16/03/2017

:00:00. > :00:08.Hello - this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:00:09. > :00:10.MPs are to be banned from employing their relatives

:00:11. > :00:15.The new rules will come in after the next election

:00:16. > :00:32.but there's been an angry reaction from some at Westminster.

:00:33. > :00:39.The Dutch Prime Minister sees off the challenge of the far right -

:00:40. > :00:47.he says the voters have rejected "the wrong sort of populism."

:00:48. > :00:56.We are talking about getting more people involved in science and

:00:57. > :00:57.engineering. facing a skills shortage

:00:58. > :01:05.over the next few years. In sport, Manchester City are out

:01:06. > :01:08.of the Champions League despite holding a two goal

:01:09. > :01:11.cushion from the first leg, losing 3-1 in Monaco last night

:01:12. > :01:16.to be knocked out on away goals. we meet the twelve year

:01:17. > :01:20.old who's using dance And he even had time

:01:21. > :01:30.to teach me a few moves. When you have no one, you get

:01:31. > :01:34.bullied, you go to the corner, you are on your own but if you have

:01:35. > :01:41.someone, you go over there and they are like, but you all right? And Cal

:01:42. > :01:46.has the weather. As a cold front goes through, colder conditions will

:01:47. > :01:50.follow. With England and Wales, cloudy and fog to the southern half

:01:51. > :01:55.of England. I will tell you where in 15 minutes.

:01:56. > :02:01.MPs are to be banned from employing relatives using taxpayers' money.

:02:02. > :02:05.says the new rules will be brought in after the next election

:02:06. > :02:07.and will encourage fair and open recruitment.

:02:08. > :02:10.Relatives employed by MPs up until this time won't be affected

:02:11. > :02:25.For years, the amount of taxpayers money paid to MPs relatives has been

:02:26. > :02:30.under scrutiny. In 2010, a limit of one family member was introduced

:02:31. > :02:34.following the expenses scandal. Now the Independent authority has gone

:02:35. > :02:40.further. From the next election due in 2020, no new staff relatives will

:02:41. > :02:45.be allowed to work at Westminster. The watchdog says the employment of

:02:46. > :02:49.connected parties is out of step with modern employment practice

:02:50. > :02:56.witching -- which requires Berendt opening recruitment to encourage

:02:57. > :03:02.diversity in the workplace. 151 of the 650 MPs are known to employ

:03:03. > :03:08.family members. This includes 84 conservatives, 50 from Labour and

:03:09. > :03:13.ten from the SNP. Last year ?4.5 million of public funds was paid to

:03:14. > :03:21.relatives. Family members employed by MPs were paid on average ?5,600

:03:22. > :03:26.more than other stuff. One Tory MP -- and P, Sir Roger Gale, who has

:03:27. > :03:30.employed his wife for more than 30 years, says the block on spouses is

:03:31. > :03:34.crass and says Parliament will regret it.

:03:35. > :03:36.Let's talk to our political correspondent Mark Lobel -

:03:37. > :03:40.Mark how is this likely to go down with MPs?

:03:41. > :03:49.No evidence of a big scandal, some may be very surprised, to be honest.

:03:50. > :03:53.Around one in four MPs employs a relative at the moment and as

:03:54. > :03:57.someone who we have spoken too stressed, it's great value for

:03:58. > :04:02.money, they can get hold of our partner 24- seven and they can trust

:04:03. > :04:07.them, key factors in an office and one conservative MP says he employed

:04:08. > :04:13.his wife at far less than the market rate to underline what great value

:04:14. > :04:17.it was. A Labour MP said those MPs with constituents outside of London,

:04:18. > :04:22.it's not only await to work together with constituents but also to work

:04:23. > :04:25.together, so it is good for marriages. The Independent

:04:26. > :04:32.Parliamentary watchdog does not say it's a terrible system. There is one

:04:33. > :04:36.logged abuse of the system. But they also agree it's good value but they

:04:37. > :04:46.say it's inappropriate and they want to change recruitment practices.

:04:47. > :05:00.The Chancellor has sought to support a U-turn by saying it is good for

:05:01. > :05:03.taxpayers. Writing in the Sun, the Chancellor says the Conservatives

:05:04. > :05:07.are determined to keep to the spirited their commitments.

:05:08. > :05:10.Early results show Prime Minister Mark Rutte has come out

:05:11. > :05:12.on top, after parliamentary elections were held

:05:13. > :05:16.His liberal VVD party won 31 out of 150 seats,

:05:17. > :05:18.seeing off competition from Geert Wilders and the anti-Islam

:05:19. > :05:23.The Dutch election is the first of three crucial eurozone

:05:24. > :05:36.Within a couple of hours of polls closing, Mark Rutte was wearing a

:05:37. > :05:40.smile which confirmed he will serve another term as Prime Minister. His

:05:41. > :05:44.centre-right party may have lost seats but they remain by far the

:05:45. > :05:51.largest in the Dutch Parliament. In his speech he chose to focus on what

:05:52. > :05:56.voters had rejected. It's also an evening where the Netherlands, after

:05:57. > :06:03.Brexit, after the US election, said stop to the wrong kind of populism.

:06:04. > :06:09.This election drew international attention over the prospect of huge

:06:10. > :06:15.gains for Geert Wilders, the man nicknamed the Dutch Trump. With this

:06:16. > :06:19.anti-EU, anti-Islam platform, he was predicted to win one quarter of the

:06:20. > :06:24.vote but he made few gains, bringing relief across Europe. A state from

:06:25. > :06:28.the French Foreign Minister congratulated the Dutch people. The

:06:29. > :06:35.President of the European Commission called this, a vote for Europe, a

:06:36. > :06:40.vote against extremists. Another standout result is the breakthrough

:06:41. > :06:46.of the pro- immigration Green Party who made the biggest gains of the

:06:47. > :06:51.night. It is likely to be several weeks before a coalition government

:06:52. > :06:55.is formed that this outcome keeps the Netherlands committed to the EU

:06:56. > :06:59.and keeps populism on the fringes of this country's politics.

:07:00. > :07:01.The Queen will sign government legislation into law

:07:02. > :07:04.today, which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks

:07:05. > :07:08.The bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday.

:07:09. > :07:11.It's thought the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50,

:07:12. > :07:14.the legal mechanism to begin the withdrawal, before the end

:07:15. > :07:18.President Donald Trump's new travel ban has been blocked by a judge

:07:19. > :07:20.just hours before it was due to begin.

:07:21. > :07:22.The government wanted to stop people from six

:07:23. > :07:23.predominantly Muslim countries from travelling

:07:24. > :07:28.Mr Trump has reacted angrily, accusing the judge

:07:29. > :07:34.Police in the southern Indian state of Goa

:07:35. > :07:38.have charged a man with the murder of an Irish woman.

:07:39. > :07:39.28-year-old Danielle McLaughlin's body

:07:40. > :07:42.We can now speak to our India Correspondent,

:07:43. > :07:45.Yogita Limaye who is in Goa for us.

:07:46. > :08:02.Behind me as the field were Daniele's body was found. Yesterday

:08:03. > :08:06.evening, of the jewel for her here with a lot of local people who lay

:08:07. > :08:11.down flowers and photographs and candles. This is quite an isolated

:08:12. > :08:16.spot but to my left a couple of 100 metres is the main busy highway

:08:17. > :08:20.which connects north and south Goa. Lots of big beaches and restaurants

:08:21. > :08:26.which Goa is known for. Police said when her body was discovered, she

:08:27. > :08:37.had facial and head injuries. Speaking with an officer involved in

:08:38. > :08:41.the investigation who has told the police believe they have found the

:08:42. > :08:43.main culprit. They say they have compelling evidence which includes

:08:44. > :08:47.CCTV camera footage which shows the victim walking with the accused.

:08:48. > :08:50.They also say they have seized a vehicle which has black stains on it

:08:51. > :08:54.and some clothes with black smears on them. They are still questioning

:08:55. > :08:56.the man to find out if he was working alone or with someone else.

:08:57. > :08:59.Work is set to begin on the refurbishment

:09:00. > :09:02.of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase in the funding

:09:03. > :09:04.the queen receives from the Treasury.

:09:05. > :09:07.The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works

:09:08. > :09:10.which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million.

:09:11. > :09:13.Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of catastrophic

:09:14. > :09:17.building failure being inflicted on a cherished national monument.

:09:18. > :09:20.A team of mine-hunting US navy dolphins have been brought out

:09:21. > :09:23.of retirement to help scientists work out why whales get stranded

:09:24. > :09:30.The sounds of shipping and sonar have long been blamed

:09:31. > :09:33.but the research suggests it could be more complicated

:09:34. > :09:50.I do like the idea of a team of Dolphins coming out of retirement.

:09:51. > :10:07.It is a bit like the team. The DTN. Police in New Zealand are worried

:10:08. > :10:14.about beehive theft. Experts say soaring prices the native manuka

:10:15. > :10:20.honey is driving the bat. Have you ever tried to buy manuka honey? You

:10:21. > :10:29.need a mortgage. Very special. 6:10am is the time. Have you been

:10:30. > :10:33.preparing maps? Just like that. I am talking about Manchester City

:10:34. > :10:37.unsurprisingly. If you are a fan, you might be waking up dealing a bit

:10:38. > :10:43.like Pep Guardiola looks in that picture. A 2- goal cushion thrown

:10:44. > :10:49.away, if you like. Pep Guardiola said he struggled to get his play at

:10:50. > :10:52.-- players to attack. It must be very frustrating. Watching your

:10:53. > :11:02.chances bickering away into the distance. They didn't play his style

:11:03. > :11:04.of football. What is the reason? Pep Guardiola will be asking some

:11:05. > :11:06.serious questions. Manchester City have been knocked

:11:07. > :11:09.out of the Champions League in the last 16 Despite

:11:10. > :11:11.winning the first leg, a 3-1 defeat at Monaco last night

:11:12. > :11:14.means they exit the competition The result leaves Leicester City

:11:15. > :11:18.as the last remaining British side There was a big surprise

:11:19. > :11:23.in the feature race on Day Two of the Cheltenham Festival,

:11:24. > :11:25.where Special Tiara - ridden by Noel Fehily -

:11:26. > :11:28.won the Queen Mother Champion Chase. Favourite Douvan finished seventh,

:11:29. > :11:30.costing one punter ?500,000. Could the Commonwealth Games be

:11:31. > :11:35.coming back to the UK in 2022? Glasgow hosted the last games

:11:36. > :11:37.and now the organisers say they would consider a joint bid

:11:38. > :11:40.from UK cities after Durban Rory McIlroy says he'll have a bad

:11:41. > :11:48.taste in his mouth when he plays at Muirfield again despite the club

:11:49. > :11:52.voting to accept female He says it's obscene and ridiculous

:11:53. > :12:14.they had taken so long to allow Rory McIllroy said he will not be

:12:15. > :12:19.having a cup of tea with the members. It left a bad taste in his

:12:20. > :12:26.mouth. Rory came out and as usual, very outspoken and very honest. That

:12:27. > :12:32.is have a look at the weather. Good morning to you, Carol. Good morning,

:12:33. > :12:38.all. Mild start of the day. Yesterday, the warmest day of this

:12:39. > :12:48.year so far. London, Kew Gardens to be precise, 18.8. Widen, 17.4dC.

:12:49. > :12:54.That individually for Wales was its warmest day. In other parts of the

:12:55. > :13:00.UK, pretty good for March. Today not as warm as it was yesterday but

:13:01. > :13:06.still mild for many. Also looking at some cloudier skies. We do have a

:13:07. > :13:11.weather front, a cold front which is coming in from the north-west,

:13:12. > :13:17.slowly sinking south-west. We will see the temperatures tumble. This

:13:18. > :13:24.morning, here is cold front. Patchy light rain in drizzle. Across

:13:25. > :13:28.northern England and Northern Ireland, edging in with the

:13:29. > :13:34.temperatures around ten, 11, maybe 12. As we go south across England

:13:35. > :13:41.and Wales, more murky conditions. Fog affecting parts of the South of

:13:42. > :13:46.England. Also some fog in the English Channel. That should lift. A

:13:47. > :13:51.weather front continues its descent. But we -- weaker as it moves into

:13:52. > :13:55.northern England and northern Wales. We are looking at bright spells and

:13:56. > :13:59.sunshine and showers but some of those showers will be wintry in

:14:00. > :14:05.nature and still windy across the north. Ahead of this weather front,

:14:06. > :14:09.the cloud will build. The skies will be in the south-east. That is where

:14:10. > :14:14.the highest temperatures will be. There is the weather front, moving

:14:15. > :14:19.south. Behind, we will see a plethora of showers. Driven him in

:14:20. > :14:26.this brisk wind. Quite wintry. You could see a little bit with the low

:14:27. > :14:30.levels in parts of the Highlands. A chilly night to come in the north.

:14:31. > :14:35.Certainly more than the night that has just gone. That is how we start

:14:36. > :14:40.the day tomorrow. We have rain coming in across Northern Ireland.

:14:41. > :14:44.Moving in across parts of Scotland and northern England. South of that,

:14:45. > :14:49.we are looking at the cloud building. Behind it, across

:14:50. > :14:55.Scotland, much fresher. Looking at some sunshine and wintry showers.

:14:56. > :15:04.Their bridges further south. Then the weekend, an array of weather

:15:05. > :15:08.fronts. That means through the course of this weekend, the world --

:15:09. > :15:17.the weather will be fairly unsettled. At times, windy and wept.

:15:18. > :15:21.Some dry interludes as well. All that glorious sunshine yesterday was

:15:22. > :15:29.just a tease. Some of us will see it again today.

:15:30. > :15:36.You are watching Breakfast on BBC News.

:15:37. > :15:39.MPs will be banned from employing family members at the taxpayer's

:15:40. > :15:42.expense under new rules aimed at encouraging fair

:15:43. > :15:49.You are watching Breakfast on BBC News.

:15:50. > :15:52.MPs will be banned from employing family members at the taxpayer's

:15:53. > :15:54.expense under new rules aimed at encouraging fair

:15:55. > :15:57.The Dutch Prime Minister has hailed his victory over

:15:58. > :16:00.the far-right in the country's elections as a rejection

:16:01. > :16:07.Now for a quick look at the front pages. The Daily Mail following the

:16:08. > :16:09.story you will have seen yesterday, Alexander Blackman's conviction

:16:10. > :16:14.changed yesterday, his murder conviction overturned. That is

:16:15. > :16:24.Claire Blackman who cannot conceal her happiness, a great deal of joy

:16:25. > :16:28.amongst her family. The Daily Mirror have the expenses story that at

:16:29. > :16:34.least 12 MPs face possible charges over election claims. If convicted,

:16:35. > :16:43.it could trigger damaging by-elections. Many of the papers

:16:44. > :16:46.musing over a sequence of events, a week since Philip Hammond did an

:16:47. > :16:51.interview with us after the budget talking about changes to the

:16:52. > :16:55.National Insurance, and looking at some of the quotes yesterday as he

:16:56. > :16:59.gave his statement to the Commons, his quote asked about who first

:17:00. > :17:04.realise the government had been in flagrant breach of the manifesto

:17:05. > :17:11.commitment - Philip Hammond says, he said it in the Commons, I think it

:17:12. > :17:18.was Laura Kuenssberg. Well done, Laura. Theresa May has forced Philip

:17:19. > :17:22.Hammond into the U-turn over the budget, and lots of pictures like

:17:23. > :17:26.this in the papers with him looking and little downcast leaving number

:17:27. > :17:31.11 Downing St. I have some good rugby stories, one from union and

:17:32. > :17:34.one from league. A big weekend in the Six Nations with England going

:17:35. > :17:41.for the back-to-back Grand Slam for the first time since 1991 - 1992,

:17:42. > :17:46.and the Times have an interview with Will Carling, looking back at his

:17:47. > :17:50.time, he said his kids found out he was England captain because one of

:17:51. > :17:55.his school friends told them, and they were like, no, dad, you are too

:17:56. > :18:00.fat. There must be lots of parents who did something cool in the past

:18:01. > :18:06.and their kids are like, no, you just do my washing, don't you? That

:18:07. > :18:10.is funny. And in the Daily Express, groundbreaking moment for rugby

:18:11. > :18:15.league, what is it like to play rugby league, the big sell is it is

:18:16. > :18:20.fast, there are big tackles, 13 on the pitch rather than 15 in union.

:18:21. > :18:28.What they will do tonight when Warrington play against Lee, they

:18:29. > :18:35.will put a camera on a player's shirt, so you can see when they are

:18:36. > :18:40.in the tackle. Will it not...? No, it is like a flat camera, it is in

:18:41. > :18:45.the vest, brand-new technology, and for the first time you can see what

:18:46. > :18:50.it is like to play the sport. Will we get the sound as well? That is a

:18:51. > :18:55.bit of a problem, isn't it? There might be some fruity language. You

:18:56. > :19:02.never know. I have this in the Times is about Newquay, a beautiful place

:19:03. > :19:09.to go, not so much if you live there. If you take your family,

:19:10. > :19:13.there are a lot of stag and hen dos. Fancy dress has been banned because

:19:14. > :19:20.it is, what they say, killing the nightlife. How? The parties go in

:19:21. > :19:24.the fancy dress and it puts local people off going out so much, it

:19:25. > :19:29.puts local families off because it gets rowdy. It sounds a little bit

:19:30. > :19:34.like they are trying to stop the fun, doesn't it? It does, yes. You

:19:35. > :19:44.can't ban fancy dress. What would Victoria Beckham do, it would be a

:19:45. > :19:49.disaster? Right down at the bottom, can you see the scale of the suit?

:19:50. > :19:55.Wow. Is this the new fashion? Don't look at me, Charlie. She is well

:19:56. > :20:00.known for wearing things that are big in proportion to her, so she

:20:01. > :20:05.will often wear a huge coat or jacket. I have to say, this is the

:20:06. > :20:09.biggest I have seen her go so far. It looks like a return to the 70s

:20:10. > :20:11.with the platform shoes. Nothing wrong with that. See you later on,

:20:12. > :20:13.thank you. 12-year-old Junior loves

:20:14. > :20:16.to dance but it made him He's since gone on to become

:20:17. > :20:20.the UK's Freestyle Street Dance Champion and has been

:20:21. > :20:23.on stage with Justin Beiber! Now he says he wants

:20:24. > :20:26.to use his experience to help others and has raised ?300,000

:20:27. > :20:28.for anti-bullying charities. I've been to meet him

:20:29. > :20:51.as part of the BBC's annual # I go head over heels. We have been

:20:52. > :20:55.invited here to talk to Junior. He has got a really important message

:20:56. > :21:01.about bullying. In the past he had lots of problems with people having

:21:02. > :21:12.a go at him because he is really an ass dancing. Let's go and meet him.

:21:13. > :21:19.-- he is brilliant at dancing. Are you going to show me? Yeah. Junior's

:21:20. > :21:25.dancing has always been an escape. From the age of seven he was bullied

:21:26. > :21:28.relentlessly, kicked, punched and ridiculed for the street dance that

:21:29. > :21:34.he loved. They were really difficult, lonely times. It all

:21:35. > :21:40.started in Year 3 when a group of boys used to call me names like gay,

:21:41. > :21:45.they called me gay because they didn't have think that boys could

:21:46. > :21:49.dance, it was girls and women. You seem like a confident young man. I

:21:50. > :21:53.have seen you dancing and you are brilliant at it. Would there have

:21:54. > :21:57.been a time when if I was talking to you, you would have been a different

:21:58. > :22:01.person? If you were to talk to me at primary school now I was not very

:22:02. > :22:06.confident, I was a bit nervous, really, really nervous, I might not

:22:07. > :22:12.know what to say. One thing you've got now which is so great is

:22:13. > :22:17.friends. They always believed in me, they always tell me to go succeed,

:22:18. > :22:23.go and succeed in your dream and not to be sad or put down by people, you

:22:24. > :22:27.should always succeed and achieve. Junior, just talk me through who we

:22:28. > :22:33.have got here, anyway, who are your mates? This is Ewan, this is George,

:22:34. > :22:40.this is another Ewan and this is Dylan. So, these guys are important

:22:41. > :22:46.to you? Yes. Why? Because we are in the same football team. They always

:22:47. > :22:51.look out for each other. Clearly, having friends around helps a lot.

