but here's what the Cup

:40:39. > :40:40.is all about. Wycombe Wanderers, from League two,

:40:41. > :40:42.saw Tottenham Hotspur They quite like the idea

:40:43. > :40:46.of a trip to White Hart Lane. Leeds United have an away tie

:40:47. > :40:51.at either non-league Sutton United or AFC

:40:52. > :40:54.Wimbledon, after beating Cambridge United -

:40:55. > :40:57.although they were given a scare by the League 2 side,

:40:58. > :41:00.who went ahead through Uche Ikpeazu. But Alex Mowatt scored

:41:01. > :41:03.the winner for Leeds. The full draw is on

:41:04. > :41:10.the BBC Sport website. England's former rugby captain

:41:11. > :41:13.Chris Robshaw will miss the whole of the Six Nations

:41:14. > :41:16.with a shoulder injury. The flanker damaged his left

:41:17. > :41:19.shoulder in Harlequins' match with Worcester on New Year's Day

:41:20. > :41:22.and is expected to be out Johanna Konta's preparations

:41:23. > :41:28.for the Australian Open She's through to the quarterfinals

:41:29. > :41:33.of the Sydeny International after a comfortable straight-sets

:41:34. > :41:35.win over Australia's The British number one next

:41:36. > :41:41.faces Daria Kasatkina, who knocked out world number one

:41:42. > :41:59.Angelique Kerber today. Let us hope she has what it takes.

:42:00. > :42:03.She reached the semi-finals last year so she obviously likes it in

:42:04. > :42:05.Melbourne. Hopefully another big year ahead.

:42:06. > :42:08.Kat, thank you very much. January's often the month

:42:09. > :42:11.when we think about eating healthily and giving up things like sweets

:42:12. > :42:14.and processed meat. One group of celebrities have taken

:42:15. > :42:18.it to the next level for a brand The programme sees them

:42:19. > :42:24.swap their unhealthy diets and lifestyles for long gruelling

:42:25. > :42:27.days of farm work and But will cutting out the rubbish

:42:28. > :42:32.prove to be too much for some? Or will it make life

:42:33. > :42:34.sweeter than ever? Woke up this morning with a really,

:42:35. > :42:41.really bad dizzy spell. Really?

:42:42. > :42:42.Yeah, just my head. I was fine lying in bed,

:42:43. > :42:45.and then I sat up and the room With the sugar withdrawal

:42:46. > :42:49.beginning to kick in, I woke up at four o'clock last night

:42:50. > :42:55.with a banging headache. It's like I've got a hangover,

:42:56. > :42:58.and I don't even drink. If I wasn't doing this,

:42:59. > :43:02.I'd be lying down in bed... Wow.

:43:03. > :43:39...Calling the doctor. Oh Peter! I didn't look entirely

:43:40. > :43:43.happy there. He was part of the programme. He's here now. You didn't

:43:44. > :43:47.look entirely happen pore for certain bits of this programme. No.

:43:48. > :43:51.The idea is, you go to this place and first up they show you the bad

:43:52. > :43:57.stuff you have been eating. That was good of them, big plates of sugar,

:43:58. > :44:04.yes. Were you shocked by what you'd eaten over the year? Yes. It was

:44:05. > :44:08.horrifying. When you consume as much of that, it changes your mind almost

:44:09. > :44:12.instantly about sugar and you see it as this awful thing that's going to

:44:13. > :44:16.rot your teeth and make your insides fat really, that's what it does,

:44:17. > :44:21.just turns to fat. When you went in there, what were you hoping to get

:44:22. > :44:25.out of it? I was not hoping to be sugar free for the rest of my life,

:44:26. > :44:30.I didn't think that was practical but I did want to learn about the

:44:31. > :44:35.fact that sugar is in everything, and just learnt the way to have a

:44:36. > :44:43.slightly healthier diet. Were you shocked by the effects because it

:44:44. > :44:47.was a sudden detox as well - tell us how it affected you? They warned

:44:48. > :44:57.that it would make us slightly irritable. They didn't tell me I'd

:44:58. > :45:01.keel over, but literally, one minute you had the meal where all the sugar

:45:02. > :45:05.was there and they are encouraging us to eat the final meal before the

:45:06. > :45:08.detox then you have nothing. You are making the food, working on the farm

:45:09. > :45:12.and I don't know if that was the reason that the thing happened to

:45:13. > :45:19.me, but certainly you are right, it was the body shock.

