Browse content similar to 01/04/2017. Check below for episodes and series from the same categories and more!
Line | From | To | |
---|---|---|---|
weekend is looking mixed. Some of us might have to run for cover today | :01:28. | :01:31. | |
from a fuchsia hours. Tomorrow is actually looking mostly sunny. | :01:32. | :01:34. | |
Tensions are rising over Gilbraltar's position during Brexit, | :01:35. | :01:38. | |
after the EU gave Spain a potential veto on any future deal | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Last night, the government said it would stand up for Gibraltar's | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
The enclave has accused Spain of trying to manipulate discussions, | :01:46. | :01:49. | |
in order to further its 300-year-old sovereignty claims. | :01:50. | :01:51. | |
Gibraltar has been in British hands in 1713. Its shares they had order | :01:52. | :02:10. | |
since Spain, but rejects any Spanish claim of sovereignty. The current | :02:11. | :02:16. | |
proposals mean a deal between the UK and the EU would not apply to | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
Gibraltar without an additional agreement between the UK and Spain. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
Gibraltar's chief minister has rejected this as an attempt by Spain | :02:25. | :02:29. | |
to encroach on the rock's ability to control its sovereignty. It singles | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
out Travolta. It is unfair and unnecessary and is committed to. I | :02:36. | :02:39. | |
am grateful Spain has been foolish enough to play this card early in | :02:40. | :02:44. | |
this process and not at five minutes to midnight with an agreement in | :02:45. | :02:47. | |
place, bar the issue of Gibraltar. The British government has been | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
quick to affirm its commitment to the territory. Foreign Secretary as | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
Johnson tweeted that the UK remains implacable and rocklike in our | :02:56. | :03:02. | |
support for Gibraltar. But these are draft proposals, due to be finalised | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
by the EU at the end of the month. Theresa May has until then to try to | :03:09. | :03:11. | |
persuade them to drop this controversial clause. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Later this morning we'll be speaking to Gilbratar's chief minister | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
Two million people are set for a pay rise today, | :03:17. | :03:26. | |
as the national living wage goes up t7.50 pounds an hour. | :03:27. | :03:33. | |
The change, which means over-25s are paid at least 7.50 | :03:34. | :03:35. | |
an hour, has been broadly welcomed by unions. | :03:36. | :03:38. | |
But there've been calls from campaigners for the rate to be | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
higher to meet the true cost of living - while employers | :03:41. | :03:44. | |
have expressed concern about the strain of additional costs. | :03:45. | :03:46. | |
Here's our business correspondent Joe Lynam. | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
23-year-old Lewis Davison is already paid more than the national living | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
wage by his employer. But you certainly notice is the difference | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
from his previous company. I was struggling for money. It was a need | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
concern. It was very much go to work, come back, spend the night in | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
front of the telly. Now I can afford to have a social life and I can | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
afford to do stuff in my local area. I can enjoy myself a bit more. From | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
today, all workers over 25 must be paid at least ?7 50 an hour. If you | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
are careful week you will get at least ?180. At employers are | :04:26. | :04:31. | |
worried. Many employers were already paying their staff more than the | :04:32. | :04:34. | |
national living wage for those who went it is adding significant costs | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
of their businesses. About ?900 a year for staff, on average, than a | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
further ?120 with the knock-on consequences for national insurance | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
payments as well. Much of that cost will be absorbed by the businesses, | :04:49. | :04:52. | |
rather than passing it forward on prices. That is not the only change. | :04:53. | :04:56. | |
Controversial new business rates come into force today. While most | :04:57. | :05:01. | |
companies will be paying less, some, especially in the south-east, face | :05:02. | :05:06. | |
higher bills. And a new system for calculating car taxes start. Hybrid | :05:07. | :05:11. | |
car owners will be paying more than they did. Around 4000 households in | :05:12. | :05:17. | |
England owning more than ?400,000 a year have received taxpayer money to | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
help them buy a home. Official figures also help they have been | :05:22. | :05:24. | |
helped by the equity loan scheme, which has assisted more than 20,000 | :05:25. | :05:27. | |
households, who are not first-time buyers. Labour said it showed the | :05:28. | :05:33. | |
initiative was badly targeted. The government said it continued to make | :05:34. | :05:36. | |
home ownership a reality that thousands of people. Patients | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
referred to be NHS for fertility team in Scotland will be eligible | :05:42. | :05:44. | |
for three full cycles of IVF treatment. | :05:45. | :05:46. | |
From today, the Scottish government is increasing the number | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
of cycles funded by the health service for women under 40 | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
It's expected to cost about 1-million-pounds a year. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
It is thought that around one in seven couples experience difficulty | :05:55. | :06:05. | |
having children. In Scotland, up until now, women under 40 have been | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
offered two cycles of IVF on the NHS. That is now changing to upset | :06:10. | :06:17. | |
three. Older women between 40 and 42 will also be offered one cycle if | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
they fit certain criteria. In other parts of the UK, the number of IVF | :06:23. | :06:27. | |
cycles on the NHS for women under 40 varies. In England, up to three full | :06:28. | :06:35. | |
cycles are recommended. But local commissioning groups decide, and of | :06:36. | :06:39. | |
half the areas in England, only one cycle is offered. In Wales women | :06:40. | :06:45. | |
under 40 are entitled to two cycles. In Northern Ireland, just one. The | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
IVF programme in Scotland is expected to crunch the NHS around ?1 | :06:51. | :06:56. | |
million a year. -- cost the NHS. Money which has already put aside. | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
The minister says changes to IVF treatment in Scotland make it the | :07:02. | :07:03. | |
fairest and most generous in the UK. This is the moment President Donald | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
Trump left the Oval Office on Friday without signing the two executive | :07:09. | :07:11. | |
order he was there to announce. He continued walking as a reporter | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
shouted questions about whether Mr Trump was directing his | :07:21. | :07:23. | |
Administration to grant immunity to fight and Pfizer Michael Flynn, and | :07:24. | :07:28. | |
its journalists confusion. Vice President Mike Pence picked up the | :07:29. | :07:31. | |
orders from the table and they were signed in another room. | :07:32. | :07:33. | |
Authorities in Hungary will begin moving asylum seekers | :07:34. | :07:35. | |
to new detention facilities near the border with Serbia in a bid | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
to stop them slipping away deeper into Europe. | :07:40. | :07:41. | |
But rulings by the European Court of Human Rights against the move | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
Nick Thorpe sent this report from the Hungarian-Serbian border. | :07:45. | :07:50. | |
This container camp is still empty. There is space here for 250 asylum | :07:51. | :07:58. | |
seekers. So far it is home to just two families. The government says it | :07:59. | :08:03. | |
is locking them up to close a loophole, to stop those who seek | :08:04. | :08:07. | |
asylum in Hungary slipping away deep into Europe. But detaining asylum | :08:08. | :08:15. | |
seekers automatically is illegal. They are treated as if they were | :08:16. | :08:20. | |
illegal, from the first moment. So whereas the European Union's law | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
requires to accept that they have the right to stay until the first | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
decision, they are treated first as if they were illegal, second as if | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
they had not entered Hungary. Call it a reception centre, call it a | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
container camp. By building it be Hungary and authorities have issued | :08:41. | :08:43. | |
a direct challenge to the international community. Nobody can | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
tell us, they say, how did you would asylum seekers. This is our food | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
warehouse. Just across this Serbian border, volunteers provide food to | :08:54. | :09:00. | |
volunteers. They used to rest here on the way to Hungary. Now they are | :09:01. | :09:05. | |
looking for alternative route. This is a time of experimentation. I | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
think the volunteers in Serbia are trying to see if there is any | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
direct, trying the Croatian border and the remaining border. -- | :09:13. | :09:19. | |
Romanian border. In a ruined brick factory at the edge of town this | :09:20. | :09:23. | |
Pakistani refugee contemplates his next move. Maybe Alice tried from | :09:24. | :09:28. | |
the Croatian side of the Romanian side. This order is now totally | :09:29. | :09:32. | |
close. They have ill say fans. It is a problem for us. Hungary, at great | :09:33. | :09:38. | |
cost, has sealed its southern border. So he and his friends should | :09:39. | :09:45. | |
plan to travel through Romanian set. -- instead. The creator of the | :09:46. | :09:53. | |
rainbow flag had become an international symbol to gay rights. | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
He has died at 65. Take-up was asked to come up with a fight for the LGBT | :09:58. | :10:04. | |
community in 1978 by Harvey milk, California's first openly gay | :10:05. | :10:08. | |
elected official. -- Baker was asked. People in Orkney enjoy the | :10:09. | :10:14. | |
best quality of life in any rural area in the UK. It is beautiful, | :10:15. | :10:17. | |
gorgeous to look at, low crime rates, and a good choice of pubs, | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
according to a survey. It is the first time the islands have top the | :10:22. | :10:26. | |
poll, jumping from 46 last year. They beat the most mid-is, which | :10:27. | :10:30. | |
came into second place next year. -- they'd beat the West Midlands. | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
Let's take you through the front ages of the morning papers. The | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
times of a story about Google and their tax affairs. Inland Revenue | :10:44. | :10:47. | |
has been landed by a bell with Google. They have agreed to pay ?31 | :10:48. | :10:53. | |
in corporation tax over last year, despite the governments jesting they | :10:54. | :10:57. | |
will claw back more from Google. -- suggesting. There is a picture of | :10:58. | :11:04. | |
the Princess of Wales with a -- Prince of Wales with violence and | :11:05. | :11:10. | |
blackout. This story in the Daily Mail suggests Prince Charles tried | :11:11. | :11:14. | |
to halt the invasion of Afghanistan to honour Rama dance. They say that | :11:15. | :11:19. | |
this is a plea he made to the US ambassador to London for weeks into | :11:20. | :11:24. | |
the military operation. The Daily Telegraph has another take on a | :11:25. | :11:29. | |
long-running MP's expenses story. They say that there is now a new | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
development because Parliament is facing a new scandal after the | :11:35. | :11:38. | |
amount that every MP pays their staff, including their spouses and | :11:39. | :11:41. | |
family members, which they say has now been leaked. The picture that | :11:42. | :11:45. | |
you can see if the American actress Megan Michael, Prince Harry's | :11:46. | :11:51. | |
Elphin, who has than a photo shoot. On the front page of the Daily | :11:52. | :11:55. | |
Mirror they have an article by Linda Nolan talking about the whole | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
situation, she is speaking for the first time about facing life with | :12:00. | :12:06. | |
incurable cancer. She says, "I am not going to be dying from cancer, I | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
don't be living with cancer". That is Linda Nolan. Front page of the | :12:11. | :12:17. | |
Sun newspaper. A headline writer's dream. Nigel Farage meeting this | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
young lady on an aeroplane. Yes, they go. 6:12am is the time. We will | :12:23. | :12:31. | |
have a full review of the front pages later. Music often provides an | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
escape from the real world, but in whole, they are aiming to give | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
listeners a better connection to their surroundings. He works will | :12:40. | :12:42. | |
grace the Humber Bridge by incorporating surround -- sounds | :12:43. | :12:47. | |
made by the structure as people walk across the bridge. | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
Herein leaves something magical is taking place. Musicians from opera | :12:53. | :12:59. | |
North are putting the finishing touches to a recording which will | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
invoke the essence of one of Yorkshire's most iconic sites, the | :13:03. | :13:06. | |
Humber Bridge. Many of us will have driven across the bridge, taking in | :13:07. | :13:12. | |
the size of the Humber of. But this unique project is hoping to inspire | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
people to walk along its mile long length and yet lost in incredible | :13:18. | :13:23. | |
sounds. Opera North is working with a Norwegian composers to create this | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
musical guided walk. It is a fantastic construction and it is so | :13:31. | :13:36. | |
much rigour than I expected. It has been interesting to walk across the | :13:37. | :13:39. | |
bridge and to actually hear the sound of the Bridget felt. -- | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
Bridge. Meanwhile the opera orchestra is doing its part. How can | :13:50. | :13:54. | |
we blend different instruments into that and then build things on top of | :13:55. | :14:00. | |
chords and sounds? The music just felt like it was a natural blood | :14:01. | :14:06. | |
running through your veins. Some of these musicians are using their | :14:07. | :14:17. | |
instruments in a very unusual way. The operator north chorus also has a | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
part to play in creating the soundscape. It is very atmospheric. | :14:22. | :14:27. | |
Part of the problem is that we only know our bits and there are at least | :14:28. | :14:31. | |
seven other layers, as far as we can tell. I have no idea what the other | :14:32. | :14:35. | |
end product is going to be. The finished piece will be heard through | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
headsets as people walk across the bridge. What is amazing about it is | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
that it makes you look at everything completely differently, when you are | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
listening as well. It creates a completely... You look at everything | :14:48. | :14:48. | |
much more carefully. It is great. You're watching | :14:49. | :14:54. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. Britain has said it will protect | :14:55. | :14:58. | |
Gibraltar from any sovereignty claims made by Spain | :14:59. | :15:03. | |
during Brexit negotiations. A pay rise for two million people, | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
as the national living wage rises Click visits Brian Eno for a rare | :15:07. | :15:10. | |
peek inside the studio, and mind, This is the Flying Scotsman, | :15:11. | :15:18. | |
travelling across the Ribblehead Viaduct yesterday on the reopened | :15:19. | :15:33. | |
Settle to Carlisle railway. A section of the line | :15:34. | :15:37. | |
was forced to close I don't know if you call that. Will | :15:38. | :15:55. | |
it be a nice day for a trip to the countryside? | :15:56. | :15:58. | |
It always is beautiful in the countryside, but the weather will be | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
a little bit hit and miss today. The clouds are building and they will | :16:03. | :16:06. | |
continue to build. We are in for some pretty heavy showers today, so | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
the weather will be a little bit hit and miss. We might have to run for | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
cover and get away from some of the dark clouds. It's already reining in | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
parts of Wales. We will see more of the showers developing. -- raining. | :16:19. | :16:24. | |
This morning they will start popping up in the western parts of the UK | :16:25. | :16:30. | |
first. Then later in the afternoon they will start developing in more | :16:31. | :16:33. | |
eastern parts of the UK. And we will have rumbles of thunder. One of | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
these days where we get sunshine and then we start to see the big clouds | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
brewing on the horizon, wondering if you will make it to the corner shop | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
before getting soaked. Some of them will be quite heavy. There could | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
even be hail as well. And a cool each sort of day wherever you are. | :16:52. | :16:57. | |
Temperatures only about 13- 14 degrees at lunchtime. -- coolish | :16:58. | :17:08. | |
sort of day. This evening, as if by magic, they are gone and we are left | :17:09. | :17:13. | |
with a clear day. Overall a dry night tonight. The chilly, just cold | :17:14. | :17:17. | |
enough for grass frost in some northern areas, and tomorrow at the | :17:18. | :17:25. | |
-- a different sort of day. Tomorrow this high pressure builds. Lots of | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
clear whether in the morning, a crisp, sunny, chilly start for many, | :17:31. | :17:36. | |
then we are in for a beautiful, sunny day. Light winds as well. | :17:37. | :17:41. | |
Feeling warm and cause we have more sunshine. Maybe 17 in London. Cooler | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
around the coast. For most of us 12- 13. In summary, April showers today, | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
chilly overnight and tomorrow we have a sunny Sunday. Thanks very | :17:56. | :17:59. | |
much indeed. Changeable! We'll be back with a summary | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
of the news at 6:30. Now it's time for The Film Review, | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
with Gavin Esler and Mark Kermode. Hello and welcome to | :18:06. | :18:22. | |
The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through this | :18:23. | :18:25. | |
week's cinema releases We have Graduation, which is | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
a low-key and intense drama. We have Ghost in the Shell, | :18:28. | :18:37. | |
controversial live action adaptation And Free Fire, the new film | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
from Ben Wheatley. Ben Wheatley, we are both | :18:41. | :18:49. | |
fans of Ben Wheatley. Graduation is from Cristian Mungiu, | :18:50. | :18:52. | |
the Romanian director of 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, | :18:53. | :18:57. | |
which you remember we reviewed This is another low-key | :18:58. | :19:00. | |
and very intense drama. The story is a doctor, | :19:01. | :19:05. | |
his daughter is on her way to school, is attacked, | :19:06. | :19:08. | |
she gets a broken wrist and the doctor is just | :19:09. | :19:11. | |
simply worried that it He is desperate for her to get great | :19:12. | :19:14. | |
exam grades because he wants to be He is convinced that she needs | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
to get away because the place that they live is not somewhere | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
that he wants his daughter And all he can focus on is this | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
desire for her to get As a result of it, he starts | :19:28. | :19:31. | |
getting drawn into a web Somebody knows somebody | :19:32. | :19:35. | |
who could perhaps ensure that her exam grades are OK, | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
but only in return for a favour for a deputy mayor who needs to be | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
moved up in his wait The daughter, understandably, | :19:43. | :19:45. | |
is not pleased about the idea It really is and you see | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
from that single shot, What I love about this | :19:50. | :20:54. | |
is it's a perfect blend On one hand, it's a story | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
about a father and a daughter, on the other hand it's | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
a story about how social Every conversation is, | :21:04. | :21:05. | |
ooh, that building's Yes, it will be a backroom deal, | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
well, isn't everything? It's a film in which | :21:09. | :21:14. | |
the personalities of the characters completely draw you in, | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
and you believe in their personal stories, but you also understand | :21:18. | :21:20. | |
that it's telling a wider story, about what it means to grow up | :21:21. | :21:22. | |
in a society in which everything seems to be sort of slightly | :21:23. | :21:26. | |
on the wrong side And, as is so brilliant with this | :21:27. | :21:29. | |
director, what he manages to do is get to that point across, | :21:30. | :21:35. | |
but never sounds hectoring, you never feel like what you're | :21:36. | :21:38. | |
watching is a political statement. What you feel you're watching | :21:39. | :21:41. | |
is a really intense drama in which the doctor, | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
for example, he's concerned about his daughter, | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
but he has a mistress. At one point he says | :21:47. | :21:48. | |
to his wife, everyone cheats And he says, yeah, | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
and look where it got you! So it's a really interesting film | :21:51. | :21:57. | |
about guilt and complicity. Some people have compared him | :21:58. | :21:59. | |
to Michael Haneke, haven't they? Because lots of bad things | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
are happening under the surface Although I think, personally, | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
I think there's a lot more tenderness, a lot more humanity | :22:06. | :22:09. | |
