13/01/2017

:00:00. > :00:00.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:00:07. > :00:16.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:00:17. > :00:21.Thousands of people along the east coast of England are told

:00:22. > :00:23.to leave their homes, as gale-force winds combine

:00:24. > :00:27.Seven severe flooding warnings, meaning a risk to life,

:00:28. > :00:36.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:00:37. > :00:39.Thousands of people along the east coast of England are told

:00:40. > :00:41.to leave their homes, as gale-force winds combine

:00:42. > :00:45.Seven severe flooding warnings, meaning a risk to life,

:00:46. > :00:49.In the next hour, more than 1,000 people will be moved to safety

:00:50. > :00:54.Thousands of people have been told to evacuate. I will have the details

:00:55. > :00:55.live in Jaywick. Good morning, it is

:00:56. > :00:57.Friday 13 January. Also this morning: More

:00:58. > :00:59.men are in low-paid, part-time work than ever before,

:01:00. > :01:02.according to a new study of those Almost 5 million people

:01:03. > :01:06.switched their energy supplier last We will find out how

:01:07. > :01:11.you could save money on your bill. More people took their first step

:01:12. > :01:15.on the housing ladder last year than since 2007, and research

:01:16. > :01:18.for Breakfast says it is also getting cheaper for first-timer

:01:19. > :01:21.buyers to have a mortgage In sport, football mourns the loss

:01:22. > :01:27.of one of its true gentlemen Graham Taylor, the former Watford,

:01:28. > :01:30.Aston Villa and England manager, who died after a heart attack

:01:31. > :01:50.yesterday at the age of 72. Good morning to you. Lots to talk

:01:51. > :01:54.about in terms of the weather. Snow and ice warnings as well as strong

:01:55. > :01:56.winds and potential flooding around the east coast. A full forecast in

:01:57. > :01:57.15 minutes. First, our main story: The army

:01:58. > :02:01.is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east coast,

:02:02. > :02:04.where a tidal surge The Environment Agency has issued

:02:05. > :02:19.seven severe flood warnings, All along the east coast, floodgates

:02:20. > :02:22.have been closed in preparation for the storm surge. Gale force winds

:02:23. > :02:29.are combining with high tides to threaten coastal defences. In

:02:30. > :02:33.Jaywick, in Essex, there is a severe flood warning, meaning a risk to

:02:34. > :02:38.life. The emergency services have arrived in force. The residents are

:02:39. > :02:42.being urged to leave. Evacuation centres are on standby. We've got

:02:43. > :02:47.exceptionally strong winds, between 40 and 50 miles an hour, potentially

:02:48. > :02:50.with gusts stronger than that going to coincide with a high tide just

:02:51. > :02:55.after lunchtime, so that's why we've put in place this operation to

:02:56. > :02:58.evacuate safely the people of Jaywick. Some have already heeded

:02:59. > :03:03.that warning. Others are waiting to see. We have had the text messages,

:03:04. > :03:06.saying have you evacuated yet? The neighbours next door get all

:03:07. > :03:10.panicked, because she is not very well next door, and things like

:03:11. > :03:14.that. So I think a lot of people are actually planning to stay. On the

:03:15. > :03:18.Lincolnshire coast on at Skegness, the military have been brought in to

:03:19. > :03:23.help if needed. About 100 soldiers have been based at the police

:03:24. > :03:27.station. Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can

:03:28. > :03:31.to protect their businesses. There will be a significant rise in the

:03:32. > :03:35.water. But whether it will be enough to top the defences depends on

:03:36. > :03:41.Mother Nature, I suppose, really. And Mother Nature is said to bring

:03:42. > :03:45.more wintry weather today, causing even more travel disruption. Nearly

:03:46. > :03:50.all the UK is covered by weather warnings for snow or ice or. -- or

:03:51. > :03:51.both. In a moment we will get

:03:52. > :03:54.the latest on the snow, but first we can speak

:03:55. > :03:57.to our correspondent Leigh Milner, who is in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex,

:03:58. > :04:13.where residents are being moved I can see a couple of people behind

:04:14. > :04:20.you. That's right. I'm currently standing in a very warm rest centre.

:04:21. > :04:24.Approximately 17 people here, as you can see, six are resting behind me.

:04:25. > :04:28.I have unfortunately woken up this morning but they are very warm, very

:04:29. > :04:31.safe, and that is what the police have been telling them all

:04:32. > :04:38.throughout the night. They were told approximately at 4pm yesterday

:04:39. > :04:41.afternoon when they received a knock on their door telling them they had

:04:42. > :04:45.to leave their home because they were in fact at risk of flooding.

:04:46. > :04:50.Overnight here this centre has been open, providing hot drinks, Lang

:04:51. > :04:56.gets, lower beds. Some safe haven for these people. This is just the

:04:57. > :04:59.beginning, the first of 2500 residents who are being told that

:05:00. > :05:05.they are at risk. The fear is that the strong winds during the high

:05:06. > :05:08.tide will break the defences, and flood the village, destroying

:05:09. > :05:12.thousands of homes. It is of course a very anxious time for not just

:05:13. > :05:16.these people but for people along the coast throughout the country. We

:05:17. > :05:20.have already seen the army over in Lincolnshire. There are also serve

:05:21. > :05:24.rural weather warnings and flood warnings around the east coast --

:05:25. > :05:29.several weather warnings. The advice is to pack a bag of clothes and have

:05:30. > :05:32.essential medical items as well, ensure that valuables and expensive

:05:33. > :05:36.electrical items are put in high places, and if you have any concerns

:05:37. > :05:40.please do contact the police on the 101 number. Thank you, we will get

:05:41. > :05:42.back to you throughout the morning. The weather caused some problems

:05:43. > :05:45.for commuters at rush hour yesterday, with long delays,

:05:46. > :05:47.including queues in both directions There are warnings of

:05:48. > :05:50.similar problems today. Our correspondent Simon Jones

:05:51. > :05:58.is in a very snowy Canterbury We had some snow in a few places

:05:59. > :06:01.last night. I can see some around where you are. The snow started

:06:02. > :06:04.coming down here at around 6pm yesterday evening, and it snowed

:06:05. > :06:07.heavily for around three hours. We are told at was about five

:06:08. > :06:11.centimetres, which is an unusual amount in this part of the world.

:06:12. > :06:14.And down there you can see some of the snow. But because it has been

:06:15. > :06:18.freezing overnight it is actually largely turned to ice, and that

:06:19. > :06:23.means it is pretty grim as you are trying to walk around. Very, very

:06:24. > :06:28.sleepy. We've got more snow down here, and it is not really very nice

:06:29. > :06:37.at all. Now the roads largely have been greeted. This one isn't too

:06:38. > :06:41.bad, the gritters have been out and about throughout the night. This one

:06:42. > :06:45.down here is pretty much sheet ice so not nice to drive on. The advice

:06:46. > :06:51.is if you are driving go very slowly. We have had a few incidents,

:06:52. > :06:57.part of the 20 is closed because the lorry has blocked that road -- and

:06:58. > :07:01.20. We are told there could be more snow today, starting in Scotland,

:07:02. > :07:06.heading for the north of England and then heading for the east. So we

:07:07. > :07:10.have a situation of snow, we have ice, we have strong winds. The

:07:11. > :07:16.advice is take care and stay indoors if you don't have to be out on this.

:07:17. > :07:28.Thank you very much. Simon Jones is in Canterbury for us. We will be

:07:29. > :07:30.taking a look at the weather as it develops throughout the morning.

:07:31. > :07:33.The number of men in low-paid, part-time work has increased

:07:34. > :07:37.New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that

:07:38. > :07:40.one in five low paid men aged 25-55 now work part-time.

:07:41. > :07:43.That means wage inequality for men has risen over two decades.

:07:44. > :07:46.But for women, the opposite is the case, as our business

:07:47. > :07:58.Top earning men in the professions normally work full-time. In fact,

:07:59. > :08:03.only 5% of them work part-time. But in comparison, amongst the lowest

:08:04. > :08:07.paid men, often in areas like catering and hospitality, 20% now

:08:08. > :08:11.work half-time. And that number has increased fourfold in the last 20

:08:12. > :08:15.years. That has meant that wage inequality for men has increased, as

:08:16. > :08:19.higher paid, full-time staff have done far better than low paid,

:08:20. > :08:24.part-time workers. But for women, the opposite is the case. For women,

:08:25. > :08:28.earnings growth has been consistently higher than that for

:08:29. > :08:31.men over the last 20 years, and more of them are in work. For men,

:08:32. > :08:35.particularly the lowest paid, they've actually seen falls in the

:08:36. > :08:40.numbers of hours of work, which has suppressed the amount of pay that

:08:41. > :08:44.they get. It is far from clear why low paid men are increasingly

:08:45. > :08:49.working part-time. It might be because they want to, although that

:08:50. > :08:53.seems unlikely. The fact that 60% of the low paid and part-time jobs are

:08:54. > :08:56.either in retail, wholesale, restaurants or hospitality might

:08:57. > :09:02.suggest that men who previously worked in low paid but secure and

:09:03. > :09:07.full-time jobs, in sectors like manufacturing, have lost that work,

:09:08. > :09:11.and instead have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid and

:09:12. > :09:12.less secure services sector of the economy.

:09:13. > :09:16.A week to go until the new American president is sworn in,

:09:17. > :09:19.and Donald Trump seems to be at odds with some of his key Cabinet

:09:20. > :09:21.nominees on some of the vital questions facing

:09:22. > :09:26.His choice for the CIA leader has endorsed the work of the US

:09:27. > :09:28.intelligence community, hours after it was criticised

:09:29. > :09:31.Also, the potential defence secretary said Moscow posed a threat

:09:32. > :09:34.in Europe, after Mr Trump called for warmer relations with Russia.

:09:35. > :09:46.Our correspondent Laura Bicker reports from Washington.

:09:47. > :09:50.The nation's capital awaits a new commander-in-chief.

:09:51. > :09:54.But, as the gates go up for expectant crowds,

:09:55. > :10:03.Donald Trump is still facing questions about intelligence,

:10:04. > :10:09.suggesting Moscow tried to help put him in Washington.

:10:10. > :10:12.The President-elect's choice for CIA director's said that he valued

:10:13. > :10:17.the judgement of the staff he hopes to lead.

:10:18. > :10:20.It's pretty clear there was Russian involvement in efforts to hack

:10:21. > :10:24.information and have an impact on American democracy.

:10:25. > :10:26.I'm very clear-eyed about what the intelligence report says.

:10:27. > :10:29.That view on Russia is more hawkish than what Donald Trump has

:10:30. > :10:35.His fiercest criticism has mostly been aimed at spy agencies.

:10:36. > :10:49.He accused US intelligence agencies of leaking unverified reports that

:10:50. > :10:51.the Kremlin gathered compromising material on Donald Trump,

:10:52. > :10:56.The dossier is supposed to have come from a British spy,

:10:57. > :10:58.Donald Trump announced it as fake news.

:10:59. > :11:06.But Christopher Steele's former colleague says he is reliable.

:11:07. > :11:11.Chris was a strong, middle-ranking SAS officer.

:11:12. > :11:13.I do not quite agree this was a subpar report.

:11:14. > :11:17.He has been careful to find as many sources to back it up,

:11:18. > :11:20.but also to make it clear these are stories, and the intelligence

:11:21. > :11:23.This controversy is likely to continue long after

:11:24. > :11:26.Inauguration Day, and has cast a shadow over Donald Trump's

:11:27. > :11:29.administration before he has even taken the oath of office.

:11:30. > :11:32.And it has emerged overnight that Christopher Steele,

:11:33. > :11:36.the British man who wrote a dossier of lurid claims about Donald Trump,

:11:37. > :11:39.was hired by the England 2018 World Cup bid team.

:11:40. > :11:42.It is believed he was brought in to provide information on world

:11:43. > :11:47.Emotional scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night,

:11:48. > :11:49.as President Obama surprised his Vice-President with the country's

:11:50. > :11:53.Mr Obama said he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom

:11:54. > :11:56.to Joe Biden for his faith in his fellow Americans

:11:57. > :12:09.Mr Biden said the honour had been a complete surprise.

:12:10. > :12:12.More needs to be done to protect patients from incompetent locum

:12:13. > :12:15.doctors, according to a review by the General Medical Council.

:12:16. > :12:17.The regulator says a reluctance to share information weaknesses

:12:18. > :12:20.in checks is allowing some poorly performing stand-in doctors

:12:21. > :12:28.Our health correspondent Elaine Dunkley has more.

:12:29. > :12:31.The carmaker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating pollution laws

:12:32. > :12:36.The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer

:12:37. > :12:39.equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles

:12:40. > :12:41.with software that regulates emissions results.

:12:42. > :12:44.The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share

:12:45. > :12:57.Meeting the target of resettling 20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees

:12:58. > :12:59.in the UK by 2020 remains a significant challenge,

:13:00. > :13:03.Around 4,500 refugees have already been resettled,

:13:04. > :13:05.but the Public Accounts Committee says it is not yet clear

:13:06. > :13:07.whether survivors of torture or violence are getting

:13:08. > :13:17.The number of people changing who they buy their electricity

:13:18. > :13:22.Research from the industry body Energy UK shows that nearly five

:13:23. > :13:24.million people changed their electricity supplier last

:13:25. > :13:27.year, and a fifth of those who switched in December went

:13:28. > :13:30.to a smaller supplier rather than one of the Big Six.

:13:31. > :13:33.It is the highest number of switches since Energy UK began

:13:34. > :13:45.We will be speaking to energy expert Stephen Murray about the figures

:13:46. > :13:48.Killer whales and humans have something in common,

:13:49. > :13:53.They are two of only three mammals that go through the menopause.

:13:54. > :13:56.A 40-year study of a population of orcas has shown scientists why

:13:57. > :13:59.any species would evolve to stop having babies early in life.

:14:00. > :14:01.The research uncovered the crucial role grandmother whales play

:14:02. > :14:04.in their family pod, and that their daughters' offspring

:14:05. > :14:14.has a higher chance of survival once the grandmother stops reproducing.

:14:15. > :14:16.Yesterday we spoke about a nine-year-old British boy

:14:17. > :14:19.who melted hearts while competing in the Spanish version

:14:20. > :14:22.of Junior MasterChef, after his fish and chip dish didn't

:14:23. > :14:27.Oscar Jefferson, who moved to Spain with his family two years ago,

:14:28. > :14:30.was invited to cook for the British Ambassador to Spain

:14:31. > :14:33.Let's hope it wasn't a repeat of his nightmare moment

:14:34. > :15:19.Moat! That was the moment when it all went wrong for him. He had a bit

:15:20. > :15:24.of a hug, and anyway, he has a lot of attention, and as we say, he has

:15:25. > :15:29.gone on the other people. Hopefully it'll be right. We have all done

:15:30. > :15:34.that in the kitchen, spilt the source, have a bad moment.

:15:35. > :15:40.Graham Taylor, one of the nicest people you will ever meet. The sort

:15:41. > :15:44.of person you want to be your brother or your dad. You can imagine

:15:45. > :15:51.what it was like for young players as a football manager. Reassuring,

:15:52. > :15:57.so warm. No ego. These days of press conferences for football managers,

:15:58. > :16:03.he was always asking about you. Can I get you a cup of coffee? Don't

:16:04. > :16:08.worry, you are far too busy. But a great club manager as well. But he

:16:09. > :16:12.was haunted. I remember reassuring him here that what happened when he

:16:13. > :16:15.was manager shouldn't taint his reputation, it was that moment

:16:16. > :16:20.redefined the way the press deal with England managers, when he was

:16:21. > :16:25.depicted as they turn it on the back page of the Sun. He said it stayed

:16:26. > :16:29.with him forever and it to find his four years in charge. He was a

:16:30. > :16:33.fantastic and dumber manager in terms of Watford and Aston Villa. --

:16:34. > :16:38.he was a fantastic manager. Sir Elton John, who brought

:16:39. > :16:40.Graham Taylor to Watford at the start of their rise

:16:41. > :16:44.to the top, said it was like he had The former Watford, Aston Villa

:16:45. > :16:48.and England manager is believed to have suffered a heart

:16:49. > :16:51.attack at the age of 72. His family say it was

:16:52. > :16:53.totally unexpected. There was a minute's applause

:16:54. > :16:56.in memory of Graham Taylor ahead of last night's Championship match

:16:57. > :16:58.between QPR and Reading. QPR made it three League

:16:59. > :17:01.wins in a row, thanks Andy Murray will start his

:17:02. > :17:05.Australian Open campaign Murray is the top seed

:17:06. > :17:17.for a Grand Slam for the first time, and he is chasing a first

:17:18. > :17:19.title in Melbourne. In the women's draw,

:17:20. > :17:22.Johanna Konta will face Kirsten And a sellout crowd

:17:23. > :17:25.at London's O2 Arena saw the Denver Nuggets comfortably

:17:26. > :17:27.beat the Indiana Pacers It is the seventh regular-season

:17:28. > :17:41.game to be played in the capital. Not surprisingly he is all of the --

:17:42. > :17:48.all over the front pages. The table lookup The Daily Mail. A

:17:49. > :17:54.lot of interest in this. An ex- MI6 man, who has corn into hiding to

:17:55. > :18:00.make -- gone into hiding. Questions over what he knew about the dossier.

:18:01. > :18:04.It is said he shared the information with quite a lot of people in the

:18:05. > :18:07.run-up to the renovation by one of the websites more recently.

:18:08. > :18:11.A lot of speculation about that. The Express has a story about what's

:18:12. > :18:14.going on with the weather at the moment, saying Britain will be

:18:15. > :18:19.plunged back into the deep freeze next week. Of course we will be

:18:20. > :18:22.talking to Sarah to find out what's going on.

:18:23. > :18:26.Send us any pictures if you are affected. These are some of the

:18:27. > :18:31.pictures on the front of the Daily Telegraph. That was Cumbria. Some

:18:32. > :18:35.places having up to six centimetres. The Trump dossier on the front page

:18:36. > :18:41.here. Have you got anything? The front of the FT, the emission

:18:42. > :18:47.scandal. We talked about Volkswagen before. Fiat is getting dragged in.

:18:48. > :18:52.If you are one of the 4000 Jeep grand Cherokee owners, you might

:18:53. > :18:56.want to keep an eye on this story cause they are getting accused of

:18:57. > :19:02.having software installed by Fiat that may have allowed those cars do

:19:03. > :19:06.not have as much... Sorry, to have more pollution than they were

:19:07. > :19:10.allowed. So Fiat say they have done nothing illegal and in fact the boss

:19:11. > :19:14.says it is absolute nonsense. It sounds very similar to the scandal

:19:15. > :19:19.with Volkswagen. We have another one. We have been talking a lot

:19:20. > :19:23.about housing. We are talking about how it is getting cheaper to have a

:19:24. > :19:30.mortgage if you are first-time buyer. The Telegraph a different

:19:31. > :19:37.spin. Lucky for home buyers. If you are willing to get involved today,

:19:38. > :19:42.the demand isn't quite as high as you might think. So if anyone is

:19:43. > :19:50.actually buying a house today, on the 13th... We have all of the

:19:51. > :19:56.coverage on Graham Taylor. And we have Elton John, who looks like he

:19:57. > :20:00.is tickling his ears, that's at Watford in the early years. And he

:20:01. > :20:05.gives a moving tribute to his great friend and, as he says, his brother.

:20:06. > :20:10.Deeply saddened and shocked to hear about his passing. We shared an

:20:11. > :20:13.unbreakable bond since we met. He says it will stay with him forever

:20:14. > :20:17.because he took Watford from the lowest division to the top of the

:20:18. > :20:20.game and they are back there today. And you will speak to some of the

:20:21. > :20:26.people... Well, he did so much to tackle

:20:27. > :20:29.racism. We will be speaking to someone at 8:30am about that.

:20:30. > :20:32.Let's get the latest on how that severe weather is developing.

:20:33. > :20:37.Sarah is here with a look at this morning's weather.

:20:38. > :20:45.Good morning. Lots going on in terms of the weather today. Still feeling

:20:46. > :20:50.wintry. We have ice around this morning and snow, but it isn't just

:20:51. > :20:54.the wintry weather, also strong winds and the potential for that

:20:55. > :21:01.postal flooding. Low pressure moving south around the east coast, ringing

:21:02. > :21:06.the fleet, snow as well. -- ringing the fleet. There are strong winds

:21:07. > :21:12.blowing. At about 8am for Scotland a windy picture. A few showers for

:21:13. > :21:16.Northern Ireland through the day. As we head down the east coast we will

:21:17. > :21:21.see the low pressure bringing sleet and snow, as well as the strong

:21:22. > :21:24.winds. Later in the day with the strong winds in the east, combined

:21:25. > :21:29.with high tide, we could see severe in packs around the east coast,

:21:30. > :21:34.especially around east Anglia. Plenty going on. We have the strong

:21:35. > :21:38.winds for many of us. Coastal flooding in east Anglia and eastern

:21:39. > :21:43.England. This area of sleet and snow will clear the south-east of England

:21:44. > :21:47.by about lunchtime and then it's a quieter story as we had through the

:21:48. > :21:51.afternoon, in terms of the weather. In cooking dry, with wintry

:21:52. > :21:57.sunshine. Temperatures about 2- five degrees. -- temperatures looking

:21:58. > :22:02.dry. Towards the west of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, some of

:22:03. > :22:06.the sleet and snow showers will turn back to rain. Things milder from the

:22:07. > :22:11.west. For most of us another cold night. Under clear skies we could

:22:12. > :22:15.have a sharp frost and icy stretches heading into Saturday morning.

