09/02/2017

:00:00. > :00:07.This is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Steph

:00:08. > :00:12.Record waiting times at A departments in English hospitals,

:00:13. > :00:14.according to figures seen by the BBC.

:00:15. > :00:16.Emergency departments suffered their worst performance

:00:17. > :00:19.last month, since the target to see patients within four hours

:00:20. > :00:59.The ayes to the right, 494, the left, 122.

:01:00. > :01:02.As Theresa May gets the all-clear to trigger Article 50,

:01:03. > :01:05.the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, will be here to tell us

:01:06. > :01:08.what he wants to see from the Brexit negotiations.

:01:09. > :01:11.How a new law to tackle rogue landlords is failing to protect

:01:12. > :01:13.tenants from so-called "revenge evictions."

:01:14. > :01:17.Should you be able to access your late partner's pension

:01:18. > :01:21.A landmark ruling says "yes," paving the way to more pension freedoms.

:01:22. > :01:23.And it could affect millions of workers.

:01:24. > :01:27.Leicester have their first home win of the year.

:01:28. > :01:31.Demarai Gray scores in extra time to help them beat Derby in their FA

:01:32. > :01:47.You said you went home and you kissed your boy, you hugged your

:01:48. > :01:49.boy. Weren't you doing that before? I've been talking fatherhood,

:01:50. > :01:51.fake news, and the changing face of US politics, with

:01:52. > :01:58.Denzel Washington. Good morning. A cold day you had.

:01:59. > :02:01.The best of the sunshine in the west. Central and eastern areas,

:02:02. > :02:10.more cloud, some showers, and quite windy for some as well. All the

:02:11. > :02:13.details in about 30 minutes. Thank you, Carol. See you soon.

:02:14. > :02:17.Accident and Emergency departments in England last month

:02:18. > :02:19.had their worst waiting time performance since

:02:20. > :02:22.That's according to provisional figures leaked to the BBC.

:02:23. > :02:26.The data also suggests that record numbers of patients have had to wait

:02:27. > :02:28.on trolleys for a bed to become available.

:02:29. > :02:39.With more here's our health correspondent, Dominic Hughes.

:02:40. > :02:48.For months, A departments across England have been struggling. We

:02:49. > :02:54.were given access to the raw Royal Blackburn Hospital. The difficulty

:02:55. > :02:59.was easy to see. It is a similar picture across England. Provisional

:03:00. > :03:04.figures appeared to show that last month, 82% of patients were treated,

:03:05. > :03:08.admitted, and discharged within four hours, the worst performance since

:03:09. > :03:15.the target of 95% was produced in 2004. 780 patients waited more than

:03:16. > :03:20.12 hours for a bed after being admitted to hospital, known as a

:03:21. > :03:31.trolley wait, again the worst on record. If the figures are correct,

:03:32. > :03:37.it shows the degree of pressure the NHS is under, despite huge efforts

:03:38. > :03:42.from 1.4 million staff. The NHS is really struggling to cope with extra

:03:43. > :03:49.demand, record levels of demand. These figures are the worst since

:03:50. > :03:53.the four hour A target was introduced. It shows the pressure.

:03:54. > :03:57.The NHS in Scotland is coping better. But similar issues affect

:03:58. > :04:03.Wales and Northern Ireland. Symptoms of the pressure building across

:04:04. > :04:06.health and social care. NHS sources acknowledged the system is facing

:04:07. > :04:12.unprecedented demand. The latest figures suggest there is little sign

:04:13. > :04:13.of respite. Dominic Hughes, BBC News.

:04:14. > :04:16.We'll be speaking to the President of the Royal College

:04:17. > :04:18.of Emergency Medicine about the figures just

:04:19. > :04:22.The Government has told the House of Lords not to block Brexit

:04:23. > :04:25.after MPs overwhelmingly backed the bill to trigger Article 50,

:04:26. > :04:29.The Brexit Secretary, David Davis, called on peers

:04:30. > :04:31.to "do their patriotic duty" and pass the legislation.

:04:32. > :04:34.More than 50 Labour MPs defied the three-line whip imposed

:04:35. > :04:37.by their leader, Jeremy Corbyn, and voted against the bill.

:04:38. > :04:48.Here's our political correspondent, Tom Bateman.

:04:49. > :04:54.The message was clear. MPs gave their overwhelming support for

:04:55. > :05:03.Theresa May's plan to get on with Brexit talks. It is an historic vote

:05:04. > :05:08.today. It got through with a large majority. It has carried out the

:05:09. > :05:15.will of the British people. That is what Parliament has done today. Just

:05:16. > :05:21.137 words long, the bill, very simple, telling us we have to do

:05:22. > :05:25.what the people wanted. Some people for the bill all the way. They lost,

:05:26. > :05:35.but they sung the European anthem in defiance. The threat of a

:05:36. > :05:40.Conservative rebellion fell away, but 52 Labour MPs, including Clive

:05:41. > :05:49.Lewis, a shadow cabinet minister, defined Jeremy Corbyn to vote

:05:50. > :06:01.against the bill. -- defied. What you have done is allow a stitch up

:06:02. > :06:07.on the 21st century equivalent of a con job. Theresa May left after the

:06:08. > :06:11.vote clearing a first hurdle in Parliament. Now the bill goes to the

:06:12. > :06:13.House of Lords, where it may need yet more opposition. Tom Bateman,

:06:14. > :06:15.BBC News, Westminster. And picking up on that

:06:16. > :06:17.House of Lords process, our political correspondent,

:06:18. > :06:29.Carol Walker, is in Westminster this We move onto the next step. Talk us

:06:30. > :06:33.through what will happen. There will be a huge amount of pressure on

:06:34. > :06:37.gears to let this bill goes through and complete its passage through

:06:38. > :06:41.Parliament swiftly. -- peers. Downing Street sources have made it

:06:42. > :06:45.clear if the Lord's tried to disrupt this process they could face calls

:06:46. > :06:51.to be abolished. Now, I don't think that will stop peers from putting

:06:52. > :06:55.down amendments, the government does not have a majority, but any delays

:06:56. > :06:58.and changes will be minor and they will be able to see that off and

:06:59. > :07:03.stick to their timetable for triggering Article 50 by the end of

:07:04. > :07:07.March. The biggest immediate problem is facing the Labour leader Jeremy

:07:08. > :07:10.Corbyn. He has four positions in his shadow cabinet to feel and must

:07:11. > :07:16.decide whether to take action against more than a dozen junior MPs

:07:17. > :07:21.who voted against the bill and his wishes. That has laid bare the huge

:07:22. > :07:22.divisions within the Labour Party. Carol, thank you.

:07:23. > :07:25.Just after 8am, we'll be discussing this with Labour leader,

:07:26. > :07:29.A new law designed to help protect people in England from so-called

:07:30. > :07:31."revenge evictions" by rogue landlords isn't working,

:07:32. > :07:32.according to senior MPs and housing lawyers.

:07:33. > :07:36.A BBC Freedom of Information request has revealed that there may be

:07:37. > :07:37.hundreds of thousands of vulnerable tenants,

:07:38. > :07:40.afraid to report things like damp, faulty electrics and broken boilers,

:07:41. > :07:55.Things like damp faulty electrics and broken boilers can all badly

:07:56. > :08:01.But here in Leeds, there's a concern many are too scared to complain

:08:02. > :08:08.in case their landlord kicks them out.

:08:09. > :08:10.This is rented out as private rented accommodation,

:08:11. > :08:14.People are paying to rent here, making complaints, nothing happening

:08:15. > :08:16.and they could be under the threat of revenge eviction.

:08:17. > :08:18.That's the reason why they're not coming forward

:08:19. > :08:22.And that's exactly what happened to Helen.

:08:23. > :08:24.Her and her family were hit with a revenge eviction.

:08:25. > :08:32.After months of complaining, we got a firm of solicitors

:08:33. > :08:36.in who deal with properties in these states of disrepair.

:08:37. > :08:39.They checked the property and they agreed it was damp

:08:40. > :08:45.So they wrote to our landlord and instructed that work needed

:08:46. > :08:51.And within a week of him receiving that, we received a Section 21

:08:52. > :08:52.eviction notice pushed under our door.

:08:53. > :08:54.Because of what happened to people like Helen,

:08:55. > :08:58.a new law was introduced in October 2015 to try to stop retaliatory

:08:59. > :09:12.But we've seen exclusive figures gathered in a freedom of information

:09:13. > :09:14.request gathered from hundreds of councils right across England

:09:15. > :09:17.that show more than half haven't stopped any at all.

:09:18. > :09:20.More than a quarter don't even record figures and fewer than one

:09:21. > :09:25.The Government says "revenge evictions" are rare,

:09:26. > :09:27.and thanks to its new law, councils have all the powers

:09:28. > :09:32.they need to stop them.

:09:33. > :09:36.The Labour peer who campaigned for unaccompanied migrant children

:09:37. > :09:39.to come to the UK, has said the Government's decision to stop

:09:40. > :09:43.When the Dubs Scheme was introduced last year,

:09:44. > :09:44.campaigners hoped thousands of children would benefit,

:09:45. > :09:46.but the actual numbers have been much lower.

:09:47. > :09:57.Vulnerable and scared. Many children remain in camps across Europe. An

:09:58. > :10:03.estimated 90,000 all alone without family. Following intense pressure

:10:04. > :10:07.last year, the then Prime Minister David Cameron introduced a programme

:10:08. > :10:15.to give century to some. Campaigners had hoped 3000 unaccompanied

:10:16. > :10:20.children with no links to the UK would benefit. Instead, 350 will be

:10:21. > :10:32.taken in before this scheme ends next month. It was designed by Lord

:10:33. > :10:39.Dubs, a former refugee who fled from the Nazis himself. I was in Greece.

:10:40. > :10:43.Desperate conditions. Many unaccompanied children who are

:10:44. > :10:47.bitterly cold and miserable We need to help them. There has been

:10:48. > :10:50.widespread condemnation. Opposition parties have called the move a

:10:51. > :10:55.betrayal of vulnerable children and British values, and called on the

:10:56. > :11:00.government to revive the Dubs Ammendment. Some were taken to this

:11:01. > :11:04.place in Devon. The Home Office says it is a matter of resources, the

:11:05. > :11:07.balance between enabling children to enter the country, while ensuring

:11:08. > :11:09.that local councils have the capacity to look after them.

:11:10. > :11:11.Alexander Mackenzie, BBC News. The US Senate has approved

:11:12. > :11:13.President Trump's choice Mr Trump criticised

:11:14. > :11:16.efforts by Democrats Mr Sessions was denied a post

:11:17. > :11:21.as a federal judge in the 1980s, when he was accused of racism,

:11:22. > :11:24.though he's always denied Tributes have continued to be paid

:11:25. > :11:29.to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson The actress and model became

:11:30. > :11:34.an "it-girl" in the 90s and wrote about her life as an aristocrat

:11:35. > :11:37.and her close ties to She was found dead in her London

:11:38. > :11:41.home after revealing that she had a brain tumour in

:11:42. > :11:45.November last year. Jane Austin's Mr Darcy from Pride

:11:46. > :11:49.and Prejudice is one of the most admired and romantic leading men

:11:50. > :11:51.in literary history. When Colin Firth played him

:11:52. > :11:53.he was famously tall, dark and handsome, but that

:11:54. > :11:56.might not have been the case This portrait by British academics

:11:57. > :12:00.paints a very different picture of Mr Darcy, giving him a pale face,

:12:01. > :12:03.powdered white hair, He's a far cry from the brooding

:12:04. > :12:27.Mr Darcy created by filmmakers. Yes. Umm there you go. You can see

:12:28. > :12:31.the contrast. LAUGHING. What did they say, a powdered... A powdered

:12:32. > :12:42.face. What is wrong with a powdered face? And fair hair. No tan because

:12:43. > :12:47.you are always inside. He looked a little bit like you. Why are you

:12:48. > :12:54.doing that are you thinking Hmm? What have you got going on was

:12:55. > :13:02.-- on? Leicester have their first home win of the year. They are one

:13:03. > :13:08.point above the relegation zone in the Premier League.

:13:09. > :13:11.3-1 in their FA Cup Fourth Round replay.

:13:12. > :13:14.Demari Gray scoring the pick of the goals.

:13:15. > :13:16.MPs will debate the Football Association's failure

:13:17. > :13:20.It follows a motion of "no confidence" in the governing body.

:13:21. > :13:22.Parliament will examine whether the FA can "comply fully

:13:23. > :13:25.Hundreds of mourners gathered in Wolverhampton yesterday

:13:26. > :13:27.for the funeral of former England women's cricket captain,

:13:28. > :13:31.A pioneer in women's cricket, she died aged 77 last month

:13:32. > :13:39.British snowsports are aiming to become one of the world's top

:13:40. > :13:41.five skiing and snowboarding nations by 2030.

:13:42. > :13:44.The winter Olympics take place in PyeongChang South Korea in one

:13:45. > :13:47.year and UK Sport says Great Britain can achieve its best ever Winter

:13:48. > :14:07.That is quite a long time to wait for your target, 2030. Why have they

:14:08. > :14:15.become so good at winter sports at the moment? Used to have to on a dry

:14:16. > :14:23.ski slope. There are many more with new indoor ones. And there is snow

:14:24. > :14:29.on the mountains by Carol. Is that the Grampians? This is a librarian

:14:30. > :14:36.picture. I knew you were going to ask me where it was. Sorry. May be

:14:37. > :14:42.some Malay like Yorkshire. -- somewhere like.

:14:43. > :14:50.Calls are today and cloudy across central and eastern areas. We will

:14:51. > :14:53.see showers, rain, sleet and snow. A blocking area of high pressure in

:14:54. > :14:58.the continent with wind moving around that coming from a cold sauce

:14:59. > :15:01.is sweeping across our shores so it is a cold start. In western Scotland

:15:02. > :15:05.you will see some sunshine this morning but it is cold and frosty.

:15:06. > :15:09.Down the east coast where we have the wintry showers, the risk of ice.

:15:10. > :15:13.A sunny start across north-west England, but a cold one and as we

:15:14. > :15:18.come down the east coast and inland we are looking on the coast at a

:15:19. > :15:22.mixture of rain and sleet. Inland it is a mixture of sleet and snow.

:15:23. > :15:26.Showers across the south, not as cold but still cold and as we drift

:15:27. > :15:31.towards the south-west you are under clearer skies but not as cold. Four

:15:32. > :15:35.degrees, will not feel warm if you are stepping outside. More cloud as

:15:36. > :15:40.we push inland and for Northern Ireland a bit more cloud as well

:15:41. > :15:45.stop temperatures at 7am right about four degrees in Belfast. Through the

:15:46. > :15:49.course of the day the lion's share of the sunshine will be out of the

:15:50. > :15:53.west, where it will be windy. Gales in the west, they will ease a touch

:15:54. > :15:57.during the day but a cold wind lowing in those showers. Coming out

:15:58. > :16:01.the cloud in central and eastern areas. Because they are showers not

:16:02. > :16:04.all of us will see one but they will have a wintry element to them

:16:05. > :16:08.inland. Through the evening and overnight it will be windy. We will

:16:09. > :16:12.have some showers strolling along the south of England here and there

:16:13. > :16:16.will be wintry across the Grampians, the Pennines and the east of the

:16:17. > :16:19.country as well. It is a cold night, and where the skies remain clear

:16:20. > :16:23.across north-west Scotland we are looking at a frost but frost

:16:24. > :16:29.shouldn't be a problem for much of the UK. That leaves us into

:16:30. > :16:32.tomorrow. Tomorrow once again we are looking at some snow showers, again

:16:33. > :16:36.coming in from the east. On the coast, rain, sleet and snow as we

:16:37. > :16:40.push inland. Not all of us will see them but across Orkney and Shetland

:16:41. > :16:44.we could see as much as five or six centimetres, just over two inches.

:16:45. > :16:49.Those are the kind of temperature values but if you are in the wind it

:16:50. > :16:54.will feel colder than those temperatures are suggesting. As we

:16:55. > :16:57.head on into Saturday we have a similar combination of rain and

:16:58. > :17:00.sleet in the coast, snow showers as we push inland. The change of wind

:17:01. > :17:04.direction to the north-easterly, still feeling cold but some of the

:17:05. > :17:08.showers will blow over to the west so we will see some in Wales, the

:17:09. > :17:12.south-west of England and Northern Ireland, and a quick look at Sunday.

:17:13. > :17:17.A similar kind of story, still some snow showers around and it will feel

:17:18. > :17:26.raw if you are out in that wind. It is going to feel raw. It is going to

:17:27. > :17:33.feel roar! Shall we have a look at the papers? As many of the papers

:17:34. > :17:37.are this morning, the front page dominated by the vote last night.

:17:38. > :17:42.Worth pointing out that Jeremy Corbyn will be with us on the sofa

:17:43. > :17:46.just after 8am, many questions of course posed about his leadership or

:17:47. > :17:51.what he makes of what will happen in the Brexit negotiations. The Daily

:17:52. > :17:58.Express also talking about that vote, saying that MPs last night

:17:59. > :18:05.gave Theresa May the all clear to take Britain out of the EU, and

:18:06. > :18:09.Prince Charles with Tara Parker Thompson, who tragically died. The

:18:10. > :18:16.front page of the Times has some big brands and where the advertising

:18:17. > :18:20.ends up. And if you go inside, it explains a little bit about how it

:18:21. > :18:23.works and it is not the brands themselves who are choosing to

:18:24. > :18:27.advertise on the extremist videos but we don't all see the same advert

:18:28. > :18:31.only click on a video. The video player will look at what else we

:18:32. > :18:35.have been browsing for on the internet, it will find relevant ad

:18:36. > :18:39.and may be sure you one for a car, bank or retailer. That is how they

:18:40. > :18:43.are ending up on these sites. Google, which owns YouTube, has

:18:44. > :18:48.received is in place to stop it happening but some are clearly

:18:49. > :18:52.getting through. On the front page of the Daily Express a follow on

:18:53. > :18:56.with EU exit, time to get on with it, a theme from many of the papers

:18:57. > :19:01.this morning. And the Guardian this morning also with a picture of Tara

:19:02. > :19:04.Palmer-Tomkinson, and the story of anger and dismay greeting the

:19:05. > :19:10.announcement by the government that it will end its commitment to

:19:11. > :19:18.provide a lone child refugees in Europe. I know lots of people are

:19:19. > :19:22.enjoying the rugby at the moment, you included, Charlie. The Mirror

:19:23. > :19:27.have done a piece about Eddie Jones who has been compared to Brian

:19:28. > :19:31.Clough, because the thing about Eddie Jones is he has got that air

:19:32. > :19:36.of confidence. He exudes confidence the whole time and lows on into his

:19:37. > :19:42.players. He is quite clever at manipulating us, journalists. He has

:19:43. > :19:46.said his players are scared of playing Wales at home. Not all of

:19:47. > :19:51.them are scared of playing Wales at home, but it is the clever thing to

:19:52. > :19:54.say. He has said privately that he knows journalists want the headline

:19:55. > :19:58.and if you don't give them something to talk about they will talk about

:19:59. > :20:02.something else. He is deciding what they are going to talk about and

:20:03. > :20:06.giving them a new thing to say each day which keeps all of us distract

:20:07. > :20:11.that while he gets on with it. They are all into the idea of mind games,

:20:12. > :20:14.they? In the game on Saturday is at the Millennium Stadium. If I am

:20:15. > :20:19.remembering rightly I think the visiting team can request the roof

:20:20. > :20:23.to be close. He said so far they haven't decided whether they are

:20:24. > :20:27.going to request for the roof to be closed, they will wait and see. The

:20:28. > :20:32.big thing about closing the roof is it could give Wales an advantage, it

:20:33. > :20:36.makes it much noisier. It locks in the atmosphere. If you are there on

:20:37. > :20:41.the roof is closed, the atmosphere is unbelievable. This is a story we

:20:42. > :20:46.will cover letter in the programme, that Body Shop could be looking for

:20:47. > :20:55.a new owner. We can think of it as a touchy-feely local retailer but it

:20:56. > :20:59.is owned by Loreal, and it has been struggling on the high street. Sales

:21:00. > :21:08.have fallen, down about .5%. -- L'Oreal. We will talk about that

:21:09. > :21:11.just about eight a.m.. And this is about people who when they go home

:21:12. > :21:18.of an evening might feel a bit lonely, and now in Japan they have

:21:19. > :21:22.come up with a virtual grandmother who you can put on your TV who will

:21:23. > :21:28.chat to you while you are having your tea. You can interact with the

:21:29. > :21:32.granny. This old lady chats on the screen and creates the illusion of a

:21:33. > :21:37.family meal while you are at home. Does she tell you off and tell you

:21:38. > :21:44.you are doing everything wrong? She is critical of your cooking! It is a

:21:45. > :21:47.real person? There is this lady, who is the one who is being filmed, and

:21:48. > :21:51.it is connected to your smartphone and everything so you can interact

:21:52. > :21:56.and basically have a bit of company. It makes you feel better, that is

:21:57. > :21:59.all that matters, isn't it? She asked you if you slept well. Quite

:22:00. > :22:02.sweet, really, isn't it? Across the BBC this week,

:22:03. > :22:05.we have been looking We have met rural GPs working long

:22:06. > :22:10.hours, seen how cuts are affecting mental health provision,

:22:11. > :22:12.and investigated alternative ways Today, for our NHS Health Check,

:22:13. > :22:17.we follow a day in the life of Kathryn Carruthers,

:22:18. > :22:34.a matron at a busy emergency care It is chock-a-block. All those

:22:35. > :22:37.patients you can see are waiting and there is probably more patients,

:22:38. > :22:40.more patients here and more patients all down the corridor here.

