25/01/2017

:00:00. > :00:00.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:00:00. > :00:09.The government prepares to put its plan for Brexit

:00:10. > :00:16.should be given a vote on Britain leaving the EU.

:00:17. > :00:21.It's thought a bill could now be introduced as early as tomorrow.

:00:22. > :00:24.Ministers are urging members of parliament not use that bill

:00:25. > :00:27.as a chance to frustrate or delay the process,

:00:28. > :00:30.but critics, including some Conservatives, are putting

:00:31. > :00:34.Theresa May under pressure to give them even more of a say on exactly

:00:35. > :00:49.Good morning, it's Wednesday 25th January.

:00:50. > :00:54.President Trump promises a big day ahead on national security,

:00:55. > :00:56.including an announcement about his plans for a wall

:00:57. > :01:04.In business, can a company impose a dress code for staff?

:01:05. > :01:09.From high heels to short skirts, two parliamentary reports say no.

:01:10. > :01:13.Firms must not and can not tell workers what to wear.

:01:14. > :01:16.Johanna Konta has been knocked out the Australian Open.

:01:17. > :01:20.She lost her quarter-final to Serena Williams 6-2 6-3 in just

:01:21. > :01:27.She was the last Brit left in the competition.

:01:28. > :01:34.We'll be hearing a toy story with a difference.

:01:35. > :01:42.Which one's yours? I would say this is Lego, this is not. OK, this is

:01:43. > :01:45.Lego? This is Lego. We'll find out how one

:01:46. > :01:49.of the world's best known brands is counting the cost

:01:50. > :01:58.of counterfeits in China. Good morning. Once again today with

:01:59. > :02:02.starting off with some patchy freezing fog and it is particularly

:02:03. > :02:06.dense across parts of the South. It's also slippery underfoot so take

:02:07. > :02:10.extra care. There will be some sunshine around today, also some

:02:11. > :02:12.drizzle and strong winds in the north-west. I'll put all that

:02:13. > :02:14.together in 15 minutes. MPs have stepped up demands

:02:15. > :02:18.for the government to publish its plan for Brexit

:02:19. > :02:21.in a formal policy document. The demands for a white paper,

:02:22. > :02:24.including from some Conservatives, follows yesterday's

:02:25. > :02:26.Supreme Court ruling. Theresa May must give parliament

:02:27. > :02:29.a vote before triggering Article 50, the formal process

:02:30. > :02:31.for leaving to the EU. It's thought legislation could be

:02:32. > :02:34.introduced as early as tomorrow. Here's our political

:02:35. > :02:39.correspondent Tom Bateman. After the judges ruled only

:02:40. > :02:43.Parliament could start Brexit, today a warning for MPs -

:02:44. > :02:48.don't to try to derail the plan. The Supreme Court judgement means

:02:49. > :02:51.a bill on triggering Article 50, the start of Britain's exit process,

:02:52. > :02:55.must be put before MPs and Lords. The government says legislation

:02:56. > :03:03.paving the way for Brexit will be tabled within days -

:03:04. > :03:06.that will be voted on by both Theresa May wants Article 50

:03:07. > :03:10.triggered by the end of March, then Britain has two

:03:11. > :03:13.years to leave the EU. The point of no return was passed

:03:14. > :03:19.in June 23, last year. Labour say they won't block Article

:03:20. > :03:25.50 but want to amend the bill, to give MPs more

:03:26. > :03:27.control of the process. If necessary, there will be

:03:28. > :03:31.hand-to-hand combat on this. We need to make sure that we get

:03:32. > :03:35.the best deal on behalf the whole country and she can't say she acts

:03:36. > :03:38.on behalf the whole country. Theresa May also faces opposition

:03:39. > :03:44.from some of her own MPs, who wanta formal exit

:03:45. > :03:46.document to be debated. But for now, at least,

:03:47. > :03:49.ministers believe they are on track to get Brexit triggered

:03:50. > :03:51.by the spring. Our political correspondent

:03:52. > :03:56.Carol Walker is outside the Houses of Parliament, how extensive

:03:57. > :04:07.will the Tory rebellion be? We're hearing in Tom's piece about

:04:08. > :04:14.the Tory rebellion. It looks as though a number of

:04:15. > :04:18.Tories rebelling against the government will be quite small but

:04:19. > :04:21.the question is whether all the different opponents to parts of the

:04:22. > :04:25.government's approach to this will be able to coalesce to impose

:04:26. > :04:29.defeats on the government. We're going to get a build tomorrow from

:04:30. > :04:32.the government which will be a pretty short bill essentially asking

:04:33. > :04:43.Parliament to approve the Negotiating process. We know for

:04:44. > :04:49.example Labour are going to amend that so if we don't like the Bill

:04:50. > :04:53.that we get the Prime Minister will be forced to go back and negotiate

:04:54. > :04:57.more. We know the Liberal Democrats are demanding a second referendum on

:04:58. > :05:02.any final Grexit deal and we know the SNP are saying Scotland should

:05:03. > :05:06.be allowed to remain in the European single market -- Brexit. What they

:05:07. > :05:10.all agree on is they want more detail to be set out in something

:05:11. > :05:14.called a white paper, a formal proposal of government plans but the

:05:15. > :05:18.government could simply agree to that. Underlying this at the moment

:05:19. > :05:24.is the government being confident that they will still be able to

:05:25. > :05:28.stick to its timetable and begin those formal Brexit negotiations by

:05:29. > :05:29.the end of March. Thank you, Carol. Plenty more from the houses of

:05:30. > :05:31.parliament later in the morning. We'll be speaking to businesswoman

:05:32. > :05:34.Gina Miller, who took the case to the Supreme Court,

:05:35. > :05:36.just after 8am this morning. President Trump has said a big day

:05:37. > :05:39.is planned on national security today, including an announcement

:05:40. > :05:43.on building a wall on the US border with Mexico, one of his

:05:44. > :05:45.main campaign pledges. In a message on Twitter,

:05:46. > :05:48.he also said to expect Reports from Washington say

:05:49. > :05:51.he will sign several executive orders relating to immigration

:05:52. > :05:53.and border security over Here's our Washington

:05:54. > :06:06.correspondent, David Willis. We're going to have our border is

:06:07. > :06:11.nice and strong, we're going to build a wall. It was the soundtrack

:06:12. > :06:15.to Donald Trump's unorthodox campaign for president, a call to

:06:16. > :06:19.build a wall along America's southern border with Mexico. Now he

:06:20. > :06:22.seems set to press ahead with measures he believes are vital to

:06:23. > :06:27.stemming the illegal flow of immigrants into the United States.

:06:28. > :06:33.The president on his Twitter account said simply:

:06:34. > :06:41.He's vowed to make Mexico pay for it. But the Mexican government has

:06:42. > :06:47.refused to do so. Later in the week, to round off a busy start to his

:06:48. > :06:51.presidency, Mr Trump is expected to sign executive orders, closing

:06:52. > :06:56.America's borders to refugees and limiting access to citizens from

:06:57. > :06:58.seven African and Middle Eastern countries, countries the

:06:59. > :07:02.administration believes export terrorism.

:07:03. > :07:06.They're mainly Muslim countries but the mantra of the Trump

:07:07. > :07:10.administration is America first. A country that traditionally has

:07:11. > :07:14.opened its doors to immigrants is about to head in the opposite

:07:15. > :07:15.direction. David Willis, BBC News, Washington.

:07:16. > :07:17.Women are experiencing widespread discrimination when it comes

:07:18. > :07:20.to dress codes at work according to a parliamentary report.

:07:21. > :07:23.MPs heard from hundreds of women who reported that the dress

:07:24. > :07:25.codes they were subject to were sexist.

:07:26. > :07:28.They began an inquiry after a receptionist was sent home

:07:29. > :07:33.Here's our business correspondent Emma Simpson.

:07:34. > :07:40.Sometimes there's no choice, and it is not always attractive.

:07:41. > :07:43.But what about being ordered to wear high heels?

:07:44. > :07:46.When Nicola Thorpe arrived for her first day at work,

:07:47. > :07:49.she was told by her employment agency she must wear shoes

:07:50. > :07:58.When she refused, she was sent home without pay.

:07:59. > :08:01.What they state is it gives them a more professional look.

:08:02. > :08:09.I'm not entirely sure why adding two or four inches to my height makes me

:08:10. > :08:11.more professional, or makes me walk

:08:12. > :08:14.I don't think it affects how I come across.

:08:15. > :08:18.You can see me now, this is exactly what I would be wearing.

:08:19. > :08:21.And if it's just a matter of a couple of inches,

:08:22. > :08:23.I can stand tall without wearing heels.

:08:24. > :08:26.She then started a petition, which led to an inquiry by MPs,

:08:27. > :08:28.who now want action from the Government.

:08:29. > :08:32.We've come up with three recommendations.

:08:33. > :08:36.Firstly, that the Equalities Act of 2010 obviously isn't

:08:37. > :08:40.Secondly, we want to raise awareness that wearing high heels or make-up

:08:41. > :08:43.may be a health and safety issue in the workplace.

:08:44. > :08:45.And thirdly, we are going to hopefully...

:08:46. > :08:48.if it doesn't work, then we will be taking people to court.

:08:49. > :08:52.At this company, receptionists can wear what they like.

:08:53. > :08:55.In its evidence, the Government said the existing law was clear,

:08:56. > :08:59.and that the dress code imposed on Nicola was unlawful.

:09:00. > :09:02.But the MPs are calling on the Government to do more to make

:09:03. > :09:04.the law more effective in protecting employees

:09:05. > :09:17.The screening age for bowel cancer in England, Wales

:09:18. > :09:19.and Northern Ireland should be reduced to 50 years old,

:09:20. > :09:21.according to the charity Beating Bowel Cancer.

:09:22. > :09:24.Scotland is the only part of the UK which screens from 50.

:09:25. > :09:28.The charity says that if other parts of the UK came into line,

:09:29. > :09:30.4,000 patients a year would have the opportunity

:09:31. > :09:40.A delayed upgrade to the radio system used by the emergency

:09:41. > :09:42.services in England, Scotland and Wales may cost

:09:43. > :09:47.MPs on the Public Accounts Committee say the planned new system

:09:48. > :09:50.isn't used by any other country, and needs to be properly tested

:09:51. > :09:52.to make sure it works under pressure.

:09:53. > :10:04.The 105 police, fire and ambulance services in England, Scotland and

:10:05. > :10:09.Wales communicate using a radio network known as Airwave. But these

:10:10. > :10:15.contracts expire in two years time. In its pies the emergency service

:10:16. > :10:22.network, and adapted smart phone system run by 4G, on EE. Its hope

:10:23. > :10:27.they'll be able to help the emergency services streamed live

:10:28. > :10:30.video, relayed patient data and access blueprints for buildings. But

:10:31. > :10:34.the Public Accounts Committee is calling on ministers to address what

:10:35. > :10:38.they see as real security concerns. Our real concern about the new

:10:39. > :10:43.system is at the moment at the time we had our hearing there was no deal

:10:44. > :10:46.struck, there still isn't, about transport for London and the London

:10:47. > :10:49.Underground and there are questions about other undergrounds in the

:10:50. > :10:53.country. If it doesn't work underground then it's a real risk

:10:54. > :10:57.for our people and our emergency services who need to contact each

:10:58. > :11:02.other in real time in case of an emergency like 77. On top of this it

:11:03. > :11:09.probably would be ready in time so the old Airwave network may have to

:11:10. > :11:12.be extended at an annual cost of ?475 million, which the Public

:11:13. > :11:14.Accounts Committee says the Home Office hasn't budgeted for. In a

:11:15. > :11:28.statement the Home Office said: When it is up and running the UK

:11:29. > :11:33.will be the first in the world to replace their front-line radios with

:11:34. > :11:37.what effectively is an adapted smart phone. Fiona Lamdin, BBC News.

:11:38. > :11:39.David Cameron has been appointed president

:11:40. > :11:43.In an article in the Times he says research into cancer

:11:44. > :11:46.and strokes deserve all their funding, but that dementia

:11:47. > :11:50.His new role is the second formal position he has taken since standing

:11:51. > :12:01.An RNLI lifeboat station in Yorkshire has a new crew

:12:02. > :12:06.The wild animal has befriended the team and has become a regular

:12:07. > :12:10.They say he's nearly as tame as a pet dog,

:12:11. > :12:14.and as you can see, he certainly isn't camera shy.

:12:15. > :12:25.Normally they run away! It does look like he's incredibly relaxed and

:12:26. > :12:32.calm. I was just wanting to tell you a story... I've trod in a Fox poo

:12:33. > :12:36.this week, I probably shouldn't have told you that! The smell is

:12:37. > :12:42.horrendous. We have one that keeps jumping over the fences. The ones in

:12:43. > :12:49.the back garden and he terrifies our little dog. I was taking the kids'

:12:50. > :12:51.bikes to the shed and I've trod in the poo in the slivers! Maybe I

:12:52. > :13:01.shouldn't have mentioned it! At least it wasn't barefoot!

:13:02. > :13:06.Imagine! I've done that before. Hosed those suckers down! U2 are

:13:07. > :13:11.really bringing up the tone this morning! I'm just searching for a

:13:12. > :13:16.real treat I'm going to bring you in a moment from the papers. That's a

:13:17. > :13:21.promise! We start with news overnight Australia. Not brilliant

:13:22. > :13:25.news. Jana Konta is out of the Australian Open but what a

:13:26. > :13:30.transformation over the last year or so. -- Johanna Konta. She's changed

:13:31. > :13:33.her approach to matches, she's changed her mental attitude, she

:13:34. > :13:38.doesn't panic and she keeps really calm on court. It shows you how

:13:39. > :13:42.disappointed we are not going further. When you think about who

:13:43. > :13:43.she played and what she did today was such an achievement.

:13:44. > :13:46.Johanna Konta has been knocked out of the Australian Open this morning.

:13:47. > :13:49.She lost her quarter-final to Serena Williams 6-2 6-3 in just

:13:50. > :13:55.She was the last Brit left in the competition.

:13:56. > :14:05.Williams will play Lucic-Barroni in the semi-final.

:14:06. > :14:08.Former Olympic champion Nicole Cooke says British Cycling is run by men

:14:09. > :14:11.for men and its attempts to stop doping are inadequate

:14:12. > :14:15.Cooke made the claims in written evidence submitted to a Culture,

:14:16. > :14:16.Media and Sport Select Committee yesterday.

:14:17. > :14:18.Manchester United are making progress under Jose Mourinho

:14:19. > :14:21.and are unlucky not to be challenging Chelsea,

:14:22. > :14:23.according to their former boss Sir Alex Ferguson.

:14:24. > :14:26.Ferguson told the BBC he believes Mourinho has got to grips

:14:27. > :14:34.We will show that interview later this morning.

:14:35. > :14:37.And British five-time Olympian Jo Pavey is to run in this

:14:38. > :14:41.The 43-year-old says she hopes to use the race to qualify

:14:42. > :14:48.for the World Championships in August.

:14:49. > :14:56.I have to say I'm incredibly lucky, I did once go for a run with

:14:57. > :15:03.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Film slightly kindly for me. -- with Jo. --

:15:04. > :15:07.filmed. She happily hopped along. Fantastic. Good luck to her.

:15:08. > :15:13.A little look at the papers. I was attracted to the Daily Telegraph

:15:14. > :15:18.this morning because it has nice colours on the front page. There can

:15:19. > :15:24.be no turning back is the main story. The Scottish National Party,

:15:25. > :15:28.the Liberal Democrats and Labour commenting on Brexit in a lovely

:15:29. > :15:32.colour scheme of the fun of the Daily Telegraph. I know it is

:15:33. > :15:38.important, but it attracted my eye. The front of the Daily Mail, the

:15:39. > :15:42.lady who brought the whole case to the Supreme Court, Jean Miller, we

:15:43. > :15:45.will speak to her later, and the Daily Mail looking at the

:15:46. > :15:58.implications of the court ruling yesterday. MPs, they say they have a

:15:59. > :16:03.plot to thwart racks at. -- Brexit. The Daily Mail, when will they

:16:04. > :16:07.learn? They say nothing has changed with drivers using the phone at the

:16:08. > :16:12.wheel. Pictures hear of people holding their mobiles I think taking

:16:13. > :16:16.yesterday. The Times as well talking about the judgement at the Supreme

:16:17. > :16:21.Court. Judges make history in Brexit blow to ministers. Who shall we

:16:22. > :16:28.start with? Oh, Sally. I love how you do that. Sorry, Louise, I am

:16:29. > :16:35.lowering the tone, I'm talking about lycra. You know I love lycra. This

:16:36. > :16:38.is meant in lycra. Several places in New Zealand have banned men going

:16:39. > :16:46.into pubs and cafes wearing cycling shorts. Quite right too. They are

:16:47. > :16:53.trying to raise address standards. They say that lots of customers

:16:54. > :17:00.don't need to know that much detail about someone because the shorts are

:17:01. > :17:05.too tight. Unsightly. Yes, unsightly, and it is really common,

:17:06. > :17:10.isn't it, men and women of all ages, shapes and sizes on their bike

:17:11. > :17:16.cycling. Does it really matter? No, but it is strange, isn't it, when

:17:17. > :17:20.you go to work, and all of a sudden someone is cycling home and there

:17:21. > :17:30.they are in all of their glory. Oh, hello! It is strange. I am standing

:17:31. > :17:34.up for a cyclist, there is only one way to ride a bike and it is in

:17:35. > :17:42.lycra. Not when you are at the pub eating lunch. There is a list of

:17:43. > :17:48.things not to wear over 45, fake tan, pom-pom hats, sweatpants -

:17:49. > :17:57.everything comfortable. Fake tan. Thinking of myself. Shall I raise

:17:58. > :18:01.the tone? You can try. On the front of the business pages, this big

:18:02. > :18:07.story from BT in evolving their Italian business. In itself not

:18:08. > :18:12.usually interesting in the UK but it is knocking 20% off the value of BT

:18:13. > :18:17.shares, that is ?8 billion from the value of the firm, all related to

:18:18. > :18:21.accounting scandals. The Italian unit was borrowing too much money,

:18:22. > :18:24.paying debts with borrowed money and hiding the fact it had borrowed

:18:25. > :18:29.that. They have ousted the management team in Italy. There is

:18:30. > :18:35.pressure on Gavin Patterson, the UK boss, to work out if he can resolve

:18:36. > :18:42.it. ?8 billion off the value of BT. How would you feel about an apple

:18:43. > :18:47.that would never turn brown? Good. It is an GM apple... Oh, I didn't

:18:48. > :18:52.know that. Going on sale in America for the first time next month.

:18:53. > :18:55.Created in Canada, grown over ten years in Washington state and

:18:56. > :19:00.British Columbia and it comes pre- cut. Pre- cut? It never discolours,

:19:01. > :19:09.it never turns brown. Campaigners say it looks great but it doesn't

:19:10. > :19:12.say GM on the packaging. What would be more useful in my house is

:19:13. > :19:20.bananas that don't go brown. Some people love brown bananas. They are

:19:21. > :19:29.very good for blending and Smoothies. Thank you, everybody.

:19:30. > :19:35.Goodness me, save us. Is it cold again? Yes, for some of us, there is

:19:36. > :19:39.an 18 degrees difference in temperature north and south at the

:19:40. > :19:46.moment, in the north-west Highlands it is 13, in Exeter it is -5. We

:19:47. > :19:51.also have freezing fog to watch out for, especially in southern and

:19:52. > :19:56.south-eastern parts of England. Also in the Midlands we have fog around

:19:57. > :20:01.the Vale of York. It is slippery. If you are out and about, take care on

:20:02. > :20:05.the roads and pavements. It is windy to the west. We are looking at

:20:06. > :20:12.severe gales in the north-west with exposure. In the south-east we don't

:20:13. > :20:16.have that problem. We have all this fog, dance, poor visibility, not

:20:17. > :20:20.dissimilar to Monday, and don't forget it is quite slippery as well

:20:21. > :20:25.-- dense. Southwest England doesn't have that problem, nor in Wales or

:20:26. > :20:28.across most of northern England, some in the Vale of York, and here

:20:29. > :20:34.we see some sunshine, but in Scotland there is patchy fog, cloud

:20:35. > :20:38.and a mild start for Northern Ireland. Very varied weather this

:20:39. > :20:43.morning. Through the morning what is happening is, as cloud comes in, it

:20:44. > :20:49.will make the fog lifted into low cloud, you can see sunshine ahead of

:20:50. > :20:54.it for Southwest England, Wales, northern England, whereas in

:20:55. > :20:58.Scotland we see breaks around Murray Firth, but the emphasis is on a lot

:20:59. > :21:04.of cloud with rain coming in on the wind. Temperature-wise, mild in the

:21:05. > :21:08.west, still cold in the south, especially as cloud comes into the

:21:09. > :21:13.south-east through the afternoon. Through this evening, less of an

:21:14. > :21:18.issue with the fog, but there is cloud around during the overnight

:21:19. > :21:22.period. It will be cold as we drag in this continental air. There will

:21:23. > :21:26.be some drizzle around, and some light snow as well, and watch out

:21:27. > :21:31.for us where it has been damp with temperatures below freezing, we are

:21:32. > :21:35.looking at a widespread frost. Through the evening into tomorrow we

:21:36. > :21:39.have a cold, nagging south-easterly. It will feel quite more tomorrow.