:22:16. > :22:20.Subzero temperatures to stop the weekend. Some calls, icy weather and

:22:21. > :22:26.again snow, Aditya Lelia round the east coast, where we will have

:22:27. > :22:32.further snow showers. Towards the west some of that will turn back to

:22:33. > :22:39.rain and sleet in -- sleet, but not a bad day. Temperatures one or two

:22:40. > :22:44.for eastern areas, but towards the west more like six or seven. Things

:22:45. > :22:48.continue to turn mild from the west through the weekend. Saturday night

:22:49. > :22:55.and into Sunday you can see the yellow colours returning to the map.

:22:56. > :22:59.Through the day on Sunday, wet weather. A cloudy picture. Drizzly

:23:00. > :23:05.on Sunday and moving eastwards across the UK. Temperatures 5- ten

:23:06. > :23:09.degrees by the time we get to Sunday. Watch out today for the ice

:23:10. > :23:14.and snow and strong winds which could lead to travel disruption.

:23:15. > :23:15.Thank you. A record number of households

:23:16. > :23:17.switched to a different electricity That's according to

:23:18. > :23:24.the industry body Energy UK. Their findings, out today,

:23:25. > :23:26.show that almost five million customers changed

:23:27. > :23:28.their electricity supplier in 2016. This is the highest recorded number

:23:29. > :23:31.of switches since Energy UK started publishing

:23:32. > :23:34.their data back in 2013. And not everyone moved over

:23:35. > :23:37.to one of the Big Six, a fifth of electricity

:23:38. > :23:39.switches in December But the regulator Ofgem says that

:23:40. > :23:46.two thirds of all households are still on standard variable

:23:47. > :23:49.tariffs, which tend to be more Joining us now to talk

:23:50. > :23:53.through these findings is Stephen Murray, an energy expert

:23:54. > :24:02.from Money Supermarket. Good morning. Thanks for joining us.

:24:03. > :24:07.This is something I've talked about loads. People can save money if they

:24:08. > :24:10.switch and for a long time lots of people haven't been bothered, what

:24:11. > :24:16.it sounds like the tide is turning? It is a little bit. As you say it

:24:17. > :24:20.has been nearly 20 years in the market was deregulated and nearly 19

:24:21. > :24:25.million customers are still the standard variable tariffs of the big

:24:26. > :24:31.six suppliers. But we have seen a shift. Ely 5 million people have

:24:32. > :24:35.shifted this year, nearly four -- 400,000 this month, which shows the

:24:36. > :24:41.market is opening up. Clearly the best incentive for people to changes

:24:42. > :24:51.that they will save money. What sort of savings are people making? This

:24:52. > :24:54.-- last year prices were lower than a long time, so people were

:24:55. > :25:02.previously paying 300 pounds or than they needed to. Towards the end of

:25:03. > :25:05.the year the prices were rising. For those who use more, savings are

:25:06. > :25:10.significant. One of the things people say to me is it's a hassle,

:25:11. > :25:14.they are all the same, I know you say I could save this money but it

:25:15. > :25:21.isn't worth the hassle. What do you say? I think that might have been a

:25:22. > :25:25.reason a while back, but there is an excess of 40 current suppliers. So

:25:26. > :25:30.customers have a choice of 40 suppliers, they can't all be the

:25:31. > :25:33.same. A lot of them are new and are offering green tariffs. Energy

:25:34. > :25:40.switching guarantee makes it very simple. The advocacy is nearly 90%,

:25:41. > :25:44.which means it only takes about three weeks to go through and while

:25:45. > :25:48.there are couple of horror stories the vast majority of customers can

:25:49. > :25:53.save those ?150 - ?200 almost immediately. Why is the onus on the

:25:54. > :25:58.consumer? If I am someone who is sitting at home and I am thinking, I

:25:59. > :26:03.don't think about my energy, it just comes in and I pay the bill, why is

:26:04. > :26:07.there no pressure on the supplier to offer a better deal? If they've got

:26:08. > :26:12.a better deal and you are their customers, why did they offer it to

:26:13. > :26:15.you? They do now. Ofgem has put in a lot of regulations over the last few

:26:16. > :26:23.years and on energy bills the energy supplier must now come but it is

:26:24. > :26:27.called the cheapest tariff regulation. They must put it on

:26:28. > :26:30.their bill. The regulations don't allow suppliers to review onto

:26:31. > :26:35.anything other than a variable tariff. The regulator is looking at

:26:36. > :26:39.how to best give customers choice, but if customers aren't happy with

:26:40. > :26:47.where they are it's a simple process to switch away and get a cheaper

:26:48. > :26:54.deal. People are moving to smaller suppliers as well, as some companies

:26:55. > :26:59.ended up going into administration. Do people need to worry about that?

:27:00. > :27:04.Six months ago people may have said they were worried, but previous

:27:05. > :27:10.cases were dealt with seriously. No customers lost money or supply. So

:27:11. > :27:15.that was a great move to show that people can have confidence moving to

:27:16. > :27:21.a smaller suppliers because there are protections in place. Many of us

:27:22. > :27:23.are -- the small suppliers are doing well. Thanks very much.

:27:24. > :30:44.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:30:45. > :30:47.Now, though, it's back to Charlie and Steph.

:30:48. > :30:53.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:30:54. > :31:05.We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment.

:31:06. > :31:08.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:31:09. > :31:14.We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment.

:31:15. > :31:18.But also on Breakfast this morning: As thousands of people are advised

:31:19. > :31:21.to leave their homes in preparation for storm surges and heavy snow,

:31:22. > :31:23.we will be speaking to the Environment Agency

:31:24. > :31:25.about the latest weather warnings affecting the UK.

:31:26. > :31:28.Why buying a home could be cheaper than renting.

:31:29. > :31:31.As research shows that in some areas monthly rents are outstripping

:31:32. > :31:34.average mortgage payments, we ask what it means for the housing

:31:35. > :31:37.market, and for those struggling to get on the property ladder.

:31:38. > :31:39.We are discussing a controversial documentary featuring a leading

:31:40. > :31:41.psychologist, who was sacked after questioning whether children

:31:42. > :31:45.should be allowed to decide if they want to change their gender.

:31:46. > :31:48.But now a summary of this morning's main news:

:31:49. > :31:52.The army is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east

:31:53. > :31:54.coast, where a tidal surge is expected to hit.

:31:55. > :31:57.The Environment Agency has issued seven severe flood warnings,

:31:58. > :32:02.All along the east coast, floodgates have been closed

:32:03. > :32:09.Gale-force winds are combining with high tides

:32:10. > :32:14.In Jaywick, in Essex, there is a severe flood warning,

:32:15. > :32:22.The emergency services have arrived in force.

:32:23. > :32:24.The residents are being urged to leave.

:32:25. > :32:31.We've got exceptionally strong winds, between 40 and 50 miles

:32:32. > :32:33.an hour, potentially with gusts stronger than that,

:32:34. > :32:36.and going to coincide with a high tide just after lunchtime.

:32:37. > :32:39.So that's why we've put in place this operation to evacuate safely

:32:40. > :32:44.Some have already heeded that warning.

:32:45. > :32:52.We've had the text messages, saying, have you evacuated yet?

:32:53. > :32:55.I said, the neighbours next door get all panicked,

:32:56. > :32:58.because she's not very well next door, and things like that.

:32:59. > :33:01.So I think a lot of people are actually planning to stay.

:33:02. > :33:04.On the Lincolnshire coast, at Skegness, the military have been

:33:05. > :33:12.About 100 soldiers have been based at the police station.

:33:13. > :33:16.Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can

:33:17. > :33:22.There will be a significant rise in the water.

:33:23. > :33:25.But whether it will be enough to top the defences,

:33:26. > :33:27.that depends on Mother Nature, I suppose, really.

:33:28. > :33:30.And Mother Nature is set to bring more wintry weather today,

:33:31. > :33:34.Nearly all the UK is covered by weather warnings,

:33:35. > :33:39.The number of men in low-paid part-time work has increased

:33:40. > :33:44.New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that

:33:45. > :33:46.one in five low-paid men aged 25-55 now work part-time.

:33:47. > :33:50.That means wage inequality for men has risen over two decades,

:33:51. > :33:59.And it has emerged overnight that Christopher Steele,

:34:00. > :34:02.the British man who wrote a dossier of lurid claims about Donald Trump,

:34:03. > :34:05.was hired by the England 2018 World Cup bid team.

:34:06. > :34:08.It is believed he was brought in to provide information on world

:34:09. > :34:17.There were emotional scenes during a ceremony at the White House

:34:18. > :34:19.last night, as President Obama surprised his Vice-President

:34:20. > :34:21.with the country's highest civilian honour.

:34:22. > :34:24.Mr Obama said he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom

:34:25. > :34:27.to Joe Biden, for his faith in his fellow Americans

:34:28. > :34:42.Mr Biden said the honour had been a complete surprise.

:34:43. > :34:45.Hospitals are failing to pass on their concerns about incompetent

:34:46. > :34:47.locum doctors, according to the General Medical Council.

:34:48. > :34:50.The report for the doctors regulator found some hospitals take no action

:34:51. > :34:52.when they see poor practice among stand-in doctors,

:34:53. > :34:55.who often cover staff shortages in surgeries and hospitals.

:34:56. > :34:57.The Department of Health said further progress in monitoring

:34:58. > :35:02.The carmaker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating pollution laws

:35:03. > :35:05.The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer

:35:06. > :35:08.equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles

:35:09. > :35:10.with software that regulates emissions results.

:35:11. > :35:13.The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share

:35:14. > :35:25.Meeting the target of resettling 20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees

:35:26. > :35:28.in the UK by 2020 remains a significant challenge,

:35:29. > :35:31.Around 4,500 refugees have already been resettled,

:35:32. > :35:34.but the Public Accounts Committee says it is not yet clear

:35:35. > :35:36.whether survivors of torture or violence are getting

:35:37. > :35:46.The number of people changing who they buy their electricity

:35:47. > :35:51.Research from the industry body Energy UK shows that nearly five

:35:52. > :35:53.million people changed their electricity supplier last

:35:54. > :35:56.year, and a fifth of those who switched in December went

:35:57. > :35:59.to a smaller supplier rather than one of the Big Six.

:36:00. > :36:02.It is the highest number of switches since Energy UK began

:36:03. > :36:25.Those are the main stories, and Mike is here with the sport. Paying

:36:26. > :36:30.tribute to one of the true gentleman of football. One of the nicest men

:36:31. > :36:35.you would ever meet. Came onto the Breakfast sofa to talk about England

:36:36. > :36:41.games on numerous occasions. Always had a great sense of humour,

:36:42. > :36:49.self-deprecating as well. No ego, which is rare. He was haunted by his

:36:50. > :36:54.unsuccessful time for England, which changed the way the press dealt with

:36:55. > :36:58.football managers, after England lost to Sweden. That troubled him

:36:59. > :37:03.for many years afterwards but he should be remembered for far more

:37:04. > :37:09.than that. Just a great man. It is hard to remember so much genuine

:37:10. > :37:10.love for a foot or manager. -- football manager.

:37:11. > :37:13.Tributes have been paid to the former England manager

:37:14. > :37:15.Graham Taylor, who died yesterday at the age of 72.

:37:16. > :37:18.Sir Elton John appointed Taylor as Watford manager in 1977,

:37:19. > :37:22.and he led them from the old fourth division to runners-up in the top

:37:23. > :37:25.flight within five years, and reached the 1984 FA Cup final.

:37:26. > :37:27.He also managed Lincoln, Aston Villa and Wolves.

:37:28. > :37:30.Taylor has been described as one of football's true gentlemen.

:37:31. > :37:38.A guy who was so passionate, who was so in love with the game of

:37:39. > :37:42.football, and who was straight and who was honest, and who would tell

:37:43. > :37:46.you as it was. And he wasn't afraid to do that, whether you are a young

:37:47. > :37:50.player or whether you are a very experienced player and I think that

:37:51. > :37:54.is the way he will be remembered. You always talk about people's

:37:55. > :37:58.contribution within football, but you remember them most is people and

:37:59. > :38:07.he was somebody that had time for everybody and was generous with that

:38:08. > :38:08.time. And I think they are the human qualities that you remember the

:38:09. > :38:10.most. There was a minute's applause

:38:11. > :38:13.in memory of Graham Taylor ahead of last night's Championship match

:38:14. > :38:15.between QPR and Reading. QPR made it three League wins

:38:16. > :38:19.in a row thanks to Jamie Mackay's winner, scoring

:38:20. > :38:20.against his old club. Andy Murray will start his

:38:21. > :38:22.Australian Open campaign Murray is the top seed

:38:23. > :38:27.for a Grand Slam for the first time. He has reached the final

:38:28. > :38:29.in Melbourne five times, In the women's draw,

:38:30. > :38:33.Johanna Konta will face Kirsten And a sell-out crowd

:38:34. > :38:37.at London's O2 Arena saw the Denver Nuggets comfortably

:38:38. > :38:39.beat the Indiana Pacers It is the seventh regular-season

:38:40. > :38:54.game to be played in the capital, It was a great night to be in the

:38:55. > :39:01.crowd, because there was a lot of football stars in the crowd. It

:39:02. > :39:05.seemed like half of the team, and Henry, the great legend. You can

:39:06. > :39:16.often look across at the fans and get selfie with those behind you.

:39:17. > :39:22.Britain's east coast is bracing itself for coastal flooding, seven

:39:23. > :39:28.severe flood warnings for parts of Suffolk and Essex. In a moment we

:39:29. > :39:33.will get the latest from areas where flooding is expected. Let's find out

:39:34. > :39:37.how heavy snow has been affecting travel. Our correspondent is in

:39:38. > :39:43.Canterbury for us this morning. What has happened there? Lots of snow

:39:44. > :39:48.around on the ground. It came down yesterday evening for about three

:39:49. > :39:53.hours, and it was very happy. If you take a look down there you can see

:39:54. > :39:55.how snow is still on the ground, but because it has been freezing

:39:56. > :40:00.overnight it is actually largely turning to ice and it is really I

:40:01. > :40:05.see on the foot path. You have to be careful to remain on your feet. And

:40:06. > :40:13.still a lot of snow down here as well. As regards the roads, the

:40:14. > :40:17.gritters were out and about in force during the night and that means

:40:18. > :40:22.these main roads are largely not too bad, but the side roads have been

:40:23. > :40:26.problematic. There is a lot of ice, a lot of black ice, and it can be

:40:27. > :40:31.difficult driving around. The advice is if you are heading on to the

:40:32. > :40:35.roads, take things easy. As regards other travel issues, yesterday we

:40:36. > :40:39.had a number of flights cancelled at Heathrow, and some at Gatwick. We

:40:40. > :40:43.have been told today that airports have been hoping things are going to

:40:44. > :40:47.be as normal as possible but the advice is still check before you

:40:48. > :40:51.travel, and at the moment we are being told that things are OK on the

:40:52. > :40:55.railways but if you are trying to travel on Southern it is a strike

:40:56. > :40:59.day so there will be no trains despite the weather. As regards the

:41:00. > :41:03.situation we are being told it is actually a large amount of snow

:41:04. > :41:07.which came down in one go for this part of the world, in the space of

:41:08. > :41:11.just about three hours. On this road last night I saw people pushing cars

:41:12. > :41:15.up the road because it was so icy and the conditions were so

:41:16. > :41:19.difficult. We are expecting more snow from Scotland, heading down to

:41:20. > :41:24.the north of England and the east of England. So snow, ice and heavy

:41:25. > :41:26.winds. It is not very nice out there. Thank you very much, we will

:41:27. > :41:29.talk to you again later on. Kate Sweeting is in Hessle,

:41:30. > :41:42.where there is a severe flood Well, it is a cold but calm morning,

:41:43. > :41:46.which will come as a relief to residents because tidal surges have

:41:47. > :41:50.happened with a combination of high winds and high tides. I am keeping a

:41:51. > :41:55.close eye on the water behind me because the pinch point is at high

:41:56. > :42:00.tide in the next hour here and again this evening. People are preparing

:42:01. > :42:04.with sandbags, there are council workers on standby and police but in

:42:05. > :42:08.Lincolnshire the army was brought in to help evacuate people. More than

:42:09. > :42:12.3000 residents were told to leave their homes or move upstairs and

:42:13. > :42:18.special rest centres were set up for them. Here, the threat of a tidal

:42:19. > :42:23.surge is especially worrying because in 2013 it happened. The water came

:42:24. > :42:29.over more than 1400 properties, which were flooded. The last severe

:42:30. > :42:33.tidal surge before that was in 1953, when hundreds of people died. When

:42:34. > :42:38.it happened in 2013 here, people were told, or believe, that it was a

:42:39. > :42:43.once in 60 year event and yet three years on here we are on high alert.

:42:44. > :42:48.Thank you very much, the situation in Hessle this morning. A lot of

:42:49. > :42:52.people worried about the danger of flood warnings. Let's get the big

:42:53. > :42:57.weather picture this morning. We have concerns about the snow in some

:42:58. > :43:01.places, and it is pretty cold in a lot of places as well. That's right.

:43:02. > :43:05.There is plenty going on in terms of the weather today. We have the ice

:43:06. > :43:08.and the snow around as well but the combination of those strong winds

:43:09. > :43:13.and high tides in the east may well lead to some coastal flooding. If

:43:14. > :43:17.you are heading out this morning be prepared to encounter some icy

:43:18. > :43:20.conditions on untreated surfaces and as we had to the day we have this

:43:21. > :43:24.low pressure frontal system moving south, around Central and eastern

:43:25. > :43:28.parts of England in particular, bringing with it a mix of rain,

:43:29. > :43:32.sleet and snow and we are seeing those very strong winds towards the

:43:33. > :43:36.east. Gales at times across northern and eastern Scotland, further wintry

:43:37. > :43:39.showers here. Much of southern Scotland says predominantly dry

:43:40. > :43:50.through the morning but as we move down the east coast we see those

:43:51. > :43:53.winds picking up in combination with the high tides. We could well see

:43:54. > :43:56.coastal flooding problems, combined with this band of rain, sleet and

:43:57. > :43:58.snow. The Environment Agency have seven severe flood warnings

:43:59. > :44:02.currently in force, mainly around part of East Anglia but watch out

:44:03. > :44:05.around the east coast for the potential for coastal flooding. As

:44:06. > :44:09.we head through the course of the day this band of rain, sleet and

:44:10. > :44:11.snow will push its way gradually south eastwards, clearing the south

:44:12. > :44:14.of England by about lunchtime. Further west we will see showers for

:44:15. > :44:17.Northern Ireland, northern and western Scotland, parts of Wales and

:44:18. > :44:21.the south-west as well. Temperatures around two to five degrees but

:44:22. > :44:25.colder than that if you are exposed to the brisk northerly winds today.

:44:26. > :44:29.Many of us having quite a good deal of dry weather as we had through the

:44:30. > :44:32.afternoon and on into the evening the winds start to ease a little but

:44:33. > :44:36.we will have some blustery wintry showers around the east coast, west

:44:37. > :44:42.coast as well, parts of Northern Ireland and Wales. Under clear

:44:43. > :44:45.skies, another very cold night ahead so that will be icy stretches once

:44:46. > :44:50.again to start off your weekend. Through Saturday, eastern parts of

:44:51. > :44:54.Scotland and eastern England will be prone to seeing further sleet and

:44:55. > :44:59.snow showers. Towards the west some rain and sleet showers pushing in as

:45:00. > :45:02.well but many of us again having a lot of dry weather through the

:45:03. > :45:07.course of Saturday. Lighter winds than today and temperatures slightly

:45:08. > :45:11.milder. Two or three in the east, six or seven Celsius in the west.

:45:12. > :45:15.That milder air will start to creep in through the weekend, especially

:45:16. > :45:19.as we head into Sunday. The yellow colour starting to displace the

:45:20. > :45:24.Blues, living into Sunday with a cloudy day and fun outbreaks of rain

:45:25. > :45:28.washing eastwards across the UK. The wind coming in from the westerly

:45:29. > :45:31.direction, so a different feel to the weather by the time to get to

:45:32. > :45:35.Sunday. Temperatures back at around five to 10 degrees so we will have

:45:36. > :45:40.lost the wintry weather by the time we get to Sunday but at the moment

:45:41. > :45:43.if you are heading out the moment if you are heading out today, be

:45:44. > :45:46.prepared. There are strong winds, ice and snow, and coastal flooding

:45:47. > :45:54.in the east. Keep tuned to your latest forecast. For first-time

:45:55. > :45:59.buyers mortgage payments are lower than rent in over 10% of the UK.

:46:00. > :46:03.That's according to research carried out for us on Breakfast.