:22:41. > :22:43.Everybody is trying but sometimes trying isn't enough, and you feel

:22:44. > :22:50.that everything is gridlocked. And that can be very frustrating. My

:22:51. > :22:57.name is Kathryn Carruthers. I'm the matron for emergency care here at

:22:58. > :23:04.this hospital. Where part of the emergency division. We try to see

:23:05. > :23:14.patients that need urgent care, and get treatment without the

:23:15. > :23:18.requirement for admission. A have already run this morning to see if

:23:19. > :23:22.we can take some patients that have been down there for quite sometime.

:23:23. > :23:26.We're at 100%. Staffing is a huge challenge. We don't always have the

:23:27. > :23:35.number of staff that we would like. OK, so will go to ED. It is busy.

:23:36. > :23:40.Lots of staff and patients and trolleys and relatives, who looks

:23:41. > :23:47.set up. They have been waiting, you can tell. Good morning. I Cathy, I'm

:23:48. > :23:52.the matron. I know you have been here for a very long time. For me,

:23:53. > :23:55.currently, this is probably the worst I have seen the NHS. When it

:23:56. > :24:02.is completely relentless, I think you do drain staff. Got a real

:24:03. > :24:10.problem, actually. There is a woman who has just moved, and she has a

:24:11. > :24:13.bowel instruction, and she can sit here all night in a chair. It is

:24:14. > :24:18.absolutely full, and nowhere to examine patients. Which is not the

:24:19. > :24:25.hospital's fault, it does its absolute best. Mayhem and bad.

:24:26. > :24:34.Sorry, do you mind if I take this call? High:. Two orthopaedic

:24:35. > :24:41.patients, a chap in a chair. -- hi, Colin. I had to wait, and wait and

:24:42. > :24:47.wait. Oh well. Looks like a movie now. You are not allergic to any

:24:48. > :24:50.medicine? It is almost the end of the day. My department ticked along

:24:51. > :24:55.quite nicely. I don't think it is sustainable to continue this amount

:24:56. > :25:00.of pressure. I am off training, I met an athletic club before going

:25:01. > :25:05.home and seeing to the rest of the family. And then back to do it all

:25:06. > :25:08.again. Back to do it all again tomorrow.

:25:09. > :25:12.Thank you to Kathryn Carruthers and her staff at Northwick Ealing

:25:13. > :25:14.Hospital. You can find out much more

:25:15. > :25:17.about the BBC's NHS Health Check series online, including a piece

:25:18. > :25:20.by our health correspondent Nick Triggle, who has analysed ten

:25:21. > :25:22.charts which show why, despite rising funding,

:25:23. > :25:32.the NHS is in trouble. You are watching

:25:33. > :25:33.Breakfast from BBC News. Still to come this morning:

:25:34. > :25:36.Denise Brewster was with her partner for ten years, but after he died,

:25:37. > :25:40.she was told she couldn't receive his pension

:25:41. > :25:42.because they weren't married. We will speak to a legal expert

:25:43. > :25:45.about how a Supreme Court ruling in her favour could now affect

:25:46. > :25:50.millions of unmarried couples. Time now to get the news,

:25:51. > :25:54.travel and weather where you are. I'm back with the latest

:25:55. > :29:18.from the BBC London newsroom Plenty more on our website

:29:19. > :29:21.at the usual address. This is Breakfast with

:29:22. > :29:27.Steph McGovern and Charlie Stayt. We'll bring you all the latest news

:29:28. > :29:30.and sport in a moment, Jeremy Corbyn says the "real fight

:29:31. > :29:35.starts now," after MPs overwhelming We'll be asking him what he wants

:29:36. > :29:39.to see from the negotiations New rules on child booster

:29:40. > :29:43.seats are on the way. But there's still confusion over

:29:44. > :29:46.who should be sitting in what. We'll try and get to the bottom

:29:47. > :29:49.of the new regulations Let me ask you a question. I am the

:29:50. > :30:01.journalist now. And Hollywood superstar,

:30:02. > :30:03.Denzel Washington, turned the tables and started interviewing

:30:04. > :30:05.Charlie when they met to discuss his new film

:30:06. > :30:07."Fences" this week. But now, a summary of this

:30:08. > :30:11.morning's main news. Accident and Emergency departments

:30:12. > :30:13.in England last month suffered their worst waiting time

:30:14. > :30:16.performance since targets were introduced, according

:30:17. > :30:17.to provisional data leaked The figures also suggest that record

:30:18. > :30:23.numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for a bed

:30:24. > :30:25.to become available. The Department of Health insists

:30:26. > :30:28.the vast majority of patients We'll be speaking to the President

:30:29. > :30:34.of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine

:30:35. > :30:41.about the figures just after 7am. The Government has told the House

:30:42. > :30:44.of Lords not to block Brexit, after MPs overwhelmingly backed

:30:45. > :30:47.the bill to trigger Article 50, The Brexit Secretary,

:30:48. > :30:51.David Davis, called on peers to "do their patriotic duty"

:30:52. > :30:54.and pass the legislation. More than 50 Labour MPs defied

:30:55. > :30:56.the three-line whip imposed by their leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

:30:57. > :30:59.and voted against the bill. Our political correspondent,

:31:00. > :31:02.Carol Walker, is in Westminster this Carol, how much pressure

:31:03. > :31:20.will there be on the Lords not Brexit now moves on to the Lords.

:31:21. > :31:24.Talk us through it. There is huge pressure on the House of Lords to

:31:25. > :31:27.take heed of that. They will look at the authority the government had at

:31:28. > :31:32.the end of the vote last night. Downing Street sources have said if

:31:33. > :31:35.the Lord's tried to disrupt or change the process, they could call

:31:36. > :31:43.for the abolition. I think there will be a huge amount of pressure on

:31:44. > :31:46.peers to toe the line now. That will not stop amendments being put down

:31:47. > :31:50.and attempts to change the ruling. But ministers are confident they

:31:51. > :31:55.will get the bill through both chambers of Parliament in time to

:31:56. > :32:00.begin the formal Brexit negotiations by the end of March. The biggest

:32:01. > :32:05.immediate problem is the one facing the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. He

:32:06. > :32:11.has four positions to fill in his shadow cabinet after the resignation

:32:12. > :32:14.of Clive Lewis. He is deciding on the action to take on junior

:32:15. > :32:20.ministers who voted against the bill. Although his spokesman has

:32:21. > :32:24.dismissed rumours he may be thinking of standing down in the future, I

:32:25. > :32:27.think it is a big problem for the Labour Party when it has divisions

:32:28. > :32:32.laid bare on such an important issue. Carol, for the moment, thank

:32:33. > :32:38.you. A new law designed to help protect

:32:39. > :32:41.people in England from so-called "revenge evictions" by rogue

:32:42. > :32:43.landlords isn't working, according to senior MPs

:32:44. > :32:45.and housing lawyers. A BBC Freedom of Information request

:32:46. > :32:48.has revealed that there may be hundreds of thousands

:32:49. > :32:50.of vulnerable tenants, afraid to report things like damp,

:32:51. > :32:53.faulty electrics and broken boilers, The Labour peer who campaigned

:32:54. > :32:56.for unaccompanied migrant children to come to the UK, has said

:32:57. > :33:00.the Government's decision to stop When the Dubs Scheme

:33:01. > :33:03.was introduced last year, campaigners hoped thousands

:33:04. > :33:05.of children would benefit, but the actual numbers

:33:06. > :33:14.have been much lower. By the time the system closes next

:33:15. > :33:21.month, 350 children will have been taken in. It was designed by Lord

:33:22. > :33:27.Dubs, a former refugee who fled Nazi occupation is. I was in Greece a few

:33:28. > :33:30.months ago. There were desperate situations, with many children cold

:33:31. > :33:38.and miserable. We owe it to those children. The government ministers

:33:39. > :33:42.said to me we intend to accept the letter and spirit of your amendment.

:33:43. > :33:44.My contention is that they are not doing that.

:33:45. > :33:47.Tributes have continued to be paid to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

:33:48. > :33:52.The actress and model became an "it-girl" in the 90s and wrote

:33:53. > :33:55.about her life as an aristocrat and her close ties to

:33:56. > :33:59.She was found dead in her London home after revealing that she had

:34:00. > :34:01.a brain tumour in November last year.

:34:02. > :34:03.The US Senate has approved President Trump's choice

:34:04. > :34:06.Mr Trump criticised efforts by Democrats

:34:07. > :34:11.Mr Sessions was denied a post as a federal judge in the 1980s,

:34:12. > :34:13.when he was accused of racism, though he's always denied

:34:14. > :34:33.Good news for Leicester. They needed. It has to be a consolation

:34:34. > :34:40.prize for them. -- need it. Struggling Premier League

:34:41. > :34:42.champions, Leicester City, are through to the fifth

:34:43. > :34:44.round of the FA Cup following a replay

:34:45. > :34:46.against Derby County. They came through 3-1

:34:47. > :34:48.after extra time. Andy King put Leicester ahead before

:34:49. > :34:51.Abdoul Camera's deflected free kick Leicester restored their lead

:34:52. > :34:54.through substitute, Wilfred Ndidi, And Demarai Gray's superb solo

:34:55. > :35:10.goal secured their place We want to do well in the

:35:11. > :35:17.competition where we play. Of course we want to go forward in the FA Cup.

:35:18. > :35:19.The Premier League is not so good, but we have to play in the Premier

:35:20. > :35:31.League. And then there is Sunday. Tonight was about the squad and the

:35:32. > :35:35.injured players getting back in the game We missed the opportunity in

:35:36. > :35:40.the first game. We did not want a replay. It was a fantastic game.

:35:41. > :35:42.Fantastic support from our fans. And I could not fault the players. I

:35:43. > :35:46.think he was slightly cross. MPs will debate the Football

:35:47. > :35:48.Associations "failure It follows a motion of no confidence

:35:49. > :35:52.in the governing body. Parliament will examine

:35:53. > :35:55.whether the FA is fit for purpose. Last July, Sports Minister,

:35:56. > :35:57.Tracey Crouch, said the governing body would lose its ?30 million

:35:58. > :36:00.to ?40 million of public funding Britain is aiming to become one

:36:01. > :36:05.of the world's top five skiing In a year's time, the winter

:36:06. > :36:09.Olympics take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and UK Sport

:36:10. > :36:12.says Great Britain can At around 8:40, we'll be talking

:36:13. > :36:16.to Olympic bronze medal winning snowboarder, Jenny Jones,

:36:17. > :36:19.and TeamGB hopeful freestyle skier, A little bit more skiing coming up

:36:20. > :36:35.in just a moment. World champion, Mark Selby,

:36:36. > :36:37.suffered a shock first-round defeat to world number 18, Martin Gould,

:36:38. > :36:41.at snooker's World Grand Prix Better news for

:36:42. > :36:43.Australia's Neil Robertson. He compiled a century break

:36:44. > :36:46.in the first frame of his match He'll face Ronnie O'Sullivan

:36:47. > :36:54.in the next round. I mentioned skiing, didn't I? You

:36:55. > :37:00.have to feel for this chap. No matter how much preparation

:37:01. > :37:03.and training you can put into a sport, nothing ever

:37:04. > :37:05.prepares you for this. Could this be the worst start

:37:06. > :37:09.to a men's Super-G ski race? But then, Kazakhstan skier,

:37:10. > :37:21.Taras Pimenov, tripped as he left the gate at the Skiing World

:37:22. > :37:28.Championships at St Moritz. That is awful. Can we try and see it

:37:29. > :37:35.again? He finished 20 seconds behind the winner. The key word is that he

:37:36. > :37:43.finished. He got up and carried on? He got back up. He was not last!

:37:44. > :37:49.Isn't that just a lesson? Things can go wrong and you can just carry on.

:37:50. > :37:51.We will have that. We will see you later on. Thank you.

:37:52. > :37:53.There's still a long way to go before Brexit,

:37:54. > :37:57.but last night the message from MPs was clear, let the Government begin

:37:58. > :37:59.the UK's departure from the European Union.

:38:00. > :38:02.494 members voted in favour of the EU Withdrawal Bill,

:38:03. > :38:05.One of those to support it was the Conservative MP

:38:06. > :38:13.James Cleverly, who joins us now from Westminster.

:38:14. > :38:22.Good morning. So, the bill has passed unamended in the House of

:38:23. > :38:26.Commons. It now goes to the Lord's. Do you think it will be passed there

:38:27. > :38:30.as well? I am pretty confident it will for two reasons. The fact it

:38:31. > :38:37.came from the Commons unamended, what we call a clean bill, is a

:38:38. > :38:43.strong signal to the Lord's. And the Labour Lord's, a deciding factor,

:38:44. > :38:47.they will want to put their own, they will not want to put their own

:38:48. > :38:50.party under any more pressure. Anytime there is a Brexit bill

:38:51. > :38:54.inputs their party under more pressure. You don't think there will

:38:55. > :38:58.be more amendments. But there could be, and if there are, what will

:38:59. > :39:03.happen? There is always a chance. There is always a chance the Labour

:39:04. > :39:10.Party will opt to a amended. The Lib Dems said they intend to make

:39:11. > :39:14.trouble. It puts the Lords in a difficult position. People will be

:39:15. > :39:24.understandably frustrated and probably furious if the result of a

:39:25. > :39:27.democratic process is undermined by part of the Houses of Parliament not

:39:28. > :39:31.up for election themselves. That will go down poorly with British

:39:32. > :39:41.people. Sources from Downing Street suggest that if big you not pass

:39:42. > :39:48.this bill, it could mean that the Lord's will be abolished. -- they do

:39:49. > :39:52.not. Is that true? I have not heard that from my colleagues in Downing

:39:53. > :39:57.Street personally, but I do think that when the British people voted

:39:58. > :40:01.in huge numbers, the largest popular mandate in British political

:40:02. > :40:06.history, for the Lord's to try and undermine or subvert that, that puts

:40:07. > :40:11.them in a constitutionally very difficult place. It is a pragmatic

:40:12. > :40:17.place. Many people understand the implications of trying to distort or

:40:18. > :40:24.delay or even undermine this bill... Sorry to interrupt. You talk a lot,

:40:25. > :40:27.James Cleverly, about a huge number of people voting to leave. Many

:40:28. > :40:36.people voted to remain as well. Yeah, absolutely. But the referendum

:40:37. > :40:42.result was conclusive. No one has questioned that referendum result.

:40:43. > :40:47.And I think that all the people who spoke before the referendum about

:40:48. > :40:52.the importance of honouring the result now have to do that. And I

:40:53. > :40:56.think they will. I think they will. There will be EU nationals living

:40:57. > :41:04.here that will be worried about their status in the country at the

:41:05. > :41:09.moment, won't there? I am pleased the Prime Minister has made it clear

:41:10. > :41:13.and unambiguous statement with her desire to protect their status. If

:41:14. > :41:17.the EU matched her commitment word for word this will be resolved

:41:18. > :41:21.overnight. But they have said that they refused to discuss this until

:41:22. > :41:28.Article 50 is triggered. So the sooner we can get that drew the

:41:29. > :41:31.Lords, the quicker we can give the security that the EU nationals

:41:32. > :41:36.living in the UK absolutely desire and absolutely deserve. -- through.

:41:37. > :41:40.What are your thoughts on Parliament getting a say on the final deal,

:41:41. > :41:45.because there are some Conservatives that want more than the take it or

:41:46. > :41:50.leave it vote being offered. You have to remember how Parliament

:41:51. > :41:55.works. Parliament works on a yes-no system. Ultimately, the vote will be

:41:56. > :42:03.the proposed bill that has been negotiated over two years in 2019.

:42:04. > :42:08.And because we have to vote on a yes-no question, the question will

:42:09. > :42:12.have to be, yes, we accept this agreement, or, no, we do not accept

:42:13. > :42:17.that. You cannot have two versions of reality. That was always the

:42:18. > :42:21.case. That is how all Parliament questions are structured. They could

:42:22. > :42:27.be issues with the UK and EU negotiators to come up with a

:42:28. > :42:31.sensible pragmatic deal that works with us and our friends on the

:42:32. > :42:35.continent. And I hope that is what happens. OK, James Cleverly, thank

:42:36. > :42:38.you very much for your time this morning.

:42:39. > :42:40.You are watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:42:41. > :42:45.Leaked figures show the performance of A units in England last month

:42:46. > :42:50.The Government warns the House of Lords not to stand in the way

:42:51. > :42:52.of Brexit, after MPs vote overwhelmingly in favour

:42:53. > :42:58.That is what we were just talking about.

:42:59. > :43:03.Here is Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:43:04. > :43:14.Good morning. Good morning. Earlier, I was asked where my picture was

:43:15. > :43:18.from. It was the Lake District. It will be fairly cloudy in central and

:43:19. > :43:22.eastern areas with wintry showers. Not all of us will see them, but

:43:23. > :43:33.some of us will. Look at this area of high pressure. It is a blocking

:43:34. > :43:36.high blocking this frontal system coming our way. But around that, we

:43:37. > :43:40.are dragging in the cool air from the continent. If you have not gone

:43:41. > :43:43.outside, it will be cold and get colder. Western Scotland, watch out

:43:44. > :43:47.for frost. Sunshine. Wintry showers means highs on untreated surfaces in

:43:48. > :43:53.eastern Scotland and England is possible. As we come across central

:43:54. > :43:57.and eastern parts, this is where we have more cloud in some wintry

:43:58. > :44:02.showers. On the coast, accommodation of rain and sleet, England, sleet

:44:03. > :44:08.and rain. Inland towards the south-west, we are looking at some

:44:09. > :44:14.sunny skies. Not quite as cold. But, if you are out here, it will not

:44:15. > :44:19.feel warm. Sunshine for Wales. Cloudy in Northern Ireland. Just a

:44:20. > :44:23.few showers. Through the day we continue with the rain and sleet

:44:24. > :44:26.across the east coast. Inland, a culmination of sleet and snow that

:44:27. > :44:31.could fall almost anywhere in central and eastern parts. Sunshine

:44:32. > :44:35.out towards the west. It is going to be a windy day. Windy in the morning

:44:36. > :44:39.towards the south-west. Gales. That will go down through the day. One or

:44:40. > :44:43.two centimetres of snow in the Pennines, the Grampians, through the

:44:44. > :44:48.day. Through the evening and overnight, where we have clear

:44:49. > :44:52.skies, you will see a frost. You might have to scrape the car in the

:44:53. > :44:58.morning. Elsewhere, no issues with that. It will be cold. A lot of

:44:59. > :45:03.cloud around. Still snow showers. Highs may be a problem first thing

:45:04. > :45:08.in the morning to watch out for. -- ice. More of the same. Tomorrow,

:45:09. > :45:15.Shetland, more substantial snow. Between 5-6 1010 metres, over two

:45:16. > :45:20.inches. Cloud in central and eastern areas. Rain, sleet and snow.

:45:21. > :45:24.Brightest skies towards the west. Windy. Although the thermometer

:45:25. > :45:32.might say three or four, it will feel colder than that. Saturday, the

:45:33. > :45:37.wind goes northerly, a cold direction for us. Saturday, the snow

:45:38. > :45:42.showers will go over towards Wales, the south-west of England, and also

:45:43. > :45:46.Northern Ireland. Showers. Not all of us will see them. Maximum

:45:47. > :45:50.temperatures, four or five, but feeling colder than that. The wind

:45:51. > :45:56.will exacerbate that chilly feel. Sunday, it will feel raw. We still

:45:57. > :46:01.have a north-easterly and easterly wind coming in off the continent.

:46:02. > :46:04.Still quite a bit of cloud around in central and eastern parts as well.

:46:05. > :46:08.Still that cloud is producing wintry showers. As is the drill for the

:46:09. > :46:15.next few days, down the east coast, rain and sleet moving inland. The

:46:16. > :46:19.combination is sleet and snow. Temperatures, five to about seven.

:46:20. > :46:25.So, Steph and Charlie, a short you wrap up warmly. Certainly.

:46:26. > :46:37.I love the way it, when you were talking about the cold, you did a

:46:38. > :46:40.little body shake with it. Thank you very much, see you in a bit.