:21:40. > :21:45.Some drizzle, so the risk of ice where we have it, or some light

:21:46. > :21:49.snow, but not enough to build a snowman. They will be a lot of dry

:21:50. > :21:53.weather and around and sunshine. This is how it will feel against

:21:54. > :22:03.your skin. Newcastle, one degree, it will feel more like -5. As we go

:22:04. > :22:08.into Friday, cold wind coming in, mild in the south-west and a little

:22:09. > :22:14.less cold into central and eastern areas. So, the message is, wrap up

:22:15. > :22:20.warmly. I am very glad that I brought my big coach today. Wise

:22:21. > :22:21.decision. Ferry. A number of female MPs have told

:22:22. > :22:25.the BBC that they've received physical and verbal threats,

:22:26. > :22:27.and fear for their safety following the death

:22:28. > :22:30.of the Labour MP Jo Cox. In a survey by BBC Radio 5 Live,

:22:31. > :22:33.some said they'd also experienced sexist language in the Commons,

:22:34. > :22:36.and even considered giving At a time when more women

:22:37. > :22:39.are being encouraged to go into politics, how

:22:40. > :22:41.off-putting is this? Our political correspondent

:22:42. > :22:50.Ellie Price has been finding out. It wasn't easy getting women the

:22:51. > :22:55.vote. It took even longer to get women into parliament. The first

:22:56. > :23:01.female MP to take her seat, Nancy Astor, was elected 98 years ago.

:23:02. > :23:06.Eventually, more would follow. It gives me the greatest pleasure to

:23:07. > :23:13.introduce to you the new national unionist women members. Back then,

:23:14. > :23:21.of course, they didn't have social media, unlike the 195 female MPs

:23:22. > :23:27.today. So, what you're looking at are the abusive tweets that my team

:23:28. > :23:34.screen shot it. And McLauchlan MP won't read the abuse she receives

:23:35. > :23:38.online. It is just as well, she doesn't want to share it. It takes a

:23:39. > :23:43.lot of strength not to. It is tempting if you are a loan at night

:23:44. > :23:48.and no one can see you if you get upset to just have a look. But why

:23:49. > :23:55.would I do that to myself? I have to say, I see the silver lining in

:23:56. > :23:59.not... The silver lining is I may never have to put up with that sort

:24:00. > :24:04.of abuse again in my life, because it doesn't happen unless you've got

:24:05. > :24:08.some kind of high profile and then people think they have carte blanche

:24:09. > :24:13.to call you whatever they want to call you. It isn't just hurtful

:24:14. > :24:17.insults on social media. There is an even darker side of death threats

:24:18. > :24:22.and violence. Jo Cox was murdered outside her constituency surgery

:24:23. > :24:26.last June. Two thirds of female MPs we spoke to say they have felt less

:24:27. > :24:29.safe ever since. Well over half have received a physical threat from a

:24:30. > :24:35.member of the public. This is the room where I hold my surgeries.

:24:36. > :24:42.Tulip Sadik grudgingly makes sure she has security whenever she holds

:24:43. > :24:46.security surgeries. You feel safe now? This building has a police

:24:47. > :24:53.presence outside, staff are supportive, so I feel safer. It was

:24:54. > :25:00.one of my staff members who opened, quite young, I felt sorry for them,

:25:01. > :25:04.opening this letter that said they wanted to butcher my family. The

:25:05. > :25:08.offer Scott in part with me and said, we need to take it to the

:25:09. > :25:12.police. I took swift action. The police were quick to respond. It

:25:13. > :25:17.makes me think, who has time to sit and write a letter to an MP saying,

:25:18. > :25:20.I want to kill you and your family? It all paints rather a grim picture

:25:21. > :25:24.and certainly the majority of MPs we spoke to say they are concerned that

:25:25. > :25:28.hearing about this sort of abuse might put off good new people, good

:25:29. > :25:32.new women, from wanting to become MPs. In fact a third of those we

:25:33. > :25:35.heard from ZP have considered giving up their job here in parliament

:25:36. > :25:40.because of it. And yet none of them have. And the majority we heard from

:25:41. > :25:41.say despite the difficulties, the job is a privilege, and well worth

:25:42. > :25:46.the flak. The copy-cat Lego that's so good

:25:47. > :25:55.even the boss can't We have a special report

:25:56. > :26:07.on China's counterfeit market. And he was incredulous, wasn't he,

:26:08. > :29:24.when he was shown? This is the one, yeah. He couldn't believe it.

:29:25. > :29:46.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin.

:29:47. > :29:49.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

:29:50. > :29:53.Bowel cancer is the UK's second biggest cancer killer,

:29:54. > :29:56.but the age at which you're tested depends on where you live.

:29:57. > :30:00.In Scotland it's at 50, and we'll hear about calls to bring

:30:01. > :30:04.They're the volunteer rescue workers saving lives in Syria,

:30:05. > :30:07.and now a short film about their work has been nominated

:30:08. > :30:10.We'll find out more about The white Helmets.

:30:11. > :30:12.And if you think you know your British history,

:30:13. > :30:16.Historian Lucy Worsley will be here to separate fact from fiction,

:30:17. > :30:18.as she tackles the nation's biggest fibs.

:30:19. > :30:25.But now a summary of this morning's main news:

:30:26. > :30:28.MPs have stepped up demands for the government to publish

:30:29. > :30:31.its plan for Brexit in a formal policy document.

:30:32. > :30:33.The demands for a white paper, including from some

:30:34. > :30:35.Conservatives, follow yesterday's Supreme Court ruling that parliament

:30:36. > :30:41.It's thought legislation could be introduced as early as tomorrow.

:30:42. > :30:43.Our political correspondent Carol Walker is at Westminster,

:30:44. > :30:54.how large could this Tory rebellion be?

:30:55. > :31:03.What might the process be? Of what we understand is tomorrow the

:31:04. > :31:08.government in Parliament will introduce a bill. Were told this

:31:09. > :31:11.will be a pretty short, straightforward bill that will

:31:12. > :31:15.essentially said Parliament will approve the triggering of Article 50

:31:16. > :31:20.that begins the formal negotiating process -- we're told. But the

:31:21. > :31:25.opposition parties and indeed some conservatives are going to use that

:31:26. > :31:28.process to try to amend the bill and put down the changes they want to

:31:29. > :31:33.see. Labour are saying they think that there should be a vote at the

:31:34. > :31:38.end of the negotiations and if they don't like the deal, if the Brussels

:31:39. > :31:42.deal is good enough, the Prime Minister should be forced to go back

:31:43. > :31:47.and renegotiate a better deal. Theresa May has said if it's a bad

:31:48. > :31:51.deal she wants to be able to say we're better off having no deal at

:31:52. > :31:55.all. We know the SNP are saying Scotland should be allowed to remain

:31:56. > :31:58.in the single market. They're threatening to have a second

:31:59. > :32:02.referendum on Scottish independence if they don't get their way. And the

:32:03. > :32:06.Liberal Democrats are saying there should be a second referendum of the

:32:07. > :32:10.British people at the end of the two years of negotiations, so lots of

:32:11. > :32:14.different agendas here but one thing on which they could all coalesce is

:32:15. > :32:18.for them to say they want a more formal setting out of government

:32:19. > :32:21.plans in what's called a white paper. Of course the government

:32:22. > :32:25.could simply agree to that and ministers are confident they will be

:32:26. > :32:30.able to stick to their timetable and trigger Article 50 by the end of

:32:31. > :32:34.March. Thanks, Carol. And a reminder, Jean Miller, who

:32:35. > :32:38.brought that case that went to the Supreme Court, will be speaking to

:32:39. > :32:42.us on Breakfast at 8:10am. -- word Gena Miller. -- Gena Miller.

:32:43. > :32:44.President Trump is reportedly preparing to sign several executive

:32:45. > :32:46.orders aimed at restricting immigration.

:32:47. > :32:48.It's expected he'll announce plans for a wall along

:32:49. > :32:51.the US border with Mexico, one of his key election pledges.

:32:52. > :32:53.Reports from Washington say he's also planning tightened visa

:32:54. > :32:57.regulations from seven Middle East and African countries.

:32:58. > :32:59.Women are experiencing widespread discrimination when it comes

:33:00. > :33:02.to dress codes at work according to a parliamentary report.

:33:03. > :33:05.MPs heard from hundreds of women who reported that the dress

:33:06. > :33:07.codes they were subject to were sexist.

:33:08. > :33:09.They began an inquiry after a receptionist was sent home

:33:10. > :33:18.Here's our business correspondent Emma Simpson.

:33:19. > :33:22.Sometimes there's no choice, and it's not always attractive.

:33:23. > :33:24.But what about being ordered to wear high heels?

:33:25. > :33:27.When Nicola Thorpe arrived for her first day at work,

:33:28. > :33:30.she was told by her employment agency she must wear shoes

:33:31. > :33:34.When she refused, she was sent home without pay.

:33:35. > :33:37.What they state is it gives them a more professional look.

:33:38. > :33:43.I'm not entirely sure why adding two or four inches to my height makes me

:33:44. > :33:44.more professional, or makes me walk

:33:45. > :33:53.I don't think it affects how I come across.

:33:54. > :33:57.You can see me now, this is exactly what I would be wearing.

:33:58. > :34:00.And if it's just a matter of a couple of inches,

:34:01. > :34:02.I can stand tall without wearing heels.

:34:03. > :34:05.She then started a petition, which led to an inquiry by MPs,

:34:06. > :34:07.who now want action from the Government.

:34:08. > :34:09.We've come up with three recommendations.

:34:10. > :34:11.Firstly, that the Equalities Act of 2010 obviously isn't quite

:34:12. > :34:17.Secondly, we want to raise awareness that wearing high heels or make-up

:34:18. > :34:20.may be a health and safety issue in the workplace.

:34:21. > :34:22.And thirdly, we are going to hopefully...

:34:23. > :34:25.If it doesn't work, then we will be taking people to court.

:34:26. > :34:30.At this company, receptionists can wear what they like.

:34:31. > :34:34.In its evidence, the Government said the existing law was clear,

:34:35. > :34:39.and that the dress code imposed on Nicola was unlawful.

:34:40. > :34:43.But the MPs are calling on the Government to do more to make

:34:44. > :34:45.the law more effective in protecting employees

:34:46. > :34:53.David Cameron has been appointed president

:34:54. > :34:57.In an article in the Times he says research into cancer

:34:58. > :35:00.and strokes deserve all their funding, but that dementia

:35:01. > :35:04.His new role is the second formal position he has taken since standing

:35:05. > :35:15.They have waited for nearly 20 years, but finally Japan has a Sumo

:35:16. > :35:42.30-year-old Kisenosato is the sport's new champion,

:35:43. > :35:46.The last time a Japanese wrestler won the title was in 1998.

:35:47. > :35:48.The last four grand champions have all been from Mongolia.

:35:49. > :35:51.Prior to that it was a wrestler from Hawaii.

:35:52. > :35:56.I interviewed a grand champion once. Amazing. Incredibly strong. All that

:35:57. > :35:59.stuff about eating and eating and eating and going straight to sleep

:36:00. > :36:08.so you get more fat to improve your bulk. Pretty much what I do! Isn't

:36:09. > :36:13.that what we all do? Exactly! Let's talk sport of a slightly different

:36:14. > :36:18.white. Johanna Konta, she has been beaten overnight in Melbourne, first

:36:19. > :36:23.time she has played Serena Williams -- different weight. She has changed

:36:24. > :36:25.her mental attitude going into the Australian Open and she has done

:36:26. > :36:28.very well. British number one, Johanna Konta,

:36:29. > :36:31.is out of the Australian Open. She was outplayed 6-2 6-3

:36:32. > :36:34.in the quarter finals by six-time Our tennis correspondent

:36:35. > :36:51.Russell Fuller joins She was in form coming into this but

:36:52. > :36:55.how one-sided was it? Not completely one-sided, she hadn't dropped a set

:36:56. > :36:57.here and she won the Sydney tournament before the Australian

:36:58. > :37:02.Open but Serena Williams hadn't dropped a set either. As is often

:37:03. > :37:06.the case, when Serena thinks there's a serious threat to her title

:37:07. > :37:09.chances on the other side of the net she raises her game and she did that

:37:10. > :37:14.today. She didn't always land her first serve in the right spot but

:37:15. > :37:19.when she did she invariably won the point or served an ace, very

:37:20. > :37:23.powerful, that exerts a lot of pressure on the other player. Konta

:37:24. > :37:27.was a break of serve up in the second set and Williams soon broke

:37:28. > :37:32.back and you felt at that stage there was only one winner. She's

:37:33. > :37:36.odds-on now to win a 23rd grand slam title, which would beat the record

:37:37. > :37:41.Steffi Graf currently shares for the most major titles won in the open

:37:42. > :37:45.era, the period since the late 1960s when tennis became open to

:37:46. > :37:49.professionals. That is something that Serena has talked about,

:37:50. > :37:53.something she has got her eye on. But overall you would have to say

:37:54. > :37:57.this has been a really impressive tournament for Konta? She has an

:37:58. > :38:01.amazing record in Melbourne. She turned up last year and seeded and

:38:02. > :38:05.got to the semifinals, the first time she had been in the main draw

:38:06. > :38:09.having failed to qualify three times before. Now with the pressure of

:38:10. > :38:16.defending ranking points from the year, if he had lost in the first

:38:17. > :38:19.round she wouldn't have gained very many and her ranking would have

:38:20. > :38:23.dropped, she's gone nearly as far by reaching the quarters and she has

:38:24. > :38:26.started to look like a potential grand slam champion. She will be in

:38:27. > :38:29.all the major tournaments and her coach was telling me she is

:38:30. > :38:36.confident she can do well at Wimbledon. Her best results have

:38:37. > :38:41.been in America and Australia on the hard courts but she leaves she can

:38:42. > :38:45.make major inroads when she pitches up on the grass courts in a few

:38:46. > :38:47.months. Richard Fuller from Melbourne this morning, our tennis

:38:48. > :38:51.correspondent. Former Olympic champion Nicole Cooke

:38:52. > :38:54.says British Cycling is run by men for men and its attempts to stop

:38:55. > :38:57.doping are inadequate Cooke made the claims

:38:58. > :38:59.in written evidence submitted to a Culture, Media and Sport Select

:39:00. > :39:02.Committee yesterday. The session was held to discuss

:39:03. > :39:05.issues raised at a hearing involving British Cycling and

:39:06. > :39:07.Team Sky last month. Sir Alex Ferguson thinks

:39:08. > :39:10.Jose Mourinho is getting to grips with being Manchester

:39:11. > :39:12.United manager. United are still in both

:39:13. > :39:16.domestic cup competitions and the Europa League,

:39:17. > :39:19.but are sixth in the Premier League, Ferguson says Mourinho has settled

:39:20. > :39:33.into the job after a turbulent start I think that Jose is finding

:39:34. > :39:39.solutions now. There was a period in the season when he wasn't making

:39:40. > :39:44.decisions and his motions boiled over. He is an emotional guy but the

:39:45. > :39:51.way you see him now, he's calm, he's in control. That's obvious... That's

:39:52. > :40:01.the obvious observation I am making of the team now. The team is playing

:40:02. > :40:04.with great energy, determination, will to win. Which I think is really

:40:05. > :40:10.important. It's really interesting, he doesn't

:40:11. > :40:15.have to give an interview, Sir Alex Ferguson, really interesting he has

:40:16. > :40:19.chosen now to give clear support to Jose Mourinho. He could keep quiet

:40:20. > :40:22.but he is definitely giving him his support. The ears team Jose, isn't

:40:23. > :40:25.he! Oakley. British five-time

:40:26. > :40:27.Olympian Jo Pavey will run in this

:40:28. > :40:28.year's London Marathon. The 43-year-old ran the event

:40:29. > :40:31.in 2011 setting a personal best of two hours, 28

:40:32. > :40:33.minutes and 24 seconds. Pavey says she hopes to use the race

:40:34. > :40:37.to set another PB and to qualify for the World Championships

:40:38. > :40:40.in August. One of rugby union's oldest clubs,

:40:41. > :40:43.London Welsh, has been kicked out of the Championship after they were

:40:44. > :40:46.liquidated last month. The club was granted

:40:47. > :40:49.a temporary licence to play on, but he Rugby Football Union says

:40:50. > :40:51.they haven't met the financial conditions required

:40:52. > :40:53.to extend that licence. All their results will be erased

:40:54. > :40:59.from this season's Championship. And finally Sweden's Daniel Bodin

:41:00. > :41:04.pulled off the first successful The double backflip has earned

:41:05. > :41:27.a reputation as the Holy Grail. Oh my goodness! There it is, one,

:41:28. > :41:33.goes around a whole number time. How long has he been practising bad for?

:41:34. > :41:41.-- nother. -- back for. -- that for. And now Bodin, who has been working

:41:42. > :41:57.on this for two years, The world's most profitable toy

:41:58. > :42:01.business, Lego, is having problems with counterfeits and copycats. It's

:42:02. > :42:03.a problem so big even the boss can't what is real and what is fake as

:42:04. > :42:07.Robin Brant has been finding out. Billions and billions of these

:42:08. > :42:10.little plastic bricks have been sold the world over and now Lego

:42:11. > :42:13.is betting big on China. What started out with hand-cut

:42:14. > :42:16.bricks in Denmark in 1949 is now a $100 million state-of-the-art

:42:17. > :42:18.operation near Shanghai but they are not the

:42:19. > :42:26.only ones doing it. or counterfeits are prolific in

:42:27. > :42:39.China. Lego is currently suing the firm

:42:40. > :42:42.behind this copycat Star Wnrs model. So how easy is it to

:42:43. > :42:45.spot the difference? We bought a real one and a copycat

:42:46. > :42:55.and asked the experts. If you have to ask me to guess,

:42:56. > :42:59.I would say this one, maybe. You think this one is real.

:43:00. > :43:04.You're right. The truth is, they look

:43:05. > :43:13.and feel almost identical. The copy's so good, in fact,

:43:14. > :43:17.that even the boss of that huge What do you think of that?

:43:18. > :43:24.It looks like a mini figure to me. I would say this is

:43:25. > :43:44.Lego and this is not. OK.

:43:45. > :43:45.This is Lego. Bought from Toy'R'Us yesterday,

:43:46. > :43:48.built by my daughter. It is trying to be Lego,

:43:49. > :43:59.is my assessment of it. Lego is not the only foreign firm

:44:00. > :44:02.investing big in China but having White Evoques like this

:44:03. > :44:08.sell particulalrly well. But the British firm has been

:44:09. > :44:10.powerless to stop this. Tucked away on a Shanghai side

:44:11. > :44:13.street, this is a Land Wind. It's similar on the inside and very,

:44:14. > :44:17.very similar on the outside This is our copycat

:44:18. > :44:20.that caught people out. on the huge online retailer,

:44:21. > :44:24.Alibaba. They took down thousands of links

:44:25. > :44:28.to copycat Lego products last year alone but the toy maker

:44:29. > :44:31.is still pursuing manufacturers in the courts because even the boss

:44:32. > :44:49.cannot tell the difference. That is just fascinating, isn't it?

:44:50. > :44:57.He is not happy at all. If even he can't tell the difference, what do

:44:58. > :44:59.you do? I suppose if it says something else... Yes, look for the

:45:00. > :45:00.spelling. You're watching

:45:01. > :45:02.Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this morning:

:45:03. > :45:05.A bill paving the way for Brexit could be introduced as early

:45:06. > :45:08.as tomorrow, after judges ruled that parliament should be given a vote

:45:09. > :45:11.on Britain leaving the EU. President Trump could announce his

:45:12. > :45:15.plans for a wall on the Mexican border, as he promises a big day

:45:16. > :45:28.ahead on national security. Now, the last few days, we have been

:45:29. > :45:29.telling you about how fog has been causing issues.

:45:30. > :45:32.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:45:33. > :45:43.Is that from today? No, but it tells a story quite nicely. Once again

:45:44. > :45:46.we've got fog, especially dense for southern and south-eastern England,

:45:47. > :45:52.affecting motorways and maybe flights as well. It is freezing fog.

:45:53. > :45:59.Find out what is happening on the BBC local radio. Freezing fog tells

:46:00. > :46:04.you it is cold outside, so watch out for slippery surfaces and black ice.

:46:05. > :46:08.We have all this fog on the south-east and we hang on to it for

:46:09. > :46:13.a while yet. It will be slow to clear. It will take to late morning

:46:14. > :46:22.and four others until late afternoon. So cold, foggy and

:46:23. > :46:29.frosty. In south-west England and Wales you might see the odd pocket

:46:30. > :46:35.of fog but that is all. Largely dry. Most of northern England is dry. A

:46:36. > :46:43.couple of pockets of fog. . A lot When of cloud here and a mild start.