:46:04. > :46:15.Forecasters suggest rent will continue to rise. Is looking at --

:46:16. > :46:17.Sean is looking at what it means. Of course it can build up a little

:46:18. > :46:20.bit over time. There were more people getting

:46:21. > :46:23.on that first rung of the housing ladder last year than since

:46:24. > :46:26.the financial crisis began. Well, some research done for us

:46:27. > :46:39.on Breakfast says that rising rents -- the gap is narrowing. In fact in

:46:40. > :46:44.some places, it is cheaper each month to own a home than rent one. I

:46:45. > :46:46.caught up with James in his lovely new home to hear why he persevered

:46:47. > :46:56.with trying to buy his own place. It isn't a small thing, eyeing the

:46:57. > :47:00.house, so you have to go through the whole saving process, go through the

:47:01. > :47:05.whole sacrificing holidays and things like that and then it just

:47:06. > :47:09.takes a while to find the right place. You can't go out as much as

:47:10. > :47:13.you would like, you can't enjoy yourself as much and you have to

:47:14. > :47:17.bring prepacked lunches in the work and things like that. Silly things,

:47:18. > :47:27.but they adult. You stuck at it in the end? -- they add up. We want our

:47:28. > :47:30.walls be -- the colour we want, and you do smile every time you walk

:47:31. > :47:31.through the front door. With me now is James Jones,

:47:32. > :47:43.from Experian, the organisation People like James, why are they

:47:44. > :47:48.looking more and more at trying to get housing quicker, when rent

:47:49. > :47:53.seemingly shouldn't be that high in the long run. This buyer index shows

:47:54. > :47:57.that many tenants can save money simply by buying a home instead of

:47:58. > :48:02.renting. We have seen historically high rent payments at the moment in

:48:03. > :48:06.the third quarter of 2016. We measured a 10% increase in average

:48:07. > :48:11.rents. At the same time mortgage deals are historically cheap, so

:48:12. > :48:15.many people can save money, especially places like Glasgow and

:48:16. > :48:20.Manchester. But for people who can save money, to buy any house you

:48:21. > :48:24.need a deposit. What can you get by with a 100% mortgage and still get

:48:25. > :48:28.cheaper mortgages than rental payments? The challenge for many

:48:29. > :48:31.tenants is saving up that all-important deposit, so it is

:48:32. > :48:36.important that people take advantage of incentive schemes, like help to

:48:37. > :48:40.buy, whether government will help you. But at the same time we know

:48:41. > :48:44.many people have no idea what their credit score is, so we are trying to

:48:45. > :48:48.help people by giving them access to their credit score for free and we

:48:49. > :48:51.will help you use it to save money on things like mortgages and other

:48:52. > :48:55.types of credit, to show you things you are likely to be accepted for

:48:56. > :48:59.and take away the guesswork. when you rent that is often the limit of

:49:00. > :49:04.what you can pay that month plus a few of your bills. When you own a

:49:05. > :49:07.home if the boiler goes you've got to pay for it. Surely that's a big

:49:08. > :49:11.difference and it could be more expensive to have a mortgage? You

:49:12. > :49:14.have to factor these things in. Our research shows that in some parts of

:49:15. > :49:18.the country there are significant savings to be had. In Manchester

:49:19. > :49:21.tenants could save up to ?50 a month will stop that can make all the

:49:22. > :49:25.difference. But you still need all of that cash in the reserve for that

:49:26. > :49:31.rainy day. If something went wrong with James's house, he has to cough

:49:32. > :49:35.up, even if he feels month by month he is in a better situation. That's

:49:36. > :49:39.right and that's why you need to factor these things in, to make sure

:49:40. > :49:43.you are financially secure. For many people the best way to get financial

:49:44. > :49:48.security is to get on the mortgage ladder. Many people are on

:49:49. > :49:52.short-term tenancies are they don't know what the lie ahead in terms of

:49:53. > :49:55.property security. So there is a great opportunity for many people

:49:56. > :50:00.right now. How much of these lower the mortgage payments for first-time

:50:01. > :50:04.buyers is actually first-time buyers looking at houses that are cheaper

:50:05. > :50:10.now and may be setting their sights lower, the whole mortgage they pay

:50:11. > :50:14.back is less? I think over the last few years we have all had a reality

:50:15. > :50:19.check. There's been a squeeze on real incomes. Poverty prices have

:50:20. > :50:22.generally been increasing, so I think people are getting Savea and

:50:23. > :50:26.research in the market, taking their credit score and putting themselves

:50:27. > :50:31.in the right position to get a deal when they have that deposit.

:50:32. > :50:36.Mortgage interest rates are starting to sneak up again. Do you think this

:50:37. > :50:40.might be as good as it gets in terms of the difference and it might not

:50:41. > :50:44.be quite as good for those who are on mortgages as they have been? No

:50:45. > :50:48.one has a crystal ball. Mortgage rates right now are at historical

:50:49. > :50:53.lows. I think the most popular mortgage product is a two-year fix.

:50:54. > :50:58.People are looking to lock in and security, so they know what they are

:50:59. > :51:01.paying in the future. We've seen the rising popularity of longer term

:51:02. > :51:05.fixtures and they are at great rates historically. So there is a great

:51:06. > :51:09.opportunity for people. And she very much. We will be talking all morning

:51:10. > :51:14.about first-time buyers getting on the ladder. Is it better value or

:51:15. > :51:17.not to get a mortgage, or to keep renting and keep saving?

:51:18. > :51:21.More on that later. A lot of questions people are asking

:51:22. > :51:24.themselves when they are deciding whether to buy a house.

:51:25. > :51:28.And if you do have any questions, we might be able to answer them.

:51:29. > :51:34.Get in touch. Thank you. The chap that Sean spoke to was saying he

:51:35. > :51:38.feels good everytime he walks into the house. This story might make you

:51:39. > :51:42.smile even more. You move into your house, I think one of the first

:51:43. > :51:47.things you do is check everything. Maybe even check out the

:51:48. > :51:49.floorboards. Check under the floorboards!

:51:50. > :51:53.You never know what will be hidden. That's borderline creepy.

:51:54. > :51:59.I am gradually getting around to it. So these people bought a piano. That

:52:00. > :52:04.comes into their home. They were checking the back of the piano. Lo

:52:05. > :52:09.and behold they found gold coins hidden inside the piano! My point

:52:10. > :52:14.being, if they haven't looked they wouldn't have found it. This is in

:52:15. > :52:18.Shropshire. Now they have to determine whether they own them, or

:52:19. > :52:21.whether they belong to someone who owned the piano before.

:52:22. > :52:25.Have they had been valued yet? We haven't got a number yet, but they

:52:26. > :52:29.are thought to be worth an enormous amount of money. When you move into

:52:30. > :52:31.place, have look around. Maybe not under the floorboards!

:52:32. > :52:35.I did. How funny. Right, let's talk about

:52:36. > :52:36.Disney films. Snow White, Cinderella,

:52:37. > :52:38.Sleeping Beauty, Disney animated films have brought many

:52:39. > :52:41.a fairy tale to life. But only one Disney princess has

:52:42. > :52:45.ever been based on an actual person. The film Pocahontas,

:52:46. > :52:47.released in 1995, was inspired by a Native American woman

:52:48. > :52:52.who died 400 years ago. This week special events

:52:53. > :52:54.marking her extraordinary life have got underway, although the location

:52:55. > :52:57.might surprise you. # Have you ever heard

:52:58. > :53:15.the wolf cry... It took a quarter of ?1 million at

:53:16. > :53:19.the box office, but of the millions who have seen the 1995 film

:53:20. > :53:29.Pocahontas, few in all likelihood could tell you where she is actually

:53:30. > :53:32.buried. Just outside the M25 in Gravesend, in Kent. Pocahontas was a

:53:33. > :53:37.native American who married an English settler. They became

:53:38. > :53:42.Virginia's first tobacco farmers. They travelled to England and mixed

:53:43. > :53:46.with the movers and shakers of the day, including king James and

:53:47. > :53:52.Queensland. But on their return, as their ship passed through Gravesend,

:53:53. > :54:00.Pocahontas, or Rebecca, took ill and died. This is where she is buried

:54:01. > :54:09.and this is her great, great, great, great, great, great...

:54:10. > :54:14.Great-grandson. Also called John. I am very proud to be a descendant of

:54:15. > :54:18.Pocahontas, 17 times down the line. Very frustrating at times. Many

:54:19. > :54:22.people growing up had never heard of her. It was like saying, I am

:54:23. > :54:27.related to Cinderella or sleeping beauty. As the 400 anniversary of

:54:28. > :54:31.her death approaches there is a chance to honour her brief but

:54:32. > :54:34.extraordinary life. It is one of the first recorded instances where two

:54:35. > :54:37.very different cultures were formally married and formally

:54:38. > :54:42.celebrated. And they were celebrities when they came over?

:54:43. > :54:46.Indeed. Very much so, because many people had never met a Native

:54:47. > :54:52.American, so the young Pocahontas was fated as a celebrity. She died

:54:53. > :54:55.with king James -- dined with king James and Queensland and I feel

:54:56. > :55:01.proud to be part of this amazing very true story, and this very

:55:02. > :55:07.powerful woman. The Pocahontas 2017 festival is under way at St John's

:55:08. > :55:11.school in Gravesend, special lessons and a special visit. I am an art

:55:12. > :55:18.historian and the cultural ambassador for my tribal nation. I

:55:19. > :55:24.definitely feel a connection with Pocahontas. I feel like I am part of

:55:25. > :55:28.the story, I am following in her footsteps. I married an English

:55:29. > :55:33.person and changed my culture and became an ambassador for my people,

:55:34. > :55:38.which is what I think she was. She was such a strong lady and she did

:55:39. > :55:50.lots of things before she died. She influences most of us in how she

:55:51. > :55:52.lived and how brave she was. Some historians believe Pocahontas heard

:55:53. > :56:03.this song during her trip to England. Special performances in

:56:04. > :56:05.schools are planned. A remarkable life, a remarkable story, but no

:56:06. > :56:15.fairy tale. That's fascinating. If you were

:56:16. > :56:18.related to a Disney character, which one would be yours?

:56:19. > :56:21.You've got to give me time to think about that!

:56:22. > :56:25.Probably The Beast. I think I would be related to # Oh

:56:26. > :59:57.Bye for now. death -- related to Goofy.

:59:58. > :00:16.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:00:17. > :00:21.Thousands of people along the east coast of England are told

:00:22. > :00:23.to leave their homes, as gale-force winds combine

:00:24. > :00:35.Seven severe flood warnings, meaning a risk to life,

:00:36. > :00:39.More than 1,000 people are now beginning to be moved to safety

:00:40. > :00:48.It is breakfasttime at this rest centre where 17 people have stayed

:00:49. > :00:56.overnight. More than 2500 residents have left their homes after being

:00:57. > :00:59.told to evacuate. And snow is causing disruption. These are the

:01:00. > :01:12.images of Kent where they have already been delays on the M20.

:01:13. > :01:14.There has been snow and ice as well as those winds, the full forecast in

:01:15. > :01:20.about 15 minutes. Good morning, it is

:01:21. > :01:23.Friday 13 January. Also this morning: More

:01:24. > :01:25.men are in low-paid, part-time work than ever before,

:01:26. > :01:29.according to a new study of those We take a rare look

:01:30. > :01:38.inside a children's home, as one charity warns that not

:01:39. > :01:42.all young people are getting the support they need,

:01:43. > :01:44.and that is costing the UK billions. More people took their first step

:01:45. > :01:48.on the housing ladder last year than since 2007, and research

:01:49. > :01:51.for Breakfast says it is also getting cheaper for first-timer

:01:52. > :01:54.buyers to have a mortgage In sport, football mourns the loss

:01:55. > :01:58.of one of its true gentlemen, Graham Taylor, the former Watford,

:01:59. > :02:01.Aston Villa and England manager, who has died of a suspected heart

:02:02. > :02:04.attack at the age of 72. First, our main story: The army

:02:05. > :02:14.is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east coast,

:02:15. > :02:16.where a tidal surge The Environment Agency has issued

:02:17. > :02:20.seven severe flood warnings, All along the east coast,

:02:21. > :02:28.floodgates have been closed Gale-force winds are

:02:29. > :02:34.combining with high tides In Jaywick, in Essex,

:02:35. > :02:43.there is a severe flood warning, The emergency services

:02:44. > :02:48.have arrived in force. The residents are

:02:49. > :02:50.being urged to leave. We've got exceptionally strong

:02:51. > :02:56.winds, between 40 and 50 miles an hour, potentially

:02:57. > :02:59.with gusts stronger than that, and going to coincide with a high

:03:00. > :03:02.tide just after lunchtime. So that's why we've put in place

:03:03. > :03:05.this operation to evacuate safely Some have already

:03:06. > :03:07.heeded that warning. Everyone in the text messages,

:03:08. > :03:18.saying, have you evacuated yet? I said, the neighbours next

:03:19. > :03:20.door get all panicked, because she's not very well next

:03:21. > :03:23.door, and things like that. So I think a lot of people

:03:24. > :03:27.are actually planning to stay. On the Lincolnshire coast,

:03:28. > :03:29.at Skegness, the military have been About 100 soldiers have been based

:03:30. > :03:36.at the police station. Along the coast, those most

:03:37. > :03:39.vulnerable are doing what they can There will be a significant

:03:40. > :03:43.rise in the water. But whether it will be enough

:03:44. > :03:45.to top the defences, that depends on Mother Nature,

:03:46. > :03:47.I suppose, really. And Mother Nature is set to bring

:03:48. > :03:51.more wintry weather today, Nearly all the UK is covered

:03:52. > :03:57.by weather warnings for snow, In a moment we will get the latest

:03:58. > :04:06.from Simon Jones on the travel disruption being caused by snow

:04:07. > :04:09.and ice affecting some parts But first we can speak

:04:10. > :04:15.to our correspondent Leigh Milner, who is in Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex,

:04:16. > :04:18.where residents are being advised to leave properties that

:04:19. > :04:30.are at risk of flooding. As you can see behind me, we have

:04:31. > :04:34.residents who have stayed here overnight. This is the rest centre

:04:35. > :04:38.which has been set up and I have been told that 17 people stayed here

:04:39. > :04:45.overnight, and also the police are now moving the remaining 2500

:04:46. > :04:49.residents, that is half of Jaywick's population, out towards safety.

:04:50. > :04:54.Lawrence has been evacuated, and you have been through this before, in

:04:55. > :04:58.2013. How worried are you this time around? It sounds a bit more urgent

:04:59. > :05:02.this time, as last time they gave us a choice, but this time I had a

:05:03. > :05:06.knock on the door and they said you have got to get out now. And

:05:07. > :05:10.basically I just left, and I didn't bring my medication, it was quite

:05:11. > :05:15.urgent. And you have left your home, and everything in there? And my

:05:16. > :05:19.medication as well, so I have to try and get some from the chemist if

:05:20. > :05:24.we're not let back in soon. It seems like it was quite a rush to get out.

:05:25. > :05:28.There was banging on the door, and my friend who lives near me was on

:05:29. > :05:32.the phone to me telling me we might have to get out tomorrow, and they

:05:33. > :05:35.said we have to get out straightaway. Hopefully you are in

:05:36. > :05:42.good, safe hands. It is great, they have really done us proud. As I say,

:05:43. > :05:46.half the population in Jaywick, that is 2500 people, has been evacuated.

:05:47. > :05:50.Red and yellow warnings have been issued around the east coast, severe

:05:51. > :05:55.weather warnings here in Essex and Suffolk. That is the highest alert

:05:56. > :05:59.possible, to see if you are affected please check the Environment Agency

:06:00. > :06:01.website. Thank you very much, we will be back with you a little bit

:06:02. > :06:01.later on. The weather caused some problems

:06:02. > :06:04.for commuters at rush hour yesterday, with long delays,

:06:05. > :06:07.including queues in both directions There are warnings of

:06:08. > :06:09.similar problems today. Our correspondent Simon Jones

:06:10. > :06:19.is in a snowy Canterbury That is one of the places which has

:06:20. > :06:24.had quite a bit of snow during the last part of yesterday evening.

:06:25. > :06:28.Absolutely. Very cold this morning, after a very cold night. The snow

:06:29. > :06:33.started falling at around 6pm yesterday evening and came down for

:06:34. > :06:37.around three hours very heavily. We got around five centimetres of snow,

:06:38. > :06:42.and a lot of it has settled. Down there you can see some of the snow,

:06:43. > :06:46.but it has largely turned to ice because it has been so cold

:06:47. > :06:51.overnight. And then here on the path of very, very icy situation so

:06:52. > :06:56.tricky getting around at the same can be said for the roads. This one

:06:57. > :07:01.has been gritted a number of times, so not too bad at the moment. The

:07:02. > :07:04.gritters have been out and about but overnight in Kent there were some

:07:05. > :07:08.problems when the snow came down very heavily in a short space of

:07:09. > :07:13.time and the number of drivers said they had to spend several hours in

:07:14. > :07:17.their cars as they tried to get up and down that hill in pretty

:07:18. > :07:21.treacherous conditions. The main roads not too bad at the moment

:07:22. > :07:25.outside roads are causing problems, and we are told so far this morning

:07:26. > :07:30.we have had a number of jackknifed lorries and also a number of crashes

:07:31. > :07:35.and trees down. The advice is, if you are going out onto the roads,

:07:36. > :07:40.drive slowly and drive gently. Accelerate and break very gently,

:07:41. > :07:44.because the driving conditions are rather different. As well as snow

:07:45. > :07:49.and ice we also have the winds starting to whip up, talk of

:07:50. > :07:52.potentially more snow showers here during the morning. Scotland, the

:07:53. > :07:55.north of England and the east of England, so still some pretty

:07:56. > :08:00.treacherous conditions out there this morning. Thank you for that,

:08:01. > :08:01.and we will of course keep you right up-to-date with any transport

:08:02. > :08:03.problems on the roads. Let us know if you are affected,

:08:04. > :08:06.and send us your pictures, too. The number of men in low-paid,

:08:07. > :08:09.part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:08:10. > :08:13.for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men

:08:14. > :08:17.between the ages of 25 and 55 now That means wage inequality for men

:08:18. > :08:22.has risen over two decades. But for women the opposite

:08:23. > :08:25.is the case, as our business Top-earning men in the professions

:08:26. > :08:34.normally work full-time. In fact, only 5% of

:08:35. > :08:38.them work part-time. But in comparison, amongst

:08:39. > :08:41.the lowest-paid men, often in areas like catering

:08:42. > :08:47.and hospitality, 20% now work part-time, and that number

:08:48. > :08:49.has increased fourfold That has meant that wage inequality

:08:50. > :08:56.for men has increased, as high-paid, full-time staff

:08:57. > :08:58.have done far better But for women, the

:08:59. > :09:02.opposite is the case. For women, earnings growth has been

:09:03. > :09:07.consistently higher than that for men over the last 20 years,

:09:08. > :09:11.and more of them are in work. For men, particularly

:09:12. > :09:17.the lowest-paid, they've actually seen falls in the numbers of hours

:09:18. > :09:21.of work, which has suppressed It is far from clear

:09:22. > :09:25.why low-paid men are It might be because they want to,

:09:26. > :09:31.although that seems unlikely. The fact that 60% of the low-paid

:09:32. > :09:34.and part-time jobs are either in retail, wholesale,

:09:35. > :09:37.restaurants or hospitality might suggest that men who previously

:09:38. > :09:41.worked in low-paid but secure and full-time jobs,

:09:42. > :09:44.in sectors like manufacturing, have lost that work,

:09:45. > :09:47.and instead have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid

:09:48. > :09:49.and less-secure services sector There is a week to go

:09:50. > :09:57.until the new American president is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems

:09:58. > :10:01.to be at odds with some of his key Cabinet nominees on some

:10:02. > :10:04.of the vital questions facing His choice for the leader of the CIA

:10:05. > :10:09.has endorsed the work of the US intelligence community,

:10:10. > :10:11.hours after it was criticised Also, the potential defence

:10:12. > :10:15.secretary said Moscow posed a threat in Europe, after Mr Trump called

:10:16. > :10:17.for warmer relations with Russia. Our correspondent Laura Bicker

:10:18. > :10:26.reports from Washington. And it has emerged overnight

:10:27. > :10:28.that Christopher Steele, the British man who wrote a dossier

:10:29. > :10:32.of lurid claims about Donald Trump, was hired by the England

:10:33. > :10:35.2018 World Cup bid team. It is believed he was brought

:10:36. > :10:38.in to provide information on world There were emotional scenes

:10:39. > :10:43.during a ceremony at the White House last night, as President Obama

:10:44. > :10:46.surprised his Vice-President with the country's

:10:47. > :10:47.highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding

:10:48. > :10:50.the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith

:10:51. > :10:53.in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been

:10:54. > :11:14.a complete surprise. Yesterday we spoke about

:11:15. > :11:16.a nine-year-old British boy who melted hearts while competing

:11:17. > :11:18.in the Spanish version of Junior MasterChef,

:11:19. > :11:21.after his fish and chip dish didn't He has melted the Spanish nation's

:11:22. > :11:41.heart. Oscar Jefferson, who moved to Spain

:11:42. > :11:44.with his family two years ago, was invited to cook

:11:45. > :11:58.for the British Ambassador to Spain We wish him well, and there he is

:11:59. > :12:02.with his apron on, and recovered from his ordeal. We all have bad

:12:03. > :12:05.days in the kitchen. And to be fair the British ambassador has done

:12:06. > :12:13.well, getting potentially a professionally cooked meal by that

:12:14. > :12:17.lad, because to get on the Masterchef itself.

:12:18. > :12:20.There is a week to go until the new American president

:12:21. > :12:24.is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems to be at odds with some of his key

:12:25. > :12:27.Cabinet nominees on some of the vital questions facing

:12:28. > :12:34.And at the heart of it is the former British spy Christopher Steele,

:12:35. > :12:36.who has reportedly gone into hiding, fearing for his safety,

:12:37. > :12:39.after allegedly preparing memos claiming Russia has compromising

:12:40. > :12:46.So what do we know about the former MI6 officer?