:46:41. > :46:43.A landmark ruling at the Supreme Court yesterday

:46:44. > :46:46.could pave the way to more pension freedoms for millions of people.

:46:47. > :46:53.Ben is looking at what it could mean.

:46:54. > :46:59.This is the difference between a married couple and people who are

:47:00. > :47:03.partners, in relation to your pension. And it could come down to

:47:04. > :47:04.ticking a box on the form when you sign it.

:47:05. > :47:06.What rights do you have to your partner's pension

:47:07. > :47:10.Well, if you were married, it is pretty straightforward.

:47:11. > :47:16.But if you are not married, things aren't so clear.

:47:17. > :47:20.You are not automatically entitled to claim their pension savings.

:47:21. > :47:23.Denise Brewster lost her partner of more than ten years,

:47:24. > :47:26.but they weren't married, and she wasn't allowed to access

:47:27. > :47:30.She thought that wasn't fair, and after an eight-year legal

:47:31. > :47:42.The initial fight was about fighting for us, and what we were to each

:47:43. > :47:47.other. And then I realise that this wasn't only affecting me. This was

:47:48. > :47:54.affecting so many other families out there. So at least I just had to

:47:55. > :47:57.defend myself and take my hardships, but when you have other families,

:47:58. > :48:01.that have a young daughter, losing their daddy of them army, and then

:48:02. > :48:06.they have their financial burden on top of that, the inequality and

:48:07. > :48:09.injustice of it all, I thought, was immense -- their mummy.

:48:10. > :48:12.With me is Charmian Johnson from the legal firm Eversheds

:48:13. > :48:25.Nice to see you. We have called it a landmark ruling. How significant is

:48:26. > :48:29.it? I think it is a significant decision. This landmark decision, as

:48:30. > :48:32.you call it, could affect millions of people and it really goes to the

:48:33. > :48:38.heart of the inequality of cohabitees. And the issue is that,

:48:39. > :48:43.whether you are living with someone, for however long, if you are not

:48:44. > :48:46.married and you have not got that certificate, then it will not make

:48:47. > :48:50.any difference unless you take a form on the paperwork. Can you

:48:51. > :48:53.explain that? With public sector schemes in the UK and Northern

:48:54. > :48:58.Ireland, many of these public sector schemes require cohabitees to fill

:48:59. > :49:02.in a form with their partner and lodge it with the scheme so in the

:49:03. > :49:06.event of the partner's death it would be considered, and that would

:49:07. > :49:10.be a requirement in order to receive a survivor's pension. The rules have

:49:11. > :49:13.changed a little bit since, and depending on where you are in the

:49:14. > :49:17.country things will have changed, but it is a difficult area for

:49:18. > :49:33.people to navigate. There is a lot to think about when you take out a

:49:34. > :49:37.pension in the first place. There is clearly a lot to think about if your

:49:38. > :49:41.partner dies. This is the last thing people need to be thinking about. It

:49:42. > :49:44.certainly is, yes. And that is why this has been a very sensible and

:49:45. > :49:46.understandable decision of the Supreme Court. Many of these public

:49:47. > :49:49.sector schemes still require surviving cohabitees to show that

:49:50. > :49:52.they were in genuine and lasting relationships, irrespective of

:49:53. > :49:55.filling in the nomination form, and that is why the nomination form

:49:56. > :49:59.didn't really add anything in practice. And so we had this ruling

:50:00. > :50:02.which came out yesterday, will set a precedent? It does, the Supreme

:50:03. > :50:05.Court is the highest in the land, if you like. The case in question

:50:06. > :50:08.really related to the Northern Ireland local government pension

:50:09. > :50:11.scheme, but this could affect other cohabitees in UK public sector

:50:12. > :50:13.schemes, so we are talking about NHS staff, teachers, police, civil

:50:14. > :50:17.servants, firefighters, this decision could be relevant to those

:50:18. > :50:20.who are co-habiting. What does it mean if people have been through

:50:21. > :50:25.this already and not been able to claim their partner's pension when

:50:26. > :50:29.they have died? Can it be backdated? Can you claim after the event? I

:50:30. > :50:33.think now that this decision means that the government is forced to

:50:34. > :50:36.revisit past cases where cohabitees have been refused a survivor 's

:50:37. > :50:41.pension purely because this nomination form has not been lodged.

:50:42. > :50:45.What do people need to do? How would you even start this process if you

:50:46. > :50:49.have been through this and weren't able to claim your partner's

:50:50. > :50:52.pension? I imagine that the schemes and the government will be

:50:53. > :50:56.considering communicating the wall potentially affected members but if

:50:57. > :51:00.you are a cohabitees who has been a member of a UK public sector scheme,

:51:01. > :51:06.I would be writing to the scheme and lodging the facts with the scheme

:51:07. > :51:09.that you are a cohabitees, and for those who have had surviving

:51:10. > :51:13.pensions refused on the basis that no form had been lodged, I would

:51:14. > :51:17.ring that to the attention of the scheme. And so the onus will be on

:51:18. > :51:21.the industry to communicate that, will it? They will be looking at how

:51:22. > :51:26.they process some of these claims and what they do from here on.

:51:27. > :51:29.Indeed, and it is a bit of a headache for the government. There

:51:30. > :51:34.are millions of people in these schemes, it is a bit of an exercise

:51:35. > :51:37.for them but it can't hurt for the people who think they may be

:51:38. > :51:40.affected to contact their schemes and raise it with them. A really

:51:41. > :51:43.interesting area, and a really important case. More from me after

:51:44. > :51:46.seven a.m.. I will see you then. Denzel Washington is one

:51:47. > :51:49.of Hollywood's biggest stars, and already has two Oscars

:51:50. > :51:52.under his belt, so can he make it a hat-trick with his Best Actor

:51:53. > :51:55.nomination this year, Charlie went to ask him

:51:56. > :51:59.what he thought of his chances of winning, and his opinion

:52:00. > :52:13.of America's new President. Lovely to see you. Thank you. Are

:52:14. > :52:21.you well? I am jetlagged. We just got here like two hours ago. It is

:52:22. > :52:25.not easy for me to admit that I have been standing in the same place the

:52:26. > :52:29.18 years. Well, I have been standing with you. I have been right here

:52:30. > :52:34.with you, Troy. I had a life too. Troy starts off as a rather lovable,

:52:35. > :52:38.bombastic man who likes the sound of his own voice. We have all been

:52:39. > :52:43.guilty of that sometimes, haven't we? You know what it is? Is like

:52:44. > :52:48.there is a ritual on Friday night, and Troy is the television. It is

:52:49. > :52:54.the same stories he always tells, and it seemed wonderful until it

:52:55. > :53:04.ain't. Answer me when I speak to you, don't you eat everyday? Yes.

:53:05. > :53:12.Got clothes on your back? Yes, Sir. Why do you think that is? Because

:53:13. > :53:16.you like me? Like you? If there is a theme in the film it is people's

:53:17. > :53:21.ability to change or not to change. Would you say that is right? It is

:53:22. > :53:25.fair. Because it is a time in history when a lot is changing in

:53:26. > :53:30.America, and Troy is a character who is not adapting to that change, or

:53:31. > :53:34.maybe not seeing around him. Would that be right? He is actually

:53:35. > :53:38.wanting to effect change. He is trying to become a driver. He is

:53:39. > :53:42.trying to move up. Now, the small detail in the play is that he

:53:43. > :53:47.doesn't know how to drive. He doesn't even know how to drive, or

:53:48. > :53:52.read, but he wants that. So in some sense it is ridiculous, but it is

:53:53. > :53:57.also admirable. On the theme of change, right now, in the world we

:53:58. > :54:01.live in, there is a lot of change going on. Yes. Are you comfortable

:54:02. > :54:07.about the changes that are happening, for example in the US

:54:08. > :54:11.right now? Understand this. I have been talking about this years ago,

:54:12. > :54:17.third wave or future shock. We went from an agricultural society to an

:54:18. > :54:23.industrial society. The third wave is the information age. There are

:54:24. > :54:32.millions of people that are falling in the gap because they don't fit in

:54:33. > :54:36.to this information age. I don't care who you are, you could promise

:54:37. > :54:41.people whole lot, but there is a whole lot of people that are going

:54:42. > :54:45.to... That are in trouble right now, because they just don't fit in. It

:54:46. > :54:48.is no coincidence that the places that were at the height of the

:54:49. > :54:55.Industrial Revolution in America, Pittsburgh, the rustbelt, are

:54:56. > :54:59.suffering the worst right now. And those other places, of course, where

:55:00. > :55:04.Donald Trump... And they are frustrated. And I don't care which

:55:05. > :55:07.President it is. They can't promise them anything, and those jobs aren't

:55:08. > :55:11.coming back. I don't care who promise is you that. When people

:55:12. > :55:15.hear you talking as passionately as you just did about the people who

:55:16. > :55:19.don't have a voice, and who need a voice, they might think one day

:55:20. > :55:23.Denzel Washington might like to have a bigger voice, voice in government.

:55:24. > :55:28.You have got to stay in your LAN. I am not running for... For what? I

:55:29. > :55:32.don't want any of that -- stay in your LAN. Would you ever? I would

:55:33. > :55:43.never, ever ever ever. That is a very definitive never,

:55:44. > :55:46.ever ever ever. You can tell he is very passionate, he feels very

:55:47. > :55:50.passionately, and all his thoughts about America at the moment are

:55:51. > :55:56.built on a genuine knowledge about the way the system works. And it is

:55:57. > :56:01.interesting, the film, Fences, is about a man who likes the sound of

:56:02. > :56:05.his own voice. Denzel Washington has an amazing voice. When you sit in

:56:06. > :56:08.the room with him, he has the ability to fill the room with sound,

:56:09. > :56:13.and of course his father, himself, was a preacher. There is a bit of

:56:14. > :56:17.that in him. When you ask him a question about what it is like in

:56:18. > :56:21.America right now, he has a theory and wants to get it out there. It is

:56:22. > :56:24.a very moving film, Fences, and we will hear more about it later in the

:56:25. > :56:25.programme. Time now to get the news,

:56:26. > :59:43.travel and weather where you are. It will start to get a bit less cold

:59:44. > :59:47.as we head into the start This is Breakfast,

:59:48. > :00:07.with Charlie Stayt and Steph Record waiting times at A

:00:08. > :00:09.departments in English hospitals, according to figures

:00:10. > :00:14.seen by the BBC. Emergency departments

:00:15. > :00:16.suffered their worst performance last month, since the target to see

:00:17. > :00:19.patients within four hours As Theresa May gets the all-clear

:00:20. > :00:51.to trigger Article 50, the Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

:00:52. > :00:54.will be here to tell us what he wants to see

:00:55. > :00:58.from the Brexit negotiations. As experts warn that new booster

:00:59. > :01:01.seat rules risk leaving parents confused, we'll explain

:01:02. > :01:06.what the changes mean for you. It's been a high street

:01:07. > :01:09.favourite since the 1970s, but the owner of Body Shop could be

:01:10. > :01:12.looking to sell it off. So, what next for the

:01:13. > :01:14.struggling retailer? Leicester have their first

:01:15. > :01:17.home win of the year. Demarai Gray scores in extra time

:01:18. > :01:21.to help them beat Derby in their FA I've been talking fatherhood,

:01:22. > :01:31.fake news, and the changing face of US politics, with

:01:32. > :01:45.Denzel Washington. Would you never? Never, ever, ever,

:01:46. > :01:48.ever. What was he referring to, becoming president of America.

:01:49. > :02:01.Good morning. A cold start. It will be cold for the next few days. The

:02:02. > :02:13.best of the sunshine in the west. Wintry showers coming in from the

:02:14. > :02:14.east on a keen wind. More details in 15 minutes. Thanks, Carol. See you

:02:15. > :02:15.in a bit. Accident and Emergency departments

:02:16. > :02:19.in England last month had their worst waiting

:02:20. > :02:21.time performance since That's according to provisional

:02:22. > :02:24.figures leaked to the BBC. The data also suggests that record

:02:25. > :02:28.numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for a bed

:02:29. > :02:30.to become available. With more here's our health

:02:31. > :02:40.correspondent, Dominic Hughes. For months now, Accident

:02:41. > :02:42.and Emergency departments Last week, the BBC was

:02:43. > :02:55.given exclusive access to the Royal Blackburn Hospital

:02:56. > :02:58.where the pressure on it was New data leaked from the NHS

:02:59. > :03:07.says it is a similar Provisional figures appeared

:03:08. > :03:10.to show that last month, 82% of patients were treated,

:03:11. > :03:13.admitted, and discharged within four hours, the worst performance

:03:14. > :03:15.since the target of 95% 780 patients waited for more than 12

:03:16. > :03:25.hours for a bed after being admitted to hospital by a doctor,

:03:26. > :03:27.known as a trolley wait. And more than 60,000 waited more

:03:28. > :03:41.between four and 12 hours, If the figures are correct,

:03:42. > :03:45.it shows the degree of pressure That's despite huge efforts

:03:46. > :03:49.from 1.4 million staff. The NHS is really struggling

:03:50. > :03:51.to cope with extra demand, These figures are the worst

:03:52. > :03:55.since the four-hour A It shows the pressure

:03:56. > :03:59.the NHS is under. The NHS in Scotland is coping

:04:00. > :04:02.better, but similar issues affect Wales and Northern Ireland,

:04:03. > :04:04.symptoms of the pressure building NHS sources acknowledge the system

:04:05. > :04:12.is facing unprecedented demand. And these latest figures suggest

:04:13. > :04:15.there is little sign of respite. The Government has told the House

:04:16. > :04:19.of Lords not to block Brexit after MPs overwhelmingly backed

:04:20. > :04:22.the bill to trigger Article 50, The Brexit Secretary,

:04:23. > :04:26.David Davis, called on peers to "do their patriotic duty"

:04:27. > :04:28.and pass the legislation. More than 50 Labour MPs defied

:04:29. > :04:31.the three-line whip imposed by their leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

:04:32. > :04:34.and voted against the bill. Here's our political

:04:35. > :04:49.correspondent, Tom Bateman. MPs gave their overwhelming support

:04:50. > :04:55.for Theresa May's plan to get And it got through with a large

:04:56. > :05:06.majority every turn. It has carried out the will

:05:07. > :05:08.of the British people. That is what Parliament

:05:09. > :05:11.has done today. And it has put through a bill

:05:12. > :05:16.is very simple, just 137 words long, authorising us to do

:05:17. > :05:24.what the people wanted. The Scottish National Party fought

:05:25. > :05:26.the bill all the way. They lost, but they sung

:05:27. > :05:29.the European anthem in defiance. The threat of a Conservative

:05:30. > :05:38.rebellion fell away, but 52 Labour MPs, including

:05:39. > :05:42.shadow Cabinet member, defied Jeremy Corbyn

:05:43. > :05:52.to vote against the bill. Lib Dems called for

:05:53. > :05:55.a referendum on the exit deal. What you have done is allow

:05:56. > :05:58.a stitch-up, the 21st century 80% of people will be dissatisfied

:05:59. > :06:11.with what is imposed upon them. Theresa May left after the vote

:06:12. > :06:13.clearing a first hurdle in Now the bill goes to the House

:06:14. > :06:17.of Lords, where it may need And picking up on that

:06:18. > :06:22.House of Lords process, our political correspondent,

:06:23. > :06:28.Carol Walker, is in Westminster this So, this passes onto the House of

:06:29. > :06:31.Lords. Questions on what happens there. But questions to Jeremy

:06:32. > :06:34.Corbyn about what this means for him. Ministers hoped that thumping

:06:35. > :06:38.majority they got in the House of Commons last night will send a

:06:39. > :06:43.strong signal to the House of Lords. Downing Street sources suggested

:06:44. > :06:47.that if the Lords were too tried to stop the process, they could be

:06:48. > :06:53.abolished. Amendments to the bill will probably be put down. There

:06:54. > :06:57.will not be too many problems. The government will be able to trigger

:06:58. > :07:01.Article 50 and begin those formal negotiations by the end of March. As

:07:02. > :07:05.you mentioned, I think the bigger problem immediately is the one

:07:06. > :07:11.facing Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. He has four positions in the shadow

:07:12. > :07:15.cabinet to fill and has to decide what action to take if any against

:07:16. > :07:19.more than a dozen junior shadow ministers who defied his

:07:20. > :07:23.instructions and voted against the bill. The bigger problem for the

:07:24. > :07:30.Labour Party are the divisions laid bare on perhaps the biggest issue

:07:31. > :07:32.facing the country at the moment. Carol, thank you very much.

:07:33. > :07:34.Just after 8am, we'll be discussing this with Labour leader,

:07:35. > :07:43.We will ask about the resignations and what he is aiming to achieve in

:07:44. > :07:44.the coming months and years after the Brexit negotiations.

:07:45. > :07:47.A new law designed to help protect people in England from so-called

:07:48. > :07:49."revenge evictions" by rogue landlords isn't working,

:07:50. > :07:51.according to senior MPs and housing lawyers.

:07:52. > :07:54.A BBC Freedom of Information request has revealed that there may be

:07:55. > :07:56.hundreds of thousands of vulnerable tenants,

:07:57. > :07:59.afraid to report things like damp, faulty electrics and broken boilers,

:08:00. > :08:09.The Labour peer who campaigned for unaccompanied migrant children

:08:10. > :08:13.to come to the UK, has said the Government's decision to stop

:08:14. > :08:16.When the Dubs Scheme was introduced last year,

:08:17. > :08:18.campaigners hoped thousands of children would benefit,

:08:19. > :08:20.but the actual numbers have been much lower.

:08:21. > :08:32.Many children remain in camps across Europe.

:08:33. > :08:35.An estimated 90,000 are alone with no family.

:08:36. > :08:39.Following intense pressure last year, the then

:08:40. > :08:42.Following intense pressure last year, the then Prime Minister,

:08:43. > :08:44.David Cameron, introduced a programme to give

:08:45. > :08:47.Campaigners had hoped 3000 unaccompanied children with no links

:08:48. > :08:54.Instead, 350 will be taken in before this scheme ends next month.

:08:55. > :08:59.It was designed by Lord Dubs, a former refugee who fled

:09:00. > :09:17.Many unaccompanied children who are bitterly cold and miserable

:09:18. > :09:22.There has been widespread condemnation.

:09:23. > :09:25.Opposition parties have called the move a betrayal of vulnerable

:09:26. > :09:28.children and British values, and called on the Government

:09:29. > :09:35.Some youngsters were taken to this location in Devon.

:09:36. > :09:38.The Home Office says it is a matter of resources,

:09:39. > :09:40.a balance between enabling children to enter the country,

:09:41. > :09:42.while ensuring that local councils have the capacity

:09:43. > :09:47.Tributes have continued to be paid to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

:09:48. > :09:52.The actress and model became an "it-girl" in the 90s and wrote

:09:53. > :09:55.about her life as an aristocrat and her close ties to

:09:56. > :09:59.She was found dead in her London home after revealing that she had

:10:00. > :10:03.a brain tumour in November last year.

:10:04. > :10:06.The US Senate has approved President Trump's choice

:10:07. > :10:09.Mr Trump criticised efforts by Democrats

:10:10. > :10:13.Mr Sessions was denied a post as a federal judge in the 1980s,

:10:14. > :10:16.when he was accused of racism, though he's always denied

:10:17. > :10:27.Jane Austin's Mr Darcy from Pride and Prejudice is one of the most

:10:28. > :10:29.admired and romantic leading men in literary history.

:10:30. > :10:31.When Colin Firth played him he was famously tall,

:10:32. > :10:34.dark and handsome, but that might not have been the case

:10:35. > :10:41.This portrait by British academics paints a very different picture

:10:42. > :10:44.of Mr Darcy, giving him a pale face, powdered white hair,

:10:45. > :11:11.He's a far cry from the brooding Mr Darcy created by filmmakers.

:11:12. > :11:16.Quite different from Colin Firth, but the both look good to me. And

:11:17. > :11:18.he's made up anyway so you can think what you like! Doesn't matter.

:11:19. > :11:21.As a way of keeping tabs on A waiting times,

:11:22. > :11:25.a target was brought in 13 years ago which said 95% of patients should be

:11:26. > :11:29.But figures leaked to the BBC suggest that last month saw

:11:30. > :11:31.emergency departments at hospitals in England suffered their worst ever

:11:32. > :11:33.performance since the target was introduced.