:22:52. > :22:56.Yes, because when you have not got anyone and you get bullied, it is

:22:57. > :23:01.one of them things, you get bullied, you go to the corner, like, you are

:23:02. > :23:05.on your own. Whereas if you have got someone, if someone says something

:23:06. > :23:09.to you which hurts you, you go over and they will be like, are you all

:23:10. > :23:14.right, what happened, what do they say? And they would be like, it is

:23:15. > :23:19.OK, it is all right. I think everyone needs a mate like you. Oh,

:23:20. > :23:23.thank you. Junior's friends now support him in his dream to become a

:23:24. > :23:29.professional dancer and he has already been on stage with Justin

:23:30. > :23:32.Bieber, raising ?300,000 for anti- bullying charities. And today he

:23:33. > :23:39.even finds time to help and middle-aged man learn some steps.

:23:40. > :23:44.Embarrassing? Oh, yes. Junior, do I need to warm up? Oh, no, you will be

:23:45. > :23:51.all right. OK. What are you going to teach me? This move. You make it

:23:52. > :23:55.look so easy. Go on, talk me through it. Put your hand up, you start with

:23:56. > :24:01.your hand, it goes like that. Up and down? And then your elbow. And then

:24:02. > :24:09.your shoulder. And then it goes into that shoulder and that one comes out

:24:10. > :24:16.that comes out. Yes, so you go, like... Yeah. No!

:24:17. > :24:24.Oh, Charlie, well done, you were quite good. The point is, that is an

:24:25. > :24:27.embarrassing moment at the end of an important piece about bullying and

:24:28. > :24:32.how one young man and his mates have completely overdone a bunch of

:24:33. > :24:35.bullies who have tried to make their lives hell. We got you to dance on

:24:36. > :24:39.TV. It happened. Yes, it really did. The UK's engineering sector employs

:24:40. > :24:42.almost six million people but it's facing a major skills shortage

:24:43. > :24:45.over the next few years. Steph is at Britain's biggest

:24:46. > :24:48.science and technology fair to find out how the industry is hoping

:24:49. > :24:59.to inspire the engineers If there is one woman who can do it,

:25:00. > :25:06.it is Steph. Well, I am certainly wearing the right top for it.

:25:07. > :25:09.Morning, everybody. I am at a Big Bang science fair and it won't be

:25:10. > :25:13.long before this place is packed with 20,000 young people coming to

:25:14. > :25:16.learn about the careers you can have in science and engineering. And it

:25:17. > :25:21.is certainly going to be busy with lots of people coming in. And also

:25:22. > :25:26.as part of it they run a big competition so that young people

:25:27. > :25:30.from around the country have been inventing things. One of the

:25:31. > :25:34.products, you can see here, this is Rees, who will show off this

:25:35. > :25:39.product. Come on, show us how to do it. This is one of many inventions

:25:40. > :25:45.made by boys from a school in Thirsk, for a school with the boys

:25:46. > :25:51.on the autistic spectrum, and we can talk to Cameron, tell me what you

:25:52. > :25:55.have got? Well, basically, it is a ride on toy for the disabled and

:25:56. > :26:01.visually impaired, and it has brakes and it has parking sensors from a

:26:02. > :26:08.car. And also it has a rod if someone is unsure. And it also has

:26:09. > :26:12.an optional, well, it has a light as well, although that is just for fun.

:26:13. > :26:17.Yes, how did you come up with the idea? Well, so that visually

:26:18. > :26:21.impaired people don't like to ride bikes, like we do, we thought we

:26:22. > :26:26.would make it so they can have fun as well. Yes, well, it looks

:26:27. > :26:30.excellent, and we will show off a lot more of the experiment here.

:26:31. > :26:35.Thank you very much, Cameron, I appreciate it. More from me a little

:26:36. > :26:37.bit later on. I think Steph should win the best transportation prize.

:26:38. > :29:57.Absolutely, I look forward to Plenty more on our website

:29:58. > :29:59.at the usual address. Now, though, it's back

:30:00. > :30:01.to Charlie and Sally. Hello this is Breakfast,

:30:02. > :30:10.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent We'll have the latest news

:30:11. > :30:16.and sport in just a moment After the government's budget

:30:17. > :30:21.U-turn, we'll ask what this means for the Chancellor's reputation

:30:22. > :30:24.and how he plans to balance Also, this morning, from charity

:30:25. > :30:26.fundraisers to memorial services, mass balloon releases

:30:27. > :30:28.are increasingly popular. We'll hear claims they pose a risk

:30:29. > :30:35.to wildlife and should be banned. And, he's spent years memorising

:30:36. > :30:38.opera and he's only 11. We'll speak to the schoolboy

:30:39. > :30:45.who is set to make musical history and become one of the world's

:30:46. > :30:47.youngest conductors. But now a summary of this

:30:48. > :30:53.morning's main news. MPs are to be banned

:30:54. > :30:55.from employing husbands, wives, partners or any member

:30:56. > :31:03.of their family under new rules. The oarliamentary expenses watchdog

:31:04. > :31:06.says it will encourage fair After the expenses scandal MPs

:31:07. > :31:10.were limited to employing only one relative and around a quarter

:31:11. > :31:12.of MPs still do so. For years, the amount of taxpayers

:31:13. > :31:17.money paid to MPs relatives has In 2010, a limit of one family

:31:18. > :31:21.member was introduced Now the independent

:31:22. > :31:29.authority has gone further. From the next election due in 2020,

:31:30. > :31:32.no new staff relatives will be The watchdog says the employment

:31:33. > :31:43.of connected parties is out of step with modern employment

:31:44. > :31:44.practice which which requires Berendt opening

:31:45. > :31:46.recruitment to encourage diversity 151 of the 650 MPs are known

:31:47. > :31:58.to employ family members. This includes 84 Conservatives,

:31:59. > :32:02.50 from Labour and 10 from the SNP. Last year, ?4.5 million of public

:32:03. > :32:05.funds was paid to relatives. Family members employed by MPs

:32:06. > :32:14.were paid on average ?5,600 more One Tory MP, Sir Roger Gale,

:32:15. > :32:21.who has employed his wife for more than 30 years, says

:32:22. > :32:27.the future block on spouses is crass and warns Parliament

:32:28. > :32:30.will likely regret the decision. The Chancellor has sought to justify

:32:31. > :32:33.a U-turn on tax rises for the self-employed

:32:34. > :32:35.by saying it was necessary to maintain public trust

:32:36. > :32:37.in the government. Philip Hammond dropped a planned

:32:38. > :32:40.increase in national insurance contributions yesterday,

:32:41. > :32:43.a week after announcing it Writing in The Sun, he says

:32:44. > :32:49.the Conservatives are determined to keep to the spirit

:32:50. > :32:51.of their commitments. The Dutch Prime Minister,

:32:52. > :32:54.Mark Rutte, has claimed victory in his country's general election,

:32:55. > :32:57.saying the Netherlands rejected what he described as "the wrong

:32:58. > :33:00.sort of populism". Votes are still being counted,

:33:01. > :33:02.but Mr Rutte's centre-right party is on course

:33:03. > :33:07.to win the most seats. The indications are that

:33:08. > :33:10.the far-right candidate, Geert Wilders, performed

:33:11. > :33:12.worse than expected although his Freedom Party

:33:13. > :33:17.is projected to gain seats. The Queen will sign government

:33:18. > :33:19.legislation into law today, which clears the way for Theresa May

:33:20. > :33:23.to begin talks on Britain The Bill was passed by MPs

:33:24. > :33:29.and peers on Monday. It's thought the Prime Minister

:33:30. > :33:31.will trigger Article 50, the legal mechanism to begin

:33:32. > :33:34.the withdrawal, before the end President Donald Trump's new travel

:33:35. > :33:43.ban, has been blocked by a judge just hours before

:33:44. > :33:46.it was due to begin. The government wanted

:33:47. > :33:48.to stop people from six predominantly Muslim

:33:49. > :33:49.countries from travelling Mr Trump has reacted angrily -

:33:50. > :34:03.accusing the judge of This is the opinion of many, an

:34:04. > :34:10.unprecedented judicial overreach. This ruling makes us look weak

:34:11. > :34:11.which, by the way, we know longer are, believe me.

:34:12. > :34:13.Police in the southern Indian state of Goa,

:34:14. > :34:17.have charged a man with the murder of an Irish woman.

:34:18. > :34:18.28-year-old Danielle McLaughlin's body was discovered

:34:19. > :34:21.in an isolated area close to a tourist resort, on Tuesday.

:34:22. > :34:23.Police said a 24-year-old man has been arrested

:34:24. > :34:42.While the Dolphins are helping them to understand how marine animals

:34:43. > :34:48.behave around Sonar and shipping sounds. Researchers from The

:34:49. > :34:53.University of California Santa Cruz think panicked Wales from the noise

:34:54. > :34:59.and end up exhausted, causing them to drift off course and then into

:35:00. > :35:07.trouble. And those are the main stories this morning. Now for sport.

:35:08. > :35:12.I have heard of Navy SEALs but never Navy Dolphins. Retired Navy

:35:13. > :35:18.Dolphins. What are they doing to mark they were on the beach, playing

:35:19. > :35:22.bingo. Who knows? I am talking about Manchester City unsurprisingly.

:35:23. > :35:27.Fans, after the hectic first leg, where city came back to score in 11

:35:28. > :35:31.minutes, they were on a bit of a high. They thought city had the

:35:32. > :35:33.momentum but were crushing down to work with a bit of a bump this

:35:34. > :35:34.morning. Manchester City have been knocked

:35:35. > :35:38.out of the Champions League by Monaco on away goals -

:35:39. > :35:41.they've failed to reach They held a two goal advantage

:35:42. > :35:45.going into the match but Monaco through, but Manchester City

:35:46. > :35:51.pressure brought a Leroy Sane goal came in final quarter of an hour

:35:52. > :35:59.and it finished 3-1 on the night, with Monaco through

:36:00. > :36:10.on the away goals rule. We play 45 minutes in created a lot

:36:11. > :36:18.of chances but we missed 45 minutes and we spoke lots of times but these

:36:19. > :36:24.days, you try to be, our strength is to be aggressive without the ball in

:36:25. > :36:28.the first half, we were a little bit slow in everything which is why we

:36:29. > :36:29.could not do it, because it is so complicated.

:36:30. > :36:32.So Leicester are the only British team left in the Champions League,

:36:33. > :36:36.and Manchester United will be hoping to be the only British side

:36:37. > :36:38.in the quarter finals of the Europa League,

:36:39. > :36:41.but they have to get past Rostov at Old Trafford tonight.

:36:42. > :36:45.The game's one-all after the first leg and manager

:36:46. > :36:48.Jose Mourinho has spent the build-up defending world record signing

:36:49. > :36:52.He thinks his critics are a bit jealous.

:36:53. > :37:01.It's not that he gets ten times the money, but some very good players.

:37:02. > :37:05.It's not his fault that some of the pundits are in real trouble with

:37:06. > :37:09.their lives and they need every point to survive and Paul is a

:37:10. > :37:12.multimillionaire. It is not his fault. Envy is everywhere.

:37:13. > :37:14.Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford will be named

:37:15. > :37:18.Injuries to Harry Kane and Daniel Sturridge mean the United

:37:19. > :37:22.frontman - who scored on his senior England debut against Australia last

:37:23. > :37:25.year will be in Gareth Southgate's squad to face Germany next week

:37:26. > :37:30.It was one of the biggest shocks in the history of the Cheltenham

:37:31. > :37:33.Festival after the odds-on favourite Douvan missed out on the places

:37:34. > :37:40.One punter put ?500 million on Douvan -

:37:41. > :37:44.but saw his money slipping away as the horse struggled and the race

:37:45. > :37:49.came down to a tight finish won by Special Tiara.

:37:50. > :37:52.Muirfield Golf Club may have scrapped its all-male policy

:37:53. > :37:55.and been welcomed back onto to books of the Open

:37:56. > :37:58.but Rory McIlroy says he is not ready to toast a new era.

:37:59. > :38:01.The world number three has been very critical that women were denied

:38:02. > :38:16.They sort of source sense. I still think the fact that it got to the

:38:17. > :38:20.stage is horrendous. And yeah, we will go back and play the open

:38:21. > :38:23.because they have let the members in but every time I go to Muirfield, I

:38:24. > :38:27.will have a bad taste in my mouth. The former world champion,

:38:28. > :38:30.Stuart Bingham has been charged with breaking snooker's

:38:31. > :38:31.betting rules. Bingham admitted placing bets

:38:32. > :38:34.on other players' matches but said he thought the rules only applied

:38:35. > :38:37.to matches he was involved in. The world number three must wait

:38:38. > :38:40.for the investigation into him to finish before finding

:38:41. > :38:42.out his punishment. With England on the brink of a world

:38:43. > :38:45.record 19th straight victory this weekend, the RFU has confirmed it

:38:46. > :38:48.wants to arrange a match against the World Number Ones

:38:49. > :38:51.New Zealand later this year and athings stand, England

:38:52. > :38:53.are not due to play the All Blacks until the autumn

:38:54. > :38:56.Internationals NEXT year. However, unless Premiership clubs

:38:57. > :38:58.receive compensation they may not Wales have named an unchanged side

:38:59. > :39:05.again - that's three matches in a row that they've gone

:39:06. > :39:08.with the same fifteen Hooker Ken Owens will win his 50th

:39:09. > :39:14.cap against France in Paris. Could the Commonwealth Games

:39:15. > :39:17.be coming back the UK? Durban were stripped of the 2022

:39:18. > :39:21.Games earlier in the week. Liverpool had already put themselves

:39:22. > :39:24.forward as a replacement, and now London and Birmingham have

:39:25. > :39:27.also expressed an interest Officials want to make a quick

:39:28. > :39:31.decision about the new host and said Glasgow hosted

:39:32. > :39:45.the Games 3 years ago, It is so sad to Durban that they

:39:46. > :39:50.have these difficulties. They were going to be the first African nature

:39:51. > :39:58.in to post, while games. It will be fun to see it in the UK. It used to

:39:59. > :40:03.be a joint bid. They do not need more velodrome is in the country.

:40:04. > :40:07.They were having to share a bit. That means it might be a bit

:40:08. > :40:09.desperate. You might have to travel around the country. It's not a done

:40:10. > :40:11.deal yet. With crucial elections in France

:40:12. > :40:14.and Germany in the next few months, the result of a parliamentary vote

:40:15. > :40:18.in the Netherlands is seen as a key barometer of the political mood

:40:19. > :40:20.in Europe and the strength Early results show Mark Rutte

:40:21. > :40:25.is expected to remain The anti-Islamist Freedom Party,

:40:26. > :40:28.led by Geert Wilders, had been gaining support but early

:40:29. > :40:31.indications suggest he performed who is a politics lecturer

:40:32. > :40:49.at Loughborough University. I know the results are not

:40:50. > :40:54.definitely finalised but from what we know, are you surprised by what

:40:55. > :41:02.you've seen? The big surprise is that the Liberals, with Mark Rutte,

:41:03. > :41:06.ended so far ahead. For the rest, the field looks very fragmented. A

:41:07. > :41:13.lot of parties with an equal amount of seats at the same parliament.

:41:14. > :41:19.This election has been watched very closely, hasn't it? After the recent

:41:20. > :41:26.Brexit vote. There was some nervousness, wasn't there?

:41:27. > :41:30.Certainly. That election got so much international media because of Geert

:41:31. > :41:33.Wilders and because it fell between Brexit, Trump and the elections in

:41:34. > :41:40.France and Germany but this election result points to nothing new. This

:41:41. > :41:44.is definitely not a landslide result for Dutch politics. The radical

:41:45. > :41:49.Right has been around for ten years. Since 2002, we saw strong populist

:41:50. > :41:56.contenders. It's difficult to analyse. Can you explain why the

:41:57. > :42:03.result is looking like this now? Normally in previous elections, we

:42:04. > :42:10.have seen two parties would finish on top. Most voters would would

:42:11. > :42:15.rally around one centre-right party. It's a bit of a surprise that the

:42:16. > :42:21.Liberals had so far ahead of the rest. But the rest, it is very

:42:22. > :42:29.fragmented. A lot of parties with around 20, 20 seats also. Is it fair

:42:30. > :42:36.to call Geert Wilders as someone like Donald Trump? You shed a lot of

:42:37. > :42:39.characteristics. The antiestablishment, the appeal to the

:42:40. > :42:44.ordinary people, but there are a lot of policy differences. Thank you

:42:45. > :42:58.very much indeed. Our main stories this morning. MPs

:42:59. > :43:02.will be banned from employing family members at the taxpayers expense of

:43:03. > :43:07.the new rules aimed at in courage in fair and open recruitment. The Dutch

:43:08. > :43:12.Prime Minister has claimed a victory over the far right in the country's

:43:13. > :43:21.elections, calling it a rejection of the wrong sort of populism. Time for

:43:22. > :43:26.a look at the weather. This morning, a mild start the day across the

:43:27. > :43:30.northern half of the country. Not as mild further south. Let us look at

:43:31. > :43:36.what we had yesterday. The warmest day of this year so far. That was

:43:37. > :43:45.recorded in Kew Gardens in London. Gravesend, not too far behind it.

:43:46. > :43:49.Hawarden in North Wales reached 17.4, making it the warmest day

:43:50. > :43:56.Wales has had so far this year. Today, it will still be mild but not

:43:57. > :44:00.as mild as yesterday. Cloudy skies. Starting with some fog patches.

:44:01. > :44:04.Particularly across southern parts of England. A cold front coming in

:44:05. > :44:08.as well. As it moves across Scotland and Northern Ireland, you will

:44:09. > :44:15.notice the temperature is going to go down. It's also going to in some

:44:16. > :44:20.rain. Here it is by eight o'clock. Some patchy rain ahead of it. Across

:44:21. > :44:27.northern England, some murky conditions. The rain extending in

:44:28. > :44:32.from Northern Ireland. You can see some patchy rain across the West of

:44:33. > :44:36.Wales. As we move in across the West of England, towards the south-west,

:44:37. > :44:42.some patchy fog and quite a bit of cloud. The patchy fog will lift

:44:43. > :44:44.through the morning and as a band of rain descends across Scotland and

:44:45. > :44:49.Northern Ireland, into northern England and North Wales, we return

:44:50. > :44:56.to sunshine and showers, some of which in Scotland will be wintry. A

:44:57. > :45:02.fair bit of cloud around. Locally, across parts of East Anglia,

:45:03. > :45:07.especially East London and Kent, possibly 16 or more. As we head on

:45:08. > :45:11.through the thing, here is the weather front. Continuing to push

:45:12. > :45:18.down into the south-east. A fair bit of cloud. It's going to be a cold

:45:19. > :45:23.night, a windy one of a lot of showers. Not just on high ground. We

:45:24. > :45:29.could see a little bit of wet snow at low levels. That is how we start

:45:30. > :45:34.tomorrow. Through the morning, more rain comes in from the Atlantic. But

:45:35. > :45:37.he ran across Northern Ireland, parts of southern and central

:45:38. > :45:42.Scotland and northern England and Wales. Cold enough to see some snow,

:45:43. > :45:47.especially in the Scottish hills. Not unusual now. Ahead of that band

:45:48. > :45:53.of rain, it will cloud over. But note that temperatures. 6-8 as we

:45:54. > :45:57.push into the north. Heading into the weekend, a plethora of weather

:45:58. > :46:02.fronts coming our way. You consider just romping in from the Atlantic,

:46:03. > :46:07.squeezing in the isobars, telling you it's going to be windy at times.

:46:08. > :46:11.So in summary, the weather for this weekend is looking unsettled. It

:46:12. > :46:15.will be windy at times, the leftist conditions will be where these

:46:16. > :46:25.fronts arrived but there will be some dry spells in between.

:46:26. > :46:32.Just a quick look at the front pages, the front of the Daily Mail

:46:33. > :46:35.following yesterday's events in the courts, Alexander Buttner and's

:46:36. > :46:48.appealed against his conviction for shooting at a wounded Taliban.