:12:47. > :12:50.We can talk now to Dr Rory Cormac, from the University of Nottingham,

:12:51. > :12:53.who is a specialist in secret intelligence.

:12:54. > :13:02.Good morning to you. Thank you very much for joining us. Tell us a

:13:03. > :13:07.little bit about Christopher Steele, and what do we know about him? What

:13:08. > :13:11.we know is he was a MI6 officer, a Russian specialist to spend a lot of

:13:12. > :13:15.time in MI6 headquarters in London, but also spent a bit of time abroad

:13:16. > :13:19.and the Moscow Embassy as well. And he spent about 20 years in MI6

:13:20. > :13:23.before starting his own private consultancy company. One of the

:13:24. > :13:27.problems he is facing immediately, as we understand he is in hiding at

:13:28. > :13:34.the moment, is that people in that line of work, and he is a retired

:13:35. > :13:38.intelligence officer, you are never retired if you work for MI6, they

:13:39. > :13:42.like to work in the shadows and now there is a great deal of scrutiny on

:13:43. > :13:45.him about other work he has been doing. In this, the suggestion this

:13:46. > :13:50.morning he may have worked to get information for the England 2018

:13:51. > :13:54.World Cup bid so there is a great deal of Spotlight now on him and

:13:55. > :13:58.what he has done. Intelligence officers by their very nature don't

:13:59. > :14:03.like the spotlight. They like to work in the shadows, as you say, and

:14:04. > :14:06.this will be undoubtedly very uncomfortable for him but it is

:14:07. > :14:12.probably unwise to speculate as to his safety, the Russians being after

:14:13. > :14:16.him. As a Russian specialist he will know the retribution that Russia

:14:17. > :14:21.pays out to critics of the regime but at the same time he is not a

:14:22. > :14:25.Russian dissidents, he is a British citizen so it is probably unwise to

:14:26. > :14:32.speculate as to his welfare. The big issue here I think adds to this

:14:33. > :14:38.level of intrigue, suspicion and paranoia and conspiracy just a week

:14:39. > :14:46.before the inauguration and whether that is true or not, it plays into

:14:47. > :14:51.Putin's hand. What Putin and the FSB have wanted all along is to dent

:14:52. > :14:54.American self-confidence, to question the American political

:14:55. > :14:58.process. America is a city on the hill, it likes to boast proudly

:14:59. > :15:03.about its free and fair elections and now for the first time in a long

:15:04. > :15:06.time we're all talking about corruption, Russian agents,

:15:07. > :15:15.impeachment, the dreaded Watergate word has been mentioned. It is a

:15:16. > :15:18.win-win for Putin, really. One of the issues is Donald Trump's

:15:19. > :15:22.relationship with the intelligence service in the US now and how that

:15:23. > :15:26.has to be rebuilt. As we mentioned earlier, we've got his potential

:15:27. > :15:31.chosen people to be the head of the CIA or the Defence Secretary who are

:15:32. > :15:33.saying things at odds to what he has said about things like the

:15:34. > :15:37.intelligent services and the relationship with Russia. That will

:15:38. > :15:41.be a tough and important role. That is very crucial. Intelligence is

:15:42. > :15:49.crucial in the decision-making process. It informs the most

:15:50. > :15:54.important, serious decisions that a president has to make and that Trump

:15:55. > :15:59.may have to make in a week. Have a healthy scepticism isn't a bad

:16:00. > :16:03.thing, but do not trust their very motives is dangerous, and to

:16:04. > :16:10.disregard intelligence as a whole is equally dangerous. The incoming CIA

:16:11. > :16:15.director will have to tread a very fine line between sticking up for

:16:16. > :16:19.his organisation, when morale is very low in American intelligence

:16:20. > :16:24.after Trump has been so publicly hostile. So the new director has to

:16:25. > :16:28.stick up for his organisation while also not alienating the president.

:16:29. > :16:32.It will be a crucial role and it's a very fine line to tread. I bet you

:16:33. > :16:40.love this sort of story, in your line of work, this intrigue? It is

:16:41. > :16:45.very intriguing. I am a Cold War historian by training and there are

:16:46. > :16:48.some intriguing parallels. Thank you very much.

:16:49. > :16:52.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:16:53. > :16:55.The main stories this morning: The Army is helping to evacuate

:16:56. > :16:58.thousands of people from the east coast of England ahead

:16:59. > :17:03.People across Britain are preparing for the worst,

:17:04. > :17:06.with warnings of wind, snow and ice covering large parts

:17:07. > :17:18.Here's Sarah with a look at this morning's weather.

:17:19. > :17:23.The worst of the snow seems to have been late into the evening last

:17:24. > :17:27.night? That's right. This was the scene

:17:28. > :17:32.taken yesterday evening. This was in London. You can see the snow. We had

:17:33. > :17:38.about three hours of heavy snow across parts of the south-east

:17:39. > :17:43.through the course of yesterday, but much of the country has seen wintry

:17:44. > :17:46.showers. We have this frontal system moving south across central and

:17:47. > :17:50.eastern parts of England at the moment. That's bringing further

:17:51. > :17:54.sleet and snow, a bit of remixed in a lower levels as well. For Scotland

:17:55. > :17:59.this morning we are continuing to see for the snow showers. Perhaps a

:18:00. > :18:02.bit of rain at lower levels. Strong winds, especially around the east

:18:03. > :18:07.coast. Where the strong winds combined with high tides, that's

:18:08. > :18:15.where we are concerned about seeing coastal flooding, especially in east

:18:16. > :18:20.Anglia. This sleet and snow as well. Several severe flood warnings have

:18:21. > :18:24.been issued around the east coast, so here is the flood line number if

:18:25. > :18:27.you are concerned. This area of rain, sleet and snow will gradually

:18:28. > :18:32.clear from the south-east by about lunchtime. Further west there will

:18:33. > :18:36.be sleet and snow showers for northern and western Scotland, parts

:18:37. > :18:40.of Ireland and Wales as well. But much of the country by the afternoon

:18:41. > :18:44.is looking dry, with cold and wintry sunshine. By degrees the top

:18:45. > :18:49.temperature. But it will feel subzero for many. That's when we add

:18:50. > :18:53.on the windchill. Moving into the evening we still have the chance of

:18:54. > :18:57.a few wintry flurries towards the east and for western fringes of the

:18:58. > :19:02.UK also some rain, sleet and snow showers. Clear skies for many and

:19:03. > :19:08.winds for light, so a cold night tonight. Sub zero widely. We are

:19:09. > :19:12.likely to see quite an icy start to Saturday morning again. Through the

:19:13. > :19:15.day on Saturday we are likely to see further snow showers across parts of

:19:16. > :19:21.eastern Scotland, down to east Anglia. Many areas having a dry day.

:19:22. > :19:26.There will be more cloud moving in from the west, bringing in rain and

:19:27. > :19:31.sleet showers later in the day. Temperature 6-7 in western areas.

:19:32. > :19:36.Still about in the east. Looking pretty chilly to start the weekend.

:19:37. > :19:40.As we had through Saturday and Sunday we will start to draw in this

:19:41. > :19:44.much milder air from the west or the north-west, which brings with it

:19:45. > :19:47.more cloud by the time we get to Sunday. Patchy outbreaks of rain on

:19:48. > :19:51.the frontal system working gradually eastwards through the country and

:19:52. > :19:55.winds coming in from a westerly direction. By the time we get to

:19:56. > :20:00.Sunday we've lost the wintry weather for now. Back to about 5- 10

:20:01. > :20:05.degrees. But certainly the day the weather is causing some disruption.

:20:06. > :20:09.Likely to have ongoing problems with ice, snow and strong winds that

:20:10. > :20:13.could lead to coastal flooding in the east. Would you like to see some

:20:14. > :20:18.pictures of snow right now? Yes, I love a snow picture. People

:20:19. > :20:20.have been busy sending in pictures from various places.

:20:21. > :20:23.David in Gateshead has taken a picture of his back garden under

:20:24. > :20:31.It makes everything look really pretty.

:20:32. > :20:36.John from Stoke on Trent has captured this picture of his road.

:20:37. > :20:42.Lots of people, like me, spent part of the morning removing the ice from

:20:43. > :20:44.the car. We saw quite a few of the problems

:20:45. > :20:47.in south-east London particularly. This pictures been sent

:20:48. > :20:51.in by Lydia in Sidcup. Quite a lot of bad snow late into

:20:52. > :20:54.the evening yesterday. Paul in Macclesfield snapped this

:20:55. > :21:03.lovely winter wonderland pic. It looks very pretty. Of course we

:21:04. > :21:06.will keep you up-to-date with everything going on with the travel

:21:07. > :21:16.situation and also flood warnings. Let's go over to Sean. News about

:21:17. > :21:19.emissions. We are familiar with VW and the ongoing story on what we

:21:20. > :21:23.have a new name? Another one dragged into it.

:21:24. > :21:26.Volkswagen is the only one that has admitted wrongdoing, but other

:21:27. > :21:27.companies have been accused. Today it's Fiat's turn

:21:28. > :21:29.in the headlines. The car manufacturer has been

:21:30. > :21:34.accused of not telling authorities about software in some of its cars

:21:35. > :21:39.that is there to regulate emissions in more than 100,000

:21:40. > :21:42.of its diesel vehicles. It involves cars like this, the Jeep

:21:43. > :21:53.Grand Cherokee. Fiat Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne

:21:54. > :22:03.said the firm had done nothing But this will continue with those

:22:04. > :22:07.American authorities. We are talking housing this morning. The gap

:22:08. > :22:13.between average mortgage payments and average rent is narrowing. In

:22:14. > :22:17.fact, in 10% of places in the UK it is cheaper to own a house each month

:22:18. > :22:21.than it is to rent one. Also this morning the lenders at Halifax have

:22:22. > :22:25.said there were more first-time home buyers last year that has any time

:22:26. > :22:30.in the start of the financial crisis. The stock market is hitting

:22:31. > :22:34.records again. It's getting boring! The FTSE 100 closed at a record 11th

:22:35. > :22:39.day in a row top levels, all-time records. Something it has never

:22:40. > :22:47.managed before. We will keep an ionic. Will it get to a 12th? -- an

:22:48. > :22:49.eye on it. I bet next week we will talk about a

:22:50. > :22:56.low record! Thanks very much. Shall we have a look at some of the

:22:57. > :23:01.front pages? I think we will move straight onto

:23:02. > :23:05.the weather. The main worry this morning is the severe flood

:23:06. > :23:09.warnings. There are now 14 severe weather

:23:10. > :23:13.warnings in place. Emergency services are on standby and an

:23:14. > :23:18.evacuation centre has been set up at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex.

:23:19. > :23:22.Let's get the latest from the Environment Agency. Good morning.

:23:23. > :23:25.Thank you for your time. I know it's a busy time. Just bring us up to

:23:26. > :23:31.date with the latest information. Thank you. We are continuing to warn

:23:32. > :23:37.about high tides right across the east coast, a particular focus in

:23:38. > :23:40.Sussex and ethics. Our concerns for the morning tide, it stretches

:23:41. > :23:46.through the morning, through mid-day. And also the evening tide.

:23:47. > :23:49.Levels could be even higher. How many severe flood warnings are in

:23:50. > :23:54.place at present? Seven are issued at the morning. There is the

:23:55. > :23:57.potential that more could be issued through the day. I encourage people

:23:58. > :24:04.to keep up-to-date either by using our flood line, or by looking on the

:24:05. > :24:09.website, really getting the latest information they can. You are in one

:24:10. > :24:14.of the centres set up to help people and we were talking to some of them

:24:15. > :24:20.earlier. What are they experiencing? What are they being advised? The

:24:21. > :24:24.advice we are giving people here, where we issued flood warnings

:24:25. > :24:28.yesterday afternoon, is that high tide warnings are expected about

:24:29. > :24:31.midday. People should to the evacuation centre or get everything

:24:32. > :24:35.ready so they can work with the emergency services who are leading

:24:36. > :24:40.the evacuation. We really strongly advise people to stay away from high

:24:41. > :24:44.tides, and not just people being evacuated, but more generally.

:24:45. > :24:47.People should be sensible about not wave watching, not driving through

:24:48. > :24:52.floodwater and focusing on keeping themselves say. It is very important

:24:53. > :24:55.today. You will know from previous experience that some people are

:24:56. > :25:01.reluctant to leave their homes in this Galatians, aren't they?

:25:02. > :25:06.Absolutely. -- in these circumstances. When we issue

:25:07. > :25:10.floodwater warnings we do it because we consider it a danger to life.

:25:11. > :25:15.People need to heed the evacuation warnings that we can keep them safe.

:25:16. > :25:20.You try to do your calculation to anticipate what levels the floods

:25:21. > :25:28.will be out. What's happening so far this morning? Are they know are all

:25:29. > :25:31.more than you expected? What we are seeing this morning is that the

:25:32. > :25:35.levels are coming in slightly below what was forecast, which hopefully

:25:36. > :25:39.will be good news for most communities, but we need to still

:25:40. > :25:44.stay vigilant. It is still serious and the winds can change and rip up

:25:45. > :25:47.to the water at any point, so people need to stay focused. This evening

:25:48. > :25:53.we are looking at levels potentially above forecast. Some very high tides

:25:54. > :25:56.indeed. Really important people stay focused on warnings throughout the

:25:57. > :26:00.day and are ready to take any action they need from there. And you are

:26:01. > :26:04.from the Environment Agency. When you have a lot of your staff working

:26:05. > :26:09.on it and we've seen a military on standby to help. Give us an idea of

:26:10. > :26:13.the level of staffing available. Significant numbers of staff. We've

:26:14. > :26:19.been moving equipment and staff all week in preparation for this. And

:26:20. > :26:22.also working closely with partners and emergency services, local

:26:23. > :26:28.authority and the military as you say are on standby. A huge number of

:26:29. > :26:33.temporary barriers. They are in place and ready to protect and we

:26:34. > :26:36.are all standing by to do anything additional that is needed today and

:26:37. > :26:40.we will continue to work around the clock to do everything we can to

:26:41. > :26:47.minimise impact and keep people safe. Thank you very much for your

:26:48. > :26:51.time this morning. That was coming from one of the

:26:52. > :26:57.centres set up to help. Some people have already being evacuated. We

:26:58. > :27:03.will keep you up-to-date. Problems with the floods and also the roads.

:27:04. > :27:10.Just to get you up-to-date on the national projects, there are now 17

:27:11. > :27:14.severe flood warnings. That means a risk to life in 17 areas now. That's

:27:15. > :27:18.a number that has been increasing throughout the morning. We will of

:27:19. > :27:21.course keep you up-to-date about which areas they are and what is

:27:22. > :27:22.happening in those areas. More on that later.

:27:23. > :30:50.Bye for now. travel and weather where you are.

:30:51. > :30:52.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:30:53. > :31:01.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:31:02. > :31:10.The army is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east

:31:11. > :31:12.coast, where a tidal surge is expected to hit.

:31:13. > :31:15.The Environment Agency has issued 14 severe flood warnings,

:31:16. > :31:24.All along the east coast, floodgates have been closed

:31:25. > :31:27.Gale-force winds are combining with high tides

:31:28. > :31:31.In Jaywick, in Essex, there is a severe flood warning,

:31:32. > :31:35.The emergency services have arrived in force.

:31:36. > :31:36.The residents are being urged to leave.

:31:37. > :31:42.We've got exceptionally strong winds, between 40 and 50 miles

:31:43. > :31:44.an hour, potentially with gusts stronger than that,

:31:45. > :31:47.and going to coincide with a high tide just after lunchtime.

:31:48. > :31:50.So that's why we've put in place this operation to evacuate safely

:31:51. > :31:53.Some have already heeded that warning.

:31:54. > :31:57.Everyone in the text messages, saying, have you evacuated yet?

:31:58. > :32:00.I said, the neighbours next door get all panicked,

:32:01. > :32:03.because she's not very well next door, and things like that.

:32:04. > :32:06.So I think a lot of people are actually planning to stay.

:32:07. > :32:09.On the Lincolnshire coast, at Skegness, the military have been

:32:10. > :32:14.About 100 soldiers have been based at the police station.

:32:15. > :32:17.Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can

:32:18. > :32:23.There will be a significant rise in the water.

:32:24. > :32:26.But whether it will be enough to top the defences,

:32:27. > :32:28.that depends on Mother Nature, I suppose, really.

:32:29. > :32:31.And Mother Nature is set to bring more wintry weather today,

:32:32. > :32:36.Nearly all the UK is covered by weather warnings for snow,

:32:37. > :32:51.Kate Sweeting is in Hessle, near the Humber Bridge,

:32:52. > :32:54.where there is a severe flood warning in place.

:32:55. > :33:08.I can see there is pretty heavy snowfall. Indeed, it is very cold

:33:09. > :33:13.here but relatively calm, and that will come as a relief to residents.

:33:14. > :33:18.Tidal surges are caused by a combination of high winds and high

:33:19. > :33:22.tide, and the winds haven't been as high as predicted. And so high tide

:33:23. > :33:26.has passed here this morning without event, but we are not part of the

:33:27. > :33:31.woods yet, because there is another high tide this evening at around

:33:32. > :33:36.6pm, which is expected to be more severe. There are still flood

:33:37. > :33:41.warnings in place along the east coast, which means that flooding is

:33:42. > :33:44.expected. People here are on standby, with sandbags, there are

:33:45. > :33:50.council staff and police ready for this evening and in Lincolnshire the

:33:51. > :33:54.army was called in to help evacuate people. More than 3000 residents

:33:55. > :33:58.were told they should leave their homes or go upstairs, and special

:33:59. > :34:02.rest centres have been set up for them. But for the people hear the

:34:03. > :34:06.warning of a tidal surge is particularly worrying because in

:34:07. > :34:11.2013 one happened in the water came over. It flooded more than 1400

:34:12. > :34:17.homes. The last time there was a serious tidal surge was in 1953,

:34:18. > :34:22.when hundreds of people died. The people here were told, and believed,

:34:23. > :34:27.when it happened in 2013, that this was a once in 60 year event and

:34:28. > :34:33.three years on here we are on high alert.

:34:34. > :34:37.We will bring you up-to-date on the weather picture across the UK a

:34:38. > :34:39.little later in the programme. The number of men in low-paid,

:34:40. > :34:41.part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:34:42. > :34:46.for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men

:34:47. > :34:49.aged between 25 and 55 That means wage inequality for men

:34:50. > :34:52.has risen over two decades, There were emotional scenes

:34:53. > :35:03.during a ceremony at the White House last night, as President Obama

:35:04. > :35:05.surprised his Vice-President with the country's

:35:06. > :35:06.highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding

:35:07. > :35:09.the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith

:35:10. > :35:12.in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been

:35:13. > :35:28.a complete surprise. This is a remarkable man, and I just

:35:29. > :35:34.hope that the asterisk in history that is attached to my name when

:35:35. > :35:36.they talk about this presidency is that I can say I was part of, part

:35:37. > :35:42.of the journey of a remarkable man. The carmaker Fiat Chrysler has been

:35:43. > :35:45.accused of violating pollution laws The US Environmental Protection

:35:46. > :35:49.Agency says the manufacturer equipped tens of thousands of diesel

:35:50. > :35:51.Jeep and Dodge vehicles with software that regulates

:35:52. > :35:53.emissions results. The firm has denied doing anything

:35:54. > :35:56.illegal, but has seen its share The number of people changing

:35:57. > :36:06.who they buy their electricity Research from the industry body

:36:07. > :36:11.Energy UK shows that nearly five million people changed

:36:12. > :36:13.their electricity supplier last year, and a fifth of those

:36:14. > :36:16.who switched in December went to a smaller supplier rather

:36:17. > :36:19.than one of the Big Six. It is the highest number of switches

:36:20. > :36:22.since Energy UK began Sarah will have the weather forecast

:36:23. > :36:39.in around five minutes. Lots going on, of course, with the

:36:40. > :36:44.weather. Time to talk about sport with Mike, and lots of tributes

:36:45. > :36:50.coming in for Graham Taylor. Yes, a shock to all and football is morning

:36:51. > :36:55.loss of a great human being. Kind, courteous and totally without ego.

:36:56. > :37:00.That is my big memory of him, when he came on the sofa for Breakfast or

:37:01. > :37:04.when he was still managing and I interviewed him, it was like talking

:37:05. > :37:07.to a friend. Often with football managers, you worry about saying the

:37:08. > :37:12.wrong thing, will they stormed out? Not him at all. He had a great sense

:37:13. > :37:17.of humour and could laugh at himself. So many stories about how

:37:18. > :37:26.humble he was, right at the end. He agreed to be best man at Watford

:37:27. > :37:34.fan's wedding after meeting him only once. And I am mindful, looking at

:37:35. > :37:38.the image behind us and the pictures in the papers, a very infectious

:37:39. > :37:44.smile he had. Everyone who paid tribute to him said he had a great

:37:45. > :37:48.sense of humour. As I say, he could laugh at himself, self-deprecating,

:37:49. > :37:53.but he was interested in you. You would offer to make a cup of tea,

:37:54. > :37:54.and he would say no, I will do it, you're fine.

:37:55. > :37:57.It is hard to remember so much genuine love for a football manager,

:37:58. > :38:00.but Graham Taylor was a top-class coach at club level,

:38:01. > :38:03.and a true gentleman inside and outside of the game.

