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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :00:07. | :00:16. | |
Thousands of people along the east coast of England are told | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
to leave their homes, as gale-force winds combine | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Seven severe flooding warnings, meaning a risk to life, | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :00:28. | :00:36. | |
Thousands of people along the east coast of England are told | :00:37. | :00:39. | |
to leave their homes, as gale-force winds combine | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
Seven severe flooding warnings, meaning a risk to life, | :00:42. | :00:45. | |
In the next hour, more than 1,000 people will be moved to safety | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Thousands of people have been told to evacuate. I will have the details | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
live in Jaywick. Good morning, it is | :00:55. | :00:55. | |
Friday 13 January. Also this morning: More | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
men are in low-paid, part-time work than ever before, | :00:58. | :00:59. | |
according to a new study of those Almost 5 million people | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
switched their energy supplier last We will find out how | :01:03. | :01:06. | |
you could save money on your bill. More people took their first step | :01:07. | :01:11. | |
on the housing ladder last year than since 2007, and research | :01:12. | :01:15. | |
for Breakfast says it is also getting cheaper for first-timer | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
buyers to have a mortgage In sport, football mourns the loss | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
of one of its true gentlemen Graham Taylor, the former Watford, | :01:22. | :01:27. | |
Aston Villa and England manager, who died after a heart attack | :01:28. | :01:30. | |
yesterday at the age of 72. Good morning to you. Lots to talk | :01:31. | :01:50. | |
about in terms of the weather. Snow and ice warnings as well as strong | :01:51. | :01:54. | |
winds and potential flooding around the east coast. A full forecast in | :01:55. | :01:56. | |
15 minutes. First, our main story: The army | :01:57. | :01:57. | |
is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east coast, | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
where a tidal surge The Environment Agency has issued | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
seven severe flood warnings, All along the east coast, floodgates | :02:05. | :02:19. | |
have been closed in preparation for the storm surge. Gale force winds | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
are combining with high tides to threaten coastal defences. In | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Jaywick, in Essex, there is a severe flood warning, meaning a risk to | :02:30. | :02:33. | |
life. The emergency services have arrived in force. The residents are | :02:34. | :02:38. | |
being urged to leave. Evacuation centres are on standby. We've got | :02:39. | :02:42. | |
exceptionally strong winds, between 40 and 50 miles an hour, potentially | :02:43. | :02:47. | |
with gusts stronger than that going to coincide with a high tide just | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
after lunchtime, so that's why we've put in place this operation to | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
evacuate safely the people of Jaywick. Some have already heeded | :02:56. | :02:58. | |
that warning. Others are waiting to see. We have had the text messages, | :02:59. | :03:03. | |
saying have you evacuated yet? The neighbours next door get all | :03:04. | :03:06. | |
panicked, because she is not very well next door, and things like | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
that. So I think a lot of people are actually planning to stay. On the | :03:11. | :03:14. | |
Lincolnshire coast on at Skegness, the military have been brought in to | :03:15. | :03:18. | |
help if needed. About 100 soldiers have been based at the police | :03:19. | :03:23. | |
station. Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
to protect their businesses. There will be a significant rise in the | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
water. But whether it will be enough to top the defences depends on | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
Mother Nature, I suppose, really. And Mother Nature is said to bring | :03:36. | :03:41. | |
more wintry weather today, causing even more travel disruption. Nearly | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
all the UK is covered by weather warnings for snow or ice or. -- or | :03:46. | :03:50. | |
both. In a moment we will get | :03:51. | :03:51. | |
the latest on the snow, but first we can speak | :03:52. | :03:54. | |
to our correspondent Leigh Milner, who is in Clacton-on-Sea in Essex, | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
where residents are being moved I can see a couple of people behind | :03:58. | :04:13. | |
you. That's right. I'm currently standing in a very warm rest centre. | :04:14. | :04:20. | |
Approximately 17 people here, as you can see, six are resting behind me. | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
I have unfortunately woken up this morning but they are very warm, very | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
safe, and that is what the police have been telling them all | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
throughout the night. They were told approximately at 4pm yesterday | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
afternoon when they received a knock on their door telling them they had | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
to leave their home because they were in fact at risk of flooding. | :04:42. | :04:45. | |
Overnight here this centre has been open, providing hot drinks, Lang | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
gets, lower beds. Some safe haven for these people. This is just the | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
beginning, the first of 2500 residents who are being told that | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
they are at risk. The fear is that the strong winds during the high | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
tide will break the defences, and flood the village, destroying | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
thousands of homes. It is of course a very anxious time for not just | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
these people but for people along the coast throughout the country. We | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
have already seen the army over in Lincolnshire. There are also serve | :05:17. | :05:20. | |
rural weather warnings and flood warnings around the east coast -- | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
several weather warnings. The advice is to pack a bag of clothes and have | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
essential medical items as well, ensure that valuables and expensive | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
electrical items are put in high places, and if you have any concerns | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
please do contact the police on the 101 number. Thank you, we will get | :05:37. | :05:40. | |
back to you throughout the morning. The weather caused some problems | :05:41. | :05:42. | |
for commuters at rush hour yesterday, with long delays, | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
including queues in both directions There are warnings of | :05:46. | :05:47. | |
similar problems today. Our correspondent Simon Jones | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
is in a very snowy Canterbury We had some snow in a few places | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
last night. I can see some around where you are. The snow started | :05:59. | :06:01. | |
coming down here at around 6pm yesterday evening, and it snowed | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
heavily for around three hours. We are told at was about five | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
centimetres, which is an unusual amount in this part of the world. | :06:08. | :06:11. | |
And down there you can see some of the snow. But because it has been | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
freezing overnight it is actually largely turned to ice, and that | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
means it is pretty grim as you are trying to walk around. Very, very | :06:19. | :06:23. | |
sleepy. We've got more snow down here, and it is not really very nice | :06:24. | :06:28. | |
at all. Now the roads largely have been greeted. This one isn't too | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
bad, the gritters have been out and about throughout the night. This one | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
down here is pretty much sheet ice so not nice to drive on. The advice | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
is if you are driving go very slowly. We have had a few incidents, | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
part of the 20 is closed because the lorry has blocked that road -- and | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
20. We are told there could be more snow today, starting in Scotland, | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
heading for the north of England and then heading for the east. So we | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
have a situation of snow, we have ice, we have strong winds. The | :07:07. | :07:10. | |
advice is take care and stay indoors if you don't have to be out on this. | :07:11. | :07:16. | |
Thank you very much. Simon Jones is in Canterbury for us. We will be | :07:17. | :07:28. | |
taking a look at the weather as it develops throughout the morning. | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
The number of men in low-paid, part-time work has increased | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that | :07:34. | :07:37. | |
one in five low paid men aged 25-55 now work part-time. | :07:38. | :07:40. | |
That means wage inequality for men has risen over two decades. | :07:41. | :07:43. | |
But for women, the opposite is the case, as our business | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
Top earning men in the professions normally work full-time. In fact, | :07:47. | :07:58. | |
only 5% of them work part-time. But in comparison, amongst the lowest | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
paid men, often in areas like catering and hospitality, 20% now | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
work half-time. And that number has increased fourfold in the last 20 | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
years. That has meant that wage inequality for men has increased, as | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
higher paid, full-time staff have done far better than low paid, | :08:16. | :08:19. | |
part-time workers. But for women, the opposite is the case. For women, | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
earnings growth has been consistently higher than that for | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
men over the last 20 years, and more of them are in work. For men, | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
particularly the lowest paid, they've actually seen falls in the | :08:32. | :08:35. | |
numbers of hours of work, which has suppressed the amount of pay that | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
they get. It is far from clear why low paid men are increasingly | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
working part-time. It might be because they want to, although that | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
seems unlikely. The fact that 60% of the low paid and part-time jobs are | :08:50. | :08:53. | |
either in retail, wholesale, restaurants or hospitality might | :08:54. | :08:56. | |
suggest that men who previously worked in low paid but secure and | :08:57. | :09:02. | |
full-time jobs, in sectors like manufacturing, have lost that work, | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
and instead have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid and | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
less secure services sector of the economy. | :09:12. | :09:12. | |
A week to go until the new American president is sworn in, | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
and Donald Trump seems to be at odds with some of his key Cabinet | :09:17. | :09:19. | |
nominees on some of the vital questions facing | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
His choice for the CIA leader has endorsed the work of the US | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
intelligence community, hours after it was criticised | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
Also, the potential defence secretary said Moscow posed a threat | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
in Europe, after Mr Trump called for warmer relations with Russia. | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
Our correspondent Laura Bicker reports from Washington. | :09:35. | :09:46. | |
The nation's capital awaits a new commander-in-chief. | :09:47. | :09:50. | |
But, as the gates go up for expectant crowds, | :09:51. | :09:54. | |
Donald Trump is still facing questions about intelligence, | :09:55. | :10:03. | |
suggesting Moscow tried to help put him in Washington. | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
The President-elect's choice for CIA director's said that he valued | :10:10. | :10:12. | |
the judgement of the staff he hopes to lead. | :10:13. | :10:17. | |
It's pretty clear there was Russian involvement in efforts to hack | :10:18. | :10:20. | |
information and have an impact on American democracy. | :10:21. | :10:24. | |
I'm very clear-eyed about what the intelligence report says. | :10:25. | :10:26. | |
That view on Russia is more hawkish than what Donald Trump has | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
His fiercest criticism has mostly been aimed at spy agencies. | :10:30. | :10:35. | |
He accused US intelligence agencies of leaking unverified reports that | :10:36. | :10:49. | |
the Kremlin gathered compromising material on Donald Trump, | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
The dossier is supposed to have come from a British spy, | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
Donald Trump announced it as fake news. | :10:57. | :10:58. | |
But Christopher Steele's former colleague says he is reliable. | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
Chris was a strong, middle-ranking SAS officer. | :11:07. | :11:11. | |
I do not quite agree this was a subpar report. | :11:12. | :11:13. | |
He has been careful to find as many sources to back it up, | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
but also to make it clear these are stories, and the intelligence | :11:18. | :11:20. | |
This controversy is likely to continue long after | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
Inauguration Day, and has cast a shadow over Donald Trump's | :11:24. | :11:26. | |
administration before he has even taken the oath of office. | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
And it has emerged overnight that Christopher Steele, | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
the British man who wrote a dossier of lurid claims about Donald Trump, | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
was hired by the England 2018 World Cup bid team. | :11:37. | :11:39. | |
It is believed he was brought in to provide information on world | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
Emotional scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night, | :11:43. | :11:47. | |
as President Obama surprised his Vice-President with the country's | :11:48. | :11:49. | |
Mr Obama said he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom | :11:50. | :11:53. | |
to Joe Biden for his faith in his fellow Americans | :11:54. | :11:56. | |
Mr Biden said the honour had been a complete surprise. | :11:57. | :12:09. | |
More needs to be done to protect patients from incompetent locum | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
doctors, according to a review by the General Medical Council. | :12:13. | :12:15. | |
The regulator says a reluctance to share information weaknesses | :12:16. | :12:17. | |
in checks is allowing some poorly performing stand-in doctors | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
Our health correspondent Elaine Dunkley has more. | :12:21. | :12:28. | |
The carmaker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating pollution laws | :12:29. | :12:31. | |
The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
with software that regulates emissions results. | :12:40. | :12:41. | |
The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share | :12:42. | :12:44. | |
Meeting the target of resettling 20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees | :12:45. | :12:57. | |
in the UK by 2020 remains a significant challenge, | :12:58. | :12:59. | |
Around 4,500 refugees have already been resettled, | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
but the Public Accounts Committee says it is not yet clear | :13:04. | :13:05. | |
whether survivors of torture or violence are getting | :13:06. | :13:07. | |
The number of people changing who they buy their electricity | :13:08. | :13:17. | |
Research from the industry body Energy UK shows that nearly five | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
million people changed their electricity supplier last | :13:23. | :13:24. | |
year, and a fifth of those who switched in December went | :13:25. | :13:27. | |
to a smaller supplier rather than one of the Big Six. | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
It is the highest number of switches since Energy UK began | :13:31. | :13:33. | |
We will be speaking to energy expert Stephen Murray about the figures | :13:34. | :13:45. | |
Killer whales and humans have something in common, | :13:46. | :13:48. | |
They are two of only three mammals that go through the menopause. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
A 40-year study of a population of orcas has shown scientists why | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
any species would evolve to stop having babies early in life. | :13:57. | :13:59. | |
The research uncovered the crucial role grandmother whales play | :14:00. | :14:01. | |
in their family pod, and that their daughters' offspring | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
has a higher chance of survival once the grandmother stops reproducing. | :14:05. | :14:14. | |
Yesterday we spoke about a nine-year-old British boy | :14:15. | :14:16. | |
who melted hearts while competing in the Spanish version | :14:17. | :14:19. | |
of Junior MasterChef, after his fish and chip dish didn't | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
Oscar Jefferson, who moved to Spain with his family two years ago, | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
was invited to cook for the British Ambassador to Spain | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
Let's hope it wasn't a repeat of his nightmare moment | :14:31. | :14:33. | |
Moat! That was the moment when it all went wrong for him. He had a bit | :14:34. | :15:19. | |
of a hug, and anyway, he has a lot of attention, and as we say, he has | :15:20. | :15:24. | |
gone on the other people. Hopefully it'll be right. We have all done | :15:25. | :15:29. | |
that in the kitchen, spilt the source, have a bad moment. | :15:30. | :15:34. | |
Graham Taylor, one of the nicest people you will ever meet. The sort | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
of person you want to be your brother or your dad. You can imagine | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
what it was like for young players as a football manager. Reassuring, | :15:45. | :15:51. | |
so warm. No ego. These days of press conferences for football managers, | :15:52. | :15:57. | |
he was always asking about you. Can I get you a cup of coffee? Don't | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
worry, you are far too busy. But a great club manager as well. But he | :16:04. | :16:08. | |
was haunted. I remember reassuring him here that what happened when he | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
was manager shouldn't taint his reputation, it was that moment | :16:13. | :16:15. | |
redefined the way the press deal with England managers, when he was | :16:16. | :16:20. | |
depicted as they turn it on the back page of the Sun. He said it stayed | :16:21. | :16:25. | |
with him forever and it to find his four years in charge. He was a | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
fantastic and dumber manager in terms of Watford and Aston Villa. -- | :16:30. | :16:33. | |
he was a fantastic manager. Sir Elton John, who brought | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