:46:44. > :46:50.It is currently 13 degrees. -5 in Exeter. As cloud comes in from the

:46:51. > :46:55.near continent, it will lift the fog into low cloud, but sunshine for

:46:56. > :46:59.south-west England, Wales, into northern England, Murray Firth,

:47:00. > :47:04.quite a bit of cloud for Scotland and Northern Ireland with reining in

:47:05. > :47:09.the Outer Hebrides, nothing heavy. 11 degrees, ten in the west, where

:47:10. > :47:13.it is feeling cold, especially where the cloud comes in in the

:47:14. > :47:19.south-east. Through the evening and overnight not such an issue over the

:47:20. > :47:24.last couple of days, it will be windy to the west, but it will also

:47:25. > :47:28.be windy today. Tonight there will be some drizzle around, we could see

:47:29. > :47:32.the odd flurry of light snow and widespread frost so that tomorrow

:47:33. > :47:36.you need to watch out for ice on untreated surfaces. And tomorrow,

:47:37. > :47:41.certainly call for the odd light snow flurry here and there. Nothing

:47:42. > :47:46.substantial. Maybe just on the roof of your car, that's all. A lot of

:47:47. > :47:50.dry weather around as well. Look at the temperatures, five in Aberdeen

:47:51. > :47:56.will feel more like -1, and wherever you are across the UK it will feel

:47:57. > :48:01.bitter with the nagging wind from the freezing fronts. On Friday, dry

:48:02. > :48:05.weather around, a weather front from a south-west introducing rain and

:48:06. > :48:10.mild conditions from the south-west, and that we see temperatures picked

:48:11. > :48:16.up a touch as well. OK, well, you have made us very happy that we have

:48:17. > :48:20.warm coats, thank you. And a lovely library picture, thank you very

:48:21. > :48:28.much. Pleasure! I feel I have been firmly put in my place. She does it

:48:29. > :48:29.so gently. So nice. Yes, it is a library picture. OK, I've learnt my

:48:30. > :48:35.lesson. Having to wear high heels, make-up,

:48:36. > :48:38.shorter skirts or even dying their hair, those are just

:48:39. > :48:41.some examples of what women say they have been asked

:48:42. > :48:43.to do for their job. Now MPs are calling

:48:44. > :48:52.on the government to take action Yes, a really important area, and

:48:53. > :48:54.MPs looking at whether it is as widespread as people believe.

:48:55. > :48:57.This story started last year when a woman was sent home

:48:58. > :49:01.from a temp job in London after refusing to wear high heels.

:49:02. > :49:03.She launched a petition that gained over 150,000 signatures leading

:49:04. > :49:05.MPs to investigate workplace and dress code discrimination.

:49:06. > :49:10.Here are a few examples of what women say are their experiences.

:49:11. > :49:12.One air hostess described feeling humiliated due

:49:13. > :49:21.Adding that there was one set of clothing rules for men

:49:22. > :49:28.Another woman working in a jewellery store said wearing high heels

:49:29. > :49:39.While a retail worker told MPs she was offended

:49:40. > :49:45.Dress rules which attracted unwanted attention from customers.

:49:46. > :49:48.Let's speak to MP Helen Jones who Chairs the Parliamentary Petitions

:49:49. > :49:51.We've heard a snapshot of some stories - just how widespread did

:49:52. > :50:00.Just how widespread is it? From the evidence we've had, it is very

:50:01. > :50:07.widespread indeed, and it feeds into a culture where women feel degraded

:50:08. > :50:14.and humiliated at work, which often attracts unwanted attention often

:50:15. > :50:17.from customers, which can go far as putting them at risk, you know, with

:50:18. > :50:23.examples of people being followed home, for instance. So, give me some

:50:24. > :50:26.examples of the proposals of what you would like changed, so it is

:50:27. > :50:31.clear with high heels, but not suggesting you could go to work

:50:32. > :50:37.wearing trainers, for example? No, it is clear that employers are

:50:38. > :50:41.entitled to impose a uniform policy, which requires people to be smart

:50:42. > :50:45.and well turned out, but if that policy impact more on women than

:50:46. > :50:51.men, then it can be indirect discrimination. The problem is that

:50:52. > :50:55.indirect discrimination can be justified if the employer says it is

:50:56. > :50:59.reasonably necessary in pursuit of a legitimate aim and tribunal is can

:51:00. > :51:05.find differently in different parts of the country. -- tribunals. We the

:51:06. > :51:08.test cases to clarify the law. And I think that is where it might be

:51:09. > :51:12.difficult because in some cases there would be great area where the

:51:13. > :51:16.employer says, this is the look I want to present for my phone to my

:51:17. > :51:19.customers and this is how I would expect you to dress accordingly to

:51:20. > :51:23.present a look to those customers. That in some cases may not be

:51:24. > :51:28.discriminatory, am I right? It may not be but it is quite possible to

:51:29. > :51:32.draw up a dress code which isn't discriminatory between men and

:51:33. > :51:35.women. The agency which employed Nicola for instance revised its

:51:36. > :51:39.dress code after what happened and came up with a much more

:51:40. > :51:43.satisfactory one. The problem is some employers don't even realise

:51:44. > :51:48.they may be discriminating and certainly don't realise they have to

:51:49. > :51:53.do the health and safety assessment. So, we are asking for the government

:51:54. > :51:59.to shore up guidelines for employers as well as doing a guideline for

:52:00. > :52:07.employees so that people understand what is expected of them and what is

:52:08. > :52:11.not. And who will police it? Well, hopefully we see the quality and

:52:12. > :52:15.Human Rights Commission taking some more cases in order to clarify the

:52:16. > :52:18.law but we would really like to see much more information from employers

:52:19. > :52:26.so they get it right in the first place. OK, it is good to talk to

:52:27. > :52:29.you, Helen. Thank you very much. And we will speak with the chief

:52:30. > :52:32.executive of the chartered management institute which promotes

:52:33. > :52:40.nest practice in business leadership. And I must point out it

:52:41. > :52:51.is not just women. My head demands men wear a tie while women wear what

:52:52. > :52:55.they like. Whatever it is, they might be experiencing different

:52:56. > :52:59.codes of practice. That is true, there might be an issue, and what

:53:00. > :53:02.you cannot do with a dress code is have gender discrimination against

:53:03. > :53:06.men or women, and you can't compromise health and safety. High

:53:07. > :53:12.heels actually do both. So that is the guidance. It is fine if you are

:53:13. > :53:18.a hairdresser and you want to look full and you have to wear black.

:53:19. > :53:23.That is OK -- cool. It is something that compromises health and safety

:53:24. > :53:25.or discriminate. That said I think examples discriminating against

:53:26. > :53:29.women are more widespread. What sort of exam boards they become across?

:53:30. > :53:34.Well, we just did some research at CMI that found quite astoundingly

:53:35. > :53:36.that four out of five managers have witnessed gender discrimination

:53:37. > :53:42.against women in the workplace. So it is not just dress codes. The most

:53:43. > :53:51.common forms were inappropriate remarks, the so-called locker room

:53:52. > :53:55.Dan Dyer. -- banter. Women in meetings finding it hard to have

:53:56. > :53:59.themselves heard. Is it common and how does it manifest itself?

:54:00. > :54:06.Absolutely, well, that was the most second most common form of

:54:07. > :54:17.discrimination, almost 70%, and it is mansplaining, or even

:54:18. > :54:26.manerrupting. LAUGHTER. There is some... LAUGHTER. Lots of comments

:54:27. > :54:29.coming in as well. Patricia says, I have no issues with dress codes as

:54:30. > :54:34.long as they are consistent and apply equally so that men and women

:54:35. > :54:39.have to wear them, so women have to wear a suit and men do the same,

:54:40. > :54:42.perhaps with a tie. Theo says, at an investment bank the dress code for

:54:43. > :54:47.males was more strict than for females. Marcus says a tie is

:54:48. > :54:52.ridiculously uncomfortable and has no place in modern life. I feel that

:54:53. > :54:57.we are inappropriately dressed. Yeah, true. Those comments echo a

:54:58. > :55:02.lot. Women saying, here is an example, I was asked to wear skirts

:55:03. > :55:06.above the knee, make-up, and the employer was suggesting that is what

:55:07. > :55:10.the job is all about, but you are right, Andy says teaching women has

:55:11. > :55:15.no expectation, men have to wear this suit and tie and it is about

:55:16. > :55:21.universality? Well, it is, and by way I think if men don't want to

:55:22. > :55:27.wear a tie then they shouldn't have to, so that is a... Can you speak to

:55:28. > :55:34.the boss? It applies to both sexes. There is a serious side to this.

:55:35. > :55:37.There is still gender discrimination primarily affecting women and it is

:55:38. > :55:42.not just little things, it is big things like promotions and pay. You

:55:43. > :55:48.make a very good point. What do you make about... Does it need to be a

:55:49. > :55:51.culture change to see things in a different light? Absolutely, I think

:55:52. > :55:55.there needs to be a culture change and we know that from our research

:55:56. > :55:59.and this sort of tolerant of little things, so, little remarks, you

:56:00. > :56:09.know, you have to apply lipstick, can often almost act as condoning

:56:10. > :56:15.the big things. So, really, our request is, speak out if you see an

:56:16. > :56:18.inappropriate remark, call out your employer if there is an

:56:19. > :56:21.inappropriate dress code. Challenge the smaller things and hopefully

:56:22. > :56:24.that will take over all the big things as well. Thank you. And thank

:56:25. > :00:19.you for getting in touch. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:00:20. > :00:22.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. The government prepares

:00:23. > :00:24.to put its plan for Brexit should be given a vote

:00:25. > :00:32.on Britain leaving the EU. It's thought a bill could now be

:00:33. > :00:47.introduced as early as tomorrow. I'll be live at Westminster where

:00:48. > :00:51.ministers are urging MPs not to try and thwart the will of the people

:00:52. > :00:54.but opposition parties and some Tories are demanding more detail and

:00:55. > :01:04.a greater say in the Brexit process. Good morning, it's

:01:05. > :01:06.Wednesday 25th January. President Trump promises a big day

:01:07. > :01:13.ahead on national security, including an announcement

:01:14. > :01:15.about his plans for a wall In business, can a company impose

:01:16. > :01:23.a dress code for staff? From high heels to short skirts,

:01:24. > :01:27.two parliamentary reports say no. Firms must not and can not tell

:01:28. > :01:32.workers what to wear. Johanna Konta has been knocked out

:01:33. > :01:34.the Australian Open. She lost her quarter-final

:01:35. > :01:37.to Serena Williams 6-2 6-3 in just She was the last Brit

:01:38. > :01:43.left in the competition. I would say this

:01:44. > :01:57.is Lego, this is not. We'll find out how one

:01:58. > :02:04.of the world's best known brands is counting the cost

:02:05. > :02:19.of counterfeits in China. Once again this morning there is

:02:20. > :02:23.freezing fog, especially across southern and south-eastern England.

:02:24. > :02:27.Also black eyes to watch out for but there will be some sunshine, a wee

:02:28. > :02:31.bit of drizzle and strong winds in the north-west. I'll put all that

:02:32. > :02:32.together in 15 minutes. -- black eyes.

:02:33. > :02:36.MPs have stepped up demands for the government to publish

:02:37. > :02:39.its plan for Brexit in a formal policy document.

:02:40. > :02:42.The demands for a white paper, including from some Conservatives,

:02:43. > :02:43.follows yesterday's Supreme Court ruling.

:02:44. > :02:45.Theresa May must give parliament a vote before triggering

:02:46. > :02:48.Article 50, the formal process for leaving to the EU.

:02:49. > :02:51.It's thought legislation could be introduced as early as tomorrow.

:02:52. > :02:54.Here's our political correspondent Tom Bateman.

:02:55. > :02:57.After the judges ruled only Parliament can start Brexit,

:02:58. > :03:02.today a warning for MPs - don't to try to derail the plan.

:03:03. > :03:05.The Supreme Court judgement means a bill on triggering Article 50,

:03:06. > :03:09.the start of Britain's exit process, must be put before MPs and Lords.

:03:10. > :03:15.The government says legislation paving the way for Brexit will be

:03:16. > :03:18.tabled within days - that will be voted on by both

:03:19. > :03:25.Theresa May wants Article 50 triggered by the end of March,

:03:26. > :03:31.then Britain has two years to leave the EU.

:03:32. > :03:36.The point of no return was passed in June 23, last year.

:03:37. > :03:40.Labour say they won't block Article 50 but want to amend the bill

:03:41. > :03:42.to give MPs more control of the process.

:03:43. > :03:45.If necessary, there will be hand-to-hand combat on this.

:03:46. > :03:49.We need to make sure that we get the best deal on behalf the whole

:03:50. > :03:52.country and she can't say she acts on behalf the whole country.

:03:53. > :03:55.Theresa May also faces opposition from some of her own MPs,

:03:56. > :03:57.who wanta formal exit document to be debated.

:03:58. > :04:02.But for now, at least, ministers believe they are on track

:04:03. > :04:04.to get Brexit triggered by the spring.

:04:05. > :04:10.Our political correspondent Carol Walker is outside

:04:11. > :04:25.So, the process starts now and there will be so many discussions, the

:04:26. > :04:30.government at the moment saying it can stay on track. What are your

:04:31. > :04:33.thoughts? We know that tomorrow we expect the government to publish the

:04:34. > :04:37.bill it was forced to introduce to the Commons by that decision of the

:04:38. > :04:42.Supreme Court yesterday. Ministers are saying that will be a short and

:04:43. > :04:46.straightforward bill and it will essentially ask parliament to

:04:47. > :04:50.approve the triggering of Article 50 to begin the formal Brexit

:04:51. > :04:54.negotiations. But already we're hearing how MPs on all sides are

:04:55. > :04:58.going to try to put down the Mance, the changes they want to try to make

:04:59. > :05:04.to that legislation as it goes through the Commons. -- the

:05:05. > :05:08.amendments. Labour say they want a meaningful vote so if MPs don't like

:05:09. > :05:14.the final deal they can send the Prime Minister back to get a better

:05:15. > :05:18.one. The Lib Dems are saying they would like a second referendum at

:05:19. > :05:24.the end of the process and the SNP aren't happy. One area where they

:05:25. > :05:28.could get the support of Conservative rebel MPs is the idea

:05:29. > :05:31.of a white paper, formerly setting out the government approach to

:05:32. > :05:35.negotiations. The government hasn't ruled that out, it could publish

:05:36. > :05:40.plans in a white paper. Ministers are sounding pretty confident they

:05:41. > :05:43.will be able to stick to their timetable, trigger Article 50 and

:05:44. > :05:45.start those formal negotiations by the end of March. Carol Walker,

:05:46. > :05:46.thank you very much. We'll be speaking to businesswoman

:05:47. > :05:49.Gina Miller, who took the case to the Supreme Court,

:05:50. > :05:52.just after 8am this morning. President Trump has said a big day

:05:53. > :05:55.is planned on national security today, including an announcement

:05:56. > :05:58.on building a wall on the US border with Mexico, one of his

:05:59. > :06:01.main campaign pledges. In a message on Twitter,

:06:02. > :06:03.he also said to expect Reports from Washington say

:06:04. > :06:10.he will sign several executive orders relating to immigration

:06:11. > :06:12.and border security over Here's our Washington

:06:13. > :06:15.correspondent, David Willis. We're going to have our borders

:06:16. > :06:17.nice and strong, we're It was the soundtrack

:06:18. > :06:24.to Donald Trump's unorthodox campaign for president,

:06:25. > :06:27.a call to build a wall along America's southern

:06:28. > :06:28.border with Mexico. Now he seems set to press ahead

:06:29. > :06:32.with measures he believes are vital to stemming the illegal flow of

:06:33. > :06:35.immigrants into the United States. The president on his Twitter

:06:36. > :06:37.account said simply: He's vowed to make Mexico

:06:38. > :06:40.pay for it what's more, although the Mexican government

:06:41. > :06:42.has refused to do so. Later in the week, to round off

:06:43. > :06:45.a busy start to his presidency, Mr Trump is expected

:06:46. > :06:48.to sign executive orders, closing America's borders

:06:49. > :06:50.to refugees and limiting access to citizens from seven

:06:51. > :06:52.African and Middle Eastern the administration believes export

:06:53. > :07:09.terrorism. They're mainly Muslim countries

:07:10. > :07:11.but the mantra of the Trump A country that traditionally has

:07:12. > :07:18.opened its doors to immigrants is about to head in

:07:19. > :07:20.the opposite direction. Women are experiencing widespread

:07:21. > :07:30.discrimination when it comes to dress codes at work according

:07:31. > :07:33.to a parliamentary report. MPs heard from hundreds of women

:07:34. > :07:36.who reported that the dress codes they were subject

:07:37. > :07:38.to were sexist. They began an inquiry

:07:39. > :07:40.after a receptionist was sent home Here's our business

:07:41. > :07:50.correspondent Emma Simpson. Sometimes there's no choice,

:07:51. > :07:56.and it's not always attractive. But what about being ordered

:07:57. > :08:00.to wear high heels? When Nicola Thorpe arrived

:08:01. > :08:02.for her first day at work, she was told by her employment

:08:03. > :08:05.agency she must wear shoes When she refused, she was

:08:06. > :08:14.sent home without pay. What they state is it gives them

:08:15. > :08:17.a more professional look. I'm not entirely sure why adding two

:08:18. > :08:22.or four inches to my height makes me more

:08:23. > :08:23.professional, or makes me walk I don't think it affects

:08:24. > :08:27.how I come across. You can see me now, this is exactly

:08:28. > :08:30.what I would be wearing. And if it's just a matter

:08:31. > :08:33.of a couple of inches, I can stand tall

:08:34. > :08:37.without wearing heels. She then started a petition,

:08:38. > :08:40.which led to an inquiry by MPs, who now want action

:08:41. > :08:42.from the Government. We've come up with

:08:43. > :08:44.three recommendations. Firstly, that the Equalities Act

:08:45. > :08:46.of 2010 obviously isn't quite Secondly, we want to raise awareness

:08:47. > :08:57.that wearing high heels or make-up may be a health and safety

:08:58. > :09:00.issue in the workplace. And thirdly, we are

:09:01. > :09:02.going to hopefully... If it doesn't work, then we will be

:09:03. > :09:05.taking people to court. At this company, receptionists can

:09:06. > :09:09.wear what they like. In its evidence, the Government said

:09:10. > :09:13.the existing law was clear, and that the dress code imposed

:09:14. > :09:15.on Nicola was unlawful. But the MPs are calling

:09:16. > :09:19.on the Government to do more to make the law more effective

:09:20. > :09:21.in protecting employees David Cameron has been

:09:22. > :09:38.appointed president In an article in the Times he says

:09:39. > :09:42.research into cancer and strokes deserve

:09:43. > :09:45.all their funding, but that dementia His new role is the second formal

:09:46. > :09:50.position he has taken since standing An RNLI lifeboat station

:09:51. > :09:54.in Yorkshire has a new crew The wild animal has befriended

:09:55. > :09:58.the team and has become a regular They say he's nearly

:09:59. > :10:07.as tame as a pet dog, and as you can see,

:10:08. > :10:13.he certainly isn't camera shy. I don't know how good he is at

:10:14. > :10:19.rescuing people! Bowel cancer is the UK's second

:10:20. > :10:24.biggest cancer killer, and every day another 110 people

:10:25. > :10:27.are diagnosed with the disease. But the age at which people

:10:28. > :10:30.are screened varies. The charity Beating Bowel Cancer

:10:31. > :10:32.wants to see everyone tested from the age of 50,

:10:33. > :10:35.in line with Scotland. It says this would dramatically

:10:36. > :10:38.boost early diagnosis. Let's talk to Dorothy

:10:39. > :10:43.Byres from Edinburgh, of Cancer Studies at the Christie

:10:44. > :10:50.hospital in Manchester, who also works with

:10:51. > :10:57.Beating Bowel Cancer. Good morning to you both and thanks

:10:58. > :11:02.for joining us. Take us through your story. You were diagnosed when you

:11:03. > :11:06.were just 52 and this was through a routine screening, why did you even

:11:07. > :11:11.do the routine screening? In actual fact the day I received my screening

:11:12. > :11:16.kit was on my 52nd birthday and I had just been out with my family for

:11:17. > :11:22.a birthday celebration and my sister had told us her partner, Colin,

:11:23. > :11:26.advanced bowel cancer and, you know, it wasn't good news. When I went

:11:27. > :11:31.home and saw my bowel screening kit in the post I managed to complete it

:11:32. > :11:35.in record time and send it off. A lot of people don't like the

:11:36. > :11:39.screening kit and they say, you know, it doesn't make a very good

:11:40. > :11:43.birthday present but for me it was the best birthday present I ever

:11:44. > :11:50.received. How accurate are those tests normally? Yeah, so, in short

:11:51. > :11:55.they are very accurate. The UK has led in a lot of the research in this