in what's happening here. Haneke's films are terrific, | :22:10. | :22:13. | |
but they're very harsh, very sharp and sometimes accusatory, | :22:14. | :22:17. | |
I think. Live action adaptation | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
of a celebrated manga, and of course a famous 1995 anime, | :22:20. | :22:28. | |
which people revere Scarlett Johansson is Major, | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
a human ghost in a cyber She's a person, she's | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
a robot, she's a weapon. That film has become | :22:35. | :22:38. | |
the cause of some controversy about whitewashing, | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
and about the fact that Scarlett Johansson | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
was cast in this role. It has to be said, the director | :22:45. | :22:46. | |
of the '95 anime has said, and I quote, "There is no basis | :22:47. | :22:49. | |
for saying that an Asian actor must It is a controversy that | :22:50. | :22:53. | |
has dogged the film, Like the plot of the film itself, | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
you can look at this and think, well, it's a soul of one thing | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
transplanted into a shell which is slightly artificial | :23:02. | :23:04. | |
and slightly more glossy. However, I was strangely | :23:05. | :23:06. | |
impressed by it. I went in with fairly | :23:07. | :23:08. | |
low expectations. I think it does a very good job | :23:09. | :23:10. | |
of evoking the future world. People have talked about it | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
looking like Blade Runner, it looks more like The Fifth | :23:16. | :23:17. | |
Element, oddly enough. I found that, yes, it changed | :23:18. | :23:20. | |
and simplified the narrative to some extent and it loses some | :23:21. | :23:28. | |
of the melancholy and depth of its predecessors, | :23:29. | :23:31. | |
but as a piece of multiplex entertainment it was better | :23:32. | :23:33. | |
than I expected it to be OK, so, the new film | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
by Ben Wheatley. The story is in Boston in the 1970s | :23:37. | :23:44. | |
there is an arms deal going down between a group of people, | :23:45. | :23:50. | |
all of whom are The whole thing looks very volatile | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
and looks like at any moment it could fall apart appallingly, | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
and of course it does. Try not to hit any of the metal | :23:58. | :23:59. | |
work, because I don't want to get any of those bling burns | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
on my new... I don't know about you guys, | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
but I for one think Vern's My guess is you're whatever | :24:08. | :24:20. | |
you're paid to be, pal. What I really like about it is this, | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
on the one hand it's a tense drama about a bunch of people | :24:25. | :25:06. | |
in a warehouse, all of whom are armed and all of whom are fighting | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
each other in various different However, it also has a kind | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
of screwball comedy element. The best way of describing it, | :25:14. | :25:16. | |
it's like a silent movie, slapstick sensibility, | :25:17. | :25:19. | |
but with a soundtrack which reminds you of those | :25:20. | :25:21. | |
Loony Tunes cartoons, that is really, really | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
brilliantly put together. It keeps you on the | :25:26. | :25:27. | |
edge of your seat. It's tense, but also | :25:28. | :25:29. | |
very, very comic. The idea is that all of these | :25:30. | :25:32. | |
people are variously They're all laughed at, | :25:33. | :25:37. | |
from their ridiculous quotes Vernon keeps saying "watch | :25:38. | :25:43. | |
and vern, watch and vern." What I liked about it, | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
I think what Ben Wheatley and his film making partner Amy Jump | :25:48. | :25:50. | |
managed to do is make it a cross-genre film, | :25:51. | :25:53. | |
which they always do. OK, yes, it's a thriller, | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
but it's also a comedy, It's a comedy about the fact | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
that if you take... People have compared it to, | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
they say it's like the last movement It's like that sequence | :26:06. | :26:08. | |
in Naked Gun 2 1/2, when there's the close-range gunfight, | :26:09. | :26:14. | |
with two people hiding behind the same dustbin, | :26:15. | :26:16. | |
but it's like that that, It passes the six laughs test | :26:17. | :26:19. | |
in the first ten minutes. It's passed the six laughs test | :26:20. | :26:29. | |
in the last two minutes. You were laughing | :26:30. | :26:32. | |
all the way through. I'm laughing at you | :26:33. | :26:34. | |
talking about it. OK, fine, so it's me | :26:35. | :26:36. | |
you're laughing at! But Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson, | :26:37. | :26:38. | |
Sharlto Copley, Armie Hammer, a really terrific cast, | :26:39. | :26:40. | |
and every single one of them clearly rising to the challenge of this, | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
thinking it's a great script. I know nobody ever comes out | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
of the cinema and says this, LAUGHS | :26:47. | :26:51. | |
I think you sold that quite well. This is out in cinemas | :26:52. | :26:54. | |
at the moment. Have you seen this yet? | :26:55. | :26:59. | |
No, I haven't see it yet. It's described by its director | :27:00. | :27:02. | |
as a social thriller, and it's very much influenced | :27:03. | :27:05. | |
by Rosemary's Baby But it also alludes to horror movies | :27:06. | :27:07. | |
like Red State and Green Room and also to films like Tales from | :27:08. | :27:12. | |
the Hood and To Sleep With Anger. It's a sort of horrifying satire | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
about racism in post-racial America, about liberal, rich white people, | :27:17. | :27:19. | |
with this broiling I saw it in a packed cinema and it | :27:20. | :27:21. | |
really played to the crowd. It's done terrifically well | :27:22. | :27:29. | |
and I think it's great. A coming-of-age drama that | :27:30. | :27:32. | |
appears to be written and directed by someone | :27:33. | :27:35. | |
who likes the protagonist. It's smart, funny, intelligent | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
and terrific performances by Hailee Steinfeld | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
and Woody Harrelson. And Kelly Fremon Craig who wrote | :27:44. | :27:45. | |
and directed it, I think, I thought it was really touching, | :27:46. | :27:48. | |
very tender and very funny. Since this is our last Film Review | :27:49. | :27:52. | |
and I am on holiday from tomorrow, Very good, you will enjoy it, | :27:53. | :27:56. | |
you'll enjoy it, but you have to go I will do. | :27:57. | :28:01. | |
Thanks very much. A quick reminder before we go that | :28:02. | :28:05. | |
you'll find more film news and reviews from across the BBC | :28:06. | :28:08. | |
online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. And you can find all our previous | :28:09. | :28:11. | |
programmes on the BBC iPlayer. Thanks for watching, | :28:12. | :28:14. | |
enjoy the movies. Hello, this is Breakfast | :28:15. | :28:17. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. Tomasz will have a weather update | :28:18. | :29:31. | |
in around 15 minutes' But first at 06:45, | :29:32. | :29:33. | |
let's get a summary Tensions are rising over | :29:34. | :29:36. | |
Gilbraltar's position during Brexit, after the EU gave Spain a potential | :29:37. | :29:40. | |
veto on any future deal The enclave's administration accused | :29:41. | :29:43. | |
Spain of trying to manipulate the discussions, in order to further | :29:44. | :29:51. | |
its 300-year-old sovereignty claims. Last night, the Foreign Secretary, | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
Boris Johnson, said the government would be "implacable | :29:55. | :29:57. | |
and rock-like" in its support 2 million people are set | :29:58. | :29:59. | |
for a pay rise today, as the national living wage goes up | :30:00. | :30:04. | |
to 7.50 pounds an hour. The change has been broadly | :30:05. | :30:09. | |
welcomed by unions. But there've been calls | :30:10. | :30:11. | |
from campaigners for the rate to be higher to meet the true cost | :30:12. | :30:14. | |
of living, while employers have expressed concern about | :30:15. | :30:18. | |
the strain of additional costs. Around 4,000 households in England | :30:19. | :30:20. | |
earning more than 100,000 pounds a year have received taxpayers' | :30:21. | :30:23. | |
money to help them buy a home. Official figures also reveal | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
that the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme has assisted more than 20,000 | :30:27. | :30:29. | |
households who were not Labour said it showed the initiative | :30:30. | :30:32. | |
was "badly targeted" but the government insisted it | :30:33. | :30:42. | |
continued to make home ownership Patients referred to the NHS | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
for fertility treatment in Scotland will be eligible for three full | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
cycles of IVF treatment. From today, the Scottish government | :30:49. | :30:51. | |
is increasing the number of cycles funded by the health | :30:52. | :30:53. | |
service for women under 40 It's expected to cost about 1 | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
million pounds a year. Protesters in Paraguay have stormed | :30:57. | :31:12. | |
the Congress and set fire to the building as anger grows at moves to | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
allow the present to San Francisco term. The demonstrations were | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
triggered high a second vote via closed doors. The change to the | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
constitution ended the one term limit. Campaigners say Paraguay's | :31:25. | :31:26. | |
democracy is under threat. The artist Gilbert Baker, | :31:27. | :31:32. | |
who created the rainbow flag that became an international symbol | :31:33. | :31:38. | |
for gay rights, has died. Baker was asked to come up | :31:39. | :31:40. | |
with a flag design for the LGBT community in 1978 by Harvey Milk, | :31:41. | :31:45. | |
who was California's first openly Bob Dylan will finally | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
accept his Nobel Prize The American singer won the award | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
in October but failed to travel to pick it up, or deliver | :31:52. | :31:55. | |
the lecture that is required to receive the prize | :31:56. | :31:58. | |
fund of around ?700,000. If he doesn't fulfil | :31:59. | :32:00. | |
the conditions by June, he will have to | :32:01. | :32:03. | |
forfeit his winnings. Have you noticed anything special | :32:04. | :32:14. | |
about today? Not really. It is a pool full day! And it is 60 years | :32:15. | :32:18. | |
since television viewers first saw this. The past winter, one of the | :32:19. | :32:23. | |
mildest in living memory, has had its effect in other ways as well. | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
Most important of all it has resulted in an exceptionally heavy | :32:28. | :32:34. | |
spaghetti crop. That is still great. It is Panorama's famous spaghetti | :32:35. | :32:35. | |
tree report. The three minute broadcast | :32:36. | :32:38. | |
was watched by 8 million people. Unfortunately, some viewers failed | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
to see the funny side, but others were so intrigued | :32:42. | :32:43. | |
they contacted the BBC to ask where they could purchase | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
their very own tree. Those are the main | :32:47. | :32:48. | |
stories this morning. Very good. You wouldn't get away | :32:49. | :32:56. | |
with it now. Everybody is so to these things. I have checked the | :32:57. | :33:00. | |
news this morning. I don't think there are any big April. I am not | :33:01. | :33:08. | |
sure. Good morning! How are you? Remember seeing this? He has pulled | :33:09. | :33:12. | |
out of the Masters, Tiger Woods. That is him winning his first green | :33:13. | :33:17. | |
jacket. He has four of them. He has had so many injury problems, he is | :33:18. | :33:21. | |
not going to feature. It is his back? It is his back. A 15 month | :33:22. | :33:28. | |
break. He has got so much talent, when you look at what he has | :33:29. | :33:32. | |
achieved in the game, he is ready to get back to full fitness. I think he | :33:33. | :33:36. | |
is fighting a losing battle at the moment. It is sad. | :33:37. | :33:37. | |
due to an ongoing problem with his back, and admits he has no | :33:38. | :33:42. | |
The 14 time major winner won his first major at the Masters | :33:43. | :33:47. | |
Incredible to think, isn't it? Of course, people will be watching this | :33:48. | :33:54. | |
and wondering if he will ever return to full fitness and compete at the | :33:55. | :33:56. | |
top again. Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal | :33:57. | :33:57. | |
will meet again in the final of the Miami Masters | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
tomorrow in what is a repeat of the Australian Open Final | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
earlier this year. Federer beating Nick | :34:05. | :34:06. | |
Kyrigos overnight. Later Briton's Johanna Konta faces | :34:07. | :34:07. | |
Caroline Wozniacki in the Women's Australian Open quarter | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
finalist earlier this year, and now looking for | :34:11. | :34:15. | |
a third WTA title. Where will look to enjoy the | :34:16. | :34:27. | |
occasion a little bit more. It is a great tournament to be a part of an | :34:28. | :34:32. | |
tool the end. It is also something we will work hard for, to get | :34:33. | :34:37. | |
opportunities like this. Artic to play against incredibly tough | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
opponents and somebody who has been at the top of the game for so long. | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
I think overall, just to have the good join and of the challenges. -- | :34:45. | :34:47. | |
enjoyment of the challengers. No title just yet for runaway | :34:48. | :34:51. | |
leaders in the Scottich Prmeiership They will have to wait | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
until Sunday - at least - before they can call themselves | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
champions after second-placed Aberdeen beat Dundee | :34:58. | :34:59. | |
7-0 at last night. Had they lost, Celtic | :35:00. | :35:01. | |
would have been champions. It's not often you see | :35:02. | :35:03. | |
a defender score a hat trick. We did last night Andrew Considine | :35:04. | :35:06. | |
made it 4-0 just before half-time // Celtic are still 22 | :35:07. | :35:10. | |
points clear at the top. Considine getting the seventh | :35:11. | :35:12. | |
and his hat trick goal late on. Liverpool will be without | :35:13. | :35:22. | |
Jordan Henderson and Adam Lallana for today's merseyside | :35:23. | :35:24. | |
derby against Everton. The two sides meet in the lunchtime | :35:25. | :35:26. | |
kick off in the Premier League. Let's hear from both managers, | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
firstly Jurgen Klopp who's been impressed with the way today's | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
opponents have been playing - Everton have lost just one | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
of their last 12 League games Have a really good run. A good run. | :35:36. | :35:50. | |
Didn't lose a lot of games in the last few weeks. Good results. | :35:51. | :35:57. | |
Obviously confident. But, yeah, we feel that maybe should underestimate | :35:58. | :36:02. | |
the power. Whenever we play them, we have to create a special atmosphere. | :36:03. | :36:07. | |
It is a new season. It is a new game. A new manager, by Everton. I | :36:08. | :36:17. | |
don't know why but I heard a little bit about the last two seasons of | :36:18. | :36:24. | |
Everton, that maybe they were too afraid to play against Liverpool. | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
But why you need to be afraid to play against Liverpool, I don't | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
understand that. Well, later, the legal leaders Chelsea, who are ten | :36:33. | :36:38. | |
points clear at the top, they can extend that lead again when they | :36:39. | :36:39. | |
play Crystal Palace. And there's another Derby at teatime | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
- the south coast Derby or El "Classi-coast" | :36:43. | :36:53. | |
as some have dubbed it! Southampton taking on Bournemouth | :36:54. | :36:55. | |
are neck and neck in the league We just heard from manager | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
Ronald Koeman there who witnessed his defender Seamus Coleman suffer | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
a really nasty injury whilst playing for his country the Republic | :37:03. | :37:05. | |
of Ireland against Wales And now he's at the centre of a row | :37:06. | :37:07. | |
after accusing the national coach Martin O'Neill of not | :37:08. | :37:12. | |
protecting his player whilst he was away from his club side | :37:13. | :37:14. | |
on international duty. But O'Neill's responded calling | :37:15. | :37:17. | |
the Everton manager a "master You wonder if that one will rumble | :37:18. | :37:19. | |
on. Derby County have kept their slim | :37:20. | :37:25. | |
hopes of a playoff place alive with victory over Queens Park | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
Rangers in the Championship. Manager Gary Rowett marked his first | :37:29. | :37:30. | |
home game in charge Matia Vydra scored the only goal | :37:31. | :37:33. | |
of the game in the second Derby are now six points off sixth | :37:34. | :37:38. | |
placed Sheffield Wednesday. In Superleague, Castleford Tigers | :37:39. | :37:42. | |
remain top on points difference after they thrashed | :37:43. | :37:44. | |
Huddersfield 52-16. Leeds Rhinos have moved up to second | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
with a 26-18 victory over Wigan. Leeds were only two points ahead | :37:47. | :37:49. | |
at half time, but ran in two tries in the second half to pull clear - | :37:50. | :37:53. | |
Carl Ablett with the final try. Britain's Charley Hull is 3 shots | :37:54. | :37:57. | |
off the lead after the second round of play at the first women's | :37:58. | :38:03. | |
golf major of the year in Hull finished off her first | :38:04. | :38:07. | |
round with this birdie at the 18th before immediately | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
starting her second round - that was because of delays | :38:13. | :38:13. | |
to the tournament caused Norway's Suzann Pettersen | :38:14. | :38:16. | |
leads on SEVEN under The semi-finals of snooker's | :38:17. | :38:22. | |
China Open start this morning. She finished joint second last year, | :38:23. | :38:34. | |
so fingers crossed she can produce the goods. Sad not to see Tiger | :38:35. | :38:39. | |
Woods. Yes, I think it is. A sorry end to an incredible career. I think | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
that is the reality, at what point is he going to let go and stay | :38:44. | :38:48. | |
enough is enough? Yes, so many times there has been a setback. Is this | :38:49. | :38:52. | |
really the end? He is really clinging on... That is part of what | :38:53. | :38:58. | |
has made him so great, if that drive and determination, which she | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
obviously has in abundance. But injury wise, his body is not up to | :39:02. | :39:06. | |
it. He keeps lowering and all the fans saying that he is going to be | :39:07. | :39:10. | |
back. Everybody wants to see him competing at the top. But it is not | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
happening at the Masters this year. Thank you very much. | :39:14. | :39:15. | |
Curling is one of Team GB's most successful Winter Olypmic sports. | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
In the future, though, they could be getting help | :39:20. | :39:23. | |
Mike's been to a farm in Kent where they've built England's first | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
Away once they milked cows, they are farming a new breed. Kent is the | :39:29. | :39:41. | |
Garden of England. They are milking something very rare. Outside | :39:42. | :39:47. | |
Scotland, curling talent. It is all thanks to a farmer who moved here | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
from Scotland and brought the game with him. Now starts blitzed their | :39:52. | :39:54. | |
time between farming and tending to the ice. There was nothing in | :39:55. | :40:01. | |
England. I came down from Scotland, where killing is something that | :40:02. | :40:04. | |
happens on family days. It was a beautiful thing. When I had the | :40:05. | :40:10. | |
cows, they made a mess, they did not make any money. I bring the curlers | :40:11. | :40:14. | |
in, they make a mess, they still do not make any money! Bartee has | :40:15. | :40:20. | |
stirred deep passion for the sport in southern England, hoping to | :40:21. | :40:23. | |
nurture future curling scars who could one day help the Scots nurture | :40:24. | :40:29. | |
the national team. So far, this is the only dedicated curling rank | :40:30. | :40:32. | |
outside Scotland. But later this Year 1 will open in Preston, and you | :40:33. | :40:40. | |
share. You just slice it up. At any level you can enjoy it. It is | :40:41. | :40:46. | |
straight but it could be a bit short. Adam has a lot of sweeping to | :40:47. | :40:53. | |
do. Closer than I thought! Next year's Winter Olympics will be the | :40:54. | :40:56. | |
first to feature a mixed doubles condition. Will we be getting the | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
nod from the young curlers? I like sliding. There is a specific | :41:02. | :41:05. | |
technique to get it right and it takes so much time to perfect. I | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
think it is down to tactics. Down to knowing what the opposition is | :41:10. | :41:13. | |
thinking, what you can do to win the game. In some ways this game is like | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
chess. I have a couple of tactical signals. The great thing about the | :41:19. | :41:30. | |
sport is that you don't need ice skates. My job is to sweep. As soon | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
as they say sleep, you start sleeping. Here we go, to try to get | :41:37. | :41:41. | |
it the extra few centimetres. Get it into the circle. Come on! You don't | :41:42. | :41:51. | |
really need to be the most typical athlete to get into curling. We have | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
lots of different curlers. It is a great sport occurs there is | :41:57. | :41:59. | |
individual sport involved but you have to play as a team. -- | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
individual skill. It is never over until the last own. | :42:04. | :42:11. | |
Potential! For Mike, I'm not sure. Maybe for everybody else. 6:42 a.m.. | :42:12. | :42:14. | |
You might remember the Crystal Maze - the quiz show in the 1990s. | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
But if you ever wished you could have a go, | :42:19. | :42:20. | |
The format has been revived as part of an immersive theatrical | :42:21. | :42:25. | |
production - which sees people take part, influence the show, | :42:26. | :42:28. | |
and even become characters themselves. | :42:29. | :42:29. | |
Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been to have a go. | :42:30. | :42:35. | |