Graham Taylor to Watford at the start of their rise | :16:39. | :16:40. | |
to the top, said it was like he had The former Watford, Aston Villa | :16:41. | :16:44. | |
and England manager is believed to have suffered a heart | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
attack at the age of 72. His family say it was | :16:49. | :16:51. | |
totally unexpected. There was a minute's applause | :16:52. | :16:53. | |
in memory of Graham Taylor ahead of last night's Championship match | :16:54. | :16:56. | |
between QPR and Reading. QPR made it three League | :16:57. | :16:58. | |
wins in a row, thanks Andy Murray will start his | :16:59. | :17:01. | |
Australian Open campaign Murray is the top seed | :17:02. | :17:05. | |
for a Grand Slam for the first time, and he is chasing a first | :17:06. | :17:17. | |
title in Melbourne. In the women's draw, | :17:18. | :17:19. | |
Johanna Konta will face Kirsten And a sellout crowd | :17:20. | :17:22. | |
at London's O2 Arena saw the Denver Nuggets comfortably | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
beat the Indiana Pacers It is the seventh regular-season | :17:26. | :17:27. | |
game to be played in the capital. Not surprisingly he is all of the -- | :17:28. | :17:41. | |
all over the front pages. The table lookup The Daily Mail. A | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
lot of interest in this. An ex- MI6 man, who has corn into hiding to | :17:49. | :17:54. | |
make -- gone into hiding. Questions over what he knew about the dossier. | :17:55. | :18:00. | |
It is said he shared the information with quite a lot of people in the | :18:01. | :18:04. | |
run-up to the renovation by one of the websites more recently. | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
A lot of speculation about that. The Express has a story about what's | :18:08. | :18:11. | |
going on with the weather at the moment, saying Britain will be | :18:12. | :18:14. | |
plunged back into the deep freeze next week. Of course we will be | :18:15. | :18:19. | |
talking to Sarah to find out what's going on. | :18:20. | :18:22. | |
Send us any pictures if you are affected. These are some of the | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
pictures on the front of the Daily Telegraph. That was Cumbria. Some | :18:27. | :18:31. | |
places having up to six centimetres. The Trump dossier on the front page | :18:32. | :18:35. | |
here. Have you got anything? The front of the FT, the emission | :18:36. | :18:41. | |
scandal. We talked about Volkswagen before. Fiat is getting dragged in. | :18:42. | :18:47. | |
If you are one of the 4000 Jeep grand Cherokee owners, you might | :18:48. | :18:52. | |
want to keep an eye on this story cause they are getting accused of | :18:53. | :18:56. | |
having software installed by Fiat that may have allowed those cars do | :18:57. | :19:02. | |
not have as much... Sorry, to have more pollution than they were | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
allowed. So Fiat say they have done nothing illegal and in fact the boss | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
says it is absolute nonsense. It sounds very similar to the scandal | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
with Volkswagen. We have another one. We have been talking a lot | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
about housing. We are talking about how it is getting cheaper to have a | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
mortgage if you are first-time buyer. The Telegraph a different | :19:24. | :19:30. | |
spin. Lucky for home buyers. If you are willing to get involved today, | :19:31. | :19:37. | |
the demand isn't quite as high as you might think. So if anyone is | :19:38. | :19:42. | |
actually buying a house today, on the 13th... We have all of the | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
coverage on Graham Taylor. And we have Elton John, who looks like he | :19:51. | :19:56. | |
is tickling his ears, that's at Watford in the early years. And he | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
gives a moving tribute to his great friend and, as he says, his brother. | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Deeply saddened and shocked to hear about his passing. We shared an | :20:06. | :20:10. | |
unbreakable bond since we met. He says it will stay with him forever | :20:11. | :20:13. | |
because he took Watford from the lowest division to the top of the | :20:14. | :20:17. | |
game and they are back there today. And you will speak to some of the | :20:18. | :20:20. | |
people... Well, he did so much to tackle | :20:21. | :20:26. | |
racism. We will be speaking to someone at 8:30am about that. | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
Let's get the latest on how that severe weather is developing. | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
Sarah is here with a look at this morning's weather. | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
Good morning. Lots going on in terms of the weather today. Still feeling | :20:38. | :20:45. | |
wintry. We have ice around this morning and snow, but it isn't just | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
the wintry weather, also strong winds and the potential for that | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
postal flooding. Low pressure moving south around the east coast, ringing | :20:55. | :21:01. | |
the fleet, snow as well. -- ringing the fleet. There are strong winds | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
blowing. At about 8am for Scotland a windy picture. A few showers for | :21:07. | :21:12. | |
Northern Ireland through the day. As we head down the east coast we will | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
see the low pressure bringing sleet and snow, as well as the strong | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
winds. Later in the day with the strong winds in the east, combined | :21:22. | :21:24. | |
with high tide, we could see severe in packs around the east coast, | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
especially around east Anglia. Plenty going on. We have the strong | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
winds for many of us. Coastal flooding in east Anglia and eastern | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
England. This area of sleet and snow will clear the south-east of England | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
by about lunchtime and then it's a quieter story as we had through the | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
afternoon, in terms of the weather. In cooking dry, with wintry | :21:48. | :21:51. | |
sunshine. Temperatures about 2- five degrees. -- temperatures looking | :21:52. | :21:57. | |
dry. Towards the west of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, some of | :21:58. | :22:02. | |
the sleet and snow showers will turn back to rain. Things milder from the | :22:03. | :22:06. | |
west. For most of us another cold night. Under clear skies we could | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
have a sharp frost and icy stretches heading into Saturday morning. | :22:12. | :22:15. | |
Subzero temperatures to stop the weekend. Some calls, icy weather and | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
again snow, Aditya Lelia round the east coast, where we will have | :22:21. | :22:26. | |
further snow showers. Towards the west some of that will turn back to | :22:27. | :22:32. | |
rain and sleet in -- sleet, but not a bad day. Temperatures one or two | :22:33. | :22:39. | |
for eastern areas, but towards the west more like six or seven. Things | :22:40. | :22:44. | |
continue to turn mild from the west through the weekend. Saturday night | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
and into Sunday you can see the yellow colours returning to the map. | :22:49. | :22:55. | |
Through the day on Sunday, wet weather. A cloudy picture. Drizzly | :22:56. | :22:59. | |
on Sunday and moving eastwards across the UK. Temperatures 5- ten | :23:00. | :23:05. | |
degrees by the time we get to Sunday. Watch out today for the ice | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
and snow and strong winds which could lead to travel disruption. | :23:10. | :23:14. | |
Thank you. A record number of households | :23:15. | :23:15. | |
switched to a different electricity That's according to | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
the industry body Energy UK. Their findings, out today, | :23:18. | :23:24. | |
show that almost five million customers changed | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
their electricity supplier in 2016. This is the highest recorded number | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
of switches since Energy UK started publishing | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
their data back in 2013. And not everyone moved over | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
to one of the Big Six, a fifth of electricity | :23:35. | :23:37. | |
switches in December But the regulator Ofgem says that | :23:38. | :23:39. | |
two thirds of all households are still on standard variable | :23:40. | :23:46. | |
tariffs, which tend to be more Joining us now to talk | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
through these findings is Stephen Murray, an energy expert | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
from Money Supermarket. Good morning. Thanks for joining us. | :23:54. | :24:02. | |
This is something I've talked about loads. People can save money if they | :24:03. | :24:07. | |
switch and for a long time lots of people haven't been bothered, what | :24:08. | :24:10. | |
it sounds like the tide is turning? It is a little bit. As you say it | :24:11. | :24:16. | |
has been nearly 20 years in the market was deregulated and nearly 19 | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
million customers are still the standard variable tariffs of the big | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
six suppliers. But we have seen a shift. Ely 5 million people have | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
shifted this year, nearly four -- 400,000 this month, which shows the | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
market is opening up. Clearly the best incentive for people to changes | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
that they will save money. What sort of savings are people making? This | :24:42. | :24:51. | |
-- last year prices were lower than a long time, so people were | :24:52. | :24:54. | |
previously paying 300 pounds or than they needed to. Towards the end of | :24:55. | :25:02. | |
the year the prices were rising. For those who use more, savings are | :25:03. | :25:05. | |
significant. One of the things people say to me is it's a hassle, | :25:06. | :25:10. | |
they are all the same, I know you say I could save this money but it | :25:11. | :25:14. | |
isn't worth the hassle. What do you say? I think that might have been a | :25:15. | :25:21. | |
reason a while back, but there is an excess of 40 current suppliers. So | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
customers have a choice of 40 suppliers, they can't all be the | :25:26. | :25:30. | |
same. A lot of them are new and are offering green tariffs. Energy | :25:31. | :25:33. | |
switching guarantee makes it very simple. The advocacy is nearly 90%, | :25:34. | :25:40. | |
which means it only takes about three weeks to go through and while | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
there are couple of horror stories the vast majority of customers can | :25:45. | :25:48. | |
save those ?150 - ?200 almost immediately. Why is the onus on the | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
consumer? If I am someone who is sitting at home and I am thinking, I | :25:54. | :25:58. | |
don't think about my energy, it just comes in and I pay the bill, why is | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
there no pressure on the supplier to offer a better deal? If they've got | :26:04. | :26:07. | |
a better deal and you are their customers, why did they offer it to | :26:08. | :26:12. | |
you? They do now. Ofgem has put in a lot of regulations over the last few | :26:13. | :26:15. | |
years and on energy bills the energy supplier must now come but it is | :26:16. | :26:23. | |
called the cheapest tariff regulation. They must put it on | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
their bill. The regulations don't allow suppliers to review onto | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
anything other than a variable tariff. The regulator is looking at | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
how to best give customers choice, but if customers aren't happy with | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
where they are it's a simple process to switch away and get a cheaper | :26:40. | :26:47. | |
deal. People are moving to smaller suppliers as well, as some companies | :26:48. | :26:54. | |
ended up going into administration. Do people need to worry about that? | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
Six months ago people may have said they were worried, but previous | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
cases were dealt with seriously. No customers lost money or supply. So | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
that was a great move to show that people can have confidence moving to | :27:11. | :27:15. | |
a smaller suppliers because there are protections in place. Many of us | :27:16. | :27:21. | |
are -- the small suppliers are doing well. Thanks very much. | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :27:24. | :30:44. | |
Now, though, it's back to Charlie and Steph. | :30:45. | :30:47. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :30:48. | :30:53. | |
We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :30:54. | :31:05. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
We will bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :31:09. | :31:14. | |
But also on Breakfast this morning: As thousands of people are advised | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
to leave their homes in preparation for storm surges and heavy snow, | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
we will be speaking to the Environment Agency | :31:22. | :31:23. | |
about the latest weather warnings affecting the UK. | :31:24. | :31:25. | |
Why buying a home could be cheaper than renting. | :31:26. | :31:28. | |
As research shows that in some areas monthly rents are outstripping | :31:29. | :31:31. | |
average mortgage payments, we ask what it means for the housing | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
market, and for those struggling to get on the property ladder. | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
We are discussing a controversial documentary featuring a leading | :31:38. | :31:39. | |
psychologist, who was sacked after questioning whether children | :31:40. | :31:41. | |
should be allowed to decide if they want to change their gender. | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
But now a summary of this morning's main news: | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
The army is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east | :31:49. | :31:52. | |
coast, where a tidal surge is expected to hit. | :31:53. | :31:54. | |
The Environment Agency has issued seven severe flood warnings, | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
All along the east coast, floodgates have been closed | :31:58. | :32:02. | |
Gale-force winds are combining with high tides | :32:03. | :32:09. | |
In Jaywick, in Essex, there is a severe flood warning, | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
The emergency services have arrived in force. | :32:15. | :32:22. | |
The residents are being urged to leave. | :32:23. | :32:24. | |
We've got exceptionally strong winds, between 40 and 50 miles | :32:25. | :32:31. | |
an hour, potentially with gusts stronger than that, | :32:32. | :32:33. | |
and going to coincide with a high tide just after lunchtime. | :32:34. | :32:36. | |
So that's why we've put in place this operation to evacuate safely | :32:37. | :32:39. | |
Some have already heeded that warning. | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
We've had the text messages, saying, have you evacuated yet? | :32:45. | :32:52. | |
I said, the neighbours next door get all panicked, | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
because she's not very well next door, and things like that. | :32:56. | :32:58. | |
So I think a lot of people are actually planning to stay. | :32:59. | :33:01. | |
On the Lincolnshire coast, at Skegness, the military have been | :33:02. | :33:04. | |
About 100 soldiers have been based at the police station. | :33:05. | :33:12. | |
Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can | :33:13. | :33:16. | |
There will be a significant rise in the water. | :33:17. | :33:22. | |
But whether it will be enough to top the defences, | :33:23. | :33:25. | |
that depends on Mother Nature, I suppose, really. | :33:26. | :33:27. | |
And Mother Nature is set to bring more wintry weather today, | :33:28. | :33:30. | |
Nearly all the UK is covered by weather warnings, | :33:31. | :33:34. | |
The number of men in low-paid part-time work has increased | :33:35. | :33:39. | |
New research by the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that | :33:40. | :33:44. | |
one in five low-paid men aged 25-55 now work part-time. | :33:45. | :33:46. | |
That means wage inequality for men has risen over two decades, | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
And it has emerged overnight that Christopher Steele, | :33:51. | :33:59. | |
the British man who wrote a dossier of lurid claims about Donald Trump, | :34:00. | :34:02. | |
was hired by the England 2018 World Cup bid team. | :34:03. | :34:05. | |
It is believed he was brought in to provide information on world | :34:06. | :34:08. | |
There were emotional scenes during a ceremony at the White House | :34:09. | :34:17. | |
last night, as President Obama surprised his Vice-President | :34:18. | :34:19. | |
with the country's highest civilian honour. | :34:20. | :34:21. | |
Mr Obama said he was awarding the Presidential Medal of Freedom | :34:22. | :34:24. | |
to Joe Biden, for his faith in his fellow Americans | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
Mr Biden said the honour had been a complete surprise. | :34:28. | :34:42. | |
Hospitals are failing to pass on their concerns about incompetent | :34:43. | :34:45. | |
locum doctors, according to the General Medical Council. | :34:46. | :34:47. | |
The report for the doctors regulator found some hospitals take no action | :34:48. | :34:50. | |
when they see poor practice among stand-in doctors, | :34:51. | :34:52. | |
who often cover staff shortages in surgeries and hospitals. | :34:53. | :34:55. | |
The Department of Health said further progress in monitoring | :34:56. | :34:57. | |
The carmaker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating pollution laws | :34:58. | :35:02. | |
The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles | :35:06. | :35:08. | |
with software that regulates emissions results. | :35:09. | :35:10. | |
The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
Meeting the target of resettling 20,000 vulnerable Syrian refugees | :35:14. | :35:25. | |
in the UK by 2020 remains a significant challenge, | :35:26. | :35:28. | |
Around 4,500 refugees have already been resettled, | :35:29. | :35:31. | |
but the Public Accounts Committee says it is not yet clear | :35:32. | :35:34. | |
whether survivors of torture or violence are getting | :35:35. | :35:36. | |
The number of people changing who they buy their electricity | :35:37. | :35:46. | |
Research from the industry body Energy UK shows that nearly five | :35:47. | :35:51. | |
million people changed their electricity supplier last | :35:52. | :35:53. | |
year, and a fifth of those who switched in December went | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
to a smaller supplier rather than one of the Big Six. | :35:57. | :35:59. | |
It is the highest number of switches since Energy UK began | :36:00. | :36:02. | |
Those are the main stories, and Mike is here with the sport. Paying | :36:03. | :36:25. | |
tribute to one of the true gentleman of football. One of the nicest men | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
you would ever meet. Came onto the Breakfast sofa to talk about England | :36:31. | :36:35. | |
games on numerous occasions. Always had a great sense of humour, | :36:36. | :36:41. | |
self-deprecating as well. No ego, which is rare. He was haunted by his | :36:42. | :36:49. | |
unsuccessful time for England, which changed the way the press dealt with | :36:50. | :36:54. | |
football managers, after England lost to Sweden. That troubled him | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
for many years afterwards but he should be remembered for far more | :36:59. | :37:03. | |
than that. Just a great man. It is hard to remember so much genuine | :37:04. | :37:09. | |