:45:20. > :45:27.Let us see the clip. Peter's condition has taken a turn for the

:45:28. > :45:33.worse and the paramedics are called. How long are you doing this for? Two

:45:34. > :45:40.weeks. You are into day two? Yes. OK. What we need to do, we can't

:45:41. > :45:44.determine what exactly is the cause of this, we'll give you a quick

:45:45. > :45:50.check over and make sure there is nothing else. OK. Peter out of

:45:51. > :45:56.everyone has been the most upbeat so this is a real like, what is going

:45:57. > :45:59.on. I'm just hoping it is to do with the detox and not anything more

:46:00. > :46:01.serious, to be honest, because if it is, we probably won't be seeing

:46:02. > :46:15.Peter again. We only laugh because you're OK. Two

:46:16. > :46:21.days in, what's going on? I'm very feeble! The joke was, when I went

:46:22. > :46:25.into it, it was a very interesting experiment to see if I could live

:46:26. > :46:28.with it. I thought I would be very low key, sitting in the background

:46:29. > :46:33.and seeing what would happen. I literally turned into a walking soap

:46:34. > :46:39.opera within two days. But I was determined to come back. What was

:46:40. > :46:41.physically happening? It's a thing called Labyrinth rightists, which

:46:42. > :46:49.they can only detect by eliminating everything else. It's like being

:46:50. > :46:53.very drunk without the pleasure of being drinking anything. The room

:46:54. > :47:00.spins and you can't stand up. In addition to a big diet change you

:47:01. > :47:04.are in there with some people who you will get on with and some will

:47:05. > :47:08.rob you up the wrong way. That because I wanted to do it. I thought

:47:09. > :47:14.it was an interesting thing to do. We knew what we were getting into.

:47:15. > :47:19.Some of us, one or two people didn't think... It was like no one had told

:47:20. > :47:22.them they would have no sugar. And because of the lack of sugar I might

:47:23. > :47:30.have been more irritable than I would normally be. I'm normally a

:47:31. > :47:38.fairly good human! They did a series before. I think it was Rory McGrath

:47:39. > :47:44.who gave up sugar now. Did you lose weight? I did. They did when he is.

:47:45. > :47:48.It wasn't about losing weight. That wasn't important. As Ann Widdecombe

:47:49. > :47:52.said at one point, they make a seat so much food! But it was sugar free,

:47:53. > :47:57.it wasn't about losing weight, but we inevitably did. And doing the

:47:58. > :48:02.physical activity and hard graft. Working hard on the farm, too. And

:48:03. > :48:07.those of us who didn't cheat, even though they had to let me out once

:48:08. > :48:12.to do a private commitment and I was faced with cakes, I didn't have any.

:48:13. > :48:17.But there was cheating going on? I believe there was, but I don't know

:48:18. > :48:25.how much. It was limited, but nevertheless, impressive. LAUGHTER

:48:26. > :48:31.We did all lose weight, yes. But they didn't weigh me until halfway

:48:32. > :48:36.through. Are you now an evangelist about the lifestyle? According to my

:48:37. > :48:40.family I was a food fascist when I came back. I would go to the fridge

:48:41. > :48:45.and my son would take out a yoghurt and I would say, do you know how

:48:46. > :48:49.much sugar is in that! I'm not sugar free, but I now takes the sugar in

:48:50. > :48:53.everything. It's in everything. I was on low-fat yoghurt is four years

:48:54. > :48:58.before that and I looked at how much sugar is in them, it's frightening.

:48:59. > :49:08.So it has changed you. Some of us are addicted to sugar, do you think?

:49:09. > :49:11.It tastes very nice but it has no nutritional value at all. I try to

:49:12. > :49:16.think of it now is an enemy, not a friend. It's a seductive enemy, but

:49:17. > :49:21.it's still an enemy. That's the problem, once you've started having

:49:22. > :49:27.it, you crave it. I do, and I still have moments when I can't resist.