All rights team! The audience as participants. Not just watching a | :42:36. | :42:45. | |
show but the image. The Crystal Maze experience opens today in | :42:46. | :42:49. | |
Manchester. It is based on the early 90s TV programme. He's got it! Look | :42:50. | :42:55. | |
at that! It was a really British TV show. It had a sense of reverence. | :42:56. | :42:59. | |
It was funny. It was tongue in cheek it was silly. That is just the way | :43:00. | :43:05. | |
the Wookie grumbles. Like the London show that has been selling out for a | :43:06. | :43:09. | |
year, this new Manchester production will see audience members compete | :43:10. | :43:12. | |
for crystals to buy time into crystal dome. We have written the | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
disconnect now between people wanting to be at than passive. | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
Wanting to play, and follow a journey, rather than just sitting in | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
a dark auditorium. This in massive production might be inspired iodate | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
seem in the game show, but but (INAUDIBLE). Montague is and Capulet | :43:35. | :43:46. | |
's. A very different version of Romeo and Juliet. The latest | :43:47. | :43:51. | |
production by emotion specialists. We will dream upon it! Audiences | :43:52. | :43:58. | |
choose which subplot to follow. There is even dodgeball and a 90s | :43:59. | :44:04. | |
rave. It is very immersive. Not quite what you're expecting. I think | :44:05. | :44:09. | |
the fact that it involves everybody in it, that is the whole thing, that | :44:10. | :44:13. | |
you are not sitting separately. The arts Council has seen a big rise in | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
the number of funding applications from experimental theatre groups, up | :44:18. | :44:21. | |
42% since 2013. Many immersive shows like this one, a son Alice in | :44:22. | :44:27. | |
Wonderland, have proved popular. But some feel the novelty is Rankin. | :44:28. | :44:31. | |
What has changed in immersive theatre is that has gone from being | :44:32. | :44:35. | |
this artform that was new and exciting to being something that | :44:36. | :44:38. | |
people are ending up going for the experience of. If you have not got | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
something you want to say and achieve, by bringing the audience | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
into the show, then you might as, it massively. You might as will not do | :44:48. | :44:52. | |
it at all. Confusing at times, perhaps. Audience participation is a | :44:53. | :44:55. | |
must. But the growth of immersive theatre suggest watching a show | :44:56. | :44:58. | |
weaves, for some, no longer enough. What you think? BBC Breakfast | :44:59. | :45:08. | |
teambuilding exercise? Can you see it? Nope! Made if other people. I | :45:09. | :45:13. | |
don't know if we would be any good. Time forever cut the weather. | :45:14. | :45:21. | |
Mixed at the moment. Calm across most areas of the UK, but there are | :45:22. | :45:29. | |
showers building, quite big ones as well, maybe with hail and thunder. | :45:30. | :45:33. | |
At this very moment we have heavy rain around parts of Wales, which | :45:34. | :45:39. | |
should clear away, but for some of us in western parts of the UK it is | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
downhill from now. Clouds will build. Sunshine around, so not | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
overcast skies completely and Reagan, but these popcorn style | :45:50. | :45:57. | |
showers. -- and rain. Very hit and miss, mixed weather and we could get | :45:58. | :46:02. | |
rumbles of thunder. You can see the blobs of blue sky. A wall of water. | :46:03. | :46:12. | |
It might feel like it for a moment if you catch the showers. The thing | :46:13. | :46:15. | |
about them today is they will first form across the western half of the | :46:16. | :46:19. | |
UK and then a little bit later in the afternoon the heavier ones will | :46:20. | :46:22. | |
move towards more eastern areas. Either tighten its staff the showers | :46:23. | :46:27. | |
will clear away and then we are in for a dry, clear night. -- by the | :46:28. | :46:38. | |
time it is dark the showers. Take an umbrella if you are popping out for | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
a longer period of time. You might have to dodge that the shower | :46:43. | :46:45. | |
clouds. A different story for Sunday. Sunday, we are and | :46:46. | :46:51. | |
forecasting any showers. High pressure builds across the UK. Lots | :46:52. | :46:56. | |
of sunshine around, really a pleasant sort of day. The winds will | :46:57. | :47:01. | |
be light, it will feel warmer. Temperatures up to 17 in London. For | :47:02. | :47:08. | |
most of us about 12- 13 degrees. Fresh around the coasts. On the | :47:09. | :47:14. | |
weekend, he prepared for the April showers today. It will be a little | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
bit chillier. Don't be surprised if there is a bit of frost on the grass | :47:19. | :47:24. | |
first thing. On Sunday, a fine and sunny day. Not looking bad at all. | :47:25. | :47:29. | |
That's it. What is going on with the weather? | :47:30. | :47:35. | |
That's a bonkers 24 hours! It's April! Whenever the calendar changes | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
and we get into April, we get April showers. | :47:42. | :47:43. | |
It happens every year. Do you believe it? | :47:44. | :47:46. | |
That's quite interesting. All sorts happening. | :47:47. | :47:49. | |
Now it's time for Click with Spencer Kelly, | :47:50. | :47:52. | |
who's been getting a rare peek inside the studio, | :47:53. | :47:54. | |
and mind, of the self-proclaimed "non-musician", Brian Eno. | :47:55. | :48:21. | |
A wizard who likes decibels, who has won Grammies, | :48:22. | :48:31. | |
The former member of the band, Roxy Music, has added his unique | :48:32. | :48:44. | |
production sound to the biggest acts in the world - | :48:45. | :48:47. | |
groups like U2 and Coldplay, and some chap called David. | :48:48. | :48:50. | |
And it is his love of random, so-called generative art, | :48:51. | :48:53. | |
His new work, Reflection, is also rather unpredictable. | :48:54. | :49:06. | |
It is a generative music app which follows rules defined | :49:07. | :49:10. | |
and refined by Eno, but which plays differently every time you listen. | :49:11. | :49:15. | |
So 14% of these notes, a random 14%, are going to be pitched down | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
The second is that 41% of them are going to go an octave down | :49:20. | :49:28. | |
I would go further, quantum scientist. | :49:29. | :49:35. | |
Eno has spent weeks, even months, tweaking these rules | :49:36. | :49:44. | |
and probabilities which, when they're all when combined, | :49:45. | :49:46. | |
cause these sounds to randomly echo, bounce, transpose or not | :49:47. | :49:49. | |
So these are all different types of scripters. | :49:50. | :49:52. | |
And then there's a whole lot of other stuff. | :49:53. | :49:56. | |
Now, a lot of music is based just on things like that and it goes | :49:57. | :50:23. | |
Now I will putting in some scripters. | :50:24. | :50:25. | |
First thing I'm going to put in is a way of reducing | :50:26. | :50:29. | |
So it's only playing 80% of the beats. | :50:30. | :50:45. | |
Now, let's have it hit some other drums, occasionally. | :50:46. | :50:47. | |
Already it is a pretty crappy drummer, I have to say. | :50:48. | :50:50. | |
Well, no, I have to say, actually, this is way more interesting, | :50:51. | :50:53. | |
with the greatest of respect, than the original drumbeat, | :50:54. | :50:56. | |
Traditional music, you have a piece which you lock down, | :50:57. | :51:09. | |
You're locking down a kind of piece of it. | :51:10. | :51:18. | |
It's almost like you're taking this, or part of it, and you're locking | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
that down, this is how I might want the piece to be but I don't mind | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
I'm trying to kind of make a version of me in the software, | :51:27. | :51:33. | |
I'm always interested in what is at the edge of my taste | :51:34. | :51:38. | |
envelope, if you like, and randomness is a way | :51:39. | :51:40. | |
Have you ever thought about whether you can copyright | :51:41. | :51:44. | |
Yeah, that's an interesting question. | :51:45. | :51:47. | |
If you sell the app to somebody, do they own the music that comes | :51:48. | :51:50. | |
Because they've constructed it, in a way. | :51:51. | :51:53. | |
All the bits are mine, but the final construction | :51:54. | :51:56. | |
I don't think it's very easy to make a case for saying | :51:57. | :52:04. | |
it's my music, because it sort of is in a modern sense | :52:05. | :52:08. | |
We spent about an hour with Eno and in the next few days, | :52:09. | :52:18. | |
you can see more inside Brian's brain online. | :52:19. | :52:20. | |
This week, Samsung launched its latest mobile phones. | :52:21. | :52:28. | |
Just a few minutes to go until the launch starts | :52:29. | :52:32. | |
and there's an incredible level of secrecy here but I guess | :52:33. | :52:35. | |
there is a lot at stake for Samsung after the Note 7 debacle, | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
we're just waiting to see what the S8 has in store for us. | :52:39. | :52:52. | |
Soon the hype turned to cold hard facts. | :52:53. | :52:54. | |
Out of this Samsung Unboxed event, a phone... | :52:55. | :52:57. | |
So here we have it - the S8 and the S8 plus. | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
Not even the Plus seems to be that large. | :53:02. | :53:08. | |
That's because the screens on both of them curve over the edges. | :53:09. | :53:11. | |
There's been a lot of hype about this. | :53:12. | :53:13. | |
Personally, I'm not really sure it feels like that big a deal, | :53:14. | :53:18. | |
but it does mean that you get a screen which is bigger, | :53:19. | :53:21. | |
So a few of the features that we've been told about today, | :53:22. | :53:27. | |
there's the fingerprint scanner, as well as iris | :53:28. | :53:33. | |
and facial recognition, meaning you should not need | :53:34. | :53:35. | |
a password but should still be able to achieve all the security | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
There's also what they call an invisible home button, | :53:40. | :53:42. | |
But as you press it you can feel some sensation. | :53:43. | :53:49. | |
One thing we have heard a lot of talk about is the launch of Bixby. | :53:50. | :53:56. | |
When fully functioning, the virtual assistant aims to make | :53:57. | :53:58. | |
Interacting with ten Samsung apps, controlling other Samsung devices - | :53:59. | :54:03. | |
yes, there is a theme here - and using artificial intelligence | :54:04. | :54:06. | |
to learn your habits and suggest what you might be looking for next. | :54:07. | :54:13. | |
So, naturally, I want to test this new personal assistant, | :54:14. | :54:17. | |
but there's one substantial problem - Bixby is currently only | :54:18. | :54:20. | |
It's not until May that it'll be released in American English, | :54:21. | :54:28. | |
and then after that some other languages are going to follow. | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
So it may well be great, but I can't tell you about it. | :54:33. | :54:35. | |
In the meantime, the image recognition function is in action. | :54:36. | :54:38. | |
You photograph an item and it aims to find it for you online, | :54:39. | :54:41. | |
The phone will be released this month from $650. | :54:42. | :55:01. | |
The company believe they will see explosive sales, but let's hope | :55:02. | :55:04. | |
Now, to cyborgs and when Hollywood imagines them they look way too | :55:05. | :55:16. | |
futuristic to be anywhere close to becoming a reality. | :55:17. | :55:20. | |
They did not save your life, they stole it. | :55:21. | :55:23. | |
Dan Simmons has a very special appointment with Professor Someya | :55:24. | :55:31. | |
I have come to see a professor who is apparently going to turn me | :55:32. | :55:55. | |
It's one of the first times a camera crew have been allowed in to see | :55:56. | :56:05. | |
the process happen, and it's all going to take place | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
This research team have come up with the world's thinnest organic | :56:09. | :56:17. | |
Lighter than a feather, they could be worn like | :56:18. | :56:22. | |
Either monitoring the body or as an e-skin display. | :56:23. | :56:26. | |
We can introduce the electronic functions directly on the surface | :56:27. | :56:30. | |
of the skin, without causing any discomfort. | :56:31. | :56:37. | |
This is human and machine coming together? | :56:38. | :56:43. | |
The display they are putting on to me has taken three days | :56:44. | :56:46. | |
to manufacture, so the research team are being very careful. | :56:47. | :56:54. | |
Its thickness is just two to three microns. | :56:55. | :56:56. | |
The magic is controlled by polymer semiconductors and transparent | :56:57. | :56:59. | |
electrodes, with organic semiconductors and diodes firing | :57:00. | :57:01. | |
They can scrunch them and, on rubber, even stretch of them. | :57:02. | :57:17. | |
The circuits still work, and that's something I've come | :57:18. | :57:19. | |
Professor Someya has used this e-skin to measure heart rate | :57:20. | :57:24. | |
Is it robust enough to go running with, for example? | :57:25. | :57:30. | |
Yeah, so, first, please move your hands. | :57:31. | :57:32. | |
It doesn't cause any mechanical failure. | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
Would you expect us to change this every two or three days? | :57:37. | :57:46. | |
So if we can manufacture everything very cheap, | :57:47. | :57:51. | |
so after you go to the shower and then delaminate your skin, | :57:52. | :57:54. | |
This is just a single digit display today, | :57:55. | :58:15. | |
So, the second step will be much multiple digits and then | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
going to the high-definition display. | :58:21. | :58:27. | |
Yes, 1,000 pixels, that's technologically possible. | :58:28. | :58:35. | |
So on our hand, so we could, what, talk to people? | :58:36. | :58:39. | |
This could be a picture of my mum, for example? | :58:40. | :58:48. | |
I could say, "Hi, Mum, and my Mum would appear | :58:49. | :58:51. | |
Yes, that would be possible in the future, maybe four | :58:52. | :58:54. | |
But lifestyle will be the biggest issues. | :58:55. | :59:05. | |
This is the start of the rise of the cyborgs. | :59:06. | :59:15. | |
That's it for the short version of Click this week. | :59:16. | :59:23. | |
The full version is on iPlayer for you to enjoy. | :59:24. | :59:31. | |
There is much more from Brian Eno coming soon as well, | :59:32. | :59:36. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent | :59:37. | :00:13. | |
Anger over Gibraltar's role in the coming Brexit negotiations. | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
Spain says it wants a separate deal on its future. | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says the UK will be rock-like | :00:19. | :00:21. | |
Good morning, it's Saturday the first of April | :00:22. | :00:38. | |
Minimum pay for workers aged 25 and over goes up from today - | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
the government says around two million people will benefit | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
Scotland increases the number of IVF cycles available to couples | :00:48. | :00:51. | |
Johanna Konta repairs to face Caroline Wozniacki the final of the | :00:52. | :01:07. | |
Miami open, chasing her third title. In the men's final, Federer will | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
play Rafael Nadal. House sounds made by the Humber | :01:10. | :01:21. | |
Bridge have been transformed into a piece of music for visitors to | :01:22. | :01:23. | |
listen to as they walk along. The weekend looks a little bit and | :01:24. | :01:32. | |
it is. Some of us may have to run to cover today from few showers but | :01:33. | :01:34. | |
tomorrow is looking mostly sunny. Tensions are rising over Gibraltar's | :01:35. | :01:36. | |
position during Brexit, after the EU gave Spain a potential | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
veto on any future deal Last night, the government said it | :01:41. | :01:43. | |
would stand up for Gibraltar's The enclave has accused Spain | :01:44. | :01:51. | |
of trying to manipulate discussions, in order to further its 300-year-old | :01:52. | :01:56. | |
sovereignty claims. Gibraltar has been in | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
British hands in 1713. but rejects any Spanish | :01:59. | :02:10. | |
claim of sovereignty. The current proposals mean | :02:11. | :02:14. | |
a deal between the UK and the EU would not apply | :02:15. | :02:16. | |
to Gibraltar without an additional Gibraltar's chief minister has | :02:17. | :02:19. | |
rejected this as an attempt by Spain to encroach on the rock's ability | :02:20. | :02:27. | |
to control its sovereignty. It is unfair and unnecessary | :02:28. | :02:31. | |
and clearly discriminatory. I am grateful Spain has been foolish | :02:32. | :02:41. | |
enough to play this card early in this process and | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
not at five minutes to midnight with an agreement in | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
place, bar the issue of Gibraltar. The British government has been | :02:48. | :02:50. | |
quick to affirm its commitment Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
tweeted that the UK remains implacable and rocklike | :02:54. | :02:56. | |
in our support for Gibraltar. But these are draft proposals, | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
due to be finalised Theresa May has until then | :03:00. | :03:02. | |
to try to persuade them to drop Our political correspondent | :03:03. | :03:08. | |
Matt Cole is in our London studio. It seems these convocations will get | :03:09. | :03:30. | |
even worse? Yes, a fly in the ointment. The British government | :03:31. | :03:36. | |
probably could have done without it at this stage. Yesterday we got the | :03:37. | :03:41. | |
first response from the European Union to the Article 50 notification | :03:42. | :03:45. | |
letter that was handed in on Wednesday. Yesterday the EU Council | :03:46. | :03:52. | |
president set out his basic sorts on how he thought the EU should | :03:53. | :03:56. | |
negotiate these proceedings. He did say then that he thought things | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
would be complex and potentially confrontational at times. I don't | :04:00. | :04:05. | |
think anyone probably thought they would get quite so confrontational | :04:06. | :04:08. | |
quite so quickly. Of course, these are just draft proposals from the | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
European Union at this point in time. The other 27 heads of state | :04:14. | :04:22. | |
and government will need in April to thrash out their final negotiating | :04:23. | :04:25. | |
stance and for the issue of job roles are being raised, well, Spain | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
has asserted it for now. We'll have to see if you will make the final | :04:30. | :04:31. | |
cut later on. Two million people are set | :04:32. | :04:32. | |
for a pay rise today, as the national living wage goes | :04:33. | :04:35. | |
up to ?7.50 an hour. The change has been broadly | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
welcomed by unions. But employers have expressed | :04:39. | :04:40. | |
concern about the strain Here's our business | :04:41. | :04:42. | |
correspondent Joe Lynam. 23-year-old Lewis has already paid | :04:43. | :04:58. | |
more than the national living wager by his employer. He notices the | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
difference from his previous company. I was struggling for money. | :05:02. | :05:07. | |
It was a concern for me. It was very much go to work, come back, night in | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
front of the television. Now I can afford to have a social life and I | :05:13. | :05:17. | |
can afford to do stuff in the local area. Enjoy myself a little more. | :05:18. | :05:23. | |
From today, all workers over 25 must be paid at least ?7 50 an hour. If | :05:24. | :05:29. | |
you work a full week, you will now receive a least ?281. But employers | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
are worried. A members were already Heyington their staff more. But for | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
those who weren't, it adds significant cost to their business, | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
around ?900 of the year and a further ?120 a year with the | :05:46. | :05:50. | |
knock-on consequences for National Insurance payments as well. Much of | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
that cost will be absorbed by the business itself rather than passing | :05:54. | :05:57. | |
it on in the form of prices. That is not the only change. Controversial | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
business rates come into force today. While most companies will be | :06:01. | :06:05. | |
paying less, some faith much higher bills, especially in the south-east. | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
In the new system for calculating car tax begins. Hybrid owners will | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
be paying more than they did. Around 4,000 households in England | :06:12. | :06:13. | |
earning more than ?100,000 a year have received taxpayers' | :06:14. | :06:15. | |
money to help them buy a home. Official figures also reveal | :06:16. | :06:18. | |
that the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme has assisted more than 20,000 | :06:19. | :06:21. | |
households who were not Labour said it showed the initiative | :06:22. | :06:24. | |
was "badly targeted" but the government insisted it | :06:25. | :06:29. | |
continued to make home ownership Patients referred to the NHS | :06:30. | :06:32. | |
for fertility treatment in Scotland will be eligible for three full | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
cycles of IVF treatment. From today, the Scottish government | :06:39. | :06:44. | |
is increasing the number of cycles funded by the health | :06:45. | :06:47. | |
service for women under 40 It's expected to cost | :06:48. | :06:49. | |
about ?1 million a year. It is thought that around one | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
in seven couples experience In Scotland, up until now, | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
women under 40 have been offered two cycles | :06:59. | :07:04. | |
of IVF on the NHS. Older women between 40 and 42 | :07:05. | :07:07. | |
will also be offered one cycle In other parts of the UK, | :07:08. | :07:15. | |
the number of IVF cycles on the NHS for | :07:16. | :07:22. | |
women under 40 varies. In England, up to three full | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
cycles are recommended. But local commissioning | :07:26. | :07:27. | |
groups decide, and of half the areas in England, | :07:28. | :07:34. | |
only one cycle is offered. In Wales women under 40 | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
are entitled to two cycles. The IVF programme in Scotland | :07:38. | :07:41. | |
is expected to cost the NHS around Money which has already | :07:42. | :07:49. | |
been put aside. The minister says changes to IVF | :07:50. | :07:54. | |
treatment in Scotland make it the fairest and most | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
generous in the UK. Protesters in Paraguay have stormed | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
the Congress and set fire to the building as anger grows over | :08:05. | :08:08. | |
moves to allow President Cartes The demonstrations were triggered | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
by a Senate vote behind closed doors to change the constitution, | :08:13. | :08:19. | |
ending the one term limit. Campaigners say Paraguay's | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
democracy is under threat. President Donald Trump left | :08:23. | :08:28. | |