:11:34. > :11:36.The Department of Health insists the vast majority of patients

:11:37. > :11:40.Let's talk to Dr Taj Hassan, the President of the Royal College

:11:41. > :11:44.Let's talk to Dr Taj Hassan, the President of the Royal College

:11:45. > :11:50.Good morning to you, Dr Taj Hassan. What do you make of the leaked

:11:51. > :11:54.figures, 82% for example not being seen within the four hours, leaving

:11:55. > :12:00.some people who are not. Is that in tune with what you are hearing and

:12:01. > :12:04.seeing? They certainly do. The figures showed the remarkable state

:12:05. > :12:09.of the NHS and emergency care systems. Unfortunately that is how

:12:10. > :12:14.they are in the moment in this country. They are keeping with the

:12:15. > :12:18.downward incline, the decline, of performance in our systems over the

:12:19. > :12:21.past two years. We predicted this would happen back and set number. So

:12:22. > :12:29.it comes as unfortunately no surprise to us. -- back in

:12:30. > :12:33.September. This is depressing and the BBC has been describing in

:12:34. > :12:41.graphic detail some of the pressures staff and emergency staff are having

:12:42. > :12:45.in trying to deliver safe care. That is something that is not

:12:46. > :12:52.sustainable, unfortunately. So, do you think this four hour target is

:12:53. > :12:58.unrealistic? Not at all. The four hour standard is a reflection of the

:12:59. > :13:01.whole system. It is not just what is happening in the emergency

:13:02. > :13:03.department, but unfortunately, the consequences play out very

:13:04. > :13:08.graphically in the emergency department with crowded departments,

:13:09. > :13:13.resulting in care not being delivered in a timely fashion. Pain

:13:14. > :13:17.relief is not given in a timely fashion. Assessment is not given in

:13:18. > :13:22.a timely fashion. So, what we need to do is look at the causes, and the

:13:23. > :13:28.causes are threefold. We unfortunately do not have enough

:13:29. > :13:33.money to fund social care, so patients who are fit for medical

:13:34. > :13:37.discharge in hospital beds are stuck rather than being in the community

:13:38. > :13:41.were them and their families want them to be. We do not have enough

:13:42. > :13:45.beds. And increased demand is having a tremendous effect on nurses and

:13:46. > :13:49.doctors and the department who are just trying to deliver good care. We

:13:50. > :13:52.need more staff for those departments and other aspects of the

:13:53. > :13:58.rest of the hospital to be able to cope. You mentioned the problem and

:13:59. > :14:03.the cause is being threefold, and to solve those would need money. If you

:14:04. > :14:08.look at the money spent on the NHS, it is increasing. Last year it was

:14:09. > :14:14.?140 billion, ten times more than 60 years ago. Is this just about money?

:14:15. > :14:19.Are there more things that could be done as well? I think the NHS is

:14:20. > :14:23.different to where it was 60 years ago. But no doubt all independent

:14:24. > :14:27.observers have shown proportionately we are spending less than most of

:14:28. > :14:39.our European partners. In fact, we are probably on the bottom in most

:14:40. > :14:43.OECD countries. We have to change. Clinical staff across the country

:14:44. > :14:47.are looking at ways to reconfigure the NHS to make it fit for purpose.

:14:48. > :14:51.But the bottom line is we have cut and cut and cut far too much and

:14:52. > :14:56.we're back the basic skeleton and staff are stretched to their limits

:14:57. > :15:01.and that is unacceptable. It is also, I would say, a leadership

:15:02. > :15:07.moment, not just for staff and departments trying to deliver good

:15:08. > :15:10.care, but also executive boards and trusts and national bodies making

:15:11. > :15:15.submissions to the Prime Minister, making it clear as to the scale of

:15:16. > :15:19.the challenge and why we need to invest.

:15:20. > :15:26.Do you think leadership in hospitals is bad at the moment? No, not at

:15:27. > :15:28.all, in most trusts and hospitals, leadership is showing...

:15:29. > :15:34.CROSSTALK You say it needs improving? No, what

:15:35. > :15:39.I said is I think there is a need for focus around emergency care at

:15:40. > :15:43.the moment, because, as your figures show, the system is unfortunately

:15:44. > :15:52.acutely stressed. OK, thank you very much for your time this morning.

:15:53. > :15:56.Thank you. The time is 7:15am. That is our main story this morning.

:15:57. > :15:59.Leaked figures show the performance of A units in England last month

:16:00. > :16:05.The Government warns the House of Lords not to stand in the way

:16:06. > :16:07.of Brexit after MPs vote overwhelmingly in favour

:16:08. > :16:21.We will have a look at some of the front pages for you. On the front of

:16:22. > :16:25.the Sun, marking the death of Tara Palmer Tomkinson, police say she was

:16:26. > :16:29.discovered dead in her flat yesterday. The announcement made

:16:30. > :16:34.yesterday afternoon. Tributes coming in, including from members of the

:16:35. > :16:39.royal family. And the Guardian has a picture of her, and it picks up on a

:16:40. > :16:45.story we mentioned, which was to do with the Prime Minister being a

:16:46. > :16:49.accused of closing the door on child refugees, refusing to resettle 3000

:16:50. > :16:53.children, which was halted just after 350 were allowed into the

:16:54. > :16:58.country. And Jeremy Corbyn will join us here later this morning, just

:16:59. > :17:03.after 8am and of course we will talk to him about Brexit and the vote

:17:04. > :17:07.last night in the house of Common. It gets the go-ahead from MPs and

:17:08. > :17:13.now moves to the House of Lords. Many questions for Jeremy Colburn

:17:14. > :17:20.with another resignation from his shadow cabinet, and he will be here

:17:21. > :17:24.just after 8am -- -- Corbyn. OK, now, where is that picture from,

:17:25. > :17:30.that is gorgeous? I think it is from Glencoe, because it looks like it,

:17:31. > :17:34.and it is beautiful, you are quite right. Sorry, I didn't mean to catch

:17:35. > :17:38.you out. I know, it is another library shot, but it shows what is

:17:39. > :17:47.going on, there is Hilson at around and -- hill snow and a set of cloud,

:17:48. > :17:55.even at low levels, and we have this high-pressure area in Scandinavia,

:17:56. > :17:58.it is it coming across our shores, blocking the weather front from

:17:59. > :18:03.affecting us, and look at the isobars. It will be windy in the

:18:04. > :18:07.north-west. We have jails in north-west Scotland, they will ease

:18:08. > :18:11.through the day. Dry weather, cold and frosty to start, but these coast

:18:12. > :18:17.of Scotland and England we have more cloud -- We have gales. At least end

:18:18. > :18:22.into eastern areas, so, right on the coastline and for the next couple of

:18:23. > :18:26.days we have an extra of rain and sleet. You don't have to travel to

:18:27. > :18:30.fight in LAN and we have sleet and snow. Because they are showers not

:18:31. > :18:36.all of us will see them -- you don't have to travel far inland. In

:18:37. > :18:41.south-west Wales it is a cold and frosty start, then we run into cloud

:18:42. > :18:45.for the rest of Wales. Northern Ireland has cloud around with

:18:46. > :18:51.showers, and they will tend to ease. So, through the day, western areas

:18:52. > :18:55.hang onto the sunshine. For central and eastern parts, we have more

:18:56. > :19:00.cloud and wintry showers. Don't be disappointed. Not all of us will see

:19:01. > :19:04.snow. A lot of us want to see it. We could see one or two centimetres,

:19:05. > :19:10.less than an inch, for the north York Moors and the Grampians.

:19:11. > :19:14.Overnight, showers move across southern counties, we hang on to the

:19:15. > :19:20.cloud and showers for central and eastern areas, and it is a cold

:19:21. > :19:24.easterly wind to the west. Under clear skies, frost, particularly

:19:25. > :19:28.north-west Scotland and west Wales, despite the low temperatures and the

:19:29. > :19:33.frost elsewhere, there is too much cloud and breeze to need to scrape

:19:34. > :19:38.your car in the morning. Then we start the same for central and

:19:39. > :19:42.eastern parts, and tomorrow too that accommodation continues, with more

:19:43. > :19:46.significant snowfall for Orkney Shetland, five or six centimetres.

:19:47. > :19:50.Despite the fact there will be sunshine in the west, wherever you

:19:51. > :19:54.are it will be cold. In fact, if affected by the wind, if standing in

:19:55. > :19:58.the wind, it will be much colder than temperatures suggest. Then on

:19:59. > :20:02.Saturday we continue with rain, sleet and snow but on Saturday more

:20:03. > :20:06.comes to the west, some getting into Northern Ireland, Wales and the

:20:07. > :20:11.south-west. The best sunshine for the north-west. It is feeling cold

:20:12. > :20:16.in the wind, and it will feel raw, Charlie and Steph, by Sunday. Jilly

:20:17. > :20:19.for now, but getting warmer, thank you. -- chilly.

:20:20. > :20:23.Ben has more on that and the other main business stories.

:20:24. > :20:27.Yes, I am going to start with Body Shop.

:20:28. > :20:30.Body Shop could be looking for a new owner.

:20:31. > :20:33.The firm, owned by L'Oreal, has 3,000 stores in 66 countries

:20:34. > :20:36.but sales are down sharply and losses last year grew

:20:37. > :20:44.The company has blamed a slowdown overseas

:20:45. > :20:50.and L'oreal is now looking into a potential sale.

:20:51. > :20:53.We will talk about that in half an hour.

:20:54. > :20:55.Democrats have condemned President Donald Trump's tweet

:20:56. > :20:57.attacking a clothing retailer after it dropped a fashion line

:20:58. > :21:01.Mr Trump tweeted that "Ivanka has been treated so unfairly"

:21:02. > :21:05.A Democratic senator called the post "inappropriate" and an ex-White

:21:06. > :21:07.House ethics tsar dubbed it "outrageous".

:21:08. > :21:09.Earlier this month Nordstrom became the fifth retailer to drop

:21:10. > :21:18.the Ivanka Trump clothing line, citing lack of sales.

:21:19. > :21:23.Travel firm Thomas Cook has reported losses of ?67 million,

:21:24. > :21:27.it did that in the last 20 minutes, and warned that it remains cautious

:21:28. > :21:30.about the rest of the year, given the uncertain political

:21:31. > :21:33.The firm says bookings to Greece are up by over 40%,

:21:34. > :21:36.and destinations like Cyprus, Bulgaria, Portugal and Croatia have

:21:37. > :21:41.That's helping make up for a fall in sales to Turkey and Egypt

:21:42. > :21:44.as tourists are deterred by recent terror attacks.

:21:45. > :21:48.We will talk more about the Body Shop story in about half an hour.

:21:49. > :21:51.Thank you. The rules on child booster seats

:21:52. > :21:55.in cars are due to change next month, but many parents say

:21:56. > :21:57.the new regulations have So, to try and clear things

:21:58. > :22:01.up, let's take a look at what the present

:22:02. > :22:03.guidelines are, and how Currently, parents in the UK can use

:22:04. > :22:08.backless booster seats for children Under the new rules,

:22:09. > :22:13.in order use a backless booster seat, children must weigh over 22

:22:14. > :22:15.kilograms, three-stone-seven, and be over 125 centimetres tall,

:22:16. > :22:21.which is four-foot-one. That means children between 15kg

:22:22. > :22:25.and 22kg will now have to be put But there is an exception

:22:26. > :22:31.to the new rules. Parents and guardians who already

:22:32. > :22:34.have a backless booster seat can For more on these changes,

:22:35. > :22:40.let's speak to Nick Lloyd, road safety manager

:22:41. > :22:53.at the Royal Society Good morning. Before we start

:22:54. > :22:58.getting into the practicality, do you welcome the changes, is it a

:22:59. > :23:02.step forward in safety? It is potentially a step forward. It is

:23:03. > :23:07.confusing currently because what will happen is with the new UN

:23:08. > :23:12.regulations that we will have two types of booster cushions, which is

:23:13. > :23:17.this one here, which will be available for parents to buy. Our

:23:18. > :23:23.advice is to go for one of these seats, which is a high backed

:23:24. > :23:27.booster seat. Let's go back this is the booster cushion. Yes. You say

:23:28. > :23:32.that there will be two versions? That is right. As you said in your

:23:33. > :23:40.introduction, this one is suitable for children that weigh 15 kg, up to

:23:41. > :23:46.36 kg, and the new regulations will mean that manufacturers will be

:23:47. > :23:53.making seats that are from 22 kg up to 36 kg and, crucially as well,

:23:54. > :24:01.children must be of a height of 125 centimetres. It makes it confusing.

:24:02. > :24:07.Short of a taping measure, why can't they go by age? Child car seats, as

:24:08. > :24:16.technology advances, have become so complicated. We have a website,

:24:17. > :24:21.child car seats .org.uk, which has 2 million hits per year because

:24:22. > :24:26.parents are confused about the seats that they can purchase. Our if Isis

:24:27. > :24:33.to look at the website, do your research, -- our advice is to look

:24:34. > :24:36.at the website, do your research, look at the maximum age it is

:24:37. > :24:41.appropriate for, look at the weight and plan from birth on what sort of

:24:42. > :24:47.seat that you are going to go for and work through. Our advice is

:24:48. > :24:51.simple. Don't worry much about booster cushions and the new

:24:52. > :24:58.regulations. Actually don't use one of these. We don't think they are

:24:59. > :25:02.dangerous, parents can use the old style seat, they don't have to throw

:25:03. > :25:08.it away, there is nothing wrong with them. These are safer seats. This

:25:09. > :25:12.seat, a high-backed boots deceit, one with a back on, this goes up, it

:25:13. > :25:19.is suitable from about six years up to 12, so it has a huge ages span

:25:20. > :25:26.and these are safer because, as you can see, viewers will be able to

:25:27. > :25:32.see, they offer considerably more protection than a cushion. You will

:25:33. > :25:35.be aware that people think this is more convenient, you can take it out

:25:36. > :25:41.quickly, it is less cumbersome, but you say not as safe? Not as safe,

:25:42. > :25:47.research proves these are safer and that is why it we advise to go for

:25:48. > :25:50.one of these seats rather than the booster cushion. What we are not

:25:51. > :25:56.saying is that they are dangerous and shouldn't be used. As you say,

:25:57. > :25:59.they serve a very useful purpose. They are extremely light, easy to

:26:00. > :26:04.fit, they are great to transport from one car to another, so parents,

:26:05. > :26:08.grandparents and whatever - they serve a useful purpose, but to

:26:09. > :26:12.stress, they are not as safe as these because they don't give as

:26:13. > :26:19.much protection in the event of a collision. OK, thank you very much

:26:20. > :26:24.for your time this morning. He regulations in relation to the

:26:25. > :26:28.booster seats. And if you want to see how they suit you, you might

:26:29. > :26:30.want to see that information on Facebook and Twitter, so have a look

:26:31. > :26:30.online. You're watching

:26:31. > :26:40.Breakfast from BBC News. Let me ask you a question, I am a

:26:41. > :26:50.journalist now. Go ahead. Is there some Troy in new? He is a rather

:26:51. > :26:56.bombastic father figure in this very moving film. He has a lot to say

:26:57. > :26:58.about many things, talking of little about politics, a little about fake

:26:59. > :27:01.news as well. Yeah, good interview. Time now to get the news,

:27:02. > :30:22.travel and weather where you are. This is Breakfast with

:30:23. > :30:35.Steph McGovern and Charlie Stayt. Accident and Emergency departments

:30:36. > :30:40.in England last month suffered their worst waiting time

:30:41. > :30:43.performance since targets were introduced, according

:30:44. > :30:45.to provisional data leaked The Department of Health insists

:30:46. > :30:51.the vast majority of patients The figures also suggest that record

:30:52. > :30:55.numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for a bed

:30:56. > :31:05.to become available. We unfortunately do not have enough

:31:06. > :31:11.money to fund social care. So patients who are fit for discharge

:31:12. > :31:18.from the beds us dark rather than being in the community where they

:31:19. > :31:22.and their family want them to be. -- are stuck. It is having a tremendous

:31:23. > :31:28.negative effect on the nurses and dog is in the department. --

:31:29. > :31:30.doctors. The Government has told the House

:31:31. > :31:33.of Lords not to block Brexit, after MPs overwhelmingly backed

:31:34. > :31:36.the bill to trigger Article 50, The Brexit Secretary,

:31:37. > :31:40.David Davis, called on peers to "do their patriotic duty"

:31:41. > :31:42.and pass the legislation. More than 50 Labour MPs defied

:31:43. > :31:45.the three-line whip imposed by their leader, Jeremy Corbyn,

:31:46. > :31:47.and voted against the bill. New laws introduced last year

:31:48. > :31:50.to protect tenants from so called That's according to MPs

:31:51. > :31:53.and housing lawyers. A BBC Freedom of Information

:31:54. > :31:56.request has found that there may be hundreds

:31:57. > :32:01.of thousands of tenants afraid to report things like damp,

:32:02. > :32:03.faulty electrics, and broken boilers,

:32:04. > :32:05.for fear of being evicted. Tributes continue to be paid

:32:06. > :32:07.to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson The actress and model became

:32:08. > :32:14.an "it-girl" in the 90s. She was born into aristocracy

:32:15. > :32:16.and had close ties to She was found dead

:32:17. > :32:20.in her London home. In November last year,

:32:21. > :32:22.she revealed that she had The US Senate has approved

:32:23. > :32:30.President Trump's choice Mr Trump criticised

:32:31. > :32:33.efforts by Democrats Mr Sessions was denied a post

:32:34. > :32:38.as a federal judge in the 1980s, when he was accused of racism,

:32:39. > :32:40.though he's always denied If you lived in Russia and had

:32:41. > :32:44.a constant supply of snow, Well, one man from

:32:45. > :32:56.the village of Sosnovka decided to build the chilliest

:32:57. > :32:59.church in the world. He spent every day for two

:33:00. > :33:02.months constructing it, even when the temperatures

:33:03. > :33:07.plunged below -30. He did it so the villagers had

:33:08. > :33:11.a place to pray as there isn't He said building the alter

:33:12. > :33:22.and getting the cross on the roof were the most difficult

:33:23. > :33:33.parts of the build. Waking at -30 sounds the hardest. I

:33:34. > :33:46.was trying to think of a link to the sport. It has got a roof... What,

:33:47. > :33:58.like the Millennium Stadium? I know that you saw the name of the village

:33:59. > :34:03.approaching on the cuer and thought I will stop here and she would have

:34:04. > :34:05.to say it! Now we know. Next time we have to see it we will be lasting.

:34:06. > :34:11.So will Leicester fans. -- LAUGHING. Struggling Premier League

:34:12. > :34:13.champions, Leicester City, are through to the fifth

:34:14. > :34:16.round of the FA Cup following a replay

:34:17. > :34:17.against Derby County. They came through 3-1

:34:18. > :34:19.after extra time. Andy King put Leicester ahead before

:34:20. > :34:22.Abdoul Camera's deflected free kick Leicester restored their lead

:34:23. > :34:25.through substitute, Wilfred Ndidi, And Demarai Gray's superb solo

:34:26. > :34:29.goal secured their place We want to do well in

:34:30. > :34:38.the competition where we play. Of course we want to go

:34:39. > :34:42.forward in the FA Cup. The Premier League is not so good,

:34:43. > :34:46.but we have to play in the Premier Tonight was about the squad

:34:47. > :34:56.and the injured players getting back We missed the opportunity

:34:57. > :34:59.in the first game. I think he was a little bit more

:35:00. > :35:26.cross than he was showing there. MPs will debate the Football

:35:27. > :35:28.Associations "failure It follows a motion of no confidence

:35:29. > :35:32.in the governing body. Parliament will examine

:35:33. > :35:34.whether the FA is fit for purpose. Last July, Sports Minister,

:35:35. > :35:37.Tracey Crouch, said the governing body would lose its ?30 million

:35:38. > :35:45.to ?40 million of public funding We have heard from Tiger Woods

:35:46. > :35:49.overnight. He said strong things in the interview. He said he will never

:35:50. > :35:54.feel great again. He pulled out because of back spasms. He admitted

:35:55. > :35:56.there were times when he simply did not ever think he would return to

:35:57. > :35:58.golf. Hundreds gathered for the funeral

:35:59. > :36:01.of former England women's cricket captain, Rachael Heyhoe

:36:02. > :36:02.Flint, yesterday. She was a vice president

:36:03. > :36:04.of Wolverhampton Wanderers and people lined the streets

:36:05. > :36:07.and applauded as the limousines Baroness Heyhoe Flint,

:36:08. > :36:10.who captained England between 1966 and 1978, was seen as a pioneer

:36:11. > :36:13.in women's cricket. She died aged 77

:36:14. > :36:16.after a short illness. World champion, Mark Selby,

:36:17. > :36:19.suffered a shock first-round defeat to world number 18, Martin Gould,

:36:20. > :36:22.at snooker's World Grand Prix Better news for

:36:23. > :36:24.Australia's Neil Robertson. He compiled a century break

:36:25. > :36:27.in the first frame of his match He'll face Ronnie O'Sullivan

:36:28. > :36:37.in the next round. Britain is aiming to become one

:36:38. > :36:41.of the world's top five skiing In a year's time, the winter

:36:42. > :36:45.Olympics take place in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and UK Sport

:36:46. > :36:47.says Great Britain can At around 8:40, we'll be talking

:36:48. > :36:52.to Olympic bronze medal winning snowboarder, Jenny Jones,

:36:53. > :36:54.and TeamGB hopeful freestyle skier, A little bit more skiing coming

:36:55. > :37:24.up in just a moment. All about how things have changed

:37:25. > :37:28.and why it is becoming more popular and different types of snowboarding

:37:29. > :37:34.and other things are very popular now. Thank you very much.