:49:28. > :49:34.That's OK! I'm glad you're OK. It's on ITV at 9pm tonight. We were just

:49:35. > :49:40.about to mention that! We are glad you made it back say. Another

:49:41. > :49:42.reminder, Peter Davison will be in Sugar Free Farm on ITV from 9pm

:49:43. > :49:44.tonight. Here's Carol with a look

:49:45. > :49:53.at this morning's weather. There's a lot to talk about but we

:49:54. > :49:57.can start with a beautiful weather watcher's photograph from Hampshire

:49:58. > :50:00.and another one from Devon. We have some sunshine here, but as we go

:50:01. > :50:06.through the day the cloud will build. Write a bit of sunshine,

:50:07. > :50:09.clouds dotted here and there. That cloud in the north-west, introducing

:50:10. > :50:13.the weather front and some rain. As the rain moves from the west to the

:50:14. > :50:16.east it will start to weaken. By the time it gets to the east later it

:50:17. > :50:21.will be more like drizzle and rain and it will brighten up behind it.

:50:22. > :50:24.The weather front producing the cloud and patchy rain. A lot of

:50:25. > :50:30.clout in eastern Scotland with showers in the far north. One or two

:50:31. > :50:33.showers in the West but we will see some dry weather and sunshine.

:50:34. > :50:43.Relatively clear in Northern Ireland, bright spells will stop

:50:44. > :50:48.into Wales, -- bright spells. Moving into Wales... Spots of rain. Into

:50:49. > :50:51.the West, brightening up, down in Cornwall and Devon. Through the rest

:50:52. > :50:55.of Devon and Somerset, Gloucestershire, the Midlands, a lot

:50:56. > :51:00.of cloud extending to the Channel Islands with spots of rain. East

:51:01. > :51:03.Anglia and the south-east hang on to sunshine for the longest. Through

:51:04. > :51:08.the evening and overnight the most notable feature will be the wind.

:51:09. > :51:15.Looking at gusts of up to severe gale force in north-west Scotland.

:51:16. > :51:24.North of the wash and North Wales, it will be very windy. Some of the

:51:25. > :51:33.higher-level routes could be affected. The M62 will be affected

:51:34. > :51:39.overnight and into tomorrow. Check your local BBC radio station. Wintry

:51:40. > :51:43.forecast for tomorrow particularly in the hills of Scotland. It will be

:51:44. > :51:47.atrocious in the mountains, with some blizzards. Looking at a windy

:51:48. > :51:50.day, and a lot of dry weather, having said that. But by then the

:51:51. > :51:56.cold air will have filtered across the UK. Going into Thursday, windy

:51:57. > :52:01.in the northern half of the country. As you can see from the squeezing

:52:02. > :52:05.isobars. However, we have some weather fronts coming our way from

:52:06. > :52:09.the Southern counties. The forecast for this could change. We think at

:52:10. > :52:13.the moment it will come in through southern England and South Wales. It

:52:14. > :52:18.could go further south or north. But as it clashes with the cold air you

:52:19. > :52:25.will find some of it will turn to sleet and snow. We will see that in

:52:26. > :52:29.some of the modest hills in the south and at low levels. It would be

:52:30. > :52:33.everywhere, but it will not last. At the other end of the country we have

:52:34. > :52:39.some snow. Wintry showers getting down to low levels. With showers,

:52:40. > :52:42.not everyone will see it, but it will be around something drier and

:52:43. > :52:48.brighter. Thursday will be a cold day. Still windy, but not as windy.

:52:49. > :52:54.It will feel subzero. And we are not Out of the Woods on Friday either.

:52:55. > :53:00.Some hefty weather warnings coming our way. Moving on to the Baftas.

:53:01. > :53:02.British stars Naomie Harris and Andrew Garfield have been

:53:03. > :53:05.nominated for best acting awards at the Baftas.

:53:06. > :53:07.Hollywood musical La La Land has the most nominations with 11 nods.

:53:08. > :53:15.Joining us now, is the actor Dominic Cooper and Bafta

:53:16. > :53:22.Thank you for joining us this morning. Dominic Cooper read out the

:53:23. > :53:26.nominations this morning. What have you made of those nominations, first

:53:27. > :53:31.of all to Amanda. I think it's a really exciting year for film.