:46:49. > :46:51.Readers for the Daily Mail raised money in connection with that

:46:52. > :46:55.appeal. Remember sitting on the sofa one week ago when you asked the

:46:56. > :47:00.Chancellor might he consider changing his mind on national

:47:01. > :47:05.insurance contributions? Well, yeah, did he answer that? Well, he

:47:06. > :47:09.repeated at the time he was adamant they were doing the right thing for

:47:10. > :47:14.the right reasons, but a week is a long time in politics and a great

:47:15. > :47:18.deal has changed. The front of the Times and the U-turn. The front of

:47:19. > :47:25.the Daily Mirror and the Guardian that look into the funding of the

:47:26. > :47:29.general election with 12 MPs, conservative MPs, questioned in

:47:30. > :47:36.connection with how the money was spent, that is also on the front of

:47:37. > :47:41.the Guardian newspaper. The Daily Express says the Queen is to sign

:47:42. > :47:44.the EU except Bill today, and a fantastic picture of glorious

:47:45. > :47:48.sunshine yesterday McCarroll explaining that even though

:47:49. > :47:50.yesterday was beautifully sunny, it won't be late that everywhere else

:47:51. > :47:50.today. They're the brains behind

:47:51. > :47:52.our bridges, buildings Engineers make up about one

:47:53. > :47:56.in five jobs in the UK. But engineering's trade body

:47:57. > :47:59.is warning of a major skills shortage if more don't

:48:00. > :48:01.join the profession. Steph is at Britain's biggest

:48:02. > :48:04.science and technology fair to find out how young people

:48:05. > :48:21.are being inspired to become Morning to you, Steph. Good morning,

:48:22. > :48:26.Sally and Charlie, and everybody, I am at the Big Bang science fair,

:48:27. > :48:31.where they expect 20,000 young people to come and visit over the

:48:32. > :48:36.next couple of days, all, as you say, on expiring people into

:48:37. > :48:39.science, technology, engineering and mathematics, what we need skilled

:48:40. > :48:43.people in, and it is all about telling them the different jobs in

:48:44. > :48:47.the industry. Another big part of it is on the inventions here. Lots of

:48:48. > :48:50.young people from around the country have been competing with lots of

:48:51. > :48:56.different inventions and science project ideas. Let's go and meet

:48:57. > :49:02.some of them. Gia, tell us what you have come up with. I have done an

:49:03. > :49:07.app which will help you with your transport, there is an alarm to help

:49:08. > :49:12.read music or... So, if you are on the train, like me, quite often, you

:49:13. > :49:16.are sitting on the train and all of a sudden you might not off, this

:49:17. > :49:19.will help to make sure you don't miss your stop? Definitely, and

:49:20. > :49:24.there is a seating feature on the busy days when you don't know which

:49:25. > :49:26.carriage to get on. And there is whether information, travel

:49:27. > :49:32.information and general lost property. The difference is this is

:49:33. > :49:36.all in one place, you don't have to go to different websites, you don't

:49:37. > :49:40.have to e-mail 100 people over a lost umbrella. How did you come up

:49:41. > :49:45.with it? I catch the train every day to go to school, I have to wake up

:49:46. > :49:50.at a disgusting ally, then I saw a guy Misi stop and I saw the horror

:49:51. > :49:57.on his face, and I thought, it could to anyone. We need to make it a

:49:58. > :50:01.positive experience. And Ellen, tell us about yours, this looks

:50:02. > :50:07.interesting? It is a glove for deaf people which uses motion sensors to

:50:08. > :50:11.translate it into speech, and a microphone which picks up the spoken

:50:12. > :50:15.language from a response and it notes it down on the screen on the

:50:16. > :50:21.inside wrist so that the deaf person can read it. Point out how that

:50:22. > :50:25.would work? The sensors will be in the fingers and across the hand and

:50:26. > :50:29.there will be a screen on the inside, this is where the sensors

:50:30. > :50:35.will be converted into speech. And how did you come up with this, it is

:50:36. > :50:38.incredible? I read an article about how deaf people struggle with

:50:39. > :50:42.communication and it might lead to depression and anxiety. And I

:50:43. > :50:47.thought it would be good for deaf people to become more independent in

:50:48. > :50:52.society. Yeah, so you came up with this cracking idea. Good luck to

:50:53. > :51:00.you. We are moving onto Louis with his teacher dressed as a beekeeper.

:51:01. > :51:05.What is this all about? My project is about re- populating bees in the

:51:06. > :51:11.north-east. People might not know but these are extremely important,

:51:12. > :51:16.without then the economy would have crashed a long time ago and a lot of

:51:17. > :51:21.them have been declining over recent years. So, what does the project

:51:22. > :51:27.involved? We have four project aims, one, a safe habitat for the bees,

:51:28. > :51:32.the second is to find out what's causing the decline in the bees, the

:51:33. > :51:37.third one is to raise awareness in the local community and the fourth

:51:38. > :51:43.is to possibly try and increase... And it means regularly putting your

:51:44. > :51:47.teacher in the beehive outfits, which is always a laugh. Thank you.

:51:48. > :51:52.How good are they? We have loads more. Let's chat with Paul from

:51:53. > :51:58.EngineeringUK on why this is so important. Morning. Great to see

:51:59. > :52:05.these inventions. What is it all about? It allows children to bring

:52:06. > :52:08.their inventions to take part, and 75,000 people here will find out

:52:09. > :52:12.about science and engineering. They will be lots of jobs in future so

:52:13. > :52:16.this is an opportunity for the young people to bring alive the maths and

:52:17. > :52:20.science they do in the classroom by making people who use it everyday.

:52:21. > :52:25.Often, criticism of the engineering sector is it has an image of people

:52:26. > :52:30.that it is quite outdated, isn't it, so tell us all about the jobs,

:52:31. > :52:37.because they vary a lot, don't they? Well, they do, and here we have

:52:38. > :52:41.clean water to sub Saharan Africa, the way in which biology and

:52:42. > :52:44.engineering Company gather for human health in the future, and we have

:52:45. > :52:49.things like the aeroplanes and diggers and things you may associate

:52:50. > :52:52.with engineering on a large scale. So, it is the things that will

:52:53. > :52:59.change the world and change macro lies in future that we want to be

:53:00. > :53:05.part of. -- change our lives in future. Thank you. And here is Rhys

:53:06. > :53:09.from one of the schools which has come up with this excellent design.

:53:10. > :53:17.We will tell you about more of them. Show us your best moves, Rees. Look

:53:18. > :53:27.at him go! No, I think a screw has come off. Oh, note! If anyone can

:53:28. > :53:35.fix that, it is you. -- oh, no! Quick, running repairs. And we are

:53:36. > :53:38.going to talk about Formula 1. Those youngsters will probably end up

:53:39. > :53:45.working in Formula 1, where they? Yes. Kristian Horner from the Red

:53:46. > :53:47.Bull team. And we are staying with children's health.

:53:48. > :53:50.An increasing number of 11-16 year olds struggle with feeling unhappy,

:53:51. > :53:53.self conscious and frightened but many don't ask for help,

:53:54. > :53:56.that's the findings from a special survey carried out as part

:53:57. > :54:00.Many of the young people questioned said they would prefer to talk

:54:01. > :54:03.confidentially to someone at school about their concerns.

:54:04. > :54:05.Bryony MacKenzie caught up with Jordan Stevens,

:54:06. > :54:07.from the Rizzle Kicks, who started his own social media

:54:08. > :54:16.campaign to get young people talking openly about mental health.

:54:17. > :54:20.# Mama do the hump, mama do the hump hump, mama.

:54:21. > :54:22.# Won't you please let me do the hump hump...

:54:23. > :54:25.He found fame with a hip-hop duo, Rizzle Kicks, now Jordan

:54:26. > :54:28.is being asked tough questions by school reporters about the tough

:54:29. > :54:33.Have you or someone close to you experienced either mental

:54:34. > :54:36.health issues or the stigma attached to that?

:54:37. > :54:40.In school during my GCSEs I got diagnosed with ADHD.

:54:41. > :54:45.I was always the hyper kid, I got told to calm down all the time

:54:46. > :54:49.and it is the most infuriating thing for someone who cannot calm down.

:54:50. > :54:56.Jordan began his own social media campaign to get young people talking

:54:57. > :55:05.Becoming like famous gives you all this kind of stuff,

:55:06. > :55:10.you know, and I was able to afford a flat and these kind of things that

:55:11. > :55:14.people are like working day in day out to try and get but the reality

:55:15. > :55:17.is that does not compensate for any kind of emotional stability,

:55:18. > :55:21.in fact, it can often contribute to quite poor emotional stability.

:55:22. > :55:24.According to a School Report survey, half of all pupils admit to having

:55:25. > :55:28.negative feelings but do not ask for help.

:55:29. > :55:30.Being in Year 9, sort of changing as a person,

:55:31. > :55:34.it is a way to control change and it was something that

:55:35. > :55:39.Florence developed anorexia when she was 14.

:55:40. > :55:43.The reason I did not come out and say what I had been

:55:44. > :55:45.through and what happened was because people did not

:55:46. > :55:49.understand where I was coming from and, you know, it took a lot

:55:50. > :55:53.of guts for me to say I had a problem and also I was in denial

:55:54. > :55:56.because I was embarrassed and I thought that it was not normal

:55:57. > :55:59.and it was not something that was OK.

:56:00. > :56:06.Jordan wants his message to reach primary aged children.

:56:07. > :56:09.To just remove the idea that it is kind of like some taboo,

:56:10. > :56:12.to be open about how you feel and your mentality is,

:56:13. > :56:16.Giving help to those who need it even earlier.

:56:17. > :56:20.If you've been affected by any of the issues raised in that report

:56:21. > :59:53.you can visit bbc.co.uk/schoolreportadvice.

:59:54. > :59:57.I'm back with the latest from the BBC London newsroom

:59:58. > :00:01.Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

:00:02. > :00:22.Hello this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:00:23. > :00:24.MPs are to be banned from employing their relatives

:00:25. > :00:28.The new rules will come in after the next election -

:00:29. > :00:40.but there's been an angry reaction from some at Westminster.

:00:41. > :00:47.The Dutch Prime Minister sees off the challenge of the far right -

:00:48. > :01:00.he says the voters have rejected "the wrong sort of populism."

:01:01. > :01:06.I am at the big bang science fair to find out how we get more young

:01:07. > :01:08.people interested in science and engineering. About 45,000 rent --

:01:09. > :01:12.apprentice in graduate engineers. despite holding a two goal

:01:13. > :01:19.cushion from the first leg, losing 3-1 in Monaco and they're

:01:20. > :01:22.out of the competition. We meet the twelve year old who's

:01:23. > :01:36.using dance to spread the message When you can not got anyone and you

:01:37. > :01:40.get bullied, you go to the corner come you are on your own were as if

:01:41. > :01:47.you've got someone, you go over there and they will always ask if

:01:48. > :01:50.you are all right? And good morning. Mild start of the day across

:01:51. > :01:56.Scotland and Northern Ireland. Rain, fresh conditions behind it. Ahead of

:01:57. > :02:00.it, for England and Wales, fairly cloudy for most of us. What you will

:02:01. > :02:05.find is we see rain in the north later on. The best of the sunshine

:02:06. > :02:07.and the south-east. More details on 15 minutes.

:02:08. > :02:11.MPs are to be banned from employing husbands,

:02:12. > :02:14.wives, partners or any member of their family under new rules.

:02:15. > :02:16.The parliamentary expenses watchdog says it will encourage fair

:02:17. > :02:20.After the expenses scandal MPs were limited to employing only one

:02:21. > :02:23.relative and around a quarter of MPs still do so.

:02:24. > :02:31.For years, the amount of taxpayers' money paid to MPs relatives has

:02:32. > :02:36.In 2010, a limit of one family member was introduced

:02:37. > :02:46.Now the independent authority has gone further.

:02:47. > :02:50.From the next election due in 2020, no new staff relatives will be

:02:51. > :03:07.151 of the 650 MPs are known to employ family members.

:03:08. > :03:15.This includes 84 Conservatives, 50 from Labour and 10 from the SNP.

:03:16. > :03:19.Last year, ?4.5 million of public funds was paid to relatives.

:03:20. > :03:23.IPSA found family members employed by MPs were paid on average ?5,600

:03:24. > :03:31.One Tory MP, Sir Roger Gale, who has employed his wife for more

:03:32. > :03:35.than 30 years, says the future block on spouses is crass and warns

:03:36. > :03:37.Parliament will likely regret the decision.

:03:38. > :03:45.Let's talk to our political correspondent Mark Lobel.

:03:46. > :03:52.Mark, how is this likely to go down with Mps?

:03:53. > :03:59.It is curious in some ways. There is no evidence of abuse yet it's been

:04:00. > :04:05.deemed to be slightly out of step with what people think would be

:04:06. > :04:10.right. No evidence of a big scandal so I think some MPs are going to be

:04:11. > :04:14.surprised to hear this news this morning, particularly as it is quite

:04:15. > :04:18.a big change. A quarter of MPs employs a relative. It will not

:04:19. > :04:24.affect them. It will affect new employees up to the next election.

:04:25. > :04:29.Current relatives will be safe in our jobs. Still, MPs we have spoken

:04:30. > :04:33.to say it will be a handy scheme, to have relatives in the office,

:04:34. > :04:37.allowing Tustin them. You can get hold of them 24- seven and they are

:04:38. > :04:42.great value for money. One conservative MP told us if they

:04:43. > :04:45.travel outside of London, four constituencies that are far away,

:04:46. > :04:52.it's not just useful for constituents to have this connection

:04:53. > :04:57.with their constituents but also the partner. Scrape and marriages.

:04:58. > :05:01.Another MP told us he employs his wife for far less. Underlining the

:05:02. > :05:05.value for money and the good things about this system. The watchdog does

:05:06. > :05:10.not dispute it is good value for money. They said there has only been

:05:11. > :05:15.one instance of abuse. They say it is inappropriate and they want more

:05:16. > :05:21.modern recruitment practices. A bald from you about Philip Hammond's

:05:22. > :05:27.situation. The National Insurance climbdown. Last week he was telling

:05:28. > :05:34.us why it was a good decision and he defended breaking the pledge. A lot

:05:35. > :05:39.has changed. I think the damage on his credibility is bad. It's yet to

:05:40. > :05:43.be determined. He has rowed back a bit in the sun, -- you wrote in the

:05:44. > :05:49.Sun newspaper saying he wanted to restore faith in politics. The

:05:50. > :05:52.people saw this as a breach of a manifesto commitment, he wanted to

:05:53. > :05:57.pull back from that. I suspect it was more he did not want to have a

:05:58. > :06:00.fight with his own side, but conservative MPs lining up to oppose

:06:01. > :06:04.this measure and the normally more favourable press. I don't think he

:06:05. > :06:06.wants that relationship to sour as they approach these very crucial

:06:07. > :06:10.Brexit negotiations. The Dutch Prime Minister,

:06:11. > :06:12.Mark Rutte, has claimed victory in his country's general election -

:06:13. > :06:15.saying the Netherlands rejected what he described as "the wrong

:06:16. > :06:18.sort of populism". The indications are that

:06:19. > :06:20.the far-right candidate, Geert Wilders, performed

:06:21. > :06:21.worse than expected although his Freedom Party

:06:22. > :06:24.is projected to gain seats. Let's talk to our Europe

:06:25. > :06:35.Correspondent Damian Grammaticas A beautiful sunny morning it is

:06:36. > :06:47.there. Actually, no big shock result. Something of a surprise but

:06:48. > :06:53.no big surge from the populist far right. The Prime Minister had framed

:06:54. > :06:56.this in that way as an election that potentially could see that. He had

:06:57. > :07:02.warned about the potential for the far right leader toppling the polls.

:07:03. > :07:07.At the beginning, Geert Wilders had been at the top of the opinion

:07:08. > :07:10.polls. All eyes internationally and across Europe had been on the

:07:11. > :07:16.election here for that reason. What actually happened, Geert Wilders

:07:17. > :07:21.significantly underperformed expectations. He secured something

:07:22. > :07:25.like 13% of the vote. He has done better in previous elections,

:07:26. > :07:30.particularly in 2010 and has gained a few seats but he is far behind the

:07:31. > :07:34.Prime Minister who secured 20% of the vote. A sort of sigh of relief

:07:35. > :07:46.from around European capitals at what has happened.

:07:47. > :07:48.The Queen will sign government legislation into law today,

:07:49. > :07:52.which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks on Britain leaving

:07:53. > :08:05.The Bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday. It's thought the Prime

:08:06. > :08:08.Minister will trigger Article 50, the legal mechanism to begin the

:08:09. > :08:09.withdrawal, before the end of the month.

:08:10. > :08:12.President Donald Trump's new travel ban, has been blocked by a judge

:08:13. > :08:14.just hours before it was due to begin.

:08:15. > :08:17.The government wanted to stop people from six predominantly Muslim

:08:18. > :08:21.countries from travelling to the United States.

:08:22. > :08:29.This is, in the opinion of many, an unprecedented judicial overrich.

:08:30. > :08:35.This ruling makes us look week which, by the way, we know longer

:08:36. > :08:41.write, believe me. Police in the southern Indian state of Gpa have

:08:42. > :08:46.charged a man with the death of an Irish woman. We earlier spoke with

:08:47. > :08:53.our Indian correspondent to is in Goa. Behind me is the fields where

:08:54. > :09:14.Daniel's body was found. A lot of local people came. There are lots of

:09:15. > :09:20.big beaches and restaurants that Goa is known for. Police say there were

:09:21. > :09:30.injuries. I spoke with an officer was involved in the investigation.

:09:31. > :09:34.They have compelling evidence which shows the victim walking with the

:09:35. > :09:39.accused. They say they have seized a 2- wheeled vehicle with black stains

:09:40. > :09:45.on it. Also some clothes with blood smears. They are questioning this

:09:46. > :09:52.man to find out whether he was alone or there were others involved.

:09:53. > :09:55.Work is set to begin on the refurbishment

:09:56. > :09:58.of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase in the funding

:09:59. > :10:00.the Queen receives from the Treasury.

:10:01. > :10:04.The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works

:10:05. > :10:07.which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million.

:10:08. > :10:10.Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of "catastrophic

:10:11. > :10:12.building failure" being inflicted on a "cherished national monument".

:10:13. > :10:16.A team of US navy dolphins have come out of retirement to help scientists

:10:17. > :10:18.investigate why whales become stranded in shallow water.

:10:19. > :10:21.The dolphins are helping them to understand how marine animals

:10:22. > :10:23.behave around sonar and shipping sounds.

:10:24. > :10:25.Researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz think

:10:26. > :10:28.panicked whales dive away from the noise and end up exhausted,

:10:29. > :10:36.causing them to drift off course and into trouble.

:10:37. > :10:44.Do you remember the whale in the Thames River? Stranded on the

:10:45. > :10:48.Thames? It is really sad. Twin foals, a rarity in forcing world,

:10:49. > :10:55.have been born on the farm in Suffolk.

:10:56. > :10:58.called Tilly and Lilly, are just over a week

:10:59. > :11:02.old and are doing well under the watchful eye of mum Rose

:11:03. > :11:07.It is unusual for a mare to be allowed to carry twins to full-term

:11:08. > :11:09.as it can be dangerous and lead to complications,

:11:10. > :11:12.but Rose's pregnancy was too far developed to safely intervene.

:11:13. > :11:21.The odds of survival for twin foals is usually just one-in-10,000.

:11:22. > :11:24.Putting mobile cancer screening units in shopping centre car parks

:11:25. > :11:27.could quadruple the number of people whose lung cancer is caught early,

:11:28. > :11:30.according to research by leading cancer charity Macmillan.

:11:31. > :11:33.Lung cancer is the third most common cancer in the UK and around

:11:34. > :11:36.three-quarters of cases are usually diagnosed at a late stage.

:11:37. > :11:39.Michael Brady was offered a free scan at a supermarket in Manchester

:11:40. > :11:46.and is currently receiving treatment.

:11:47. > :11:53.My name is Michael Brady, I am 64 years of age and recently, I went

:11:54. > :11:59.for a lung check. I have been diagnosed with cancer at the very,

:12:00. > :12:05.very early stages. I am really grateful that I went to this check.

:12:06. > :12:11.It's definitely saved my life because I could have gone maybe two,

:12:12. > :12:16.three years and it could have spread everywhere. I feel a lot more

:12:17. > :12:20.relaxed now I know that I know what I've got and we know we can treat it

:12:21. > :12:25.and hopefully, they will treat it and it will go away. I hope there

:12:26. > :12:28.are more of these scams about rather people to get the benefit and they

:12:29. > :12:35.are definitely nothing to be scared about.