:37:35. > :37:37.When Aston Hall Psychiatric Hospital in Derbyshire closed in the 1990s,

:37:38. > :37:40.dozens of former patients began to come forward saying they had been

:37:41. > :37:44.The hospital has been accused of using a discredited "truth serum"

:37:45. > :37:50.In a moment, we'll speak to a woman who was a patient at Aston Hall

:37:51. > :37:54.in the 1970s, but first here's a brief history of what's alleged

:37:55. > :38:13.A country house, the 18th-century Aston Hall near Darby was a 1970

:38:14. > :38:17.psychiatric hospital. Dozens of the child patients from the 1960s and

:38:18. > :38:26.70s now claimed that the hospital's head doctor, the late Dr Kenneth

:38:27. > :38:32.Milner, carried out experiments on of them. They claim to have been

:38:33. > :38:36.injected with a powerful drug. It was used to sedate shell shocked

:38:37. > :38:43.troops in World War Two. It was later used as the so-called "truth

:38:44. > :38:50.drug". There are also reports it can be used to create false memories. Dr

:38:51. > :38:56.Milner died in 1976 on the hospital was closed in the 1990s. It was only

:38:57. > :39:01.when derelict pictures of it came online that the stories came to

:39:02. > :39:02.light. Both the police and the Department of Health are both

:39:03. > :39:04.investigating the allegations. We're joined now by Barbara O'Hare,

:39:05. > :39:07.a former patient at Aston Hall, who has written a book

:39:08. > :39:13.about her experiences. Thank you for coming on to talk us.

:39:14. > :39:17.You are welcome. Having read the book, I have to say what you have

:39:18. > :39:21.gone through in your life in every element, not just the hospital, but

:39:22. > :39:24.every element of your life, it feels like you have been let down

:39:25. > :39:30.massively, not just by the hospital, but the care system generally. I

:39:31. > :39:34.mean, how have you managed to cope? I think that each experience makes

:39:35. > :39:40.you stronger. I think that is exactly what it does. So, for you,

:39:41. > :39:46.you just feel like every experience you have bad, you just got stronger.

:39:47. > :39:51.It hardens you up a bit. It is a bit like grieving. You have to get over

:39:52. > :39:56.it. You get stronger as time goes by and I just grew up that way. That is

:39:57. > :40:00.the way it is. Take us back early on in the story. One of the issues...

:40:01. > :40:04.Some of these are very harrowing and we cannot go into some details about

:40:05. > :40:10.what happened in the hospital itself. But take us back in the

:40:11. > :40:14.story a little bit to why it was you ended up in that situation and why

:40:15. > :40:19.you were in such a vulnerable situation early on. Because many

:40:20. > :40:23.people will think that there might have been a point at which somebody

:40:24. > :40:29.could have got involved in your life. Yes. Originally, my father was

:40:30. > :40:36.left on his own. My mother left. She was not seen. My father was left by

:40:37. > :40:41.himself to raise a little girl. -- sane. How old were you? 11, 12,

:40:42. > :40:47.there is no specific time when that happened. My poor dad was left to

:40:48. > :40:51.bring up a little girl on his own. So, you know, you have to understand

:40:52. > :40:58.what he went through as well. And then you moved from various family

:40:59. > :41:07.member... My father looked for foster carers. And then this private

:41:08. > :41:10.foster carer not greedy. She approached social services and got

:41:11. > :41:14.money off of them as well as my father. And she was very, very, very

:41:15. > :41:20.abusive, as I have stated in the book. Many people who have read the

:41:21. > :41:24.story will think at this point how is that no one wanted to get

:41:25. > :41:29.involved in what was happening in your life? If you want to know the

:41:30. > :41:32.truth, and I will say it, even if it is on television, the social

:41:33. > :41:37.services, according to my reports, were well aware that I was getting

:41:38. > :41:40.abused but let it happen. I was running away and doing everything I

:41:41. > :41:45.could not to go home, doing everything I could to get attention.

:41:46. > :41:49.I was basically crying out for help rather than going home. When her

:41:50. > :41:53.husband came in I would be rejected and sometimes he would not come in

:41:54. > :41:59.until late. That is why I would wait. -- protected. The signs were

:42:00. > :42:04.there. I was too frightened to talk about the beatings and tell them

:42:05. > :42:09.that. I kept hoping they would take me away and then I would tell them.

:42:10. > :42:13.But she was beating me and saying things about my mother who why did

:42:14. > :42:20.not know. I decided I will find my own way. And then eventually,

:42:21. > :42:24.through being in various homes, you ended up being in the hospital in

:42:25. > :42:34.Aston Hall, didn't you? I ended up in a home in Derby. There is a lot

:42:35. > :42:47.of talk about it. I know many who went to Aston Hall, as was mentioned

:42:48. > :42:51.in the Inside Out programme a couple of days ago with Simon. In each

:42:52. > :42:55.chapter, bits of your life get worse if you read the book. It feels like

:42:56. > :42:58.at each stage another terrible thing happens. Now, as you look back and

:42:59. > :43:04.think about other people slides, and maybe people who are in care now,

:43:05. > :43:08.who maybe need to tell someone and alert someone, do you have any more

:43:09. > :43:12.faith in the system now? -- people's lives. None whatsoever in the social

:43:13. > :43:19.care system. I would like to say I do not want anyone in care. Social

:43:20. > :43:23.services is one thing. I think that if children were in care it is

:43:24. > :43:28.important they have a body, the body stays with them throughout the care

:43:29. > :43:32.system, a friend, maybe, you know, someone who will take them to the

:43:33. > :43:38.cinema, someone who will text them, who has to be not the foster parent

:43:39. > :43:44.but a social worker. That was my problem. Obviously, now, having gone

:43:45. > :43:48.through everything you have been through, you decided to write about

:43:49. > :43:54.it. Has that helped you in any way? Oh my god. It is unbelievable. First

:43:55. > :43:58.of all, I just started writing and did not mean to do a book. But

:43:59. > :44:03.another survivor, I will not mention her name, a lovely girl, she went

:44:04. > :44:09.through a similar experience in a place in Kent in a place called

:44:10. > :44:15.Kendall House. That inspired me. If she can do it, I will do what she

:44:16. > :44:20.did. And obviously that led to the book. Many people have come forward.

:44:21. > :44:25.What happened was I was getting flashbacks and panic attacks. There

:44:26. > :44:31.was nothing on my medical records so the doctors could not help me at you

:44:32. > :44:37.knowanyway, after a long time, I found someone on the Internet with a

:44:38. > :44:42.similar story to tell. Then there were three of us. Eventually it

:44:43. > :44:47.grew. It was hard to get the media on board. And now they are coming

:44:48. > :44:53.forward every day. Can I ask you, how important is it to you, the

:44:54. > :44:59.doctors involved in what happens to you died many years ago, how

:45:00. > :45:01.important is it to you that there is an investigation and this is

:45:02. > :45:10.pursued? -- happened. It is very important, not just to

:45:11. > :45:15.me, but to the survivors, you know. We need to know who authorised this,

:45:16. > :45:20.you know. There is a million questions we need answering to get

:45:21. > :45:25.closure. One thing does worry me, you have to remember, for people

:45:26. > :45:29.listening to this, this is a one in a million doctor. Don't think all

:45:30. > :45:34.doctors are like this. They appreciate you coming to tell your

:45:35. > :45:39.story. It is a very harrowing read. Thank you for your time. Thank you

:45:40. > :45:41.for having me. God bless you. And good luck with everything as well.

:45:42. > :45:43.Barbara O'Hare's book is called The Hospital.

:45:44. > :45:47.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:45:48. > :45:56.Good morning. It will be cold today, for the next couple of days, and

:45:57. > :46:05.some will have wintry showers, so a mix of rain and sleet on the coast,

:46:06. > :46:10.inland sleet and snow. High pressure is currently dominating the weather,

:46:11. > :46:13.the air is coming from the cold continent and effectively blocking

:46:14. > :46:18.the weather fronts from the Atlantic. If you look at the

:46:19. > :46:22.isobars, you can tell it will be windy, especially in the west. We

:46:23. > :46:26.have gales across north-west Scotland, they will ease through the

:46:27. > :46:32.day. It is frosty to start. Watch out for eyes. The best of the

:46:33. > :46:36.sunshine in the west because central and eastern parts. We are looking at

:46:37. > :46:41.a lot of cloud first thing also wintry showers. Through the

:46:42. > :46:45.afternoon, it will be cloudy in Scotland with wintry showers along

:46:46. > :46:50.the coast, the same for the east coast of England, and you will find

:46:51. > :46:55.it will be rain or sleet, but inland showers will be sleet and snow. That

:46:56. > :47:01.continues through the afternoon. A cold stay in prospect. You might see

:47:02. > :47:04.some rain showers with sleet. To the south-west, we come back under the

:47:05. > :47:09.clear skies with showers possible at times in Cornwall. In western parts

:47:10. > :47:14.of Wales, you hang on to the sunshine, elsewhere it will be

:47:15. > :47:18.cloudy in Wales and feeling cold. And for Northern Ireland, once

:47:19. > :47:22.again, variable amounts of cloud and no heatwave. Through the evening and

:47:23. > :47:27.overnight we hang onto this keen easterly wind. Where we have clear

:47:28. > :47:32.skies for the north-west Scotland and Wales you are likely to see

:47:33. > :47:37.frost, so you may well the scraping your car windscreen. For the rest of

:47:38. > :47:41.the country, there will be cloud around, a breeze and temperatures

:47:42. > :47:45.around freezing, but less likely to be scraping your car as a result in

:47:46. > :47:50.the morning. Tomorrow we start with clear skies to the west, which means

:47:51. > :47:55.the sunshine. For the rest of us, cloudy, wintry showers, on the

:47:56. > :48:00.coast, sleet and rain, inland, sleet and snow, but for Orkney Shetland

:48:01. > :48:04.five to six centimetres, and despite the fact your thermometer might read

:48:05. > :48:09.the temperatures as three or four, it will feel colder than that with

:48:10. > :48:14.the wind. As we head into Saturday, well, once again, the combination of

:48:15. > :48:20.rain, sleet and snow, more organised, as you can see, drifting

:48:21. > :48:24.further west, bringing some of that into Wales, south-west England and

:48:25. > :48:26.Northern Ireland. The wind has changed direction to an

:48:27. > :48:31.north-easterly, so it is exacerbating the cold feel. And then

:48:32. > :48:35.when we get to Sunday it will feel raw. A fair bit of cloud around and

:48:36. > :48:39.that mix of wintry showers. Thank you.

:48:40. > :48:42.High street favourite The Body Shop could be up for sale

:48:43. > :48:46.when it's owner L'Oreal reports annual results later today.

:48:47. > :49:02.Good morning. It has been on many high street since the 1970s. The

:49:03. > :49:08.chances are you might have a product in your bathroom. The Body Shop hit

:49:09. > :49:13.the high street in the 1970s with an ethical stance on animal welfare and

:49:14. > :49:17.it was a huge success, expanding across the world by the 1990s. After

:49:18. > :49:21.a stock market flotation it was joked that their shares defied

:49:22. > :49:27.gravity. Its founder Anita Roddick used her business to campaign animal

:49:28. > :49:33.testing, the environment and body image. She sold it off in 2006 to

:49:34. > :49:37.international cosmetics giant L'Oreal for over ?600 million.

:49:38. > :49:39.With me now is Professor Cathy Parker, a specialist

:49:40. > :49:51.Morning to use. Morning. There is a tendency to think of the Body Shop

:49:52. > :49:56.as a small retailer. It is owned by one of the biggest cosmetic firms in

:49:57. > :50:02.the world, L'Oreal, why do they want to get rid of it? They have a

:50:03. > :50:07.massive portfolio and they buy a brand that will return a good

:50:08. > :50:11.investment to them. And Body Shop isn't doing as well, so they want to

:50:12. > :50:16.buy another brand and get the money that way. What has gone wrong, if it

:50:17. > :50:21.isn't returning the money, where did it lose its way? On many high

:50:22. > :50:27.streets, many have these products at home, so what has changed? When

:50:28. > :50:31.L'Oreal bought the Body Shop, it was at a time when people started to get

:50:32. > :50:37.concerned about ethical issue. At the time there wasn't a ban across

:50:38. > :50:42.the EU on animals being tested on beauty products, so it was a good

:50:43. > :50:47.opportunity for L'Oreal to buy into the market which was profitable at

:50:48. > :50:51.that point, but with the EU legislation all products that we buy

:50:52. > :50:55.here in the UK are not tested on animals, so it is difficult for the

:50:56. > :51:02.Body Shop to stand out and say, why is it different. It has lost its

:51:03. > :51:07.unique selling point, and those ethical issues that it once traded

:51:08. > :51:11.on no longer are relevant? I think they probably are relevant but

:51:12. > :51:16.people take them for granted because they will get it from most of its

:51:17. > :51:19.products. It has done well. People were cynical when L'Oreal took over

:51:20. > :51:22.that it would become another high-street beauty retailer but they

:51:23. > :51:27.have done a lot in biodiversity and ethical procurement, but I don't

:51:28. > :51:31.think they have made enough noise about it and I don't think consumers

:51:32. > :51:35.know that it was all behind the brand. And now Anita Roddick, when

:51:36. > :51:40.they sold it, obviously, you know, she is no longer with us, associated

:51:41. > :51:50.with that brand, it is difficult for people to know what the Body Shop

:51:51. > :51:54.is. Who would want to buy them? No shortage of private equity companies

:51:55. > :52:00.because it is a massive international chain. They have 3000

:52:01. > :52:05.stores in 56 countries, so you are buying into a big global market

:52:06. > :52:10.worth about 50 billion x 2020, so it is an Nundah for forming brand, they

:52:11. > :52:16.want to take it over and get a good return. We were talking on favourite

:52:17. > :52:21.products, what is yours? -- it is an underperforming brand. 1980s,

:52:22. > :52:32.coconut shampoo. LAUGHTER Everyone has one. A lot of people said

:52:33. > :52:38.Duberry. Satsuma, I loved rubbing it on, or whatever you use to do with

:52:39. > :52:43.it. LAUGHTER What was it? All kinds of things, it was a spray, body

:52:44. > :52:49.scrub, moisturiser. Have you ever actually tried it? No, I was making

:52:50. > :52:51.it up. I thought that was obvious! LAUGHTER.

:52:52. > :52:53.Denzel Washington is one of Hollywood's biggest stars

:52:54. > :52:55.and already has two Oscars under his belt.

:52:56. > :52:59.So can he make it a hat trick with his Best Actor nomination this

:53:00. > :53:03.Charlie went to ask him what he thought of his chances

:53:04. > :53:08.of winning, and his opinion of America's new president.

:53:09. > :53:21.It is not easy for me to admit that I have been standing in the same

:53:22. > :53:26.I have been right here with you, Troy.

:53:27. > :53:31.Troy starts off as a rather lovable, bombastic man who likes the sound

:53:32. > :53:35.We have all been guilty of that sometimes, haven't we?

:53:36. > :53:40.It's like there is a ritual on Friday night, and Troy

:53:41. > :53:47.It is the same stories he always tells, and it seemed wonderful,

:53:48. > :53:58.As long as you're in my house you put a "Sir" on the end of it

:53:59. > :54:17.If there is a theme in the film, it is people's ability to change,

:54:18. > :54:23.It is fair, because it is a time in history when a lot

:54:24. > :54:28.And Troy is a character who is not adapting to that change,

:54:29. > :54:30.or maybe not seeing change around him.

:54:31. > :54:33.He is actually wanting to effect change.

:54:34. > :54:39.Now, the small detail in the play is that he doesn't know

:54:40. > :54:44.He doesn't even know how to drive, or read, but he wants that.

:54:45. > :54:51.So in some sense it is ridiculous, but it is also admirable.

:54:52. > :54:54.On the theme of change, right now, in the world we live in,

:54:55. > :55:01.Are you comfortable about the changes that

:55:02. > :55:04.are happening, for example in the US right now?

:55:05. > :55:08.I have been talking about this years ago, the third wave or future shock.

:55:09. > :55:14.We went from an agricultural society to an industrial society.

:55:15. > :55:23.The third wave is the information age.

:55:24. > :55:26.There are millions of people that are falling in the gap,

:55:27. > :55:30.because they don't fit in to this information age.

:55:31. > :55:33.I don't care who you are, you could promise people whole lot,

:55:34. > :55:42.but there is a whole lot of people that are going to...

:55:43. > :55:45.That are in trouble right now, because they just don't fit in.

:55:46. > :55:48.It is no coincidence that the places that were at the height

:55:49. > :55:50.of the Industrial Revolution in America, Pittsburgh,

:55:51. > :55:52.the rustbelt, are suffering the worst right now.

:55:53. > :55:56.And those are the places, of course, where Donald Trump...

:55:57. > :56:00.And I don't care which President it is, they can't promise them

:56:01. > :56:02.anything, and those jobs ain't coming back.

:56:03. > :56:10.When people hear you talking as passionately as you just did

:56:11. > :56:14.about the people who don't have a voice, and who need a voice,

:56:15. > :56:16.they might think, one day Denzel Washington might

:56:17. > :56:21.like to have a bigger voice, voice in government.

:56:22. > :00:06.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:00:07. > :00:09.Now, though, it is back to Charlie and Steph.

:00:10. > :00:17.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern.

:00:18. > :00:19.Record waiting times at A units in English hospitals,

:00:20. > :00:21.according to figures seen by the BBC.

:00:22. > :00:22.Emergency departments suffered their worst

:00:23. > :00:24.performance in 13 years, since the target to see patients

:00:25. > :00:45.Good morning, it's Thursday 9th February.

:00:46. > :01:04.As many as are of the opinion, say, "aye". To the contrary,

:01:05. > :01:07.As Theresa May gets the all-clear to trigger Article 50,

:01:08. > :01:09.the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will be here to tell us

:01:10. > :01:11.what he wants to see from the Brexit negotiations.

:01:12. > :01:14.How a new law to tackle rogue landlords is failing

:01:15. > :01:15.to protect tenants from so-called revenge evictions.

:01:16. > :01:18.Travel firm Thomas Cook reports losses of ?67 million,

:01:19. > :01:20.and says it remains cautious about the rest of the year, given

:01:21. > :01:27.Leicester have their first home win of the year.

:01:28. > :01:30.Demarai Gray scores in extra time to help them beat Derby in their FA

:01:31. > :01:37.And I've been talking to Denzel Washington.

:01:38. > :01:50.would you never? Never, ever, ever, ever. What would he never ever ever

:01:51. > :01:56.ever? Get into politics, that is what he would never do. We talked

:01:57. > :02:03.about fatherhood, fake news, and the changing face of US politics.

:02:04. > :02:08.Carroll has the weather. The brightest skies will be in the West,

:02:09. > :02:09.there will be a keen wind, and I will have more detailed in 15

:02:10. > :02:15.minutes. Accident and Emergency departments

:02:16. > :02:20.in England last month had their worst waiting time

:02:21. > :02:22.performance since targets That's according to provisional

:02:23. > :02:25.figures leaked to the BBC. The data also suggests that record

:02:26. > :02:28.numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for a bed

:02:29. > :02:31.to become available. The Department of Health insists

:02:32. > :02:33.the vast majority of patients With more, here's our health

:02:34. > :02:39.correspondent Dominic Hughes. For months now, Accident

:02:40. > :02:41.and Emergency departments Last week, the BBC was

:02:42. > :02:48.given exclusive access to the Royal Blackburn Hospital,

:02:49. > :02:57.where the pressure New data leaked from the NHS

:02:58. > :03:06.suggests it's a similar Provisional figures appeared

:03:07. > :03:11.to show that last month 82% of patients were treated,

:03:12. > :03:13.admitted, and discharged within four hours - the worst performance

:03:14. > :03:16.since the target of 95% 780 patients waited for more than 12

:03:17. > :03:22.hours for a bed after being admitted to hospital by a doctor,

:03:23. > :03:26.known as a trolley wait. And more than 60,000 waited more

:03:27. > :03:30.between four and 12 hours, If the figures are correct,

:03:31. > :03:38.it shows the degree Despite huge efforts

:03:39. > :03:44.from 1.4 million staff, the NHS is really struggling

:03:45. > :03:47.to cope with extra demand, These figures are the worst

:03:48. > :03:50.since the four-hour A They just show how much pressure the

:03:51. > :04:00.service is under. The NHS in Scotland is coping

:04:01. > :04:05.better, but similar issues affect Wales and Northern Ireland,

:04:06. > :04:07.symptoms of the pressures building NHS sources acknowledge the system

:04:08. > :04:10.is facing unprecedented demand. And these latest figures suggest

:04:11. > :04:14.there is little sign of respite. The Government has told the House

:04:15. > :04:23.of Lords not to block Brexit, after MPs overwhelmingly backed

:04:24. > :04:25.the bill to trigger Article 50, The Brexit Secretary,

:04:26. > :04:31.David Davis, called on peers to "do their patriotic duty"

:04:32. > :04:34.and pass the legislation. Our political correspondent

:04:35. > :04:44.Carol Walker is in The bill has passed an amended in

:04:45. > :04:48.the House of Commons, now the pressure is on the House of Lords to

:04:49. > :04:51.pass it as well? That is right, and Downing Street

:04:52. > :04:55.has softened its tone somewhat from some of the dire warnings from one

:04:56. > :04:58.source last night who said that if the House of Lords were to try to

:04:59. > :05:03.disrupt the process they would face calls for the House of Lords to be

:05:04. > :05:07.abolished. But I think ministers who believe that the thumping majority

:05:08. > :05:09.they had in the final vote in the Commons sends a very strong signal

:05:10. > :05:31.to the House of Lords, and that although there may

:05:32. > :05:33.be some attempts to amend, change the bill, ministers don't really

:05:34. > :05:35.expect too much difficulty from the Lords now, and they are pretty

:05:36. > :05:37.confident they will be able to stick to their timetable, Trigger Article

:05:38. > :05:40.50 to start formal Brexit negotiations by the end of March.