:53:32. > :53:38.Looking at the film with the most nominations, La La Land, it couldn't

:53:39. > :53:40.be more different from Arrival and Nocturnal Animals with nine

:53:41. > :53:44.nominations each. I'm aware some of the films are yet to come out but

:53:45. > :53:48.today we will shine a bright spotlight on them and hopefully lots

:53:49. > :53:51.of people will see them. We are seeing pictures of La La Land. Not

:53:52. > :53:56.many of us have seen it because it hasn't come out yet, but why is it

:53:57. > :54:00.so special? I think it's a really unique film. Lots of people today

:54:01. > :54:06.have asked me if it's because we've had quite a grim year that people

:54:07. > :54:13.needed a different kind of entertainment. . The performances

:54:14. > :54:16.are amazing. There's a joyfulness about the film. Looking across the

:54:17. > :54:21.nominations the range is extraordinary. You have La La Land.

:54:22. > :54:29.Arrival is a sci-fi film. More harrowing stories in Moonlight and

:54:30. > :54:32.I, Daniel Blake. That's what makes the nominations interesting this

:54:33. > :54:37.year. The critics have been really positive about La La Land. James

:54:38. > :54:42.King said it ticks a lot of boxes. It feels nostalgic but it also has a

:54:43. > :54:46.modern touch. It's hard to explain. It does exactly that. It's difficult

:54:47. > :54:51.when you hear such wonderful things about a film and you go in with

:54:52. > :54:54.expectations so high, but it reaches all those expectations. It's

:54:55. > :54:59.stunning, moving, reminds me of those films when you were young. The

:55:00. > :55:03.performances are gorgeous. They are so skilful. You desperately want to

:55:04. > :55:08.be in it. It makes you thoughtful about your own life, the decisions

:55:09. > :55:11.you've made. It does everything. You can understand why it has 11

:55:12. > :55:16.nominations and why people are raving about it. It all makes sense.

:55:17. > :55:20.I'm excited for it to come out here and for people to get the

:55:21. > :55:26.opportunity to see it. It really is wonderful. It's why film was

:55:27. > :55:32.created. It's one of those ones. Another completely different genre,

:55:33. > :55:37.I Daniel Blake is done well as well. Fantastic to see it doing so well.

:55:38. > :55:42.It has five nominations including one for director Ken Loach, who got

:55:43. > :55:48.his first Bafta nomination 50 years ago in the television awards. What a

:55:49. > :55:55.career that has been. Haley Squires is also nominated. She appears in

:55:56. > :55:59.the film, her first nomination. We saw the Golden Globes yesterday, La

:56:00. > :56:03.La Land was there and a number of other films did well. Quite a few

:56:04. > :56:07.political statements were made by some actors. Most well-known, Meryl

:56:08. > :56:11.Streep has been on the front cover of lots of newspapers here and in

:56:12. > :56:15.the US. When you see somebody in your profession make statements like

:56:16. > :56:23.that, do you wince or applaud? Is it the right stage? I can't say whether

:56:24. > :56:29.it's the right or the wrong stage, but if somebody is politically aware

:56:30. > :56:33.and speaks eloquently, about her feelings on the state of the world,

:56:34. > :56:37.and she feels a responsibility to do that and people will listen, then

:56:38. > :56:41.it's wonderful. There's a problem when everybody starts to decide to

:56:42. > :56:44.make claims and say how they feel in that environment. It's a very

:56:45. > :56:50.delicate subject. But I somebody like Meryl Streep, with the gravitas

:56:51. > :56:56.she has and the level of knowledge and awareness politically that she

:56:57. > :57:03.has, I certainly don't wince. And more so than ever, we need people

:57:04. > :57:06.with freethinking and clever, intelligent people to make their

:57:07. > :57:12.statements and make people aware of how they feel and how we should be

:57:13. > :57:16.feeling. It's a hard one, and perhaps not the right place to do

:57:17. > :57:20.it, but that's where she chose to do it. I applaud her for being brave

:57:21. > :57:26.enough to do it. She certainly made headlines. On the front pages of

:57:27. > :57:29.lots of newspapers. Amanda, the Baftas has a new diversity

:57:30. > :57:34.initiative at the moment. What's that doing, and what difference

:57:35. > :57:39.could it make? Last month we announced a number of changes.