:12:36. > :12:37.Dr Phil Barber is a lung cancer specialist at

:12:38. > :12:39.the University Hospital of South Manchester and was involved

:12:40. > :12:49.Really interesting to pick up on something. Don't be afraid to go and

:12:50. > :12:52.get tested because lung cancer is one of those things, if you don't

:12:53. > :12:56.think about it, it might not happen to you but if you start thinking

:12:57. > :13:01.about it, you could get very worried. How much does having a scan

:13:02. > :13:05.really accessible encourage people to go and get tested? That was a big

:13:06. > :13:11.factor. The thing about lung cancer in general, not only is it the most

:13:12. > :13:15.common cause of cancer death in the city of Manchester, it's the most

:13:16. > :13:19.common cause of premature death of all. It's more common than heart

:13:20. > :13:23.attack and stroke. A massive problem. The problem we face with it

:13:24. > :13:30.is that when we investigate patients in the normal way, with symptoms,

:13:31. > :13:35.75% of them are at the late stage. They cannot be jawed. It is

:13:36. > :13:40.treatable but not curable. When somebody goes into one of these

:13:41. > :13:45.scanners what happens? We sent letters of invitation to patients in

:13:46. > :13:52.the right age range the cancer. We invited them to come for what we

:13:53. > :13:58.call a lung health check. That's like a lung MOT, if you like. We did

:13:59. > :14:02.the cheque, with questions about chest symptoms, lifestyle, smoking

:14:03. > :14:08.habits and we used that to calculate the risk score. If patients were

:14:09. > :14:13.above a certain risk, they went on to have a scan immediately with the

:14:14. > :14:17.mobile scanner that was there in the supermarket car park. The whole

:14:18. > :14:24.thing was done in a few minutes as a one-stop event. Talk as to what

:14:25. > :14:32.happens. You do this can and Wendy find out the information? About the

:14:33. > :14:36.patient? The image comes up immediately and they reported by

:14:37. > :14:41.radiologists. You get the report in a few days. They are either normal

:14:42. > :14:46.or intermediate or sometimes we find what we are looking for a non- duels

:14:47. > :14:47.in lung tissue. Those patients have a positive scan and they have

:14:48. > :15:01.further in this division. How important is it to spot them

:15:02. > :15:07.immediately? Very important. We scan 1400 patients and found a cancer for

:15:08. > :15:13.every 32 scans. Very importantly, 80% of those patients had

:15:14. > :15:16.early-stage cancer, stage one and two, and they were nearly all

:15:17. > :15:20.offered treatment. Interesting to hear the statistics when we heard

:15:21. > :15:25.from Michael and moment a goat and you think it is a no-brainer,

:15:26. > :15:31.obviously, it is a great idea, so if you have those facilities on hand,

:15:32. > :15:37.should everyone beyond a certain age say, you know, why not, you

:15:38. > :15:42.mentioned the procedures to make it worthwhile, why shouldn't everyone

:15:43. > :15:46.do that? Well, we can look at the results of this pilot project and

:15:47. > :15:55.see where to go from here. That is what we are doing. I think the fact

:15:56. > :16:01.that the secret force -- for success was the health check, it is no

:16:02. > :16:05.frightening thing. We did the ground work beforehand spreading the news

:16:06. > :16:09.in the community before we started the project and I think the fact

:16:10. > :16:13.that it is in the locality and that it is done straightaway, patients

:16:14. > :16:17.don't have to cross town, you know, six miles to the hospital, whatever

:16:18. > :16:24.it is, so I think they were the factors. The fact it was available

:16:25. > :16:29.there and then made it... The patient didn't want to have it done?

:16:30. > :16:35.More generally if you don't have any symptoms, you mentioned the age and

:16:36. > :16:39.if you have been a smoker in the past, should people present

:16:40. > :16:46.themselves to have these checks? Well, this is targeted screening. It

:16:47. > :16:50.is possible, these risk calculators are quite sophisticated. You can

:16:51. > :16:56.calculate risk of lung cancer within five or six years. And they are the

:16:57. > :16:57.people who we have to consider looking at. Interesting project.

:16:58. > :17:00.Thank you for talking through it. Here's Carol with a look

:17:01. > :17:12.at this morning's weather. Morning. Good morning. Lovely

:17:13. > :17:17.Weather Watchers pictures already in. We have a misty photo from

:17:18. > :17:21.Shropshire. There is also some fog around this morning and we have a

:17:22. > :17:26.variety of temperatures at the moment too. In Edinburgh and

:17:27. > :17:32.Belfast, nine or ten, Exeter eight, Cardiff seven, London and Leeds six.

:17:33. > :17:37.Today we have a weather front out in the north-west at the moment. As it

:17:38. > :17:41.moves south, taking rain with it, the temperatures are high and it

:17:42. > :17:45.will start to drop. This morning we have some rain across the Outer

:17:46. > :17:50.Hebrides into the north-west of Northern Ireland preceded by patchy

:17:51. > :17:54.rain and murky conditions especially on the hills. For northern England

:17:55. > :18:00.it is a murky start with cloud around in places. Merck in Wales,

:18:01. > :18:03.especially the west, dampness around, dampness in south-west

:18:04. > :18:07.England and southern counties into the Midlands and East Anglia there

:18:08. > :18:11.is patchy mist and fog around. That will lift gradually through the

:18:12. > :18:14.course of the morning. The weather front across Scotland and Northern

:18:15. > :18:19.Ireland will move south into northern England and north Wales.

:18:20. > :18:23.Behind it will be blustery with sunshine and showers, some wintry,

:18:24. > :18:29.whereas the head of it with a cloud around temperatures widely 11-13.

:18:30. > :18:33.Where we hang on to sunshine, East Anglia into Kent and London, we

:18:34. > :18:39.might hit 16, possibly a little more than that. As we go through the rest

:18:40. > :18:43.of the afternoon and overnight, the weather front to the south-east, a

:18:44. > :18:46.week feature with patchy rain but clear skies behind means it will be

:18:47. > :18:51.a cold night with showers around, some of which will be wintry over

:18:52. > :18:55.high ground. In Scotland we could see wet snow over low levels with

:18:56. > :19:00.the risk of ice and frostbite it will be very patchy. Tomorrow we

:19:01. > :19:05.start with bright skies for southern England and Wales. Showers to start

:19:06. > :19:10.in Scotland but then we have rain across Northern Ireland, central

:19:11. > :19:14.southern Scotland, northern England and Wales and ahead of that for the

:19:15. > :19:17.Midlands and southern Midlands the cloud will build but still

:19:18. > :19:22.temperatures hang on at 11-13 whereas under front we are looking

:19:23. > :19:26.at cooler conditions around eight, so it will feel fresher. Then for

:19:27. > :19:30.the weekend we have an array of whether funds zooming in from the

:19:31. > :19:34.Atlantic one after the other and you can see from the squeeze on the

:19:35. > :19:39.isobars it is going to be windy at times. So to put more detail on that

:19:40. > :19:46.you can expect this weekend unsettled weather that will be windy

:19:47. > :19:51.at times, also wet, especially in the wet, and we will see some dry

:19:52. > :19:58.spells. It isn't going to be raining all the time. Thanks very much. And

:19:59. > :20:03.one piece of breaking news that in the last few minutes of the

:20:04. > :20:08.Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for a breach of election

:20:09. > :20:12.expenses. You are aware that the election commission has been looking

:20:13. > :20:17.into alleged misreporting of expenses during the general election

:20:18. > :20:20.campaign. We also know separately that there was a police

:20:21. > :20:24.investigation ongoing and that a number of MPs will be questioned,

:20:25. > :20:30.conservative MPs, questioned as part of that investigation. It concluded

:20:31. > :20:34.significant failures by the party to report accurately on how much it

:20:35. > :20:40.spent on campaigning in three by-elections in 2014 and in 2015 on

:20:41. > :20:42.the general election. And we will bring more news on that as soon as

:20:43. > :20:45.we can. The time is 7:20am. Steph is at Britain's biggest

:20:46. > :20:47.science and technology fair this morning to find out how the industry

:20:48. > :21:04.is hoping to inspire the engineers I might let Charlie say what she has

:21:05. > :21:10.with her. Well, I called it a Carbeque. That is spot on. It is a

:21:11. > :21:14.Carbeque. We are outside but it is worth it because someone has

:21:15. > :21:21.breakfast on the go and this is Fraser's invention. Lots of young

:21:22. > :21:28.inventions. Tell us what this is about, this is your idea? We made

:21:29. > :21:36.something outside the box and this is kind of what we came up with. The

:21:37. > :21:41.car was ruined when we got it, so we chopped it in half and put a

:21:42. > :21:46.barbecue where the engine should be. So it is just helped to inspire them

:21:47. > :21:51.and stop them from thinking they are failure. You show them the kind of

:21:52. > :21:55.engineering that has gone into it with all of the welding skills as

:21:56. > :22:00.part of this? Yes. And you have bacon on the go. Well done, thank

:22:01. > :22:10.you. I have some of the inventors I want to introduce you to. You have

:22:11. > :22:14.solved a problem a lot of us have? Yes, at school we took a survey to

:22:15. > :22:18.find the problem with most people and how they West Arnhem, so

:22:19. > :22:22.everyone said that the bus queues and congestion is what most people

:22:23. > :22:26.waste time doing, so we thought we could do much more on the time

:22:27. > :22:33.marking, school clubs, lots of things. To solve the problem we used

:22:34. > :22:40.a BBC Micro bit, the RFID reader and tag, radio frequency identification,

:22:41. > :22:45.so if every student and teacher had the RFID tag with information on it,

:22:46. > :22:53.then the reader will read it and it can tell them whether they can go in

:22:54. > :22:57.or not. Science at its best. I love that. I am going to take you back

:22:58. > :23:02.indoors. We will get some Sam Wood is to take back with us and this

:23:03. > :23:08.event, this science fair, is going on for the next few days with

:23:09. > :23:12.thousands of young people expected, 20,000, all about inspiring them in

:23:13. > :23:18.science and engineering. We need more people in the area. More from

:23:19. > :23:20.me a little bit later on. Thank you very much. Enjoy the bacon butties.

:23:21. > :23:23.12-year-old Junior loves to dance but it made him

:23:24. > :23:27.He's since gone on to become the UK's Freestyle Street Dance

:23:28. > :23:29.Champion and has been on stage with Justin Beiber!

:23:30. > :23:33.Now he says he wants to use his experience to help others

:23:34. > :23:34.and has raised ?300,000 for anti-bullying charities.

:23:35. > :23:38.I've been to meet him as part of the BBC's annual School Report

:23:39. > :23:59.We have been invited here to talk to Junior.

:24:00. > :24:01.He has got a really important message about bullying.

:24:02. > :24:05.In the past he had lots of problems with people having a go at him

:24:06. > :24:19.Are you going to show me a little dancing?

:24:20. > :24:27.Junior's dancing has always been an escape.

:24:28. > :24:31.He's 12 now, in a new school, but from the age of seven

:24:32. > :24:33.he was bullied relentlessly, kicked, punched and ridiculed

:24:34. > :24:37.They were really difficult, lonely times.

:24:38. > :24:42.It all started in year three when a group of boys used to call me

:24:43. > :24:45.names like gay, they called me gay because they didn't have think

:24:46. > :24:48.boys could dance, it was girls and women.

:24:49. > :24:56.I have seen you dancing and you are brilliant at it.

:24:57. > :24:59.Was there a time when if I was talking to you,

:25:00. > :25:01.you would have been a different person?

:25:02. > :25:05.If you were to talk to me at primary school now I was not very confident,

:25:06. > :25:07.I was a bit nervous, really, really nervous,

:25:08. > :25:16.One thing you've got now which is so great is friends.

:25:17. > :25:19.They always believe in me, they always tell me to go succeed,

:25:20. > :25:24.go and succeed in your dream and not to be sad or put down by people,

:25:25. > :25:34.you should always succeed and achieve.

:25:35. > :25:37.Junior, just talk me through who we have got here,

:25:38. > :25:41.This is Ewan, this is George, this is another Ewan

:25:42. > :25:46.Because we are in the same football team.

:25:47. > :25:57.Clearly, having friends around helps a lot.

:25:58. > :26:00.Yeah, because when you have not got anyone and you get bullied,

:26:01. > :26:03.it's one of them things, you get bullied, you go

:26:04. > :26:05.to the corner, like, you're on your own.

:26:06. > :26:08.Whereas if you have got someone, if someone says something

:26:09. > :26:12.to you which kind of hurts you, you go over and they will be like,

:26:13. > :26:19.are you all right, what happened, what do they say?

:26:20. > :26:22.And they would be like, it's all right, it's all right.

:26:23. > :26:24.I think everyone needs a mate like you.

:26:25. > :26:28.Junior's friends now support him in his dream to become

:26:29. > :26:32.a professional dancer and he's already been on stage

:26:33. > :26:34.with Justin Bieber, he's raised ?300,000

:26:35. > :26:37.And today he even finds time to help and middle-aged man

:26:38. > :27:04.Put your hands up, you start with your hand, it goes like that.

:27:05. > :27:12.And then it goes into that shoulder and that one comes out

:27:13. > :27:27.I look like I have dislocated my shoulder in part of that. Is your

:27:28. > :27:33.shoulder OK? It is OK and I am best not to dwell on that, and more about

:27:34. > :27:38.the message which is all these don't win, do what you do, love what you

:27:39. > :27:43.do and everything will be all right in the end, but it is not always

:27:44. > :27:51.easy. His friends are great, really lovely. He told his story as part of

:27:52. > :31:14.the BBC School Report, and you can see that today@BBC.co.uk/

:31:15. > :31:18.I'm back with the latest from the BBC London newsroom

:31:19. > :31:21.Now, though, it's back to Charlie and Sally.

:31:22. > :31:31.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:31:32. > :31:34.The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching

:31:35. > :31:43.The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching

:31:44. > :31:57.The decision by by the Electoral commission

:31:58. > :31:59.follows an investigation into alleged mis-reporting

:32:00. > :32:01.of expenses during the 2015 general election campaign.

:32:02. > :32:05.Our political correspondent is Mark Lobel.

:32:06. > :32:11.Local activists have been bussed in to fight marginal seats but when

:32:12. > :32:15.they get there, that spending, not being accounted for in the local

:32:16. > :32:20.expenses, which have their own limits. Essentially breaking the

:32:21. > :32:25.rules there. The Electoral Commission's verdict is the maximum

:32:26. > :32:29.fine on the Conservative Party of ?70,000, they have gone through it,

:32:30. > :32:34.three details as to what they have found guilty of. The first is that

:32:35. > :32:40.the conservative was missing payments worth at least ?104,000 in

:32:41. > :32:44.the UK 2015 general election spending. Then this on the thing I

:32:45. > :32:48.was mentioning to you, the idea that the party with spending money,

:32:49. > :32:56.national money, on local campaigns are not declaring it. Separate

:32:57. > :33:02.payments worth up to ?118,000. A third, payments to the value of

:33:03. > :33:07.?52,000 for receipts and invoices which were not included in the

:33:08. > :33:14.records. All of this undermining, they say, voters confidence in the

:33:15. > :33:20.democratic process. If political parties are seen to act in this way.

:33:21. > :33:24.Any response from the Conservative Party? We're just waiting to hear

:33:25. > :33:27.from Conservative Party. What will be interesting is not just their

:33:28. > :33:33.response to this but also how separate police investigations

:33:34. > :33:37.continue which also look into these allegations first bought up by

:33:38. > :33:42.Channel 4 News and something that's been going through the press over

:33:43. > :33:47.the last year. Into great detail about how new people were bussed

:33:48. > :33:53.into these marginal constituencies at what those records, those

:33:54. > :34:00.expenses records actually show. A little more detail about the

:34:01. > :34:06.findings. They have established the party 's general election returned

:34:07. > :34:09.no longer complete all correct. The commission has reason to suspect

:34:10. > :34:15.that an offence may have been committed but it is a matter for the

:34:16. > :34:16.police as to what steps they will take.

:34:17. > :34:18.MPs are to be banned from employing husbands,

:34:19. > :34:21.wives, partners or any member of their family under new rules.

:34:22. > :34:24.The parliamentary expenses watchdog -

:34:25. > :34:27.IPSA - says it will encourage fair and open recruitment.

:34:28. > :34:29.After the expenses scandal, MPs were limited to employing only

:34:30. > :34:33.relative and around a quarter of MPs still do so.

:34:34. > :34:36.The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, has claimed victory

:34:37. > :34:38.in his country's general election, saying the Netherlands rejected

:34:39. > :34:41.what he described as "the wrong sort of populism".

:34:42. > :34:43.Votes are still being counted, but Mr Rutte's centre-right

:34:44. > :34:46.party is on course to win the most seats.

:34:47. > :34:51.The indications are that the far-right candidate,

:34:52. > :34:53.Geert Wilders, performed worse than expected -

:34:54. > :34:56.although his Freedom party is projected to gain seats.

:34:57. > :35:01.The Queen will sign government legislation into law today,

:35:02. > :35:04.which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks on Britain

:35:05. > :35:08.The Bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday.

:35:09. > :35:10.It's thought the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50,

:35:11. > :35:14.the legal mechanism to begin the withdrawal, before the end

:35:15. > :35:19.President Donald Trump's new travel ban has been blocked by a judge

:35:20. > :35:21.just hours before it was due to begin.

:35:22. > :35:24.The government wanted to stop people from six

:35:25. > :35:25.predominantly Muslim countries from travelling

:35:26. > :35:29.Mr Trump has reacted angrily, accusing the judge

:35:30. > :35:35.Work is set to begin on the refurbishment

:35:36. > :35:38.of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase in the funding

:35:39. > :35:40.the Queen receives from the Treasury.

:35:41. > :35:45.The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works

:35:46. > :35:48.which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million.

:35:49. > :35:51.Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of "catastrophic

:35:52. > :35:54.building failure" being inflicted on a "cherished national monument".

:35:55. > :35:59.A team of US navy dolphins have come out of retirement

:36:00. > :36:01.to help scientists investigate why whales

:36:02. > :36:04.The dolphins are helping them to understand how marine

:36:05. > :36:11.animals behave around sonar and shipping sounds.

:36:12. > :36:14.Researchers from the University of California Santa Cruz think

:36:15. > :36:17.panicked whales dive away from the noise and end up exhausted,

:36:18. > :36:30.causing them to drift off course and into trouble.

:36:31. > :36:37.it's just the thought of retired Dolphins. What are they doing? Are

:36:38. > :36:43.like a C said they had been called in. The phone rang in the retirement

:36:44. > :36:48.village. C, it is for you. Come in, come in. What have you got?