love for a foot or manager. -- football manager. | :37:10. | :37:10. | |
Tributes have been paid to the former England manager | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
Graham Taylor, who died yesterday at the age of 72. | :37:14. | :37:15. | |
Sir Elton John appointed Taylor as Watford manager in 1977, | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
and he led them from the old fourth division to runners-up in the top | :37:19. | :37:22. | |
flight within five years, and reached the 1984 FA Cup final. | :37:23. | :37:25. | |
He also managed Lincoln, Aston Villa and Wolves. | :37:26. | :37:27. | |
Taylor has been described as one of football's true gentlemen. | :37:28. | :37:30. | |
A guy who was so passionate, who was so in love with the game of | :37:31. | :37:38. | |
football, and who was straight and who was honest, and who would tell | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
you as it was. And he wasn't afraid to do that, whether you are a young | :37:43. | :37:46. | |
player or whether you are a very experienced player and I think that | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
is the way he will be remembered. You always talk about people's | :37:51. | :37:54. | |
contribution within football, but you remember them most is people and | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
he was somebody that had time for everybody and was generous with that | :37:59. | :38:07. | |
time. And I think they are the human qualities that you remember the | :38:08. | :38:08. | |
most. There was a minute's applause | :38:09. | :38:10. | |
in memory of Graham Taylor ahead of last night's Championship match | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
between QPR and Reading. QPR made it three League wins | :38:14. | :38:15. | |
in a row thanks to Jamie Mackay's winner, scoring | :38:16. | :38:19. | |
against his old club. Andy Murray will start his | :38:20. | :38:20. | |
Australian Open campaign Murray is the top seed | :38:21. | :38:22. | |
for a Grand Slam for the first time. He has reached the final | :38:23. | :38:27. | |
in Melbourne five times, In the women's draw, | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
Johanna Konta will face Kirsten And a sell-out crowd | :38:30. | :38:33. | |
at London's O2 Arena saw the Denver Nuggets comfortably | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
beat the Indiana Pacers It is the seventh regular-season | :38:38. | :38:39. | |
game to be played in the capital, It was a great night to be in the | :38:40. | :38:54. | |
crowd, because there was a lot of football stars in the crowd. It | :38:55. | :39:01. | |
seemed like half of the team, and Henry, the great legend. You can | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
often look across at the fans and get selfie with those behind you. | :39:06. | :39:16. | |
Britain's east coast is bracing itself for coastal flooding, seven | :39:17. | :39:22. | |
severe flood warnings for parts of Suffolk and Essex. In a moment we | :39:23. | :39:28. | |
will get the latest from areas where flooding is expected. Let's find out | :39:29. | :39:33. | |
how heavy snow has been affecting travel. Our correspondent is in | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
Canterbury for us this morning. What has happened there? Lots of snow | :39:38. | :39:43. | |
around on the ground. It came down yesterday evening for about three | :39:44. | :39:48. | |
hours, and it was very happy. If you take a look down there you can see | :39:49. | :39:53. | |
how snow is still on the ground, but because it has been freezing | :39:54. | :39:55. | |
overnight it is actually largely turning to ice and it is really I | :39:56. | :40:00. | |
see on the foot path. You have to be careful to remain on your feet. And | :40:01. | :40:05. | |
still a lot of snow down here as well. As regards the roads, the | :40:06. | :40:13. | |
gritters were out and about in force during the night and that means | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
these main roads are largely not too bad, but the side roads have been | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
problematic. There is a lot of ice, a lot of black ice, and it can be | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
difficult driving around. The advice is if you are heading on to the | :40:27. | :40:31. | |
roads, take things easy. As regards other travel issues, yesterday we | :40:32. | :40:35. | |
had a number of flights cancelled at Heathrow, and some at Gatwick. We | :40:36. | :40:39. | |
have been told today that airports have been hoping things are going to | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
be as normal as possible but the advice is still check before you | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
travel, and at the moment we are being told that things are OK on the | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
railways but if you are trying to travel on Southern it is a strike | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
day so there will be no trains despite the weather. As regards the | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
situation we are being told it is actually a large amount of snow | :41:00. | :41:03. | |
which came down in one go for this part of the world, in the space of | :41:04. | :41:07. | |
just about three hours. On this road last night I saw people pushing cars | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
up the road because it was so icy and the conditions were so | :41:12. | :41:15. | |
difficult. We are expecting more snow from Scotland, heading down to | :41:16. | :41:19. | |
the north of England and the east of England. So snow, ice and heavy | :41:20. | :41:24. | |
winds. It is not very nice out there. Thank you very much, we will | :41:25. | :41:26. | |
talk to you again later on. Kate Sweeting is in Hessle, | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
where there is a severe flood Well, it is a cold but calm morning, | :41:30. | :41:42. | |
which will come as a relief to residents because tidal surges have | :41:43. | :41:46. | |
happened with a combination of high winds and high tides. I am keeping a | :41:47. | :41:50. | |
close eye on the water behind me because the pinch point is at high | :41:51. | :41:55. | |
tide in the next hour here and again this evening. People are preparing | :41:56. | :42:00. | |
with sandbags, there are council workers on standby and police but in | :42:01. | :42:04. | |
Lincolnshire the army was brought in to help evacuate people. More than | :42:05. | :42:08. | |
3000 residents were told to leave their homes or move upstairs and | :42:09. | :42:12. | |
special rest centres were set up for them. Here, the threat of a tidal | :42:13. | :42:18. | |
surge is especially worrying because in 2013 it happened. The water came | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
over more than 1400 properties, which were flooded. The last severe | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
tidal surge before that was in 1953, when hundreds of people died. When | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
it happened in 2013 here, people were told, or believe, that it was a | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
once in 60 year event and yet three years on here we are on high alert. | :42:39. | :42:43. | |
Thank you very much, the situation in Hessle this morning. A lot of | :42:44. | :42:48. | |
people worried about the danger of flood warnings. Let's get the big | :42:49. | :42:52. | |
weather picture this morning. We have concerns about the snow in some | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
places, and it is pretty cold in a lot of places as well. That's right. | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
There is plenty going on in terms of the weather today. We have the ice | :43:02. | :43:05. | |
and the snow around as well but the combination of those strong winds | :43:06. | :43:08. | |
and high tides in the east may well lead to some coastal flooding. If | :43:09. | :43:13. | |
you are heading out this morning be prepared to encounter some icy | :43:14. | :43:17. | |
conditions on untreated surfaces and as we had to the day we have this | :43:18. | :43:20. | |
low pressure frontal system moving south, around Central and eastern | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
parts of England in particular, bringing with it a mix of rain, | :43:25. | :43:28. | |
sleet and snow and we are seeing those very strong winds towards the | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
east. Gales at times across northern and eastern Scotland, further wintry | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
showers here. Much of southern Scotland says predominantly dry | :43:37. | :43:39. | |
through the morning but as we move down the east coast we see those | :43:40. | :43:50. | |
winds picking up in combination with the high tides. We could well see | :43:51. | :43:53. | |
coastal flooding problems, combined with this band of rain, sleet and | :43:54. | :43:56. | |
snow. The Environment Agency have seven severe flood warnings | :43:57. | :43:58. | |
currently in force, mainly around part of East Anglia but watch out | :43:59. | :44:02. | |
around the east coast for the potential for coastal flooding. As | :44:03. | :44:05. | |
we head through the course of the day this band of rain, sleet and | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
snow will push its way gradually south eastwards, clearing the south | :44:10. | :44:11. | |
of England by about lunchtime. Further west we will see showers for | :44:12. | :44:14. | |
Northern Ireland, northern and western Scotland, parts of Wales and | :44:15. | :44:17. | |
the south-west as well. Temperatures around two to five degrees but | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
colder than that if you are exposed to the brisk northerly winds today. | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
Many of us having quite a good deal of dry weather as we had through the | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
afternoon and on into the evening the winds start to ease a little but | :44:30. | :44:32. | |
we will have some blustery wintry showers around the east coast, west | :44:33. | :44:36. | |
coast as well, parts of Northern Ireland and Wales. Under clear | :44:37. | :44:42. | |
skies, another very cold night ahead so that will be icy stretches once | :44:43. | :44:45. | |
again to start off your weekend. Through Saturday, eastern parts of | :44:46. | :44:50. | |
Scotland and eastern England will be prone to seeing further sleet and | :44:51. | :44:54. | |
snow showers. Towards the west some rain and sleet showers pushing in as | :44:55. | :44:59. | |
well but many of us again having a lot of dry weather through the | :45:00. | :45:02. | |
course of Saturday. Lighter winds than today and temperatures slightly | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
milder. Two or three in the east, six or seven Celsius in the west. | :45:08. | :45:11. | |
That milder air will start to creep in through the weekend, especially | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
as we head into Sunday. The yellow colour starting to displace the | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
Blues, living into Sunday with a cloudy day and fun outbreaks of rain | :45:20. | :45:24. | |
washing eastwards across the UK. The wind coming in from the westerly | :45:25. | :45:28. | |
direction, so a different feel to the weather by the time to get to | :45:29. | :45:31. | |
Sunday. Temperatures back at around five to 10 degrees so we will have | :45:32. | :45:35. | |
lost the wintry weather by the time we get to Sunday but at the moment | :45:36. | :45:40. | |
if you are heading out the moment if you are heading out today, be | :45:41. | :45:43. | |
prepared. There are strong winds, ice and snow, and coastal flooding | :45:44. | :45:46. | |
in the east. Keep tuned to your latest forecast. For first-time | :45:47. | :45:54. | |
buyers mortgage payments are lower than rent in over 10% of the UK. | :45:55. | :45:59. | |
That's according to research carried out for us on Breakfast. | :46:00. | :46:03. | |
Forecasters suggest rent will continue to rise. Is looking at -- | :46:04. | :46:15. | |
Sean is looking at what it means. Of course it can build up a little | :46:16. | :46:17. | |
bit over time. There were more people getting | :46:18. | :46:20. | |
on that first rung of the housing ladder last year than since | :46:21. | :46:23. | |
the financial crisis began. Well, some research done for us | :46:24. | :46:26. | |
on Breakfast says that rising rents -- the gap is narrowing. In fact in | :46:27. | :46:39. | |
some places, it is cheaper each month to own a home than rent one. I | :46:40. | :46:44. | |
caught up with James in his lovely new home to hear why he persevered | :46:45. | :46:46. | |
with trying to buy his own place. It isn't a small thing, eyeing the | :46:47. | :46:56. | |
house, so you have to go through the whole saving process, go through the | :46:57. | :47:00. | |
whole sacrificing holidays and things like that and then it just | :47:01. | :47:05. | |
takes a while to find the right place. You can't go out as much as | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
you would like, you can't enjoy yourself as much and you have to | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
bring prepacked lunches in the work and things like that. Silly things, | :47:14. | :47:17. | |
but they adult. You stuck at it in the end? -- they add up. We want our | :47:18. | :47:27. | |
walls be -- the colour we want, and you do smile every time you walk | :47:28. | :47:30. | |
through the front door. With me now is James Jones, | :47:31. | :47:31. | |
from Experian, the organisation People like James, why are they | :47:32. | :47:43. | |
looking more and more at trying to get housing quicker, when rent | :47:44. | :47:48. | |
seemingly shouldn't be that high in the long run. This buyer index shows | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
that many tenants can save money simply by buying a home instead of | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
renting. We have seen historically high rent payments at the moment in | :47:58. | :48:02. | |
the third quarter of 2016. We measured a 10% increase in average | :48:03. | :48:06. | |
rents. At the same time mortgage deals are historically cheap, so | :48:07. | :48:11. | |
many people can save money, especially places like Glasgow and | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
Manchester. But for people who can save money, to buy any house you | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
need a deposit. What can you get by with a 100% mortgage and still get | :48:21. | :48:24. | |
cheaper mortgages than rental payments? The challenge for many | :48:25. | :48:28. | |
tenants is saving up that all-important deposit, so it is | :48:29. | :48:31. | |
important that people take advantage of incentive schemes, like help to | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
buy, whether government will help you. But at the same time we know | :48:37. | :48:40. | |
many people have no idea what their credit score is, so we are trying to | :48:41. | :48:44. | |
help people by giving them access to their credit score for free and we | :48:45. | :48:48. | |
will help you use it to save money on things like mortgages and other | :48:49. | :48:51. | |
types of credit, to show you things you are likely to be accepted for | :48:52. | :48:55. | |
and take away the guesswork. when you rent that is often the limit of | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
what you can pay that month plus a few of your bills. When you own a | :49:00. | :49:04. | |
home if the boiler goes you've got to pay for it. Surely that's a big | :49:05. | :49:07. | |
difference and it could be more expensive to have a mortgage? You | :49:08. | :49:11. | |
have to factor these things in. Our research shows that in some parts of | :49:12. | :49:14. | |
the country there are significant savings to be had. In Manchester | :49:15. | :49:18. | |
tenants could save up to ?50 a month will stop that can make all the | :49:19. | :49:21. | |
difference. But you still need all of that cash in the reserve for that | :49:22. | :49:25. | |
rainy day. If something went wrong with James's house, he has to cough | :49:26. | :49:31. | |
up, even if he feels month by month he is in a better situation. That's | :49:32. | :49:35. | |
right and that's why you need to factor these things in, to make sure | :49:36. | :49:39. | |
you are financially secure. For many people the best way to get financial | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
security is to get on the mortgage ladder. Many people are on | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
short-term tenancies are they don't know what the lie ahead in terms of | :49:49. | :49:52. | |
property security. So there is a great opportunity for many people | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
right now. How much of these lower the mortgage payments for first-time | :49:56. | :50:00. | |
buyers is actually first-time buyers looking at houses that are cheaper | :50:01. | :50:04. | |
now and may be setting their sights lower, the whole mortgage they pay | :50:05. | :50:10. | |
back is less? I think over the last few years we have all had a reality | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
check. There's been a squeeze on real incomes. Poverty prices have | :50:15. | :50:19. | |
generally been increasing, so I think people are getting Savea and | :50:20. | :50:22. | |
research in the market, taking their credit score and putting themselves | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
in the right position to get a deal when they have that deposit. | :50:27. | :50:31. | |
Mortgage interest rates are starting to sneak up again. Do you think this | :50:32. | :50:36. | |
might be as good as it gets in terms of the difference and it might not | :50:37. | :50:40. | |
be quite as good for those who are on mortgages as they have been? No | :50:41. | :50:44. | |
one has a crystal ball. Mortgage rates right now are at historical | :50:45. | :50:48. | |
lows. I think the most popular mortgage product is a two-year fix. | :50:49. | :50:53. | |
People are looking to lock in and security, so they know what they are | :50:54. | :50:58. | |
paying in the future. We've seen the rising popularity of longer term | :50:59. | :51:01. | |
fixtures and they are at great rates historically. So there is a great | :51:02. | :51:05. | |
opportunity for people. And she very much. We will be talking all morning | :51:06. | :51:09. | |
about first-time buyers getting on the ladder. Is it better value or | :51:10. | :51:14. | |
not to get a mortgage, or to keep renting and keep saving? | :51:15. | :51:17. | |
More on that later. A lot of questions people are asking | :51:18. | :51:21. | |
themselves when they are deciding whether to buy a house. | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
And if you do have any questions, we might be able to answer them. | :51:25. | :51:28. | |
Get in touch. Thank you. The chap that Sean spoke to was saying he | :51:29. | :51:34. | |
feels good everytime he walks into the house. This story might make you | :51:35. | :51:38. | |
smile even more. You move into your house, I think one of the first | :51:39. | :51:42. | |
things you do is check everything. Maybe even check out the | :51:43. | :51:47. | |
floorboards. Check under the floorboards! | :51:48. | :51:49. | |
You never know what will be hidden. That's borderline creepy. | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
I am gradually getting around to it. So these people bought a piano. That | :51:54. | :51:59. | |
comes into their home. They were checking the back of the piano. Lo | :52:00. | :52:04. | |
and behold they found gold coins hidden inside the piano! My point | :52:05. | :52:09. | |
being, if they haven't looked they wouldn't have found it. This is in | :52:10. | :52:14. | |
Shropshire. Now they have to determine whether they own them, or | :52:15. | :52:18. | |
whether they belong to someone who owned the piano before. | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
Have they had been valued yet? We haven't got a number yet, but they | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
are thought to be worth an enormous amount of money. When you move into | :52:26. | :52:29. | |
place, have look around. Maybe not under the floorboards! | :52:30. | :52:31. | |
I did. How funny. Right, let's talk about | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
Disney films. Snow White, Cinderella, | :52:36. | :52:36. | |
Sleeping Beauty, Disney animated films have brought many | :52:37. | :52:38. | |
a fairy tale to life. But only one Disney princess has | :52:39. | :52:41. | |
ever been based on an actual person. The film Pocahontas, | :52:42. | :52:45. | |
released in 1995, was inspired by a Native American woman | :52:46. | :52:47. | |
who died 400 years ago. This week special events | :52:48. | :52:52. | |