:05:41. > :05:42.The biggest immediate problem is that facing Labour leader Jeremy

:05:43. > :05:44.Corbyn. We saw last night Clive Lewis, Shadow Business Secretary,

:05:45. > :05:46.resigned, saying he could not support the bill. Jeremy Corbyn now

:05:47. > :05:49.has four Shadow Cabinet posts to fill, he will have to decide what

:05:50. > :05:52.action if any to take against more than a dozen more junior shadow

:05:53. > :05:57.ministers who defied his instructions and voted against the

:05:58. > :06:00.bill, and although his spokesman has dismissed suggestions he might be

:06:01. > :06:04.setting a date for his departure, I think when you see such huge

:06:05. > :06:07.divisions exposed on what is the biggest political issue facing the

:06:08. > :06:15.country, that is a really big problem for the Labour Party and its

:06:16. > :06:18.leader. Thank you very much. Jeremy Corbyn will be joining us on

:06:19. > :06:21.the server in a few minutes to give us his thoughts on this.

:06:22. > :06:24.A new law designed to help protect people in England from so called

:06:25. > :06:27.revenge evictions by rogue landlords isn't working, according to senior

:06:28. > :06:33.A BBC freedom of information request has revealed that there may be

:06:34. > :06:36.hundreds of thousands of vulnerable tenants who are afraid to report

:06:37. > :06:38.things like damp, faulty electrics and broken boilers,

:06:39. > :06:45.Things like damp, faulty electrics and broken boilers can all badly

:06:46. > :06:50.But here in Leeds, there's a concern many are too scared to complain

:06:51. > :06:53.in case their landlord kicks them out.

:06:54. > :06:55.This is rented out as private rented accommodation,

:06:56. > :07:03.People paying to rent here, making complaints, nothing happening

:07:04. > :07:06.and they could be under the threat of revenge eviction.

:07:07. > :07:08.That's the reason why they're not coming forward to the council

:07:09. > :07:11.And that's exactly what happened to Helen.

:07:12. > :07:14.Her and her family were hit with a revenge eviction.

:07:15. > :07:17.After months of complaining, we got a firm of solicitors

:07:18. > :07:19.in who deal with properties in these states of disrepair.

:07:20. > :07:22.They checked the property and they agreed it was damp

:07:23. > :07:28.So they wrote to our landlord and instructed that work needed

:07:29. > :07:35.And within a week of him receiving that, we received a Section 21

:07:36. > :07:38.eviction notice pushed under our door.

:07:39. > :07:42.Because of what happened to people like Helen,

:07:43. > :07:45.a new law was introduced in October 2015 to try to stop retaliatory

:07:46. > :07:51.But we've seen exclusive figures gathered in a Freedom of Information

:07:52. > :07:56.request gathered from hundreds of councils right across England

:07:57. > :08:03.that show more than half haven't stopped any at all.

:08:04. > :08:06.More than a quarter don't even record figures, and fewer than one

:08:07. > :08:10.The Government says "revenge evictions" are rare,

:08:11. > :08:13.and, thanks to its new law, councils have all the powers

:08:14. > :08:20.The decision to put a stop to a programme to allow

:08:21. > :08:23.unaccompanied migrant children to come to the UK is "shameful",

:08:24. > :08:26.according to the Labour peer who campaigned for it.

:08:27. > :08:29.When the Dubs scheme was introduced last year it was hoped thousands

:08:30. > :08:32.By the time the system closes next month, 350 children

:08:33. > :08:37.It was designed by Lord Dubs, a former refugee who

:08:38. > :08:53.Desperate conditions in the refugee camps there.

:08:54. > :09:02.The Government ministers said to me, "We intend to accept the letter

:09:03. > :09:06.My contention is they are not doing that.

:09:07. > :09:09.Tributes continue to be paid to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

:09:10. > :09:19.The actress and model became an it-girl in the 90s.

:09:20. > :09:22.She was born into aristocracy and had close ties to the royal family.

:09:23. > :09:24.She was found dead in her London home.

:09:25. > :09:27.She revealed that she had a brain tumour in November last year.

:09:28. > :09:29.The US Senate has approved President Trump's choice

:09:30. > :09:31.Mr Trump criticised efforts by Democrats

:09:32. > :09:37.Mr Sessions was denied a post as a federal judge in the 1980s,

:09:38. > :09:39.when he was accused of racism, though he's always

:09:40. > :09:49.Last night the Government took another step towards Brexit -

:09:50. > :09:54.MPs voted by a margin of four to one in favour of the EU Withdrawal Bill,

:09:55. > :09:56.giving Theresa May the authority to start the process of leaving

:09:57. > :10:00.But divisions in the Labour ranks emerged with more than 50

:10:01. > :10:02.MPs voting against it, despite their leader saying

:10:03. > :10:06.So what does this say about the party?

:10:07. > :10:09.The Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn joins us now.

:10:10. > :10:16.Good morning to you, thank you for your time this morning. There is a

:10:17. > :10:19.sense of elation in Government circles obviously, Theresa May,

:10:20. > :10:24.David Davis are elated about what has happened. Can you give us a

:10:25. > :10:28.sense of what your thoughts are this morning? There was a referendum, a

:10:29. > :10:37.decision by the people of this country, and we support the result

:10:38. > :10:40.of the referendum and have to carry it out. It doesn't mean we agree

:10:41. > :10:51.with the Government, it does mean we have to build good relations with

:10:52. > :10:53.everyone across Europe. Diane Abbott, one of your closest allies,

:10:54. > :10:56.said after the vote last time, which she did not take part in this time

:10:57. > :10:59.round, I think Tory Brexit is going to be a disaster. That was after

:11:00. > :11:02.voting for the bill? She was not voting for Tory Brexit, she was

:11:03. > :11:05.voting, as the rest of us were, to respect the referendum and open the

:11:06. > :11:08.way for negotiations. I had a meeting with members of the European

:11:09. > :11:11.Parliament yesterday, in two weeks I am eating socialist leaders from

:11:12. > :11:16.across Europe to discuss and agree on the relationship we will develop

:11:17. > :11:20.with them in the future. The Government does not have a blank

:11:21. > :11:24.cheque to set up an offshore tax haven in Britain, all that it has

:11:25. > :11:27.its authority to proceed with negotiations, which is what the

:11:28. > :11:32.referendum was about. But it absolutely does have a blank check.

:11:33. > :11:36.You tweeted last night, the real fight starts now. Quite a few people

:11:37. > :11:40.have been in touch with us today, David tweeted this morning, why

:11:41. > :11:45.didn't the real fight starts during the campaign? The referendum

:11:46. > :11:51.campaign? Why are you saying the real fight starts now? We campaigned

:11:52. > :11:55.for a yes vote in the referendum, two thirds of Labour supporters

:11:56. > :11:59.voted yes, the majority of Labour MPs, the vast majority, campaigned

:12:00. > :12:04.for a yes vote. That was our position. The referendum result was

:12:05. > :12:07.different, remember it was the largest participation in any

:12:08. > :12:11.electoral process in Britain for as long as I can remember, and there

:12:12. > :12:18.was a result, and Parliament has to respect that result. Moving forward,

:12:19. > :12:23.you can do nothing to stop what the Tories want to do, you just had a

:12:24. > :12:29.series of debates, no concession given, that is almost certainly

:12:30. > :12:35.going to happen again. How exactly are you going to affect what the

:12:36. > :12:41.Tories' negotiate in Europe? At the time Theresa May became a minister

:12:42. > :12:45.she was proposing to start Article 50 without a Parliamentary process,

:12:46. > :12:48.she has been forced into a Parliamentary process, forced into

:12:49. > :12:53.it by legal action and opposition. But that has become academic now,

:12:54. > :12:56.nothing has changed. It is not academic, she has to now report to

:12:57. > :13:00.Parliament on what she's doing, there has to be a vote in all

:13:01. > :13:06.Parliament at the end of this, there has to be... But you have agreed on

:13:07. > :13:11.everything. We have not agreed on everything! Do you not understand,

:13:12. > :13:15.this was a one clause bill giving the Government the power to start

:13:16. > :13:19.the negotiations. In what way are you going to affect what the terms

:13:20. > :13:23.of the negotiation are? They came back, with five months to go, or

:13:24. > :13:29.whatever the timescale is... Two years. The next vote will be

:13:30. > :13:33.approximately five months, and it will be the same thing again, you

:13:34. > :13:37.will do the same thing again, vote with the Government and nothing will

:13:38. > :13:41.have been achieved? Not at all, there will be a repeal bill started

:13:42. > :13:44.in May, a massive piece of legislation, that will be

:13:45. > :13:50.examination line by line of every aspect of the legislation but it is

:13:51. > :13:56.also about the debate we have now, the kind of economy we want. Theresa

:13:57. > :13:59.May said that she was prepared to establish some kind of tax haven in

:14:00. > :14:03.Britain on the shores of Europe, I think that is completely wrong, we

:14:04. > :14:07.will oppose that, campaign against that. We want investment led

:14:08. > :14:12.economy, good relationships with Europe, to protect workers' writes,

:14:13. > :14:16.maternity leave and paternity leave, issues achieved through European

:14:17. > :14:18.regulation. You have lost another member of your Shadow Cabinet, Clive

:14:19. > :14:35.Lewis. People are saying this is a sign of

:14:36. > :14:38.how bad the situation is within the Labour Party, specifically for you

:14:39. > :14:41.as leader, it is a disaster? No, it is not a disaster. The majority of

:14:42. > :14:43.Labour MPs voted to Trigger Article 50. 50 odd voted against it, mainly

:14:44. > :14:49.on the basis of their strong message from their own constituents -- 15

:14:50. > :14:52.voted against. My feeling is that it was a national referendum and

:14:53. > :14:57.Parliament has to respect that. On all the other votes and campaigning

:14:58. > :14:59.points, there is unity. Your personal circumstances, I'm aware of

:15:00. > :15:05.the issue of fake news at the moment. There is a lot of it about!

:15:06. > :15:10.There is a story that you have set a date for when you are going to quit

:15:11. > :15:17.as Labour leader. Is there no truth in that? Absolute nonsense. So your

:15:18. > :15:22.future as leader is intact, you have not considered for a moment whether

:15:23. > :15:27.you are damaging the party... I am surprised the BBC is reporting fake

:15:28. > :15:31.news. I am giving you the opportunity to say... I was elected

:15:32. > :15:36.leader of the party, I am proud to lead the party, we will go through

:15:37. > :15:41.the process demanding social justice in Britain, setting out economic

:15:42. > :15:46.plans for investment led economy, opposing this Government in the

:15:47. > :15:53.crisis in health care, that is our agenda, that is what unites us, that

:15:54. > :15:57.is what I am doing. And if the polls remain the same in two years' time,

:15:58. > :16:00.if you are in the same place in the polls, even Len McCluskey has said

:16:01. > :16:04.he would have to consider your position? We are demanding social

:16:05. > :16:08.justice in Britain, that is what the Labour Party exists for, that is

:16:09. > :16:12.what I joined for and that is what I will continue doing. Can I ask about

:16:13. > :16:20.social care, people will have seen yesterday that he presented Theresa

:16:21. > :16:22.May with the situation unfolding in Surrey, suggesting the local

:16:23. > :16:24.authority is getting special treatment. What would a Labour

:16:25. > :16:29.Government do to improve social care? Everyone knows it is in crisis

:16:30. > :16:33.right now. First of all, several billion pounds has been cut since

:16:34. > :16:40.2010 from social care and the crisis has seeped into a crisis in the

:16:41. > :16:43.hospitals as well because it affects care outside of hospitals, so there

:16:44. > :16:47.is a blocking process in the hospital. That is a problem so we

:16:48. > :16:51.would ensure proper funding of it and would not do sweetheart deals

:16:52. > :16:56.with Surrey County Council is, there has to be a fair national system.

:16:57. > :17:00.The Government's line of development on this is to allow local

:17:01. > :17:05.authorities to raise council tax to pay for it, even if they all raised

:17:06. > :17:15.it by 3% it only raises the sixth of the money necessary but race

:17:16. > :17:18.different sums of money. You get a big sum of money in Windsor, for

:17:19. > :17:20.example, a very small sum of money in Knowsley, there has to be

:17:21. > :17:28.national funding for rate. About ?2 billion is needed. But the crisis in

:17:29. > :17:31.the NHS is also paid for by families, many of whom have to give

:17:32. > :17:33.up work to care for people who should be cared for by the social

:17:34. > :17:44.care You -- Lord Shadow Chancellor was

:17:45. > :17:48.here a week ago News that if Donald Trump was in the UK he wouldn't meet

:17:49. > :17:53.him, what you do? My position is Donald Trump shouldn't come. Would

:17:54. > :17:58.you meet him? I think we have to have relations with USA, I'm not

:17:59. > :18:04.sure he'd want a meeting with us. Is an answer to the question? Would you

:18:05. > :18:09.meet him? The point is Donald Trump has been promoting something that

:18:10. > :18:15.into mine 's international law, promoting misogyny, he's been mating

:18:16. > :18:23.some awful statements in the USA and threatening to build a wall. I think

:18:24. > :18:26.we should be challenging Trump on international law issues and we

:18:27. > :18:31.should be not rolling out the red carpet to him. You could do that if

:18:32. > :18:34.you met him? When he weds a candidate somebody said, would I

:18:35. > :18:39.meet him and I said I thought it would be very useful for him to come

:18:40. > :18:41.to the mosque in my constituency so he could understand something about

:18:42. > :18:47.multicultural society. I don't know if he wants to do that is.

:18:48. > :18:51.Honestly... So we can end this, would you meet him? I think it would

:18:52. > :18:55.be right to meet the president of the USA but I think it would be

:18:56. > :18:59.wrong for him to come here. Thank you! Thank you. I appreciate your

:19:00. > :19:05.time this morning. Thank you for coming in to see us.

:19:06. > :19:08.It's 8.19am and you're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:19:09. > :19:13.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:19:14. > :19:19.A mixed picture this morning. This in Devon but this is in

:19:20. > :19:22.Berwick-upon-Tweed. More cloud around. That tells the forecast

:19:23. > :19:27.quite nicely. In the West under clear skies some lovely sunrises,

:19:28. > :19:30.but in the east there is more cloud on some wintry showers. High

:19:31. > :19:34.pressure is blocking the weather systems coming in from the Atlantic

:19:35. > :19:37.and around this area of high pressure, we are dragging in cold

:19:38. > :19:47.continental air. If you haven't stepped outside yet, it is cold and

:19:48. > :19:50.for some of us frosty. Watch out for some ice on untreated surfaces first

:19:51. > :19:52.thing. A fair bit of sunshine in the West. A few showers dotted around

:19:53. > :19:55.here and there. In Central and eastern areas, some cloud and the

:19:56. > :19:59.cloudier it will stay with wintry showers. Into the afternoon we hang

:20:00. > :20:04.on to some lovely sunshine in the West of Scotland. The gales we have

:20:05. > :20:08.in the north-west easing, snow in the Grampians and in the Southern

:20:09. > :20:12.uplands. As we come across central and eastern parts of England, a lot

:20:13. > :20:19.of cloud. On the coastline some wintry showers, a mix of rain and

:20:20. > :20:23.sleet. You don't have to come too far inland and that will be a mix of

:20:24. > :20:27.sun and snow. In the south-west clearer skies throughout the day.

:20:28. > :20:31.One or two showers in Cornwall. It will still feel cold. The same for

:20:32. > :20:35.West Wales. You will hang onto some sunshine but the rest of Wales,

:20:36. > :20:39.fairly cloudy. Northern Ireland, a lot of the showers fading but still

:20:40. > :20:42.a few rogue ones left behind and bright spells or sunshine. Through

:20:43. > :20:47.this evening and overnight, where we have clear skies, the north-western

:20:48. > :20:50.half of Scotland, West Wales, there will be some frost and you might

:20:51. > :20:55.have to scrape yorker first thing in the morning. Elsewhere, although it

:20:56. > :21:00.will be cold, some frost around but we carry on with the wintry showers,

:21:01. > :21:04.so there could be an issue with ice first thing. Into tomorrow, that's

:21:05. > :21:09.how we start, on that cold node. Still this cold easterly wind coming

:21:10. > :21:14.in. Tomorrow there will be further snow showers, the same combination

:21:15. > :21:19.is today. Sleet and rain in the east on the coast, inland snow.

:21:20. > :21:26.Particularly so across Orkney and Shetland, where we could have up to

:21:27. > :21:29.six centimetres, two inches. Despite the temperatures you will see on

:21:30. > :21:33.your thermometers, at the window and it will fill cold. By Saturday a

:21:34. > :21:38.more organised area of rain, sleet and snow coming from the ease, the

:21:39. > :21:42.wind moves to north-easterly, exacerbating the cold feel. So

:21:43. > :21:45.though showers will make it into Wales, south-west England and also

:21:46. > :21:49.Northern Ireland. But generally speaking the north-west seeing the

:21:50. > :21:52.lion share of the sunshine. A raw feeling day on Sunday. Once

:21:53. > :21:59.again a fair bit of cloud, still this keen wind and still a wintry

:22:00. > :22:02.mix of showers. Thank you.

:22:03. > :22:04.Across the BBC this week we've been looking

:22:05. > :22:11.We've met rural GPs working long hours, seen how cuts are affecting

:22:12. > :22:17.mental health provision, and investigated alternative ways

:22:18. > :22:22.We follow a day in the life of Kathryn Carruthers,

:22:23. > :22:24.a matron at a busy emergency care unit in north London.

:22:25. > :22:29.All those patients you can see are waiting, and there is probably

:22:30. > :22:32.more patients, more patients here, and more patients all down

:22:33. > :22:38.Everybody is trying, but sometimes trying isn't enough,

:22:39. > :22:40.and you feel that everything is gridlocked, and that can

:22:41. > :22:48.I'm the matron for ambulatory emergency care here at

:22:49. > :22:52.We're part of the emergency division.

:22:53. > :22:57.We try to see patients that need urgent care,

:22:58. > :23:04.and get treatment without the requirement for admission.

:23:05. > :23:07.A have already rung this morning to see if we can take some patients

:23:08. > :23:11.that have been down there for quite some time.

:23:12. > :23:20.We don't always have the number of staff that we would like.

:23:21. > :23:31.Lots of staff, and patients on trolleys, and relatives,

:23:32. > :23:36.They have been waiting, you can tell.

:23:37. > :23:42.I know you have been here for a very long time.

:23:43. > :23:47.For me, currently, this is probably the worst I have seen the NHS.

:23:48. > :23:53.When it is completely relentless, I think you do drain staff.

:23:54. > :24:03.There is a woman who has just moved, and she has a bowel obstruction,

:24:04. > :24:06.and she can sit here all night in a chair.

:24:07. > :24:09.It is absolutely full, and nowhere to examine patients.

:24:10. > :24:15.Which is not the hospital's fault, it does its absolute best.

:24:16. > :24:20.Sorry, do you mind if I take this call?

:24:21. > :24:26.Two orthopaedic patients, a chap in a chair.

:24:27. > :24:37.You are not allergic to any medicine?

:24:38. > :24:43.Our department ticked along quite nicely.

:24:44. > :24:47.I don't think it is sustainable to continue this amount of pressure.

:24:48. > :24:52.I'm at an athletic club, before going home and seeing

:24:53. > :25:07.Our thanks to Katherine and the hospital.

:25:08. > :25:10.You can find out much more about the BBC's NHS

:25:11. > :25:13.Including a piece by our Health Correspondent, Nick Triggle,

:25:14. > :25:15.who has analysed ten charts which show why, despite rising

:25:16. > :25:27.Ben has the other main business stories today.