:11:56. > :12:00.area over the last two decades. We have run big trials and we've done a

:12:01. > :12:04.lot of quality assurance and quality control in these areas. And this is

:12:05. > :12:08.a very effective way of screening for bowel cancer. You had no

:12:09. > :12:12.symptoms at all but they found out you had stage three? Mine was a

:12:13. > :12:18.stage three, yes. Which must have been a shock to you but thank

:12:19. > :12:22.goodness you did the screening? Yes, I was very surprised because I had

:12:23. > :12:26.no idea, I seemed quite healthy and fit but I had stage three bowel

:12:27. > :12:29.cancer. The important thing here is the age difference and you're

:12:30. > :12:33.arguing we should bring things in line with the situation that Dorothy

:12:34. > :12:39.found herself in in Scotland because it is currently different in other

:12:40. > :12:42.parts of the UK? Yes, outside of Scotland, England, Wales and

:12:43. > :12:48.Northern Ireland, this form of screening starts at the age of 60 so

:12:49. > :12:53.the argument is to bring this down to 50. This is a very effective way

:12:54. > :12:58.of beating bowel cancer and beating these deaths from bowel cancer. How

:12:59. > :13:03.much difference does early diagnosis make? A lot of people are diagnosed

:13:04. > :13:08.perhaps when they come into A? That's something we want to get rid

:13:09. > :13:13.of the. When I trained ten or 15 years ago a quarter of patients were

:13:14. > :13:17.coming through as emergencies. That's a lot of patients. It's

:13:18. > :13:21.expensive. It's a lot of radical and morbid surgery. Treating them

:13:22. > :13:26.earlier can now be done a lot simpler. We very often used keyhole

:13:27. > :13:30.types of surgery and they can avoid things like chemotherapy, so that's

:13:31. > :13:36.the way forward. Dorothy Comer can you understand, I know you said it

:13:37. > :13:41.was the best birthday present ever, there is a stigma about it but the

:13:42. > :13:45.importance of diagnosis is so crucial but there's embarrassment

:13:46. > :13:49.involved? Yes there is. But when you look at what the alternatives can

:13:50. > :13:56.be, it's a no-brainer to complete the screening when you're invited to

:13:57. > :14:02.do so. How are you now? Absolutely fine. You've had treatment, what was

:14:03. > :14:06.that like? It was challenging. I had an operation and then I had six

:14:07. > :14:10.months of chemotherapy, which was challenging. But there's lots of

:14:11. > :14:16.things in life that are challenging. I was just wondering about the cost

:14:17. > :14:20.implication. Also the number of people that might go through this

:14:21. > :14:24.process for whom it would be entirely unnecessary, is it worth it

:14:25. > :14:29.to catch up with that early diagnosis do you think? There's two

:14:30. > :14:34.crises, the cost issue again has been looked at 4/20 years in this

:14:35. > :14:38.country by health economists. A Thai time again it comes out as

:14:39. > :14:44.cost-effective -- for 20 years. -- time and time again. These are

:14:45. > :14:50.people and working age and we returned them back to work at a

:14:51. > :14:56.normal productive age. It is devastating news to hear you have

:14:57. > :14:59.cancer, what is your message to people going for the test and

:15:00. > :15:03.getting a diagnosis they don't necessarily want to hear? Despite

:15:04. > :15:08.people knowing about this with still lagging behind in terms of uptake.

:15:09. > :15:12.Typically for this test uptake across the country runs at about 60%

:15:13. > :15:17.so that the likes behind for instance breast cancer, which is

:15:18. > :15:24.70%. The first message is we need greater uptake. It's a simple test,

:15:25. > :15:27.as Dorothy has shown, and the message is once we find it, yes it's

:15:28. > :15:31.bad news but it's eminently treatable. Good to see you looking

:15:32. > :15:35.and feeling so well. We have public health or these in Northern Ireland,

:15:36. > :15:39.England and Wales and we asked them for a response. Wales is looking at

:15:40. > :15:43.extending it, Northern Ireland is looking at different approaches

:15:44. > :15:47.across the country before making changes. Public Health England says

:15:48. > :15:51.evidence shows the best way to reduce deaths is to combine the

:15:52. > :15:55.scope test at 55 with regular screening from the age of 60. Thank

:15:56. > :15:57.you very much four x four of your input.

:15:58. > :15:59.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:16:00. > :16:03.The main stories this morning: A bill paving the way for Brexit

:16:04. > :16:06.could be introduced as early as tomorrow, after judges ruled that

:16:07. > :16:09.parliament should be given a vote on Britain leaving the EU.

:16:10. > :16:12.President Trump could announce his plans for a wall on the Mexican

:16:13. > :16:18.border, as he promises a big day ahead on national security.

:16:19. > :16:27.Let's get a weather update from Carol. I'm not going to ask you

:16:28. > :16:30.anything about that picture, but it looks lovely. Good morning, it is

:16:31. > :16:33.lovely, isn't it, and it tells another story because once again

:16:34. > :16:37.this morning especially in southern and south-eastern parts of England

:16:38. > :16:41.there is some freezing fog, travel disruption is possible, you can find

:16:42. > :16:46.out more on the BBC local radio station but the freezing weather

:16:47. > :16:50.gives you a hint of the temperatures, it is a cold start, it

:16:51. > :16:54.is frosty, this is a crossing word in particular, and we are looking at

:16:55. > :16:59.some black ice on 100 services, so if you're heading out, buried in

:17:00. > :17:04.mind, you will have to scrape the windscreen -- untreated surfaces.

:17:05. > :17:09.Across the Midlands, Southern counties, this is where we have some

:17:10. > :17:15.fog, patchy and dance as well -- bear in mind. It is a cold start for

:17:16. > :17:18.Wales, with a fair bit of cloud around and no problems with the fog

:17:19. > :17:22.as such -- dense. Just the odd pocket. Across the bow of York, the

:17:23. > :17:26.odd pocket of fog. Most of northern England is fog free and the odd

:17:27. > :17:30.pocket for parts of Scotland but Scotland and Northern Ireland are

:17:31. > :17:33.off to a very mild start -- the Vale of York. Temperatures around 12 or

:17:34. > :17:37.13 at the moment. Through the morning you will find as we import

:17:38. > :17:41.cloud from any continent the fog will lift into low cloud. -- from

:17:42. > :17:46.the near continent. As it happens it will feel cold in the south-east. We

:17:47. > :17:50.have sunshine for south-west England and Wales, into northern England,

:17:51. > :17:55.Murray first and parts of Northern Ireland, but we also have a weather

:17:56. > :17:58.front coming in and that is going to bring rain for western Scotland and

:17:59. > :18:03.also the north-west of Northern Ireland. If you are out celebrating

:18:04. > :18:07.this evening, wrap up warmly because, once again, it is going to

:18:08. > :18:11.be cold with a fair bit of cloud coming across our shores, producing

:18:12. > :18:15.grizzle or light snow but snow should not present a problem, but

:18:16. > :18:19.there is also widespread frost so that ice might be a problem first

:18:20. > :18:23.thing in the morning -- drizzle. That is to bear in mind. So tomorrow

:18:24. > :18:27.we start off on that cold note. Again we are dragging in this cold

:18:28. > :18:31.continental air. It is going to feel better tomorrow. For many of us it

:18:32. > :18:34.will be dry but it will be cold enough here and there 40 odd flurry

:18:35. > :18:43.of light snow. So Manchester tomorrow's maximum temperatures one

:18:44. > :18:50.degree. -- for the odd flurry. It will feel like -4 here, and as we

:18:51. > :18:54.had into Friday we drag in the cold, Continental air, with a lot of dry

:18:55. > :18:58.weather around on Friday but, having said that, you can see the array of

:18:59. > :19:02.weather front here the west, the Atlantic front is bringing in some

:19:03. > :19:06.rain and as they do so, know the temperatures in the south-west of

:19:07. > :19:10.Northern Ireland, starting to climb. Ahead of that, temperatures slowly

:19:11. > :19:13.start to rise as well. So, into the weekend, well, the John Carlson

:19:14. > :19:19.showers, some sunshine and it will be less chilly, Sunday at the moment

:19:20. > :19:24.looks like the driest and best day of the week and -- the chance of

:19:25. > :19:29.some showers. Well, at the moment. Good clarification. Talking today

:19:30. > :19:35.about enforced dress codes and women being told to wear high heels and

:19:36. > :19:39.reapply make up. Loads of comments. Andrew says when I wore a Hawaiian

:19:40. > :19:43.T-shirt it was cited in the dress code as unacceptable but it didn't

:19:44. > :19:50.apply to female floral shirts. Marcus... (LAUGHTER).. That is a

:19:51. > :19:55.very good comment. Anonymous comment and you might see why. It isn't

:19:56. > :20:00.about a quality but the forced sexuality of women. Men not wearing

:20:01. > :20:03.ties in a position of importance in the office or frontline media jobs

:20:04. > :20:08.don't command respect. Julie says the only dress code should apply to

:20:09. > :20:11.all employees and the example is to dress smartly or a uniform is

:20:12. > :20:15.provided in hazardous areas as it is dangerous to wear high heels and I

:20:16. > :20:19.can't wear them because I fall over. In Japan department stores ban staff

:20:20. > :20:24.from earings and nail varnish which is different from cosmetic staff in

:20:25. > :20:28.the UK. Thank you for your comments and I cannot believe we are talking

:20:29. > :20:33.about Christmas. I am disappointed that Ben isn't in a Hawaiian shirt.

:20:34. > :20:38.Can we just chat, actually, because Dan and I have to wear a tie, not

:20:39. > :20:42.because the boss says we have to but we feel we have to, so if you are

:20:43. > :20:46.watching and you think we need to wear a tight, let us know. Let us

:20:47. > :20:52.know if we have to wear a tie. Do you not want to? Take it off. Shall

:20:53. > :20:56.I take it off? OK, I am not going to do it now. That is the fear. Thank

:20:57. > :20:57.you so much. We are still talking about Christmas.

:20:58. > :21:00.In the last few minutes we've had a couple of Christmas updates

:21:01. > :21:04.WHSmith says like-for-like sales rose 5% boosted by its stores

:21:05. > :21:09.But it's a familiar tale on the high-street where sales fell

:21:10. > :21:16.It also opened another 32 Post Offices and announced plan

:21:17. > :21:19.to open 23 more by the end of the year.

:21:20. > :21:22.Restaurant Group, the firm that runs Frankie Benny's

:21:23. > :21:25.and Garfunkels, says sales fell 3.9% over the last year.

:21:26. > :21:28.It says its now focusing on cutting prices to win back customers.

:21:29. > :21:31.It also warned of the extra cost of the new Minimum Wage,

:21:32. > :21:34.higher business rates, rising energy prices and extra costs

:21:35. > :21:48.because of the devaluation of the pound and rising food prices.

:21:49. > :21:52.And ?8 billion was wiped off the value of BT yesterday as shares

:21:53. > :21:53.slumped 20% over an accounting scandal

:21:54. > :22:07.in Italy, which could lead to a big fall in overall profits.

:22:08. > :22:10.Problems with BT's Italian business were found to be much worse

:22:11. > :22:13.than first thought, including misreporting profits and borrowing

:22:14. > :22:17.BT has fired its Italian management team but British Boss Gavin

:22:18. > :22:19.Patterson is under fire to explain how the problems occurred

:22:20. > :22:34.I am probably going to get in trouble for that now, but let's find

:22:35. > :22:38.out if we can wear and tie once and for all. Oh, look at the body

:22:39. > :22:46.language. It is all right. I am going to wicked off. After 8am, no

:22:47. > :22:52.tie, yeah? Don't negotiate on air. -- whip it off. You are forcing me

:22:53. > :22:54.into an uncomfortable situation. Exactly.

:22:55. > :22:57.A number of female MPs have told the BBC that they've received

:22:58. > :22:59.physical and verbal threats, and fear for their safety

:23:00. > :23:02.following the death of the Labour MP Jo Cox.

:23:03. > :23:05.In a survey by BBC Radio 5 Live, some said they'd also experienced

:23:06. > :23:08.sexist language in the Commons, and even considered giving

:23:09. > :23:12.At a time when more women are being encouraged to go

:23:13. > :23:13.into politics, how off-putting is this?

:23:14. > :23:16.Our political correspondent Ellie Price has been finding out.

:23:17. > :23:18.It wasn't easy getting women the vote.

:23:19. > :23:20.It took even longer to get women into parliament.

:23:21. > :23:23.The first female MP to take her seat, Nancy Astor,

:23:24. > :23:28.It gives me the greatest pleasure to introduce

:23:29. > :23:39.to you the new National Unionist women members.

:23:40. > :23:41.Back then, of course, they didn't have social media,

:23:42. > :23:52.So, what you're looking at are the abusive tweets

:23:53. > :24:07.Anne McLauchlan MP won't read the abuse she receives online.

:24:08. > :24:09.Which is just as well, it's deeply personal,

:24:10. > :24:17.It's tempting if you are alone at night and no one can see

:24:18. > :24:19.you if you get upset to just have a look.

:24:20. > :24:31.I have to say, I very much see the silver lining in not getting

:24:32. > :24:34.reelected, the silver lining is I may never have to put up

:24:35. > :24:37.with that sort of abuse again in my life, because it doesn't

:24:38. > :24:40.happen unless you've got some kind of high profile,

:24:41. > :24:43.and then people think they have carte blanche to call you whatever

:24:44. > :24:47.But it isn't just hurtful insults on social media,

:24:48. > :24:49.there's an even darker side of death threats and violence.

:24:50. > :24:52.Jo Cox was murdered outside her constituency surgery last June.

:24:53. > :24:56.Two thirds of female MPs we spoke to say they have felt less

:24:57. > :24:59.Well over half have received a physical threat from a member

:25:00. > :25:03.This is the room where I hold my surgeries.

:25:04. > :25:05.Tulip Sadik begrudgingly makes sure she has security whenever

:25:06. > :25:18.This building is a secure building, there is a police presence outside,

:25:19. > :25:21.staff are supportive, so I feel safer.

:25:22. > :25:28.It was one of my staff members who opened the letter,

:25:29. > :25:31.quite a young staff member, I felt sorry for them,

:25:32. > :25:34.opening this letter that said they wanted to butcher my family.

:25:35. > :25:37.The office got in touch with me and said, we need to take

:25:38. > :25:45.It makes me think, who has time to sit and write a letter to an MP

:25:46. > :25:48.saying, I want to kill you and your family?

:25:49. > :25:51.It all paints rather a grim picture, and certainly the majority of MPs

:25:52. > :25:54.we spoke to say they're concerned that hearing about this sort

:25:55. > :25:57.of abuse might put off good new people, good new women,

:25:58. > :26:02.In fact, a third of those we heard from said they have considered

:26:03. > :26:05.giving up their job here in parliament because of it.

:26:06. > :26:09.And the majority we heard from say, despite the difficulties,

:26:10. > :26:16.the job is a privilege, and well worth the flak.

:26:17. > :26:22.It is very interesting, we are talking about that and as well

:26:23. > :26:26.talking about what women are being made to wear to work as well, so it

:26:27. > :26:30.is kind of a theme. Yes, keep your comments coming in, because it is

:26:31. > :26:33.lovely to read, there is a cross-section of opinion. Yes.

:26:34. > :26:37.The copy-cat Lego that's so good even the boss can't

:26:38. > :26:41.We have a special report on China's counterfeit marketplace.

:26:42. > :26:48.Not just toys, it is cars being made as well. Yes, all sorts, and how can

:26:49. > :26:52.you tell, because if the boss doesn't know? The children seem to

:26:53. > :26:56.know. You will see later on the young girl is shown the fake and the

:26:57. > :26:58.real and straightaway she says, that is the real one and that is right.

:26:59. > :30:17.We will Hello, this is Breakfast

:30:18. > :30:32.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. MPs have increased pressure

:30:33. > :30:34.on Theresa May to set out her negotiating

:30:35. > :30:36.position on Brexit. The demands for a white paper,

:30:37. > :30:38.including from some Conservatives, follow yesterday's

:30:39. > :30:40.Supreme Court ruling. The Prime Minister must now give

:30:41. > :30:43.parliament a vote before triggering It's thought legislation could be

:30:44. > :30:54.introduced as early as tomorrow. President Trump is reportedly

:30:55. > :30:56.preparing to sign several executive orders aimed at

:30:57. > :31:01.restricting immigration. It's expected he'll announce

:31:02. > :31:03.plans for a wall along the US border with Mexico,

:31:04. > :31:06.one of his key election pledges. Reports from Washington say he's

:31:07. > :31:09.also planning tightened visa regulations from seven Middle East

:31:10. > :31:14.and African countries. Women in the workplace

:31:15. > :31:16.are being told what to wear, how to have their hair and how much

:31:17. > :31:20.make up they need to put on, according to a report

:31:21. > :31:23.into office discrimination. MPs began an inquiry

:31:24. > :31:26.after a receptionist was sent home

:31:27. > :31:27.for refusing to wear high heels. They heard examples of sexism

:31:28. > :31:41.from hundreds of women. the problem is that indirect

:31:42. > :31:46.discrimination can be justified if the employer says it is reasonably

:31:47. > :31:49.necessary in pursuit of a legitimate aim and tribunal is can find

:31:50. > :31:52.differently in different parts of the country. So we need more test

:31:53. > :31:54.cases so the law's clarified. The screening age for bowel

:31:55. > :31:57.cancer in England, Wales and Northern Ireland should be

:31:58. > :32:00.reduced to 50 years old, according to the charity

:32:01. > :32:02.Beating Bowel Cancer. Scotland is the only part of the UK

:32:03. > :32:05.which screens from 50. The charity says that if other parts

:32:06. > :32:09.of the UK came into line, 4,000 patients a year

:32:10. > :32:11.would have the opportunity Ten or 15 years ago

:32:12. > :32:27.a quarter of patients were coming It's a lot of radical

:32:28. > :32:32.and morbid surgery. Treating them earlier

:32:33. > :32:34.can now be done a lot We very often used keyhole types

:32:35. > :32:38.of surgery and they can avoid things like chemotherapy,

:32:39. > :32:41.so that's the way forward. David Cameron has been

:32:42. > :32:42.appointed president In an article in the Times he says

:32:43. > :32:46.research into cancer and strokes deserve

:32:47. > :32:49.all their funding, but that dementia His new role is the second formal

:32:50. > :32:54.position he has taken since standing They have waited for nearly 20

:32:55. > :33:03.years, but finally Japan has a Sumo 30-year-old Kisenosato

:33:04. > :33:06.is the sport's new champion, The last time a Japanese wrestler

:33:07. > :33:10.won the title was in 1998. The last four grand champions have

:33:11. > :33:13.all been from Mongolia. Prior to that it was

:33:14. > :33:30.a wrestler from Hawaii. I tell you what, impressive. You

:33:31. > :33:35.wouldn't want to mess with him. And there's an interview about the food

:33:36. > :33:43.he eats. Paid stacks of grub and then they go straight to sleep so it

:33:44. > :33:49.turns to fat as quickly as possible. -- paid stacks of grub. Sounds like

:33:50. > :33:57.my dream life -- and they eat stacks of grub. -- they eat stacks of grub.

:33:58. > :34:02.We have been talking about Johanna Konta this morning, British number

:34:03. > :34:03.one, not fantastic news for her but she's had a great tournament.

:34:04. > :34:07.Johann Konta has been knocked of the Australian Open this morning.

:34:08. > :34:09.She lost to Serena Williams 6-2 6-3 in just over

:34:10. > :34:13.She was the last Brit left in the competition.

:34:14. > :34:20.She had been on a nine match winning streak. She is now two victories

:34:21. > :34:24.away from claiming an open era record 23rd major title.

:34:25. > :34:32.I think overall she played at a higher level than I did today and I

:34:33. > :34:37.think she showed why she is arguably one of the best of all time. So I

:34:38. > :34:43.think, yeah, I really enjoyed my time out there on court against her.

:34:44. > :34:48.I think I was able... I hope I'll be able to bring a lot away from it and

:34:49. > :34:53.thinks I'll be able to reuse and hopefully I'll get a chance to play

:34:54. > :34:56.her again, and for other matches as well.

:34:57. > :34:59.Former Olympic champion Nicole Cooke says British Cycling is run by men

:35:00. > :35:02.for men and its attempts to stop doping are inadequate

:35:03. > :35:05.Cooke made the claims in written evidence submitted

:35:06. > :35:07.to a Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee yesterday.

:35:08. > :35:10.The session was held to discuss issues raised at a hearing involving

:35:11. > :35:25.British Cycling and Team Sky last month.

:35:26. > :35:27.Sir Alex Ferguson thinks Jose Mourinho is getting to grips

:35:28. > :35:29.with being Manchester United manager.

:35:30. > :35:31.United are still in both domestic cup competitions

:35:32. > :35:34.and the Europa League, but are sixth in the Premier League,

:35:35. > :35:38.Ferguson says Mourinho has settled into the job after a turbulent start

:35:39. > :35:42.I think that Jose is finding solutions now.