:38:04. > :38:06.Sir Elton John appointed Taylor as Watford manager in 1977,

:38:07. > :38:09.and he led them from the old fourth division to runners-up in the top

:38:10. > :38:12.flight within five years, and they reached the 1984 FA

:38:13. > :38:21.He also managed Lincoln, Aston Villa and Wolves,

:38:22. > :38:23.and he was England manager for four years.

:38:24. > :38:27.A guy who was so passionate, who was so in love with the game

:38:28. > :38:30.of football, and who was straight, and who was honest,

:38:31. > :38:35.And he wasn't afraid to do that, whether you are a young player,

:38:36. > :38:38.or whether you are a very experienced player.

:38:39. > :38:41.And I think that is the way he will be remembered.

:38:42. > :38:43.You always talk about people's contribution within football.

:38:44. > :38:46.But you remember them most as people, and he was somebody that

:38:47. > :38:49.had time for everybody, and was generous with that time.

:38:50. > :38:51.And I think they are the human qualities that

:38:52. > :39:00.There was a minute's applause in memory of Graham Taylor ahead

:39:01. > :39:02.of last night's Championship match between QPR and Reading.

:39:03. > :39:06.QPR made it three League wins in a row thanks to Jamie Mackay's

:39:07. > :39:09.winner, scoring against his old club.

:39:10. > :39:12.West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic says they will not sell

:39:13. > :39:15.Dimitri Payet, even though he is refusing to play for the club,

:39:16. > :39:20.Payet's former club Marseille have reportedly already had a bid

:39:21. > :39:29.Bilic said Payet is out of the team, and won't be training

:39:30. > :39:33.until he changes his attitude, but he is not for sale.

:39:34. > :39:40.We don't want to sell our best players. We want to keep them.

:39:41. > :39:48.Here's definitely one of the more... Our best player. That is why we gave

:39:49. > :39:51.him such a long contract. I informed him of that, and he refused to play

:39:52. > :39:53.for us. Andy Murray will start his

:39:54. > :39:55.Australian Open campaign Murray is the top seed

:39:56. > :39:59.for a Grand Slam for the first time. He has reached the final

:40:00. > :40:02.in Melbourne five times, In the women's draw,

:40:03. > :40:05.Johanna Konta will face Kirsten England's test captain,

:40:06. > :40:16.Alastair Cook, will meet director of cricket Andrew Strauss today,

:40:17. > :40:19.but no decision on his role Cook admitted to having questions

:40:20. > :40:24.over his position during the recent 4-0 series defeat in India,

:40:25. > :40:31.but still has the backing You questioning a guy that's got

:40:32. > :40:36.11,000 Test runs, the most decorated English Test match player that we've

:40:37. > :40:42.ever had. And to be questioning him so much about whether or not he

:40:43. > :40:47.should stay on as captain, and this, that on the other, I think it is up

:40:48. > :40:51.to him whether he wants to stay on. I think he has got to make that

:40:52. > :40:53.decision and I'm sure that when he makes that decision it will be the

:40:54. > :40:56.right one for him and the team. The man who twice rode Red Rum

:40:57. > :41:00.to victory in the Grand National, Fletcher won the National

:41:01. > :41:05.as a 20-year-old in 1968, on board Red Alligator,

:41:06. > :41:07.but will be best remembered for his back-to-back wins at Aintree

:41:08. > :41:21.on Red Rum in '73 and '74. The popularity of NBA basketball in

:41:22. > :41:22.this country shows no sign of waning.

:41:23. > :41:24.And a sell-out crowd at London's O2 Arena saw

:41:25. > :41:26.the Denver Nuggets comfortably beat the Indiana Pacers

:41:27. > :41:30.It is the seventh regular-season game to be played in the capital,

:41:31. > :41:41.The crowd included many Arsenal and Chelsea players as well. A final

:41:42. > :41:45.word about Graham Taylor, and his reign change the way it the press

:41:46. > :41:51.treated English managers because there was that vilification of him

:41:52. > :41:57.on the back page of the Sun, when he was depicted as a turnip, with the

:41:58. > :42:03.headline Swedes two, turnips, one. That one headline defined his spell

:42:04. > :42:07.in charge of England, which didn't go according to plan for him but we

:42:08. > :42:12.mustn't forget what he did for those clubs, for Aston Villa, Watford and

:42:13. > :42:17.Lincoln, and he was overseeing a lot of comings and goings, so he can't

:42:18. > :42:22.totally be blamed for what happened with England. But it got quite sour

:42:23. > :42:26.at times. And you will talk to one of the players later on. Yes,

:42:27. > :42:30.because he also did a lot to tackle racism and again, one of the first

:42:31. > :42:37.pioneers to tackle it head on. He signed John Barnes for Watford for

:42:38. > :42:41.just a pair of shorts and a football kit. He has overseen it all.

:42:42. > :42:44.A public health crisis on a par with obesity and diabetes.

:42:45. > :42:47.That could be the result of not properly assessing the needs

:42:48. > :42:49.of children in care, according to the head

:42:50. > :42:54.Mark Kerr from the Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma

:42:55. > :42:56.says the failure of successive governments to properly care

:42:57. > :42:59.for looked-after children could cost society billions of pounds a year.

:43:00. > :43:04.But first, Breakfast's Jayne McCubbin has been to a children's

:43:05. > :43:17.home in Yorkshire, to see what life is like for those who live there.

:43:18. > :43:24.It is rare for a camera to be invited inside the children's care

:43:25. > :43:34.home. Here in Yorkshire, and struck I how normal it all is. And it feels

:43:35. > :43:38.really homely. Everything in the whole house is picked by the young

:43:39. > :43:43.people as well. This is their house, this is their home, this is where

:43:44. > :43:47.they live. Nothing he feels institutional. Only two young people

:43:48. > :43:52.live here, looked after by eight specially trained staff. We have one

:43:53. > :43:56.young man who was 14, and the young lady who is 17. Those who live here

:43:57. > :44:02.will probably have suffered serious neglect, trauma or abuse. To

:44:03. > :44:06.understand how happy he feels or how angry he feels, it can feel like

:44:07. > :44:11.anger but it is not the same, anxiety, and we have to do a lot of

:44:12. > :44:15.work with them about that. That is one of the sleeper is just over

:44:16. > :44:21.there, and this is one of our other young people's rooms, who is most

:44:22. > :44:26.comfortable in clutter! We will leave well enough alone. I give you

:44:27. > :44:31.permission to read this out. I asked him to tell me what kind of things

:44:32. > :44:34.he is into, and he says looking at cars, going to school, playing

:44:35. > :44:39.football, playing on the Xbox. Can you say thank you to all my foster

:44:40. > :44:44.parents in the past? Clearly he has had lots of connections with people

:44:45. > :44:48.in the past. But he feels more settled here. Yes, the bounce to

:44:49. > :44:53.about six or seven different placements but he has been here now

:44:54. > :44:57.for over two years now, doing really well. There are no timetables.

:44:58. > :45:05.Friends are welcome to visit. Day trips and holidays are taken. This

:45:06. > :45:09.is... This is Christmas Day. Yes, so we like to take pictures. A lot of

:45:10. > :45:13.them we've got memory boxes that we keep for the young people but a lot

:45:14. > :45:17.of them do go up around the house. Because the plan is always for a

:45:18. > :45:21.young person to eventually move on from here, hopefully back to their

:45:22. > :45:25.own home, not always possible. What is the relationship like with

:45:26. > :45:29.neighbours, people in the area? I think the majority of the time it is

:45:30. > :45:33.really good. I think when things go wrong in the community we are the

:45:34. > :45:36.first ones that get the knock on the door, because unfortunately our kids

:45:37. > :45:40.are perceived as being bad kits, and that is not the case at all. They

:45:41. > :45:44.have been through a lot in their lives, a lot of trauma, they just

:45:45. > :45:46.need that help and support from us. That is what we are trying to give

:45:47. > :45:50.them. We will talk about a couple of those

:45:51. > :45:58.issues now. Joining us now is Dr Mark Kerr,

:45:59. > :46:02.chairman of the Institute for Recovery from Childhood Trauma

:46:03. > :46:05.and Liam Hill who's the director at the charity Voice for Children

:46:06. > :46:12.and was himself a child in care. This is very personal for you, cause

:46:13. > :46:15.you spend a lot of time in many, many different elements of care.

:46:16. > :46:24.What the brief outline of what happened to you? At the age of five

:46:25. > :46:29.I was put into care, and over my time I was put into 64 different

:46:30. > :46:35.placements. These were roughly around 40 to foster placements and

:46:36. > :46:40.the rest was residential. Given your own experience, I speak on behalf of

:46:41. > :46:44.those brought up in this, what progress or any has been made? Where

:46:45. > :46:49.do the problems lie now? This reporter says clearly there is a

:46:50. > :46:52.problem right now. The problem for me is around the timescales of

:46:53. > :46:57.children and young people and whether they get the help they need.

:46:58. > :47:02.As mentioned before I had 42. Owns and that was a lot of the time

:47:03. > :47:10.because Foster the People weren't trained properly. So residential

:47:11. > :47:18.places that have facilities to help with the trauma and affects. I do

:47:19. > :47:26.independent inspections in kids' home. There are smaller homes now,

:47:27. > :47:30.less institutionalised. There's more emphasis on the voice of the and

:47:31. > :47:35.young people. But there are still issues in terms of homes actually

:47:36. > :47:38.being well-equipped with staff who can manage this behaviour.

:47:39. > :47:42.Criminalisation sometimes with young people, displaying aggressive

:47:43. > :47:47.behaviours. That's one of the issues for me. And obviously it is about

:47:48. > :47:51.keeping consistent people for those young people and getting the best

:47:52. > :47:56.care. You've done a lot of research in this area, Mark, and you can tell

:47:57. > :48:00.us about the scale. I was surprised by how many children there are in

:48:01. > :48:05.care homes and the impact it has. Now we are down to... The number has

:48:06. > :48:10.gone down the vividly. Historically the residential homes in England,

:48:11. > :48:15.therapeutic, were viewed around the world as leading. But that has

:48:16. > :48:20.eroded over the years as politically they've been out of favour in terms

:48:21. > :48:25.of moving away into care in the community. Lots of focus now on the

:48:26. > :48:30.symptoms around the causes. So we talk about offending, for example we

:48:31. > :48:35.already know that between trauma and mental health problems and offending

:48:36. > :48:41.there is a link. And we know that for example adverse child

:48:42. > :48:49.experiences, which is the common symptom and cause of what happens to

:48:50. > :48:52.these children, before care. It is difficult to deal with that in

:48:53. > :48:56.foster care. So as much as foster carers have lots of care and love to

:48:57. > :49:04.give, they don't have the psychological skills. Mental health

:49:05. > :49:09.services have cuts as well. Is it your opinion that a lot of children

:49:10. > :49:12.are put into force the care, when what they need is a different kind

:49:13. > :49:18.of approach? Absolutely. Because if we keep tackling the symptoms, the

:49:19. > :49:24.amount of movement and different foster placements, we pass it on

:49:25. > :49:30.into adulthood and that's cost shunting. You speak to people who

:49:31. > :49:35.are caught up into this and that's what you are hearing? All the time.

:49:36. > :49:41.The difficulty is that children and young people, a lot of the people we

:49:42. > :49:44.speak to, have more trauma due to all of the different placements

:49:45. > :49:51.moves. Not getting the right support and help. As people know if you have

:49:52. > :49:55.been in care Bears and 80% chance that if you have a child it will go

:49:56. > :50:01.back into the system. So therapeutic residential setting can cost of

:50:02. > :50:08.?80,000 a year... The stories are very moving. Was there a moment, and

:50:09. > :50:13.we haven't got much time, sorry, was there a moment for you that changed

:50:14. > :50:19.things for you sit negatively? In terms of... Progress. Whether there

:50:20. > :50:24.was a moment where you were on one path and then something changed? I

:50:25. > :50:27.was placed in a therapeutic setting after all of my foster home

:50:28. > :50:31.breakdowns and they did real therapy, worked with me to help me

:50:32. > :50:35.get back to my local area, get back into mainstream education. Then I

:50:36. > :50:38.was once again placed in a foster placement and that placement broke

:50:39. > :50:43.down because they still couldn't manage, so after all of that great

:50:44. > :50:47.progress I sort of took a step back. Very interesting to talk to you

:50:48. > :50:51.both. Thank you very much for your time.

:50:52. > :50:55.So much to talk about. It is snowing heavily near the Humber Bridge this

:50:56. > :50:56.morning. Have a look at this picture.

:50:57. > :51:02.Here's Sarah with a look at this morning's weather.

:51:03. > :51:11.Good morning. We have got a lot of wintry weather around this morning.

:51:12. > :51:16.Many of us will be waking up to scenes like this for top but it is

:51:17. > :51:21.not just the ice and snow that will be causing problems, but also strong

:51:22. > :51:24.winds and the chance along the east coast that we could have coastal

:51:25. > :51:29.flooding problems. Lots to tell you about. We have a band of sleet and

:51:30. > :51:33.snow pushing across northern England, Lincolnshire, down into

:51:34. > :51:36.east Anglia and across Scotland further wintry showers, especially

:51:37. > :51:41.towards the north and west. We have strong winds towards the east coast.

:51:42. > :51:44.Flooding could be a problem. Coastal flooding in particular further

:51:45. > :51:48.south, where strong winds are combining with high tides. We have

:51:49. > :51:54.sleet and snow pushing across east Anglia, east Midlands. That will

:51:55. > :51:57.clear later in the day. If you are concerned about the risk of flooding

:51:58. > :52:00.where you live here is the flood line number. The environmental

:52:01. > :52:04.agency has several severe flood warnings in force. As we move

:52:05. > :52:08.through the day we've got the band of sleet and snow gradually clearing

:52:09. > :52:12.the south-east by about lunchtime. Further wintry showers towards the

:52:13. > :52:15.west, the northern and western Scotland, Northern Ireland and

:52:16. > :52:20.Wales. Set to see more snowfall in here. For many of us as you can see

:52:21. > :52:24.in the afternoon with got clear skies and sunshine. It will feel

:52:25. > :52:28.cold when you add on the windchill, is a feeling sub zero, with

:52:29. > :52:33.temperatures about 2-5. Temperatures dip away through this evening and

:52:34. > :52:37.overnight under clear skies. We continue to see sleet and snow

:52:38. > :52:40.showers, potentially around the east coast, but also some moving in from

:52:41. > :52:45.the west. In between under clear skies a sharp frost. Iciness and

:52:46. > :52:49.subzero temperatures first thing Saturday morning. It will be a

:52:50. > :52:52.wintry start to the weekend and we are like to see further snow showers

:52:53. > :52:56.across the east of Scotland, perhaps down to east Anglia. Towards the

:52:57. > :53:01.west the showers turning back to sleet and rain, increasingly through

:53:02. > :53:04.the course of Saturday. But there will be sunshine for many central

:53:05. > :53:10.parts. Temperatures 1-2 towards the east coast. Milder towards the west.

:53:11. > :53:14.So a change in the weather through the weekend after the cold snap.

:53:15. > :53:17.Start to draw in the milder air, working in from the west and

:53:18. > :53:21.north-west, especially through Sunday, where we have a weather

:53:22. > :53:24.front bringing outbreaks of rain. The weather fronts move east across

:53:25. > :53:29.the country, bringing patchy rain for many. Quite a bit of cloud by

:53:30. > :53:33.the time we get the Sunday and a different feel to the weather after

:53:34. > :53:36.the cold and with the weather. Back to about 5- ten degrees in the

:53:37. > :53:41.second half of the weekend. So things eventually turning milder,

:53:42. > :53:45.over the next 24 hours or so watch out for the snow, ice, strong winds

:53:46. > :53:46.and coastal flooding. Lots going on and we could see further disruption.

:53:47. > :53:57.Thank you very much. The 9095 film Pocahontas was

:53:58. > :53:59.inspired by the native American woman who died 400 years ago. --

:54:00. > :54:03.1995. This week special events

:54:04. > :54:05.marking her extraordinary life have got underway, although the location

:54:06. > :54:08.might surprise you. # Have you ever heard the wolf cry

:54:09. > :54:15.to the blue corn moon...# It took a quarter of a billion

:54:16. > :54:18.pounds at the box office, but of the millions

:54:19. > :54:21.who have seen the 1995 film Pocahontas, few in all likelihood

:54:22. > :54:24.could tell you where she is actually Just outside the M25

:54:25. > :54:29.in Gravesend, in Kent. Pocahontas was a Native American

:54:30. > :54:32.who married an English settler, They became Virginia's

:54:33. > :54:37.first tobacco farmers. They travelled to England and mixed

:54:38. > :54:42.with the movers and shakers of the day, including

:54:43. > :54:48.King James and Queen Anne. But on their return,

:54:49. > :54:59.as their ship passed through Gravesend, Pocahontas,

:55:00. > :55:02.or Rebecca Rolfe as she was now This is where she is buried

:55:03. > :55:07.and this is her great, great, great, great,

:55:08. > :55:08.great, great, great... ..great-grandson, also

:55:09. > :55:09.called John Rolfe. I am very proud to be

:55:10. > :55:12.a descendant of Many people growing up

:55:13. > :55:22.had never heard of her. It was like saying, "I'm related

:55:23. > :55:26.to Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty". As the 400th anniversary

:55:27. > :55:28.of her death approaches, there is a chance to honour her

:55:29. > :55:31.brief but extraordinary life. It's one of the first

:55:32. > :55:34.recorded instances where two very different cultures

:55:35. > :55:35.were formally married and And they were celebrities

:55:36. > :55:40.when they came over? Very much so, because many people

:55:41. > :55:44.had never met a Native American, so the young Pocahontas

:55:45. > :55:48.was fated as a celebrity. She dined with King James

:55:49. > :55:52.and Queen Anne and I feel proud to be part of this amazing

:55:53. > :55:55.very true story, and this Time now to get the news,

:55:56. > :56:13.travel and weather where you are. Good morning

:56:14. > :56:14.from BBC London News. Shopkeepers across the capital have

:56:15. > :56:18.been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds for selling illegal skin

:56:19. > :56:23.whitening treatments. London Trading Standards says 15

:56:24. > :56:25.shops have been fined more than ?160,000 each and some

:56:26. > :56:27.business owners given The treatments include poisonous

:56:28. > :56:34.chemicals like mercury and can cause organ

:56:35. > :56:39.failure and even cancer. The courts are looking at this

:56:40. > :56:42.as criminal activity, It is not the kind of activity

:56:43. > :56:51.where people can think they can run a legitimate business and sell

:56:52. > :56:53.these kinds of products. There's more misery

:56:54. > :56:56.for Southern Rail commuters today as drivers go on another

:56:57. > :56:59.24 hour strike. It means there'll be no trains

:57:00. > :57:02.at all, apart from a very limited peak service between Caterham

:57:03. > :57:04.and London Victoria. Around 200 buses will run

:57:05. > :57:08.on some other routes. Let's get the rest of the travel now

:57:09. > :57:12.and of course we have had some snow so we'll look at how that's

:57:13. > :57:15.affecting things in a moment. Now we've got a few

:57:16. > :57:18.problems on the tube. The Circle Line has

:57:19. > :57:23.minor delays clockwise. Minor delays on the District line

:57:24. > :57:26.between Barking to Upminster and Earls Court to Richmond,

:57:27. > :57:28.Ealing Broadway and Wimbledon. The Hammersmith and City line has

:57:29. > :59:37.minor delays eastbound. Hello this is Breakfast, with

:59:38. > :59:39.Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. Thousands of people along the east

:59:40. > :59:41.coast of England are told to leave their homes as gale force

:59:42. > :59:44.winds combine with high tides. There are now 13 severe -

:59:45. > :59:47.meaning a risk to life - More than 1,000 people

:59:48. > :59:50.are being moved to safety And the snow caused

:59:51. > :59:54.disruption overnight - especially in Kent where there

:59:55. > :00:06.were delays on the M20. We've got more disruptive weather on

:00:07. > :00:09.the cards today, not just the snow and ice around, but also strong wind

:00:10. > :00:12.and the potential coastal flooding in the east. We will have a full

:00:13. > :00:25.forecast in about 15 minutes. Good morning, it's

:00:26. > :00:26.Friday 13th January. More men are in low-paid,

:00:27. > :00:32.part-time work than ever before according to a new study of those

:00:33. > :00:36.aged between 25 and 55. More people took their first step

:00:37. > :00:41.on the housing ladder last year than for 10 years and research

:00:42. > :00:44.for Breakfast says it's also getting cheaper for first-time

:00:45. > :00:46.buyers to have a mortgage In sport, football mourns the loss

:00:47. > :00:52.of one of its true gentlemen - Graham Taylor, the former Watford,

:00:53. > :00:54.Aston Villa and England manager, who's died of a suspected,

:00:55. > :01:03.heart attack at the age of 72. The army's on standby to help

:01:04. > :01:07.evacuate communities along the East Coast where a tidal surge

:01:08. > :01:10.is expected to hit. The Environment Agency has issued 13

:01:11. > :01:15.severe flood warnings, All along the east coast,

:01:16. > :01:21.floodgates have been closed Gale-force winds are

:01:22. > :01:25.combining with high tides In Jaywick, in Essex,

:01:26. > :01:33.there is a severe flood warning, The emergency services

:01:34. > :01:36.have arrived in force. The residents are

:01:37. > :01:51.being urged to leave. We strongly advise people to stay

:01:52. > :01:55.away from high tide, not just those being evacuated but more generally,

:01:56. > :01:58.people be sensible about not watching the waves or driving

:01:59. > :02:03.through floodwater and focusing on keeping themselves safe. It's very

:02:04. > :02:05.important day with this weather. Some have already heeded that

:02:06. > :02:13.warning and others are waiting to see. Had a text message, the

:02:14. > :02:16.neighbour next door is all panicking, because she's not very

:02:17. > :02:22.well. Things like that. I think a lot of people are planning to stay.