the Oval Office on Friday without signing the executive orders | :08:29. | :08:30. | |
that he was there to announce. He continued walking | :08:31. | :08:33. | |
as a reporter shouted questions about whether Mr Trump was trying | :08:34. | :08:35. | |
to get immunity for his former adviser Michael Flynn who was forced | :08:36. | :08:39. | |
to resigned over alleged Amid journalists' confusion, | :08:40. | :08:41. | |
Vice-President Mike Pence picked up the orders from the table, | :08:42. | :08:46. | |
and they were signed The artist, Gilbert Baker | :08:47. | :08:50. | |
who created the rainbow flag became an international | :08:51. | :08:57. | |
symbol for gay rights Baker was asked to come up | :08:58. | :08:59. | |
with a flag design for the LGBT community in 1978 by Harvey Milk - | :09:00. | :09:05. | |
who was California's first openly People living in Orkney enjoy | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
the best quality of life of any rural area in the UK | :09:09. | :09:14. | |
according to a new survey. The study by the Bank | :09:15. | :09:18. | |
of Scotland praised the islands for their stunning scenery, | :09:19. | :09:22. | |
low crime rates and good It is the first time | :09:23. | :09:24. | |
they have topped the poll, They beat Wychavon in | :09:25. | :09:29. | |
the West Midlands into second place. Jumped from 46? What did they do? | :09:30. | :09:40. | |
Maybe they install Wi-Fi. Private landlords are warning | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
they may have to put up rents as a result of tax changes that come | :09:46. | :09:48. | |
into force next week. From April 6, the amount of tax | :09:49. | :09:51. | |
relief they can claim on the interest on their mortgage | :09:52. | :09:54. | |
payments will fall to the basic rate Previously they were | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
entitled to up to 45%. According to the latest figures, | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
the number of landlords There are currently 1.75 million | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
in the UK. In total they banked more | :10:06. | :10:12. | |
than ?14 billion in rent 87% of them are individuals and most | :10:13. | :10:15. | |
only own one property. The government says these changes | :10:16. | :10:22. | |
to the tax system will create a level playing field | :10:23. | :10:25. | |
between regular homeowners and buy With us now is Chris Town, | :10:26. | :10:27. | |
the vice chairman of the Residential | :10:28. | :10:34. | |
Landlords Association What do you think the impact of this | :10:35. | :10:44. | |
will be? Clearly the impact will be upward pressure on rents because | :10:45. | :10:51. | |
landlords are increasing the tax burden significantly, so, the direct | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
result you say that many people will need to be more in rent? There are a | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
number of results. Rent is one thing. This investment by landlords | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
whose business model now will not work because instead of the interest | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
being allowable against tax it is now going to be taxed. It will | :11:08. | :11:14. | |
increase cost significantly for some people, particularly those with loan | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
to value rate. They will be affected first and they will need to | :11:19. | :11:25. | |
disinvest for this takes effect. The current tax system gives a buy to | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
let landlords an advantage over regular landlords. You can see that | :11:31. | :11:35. | |
that is not quite there? That is the view of the Treasury. In fact, | :11:36. | :11:39. | |
landlords pay more tax than homeowners, clearly. Of the | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
homeowner sells a property, and does not pay any tax on the profit that | :11:43. | :11:49. | |
is made on the sale. So if it was purchased for 25,000, sold for 30, | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
there is no tax paid. If it is a landlord, they must pay tax on that | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
capital increase. But could you argue that a landlord is more likely | :11:59. | :12:02. | |
to have one property and home owners are less likely to sell a property | :12:03. | :12:07. | |
regularly? Of course. It is a business and it should be treated | :12:08. | :12:10. | |
like all other businesses. All other businesses that can deduct interest | :12:11. | :12:16. | |
cost of finance from their profit. This new tax will change that. It is | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
the only business that is affected by these changes. You probably come | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
across as this already with people who do not have a lot of sympathy | :12:28. | :12:31. | |
with the landlords were many properties. We are not talking about | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
people with one rented property or maybe two, we are talking about | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
those who are far more than that. The whole, I don't think people will | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
have sympathy for the idea. The maybe profit margins are slightly | :12:44. | :12:47. | |
less. It is probably more the other way around, to be honest. People | :12:48. | :12:52. | |
with a lot of property generally have been in the business for many | :12:53. | :12:56. | |
years and have a lower loan to value rate that they will be less | :12:57. | :13:01. | |
affected. They have more properties to cover the increase in tax. People | :13:02. | :13:10. | |
with one property, so, for instance, someone is working and they earn | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
about 35,000 a year. There little portfolio costs about ?10,000 year | :13:17. | :13:22. | |
in interest. That was deductible against tax until Thursday. After | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
Thursday that deduction goes into their profit pot so that lifts them | :13:28. | :13:33. | |
from a basic rate to a higher rate of tax at 40%. That is when this | :13:34. | :13:40. | |
change kicks in. It does not affect basic rate taxpayers but many | :13:41. | :13:43. | |
people, unknown to them, probably, will be subject to this increase in | :13:44. | :13:49. | |
tax. What will make it fairer, for you? One of our proposals has been | :13:50. | :13:59. | |
that if this were to be implemented just for new borrowing so that | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
landlords purchasing new properties adding to supply, new mortgages on | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
those properties, this could be applied to those. But, of course, | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
went people purchased properties years ago, that was a different | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
model. The tax changes, it is a radical change to the business | :14:20. | :14:22. | |
model. We will leave it there from now. Thank you very much. | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
The main stories this morning: Britain has said it will protect | :14:30. | :14:32. | |
Gibraltar from any sovereignty claims made by Spain | :14:33. | :14:34. | |
A pay rise for two million people, as the national living wage rises | :14:35. | :14:40. | |
Let's have a look at some gorge -- Gorge and pictures of The Flying | :14:41. | :14:58. | |
Scotsman yesterday. It travelled across the Ribblehead | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
Viaduct on the reopened Settle It looks like the train on the way | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
to Hogwarts. How is it looking? | :15:08. | :15:21. | |
Looking a little bit mixed. It is the same bridge as the one from | :15:22. | :15:24. | |
Harry Potter. It might be! I think so. Weatherwise | :15:25. | :15:30. | |
today, a mixed bag on the way. We have damp weather around this | :15:31. | :15:35. | |
morning. It is wet across some parts of Wales, the Northwest of England | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
and around Yorkshire with had rain. Today it's a case of dodging the | :15:39. | :15:44. | |
showers and there will be quite a few of them brewing. If you've got | :15:45. | :15:48. | |
clear, blue skies right now, what you'll find in the coming hours is | :15:49. | :15:52. | |
the clouds will start to bubble up. Then they will in turn become this | :15:53. | :16:00. | |
shower clouds. If you look at the forecast, this is lunchtime. | :16:01. | :16:06. | |
Basically they form inland and grow upwards, the clouds, then you get | :16:07. | :16:11. | |
these showers. They are in about five miles across. In another town | :16:12. | :16:16. | |
it might be sunny. And they move around, so it will be very hit and | :16:17. | :16:20. | |
miss. Hail and thunder a possibility. First the showers will | :16:21. | :16:26. | |
form in the west, then in the east. So we will get them at different | :16:27. | :16:31. | |
times. This evening and overnight, because the sun drives the showers, | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
the showers die off and we have a clear night. Pretty chilly in | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
Yorkshire, northwards. The chance of a bit of grass frost, but that's it. | :16:41. | :16:46. | |
Sunday, a very different day. We aren't expecting these showers and | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
it will change completely on Sunday. High pressure builds and stopped the | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
showers from forming. So we are forecasting a mostly sunny day for | :16:56. | :16:58. | |
nippy in the morning, sunny, very light winds. We are in this nice | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
spell of weather. Temperatures of about 17 in London. For most of us, | :17:04. | :17:10. | |
about 13- 14. Two very different days this weekend. Today we have | :17:11. | :17:17. | |
April showers. Chilly tonight, once the showers clear away, and Sunday | :17:18. | :17:21. | |
is looking absolutely fine. That's it. | :17:22. | :17:26. | |
Thank you very much. Absolutely fine, that's good to know! | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
Shall we have a look at some of the front pages of the newspapers? The | :17:32. | :17:37. | |
Times have a story about Google and corporation tax. Inland Revenue will | :17:38. | :17:46. | |
be hit with a big bill, from Google. So they've agreed to repay that | :17:47. | :17:52. | |
money despite the government saying they will call more cash from | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
Internat giant. -- internet. And there is a story of Prince Charles | :17:58. | :18:06. | |
on The Daily Mail. This is suggesting Prince Charles tried to | :18:07. | :18:15. | |
halt the American invasion of Afghanistan. They say they made this | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
plea to the US ambassador to London for weeks into the military | :18:21. | :18:22. | |
operation. The Daily Telegraph has a story | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
about MPs a posture the expense is. They say there has been a data | :18:27. | :18:35. | |
breach. -- MPs' expenses. They say confidential information has been | :18:36. | :18:38. | |
leaked on Thursday night. On the front page of the Daily | :18:39. | :18:42. | |
Mirror, a very personal account. These are the words of Linda Nolan, | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
who is suffering from cancer at the moment. And to pick up on some of | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
the inside pages, Mirror and many of the papers are looking at this story | :18:56. | :19:00. | |
about Gibraltar and the reference to it as part of the EU Brexit | :19:01. | :19:07. | |
negotiations, which has angered many people, especially those who live on | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Gibraltar. We will be talking a little bit about that later in the | :19:13. | :19:15. | |
programme. It's funny how history continues to | :19:16. | :19:18. | |
rumble on. It wasn't long ago that the plight | :19:19. | :19:29. | |
of migrants trying to enter Eastern Europe was regularly in the | :19:30. | :19:31. | |
programme. An agreement between Turkey and the | :19:32. | :19:38. | |
EU has reduced that flow, but there are still many seeking asylum. | :19:39. | :19:42. | |
This container camp is still empty. There's space for 250 asylum | :19:43. | :19:50. | |
seekers. So far it is home to just two families. The government says it | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
is locking them up to close a loophole, to stop those who seek | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
asylum in Hungary slipping away deep into Europe. But detaining asylum | :19:59. | :20:05. | |
seekers automatically is illegal. They should never become a legal, | :20:06. | :20:11. | |
but they are treated as illegal from the first moment. So whereas the | :20:12. | :20:17. | |
European Union Law requires them to accept that they have a right to | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
stay until the first decision, they are treated first as if they are | :20:22. | :20:26. | |
legal, second as if they have not entered Hungary. According to the | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
reception centre, call it account, by building a tug Erin authorities | :20:31. | :20:34. | |
have issued a direct challenge to the international community. No one | :20:35. | :20:39. | |
can tell us, they say, how to deal with asylum seekers. This is the | :20:40. | :20:44. | |
food warehouse, one of two. Just across the Serbian border, | :20:45. | :20:49. | |
volunteers provide food to refugees. There used to rest here on their way | :20:50. | :20:53. | |
to Hungary. Now they are looking for alternative path. This is a time of | :20:54. | :21:02. | |
experimentation. They are trying to see if there are any better routes, | :21:03. | :21:08. | |
many have gone back to Belgrade to get a rest. In this ruined factory | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
on the edge of the town, this Pakistani refugee contemplates his | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
next move. Maybe I will try for the Croatian side or the Romanian side, | :21:18. | :21:21. | |
because this border is now totally closed, so they built another fence. | :21:22. | :21:27. | |
That's where the problem lies. Hungary at great cost had sealed its | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
southern border, so this man and his friends plan to travel through | :21:33. | :21:34. | |
Remainiac instead. -- Rumania. Autism affects one | :21:35. | :21:41. | |
in every 100 people. It is a condition that is | :21:42. | :21:43. | |
often misunderstood. But a new course designed | :21:44. | :21:46. | |
for teachers and carers is hoping to equip people with the knowledge | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
and skills to better support We'll hear more about the programme | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
in a minute, first let's hear from the author Laura James, | :21:53. | :21:58. | |
who spoke to Breakfast -- lets here actually straight from | :21:59. | :22:14. | |
Mark, who is a researcher at the University of Bath. This is a tricky | :22:15. | :22:20. | |
programme because still is now it is misunderstood a lot of the time. | :22:21. | :22:25. | |
Absolutely. Tomorrow is Autism Awareness Day, so thank you for | :22:26. | :22:30. | |
having me on to raise awareness. It is stepping beyond awareness and to | :22:31. | :22:35. | |
appreciation. What is autism? Our online course is free for everyone | :22:36. | :22:38. | |
and it is really to develop the understanding of what autism is. It | :22:39. | :22:44. | |
is set out in an accessible way so people can understand exactly what | :22:45. | :22:48. | |
they want to understand. Give us a snapshot. What are the resources | :22:49. | :22:53. | |
available? There are many resources. We have videos. People can just | :22:54. | :22:58. | |
watch us talking about what autism is at the cutting edge research | :22:59. | :23:03. | |
we've taken to understand autism. There are also limits on learning | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
difficulties. That's a very neglected area. Importantly the | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
course focuses on what technologies are available to help people with | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
autism and how can teachers and parents best support children with | :23:17. | :23:20. | |
autism. What is there to help? There are many technologies, thousands of | :23:21. | :23:25. | |
apps available. The question isn't whether there is technology, but how | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
do you find the best technology to help your child with autism? There's | :23:30. | :23:34. | |
a programme we are developing, that is available through the online | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
course, and it helps to identify what your child can and can't do. | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
That will inform what apps are most appropriate. We often talk to people | :23:43. | :23:48. | |
and parents who have autism and one of the practical problems they face | :23:49. | :23:56. | |
is about resources in the community. That's almost a separate problem. | :23:57. | :24:04. | |
Yours is a resource-based issue. Presumably the idea is that can lead | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
them to the right places to get help. If that part of the idea? | :24:09. | :24:12. | |
There are resources available for people with autism and the internet | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
is in itself a huge resource. There is a wealth of digital resources out | :24:17. | :24:20. | |
there to help people, but it's knowing about them, knowing how to | :24:21. | :24:24. | |
use them and knowing which ones are best. Technology itself can be | :24:25. | :24:27. | |
hugely beneficial in helping people with autism. If you are caring for | :24:28. | :24:35. | |
someone, child or adult, with autism, and as we know things at | :24:36. | :24:40. | |
times can get incredibly stressful and difficult and your patience can | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
be tested. What is there in that moment when your child is perhaps | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
having a meltdown, what is it in that moment that can help? When you | :24:49. | :24:55. | |
are in the moment it is very hard to draw upon the appropriate resources. | :24:56. | :24:59. | |
A lot of what we try to do is plan to avoid those moments and prepared | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
for those moments. It can be very difficult to change the behaviour of | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
children with autism, so why to focus on changing their behaviour | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
is? Why not prepare yourself? What can you do? It is about being in the | :25:12. | :25:17. | |
right state of mind and knowing in advance what might occur and what | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
the potential solutions are. There are lots of stress reducing | :25:22. | :25:25. | |
strategies. Knowing what they are and being educated and informed | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
about that in itself can help reduce stress and can increase your | :25:30. | :25:33. | |
confidence. You then know how you can address the situation. How do | :25:34. | :25:37. | |
people go about accessing this website? You can come to the | :25:38. | :25:47. | |
website. It is called Future Learn and is all about matching technology | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
with autism. Come and join us in the learning journey. Thank you. | :25:54. | :25:56. | |
Music often provides an escape from the real world. | :25:57. | :25:59. | |
But in Hull, one sound installation aims to give listeners a better | :26:00. | :26:02. | |
The work celebrates the Humber Bridge by incorporating | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
Visitors can listen to the music as they walk across the bridge. | :26:06. | :26:15. | |
Lucy Hester reports from the UK's city of culture. | :26:16. | :26:20. | |
Here in Leeds, something magical is taking place. | :26:21. | :26:24. | |
Musicians from Opera North are putting the finishing touches | :26:25. | :26:27. | |
to a recording which will invoke the essence of one of Yorkshire's | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
most iconic sites, the Humber Bridge. | :26:31. | :26:34. | |
Many of us will have driven across the bridge, | :26:35. | :26:37. | |
taking in the sights of the Humber River. | :26:38. | :26:40. | |
But this unique project is hoping to inspire people to walk | :26:41. | :26:43. | |
along its mile-long length and get lost in incredible sounds. | :26:44. | :26:48. | |
Opera North is working with Norwegian composers to create | :26:49. | :26:50. | |
It's a fantastic construction and it's so much bigger | :26:51. | :27:00. | |
It's been interesting to walk across the bridge and to actually | :27:01. | :27:07. | |
Meanwhile, the Opera North orchestra is recording its part. | :27:08. | :27:18. | |
It's a beautiful sound recorded by top-class musicians. | :27:19. | :27:21. | |
How can we blend different instruments into that and then build | :27:22. | :27:24. | |
The music just felt like it was natural blood running | :27:25. | :27:30. | |
Some of these musicians are using their instruments | :27:31. | :27:37. | |
The Opera North chorus also has a part to play | :27:38. | :27:50. | |
Part of the problem is that we only know our bits and there are at least | :27:51. | :27:58. | |
seven other layers, as far as we can tell. | :27:59. | :28:00. | |
So I have no idea what the other end product is going to be. | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
The finished piece will be heard through headsets as people walk | :28:05. | :28:07. | |
What's particularly amazing about it is that it makes you look | :28:08. | :28:13. | |
at everything completely differently, | :28:14. | :28:14. | |
You look at everything much more carefully. | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
Jo Konta has already swept into the history books | :28:20. | :28:27. | |
by becoming the first British woman into the Miami finals but can she go | :28:28. | :28:31. | |
We'll be discussing her chances with GB Fed cup captain | :28:32. | :28:35. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. | :28:36. | :29:29. | |
Tomasz will have a weather update in around fifteen minutes' time. | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
But first, let's get a summary of this morning's main news. | :29:33. | :29:38. | |
Tensions are rising over Gibraltar's position during Brexit, | :29:39. | :29:41. | |
after the EU gave Spain a potential veto on any future deal | :29:42. | :29:44. | |
The enclave's administration accused Spain of trying to manipulate | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
the discussions, in order to further its 300-year-old sovereignty claims. | :29:49. | :29:51. | |
Last night, the Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, said the government | :29:52. | :29:54. | |
would be "implacable and rock-like" in its support | :29:55. | :29:56. | |
Two million people are set for a pay rise today, | :29:57. | :30:08. | |
as the national living wage goes up to ?7.50 an hour. | :30:09. | :30:10. | |
The change has been broadly welcomed by unions. | :30:11. | :30:13. | |
But there've been calls from campaigners for the rate to be | :30:14. | :30:16. | |
higher to meet the true cost of living, while employers have | :30:17. | :30:19. | |
expressed concern about the strain of additional costs. | :30:20. | :30:25. | |
Around 4,000 households in England earning more than ?100,000 | :30:26. | :30:28. | |
a year have received taxpayers' money to help them buy a home. | :30:29. | :30:31. | |
Official figures also reveal that the Help to Buy Equity Loan | :30:32. | :30:34. | |
scheme has assisted more than 20,000 households who were not | :30:35. | :30:37. | |