marking her extraordinary life have got underway, although the location | :52:53. | :52:54. | |
might surprise you. # Have you ever heard | :52:55. | :52:57. | |
the wolf cry... It took a quarter of ?1 million at | :52:58. | :53:15. | |
the box office, but of the millions who have seen the 1995 film | :53:16. | :53:19. | |
Pocahontas, few in all likelihood could tell you where she is actually | :53:20. | :53:29. | |
buried. Just outside the M25 in Gravesend, in Kent. Pocahontas was a | :53:30. | :53:32. | |
native American who married an English settler. They became | :53:33. | :53:37. | |
Virginia's first tobacco farmers. They travelled to England and mixed | :53:38. | :53:42. | |
with the movers and shakers of the day, including king James and | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
Queensland. But on their return, as their ship passed through Gravesend, | :53:47. | :53:52. | |
Pocahontas, or Rebecca, took ill and died. This is where she is buried | :53:53. | :54:00. | |
and this is her great, great, great, great, great, great... | :54:01. | :54:09. | |
Great-grandson. Also called John. I am very proud to be a descendant of | :54:10. | :54:14. | |
Pocahontas, 17 times down the line. Very frustrating at times. Many | :54:15. | :54:18. | |
people growing up had never heard of her. It was like saying, I am | :54:19. | :54:22. | |
related to Cinderella or sleeping beauty. As the 400 anniversary of | :54:23. | :54:27. | |
her death approaches there is a chance to honour her brief but | :54:28. | :54:31. | |
extraordinary life. It is one of the first recorded instances where two | :54:32. | :54:34. | |
very different cultures were formally married and formally | :54:35. | :54:37. | |
celebrated. And they were celebrities when they came over? | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
Indeed. Very much so, because many people had never met a Native | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
American, so the young Pocahontas was fated as a celebrity. She died | :54:47. | :54:52. | |
with king James -- dined with king James and Queensland and I feel | :54:53. | :54:55. | |
proud to be part of this amazing very true story, and this very | :54:56. | :55:01. | |
powerful woman. The Pocahontas 2017 festival is under way at St John's | :55:02. | :55:07. | |
school in Gravesend, special lessons and a special visit. I am an art | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
historian and the cultural ambassador for my tribal nation. I | :55:12. | :55:18. | |
definitely feel a connection with Pocahontas. I feel like I am part of | :55:19. | :55:24. | |
the story, I am following in her footsteps. I married an English | :55:25. | :55:28. | |
person and changed my culture and became an ambassador for my people, | :55:29. | :55:33. | |
which is what I think she was. She was such a strong lady and she did | :55:34. | :55:38. | |
lots of things before she died. She influences most of us in how she | :55:39. | :55:50. | |
lived and how brave she was. Some historians believe Pocahontas heard | :55:51. | :55:52. | |
this song during her trip to England. Special performances in | :55:53. | :56:03. | |
schools are planned. A remarkable life, a remarkable story, but no | :56:04. | :56:05. | |
fairy tale. That's fascinating. If you were | :56:06. | :56:15. | |
related to a Disney character, which one would be yours? | :56:16. | :56:18. | |
You've got to give me time to think about that! | :56:19. | :56:21. | |
Probably The Beast. I think I would be related to # Oh | :56:22. | :56:25. | |
Bye for now. death -- related to Goofy. | :56:26. | :59:57. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :59:58. | :00:16. | |
Thousands of people along the east coast of England are told | :00:17. | :00:21. | |
to leave their homes, as gale-force winds combine | :00:22. | :00:23. | |
Seven severe flood warnings, meaning a risk to life, | :00:24. | :00:35. | |
More than 1,000 people are now beginning to be moved to safety | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
It is breakfasttime at this rest centre where 17 people have stayed | :00:40. | :00:48. | |
overnight. More than 2500 residents have left their homes after being | :00:49. | :00:56. | |
told to evacuate. And snow is causing disruption. These are the | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
images of Kent where they have already been delays on the M20. | :01:00. | :01:12. | |
There has been snow and ice as well as those winds, the full forecast in | :01:13. | :01:14. | |
about 15 minutes. Good morning, it is | :01:15. | :01:20. | |
Friday 13 January. Also this morning: More | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
men are in low-paid, part-time work than ever before, | :01:24. | :01:25. | |
according to a new study of those We take a rare look | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
inside a children's home, as one charity warns that not | :01:30. | :01:38. | |
all young people are getting the support they need, | :01:39. | :01:42. | |
and that is costing the UK billions. More people took their first step | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
on the housing ladder last year than since 2007, and research | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
for Breakfast says it is also getting cheaper for first-timer | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
buyers to have a mortgage In sport, football mourns the loss | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
of one of its true gentlemen, Graham Taylor, the former Watford, | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
Aston Villa and England manager, who has died of a suspected heart | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
attack at the age of 72. First, our main story: The army | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east coast, | :02:05. | :02:14. | |
where a tidal surge The Environment Agency has issued | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
seven severe flood warnings, All along the east coast, | :02:17. | :02:20. | |
floodgates have been closed Gale-force winds are | :02:21. | :02:28. | |
combining with high tides In Jaywick, in Essex, | :02:29. | :02:34. | |
there is a severe flood warning, The emergency services | :02:35. | :02:43. | |
have arrived in force. The residents are | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
being urged to leave. We've got exceptionally strong | :02:49. | :02:50. | |
winds, between 40 and 50 miles an hour, potentially | :02:51. | :02:56. | |
with gusts stronger than that, and going to coincide with a high | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
tide just after lunchtime. So that's why we've put in place | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
this operation to evacuate safely Some have already | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
heeded that warning. Everyone in the text messages, | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
saying, have you evacuated yet? I said, the neighbours next | :03:08. | :03:18. | |
door get all panicked, because she's not very well next | :03:19. | :03:20. | |
door, and things like that. So I think a lot of people | :03:21. | :03:23. | |
are actually planning to stay. On the Lincolnshire coast, | :03:24. | :03:27. | |
at Skegness, the military have been About 100 soldiers have been based | :03:28. | :03:29. | |
at the police station. Along the coast, those most | :03:30. | :03:36. | |
vulnerable are doing what they can There will be a significant | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
rise in the water. But whether it will be enough | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
to top the defences, that depends on Mother Nature, | :03:44. | :03:45. | |
I suppose, really. And Mother Nature is set to bring | :03:46. | :03:47. | |
more wintry weather today, Nearly all the UK is covered | :03:48. | :03:51. | |
by weather warnings for snow, In a moment we will get the latest | :03:52. | :03:57. | |
from Simon Jones on the travel disruption being caused by snow | :03:58. | :04:06. | |
and ice affecting some parts But first we can speak | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
to our correspondent Leigh Milner, who is in Clacton-on-Sea, in Essex, | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
where residents are being advised to leave properties that | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
are at risk of flooding. As you can see behind me, we have | :04:19. | :04:30. | |
residents who have stayed here overnight. This is the rest centre | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
which has been set up and I have been told that 17 people stayed here | :04:35. | :04:38. | |
overnight, and also the police are now moving the remaining 2500 | :04:39. | :04:45. | |
residents, that is half of Jaywick's population, out towards safety. | :04:46. | :04:49. | |
Lawrence has been evacuated, and you have been through this before, in | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
2013. How worried are you this time around? It sounds a bit more urgent | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
this time, as last time they gave us a choice, but this time I had a | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
knock on the door and they said you have got to get out now. And | :05:03. | :05:06. | |
basically I just left, and I didn't bring my medication, it was quite | :05:07. | :05:10. | |
urgent. And you have left your home, and everything in there? And my | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
medication as well, so I have to try and get some from the chemist if | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
we're not let back in soon. It seems like it was quite a rush to get out. | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
There was banging on the door, and my friend who lives near me was on | :05:25. | :05:28. | |
the phone to me telling me we might have to get out tomorrow, and they | :05:29. | :05:32. | |
said we have to get out straightaway. Hopefully you are in | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
good, safe hands. It is great, they have really done us proud. As I say, | :05:36. | :05:42. | |
half the population in Jaywick, that is 2500 people, has been evacuated. | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
Red and yellow warnings have been issued around the east coast, severe | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
weather warnings here in Essex and Suffolk. That is the highest alert | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
possible, to see if you are affected please check the Environment Agency | :05:56. | :05:59. | |
website. Thank you very much, we will be back with you a little bit | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
later on. The weather caused some problems | :06:02. | :06:01. | |
for commuters at rush hour yesterday, with long delays, | :06:02. | :06:04. | |
including queues in both directions There are warnings of | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
similar problems today. Our correspondent Simon Jones | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
is in a snowy Canterbury That is one of the places which has | :06:10. | :06:19. | |
had quite a bit of snow during the last part of yesterday evening. | :06:20. | :06:24. | |
Absolutely. Very cold this morning, after a very cold night. The snow | :06:25. | :06:28. | |
started falling at around 6pm yesterday evening and came down for | :06:29. | :06:33. | |
around three hours very heavily. We got around five centimetres of snow, | :06:34. | :06:37. | |
and a lot of it has settled. Down there you can see some of the snow, | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
but it has largely turned to ice because it has been so cold | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
overnight. And then here on the path of very, very icy situation so | :06:47. | :06:51. | |
tricky getting around at the same can be said for the roads. This one | :06:52. | :06:56. | |
has been gritted a number of times, so not too bad at the moment. The | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
gritters have been out and about but overnight in Kent there were some | :07:02. | :07:04. | |
problems when the snow came down very heavily in a short space of | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
time and the number of drivers said they had to spend several hours in | :07:09. | :07:13. | |
their cars as they tried to get up and down that hill in pretty | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
treacherous conditions. The main roads not too bad at the moment | :07:18. | :07:21. | |
outside roads are causing problems, and we are told so far this morning | :07:22. | :07:25. | |
we have had a number of jackknifed lorries and also a number of crashes | :07:26. | :07:30. | |
and trees down. The advice is, if you are going out onto the roads, | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
drive slowly and drive gently. Accelerate and break very gently, | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
because the driving conditions are rather different. As well as snow | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
and ice we also have the winds starting to whip up, talk of | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
potentially more snow showers here during the morning. Scotland, the | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
north of England and the east of England, so still some pretty | :07:53. | :07:55. | |
treacherous conditions out there this morning. Thank you for that, | :07:56. | :08:00. | |
and we will of course keep you right up-to-date with any transport | :08:01. | :08:01. | |
problems on the roads. Let us know if you are affected, | :08:02. | :08:03. | |
and send us your pictures, too. The number of men in low-paid, | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
part-time work has increased New research by the Institute | :08:07. | :08:09. | |
for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men | :08:10. | :08:13. | |
between the ages of 25 and 55 now That means wage inequality for men | :08:14. | :08:17. | |
has risen over two decades. But for women the opposite | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
is the case, as our business Top-earning men in the professions | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
normally work full-time. In fact, only 5% of | :08:26. | :08:34. | |
them work part-time. But in comparison, amongst | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
the lowest-paid men, often in areas like catering | :08:39. | :08:41. | |
and hospitality, 20% now work part-time, and that number | :08:42. | :08:47. | |
has increased fourfold That has meant that wage inequality | :08:48. | :08:49. | |
for men has increased, as high-paid, full-time staff | :08:50. | :08:56. | |
have done far better But for women, the | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
opposite is the case. For women, earnings growth has been | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
consistently higher than that for men over the last 20 years, | :09:03. | :09:07. | |
and more of them are in work. For men, particularly | :09:08. | :09:11. | |
the lowest-paid, they've actually seen falls in the numbers of hours | :09:12. | :09:17. | |
of work, which has suppressed It is far from clear | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
why low-paid men are It might be because they want to, | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
although that seems unlikely. The fact that 60% of the low-paid | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
and part-time jobs are either in retail, wholesale, | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
restaurants or hospitality might suggest that men who previously | :09:35. | :09:37. | |
worked in low-paid but secure and full-time jobs, | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
in sectors like manufacturing, have lost that work, | :09:42. | :09:44. | |
and instead have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid | :09:45. | :09:47. | |
and less-secure services sector There is a week to go | :09:48. | :09:49. | |
until the new American president is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems | :09:50. | :09:57. | |
to be at odds with some of his key Cabinet nominees on some | :09:58. | :10:01. | |
of the vital questions facing His choice for the leader of the CIA | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
has endorsed the work of the US intelligence community, | :10:05. | :10:09. | |
hours after it was criticised Also, the potential defence | :10:10. | :10:11. | |
secretary said Moscow posed a threat in Europe, after Mr Trump called | :10:12. | :10:15. | |
for warmer relations with Russia. Our correspondent Laura Bicker | :10:16. | :10:17. | |
reports from Washington. And it has emerged overnight | :10:18. | :10:26. | |
that Christopher Steele, the British man who wrote a dossier | :10:27. | :10:28. | |
of lurid claims about Donald Trump, was hired by the England | :10:29. | :10:32. | |
2018 World Cup bid team. It is believed he was brought | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
in to provide information on world There were emotional scenes | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
during a ceremony at the White House last night, as President Obama | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
surprised his Vice-President with the country's | :10:44. | :10:46. | |
highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding | :10:47. | :10:47. | |
the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
a complete surprise. Yesterday we spoke about | :10:54. | :11:14. | |
a nine-year-old British boy who melted hearts while competing | :11:15. | :11:16. | |
in the Spanish version of Junior MasterChef, | :11:17. | :11:18. | |
after his fish and chip dish didn't He has melted the Spanish nation's | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
heart. Oscar Jefferson, who moved to Spain | :11:22. | :11:41. | |
with his family two years ago, was invited to cook | :11:42. | :11:44. | |
for the British Ambassador to Spain We wish him well, and there he is | :11:45. | :11:58. | |
with his apron on, and recovered from his ordeal. We all have bad | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
days in the kitchen. And to be fair the British ambassador has done | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
well, getting potentially a professionally cooked meal by that | :12:06. | :12:13. | |
lad, because to get on the Masterchef itself. | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
There is a week to go until the new American president | :12:18. | :12:20. | |
is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems to be at odds with some of his key | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
Cabinet nominees on some of the vital questions facing | :12:25. | :12:27. | |
And at the heart of it is the former British spy Christopher Steele, | :12:28. | :12:34. | |
who has reportedly gone into hiding, fearing for his safety, | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
after allegedly preparing memos claiming Russia has compromising | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
So what do we know about the former MI6 officer? | :12:40. | :12:46. | |
We can talk now to Dr Rory Cormac, from the University of Nottingham, | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
who is a specialist in secret intelligence. | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
Good morning to you. Thank you very much for joining us. Tell us a | :12:54. | :13:02. | |
little bit about Christopher Steele, and what do we know about him? What | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
we know is he was a MI6 officer, a Russian specialist to spend a lot of | :13:08. | :13:11. | |
time in MI6 headquarters in London, but also spent a bit of time abroad | :13:12. | :13:15. | |
and the Moscow Embassy as well. And he spent about 20 years in MI6 | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
before starting his own private consultancy company. One of the | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
problems he is facing immediately, as we understand he is in hiding at | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
the moment, is that people in that line of work, and he is a retired | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
intelligence officer, you are never retired if you work for MI6, they | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
like to work in the shadows and now there is a great deal of scrutiny on | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
him about other work he has been doing. In this, the suggestion this | :13:43. | :13:45. | |
morning he may have worked to get information for the England 2018 | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
World Cup bid so there is a great deal of Spotlight now on him and | :13:51. | :13:54. | |
what he has done. Intelligence officers by their very nature don't | :13:55. | :13:58. | |
like the spotlight. They like to work in the shadows, as you say, and | :13:59. | :14:03. | |