:25:28. > :25:34.Travel firm Thomas Cook has reported losses of ?67m -

:25:35. > :25:37.and warned that it remains cautious about the rest of the year,

:25:38. > :25:40.given the uncertain political and economic outlook.

:25:41. > :25:43.The firm says bookings to Greece are up by over 40%,

:25:44. > :25:45.and destinations like Cyprus, Portugal and Croatia have

:25:46. > :25:51.That's helping make up for poor sales to Turkey and Egypt -

:25:52. > :25:55.as tourists are put off by recent terror attacks.

:25:56. > :25:57.Waitrose says it's looking to close six stores,

:25:58. > :26:00.500 jobs are at risk in Hertford, Staines, Leek, Huntingdon,

:26:01. > :26:09.The supermarket says it tries hard to avoid closing branches

:26:10. > :26:18.but will review how the shops perform and will act accordingly.

:26:19. > :26:26.The battle between our supermarkets is hotting up.

:26:27. > :26:29.Body Shop could be looking for a new owner.

:26:30. > :26:31.The firm, owned by L'Oreal, has 3,000 stores in 66 countries

:26:32. > :26:33.but sales are down sharply and losses last year

:26:34. > :26:44.Lots of people getting in touch talking about their favourite Body

:26:45. > :26:51.Shop products. White mask. Satsuma? I don't remember any of

:26:52. > :26:57.them. I am sure I smelt them. Maybe for the ladies!

:26:58. > :26:58.Thanks very much. Now it is time to get the news, travel and weather

:26:59. > :30:17.where You can get plenty more

:30:18. > :30:19.news on our website, Now, though, it's back

:30:20. > :30:22.to Charlie and Steph. Hello this is Breakfast with

:30:23. > :30:43.Charlie Stayt and Steph McGovern. Accident and Emergency departments

:30:44. > :30:44.in England last month suffered their worst waiting time

:30:45. > :30:46.performance since targets were introduced, according to

:30:47. > :30:49.provisional data leaked to the BBC. The Department of Health insists

:30:50. > :30:51.the vast majority of patients But the figures also suggest that

:30:52. > :30:55.record numbers of patients have had to wait on trolleys for a bed

:30:56. > :31:00.to become available. We unfortunately do not have enough

:31:01. > :31:03.money to fund social care, so patients who are fit for medical

:31:04. > :31:06.discharge in a hospital beds are stuck rather than being in the

:31:07. > :31:10.community where they and their families want them to be first up we

:31:11. > :31:13.don't have enough acute beds, and the increased demand is having a

:31:14. > :31:21.tremendous effect on our nurses and doctors and apartments.

:31:22. > :31:24.The Government has told the House of Lords not to block Brexit,

:31:25. > :31:26.after MPs overwhelmingly backed the bill to trigger Article 50,

:31:27. > :31:33.But divisions in the Labour ranks emerged with more than 50

:31:34. > :31:35.MPs voting against it, despite their leader saying

:31:36. > :31:37.Our Political Correspondent Carol Walker is in

:31:38. > :31:45.So still dissent in the Labour Party, Carol? That's right. Last

:31:46. > :31:50.night, the government had a thumping majority in that final vote in the

:31:51. > :31:52.Commons to give the government the authority to trigger Article 50 to

:31:53. > :31:57.start those poor bricks in negotiations. Jeremy Corbyn had

:31:58. > :32:03.instructed his MPs to vote for the bill, but more than 50 defied those

:32:04. > :32:07.instructions. He had another resignation from his Shadow Cabinet,

:32:08. > :32:11.Clive Lewis, the Shadow Business Secretary said he simply did not

:32:12. > :32:16.believe it would be right for him to support the Article 50 bill. So he

:32:17. > :32:19.resigned. This morning, when you were talking to Jeremy Corbyn just a

:32:20. > :32:26.short time ago, the Labour leader sought to play down the significance

:32:27. > :32:30.of the latest resignations. Now, it is not a disaster. The majority of

:32:31. > :32:40.Labour MPs voted to trigger Article 50. , mainly on the basis of the

:32:41. > :32:45.strong message from their own constituents. -- 50 odd voted

:32:46. > :32:49.against it mainly on the bases of the strong message from their own

:32:50. > :32:53.constituents. Belavia the votes there is unity, nor the other

:32:54. > :32:58.competing points there is unity. Jeremy Corbyn said the idea that he

:32:59. > :33:02.might set a date to stand down as Labour leader is absolute nonsense.

:33:03. > :33:08.He dismissed it as fake news. But there is no doubt he faces a huge

:33:09. > :33:12.problem. He now has to fill four Shadow Cabinet positions, he has to

:33:13. > :33:16.decide what action if any to take against a whole clutch, more than a

:33:17. > :33:20.dozen of more junior shadow ministers who defied his

:33:21. > :33:26.instructions last night. Frankly that vote did lay bare the huge

:33:27. > :33:30.divisions within the Labour Party. And this issue of Brexit, how the

:33:31. > :33:35.government should approach it, how the negotiations should go, will

:33:36. > :33:38.continue to large over our politics. That is a huge problem for the

:33:39. > :33:53.Labour Party to be so divided on such a huge issue.

:33:54. > :33:58.New laws introduced last year to protect tenants from so-called

:33:59. > :34:03.revenge evictions on working. That's according to MPs and housing

:34:04. > :34:06.lawyers. If you receive freedom of information request has found that

:34:07. > :34:09.there may be hundreds of thousands of tenants afraid to report comes

:34:10. > :34:22.with the homes of fear of being evicted.

:34:23. > :34:24.Tributes continue to be paid to Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

:34:25. > :34:28.The actress and model became an it-girl in the nineties.

:34:29. > :34:31.She was born into aristocracy and had close ties to the royal family.

:34:32. > :34:33.She was found dead in her London home.

:34:34. > :34:36.In November last year, she revealed that she had a brain tumour.

:34:37. > :34:38.The US Senate has approved President Trump's choice

:34:39. > :34:40.of Attorney General - Jeff Sessions.

:34:41. > :34:41.Mr Trump criticised efforts by Democrats

:34:42. > :34:45.Mr Sessions was denied a post as a federal judge in the 1980s,

:34:46. > :34:47.when he was accused of racism, though he's always

:34:48. > :34:51.If you are thinking of the most admired and romantic leading men in

:34:52. > :34:54.literary history, I was looking at you because I wasn't going to 30

:34:55. > :34:57.year but I look at you anyway. Jane Austin's Mr Darcy from pride and

:34:58. > :34:59.prejudice is who are talking about. Because when Colin Firth played him

:35:00. > :35:02.he was famously tall, dark and handsome though that might not have

:35:03. > :35:06.been the case according to new research. A slightly different look

:35:07. > :35:14.here. A portrait by a British academic, it paints a very different

:35:15. > :35:20.image. Pale face, powdered white hair, a long nose and a pointed

:35:21. > :35:24.chin. You would save chiselled rather than pointy chin, but there

:35:25. > :35:32.you go. Powdered hair is never a good look, is it? No. They're ago,

:35:33. > :35:40.there is Colin Firth, the big difference the two. 8:35am is the

:35:41. > :35:49.time. Let's see what is coming up on breakfast. Let me ask you a

:35:50. > :35:53.question, I am the journalist now. That is Denzel Washington. He is

:35:54. > :35:57.talking about his new film, Fences. We talk about a lot of things,

:35:58. > :36:03.including fake news and the state of US politics. You don't normally

:36:04. > :36:08.associate computer games with classical music, but this cellist,

:36:09. > :36:12.Tina Guo, wants to change that. She will be here to tell us how she has

:36:13. > :36:24.transformed Pokemon in the next half-hour. Also on the sofa, Luisa

:36:25. > :36:29.Omeilan used to ask yourself, what would Beyonce do? That is the name

:36:30. > :36:33.of her stage show, a lot of music and improvisation, she will be

:36:34. > :36:36.joining us on the sofa later on. I often asked by southernwood Sally

:36:37. > :36:43.Nugent do? I often asked myself what would Beyonce do, every day? What

:36:44. > :36:47.would she do? If you ask yourself that question, she probably wouldn't

:36:48. > :36:51.do the latest results from Leicester. Of course she would, it

:36:52. > :36:57.will be a Hollywood film one day, it is all glamour on this over, I'm

:36:58. > :37:02.telling you. Hotpot cheaply? She would direct it, she would run the

:37:03. > :37:07.thing. Have you not heard of that, she runs the world. Talking of

:37:08. > :37:12.Leicester, a lot of debate about FA Cup replays, whether or not people

:37:13. > :37:14.like them or not. Steve McClaren, the Derby County manager, said why

:37:15. > :37:18.on earth did this go to a replay, should we not have just made the

:37:19. > :37:21.game and it gone the extra time and penalties and been a billion night,

:37:22. > :37:25.instead of changing things around, another match and it doesn't always

:37:26. > :37:29.work out everybody. Both teams last night had ever things to worry about

:37:30. > :37:32.but it was the Premier League champions Leicester City who won,

:37:33. > :37:39.through to the fifth round of the FA Cup. They came through 3-1 against

:37:40. > :37:42.Derby County. Andy King put Leicester had before a deflected

:37:43. > :37:47.free kick forced that match at extra time. Leicester restored their lead

:37:48. > :37:52.through the substitute Wilfred Nditi. His first goal for the club.

:37:53. > :37:56.Demarai Gray's superb solo goal secured their place in the fifth

:37:57. > :38:01.round. Leicester now play Millwall away. We want to do well in all the

:38:02. > :38:07.competitions where we play. Of course we want to go forward also in

:38:08. > :38:10.the FA Cup. The Premier League is not so good that we have to stay in

:38:11. > :38:16.the Premier League and therefore that is now the focus on Sunday.

:38:17. > :38:20.Tonight was about the squad, the French played, the injured players

:38:21. > :38:25.coming back and getting the game. We missed our opportunity in the first

:38:26. > :38:30.game. We did not want a replay. It was a great game, fantastic support

:38:31. > :38:49.from our fans. I could not fault the players.

:38:50. > :38:51.MPs will debate the Football Associations "failure

:38:52. > :38:55.It follows a motion of 'no confidence' in the governing body.

:38:56. > :38:57.Parliament will examine whether the FA is fit for purpose.

:38:58. > :38:59.Last July, sports minister Tracey Crouch said the governing

:39:00. > :39:02.body would lose its ?30m to ?40m of public funding

:39:03. > :39:08.Tiger Woods has said he would ever feel great again. He said two back

:39:09. > :39:11.operations and pulled out of the Dubai Desert classic earlier this

:39:12. > :39:13.month because of spasms. He also admitted there have been times he

:39:14. > :39:17.didn't think he would be able to return to go. The super league

:39:18. > :39:22.season starts this evening. The first matches between Saint Helens

:39:23. > :39:25.at Leeds. Leeds had to secure their place in the top flight through the

:39:26. > :39:30.qualifiers last season, while St Helens were knocked out in the

:39:31. > :39:33.play-off semifinals. The defending champions Wigan. Here they are

:39:34. > :39:36.winning the super league at travel last year. They won their fourth

:39:37. > :39:41.crown, and prevented Warrington from winning their first super league

:39:42. > :39:44.trophy and 61 years. No matter Corporation and training you can put

:39:45. > :39:48.into a sport nothing ever prepares you for this. This be the worst

:39:49. > :40:04.start to amen 's super super genius key race?

:40:05. > :40:06.Khasakstan skier Taras Pimenov, tripped as he left the gate

:40:07. > :40:08.at the Skiing World Championships at St Moritz.

:40:09. > :40:10.After the rather embarrassing face plant he continued on,

:40:11. > :40:12.finishing nearly 20 seconds behind the winner.

:40:13. > :40:16.The technical term is he caught an inch. But he got back up and carried

:40:17. > :40:21.on. The thing as it is separate, isn't it? Funny that, when you are

:40:22. > :40:25.skis and snow, it is slippery. LAUGHTER

:40:26. > :40:29.We will carry on talking about when the sports now. We should ask our

:40:30. > :40:33.next guest about that. It's a year until the Winter

:40:34. > :40:36.Olympics kick off in South Korea. Team GB have high hopes

:40:37. > :40:38.they will have their best ever winter games -

:40:39. > :40:41.beating the four medals they won We'll be joined in a moment by one

:40:42. > :40:45.of those Sochi medal winners, Jenny Jones, along with one of next

:40:46. > :40:48.year's hopefuls, Rowan Cheshire. But first, David McDaid has been

:40:49. > :41:00.finding out how the preparations In PyeongChang, preparations into

:41:01. > :41:04.the home side. Korea is ploughing more than ?8 billion into their

:41:05. > :41:08.first Winter Olympics and Great Britain are aiming to send around 60

:41:09. > :41:12.athletes. Overall the impression is a really good, the stadiums look

:41:13. > :41:17.great, the villagers were not quite at the same stage of construction,

:41:18. > :41:20.about 55%, I would say, but the build quality and everything looks

:41:21. > :41:24.fantastic so I think our athletes are in for a treat when they go to

:41:25. > :41:29.these Olympic Games. But South Koreans may not be so infused.

:41:30. > :41:32.Political corruption scandals there have led organisers to express

:41:33. > :41:39.concerns over public apathy towards the games. But at least one athlete

:41:40. > :41:42.who has already won World Cup gold in PyeongChang is not worried about

:41:43. > :41:47.poor attendances. Now, I don't think so, especially with a short track,

:41:48. > :41:51.Koreans love short track. And I think a lot of this stuff has sold

:41:52. > :41:56.out quite fast. It is like one of the national sports. Kind of like

:41:57. > :42:02.football or rugby would be here. Lizzy Yarnold is the Olympic

:42:03. > :42:05.champion, my goodness! After a best equalling four medals that the Sochi

:42:06. > :42:09.Games com UK Sport have more than doubled their investment in winter

:42:10. > :42:14.sport to more than ?27 million, but with increased money is their

:42:15. > :42:17.increased pressure to deliver? I try not to think it brings more

:42:18. > :42:21.pressure. It just allows us to have more of the things we need to

:42:22. > :42:24.succeed. I think it takes a bit of the pressure off, because there are

:42:25. > :42:29.other things you don't have to worry about because they are in place. So

:42:30. > :42:31.few worries the GB athletes, until at is based upon a star lines in

:42:32. > :42:34.one-year's time. Snowboarding Bronze medal

:42:35. > :42:35.winner, Jenny Jones, and Freestyle skier,

:42:36. > :42:44.Rowan Cheshire, join us now. Jenny Comey have said it is quite a

:42:45. > :42:49.special anniversary of you today. Exactly three years ago to the day

:42:50. > :42:53.that I won my medals. That he won the medal there. Threw this medal,

:42:54. > :42:59.and one year to go until PyeongChang for the Winter Olympics, so that is

:43:00. > :43:03.exciting. We have heard about this target the Great Britain to be one

:43:04. > :43:06.of the top five winter sports nations in the world. Did that even

:43:07. > :43:11.cross your mind when you started because it seems really ambitious

:43:12. > :43:16.now. I think definitely not for me initially. Slopestyle wasn't even in

:43:17. > :43:21.the Olympics, so it wasn't even on my radar, and then there was that

:43:22. > :43:25.two years where I work towards it. Before that it was X games and

:43:26. > :43:28.things like that. Now when you look at the athletes coming through and

:43:29. > :43:32.all of the facilities we have with the snow domes in the dry slopes and

:43:33. > :43:40.the results we are getting this year, especially in Park and pipe

:43:41. > :43:46.and I think there is that potential. Rowan, tell us about your event? I

:43:47. > :43:53.compete in the half pipe. It is basically like half of a pipe, so a

:43:54. > :44:01.shape like that, massive dam the slide of the slip, then you try to

:44:02. > :44:09.do as many technical tricks as possible. How do you decide which a

:44:10. > :44:11.venue will do? It is kind of personal preference, freestyle

:44:12. > :44:15.skiing is similar, doing tricks, and when you go abroad there is the

:44:16. > :44:22.options are trying different things. Is this your event? Yes, this is me.

:44:23. > :44:27.So are you judged on the height you get off the wall? Yes, on height,

:44:28. > :44:35.the amplitude, the technicality of the trick, the style, so that is

:44:36. > :44:39.pretty much what you get judged on. And you're pretty good at getting

:44:40. > :44:46.inverted. You have a flair trick. I haven't done that in a while. Upside

:44:47. > :44:50.down, sideways. But actually you have had to recover from a really

:44:51. > :44:55.tricky time. You had a terrible accident, two years ago now? Yes, it

:44:56. > :45:01.was at the last Olympics, so three years ago now. I basically did that

:45:02. > :45:04.flair trick, the side flip, and just overcooked the landing a bit, just

:45:05. > :45:08.jumped too hard for the shape of the pipe and kind of missed the landing

:45:09. > :45:15.and went straight to my head. So I got a pretty severe concussion. Many

:45:16. > :45:18.people remember that even she posted, very severe concussion. How

:45:19. > :45:22.long did it take to recover from? It was within the year, it was my first

:45:23. > :45:28.major concussion, so not that long really. And then I suffered another

:45:29. > :45:34.two after that, as well. Which wasn't great. Does that not put you

:45:35. > :45:37.off? It did for a little bit, I'm not going to lie, but the healing

:45:38. > :45:40.process, you get your motivation back you start to feel more normal

:45:41. > :45:46.so it is easier to push through and get back into the sport and find the

:45:47. > :45:50.love for it again. You have got to have a a lot of guts to take part on

:45:51. > :45:53.events on the snow. We were just laughing a moment ago, slightly

:45:54. > :45:58.unfairly, it was the guy from Kazakhstan, who started that super

:45:59. > :46:03.G, and that was a fall, no damage done on that occasion, but you it is

:46:04. > :46:06.a high-risk game, you have probably been hurt a few times? Yes, I have a

:46:07. > :46:21.good number of injuries on my list. It's the depiement about how varied

:46:22. > :46:26.the sport is that draws people in -- it's that excitement. We have a new

:46:27. > :46:30.thing called big air which is a really huge jump. In slope style

:46:31. > :46:34.it's three or four jumps and some rails. There are no rails involved,

:46:35. > :46:40.it's one big jump and you get three goes. So go as high as you possibly

:46:41. > :46:44.can? It's how technical your trick is and you get two chances at that.

:46:45. > :46:52.If you want to get into doing this type of sport and you are thinking

:46:53. > :46:55.about it, it's quite an expensive sport isn't it? Is there any funding

:46:56. > :47:00.out there for people at the grass roots level who might not be able to

:47:01. > :47:09.afford the prices at the slopes? Yes, very much so. They've got the

:47:10. > :47:14.Go Ski Board, it's discounted lessons in skiing and snowboarding

:47:15. > :47:20.all over the UK. We have so many dry slopes and snow domes that you can

:47:21. > :47:28.try it at. That's how the youngsters started and can progress through.