:02:23. > :02:25.On the Lincolnshire coast at Skegness, the military have been

:02:26. > :02:34.brought in to help if needed. About 100 soldiers are based at the police

:02:35. > :02:38.station. Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can

:02:39. > :02:41.to protect their business. There will be a significant rise in water,

:02:42. > :02:46.whether it's enough to top the defences depends on mother nature, I

:02:47. > :02:51.suppose. And mother nature is said to bring more entry weather today,

:02:52. > :02:54.bringing more travel disruption. Nearly all the UK is covered by

:02:55. > :03:01.weather warnings for snow or ice or both.

:03:02. > :03:09.We will bring you up-to-date with the problems with storm surges and

:03:10. > :03:13.quite a bit of snow falling. This is a live shot from Hull, people waking

:03:14. > :03:17.up to quite a bit of style, replicated in many parts of the

:03:18. > :03:21.country. In the south-east, particularly in Kent, there was

:03:22. > :03:26.heavy snowfall into the evening last night. We will have a full look at

:03:27. > :03:29.the forecast and some of the images. Some pretty treacherous conditions.

:03:30. > :03:34.This was later in the evening last night. We will bring you right up to

:03:35. > :03:35.date with weather conditions and the problems on the roads throughout the

:03:36. > :03:39.programme this morning. The number of men in low-paid

:03:40. > :03:42.part-time work has increased "dramatically" over

:03:43. > :03:43.the last 20 years. New research by the Institute

:03:44. > :03:46.for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low paid men

:03:47. > :03:49.between the ages of 25 and 55 That means wage inequality for men

:03:50. > :03:56.has risen over two decades, but for women the opposite

:03:57. > :03:58.is the case, as our Business Top-earning men in the professions

:03:59. > :04:06.normally work full-time. In fact, only 5% of

:04:07. > :04:08.them work part-time. But in comparison, amongst

:04:09. > :04:12.the lowest-paid men, often in areas like catering

:04:13. > :04:15.and hospitality, 20% now work part-time, and that number

:04:16. > :04:19.has increased fourfold That has meant that wage inequality

:04:20. > :04:24.for men has increased, as high-paid, full-time staff have done far better

:04:25. > :04:28.than low-paid, part-time workers. But for women, the

:04:29. > :04:32.opposite is the case. For women, earnings growth has been

:04:33. > :04:36.consistently higher than that for men over the last 20 years,

:04:37. > :04:40.and more of them are in work. For men, particularly

:04:41. > :04:44.the lowest-paid, they've actually seen falls in the numbers of hours

:04:45. > :04:47.of work, which has suppressed It is far from clear

:04:48. > :04:51.why low-paid men are It might be because they want to,

:04:52. > :04:58.although that seems unlikely. The fact that 60% of the low-paid

:04:59. > :05:02.and part-time jobs are either in retail, wholesale,

:05:03. > :05:07.restaurants or hospitality might suggest that men who previously

:05:08. > :05:10.worked in low-paid but secure and full-time jobs,

:05:11. > :05:13.in sectors like manufacturing, have lost that work,

:05:14. > :05:18.and instead have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid

:05:19. > :05:20.and less-secure services sector A week to go until the new American

:05:21. > :05:29.president is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems to be at odds

:05:30. > :05:32.with some of his key cabinet nominees on some

:05:33. > :05:34.of the vital questions facing His choice for the CIA leader has

:05:35. > :05:47.endorsed the work of the US intelligence agency,

:05:48. > :05:49.hours after it was criticised Also the potential Defense

:05:50. > :05:52.secretary said Moscow posed a threat in Europe,

:05:53. > :05:54.after Mr Trump called for warmer And it's emerged overnight

:05:55. > :05:59.that Christopher Steele, the British man who wrote a dossier

:06:00. > :06:04.of lurid claims about Donald Trump was hired by the England

:06:05. > :06:07.2018 World Cup bid team. It's believed he was brought

:06:08. > :06:09.in to provide information on world football's governing body,

:06:10. > :06:12.Fifa. There were emotional

:06:13. > :06:14.scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night,

:06:15. > :06:18.as President Obama surprised his vice-president with the country's

:06:19. > :06:22.highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding

:06:23. > :06:25.the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith

:06:26. > :06:27.in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been

:06:28. > :06:36.a complete surprise. Best vice president America has ever

:06:37. > :06:49.had, Mr Joe Biden. APPLAUSE This also gives the Internet one

:06:50. > :06:53.last chance to talk about our bromance.

:06:54. > :06:56.The car maker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating pollution laws

:06:57. > :07:00.The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer

:07:01. > :07:04.equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles

:07:05. > :07:08.with software that regulates emissions results.

:07:09. > :07:11.The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share

:07:12. > :07:25.More needs to be done to protect patients from incompetent local

:07:26. > :07:33.doctors says the General Medical Council. The review says a

:07:34. > :07:38.reluctance to share checks allow some poor doctors to go undetected.

:07:39. > :07:42.The NHS is increasingly relying on local doctors in order to deal with

:07:43. > :07:47.staff shortages in our hospitals and surgeries. With some charging up to

:07:48. > :07:52.?115 per hour, questions have been raised about the cost. But that

:07:53. > :07:56.isn't the only concern. The General Medical Council says more needs to

:07:57. > :08:01.be done to ensure that all local doctors are properly vetted. The

:08:02. > :08:07.report has highlighted a number of problems and found it wasn't clear

:08:08. > :08:11.which organisation was responsible for the appraisal of doctors on

:08:12. > :08:16.short-term contracts. Hospitals were also criticised for failing to share

:08:17. > :08:20.information and feedback when a locum was not up to the required

:08:21. > :08:24.standard. The General Medical Council also warned that some

:08:25. > :08:29.agencies that supply staff are not carrying out checks and ensuring

:08:30. > :08:32.adequate paperwork can support. There was also evidence that some

:08:33. > :08:37.patients were afraid to give negative feedback about their doctor

:08:38. > :08:43.in case it impacted on their care. In response the Department of Health

:08:44. > :08:46.said, making sure doctors are up-to-date is vital to providing

:08:47. > :08:52.high quality patient care and further progress was needed.

:08:53. > :08:55.The number of people changing who they buy their electricity

:08:56. > :08:58.Research from the industry body Energy UK shows that

:08:59. > :09:00.nearly 5 million people changed their electricity supplier

:09:01. > :09:03.last year, and a fifth of those who switched in December went

:09:04. > :09:06.to a smaller supplier rather than one of the Big Six.

:09:07. > :09:09.It's the highest number of switches since Energy UK began

:09:10. > :09:28.All the sport is coming up in a few minutes. Back to the main story now.

:09:29. > :09:33.Let's get the latest on the flood threats.

:09:34. > :09:37.There are 13 severe weather warnings now in place.

:09:38. > :09:39.In Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast around 100 soldiers

:09:40. > :09:42.from the Catterick army base have been deployed to help 3,000

:09:43. > :09:47.Transport in central London has been affected by snowfall

:09:48. > :09:52.over the last 48 hours, with delays on trains,

:09:53. > :09:55.long delays on the roads and flight cancellations at both Heathrow

:09:56. > :09:59.Residents of Jaywick in Essex are currently

:10:00. > :10:04.being moved to an evacuation centre in Clacton-on-Sea.

:10:05. > :10:08.And heavy snowfall in Scotland has caused road closures and a number

:10:09. > :10:14.of schools are likely to stay closed.

:10:15. > :10:18.Further disruption is expected as the Met Office warns of up

:10:19. > :10:24.The Environment Agency says people need to stay vigilant.

:10:25. > :10:30.We really strongly advise people to stay away from high tides, not just

:10:31. > :10:35.those being evacuated, but more generally of people can be sensible

:10:36. > :10:38.about not wave watching, not driving through floodwater, and focusing on

:10:39. > :10:43.keeping themselves safe. It's very important today with this weather.

:10:44. > :10:48.In a moment we'll get the latest from our reporter in Canterbury

:10:49. > :10:50.on how the weather's affecting travel.

:10:51. > :10:53.But first let's go to the Essex coast, where emergency services have

:10:54. > :10:56.opened for people who have had to leave their homes.

:10:57. > :11:06.You are with some of the people who have been sent to the Centre. What's

:11:07. > :11:12.going on this morning? Quite a lot has changed in the last hour. It has

:11:13. > :11:16.got busier at this rest centre, 17 people stayed overnight after they

:11:17. > :11:21.were told to evacuate their homes. In total, 2500 residents have been

:11:22. > :11:28.told to leave their homes, that's half the population of Jaywick.

:11:29. > :11:31.After 7am, police have transported people out of Jaywick and

:11:32. > :11:35.surrounding areas to places like this. Also, the Environment Agency

:11:36. > :11:41.within the last hour has said they have that news and good news. To

:11:42. > :11:46.start with is the good news, at the moment the tide, or the level of

:11:47. > :11:51.water, is lower than expected. So good news at the start. But the bad

:11:52. > :11:56.news is yet to come. In the evening the actual levels are expected to be

:11:57. > :12:02.much higher. What that means for residents and their homes is unknown

:12:03. > :12:06.as yet. The tide, the high tide, is expected at one o'clock. These

:12:07. > :12:10.residents are in a warm and safe environment. If I was to ask you if

:12:11. > :12:16.you are happy or sad, what would you say? Very happy to be here and safe.

:12:17. > :12:21.A silver lining around every cloud. A real change in picture. Thank you.

:12:22. > :12:23.Let's head to Canterbury now where there's plenty of snow.

:12:24. > :12:35.It looks rather beautiful, I can see the sunrise behind you, but pretty

:12:36. > :12:39.treacherous conditions. The sun is coming out but it's very, very cold.

:12:40. > :12:45.We've had a lot of snow overnight and that snow has now turned to ice.

:12:46. > :12:51.Looking down there, you can see that ice that has begun to settle. And

:12:52. > :12:55.you also have ice on the footpath in, making it pretty difficult to

:12:56. > :13:01.remain on your feet. Stowe still on the ground here. As a result,

:13:02. > :13:06.difficult conditions on the roads. -- snow is still on the grounds. The

:13:07. > :13:12.roads have been gritted. We see people driving slowly and carefully.

:13:13. > :13:16.On the corny here, it's very icy. Some cars have been struggling for

:13:17. > :13:23.traction as they try to come past that side road. We have had a number

:13:24. > :13:27.of accidents already this morning, jackknifed lorries and cars that

:13:28. > :13:34.crashed last night on Bluebell Hill in Kent. Treacherous conditions

:13:35. > :13:38.where some people were trapped on cars for two or three hours trying

:13:39. > :13:43.to get up and down hills. We are told things are looking better at

:13:44. > :13:45.the airports. Yesterday there were a large number of cancellations,

:13:46. > :13:49.particularly at Heathrow, but they hope things will run more smoothly

:13:50. > :13:56.today. What we have is a combination of snow that has become ice. Wind

:13:57. > :14:01.will whip up during the day making some pretty grim combination. More

:14:02. > :14:04.snow forecast, particularly for Scotland, heading into northern

:14:05. > :14:09.England and eastern England. Possibly more snow showers here in

:14:10. > :14:14.Kent. The advice is to check before you set out. It's pretty grim on

:14:15. > :14:18.foot and on the road. The situation in Canterbury. Sarah will have the

:14:19. > :14:21.full weather forecast in a second. Before that, we will show some of

:14:22. > :14:27.the pictures you have sent us this morning. A snow topped car sent in

:14:28. > :14:34.by a weather watcher from near Newport. Alfred sent this image of

:14:35. > :14:41.snow-covered roads in the early hours of the morning in North

:14:42. > :14:47.Shields. It really is a winter wonderland in this picture sent in

:14:48. > :14:56.by David in Reigate. The dog Pickle at the bottom of the picture out for

:14:57. > :15:02.a snowy walk. And in Maidstone overnight, we know there were a few

:15:03. > :15:06.problems last night, in the evening and in rush hour on the roads.

:15:07. > :15:11.Important to take care if you are out and about in that weather. Let's

:15:12. > :15:14.find out more about what's happening across the UK. What does it mean and

:15:15. > :15:19.what's happening, what should we expect in the next few days?

:15:20. > :15:25.We're not Out of the Woods yet in terms of the wintry weather. The

:15:26. > :15:31.scene behind me was taken in Wales in the early morning. More in the

:15:32. > :15:36.way of snow and ice as well as strong winds as well as the risk of

:15:37. > :15:40.coastal flooding along the east coast. Low-pressure heading south

:15:41. > :15:44.down the east coast bringing sleet and snow through parts of northern

:15:45. > :15:50.England, Lincolnshire, East Anglia. North and west, we are set for

:15:51. > :15:56.wintry showers. Scotland at 9am, snow showers in the north and west.

:15:57. > :15:59.Brisk wind around the east, so they could be some coastal flooding

:16:00. > :16:03.problems across eastern Scotland and certainly down to East Anglia where

:16:04. > :16:10.strong winds have combined with a high tide, so we could see a surge

:16:11. > :16:12.coming to bring flooding to the coast. The Environment Agency have

:16:13. > :16:16.issued several severe flood warnings. The flood line number if

:16:17. > :16:21.you are concerned about flooding where you live. Four seasons in one

:16:22. > :16:26.day today. Sleet and snow across East Anglia and the south-east that

:16:27. > :16:30.should clear by lunchtime. Many of us seemed a good deal of dry weather

:16:31. > :16:34.and sunshine, but plenty of showers coming in from the north-west. Parts

:16:35. > :16:37.of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will see a further covering of

:16:38. > :16:42.snow throughout the day. Temperatures above freezing but will

:16:43. > :16:47.feel subzero, especially when you are exposed to the cold northerly

:16:48. > :16:50.wind. Into the evening, the wind will become lighter with clearer

:16:51. > :16:57.skies for many central and eastern areas. Not just a widespread frost

:16:58. > :17:02.overnight tonight, but we also expect to see further icy stretches,

:17:03. > :17:04.particularly where you see snow accumulations. Subzero temperatures

:17:05. > :17:09.for all of us heading into the weekend. Saturday shaping up with

:17:10. > :17:13.more snow showers across eastern Scotland and down to East Anglia.

:17:14. > :17:17.Outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow moving in from the West. But much of

:17:18. > :17:22.the country is looking reasonably dry with cold, wintry sunshine on

:17:23. > :17:25.offer. Temperatures on the face of it looking around one or two max

:17:26. > :17:31.towards the east, in the wind. Towards the West, things turning

:17:32. > :17:36.milder. Those showers turning back into rain in the West on Saturday.

:17:37. > :17:40.Overnight into Sunday, milder air spilling in from the north-west.

:17:41. > :17:44.Weather fronts also bringing some outbreaks of rain that will push

:17:45. > :17:49.slowly east across the country. A grey day to come on Sunday. Breeze

:17:50. > :17:56.coming in from the west, it will be. Temperatures back at 5-10d on

:17:57. > :17:59.Sunday. But here and now, the weather is likely to cause

:18:00. > :18:02.disruption today with ice and snow to content with as well as strong

:18:03. > :18:09.wind and coastal flooding in the East.

:18:10. > :18:12.We hear a lot about women working part-time.

:18:13. > :18:14.But figures suggest one in five men on low wages

:18:15. > :18:23.And it's said to be a growing trend, highlighted in a new report

:18:24. > :18:24.on inequality by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

:18:25. > :18:27.So what do these figures say about the changing nature

:18:28. > :18:31.We spoke to one young worker in London who does

:18:32. > :18:40.My name is Declan, and 25, originally from Manchester, I now

:18:41. > :18:46.live in London and I'm in part-time work that is not well paid. I am

:18:47. > :18:51.currently doing my masters at an institution that is

:18:52. > :18:54.once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so the idea of having flexible work to

:18:55. > :18:59.fit around what should be my priority is something I had to give

:19:00. > :19:02.the go. Being in low paid work, you don't particularly have any

:19:03. > :19:07.responsibility, it is pretty brainless. These are both pros and

:19:08. > :19:15.cons. It is manual Labour based, so it can be tiring, but it is not

:19:16. > :19:20.really sustainable. I am yet to see how it is financially viable. I

:19:21. > :19:25.don't think I do like the job, you don't particularly feel like you are

:19:26. > :19:32.of any value, you do just feel like... You know, like a piece of

:19:33. > :19:35.meat, really. That was Declan talking to us.

:19:36. > :19:37.With us to talk about this is Robert Joyce, from the IFS,

:19:38. > :19:44.Good morning to you, Declan was describing the circumstances in

:19:45. > :19:51.which he ended up in a part-time low-paid job. What is the big

:19:52. > :19:53.picture? The big picture is there are many more low-wage men doing

:19:54. > :19:57.that kind of work now than they used to be, so there is growing

:19:58. > :20:01.association between low hourly wage and doing low hours of work, and

:20:02. > :20:05.that increases the disparities in what lower earning and higher

:20:06. > :20:08.earning men are taking home. Take the lowest wage fifth of men, 20

:20:09. > :20:24.years ago one in 20 of them worked part-time, now that has

:20:25. > :20:26.risen to one in five amongst prime age men, 25 to 55, not including

:20:27. > :20:29.students or the semi retired. It is a striking, surprising trend. On the

:20:30. > :20:33.face of it, you would assume no one wants to get low wages, but they

:20:34. > :20:37.might want to work part-time? Indeed, so there is a big question

:20:38. > :20:42.which we have not yet definitively been able to answer, it is difficult

:20:43. > :20:46.to describe what is going on, which is, is there an element here of

:20:47. > :20:50.choice, maybe there are some low-wage men who would have wanted

:20:51. > :21:00.to work part time 20 years ago but those kinds of flexible jobs perhaps

:21:01. > :21:02.were not available and now they are? Or is it another plausible story,

:21:03. > :21:09.more about lower skilled men finding that the demand for their Labour in

:21:10. > :21:14.the labour market means that they would like to work full time but

:21:15. > :21:16.they actually can't? Those explanations have different

:21:17. > :21:21.implications. One of the things we need to do next is understand which

:21:22. > :21:26.of those is the dominant force. Traditionally we talk about women in

:21:27. > :21:32.low-paid work, part-time, flexible working. Are they levelling up now?

:21:33. > :21:34.For women, the trends have been completely different, they are

:21:35. > :21:38.better understood and have been commented on before so we know many

:21:39. > :21:41.more women are in the labour market and used to be the case and many

:21:42. > :21:46.more work full-time, particularly true amongst those on the lowest

:21:47. > :21:49.hourly wages, the increase in full-time work in that group has

:21:50. > :21:56.been particularly big. Traditionally it is men who have been viewed as

:21:57. > :21:59.more boring in this sector, in the middle of a life, the traditional

:22:00. > :22:02.view is that they just work full-time and what we are showing is

:22:03. > :22:07.that assumption is not as reliable as it was at the low-wage end. You

:22:08. > :22:13.mentioned before that it is harder to know why, but who tries to work

:22:14. > :22:18.that out? Your job is to compile the figures, in a way, what do you do

:22:19. > :22:22.next with these figures? We also do very much want to understand what is

:22:23. > :22:25.going on. We have looked at various possible explanations, some of the

:22:26. > :22:29.obvious things that might have been going on that are easier to test

:22:30. > :22:32.have not turned out to be the explanation that works, so for

:22:33. > :22:36.example you might think it is about the recession but that is not true,

:22:37. > :22:39.it was happening before the recession. You might think it is

:22:40. > :22:43.some specific policy change that has changed the nature of who is working

:22:44. > :23:03.and doing different kinds of jobs, that

:23:04. > :23:07.does not seem to be the case because it is a long-running gradual trend,

:23:08. > :23:10.not one that appeared at a certain point in time. One more positive

:23:11. > :23:12.story would be that because more women are working full-time, their

:23:13. > :23:15.partners feel the need to do less work, but that does not seem to

:23:16. > :23:18.explain it either because we see the same trend amongst single men as men

:23:19. > :23:21.in couples, so there are things we have been able to rule out but the

:23:22. > :23:24.key is to find the things which were, and that is the important work

:23:25. > :23:26.we need to do. Robert Joyce, thank you very much for your time, from

:23:27. > :23:28.the ISS, one of the report authors. More men working part-time and in

:23:29. > :23:31.lower paid employment. You probably saw me leaning over the

:23:32. > :23:34.sofa earlier to reach the printer, that was so that we could give you

:23:35. > :23:38.the latest on the weather situation, the number of severe warnings now

:23:39. > :23:42.down to 12, meaning there is a risk to life. In terms of the homes

:23:43. > :23:48.affected, 5000 homes directly affected, this is police in Norfolk

:23:49. > :23:51.saying that, 1100 properties at high risk in Suffolk, police saying

:23:52. > :23:58.there. We heard from our reporter in J Wick in Essex earlier, 3000 to

:23:59. > :24:02.5000 people and Essex Police say it will be evacuated, so thousands of

:24:03. > :24:06.people being affected by the flooding situation at the moment,

:24:07. > :24:08.but do get in touch with us if you have any thoughts or comments on

:24:09. > :24:11.that. The other thing to note this morning

:24:12. > :24:16.is the weather situation with the snow, we know there is heavy

:24:17. > :24:19.snowfall during the evening yesterday, very heavy snowfall in

:24:20. > :24:20.Scotland as well so we will bring you right up-to-date with the

:24:21. > :24:23.weather situation as well. Killer whales and humans have

:24:24. > :24:26.something in common - according to research,

:24:27. > :24:28.they're two of only three species Scientists who have studied

:24:29. > :24:32.a population of orcas for 40 years now have an idea why some species

:24:33. > :24:35.have evolved to stop having Our science reporter

:24:36. > :24:42.Victoria Gill reports. These researchers have been

:24:43. > :24:47.documenting the lives of killer And their findings have revealed

:24:48. > :24:55.new insight into something that we humans share with a mammal

:24:56. > :24:59.so very different from us. Orcas and humans are two of only

:25:00. > :25:04.three mammals on the planet that stop reproducing partway

:25:05. > :25:09.through our lives. And this 40-year study of killer

:25:10. > :25:12.whale society has already shown that grandmothers play a crucial role,

:25:13. > :25:15.leading their pod and helping But scientists have now used this

:25:16. > :25:24.unique dataset that's recorded births and deaths in every orca

:25:25. > :25:27.family here to prove that when grandmothers stop having

:25:28. > :25:29.babies of their own, their daughter's offspring

:25:30. > :25:30.have a significantly The benefits of grandmothering

:25:31. > :25:36.are not enough to explain why human It's only when you consider

:25:37. > :25:46.the conflict and competition within the family group you can

:25:47. > :25:48.actually understand and explain why Avoiding this so-called reproductive

:25:49. > :25:51.conflict between the generations seems to give babies

:25:52. > :25:54.the best possible chance. Really interesting just how

:25:55. > :25:58.important that bond is. And that's something that

:25:59. > :26:00.could finally explain the evolutionary story

:26:01. > :26:03.of human menopause. Like us, these highly-intelligent

:26:04. > :26:06.now-endangered animals And this long and careful

:26:07. > :26:11.observation of killer whale society could change our perspective

:26:12. > :26:26.on our own. Interesting, that, to see the

:26:27. > :26:28.commonalities we have with different species.