:36:49. > :36:54.A sad looking Pep Guardiola. In adapting something bad happens to

:36:55. > :36:58.you the night before and you wake up and go, oh, there is something I

:36:59. > :37:04.should be feeling bad about, it's in the back of your head and all of a

:37:05. > :37:05.sudden, that's what it is. My team got knocked out last night. A lot of

:37:06. > :37:08.fans will be feeling that way. Manchester City have been knocked

:37:09. > :37:11.out of the Champions League by Monaco on away goals -

:37:12. > :37:13.they've failed to reach City held a 2-goal advantage

:37:14. > :37:18.going into the match but Monaco through, but Manchester City

:37:19. > :37:24.pressure brought a Leroy Sane goal with Monaco through

:37:25. > :37:40.on the away goals rule. We played 45 minutes and we created

:37:41. > :37:44.a lot of chances there but we missed 45 minutes and we thought we spoke

:37:45. > :37:48.lots of times but these with or without the ball

:37:49. > :37:57.in the first half, we were a little bit slow in everything

:37:58. > :38:00.which is why we could not do it, So Leicester are the only British

:38:01. > :38:05.team left in the Champions League, and Manchester United will be hoping

:38:06. > :38:08.to be the only British side in the quarter finals

:38:09. > :38:10.of the Europa League, but they have to get past Rostov

:38:11. > :38:13.at Old Trafford tonight. The game's 1-all after

:38:14. > :38:16.the first leg and manager Jose Mourinho has spent the build-up

:38:17. > :38:18.defending world record signing He thinks his critics

:38:19. > :38:29.are a bit jealous. It's not Paul's fault that he gets

:38:30. > :38:34.ten times the money, that some players, that

:38:35. > :38:36.some very good players, It's not his fault that some

:38:37. > :38:41.of the pundits are in real trouble with their lives and they need every

:38:42. > :38:44.point to survive and Paul Manchester United striker

:38:45. > :38:50.Marcus Rashford will be named Injuries to Harry Kane

:38:51. > :38:54.and Daniel Sturridge mean the United frontman - who scored on his senior

:38:55. > :38:57.England debut against Australia last year - will be in Gareth Southgate's

:38:58. > :39:01.squad to face Germany next week- It was one of the biggest shocks

:39:02. > :39:06.in the history of the Cheltenham Festival after the odds-on favourite

:39:07. > :39:09.Douvan missed out on the places One punter put half

:39:10. > :39:14.a million pounds on Douvan - and saw his money slipping away

:39:15. > :39:17.as the horse struggled. The race came down to a tight finish

:39:18. > :39:24.won by Special Tiara. Former snooker world champion

:39:25. > :39:27.Stuart Bingham says he'll accept after admitting he broke

:39:28. > :39:30.the sport's betting rules. Bingham admitted placing bets

:39:31. > :39:33.on other players' matches but said he thought the rules only applied

:39:34. > :39:36.to matches he was involved in. With England on the brink of a world

:39:37. > :39:40.record 19th straight victory this weekend, the RFU has confirmed it

:39:41. > :39:46.wants to arrange a match against the World's Number One side

:39:47. > :39:51.New Zealand later this year abd as things stand,

:39:52. > :39:53.England are not due to play the All Blacks until the autumn

:39:54. > :39:56.Internationals next year. However, unless Premiership clubs

:39:57. > :39:58.receive compensation they may not Wales have named an unchanged side

:39:59. > :40:05.again, that's three matches in a row that they've gone with the same

:40:06. > :40:08.fifteen in the Six nations. Hooker Ken Owens will win his 50th

:40:09. > :40:15.cap against France in paris Could the Commonwealth Games

:40:16. > :40:18.be coming back the UK? Durban were stripped of the 2022

:40:19. > :40:21.Games earlier in the week. Liverpool and Manchester had already

:40:22. > :40:23.put themselves forward as a replacement, and now London

:40:24. > :40:26.and Birmingham have also Officials have said they'd

:40:27. > :40:29.consider a joint bid. Glasgow hosted

:40:30. > :40:34.the Games 3 years ago, Muirfield golf club may have

:40:35. > :40:37.scrapped its all-male policy and been welcomed back

:40:38. > :40:40.onto to books of the Open - but Rory McIlroy says he is not

:40:41. > :40:44.ready to toast a new era. The world number three has been very

:40:45. > :40:47.critical that women were denied I still think the fact that it got

:40:48. > :40:59.to the stage is horrendous. And yeah, we will go back and play

:41:00. > :41:03.the open because they have let the members in but every

:41:04. > :41:17.time I go to Muirfield, Always a brilliant interview. He

:41:18. > :41:21.just says what he thinks. Christian Horner from rebel racing talking

:41:22. > :41:23.Formula 1 later this morning. They have made the cars faster, will it

:41:24. > :41:25.be more interesting? From charity fundraisers to birthday

:41:26. > :41:29.parties releasing hundreds of multi-coloured balloons has

:41:30. > :41:31.long been a popular way But what goes up must come down,

:41:32. > :41:35.and animal welfare charities say that the events create

:41:36. > :41:39.lots of litter that can pose a real Jennifer Birtwhistle

:41:40. > :41:44.from York was left devastated when her three-year old horse died

:41:45. > :42:02.after choking on the string This balloon he landed in the field

:42:03. > :42:08.and it has with long of very sharp string which he was very curious and

:42:09. > :42:12.a very brave little horse and he swallowed all this, so he was

:42:13. > :42:18.choking on this and at the same time, this had got jammed around her

:42:19. > :42:22.head as well and she outward, absolutely from choking, she would

:42:23. > :42:28.have been panicking and in terrible fear and crashed into the gate in

:42:29. > :42:34.panic. It has become a major issue in the major cause of concern and

:42:35. > :42:37.after this, we are desperately worried about it. Really distressing

:42:38. > :42:39.story. who organises balloon releases

:42:40. > :42:51.for schools and charities. Cathy, if I could ask you, how often

:42:52. > :42:55.do you hear stories like that? We get regular reports of animals being

:42:56. > :43:00.frightened by balloon releases and it's not just domestic. Our hearts

:43:01. > :43:05.go out to this lady who lost a horse but also wildlife because when these

:43:06. > :43:08.balloons land, they are quite inquisitive, wild animals, as are

:43:09. > :43:13.all animals, and they will ingest them and they will die a slow,

:43:14. > :43:18.painful death. We have major concerns. And the release of

:43:19. > :43:24.lanterns, but can cause real problems with livestock being

:43:25. > :43:27.startled. There are two issues. The fear issues and also when they come

:43:28. > :43:34.to land, is the possibility of ingesting it or getting into it.

:43:35. > :43:39.Balloons have been around for a long time. Are you sensing there will be

:43:40. > :43:43.more problems? They're becoming more the thing to do. We are seeing them

:43:44. > :43:48.at parties and funerals. I understand it as a mark of respect

:43:49. > :43:54.or celebration but because it's happening more, it's having more of

:43:55. > :43:58.an impact on the animals. Paul, this is your business. A lot of people,

:43:59. > :44:03.they have done this. Maybe at a back garden or an organised event.

:44:04. > :44:07.Firstly, it is sad what has happened. The balloon that was shown

:44:08. > :44:12.on the footage is actually a foil balloon. It's not what we would

:44:13. > :44:16.recommend. As an industry, we have guidelines saying they should be a

:44:17. > :44:21.certain size, they should be biodegradable. The balloon is

:44:22. > :44:28.natural latex. The foil balloon we saw something that is more

:44:29. > :44:32.dangerous. It's not biodegradable, it will float, go up at the same

:44:33. > :44:37.time. They are 18 inches across. They go up, they burst, they are the

:44:38. > :44:42.same size. If you put to metallic ribbon on them, they could conduct

:44:43. > :44:48.electricity. They are a no-no. It's the rubber balloons we would release

:44:49. > :44:54.at schools and fundraisers. And a massive response from everybody at

:44:55. > :44:57.home. Lucy has written and said, we released both balloons at our

:44:58. > :45:03.celebration of life services for our boys. It is an important part of the

:45:04. > :45:15.grieving process. A hugely popular and for some important thing to do.

:45:16. > :45:23.It is two different things. These balloons are not biodegradable. The

:45:24. > :45:25.guidelines in the industry say that you should only use items that are

:45:26. > :45:29.biodegradable. These balloons are not

:45:30. > :45:39.biodegradable. One balloon could be over 15 square

:45:40. > :45:45.miles. The pieces that come back down are very small. Where does this

:45:46. > :45:50.leave you and your thinking about this, because you described well

:45:51. > :45:56.what should happen, but clearly some balloons will and up where you don't

:45:57. > :46:01.want them, in a field somewhere, that will happen? We fully

:46:02. > :46:04.appreciate the grieving process celebration type situations and

:46:05. > :46:10.there has been massive improvements over the type of balloons used, but

:46:11. > :46:13.that doesn't take away the fact that horses, livestock and domestic

:46:14. > :46:17.animals can be frightened from the balloon releases, and not everyone

:46:18. > :46:23.is being responsible, as happened here. You mentioned lanterns as

:46:24. > :46:26.well, you think they are as much of a problem as balloons, so the paper

:46:27. > :46:31.lanterns people light up, surely that disappears? Unfortunately,

:46:32. > :46:36.wildlife are in fact it by that because the frame of the balloon is

:46:37. > :46:40.on paper. They have introduced ones that are cane rather than a wooden

:46:41. > :46:45.frame, but we have had livestock ingesting the frames, or they are

:46:46. > :46:50.caught in them, and there is also the fear factor when they are

:46:51. > :46:54.released. They look beautiful, you know, no one is going to argue with

:46:55. > :46:59.that, but the impact, you know, when the beauty is gone, is massive. We

:47:00. > :47:03.were looking at the images, part of what works is when you have lots of

:47:04. > :47:09.the balloons, it is the kind of scale of it that makes it so

:47:10. > :47:13.impressive. Latex balloons at release at 500 with a ticket, with

:47:14. > :47:18.nothing else, once they come back down to earth they will spread. We

:47:19. > :47:22.have had releases where they have gone to France, Germany, Holland and

:47:23. > :47:26.beyond, quite a way, and they will come down over 15 or so miles with

:47:27. > :47:32.only one shattered balloon in the area, but they are a nice spectacle,

:47:33. > :47:41.a good fundraiser, and balloons have been around for a long time. Foil

:47:42. > :47:45.balloons in America cannot be sold so it can't be accidentally

:47:46. > :47:49.released. It might have been that a child was given it. Thank you both

:47:50. > :47:57.for your time this morning. Thank you. Let's go to Carol with this

:47:58. > :48:02.morning's weather. Good morning. This morning it is a messy weather

:48:03. > :48:05.picture, as you can see from the Weather Watchers pictures, this

:48:06. > :48:13.taken outside broadcasting house in London. And there is mist as well,

:48:14. > :48:17.this early Sunrise in Essex, and further north in Shropshire, you can

:48:18. > :48:23.see blue skies. It is a little misty. What is happening is we have

:48:24. > :48:26.mist and fog across southern areas. This cold weather front coming in

:48:27. > :48:31.from the north-west is introducing some rain. And behind it you will

:48:32. > :48:35.find a return to some sunshine and showers. Some of those will be

:48:36. > :48:39.wintry. Here comes the rain across Scotland and Northern Ireland

:48:40. > :48:43.eventually into northern England and north Wales. And after a bright

:48:44. > :48:46.start the cloud will build and we will lose the mist and fog. The

:48:47. > :48:51.south-east will hang onto the sunshine. We also have sunshine in

:48:52. > :48:56.Scotland and Northern Ireland. Quite breezy at times and showers will be

:48:57. > :49:00.wintry in nature. Here is a weather front across England and were,

:49:01. > :49:05.taking rain with it as it moves south-east. Quite murky conditions

:49:06. > :49:09.around parts of the coast of Wales, dampness in the air and the same for

:49:10. > :49:14.north coast of Devon, for example. There will be quite a bit of cloud

:49:15. > :49:19.generally across England and Wales with temperatures 10- 12. Likely to

:49:20. > :49:22.hang on to the sunshine in East Anglia, Essex, Kent and eastern

:49:23. > :49:28.London generally. The weather front tonight pushes south-east, taking

:49:29. > :49:32.cloud with it and behind it we have clear skies with a touch of frost.

:49:33. > :49:37.Showers pack in across Scotland and Northern Ireland. Wintry in Scotland

:49:38. > :49:40.mostly on the hills and we might see it at low levels, but nothing too

:49:41. > :49:46.substantial, so there is the risk of ice first thing. We start on a windy

:49:47. > :49:50.note with, replaced by heavy rainfall or the, into central and

:49:51. > :49:56.southern Scotland, northern England and then Wales. The cloud building

:49:57. > :49:59.in, eradicating the bright start and temperatures tomorrow in double

:50:00. > :50:03.figures across the south, but you will notice the difference as we

:50:04. > :50:08.pushed further north, back into the cold air. 4-8 in the north, sunshine

:50:09. > :50:13.and showers, some of which will be wintry. Then as we move on into the

:50:14. > :50:18.weekend, weather front coming this way through Saturday and Sunday, and

:50:19. > :50:25.look at the squeeze on the isobars, that tells you it is going to be

:50:26. > :50:28.windy at times too. So, to put that into words this week and we are

:50:29. > :50:32.looking at windy conditions with rain around, the wettest in the west

:50:33. > :50:36.with the weather fronts coming in, but brief dry spells, so it is not

:50:37. > :50:42.going to be raining all the time. Thank goodness, thank you very much.

:50:43. > :50:46.Britain's biggest science and to the chief air stars to encourage young

:50:47. > :50:49.people to become engineers and scientists were not for the future,

:50:50. > :50:53.we head straight to the correspondent for us this morning,

:50:54. > :51:01.explained for us the nature of the problem. Good morning, everyone, I

:51:02. > :51:07.am here at the science fair, my name is Owen and I do BBC News School

:51:08. > :51:13.Report, and I am here with Steph. Morning, everyone. This event is all

:51:14. > :51:17.about encouraging young people do have a career in science and

:51:18. > :51:22.engineering. This is obviously people learning about the body parts

:51:23. > :51:27.and the medicine. I have never seen that in a body before. That is

:51:28. > :51:31.something unusual as well. It is about encouraging and inspiring

:51:32. > :51:36.young people. And I think I want is with a couple of inventors. I am

:51:37. > :51:40.here with Joe and key. What have you invented? Creating a system

:51:41. > :51:45.recognising the colour of glass balls. -- Keith. Why is it useful?

:51:46. > :51:52.-- bottles. It eliminates the human workforce. It will help with health

:51:53. > :51:55.and said he. Why did you come up with the idea? The University

:51:56. > :52:02.approach us with a problem and we can't a solution for them. Thank

:52:03. > :52:06.you. And we have Roxanne, she won the Young scientist of the year last

:52:07. > :52:12.year, you have to hand that over to whoever has got it this year. I did

:52:13. > :52:18.a project about past climate change in south Wales, 16,000- 8000 years

:52:19. > :52:24.ago. And for you, what was it like to win? It was a rollercoaster,

:52:25. > :52:29.really, but I loved the year since then, I've been able to talk to

:52:30. > :52:33.young scientists and come here to meet all of the competitors again -

:52:34. > :52:38.it has been a wonderful experience to win and to inspire other young

:52:39. > :52:43.people. Excellent. Do you want to ask what she is doing? What are you

:52:44. > :52:47.doing our? I am on a gap year volunteering but I am starting

:52:48. > :52:51.geology in Bristol University in September. Excellent, and another

:52:52. > :53:00.guest, a space scientist no less, Doctor Maggie. So, why are you here?

:53:01. > :53:04.It is a fantastic place to come and we are trying to inspire the next

:53:05. > :53:09.generation of scientists. I met Roxanne last year, because I am a

:53:10. > :53:13.judge on the panel, and we need to get scientists in everyone, signing

:53:14. > :53:17.up to do wonderful experiments and join us in the pursuit for science.

:53:18. > :53:24.How can we encourage young people like myself to get into science and

:53:25. > :53:27.engineering. Good question. It is a good question and we want to show

:53:28. > :53:30.that there is a scientist in everyone. It covers a range of

:53:31. > :53:33.things from climate change two satellites in space. There is

:53:34. > :53:38.something for everyone, which is what we want to show, and the

:53:39. > :53:42.relevant. When you do and if there and in school, what is the

:53:43. > :53:46.relevance? That is what it is all about. We have kids doing relevant

:53:47. > :53:51.science which is going to be used by scientists, so we want everyone to

:53:52. > :53:55.participate. And we have more young inventors here as well. Tell us your

:53:56. > :54:01.name, where you are from and your invention? My name is Emma and I

:54:02. > :54:05.came up with a glove for deaf people which uses motion sensors to detect

:54:06. > :54:09.sign language and then it speaks it through a speaker and it has a

:54:10. > :54:14.microphone picking up a response and dictating it on the screen on the

:54:15. > :54:20.inside screen for the deaf person. So, why is this useful? It helps

:54:21. > :54:22.deaf people become independent in society and allows them to

:54:23. > :54:26.communicate with other people without feeling stressed or anxious

:54:27. > :54:30.or worried about anyone understanding them. How did you come

:54:31. > :54:36.up with it? I read an article about deaf people and how they struggle

:54:37. > :54:40.with anxiety and depression because of a lack of communication, and how

:54:41. > :54:45.a lot can only communicate with family and friends. Fantastic, and

:54:46. > :54:51.would you like to be a scientist? Yeah, definitely. That is what we

:54:52. > :54:56.want to do, encourage young people? That is a fantastic idea, which is

:54:57. > :55:00.what we need, ideas today four tomorrow, so we want to encourage

:55:01. > :55:04.everybody and that is a prime example. One more to show you before

:55:05. > :55:10.we go, we will head over here, we looked at this earlier, this is a

:55:11. > :55:15.device which is for young disabled people, so that is another invention

:55:16. > :55:19.we will find out more about later on, but would you like to hand it

:55:20. > :55:24.back to the studio? Thank you for joining us. Back to you in the

:55:25. > :55:29.studio. Nicely done, thank you very much, we will see you later on.

:55:30. > :55:33.Thank you. We are just going to bring you some breaking news in the

:55:34. > :55:38.last half hour about the Tory election expenses and the

:55:39. > :55:42.Conservative Party, just to remind you, was fined ?70,000 for a breach

:55:43. > :55:46.in election expenses rules from the Electoral Commission following an

:55:47. > :55:50.investigation into alleged misreporting of expenses during the

:55:51. > :55:54.general election campaign. Just to establish, looking at the detail of

:55:55. > :56:00.the report, the investigation as to the party's general election return

:56:01. > :56:04.was not complete or correct and it is significant because making a

:56:05. > :56:09.false declaration under the section of the act is a criminal offence. We

:56:10. > :56:14.know as well separate to this that there is a police investigation

:56:15. > :56:18.ongoing and a number of Conservative MPs have been investigated. We have

:56:19. > :56:21.a statement from the Conservative Party that says that the

:56:22. > :56:23.Conservative Party has complied with the Electoral Commission's

:56:24. > :56:27.investigation which began more than one year ago and they will pay the

:56:28. > :59:53.fines imposed. Much more on that coming up on BBC Breakfast in

:59:54. > :59:55.Hello this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:59:56. > :59:58.The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching

:59:59. > :00:03.The investigation by the Electoral Commission found

:00:04. > :00:05.that there were significant failures to report accurately

:00:06. > :00:22.Good morning, it's Thursday 16th March.

:00:23. > :00:28.The Dutch Prime Minister sees off the challenge of the far right -

:00:29. > :00:33.he says the voters have rejected the wrong sort of populism.

:00:34. > :00:41.Good morning, I am at the science fair where they are trying to

:00:42. > :00:45.inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. More from

:00:46. > :00:49.In Sport, Manchester City throw away their Champions League chances.

:00:50. > :00:51.Despite holding a two-goal cushion from the first leg,

:00:52. > :00:59.they lost 3-1 in Monaco and they're out of the competition.

:01:00. > :01:06.And it is takeover day at the BBC. Thousands of school reporters will

:01:07. > :01:11.be getting ready to share their stories with millions of people. One

:01:12. > :01:20.of the big topics being talked about is young mental health. We have some

:01:21. > :01:23.incredible supporters and guests. As the cold front goes through with

:01:24. > :01:36.some rain it will turn a bit fresher behind. I had there will be brighter

:01:37. > :01:41.skies in the South East. More details in 15 minutes.

:01:42. > :01:43.The Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching

:01:44. > :01:46.The decision by the Electoral Commission follows an investigation

:01:47. > :01:49.into alleged mis-reporting of expenses during the 2015

:01:50. > :02:00.And also during three by-elections in 2014.

:02:01. > :02:04.We can speak now to our political correspondent Mark Lobel.

:02:05. > :02:11.Tell us about the firing of its significance. It is embarrassing for

:02:12. > :02:14.the Conservative Party and it is the record fine that the Electoral

:02:15. > :02:19.Commission can dish out for this kind of thing. They said there were

:02:20. > :02:23.numerous failures for their reporting of expenses in the 2015

:02:24. > :02:28.general election and three by-elections in 2014. They point out

:02:29. > :02:35.missing payments of over ?100,000. They point out ?100,000 of payments

:02:36. > :02:43.that were not reported or were not reported correctly. It goes back to

:02:44. > :02:52.allegations of bussing in activists to constituencies like South Thanet

:02:53. > :02:56.when they were fighting Nigel there -- Nigel Farage. They were buzzing

:02:57. > :03:05.in people and not counting that as local spending. Invoices and

:03:06. > :03:09.receipts for ?52,000 worth of spending. The Conservative Party

:03:10. > :03:12.treasurer referred to the Metropolitan police over these

:03:13. > :03:20.allegations. It is really bad news for the Conservative Party. Make

:03:21. > :03:24.that link for us. This is the Electoral Commission report, but the

:03:25. > :03:28.significant part of this is basically in the report knowing or

:03:29. > :03:32.recklessly making a full step declaration under this section of

:03:33. > :03:35.the act is a criminal offence, but it falls outside the remit of the

:03:36. > :03:41.commission's civil sanctioning powers. It is in the lap of the

:03:42. > :03:46.police and we know they are already conducting investigations into a

:03:47. > :03:51.number of MPs. This verdict from the Electoral Commission is very much

:03:52. > :03:55.concerned about undermining voters' confidence in the democratic

:03:56. > :04:00.process, to see that things are done fairly. The Conservative Party have

:04:01. > :04:03.responded to this verdict from the Electoral Commission, which is

:04:04. > :04:07.separate from the police investigation, and they say they

:04:08. > :04:12.regret this and they will continue to keep their internal processes

:04:13. > :04:15.under review to ensure that being fined for a reported error never

:04:16. > :04:21.happens to the Conservative Party. They are admitting a mistake. They

:04:22. > :04:26.point to the fact the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats were found

:04:27. > :04:29.in the past for this kind of activity, but they say they have

:04:30. > :04:34.changed their practices for reporting expenses and hope that

:04:35. > :04:39.will reflect in the correct reporting of expenses in the future.