Labour said it showed the initiative was "badly targeted" | :30:38. | :30:40. | |
but the government insisted it continued to make home ownership | :30:41. | :30:43. | |
Patients referred to the NHS for fertility treatment in Scotland | :30:44. | :30:53. | |
will be eligible for three full cycles of IVF treatment. | :30:54. | :30:56. | |
From today, the Scottish government is increasing the number of cycles | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
funded by the health service for women under 40 | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
The change is expected to cost about ?1 million a year. | :31:03. | :31:06. | |
Protesters in Paraguay have stormed the Congress and set fire | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
to the building as anger grows over moves to allow President Cartes | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
The demonstrations were triggered by a Senate vote behind closed doors | :31:13. | :31:16. | |
to change the constitution, ending the one term limit. | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
Campaigners say Paraguay's democracy is under threat. | :31:20. | :31:21. | |
The artist Gilbert Baker, who created the rainbow flag that | :31:22. | :31:24. | |
became an international symbol for gay rights, | :31:25. | :31:26. | |
Baker was asked to come up with a flag design for the LGBT | :31:27. | :31:35. | |
community in 1978 by Harvey Milk, who was California's first openly | :31:36. | :31:38. | |
Bob Dylan will finally accept his Nobel Prize | :31:39. | :31:42. | |
The American singer won the award in October but failed to travel | :31:43. | :31:48. | |
to pick it up, or deliver the lecture that is required | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
to receive the prize fund of around ?700,000. | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
If he doesn't fulfil the conditions by June, | :31:55. | :31:56. | |
he will have to forfeit his winnings. | :31:57. | :32:02. | |
It's April Fool's Day and it's 60 years since television viewers first | :32:03. | :32:06. | |
The past winter, one of the mildest in living memory has had effects in | :32:07. | :32:30. | |
other ways as well. Most important of all, it has resulted in an | :32:31. | :32:35. | |
exceptionally heavy spaghetti crop. This is Panorama's famous | :32:36. | :32:36. | |
Spaghetti tree report. The three minute broadcast | :32:37. | :32:38. | |
was watched by eight million people. Unfortunately some viewers failed | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
to see the funny side, but others were so intrigued | :32:42. | :32:44. | |
they contacted the BBC to ask where they could purchase | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
their very own tree. If it works, it always upset | :32:48. | :32:57. | |
somebody, doesn't it? But as far as I know, we are not running one this | :32:58. | :33:05. | |
year. Or are we...? Good morning. We are talking about Johanna Konta car. | :33:06. | :33:10. | |
Would she will face Caroline Wozniacki in the final of the Miami | :33:11. | :33:15. | |
open and it will be a good one. She defeated Venus Williams in the | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
previous round. Two great finals as war because overnight Nick Kyrgios | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
was defeated by Roger Federer. That means Federer against Rafael Nadal | :33:24. | :33:29. | |
another epic. If you cast back a year or so ago and you said that the | :33:30. | :33:35. | |
two biggest matches of this year would be between Rafael Nadal and | :33:36. | :33:39. | |
Roger Federer, you would say no, cannot happen. Especially since you | :33:40. | :33:46. | |
thought Andy Murray versus Djokovic would be the emerging rivalry. So, | :33:47. | :33:52. | |
yeah, two great finals on the way today. | :33:53. | :33:53. | |
Konta the first British woman to reach the final, | :33:54. | :33:55. | |
after beating Venus Williams in Thursday's semis. | :33:56. | :33:57. | |
And she's expecting a tough match against the former world number one. | :33:58. | :34:05. | |
Most important will be to enjoy the occasion a little more. It is a | :34:06. | :34:13. | |
great tournament to be a part of until the very end and is something | :34:14. | :34:18. | |
we work hard for, for opportunities like this. I play some incredibly | :34:19. | :34:24. | |
tough opponent and someone who has been around for quite a long time | :34:25. | :34:27. | |
now. I think it will be good enjoyment for the challenge. | :34:28. | :34:33. | |
It's perhaps the news we've been expecting after his ongoing | :34:34. | :34:35. | |
But Tiger Woods has pulled out of Golf's first major of the year, | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
He said he's just not "tournament ready" due | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
to his troublesome back, and that there's no timetable | :34:45. | :34:46. | |
He was sidelined for 15 months after surgery to try and fix it. | :34:47. | :34:51. | |
The 14 time major winner won his first major at the Masters | :34:52. | :34:54. | |
Britain's Charley Hull is three shots off the lead after the second | :34:55. | :34:59. | |
round of the first women's golf major of the year in California. | :35:00. | :35:02. | |
She finished off her first round with this birdie at the 18th | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
before immediately starting her second round - | :35:06. | :35:07. | |
that was because of delays to the tournament caused | :35:08. | :35:09. | |
Norway's Suzann Pettersen leads on 7 under. | :35:10. | :35:17. | |
No title just yet for the runaway leaders Celtic in the Scottish | :35:18. | :35:23. | |
premiership. They will need to wait until Sunday before they can call | :35:24. | :35:27. | |
themselves champions proper after Aberdeen defeated Dundee. Had they | :35:28. | :35:32. | |
lost, they would have been crowned champions. It is not often you see a | :35:33. | :35:37. | |
defender score a hat-trick. We did last night. 4-0 just before | :35:38. | :35:40. | |
half-time. Celtic at 22 points clear at the top. A win against hearts | :35:41. | :35:47. | |
will clinch the title. That was his team's seventh goal. -- Harts. Two | :35:48. | :35:56. | |
key players are missing for Liverpool. They will be without | :35:57. | :36:00. | |
Jordan Henderson and Adam. What a match this weekend. Let's hear from | :36:01. | :36:04. | |
both managers. Jurgen Klopp has been impressed with the way today's | :36:05. | :36:08. | |
opponents have been playing. They have a very good run, a good run and | :36:09. | :36:15. | |
did not lose a lot of games in the last few weeks or months. They good | :36:16. | :36:20. | |
result, obviously confident but, yeah, nobody should underestimate | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
the power. Whenever we play at Enfield we need to create a special | :36:27. | :36:32. | |
atmosphere. It is the mid-season, a new game, new season, new manager. | :36:33. | :36:44. | |
And I don't know why... I heard a little about the last two seasons at | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
Everton that maybe they were afraid to play against Liverpool but why | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
you need to be afraid to play against Liverpool, I do not | :36:55. | :36:58. | |
understand that. Can anyone stop at Chelsea? The league leaders can | :36:59. | :37:04. | |
extend their ten point lead at the top when they play Crystal Palace. | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
There is another derby at teatime, the South Coast derby. Southampton | :37:09. | :37:16. | |
meeting Bournemouth, neck and neck in the league. We just heard from | :37:17. | :37:21. | |
the Everton manager there who witnessed his defender suffer a | :37:22. | :37:30. | |
nasty double leg break against Wales while on international duty. Now he | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
is at the centre of a row after accusing the national coach of not | :37:35. | :37:38. | |
protecting his player while he was away from his club side, plane trees | :37:39. | :37:41. | |
country. O'Neill responded calling the Everton manager eight master | :37:42. | :37:45. | |
tactician of the blame game. -- playing for his country. Derby | :37:46. | :37:52. | |
County of left their hopes alive. Gary marked his first home game with | :37:53. | :38:01. | |
a win. Derby are now six points away from Sheffield. In the Super League, | :38:02. | :38:08. | |
tigers remain top on points difference after they thrashed | :38:09. | :38:11. | |
Huddersfield. The rhinos have moved to second with 26- 18 victory. They | :38:12. | :38:22. | |
ran in two tries in the second half. There are fourth win in a row. So | :38:23. | :38:28. | |
all eyes then are on your and conquer and her match later. It gets | :38:29. | :38:32. | |
under way at six o'clock, fingers crossed. She is the first British | :38:33. | :38:37. | |
woman to play in the final of the Miami open tennis tournament but can | :38:38. | :38:45. | |
she really do well this time and win the actual title? Let's speak it now | :38:46. | :38:48. | |
to the Fed cup captain, the former British number one. Good morning. | :38:49. | :38:56. | |
Looking ahead a little bit too the game today. Join a contrary is | :38:57. | :38:59. | |
playing quite confidently, what do you think about her chances? I think | :39:00. | :39:06. | |
she has a wonderful chance against Caroline Wozniacki today. They | :39:07. | :39:09. | |
played at the Australian Open earlier this year and your huh | :39:10. | :39:12. | |
no-one convincingly. She is full of confidence. This is the biggest | :39:13. | :39:17. | |
final of her career and there is a lot to play for. Can you tell us | :39:18. | :39:25. | |
about her opponent? What is her form like? Caroline Wozniacki has been | :39:26. | :39:28. | |
playing equally as well over the past few weeks. She has won a lot of | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
matches and made back-to-back finals last month during the Middle East | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
swing and she is feeling confident. She had a great win in the | :39:37. | :39:40. | |
semifinals but I do think that Johanna's level and type of tennis | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
right now is different to that of Caroline and she has the game and | :39:45. | :39:47. | |
the weapons to hurt her opponent today. Tell us a little bit about | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
Johanna more generally. In tennis you get some players who begin | :39:52. | :39:57. | |
young, they have a moment in time when they are 17 or 18... The career | :39:58. | :40:03. | |
of Johanna is different. She is hitting her prime now, isn't she | :40:04. | :40:06. | |
question but she is, what? 25 question mark that is correct. She | :40:07. | :40:15. | |
has hit her prime. You need to look at somebody like Angelique Kerber, | :40:16. | :40:18. | |
the current world number one who won her first two Grand slams last year. | :40:19. | :40:22. | |
She achieved the world number one ranking for the first time last year | :40:23. | :40:26. | |
and she did that in her late 20s. We see the trend in women's tennis now, | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
more and more players are starting to hit their peak in their mid to | :40:31. | :40:34. | |
late 20s and they are still playing high-level tennis well into their | :40:35. | :40:38. | |
30s which is something we never really used to see ten or 20 years | :40:39. | :40:43. | |
ago. I just think the game has moved on so much. It is far more physical | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
but mentally players look after themselves a lot better and there is | :40:48. | :40:52. | |
more longevity now and the women's game. It is interesting that you say | :40:53. | :40:55. | |
but mentally players look after themselves a lot better. I have seen | :40:56. | :40:59. | |
Johanna say herself but mentally was where she struggled in the past and | :41:00. | :41:05. | |
she did not have the right frame of mind for big matches. What changed | :41:06. | :41:09. | |
for her? How has she worked on it? She certainly trust herself. She | :41:10. | :41:16. | |
worked with a sports psychologist a lot and, you know, she knows how to | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
control her emotions far better. There is a lot of stuff, Johanna | :41:22. | :41:26. | |
will admit herself that she can be high maintenance and a little | :41:27. | :41:29. | |
tricky. But, you know, she knows how to manage everything, she trusts and | :41:30. | :41:33. | |
believes in a game, she is working on the right things stay in and day | :41:34. | :41:37. | |
out and as a tennis player, you know, the game is so mental these | :41:38. | :41:41. | |
days. You need to be able to trust yourself and, really, execute in the | :41:42. | :41:45. | |
heat of the moment. And also understand that you are not always | :41:46. | :41:48. | |
going to have a great week. There will be difficult times but you need | :41:49. | :41:55. | |
to come back, back yourself and try and reduce the best you can on any | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
given day. By a skewer question that I am sure you will dread in a way, | :42:00. | :42:03. | |
on the behalf of Johanna, if we pull Wimbledon into the conversation and, | :42:04. | :42:06. | |
for many people, tennis is about Wimbledon and they love the idea of | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
a British player going into that tournament, playing confidently as | :42:11. | :42:12. | |
Johanna is now. Could you say anything in relation to that? Well, | :42:13. | :42:19. | |
Wimbledon... Wimbledon is where many players like to make their mark. | :42:20. | :42:26. | |
Wimbledon is... That it captures the imagination of so many people in | :42:27. | :42:29. | |
this country can help play a's profile. And, you know, and this | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
year Johanna will be going into Wimbledon hopefully is a top-10 | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
player which will be a first for her, possibly even a top five | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
player. Who knows what can happen over the next few months leading up. | :42:42. | :42:45. | |
She will be full of confidence. She has a great game that can do damage | :42:46. | :42:51. | |
on the grass. We saw that last year. And, you know, like us, she is | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
capable of producing great tennis. Hopefully that will happen at | :42:57. | :42:58. | |
Wimbledon but hopefully will happen today and happen at the Fed cup for | :42:59. | :43:03. | |
next month. I was just going to mention that, you are Fed cup | :43:04. | :43:06. | |
captain. What is true MacWrite to work with? She is brilliant, as are | :43:07. | :43:11. | |
the rest of the players on the team. We have a difficult time coming up | :43:12. | :43:16. | |
against Romania, away on clay which is the least comfortable surface for | :43:17. | :43:21. | |
our players. And the Romanians will have an incredibly Petra Kvitova | :43:22. | :43:26. | |
crowd behind but working with Johanna, being part of the Fed cup | :43:27. | :43:31. | |
team, she is a great team player and we have a great team spirit, we are | :43:32. | :43:35. | |
looking forward to this tie against Romania where hopefully we can get a | :43:36. | :43:39. | |
place in the world group. We have a great team, but we are the massive | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
underdogs against the Romanians who have top players on their side. It | :43:44. | :43:49. | |
is lovely to talk to you. I am sure we will be watching and listening | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
tonight. I loved the little line in their how Johanna can be high | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
maintenance and tricky at timess. Aren't all the best people? A | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
reminder, you can follow the commentary on BBC sport website from | :44:05. | :44:11. | |
six o'clock. It is 744 exactly. You are watching breakfast from BBC | :44:12. | :44:13. | |
News. Our main story this morning... You're watching | :44:14. | :44:16. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this morning: | :44:17. | :44:17. | |
Britain has said it will protect Gibraltar from any sovereignty | :44:18. | :44:20. | |
claims made by Spain A pay rise for two million people, | :44:21. | :44:23. | |
as the national living wage rises I imagine the weather for the tennis | :44:24. | :44:36. | |
in Miami is much nicer than it will be here over the next few days. Good | :44:37. | :44:40. | |
morning! It will be a lot warmer. I don't | :44:41. | :44:45. | |
have at the chance of showers in Miami is for the tennis, but quite a | :44:46. | :44:49. | |
high chance of catching showers today. When we talk about showers | :44:50. | :44:56. | |
and the weather, it's a real hit and miss day when the weather comes. | :44:57. | :45:01. | |
Sort of a case of some towns and cities getting on downpour, the | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
other is getting a few spots of rain, others having a completely dry | :45:06. | :45:09. | |
day. The weather is all over the place. Where will they be affecting | :45:10. | :45:16. | |
us? Say about lunchtime. We have showers developing across western | :45:17. | :45:19. | |
areas of the UK. Not too many across the far east. Some of them could be | :45:20. | :45:26. | |
heavy enough to bring some hail, maybe some claps of thunder around | :45:27. | :45:30. | |
the north-west of England and the Lake District, showers scattered | :45:31. | :45:34. | |
around across Northern Ireland and Scotland too. He had to miss. Lots | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
of blue here and there. Moving slowly as well, so some of us could | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
have them for a little while. Then the showers will affect eastern | :45:45. | :45:48. | |
areas and by the time we get too dark the showers are on, so a clear | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
night. They will only affect us through the day and in the evening | :45:53. | :45:56. | |
it will be much clearer. A pretty nippy night on the way, not | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
desperately cold. 7-8 in town, cold and out of town. Tomorrow morning a | :46:02. | :46:08. | |
nippy start, with lots of sunshine. This high pressure, like a nose of | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
high pressure coming from the south, will stop any showers from forming. | :46:13. | :46:19. | |
Sunday is a step to be a nice day. We have the showers today, needing | :46:20. | :46:25. | |
the umbrella is, and Sunday is a different day, very pleasant, light | :46:26. | :46:28. | |
winds and lots of strong sunshine. Remember, the son is about as strong | :46:29. | :46:34. | |
as it gets, so it will still burn. This summary, April showers today, | :46:35. | :46:39. | |
chilly overnight and on Sunday another sunny day. | :46:40. | :46:41. | |
Thank goodness! Thanks very much. Now on BBC News, it's | :46:42. | :46:45. | |
time for Newswatch. This week, Samira Ahmed asks | :46:46. | :46:47. | |
whether Brexit is being covered Hello and welcome to Newswatch | :46:48. | :46:50. | |
with me, Samira Ahmed. Brexit is officially under way, | :46:51. | :46:58. | |
but is the BBC playing down the views of unhappy Remainers, | :46:59. | :47:01. | |
like the tens of thousands who marched through | :47:02. | :47:04. | |
London last weekend? Plenty of complaints too | :47:05. | :47:10. | |
that BBC News is far too negative about leaving, | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
so how do you cover this 60 years ago last Saturday | :47:15. | :47:16. | |
the Treaty of Rome, the founding agreement of what became | :47:17. | :47:25. | |
the European Union, was signed. The anniversary was marked | :47:26. | :47:29. | |
across Europe, but a march in London that day was less a celebration | :47:30. | :47:32. | |
than a pained protest against the decision | :47:33. | :47:35. | |
for Britain to leave the EU. REPORTER: After the violence a few, | :47:36. | :47:44. | |
short days ago, a protest with peace Thousands made their way | :47:45. | :47:47. | |
to Parliament Square. Many, like pensioner | :47:48. | :47:51. | |
Jacqueline Skelton, had Many of her generation voted | :47:52. | :47:52. | |
to leave in the referendum, but she sees that as a disaster | :47:53. | :47:58. | |
for her home city of London. That report, which went on to hear | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
from a number of those at the demonstration, | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
ran on BBC London News, but BBC One's national network | :48:08. | :48:09. | |
bulletins mentioned the march only in passing, with just ten seconds | :48:10. | :48:12. | |
or so of footage shown. Many people complained to the BBC | :48:13. | :48:15. | |
about what they saw as insufficient coverage, with two of those viewers | :48:16. | :48:19. | |
recording their thoughts As Article 50 was being triggered | :48:20. | :48:21. | |
on the 29th, I would have thought that much more credence | :48:22. | :48:31. | |
would have been given The early evening news put | :48:32. | :48:33. | |
the number attending I consider that there were a great | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
deal more than this. As leaving the EU is such | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
a momentous decision for this country, and for some of us | :48:44. | :48:46. | |
a disaster, we should have had a lot It was disappointing, then, | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
to find an organisation of the BBC's reputation, as supposedly | :48:51. | :49:04. | |
an impartial reporting body, had neglected to give appropriate | :49:05. | :49:06. | |
coverage to this huge event. I would like to know why | :49:07. | :49:13. | |
the BBC did not deem Well, we put those points to BBC | :49:14. | :49:16. | |
News and a spokesperson told us: That was the start of a week | :49:17. | :49:52. | |
of television news which has been dominated by Wednesday's triggering | :49:53. | :49:55. | |
by the government of Article 50, kickstarting officially | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
the process of leaving the EU. The subject was extensively covered | :49:59. | :50:04. | |
on BBC, with plenty of input from members of the public, | :50:05. | :50:07. | |
giving their views on the UK's decision to depart and what | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
they expected from the next It was all too much | :50:11. | :50:12. | |
for David Robinson, who wrote: Not much chance of the BBC or any | :50:13. | :50:32. | |
of the media leaving it alone, certainly not on Wednesday, when, | :50:33. | :50:57. | |
in a special programme on BBC One, Andrew Neil interviewed | :50:58. | :51:00. | |
the Prime Minister, followed by a number | :51:01. | :51:02. | |
of other party leaders. The presenter came in for some | :51:03. | :51:04. | |
praise for the way he conducted those interviews, including | :51:05. | :51:07. | |
this telephone message. Thank goodness for Andrew Neil, | :51:08. | :51:13. | |
among the very few in the BBC who keeps to strictly | :51:14. | :51:16. | |
accurate quotations. In general, there is far too much | :51:17. | :51:18. | |
sloppiness and bias, That allegation of bias in relation | :51:19. | :51:20. | |
to Brexit is one we've heard since before last June's referendum | :51:21. | :51:37. | |
and, in the past fortnight, politicians have joined | :51:38. | :51:39. | |
in the argument, with 70 MPs writing to newspapers | :51:40. | :51:41. | |
last week that the BBC had fallen far short of its obligation | :51:42. | :51:45. | |
to provide balanced coverage and had skewed good economic news | :51:46. | :51:48. | |
since the referendum. Then, on Thursday, a rival group | :51:49. | :51:51. | |
of politicians wrote another letter, calling on the corporation to resist | :51:52. | :51:54. | |
attempts at political interference and report fearlessly | :51:55. | :51:57. | |
and impartially on the That divided reaction is also | :51:58. | :51:59. | |
evident amongst Newswatch viewers, though most | :52:00. | :52:06. | |