:26:29. > :26:37.Let's see what is coming up in a moment on the BBC News Channel,

:26:38. > :26:47.Business Live. Here on Breakfast, the Hollywood musical La La Land is

:26:48. > :26:51.due to big up a raft of awards. Last night there was a big UK premiere.

:26:52. > :26:55.We seem to be showing a clip of some people sitting at a desk, which does

:26:56. > :26:58.not seem relevant! We will celebrate musical and all

:26:59. > :26:59.that comes with them later, but now the news, travel

:27:00. > :26:59.This is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern.

:27:00. > :26:59.Let's bring you up to date. Thousands of people are being told

:27:00. > :26:59.to evacuate their homes across the East coast of England because of

:27:00. > :26:59.fears of a storm surge as gale force winds combined with high tide.

:27:00. > :26:59.Kate Sweeting is in Hessle where there's a severe

:27:00. > :26:59.It looked calmer than did earlier. Tell us what is happening there now.

:27:00. > :26:59.The snow has died down and it has been a relatively calm morning. And

:27:00. > :26:59.that is good news because it means the high wind that was predicted has

:27:00. > :26:59.not materialised and that means that the high tide has passed without

:27:00. > :26:59.event. Tidal surges are caused by a mixture of high wind and high tides,

:27:00. > :26:59.but we are not out of the woods yet because we are told there is another

:27:00. > :26:59.high tide this evening and that could be more severe so there are

:27:00. > :26:59.still flood warnings in place along the east coast and that means

:27:00. > :26:59.flooding is expected. People are ready with sandbags. Council workers

:27:00. > :26:59.are on stand-by. In Lincolnshire, the army evacuated people. 3000

:27:00. > :26:59.people were told to leave their homes and move upstairs and special

:27:00. > :26:59.centres have been set up for them. For people here, the warning of a

:27:00. > :26:59.tidal surge is particularly concerning because in 2013, one came

:27:00. > :26:59.and the water came over and flooded 1400 properties. There had not been

:27:00. > :26:59.a serious tidal surge since 1953 before that when hundreds of people

:27:00. > :26:59.were killed. In 2013, when that happens, people believed it was a

:27:00. > :26:59.once in a 16 year event and yet, here we are, three years on, on high

:27:00. > :26:59.alert once again. Kate, thank you very much. Snow was causing

:27:00. > :26:59.problems. 29 schools closed in Scotland today. The freezing

:27:00. > :26:59.temperatures causing travel disruption as well. Simon Jones is

:27:00. > :26:59.in Canterbury for us. Clearly quite a bit of snow there? Yes, we had

:27:00. > :26:59.three hours of snow last night between 6pm and 9pm. It came down

:27:00. > :26:59.very heavily and some of it has stuck. You can see down there it has

:27:00. > :26:59.turned to ice. Someone has written help in the snow. That a sign of how

:27:00. > :26:59.treacherous conditions will be this morning. It's not just the snow

:27:00. > :26:59.itself but the ice on the pavement. It can be very slippery and also

:27:00. > :26:59.difficult conditions on the roads. The main road has been gritted but

:27:00. > :26:59.this side road, very icily passing by. Cars are slipping on the ice.

:27:00. > :26:59.Yesterday evening, people struggled to get up the hill and people had to

:27:00. > :26:59.come out and help them push their cars. The snow came down so quickly.

:27:00. > :26:59.This morning, we have had a number of accidents on some of the minor

:27:00. > :26:59.roads, jackknifed lorries, which shows there are difficult conditions

:27:00. > :26:59.but the ice is the big challenge today. We are perhaps going to get a

:27:00. > :26:59.little bit more snow during the morning here. But it's largely going

:27:00. > :26:59.to be the aftermath we will have to deal with particularly on the roads.

:27:00. > :26:59.The advice is to driving very slowly. You can see people are

:27:00. > :26:59.queueing, taking the conditions fairly slowly, with a queue forming

:27:00. > :26:59.as people try to get up the hill this morning. The advice is dry

:27:00. > :26:59.slowly because, at times, it is going to be very, very icy on the

:27:00. > :26:59.roads. Simon, for the moment, thank you. The situation in Canterbury

:27:00. > :26:59.this morning. The weather in a few moments time. I wonder if the person

:27:00. > :26:59.who wrote help in the grass got help? I hope so. Let's look at some

:27:00. > :26:59.of the other news this morning. The number of men in low-paid

:27:00. > :26:59.part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:27:00. > :26:59.for Fiscal Studies has found that The number of men in low-paid

:27:00. > :26:59.part-time work has increased The number of men in low-paid

:27:00. > :26:59.part-time work has increased New research by the Institute

:27:00. > :26:59.for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low paid men aged

:27:00. > :26:59.between 25 and 55 That means wage inequality for men

:27:00. > :26:59.has risen over two decades, A week to go until the new American

:27:00. > :26:59.president is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems to be at odds

:27:00. > :26:59.with some of his key Cabinet nominees on some

:27:00. > :26:59.of the vital questions facing His choice for the CIA leader has

:27:00. > :26:59.endorsed the work of the US intelligence community,

:27:00. > :26:59.hours after it was criticised Also the potential Defense Secretary

:27:00. > :26:59.said Moscow posed a threat in Europe, after Mr Trump called

:27:00. > :26:59.for warmer relations with Russia. And it's emerged overnight

:27:00. > :26:59.that Christopher Steele, the British man who wrote a dossier

:27:00. > :26:59.of lurid claims about Donald Trump, was hired by the England

:27:00. > :26:59.2018 World Cup bid team. It's believed he was brought

:27:00. > :26:59.in to provide information on world football's governing body,

:27:00. > :26:59.Fifa. There were emotional

:27:00. > :26:59.scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night,

:27:00. > :26:59.as President Obama surprised his vice-president with the country's

:27:00. > :26:59.highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding

:27:00. > :26:59.the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith

:27:00. > :26:59.in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been

:27:00. > :26:59.a complete surprise. The best vice president America's

:27:00. > :26:59.ever had, Mr Joe Biden. This also gives the Internet

:27:00. > :26:59.one last chance to... The car maker Fiat Chrysler has been

:27:00. > :26:59.accused of violating pollution laws The US Environmental Protection

:27:00. > :26:59.Agency says the manufacturer equipped tens of thousands of diesel

:27:00. > :26:59.Jeep and Dodge vehicles with software that regulates

:27:00. > :26:59.emissions results. The firm has denied doing anything

:27:00. > :26:59.illegal, but has seen its share Hospitals are failing

:27:00. > :26:59.to pass on their concerns about incompetent locum doctors,

:27:00. > :26:59.according to the General The report for the doctors'

:27:00. > :26:59.regulator found some hospitals take no action when they see poor

:27:00. > :26:59.practice among stand-in doctors, who often cover staff shortages

:27:00. > :26:59.in surgeries and hospitals. The Department of Health

:27:00. > :26:59.said further progress Meeting the target of resettling

:27:00. > :26:59.20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees in the UK by 2020 remains

:27:00. > :26:59.a significant challenge, Meeting the target of resettling

:27:00. > :26:59.20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees Around 4,500 refugees have

:27:00. > :26:59.already been resettled, but the Public Accounts Committee

:27:00. > :26:59.says it is not yet clear whether survivors of torture

:27:00. > :26:59.or violence are getting The number of people changing

:27:00. > :26:59.who they buy their electricity Research from the industry body

:27:00. > :26:59.Energy UK shows that nearly five million people

:27:00. > :26:59.changed their electricity supplier last year, and a fifth of those

:27:00. > :26:59.who switched in December went to a smaller supplier rather

:27:00. > :26:59.than one of the Big Six. It's the highest number of switches

:27:00. > :26:59.since Energy UK began Coming up here on

:27:00. > :26:59.Breakfast this morning. We're discussing a controversial

:27:00. > :26:59.documentary featuring a leading psychologist who was sacked

:27:00. > :26:59.after questioning whether children should be allowed to decide

:27:00. > :26:59.if they want to change We discover why Pocahontas,

:27:00. > :26:59.the woman whose life inspired a Disney blockbuster,

:27:00. > :26:59.ended up being buried As critics make song and dance

:27:00. > :26:59.about the Hollywood musical La La Land, the writer and composer

:27:00. > :26:59.Neil Brand joins us to explore Tributes today. I can imagine in a

:27:00. > :26:59.musical. Strutting my stuff on stage Gretchen Mark I think my singing

:27:00. > :26:59.would let me down. Graham Taylor has died at the age of 72. The most

:27:00. > :26:59.courteous of human beings, lovely man without ego which is pretty rare

:27:00. > :26:59.in football. It says it all about this great man after he was vilified

:27:00. > :26:59.in the press and turned up on the back page of the Sun newspaper after

:27:00. > :26:59.Britain lost to Sweden in 1992, he allowed cameras to follow him around

:27:00. > :26:59.in the documentary called the impossible job and became famous for

:27:00. > :26:59.that catchphrase, do why not like that? He was a good actor as well

:27:00. > :26:59.and did it in several adverts. Always able to laugh at himself.

:27:00. > :26:59.That such an admirable quality in this game.

:27:00. > :26:59.Fans and players and people beyond the world of football have

:27:00. > :26:59.been paying tribute to the former England manager, Graham Taylor,

:27:00. > :26:59.He managed the national side for three years from 1990

:27:00. > :26:59.and was a highly successful club manager at Lincoln,

:27:00. > :26:59.Luther Blissett played for Watford under Graham Taylor and joins us now

:27:00. > :26:59.Thanks for joining us on this sad day.

:27:00. > :26:59.It's a pleasure. What's your own feelings today looking back on the

:27:00. > :26:59.life of this great man? Yesterday was one of the worst days I can

:27:00. > :26:59.remember. When I got the news. It took awhile for it to to sink in.

:27:00. > :26:59.Following that, to have the opportunity to tell people what

:27:00. > :26:59.Graham Taylor was really like as a man rather than what people saw in

:27:00. > :26:59.football, that was something which has given me a lot of pleasure to be

:27:00. > :26:59.able to do so and it's been a good way to help me grieving. What is

:27:00. > :26:59.your first memory of him? What are the first say when you met him? When

:27:00. > :26:59.he arrived in 1977, he planned meetings with every player signed

:27:00. > :26:59.the club to discuss moving forward, whether he was going to keep them

:27:00. > :26:59.and let them go, so I walked in and the first word he said to me,

:27:00. > :26:59.face-to-face, he said my name three times. Luther Blissett. And the

:27:00. > :26:59.third time, he said my name again, Luther Blissett. With a name like

:27:00. > :26:59.that, you've got to be a star. He then gave me the opportunity to

:27:00. > :26:59.become the player that I did become and achieve the things I did at

:27:00. > :26:59.Watford, so it was brilliant. Underground Telecom you never took

:27:00. > :26:59.yourself too seriously because he liked everybody to have a smile on

:27:00. > :26:59.their face. When you come to training, you enjoy it. You enjoy

:27:00. > :26:59.your work. That was the atmosphere he created at vicarage Road and

:27:00. > :26:59.success came from that. The family club and all that sort of thing,

:27:00. > :26:59.especially vicarage Road tomorrow, I expect it will be an emotional day.

:27:00. > :26:59.But it will be a day or so to celebrate a really truly great man

:27:00. > :26:59.for what he achieved at vicarage Road. An incredible things he

:27:00. > :26:59.achieved there. What qualities help take the side from the bottom lead

:27:00. > :26:59.to the top in the FA Cup final? Absolutely, he made us feel and

:27:00. > :26:59.believe that there was no one we could not be when we walked out on

:27:00. > :26:59.the football pitch, so, you know, we turned up for games and it was

:27:00. > :26:59.almost like it didn't matter who the opposition were. We just went out

:27:00. > :26:59.and we just gave it everything and the result would look after itself,

:27:00. > :26:59.was one of his great savings for the another one was take care of the

:27:00. > :26:59.detail of things and the bigger picture looks after itself. He had

:27:00. > :26:59.all these sayings and they were all very true. Many players of my error

:27:00. > :26:59.took that on into their own coaching and managerial careers from what we

:27:00. > :26:59.heard from Graham Taylor, because it's proven to be absolutely the

:27:00. > :26:59.right way to do it. It's interesting, give me the Alnwick --

:27:00. > :26:59.anecdotes. And expressive face. Some people would put on an act when they

:27:00. > :26:59.meet people but it was never that way with Graham Taylor. I was always

:27:00. > :26:59.stunned at the way he would remember people's names and occasions and

:27:00. > :26:59.incidence, when it's not spoken in such a long time, and he would

:27:00. > :26:59.always remember. Absolutely fantastic at that, remembering faces

:27:00. > :26:59.and names and bringing them together and working people out full top the

:27:00. > :26:59.big thing with him was understanding where players heads were and what

:27:00. > :26:59.they wanted to do because it wasn't just having to have ability, but you

:27:00. > :26:59.had to fit into the family he created there. It was the same when

:27:00. > :26:59.he went to Aston Villa, wherever, because he wanted things done a

:27:00. > :26:59.certain way and was always done with humidity and properly. You conducted

:27:00. > :26:59.yourself in the right way and when you walked onto the pitch, you were

:27:00. > :26:59.representing 20,000 people that were your supporters on that day and

:27:00. > :26:59.that's what he made us all appreciated fully understand.

:27:00. > :26:59.Absolutely. We could talk all day about the great man but we've got to

:27:00. > :26:59.leave it right there. Thank you so much for joining us with lovely

:27:00. > :26:59.memories. Aston Villa and will meet this weekend to imagine the

:27:00. > :26:59.atmosphere there, his former clubs, tomorrow.

:27:00. > :26:59.There was a minute's applause in memory of Graham Taylor ahead

:27:00. > :26:59.of last night's Championship match between QPR and Reading.

:27:00. > :26:59.QPR made it three league wins in a row thanks to Jamie Makee's

:27:00. > :26:59.Andy Murray will start his Australian Open campaign,

:27:00. > :26:59.Murray is the top seed for a grand slam for the first time.

:27:00. > :26:59.He's reached the final in Melbourne five times but never won it.

:27:00. > :26:59.In the women's draw, Johanna Konta will face

:27:00. > :26:59.Kirsten Flipkins and Konta is in good form going

:27:00. > :26:59.She's current on court in the final of the Sydney International,

:27:00. > :26:59.She is just taken the first set. She is looking good for his second tour

:27:00. > :26:59.victory. That's a sport for now and I will be back. Thank you.

:27:00. > :26:59.Last night, BBC Two aired a controversial documentary

:27:00. > :26:59.that explores gender dysphoria in children.

:27:00. > :26:59.The programme, Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best?, features

:27:00. > :26:59.Kenneth Zucker, a Canadian psychologist who believes children

:27:00. > :26:59.who want to change sex can eventually overcome

:27:00. > :26:59.He was sacked for his approach which challenges the idea that children

:27:00. > :26:59.should ultimately decide which gender they identify with.

:27:00. > :26:59.Shortly we'll speak to someone who's received therapy at the same clinic

:27:00. > :26:59.But first, here's a clip from the documentary.

:27:00. > :26:59.Dr Kenneth Zucker is one of the world's foremost

:27:00. > :26:59.child psychologists, specialising in gender

:27:00. > :26:59.dysphoria, a condition where a person is unhappy

:27:00. > :26:59.We received a referral and I spoke with Dr Zucker.

:27:00. > :26:59.My child was diagnosed with gender dysphoria.

:27:00. > :26:59.Euphoria means you're happy about something,

:27:00. > :26:59.Children as young as two or three up to the end of adolescence will come

:27:00. > :26:59.in because either the child himself or herself is expressing

:27:00. > :26:59.an intense unhappiness about being a boy or a girl.

:27:00. > :26:59.I feel like there wasn't sort of this big push to just talk

:27:00. > :26:59.It was more just, you know, "How was your week?

:27:00. > :26:59."Oh, I see you're wearing blue shoes today.

:27:00. > :26:59.What made you choose the blue shoes over the pink shoes?"

:27:00. > :26:59.The clip we've just watched featured a parent who wanted their child

:27:00. > :26:59.We're joined now by Dr Helen Webberley.

:27:00. > :26:59.Doctor Helen is a... And expert in this area and Susie is the parent of

:27:00. > :26:59.the transgender daughter. But Victoria, you went to this therapy?

:27:00. > :26:59.I was in Ontario, I ended up in A when I was five years old for

:27:00. > :26:59.attempting my own gender confirmation surgery, cheering which

:27:00. > :26:59.point I was put into repetitive therapy, I went to a psychiatrist

:27:00. > :26:59.and they said obviously you need to accept your own... Who you are, you

:27:00. > :26:59.are a boy, etc. And they threatened if there was no compliance that they

:27:00. > :26:59.would have to proceed with electroshock therapy, and they did

:27:00. > :26:59.things like... In the treatment they do things like... I call it a

:27:00. > :26:59.masculinisation programme. My parents... They would do things

:27:00. > :26:59.like... Obviously they do a clear road, so I was no longer allowed to

:27:00. > :26:59.have female friends, my female cousin was my best friend, I have

:27:00. > :26:59.not spoken to her in years. I was prohibited. All my toys, anything

:27:00. > :26:59.that had anything... I had a very gender neutral upbringing to that

:27:00. > :26:59.point, I had male and female type toys. They threw them all out. Then

:27:00. > :26:59.they also did things like while I was in... I wasn't allowed to sit

:27:00. > :26:59.down to your innate, they would keep the door open. It sounds deeply

:27:00. > :26:59.traumatic. Fast forward to is at what point did something change for

:27:00. > :26:59.you, when did you get the help you really needed? What actually

:27:00. > :26:59.happened was that were two reactions that the trans kids have, you turn

:27:00. > :26:59.it on yourself become self-destructive, I external lives

:27:00. > :26:59.my anxiety and became extremely aggressive as an individual. I have

:27:00. > :26:59.learned how to be very combated, I teach close quarters combat for LGBT

:27:00. > :26:59.communities and so on. In the UK victims of hate crime can be

:27:00. > :26:59.referred to me by the police etc. You either become destructive in

:27:00. > :26:59.society or you get the help you need, it is not a question of right

:27:00. > :26:59.or wrong with the Zucker approach, it is the effect not only on the

:27:00. > :26:59.child but on society as a whole. Susie, you're 23-year-old daughter,

:27:00. > :26:59.I believe that the age of red four, they said they thought they were

:27:00. > :26:59.transgender child, not in those words? Until that point I thought

:27:00. > :26:59.that I had a very sensitive little boy who would maybe be gay, very

:27:00. > :26:59.feminine traits. A range of toys but lots of things that would be

:27:00. > :26:59.classically seen as feminine. But when she was four be watching the

:27:00. > :26:59.television and she said, money, I need to tell you something. I said,

:27:00. > :26:59.whatever. She said, God has made a mistake and I should have been a

:27:00. > :26:59.girl, that is the first time she vocalised it about is how she

:27:00. > :26:59.explained it to me. What did you do? Panicked, quite frankly. I didn't

:27:00. > :26:59.know what to do. For the next couple of years I spent a lot of my time

:27:00. > :26:59.telling her it is fine for boys to my girl things and it is fine to be

:27:00. > :26:59.a boy that wants to wear dresses and play with girl toys and play with

:27:00. > :26:59.the girls. And she kept telling me, that is not it. Doctor, watching the

:27:00. > :26:59.documentary I was mindful and hearing what your son said to you

:27:00. > :26:59.that about their own situation, Austin children say the wisest

:27:00. > :26:59.things because they know in themselves, but therein lies part of

:27:00. > :26:59.the debate -- Austin children say. Sometimes adults think they know

:27:00. > :26:59.best. It is all about listening to the children and the family

:27:00. > :26:59.supporting those children. We are not taking a snapshot of Suzy's

:27:00. > :26:59.child on one day the child says I want to be a girl and then that is

:27:00. > :26:59.it, we are talking about the whole of a child's life and upbringing, so

:27:00. > :26:59.when they are making decisions for these children, you are going on a

:27:00. > :26:59.long history from very small all the way to puberty and beyond. The

:27:00. > :26:59.programme last night said what if your child said I want to be a dog?