:35:43. > :35:46.There was a period there in the season when he wasn't getting

:35:47. > :35:47.decisions and his emotions boiled over.

:35:48. > :35:50.He is an emotional guy but the way you see him now,

:35:51. > :35:57.That's the obvious observation I am making

:35:58. > :36:04.It's playing with great energy, determination,

:36:05. > :36:20.will to win, which I think is really important.

:36:21. > :36:22.England's women have drawn 0-0 with Sweden in Murcia,

:36:23. > :36:24.it was the second of two friendlies in Spain.

:36:25. > :36:26.Siobhan Chamberlain saved a second half penalty.

:36:27. > :36:29.The next step in England's preparation for the European

:36:30. > :36:31.Championship is to take part in the SheBelieves Cup,

:36:32. > :36:39.I think everyone will be happy with how the week's gone. Everyone's

:36:40. > :36:40.pretty much got minutes and that's fantastic, especially at

:36:41. > :36:45.international level and everyone who's come out here has performed

:36:46. > :36:50.and as I said before, it will give Mark a headache and hopefully going

:36:51. > :36:52.forward into the she will give us a bit more fitness and match sharpness

:36:53. > :36:54.and hope us get results out there. British five-time

:36:55. > :36:56.Olympian Jo Pavey will run in this

:36:57. > :36:57.year's London Marathon. The 43-year-old ran the event

:36:58. > :37:00.in 2011 setting a personal best of two hours, 28

:37:01. > :37:03.minutes and 24 seconds. Pavey says she hopes to use the race

:37:04. > :37:07.to set another PB and to qualify for the World Championships

:37:08. > :37:20.in August. That is really fast! When I read

:37:21. > :37:25.that I think two hours, 28 minutes and 24 seconds. It's ridiculous,

:37:26. > :37:30.it's not allowed! You've got a big guest in the next hour? I have, Alun

:37:31. > :37:34.Wyn Jones, the Welsh captain, he will be talking about the Six

:37:35. > :37:38.Nations and their preparations for the Six Nations. Let your questions

:37:39. > :37:40.come in for that! Meanwhile he's not too happy to hear this.

:37:41. > :37:43.One of rugby union's oldest clubs, London Welsh, has been kicked out

:37:44. > :37:45.of the Championship after they were liquidated last month.

:37:46. > :37:48.The club was granted a temporary licence to play on,

:37:49. > :37:51.but he Rugby Football Union says they haven't met the financial

:37:52. > :37:53.conditions required to extend that licence.

:37:54. > :38:02.All their results will be erased from this season's Championship.

:38:03. > :38:05.And finally Sweden's Daniel Bodin pulled off the first successful

:38:06. > :38:12.The double backflip has earned a reputation as the Holy Grail.

:38:13. > :38:16.Lots of people have tried, many people have failed.

:38:17. > :38:19.And now Bodin, who has been working on this for two years,

:38:20. > :38:29.Amazing to watch. How do you work on it, how do you practise? Don't you

:38:30. > :38:34.do it on a big foam? With a snowmobile? I'm not the expert, I'm

:38:35. > :38:39.just guessing! Maybe you try it with a bike to start with. All that

:38:40. > :38:42.timing and balance. Congratulations to him. See you later with Alun Wyn

:38:43. > :38:42.Jones. La La Land may have dominated

:38:43. > :38:44.the Oscar nominations, but there's more to

:38:45. > :38:47.the Academy Awards than just The White Helmets is

:38:48. > :38:50.a story about a team of volunteers saving lives in Syria,

:38:51. > :38:53.and it's been nominated In a moment we'll chat

:38:54. > :39:23.to the British team behind it, The latest missile attacks on

:39:24. > :39:25.hospitals and schools in rebel held areas have left up to 50 civilians

:39:26. > :40:01.dead. It is a really powerful bit of

:40:02. > :40:03.cinema. and producer Joanna Natasegara

:40:04. > :40:13.are with us now. I have no shame in telling you I

:40:14. > :40:18.watched this on the train yesterday and I was in bits on the train. It

:40:19. > :40:21.is such a powerful story and so beautifully told. Congratulations on

:40:22. > :40:27.the nomination first of all. Thank you very much. Syria is such a

:40:28. > :40:32.difficult issue for people to engage with and these guys are a story of

:40:33. > :40:36.hope. They are real-life heroes, they are civilians just like us,

:40:37. > :40:41.just like the viewers watching at home who decided to every day get up

:40:42. > :40:46.and risk their lives to said strangers. Tell us about what they

:40:47. > :40:52.are doing, they are going in to help people as much as they can? -- said

:40:53. > :40:58.strangers. Their volunteer rescue workers, instead of fleeing or

:40:59. > :41:05.taking up a gun they help when people are needing it -- said

:41:06. > :41:11.strangers. -- save strangers. Some of the footage I know you have, a

:41:12. > :41:16.lot of it was just too distressing, upsetting to use, wasn't it? Yeah.

:41:17. > :41:20.What you see in this film, you still see some quite graphic scenes but it

:41:21. > :41:25.was a very small fraction of the original material which if we had

:41:26. > :41:30.included would have made the film unwatchable by its graphic nature.

:41:31. > :41:34.There was one powerful part when the team pull out a baby and the baby is

:41:35. > :41:39.alive, it is less than two weeks old, they're in tears when they do

:41:40. > :41:43.it and when you're asking The white Helmets to retell the story, it is

:41:44. > :41:49.so powerfully told and one life rescued had a huge impact on so

:41:50. > :41:52.many? It did, baby Makhmudov was less than two weeks old and

:41:53. > :41:58.underneath a 3-storey building -- the mood. Nobody thought he would be

:41:59. > :42:03.alive and he was when they pulled him out 16 hours later. In the film

:42:04. > :42:07.you see the reunion between The white Helmets that saved him. I

:42:08. > :42:42.think we can see a bit of that now. Have a look.

:42:43. > :42:49.In another part of the film you can hear the baby crying and the

:42:50. > :42:53.jubilation from The white Helmets as they pull this little child from the

:42:54. > :42:57.rubble. It's extraordinary, they had been searching for 16 hours and they

:42:58. > :43:01.almost gave up hope they would find anyone else alive and then one of

:43:02. > :43:05.them suddenly hears this faint sound of a baby crying and that gave

:43:06. > :43:09.everyone hope and energy again and they kept digging and we get to that

:43:10. > :43:13.moment where you see the baby being pulled out by The White Helmets.

:43:14. > :43:18.It's all to ditch from them, you couldn't go out there or be there

:43:19. > :43:22.for very obvious reasons. Yeah, the team we chose to focus on was from

:43:23. > :43:27.Eastern Aleppo, which we've seen so many times is the most dangerous

:43:28. > :43:31.place for journalists. We did film on the border of Syria and Turkey

:43:32. > :43:35.with them in the training camp but it's a combination of our footage

:43:36. > :43:39.and beautiful work from a young cameraman and a couple of his

:43:40. > :43:43.colleagues, they were really documenting the work in eastern

:43:44. > :43:47.Aleppo and working with us to put that in the film. I no you don't

:43:48. > :43:52.make films to collect awards, but what is it like for you to receive

:43:53. > :43:57.this Oscar nomination -- I no you don't. Personally we're over the

:43:58. > :44:01.moon but far more importantly it's a fantastic opportunity to keep a

:44:02. > :44:06.focus on the work these guys do and the risk they take everyday.

:44:07. > :44:16.Extraordinary. Presumably their work carries on? Absolutely it does,

:44:17. > :44:19.unfortunately they are still digging, they are still working in

:44:20. > :44:23.areas where they can, they're a target of the regime so now they're

:44:24. > :44:26.out of the stem Aleppo but into other areas. Your background is in

:44:27. > :44:29.directing and producing and journalism, the veracity of the

:44:30. > :44:33.footage, you know where it's come from -- eastern Aleppo. We went

:44:34. > :44:36.through dozens of hours of material and we did our homework working out

:44:37. > :44:40.exactly where that staff had come from. It's not just us, there's been

:44:41. > :44:45.numerous other journalists who have done exactly the same sort of work

:44:46. > :44:49.on this material to verify it. People have seen hours and hours of

:44:50. > :44:54.news footage, it's fascinating to see a different life and these

:44:55. > :44:58.people doing amazing jobs. A really powerful film, congratulations. Will

:44:59. > :45:05.you be going out to the Oscars? We will, and we hope some of the guys

:45:06. > :45:07.from the film will be able to join us as well. Great. Thanks for

:45:08. > :45:08.joining us. The Oscar-nominated documentary

:45:09. > :45:20.The White Helmets is available More fog? Yes, freezing fog,

:45:21. > :45:25.especially for southern and south-eastern England, heading into

:45:26. > :45:31.the Midlands as well, Apache fog elsewhere, but this is where the fog

:45:32. > :45:38.is most dense, and it tells you it is a cold start -- the patchy fog.

:45:39. > :45:42.If you are heading out, watch out for black ice on untreated surfaces.

:45:43. > :45:48.This is where we currently have the fog, and it is patchy and dense. It

:45:49. > :45:53.is on par with what we had on Monday. It is a cold start with the

:45:54. > :45:58.risk of ice, as I mentioned, and south-west, at 9am this morning, we

:45:59. > :46:02.are into the sunshine with temperatures that bit higher. In

:46:03. > :46:07.Wales we have a little fog, not much around the Welsh marches, giving way

:46:08. > :46:12.to some sunshine. As we moved to northern England, some fog along the

:46:13. > :46:16.Vale of York, lifting to see some sunshine. Sunshine around Murray

:46:17. > :46:22.Firth but for Scotland and Northern Ireland it is cloudy to start and

:46:23. > :46:25.mild, and windy out to the west with gales across the far north-west of

:46:26. > :46:29.Scotland, even severe gales with exposure. Through the day we are

:46:30. > :46:32.importing cloud from the new continent, which will lift the fog,

:46:33. > :46:37.so it will be cold in the south-east, but as we push across

:46:38. > :46:41.where we have the sunshine we are looking at 7-9, and the highest

:46:42. > :46:45.temperatures north-west Scotland and Northern Ireland. Through the

:46:46. > :46:50.evening and overnight it will still be windy in the west, it will be

:46:51. > :46:53.breezy for the rest of the UK, so it doesn't mean we won't have such

:46:54. > :46:57.issues with fog but we have widespread frost, we will see some

:46:58. > :47:00.drizzle, light snow flurries, so there could be some ice first thing

:47:01. > :47:04.tomorrow morning, something to bear in my if you are travelling and once

:47:05. > :47:10.again leave extra time to scrape your car windscreen. Tomorrow it is

:47:11. > :47:16.a cold and frosty start, watch out for the ice, for many it will be dry

:47:17. > :47:20.but tomorrow we have a keen raw nagging south-easterly wind coming,

:47:21. > :47:26.so the one degree in Manchester in the wind will feel more like -4

:47:27. > :47:30.against your skin. Wherever you are in the UK it will feel colder than

:47:31. > :47:34.you might see on the thermometer. And then as we heading to Friday,

:47:35. > :47:38.the nagging south-easterly coming off the cold continent, dry weather

:47:39. > :47:42.around at a set of fronts waiting in the wings in the Atlantic. They will

:47:43. > :47:46.come in from the south-west bringing rain and note the temperatures

:47:47. > :47:50.lifting. And as we go through the rest of the day and into the weekend

:47:51. > :47:54.it will be less chilly. I have a special treat tonight, I am going to

:47:55. > :47:59.see you in person. It will be lovely. And it is Burns night as

:48:00. > :48:05.well is the national TV awards. She is going to be fired up. It is and

:48:06. > :48:12.we are nominated and as we has said before we are quite excited. Yes,

:48:13. > :48:18.fully dressed and ready to go. And I know we are not allowed to be

:48:19. > :48:27.plucky, but you can vote at midday, -- from Mendez, and there are other

:48:28. > :48:29.categories -- from midday. We are in the Life magazine show. It is over

:48:30. > :48:33.now. It will be over by tomorrow. Its plastic bricks are commonplace

:48:34. > :48:36.in playrooms all over the world, turning it into the most profitable

:48:37. > :48:38.toy business of all, Lego is having a problem

:48:39. > :48:51.with counterfeits. And we have a great report that I

:48:52. > :48:53.will show you in a second. The boss can't tell the fake from the real

:48:54. > :48:53.ones. You'll be used to seeing fake

:48:54. > :48:57.Ray Ban glasses and rip off designer handbags at the beach

:48:58. > :48:59.but what about fake toys? Lego is the biggest

:49:00. > :49:01.toy maker in the world and the Danish firm is trying

:49:02. > :49:05.to make it big in China, too. They've just opened a factory there,

:49:06. > :49:07.taking on thousands But the problem with rip offs

:49:08. > :49:11.is so great they're already suing one Chinese manufacturer,

:49:12. > :49:14.and the world's biggest retailer Alibaba has taken down tens

:49:15. > :49:16.of thousands of online links to suspect Lego products

:49:17. > :49:25.in the last year alone. My colleague in Asia Robin Brant

:49:26. > :49:28.went to meet the boss. Billions and billions of these

:49:29. > :49:31.little plastic bricks have been sold the world over and now Lego

:49:32. > :49:36.is betting big on China. What started out with hand-cut

:49:37. > :49:39.bricks in Denmark in 1949 is now a $100 million state-of-the-art

:49:40. > :49:41.operation near Shanghai but they are not the

:49:42. > :49:49.only ones doing it. Copies like this and fakes

:49:50. > :49:52.or counterfeits are prolific in Lego is currently suing the firm

:49:53. > :49:56.behind this copycat Star Wnrs model. So how easy is it to

:49:57. > :49:58.spot the difference? We bought a real one and a copycat

:49:59. > :50:20.and asked the experts. If you have to ask me to guess,

:50:21. > :50:24.I would say this one, maybe. The truth is, they look

:50:25. > :50:33.and feel almost identical. The copy's so good, in fact,

:50:34. > :50:36.that even the boss of that huge I would say this is

:50:37. > :51:02.Lego and this is not. Bought from Toy'R'Us yesterday,

:51:03. > :51:15.built by my daughter. It is trying to be Lego,

:51:16. > :51:19.is my assessment of it. Lego is not the only foreign firm

:51:20. > :51:23.investing big in China but having White Evoques like this

:51:24. > :51:29.sell particulalrly well. But the British firm has been

:51:30. > :51:32.powerless to stop this. Tucked away on a Shanghai side

:51:33. > :51:38.street, this is a Land Wind. It's similar on the inside and very,

:51:39. > :51:41.very similar on the outside This is our copycat

:51:42. > :51:45.that caught people out. You can buy him and the real thing

:51:46. > :51:49.on the huge online retailer, They took down thousands of links

:51:50. > :51:56.to copycat Lego products last year alone but the toy maker

:51:57. > :51:58.is still pursuing manufacturers in the courts because even the boss

:51:59. > :52:01.cannot tell the difference. With me now is intellectual property

:52:02. > :52:15.expert Charlotte Wigham. Charlotte, good morning. So, that

:52:16. > :52:20.report is fascinating and we saw the boss couldn't spot the difference

:52:21. > :52:23.between the figures, but noticeably the kids could, so they know what

:52:24. > :52:27.they are doing, but just talk through the problem, what laws have

:52:28. > :52:31.been breached, what is the problem as far as Lego is concerned? Yes,

:52:32. > :52:38.there are various potential breaches of intellectual property rights

:52:39. > :52:44.here. And you know, a company like Lego, I am not surprised that they

:52:45. > :52:51.want to pursue that. Intellectual property rights can exist in things

:52:52. > :52:58.like the logo, which is trademarked, design, the packaging, the figurines

:52:59. > :53:05.themselves might be trademarked or the artistic works, the

:53:06. > :53:08.instructions, all kinds of intellectual property rights that

:53:09. > :53:13.could have been infringed. So many interesting things, there was a grey

:53:14. > :53:16.area, it is about whether it is trying to be pretending to be

:53:17. > :53:21.something, or if it is distinctively different, and with China that is

:53:22. > :53:24.the problem, many see it as the wild west with many of the traditional

:53:25. > :53:31.rules we take for granted in Europe or the US don't seem to apply. Yes,

:53:32. > :53:36.well, one issue is the likelihood of confusion. With counterfeit goods

:53:37. > :53:43.sometimes providing them knowing they are counterfeit, so there are

:53:44. > :53:47.two things going on. Yes, in general, China has traditionally

:53:48. > :53:51.been seen in that light, unfortunately, as the largest

:53:52. > :53:57.manufacturer. But things are changing. We are seeing a lot more

:53:58. > :54:03.cases being brought in China against those infringing. The Chinese

:54:04. > :54:06.government has committed to improving its legal system and its

:54:07. > :54:09.enforcement of those intellectual property rights, which is very

:54:10. > :54:14.positive. Some change there. It comes down to two things. All the

:54:15. > :54:17.companies creating these things, it costs money on research and

:54:18. > :54:21.development, but if you are a consumer and you have the choice,

:54:22. > :54:25.one might be ?5 and the other is ?10, you may be tempted to choose

:54:26. > :54:30.the cheaper one? Yes, I can understand why people buy

:54:31. > :54:35.counterfeit goods. Of course, for the price reason. But there are

:54:36. > :54:43.various considerations. Obviously, as an intellectual property lawyer,

:54:44. > :54:49.that is my livelihood, and it is obviously important. There are also

:54:50. > :54:54.serious issues for consumers, safety regulations won't have been complied

:54:55. > :54:59.with usually with counterfeit goods, which is important with Lego. It is

:55:00. > :55:04.a toy, you don't know what is in the product, and then there are other

:55:05. > :55:09.consumer protection issues, if you are buying counterfeit goods online,

:55:10. > :55:16.giving out your bank details to God knows her, so there are various

:55:17. > :55:20.reasons why you would discourage it. It is really fascinating, such an

:55:21. > :55:29.interesting area, so, there you go and that is fake. Oh, it has come

:55:30. > :55:33.apart, actually. All sorts of reasons. Thank you. There is humour

:55:34. > :55:36.in everything, he knows his stuff. If you think you know your British

:55:37. > :55:40.history, then think again. Historian Lucy Worsley will be

:55:41. > :55:43.here to separate fact from fiction, and what she says are our

:55:44. > :55:47.nation's biggest fibs. Hello, this is Breakfast

:55:48. > :00:09.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. The Government prepares

:00:10. > :00:11.to put its plan for Brexit Yesterday judges ruled that MPs

:00:12. > :00:15.should be given a vote It's thought a Bill could now be

:00:16. > :00:31.introduced as early as tomorrow. I will be live at Westminster where

:00:32. > :00:38.ministers are warning MPs not to try to thwart the will of the people,

:00:39. > :00:39.but MPs are looking for more information and a greater say on the

:00:40. > :00:51.Brexit process. Good morning.

:00:52. > :00:53.It's Wednesday 25th January. President Trump

:00:54. > :00:56.promises a "big day" ahead on national security including

:00:57. > :00:59.an announcement about his plans Can a company impose

:01:00. > :01:16.a dress code for staff? From high heels to short skirts -

:01:17. > :01:18.two parliamentary reports say no. Firms must not and cannot tell

:01:19. > :01:21.workers what to wear. Johanna Konta has been knocked out

:01:22. > :01:23.the Australian Open. She lost her quarter-final

:01:24. > :01:26.to Serena Williams 6-2, 6-3 in just She was the last Brit

:01:27. > :01:35.left in the competition. Also this morning, a toy

:01:36. > :01:45.story with a difference. Which one is yours? This is Lego.

:01:46. > :01:49.This is not. OK, this is Lego. No, this is Lego.

:01:50. > :01:51.We'll find out how one of the world's best known brands

:01:52. > :01:53.is counting the cost of counterfeiting in China.

:01:54. > :02:02.Good morning. Once again we've got freezing fog especially so across

:02:03. > :02:06.parts of England and east Wales. There is ice to watch out for first

:02:07. > :02:10.thing, but some of us will see sunshine, some of us will see a

:02:11. > :02:13.little drop of rain and it will be windy in the north-west. I will have

:02:14. > :02:17.more details in 15 minutes. Thank you.

:02:18. > :02:22.MPs have increased pressure on Theresa May to set out her

:02:23. > :02:26.The demands for a white paper, including from some Conservatives,

:02:27. > :02:27.follow yesterday's Supreme Court ruling.

:02:28. > :02:29.The Prime Minister must now give parliament a vote before

:02:30. > :02:31.triggering Article 50, the formal process

:02:32. > :02:36.It's thought legislation could be introduced as early as tomorrow.

:02:37. > :02:40.Here's our political correspondent Tom Bateman.

:02:41. > :02:43.After the judges ruled only Parliament can start Brexit,

:02:44. > :02:46.today a warning for MPs - don't try to derail the plan.

:02:47. > :02:50.The Supreme Court judgement means a Bill on triggering Article 50,

:02:51. > :02:56.the start of Britain's exit process, must be put before MPs and Lords.