:57:40. > :57:43.Firstly to our membership criteria. Because we wanted to make membership

:57:44. > :57:48.more accessible to people. In the past you have needed to know Bafta

:57:49. > :57:55.members to become one. You had to be proposed and seconded. We've got rid

:57:56. > :57:59.of that immediately. Also, by 2019, films to be eligible for the British

:58:00. > :58:06.categories in the awards happen to have adhered to at least two of the

:58:07. > :58:10.four BFI diversity standards. That can sound incredibly dry when I say

:58:11. > :58:14.that out loud, but bringing it to life, we spend a lot of time talking

:58:15. > :58:19.to the production community here in the UK, and I was so delighted by

:58:20. > :58:24.the reactionary got leading producers who said it gives them a

:58:25. > :58:31.framework and a model to work to. They are incredibly supportive of

:58:32. > :58:36.the changes we will make. Dominic, how important is it as an actor to

:58:37. > :58:41.have a nomination? To have a nomination for an actor, it's a

:58:42. > :58:46.celebration, ultimately. These events celebrate all the hard work

:58:47. > :58:54.and effort from everyone that goes into making these wonderful pieces

:58:55. > :58:58.of art. For an actor, you feel, I suppose, it's nice that your work

:58:59. > :59:03.has appealed to people and had an impact and effect. And the work you

:59:04. > :59:08.have put in and thought about at such great length has been

:59:09. > :59:12.appreciated. But you also have an extraordinary amount of gratitude to

:59:13. > :59:15.people who have created that, every single aspect of the creation of a

:59:16. > :59:17.film, and there are many people involved in that. Thank you for

:59:18. > :59:32.joining us. The British Academy Film Awards

:59:33. > :59:38.will take place on Sunday, February 12th where we'll find out

:59:39. > :59:41.all the winners. As households struggle to make ends

:59:42. > :59:45.meet, business has boomed But while unlicensed loans may

:59:46. > :59:50.seem like a quick fix, they can destroy lives,

:59:51. > :59:53.as debts spiral due to high interest, and payments are extorted

:59:54. > :59:56.through threats and violence. Tonight, a BBC One documentary sheds

:59:57. > :00:00.the light on the people working The programme's been three

:00:01. > :00:06.years in the making. Inside the pockets, and we have

:00:07. > :00:14.got two wads of cash. It's always double bagged

:00:15. > :00:20.and sealed, and then it's counted One of the most important things

:00:21. > :00:30.is to secure the mobile phones. People will do things

:00:31. > :00:32.like eating their Sim cards, There is a bank bag with ?20 notes

:00:33. > :00:43.and other notes inside. Bearing in mind with this man,

:00:44. > :00:47.there is evidence in the house that he hasn't paid any

:00:48. > :00:49.of his standard bills that are all expected to pay, and he's

:00:50. > :00:52.receiving additional benefits. You wouldn't expect to find

:00:53. > :00:56.multi-thousand pounds chucked away in clothing in the bedroom,

:00:57. > :00:58.or stuffed down Cath Williams from Trading

:00:59. > :01:25.Standards, who features in the film, Hovelly to speak to you. How much of

:01:26. > :01:30.a problem is this? Massive impact on the victims. People have been driven

:01:31. > :01:33.almost to the point of suicide by these persons' greed extorting money

:01:34. > :01:37.from them. Tell us a bit about the threats that

:01:38. > :01:42.people have experienced, what kind of things? We have heard all sorts.