:04:40. > :04:42.We will have more on that story. Breaking news in the last hour.

:04:43. > :04:45.The Dutch Prime Minister, Mark Rutte, has claimed victory

:04:46. > :04:47.in his country's general election, saying the Netherlands rejected

:04:48. > :04:53.what he described as "the wrong sort of populism".The indications

:04:54. > :04:55.The indications are that the far-right candidate,

:04:56. > :04:57.Geert Wilders, performed worse than expected although his Freedom

:04:58. > :05:01.Let's talk to our Europe Correspondent Damian Grammaticas

:05:02. > :05:15.The expected shock did not happen. It did not and that is why what we

:05:16. > :05:22.have already seen from around Europe, other capitals, other

:05:23. > :05:27.leaders, other centrist politicians from Germany, Paris, Brussels, and

:05:28. > :05:33.congratulations coming here from the Dutch Prime Minister, a liberal, who

:05:34. > :05:38.has not been unseated. Mark Rutte had framed this election to the

:05:39. > :05:44.people in which the wrong kind of populism could try following Brexit

:05:45. > :05:50.and the US election result. He told Dutch voters the eyes of the world

:05:51. > :05:57.worked on them. There was a big turnout, almost 80% of people voted.

:05:58. > :06:04.80% of them did not vote for the extreme right. Geert Wilders secured

:06:05. > :06:09.just 13%, way below expectations at the beginning of the campaign where

:06:10. > :06:13.it was thought it could top the polls. The Dutch Prime Minister has

:06:14. > :06:16.held on and that is why there is this relief around Europe.

:06:17. > :06:19.MPs are to be banned from employing husbands, wives,

:06:20. > :06:21.partners or any member of their family under new rules.

:06:22. > :06:24.The Parliamentary expenses watchdog IPSA says it will encourage fair

:06:25. > :06:29.After the expenses scandal MPs were limited to employing only one

:06:30. > :06:32.relative and around a quarter of MPs still do so.

:06:33. > :06:36.The Queen will sign government legislation into law today

:06:37. > :06:39.which clears the way for Theresa May to begin talks on Britain

:06:40. > :06:43.The Bill was passed by MPs and peers on Monday.

:06:44. > :06:45.It's thought the Prime Minister will trigger Article 50,

:06:46. > :06:47.the legal mechanism to begin the withdrawal, before

:06:48. > :06:53.President Donald Trump's new travel ban has been blocked

:06:54. > :06:55.by a judge, just hours before it was due to begin.

:06:56. > :06:58.The government wanted to stop people from six predominantly Muslim

:06:59. > :07:01.countries from travelling to the United States.

:07:02. > :07:03.Mr Trump has reacted angrily, accusing the judge

:07:04. > :07:21.This is, in the opinion of many, an unprecedented, judicial overreach.

:07:22. > :07:25.This ruling makes us look weak, which, by the way, we no longer are,

:07:26. > :07:29.Police, in the southern Indian state of Goa have charged a man

:07:30. > :07:33.28-year-old Danielle McLaughlin's body was discovered on Tuesday.

:07:34. > :07:35.Earlier we spoke to our India Correspondent,

:07:36. > :07:44.Behind me is the field where Danielle's body was found on Tuesday

:07:45. > :07:52.morning. Yesterday evening there was a vigil for her here. A lot of local

:07:53. > :07:56.people came here and laid flowers, photographs and candles. This is an

:07:57. > :08:01.isolated spot, but just a couple of hundred meters to my left is the

:08:02. > :08:06.main, busy highway in South Goa. There are lots of big beaches, and

:08:07. > :08:10.restaurants. The police said when her body was discovered she had

:08:11. > :08:15.injuries on her face and head. I have been speaking with an officer

:08:16. > :08:20.in the investigation and he has to be that the police believe they have

:08:21. > :08:24.found the main culprits and they have compelling evidence with CCTV

:08:25. > :08:29.camera footage that shows the victim walking with the accused. They have

:08:30. > :08:33.also seized a two wheeled vehicle which has blood stains on it and

:08:34. > :08:38.clothes with blood smears in it. They are asking this man if he was

:08:39. > :08:40.working out a loan or if there were others who were brought in.

:08:41. > :08:43.Work is set to begin on the refurbishment

:08:44. > :08:45.of Buckingham Palace after MPs approved an increase

:08:46. > :08:47.in the funding the queen receives from the Treasury.

:08:48. > :08:50.The grant will increase by 66% to pay for the works

:08:51. > :08:52.which are expected to take ten years and cost ?369 million.

:08:53. > :08:55.Officials say without the repairs there's a risk of "catastrophic

:08:56. > :08:59.building failure" being inflicted on a "cherished national monument".

:09:00. > :09:02.A team of navy dolphins have been brought out of retirement

:09:03. > :09:06.in the the United States to help scientists work out why whales

:09:07. > :09:16.The sounds of shipping and sonar have long been blamed,

:09:17. > :09:21.but the research suggests it could be more complicated

:09:22. > :09:31.It is thought they'd dive away from the noise and then they end up

:09:32. > :09:40.exhausted and drift away and end up in trouble.

:09:41. > :09:47.More difficult news for the Conservative Party this morning. The

:09:48. > :09:52.Electoral Commission has fined the party ?70,000 after a day that the

:09:53. > :09:55.party was criticised for its U-turn on a plan to introduce national in

:09:56. > :10:04.Stewart for self-employed people. Criticism came from not only

:10:05. > :10:06.the opposition but also from within his own party,

:10:07. > :10:18.including from Dominic I want you to give me your thoughts

:10:19. > :10:22.on the ?70,000 fine for the Conservative Party. It is serious

:10:23. > :10:27.and we have been cooperating with the relevant authorities from the

:10:28. > :10:31.outset and we will comply with any fines. There are lessons for the

:10:32. > :10:39.future. I do not know all the details, but it is something we take

:10:40. > :10:43.very seriously. It is more than embarrassing that we are in a

:10:44. > :10:51.position now where the Conservative Party, according to this report,

:10:52. > :10:56.broke numerous times, there were numerous failures by a large, well

:10:57. > :11:00.resourced and experienced party. The rules are established for all

:11:01. > :11:05.political parties. Where the rules are not followed it undermines

:11:06. > :11:09.voters' confidence in our democratic processes. That is why this

:11:10. > :11:13.particular part of the investigation is crucial. It comes down to the

:11:14. > :11:21.electoral process and our trust in our politicians and the political

:11:22. > :11:24.system. Yes, absolutely, which is why we have cooperated with the

:11:25. > :11:28.authorities from the outset and complied with any measures that are

:11:29. > :11:33.ordered and learned lessons for the future. I was asked to come and talk

:11:34. > :11:36.about Nixon. I did not know any details about this because it did

:11:37. > :11:43.not reflect any campaigns I was involved in. We will talk about the

:11:44. > :11:48.National insurance rise in the moment. You are a Conservative MP

:11:49. > :11:51.and we had a statement from the Conservative Party and this will go

:11:52. > :11:59.to the heart of what you do the trust people have you. This is the

:12:00. > :12:04.response. They have said they accept in March 2016 the party had made an

:12:05. > :12:07.administrative error. The political parties of all colours have made

:12:08. > :12:15.reporting mistakes from time to time. The Conservative Party issued

:12:16. > :12:21.a statement saying lots of other people have done it as well, is that

:12:22. > :12:25.not embarrassing at the very least? That is your paraphrasing of the

:12:26. > :12:30.statement. Apologies, I have just read from the statement, I am

:12:31. > :12:36.reading literally verbatim from the statement. My apologies to you. I

:12:37. > :12:41.have giving you a clear answer. We take this very seriously, we do not

:12:42. > :12:45.know the details of it, it is not about the campaign I was involved

:12:46. > :12:51.in. We were co-operating from the outset. We were obviously comply. It

:12:52. > :12:55.is very serious and we need to learn the lessons. If you want to talk

:12:56. > :12:59.about the detail, you need to ask the chairman of the party by someone

:13:00. > :13:03.else to come on because I was asked to come on about national insurance

:13:04. > :13:08.and it is something I can involved in. Absolutely, thank you for

:13:09. > :13:14.indulging in these questions. So, this turnaround. Philip Hammond

:13:15. > :13:18.spoke to us and we could go in which he was very vociferously defending

:13:19. > :13:21.his policy and the curious thing about the place was we asked time

:13:22. > :13:27.and time again did he think he had broken the pledge and his opinion

:13:28. > :13:34.was that he had not. Did he does get this wrong, wrong and wrong? If you

:13:35. > :13:47.look at the budget package as a whole, taking the edge of business

:13:48. > :13:50.rates, it is hugely welcome. There was one increase around national

:13:51. > :13:54.insurance changes for the self-employed. There were concerns

:13:55. > :13:58.expressed by people like me and small businesses and things like

:13:59. > :14:03.that. He has looked at this again and very swiftly within a matter of

:14:04. > :14:07.days he has ironed the crease. I think the public liked to have

:14:08. > :14:11.senior politicians who acknowledge their concerns and moved to Ireland

:14:12. > :14:16.are creases like that and get things right. I think it is a sign of

:14:17. > :14:22.strength, not weakness. That is an interesting take. Philip Hammond has

:14:23. > :14:27.many nicknames, it is all about the detail, it is all about the numbers

:14:28. > :14:32.coming he knows what he is doing. This is the exact opposite of that.

:14:33. > :14:36.Apparently, he said this in the Commons, he did not even know he had

:14:37. > :14:41.broken the pledge until a reporter listening to his speech told him so.

:14:42. > :14:46.It would appear he did not know about the pledge the Conservative

:14:47. > :14:50.Party had made and if he did, he was prepared to ignore it. People will

:14:51. > :14:57.be curious about this, do you stick by the pledges of your Conservative

:14:58. > :15:01.manifesto? With respect it is a ridiculous question because it is

:15:02. > :15:05.precisely because we take those promises seriously, and there are a

:15:06. > :15:09.lot of promises made both in the manifesto and in the course of the

:15:10. > :15:13.campaign at lots of different times. I made it clear we needed to adhere

:15:14. > :15:17.to the spirit and the letter of the promises we have made. That is why

:15:18. > :15:22.those concerns were raised and that is why he has moved swiftly within

:15:23. > :15:26.days to iron out those creases and make it clear that change will not

:15:27. > :15:30.go ahead and we are sticking to the promises we made. It is precisely

:15:31. > :15:36.because we take those commitments seriously that we have made the

:15:37. > :15:40.change. I understand the media will go wild at this, but the public like

:15:41. > :15:44.to see politicians hold their hand up and listen to their concerns and

:15:45. > :15:53.when we get something that is not right, moved to address it as

:15:54. > :15:59.swiftly as possible. I find this curious, you have just accuse me of

:16:00. > :16:04.asking an absurd question. You say you're blaming this on the media.

:16:05. > :16:11.That day we had business experts fear saying what you said, and all

:16:12. > :16:14.he did was wait until how bad it had got was apparent. The only reason he

:16:15. > :16:19.changed his mind was that there was a lot of fuss made about it, not by

:16:20. > :16:26.the media, but by the people it hurt. And what this does is it makes

:16:27. > :16:31.us all wonder what will go wrong next? We are going into the Brexit

:16:32. > :16:36.negotiations, what will go up next, and you are smiling now, as if this

:16:37. > :16:41.is an absurdity, that I am making the stuff up, but people do worry

:16:42. > :16:45.about these things. I didn't make anything up and I have not suggested

:16:46. > :16:50.it is the media's fault. I said he had a crease in his budget of its

:16:51. > :16:53.the whole range of issues that go together to putting a budget to get

:16:54. > :16:58.that he has moved swiftly to iron out that crease, and while the media

:16:59. > :17:03.gets very exercised about changes of heart, tweaks, the public take a

:17:04. > :17:07.rather different view. They like to see politicians listen to their

:17:08. > :17:10.concerns, addressed them and resolve things so if they look again at them

:17:11. > :17:14.and think they need to be straightened out, that is the simple

:17:15. > :17:18.point I made. I am one of the people that said I think this needs to be a

:17:19. > :17:24.dad again. You have made a point about credibility. Jeremy Corbyn,

:17:25. > :17:27.when he did his response to Philip Hammond's budget speech Frankie was

:17:28. > :17:32.ridiculous. He sounded like an old man lost in the field ranting at the

:17:33. > :17:36.win. We will take the test of credibility this Prime Minister,

:17:37. > :17:40.this Chancellor, against Jeremy Corbyn and John McDonald every day,

:17:41. > :17:43.any week of the year. I really pricey eight you talking to us this

:17:44. > :17:47.morning, thank you for your time. And you.

:17:48. > :17:52.And you're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:17:53. > :17:56.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:17:57. > :18:02.The weather is quite messy today because we have a bit of this and

:18:03. > :18:06.that, which will see in a minute. If you are in Edinburgh or Lossiemouth,

:18:07. > :18:11.it is a mild start though it will not necessarily stay like that.

:18:12. > :18:15.Fast, Newcastle and London all at nine, Cardiff seven. We have a

:18:16. > :18:19.weather front which will be slipping southwards, a cold front. As it

:18:20. > :18:23.slips out, bringing its reign with it, behind it we will see

:18:24. > :18:26.temperatures dipped just touch. Not hugely but you will notice the

:18:27. > :18:31.difference and it will also be a blustery day. Whereas further south

:18:32. > :18:34.still, we have some patchy mist and fog, especially across southern

:18:35. > :18:37.counties of England, but that will gradually lift, and when it does it

:18:38. > :18:39.will brighten up for some, particularly where we have some

:18:40. > :18:43.breaks at the moment. It will be quite warm across East Anglia, Essex

:18:44. > :18:49.and Kent, but you can see the East End of the cloud and some dampness

:18:50. > :18:52.in the air. Meanwhile, the weather front moves across Northern Ireland

:18:53. > :18:55.in the northern England and North Wales and behind it for both

:18:56. > :19:00.Scotland and Northern Ireland it will be a return to sunshine, some

:19:01. > :19:03.showers and on higher ground in the Highlands especially some of it will

:19:04. > :19:07.fall as sleek and snow. Here is the rain across northern England and

:19:08. > :19:12.North Wales. Not particularly heavy. As we come south of that in the

:19:13. > :19:15.south Wales, still this dampness in the air. The same across the north

:19:16. > :19:18.of Devon, quite a lot of cloud generally across south-west England

:19:19. > :19:23.extending through the Midlands and southern counties. Brighter skies

:19:24. > :19:26.today will be across parts of East Anglia, Essex and Kent, and it is

:19:27. > :19:30.here that we could see temperatures in the sunshine get up to 16,

:19:31. > :19:35.possibly a bit more. Generally in England and Wales it is tens or 11

:19:36. > :19:38.is we're looking at. Through the evening and overnight, and our

:19:39. > :19:41.weather front continues to journey southwards, taking its patchy rain

:19:42. > :19:45.and cloud with it. Behind it and didn't clear skies it will be cold

:19:46. > :19:48.and we will have a look showers Parling in across Scotland and

:19:49. > :19:55.Northern Ireland, some them could be wintry -- piling in. Here too it

:19:56. > :20:00.will be cold under the clear skies, a touch of frost and maybe some ice

:20:01. > :20:03.around. Tomorrow we start of the those showers, but they will soon be

:20:04. > :20:07.replaced by rain coming across Northern Ireland, in the central and

:20:08. > :20:09.southern Scotland, northern England and eventually Wales. It will be a

:20:10. > :20:13.bright start before that rain arrives and you can see how the

:20:14. > :20:21.cloud builds as we go through the day but we are still hanging onto

:20:22. > :20:26.double-figure temperatures in the south. In the north that will feel

:20:27. > :20:28.quite fresh. In the south, unsettled with wind and rain, but equally some

:20:29. > :20:34.dry spells as well. Steph is at Britain's biggest

:20:35. > :20:37.science and technology fair this morning to find out how the industry

:20:38. > :20:54.is hoping to inspire I am here from BBC school report and

:20:55. > :20:58.I am at the big bank science fair, and they are doing a mock operation.

:20:59. > :21:05.The Big Bang Theory and says all about inspiring young people. I am

:21:06. > :21:11.here with Steph. And you are doing a cracking job, Holly. Also some young

:21:12. > :21:18.inventors. Good morning, team. Good morning. . .Edu invented, Gaby? We

:21:19. > :21:25.are designing a photo by rector, and we are going to turn out the into

:21:26. > :21:28.biofuel. Had a G, with that? Our school was renovating the pond, and

:21:29. > :21:32.wanted to get rid of all the algae and we thought we don't want to put

:21:33. > :21:38.it to waste. Tell me a bit about that, you have a little model. Grate

:21:39. > :21:43.a mod pod, a 1-person car that runs on electricity and we are helping to

:21:44. > :21:54.stop the CO2 level in the is here and help traffic. We wanted to, we

:21:55. > :21:57.found out 80% of the population drive alone in Britain and the

:21:58. > :22:02.average person spends more than 36 hours a year in traffic. Said he

:22:03. > :22:06.wanted to solve the traffic. I always get that as well when my mind

:22:07. > :22:11.goes blank, especially when I am on TV. Do you want to hand back to the

:22:12. > :22:16.studio. Thank you. And back to the studio. What we liked about Holly,

:22:17. > :22:20.she can talk and walk at the same time. I know, that is a skill and a

:22:21. > :22:24.half expect thank you very much. 12-year-old Junior loves

:22:25. > :22:26.to dance but it made him He's since gone on to become

:22:27. > :22:30.the UK's Freestyle Street Dance Champion and has been

:22:31. > :22:34.on stage with Justin Beiber! Now he says he wants

:22:35. > :22:37.to use his experience to help others and has raised ?300,000

:22:38. > :22:38.for anti-bullying charities. I've been to meet him

:22:39. > :22:41.as part of the BBC's annual We have been invited

:22:42. > :22:55.here to talk to Junior. He has got a really important

:22:56. > :23:02.message about bullying. In the past, he's had

:23:03. > :23:04.lots of problems with people having a go at him

:23:05. > :23:07.because he is brilliant at dancing. Are you going to show

:23:08. > :23:16.me a little dancing? Junior's dancing has

:23:17. > :23:23.always been an escape. He's 12 now, in a new school,

:23:24. > :23:26.but from the age of seven he was bullied relentlessly, kicked,

:23:27. > :23:29.punched and ridiculed for the street They were really

:23:30. > :23:36.difficult, lonely times. It all started in year three

:23:37. > :23:39.when a group of boys used to call me names like gay, they called me gay

:23:40. > :23:42.because they didn't think that boys I have seen you dancing

:23:43. > :23:54.and you are brilliant at it. Was there a time when if

:23:55. > :23:56.I was talking to you, you would have been

:23:57. > :23:58.a different person? If you were to talk to me at primary

:23:59. > :24:02.school now I was not very confident, I was a bit nervous,

:24:03. > :24:04.really, really nervous, One thing you've got now,

:24:05. > :24:17.which is so great, is friends. They always believe in me,

:24:18. > :24:21.they always tell me to go succeed, go and succeed in your dream and not

:24:22. > :24:25.to be sad or put down by people, you should always

:24:26. > :24:29.succeed and achieve. Junior, just talk me

:24:30. > :24:31.through who we have got here, This is Ewan, this is George,

:24:32. > :24:36.this is another Ewan Because we are in the

:24:37. > :24:48.same football team. They're always, like, proper caring,

:24:49. > :24:50.and they always look out Clearly, having friends

:24:51. > :24:55.around helps a lot. Yeah, because when you have not got

:24:56. > :24:58.anyone and you get bullied, it's one of them things,

:24:59. > :25:00.you get bullied, you go to the corner, like,

:25:01. > :25:04.you're on your own. Whereas if you have got someone,

:25:05. > :25:07.if someone says something to you which kind of hurts you,

:25:08. > :25:11.you go over and they will be like, are you all right, what happened,

:25:12. > :25:15.what did they say? And they would be like,

:25:16. > :25:18.it's all right, it's all right. I think everyone needs

:25:19. > :25:20.a mate like you. Junior's friends now support him

:25:21. > :25:26.in his dream to become a professional dancer and he's

:25:27. > :25:29.already been on stage with Justin Bieber,

:25:30. > :25:31.he's raised ?300,000 And today he even finds time

:25:32. > :25:39.to help and middle-aged man Put your hands up, you start

:25:40. > :25:59.with your hand, it goes like that. And then it goes into that shoulder

:26:00. > :26:28.and that one comes out - It is in person, we all know it is

:26:29. > :26:30.embarrassing. You did really well, better than at the Christmas

:26:31. > :26:33.party... Newsround's Ricky Boleto

:26:34. > :26:34.is at Broadcasting House in Central London, and will be

:26:35. > :26:44.hosting School Report Morning, Ricky. You just saw junior

:26:45. > :26:50.doing some dancing, teaching you how to dance, how did he do? He did

:26:51. > :26:56.ready well. You just said he didn't do really well in the rehearsal, now

:26:57. > :27:01.you are saying he did well. He did OK! Welcome to the launch of BBC

:27:02. > :27:06.school report Newsday. We have these school reporters who will be telling

:27:07. > :27:11.us their stories in a short while, give everyone a wave. And we have

:27:12. > :27:13.some special guests, Rizzle Kicks, who will be telling us a lot more.