:02:57. > :03:01.The Government says legislation paving the way for Brexit

:03:02. > :03:06.That'll be voted on by both Houses of Parliament.

:03:07. > :03:08.Theresa May wants Article 50 triggered by the end of March.

:03:09. > :03:15.Then Britain has two years to leave the EU.

:03:16. > :03:19.The point of no return was passed on 23rd June last year.

:03:20. > :03:23.Labour say they won't block Article 50, but want to amend the Bill

:03:24. > :03:27.to give MPs more control of the process.

:03:28. > :03:32.If necessary, there will be hand-to-hand combat on this.

:03:33. > :03:36.We need to make sure that we get the best deal on behalf of the whole

:03:37. > :03:39.country and she can't say she acts on behalf of the whole country.

:03:40. > :03:42.Theresa May also faces opposition from some of her own MPs who want

:03:43. > :03:45.a formal exit document to be debated, but for now at least,

:03:46. > :03:47.ministers believe they are on track to get Brexit triggered

:03:48. > :03:56.Our political correspondent Carole Walker is outside

:03:57. > :04:07.I wanted to show you this cartoon on the front of the Telegraph. It says,

:04:08. > :04:11."From the Supreme Court ruling it means I will be standing outside

:04:12. > :04:17.Parliament for the next few months." ." You can see it zwrust about

:04:18. > :04:21.there. And let's talk about that Tory rebellion. Just how big a

:04:22. > :04:25.rebellion might that be? Well, I think there is plenty in the Brexit

:04:26. > :04:30.process to keep me out here for many years to come yet! But when it comes

:04:31. > :04:34.to the Bill ta we're going to get introduced into the Commons

:04:35. > :04:37.tomorrow, we're told by ministers that they want that to be

:04:38. > :04:42.straightforward and brief and they want to get it through as soon as

:04:43. > :04:45.possible. N-terms of a Conservative rebellion -- in terms of a

:04:46. > :04:48.Conservative rebellion, there are some Conservatives who might

:04:49. > :04:52.possibly side with the Opposition parties in seeking in what they're

:04:53. > :04:56.calling a White Paper. It is a formal document setting out the

:04:57. > :05:00.Government's plans, but that's something the Government could agree

:05:01. > :05:03.to without too much difficulty. There are other demands on the

:05:04. > :05:08.Government. Labour are saying that they want any vote on a deal to be

:05:09. > :05:12.meaningful so they could force the Prime Minister to go back and

:05:13. > :05:15.negotiate a better deal if Parliament doesn't like what she

:05:16. > :05:19.gets. The SNP are saying that Scotland should be allowed to stay

:05:20. > :05:22.in the single market. So, I think, there will be a lot of efforts to

:05:23. > :05:27.try to amend and to try and change this Bill as it goes through

:05:28. > :05:31.Parliament, but as things stand, ministers are still pretty confident

:05:32. > :05:34.that they can stick to their timetable, trigger Article 50 to

:05:35. > :05:42.start the formal Brexit negotiations by the end of March. Thank you,

:05:43. > :05:43.Carole. I expect to speak to you for many more days standing exactly

:05:44. > :05:47.where you are. We'll be speaking to

:05:48. > :05:48.the businesswoman Gina Miller President Trump has said

:05:49. > :05:55.a "big day" is planned on national security today,

:05:56. > :05:58.including an announcement on building a wall on the US

:05:59. > :06:00.border with Mexico, one In a message on Twitter,

:06:01. > :06:04.he also said to expect Reports from Washington say

:06:05. > :06:07.he will sign several executive orders relating to immigration

:06:08. > :06:09.and border security Here's our correspondent,

:06:10. > :06:18.David Willis. We're going to have our

:06:19. > :06:23.borders nice and strong. It was the soundtrack

:06:24. > :06:29.to Donald Trump's unorthodox campaign for president,

:06:30. > :06:31.a call to build a wall along America's southern

:06:32. > :06:33.border with Mexico. Now he seems set to press ahead

:06:34. > :06:36.with measures he believes are vital to stemming the illegal flow

:06:37. > :06:38.of immigrants into The president on his Twitter

:06:39. > :06:42.account said simply, "Big day planned on national

:06:43. > :06:44.security tomorrow among He's vowed to make Mexico

:06:45. > :06:52.pay for it what's more, although the Mexican government has

:06:53. > :06:54.refused to do so. Later in the week, to round off

:06:55. > :06:57.a busy start to his presidency, Mr Trump is expected to sign

:06:58. > :07:00.executive orders, closing America's borders to refugees and limiting

:07:01. > :07:02.access to citizens from seven African and Middle Eastern

:07:03. > :07:04.countries, countries the administration believes export

:07:05. > :07:14.terrorism. They're mainly Muslim countries

:07:15. > :07:16.but the mantra of the Trump A country that traditionally

:07:17. > :07:19.has opened its doors to immigrants is about to head

:07:20. > :07:30.in the opposite direction. Women in the workplace

:07:31. > :07:32.are being told what to wear, how to have their hair and how much

:07:33. > :07:36.make up they need to put on, according to a Commons report

:07:37. > :07:39.into office discrimination. MPs began an inquiry

:07:40. > :07:42.after a receptionist was sent home They heard examples of sexism

:07:43. > :07:45.from hundreds of women, as our business correspondent

:07:46. > :07:50.Emma Simpson explains. Sometimes there's no choice,

:07:51. > :07:57.and it's not always attractive. But what about being ordered

:07:58. > :08:00.to wear high heels? When Nicola Thorp arrived

:08:01. > :08:02.for her first day at work, she was told by her employment

:08:03. > :08:04.agency she must wear shoes When she refused, she was

:08:05. > :08:10.sent home without pay. What they state is it gives them

:08:11. > :08:13.a more professional look. Now I'm not entirely sure why adding

:08:14. > :08:18.two or four inches to my height makes me more professional

:08:19. > :08:21.or makes me walk in I don't think it affects

:08:22. > :08:25.how I come across. You can see me now, this is exactly

:08:26. > :08:29.what I would be wearing and if it's just a matter of a couple of inches,

:08:30. > :08:32.I can stand tall She then started a petition,

:08:33. > :08:38.which led to an inquiry by MPs, who now want action

:08:39. > :08:40.from the Government. We've come up with

:08:41. > :08:41.three recommendations. Firstly, that the Equalities Act

:08:42. > :08:44.of 2010 obviously isn't quite Secondly, we want to raise awareness

:08:45. > :08:51.that wearing high heels or make-up may be a health and safety issue

:08:52. > :08:56.in the workplace. Thirdly, we are going

:08:57. > :09:01.to hopefully... If it doesn't work, then we will be

:09:02. > :09:04.taking people to court. At this company, receptionists can

:09:05. > :09:08.wear what they like. In its evidence, the Government said

:09:09. > :09:11.the existing law was clear, and that the dress code imposed

:09:12. > :09:13.on Nicola was unlawful. But the MPs are calling

:09:14. > :09:17.on the Government to do more to make the law more effective in protecting

:09:18. > :09:18.employees from David Cameron has been

:09:19. > :09:30.appointed president In an article in the Times, he says

:09:31. > :09:38.research into cancer and stroke deserve all their funding,

:09:39. > :09:40.but that dementia shouldn't His new role is the second formal

:09:41. > :09:44.position he has taken A RNLI lifeboat station

:09:45. > :09:51.in Yorkshire has a new crew The wild animal has befriended

:09:52. > :09:59.the team and has become a regular They say he's nearly as tame

:10:00. > :10:16.as a pet dog and as you can see, He's nice, isn't he? We've got Carol

:10:17. > :10:24.coming up. The new Wales captain will be

:10:25. > :10:30.talking to Sally after 8.30am. Her photograph is in all the pictures,

:10:31. > :10:34.it is Gina Miller. Declaring yesterday's winning as a vic ve for

:10:35. > :10:38.the constitution. Gina Miller joins us now.

:10:39. > :10:44.Thank you very much for joining us. I'm wondering how you feel today.

:10:45. > :10:48.You took this to the Supreme Court, was it the right thing to do? It was

:10:49. > :10:52.the right thing. If it was clear cut as to who had the power to trigger

:10:53. > :10:55.Article 50, the courts wouldn't have accepted the case and we wouldn't

:10:56. > :10:59.have gone all the way up to the Supreme Court. How do you feel?

:11:00. > :11:03.You've got your way. It went your way in the end. How do you feel

:11:04. > :11:07.about that today? I'm delighted the debate has already started and the

:11:08. > :11:11.MPs are already doing what they should have done, I felt, months

:11:12. > :11:16.ago, and before the actual vote itself. So I'm delighted that they

:11:17. > :11:20.have already started their debate. In some ways it was more about the

:11:21. > :11:25.debate for you, was it? Oh, absolutely. This is what the MPs

:11:26. > :11:28.were supposed to do. They're supposed to debate vote, put through

:11:29. > :11:32.an Act of Parliament and then the Government can trigger Article 50.

:11:33. > :11:37.We've heard from David Davis saying he hopes that Parliament and this

:11:38. > :11:42.won't be used to thwart the will of the people. What's your reaction to

:11:43. > :11:45.people who say that perhaps that's what you have been trying to do? We

:11:46. > :11:49.need to move on. It is a broken record. We can't go back and talk

:11:50. > :11:53.about what happened last June. We need to look forward and what's

:11:54. > :11:57.going to happen in the future. We haven't talked about that. My case

:11:58. > :12:00.was to ensure that our constitution stands and that governments can

:12:01. > :12:06.actually ensure that they are answerable to Parliament. In some

:12:07. > :12:10.ways, it was 8-3, wasn't it, amongst the justices and we heard from one

:12:11. > :12:15.of the three that voted against this, Lord Reid, he was cautioning

:12:16. > :12:20.against judicial activism. He said the courts should not overlook the

:12:21. > :12:23.constitutional importance of ministerial accountability to

:12:24. > :12:28.Parliament. And what do you think about this, is this involvement of

:12:29. > :12:31.the judiciary in politics? The judges did not in anyway involve

:12:32. > :12:36.themselves in politics. They looked at the rule of law. They looked at

:12:37. > :12:41.our constitutional law. They were very careful and to have independent

:12:42. > :12:45.judges who can hold the Government and ministers to account is exactly

:12:46. > :12:49.their job. Do you think it will, I mean, now we are going to see this

:12:50. > :12:52.debate and we know as well because we've spoken to people here on BBC

:12:53. > :12:56.Breakfast, there will be different votes along the way. The Government

:12:57. > :13:01.is maintaining until not change the timetable, what are your thoughts?

:13:02. > :13:04.No, I don't see how it would change the timetable in that they can have

:13:05. > :13:08.emergency sittings etcetera, but I'd like to point out that if the

:13:09. > :13:11.Government actually hadn't done the appeal in October they wouldn't be

:13:12. > :13:15.in this position of having to rush everything through. It was them who

:13:16. > :13:18.decided to appeal, not us, obviously because we won. So you have to ask

:13:19. > :13:24.the Government as to why they appealed. Just let's talk as well,

:13:25. > :13:28.because I know, that you have received and many of these have been

:13:29. > :13:32.passed on to police, abuse as well. Tell me about the personal cost.

:13:33. > :13:38.Tell me about the tone of what's been going on for you? Well, it has

:13:39. > :13:42.at times been very difficult, but I've had to push it to the side. I

:13:43. > :13:48.can't allow others to win by bullying me. What I have decided to

:13:49. > :13:51.do just be steely and focus on why I do things. I know the principles and

:13:52. > :13:55.the reasons behind behind what I've done and I won't let them win. What

:13:56. > :13:59.I find shocking is the amount of bullying of women that I've come

:14:00. > :14:04.across as I've more into the public eye from people like yourself doing

:14:05. > :14:07.their jobs in the media, and journalists etcetera, you know, we

:14:08. > :14:11.have to get away from this idea that just because you're doing your job,

:14:12. > :14:14.just because you're standing up and putting yourself out there for

:14:15. > :14:18.things you believe are right, it is justified that you can be targeted

:14:19. > :14:23.by the most vile behaviour. We have to stand up to this. And we all have

:14:24. > :14:28.to stand up to it as you say, give a little bit about the tone of what

:14:29. > :14:31.you've had. It must have an impact on you in some ways? You're trying

:14:32. > :14:36.to do your job and this is what's coming at you. Well, at times it's

:14:37. > :14:42.difficult because nobody is looking at the message of what I'm doing, it

:14:43. > :14:46.is very, very personal, it is assassination, be it about my gender

:14:47. > :14:50.or my country of origin, it is so personal, when did we get to this

:14:51. > :14:54.place? It can't be like this and I won't let them win, but I have to

:14:55. > :14:56.say, it is disheartening, hugely disheartening that it has been so

:14:57. > :15:00.vile. OK, what happens to you now? You

:15:01. > :15:03.have been through this extraordinary battle. It has been to the Supreme

:15:04. > :15:08.Court, what next? I will go back to doing what I do in

:15:09. > :15:12.my day job, I'm very active when it comes to the City and the rip office

:15:13. > :15:16.and the charity sector and running my business, I will go back to doing

:15:17. > :15:17.all the things I was doing before. Gene gernings thank you for your

:15:18. > :15:28.time here oon Breakfast, thank you. For many of you, this is the final

:15:29. > :15:30.weather bulletin you watch before going out today. What can people

:15:31. > :15:40.expect? Peter Lawell. Jobs to get through,

:15:41. > :15:48.schools together two. -- people have got jobs to get to.

:15:49. > :15:53.In the south-east and the Midlands, freezing fog. It may lead to some

:15:54. > :15:59.travel disruption. You can find out what is happening on your BBC local

:16:00. > :16:04.radio station. The fact it is freezing fog tells you something

:16:05. > :16:11.about the temperatures. Watch out for slippery surfaces. Roads and

:16:12. > :16:15.pavements alike. Fog in East Anglia, part of the Midlands, heading down

:16:16. > :16:21.towards Southern counties. It is patchy but it is dense. On a par

:16:22. > :16:26.with what we had on Monday. Mild in the south-west. Some sunshine.

:16:27. > :16:33.Patchy fog in the Welsh Marches. Generally speaking, much of Wales is

:16:34. > :16:37.fog free. Fog patches across the Vale of York. The rest of northern

:16:38. > :16:44.England is fine but cold. A cloudy start in Scotland and Northern

:16:45. > :16:50.Ireland. Also windy. Today the winds touching gale force. Especially in

:16:51. > :16:57.the north-west. As for the fog, as we import cloud from -- fog from the

:16:58. > :17:03.low continent, the fog will lift into low cloud. The Midlands and

:17:04. > :17:06.northern England, perhaps it will take into the early part of the

:17:07. > :17:12.afternoon. It will feel cold under this fog. Sunshine Tour south-west

:17:13. > :17:21.England, Wales, the north west Midlands and the Moray Firth.

:17:22. > :17:26.Tonight, a lotto windy conditions towards the West. Breezy across the

:17:27. > :17:30.rest of the UK. Although fog will not be too much of an issue, we're

:17:31. > :17:35.looking at a widespread frost. There will be some drizzle in the morning.

:17:36. > :17:41.Some will see the odd snow flurry. That is how we start tomorrow, on

:17:42. > :17:46.this cold note. Tomorrow, dry weather. The odd snow flurry,

:17:47. > :17:52.drizzle. The wind is coming from the cold continent. Temperature wise,

:17:53. > :17:55.although we're looking at values into low single figures, it will

:17:56. > :18:01.feel colder than that if you are in the wind. Friday, still under this

:18:02. > :18:06.cold wind, a love of dry weather. Atlantic France from the West will

:18:07. > :18:11.introduce rain and milder air. -- Atlantic fronts. Sunday is going to

:18:12. > :18:16.be the best day weather-wise. Thank you.

:18:17. > :18:19.In the last few minutes, we've had a couple of Christmas

:18:20. > :18:29.Still talking about Christmas. Such a big time for the retailers. And

:18:30. > :18:30.now we get a sense of who the winners and losers are. Good

:18:31. > :18:32.morning. WH Smith says like-for-like sales

:18:33. > :18:35.rose 5% boosted by its stores But it's a familiar tale

:18:36. > :18:38.on the high street, where sales fell again,

:18:39. > :18:53.this time, by 3%. Spanish bank Santander says its

:18:54. > :18:57.profit in the UK was down by almost 15%. That is mainly due to the fall

:18:58. > :19:02.in the value of the pound after the Brexit Ford. A better performance in

:19:03. > :19:11.South America helped to improve the British figures. Profits were up

:19:12. > :19:16.just over 4%. ?8 billion was wiped off the value of BT yesterday. Its

:19:17. > :19:21.shares slumped by 20% because of in -- accounting scandal in Italy.

:19:22. > :19:24.Problems with BT's Italian business were found to be much worse

:19:25. > :19:25.than first thought, including misreporting profits

:19:26. > :19:30.BT has fired its Italian management team, but British boss Gavin

:19:31. > :19:33.Patterson will face questions over how the problems occurred

:19:34. > :19:50.Having to wear high heels, make-up, shorter skirts

:19:51. > :19:52.or even dying their hair - those are just some examples

:19:53. > :19:55.of what women say they have been asked to do for their job.

:19:56. > :19:58.Now MPs are calling on the government to take action

:19:59. > :20:02.Let's take a look at some of the stories they were told.

:20:03. > :20:03.One air hostess described feeling humiliated due

:20:04. > :20:06.to company uniform policy, adding that there was one set

:20:07. > :20:09.of clothing rules for men, and a different one for women.

:20:10. > :20:13.Another woman working in a jewellery store said wearing high heels

:20:14. > :20:18.While a retail worker told MPs she was offended

:20:19. > :20:21.by company dress rules, which she said attracted

:20:22. > :20:23.unwanted attention from customers. For more on this, let's

:20:24. > :20:25.talk to Nicola Thorp, who launched the petition

:20:26. > :20:28.to parliament after her experience of dress code discrimination.

:20:29. > :20:32.And we're also joined by Ann Francke, chief executive of

:20:33. > :20:34.the Chartered Management Institute, which promotes best practice

:20:35. > :20:51.Nicola, can you run bus through what exactly happened to you and what was

:20:52. > :20:57.the process he went through? Last year, I turned for my first day as a

:20:58. > :21:04.receptionist at an accountancy firm in London. I turned up in the usual

:21:05. > :21:08.uniform, issued and smart flat shoes. I was told it was company

:21:09. > :21:15.policy that I have to wear high heels for the day's work. I refused,

:21:16. > :21:20.so I was sent home. They wanted you to go out and buy these issues? Yes,

:21:21. > :21:26.they said the only way I could work that day was with fight went out and

:21:27. > :21:32.bought a pair of shoes. -- if I went out. I was sent home. Wide did they

:21:33. > :21:36.think you had to wear high heels, because of the impression they felt

:21:37. > :21:41.you should be giving? That's what they said. They said it was an

:21:42. > :21:45.industrywide practice. I saw women working higher up in the accountancy

:21:46. > :21:49.firm wearing flat shoes. I said, it's obviously not for everybody in

:21:50. > :21:54.this company at a higher level, so why are you asking us to wear them?

:21:55. > :22:00.'S turned out because the agency I had worked for, insisted that all

:22:01. > :22:13.girls wore flat, sorry, high heel shoes and Magog. A items of Magog.

:22:14. > :22:19.-- make-ups. I suggested the dress code was sexist. I was laughed out

:22:20. > :22:22.of the building. Right. And, she is not alone. You have looked at this

:22:23. > :22:28.sort of thing. What have you been finding? What we found is that

:22:29. > :22:32.gender discrimination is still widespread. Four out of five

:22:33. > :22:36.managers have experienced it in the workplace in the last year. There

:22:37. > :22:42.are the dress code examples, equally there are inappropriate remarks,

:22:43. > :22:47.interrupting me to -- women at meetings and a lack of promotion and

:22:48. > :22:53.unequal pay. Quite a lot to be done still. A lot of people get involved

:22:54. > :22:56.in this as well. They are contacting the programme. Wendy, I may be old

:22:57. > :23:01.school but dress code should apply. They don't need to be sexist but

:23:02. > :23:09.create a better attitude. There can be a dress code across the sexes. I

:23:10. > :23:15.agree that dress codes are important for business. They puff -- project a

:23:16. > :23:18.professional image. But in my case and that of thousands of other

:23:19. > :23:22.women, they were being told they needed to look attractive to do

:23:23. > :23:32.their job. Their male counterparts were not being told the same thing.

:23:33. > :23:39.Things have changed with regard to companies. What you think needs to

:23:40. > :23:43.change? How do attitudes change? Absolutely it is a cultural issue.

:23:44. > :23:48.We think that men need to become more involved as role models. We

:23:49. > :23:54.know the majority of men support gender equality in the workplace.