:47:29. > :47:40.Katie Ormrod started in a snow dome for years, for example. Do they take

:47:41. > :47:46.you seriously now? I'm old enough to remember Eddie the Eagle Edwards and

:47:47. > :47:51.all that stuff. Has that all gone away, do they take you seriously

:47:52. > :47:55.now? Yes, definitely. It's an English orientated sport. A lot of

:47:56. > :47:59.us have done well in podium finishes now that we have really proven

:48:00. > :48:03.ourselves that we can do this sport, even in a country that doesn't have

:48:04. > :48:06.that much snow. We have beaten the odds a bit and we have proven

:48:07. > :48:13.ourselves worthy being able to compete in the sport. We wish you

:48:14. > :48:16.well. No more injuries! No. It's worth mentioning Dave Riding had a

:48:17. > :48:21.great result in skiing which has been a long time coming so well done

:48:22. > :48:27.to him. We mention him regularly on the programme. Big fan. We were

:48:28. > :48:30.talking about snow, let us find out if there is any sign of it from

:48:31. > :48:35.Carol. There is snow in the forecast but

:48:36. > :48:40.not in the pictures I am about to show you. Look at this gorgeous

:48:41. > :48:43.scene in Devon. Towards Berwick-upon-Tweed, here there's

:48:44. > :48:47.more cloud around. That tells the forecast quite nicely because west

:48:48. > :48:51.has clearer skies, central and eastern areas more cloud and wintry

:48:52. > :49:00.showers. If you are stepping out, these are the temperature values

:49:01. > :49:06.togree you. It's a cold start and for some of us, a frosty one --

:49:07. > :49:11.temperatures to greet you. Towards the west, they'll see the lion's

:49:12. > :49:15.share of the sunshine today. Central and eastern areas, there is

:49:16. > :49:19.a lot of cloud around. Along the coastlines of Scotland and England,

:49:20. > :49:23.you will find not just this morning but through the day, there'll be a

:49:24. > :49:27.mixture of rain and sleet. The showers, not all of us will see

:49:28. > :49:31.them, they move inland and you are more likely to see a combination of

:49:32. > :49:34.sleet and snow. That is what is happening now. It will continue to

:49:35. > :49:40.happen through the day. For many, it's going to be a dry and quite a

:49:41. > :49:45.cloudy day. Also a cold day with the keen wind around. In the north-west

:49:46. > :49:50.it will ease through the day and, as we push into the south-west, it will

:49:51. > :49:56.be largely dry with sunshine through parts of Cornwall and Devon. West

:49:57. > :50:00.Wales seeing sunshine, the rest of Wales cloudy. Northern Ireland,

:50:01. > :50:04.bright and sunny spells, a few showers, not as many as we have seen

:50:05. > :50:08.this morning. Through the evening, still some showers across southern

:50:09. > :50:13.counties, still showers coming in across the east and through central

:50:14. > :50:17.parts of the UK. Under clear skies across north-west Scotland and west

:50:18. > :50:21.Wales, there'll be some frost so you will have to scrape the car in the

:50:22. > :50:27.morning. It won't be a warm night wherever you are with temperatures

:50:28. > :50:31.just on freezing or just below. The risk of ice on untreated surfaces

:50:32. > :50:36.with we have had the showers and it hasn't washed away the salt. Towards

:50:37. > :50:41.the west, the lion's share of the sunshine. Tomorrow, more snow in

:50:42. > :50:46.Orkney and Shetland. Just over two inches. Temperature range between

:50:47. > :50:51.three, five and six. If you are in the wind, it will feel colder than

:50:52. > :50:56.the temperatures are suggesting. For Saturday, a more organised band of

:50:57. > :51:00.rain, sleet and snow coming in from the North Sea pushing west. Wintry

:51:01. > :51:03.flurries across parts of Wales, possibly Northern Ireland and into

:51:04. > :51:08.south-west England. Brighter skies in the north-west. Temperatures four

:51:09. > :51:12.to six but still feeling cold. It will feel raw as we head on into

:51:13. > :51:15.Sunday with the keen wind. A lot of dry weather around but still the

:51:16. > :51:21.wintry showers. The refined world of classical music

:51:22. > :51:25.and the futuristic fantasies But cellist Tina Guo has brought

:51:26. > :51:31.them together in her new album. It features themes from gaming

:51:32. > :51:35.favourites like Pokemon and Super Mario, rearranged

:51:36. > :51:38.for the cello. We'll be speaking to her

:51:39. > :51:41.about what inspired her, but first let's take a look

:51:42. > :52:40.at the result. Tina joins us now. Thank you very

:52:41. > :52:44.much for joining us. Good morning. Interesting watching that video is

:52:45. > :52:48.how many strings are broken as you are playing. Yes. Do you get through

:52:49. > :52:53.a lot? I do. I usually go through one to two bows per show depending

:52:54. > :52:57.on how violent I am in my performance. Very physical

:52:58. > :53:01.performance. Yes. Your cello itself not one that people are accustomed

:53:02. > :53:04.to seeing like that. Can you describe how it's different? Sure.

:53:05. > :53:08.An electric Cheltenham slow the equivalent of what a classical

:53:09. > :53:11.guitar would be, an acoustic guitar to an electric guitar, so the

:53:12. > :53:16.electric Cheltenham slow similar to the electric guitar and can sound

:53:17. > :53:21.almost like an electric guitar. I use pedals, so that's what the

:53:22. > :53:25.equivalent of that is. So you mean it has much more variety of sound,

:53:26. > :53:31.can it sound like a more traditional cello as well? It can, but for a

:53:32. > :53:36.natural acoustic tone you need an acoustic cello but you can do a lot

:53:37. > :53:40.with the pedals. The style of music that you do, how would you describe

:53:41. > :53:44.it to people? I would describe my style of music as everything, just

:53:45. > :53:49.music, because I'm very passionate about all kind of music. I came from

:53:50. > :53:52.a classical background with Chinese music teacher parents, the most

:53:53. > :53:59.traditional that you can possibly get. My other passion is industrial

:54:00. > :54:03.metal. Then cinematic music, new age and what not, so just for me it's

:54:04. > :54:07.about the exploration of music in all forms. Which explains why you

:54:08. > :54:10.have done so many different collaborations and you provide music

:54:11. > :54:15.for lots of different things. Tell me some highlights? Oh, my gosh.

:54:16. > :54:20.Currently we are working on the new Wonder Woman movie. I play the

:54:21. > :54:24.theme. A lot of people, I saw some comments like that guitarist is so

:54:25. > :54:28.cool and I'm like no, it's an electric cello, which I zbes good

:54:29. > :54:33.because my whole goal is I want it to be like a rock-star guitar player

:54:34. > :54:37.thing. It's a good thing that I've achieved that. How does that work

:54:38. > :54:43.with music for a movie like that. Are you coming up with the ideas?

:54:44. > :54:50.You are presumably click rating with the director? Yes, so the theme

:54:51. > :55:03.originated from the collaboration with happens Zimmer. He wrote the

:55:04. > :55:07.Batman movie. The new movie is being script written by the person who I'm

:55:08. > :55:10.also collaborating with. We saw you doing your performances a moment

:55:11. > :55:14.ago. There would have been a time when a cellist would have been

:55:15. > :55:18.sitting very quietly in an orchestra maybe and a hard instrument to

:55:19. > :55:22.perform around because obviously you're attached to it aren't you?

:55:23. > :55:27.Yes. So it confines you to a degree but you have tried to reinvent that

:55:28. > :55:33.with the way you perform? Sure. I can't take credit for playing cello

:55:34. > :55:39.standing up or rocking. There are other great musicians before me like

:55:40. > :55:43.Apocalyptico like my favourite classic metal band. There are two

:55:44. > :55:48.types of playing, one is not better than the other, but it's a different

:55:49. > :55:52.way of expressing. For me, I like to be able to move around a bit more,

:55:53. > :55:56.so playing the electric cello is a bit more freedom, kind of being sat

:55:57. > :56:00.with a big instrument between your legs and being sedentary in that

:56:01. > :56:05.way, it's not like that. Your work involves you working with the gaming

:56:06. > :56:06.industry? Yes. We can see a clip of you performing the Super Mario

:56:07. > :56:44.theme. Let's have a look. Such a classic as well, that music.

:56:45. > :56:49.Takes you back to being sat at your computer playing it. What is your

:56:50. > :56:53.favourite computer game? I spent the most time playing classics growing

:56:54. > :57:00.up with my little brother who was upset. I loved Zelda and Super

:57:01. > :57:05.Mario. Some of the songs on this which is coming out tomorrow are a

:57:06. > :57:09.lot of the classics that I spent my childhood listening to and playing.

:57:10. > :57:13.Do you rehearse a lot? Every day, how much do you practise? So I

:57:14. > :57:17.started the cello when I was seven, practised for eight hours a day.

:57:18. > :57:23.Eight hours a day, including school time? No, not including school time.

:57:24. > :57:26.So after school? Before school, usually about two hours, like before

:57:27. > :57:31.the sun rose my parents were very extreme, I would practise, go to

:57:32. > :57:35.school, come home, do homework, practise eat, practise go to sleep

:57:36. > :57:38.every day. So it was an extreme childhood but I'm very grateful for

:57:39. > :57:41.it right now because I was able to develop the muscle memory, you know,

:57:42. > :57:45.sometimes it just comes down to that, the pure number of hours you

:57:46. > :57:49.put into practising your craft so you are able to express yourself.

:57:50. > :57:53.You had a lie-in this morning didn't you by comparison? Oh, yes, now I

:57:54. > :58:02.don't practise as much, maybe three or four hours. A day? A day, yes,

:58:03. > :58:07.yes. Wow that is a lot still? Yes, I guess it's OK, there are 24 hours in

:58:08. > :58:11.a day so it's not that extreme. Lovely to see you.

:58:12. > :58:16.Denzel Washington is one of Hollywood's biggest stars

:58:17. > :58:19.and already has two Oscars under his belt.

:58:20. > :58:22.So can he make it a hat trick with his Best Actor nomination this

:58:23. > :58:26.Charlie went to ask him what he thought of his chances

:58:27. > :58:28.of winning, and his opinion of America's new president.

:58:29. > :58:42.It is not easy for me to admit that I have been standing in the same

:58:43. > :58:47.I have been right here with you, Troy.

:58:48. > :59:04.It is a very raw emotional film. When you first saw it, is that the

:59:05. > :59:07.thing, I know you have performed on Broadway, something here that people

:59:08. > :59:11.won't necessarily be aware of. What is the first then forgot about it

:59:12. > :59:17.for you? Because it is great writing. Otis Wilson is one of the

:59:18. > :59:20.five or six great playwrights in American history. Jean O'Neill,

:59:21. > :59:22.Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, he is right there.

:59:23. > :59:25.Troy starts off as a rather lovable, bombastic man who likes the sound

:59:26. > :59:29.We have all been guilty of that sometimes, haven't we?

:59:30. > :59:33.It's like there is a ritual on Friday night, and Troy

:59:34. > :59:42.It is the same stories he always tells, and it seemed wonderful,

:59:43. > :59:51.As long as you're in my house you put a "Sir" on the end of it

:59:52. > :00:13.Hell, I know it is because of me. But why do you think that is?

:00:14. > :00:17.Because I like you. It is quite raw in terms of father and son, it makes

:00:18. > :00:24.you think how hard you are with your own children, did it have that

:00:25. > :00:28.effect on you? I saw it 30 years ago with James Earl Jones and corny

:00:29. > :00:34.advance. I related to the sun, but my father wasn't like that Troy. So

:00:35. > :00:38.I didn't say, it was not like my father, in that he couldn't read

:00:39. > :00:43.well and he had a manual labour job, and that he talk to me about getting

:00:44. > :00:47.a trade. My father was like Troy in that, or my mother was like the

:00:48. > :00:52.story, in that my mother could see that we should go to college, and

:00:53. > :00:55.all three, me and my brother and sister went to college. I remember

:00:56. > :01:00.my father would fumble, like he is looking for his glasses, because he

:01:01. > :01:03.knew he couldn't really, you know. My mother asked him to take a look

:01:04. > :01:09.at something. Then she was like oh, just committed. Because he was

:01:10. > :01:10.carrying on the pretence of not being to read? Yes, I think it was,

:01:11. > :01:12.a bit. If there is a theme in the film,

:01:13. > :01:15.it is people's ability to change, Because it is a time

:01:16. > :01:26.in history when a lot And Troy is a character who is not

:01:27. > :01:30.adapting to that change, or maybe not seeing

:01:31. > :01:32.change around him. He is actually wanting

:01:33. > :01:34.to effect change. Now, the small detail in the play

:01:35. > :01:40.is that he doesn't know He doesn't even know how to drive,

:01:41. > :01:45.or read, but he wants that. So in some sense it is ridiculous,

:01:46. > :01:49.but it is also admirable. On the theme of change, right now,

:01:50. > :01:53.in the world we live in, Are you comfortable

:01:54. > :01:58.about the changes that are happening, for example

:01:59. > :02:01.in the US right now? I have been talking about this

:02:02. > :02:10.years ago, the third We went from an agricultural society

:02:11. > :02:15.to an industrial society. The third wave is

:02:16. > :02:20.the information age. There are millions of people that

:02:21. > :02:23.are falling in the gap, because they don't fit

:02:24. > :02:33.in to this information age. I don't care who you are, you could

:02:34. > :02:36.promise people a whole lot, but there is a whole lot of people

:02:37. > :02:39.that are going to... That are in trouble right now,

:02:40. > :02:43.because they just don't fit in. It is no coincidence that the places

:02:44. > :02:46.that were at the height of the Industrial Revolution

:02:47. > :02:48.in America, Pittsburgh, the rust belt, are suffering

:02:49. > :02:53.the worst right now. And those are the places, of course,

:02:54. > :02:56.where Donald Trump... And I don't care which President

:02:57. > :03:01.it is, they can't promise them anything, and those

:03:02. > :03:14.jobs ain't coming back. So what is the long-term effect of

:03:15. > :03:19.too much information? The polarisation of the electorate? A

:03:20. > :03:23.meaner spiritless. And false information. Orbit, pick one, it is

:03:24. > :03:27.not just one, that is just the flavour of the day, everyday to

:03:28. > :03:32.something else. People have to understand are you using your

:03:33. > :03:38.device, or is your device using you? Can you put it down, can you turn it

:03:39. > :03:43.off? Phone, television, pick one. It used to be news, now it is opinions.

:03:44. > :03:47.Oh, glasses, we have three experts on the right, three experts on the

:03:48. > :03:52.left, let's discuss. That is not news, that is opinions news. Over

:03:53. > :03:56.and over and over, cycle, cycle, cycle, cycle. What is the long-term

:03:57. > :03:59.effect of too much information? If you are sitting there and thinking

:04:00. > :04:04.it is the gospel... What I am saying to people is the Holebas, I am not

:04:05. > :04:09.knocking the phone, what I am saying is that we have to understand, we

:04:10. > :04:12.have the least ask ourselves, around the world, newcomer here in England,

:04:13. > :04:15.wherever you are, what is it doing to us?

:04:16. > :04:18.When people hear you talking as passionately as you just did

:04:19. > :04:21.about the people who don't have a voice, and who need a voice,

:04:22. > :04:23.they might think, one day Denzel Washington might

:04:24. > :04:25.like to have a bigger voice, a voice in government.

:04:26. > :04:45.I told him if he wasn't the mankind to move at the ways of mankind could

:04:46. > :04:50.finally. That Comey, you are in my way, you are blocking the view. It

:04:51. > :04:53.is a film that is full of extraordinary performances, very

:04:54. > :04:58.moving, and I suggest people take a handkerchief when they go. LAUGHTER

:04:59. > :05:03.I am don't ask you a question, you said you went home and you kissed a

:05:04. > :05:08.boy, you have your boy. Yeah. Because you weren't doing that

:05:09. > :05:12.before? No, it is one of those films... Let me ask you a question,

:05:13. > :05:21.I am the journalist now! Is there some Troy in you. Every father,

:05:22. > :05:27.there is, he likes the sound of his own voice. Yeah, of course. What

:05:28. > :05:33.about your dad, was he tough on you? He was pretty liberal. Too loose?

:05:34. > :05:40.Often you can just get lost, hearing the sound of your own voice. Maybe

:05:41. > :05:46.you have done it too? My father-in-law was great at being

:05:47. > :05:49.quiet, and letting you figure... Like you would realise it later, and

:05:50. > :05:53.he didn't say anything but he spoke volumes, and you had to work at

:05:54. > :05:56.that, because maybe you had a bad day, and you come in, and your

:05:57. > :06:01.senses do what they say, before you know it, you are in that zone. But

:06:02. > :06:05.he is also becoming a man, he is not a man yet, and you don't want to

:06:06. > :06:09.kill that spirit. I never wanted to kill the spirit of my boys. I want

:06:10. > :06:14.them to be strong, I want them to be tough. But I wanted them to do what

:06:15. > :06:19.I said, too! You know, so we all have that moment, I remember I had

:06:20. > :06:23.it with Mike oldest son, that moment when, it might have been basketball

:06:24. > :06:28.something that got physical. Then I had that the moment where I couldn't

:06:29. > :06:30.keep up with them any more. It has been a real pleasure. Thank you so

:06:31. > :06:39.much. My pleasure. Denzel Washington's thoughts on a

:06:40. > :06:42.lot of things. He is a man with a lot of things, when you are in the

:06:43. > :06:46.room, he has one of those voices that fills the room. The film Cowan

:06:47. > :06:49.fences was previously a play on Broadway. You would need a bigger

:06:50. > :06:52.voice for that. Excellent. We'll be speaking to the comedian

:06:53. > :06:54.Luisa Omielan in a moment, but first, a last, brief look

:06:55. > :08:31.at the headlines where but first, a last, brief look

:08:32. > :08:34.Celsius. That is it from me this morning, please join me at 1:30pm

:08:35. > :08:45.with all of the lunchtime news, goodbye.

:08:46. > :08:50.This is a question I often ask myself:

:08:51. > :08:54.That's what Luisa Omielan's used to ask herself whenever life

:08:55. > :08:58.It might have started out as a personal mantra for her life,

:08:59. > :09:02.but she managed to turn the idea into comedy gold.

:09:03. > :09:12.LAUGHTER You know what I mean! Have you ever

:09:13. > :09:17.been introduced as a man before? May will make it easier for me, going

:09:18. > :09:21.forward? It was definitely a one-woman show at the Edinburgh

:09:22. > :09:26.Festival. Let's have a look at the show. I'm sorry, it is going wrong

:09:27. > :09:30.now! I thought we were going to have a look but we can't do that right

:09:31. > :09:36.now. So explain to us the idea, where did that come from? I found

:09:37. > :09:39.myself moving back into my mum 's house after graduating, but everyone

:09:40. > :09:43.always said to me when you graduate, that is when your life wasn't a

:09:44. > :09:48.place, you get a good agree, you can move into a house with two garages,

:09:49. > :09:55.a car, and two babies. I found myself approaching 25, 26, moving

:09:56. > :10:00.into my Mum's house, lying on my CV to try to get a job and a copy shop,

:10:01. > :10:05.how did it go so wrong? I spoke my phone, and she said you know you are

:10:06. > :10:13.the same age as Beyonce? I thought how is she filling out arenas and I

:10:14. > :10:17.am filling out a CV for a job and a cough shop? So I asked myself what

:10:18. > :10:21.would Beyonce do? Whenever I would get bored, I would play a Beyonce

:10:22. > :10:25.song, and people really liked it and it went from there. Your show is

:10:26. > :10:30.like a real party atmosphere, which you don't often see at comedy shows.

:10:31. > :10:34.Literally be bluff: dancing at your shows. That is the whole point of

:10:35. > :10:39.them, I call it a party with jokes in, because I talk about lots of

:10:40. > :10:43.topics that are quite sensitive, depression, mental health, body

:10:44. > :10:47.image, quite serious topics, but I think if you use, data is a real way

:10:48. > :10:54.to get people to open up and be receptive to information. So I make

:10:55. > :10:57.sure my shows are like a party. There are interludes where you just

:10:58. > :11:02.crank up the music basically, and it gives you a little bit of a break,

:11:03. > :11:04.and maybe the momentum changes a bit. You say you talk about

:11:05. > :11:11.sensitive things, you talk about your mum and dad, problems in

:11:12. > :11:15.relationships. Some of it is very, very personal. Some of it is, and I

:11:16. > :11:19.think it is important to talk about it, I talk about different mental

:11:20. > :11:23.health things, antidepressants, all those kinds of things. That by doing

:11:24. > :11:28.it with comedy, I think it just helps the healing process. I think

:11:29. > :11:33.it makes you feel better. People can really identify with that. My whole

:11:34. > :11:36.show is quite aspirational, why aren't I like Beyonce? But I think

:11:37. > :11:39.people can really identify with that feeling of we want our lives to be

:11:40. > :11:43.good but at the moment it is pretty pants. People can maybe identify

:11:44. > :11:47.with that feeling of I want better for myself. Quite aspirational, as

:11:48. > :11:53.well. You have been doing the show for five years and now it is going

:11:54. > :11:59.on TV. I know. Was its Kerry Wynn reforming it? Knowing there was

:12:00. > :12:03.cameras. Mate, I was wetting myself, I was absolutely wetting myself.

:12:04. > :12:09.Normally with the show I'm full of bravado, and with this one I was

:12:10. > :12:13.like... Welcome to the show! But my audiences are amazing, so I have

:12:14. > :12:16.built a following through my live audience, they are really loyal and

:12:17. > :12:20.supportive, so I put on the show, it filled up within a day, and they

:12:21. > :12:24.were there, and they were there with jumpers and T-shirts and banners,

:12:25. > :12:27.really supportive. That is really lovely. You do that thing at the

:12:28. > :12:31.beginning of the show where you bring someone up on stage. Yes, to

:12:32. > :12:39.introduce me. Because I started the show on the fringe, the free fringe,

:12:40. > :12:45.I set up in a room above a pub, I would set up the chairs, clear the

:12:46. > :12:48.glasses out, get the audience in, play the music on my phone.

:12:49. > :12:52.Initially when the audience came in I didn't know how to start, because

:12:53. > :12:56.I have been the doorman and now I have to be like, oh, I'm on stage,

:12:57. > :12:59.so I was like Wright, new, can you introduce me and then I will do like

:13:00. > :13:10.an entrance. It started like that Ashun I was like, right, you.

:13:11. > :13:16.Supporters next few come every year I have a Valentines party, I have on

:13:17. > :13:20.this Saturday at the firm at Kentish Town, called am I right, ladies? It

:13:21. > :13:27.is my show followed by a big party, so loads of June. I apologise once

:13:28. > :13:34.again to calling a man. It's fine, I get it over time. You put it in your

:13:35. > :13:42.show. Luisa Omeilan's show will be on BBC Three on Valentine's Day.

:13:43. > :13:45.If you've settled down to watch this with a nice cuppa,