:27:14. > :30:33.And now the time for the news, Now though it's back

:30:34. > :30:41.to Charlie and Sally. Hello, this is Breakfast

:30:42. > :30:44.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. The Conservative Party has been

:30:45. > :30:49.fined ?70,000 for breaching The decision by the Electoral

:30:50. > :30:56.Commission follows an investigation into alleged mis-reporting

:30:57. > :30:58.of expenses during three by-elections in 2014 and the 2015

:30:59. > :31:01.general election campaign. Conservative MP Dominic Raab

:31:02. > :31:13.says they are taking We take this very seriously, I don't

:31:14. > :31:17.know any of the details of it, it's not about the campaign I was

:31:18. > :31:22.involved in. We proactively work or operating from the outset, we will

:31:23. > :31:25.obviously comply, no caveats at all, it is very serious and we need to

:31:26. > :31:26.learn the lessons, public trust is crucial.

:31:27. > :31:32.We can speak now to our political correspondent Mark Lobel.

:31:33. > :31:37.So, ?70,000 fine has broken jug in the morning while we have been on

:31:38. > :31:41.air, the biggest ever fined by the electoral commission. Talk us

:31:42. > :31:44.through how significant it is. That is right, bad news for the

:31:45. > :31:47.Conservative party, the biggest find the electoral commission can dish

:31:48. > :31:56.out. It was for the failure to report electoral expenses correctly,

:31:57. > :32:00.three by-elections in 2014, ?20,000 worth of the fine going toward

:32:01. > :32:04.incorrect reporting of election expenses for the last general

:32:05. > :32:08.election that brought David Cameron to power, ?5,000 worth of the fine

:32:09. > :32:14.is allocated to missing expenses, things that were not reported that

:32:15. > :32:18.should have been. It is significant because not just the swirl of

:32:19. > :32:21.misreporting and what that says about the democratic process and

:32:22. > :32:27.voters' confidence that elections take place in a fairway in Britain,

:32:28. > :32:30.but also because there were suspicions already that the

:32:31. > :32:34.Conservatives were using what was called the battle bus in the 2015

:32:35. > :32:38.election to fight marginal constituencies, one of which one

:32:39. > :32:43.they fought Nigel Barrage in South Thanet, and whether some of the

:32:44. > :32:47.phones that were used to fund that were actually spent on local

:32:48. > :32:56.campaigns that should have been recorded differently. The electoral

:32:57. > :32:58.commission was asked this specifically, about whether they

:32:59. > :33:00.were looking into the intention of this misreporting, whether they had,

:33:01. > :33:04.the Conservatives knew what they were doing in misreporting the

:33:05. > :33:07.money, shifting the funds to another account, and they said that is not

:33:08. > :33:12.their remit and that is something the police will be looking into and

:33:13. > :33:13.the electoral commission have referred the Conservatives'

:33:14. > :33:17.treasurer to the Metropolitan Police.

:33:18. > :33:21.Just worth looking at the Conservative party's spokesman's

:33:22. > :33:25.response, saying they have complied fully with the electoral commission

:33:26. > :33:29.investigation since it began a year ago and will pay the fines that have

:33:30. > :33:32.been imposed and also a reminder that we will speak to the chief

:33:33. > :33:34.executive of the electoral commission, whose report that is, in

:33:35. > :33:37.just a few minutes. The Dutch Prime Minister,

:33:38. > :33:39.Mark Rutte, has claimed victory in his country's general election,

:33:40. > :33:41.saying the Netherlands rejected what he described

:33:42. > :33:44.as "the wrong sort of populism". Votes are still being counted,

:33:45. > :33:46.but Mr Rutte's centre-right party The indications are that

:33:47. > :33:50.the far-right candidate Geert Wilders performed

:33:51. > :33:53.worse than expected, although his Freedom party

:33:54. > :33:58.is projected to gain seats. MPs are to be banned

:33:59. > :34:00.from employing husbands, wives, partners or any member

:34:01. > :34:02.of their family under new rules. The Parliamentary expenses watchdog

:34:03. > :34:07.IPSA says it will encourage fair After the expenses scandal, MPs

:34:08. > :34:12.were limited to employing only one relative and around a quarter of MPs

:34:13. > :34:21.still do so. President Donald Trump's new travel

:34:22. > :34:24.ban has been blocked by a judge just The Government wanted to stop people

:34:25. > :34:28.from six predominantly Muslim countries from travelling

:34:29. > :34:30.to the United States. Mr Trump has reacted angrily,

:34:31. > :34:32.accusing the judge of A team of US navy dolphins have come

:34:33. > :34:39.out of retirement to help scientists investigate why whales become

:34:40. > :34:43.stranded in shallow water. The dolphins are helping them

:34:44. > :34:45.to understand how marine animals behave around sonar

:34:46. > :34:51.and shipping sounds. Researchers from the University

:34:52. > :34:53.of California Santa Cruz think panicked whales dive away

:34:54. > :34:57.from the noise and end up exhausted, causing them to drift off

:34:58. > :35:10.course and into trouble. Dolphins out of retirement, there

:35:11. > :35:12.you go. It is like the dolphin A team, coming to the rescue.

:35:13. > :35:18.Victoria Derbyshire is on at 9.00 this morning on BBC Two.

:35:19. > :35:24.On the programme, living with extreme acne, and the difficulty

:35:25. > :35:28.getting treatment. A lack of trained dermatologist is having a huge

:35:29. > :35:35.impact on patients. I'm supposed to be going out tonight, I really don't

:35:36. > :35:40.want to. Not only is it breaking out, it's also soak each cheek, but

:35:41. > :35:45.it hurts, it is painful as well. We will have a special report from

:35:46. > :35:47.Radio 1's Newsbeat team. Join us after Breakfast on BBC Two, the BBC

:35:48. > :35:50.News Channel, and online. Carol will have the weather

:35:51. > :35:54.in about ten minutes, but also coming up on Breakfast this

:35:55. > :36:01.morning: The Conservative Party have been

:36:02. > :36:04.fined ?70,000 for breaching rules on election expenses. We will hear from

:36:05. > :36:06.the electoral commission in a few minutes.

:36:07. > :36:09.With just over a week to go until the start

:36:10. > :36:14.of a new Formula 1 season, we'll ask Red Bull team boss

:36:15. > :36:17.Christian Horner what new cars, a new calendar and new owners mean

:36:18. > :36:20.He's spent years memorising opera and he's only 11!

:36:21. > :36:23.We'll speak to the schoolboy who is set to make musical

:36:24. > :36:25.history as he becomes one of the world's

:36:26. > :36:39.First, Formula one in a minute... We hope, I am looking over your

:36:40. > :36:42.shoulder though at a rather glum looking Pep Guardiola, and

:36:43. > :36:46.unsurprisingly said. Manchester City out of the Champions League, the

:36:47. > :36:49.first time Pep Guardiola has not reached the semifinals in his entire

:36:50. > :36:54.career. I wonder what he is thinking.

:36:55. > :36:57.They said when he took over at Manchester City that this would be

:36:58. > :37:00.his biggest challenge and it is definitely proving that way.

:37:01. > :37:04.Manchester City have been knocked out of the Champions League

:37:05. > :37:06.by Monaco on away goals - they've failed to reach

:37:07. > :37:10.City held a two-goal advantage going into the match but Monaco

:37:11. > :37:13.At that point they were heading through, but Manchester City

:37:14. > :37:19.pressure brought a Leroy Sane goal which put them back ahead overall.

:37:20. > :37:21.The crucial Monaco goal came in final quarter-of-an-hour.

:37:22. > :37:23.It finished 3-1 on the night, with Monaco through

:37:24. > :37:38.We played 45 minutes and created a lot of chances but we missed 45

:37:39. > :37:44.minutes and we spoke lots of times these days, you try to be,

:37:45. > :37:51.our strength is to be aggressive without the ball

:37:52. > :37:54.and in the first half we were a little bit slow

:37:55. > :37:56.in everything which is why we could not do it,

:37:57. > :38:00.So Leicester are the only British team left in the Champions League,

:38:01. > :38:03.and Manchester United will be hoping to be the only British side

:38:04. > :38:05.in the quarter finals of the Europa League,

:38:06. > :38:08.but they have to get past Rostov at Old Trafford tonight.

:38:09. > :38:11.The game's 1-1 after the first leg, and manager Jose Mourinho has spent

:38:12. > :38:13.the build-up defending world record signing Paul Pogba's performances.

:38:14. > :38:21.He thinks his critics are a bit jealous.

:38:22. > :38:29.It's not Paul's fault that he gets ten times the money

:38:30. > :38:34.that some very good players did in the past.

:38:35. > :38:43.It's not his fault that some of the pundits are in real trouble

:38:44. > :38:46.with their lives and they need every point to survive and Paul

:38:47. > :38:51.Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford will be named

:38:52. > :38:55.Injuries to Harry Kane and Daniel Sturridge mean

:38:56. > :38:57.the United frontman, who scored on his senior England

:38:58. > :38:59.debut against Australia last year, will be in Gareth Southgate's squad

:39:00. > :39:01.to face Germany next week, rather than the Under-21s.

:39:02. > :39:04.With England on the brink of a world record 19th straight

:39:05. > :39:06.victory this weekend, the RFU has confirmed it

:39:07. > :39:09.wants to arrange a match against the world's number one side

:39:10. > :39:12.As things stand, England are not due to play

:39:13. > :39:16.the All Blacks until the Autumn Internationals next year.

:39:17. > :39:18.However, unless Premiership clubs receive compensation, they may not

:39:19. > :39:23.Muirfield golf club may have scrapped its all-male policy

:39:24. > :39:26.and been welcomed back onto to books of the Open, but Rory McIlroy says

:39:27. > :39:31.The world number three has been very critical that women were denied

:39:32. > :39:51.I still think that it got to this stage is horrendous.

:39:52. > :40:00.And, yeah, we'll go back and play the Open because they have let

:40:01. > :40:02.women members in, but every time I go to Muirfield

:40:03. > :40:05.now I will have a bad taste in my mouth.

:40:06. > :40:08.All eyes will be on the grid for start of the new Formula

:40:09. > :40:13.It marks the dawn of a new era for the sport following the departure

:40:14. > :40:15.of Bernie Ecclestone after almost 40 years in charge.

:40:16. > :40:17.Organisers say rule changes mean the cars will be faster,

:40:18. > :40:19.making racing more exciting and attractive to a new

:40:20. > :40:23.Head of Red Bull Racing, Christian Horner joins us now.

:40:24. > :40:29.Thank you so much for coming in, how is it looking with ten days to go to

:40:30. > :40:34.the start of the new season? No Bernie Ecclestone, what will be

:40:35. > :40:37.different without him at the helm of the sport? It will certainly be

:40:38. > :40:42.different without Bernie being around, he has been a central part

:40:43. > :40:46.of Formula one for so long now, but with just over one week to go until

:40:47. > :40:51.Melbourne, personnel are starting to travel out of the race over this

:40:52. > :40:56.coming weekend, it is exciting to get going again, the cars will look

:40:57. > :40:59.a bit different this year and there is the excitement of the new season.

:41:00. > :41:02.We can see the new cars on the screen now, to the untrained eye

:41:03. > :41:06.they look like any other Formula one car, but they are faster, aren't

:41:07. > :41:11.they, and that is one of the key changes? Is there a worry that

:41:12. > :41:16.faster cars, they will go a bit faster but would it make the sport

:41:17. > :41:24.more exciting all will it just become a faster procession, will it

:41:25. > :41:29.make overtaking harder? You are giving me all of the hard questions

:41:30. > :41:33.this morning! They will test the drivers a lot harder, we are already

:41:34. > :41:36.seeing the drivers have had to step it up a gear and I think that is a

:41:37. > :41:40.good thing to really test these guys. I think the racing will be

:41:41. > :41:47.close, Ferrari have looked like they have come up with a good car,

:41:48. > :41:52.Mercedes was sure the absolute favourites, and Red Bull hopefully

:41:53. > :41:56.can get in the mix as well. How will it be different for you this season,

:41:57. > :42:04.with new people at the helm of the sport? Will the fans see any

:42:05. > :42:09.difference? I think that it will be different, Bernie has ruled Formula

:42:10. > :42:15.one with an iron fist over the last ball, five decades, so it is going

:42:16. > :42:18.to be different with this new generation of management. It will be

:42:19. > :42:25.interesting to see what their plans are for the future, I think the fans

:42:26. > :42:32.won't see an immediate difference but there are plans in the pipeline.

:42:33. > :42:38.They are very tech savvy and TV savvy, so maybe changes down the

:42:39. > :42:44.line? I think they will try to engage fans more in the sport,

:42:45. > :42:48.social media and those platforms already to give fans more

:42:49. > :42:53.behind-the-scenes into what is going on in in the sport, so I think

:42:54. > :43:01.things will be different but it is more interesting what their longer

:43:02. > :43:04.term and plans are. There is so much secrecy around the cars, it is like

:43:05. > :43:08.a military operation. What extent did you go to to make sure, day one,

:43:09. > :43:13.the first race on the grid, they don't know what you have got? We are

:43:14. > :43:16.obsessed with that so it is espionage and everything else in

:43:17. > :43:23.Formula One, James Bond stuff! We do our best to protect our IP and our

:43:24. > :43:28.philosophy until the last possible moment, and that is common up and

:43:29. > :43:32.down the pit lane, taking pictures of each other's cars, trying to get

:43:33. > :43:37.a glimpse of the underbody and so on, but that is common practice.

:43:38. > :43:41.Does that mean, presumably people go from teens to team, some bosses go

:43:42. > :43:46.from team to team, how does that work, surely they take their

:43:47. > :43:50.secrets? Do you recruit from your opponents? They don't take it on a

:43:51. > :43:55.piece of paper or on a CD, which has got a few teams into trouble!

:43:56. > :44:00.Inevitably whatever they go with in their head it is difficult to

:44:01. > :44:03.control, which is why you often see contractual tilings between

:44:04. > :44:08.personnel and teams and riders, often long gardening period before a

:44:09. > :44:13.technical person can move from one team to another. The last few

:44:14. > :44:16.seasons, all the talk has been about this Hamilton Ross Burden rivalry,

:44:17. > :44:20.and at the end of last season Nico Rosberg won the title and then

:44:21. > :44:27.surprised everybody by announcing his retirement, so there is no big

:44:28. > :44:30.Roger Rafer in tennis type rivalry, who did you think will be

:44:31. > :44:34.challenging for the world championship next season? I think it

:44:35. > :44:39.will be fascinating, Lewis is now the de facto number one in that team

:44:40. > :44:43.but we have got two really exciting talent in Max Verstappen, 19 years

:44:44. > :44:48.of age, what he's doing is incredible. Daniel Ricciardo for me,

:44:49. > :44:52.he was the driver of the year last year, so the talent we have in our

:44:53. > :44:57.cars is exciting. Sebastian Vettel will be looking to come back strong

:44:58. > :45:01.this year in the Ferrari as well, so I think it will be an exciting

:45:02. > :45:06.season ahead. James Hunt was my favourite driver because he had that

:45:07. > :45:09.sense that he could swan around doing what he did and then jump in

:45:10. > :45:16.the car and beat people but it is not like that any more, is it? It is

:45:17. > :45:18.so disciplined down. Absolutely, these drivers are athletes, they

:45:19. > :45:22.train and work hard for the preparation going into the Grand

:45:23. > :45:27.Prix event, it is huge, there are not many James Hunts out there! But

:45:28. > :45:30.they are in great condition. Thank you very much.

:45:31. > :45:37.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:45:38. > :45:45.For some it is a cloudy start to the day. But not all of us, as you can

:45:46. > :45:51.see by this lovely picture taken earlier in Flintshire in Wales. Some

:45:52. > :45:55.lovely blue skies in Scotland. But there is a lot of cloud around and

:45:56. > :46:01.these are the current temperatures. In the north it is mild. Not as mild

:46:02. > :46:06.further south but it will change. Today we have a weather front of

:46:07. > :46:12.which is sinking southwards, taking rain with it and we see fresh

:46:13. > :46:15.conditions coming our way. Some patchy mist and fog to lift across

:46:16. > :46:19.southern counties, but when that goes there will still be a lot of

:46:20. > :46:23.cloud. The exception in the far south-east where we will see some

:46:24. > :46:28.sunshine. In the sunshine, the temperatures will be around 16

:46:29. > :46:32.degrees. The rain continues to move to Scotland, Northern Ireland and to

:46:33. > :46:38.England and Wales. Behind the band of rain we see a return to sunshine

:46:39. > :46:44.in showers. In Scotland, the showers will be more wintry, but more likely

:46:45. > :46:48.over the hills. As we move across northern England into North Wales,

:46:49. > :46:54.we also have quite a bit of cloud and the rain. But the rain not

:46:55. > :46:58.particularly heavy. Damp conditions across South Wales, again murky

:46:59. > :47:02.conditions and across south-west England, you may see some dampness

:47:03. > :47:07.in areas and a lot of cloud across the Midlands towards the Isle of

:47:08. > :47:11.Wight. The evening and overnight period, this weather front moves

:47:12. > :47:16.southwards, taking its cloud and patchy rain with it. Under Cleary

:47:17. > :47:21.Raqqa clearer skies it will be called. Showers across Scotland,

:47:22. > :47:26.some of those wintry, not just on the hills. We could see wet snow and

:47:27. > :47:29.sleet on the hills. By the end of the night we will see the first

:47:30. > :47:34.signs of rain coming in across Northern Ireland. That rain will be

:47:35. > :47:39.heavy as it moves across Northern Ireland, into central and southern

:47:40. > :47:43.Scotland, northern England and into Wales. You can see the cloud

:47:44. > :47:51.building ahead of it so after a nice dry and bright start, the cloud will

:47:52. > :47:53.fill in. Breezy conditions in the South and windy in the North.

:47:54. > :47:58.Temperatures tomorrow, lower than today in the North and we're looking

:47:59. > :48:03.at six to eight and further south, ten to 13. At the weekend we have an

:48:04. > :48:07.array of whether fronts crossing our shores. Isobars telling us it will

:48:08. > :48:11.be windy. This weekend can be summed up by saying, at times it will be

:48:12. > :48:13.dry, there will be rain, heaviest in the West and at times it will be

:48:14. > :48:19.windy. Let's return now to the news

:48:20. > :48:22.that the Conservative Party has been fined ?70,000 for breaching

:48:23. > :48:24.the rules on election expenses. It follows an investigation

:48:25. > :48:26.by the Electoral Commission. It's Chief Executive Claire Bassett

:48:27. > :48:39.joins us now from our Can you tell us exactly what you

:48:40. > :48:43.found they had done wrong? Our investigation reporting today looked

:48:44. > :48:46.at the Conservative Party's National spending return for three

:48:47. > :48:53.by-elections in 2014 and the Parliamentary general election in

:48:54. > :49:00.2015. As a result, we found a high number of mistakes and errors and,

:49:01. > :49:05.as a result, have find them ?70,000, which is the highest ever fine we

:49:06. > :49:09.have issued. The Tory party insist they declared all local spending in

:49:10. > :49:14.the 2015 general election, but you found this wasn't the case and you

:49:15. > :49:17.disagree? It is important to remember we were looking at the

:49:18. > :49:23.national spending return, not the local spending by the candidates.