:27:00. > :26:59.That is one kind of role-play, will it change and make doctors like me

:27:00. > :26:59.medically intervened with children? We are talking about true identity

:27:00. > :26:59.which exists from a very early age. What kind of assessment do you go

:27:00. > :26:59.through with the children when families come to you? What

:27:00. > :26:59.supporters that? The group if you listen to the trans community, they

:27:00. > :26:59.want to tell you please listen to the child, the family of a child,

:27:00. > :26:59.all the people that support them, their brothers, sisters and teachers

:27:00. > :26:59.and they will tell you a story. We don't steal a snapshot assessment of

:27:00. > :26:59.one hour in a clinic, I wish there was a blood test or a scam, it would

:27:00. > :26:59.make medical job so which easier. Listen to the children, the family,

:27:00. > :26:59.the story. You will hear about children who clearly identify as one

:27:00. > :26:59.or the other gender or somewhere in between.

:27:00. > :26:59.Victoria, Susie was describing when her daughter first said, and your

:27:00. > :26:59.reaction was panic and then how do I do the right thing? Presumably that

:27:00. > :26:59.first interaction when you say to somebody that you care about, that

:27:00. > :26:59.first moment is very difficult? Sure it is. Obviously this goes deeper

:27:00. > :26:59.into the culture than an unwillingness to listen to children,

:27:00. > :26:59.this is why we have such abuse and sexual abuse in society as well, why

:27:00. > :26:59.it is creeping up now. If we listen to the tell-tale signs... I just

:27:00. > :26:59.wanted to go back to the clinical diagnosis elements, it is not like

:27:00. > :26:59.that is the only thing that is looked at. Even in the gender

:27:00. > :26:59.clinics in the UK and the guidelines, you are separate out

:27:00. > :26:59.gender variance kids from gender dysphoric kids. The DSM diagnostic

:27:00. > :26:59.criteria is very different for the two sets. Zucker groups them

:27:00. > :26:59.together as if all gender variance kids include gender dysphoric kids

:27:00. > :26:59.and they require the same type of therapy. The truth was, and this was

:27:00. > :26:59.pulled offline by the clinic and the executive summary is on there now

:27:00. > :26:59.but they still allude to it, I read about it at a gender clinic here

:27:00. > :26:59.with the chief neuroscientist of one of the clinics in the UK in 2015,

:27:00. > :26:59.Zucker was not only doing that type of therapy, what he was reporting to

:27:00. > :26:59.the government was a significant percentage of gender dysphoric kids

:27:00. > :26:59.grew into adults are no longer being transsexual. That was not the case.

:27:00. > :26:59.A significant percentage of gender variance kids grew up not presenting

:27:00. > :26:59.to the opposite gender, but 100% of transsexual kids diagnosed by the

:27:00. > :26:59.DSM were, in fact, still transsexual in adulthood, that is where the crux

:27:00. > :26:59.had the farm, statistically. Susie, last word, in a way, your daughter

:27:00. > :26:59.now, how have things developed? My daughter is very happy, she is a

:27:00. > :26:59.23-year-old young woman living her life, very confident. I listened to

:27:00. > :26:59.her, and when it became obvious that this was very much deeply held and I

:27:00. > :26:59.had to start educating myself, that is why I represent... I am the CEO

:27:00. > :26:59.of Mermaids, charity supporting children and young people, I

:27:00. > :26:59.represent those families and those families find the kind of things put

:27:00. > :26:59.in the documentary as deeply disturbing because a pathology rises

:27:00. > :26:59.their children as having mental health illnesses, it is like going

:27:00. > :26:59.back to the dark ages. We don't look at treatment methods for

:27:00. > :26:59.blood-letting with leeches to deal with colds, why are we looking at

:27:00. > :26:59.therapy that has been very much discredited, made illegal in Canada?

:27:00. > :26:59.Why are we continually harking back to things that are no good for

:27:00. > :26:59.children? That has been proven. The new way of supporting transgender

:27:00. > :26:59.children has been proven to be very effective and leads to children with

:27:00. > :26:59.better self-esteem and less issues around mental health illness.

:27:00. > :26:59.I want to thank you all for sharing your stories this morning.

:27:00. > :26:59.Transgender Kids: Who Knows Best? is on iPlayer now.

:27:00. > :26:59.We have been talking a lot about the weather and the problems in various

:27:00. > :26:59.parts of the UK. Here's Sarah with a look

:27:00. > :26:59.at this morning's weather. The weather is causing some

:27:00. > :26:59.disruption, we have snow and ice around, this scene was sent in from

:27:00. > :26:59.the Weather Watcher in Kent. The snow and the ice are not the only

:27:00. > :26:59.trouble making factors, we have some really strong winds around the east

:27:00. > :26:59.Coast, with the pressure moving south. Further sleet and snow to

:27:00. > :26:59.come and wintry showers piling in from the north-west. Certainly for

:27:00. > :26:59.northern and eastern Scotland, a strong northerly winds, gales at

:27:00. > :26:59.times, heading down the east coast, at times those strong northerly

:27:00. > :26:59.winds will provide high tides. Especially across parts of East

:27:00. > :26:59.Anglia we are likely to see some coastal flooding impact through the

:27:00. > :26:59.day, as well as the sleet and the snow. The Environment Agency has

:27:00. > :26:59.issued several flood warnings, here is the floodlight number if you are

:27:00. > :26:59.concerned. It will mainly be across parts of East Anglia and the

:27:00. > :26:59.south-east of England. We have an area of sleet and snow

:27:00. > :26:59.bringing wet weather, sleet and snow across East Anglia and the

:27:00. > :26:59.south-east, which should clear by lunchtime. Towards the north-west,

:27:00. > :26:59.further wintry showers. The Northern Ireland, western Scotland and Wales,

:27:00. > :26:59.snow showers to come, temperatures between two and five but feeling

:27:00. > :26:59.since the rope when you add on the wind-chill. The brisk winds easing a

:27:00. > :26:59.bit through the evening and overnight.

:27:00. > :26:59.Tonight, more in the way of ice and snow, snow showers coming in on the

:27:00. > :26:59.west and westerly breeze, affecting the East Coast and the West,

:27:00. > :26:59.temperatures -2-macro also even in the towns and cities, -8 at ten

:27:00. > :26:59.across rural parts. A cold start to Saturday morning. Through the day

:27:00. > :26:59.tomorrow, further showers for the East of Scotland, Lincolnshire and

:27:00. > :26:59.East Anglia, sleet and snow showers moving from the West, likely to turn

:27:00. > :26:59.back to rain later in the day. Quite a good deal of dry weather. The

:27:00. > :26:59.winds will be much lighter than today and tomorrow.

:27:00. > :26:59.A change in the weather through the cause of the weekend, the blue

:27:00. > :26:59.colour is being squeezed away towards the therapies. The yellow

:27:00. > :26:59.colours are moving in, means that things will be turning milder

:27:00. > :26:59.through Sunday. Quite a bit of cloud, patchy rain sweeping

:27:00. > :26:59.eastwards by Sunday. Back to around five to 10 degrees, but watch out

:27:00. > :26:59.for the snow, ice, strong winds and potential coastal flooding today.

:27:00. > :26:59.Rents across the UK went up by over 10% last year -

:27:00. > :26:59.and according to research for us here at Breakfast.

:27:00. > :26:59.And the forecasts are that rents will keep on rising.

:27:00. > :26:59.Sean is looking at what's happening for tenants.

:27:00. > :26:59.It is interesting, you assume it will be more expensive to have a

:27:00. > :26:59.mortgage than to rent? It sounds like the tide is turning? If you are

:27:00. > :26:59.buying a house that is ?150,000, ?200,000, that is a lot of money,

:27:00. > :26:59.but we're talking about the monthly outgoings. Halifax says that last

:27:00. > :26:59.year there were more first-time buyers than we have seen since the

:27:00. > :26:59.beginning of the financial crisis. Some research done for us by

:27:00. > :26:59.experience shows that the cost difference between average monthly

:27:00. > :26:59.rental outgoings and mortgage payments is decreasing, in some

:27:00. > :26:59.parts of the country it is cheaper for first-time buyers to get on the

:27:00. > :26:59.housing ladder and pay for the mortgage instead of renting. To find

:27:00. > :26:59.out about how difficult it is, I went to see James who has just

:27:00. > :26:59.bought his new place. It's not a small thing,

:27:00. > :26:59.buying a house. So you've kind of got to go

:27:00. > :26:59.through the whole saving process, you've got to go through the whole

:27:00. > :26:59.kind of sacrificing nights out, you've got to go through sacrificing

:27:00. > :26:59.holidays and things like that. And then it just takes

:27:00. > :26:59.a while to find the right place. You can't go out as much

:27:00. > :26:59.as you'd like, you can't enjoy yourself as much,

:27:00. > :26:59.you have to start kind of bringing prepacked lunches into work

:27:00. > :26:59.and things like that. And it is the silly things,

:27:00. > :26:59.but it's those silly things We stuck at it, because we want

:27:00. > :26:59.the security, we want... It sounds silly but we want

:27:00. > :26:59.the walls our own colour, we want the furniture to actually

:27:00. > :26:59.have a home and things like that. You want to feel like you've

:27:00. > :26:59.actually got something. You do smile every time you walk

:27:00. > :26:59.through the front door. We're joined by Sam Mitchell

:27:00. > :26:59.from Rightmove, and also Kate Webb Kick-off with you, Sam, talking

:27:00. > :26:59.about rental prices. How much have the rental market changed in the

:27:00. > :26:59.last year? Quite dramatically. The rental market is quite simple,

:27:00. > :26:59.supply and demand. Demand for rental properties is incredibly high. It

:27:00. > :26:59.has been for some time. Rents are driven by the fluctuating supply and

:27:00. > :26:59.the best way to demonstrate that was last year there was a rush of

:27:00. > :26:59.landlords looking to buy properties because of the stamp duty changes in

:27:00. > :26:59.April. It was focused in London. A huge supply of rental market in

:27:00. > :26:59.London which meant rent in London came down by 4.4% last year. The

:27:00. > :26:59.rest of the UK came down, and rents went up, so what will happen to

:27:00. > :26:59.rents going forward? Unfortunately, it looks like supply is likely to

:27:00. > :26:59.restrict further and the reasons for that is 3% extra stamp duty on

:27:00. > :26:59.buying property and lending criteria, you get stressed tested up

:27:00. > :26:59.to 5.5%, and London is resisting it. Also income tax changes in April.

:27:00. > :26:59.All of those things make it a disincentive to buy properties if

:27:00. > :26:59.you are a landlord. Landlords are now starting to sell off properties

:27:00. > :26:59.so likely supply will be restricted further. In my opinion, rentable

:27:00. > :26:59.increase over the next year. Should we be in courage in more landlords?

:27:00. > :26:59.It sounds like there are fewer coming on the market? We have a

:27:00. > :26:59.problem at the moment with a huge number of people who need to rent,

:27:00. > :26:59.because we don't have enough social housing any more, and home-buying is

:27:00. > :26:59.not affordable for most people saw huge number of rental people in a

:27:00. > :26:59.limited pool of properties. We are not convinced increasing private

:27:00. > :26:59.landlord members is necessarily the right thing to do. We have a very

:27:00. > :26:59.amateur buy to let market where we have six-month tenancies the

:27:00. > :26:59.standards for families, rent which can go up at any time, poor

:27:00. > :26:59.conditions, landlords who often don't know their responsibilities,

:27:00. > :26:59.so within that context, we are encouraging more people to take a

:27:00. > :26:59.punt on becoming a private landlord and it doesn't seem like a good

:27:00. > :26:59.idea. In terms of the ownership against renting, it's a lovely idea,

:27:00. > :26:59.and in some places it might be cheaper, but a lot of people, it's

:27:00. > :26:59.just not possible. Yes, when I saw the figures this morning I thought

:27:00. > :26:59.this is going to be a kick in the teeth for many renters. The Halifax

:27:00. > :26:59.figures you mentioned, an average of ?13,000 deposit but in London it's

:27:00. > :26:59.over ?100,000. For most people, you can't say maybe is the time to buy

:27:00. > :26:59.because they can't get a deposit together. If their incomes are not

:27:00. > :26:59.high enough, to borrow the mortgages you need... So where do you see the

:27:00. > :26:59.future of this? It's hard to see what's going to stop this. Either

:27:00. > :26:59.you need an increase in the supply to the market. That will be

:27:00. > :26:59.difficult in the short-term. The government has tried helped by

:27:00. > :26:59.schemes, but that the wealthiest of tenants. In terms of supply, very

:27:00. > :26:59.little will help in the next 12 months but there is something on the

:27:00. > :26:59.horizon. A lot of build to rent, incredibly topical at the moment. A

:27:00. > :26:59.lot of developers will talk about that next year but there is little

:27:00. > :26:59.supply coming on this year. It's likely to come online in 2018-19 and

:27:00. > :26:59.in reality, you're talking about hundreds of thousands. You got some

:27:00. > :26:59.comments from people. Yes, James got in touch and said that he has bought

:27:00. > :26:59.his own place but he can see why people would rent because he think,

:27:00. > :26:59.for his mortgage, you could rent a better property, but then you hear

:27:00. > :26:59.rental properties aren't up to the standards people might have when

:27:00. > :26:59.they own their own home because you can do it up yourself. Sean, thank

:27:00. > :26:59.you very much. Thank you. It's one of those Marmite things. Love them

:27:00. > :26:59.all low loads of. Musicals. I love musicals. I like a musical.

:27:00. > :26:59.The writer and composer Neil Brand will be here to tell us exactly how

:27:00. > :26:59.those big West End productions really grab audiences -

:27:00. > :26:59.but first a last, brief look at the headlines where you are this

:27:00. > :26:59.The new Hollywood musical La La Land is already tipped to win Oscars,

:27:00. > :26:59.and the Broadway show Hamilton is expected to be a sell-out

:27:00. > :26:59.when it opens in London so are musicals having a bit

:27:00. > :26:59.The writer and composer Neil Brand has explored our love of musicals

:27:00. > :26:59.and how they've evolved over the last century in his

:27:00. > :26:59.Good morning. You would be happier if you had a piano in front of you

:27:00. > :26:59.right now because that is your thing, isn't it? Yes, I love the

:27:00. > :26:59.piano. I love musical theatre. If you did have a keyboard in front of

:27:00. > :26:59.you right now, if you are trying to entice someone into the world of the

:27:00. > :26:59.musicals, what would you first play? I'd probably first play something

:27:00. > :26:59.very, very, very melodic like If I Loved You from Carousel, a big heart

:27:00. > :26:59.song. You would think it was beautiful. As soon as it got the

:27:00. > :26:59.characters sing it in the context of the show, it all lights up. Let's

:27:00. > :26:59.take a look at some of the things that you discovered.

:27:00. > :26:59.Each year, 15 million people make the pilgrimage

:27:00. > :26:59.Every kind of drama is available, but when we talk about going to see

:27:00. > :26:59.a show, we really mean one thing - a musical.

:27:00. > :26:59.Taking 60% of London's box office receipts,

:27:00. > :26:59.musical theatre towers over all other types of dramatic

:27:00. > :26:59.performance and rakes in a third of a billion pounds a year.

:27:00. > :26:59.I so want to carry on that song forth I love that musical but there

:27:00. > :26:59.are so many. Why are they doing so well? I think people need them. I

:27:00. > :26:59.think they need them in times which may be not that happy. You go to a

:27:00. > :26:59.musical to get cheered up and it's also the reason I think why we

:27:00. > :26:59.booked a year in advance, we pay a lot of money to get a seat. It's

:27:00. > :26:59.because it guarantees you a good time. You come away actually feeling

:27:00. > :26:59.better about yourself. There's not many things you can say I'm going to

:27:00. > :26:59.do that. Why now? Do you think we are all sad and we need to see

:27:00. > :26:59.musicals? I think there is an element of that. Life is pretty

:27:00. > :26:59.tough. People wanted taken out of themselves and what musicals do is

:27:00. > :26:59.give you a story and characters you care about and then the music just

:27:00. > :26:59.lifts you and after awhile you think, I wish I could do that. I

:27:00. > :26:59.wish I could be standing waiting for a bus and an orchestra would start

:27:00. > :26:59.up and everybody in the bus station would start dancing. Wouldn't want

:27:00. > :26:59.that? I'm going to say it loud and clear. It's fair to say, you will

:27:00. > :26:59.know this, some people say, I can't bear musicals. There is a school of

:27:00. > :26:59.thought along those lines but often people say I can't bear musicals but

:27:00. > :26:59.I like that song. It's curious, isn't it? There's a love hate thing.

:27:00. > :26:59.I think so but also musicals are a very broad church force of most

:27:00. > :26:59.people when he think musicals sink tap dancing into big teeth and all

:27:00. > :26:59.the rest of it. Actually, a great musical, Hamilton, in Broadway at

:27:00. > :26:59.the moment, coming to London later on this year, it's the American War

:27:00. > :26:59.of Independence done in rap music. That will have a huge audience,

:27:00. > :26:59.who've never been to a musical maybe. The thing people may have

:27:00. > :26:59.heard about that is what happened on stage in the US elections. That was

:27:00. > :26:59.a moment. The craziness of a show clashed with reality. Mike pence,

:27:00. > :26:59.the vice president to Donald Trump went to see Hamilton and at the end

:27:00. > :26:59.of the show the entire cast start up and the leading man said this is

:27:00. > :26:59.about freedom and reality, please take this away with you. It has to

:27:00. > :26:59.be said, musical theatre has always been like that. The Rodgers and

:27:00. > :26:59.Hammer Steyn shows, they were talking about racism, all sorts of

:27:00. > :26:59.quite political things. Billy Elliot as well. Absolutely, where it is not

:27:00. > :26:59.bother musical smooths over the problems at all, it actually puts

:27:00. > :26:59.across but also in way that is very emotive. It's one of the things

:27:00. > :26:59.which people don't think of the same time. Do you think they are

:27:00. > :26:59.changing? For a long time they've had politics in them but using the

:27:00. > :26:59.stylus changing? I do and I think modern composers for musicals are

:27:00. > :26:59.aware of popular culture. The guy I spoke to, Robert Lopez, the man

:27:00. > :26:59.behind book of Mormon, he grew up The Simpsons and the Muppets, and he

:27:00. > :26:59.loves popular culture. He reflects that in his shows full speed on the

:27:00. > :26:59.musicals could be about other things, the way they are put across,

:27:00. > :26:59.and audience can hear the music, and say, I know where we are. That's how

:27:00. > :26:59.the big changes happening. Sometimes people can be posted about theatre

:27:00. > :26:59.but I know with musicals at one end of the market, people dress up. They

:27:00. > :26:59.dress up as characters, things like the Rocky horror picture show. It's

:27:00. > :26:59.pure entertainment. It's a big night out. It's also buying into the

:27:00. > :26:59.event. I love the singalong sound of music. I saw one person dressed as a

:27:00. > :26:59.brown paper package tied up with string because that is half the fun.

:27:00. > :26:59.You go dressed as a member. It's an involving thing. I think people

:27:00. > :26:59.seeing the Rocky horror show will go seven or eight times --

:27:00. > :26:59.there's thousands of people in a theatre and they are all getting off

:27:00. > :26:59.on the music. And the spectacle. Also there's a big difference

:27:00. > :26:59.between musicals that you go to at the theatre and films and obviously

:27:00. > :26:59.we got the likes of La La Land. I don't like film musicals. We are

:27:00. > :26:59.just seeing pictures of La La Land, the premiere in London last night.

:27:00. > :26:59.Why'd you think the films are doing so well? Is there a difference? The

:27:00. > :26:59.films have understood that people are really into musicals. For

:27:00. > :26:59.instance, they're making a film of beauty and the beast, which came a

:27:00. > :26:59.film, a show and then goes back into a film again. It's about the Times.

:27:00. > :26:59.People have kind of, they want to go to the movies to forget what's going

:27:00. > :26:59.on outside. Rogue one does the job one way and La La Land desert the

:27:00. > :26:59.other way. Thank you very much the next time you come, bring the piano.

:27:00. > :26:59.That's all from Breakfast this morning.

:27:00. > :26:59.Now on BBC One, it's time for Rip Off Britain: Holidays.

:27:00. > :26:59.We asked you who's left you feeling ripped off

:27:00. > :26:59.and you came back with a catalogue of travel disasters.

:27:00. > :27:00.It's a nightmare! Wake me up from it, please.