people we hear from side Might I suggest that just for once | :52:07. | :52:08. | |
the BBC could be a little more up beat about our leaving | :52:09. | :52:16. | |
the European Union? It's been so depressing | :52:17. | :52:18. | |
having to listen to all your presenters, and God knows how | :52:19. | :52:21. | |
many political editors you have, talking about Brexit, always, | :52:22. | :52:24. | |
always in a negative fashion! Please, try and be | :52:25. | :52:32. | |
a little more positive. Whether Brexit is a cause | :52:33. | :52:34. | |
for celebration and a great opportunity for the UK | :52:35. | :52:48. | |
to take back control, or a process which has already had | :52:49. | :52:50. | |
negative consequences and faces substantial difficulties | :52:51. | :52:57. | |
in the years ahead, depends But others agree that the BBC has | :52:58. | :52:59. | |
been emphasising the latter Well, let's take a step back | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
and examine the BBC's approach to reporting on our forthcoming | :53:05. | :53:57. | |
departure from the European Union with the corporation's | :53:58. | :54:00. | |
chief political adviser, As you heard, there are strong | :54:01. | :54:05. | |
feelings on all sides. Is there something different | :54:06. | :54:08. | |
about Brexit which makes the BBC's commitment to impartiality actually | :54:09. | :54:11. | |
quite a new challenge? I think whenever you have | :54:12. | :54:13. | |
a referendum, in particular, opinion becomes very polarised | :54:14. | :54:16. | |
and views become very entrenched and it is very difficult often | :54:17. | :54:18. | |
to appreciate or even value Leave have won and our job now | :54:19. | :54:21. | |
is to really scrutinise carefully the execution of | :54:22. | :54:27. | |
Brexit, if you like. How the government carries out | :54:28. | :54:30. | |
Brexit, how it carries out the negotiations, to scrutinise | :54:31. | :54:32. | |
not just the government That's why Andrew Neil did all these | :54:33. | :54:34. | |
interviews this week with party leaders across the UK, | :54:35. | :54:47. | |
but also of course to scrutinise European Union officials | :54:48. | :54:49. | |
and politicians in Europe. So our job now is much more | :54:50. | :54:58. | |
intricate and complicated than a simple, sort of, | :54:59. | :55:00. | |
mathematical balance between people So that journalistic challenge | :55:01. | :55:03. | |
is really very strong. But the audience trust the BBC to do | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
it more than anyone else. We do get a lot of complaints, | :55:08. | :55:11. | |
especially from pro-Brexit viewers, who feel the BBC is rerunning | :55:12. | :55:13. | |
the referendum by always airing what might go wrong | :55:14. | :55:16. | |
or what not work. There will be parts | :55:17. | :55:19. | |
of the community who will have concerns about it and | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
we should report that. I don't think every time we find | :55:25. | :55:26. | |
someone who is optimistic or pessimistic we should suddenly | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
have to find the opposite We're no longer in that situation | :55:30. | :55:32. | |
of a mathematical balance. What we do have to do | :55:33. | :55:36. | |
is report it properly, so that the audience understands | :55:37. | :55:39. | |
what the challenges and issues are. It mustn't just be the people | :55:40. | :55:42. | |
who are worried, it must be also the people who think | :55:43. | :55:53. | |
there are opportunities. We heard a reference | :55:54. | :55:55. | |
to the march last weekend, that the BBC supposedly | :55:56. | :55:58. | |
goes to great lengths to ensure their coverage | :55:59. | :56:00. | |
is impartial. Could you give us an insight | :56:01. | :56:01. | |
into how you do that, how you monitor and | :56:02. | :56:04. | |
measure impartiality? We put a lot of obligation | :56:05. | :56:06. | |
on individual programme editors to do that and part of what I do | :56:07. | :56:09. | |
is to help them do that. But across time, it may | :56:10. | :56:13. | |
not be an individual programme, it may be | :56:14. | :56:15. | |
a series of programmes, people have to think about making | :56:16. | :56:17. | |
sure they get the range of views and that will be different | :56:18. | :56:20. | |
for different programmes. Is that partly about a head count, | :56:21. | :56:23. | |
or measuring air time? I think it's really important | :56:24. | :56:26. | |
that we don't pretend you can get impartiality by the stop watch | :56:27. | :56:29. | |
all the abacus or a calculator. You don't measure | :56:30. | :56:32. | |
impartiality by maths. You get impartiality by really good | :56:33. | :56:34. | |
judgement and that's what our editors are trying | :56:35. | :56:36. | |
to do all the time. People also wonder how the BBC | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
should be reporting a story like, say, Lloyds Bank moving | :56:41. | :56:43. | |
jobs to Brussels. To some viewers, it is an example | :56:44. | :56:45. | |
of emphasising the negative, when that's only one | :56:46. | :56:48. | |
event in a big, often I think you have to make judgements | :56:49. | :56:50. | |
on individual stories and you have to decide what level of prominence | :56:51. | :57:01. | |
they're due and you have to take advice from the business | :57:02. | :57:05. | |
community and so on. So, in the end, editors make | :57:06. | :57:07. | |
judgements about those things. It is important that when you hear | :57:08. | :57:09. | |
those stories you also hear others that might reflect something | :57:10. | :57:13. | |
from a different perspective. After all, this is going | :57:14. | :57:15. | |
on for a long time. Over the next couple of years | :57:16. | :57:18. | |
of negotiations there will be many examples of this and I think it's | :57:19. | :57:23. | |
quite right that editors should be challenged to think about a wide | :57:24. | :57:26. | |
range of views, not just those stories that you've heard talked | :57:27. | :57:30. | |
about by viewers today. On the other hand, many viewers have | :57:31. | :57:32. | |
got in touch with Newswath to say any criticism, any critics | :57:33. | :57:36. | |
of Brexit, are labelled Remainers and they feel the BBC is cowed | :57:37. | :57:42. | |
by the political criticism, notably from MPs who complained | :57:43. | :57:46. | |
to the director-general. One MP actually said this week that | :57:47. | :57:48. | |
relying on MPs to be arbiters of impartiality was a bit | :57:49. | :57:55. | |
like asking Sir Alex Ferguson to referee a home | :57:56. | :57:58. | |
match at Old Trafford. I think you've got to remember | :57:59. | :58:00. | |
where criticism is coming from. It is important the BBC listens | :58:01. | :58:03. | |
to criticism and acts on it, but it's also really important that | :58:04. | :58:06. | |
we're robust in defending the BBC's editorial decisions | :58:07. | :58:11. | |
and its journalism when we get Sometimes there will be genuine | :58:12. | :58:14. | |
issues, sometimes there will be political pressure and it's very | :58:15. | :58:20. | |
important to the BBC's independence Thank you for all of your | :58:21. | :58:22. | |
comments this week. If you want to share your opinion | :58:23. | :58:33. | |
on BBC News, call us You can find us on Twitter, | :58:34. | :58:37. | |
and do have a look at our website We'll be back to hear your thoughts | :58:38. | :58:43. | |
about BBC News coverage Hello this is Breakfast, | :58:44. | :58:54. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. Anger over Gibraltar's role | :58:55. | :00:09. | |
in the coming Brexit negotiations. Spain says it wants a separate | :00:10. | :00:13. | |
deal on its future. Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
says the UK will be rock-like Good morning, it's Saturday | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
1st April; also ahead: Minimum pay for workers aged 25 | :00:20. | :00:39. | |
and over goes up from today; the Government says around 2 million | :00:40. | :00:42. | |
people will benefit. Scotland increases the number of IVF | :00:43. | :00:47. | |
cycles available to couples In Sport, Johanna Konta prepares | :00:48. | :00:52. | |
to face Caroline Wozniacki in the final of the Miami Open, | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
chasing her third WTA title in the men's final Roger Feder | :00:58. | :01:02. | |
will play Rafa Nadal. And how the 90s quiz show | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
Crystal Maze has been revived as a theatre show where audience | :01:09. | :01:11. | |
participation is essential. The squeaked looking a Little Mixed. | :01:12. | :01:24. | |
I think some of us might have to run for cover today from a few showers | :01:25. | :01:29. | |
-- the weekend. Tomorrow is looking mostly sunny. | :01:30. | :01:32. | |
Tensions are rising over Gilbraltar's position during Brexit, | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
after the EU gave Spain a potential veto on any future deal | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
Last night, the government said it would stand up for Gibraltar's | :01:41. | :01:44. | |
The enclave has accused Spain of trying to manipulate | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
discussions, in order to further its 300-year-old | :01:50. | :01:52. | |
Gibraltar has been in British hands in 1713. | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
It shares a border with Spain, but rejects any Spanish | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
The current proposals mean a deal between the UK and the EU | :02:03. | :02:09. | |
would not apply to Gibraltar without an additional agreement | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
Gibraltar's chief minister has fiercely rejected this as an attempt | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
by Spain to encroach on the rock's ability to control its sovereignty. | :02:20. | :02:26. | |
It is unfair and unnecessary and clearly discriminatory. | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
I am grateful Spain has been foolish enough to play this card early | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
in this process and not at five minutes to midnight | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
with an agreement in place, bar the issue of Gibraltar. | :02:37. | :02:40. | |
The British government has been quick to affirm | :02:41. | :02:43. | |
Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson tweeted that the UK remains | :02:44. | :02:48. | |
implacable and rocklike in our support for Gibraltar. | :02:49. | :02:53. | |
But these are draft proposals, due to be finalised by the EU | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
Theresa May has until then to try to persuade them to drop this | :02:58. | :03:04. | |
Our Political Correspondent Matt Cole is in our London studio. | :03:05. | :03:13. | |
What could this mean for negotiations? | :03:14. | :03:20. | |
This is another fly in the ointment that I'm sure the British Government | :03:21. | :03:25. | |
could certainly do without. We have had this week what the formal | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
notification from Theresa May that Britain is going the leave the | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
European Union. The Article 50 letter delivered on Wednesday. Then | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
yesterday, Don add tusk, the President of the European Union | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
council gave his preliminary response on behalf of the European | :03:41. | :03:47. | |
Union as to how the EU would proceed with their negotiations -- Donald | :03:48. | :04:00. | |
Tusk. This is not what was expected, the Spanish authorities intimated | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
this wouldn't be something they would bring into the talks, so there | :04:03. | :04:07. | |
might be some surprise in the corridors of power here that the | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Spanish have brought this in quite so soon. Donald Tusk yesterday, the | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
President of the EU council, said the talks could get tough and he | :04:16. | :04:18. | |
said they might be confrontational at times. I don't think people would | :04:19. | :04:24. | |
have thought it would have got quite so confrontational quite so quickly. | :04:25. | :04:27. | |
But these are just draft negotiations at the moment. The | :04:28. | :04:31. | |
ministers, the heads and state of Government of the other 27 EU | :04:32. | :04:36. | |
members will meet on 29th April to thrash out finally what their full | :04:37. | :04:39. | |
details will be in terms of the negotiating strategy. We'll have to | :04:40. | :04:47. | |
wait and see then whether the EU thinks it's OK for Spain to press | :04:48. | :04:48. | |
this point. Two million people are set | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
for a pay rise today, as the national living wage goes up | :04:52. | :04:53. | |
to ?7.50 an hour. The change has been broadly | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
welcomed by unions. But employers have expressed | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
concern about the strain Here's our business | :05:01. | :05:02. | |
correspondent Joe Lynam. 23-year-old Lucy is already paid | :05:03. | :05:11. | |
more by the national living wage by his employer. He certainly notices | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
the difference from his previous company. I was struggling for money, | :05:16. | :05:23. | |
it was a big concern for me. It was very much go to work come back, | :05:24. | :05:26. | |
spend the night in front of the telly. Now I can afford a social | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
life and to do stuff in the local area. Yes, I enjoy myself a bit | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
more. From today, workers over 25 must be paid at least ?7. 50 an | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
hour. If you work a full week you will get at least ?281. 25. But | :05:42. | :05:47. | |
employers are worried. Many members were already paying staff more than | :05:48. | :05:50. | |
the level of the national living wage. For those that weren't, it's | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
adding significant costs to their businesses, around about ?900 a year | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
for staff on average and a further ?20 a year with the knock-on | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
consequences for national insurance payments as well. Much of that cost | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
will be absorbed by the businesses themselves rather than passing it on | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
in the form of hire prices. And that is not the only change. | :06:11. | :06:13. | |
Controversial business rates come into force today. Whilst most | :06:14. | :06:17. | |
companies will be paying less, some, especially in the south-east, face | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
much higher bills. And a new system for calculating car taxes starts. | :06:23. | :06:26. | |
Hybrid car owners will be paying more than they did. Joe Lynam, BBC | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
News. Around 4,000 households in England | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
earning more than ?100,000 a year have received taxpayers' money | :06:32. | :06:34. | |
to help them buy a home. Official figures also reveal | :06:35. | :06:36. | |
that the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme has assisted more than 20,000 | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
households who were not Labour said it showed the initiative | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
was "badly targeted" but the government insisted it | :06:43. | :06:47. | |
continued to make home ownership Patients referred to the NHS | :06:48. | :06:50. | |
for fertility treatment in Scotland will be eligible for three full | :06:51. | :06:55. | |
cycles of IVF treatment. From today, the Scottish government | :06:56. | :06:58. | |
is increasing the number of cycles funded by the health service | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
for women under 40 It's expected to cost | :07:03. | :07:04. | |
about ?1 million a year. It is thought that around one | :07:05. | :07:08. | |
in seven couples experience In Scotland, up until now, | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
women under 40 have been offered two Older women between 40 and 42 | :07:15. | :07:22. | |
will also be offered one cycle In other parts of the UK, | :07:23. | :07:34. | |
the number of IVF cycles on the NHS In England, up to three full | :07:35. | :07:41. | |
cycles are recommended. But local commissioning groups | :07:42. | :07:47. | |
decide, and in half the areas in England, only one | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
cycle is offered. In Wales women under 40 | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
are entitled to two cycles. The IVF programme in Scotland | :07:55. | :07:58. | |
is expected to cost the NHS around Money which has already | :07:59. | :08:06. | |
been put aside. The minister says changes to IVF | :08:07. | :08:17. | |
treatment in Scotland make it the fairest and most | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
generous in the UK. President Donald Trump left | :08:21. | :08:31. | |
the Oval Office yesterday without signing the executive orders | :08:32. | :08:34. | |
that he was there to announce. He continued walking | :08:35. | :08:36. | |
as a reporter shouted questions about whether Mr Trump was trying | :08:37. | :08:39. | |
to get immunity for his former adviser Michael Flynn who was forced | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
to resigned over alleged Amid journalists' confusion, | :08:43. | :08:44. | |
Vice-President Mike Pence picked up the orders from the table, | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
and they were signed The artist, Gilbert Baker | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
who created the rainbow flag that became an international symbol | :08:52. | :08:56. | |
for gay rights has died. Baker was asked to come up | :08:57. | :08:58. | |
with a flag design for the LGBT community in 1978 by Harvey Milk | :08:59. | :09:03. | |
who was California's first openly Deborah James was just | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
35 when she found out The disease is more commonly | :09:07. | :09:20. | |
associated with men and women who are over 50 but there's been | :09:21. | :09:26. | |
a 45-percent increase in younger Now Deborah wants to raise awareness | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
of the condition in the hope that the rates of early detection | :09:29. | :09:34. | |
and treatment will increase. She joins us now alongside Deborah | :09:35. | :09:39. | |
Alsina from Bowel Cancer UK. Good morning. Deborah, thanks so | :09:40. | :09:47. | |
much for coming in. How did you first realise that something was | :09:48. | :09:54. | |
wrong? Just before Christmas, I went to have a colonoscopy and I'd been | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
having symptoms for nearly a year, to be honest with you. I started | :09:59. | :10:02. | |
bleeding about six months before. I'd been to my GP a few times and, | :10:03. | :10:08. | |
as is the kind of standard practice many the UK, was sent off for some | :10:09. | :10:12. | |
blood tests and they came back normal, including a screening test | :10:13. | :10:16. | |
to see whether or not there was blood in my poo. Essentially, right | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
up until a month before my diagnosis, all my tests were coming | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
back normal and then it got to the point where I was referred to have a | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
colonoscopy where they put a camera to see inside. It was that point | :10:31. | :10:33. | |
just before Christmas that everybody in the room fell silent and found a | :10:34. | :10:38. | |
six-centimetre due more inside my rectum. My consultant was great and | :10:39. | :10:43. | |
knew straightaway that unfortunately it was cancerous. Things snowballed | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
after that. You don't mind talking about these things, which is why you | :10:50. | :10:51. | |
are asking. This week has been a very difficult week for you? Yes, if | :10:52. | :10:56. | |
I'm being honest, when first diagnosed, they thought it was early | :10:57. | :10:59. | |
stage because of the way it was presenting, despite the fact that it | :11:00. | :11:07. | |
was a large tumour. But in people my age it's detected quite late. As I | :11:08. | :11:11. | |
went through the process, I was hoping it would be stage one. When I | :11:12. | :11:16. | |
was operated on, I was given the devastating news that it had gone to | :11:17. | :11:22. | |
my lymph nodes which meant I was officially class three, which meant | :11:23. | :11:25. | |
I was starting to undergo a six-month regime of chemo. | :11:26. | :11:29. | |
Unfortunately I've had some really sad news that they think it's spread | :11:30. | :11:32. | |
to my lungs which officially classifies me as stage four which | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
unfortunately it doesn't mean I can't be cured, I'm still very | :11:38. | :11:40. | |
hopeful for that but it means my journey's taken a very different | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
turn and I'm sure there are statistics that Deborah will talk to | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
you about and that will tell you the reality of the uphill struggle that | :11:49. | :11:54. | |
I'm about to face. Deborah, the story is terrible to | :11:55. | :11:59. | |
hear first hand isn't it. But we are hearing it more and more often in | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
younger people? That is right. We are. Sadly, in this at least, | :12:03. | :12:12. | |
Deborah is not unique. 2,500 of the 41,000 people diagnosed with bowel | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
cancer every year in the UK are under 50 and 60% of under 50s are | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
diagnosed at the later stages of the disease, stages three and four. 34% | :12:22. | :12:26. | |
as an emergency admission when outcomes are often poorer. This is | :12:27. | :12:31. | |
really significant because most people diagnosed in the early stage | :12:32. | :12:35. | |
of the disease will survive bowel cancer. But it gets tougher and | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
tougher as the disease develops and spreads. Now, the statistics are | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
very shocking but of course they relate to all ages, including older | :12:44. | :12:48. | |
patients, so younger patients like Deborah have a much better chance of | :12:49. | :12:55. | |
surviving this because she's, apart from cancer, healthy, she has a | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
really good chance of being able to cope with a very aggressive | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
treatment that she now faces. But the reality she shouldn't have to be | :13:05. | :13:08. | |
facing them, we need to enable everyone to have that chance of an | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
early diagnosis. Deborah, you are very much on a mission now aren't | :13:13. | :13:15. | |
you to tell people what they should be doing and what to look for? | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
Absolutely. I've got two young children and I hope that by the time | :13:20. | :13:24. | |
they get to my age, they won't have to undergo what I'm doing. I hope | :13:25. | :13:28. | |
that actually nobody will have to undergo what I'm doing at the moment | :13:29. | :13:31. | |
and that prognosis that actually I may not see my children grow up and | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
I hope that actually by raising awareness of the fact that I was 35, | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