:01:43. > :01:45.Loan sharks, it's like psychological warfare, they find out what is

:01:46. > :01:52.important to you and then threaten it. A guy in Manchester turned up at

:01:53. > :01:58.school and walked a lady's teenage daughter home. She was watching the

:01:59. > :02:04.daughter stood at the end of the drive with Mr Big. For that lady,

:02:05. > :02:10.that was enough to keep her paying for years, then the explicit, "we'll

:02:11. > :02:15.break your legs", "I have a space in my backyard to bury you", you can

:02:16. > :02:19.imagine how it affects their lives. As we were saying in the

:02:20. > :02:22.introduction, there is more people struggling to make ends meet and

:02:23. > :02:26.sometimes you've got to get money to feed the family or to find money to

:02:27. > :02:30.pay for the things you essentially need to keep life going and you

:02:31. > :02:36.might have to turn to something like this on occasions? Absolutely. The

:02:37. > :02:41.problem is that loan sharks don't have a tabbard on saying they are

:02:42. > :02:45.loan sharks. A lot of the borrowers say they thought they were their

:02:46. > :02:52.friends and it's almost like, I'll lend you ?200 until you get the

:02:53. > :02:57.money to pay me back so you can get your washing machine fixed. People

:02:58. > :03:00.have paid back thousands, all they've been is the victim of a loan

:03:01. > :03:04.shark waiting for the knock on the door and absolutely terrified. You

:03:05. > :03:09.talk about Mr Big but there are all sorts of people engaging in illegal

:03:10. > :03:12.money lending? A massive spectrum, from organised crime groups down to

:03:13. > :03:15.people who maybe lend to 30 people in their work place, a massive

:03:16. > :03:20.spectrum. Is there a problem with that, for example? We do come across

:03:21. > :03:25.that. There's all sorts of things, people at school gates, people in

:03:26. > :03:28.the work place, organised crime, a state-based lending, community-based

:03:29. > :03:33.lending, it looks different from how it imagined I would from when I came

:03:34. > :03:37.into the job. 20% of the people we arrested were female. They are a

:03:38. > :03:43.factor as well. One in five loan sharks are women. Another figure is

:03:44. > :03:47.APR rates, 4.2 million %. You can't pay that back can you? No, and that

:03:48. > :03:51.is the thing. Too many people are out there with people extorting

:03:52. > :03:55.money from them. The amount of the original loan is often irrelevant,

:03:56. > :04:01.it's a hook to get people in their grasp then to make sure they pay.

:04:02. > :04:06.You have 100% conviction rate of people you take to court. Yes. What

:04:07. > :04:10.sort of percentage do you get into court because presumably finding

:04:11. > :04:16.evidence, is it difficult? We have had over 350 successful

:04:17. > :04:20.prosecutions, we have a small team covering the whole of England. We

:04:21. > :04:29.want people to come forward, we don't want them to suffer in

:04:30. > :04:35.silence. There might be somebody going through this and they should

:04:36. > :04:38.get in touch with us. We understand how scary it is to call us, but

:04:39. > :04:43.phone us and have the conversation. We can think about statements later,

:04:44. > :04:48.just phone up and have the conversation. We can take

:04:49. > :04:52.information down in confidence. They need to call Trading Standards then.

:04:53. > :04:59.When do they need to know it's a loan shark, it's not just a ?10

:05:00. > :05:04.lend? Any loan that spirals out of control and where you don't know how

:05:05. > :05:08.much you are paying back, no paper work and any threats with it. Thank

:05:09. > :05:09.you very much. It's a big problem for increasing numbers of people as

:05:10. > :05:12.well. The War on Loan Sharks

:05:13. > :05:15.is on BBC One tonight at 10:45pm. Let's take a last, brief

:05:16. > :05:17.look at the headlines I'm back with the latest

:05:18. > :06:54.from the BBC London It's a story that has been thrilling

:06:55. > :07:11.children since the 1970s - an unsuspecting girl is whisked off

:07:12. > :07:14.to a world of witches and wizards, only to find that despite her best

:07:15. > :07:17.efforts, magic isn't Tomorrow, a new adaptation

:07:18. > :07:20.of The Worst Witch starts on CBBC. We'll be talking to one

:07:21. > :07:23.of its stars in a moment, We're joined now by Clare Higgins,

:07:24. > :08:25.who plays Miss Cackle Here they come, the future of

:08:26. > :08:30.witchcraft. The new term starts in six weeks. And these are our

:08:31. > :08:37.potential new ones... We're joined now by Clare Higgins,

:08:38. > :08:50.who plays Miss Cackle So many will have read this. What

:08:51. > :08:57.surprised me is how many adults over 40 ask if it's coming back. They are