this will be undoubtedly very uncomfortable for him but it is | :14:04. | :14:06. | |
probably unwise to speculate as to his safety, the Russians being after | :14:07. | :14:12. | |
him. As a Russian specialist he will know the retribution that Russia | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
pays out to critics of the regime but at the same time he is not a | :14:17. | :14:21. | |
Russian dissidents, he is a British citizen so it is probably unwise to | :14:22. | :14:25. | |
speculate as to his welfare. The big issue here I think adds to this | :14:26. | :14:32. | |
level of intrigue, suspicion and paranoia and conspiracy just a week | :14:33. | :14:38. | |
before the inauguration and whether that is true or not, it plays into | :14:39. | :14:46. | |
Putin's hand. What Putin and the FSB have wanted all along is to dent | :14:47. | :14:51. | |
American self-confidence, to question the American political | :14:52. | :14:54. | |
process. America is a city on the hill, it likes to boast proudly | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
about its free and fair elections and now for the first time in a long | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
time we're all talking about corruption, Russian agents, | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
impeachment, the dreaded Watergate word has been mentioned. It is a | :15:07. | :15:15. | |
win-win for Putin, really. One of the issues is Donald Trump's | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
relationship with the intelligence service in the US now and how that | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
has to be rebuilt. As we mentioned earlier, we've got his potential | :15:23. | :15:26. | |
chosen people to be the head of the CIA or the Defence Secretary who are | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
saying things at odds to what he has said about things like the | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
intelligent services and the relationship with Russia. That will | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
be a tough and important role. That is very crucial. Intelligence is | :15:38. | :15:41. | |
crucial in the decision-making process. It informs the most | :15:42. | :15:49. | |
important, serious decisions that a president has to make and that Trump | :15:50. | :15:54. | |
may have to make in a week. Have a healthy scepticism isn't a bad | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
thing, but do not trust their very motives is dangerous, and to | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
disregard intelligence as a whole is equally dangerous. The incoming CIA | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
director will have to tread a very fine line between sticking up for | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
his organisation, when morale is very low in American intelligence | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
after Trump has been so publicly hostile. So the new director has to | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
stick up for his organisation while also not alienating the president. | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
It will be a crucial role and it's a very fine line to tread. I bet you | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
love this sort of story, in your line of work, this intrigue? It is | :16:33. | :16:40. | |
very intriguing. I am a Cold War historian by training and there are | :16:41. | :16:45. | |
some intriguing parallels. Thank you very much. | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :16:49. | :16:52. | |
The main stories this morning: The Army is helping to evacuate | :16:53. | :16:55. | |
thousands of people from the east coast of England ahead | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
People across Britain are preparing for the worst, | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
with warnings of wind, snow and ice covering large parts | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
Here's Sarah with a look at this morning's weather. | :17:07. | :17:18. | |
The worst of the snow seems to have been late into the evening last | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
night? That's right. This was the scene | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
taken yesterday evening. This was in London. You can see the snow. We had | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
about three hours of heavy snow across parts of the south-east | :17:33. | :17:38. | |
through the course of yesterday, but much of the country has seen wintry | :17:39. | :17:43. | |
showers. We have this frontal system moving south across central and | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
eastern parts of England at the moment. That's bringing further | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
sleet and snow, a bit of remixed in a lower levels as well. For Scotland | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
this morning we are continuing to see for the snow showers. Perhaps a | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
bit of rain at lower levels. Strong winds, especially around the east | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
coast. Where the strong winds combined with high tides, that's | :18:03. | :18:07. | |
where we are concerned about seeing coastal flooding, especially in east | :18:08. | :18:15. | |
Anglia. This sleet and snow as well. Several severe flood warnings have | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
been issued around the east coast, so here is the flood line number if | :18:21. | :18:24. | |
you are concerned. This area of rain, sleet and snow will gradually | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
clear from the south-east by about lunchtime. Further west there will | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
be sleet and snow showers for northern and western Scotland, parts | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
of Ireland and Wales as well. But much of the country by the afternoon | :18:37. | :18:40. | |
is looking dry, with cold and wintry sunshine. By degrees the top | :18:41. | :18:44. | |
temperature. But it will feel subzero for many. That's when we add | :18:45. | :18:49. | |
on the windchill. Moving into the evening we still have the chance of | :18:50. | :18:53. | |
a few wintry flurries towards the east and for western fringes of the | :18:54. | :18:57. | |
UK also some rain, sleet and snow showers. Clear skies for many and | :18:58. | :19:02. | |
winds for light, so a cold night tonight. Sub zero widely. We are | :19:03. | :19:08. | |
likely to see quite an icy start to Saturday morning again. Through the | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
day on Saturday we are likely to see further snow showers across parts of | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
eastern Scotland, down to east Anglia. Many areas having a dry day. | :19:16. | :19:21. | |
There will be more cloud moving in from the west, bringing in rain and | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
sleet showers later in the day. Temperature 6-7 in western areas. | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
Still about in the east. Looking pretty chilly to start the weekend. | :19:32. | :19:36. | |
As we had through Saturday and Sunday we will start to draw in this | :19:37. | :19:40. | |
much milder air from the west or the north-west, which brings with it | :19:41. | :19:44. | |
more cloud by the time we get to Sunday. Patchy outbreaks of rain on | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
the frontal system working gradually eastwards through the country and | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
winds coming in from a westerly direction. By the time we get to | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
Sunday we've lost the wintry weather for now. Back to about 5- 10 | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
degrees. But certainly the day the weather is causing some disruption. | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
Likely to have ongoing problems with ice, snow and strong winds that | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
could lead to coastal flooding in the east. Would you like to see some | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
pictures of snow right now? Yes, I love a snow picture. People | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
have been busy sending in pictures from various places. | :20:19. | :20:20. | |
David in Gateshead has taken a picture of his back garden under | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
It makes everything look really pretty. | :20:24. | :20:31. | |
John from Stoke on Trent has captured this picture of his road. | :20:32. | :20:36. | |
Lots of people, like me, spent part of the morning removing the ice from | :20:37. | :20:42. | |
the car. We saw quite a few of the problems | :20:43. | :20:44. | |
in south-east London particularly. This pictures been sent | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
in by Lydia in Sidcup. Quite a lot of bad snow late into | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
the evening yesterday. Paul in Macclesfield snapped this | :20:52. | :20:54. | |
lovely winter wonderland pic. It looks very pretty. Of course we | :20:55. | :21:03. | |
will keep you up-to-date with everything going on with the travel | :21:04. | :21:06. | |
situation and also flood warnings. Let's go over to Sean. News about | :21:07. | :21:16. | |
emissions. We are familiar with VW and the ongoing story on what we | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
have a new name? Another one dragged into it. | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
Volkswagen is the only one that has admitted wrongdoing, but other | :21:24. | :21:26. | |
companies have been accused. Today it's Fiat's turn | :21:27. | :21:27. | |
in the headlines. The car manufacturer has been | :21:28. | :21:29. | |
accused of not telling authorities about software in some of its cars | :21:30. | :21:34. | |
that is there to regulate emissions in more than 100,000 | :21:35. | :21:39. | |
of its diesel vehicles. It involves cars like this, the Jeep | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
Grand Cherokee. Fiat Chrysler boss Sergio Marchionne | :21:43. | :21:53. | |
said the firm had done nothing But this will continue with those | :21:54. | :22:03. | |
American authorities. We are talking housing this morning. The gap | :22:04. | :22:07. | |
between average mortgage payments and average rent is narrowing. In | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
fact, in 10% of places in the UK it is cheaper to own a house each month | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
than it is to rent one. Also this morning the lenders at Halifax have | :22:18. | :22:21. | |
said there were more first-time home buyers last year that has any time | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
in the start of the financial crisis. The stock market is hitting | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
records again. It's getting boring! The FTSE 100 closed at a record 11th | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
day in a row top levels, all-time records. Something it has never | :22:35. | :22:39. | |
managed before. We will keep an ionic. Will it get to a 12th? -- an | :22:40. | :22:47. | |
eye on it. I bet next week we will talk about a | :22:48. | :22:49. | |
low record! Thanks very much. Shall we have a look at some of the | :22:50. | :22:56. | |
front pages? I think we will move straight onto | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
the weather. The main worry this morning is the severe flood | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
warnings. There are now 14 severe weather | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
warnings in place. Emergency services are on standby and an | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
evacuation centre has been set up at Clacton-on-Sea in Essex. | :23:14. | :23:18. | |
Let's get the latest from the Environment Agency. Good morning. | :23:19. | :23:22. | |
Thank you for your time. I know it's a busy time. Just bring us up to | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
date with the latest information. Thank you. We are continuing to warn | :23:26. | :23:31. | |
about high tides right across the east coast, a particular focus in | :23:32. | :23:37. | |
Sussex and ethics. Our concerns for the morning tide, it stretches | :23:38. | :23:40. | |
through the morning, through mid-day. And also the evening tide. | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
Levels could be even higher. How many severe flood warnings are in | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
place at present? Seven are issued at the morning. There is the | :23:50. | :23:54. | |
potential that more could be issued through the day. I encourage people | :23:55. | :23:57. | |
to keep up-to-date either by using our flood line, or by looking on the | :23:58. | :24:04. | |
website, really getting the latest information they can. You are in one | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
of the centres set up to help people and we were talking to some of them | :24:10. | :24:14. | |
earlier. What are they experiencing? What are they being advised? The | :24:15. | :24:20. | |
advice we are giving people here, where we issued flood warnings | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
yesterday afternoon, is that high tide warnings are expected about | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
midday. People should to the evacuation centre or get everything | :24:29. | :24:31. | |
ready so they can work with the emergency services who are leading | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
the evacuation. We really strongly advise people to stay away from high | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
tides, and not just people being evacuated, but more generally. | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
People should be sensible about not wave watching, not driving through | :24:45. | :24:47. | |
floodwater and focusing on keeping themselves say. It is very important | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
today. You will know from previous experience that some people are | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
reluctant to leave their homes in this Galatians, aren't they? | :24:56. | :25:01. | |
Absolutely. -- in these circumstances. When we issue | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
floodwater warnings we do it because we consider it a danger to life. | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
People need to heed the evacuation warnings that we can keep them safe. | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
You try to do your calculation to anticipate what levels the floods | :25:16. | :25:20. | |
will be out. What's happening so far this morning? Are they know are all | :25:21. | :25:28. | |
more than you expected? What we are seeing this morning is that the | :25:29. | :25:31. | |
levels are coming in slightly below what was forecast, which hopefully | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
will be good news for most communities, but we need to still | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
stay vigilant. It is still serious and the winds can change and rip up | :25:40. | :25:44. | |
to the water at any point, so people need to stay focused. This evening | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
we are looking at levels potentially above forecast. Some very high tides | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
indeed. Really important people stay focused on warnings throughout the | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
day and are ready to take any action they need from there. And you are | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
from the Environment Agency. When you have a lot of your staff working | :26:01. | :26:04. | |
on it and we've seen a military on standby to help. Give us an idea of | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
the level of staffing available. Significant numbers of staff. We've | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
been moving equipment and staff all week in preparation for this. And | :26:14. | :26:19. | |
also working closely with partners and emergency services, local | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
authority and the military as you say are on standby. A huge number of | :26:23. | :26:28. | |
temporary barriers. They are in place and ready to protect and we | :26:29. | :26:33. | |
are all standing by to do anything additional that is needed today and | :26:34. | :26:36. | |
we will continue to work around the clock to do everything we can to | :26:37. | :26:40. | |
minimise impact and keep people safe. Thank you very much for your | :26:41. | :26:47. | |
time this morning. That was coming from one of the | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
centres set up to help. Some people have already being evacuated. We | :26:52. | :26:57. | |
will keep you up-to-date. Problems with the floods and also the roads. | :26:58. | :27:03. | |
Just to get you up-to-date on the national projects, there are now 17 | :27:04. | :27:10. | |
severe flood warnings. That means a risk to life in 17 areas now. That's | :27:11. | :27:14. | |
a number that has been increasing throughout the morning. We will of | :27:15. | :27:18. | |
course keep you up-to-date about which areas they are and what is | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
happening in those areas. More on that later. | :27:22. | :27:22. | |
Bye for now. travel and weather where you are. | :27:23. | :30:50. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :30:51. | :30:52. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph | :30:53. | :31:01. | |
The army is on standby to help evacuate communities along the east | :31:02. | :31:10. | |
coast, where a tidal surge is expected to hit. | :31:11. | :31:12. | |
The Environment Agency has issued 14 severe flood warnings, | :31:13. | :31:15. | |
All along the east coast, floodgates have been closed | :31:16. | :31:24. | |
Gale-force winds are combining with high tides | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
In Jaywick, in Essex, there is a severe flood warning, | :31:28. | :31:31. | |
The emergency services have arrived in force. | :31:32. | :31:35. | |
The residents are being urged to leave. | :31:36. | :31:36. | |
We've got exceptionally strong winds, between 40 and 50 miles | :31:37. | :31:42. | |
an hour, potentially with gusts stronger than that, | :31:43. | :31:44. | |
and going to coincide with a high tide just after lunchtime. | :31:45. | :31:47. | |
So that's why we've put in place this operation to evacuate safely | :31:48. | :31:50. | |
Some have already heeded that warning. | :31:51. | :31:53. | |
Everyone in the text messages, saying, have you evacuated yet? | :31:54. | :31:57. | |
I said, the neighbours next door get all panicked, | :31:58. | :32:00. | |
because she's not very well next door, and things like that. | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
So I think a lot of people are actually planning to stay. | :32:04. | :32:06. | |
On the Lincolnshire coast, at Skegness, the military have been | :32:07. | :32:09. | |
About 100 soldiers have been based at the police station. | :32:10. | :32:14. | |
Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
There will be a significant rise in the water. | :32:18. | :32:23. | |
But whether it will be enough to top the defences, | :32:24. | :32:26. | |
that depends on Mother Nature, I suppose, really. | :32:27. | :32:28. | |
And Mother Nature is set to bring more wintry weather today, | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
Nearly all the UK is covered by weather warnings for snow, | :32:32. | :32:36. | |
Kate Sweeting is in Hessle, near the Humber Bridge, | :32:37. | :32:51. | |
where there is a severe flood warning in place. | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
I can see there is pretty heavy snowfall. Indeed, it is very cold | :32:55. | :33:08. | |
here but relatively calm, and that will come as a relief to residents. | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
Tidal surges are caused by a combination of high winds and high | :33:14. | :33:18. | |
tide, and the winds haven't been as high as predicted. And so high tide | :33:19. | :33:22. | |
has passed here this morning without event, but we are not part of the | :33:23. | :33:26. | |
woods yet, because there is another high tide this evening at around | :33:27. | :33:31. | |
6pm, which is expected to be more severe. There are still flood | :33:32. | :33:36. | |
warnings in place along the east coast, which means that flooding is | :33:37. | :33:41. | |
expected. People here are on standby, with sandbags, there are | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
council staff and police ready for this evening and in Lincolnshire the | :33:45. | :33:50. | |