:23:55. > :24:00.80% to support this. What we want is for men and women to call out these

:24:01. > :24:05.bad examples, be they of behaviour, dress codes, like a promotional

:24:06. > :24:11.opportunity. And we want companies to follow best practice. We do have

:24:12. > :24:18.a website where you can go and look and see what others are doing to

:24:19. > :24:22.tackle this issue. Nicola, what do you feel about the publicity your

:24:23. > :24:27.case has attracted and the fact we are talking about it here? Summary

:24:28. > :24:33.people seem to have a view. It is fantastic. Hundreds of women have,

:24:34. > :24:41.ride the woodwork and said, this has happened to me. I didn't feel like I

:24:42. > :24:45.could bring it up at work. A lot of these women are on zero hours

:24:46. > :24:50.contracts or are temporary workers. Even women and contracts were scared

:24:51. > :24:53.of losing their livelihoods. The current structure, legally, benefits

:24:54. > :24:57.the employers because the penalty isn't big enough to scare them into

:24:58. > :25:01.following dress code laws. What they do is they say to women, you have to

:25:02. > :25:06.do this, you have to wear that, because the likelihood of women --

:25:07. > :25:11.woman painter Take That employer to a tribunal is very low. They get

:25:12. > :25:18.away with it. -- and woman paying to take that employer to a tribunal.

:25:19. > :25:27.Let's pick-up on that point about calling out. That is uncomfortable,

:25:28. > :25:31.isn't it? It is an uncomfortable place but I would encourage people

:25:32. > :25:35.to come forward as Nicola has done because that is how we will change

:25:36. > :25:42.the culture, when people see it is no longer acceptable to behave that

:25:43. > :25:46.way. A gender balanced workplace is a better workplace. It is more

:25:47. > :25:51.productive, it is happier. There are very good commercial reasons for

:25:52. > :25:58.ending discrimination. Let me read some more texts. Sanders says she

:25:59. > :26:01.has to wear white shirt and a tie serving food in a busy environment.

:26:02. > :26:08.It will be a nightmare in the summer when it is hot. Trudy says, surely

:26:09. > :26:12.it is more about not sexualising dress, asking staff to be smart is

:26:13. > :26:17.not the same as asking a woman to wear high heels and lipstick. Would

:26:18. > :26:23.you expect a man to wear something that draws attention to their

:26:24. > :26:27.bodies? That's the point. It can't be discriminatory. It is fine if you

:26:28. > :26:31.are in a hairdressers and you have to wear all black because you want

:26:32. > :26:39.to project a cool image. Or if you are serving food and the uniform is

:26:40. > :26:44.white with a black tie. But sexualising women is wrong. Do you

:26:45. > :26:47.think things are changing? Absolutely. After the petition and

:26:48. > :26:53.the media coverage, I'm grateful that people are debating this.

:26:54. > :26:59.Hopefully now employers will think twice. Thank you. Now the news where

:27:00. > :30:18.you are. Hello, this is Breakfast

:30:19. > :30:44.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. The woman who launched a successful

:30:45. > :30:47.legal challenge over Brexiteers told this programme that it is time

:30:48. > :30:49.for... MPs have increased pressure

:30:50. > :30:51.on Theresa May to set out her The demands for a white paper,

:30:52. > :30:55.including from some Conservatives, follow yesterday's Supreme Court

:30:56. > :30:59.ruling. Jamila, the lead claimant in the

:31:00. > :31:04.Brexit case which went to the Supreme Court, told us that it is

:31:05. > :31:09.now up to politicians to hold the government to account. We need to

:31:10. > :31:14.look at what is going to happen in the future but we have not had that

:31:15. > :31:17.debate. My case was to ensure that the Constitution stands and that

:31:18. > :31:19.governments can actually make sure that they are answerable to

:31:20. > :31:21.Parliament. President Trump is reportedly

:31:22. > :31:23.preparing to sign several executive orders aimed

:31:24. > :31:24.at restricting immigration. It's expected he'll announce

:31:25. > :31:27.plans for a wall along the US border with Mexico,

:31:28. > :31:30.one of his key election pledges. Reports from Washington say he's

:31:31. > :31:32.also planning to tighten visa regulations from seven Middle East

:31:33. > :31:35.and African countries. Women in the workplace

:31:36. > :31:39.are being told what to wear, how to have their hair and how much

:31:40. > :31:42.make-up they need to put on, according to a report

:31:43. > :31:46.into office discrimination. MPs began an inquiry,

:31:47. > :31:48.after a receptionist was sent home They heard examples of sexism

:31:49. > :31:57.from hundreds of women. The problem is that indirect

:31:58. > :32:02.discrimination can be justified, if the employer says

:32:03. > :32:05.it is reasonably necessary in pursuit of a legitimate aim,

:32:06. > :32:07.and tribunals can find differently So we need more test cases

:32:08. > :32:15.so the law's clarified The screening age for bowel

:32:16. > :32:18.cancer in England, Wales and Northern Ireland should be

:32:19. > :32:20.reduced to 50 years old, according to the charity,

:32:21. > :32:22.Beating Bowel Cancer. Scotland is the only part of the UK

:32:23. > :32:26.which screens from the age of 50. The charity says that if the other

:32:27. > :32:28.nations came into line, 4000 patients a year

:32:29. > :32:30.would have the opportunity Ten or 15 years ago,

:32:31. > :32:37.a quarter of patients were coming It's a lot of radical

:32:38. > :32:47.and morbid surgery. Treating them earlier can now

:32:48. > :32:52.be done a lot simpler. We very often use keyhole types

:32:53. > :32:55.of surgery, and they can avoid things like chemotherapy,

:32:56. > :32:57.so that's the way forward. David Cameron has been

:32:58. > :32:59.appointed president In an article in the Times, he says

:33:00. > :33:06.research into cancer and stroke deserve all their funding,

:33:07. > :33:08.but that dementia shouldn't His new role is the second formal

:33:09. > :33:13.position he has taken They have waited for nearly 20

:33:14. > :33:23.years, but finally Japan has a sumo 30-year-old Kisenosato

:33:24. > :33:28.is the sport's new champion, The last time a Japanese wrestler

:33:29. > :33:38.won the title was in 1998. The last four grand champions have

:33:39. > :33:52.all been from Mongolia. Look at that. Incredible, aren't

:33:53. > :33:56.they? That is one way of describing it.

:33:57. > :34:01.Impressive, maybe. Have you ever seen a live?

:34:02. > :34:06.No. Wow. Often it is the noise and the

:34:07. > :34:10.smell that gets you, but with sumo, it is the noise. When they

:34:11. > :34:21.connect... I'm going to watch it.

:34:22. > :34:22.We will be with you until the end of the programme.

:34:23. > :34:27.Victoria Derbyshire is on at nine o'clock this morning on BBC Two.

:34:28. > :34:33.Let's find out what is on the programme. This morning, the

:34:34. > :34:36.domestic file and is victim on the run from her abusive ex-husband says

:34:37. > :34:39.that she was put at risk of being murdered after a social worker

:34:40. > :34:47.disclosed the location of her safe eyes twice. Eventually policed

:34:48. > :34:53.advice to drop investigation into her ex because they could not

:34:54. > :34:57.guarantee her safety. They said it was impossible to safeguard us and

:34:58. > :35:00.keep our address safe. He said, ultimately losing your life is not

:35:01. > :35:07.worth seeking justice and ultimately, that will happen.

:35:08. > :35:10.Exquisitely after Breakfast, on the BBC news channel, BBC Two and

:35:11. > :35:15.online. -- exclusively after Breakfast.

:35:16. > :35:18.And coming up here on Breakfast this morning...

:35:19. > :35:20.If you think you know your British history, then think again.

:35:21. > :35:22.Historian Lucy Worsley will be here to separate fact

:35:23. > :35:25.from fiction, as she tackles the nation's biggest fibs.

:35:26. > :35:27.We'll be discussing how to get more women in Parliament,

:35:28. > :35:30.as a survey of female MPs reveals the levels of online, verbal

:35:31. > :35:38.And she has one husband, nine children and 1,000 sheep.

:35:39. > :35:42.We'll meet Amanda Owen, also known as the 'Yorkshire Shepherdess'.

:35:43. > :35:48.I love that on the front page of her book it says, mother of eight

:35:49. > :35:53.children. She has had one since then totting it up to nine. An amazing

:35:54. > :35:56.lady. Never mind herding sheep, she is

:35:57. > :36:01.probably hurting children the whole time!

:36:02. > :36:04.And she doesn't even stay in hospital. As soon as she has the

:36:05. > :36:07.kid, she is back at home and the next day she has the baby strapped

:36:08. > :36:13.on her back, and she is out working again.

:36:14. > :36:19.That is impressive. We're going to talk about Johanna Konta in a second

:36:20. > :36:21.but first, rugby. You have seen the trails for the Six Nations on the

:36:22. > :36:27.BBC? Well, after 105 caps for Wales,

:36:28. > :36:29.Alun Wyn Jones is preparing to take on a new challenge

:36:30. > :36:32.as his country's captain. He takes up the helm

:36:33. > :36:34.for Wales' Six Nations opener We can talk to him now from this

:36:35. > :36:41.year's tournament launch in London. Good morning to you. You are taking

:36:42. > :36:44.over the captaincy from Sam Walker tin and another has been a lot of

:36:45. > :36:51.chat about this. You have done this all before. How tricky and act is to

:36:52. > :36:57.follow? -- how tricky and act is he to follow him out there has been a

:36:58. > :37:02.lot said about his success as a captain, but for me and the Welsh

:37:03. > :37:07.team, he is still a part of that. It is not the case of passing on the

:37:08. > :37:10.baton, it is a case of moving on and evolving. From myself, on an

:37:11. > :37:14.individual point, I have the captaincy but hopefully people will

:37:15. > :37:18.be talking about the team on the weekend. You have Italy a week on

:37:19. > :37:24.Sunday. How do you rate Wales' chances? It will be a tough opening

:37:25. > :37:29.game away against a passionate Italian side. As is always the case.

:37:30. > :37:34.Any team wants to get off to a flying start, as it were, to get

:37:35. > :37:42.some points on the board and make it a good competition. Who is the team

:37:43. > :37:45.to beat? I think you probably know the answer, but when you are

:37:46. > :37:52.altogether, and there is one team you really want to beat, who might

:37:53. > :37:59.that be? More so for the success of last year, I have to say the English

:38:00. > :38:05.side, who are well out in front at the moment for obvious reasons. You

:38:06. > :38:10.don't want to discount a French side with things to prove. Or a Scotland

:38:11. > :38:13.side on the cusp of something good at the domestic level with the

:38:14. > :38:18.players they have coming through. It is going to be an entertaining

:38:19. > :38:21.situation. Being a coach, Eddie Jones, has limited the amount of

:38:22. > :38:25.time that players can use their mobile phones. They are doing clever

:38:26. > :38:31.little things with using a vision coach to improve their vision. What

:38:32. > :38:42.Wales doing? Do you have anything up your sleeves? Well... You are not

:38:43. > :38:47.going to tell me, are you? I wouldn't tell you anyway. But a lot

:38:48. > :38:55.has been said about the way that we play, and the things that we have or

:38:56. > :39:01.haven't done. The more we do with the ball, the better. One of the

:39:02. > :39:04.things you have done in the past is used is very, very cold cryotherapy

:39:05. > :39:12.chambers, where it is something like -110 degrees at times. You still

:39:13. > :39:17.doing that? We have a facility back at the Vale in Cardiff, which we use

:39:18. > :39:25.quite frequently, sometimes three times a day. When Warren Gatland is

:39:26. > :39:32.in situ, he is a big believer in that. We use it when required. We

:39:33. > :39:39.might have a week off to your or they are, to get the slingshot when

:39:40. > :39:42.you go into -140, and it is not the boys' favourite, but if you buy into

:39:43. > :39:48.it, you reap the rewards. I bet it feels positively tropical where you

:39:49. > :39:53.are this morning. The very best of luck.

:39:54. > :39:58.It did look really cold. It is always a sign that the

:39:59. > :39:59.sporting year has started. The Australian Open, into the Six

:40:00. > :40:04.Nations and we are up and running. British Number One, Johanna Konta,

:40:05. > :40:07.is out of the Australian Open. She was outplayed 6-2,

:40:08. > :40:09.6-3 in the quarter finals by six-time champion,

:40:10. > :40:12.Serena Williams. Konta had been on a nine-match

:40:13. > :40:15.winning streak but came up short The American won in just over

:40:16. > :40:19.an hour and is now two victories away from claiming an Open-era

:40:20. > :40:23.record 23rd major title. I think, overall, she played

:40:24. > :40:27.at a higher level than I did today, and I think she showed why

:40:28. > :40:29.she is arguably one So I think, yeah, I really

:40:30. > :40:35.enjoyed my time out there Well, I hope I'll be able to bring

:40:36. > :40:49.a lot away from it, and think I'll be able to reuse,

:40:50. > :40:51.and hopefully I'll get a chance to play her again,

:40:52. > :40:56.and for other matches as well. Sir Alex Ferguson thinks

:40:57. > :40:58.Jose Mourinho is getting to grips with being Manchester United

:40:59. > :40:59.manager. United are still in both

:41:00. > :41:01.Domestic Cup competitions and the Europa League but are sixth

:41:02. > :41:04.in the Premier League, Ferguson says Mourinho has settled

:41:05. > :41:21.into the job after a turbulent start I think that Jose is finding

:41:22. > :41:24.solutions now. There was a period earlier in the season where he was

:41:25. > :41:28.not getting those solutions and his emotions boiled over. And he is an

:41:29. > :41:31.emotional guy. But now you see him, he is calm and in control. That is

:41:32. > :41:42.the obvious observation I am making of the team now.

:41:43. > :41:48.The team is all about the manager. They are playing with determination

:41:49. > :41:52.and the will to win, which is important.

:41:53. > :42:00.There is a man that you want to approve of you. At this point, it

:42:01. > :42:04.seems like Mourinho is gathering things together and for him to say

:42:05. > :42:06.this about him has to be a real boost.

:42:07. > :42:09.It is going to be fascinating to see the next few days.

:42:10. > :42:15.Who knows what might happen at the end of the season?

:42:16. > :42:18.Let's see you later on. Don't get dolled up.

:42:19. > :42:22.It may take all day. From the War of the Roses,

:42:23. > :42:25.to the Battle of the Boyne, there are some defining moments

:42:26. > :42:28.in British history that we have But could what we thought was fact,

:42:29. > :42:37.turn out to be fiction? The historian Lucy Worsley has been

:42:38. > :42:39.seeing if she can get to the truth in her new series,

:42:40. > :42:42.'British History's Biggest Fibs'. Before we talk to her,

:42:43. > :42:45.let's get her take on what happened at the Battle of Bosworth,

:42:46. > :42:51.when Henry Tudor defeated King Richard III goes into battle

:42:52. > :42:59.wearing a crown, a symbol of what is at stake that day. Britain declares,

:43:00. > :43:04.this day I will die as King or I will win. -- Richard declared. Even

:43:05. > :43:08.his enemies admit that he fights originally. Richard gets within a

:43:09. > :43:14.swords length of Henry Tudor but the enemy forces overwhelm them. In

:43:15. > :43:19.desperation, he cries out, my horse, my horse, my kingdom for a horse.

:43:20. > :43:29.And then he's killed with a blow to the head, and he loses his crown.

:43:30. > :43:36.After Henry's victory, Richard's crown is discovered in a hawthorn

:43:37. > :43:47.bush and Henry is crowned with it on the battlefield. Now how much of

:43:48. > :43:53.this really happened? It is impossible to say. But the reason

:43:54. > :43:54.that this is the story we now is because it is the one that Henry

:43:55. > :44:04.wanted us to remember. Without the crown, sadly. But you

:44:05. > :44:08.got to dress up in all sorts of outfits for this. I think it was

:44:09. > :44:11.debunking what we thought we knew about history because once you look

:44:12. > :44:15.into it, there is all sorts of interesting theories about what

:44:16. > :44:19.really went on. That is our aim. And it seemed the right time to do this,

:44:20. > :44:24.with everyone talking about living in a post truth age. Alternative

:44:25. > :44:30.facts and fake news, well, the Tudors were added 500 years ago.

:44:31. > :44:33.What we have tried to do is just picked the story that everyone

:44:34. > :44:37.thinks they know, which is partly to do with the propaganda genius of

:44:38. > :44:41.Henry Tudor and also he was lucky that William Shakespeare came along

:44:42. > :44:46.and sort of solidified the Tudors winning version of events. One of

:44:47. > :44:49.the most controversial part of history that you deal with in this

:44:50. > :44:54.series is the glorious Revolution. People of the 17th century where

:44:55. > :44:59.William of orange comes and takes over James II. What did we think

:45:00. > :45:04.that we knew and what do we know now? This is really, really

:45:05. > :45:07.interesting as a historical conundrum. Lots of younger people

:45:08. > :45:10.don't even know what the glorious Revolution is supposed to be because

:45:11. > :45:14.it is not such a big thing in what people learn about history any more.

:45:15. > :45:19.But it was a key moment where King James II got knocked off the throne

:45:20. > :45:24.by the Protestant William III. If you are English ROM is great and

:45:25. > :45:27.this is good, a triumph for Protestantism and the foundation of

:45:28. > :45:33.Parliamentary democracy. But if you are Welsh and Scottish, is not a

:45:34. > :45:39.good guy, he is the bad guy, the one who enforces the regime with lots of

:45:40. > :45:42.violence at the Battle of the Boyne, the clan MacDonald in Scotland. He

:45:43. > :45:46.is such a controversial figure to this day.

:45:47. > :45:52.The old thing that people say is that history is written by the

:45:53. > :45:56.victors, so how do you know, how do you go back and actually decipher

:45:57. > :46:01.what did happen? Well, you just look at sources from the time, so with

:46:02. > :46:07.Henry Tudor, for example, there was an historian who worked for both

:46:08. > :46:11.King Richard III and then for Henry Chuter, and you look what he was

:46:12. > :46:17.writing about Richard III, he says he was splendid man, and then the

:46:18. > :46:23.same man writing under Henry chewed, he said Richard III was terrible, he

:46:24. > :46:32.was born with talons, he came out of the womb seriously deformed. So

:46:33. > :46:36.which is true? Well, that's the trouble, and my conclusion is that

:46:37. > :46:39.this is my version, I am telling you this now in 2017, in five years'

:46:40. > :46:43.time another historian will be telling you something different, so

:46:44. > :46:47.what I want people to take away is the question things, to try and work

:46:48. > :46:51.out what somebody's agenda is when they're talking to you. That is not

:46:52. > :46:56.just history, that is a really important life skill. So assess the

:46:57. > :47:01.sources and check the validity of them. We have a picture of it, in

:47:02. > :47:06.doing this, you get to dress up in all sorts of outfits. I do. There I

:47:07. > :47:10.am modelling one of the most impressive pieces of branding in the

:47:11. > :47:15.whole of history, the Tudor Rose. Everybody knows what the chewed

:47:16. > :47:20.roses, they think it is red and white together, and that represents

:47:21. > :47:24.the union of the houses of York and Lancaster, when Henry married

:47:25. > :47:28.Elizabeth of York, everyone thinks it is a peaceful process. They were

:47:29. > :47:33.wearing these different flowers on the battlefield, actually flowers

:47:34. > :47:38.business was invented later. It is a shame! And then really, really

:47:39. > :47:41.powerfully picked up, reproduced in chewed architecture and in

:47:42. > :47:49.portraiture and iconography but is not quite what it says on the tin.

:47:50. > :47:54.As historians, do you argue? Oh, constantly, that's the joy of it.

:47:55. > :47:57.It's a team effort, and what you do is use a lot of reach a consensus

:47:58. > :48:02.amongst yourselves and then five years later someone says, hang on,

:48:03. > :48:08.you got it wrong. It's constantly evolving. In history, suppose there

:48:09. > :48:11.were the modern-day version of spin doctors and propaganda, and all

:48:12. > :48:14.those people trying to make things out to be slightly more attractive

:48:15. > :48:21.than they were, almost change the course of history a little bit? Yes,

:48:22. > :48:24.exactly. A sneaky bit of power we have as historians, we can change

:48:25. > :48:29.the course of history because we get to write it. You talk about it being

:48:30. > :48:35.a good time in some ways to be questioning and looking back, in

:48:36. > :48:39.where we are now in the modern era? This has really come up just these

:48:40. > :48:43.words, we didn't talk about fake news a year ago, did we? It just

:48:44. > :48:47.seemed like a very important time with politics and world events and

:48:48. > :48:53.everything to try to open the eyes of people to what is being told. And

:48:54. > :48:56.the conclusions are, keep looking at the sources, is that the kind of

:48:57. > :49:02.thing you recommend people? Guest, ask yourselves, is this person

:49:03. > :49:05.fibbing? People do it all the time, the very good reason sometimes, they

:49:06. > :49:09.might be trying to promote a particular cause you are trying to

:49:10. > :49:12.support and you might believe in but they are still feeding. I wonder if

:49:13. > :49:15.we will ever learn the lessons of history or we will keep making the

:49:16. > :49:21.same mistakes again and again and again. It is not necessarily about

:49:22. > :49:27.the past but how you behave in the present, I think. I want to make

:49:28. > :49:30.people more analytical, and once you understand something, this is what

:49:31. > :49:33.is regret about history, if you can understand where people are coming

:49:34. > :49:37.from, then you can empathise, and that makes you more tolerant of

:49:38. > :49:43.their funny little foibles and weaknesses and makes the world a

:49:44. > :49:46.better place. Very wise. Lucy, thank you imagined Deed. We like a bit of

:49:47. > :49:49.philosophy as well as history on BBC breakfast.