:49:24. > :49:28.That is a matter for the police and CPS. We focused on the national

:49:29. > :49:32.spending return by the party. We found there was a high number of

:49:33. > :49:38.spending items that money had been spent on where money was missing,

:49:39. > :49:42.money had been incorrectly proportioned and there were no

:49:43. > :49:47.invoice in some cases for the spending. If one party has spent

:49:48. > :49:52.more than they said they did on a campaign, how could that affect the

:49:53. > :49:56.results? That is very hard for me to say, because this is early days and

:49:57. > :50:02.we were looking at the party spending. How it might have impacted

:50:03. > :50:10.local results, will be a case for the police and CPS looking at the

:50:11. > :50:14.candidate spends. You have fined the maximum amount, ?70,000, under what

:50:15. > :50:19.circumstances could there be an audit to maybe rerun a local

:50:20. > :50:23.election? The circumstances for that to happen are extremely limited.

:50:24. > :50:28.They relate to whether a sitting MP can continue to do that. That

:50:29. > :50:33.wouldn't results from this report from the investigation we are

:50:34. > :50:38.publishing today. You said you had significant difficulties in simply

:50:39. > :50:41.getting hold of some of the information, what happened?

:50:42. > :50:45.Regrettably we did come an investigation has taken some time.

:50:46. > :50:49.One of the reasons for that is delays getting information from the

:50:50. > :50:56.party. We repeatedly asked that, issued statutory notices and then

:50:57. > :51:01.had to resort to a court order. They say they complied fully with the

:51:02. > :51:06.investigation since it began almost a year ago, and they don't agree

:51:07. > :51:12.with you? We are pleased the party have accepted the fines and our

:51:13. > :51:17.findings. It is a matter of record that we had to sort a core daughter

:51:18. > :51:24.and that is the case. What happens to the fine? It goes back to the

:51:25. > :51:29.Treasury. Are there more investigations you are carrying out

:51:30. > :51:35.at the moment? There are ongoing investigations by the police and

:51:36. > :51:38.CPS. We have concluded our investigation into the UK general

:51:39. > :51:43.election national spending for the three main parties and this is the

:51:44. > :51:48.third report and find we have issued. We will monitor campaign

:51:49. > :51:53.spending, but we have concluded this aspect of it. Thank you very much

:51:54. > :51:59.indeed. Chief executive of the electoral commission.

:52:00. > :52:07.This morning, we have met some inspiring young people.

:52:08. > :52:10.We have, we have seen some inspiring dancing as well!

:52:11. > :52:12.Thousands of 11 to 16 year-olds will be turning their classrooms

:52:13. > :52:14.into newsrooms today for the BBC's annual School Report.

:52:15. > :52:16.Newsround's Ricky Boleto will be hosting School Report live

:52:17. > :52:18.at Broadcasting House in Central London.

:52:19. > :52:26.Very good morning. We are all talking about Charlie's dance moves

:52:27. > :52:32.this morning, aren't we? What do we think? Love it. Thousands of

:52:33. > :52:35.children across the UK will be filing their school reports and

:52:36. > :52:42.appearing on all the different BBC outlets. We will be talking to some

:52:43. > :52:46.school reporters this morning. How are you feeling this morning?

:52:47. > :52:53.Feeling very good. We have a host of special guests with others. There

:52:54. > :52:58.was a survey for BBC School Report, 1000 children between the ages of 11

:52:59. > :53:02.and 16, if found 70% of those children have experienced one or

:53:03. > :53:07.more negative feelings over the last 12 months. That includes anxiety,

:53:08. > :53:12.feeling upset and unhappy. And 50% of those children said they had not

:53:13. > :53:15.asked for help. We will be speaking to those guys, including Julia here.

:53:16. > :53:28.How are you enjoying your morning? Let's find out more from Jordan. He

:53:29. > :53:29.is from Rizzle Kicks. We have been finding more about his social media

:53:30. > :53:31.campaign. # Mama do the hump mama do

:53:32. > :53:33.the hump hump, mama. # Won't you please let me

:53:34. > :53:36.do the hump hump...#. He found fame with a hip-hop duo,

:53:37. > :53:38.Rizzle Kicks, now Jordan is being asked tough questions

:53:39. > :53:41.by school reporters about the tough Have you or someone close

:53:42. > :53:47.to you experienced either mental health issues or the stigma

:53:48. > :53:49.attached to that? In school during my GCSEs I got

:53:50. > :53:53.diagnosed with ADHD. I was always the hyper kid,

:53:54. > :53:57.I got told to calm down all the time and it is the most infuriating thing

:53:58. > :54:04.for someone who cannot calm down. Jordan began his own social media

:54:05. > :54:10.campaign to get young people talking Becoming like famous gives

:54:11. > :54:18.you all this kind of stuff, you know, and I was able to afford

:54:19. > :54:21.a flat and these kind of things that people are like working day in day

:54:22. > :54:25.out to try and get but the reality is that does not compensate for any

:54:26. > :54:28.kind of emotional stability, in fact, it can often contribute

:54:29. > :54:31.to quite poor emotional stability. According to a School Report survey,

:54:32. > :54:34.half of all pupils admit to having negative feelings but

:54:35. > :54:43.do not ask for help. Being in Year nine, sort

:54:44. > :54:45.of changing as a person, it is a way to control change

:54:46. > :54:48.and it was something that Florence developed

:54:49. > :54:51.anorexia when she was 14. The reason I did not come out

:54:52. > :54:54.and say what I had been through and what happened

:54:55. > :54:56.was because people did not understand where I was coming

:54:57. > :54:59.from and, you know, it took a lot of guts for me to say I had

:55:00. > :55:03.a problem and also I was in denial because I was embarrassed

:55:04. > :55:06.and I thought that it was not normal and it was not

:55:07. > :55:10.something that was OK. Jordan wants his message to reach

:55:11. > :55:15.primary aged children. To just remove the idea

:55:16. > :55:18.that it is kind of like some taboo, to be open about how you feel

:55:19. > :55:20.and your mentality is, Giving help to those

:55:21. > :55:36.who need it even earlier. Jordan is here now. Were you able to

:55:37. > :55:39.talk to a teacher or someone when you were younger, you are going

:55:40. > :55:45.through a mental health problem, what did you do? I got diagnosed

:55:46. > :55:50.with ADHD quite late in my school career. There was an on-site

:55:51. > :55:55.therapist, but it is difficult to build up the courage to speak to

:55:56. > :56:00.someone like a teacher or be open to your friends. What about now? Is it

:56:01. > :56:05.still hard for kids, children aren't talking about these mental health

:56:06. > :56:12.problems, why? The idea behind the campaign I did last year, I Am Whole

:56:13. > :56:18.there is just the fear that he will be perceived in a negative way. It

:56:19. > :56:23.is difficult to understand what is going on inside someone's head and

:56:24. > :56:26.the person with the issue can find it hard to describe what they are

:56:27. > :56:32.feeling. You need to create a safe environment so they are not scared.

:56:33. > :56:40.How has the response been so far? Has been great. Loads of celebrities

:56:41. > :56:45.involved. Come with me, Junior has been teaching Charlie how to dance.

:56:46. > :56:53.One of your stories has been featured today, tell us more about

:56:54. > :56:57.it? I was good at dancing but the bullies thought it was just the

:56:58. > :57:01.girls. So they called you names because you like to dance. When you

:57:02. > :57:05.have proved them wrong. You have been jammed sync with Justin Bieber

:57:06. > :57:10.on the stage and X Factor winners as well, how did that come about? I had

:57:11. > :57:17.to audition out of 10,000 people to dance with Justin Bieber. I went on

:57:18. > :57:23.tour with Sam Bailey last year. She asked me to go back on tour with her

:57:24. > :57:30.again. Nice one! How do you feel taking part in BBC School Report? It

:57:31. > :57:35.is amazing being here and I am honoured to be here. What do we

:57:36. > :57:43.really think of Charlie's dance move? It was good. Very diplomatic.

:57:44. > :57:47.We have one of the co-hosts on the surgery and Radio 1. We are hearing

:57:48. > :57:53.more about children suffering from mental health, is it arise, or are

:57:54. > :57:58.we better at talking about it? I think it is a bit of both. There is

:57:59. > :58:01.a lot of pressure and stress in terms of exams on children and we

:58:02. > :58:05.are not teaching them the right skills to do with that pressure and

:58:06. > :58:11.stress. What kind of skills can we give them, what tips would you have?

:58:12. > :58:16.Feelings are acceptable, we are human and we go through feelings.

:58:17. > :58:20.But understand yourself, get to know how you are feeling and what works

:58:21. > :58:25.are you as an individual, will help you feel better. In this BBC School

:58:26. > :58:30.Report survey found 80% of children were also very positive. So the

:58:31. > :58:34.picture overall is very positive? Yes, we just need to be better at

:58:35. > :58:40.talking about it, making sure children feel accepted and they can

:58:41. > :58:49.talk about how they are feeling. Thank you, come over here, we have

:58:50. > :58:53.our BBC School reporters from Walworth Academy. What is it like

:58:54. > :59:00.being at the BBC here today? It is exciting. Your school report was

:59:01. > :59:04.about top tips how young people can cope with stresses with exams and

:59:05. > :59:06.general life. It is quite stressful being a teenager, can you give those

:59:07. > :59:16.tips? The first was to stay social media

:59:17. > :59:24.free. That is impossible, I have my phone with me now! It is hard on the

:59:25. > :59:30.21st secretary -- 21st century. What about Tip number two? That is

:59:31. > :59:36.medication. Are you doing meditation? Kind of, when I am

:59:37. > :59:46.stressed I go to my room and think about how I should improve things.

:59:47. > :59:51.And what is the final tip? Staying active. Good advice. BBC School

:59:52. > :59:54.report is happening all day today, a special programme is happening at

:59:55. > :59:58.11am this morning so make sure you tune into that, it will be streamed

:59:59. > :00:01.live on the BBC School report website and the Red Button but for

:00:02. > :00:06.now I will leave you with these guys. Thank you so much for joining

:00:07. > :00:09.us this morning talking about mental health in young people. Very good

:00:10. > :00:18.work, Jordan, loving your skills. Charlie, what do you think of these

:00:19. > :00:21.moves, a bit better? They are very good, Ricky, but I notice you

:00:22. > :00:24.haven't been involved! We can linger on you for a moment. I was going to

:00:25. > :00:29.say, not all of the reports are about mental health, one of the

:00:30. > :00:35.reports is about the history of the dab. So there we go, I have done the

:00:36. > :00:39.dab on Breakfast, back to you in the studio!

:00:40. > :00:43.What were those tips there, be active and meditate?

:00:44. > :00:48.Had you ever tried meditation? I am not that good at it. I love it,

:00:49. > :00:49.I will try to teach you to steal your mind. It will never happen,

:00:50. > :00:51.will it?! Britain's biggest science

:00:52. > :00:53.and technology fair starts today to encourage more young people to

:00:54. > :00:56.become the engineers of the future. Our newest business correspondent

:00:57. > :01:08.Alanta is there for us. Good morning Alanta. Good morning,

:01:09. > :01:16.I'm dab, a school news reporter for BBC. Over here we have liquid

:01:17. > :01:20.nitrogen experiments and here we have robots. It is all about

:01:21. > :01:26.introducing young people to science and explaining to them what it is

:01:27. > :01:31.all about. I am with Steph, good morning, Steph. Sorry about the

:01:32. > :01:35.announcement suddenly going off! Alanta did not even get fazed by it!

:01:36. > :01:40.This is all about inspiring young people and there are lots of young

:01:41. > :01:47.inventors here as well. Alanta, tell us who we have here. We have a

:01:48. > :01:53.listen here. Hello, this is my team, we are from Monkseaton School. Why

:01:54. > :01:57.did you come up with this project? We wanted to raise awareness of what

:01:58. > :02:03.people can do to expand their life span. We found out that we will live

:02:04. > :02:08.longer so I guess that is good for us! Well, there you go, that is good

:02:09. > :02:12.news for the ladies but not so good for you, lads. But you have got some

:02:13. > :02:17.brilliant inventions. What did you come up with? I am George, this is

:02:18. > :02:20.Ed, we decided to investigate whether birds have a favourite

:02:21. > :02:27.colour and if so what is that colour. How did you come up with

:02:28. > :02:30.this? We are budding ornithologist and interested in the power of

:02:31. > :02:34.colour so it was the perfect combination. Did you find a colour

:02:35. > :02:39.that they might? The birds visited the blue Peter most frequently and

:02:40. > :02:43.therefore we decided blue was their favourite colour. There you go, we

:02:44. > :02:48.did not know that, Alanta, before we started. Michael is here as well,

:02:49. > :02:52.what is your invention? I'm developing a control system to

:02:53. > :02:55.improve efficiency in industry to provide real-time information to

:02:56. > :03:00.trade workers. How will this be useful? It is about reducing

:03:01. > :03:04.production time and increasing profits, taking a problem from the

:03:05. > :03:08.industry and finding a solution. You are in the middle of your A-levels

:03:09. > :03:14.as well as doing this! It is exhausting! Good luck to you. We

:03:15. > :03:19.have one more person we would like you to meet. This is Doctor Maggie,

:03:20. > :03:23.a space scientist. How can you encourage young people to get into

:03:24. > :03:27.science? There are lots of ways, for instance here we have but magnetic

:03:28. > :03:34.levitation, people controlling cars with robots, something for everyone,

:03:35. > :03:39.but also Touristic Scientific, a series of experiments that kids are

:03:40. > :03:42.doing and scientists are using the results in their research, science

:03:43. > :03:47.is for everybody so they should get involved! How did you get into

:03:48. > :03:50.science? When I was about three years old I watched a cartoon called

:03:51. > :03:55.the clangers, creatures that lived in space and I wanted to join them,

:03:56. > :03:59.so now I build machines that go into space, I am getting closer! Thank

:04:00. > :04:05.you, that is very interesting. You asked earlier, have you ever been to

:04:06. > :04:09.space? No, it is my dream, since I was a kid, I applied when team Peter

:04:10. > :04:16.apply, but he got the job. One day I hope to get out there! -- when Tim

:04:17. > :04:20.Peake applied. How brilliant being part of the School Report day, shall

:04:21. > :04:27.we have a big goodbye from everybody here? Thanks very much, goodbye! Do

:04:28. > :04:34.you want to hand back to the studio? Back to the studio! Very well done,

:04:35. > :04:40.perfect, Alanta that was perfect. Keep soldiering on through the

:04:41. > :04:44.announcements, well done. She can hear you, she has had the

:04:45. > :04:49.earpiece and everything, she is flying!

:04:50. > :04:52.Well done, Alanta! They need one of those brilliant young people to

:04:53. > :04:52.invent a device to disable the tannoy.

:04:53. > :06:26.That would be hope you can join me then,

:06:27. > :06:42.bye-bye. We have met some incredibly talented

:06:43. > :06:44.children this morning. All through this programme, and we have got

:06:45. > :06:46.another one now. And musical maestro is with us.

:06:47. > :06:48.Whilst most 11-year-olds might be more interested

:06:49. > :06:50.in downloading the latest hits, Matthew Smith is getting ready

:06:51. > :06:58.He's preparing for a concert which will see him make musical

:06:59. > :07:00.history by becoming one of the world's youngest conductors.

:07:01. > :07:02.We'll speak to Matthew and his teacher Derek in a moment.

:07:03. > :07:12.Good morning to both of you, we will have a quick glimpse of you giving

:07:13. > :07:17.your conducting. MUSIC.

:07:18. > :08:14.One, two. Matthew and Derek are here with us,

:08:15. > :08:17.good morning to you both. That looks really impressive, what is it like

:08:18. > :08:23.watching yourself do that? Very interesting. What made you realise

:08:24. > :08:29.that you wanted to conduct? How did it start? At the start I didn't

:08:30. > :08:35.really know what conducting was until Derek told me to learn this

:08:36. > :08:41.piece, so I learned it in a few days and then we went to a Symphony

:08:42. > :08:44.Orchestra and he told them, I have a nine-year-old boy who wants to

:08:45. > :08:47.conduct you, but at that time they didn't really believe that, but now

:08:48. > :08:51.it is the right time and I can conduct. When you say you've learned

:08:52. > :08:55.the piece, did you learn it on an instrument? Know, learning it from

:08:56. > :09:01.YouTube, so I had to watch this other boy do it. Derek, talk us

:09:02. > :09:06.through, what is it Matthew has got? It is a brave thing to stand in

:09:07. > :09:12.front of an orchestra and be in charge in that situation. What is it

:09:13. > :09:16.Matthew has got? I have been teaching him violin for four years

:09:17. > :09:23.and in the first couple of lessons I thought, you sort of instantly spot

:09:24. > :09:27.talent. And within five, I didn't mess around, but all four fingers

:09:28. > :09:31.down on the violin, which you don't normally do, I gave him the bow,

:09:32. > :09:35.gave him the violin, it wasn't a great violin but he seems to managed

:09:36. > :09:39.to get a really nice sound out of it. So first of all a gifted

:09:40. > :09:43.musician and then the step to conducting? Well, I just had this

:09:44. > :09:49.hunch that he could do anything, he has music coming out of every pore.

:09:50. > :09:54.This little film you can see online, if you put seven-year-old conductor

:09:55. > :09:58.into Google, I showed that Matthew and I said, OK, over Christmas,

:09:59. > :10:03.watch that and I will give you a conducting lesson after Christmas.

:10:04. > :10:07.It wasn't really a lesson, he just conducted all the way through. When

:10:08. > :10:13.you watch this, it is not simply just about waving a bat on, is it?

:10:14. > :10:19.It is very technical at times. How difficult was it to learn? It is

:10:20. > :10:23.very difficult because you have to think about what to do next at the

:10:24. > :10:26.same time as doing it now. Matthew, are you allowed to have your own

:10:27. > :10:31.style or did you have to do things in a particular way? I think of

:10:32. > :10:35.conductors, some of them are quite elaborate and flamboyant, but do you

:10:36. > :10:39.have to stick to certain rules around conducting? I think you do

:10:40. > :10:43.have to keep the timing, but you can change the style with it. Have you

:10:44. > :10:49.thought about your style, what style did you have? I wanted quite fast.

:10:50. > :10:56.Literally, you want the piece of work, you want the musicians to play

:10:57. > :11:00.quickly? Yes. How do you keep everybody in line? An orchestra is a

:11:01. > :11:04.big thing, if you are conducting the brass section, how do you know what

:11:05. > :11:08.the strings are doing? I've used both of my hands, my left hand is

:11:09. > :11:13.focusing on the left side of me, my right side is focusing on the right

:11:14. > :11:20.side of me, so the brass up there, I do this to them, and the violin, I

:11:21. > :11:27.control them like this. Sally is going to have a go in a second, can

:11:28. > :11:33.you pass the baton... I will use my pen.

:11:34. > :11:40.You have to use your imagination, everybody at home. Matthew, I will

:11:41. > :11:49.follow you. MUSIC.

:11:50. > :11:57.So that is the end of a note? Sally was using the other...

:11:58. > :12:03.I am left-handed. You cannot conduct with a left hand. Sally's career was

:12:04. > :12:07.short lived! Violinists, some of them are left-handed, they have to

:12:08. > :12:14.play right-handed. Traditionally, who is the most trouble in the

:12:15. > :12:19.orchestra? The brass section. Have you had any trouble with the

:12:20. > :12:25.orchestra so far? Not really, they all behave. What piece of music

:12:26. > :12:34.would you be conducting? Di Fledermaus. That is a challenging

:12:35. > :12:40.piece. What are the challenges? You have to keep the right speed because

:12:41. > :12:44.sometimes I do forget, but I get myself back into it. Do you have any

:12:45. > :12:50.help keeping the right speed, do you have a metronome or anything? No, I

:12:51. > :12:54.have listened to it lots of times and if I feel I am in the wrong

:12:55. > :13:03.place I just have to get back to it. Do you get nervous? Not really.

:13:04. > :13:07.Well, good luck, Sally's conducting career is already over.

:13:08. > :13:08.You can dance, I cannot conduct! Lovely to see you this morning,

:13:09. > :13:09.thank you. Matthew will lead the

:13:10. > :13:10.Nottingham Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Concert Hall

:13:11. > :13:13.in the city on April 2nd. We'll be here tomorrow

:13:14. > :13:24.from 6am on BBC One. I'm going to go and be a rebel

:13:25. > :13:29.left-handed conductor. See you tomorrow, goodbye!