army was called in to help evacuate people. More than 3000 residents | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
were told they should leave their homes or go upstairs, and special | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
rest centres have been set up for them. But for the people hear the | :33:59. | :34:02. | |
warning of a tidal surge is particularly worrying because in | :34:03. | :34:06. | |
2013 one happened in the water came over. It flooded more than 1400 | :34:07. | :34:11. | |
homes. The last time there was a serious tidal surge was in 1953, | :34:12. | :34:17. | |
when hundreds of people died. The people here were told, and believed, | :34:18. | :34:22. | |
when it happened in 2013, that this was a once in 60 year event and | :34:23. | :34:27. | |
three years on here we are on high alert. | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
We will bring you up-to-date on the weather picture across the UK a | :34:34. | :34:37. | |
little later in the programme. The number of men in low-paid, | :34:38. | :34:39. | |
part-time work has increased New research by the Institute | :34:40. | :34:41. | |
for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low-paid men | :34:42. | :34:46. | |
aged between 25 and 55 That means wage inequality for men | :34:47. | :34:49. | |
has risen over two decades, There were emotional scenes | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
during a ceremony at the White House last night, as President Obama | :34:53. | :35:03. | |
surprised his Vice-President with the country's | :35:04. | :35:05. | |
highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding | :35:06. | :35:06. | |
the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been | :35:10. | :35:12. | |
a complete surprise. This is a remarkable man, and I just | :35:13. | :35:28. | |
hope that the asterisk in history that is attached to my name when | :35:29. | :35:34. | |
they talk about this presidency is that I can say I was part of, part | :35:35. | :35:36. | |
of the journey of a remarkable man. The carmaker Fiat Chrysler has been | :35:37. | :35:42. | |
accused of violating pollution laws The US Environmental Protection | :35:43. | :35:45. | |
Agency says the manufacturer equipped tens of thousands of diesel | :35:46. | :35:49. | |
Jeep and Dodge vehicles with software that regulates | :35:50. | :35:51. | |
emissions results. The firm has denied doing anything | :35:52. | :35:53. | |
illegal, but has seen its share The number of people changing | :35:54. | :35:56. | |
who they buy their electricity Research from the industry body | :35:57. | :36:06. | |
Energy UK shows that nearly five million people changed | :36:07. | :36:11. | |
their electricity supplier last year, and a fifth of those | :36:12. | :36:13. | |
who switched in December went to a smaller supplier rather | :36:14. | :36:16. | |
than one of the Big Six. It is the highest number of switches | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
since Energy UK began Sarah will have the weather forecast | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
in around five minutes. Lots going on, of course, with the | :36:23. | :36:39. | |
weather. Time to talk about sport with Mike, and lots of tributes | :36:40. | :36:44. | |
coming in for Graham Taylor. Yes, a shock to all and football is morning | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
loss of a great human being. Kind, courteous and totally without ego. | :36:51. | :36:55. | |
That is my big memory of him, when he came on the sofa for Breakfast or | :36:56. | :37:00. | |
when he was still managing and I interviewed him, it was like talking | :37:01. | :37:04. | |
to a friend. Often with football managers, you worry about saying the | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
wrong thing, will they stormed out? Not him at all. He had a great sense | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
of humour and could laugh at himself. So many stories about how | :37:13. | :37:17. | |
humble he was, right at the end. He agreed to be best man at Watford | :37:18. | :37:26. | |
fan's wedding after meeting him only once. And I am mindful, looking at | :37:27. | :37:34. | |
the image behind us and the pictures in the papers, a very infectious | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
smile he had. Everyone who paid tribute to him said he had a great | :37:39. | :37:44. | |
sense of humour. As I say, he could laugh at himself, self-deprecating, | :37:45. | :37:48. | |
but he was interested in you. You would offer to make a cup of tea, | :37:49. | :37:53. | |
and he would say no, I will do it, you're fine. | :37:54. | :37:54. | |
It is hard to remember so much genuine love for a football manager, | :37:55. | :37:57. | |
but Graham Taylor was a top-class coach at club level, | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
and a true gentleman inside and outside of the game. | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
Sir Elton John appointed Taylor as Watford manager in 1977, | :38:04. | :38:06. | |
and he led them from the old fourth division to runners-up in the top | :38:07. | :38:09. | |
flight within five years, and they reached the 1984 FA | :38:10. | :38:12. | |
He also managed Lincoln, Aston Villa and Wolves, | :38:13. | :38:21. | |
and he was England manager for four years. | :38:22. | :38:23. | |
A guy who was so passionate, who was so in love with the game | :38:24. | :38:27. | |
of football, and who was straight, and who was honest, | :38:28. | :38:30. | |
And he wasn't afraid to do that, whether you are a young player, | :38:31. | :38:35. | |
or whether you are a very experienced player. | :38:36. | :38:38. | |
And I think that is the way he will be remembered. | :38:39. | :38:41. | |
You always talk about people's contribution within football. | :38:42. | :38:43. | |
But you remember them most as people, and he was somebody that | :38:44. | :38:46. | |
had time for everybody, and was generous with that time. | :38:47. | :38:49. | |
And I think they are the human qualities that | :38:50. | :38:51. | |
There was a minute's applause in memory of Graham Taylor ahead | :38:52. | :39:00. | |
of last night's Championship match between QPR and Reading. | :39:01. | :39:02. | |
QPR made it three League wins in a row thanks to Jamie Mackay's | :39:03. | :39:06. | |
winner, scoring against his old club. | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
West Ham United manager Slaven Bilic says they will not sell | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
Dimitri Payet, even though he is refusing to play for the club, | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
Payet's former club Marseille have reportedly already had a bid | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
Bilic said Payet is out of the team, and won't be training | :39:21. | :39:29. | |
until he changes his attitude, but he is not for sale. | :39:30. | :39:33. | |
We don't want to sell our best players. We want to keep them. | :39:34. | :39:40. | |
Here's definitely one of the more... Our best player. That is why we gave | :39:41. | :39:48. | |
him such a long contract. I informed him of that, and he refused to play | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
for us. Andy Murray will start his | :39:52. | :39:53. | |
Australian Open campaign Murray is the top seed | :39:54. | :39:55. | |
for a Grand Slam for the first time. He has reached the final | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
in Melbourne five times, In the women's draw, | :40:00. | :40:02. | |
Johanna Konta will face Kirsten England's test captain, | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
Alastair Cook, will meet director of cricket Andrew Strauss today, | :40:06. | :40:16. | |
but no decision on his role Cook admitted to having questions | :40:17. | :40:19. | |
over his position during the recent 4-0 series defeat in India, | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
but still has the backing You questioning a guy that's got | :40:25. | :40:31. | |
11,000 Test runs, the most decorated English Test match player that we've | :40:32. | :40:36. | |
ever had. And to be questioning him so much about whether or not he | :40:37. | :40:42. | |
should stay on as captain, and this, that on the other, I think it is up | :40:43. | :40:47. | |
to him whether he wants to stay on. I think he has got to make that | :40:48. | :40:51. | |
decision and I'm sure that when he makes that decision it will be the | :40:52. | :40:53. | |
right one for him and the team. The man who twice rode Red Rum | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
to victory in the Grand National, Fletcher won the National | :40:57. | :41:00. | |
as a 20-year-old in 1968, on board Red Alligator, | :41:01. | :41:05. | |
but will be best remembered for his back-to-back wins at Aintree | :41:06. | :41:07. | |
on Red Rum in '73 and '74. The popularity of NBA basketball in | :41:08. | :41:21. | |
this country shows no sign of waning. | :41:22. | :41:22. | |
And a sell-out crowd at London's O2 Arena saw | :41:23. | :41:24. | |
the Denver Nuggets comfortably beat the Indiana Pacers | :41:25. | :41:26. | |
It is the seventh regular-season game to be played in the capital, | :41:27. | :41:30. | |
The crowd included many Arsenal and Chelsea players as well. A final | :41:31. | :41:41. | |
word about Graham Taylor, and his reign change the way it the press | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
treated English managers because there was that vilification of him | :41:46. | :41:51. | |
on the back page of the Sun, when he was depicted as a turnip, with the | :41:52. | :41:57. | |
headline Swedes two, turnips, one. That one headline defined his spell | :41:58. | :42:03. | |
in charge of England, which didn't go according to plan for him but we | :42:04. | :42:07. | |
mustn't forget what he did for those clubs, for Aston Villa, Watford and | :42:08. | :42:12. | |
Lincoln, and he was overseeing a lot of comings and goings, so he can't | :42:13. | :42:17. | |
totally be blamed for what happened with England. But it got quite sour | :42:18. | :42:22. | |
at times. And you will talk to one of the players later on. Yes, | :42:23. | :42:26. | |
because he also did a lot to tackle racism and again, one of the first | :42:27. | :42:30. | |
pioneers to tackle it head on. He signed John Barnes for Watford for | :42:31. | :42:37. | |
just a pair of shorts and a football kit. He has overseen it all. | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
A public health crisis on a par with obesity and diabetes. | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
That could be the result of not properly assessing the needs | :42:45. | :42:47. | |
of children in care, according to the head | :42:48. | :42:49. | |
Mark Kerr from the Institute of Recovery from Childhood Trauma | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
says the failure of successive governments to properly care | :42:55. | :42:56. | |
for looked-after children could cost society billions of pounds a year. | :42:57. | :42:59. | |
But first, Breakfast's Jayne McCubbin has been to a children's | :43:00. | :43:04. | |
home in Yorkshire, to see what life is like for those who live there. | :43:05. | :43:17. | |
It is rare for a camera to be invited inside the children's care | :43:18. | :43:24. | |
home. Here in Yorkshire, and struck I how normal it all is. And it feels | :43:25. | :43:34. | |
really homely. Everything in the whole house is picked by the young | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
people as well. This is their house, this is their home, this is where | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
they live. Nothing he feels institutional. Only two young people | :43:44. | :43:47. | |
live here, looked after by eight specially trained staff. We have one | :43:48. | :43:52. | |
young man who was 14, and the young lady who is 17. Those who live here | :43:53. | :43:56. | |
will probably have suffered serious neglect, trauma or abuse. To | :43:57. | :44:02. | |
understand how happy he feels or how angry he feels, it can feel like | :44:03. | :44:06. | |
anger but it is not the same, anxiety, and we have to do a lot of | :44:07. | :44:11. | |
work with them about that. That is one of the sleeper is just over | :44:12. | :44:15. | |
there, and this is one of our other young people's rooms, who is most | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
comfortable in clutter! We will leave well enough alone. I give you | :44:22. | :44:26. | |
permission to read this out. I asked him to tell me what kind of things | :44:27. | :44:31. | |
he is into, and he says looking at cars, going to school, playing | :44:32. | :44:34. | |
football, playing on the Xbox. Can you say thank you to all my foster | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
parents in the past? Clearly he has had lots of connections with people | :44:40. | :44:44. | |
in the past. But he feels more settled here. Yes, the bounce to | :44:45. | :44:48. | |
about six or seven different placements but he has been here now | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
for over two years now, doing really well. There are no timetables. | :44:54. | :44:57. | |
Friends are welcome to visit. Day trips and holidays are taken. This | :44:58. | :45:05. | |
is... This is Christmas Day. Yes, so we like to take pictures. A lot of | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
them we've got memory boxes that we keep for the young people but a lot | :45:10. | :45:13. | |
of them do go up around the house. Because the plan is always for a | :45:14. | :45:17. | |
young person to eventually move on from here, hopefully back to their | :45:18. | :45:21. | |
own home, not always possible. What is the relationship like with | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
neighbours, people in the area? I think the majority of the time it is | :45:26. | :45:29. | |
really good. I think when things go wrong in the community we are the | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
first ones that get the knock on the door, because unfortunately our kids | :45:34. | :45:36. | |
are perceived as being bad kits, and that is not the case at all. They | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
have been through a lot in their lives, a lot of trauma, they just | :45:41. | :45:44. | |
need that help and support from us. That is what we are trying to give | :45:45. | :45:46. | |
them. We will talk about a couple of those | :45:47. | :45:50. | |
issues now. Joining us now is Dr Mark Kerr, | :45:51. | :45:58. | |
chairman of the Institute for Recovery from Childhood Trauma | :45:59. | :46:02. | |
and Liam Hill who's the director at the charity Voice for Children | :46:03. | :46:05. | |
and was himself a child in care. This is very personal for you, cause | :46:06. | :46:12. | |
you spend a lot of time in many, many different elements of care. | :46:13. | :46:15. | |
What the brief outline of what happened to you? At the age of five | :46:16. | :46:24. | |
I was put into care, and over my time I was put into 64 different | :46:25. | :46:29. | |
placements. These were roughly around 40 to foster placements and | :46:30. | :46:35. | |
the rest was residential. Given your own experience, I speak on behalf of | :46:36. | :46:40. | |
those brought up in this, what progress or any has been made? Where | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
do the problems lie now? This reporter says clearly there is a | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
problem right now. The problem for me is around the timescales of | :46:50. | :46:52. | |
children and young people and whether they get the help they need. | :46:53. | :46:57. | |
As mentioned before I had 42. Owns and that was a lot of the time | :46:58. | :47:02. | |
because Foster the People weren't trained properly. So residential | :47:03. | :47:10. | |
places that have facilities to help with the trauma and affects. I do | :47:11. | :47:18. | |
independent inspections in kids' home. There are smaller homes now, | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
less institutionalised. There's more emphasis on the voice of the and | :47:27. | :47:30. | |
young people. But there are still issues in terms of homes actually | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
being well-equipped with staff who can manage this behaviour. | :47:36. | :47:38. | |
Criminalisation sometimes with young people, displaying aggressive | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
behaviours. That's one of the issues for me. And obviously it is about | :47:43. | :47:47. | |
keeping consistent people for those young people and getting the best | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
care. You've done a lot of research in this area, Mark, and you can tell | :47:52. | :47:56. | |
us about the scale. I was surprised by how many children there are in | :47:57. | :48:00. | |
care homes and the impact it has. Now we are down to... The number has | :48:01. | :48:05. | |
gone down the vividly. Historically the residential homes in England, | :48:06. | :48:10. | |
therapeutic, were viewed around the world as leading. But that has | :48:11. | :48:15. | |
eroded over the years as politically they've been out of favour in terms | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
of moving away into care in the community. Lots of focus now on the | :48:21. | :48:25. | |
symptoms around the causes. So we talk about offending, for example we | :48:26. | :48:30. | |
already know that between trauma and mental health problems and offending | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
there is a link. And we know that for example adverse child | :48:36. | :48:41. | |
experiences, which is the common symptom and cause of what happens to | :48:42. | :48:49. | |
these children, before care. It is difficult to deal with that in | :48:50. | :48:52. | |
foster care. So as much as foster carers have lots of care and love to | :48:53. | :48:56. | |
give, they don't have the psychological skills. Mental health | :48:57. | :49:04. | |
services have cuts as well. Is it your opinion that a lot of children | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
are put into force the care, when what they need is a different kind | :49:10. | :49:12. | |
of approach? Absolutely. Because if we keep tackling the symptoms, the | :49:13. | :49:18. | |
amount of movement and different foster placements, we pass it on | :49:19. | :49:24. | |
into adulthood and that's cost shunting. You speak to people who | :49:25. | :49:30. | |
are caught up into this and that's what you are hearing? All the time. | :49:31. | :49:35. | |
The difficulty is that children and young people, a lot of the people we | :49:36. | :49:41. | |
speak to, have more trauma due to all of the different placements | :49:42. | :49:44. | |
moves. Not getting the right support and help. As people know if you have | :49:45. | :49:51. | |
been in care Bears and 80% chance that if you have a child it will go | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
back into the system. So therapeutic residential setting can cost of | :49:56. | :50:01. | |
?80,000 a year... The stories are very moving. Was there a moment, and | :50:02. | :50:08. | |
we haven't got much time, sorry, was there a moment for you that changed | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
things for you sit negatively? In terms of... Progress. Whether there | :50:14. | :50:19. | |
was a moment where you were on one path and then something changed? I | :50:20. | :50:24. | |
was placed in a therapeutic setting after all of my foster home | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
breakdowns and they did real therapy, worked with me to help me | :50:28. | :50:31. | |
get back to my local area, get back into mainstream education. Then I | :50:32. | :50:35. | |
was once again placed in a foster placement and that placement broke | :50:36. | :50:38. | |
down because they still couldn't manage, so after all of that great | :50:39. | :50:43. | |
progress I sort of took a step back. Very interesting to talk to you | :50:44. | :50:47. | |
both. Thank you very much for your time. | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
So much to talk about. It is snowing heavily near the Humber Bridge this | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
morning. Have a look at this picture. | :50:56. | :50:56. | |
Here's Sarah with a look at this morning's weather. | :50:57. | :51:02. | |
Good morning. We have got a lot of wintry weather around this morning. | :51:03. | :51:11. | |
Many of us will be waking up to scenes like this for top but it is | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
not just the ice and snow that will be causing problems, but also strong | :51:17. | :51:21. | |
winds and the chance along the east coast that we could have coastal | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
flooding problems. Lots to tell you about. We have a band of sleet and | :51:25. | :51:29. | |
snow pushing across northern England, Lincolnshire, down into | :51:30. | :51:33. | |