:49:50. > :49:54.'British History's Biggest Fibs' starts on BBC Four at 9pm tomorrow.

:49:55. > :50:01.It is cold again. Carol has got the details.

:50:02. > :50:11.I have also got some fabulous Weather Watch pictures. Cold and

:50:12. > :50:20.frosty, a bit of missed here and there. Then we run into the fog.

:50:21. > :50:24.Because of the fog, there may well be some travel disruption just for

:50:25. > :50:28.the next couple of hours, it is freezing fog, that gives you a clue

:50:29. > :50:30.as to what the temperature is like outside, particularly across England

:50:31. > :50:35.and parts of Wales. This is where we currently have the fog and some of

:50:36. > :50:39.it is still dense. It is on a par with the fog we had on Monday.

:50:40. > :50:43.Elsewhere, though, we don't have so much of an issue, there is some

:50:44. > :50:49.around but not as dense. Through the morning as we start to import cloud

:50:50. > :50:53.from the near continent, the fog will lift. In the south-west,

:50:54. > :50:58.beautiful start today, much milder, some sunshine. Sunshine across Wales

:50:59. > :51:05.but we lose the fog across the Welsh marshes. Then back into the sunshine

:51:06. > :51:08.as we creep into the north of Inman. For Northern Ireland and Scotland,

:51:09. > :51:13.we are looking at a cloudy start with some sunny breaks and mild. Out

:51:14. > :51:21.towards the west today, it will be windy, particularly the north-west

:51:22. > :51:25.where we are looking at Gales, even severe gales. In the sunshine, it

:51:26. > :51:32.will be a beautiful day, cold, crisp and rather pleasant. For the time of

:51:33. > :51:35.year. In the evening and overnight, not so much of an issue with fog,

:51:36. > :51:39.the breeze picking up, still windy out towards the West, some dampness

:51:40. > :51:43.in the air, so a little bit of drizzle, some of us seeing a flurry

:51:44. > :51:48.or two of snow and a widespread frost, so tomorrow morning, like

:51:49. > :51:56.this morning, watch out for eyes on untreated surfaces. Tomorrow on that

:51:57. > :52:00.note we start off, potential for an order of snow flurry or two, not

:52:01. > :52:04.enough to build a snowman or sledging. Some sunshine but it will

:52:05. > :52:08.feel better. In London, the maximum temperature will get up to five

:52:09. > :52:11.Celsius but in the wind it will feel more like one. In Newcastle, the

:52:12. > :52:16.maximum temperature will be won but it will feel more like minus five.

:52:17. > :52:18.On Friday we are still in this regime of the cold South East coming

:52:19. > :52:31.from from the continent. As we go through the weekend, it

:52:32. > :52:36.will be less chilly than it has been.

:52:37. > :52:43.Thank you. We have had to let Sally go to get ready already for the

:52:44. > :52:48.National television awards. She doesn't take that long! She has

:52:49. > :52:52.already started stripping her hair, getting ready.

:52:53. > :52:55.It's a big night tonight, as we are in the running

:52:56. > :52:59.It has been a pretty busy 12 months for us on breakfast. Let's have a

:53:00. > :53:10.reminder of what we have been up to. This is breakfast with neck and

:53:11. > :53:18.chatty and Charlie Stayt. What an incredible year 2016 has been.

:53:19. > :53:38.Lovely face! I feel so short. I can see Charlie

:53:39. > :53:47.speaking up behind me. I have always wanted to do this. It is very

:53:48. > :53:51.comforting. Now, stop! We've very clearly run the wrong pictures. Some

:53:52. > :53:54.people said it was a slice of Battenberg. I can touch and

:53:55. > :54:07.everything, he's real! Come on! Now, so many skills. Yes, and

:54:08. > :54:12.massive failures as well. Thank you for all of those who have voted so

:54:13. > :54:13.far. If you would like to do so, you can do so.

:54:14. > :54:17.Voting is open until midday today at nationaltvawards.com

:54:18. > :54:26.We appreciate you watching, if you want to vote, that is a bonus.

:54:27. > :54:30.Awards mean nothing, honestly! Thank you for being with us.

:54:31. > :54:33.A number of female MPs have told the BBC that they've received

:54:34. > :54:35.physical and verbal threats, and fear for their safety

:54:36. > :54:38.following the death of the Labour MP, Jo Cox.

:54:39. > :54:41.In a survey by BBC Radio 5Live, some said they'd also experienced

:54:42. > :54:42.sexist language in the Commons, and even considered

:54:43. > :54:46.At a time when more women are being encouraged

:54:47. > :54:47.to go into politics, how off-putting is this?

:54:48. > :54:54.Our political correspondent Ellie Price has been finding out.

:54:55. > :55:01.It wasn't easy getting women the vote. It took even longer to get

:55:02. > :55:08.women into Parliament. The first female MP to take her seat, Nancy

:55:09. > :55:13.Astor, was elected 98 years ago. Eventually more would follow. It

:55:14. > :55:19.gives me the greatest pleasure to introduce to you the new National

:55:20. > :55:25.Unionist women members. Back then, of course, they didn't have social

:55:26. > :55:31.media, unlike the 195 female MPs today. Right, so, what you're

:55:32. > :55:39.looking at our tweets, the abusive tweets that my team screenshot. She

:55:40. > :55:43.won't read the abuse she receives online, which is just as well, it is

:55:44. > :55:48.deeply personal, she doesn't really want to share it. It takes a lot of

:55:49. > :55:51.strength not to. It is very tempting if you're alone at night and nobody

:55:52. > :55:56.can see you, if you get upset and you cry just have a look, but why

:55:57. > :56:02.would I do that to myself? I have to say, I very much see the silver

:56:03. > :56:05.lining in not getting re-elected, the silver lining being that I may

:56:06. > :56:10.never have to put up with that sort of abuse again in my life, because

:56:11. > :56:14.it doesn't happen unless you've got some kind of high-profile. And then

:56:15. > :56:19.people think they have carte blanche to just call you whatever they want

:56:20. > :56:23.to call you. But it is not just hurtful insults on social media,

:56:24. > :56:27.there is an even darker side of death threats and violence. Jo Cox

:56:28. > :56:31.was murdered outside her constituency surgery last June. Two

:56:32. > :56:35.thirds of female MPs which spoke to said they have felt less safe ever

:56:36. > :56:40.since. Well over half have received a physical threat from a member of

:56:41. > :56:46.the public. This is the room where I hold my surgeries. Begrudgingly, she

:56:47. > :56:52.now make sure she has security whenever she holds surgeries. This

:56:53. > :56:56.building is a secure building, there is a police presence outside, the

:56:57. > :57:00.staff are very supportive so I do feel safer here. It was one of my

:57:01. > :57:05.staff members who opened the letter, quite a young staff member, and I

:57:06. > :57:08.felt very sorry for the person who opened it and have this letter

:57:09. > :57:12.saying they wanted to picture me, but chew my family, and then quickly

:57:13. > :57:15.the office got in touch with me and said we need to report this to the

:57:16. > :57:19.police and took swift action. The police were very quick to respond

:57:20. > :57:24.and it just made me think, who has the time to sit and write a letter

:57:25. > :57:28.to an MP, saying I want to kill you and your family? It all p rather a

:57:29. > :57:32.grim picture, and certainly the majority of MPs we spoke to say they

:57:33. > :57:36.are concerned about hearing this sort of abuse method of good people,

:57:37. > :57:41.good new women from wanting to become MPs. In fact a third of those

:57:42. > :57:44.we have heard from said they have considered giving up their jobs here

:57:45. > :57:48.in Parliament because of it, and yet none have. The majority we heard

:57:49. > :57:53.from said despite the difficulties the job is a privilege, and well

:57:54. > :57:55.worth the flak. Ellie Price, BBC News, Westminster.

:57:56. > :57:57.Joining us now is Lesley Abdela, a journalist and campaigner

:57:58. > :58:05.You've been trying for a long time to get more women into Parliament.

:58:06. > :58:09.What do you think it is? We have seen some of the reasons there, how

:58:10. > :58:13.distressing is it that people are being put off into that job because

:58:14. > :58:17.of what we have been talking about? I think it's very sad, more than

:58:18. > :58:21.sad, I think it's shocking. They have always been threats over the

:58:22. > :58:25.years in different ways. It used to be the IRA when I stood as a

:58:26. > :58:30.candidate back in 1979, but I think with twitter and the social networks

:58:31. > :58:34.as we have just seen, it is worse. There are several things we can do

:58:35. > :58:38.that should be being done. I do think there should be a helpline

:58:39. > :58:43.that you can ring immediately or contact immediately if you are

:58:44. > :58:49.getting threats. These are threats. So the Parliamentary authorities

:58:50. > :58:53.should be more protective, supportive, and the police, as well.

:58:54. > :58:57.People haven't caught up with the new threats. I work in a lot of

:58:58. > :59:03.different countries with women in politics, and the intimidation is a

:59:04. > :59:08.big problem, and it's getting worse, not just for women, but everyone,

:59:09. > :59:11.but particularly aimed at women. On the other hand, we have more women

:59:12. > :59:16.now in parliament that we have ever had before. So interesting, watching

:59:17. > :59:20.that piece, because it is not just being scared, that is a huge

:59:21. > :59:25.problem, but the real hurt as well, people really taking a look and

:59:26. > :59:30.thinking, one MP saying I'm not sure I would do this again. It is very

:59:31. > :59:34.damaging to democracy. It is, but also I think what we ought to be a

:59:35. > :59:38.bit careful of, I'm really pleased we have done this survey, but I

:59:39. > :59:42.would like you to have survey G-Men as well as women, because we don't

:59:43. > :59:45.know if they are getting threats as well, maybe different threats, not

:59:46. > :59:50.the same threats, I don't know. But otherwise people think women are

:59:51. > :59:53.being wimpish and whingeing, when they're not, it is serious and it

:59:54. > :59:58.should be addressed, and I know some of the most courageous women, people

:59:59. > :00:02.I have met around the world in hotspots, are women who are not

:00:03. > :00:08.going to be told that you should not have to be put through that. On the

:00:09. > :00:10.other hand, I get letters from young women who are writing dissertations

:00:11. > :00:14.and things and I had one this week, she said I was shocked to find that

:00:15. > :00:20.there are only 30% of our Parliament are women. I thought, shocked! We

:00:21. > :00:25.have spent blood, sweat and tears since 1980 going from 19 women to

:00:26. > :00:28.195, and I thought she's right, she should be shocked. It has gone the

:00:29. > :00:36.right way but we certainly don't want it to move backwards.

:00:37. > :00:46.A number of high-profile female politicians out there, our second

:00:47. > :00:50.e-mail -- female Prime Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, and many others.

:00:51. > :00:55.There are, but we have to watch out because it is going to be a pond

:00:56. > :01:02.shrinking with men scrabbling for the comparatively few seats left. We

:01:03. > :01:06.have to have quotas. But that is a discussion for another day? How

:01:07. > :01:14.would that be permitted? A-lister system? A list system is the best

:01:15. > :01:18.way, like the Swedish have. That way it is the same rules for women and

:01:19. > :01:23.four men and they still have to be elected. It is not just picking

:01:24. > :01:27.women and putting them in there. Of all the countries I have worked in,

:01:28. > :01:31.nearly all the countries with over 40% women, the political parties in

:01:32. > :01:36.one way or another are using some form of temporary equalising action.

:01:37. > :01:39.And in your view, which country is the gold standard? There is no

:01:40. > :01:44.perfect place, but I would say the Nordic countries are high up there,

:01:45. > :01:48.Sweden in particular. I do a lot of work with the Swedes, as colleagues

:01:49. > :01:53.in developing countries. And I would say that Britain is two thirds of

:01:54. > :01:57.the way up the football league of women in politics and Sweden is at

:01:58. > :02:01.the top, with other countries way down. But we should be much higher

:02:02. > :02:13.up. We are 48 in the league of women in politics. Rwanda has over 60%,

:02:14. > :02:17.and Cuba has over 50%. There are 12 countries over 40% and we think it

:02:18. > :02:23.is great to have got to 30%. Yes, it is going the right way but this is

:02:24. > :02:28.2017. When we started in 1980 with 19 women, it was 3%, the same as

:02:29. > :02:33.Afghanistan. We are just about level with Afghanistan now. I think they

:02:34. > :02:34.have 27%, something like that. Very interesting, talking to you. Thank

:02:35. > :02:37.you very much. It's recognisable all over

:02:38. > :02:40.the globe, and the world's most profitable toy business,

:02:41. > :02:42.but Lego is having a problem And it's a problem so big,

:02:43. > :02:48.even the boss can't tell what's real and what's fake,

:02:49. > :02:50.as our Beijing Correspondent Robin Billions and billions of these

:02:51. > :03:02.little plastic bricks have been sold the world over and now Lego

:03:03. > :03:10.is betting big on China. What started out with hand-cut

:03:11. > :03:15.bricks in Denmark in 1949 is now a $100 million state-of-the-art

:03:16. > :03:17.operation near Shanghai but they Copies like this and fakes or

:03:18. > :03:34.counterfeits are prolific in China. Lego is currently suing the firm

:03:35. > :03:37.behind this copycat Star Wnrs model. So how easy is it to

:03:38. > :03:40.spot the difference? We bought a real one and a copycat

:03:41. > :03:54.and asked the experts. If you have to ask me to guess,

:03:55. > :03:58.I would say this one, maybe. The truth is, they look

:03:59. > :04:09.and feel almost identical. The copy's so good, in fact,

:04:10. > :04:12.that even the boss of that huge I would say this is

:04:13. > :04:36.Lego and this is not. Bought from Toys'R'Us yesterday,

:04:37. > :04:47.built by my daughter. It is trying to be Lego,

:04:48. > :04:52.is my assessment of it. Lego's not the only foreign firm

:04:53. > :04:55.investing big in China but having White Evoques like this

:04:56. > :05:02.sell particularly well. But the British firm has been

:05:03. > :05:05.powerless to stop this. Tucked away on a Shanghai side

:05:06. > :05:09.street, this is a Land Wind. It's similar on the inside and very,

:05:10. > :05:12.very similar on the outside This is our copycat

:05:13. > :05:17.that caught people out. You can buy him and the real

:05:18. > :05:20.thing on the huge online They took down thousands of links

:05:21. > :05:26.to copycat Lego products last year alone but the toy maker

:05:27. > :05:31.is still pursuing manufacturers in the courts because even the boss

:05:32. > :05:40.cannot tell the difference. That is one of my favourite pieces

:05:41. > :05:44.on Breakfast this week. I feel the embarrassment, the little

:05:45. > :05:49.look to camera from the Lego boss. He knows he is in trouble.

:05:50. > :05:53.But the amazing thing, the children, the ones we saw at least, were so

:05:54. > :05:58.sure. But that is how close they are.

:05:59. > :06:00.Our next guest is Amanda Owens, but you may

:06:01. > :06:01.know her as The Yorkshire Shepherdess.

:06:02. > :06:05.We'll be speaking more to her in a moment but first a last

:06:06. > :06:08.look at the headlines where you are this morning.

:06:09. > :07:56.I'm just searching for my bits of paper.

:07:57. > :07:59.You need to tidy up, it's a mess! Wife, mum, author, award winner,

:08:00. > :08:04.and social media sensation, The Yorkshire Shepherdess has

:08:05. > :08:10.a follow-up to her best-selling book, this time giving us an insight

:08:11. > :08:13.into a year in her life What goes on month. -- month by

:08:14. > :08:27.month. How on earth do you fit everything

:08:28. > :08:33.in? On the front cover of the book it says mother of eight but since it

:08:34. > :08:37.printed, you are now online. That's right, and there is probably not

:08:38. > :08:42.1000 sheep at the moment but I prioritise. I am not wonder mum, I

:08:43. > :08:48.am not a smug mother, I just decide what the most important job is

:08:49. > :08:51.everyday and I get on with it. You lead a packed life. And it is

:08:52. > :08:57.important that the children helped you with the work. Absolutely. Farm

:08:58. > :09:02.life, it is really a great way to bring up the children. They run a

:09:03. > :09:12.bit wild, the farm is 2000 acres. It is in peat bog, and I see it more as

:09:13. > :09:19.a slightly scruffy version of the Darling buds of May, without

:09:20. > :09:21.Catherine Zita Jones. People are so interested in the life that you

:09:22. > :09:26.lead, because you have these nine kids but you live how far away from

:09:27. > :09:34.the nearest hospital? A two hour Drive? Yes. You seem matter-of-fact

:09:35. > :09:38.about it but have you had problems getting to hospital? We have had

:09:39. > :09:43.issues, but having nine children I have given up on trying to get to

:09:44. > :09:46.the hospital. I have done anything from having them in leg byes over

:09:47. > :09:50.the North of England is trying to get there, and then with number

:09:51. > :09:58.eight, I stayed at home and I did it on my own. My terrier was my birth

:09:59. > :10:05.partner. No way. My husband was quite shocked. And you have made a

:10:06. > :10:11.really conscious decision to have this country life, inspired by James

:10:12. > :10:15.Herriot. Yes, I read his books and I'd just love them. I thought to

:10:16. > :10:20.myself, I want to be a vet but academically it was not going to

:10:21. > :10:24.happen, so I had to rethink and I borrowed a book called the Hill

:10:25. > :10:27.Shepherd, and I read the book and saw pictures. I fell in love with

:10:28. > :10:33.the countryside and that kind of lifestyle and I thought, if I can do

:10:34. > :10:38.this, I need to leave Huddersfield and go to the countryside. And

:10:39. > :10:42.knuckle down and work. And I started at the very bottom, living in a

:10:43. > :10:47.caravan. I got myself a dog. And eventually here I am. Doing

:10:48. > :10:50.brilliantly, and being an inspiration to many people as well.

:10:51. > :10:58.The pictures are beautiful, but there must be tough days. This book

:10:59. > :11:03.is about the day-to-day life. It had to be reality. Give me an ideal of a

:11:04. > :11:08.-- an idea of a typical day in winter. A couple of weeks ago, the

:11:09. > :11:15.forecast was snow and we had proper snow. Snow to our waists in places.

:11:16. > :11:21.It was blowing about, and it was about bringing the sheep down to

:11:22. > :11:29.safety. It may seem like we have a microclimate, because you have wind

:11:30. > :11:33.and lashing rain and it is a tough place to live and work. But we are

:11:34. > :11:37.doing what has been done there for generations, carrying on the

:11:38. > :11:44.tradition. We are predominantly a sheep farm, and we are looking after

:11:45. > :11:49.them as nature intended, farming not intend to play. And you have written

:11:50. > :11:53.one book already and what is clear is that people are really interested

:11:54. > :11:57.about it, they are interested in your lifestyle, interested in what

:11:58. > :12:01.you are doing. I don't know if it is me. I don't see myself as

:12:02. > :12:07.particularly interesting, I see myself as an ordinary person who

:12:08. > :12:14.lives in an ordinary way. Many people would not see having a child

:12:15. > :12:19.and then waking your husband up to see you have had another one as

:12:20. > :12:22.ordinary. Britain people have a natural affinity with the

:12:23. > :12:26.countryside. Many people are just a generation away from working on the

:12:27. > :12:29.land. And people are interested. They want to know about the

:12:30. > :12:33.environment, how farming works. It is important and people want to know

:12:34. > :12:37.where the food is coming from. That is what we do and I was given the

:12:38. > :12:41.opportunity to write. Me being me, I thought to myself, I'll give it a

:12:42. > :12:44.go, what is the worst that can happen? I am the kind of person, if

:12:45. > :12:48.an opportunity comes along I take it. And that is my message. I have

:12:49. > :12:53.not anything to preach, other than you have to give things a shot. You

:12:54. > :12:56.have to break stereotypes. I am a woman and I like to be a bit

:12:57. > :13:02.glamorous but I spend my life in wellies. And you nearly put the

:13:03. > :13:06.device in your washing machine when you were writing it. I nearly put

:13:07. > :13:11.the iPad with my manuscript on it in the washing machine with an enormous

:13:12. > :13:17.bundle. But you know... You could have written it again. Probably in

:13:18. > :13:22.the dust of the living room. I am not a smug mum, I am not a perfect

:13:23. > :13:25.mum, I never iron anything. I have a sock chandelier in the living room,

:13:26. > :13:31.you look up and everything is drying. The glamour (!). But it is

:13:32. > :13:34.about reality. And life in the countryside.

:13:35. > :13:36.Amanda's book is called 'A Year in the Life

:13:37. > :13:41.Jon and Steph will be here from six tomorrow.

:13:42. > :13:44.Until then, thanks for watching and have a great day.