or I am 35, I run marathons, I work out five times a week, I'm | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
vegetarian, I've been vegetarian for 25 years, so when somebody says, you | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
know, are you the typical person that might tick all the boxes for | :13:52. | :13:57. | |
bowel cancer, 35-year-old vegetarian - no, unfortunately not. I think | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
it's debunking that myth that actually A you are never too young | :14:01. | :14:04. | |
and I know that's a big driving factor of bowel cancer UK in terms | :14:05. | :14:08. | |
of, you are never too young to have bowel cancer and it's raising | :14:09. | :14:13. | |
awareness that actually you don't have to look 69 and kind of be a | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
bloke as well because people associate it very much with older | :14:18. | :14:22. | |
men. What slowed down or delayed your diagnosis? Looking back, why | :14:23. | :14:35. | |
did it take so long? So I think that unfortunately, even me, a deputy | :14:36. | :14:42. | |
head in a school and really I'm on top of my own medical symptoms, even | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
I didn't think it could happen to me. That's the sad reality that | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
myself and my friends are only becoming aware of it through knowing | :14:51. | :14:54. | |
that I've got bowel cancer and I think it's raising that awareness of | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
whoever you are, you can have it. I think that in itself has delayed | :15:01. | :15:04. | |
diagnosis because unfortunately I think you therefore, if you have | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
bleeding, for example, which was one of my main symptoms, you therefore, | :15:08. | :15:14. | |
at my age, begin to say, well, it's just haemorrhoids or whatever else | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
it might be and statistically it's likely to be something that's quite | :15:19. | :15:22. | |
benign and it's very likely to be not bowel cancer. I think it's just | :15:23. | :15:25. | |
raising that awareness that actually it can happen. I'm thinking Deborah | :15:26. | :15:31. | |
for you as a campaign group someone like Deborah, in the worst of | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
situations, that's a message, you know, the way she's telling the | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
story, the kind of person she is, it's a message that will resonate | :15:39. | :15:43. | |
with people? I think so, which is why we are so incredibly grateful to | :15:44. | :15:49. | |
Deborah and to many, many other patients and families who are | :15:50. | :15:53. | |
supporting our Never Too Young campaign because we have stop this. | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
This is a disease that is preventible, treatable and curable. | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
Early diagnosis is key. We need to find a way of ensuring that younger | :16:02. | :16:06. | |
patients such as Deborah are able to have the very best chances of | :16:07. | :16:10. | |
long-term survival so she can enjoy the beautiful children that she has | :16:11. | :16:13. | |
and the life that she should be having. And she will. Den rather, | :16:14. | :16:18. | |
you are starting a fairly gruelling regime? Yes, I'm hoping to have | :16:19. | :16:25. | |
another operation in a couple of weeks on my lungses, I've had part | :16:26. | :16:29. | |
of my bowel removed already and I thought that was going to be it and | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
now unfortunately I have to have another operation in a couple of | :16:35. | :16:37. | |
weeks which is a good sign and then I will start a new course of | :16:38. | :16:41. | |
chemotherapy which will be a second line course in the hope that I'm | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
still going for a cure. I have a fantastic oncololgist and team who | :16:50. | :16:51. | |
says they'll do everything humanly possible to keep me alive which is | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
great for any cancer patient, you want to have that trust in the team | :16:56. | :17:01. | |
that support you. I'll continue to remain positive. | :17:02. | :17:04. | |
Thank you so much for coming in. I hope you don't mind me saying, a few | :17:05. | :17:08. | |
deep breaths before we started weren't there, but thank you so much | :17:09. | :17:11. | |
for sharing that, Deborah, thank you. Thank you both. | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
Now to Tomas for the weekend weather. | :17:16. | :17:31. | |
It's mixed this weekend. Heavy showers on the way. Sunshine now but | :17:32. | :17:34. | |
you won't necessarily keep it through the day. Already this | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
morning Wales and north-west parts of England have had some rain | :17:39. | :17:42. | |
anyway. What will be happening oaf the next few hours then? Western | :17:43. | :17:47. | |
parts of the UK will start to see the showers really grow and inland | :17:48. | :17:52. | |
areas are in for a few downpours. They'll be very hit and miss. Some | :17:53. | :17:57. | |
of us will miss them all together. Where you catch them could be some | :17:58. | :18:01. | |
hail, thunder as well. You can see on the forecast map here, blobs of | :18:02. | :18:08. | |
blue. Some showers will be heavy and some will be lighter. Some will pass | :18:09. | :18:12. | |
overhead without any rainfall at all. Then the sun will be back. A | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
changeable day on the way today. Later in the afternoon, heavier | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
showers may break out in the eastern areas and here too perhaps hail and | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
thunder. This evening, once the sunsets, the showers die away | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
because the sun gives the energy that drives the showers. We are in | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
for a clear night but it might take a while for all of the showers to | :18:34. | :18:38. | |
clear. Chilly tonight but not desperately cold. Cold enough for | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
grass frost in northern parts. Then Sunday promises to be a nice sunny | :18:44. | :18:49. | |
day. We have this pleasant air of high pressure building in. Sunshine | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
almost for everybody. I don't think it will be absolutely clear | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
everywhere, maybe just a few fluffy clouds but on balance, a beautiful | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
sunny Sunday on the way with respectable temperatures typically | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
in the low teens maybe even 17 in London. A tale of two halves this | :19:07. | :19:11. | |
weekend. Sunshine and you will need your brolly too. The better day of | :19:12. | :19:15. | |
the two is going to be tomorrow. Back to you. | :19:16. | :19:28. | |
Now it's time for us to look at the newspapers. Justin Urquhhart Stewart | :19:29. | :19:38. | |
is here with us. Is all of this news real news, or is some of it fake | :19:39. | :19:44. | |
news? Is some of it April Fool news? I tried to pick out the April Fools, | :19:45. | :19:47. | |
it's difficult, I hope some of these are true. Where are you starting? | :19:48. | :19:54. | |
With the Times. Women bosses are best! Still worry about it. What | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
he's saying is that as a result of these reviews, he's been saying they | :20:00. | :20:04. | |
are better at the employment skills than men and making employ, feel | :20:05. | :20:10. | |
valued. Also they outperform men in setting goals, getting things done | :20:11. | :20:14. | |
and following things through step by step. But, but, actually it's under | :20:15. | :20:21. | |
pressure that then they find sometimes the women find it | :20:22. | :20:25. | |
difficult. Not sure how you put that against Margaret Thatcher and | :20:26. | :20:31. | |
Bodasea. There is Also the other but, why is the world then still run | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
largely by men which is a very good question. Particularly in the City? | :20:36. | :20:40. | |
There are very few there, yes, and the answer is because people take | :20:41. | :20:44. | |
breaks for families, then come back and they are not at the same level. | :20:45. | :20:50. | |
That is beginning to change. There are some bright women there who're | :20:51. | :20:54. | |
wasted because they then go off and feel, I can't come back because I'm | :20:55. | :20:58. | |
going to go in at a lower level. It's difficult for them to come back | :20:59. | :21:03. | |
without the support in terms of childcare. Do you think, I mean you | :21:04. | :21:11. | |
have been in the City for a while, do you think the culture's changing | :21:12. | :21:17. | |
or are people still paying lip service? It's changed but very, very | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
slowly. Go back to pre-1986 when we had Big Bang and the City was | :21:24. | :21:29. | |
sexist, racist, divided by religion and classist as well, in certain | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
areas. It's changed radically from that but still has a long way to go. | :21:34. | :21:38. | |
Where next? Now to, oh dear, I'm afraid yes it's maybe April Fool, | :21:39. | :21:43. | |
this is about the costs of costs going up. Everything is getting more | :21:44. | :21:47. | |
expensive. Everything. Everything. This is the Daily Mail going through | :21:48. | :21:50. | |
your household council tax, water bills and the energy bills going up, | :21:51. | :21:58. | |
health care costs, 1st class stamps. When is it looking back to, where is | :21:59. | :22:03. | |
the comparison? This is on a year. One year on, OK. So one year on. 65p | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
for a stamp. ?88 a year for households, that | :22:07. | :22:27. | |
doesn't seem a lot, but inflation is rising. We have had almost 0 | :22:28. | :22:33. | |
inflation. The Bank of England is looking at its target, youing up to | :22:34. | :22:37. | |
3 or maybe even beyond 3%. What does that mean for us? It means if you | :22:38. | :22:42. | |
are actually feeling worse off because of your pay levels may not | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
be going up at the same level. Some things draw the eye more than | :22:48. | :22:52. | |
others, petrol prices is the classic which people look at petrol prices | :22:53. | :22:57. | |
and then think everything has risen. Some things are more subtle? The | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
household things you tend to see, but the airport duty you don't | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
notice until suddenly you are booking a holiday thinking, this is | :23:06. | :23:09. | |
expensive. Buy a ticket these days and it's a third of the cost in just | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
tax which is expensive. Your next story? Also a depressing one. Debt | :23:14. | :23:22. | |
looms as savings hit record low. We have never been very good at saving | :23:23. | :23:27. | |
in this country but we need to teach people finance right at school and | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
learning them the habit of saving, whether it's into a bank or | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
investments or a piggy bank. People are dipping into their savings to | :23:37. | :23:41. | |
pay for their day-to-day living and unfortunately credit cards are all | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
too easy, people have access to credit and if you don't know how to | :23:45. | :23:49. | |
use a credit card properly, you will run up an expensive debt and then it | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
takes a long time to try to pay it back. Take us away from the world of | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
money? ! Absolutely. Did you see the Daily Mail story. This is an | :24:00. | :24:04. | |
incredible story. Yes, there's been a huge build-up for at least an | :24:05. | :24:08. | |
hour. You might have to help me here, Charlie, look at this world | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
exclusive. Harry's secret wedding. In Las Vegas? Yes, they didn't want | :24:12. | :24:21. | |
a fuss. There is the happy couple and we'd never really even noticed | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
it and America didn't either, so full colour spread double page | :24:26. | :24:32. | |
spread on Harry Windsor's wedding. Just so that we don't add to any | :24:33. | :24:37. | |
confusion, what are we looking at? It's April 1st and we are looking at | :24:38. | :24:42. | |
people either very good photo shops or excellent doubles here doing a | :24:43. | :24:47. | |
very good impersonation. I can just say, looking at the Harry double, | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
he's very, very good. Do you think they've got their Meghan yet? There | :24:53. | :24:57. | |
is a clever photo where she's holding her arm across her face. We | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
haven't found it have we. No, someone has a career opportunity | :25:01. | :25:08. | |
there. Time for the polar bear? Yes. Could this be true? Stranded polar | :25:09. | :25:13. | |
bear floats on to Scottish island. Then you look and there is a | :25:14. | :25:21. | |
wonderful map showing 400 miles it drifted down. Not sure how many ice | :25:22. | :25:27. | |
packs reached here. It's a lovely story. Can't blame him, it's a | :25:28. | :25:31. | |
lovely place to get to. If it's true! You will be a back in | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
an hour, see you then. Thank you very much. So, as we have been | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
hearing, if you are fed up with the rat race and are seeking a better | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
quality of life, Orkney, we are told is the best place to be. It's won in | :25:44. | :25:50. | |
this poll. Not just for polar bears. They have topped a Bank of Scotland | :25:51. | :25:54. | |
survey, the first time of rural locations which praise the islands | :25:55. | :25:57. | |
for their stunning scenery, low crime rates and most importantly, | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
great range of pubs. Yes! We can talk to Ken Amer in | :26:01. | :26:09. | |
Orkney. Very good morning to you in Kirk wall. Disappointed we haven't | :26:10. | :26:17. | |
got a shot of the beautiful surroundings behind you but you have | :26:18. | :26:20. | |
come top of the poll. What is so special? Well, obviously the scenery | :26:21. | :26:27. | |
is lovely but you can't live off that really, it's the people of | :26:28. | :26:35. | |
Orkney that are so friendly. You know whatever's happening, if | :26:36. | :26:38. | |
somebody falls in the street, you know their dad, granny and kids | :26:39. | :26:41. | |
before you pick them up so it's a fantastic place. | :26:42. | :26:45. | |
Ken, that's really important isn't it because, as you are talking we | :26:46. | :26:49. | |
are looking at some pictures there. The point you are making really is | :26:50. | :26:53. | |
scenery is one thing but the way people are and what they are like is | :26:54. | :26:56. | |
possibly more important than that? Yes. Very much so. That is what | :26:57. | :27:03. | |
makes Orkney so special. I think the old-fashioned valued are being lost | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
on the mainland and here in Orkney and indeed the Western Isles and | :27:09. | :27:12. | |
Shetland, because of course we are surrounded by sea we know each | :27:13. | :27:16. | |
other, we leave our houses open and pop in and have a cup of tea and | :27:17. | :27:22. | |
visit anybody we want. You are a photographer, Ken, and we have one | :27:23. | :27:27. | |
or two of the images you have taken. Can you explain one thing. As I | :27:28. | :27:31. | |
understand it, Orkney came in, I think it's 47th last time around and | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
it's now shot up to number one on this list, can you account for that | :27:36. | :27:41. | |
in anyway? Probably we are getting more sunshine I think. No we are not | :27:42. | :27:44. | |
actually! The weather is a defining factor here, but I still really | :27:45. | :27:51. | |
passionately believe that it's the old-fashioned values. We have had a | :27:52. | :27:55. | |
lot of publicity recently on the BBC especially and I think people are | :27:56. | :28:00. | |
becoming more aware that just what it's like to live in Scotland | :28:01. | :28:04. | |
communities as opposed to big cities where you are in Manchester. | :28:05. | :28:16. | |
Presumably there are people up there, people move away from remote | :28:17. | :28:21. | |
areas, Scotland has a problem with people moving away mostly for work, | :28:22. | :28:24. | |
which is an issue isn't it? Yes, it is. It doesn't matter what you do in | :28:25. | :28:30. | |
Orkney, work-wise, whether you are a self-employed person like myself or | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
whether you are an em-Moyesee, it's a very low ceiling. There is only | :28:35. | :28:40. | |
20,000 souls here in Orkney and you find that it doesn't matter what | :28:41. | :28:44. | |
trade you are in, it's replicated about ten times. The downside is | :28:45. | :28:49. | |
that it's very difficult to make a living if you are self-employed | :28:50. | :28:54. | |
because there's so many people doing the same job. To etch a living is | :28:55. | :29:02. | |
quite a skill in small communities. Ken, lovely to talk to you today. Go | :29:03. | :29:08. | |
and have a cup of tea with your neighbours which sounds absolutely | :29:09. | :29:11. | |
delightful. Thank you for talking to us today. Thank you very much. | :29:12. | :29:15. | |
Orkney, this you go. Number one. The best place to live. Beautiful. Stay | :29:16. | :29:18. | |
with us, headlines coming up. Hello this is Breakfast. Coming up, | :29:19. | :29:37. | |
the weather and a look ahead to the sport across the weekend. First, at | :29:38. | :29:44. | |
8. 8. 29, the main news: Tensions are rising over Gibraltar's position | :29:45. | :29:48. | |
with Brexit after the EU gave Spain a potential veto on any particular | :29:49. | :29:53. | |
deal for the territory. Spain have been accused of trying to manipulate | :29:54. | :29:58. | |
it. The Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says the Government would be | :29:59. | :30:04. | |
implacable and rock-like in its support for Gibraltar. Two million | :30:05. | :30:08. | |
people are set for a pay rise as the national living wage rises to ?7. 50 | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
an hour. The change has been broadly welcomed by unions. There have been | :30:13. | :30:18. | |
calls from campaigners to make the figure higher as there are concerns | :30:19. | :30:21. | |
about the strain. Around 4,000 households in England | :30:22. | :30:32. | |
earning more than ?100,000 a year have received taxpayers' | :30:33. | :30:35. | |
money to help them buy a home. Official figures also | :30:36. | :30:37. | |
reveal that the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme has assisted | :30:38. | :30:39. | |
more than 20,000 households Labour said it showed the initiative | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
was "badly targeted" but the government insisted it | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
continued to make home ownership Patients referred to the NHS | :30:46. | :30:48. | |
for fertility treatment in Scotland will be eligible for three full | :30:49. | :30:52. | |
cycles of IVF treatment. is increasing the number of cycles | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
funded by the health service for women under | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
40 from two to three. The change is expected to cost | :30:59. | :31:00. | |
about ?1 million a year. Protesters in Paraguay have stormed | :31:01. | :31:12. | |
the Congress and set fire to the building as anger grows over moves | :31:13. | :31:14. | |
to allow President Cartes to stand for a second term. | :31:15. | :31:18. | |
The demonstrations were triggered by a Senate vote behind closed doors | :31:19. | :31:21. | |
to change the constitution, ending the one term limit. | :31:22. | :31:23. | |
Campaigners say Paraguay's democracy is under threat. | :31:24. | :31:40. | |
President Donald Trump left the Oval Office on Friday without signing the | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
executive orders that he was there to announce. He continued walking as | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
a reporter shouted questions about whether Mr Trump was trying to get | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
immunity for his former adviser Michael Flynn, who was forced to | :31:50. | :31:51. | |
resign over alleged links to Russia. Amid journalists' confusion, | :31:52. | :31:53. | |
Vice-President Mike Pence picked up the orders from the table, and they | :31:54. | :31:54. | |
were signed in another room. Bob Dylan will finally | :31:55. | :31:56. | |
accept his Nobel Prize The American singer won the award | :31:57. | :31:58. | |
in October but failed to travel to pick it up, | :31:59. | :32:02. | |
or deliver the lecture that is required to receive | :32:03. | :32:04. | |
the prize fund of around ?700,000. If he doesn't fulfil the conditions | :32:05. | :32:07. | |
by June, he will have to | :32:08. | :32:09. | |
forfeit his winnings. It's April fools | :32:10. | :32:20. | |
day and it's 60 years since television viewers first | :32:21. | :32:25. | |
saw this. The past winter, one of the mildest | :32:26. | :32:37. | |
in living memory, has had its effect in other ways as well, it has | :32:38. | :32:39. | |
resulted in an especially heavy spaghetti harvest. | :32:40. | :32:44. | |
This is Panorama's famous Spaghetti tree report. | :32:45. | :32:46. | |
The three minute broadcast was watched by eight million people. | :32:47. | :32:48. | |
Unfortunately some viewers failed to see the funny side, | :32:49. | :32:50. | |
where they could purchase their very own tree. | :32:51. | :32:54. | |
Thing is, I still wish it were true! LAUGHTER | :32:55. | :33:01. | |
The papers have done a view, Formula 1 have done one... I don't know | :33:02. | :33:08. | |
whether I should say that. Left-handed tracks! Tracks you can | :33:09. | :33:17. | |
only drive around one way, they will change direction. | :33:18. | :33:23. | |
Is part of the problem that it is so easy to check things now. So you | :33:24. | :33:32. | |
just checked it is not true, fine. Part of the problem is that lots of | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
the real news is so strange that people cannot tell! Have you got | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
some real things to tell us? It raises a smile, anyway, and | :33:39. | :33:46. | |
something else that raises a smile, the progress of your anaconda. -- | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
the progress of Johanna Konta. Konta the first British | :33:51. | :33:57. | |
woman to reach the final. She's had a great year already | :33:58. | :33:59. | |
winning her second title at the Sydney International before | :34:00. | :34:02. | |
reaching the quarter finals She recognises that winning a third | :34:03. | :34:04. | |
title later is going to be difficult Roger Federer in the final again as | :34:05. | :34:08. | |
well. Most important thing is to look to | :34:09. | :34:30. | |
enjoy the occasion a little bit more. It is a great tournament to be | :34:31. | :34:39. | |
in, a part of to the very end. Not easy to get opportunities like this, | :34:40. | :34:46. | |
I play against enquiry be tough opponents, someone who has been | :34:47. | :34:49. | |
around the top of the game for so long. Overall, good enjoyment for | :34:50. | :34:52. | |
the challenges, and it will come. Good luck to her. | :34:53. | :34:58. | |