:08:58. > :09:00.so embarrassed but they are 40 or 50, this is cross-generation and the

:09:01. > :09:05.little kids are going to be introduced for the first time. 20,

:09:06. > :09:10.30, 40 and 50-year-olds or even very old people like me are longing to

:09:11. > :09:15.revisit it. Longing. What is the enduring appeal of it then, is it

:09:16. > :09:18.just a well-told story? You saw that little introduction and clip. As

:09:19. > :09:25.soon as you are up that mountain, you are in magic land and magic land

:09:26. > :09:28.is safe, safe and wonderful. The enduring thing is that it's about

:09:29. > :09:32.friendship at the end of the day. It's about everything that we all go

:09:33. > :09:37.through, school, problems, teachers you don't get on with, friends, what

:09:38. > :09:40.is it like making friends, how difficult is it, what do you have in

:09:41. > :09:44.common, these are enduring things but for me the thing that's really

:09:45. > :09:51.beautiful and wonderful is how magical it is and how funny it is.

:09:52. > :09:56.And you fly. I remember sitting on a broomstick in the studio thinking, I

:09:57. > :10:03.can't believe I'm being allowed to do this. What did you do at work

:10:04. > :10:09.today, you know, "well... I sat on a broomstick and I flew! " You can see

:10:10. > :10:12.it's just magic, totally. It's not been on TV for some time,

:10:13. > :10:16.over ten years now, for those who might be coming to it for the first

:10:17. > :10:23.time, what would you say to bring them in, how can you best describe

:10:24. > :10:29.it? Cackle academy mill dread Maude and the rest of the girls feel like

:10:30. > :10:33.family -- Mildred. As soon as you open the door to this party, you

:10:34. > :10:37.identify with it, everyone identified with someone. These are

:10:38. > :10:44.people we recognise instinctively and we are drawn into their world,

:10:45. > :10:47.where there are specific rules, what is magic, what are the rules of

:10:48. > :10:51.magic and how does it fit into the real world. Sometimes I look around

:10:52. > :10:58.the world and think, we could all do with a bit of this. We could do with

:10:59. > :11:04.a bit of magic. Mildred has a few mishaps, let's have a look at one.

:11:05. > :11:38.Here we go... . Mill you, I think you should

:11:39. > :11:44.concentrate. -- Millie, I think you should concentrate.

:11:45. > :11:53.Argh... Oops. A bit of gunge as well.

:11:54. > :11:56.We are massive fans of Harry Potter in our house and you can't help but

:11:57. > :11:59.watching it with that in mind as well because there are more than a

:12:00. > :12:07.few similarities. There are. These books were written

:12:08. > :12:11.way before, 40 years ago, but I think really the commonalty is the

:12:12. > :12:16.same thing, friendship mixed with magic and anyone who's lived through

:12:17. > :12:22.their own childhood knows what that means. Harry Potter I think really

:12:23. > :12:26.also, that's wonderful as well, it's the same theme. But, you know, this

:12:27. > :12:34.book's written a very, very long time ago and I think Jill wrote

:12:35. > :12:38.about her own childhood. Is it true you gave someone the fright of your

:12:39. > :12:45.life when you were out walking round in your witch's outfit and there was

:12:46. > :12:52.a guy driving? This is hilarious, we filmed on a small country road in a

:12:53. > :12:56.tiny house in Cheshire, in a tiny house called Witch's Cottage. There

:12:57. > :12:59.was a lull in proceedings as there often is, so I wondered off on this

:13:00. > :13:06.country road to have a look around. As I stepped out in my witch's hat

:13:07. > :13:14.and cloak and broomstick, around the corner comes a car. It comes towards

:13:15. > :13:19.me and this man went like that and nodded at me and I know that man

:13:20. > :13:23.went home and said to his wife, I just seen a witch. I want to say to

:13:24. > :13:26.that man if you are watching, stop the divorce, you did see a witch and

:13:27. > :13:27.it was me! Lovely. Thank you so much.

:13:28. > :13:37.Thank you! We asked you who's left you feeling

:13:38. > :13:41.ripped off when it comes to your