east Anglia and across Scotland further wintry showers, especially | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
towards the north and west. We have strong winds towards the east coast. | :51:37. | :51:41. | |
Flooding could be a problem. Coastal flooding in particular further | :51:42. | :51:44. | |
south, where strong winds are combining with high tides. We have | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
sleet and snow pushing across east Anglia, east Midlands. That will | :51:49. | :51:54. | |
clear later in the day. If you are concerned about the risk of flooding | :51:55. | :51:57. | |
where you live here is the flood line number. The environmental | :51:58. | :52:00. | |
agency has several severe flood warnings in force. As we move | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
through the day we've got the band of sleet and snow gradually clearing | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
the south-east by about lunchtime. Further wintry showers towards the | :52:09. | :52:12. | |
west, the northern and western Scotland, Northern Ireland and | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
Wales. Set to see more snowfall in here. For many of us as you can see | :52:16. | :52:20. | |
in the afternoon with got clear skies and sunshine. It will feel | :52:21. | :52:24. | |
cold when you add on the windchill, is a feeling sub zero, with | :52:25. | :52:28. | |
temperatures about 2-5. Temperatures dip away through this evening and | :52:29. | :52:33. | |
overnight under clear skies. We continue to see sleet and snow | :52:34. | :52:37. | |
showers, potentially around the east coast, but also some moving in from | :52:38. | :52:40. | |
the west. In between under clear skies a sharp frost. Iciness and | :52:41. | :52:45. | |
subzero temperatures first thing Saturday morning. It will be a | :52:46. | :52:49. | |
wintry start to the weekend and we are like to see further snow showers | :52:50. | :52:52. | |
across the east of Scotland, perhaps down to east Anglia. Towards the | :52:53. | :52:56. | |
west the showers turning back to sleet and rain, increasingly through | :52:57. | :53:01. | |
the course of Saturday. But there will be sunshine for many central | :53:02. | :53:04. | |
parts. Temperatures 1-2 towards the east coast. Milder towards the west. | :53:05. | :53:10. | |
So a change in the weather through the weekend after the cold snap. | :53:11. | :53:14. | |
Start to draw in the milder air, working in from the west and | :53:15. | :53:17. | |
north-west, especially through Sunday, where we have a weather | :53:18. | :53:21. | |
front bringing outbreaks of rain. The weather fronts move east across | :53:22. | :53:24. | |
the country, bringing patchy rain for many. Quite a bit of cloud by | :53:25. | :53:29. | |
the time we get the Sunday and a different feel to the weather after | :53:30. | :53:33. | |
the cold and with the weather. Back to about 5- ten degrees in the | :53:34. | :53:36. | |
second half of the weekend. So things eventually turning milder, | :53:37. | :53:41. | |
over the next 24 hours or so watch out for the snow, ice, strong winds | :53:42. | :53:45. | |
and coastal flooding. Lots going on and we could see further disruption. | :53:46. | :53:46. | |
Thank you very much. The 9095 film Pocahontas was | :53:47. | :53:57. | |
inspired by the native American woman who died 400 years ago. -- | :53:58. | :53:59. | |
1995. This week special events | :54:00. | :54:03. | |
marking her extraordinary life have got underway, although the location | :54:04. | :54:05. | |
might surprise you. # Have you ever heard the wolf cry | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
to the blue corn moon...# It took a quarter of a billion | :54:09. | :54:15. | |
pounds at the box office, but of the millions | :54:16. | :54:18. | |
who have seen the 1995 film Pocahontas, few in all likelihood | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
could tell you where she is actually Just outside the M25 | :54:22. | :54:24. | |
in Gravesend, in Kent. Pocahontas was a Native American | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
who married an English settler, They became Virginia's | :54:30. | :54:32. | |
first tobacco farmers. They travelled to England and mixed | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
with the movers and shakers of the day, including | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
King James and Queen Anne. But on their return, | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
as their ship passed through Gravesend, Pocahontas, | :54:49. | :54:59. | |
or Rebecca Rolfe as she was now This is where she is buried | :55:00. | :55:02. | |
and this is her great, great, great, great, | :55:03. | :55:07. | |
great, great, great... ..great-grandson, also | :55:08. | :55:08. | |
called John Rolfe. I am very proud to be | :55:09. | :55:09. | |
a descendant of Many people growing up | :55:10. | :55:12. | |
had never heard of her. It was like saying, "I'm related | :55:13. | :55:22. | |
to Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty". As the 400th anniversary | :55:23. | :55:26. | |
of her death approaches, there is a chance to honour her | :55:27. | :55:28. | |
brief but extraordinary life. It's one of the first | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
recorded instances where two very different cultures | :55:32. | :55:34. | |
were formally married and And they were celebrities | :55:35. | :55:35. | |
when they came over? Very much so, because many people | :55:36. | :55:40. | |
had never met a Native American, so the young Pocahontas | :55:41. | :55:44. | |
was fated as a celebrity. She dined with King James | :55:45. | :55:48. | |
and Queen Anne and I feel proud to be part of this amazing | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
very true story, and this Time now to get the news, | :55:53. | :55:55. | |
travel and weather where you are. Good morning | :55:56. | :56:13. | |
from BBC London News. Shopkeepers across the capital have | :56:14. | :56:14. | |
been fined hundreds of thousands of pounds for selling illegal skin | :56:15. | :56:18. | |
whitening treatments. London Trading Standards says 15 | :56:19. | :56:23. | |
shops have been fined more than ?160,000 each and some | :56:24. | :56:25. | |
business owners given The treatments include poisonous | :56:26. | :56:27. | |
chemicals like mercury and can cause organ | :56:28. | :56:34. | |
failure and even cancer. The courts are looking at this | :56:35. | :56:39. | |
as criminal activity, It is not the kind of activity | :56:40. | :56:42. | |
where people can think they can run a legitimate business and sell | :56:43. | :56:51. | |
these kinds of products. There's more misery | :56:52. | :56:53. | |
for Southern Rail commuters today as drivers go on another | :56:54. | :56:56. | |
24 hour strike. It means there'll be no trains | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
at all, apart from a very limited peak service between Caterham | :57:00. | :57:02. | |
and London Victoria. Around 200 buses will run | :57:03. | :57:04. | |
on some other routes. Let's get the rest of the travel now | :57:05. | :57:08. | |
and of course we have had some snow so we'll look at how that's | :57:09. | :57:12. | |
affecting things in a moment. Now we've got a few | :57:13. | :57:15. | |
problems on the tube. The Circle Line has | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
minor delays clockwise. Minor delays on the District line | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
between Barking to Upminster and Earls Court to Richmond, | :57:24. | :57:26. | |
Ealing Broadway and Wimbledon. The Hammersmith and City line has | :57:27. | :57:28. | |
minor delays eastbound. Hello this is Breakfast, with | :57:29. | :59:37. | |
Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. Thousands of people along the east | :59:38. | :59:39. | |
coast of England are told to leave their homes as gale force | :59:40. | :59:41. | |
winds combine with high tides. There are now 13 severe - | :59:42. | :59:44. | |
meaning a risk to life - More than 1,000 people | :59:45. | :59:47. | |
are being moved to safety And the snow caused | :59:48. | :59:50. | |
disruption overnight - especially in Kent where there | :59:51. | :59:54. | |
were delays on the M20. We've got more disruptive weather on | :59:55. | :00:06. | |
the cards today, not just the snow and ice around, but also strong wind | :00:07. | :00:09. | |
and the potential coastal flooding in the east. We will have a full | :00:10. | :00:12. | |
forecast in about 15 minutes. Good morning, it's | :00:13. | :00:25. | |
Friday 13th January. More men are in low-paid, | :00:26. | :00:26. | |
part-time work than ever before according to a new study of those | :00:27. | :00:32. | |
aged between 25 and 55. More people took their first step | :00:33. | :00:36. | |
on the housing ladder last year than for 10 years and research | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
for Breakfast says it's also getting cheaper for first-time | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
buyers to have a mortgage In sport, football mourns the loss | :00:45. | :00:46. | |
of one of its true gentlemen - Graham Taylor, the former Watford, | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
Aston Villa and England manager, who's died of a suspected, | :00:53. | :00:54. | |
heart attack at the age of 72. The army's on standby to help | :00:55. | :01:03. | |
evacuate communities along the East Coast where a tidal surge | :01:04. | :01:07. | |
is expected to hit. The Environment Agency has issued 13 | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
severe flood warnings, All along the east coast, | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
floodgates have been closed Gale-force winds are | :01:16. | :01:21. | |
combining with high tides In Jaywick, in Essex, | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
there is a severe flood warning, The emergency services | :01:26. | :01:33. | |
have arrived in force. The residents are | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
being urged to leave. We strongly advise people to stay | :01:37. | :01:51. | |
away from high tide, not just those being evacuated but more generally, | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
people be sensible about not watching the waves or driving | :01:56. | :01:58. | |
through floodwater and focusing on keeping themselves safe. It's very | :01:59. | :02:03. | |
important day with this weather. Some have already heeded that | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
warning and others are waiting to see. Had a text message, the | :02:06. | :02:13. | |
neighbour next door is all panicking, because she's not very | :02:14. | :02:16. | |
well. Things like that. I think a lot of people are planning to stay. | :02:17. | :02:22. | |
On the Lincolnshire coast at Skegness, the military have been | :02:23. | :02:25. | |
brought in to help if needed. About 100 soldiers are based at the police | :02:26. | :02:34. | |
station. Along the coast, those most vulnerable are doing what they can | :02:35. | :02:38. | |
to protect their business. There will be a significant rise in water, | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
whether it's enough to top the defences depends on mother nature, I | :02:42. | :02:46. | |
suppose. And mother nature is said to bring more entry weather today, | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
bringing more travel disruption. Nearly all the UK is covered by | :02:52. | :02:54. | |
weather warnings for snow or ice or both. | :02:55. | :03:01. | |
We will bring you up-to-date with the problems with storm surges and | :03:02. | :03:09. | |
quite a bit of snow falling. This is a live shot from Hull, people waking | :03:10. | :03:13. | |
up to quite a bit of style, replicated in many parts of the | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
country. In the south-east, particularly in Kent, there was | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
heavy snowfall into the evening last night. We will have a full look at | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
the forecast and some of the images. Some pretty treacherous conditions. | :03:27. | :03:29. | |
This was later in the evening last night. We will bring you right up to | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
date with weather conditions and the problems on the roads throughout the | :03:35. | :03:35. | |
programme this morning. The number of men in low-paid | :03:36. | :03:39. | |
part-time work has increased "dramatically" over | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
the last 20 years. New research by the Institute | :03:43. | :03:43. | |
for Fiscal Studies has found that one in five low paid men | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
between the ages of 25 and 55 That means wage inequality for men | :03:47. | :03:49. | |
has risen over two decades, but for women the opposite | :03:50. | :03:56. | |
is the case, as our Business Top-earning men in the professions | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
normally work full-time. In fact, only 5% of | :03:59. | :04:06. | |
them work part-time. But in comparison, amongst | :04:07. | :04:08. | |
the lowest-paid men, often in areas like catering | :04:09. | :04:12. | |
and hospitality, 20% now work part-time, and that number | :04:13. | :04:15. | |
has increased fourfold That has meant that wage inequality | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
for men has increased, as high-paid, full-time staff have done far better | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
than low-paid, part-time workers. But for women, the | :04:25. | :04:28. | |
opposite is the case. For women, earnings growth has been | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
consistently higher than that for men over the last 20 years, | :04:33. | :04:36. | |
and more of them are in work. For men, particularly | :04:37. | :04:40. | |
the lowest-paid, they've actually seen falls in the numbers of hours | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
of work, which has suppressed It is far from clear | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
why low-paid men are It might be because they want to, | :04:48. | :04:51. | |
although that seems unlikely. The fact that 60% of the low-paid | :04:52. | :04:58. | |
and part-time jobs are either in retail, wholesale, | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
restaurants or hospitality might suggest that men who previously | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
worked in low-paid but secure and full-time jobs, | :05:08. | :05:10. | |
in sectors like manufacturing, have lost that work, | :05:11. | :05:13. | |
and instead have been forced into the traditionally poorly paid | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
and less-secure services sector A week to go until the new American | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
president is sworn in, and Donald Trump seems to be at odds | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
with some of his key cabinet nominees on some | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
of the vital questions facing His choice for the CIA leader has | :05:33. | :05:34. | |
endorsed the work of the US intelligence agency, | :05:35. | :05:47. | |
hours after it was criticised Also the potential Defense | :05:48. | :05:49. | |
secretary said Moscow posed a threat in Europe, | :05:50. | :05:52. | |
after Mr Trump called for warmer And it's emerged overnight | :05:53. | :05:54. | |
that Christopher Steele, the British man who wrote a dossier | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
of lurid claims about Donald Trump was hired by the England | :06:00. | :06:04. | |
2018 World Cup bid team. It's believed he was brought | :06:05. | :06:07. | |
in to provide information on world football's governing body, | :06:08. | :06:09. | |
Fifa. There were emotional | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
scenes during a ceremony at the White House last night, | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
as President Obama surprised his vice-president with the country's | :06:15. | :06:18. | |
highest civilian honour. Mr Obama said he was awarding | :06:19. | :06:22. | |
the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Joe Biden for his faith | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
in his fellow Americans Mr Biden said the honour had been | :06:26. | :06:27. | |
a complete surprise. Best vice president America has ever | :06:28. | :06:36. | |
had, Mr Joe Biden. APPLAUSE This also gives the Internet one | :06:37. | :06:49. | |
last chance to talk about our bromance. | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
The car maker Fiat Chrysler has been accused of violating pollution laws | :06:54. | :06:56. | |
The US Environmental Protection Agency says the manufacturer | :06:57. | :07:00. | |
equipped tens of thousands of diesel Jeep and Dodge vehicles | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
with software that regulates emissions results. | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
The firm has denied doing anything illegal, but has seen its share | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
More needs to be done to protect patients from incompetent local | :07:12. | :07:25. | |
doctors says the General Medical Council. The review says a | :07:26. | :07:33. | |
reluctance to share checks allow some poor doctors to go undetected. | :07:34. | :07:38. | |
The NHS is increasingly relying on local doctors in order to deal with | :07:39. | :07:42. | |
staff shortages in our hospitals and surgeries. With some charging up to | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
?115 per hour, questions have been raised about the cost. But that | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
isn't the only concern. The General Medical Council says more needs to | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
be done to ensure that all local doctors are properly vetted. The | :07:57. | :08:01. | |
report has highlighted a number of problems and found it wasn't clear | :08:02. | :08:07. | |
which organisation was responsible for the appraisal of doctors on | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
short-term contracts. Hospitals were also criticised for failing to share | :08:12. | :08:16. | |
information and feedback when a locum was not up to the required | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
standard. The General Medical Council also warned that some | :08:21. | :08:24. | |
agencies that supply staff are not carrying out checks and ensuring | :08:25. | :08:29. | |
adequate paperwork can support. There was also evidence that some | :08:30. | :08:32. | |
patients were afraid to give negative feedback about their doctor | :08:33. | :08:37. | |
in case it impacted on their care. In response the Department of Health | :08:38. | :08:43. | |
said, making sure doctors are up-to-date is vital to providing | :08:44. | :08:46. | |
high quality patient care and further progress was needed. | :08:47. | :08:52. | |
The number of people changing who they buy their electricity | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
Research from the industry body Energy UK shows that | :08:56. | :08:58. | |
nearly 5 million people changed their electricity supplier | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
last year, and a fifth of those who switched in December went | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
to a smaller supplier rather than one of the Big Six. | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
It's the highest number of switches since Energy UK began | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
All the sport is coming up in a few minutes. Back to the main story now. | :09:10. | :09:28. | |
Let's get the latest on the flood threats. | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
There are 13 severe weather warnings now in place. | :09:34. | :09:37. | |
In Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast around 100 soldiers | :09:38. | :09:39. | |
from the Catterick army base have been deployed to help 3,000 | :09:40. | :09:42. | |
Transport in central London has been affected by snowfall | :09:43. | :09:47. | |
over the last 48 hours, with delays on trains, | :09:48. | :09:52. | |
long delays on the roads and flight cancellations at both Heathrow | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
Residents of Jaywick in Essex are currently | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
being moved to an evacuation centre in Clacton-on-Sea. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
And heavy snowfall in Scotland has caused road closures and a number | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
of schools are likely to stay closed. | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
Further disruption is expected as the Met Office warns of up | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
The Environment Agency says people need to stay vigilant. | :10:19. | :10:24. | |
We really strongly advise people to stay away from high tides, not just | :10:25. | :10:30. | |
those being evacuated, but more generally of people can be sensible | :10:31. | :10:35. | |
about not wave watching, not driving through floodwater, and focusing on | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
keeping themselves safe. It's very important today with this weather. | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
In a moment we'll get the latest from our reporter in Canterbury | :10:44. | :10:48. | |
on how the weather's affecting travel. | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
But first let's go to the Essex coast, where emergency services have | :10:51. | :10:53. | |
opened for people who have had to leave their homes. | :10:54. | :10:56. | |
You are with some of the people who have been sent to the Centre. What's | :10:57. | :11:06. | |
going on this morning? Quite a lot has changed in the last hour. It has | :11:07. | :11:12. | |
got busier at this rest centre, 17 people stayed overnight after they | :11:13. | :11:16. | |
were told to evacuate their homes. In total, 2500 residents have been | :11:17. | :11:21. | |
told to leave their homes, that's half the population of Jaywick. | :11:22. | :11:28. | |
After 7am, police have transported people out of Jaywick and | :11:29. | :11:31. | |
surrounding areas to places like this. Also, the Environment Agency | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
within the last hour has said they have that news and good news. To | :11:36. | :11:41. | |
start with is the good news, at the moment the tide, or the level of | :11:42. | :11:46. | |
water, is lower than expected. So good news at the start. But the bad | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
news is yet to come. In the evening the actual levels are expected to be | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
much higher. What that means for residents and their homes is unknown | :11:57. | :12:02. | |
as yet. The tide, the high tide, is expected at one o'clock. These | :12:03. | :12:06. | |
residents are in a warm and safe environment. If I was to ask you if | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
you are happy or sad, what would you say? Very happy to be here and safe. | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
A silver lining around every cloud. A real change in picture. Thank you. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
Let's head to Canterbury now where there's plenty of snow. | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
It looks rather beautiful, I can see the sunrise behind you, but pretty | :12:24. | :12:35. | |
treacherous conditions. The sun is coming out but it's very, very cold. | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
We've had a lot of snow overnight and that snow has now turned to ice. | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
Looking down there, you can see that ice that has begun to settle. And | :12:46. | :12:51. | |
you also have ice on the footpath in, making it pretty difficult to | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
remain on your feet. Stowe still on the ground here. As a result, | :12:56. | :13:01. | |
difficult conditions on the roads. -- snow is still on the grounds. The | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
roads have been gritted. We see people driving slowly and carefully. | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
On the corny here, it's very icy. Some cars have been struggling for | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
traction as they try to come past that side road. We have had a number | :13:17. | :13:23. | |
of accidents already this morning, jackknifed lorries and cars that | :13:24. | :13:27. | |
crashed last night on Bluebell Hill in Kent. Treacherous conditions | :13:28. | :13:34. | |
where some people were trapped on cars for two or three hours trying | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
to get up and down hills. We are told things are looking better at | :13:39. | :13:43. | |
the airports. Yesterday there were a large number of cancellations, | :13:44. | :13:45. | |
particularly at Heathrow, but they hope things will run more smoothly | :13:46. | :13:49. | |
today. What we have is a combination of snow that has become ice. Wind | :13:50. | :13:56. | |
will whip up during the day making some pretty grim combination. More | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
snow forecast, particularly for Scotland, heading into northern | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
England and eastern England. Possibly more snow showers here in | :14:05. | :14:09. | |
Kent. The advice is to check before you set out. It's pretty grim on | :14:10. | :14:14. | |
foot and on the road. The situation in Canterbury. Sarah will have the | :14:15. | :14:18. | |
full weather forecast in a second. Before that, we will show some of | :14:19. | :14:21. | |
the pictures you have sent us this morning. A snow topped car sent in | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
by a weather watcher from near Newport. Alfred sent this image of | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
snow-covered roads in the early hours of the morning in North | :14:35. | :14:41. | |
Shields. It really is a winter wonderland in this picture sent in | :14:42. | :14:47. | |
by David in Reigate. The dog Pickle at the bottom of the picture out for | :14:48. | :14:56. | |
a snowy walk. And in Maidstone overnight, we know there were a few | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
problems last night, in the evening and in rush hour on the roads. | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
Important to take care if you are out and about in that weather. Let's | :15:07. | :15:11. | |
find out more about what's happening across the UK. What does it mean and | :15:12. | :15:14. | |
what's happening, what should we expect in the next few days? | :15:15. | :15:19. | |
We're not Out of the Woods yet in terms of the wintry weather. The | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
scene behind me was taken in Wales in the early morning. More in the | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
way of snow and ice as well as strong winds as well as the risk of | :15:32. | :15:36. | |
coastal flooding along the east coast. Low-pressure heading south | :15:37. | :15:40. | |
down the east coast bringing sleet and snow through parts of northern | :15:41. | :15:44. | |
England, Lincolnshire, East Anglia. North and west, we are set for | :15:45. | :15:50. | |
wintry showers. Scotland at 9am, snow showers in the north and west. | :15:51. | :15:56. | |
Brisk wind around the east, so they could be some coastal flooding | :15:57. | :15:59. | |
problems across eastern Scotland and certainly down to East Anglia where | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
strong winds have combined with a high tide, so we could see a surge | :16:04. | :16:10. | |
coming to bring flooding to the coast. The Environment Agency have | :16:11. | :16:12. | |
issued several severe flood warnings. The flood line number if | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
you are concerned about flooding where you live. Four seasons in one | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
day today. Sleet and snow across East Anglia and the south-east that | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
should clear by lunchtime. Many of us seemed a good deal of dry weather | :16:27. | :16:30. | |
and sunshine, but plenty of showers coming in from the north-west. Parts | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales will see a further covering of | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
snow throughout the day. Temperatures above freezing but will | :16:38. | :16:42. | |
feel subzero, especially when you are exposed to the cold northerly | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
wind. Into the evening, the wind will become lighter with clearer | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
skies for many central and eastern areas. Not just a widespread frost | :16:51. | :16:57. | |
overnight tonight, but we also expect to see further icy stretches, | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
particularly where you see snow accumulations. Subzero temperatures | :17:03. | :17:04. | |
for all of us heading into the weekend. Saturday shaping up with | :17:05. | :17:09. | |
more snow showers across eastern Scotland and down to East Anglia. | :17:10. | :17:13. | |
Outbreaks of rain, sleet and snow moving in from the West. But much of | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
the country is looking reasonably dry with cold, wintry sunshine on | :17:18. | :17:22. | |
offer. Temperatures on the face of it looking around one or two max | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
towards the east, in the wind. Towards the West, things turning | :17:26. | :17:31. | |
milder. Those showers turning back into rain in the West on Saturday. | :17:32. | :17:36. | |
Overnight into Sunday, milder air spilling in from the north-west. | :17:37. | :17:40. | |
Weather fronts also bringing some outbreaks of rain that will push | :17:41. | :17:44. | |
slowly east across the country. A grey day to come on Sunday. Breeze | :17:45. | :17:49. | |
coming in from the west, it will be. Temperatures back at 5-10d on | :17:50. | :17:56. | |
Sunday. But here and now, the weather is likely to cause | :17:57. | :17:59. | |
disruption today with ice and snow to content with as well as strong | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
wind and coastal flooding in the East. | :18:03. | :18:09. | |
We hear a lot about women working part-time. | :18:10. | :18:12. | |
But figures suggest one in five men on low wages | :18:13. | :18:14. | |
And it's said to be a growing trend, highlighted in a new report | :18:15. | :18:23. | |
on inequality by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. | :18:24. | :18:24. | |
So what do these figures say about the changing nature | :18:25. | :18:27. | |
We spoke to one young worker in London who does | :18:28. | :18:31. | |
My name is Declan, and 25, originally from Manchester, I now | :18:32. | :18:40. | |
live in London and I'm in part-time work that is not well paid. I am | :18:41. | :18:46. | |
currently doing my masters at an institution that is | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity so the idea of having flexible work to | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
fit around what should be my priority is something I had to give | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
the go. Being in low paid work, you don't particularly have any | :19:00. | :19:02. | |
responsibility, it is pretty brainless. These are both pros and | :19:03. | :19:07. | |
cons. It is manual Labour based, so it can be tiring, but it is not | :19:08. | :19:15. | |
really sustainable. I am yet to see how it is financially viable. I | :19:16. | :19:20. | |
don't think I do like the job, you don't particularly feel like you are | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
of any value, you do just feel like... You know, like a piece of | :19:26. | :19:32. | |
meat, really. That was Declan talking to us. | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
With us to talk about this is Robert Joyce, from the IFS, | :19:36. | :19:37. | |
Good morning to you, Declan was describing the circumstances in | :19:38. | :19:44. | |
which he ended up in a part-time low-paid job. What is the big | :19:45. | :19:51. | |
picture? The big picture is there are many more low-wage men doing | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
that kind of work now than they used to be, so there is growing | :19:54. | :19:57. | |
association between low hourly wage and doing low hours of work, and | :19:58. | :20:01. | |
that increases the disparities in what lower earning and higher | :20:02. | :20:05. | |
earning men are taking home. Take the lowest wage fifth of men, 20 | :20:06. | :20:08. | |
years ago one in 20 of them worked part-time, now that has | :20:09. | :20:24. | |
risen to one in five amongst prime age men, 25 to 55, not including | :20:25. | :20:26. | |
students or the semi retired. It is a striking, surprising trend. On the | :20:27. | :20:29. | |
face of it, you would assume no one wants to get low wages, but they | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
might want to work part-time? Indeed, so there is a big question | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
which we have not yet definitively been able to answer, it is difficult | :20:38. | :20:42. | |
to describe what is going on, which is, is there an element here of | :20:43. | :20:46. | |
choice, maybe there are some low-wage men who would have wanted | :20:47. | :20:50. | |
to work part time 20 years ago but those kinds of flexible jobs perhaps | :20:51. | :21:00. | |
were not available and now they are? Or is it another plausible story, | :21:01. | :21:02. | |
more about lower skilled men finding that the demand for their Labour in | :21:03. | :21:09. | |
the labour market means that they would like to work full time but | :21:10. | :21:14. | |
they actually can't? Those explanations have different | :21:15. | :21:16. | |
implications. One of the things we need to do next is understand which | :21:17. | :21:21. | |
of those is the dominant force. Traditionally we talk about women in | :21:22. | :21:26. | |
low-paid work, part-time, flexible working. Are they levelling up now? | :21:27. | :21:32. | |
For women, the trends have been completely different, they are | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
better understood and have been commented on before so we know many | :21:35. | :21:38. | |
more women are in the labour market and used to be the case and many | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
more work full-time, particularly true amongst those on the lowest | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
hourly wages, the increase in full-time work in that group has | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
been particularly big. Traditionally it is men who have been viewed as | :21:50. | :21:56. | |
more boring in this sector, in the middle of a life, the traditional | :21:57. | :21:59. | |
view is that they just work full-time and what we are showing is | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
that assumption is not as reliable as it was at the low-wage end. You | :22:03. | :22:07. | |
mentioned before that it is harder to know why, but who tries to work | :22:08. | :22:13. | |
that out? Your job is to compile the figures, in a way, what do you do | :22:14. | :22:18. | |
next with these figures? We also do very much want to understand what is | :22:19. | :22:22. | |
going on. We have looked at various possible explanations, some of the | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
obvious things that might have been going on that are easier to test | :22:26. | :22:29. | |
have not turned out to be the explanation that works, so for | :22:30. | :22:32. | |
example you might think it is about the recession but that is not true, | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
it was happening before the recession. You might think it is | :22:37. | :22:39. | |
some specific policy change that has changed the nature of who is working | :22:40. | :22:43. | |
and doing different kinds of jobs, that | :22:44. | :23:03. | |
does not seem to be the case because it is a long-running gradual trend, | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
not one that appeared at a certain point in time. One more positive | :23:08. | :23:10. | |
story would be that because more women are working full-time, their | :23:11. | :23:12. | |
partners feel the need to do less work, but that does not seem to | :23:13. | :23:15. | |
explain it either because we see the same trend amongst single men as men | :23:16. | :23:18. | |
in couples, so there are things we have been able to rule out but the | :23:19. | :23:21. | |
key is to find the things which were, and that is the important work | :23:22. | :23:24. | |
we need to do. Robert Joyce, thank you very much for your time, from | :23:25. | :23:26. | |
the ISS, one of the report authors. More men working part-time and in | :23:27. | :23:28. | |
lower paid employment. You probably saw me leaning over the | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
sofa earlier to reach the printer, that was so that we could give you | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
the latest on the weather situation, the number of severe warnings now | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
down to 12, meaning there is a risk to life. In terms of the homes | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
affected, 5000 homes directly affected, this is police in Norfolk | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
saying that, 1100 properties at high risk in Suffolk, police saying | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
there. We heard from our reporter in J Wick in Essex earlier, 3000 to | :23:52. | :23:58. | |
5000 people and Essex Police say it will be evacuated, so thousands of | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
people being affected by the flooding situation at the moment, | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
but do get in touch with us if you have any thoughts or comments on | :24:07. | :24:08. | |
that. The other thing to note this morning | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
is the weather situation with the snow, we know there is heavy | :24:12. | :24:16. | |
snowfall during the evening yesterday, very heavy snowfall in | :24:17. | :24:19. | |
Scotland as well so we will bring you right up-to-date with the | :24:20. | :24:20. | |
weather situation as well. Killer whales and humans have | :24:21. | :24:23. | |
something in common - according to research, | :24:24. | :24:26. | |
they're two of only three species Scientists who have studied | :24:27. | :24:28. | |
a population of orcas for 40 years now have an idea why some species | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
have evolved to stop having Our science reporter | :24:33. | :24:35. | |
Victoria Gill reports. These researchers have been | :24:36. | :24:42. | |
documenting the lives of killer And their findings have revealed | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
new insight into something that we humans share with a mammal | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
so very different from us. Orcas and humans are two of only | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
three mammals on the planet that stop reproducing partway | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
through our lives. And this 40-year study of killer | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
whale society has already shown that grandmothers play a crucial role, | :25:10. | :25:12. | |
leading their pod and helping But scientists have now used this | :25:13. | :25:15. | |
unique dataset that's recorded births and deaths in every orca | :25:16. | :25:24. | |
family here to prove that when grandmothers stop having | :25:25. | :25:27. | |
babies of their own, their daughter's offspring | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
have a significantly The benefits of grandmothering | :25:30. | :25:30. | |
are not enough to explain why human It's only when you consider | :25:31. | :25:36. | |
the conflict and competition within the family group you can | :25:37. | :25:46. | |
actually understand and explain why Avoiding this so-called reproductive | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
conflict between the generations seems to give babies | :25:49. | :25:51. | |
the best possible chance. Really interesting just how | :25:52. | :25:54. | |
important that bond is. And that's something that | :25:55. | :25:58. | |
could finally explain the evolutionary story | :25:59. | :26:00. | |
of human menopause. Like us, these highly-intelligent | :26:01. | :26:03. | |
now-endangered animals And this long and careful | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
observation of killer whale society could change our perspective | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
on our own. Interesting, that, to see the | :26:12. | :26:26. | |
commonalities we have with different species. | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
Let's see what is coming up in a moment on the BBC News Channel, | :26:29. | :26:37. | |
Business Live. Here on Breakfast, the Hollywood musical La La Land is | :26:38. | :26:47. | |
due to big up a raft of awards. Last night there was a big UK premiere. | :26:48. | :26:51. | |
We seem to be showing a clip of some people sitting at a desk, which does | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
not seem relevant! We will celebrate musical and all | :26:56. | :26:58. | |
that comes with them later, but now the news, travel | :26:59. | :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. | :26:59. | |
It's a nightmare! Wake me up from it, please. | :27:00. | :27:00. |