It's perhaps no great surprise after his ongoing injury problems. | :34:59. | :35:00. | |
Tiger Woods has pulled out of Golf's first major of the year, | :35:01. | :35:03. | |
He said he's just not "tournament ready" due to his troublesome back, | :35:04. | :35:08. | |
and that there's no timetable for his return. | :35:09. | :35:10. | |
He was sidelined for 15 months after two surgeries to try and fix it. | :35:11. | :35:13. | |
The 14-time major winner won his first major | :35:14. | :35:15. | |
Better news for Britain's Charley Hull. | :35:16. | :35:22. | |
She's three shots off the lead at the halfway stage | :35:23. | :35:24. | |
of the first women's major of the year in California. | :35:25. | :35:27. | |
She finished off her first round with this birdie at the 18th. | :35:28. | :35:30. | |
No hanging around though, she immediately started her second | :35:31. | :35:32. | |
round following delays in the schedule | :35:33. | :35:33. | |
Norway's Suzann Pettersen leads on 7-under. | :35:34. | :35:38. | |
Second placed Aberdeen prevented Celtic from being crowned | :35:39. | :35:42. | |
Scottish Premiership champions last night after beating Dundee 7-0. | :35:43. | :35:50. | |
Had they lost, then the title would have been Celtic's, | :35:51. | :35:53. | |
It was partly down to this guy Andrew Considine who | :35:54. | :35:55. | |
Not often you see a defender score a hat trick. | :35:56. | :35:59. | |
A win for Celtic against Hearts on Sunday will clinch the title. | :36:00. | :36:01. | |
What a game to get this weekend's Premier league | :36:02. | :36:04. | |
It's the Merseyside derby this lunchtime. | :36:05. | :36:06. | |
Liverpool welcoming Everton to Anfield. | :36:07. | :36:07. | |
Let's hear from both managers, firstly Jurgen Klopp, | :36:08. | :36:10. | |
who's been impressed with the way Everton have | :36:11. | :36:12. | |
They have had a really good run, they have not lost a lot of games in | :36:13. | :36:25. | |
the last few weeks and months. The result, obviously confident. What we | :36:26. | :36:31. | |
are Liverpool, we play at Anfield, and no one should underestimate the | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
power of Anfield. Whenever we play at Anfield we all have to create a | :36:36. | :36:39. | |
special atmosphere. It is a new season, it is a new game, a new | :36:40. | :36:48. | |
manager. At Everton. And I don't know why... I heard a little bit | :36:49. | :36:53. | |
about the last two seasons of Everton, that maybe they were too | :36:54. | :36:58. | |
afraid to play against Liverpool. Why do you need to be afraid to play | :36:59. | :37:02. | |
against Liverpool? I don't understand that. | :37:03. | :37:04. | |
League leaders Chelsea are 10 points clear at the top, | :37:05. | :37:07. | |
but can extend that when they play Crystal Palace. | :37:08. | :37:09. | |
And there's another Derby at teatime, | :37:10. | :37:15. | |
or the "El Classi-coast" as it's being dubbed. | :37:16. | :37:22. | |
Southampton taking on Bournemouth are neck and neck in | :37:23. | :37:27. | |
We just heard from manager Ronald Koeman there who witnessed his | :37:28. | :37:41. | |
defender Seamus Coleman suffer a really nasty injury whilst playing | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
for his country the Republic of Ireland against Wales on | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
International duty. And now he's at the centre of a row after accusing | :37:47. | :37:48. | |
the national coach Martin O'Neill of not protecting his player whilst he | :37:49. | :37:51. | |
was away from his club side on International duty. But O'Neill's | :37:52. | :37:52. | |
responded calling the Everton manager a "master tactician of the | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
blame game". You wonder whether or not that is an argument that is | :37:56. | :37:57. | |
going to run and run. Dan Walker is here, football focus coming up | :37:58. | :38:02. | |
later. That is not the only disagreement, Saido Berahino, moving | :38:03. | :38:10. | |
Stoke City from West Brom, bit of a falling out. Interesting character, | :38:11. | :38:12. | |
we have a fascinatingly honest interview with him, he has hardly | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
played for West Brom at all, he failed a drugs test last season, he | :38:16. | :38:21. | |
was banned for a number of games as well, moved to Stoke, there to say | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
he has fallen out of love with West Brom, he arrived as a young man, | :38:25. | :38:28. | |
from Molenbeek, he came to Birmingham with his mother, came to | :38:29. | :38:33. | |
West Brom and moved up through the youth ranks, he talks in his | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
interview about how he fell out of love with a club that has done so | :38:39. | :38:42. | |
much for him. Let's have a look. I was depressed, every time I went to | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
the training ground, did not want to be there, that was the hardest | :38:46. | :38:50. | |
thing. From going from loving something to hating the place that | :38:51. | :38:57. | |
made you, it is hard to take. Even if I was just playing... There is | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
ways of doing things... There is times I was training with the youth | :39:01. | :39:05. | |
team... Not the sort of interview that is going to please West Brom | :39:06. | :39:08. | |
fans, he holds up his hands and says there were things that he did which | :39:09. | :39:12. | |
were wrong, attitude was wrong, but he also says he did not feel that | :39:13. | :39:15. | |
the club did not deal with him properly. When you mention Stoke | :39:16. | :39:20. | |
City, his new club, a smile comes upon his face. Fascinating | :39:21. | :39:23. | |
interview. The Merseyside derby, Mark Lawrenson in the red corner, | :39:24. | :39:30. | |
Kevin in the blue corner. Talking about Celtic as well, could have | :39:31. | :39:36. | |
been the weekend they won the title. Coventry taking 42,000 fans to | :39:37. | :39:39. | |
Wembley for the EFL Trophy, club in real turmoil but they had to have a | :39:40. | :39:45. | |
really good Wembley weekend. Claude Puel, Southampton boss, he is on, | :39:46. | :39:51. | |
talking about what you are talking about, El Classicoast, and we have | :39:52. | :39:56. | |
Premier League predictions as well coming from the comedian, Omid | :39:57. | :40:04. | |
Djalili. Couldn't read my notes there. Mango fingers! | :40:05. | :40:09. | |
Congratulations on the net where there are. Full knitwear! -- | :40:10. | :40:25. | |
congratulations on the knitwear. I got distracted by mango fingers, we | :40:26. | :40:26. | |
are back to one hour, and we Curling is one of Team GB's most | :40:27. | :40:32. | |
successful Winter Olypmic sports. But that's all thanks to Scotland. | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
In the future, though, they could be getting help from south of the | :40:36. | :40:38. | |
border. Mike's been to a farm in Kent where they've built England's | :40:39. | :40:39. | |
first dedicated curling rink. VOICEOVER: Where once they milked | :40:40. | :40:53. | |
cows, they are forming a new breed, intend, the Garden of England, they | :40:54. | :40:58. | |
are milking something very rare outside of Scotland, curling talent | :40:59. | :40:59. | |
for the future. It is because there was nothing in | :41:00. | :41:17. | |
England, I came down from Scotland, where curling was something that all | :41:18. | :41:19. | |
the family did. It was really a community thing. I would say, the | :41:20. | :41:23. | |
cows, they made a mess, you did not get any money, brought in the | :41:24. | :41:28. | |
curlers, brought in the curlers, and they make a mess and they still did | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
not make any money! But he has stirred a passion for the sport in | :41:33. | :41:35. | |
southern England, helping to nurture future stars that could one day help | :41:36. | :41:39. | |
the Scots to strengthen the British team. At the moment this is the only | :41:40. | :41:44. | |
dedicated purpose-built curling rink outside of Scotland but another will | :41:45. | :41:49. | |
open in Lancashire, in Preston, later this year. Such a simple game, | :41:50. | :41:53. | |
push a rock up the ice, at any level you can enjoy it. It is straight, | :41:54. | :42:01. | |
could be short... A lot of sweeping to do there. Straighter than I | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
thought it was going to be. Next year 's Winter Olympics will be the | :42:08. | :42:09. | |
first to feature a mixed doubles competition, not sure I will be | :42:10. | :42:12. | |
getting the nod from Annabel or any of the young curlers. I like | :42:13. | :42:19. | |
sliding, you have to have a very specific technique to get it right, | :42:20. | :42:21. | |
takes time to perfect. It comes down to tactics, comes down to knowing | :42:22. | :42:24. | |
what the opposition is thinking and where you can put it to win the | :42:25. | :42:31. | |
game. They do say this game is like chess, I am going to give him a | :42:32. | :42:32. | |
couple of tactical signals... The great thing about this board, | :42:33. | :42:46. | |
you don't need to be on ice skates, one of the few I sport where you | :42:47. | :42:49. | |
don't need any skating ability to take part, my job is to sweep as | :42:50. | :42:52. | |
soon as they say sweet, here we go... To try to get it the extra few | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
feet and centimetres. Get it into the circle... Come on, come on. That | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
is our own stone! You don't need to be a typical athlete to get along | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
with curling, there is lots of different types of curlers, and it | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
is a great sport because there is individual skill involved, but you | :43:11. | :43:15. | |
need to play as a team. In this board, it is never quite over until | :43:16. | :43:16. | |
the last stone. Thieves are stealing ?24 from bank | :43:17. | :43:27. | |
customers every second and the banks themselves admit that they stop | :43:28. | :43:30. | |
unless fraud than they did a year ago, Financial Fraud Action UK also | :43:31. | :43:33. | |
says criminals are getting better at fooling us into helping them take | :43:34. | :43:35. | |
our money. Paul Lewis from Radio 4's Money Box programme is in our London | :43:36. | :43:38. | |
studio. According to the latest industry report. How much is being | :43:39. | :43:49. | |
stolen? Well, a total of ?769 million every year, was stolen, that | :43:50. | :43:56. | |
is ?24 every second. -- in a year. By the time we have finished this | :43:57. | :44:01. | |
item, that will be another ?5,000 disappear from accounts, absolutely | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
extraordinary, and worse then, as you mentioned, is that prevention is | :44:05. | :44:10. | |
falling. So, whereas in the past they prevented about 70p in every | :44:11. | :44:16. | |
pound being stolen, now it is down to 64p. They are letting through | :44:17. | :44:27. | |
more than one third. How thieves getting cleverer? The technological | :44:28. | :44:39. | |
tags are 40 by the banks, they know how to stop them coming in and | :44:40. | :44:42. | |
taking money out, what thieves do now is concentrate on the weak | :44:43. | :44:45. | |
point, I am sorry to say, that is asked, customers, you and me, they | :44:46. | :44:47. | |
are very clever, they ring up, they pretend to be from a trusted source, | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
like Microsoft, a supermarket, BT, they say there is a problem with | :44:51. | :44:55. | |
something or another and they want to sort something out otherwise the | :44:56. | :44:59. | |
bank account may be at risk, very persuasive, they persuade you to | :45:00. | :45:02. | |
give them access to your account by giving them access to the computer, | :45:03. | :45:06. | |
they persuade you to give them a pass code from your bank, and then | :45:07. | :45:15. | |
they use that to rob you. I reported earlier in the year, on a lady who | :45:16. | :45:18. | |
had lost ?180,000 because the thieves managed to persuade her that | :45:19. | :45:20. | |
they were just changing the pay, in fact, they were taking money from | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
her. What can we do to protect ourselves better? Be completely | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
suspicious, if anybody contact you to say, might be a problem on your | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
bank account, don't believe them! Do not believe them. Put down the | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
phone, use another phone, ring your bank on a number that you trust, if | :45:40. | :45:44. | |
you want to check, make sure everything is OK, which it always | :45:45. | :45:51. | |
will be. Strangers will not renew and say there is a problem on your | :45:52. | :45:53. | |
bank account or your broadband or computer, they just won't do it for | :45:54. | :45:56. | |
any legitimate reason. We have to say, no. The sad thing is, the banks | :45:57. | :46:04. | |
don't seem able to stop it, it is down to us. That is a warning. Thank | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
you very much. Don't trust anybody, be suspicious of everything. | :46:09. | :46:16. | |
And you can hear more about this on Money Box on BBC Radio 4 at midday. | :46:17. | :46:21. | |
Main stories: Britain has said it will protect Gibraltar from any | :46:22. | :46:26. | |
sovereignty claims made by Spain during Brexit negotiations. A pay | :46:27. | :46:31. | |
rise for 2 million people, as the national living wage rises to ?7 50, | :46:32. | :46:33. | |
an hour. -- ?7.50, an hour. Weather this weekend is going to be | :46:34. | :46:46. | |
a little bit all over the place, and friendly fair weather clouds may be | :46:47. | :46:51. | |
for a moment this morning, but then, those clouds will go into something | :46:52. | :46:52. | |
a little more ugly. This is rain, the sun is beginning | :46:53. | :47:06. | |
to poke through the clouds in one or two places. Those clouds are also | :47:07. | :47:08. | |
going to be growing through the morning into the afternoon. Plenty | :47:09. | :47:20. | |
of showers on the way, hit and miss, some of us get them, some do not, | :47:21. | :47:23. | |
50/50 chance of catching rain, certainly a chance across | :47:24. | :47:24. | |
south-western England, through Wales, western parts of the UK, this | :47:25. | :47:27. | |
is where they will be at their heaviest and fall earlier in the | :47:28. | :47:30. | |
day. Eastern parts of the country will tend to get the showers later | :47:31. | :47:35. | |
on. If you live in Lincolnshire, the East Midlands, the south-east, those | :47:36. | :47:39. | |
showers will brew later on, and also a chance of hail and thunder. Once | :47:40. | :47:44. | |
the sun sets, the energy is lost from the sun, the showers can | :47:45. | :47:48. | |
sustain themselves, they fall apart, and we are left with clear skies | :47:49. | :47:53. | |
overnight. Try one tonight, pretty chilly, just a touch of frost across | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
northern areas, tomorrow, beautiful sunny note for most of us. Banks to | :47:59. | :48:10. | |
this area of low pressure. That will settle things down for many of us. | :48:11. | :48:13. | |
Fine day on the way, two very different days, from a showery | :48:14. | :48:17. | |
Saturday to a much sunny Sunday. How about the temperatures? Tomorrow | :48:18. | :48:19. | |
will feel warmer than today, tomorrow will have more sun around, | :48:20. | :48:25. | |
temperatures up to 17, a bit closer around the coast, and more | :48:26. | :48:28. | |
typically, 13, four Leeds and Sheffield. Summary this weekend, | :48:29. | :48:34. | |
April showers today. -- for beat United. -- for Leeds. | :48:35. | :48:55. | |
You might remember The Crystal Maze, the quiz show in the 1990s. | :48:56. | :48:58. | |
And if you ever wished you could have a go, | :48:59. | :49:00. | |
The format has been revived as part of an immersive | :49:01. | :49:04. | |
theatrical production, which sees people take part, | :49:05. | :49:06. | |
influence the show, and even become characters themselves. | :49:07. | :49:08. | |
Breakfast's Tim Muffett has been to have a go. | :49:09. | :49:09. | |
participants, not just watching the show but being in it. The Crystal | :49:10. | :49:20. | |
Maze Experience opens today in Manchester, based on the early 90s | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
television programme. A really British TV show, a sense of | :49:25. | :49:27. | |
irreverence, it was funny, tongue in cheek, silly... That is just the way | :49:28. | :49:36. | |
the Wookie grumbles(!) this new Manchester production will see | :49:37. | :49:38. | |
audience members compete for crystals, to buy time in the crystal | :49:39. | :49:43. | |
dome. Will you start the fans please! We have broken the | :49:44. | :49:48. | |
disconnect now between people wanting to be active and passive, | :49:49. | :49:53. | |
wanting to play and follow a journey rather than just be sat in a dark | :49:54. | :49:57. | |
auditorium. This immersive production might be inspired by a | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
television game show, but many theatre producers have sought out | :50:03. | :50:06. | |
new audiences by making them part of the story. Montagues and Capulets, a | :50:07. | :50:17. | |
very different version of Romeo + Juliet, the latest production by | :50:18. | :50:23. | |
these immersive specialists, Colab Theatre. There is dodge ball, a 90s | :50:24. | :50:31. | |
rave, audience choose which subplot to follow. Very immersive, not quite | :50:32. | :50:37. | |
what I was expecting. The fact it involves everybody, that is the | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
thing, you are not sitting severally. The arts Council has seen | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
a big rise in the number of funding applications from experimental | :50:46. | :50:50. | |
theatre group, up 42% since 2014. Many immersive shows like this one | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
based on Alice in Wonderland have proved popular, but some feel that | :50:55. | :50:59. | |
the novelty is wearing them. What has changed in immersive theatre, it | :51:00. | :51:02. | |
has gone from an art form that was new and exciting to being something | :51:03. | :51:09. | |
that people are ending up going for the experience of it. If you haven't | :51:10. | :51:12. | |
got something you want to say and achieve, by bringing the audience | :51:13. | :51:21. | |
into the show, you may as well not do it immersive leak, you may as | :51:22. | :51:24. | |
well not do it at all. Confusing at times, audience participation is a | :51:25. | :51:26. | |
must, the growth of immersive theatre suggest that watching a show | :51:27. | :51:28. | |
is for some no longer enough. We will have a full review of the | :51:29. | :51:37. | |
newspapers coming up in the next hour. | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
When journalist Peter Taylor stepped nervously onto a plane in 1967, | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
bound for the Middle East, he had no idea it would be the start of a | :51:47. | :51:48. | |
career spanning 50 years. At the time "terrorism" was barely in our | :51:49. | :51:51. | |
vocabulary, but as he covered the Troubles in Northern Ireland, | :51:52. | :51:53. | |
Al-Qaeda and the rise of so-called Islamic State, he's seen how | :51:54. | :51:55. | |
extremist ideology has evolved. He joins us now but first, let's take a | :51:56. | :51:56. | |
look at some of his reporting. Good morning. We will have a look | :51:57. | :52:12. | |
back now. Talk us through some of these images afterwards. These young | :52:13. | :52:15. | |
gorillas here are outside of the borders of South Africa. We cannot | :52:16. | :52:21. | |
identify the location and we cannot show the they are for reasons of | :52:22. | :52:23. | |
security. -- guerillas. All we can say is that many of these young | :52:24. | :52:26. | |
people left is a way to five years ago in the aftermath of the rights | :52:27. | :52:29. | |
of June, 1976. -- left Soweto. You say that he will fight the | :52:30. | :52:44. | |
soldiers? I want to fight for my country. If I were to interview some | :52:45. | :52:51. | |
children about the same age as you were when I interviewed you, 40 | :52:52. | :52:58. | |
years ago, and if one of those children said to me now, that he | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
wanted to fight and die for Ireland, what would you say? I would tell him | :53:02. | :53:05. | |
to forget it. All the people who died... They thought they were | :53:06. | :53:13. | |
fighting for their country. But it didn't work out that way. To show | :53:14. | :53:16. | |
just how close we are to the Islamic State line, if you look over there, | :53:17. | :53:24. | |
you can see the black flag of the Islamic State, and it is only about | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
200 metres away. 200 metres from the black flag of | :53:29. | :53:40. | |
Islamic State... Yes, but we didn't get any closer to the black flag. | :53:41. | :53:43. | |
But that was one of those cases... I am not a war reporter but | :53:44. | :53:45. | |
occasionally I have to go to war zones, and that was one of those | :53:46. | :53:50. | |
operations, where we came pretty close. You have had the knack over | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
your career of being in the right place at moments crucial to world | :53:57. | :54:02. | |
history. Is that by design? Is it because you are more brave than | :54:03. | :54:07. | |
anybody else? More tenacious? I would not say I am any braver, | :54:08. | :54:14. | |
partly by design, because you can see the way that certain situations | :54:15. | :54:16. | |
are going to evolve, but also, there are moments when you have to take | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
certain risks, like that piece of me in the middle of nowhere, in Angola, | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
with the ANC gorillas, who fled South Africa five years earlier, it | :54:26. | :54:29. | |
took me months to arrange the facility to go to Angola and do the | :54:30. | :54:32. | |
filming. -- ANC guerillas. It had never been done before. The morning | :54:33. | :54:37. | |
of my departure, I got a phone call from the ANC headquarters saying, | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
you cannot come, too dangerous, risky for us, don't do it. You sit | :54:43. | :54:46. | |
there, you have the tickets, and you think, what do I do, do I be a good | :54:47. | :54:50. | |
boy and state, or take the risk? I arrived in Rand and Angola, at the | :54:51. | :54:57. | |
headquarters, to see the big commissar, and he said, didn't you | :54:58. | :55:00. | |
get the message, what are you doing here? And I said, message, what | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
message. -- Rwanda. LAUGHTER Anyway, we managed to do it. Playing | :55:05. | :55:10. | |
dumb can help. Playing innocent, I don't tell lies, occasionally a | :55:11. | :55:14. | |
white lie is necessary to get a result, that was the only time that | :55:15. | :55:18. | |
the young students who fled South Africa five years ago after the | :55:19. | :55:21. | |
massacre in is a waiter had ever been filmed. Part of being a | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
reporter, you deal with what is in front of you at that time and place, | :55:27. | :55:30. | |
but maybe now, you reflect on what you have seen over the years, the | :55:31. | :55:36. | |
notion that terrorism has changed, that terrorists used to target | :55:37. | :55:40. | |
high-profile people, specific people, and how it has changed now, | :55:41. | :55:46. | |
what do you see that as James? It has changed at magically since I | :55:47. | :55:52. | |
first met the IRA, back in Londonderry, 1972, after bloody | :55:53. | :55:56. | |
Sunday, when the IRA as we know it, as we knew it, which is beginning to | :55:57. | :56:02. | |
emerge. Over 50 years, I have watched counterterrorism developed | :56:03. | :56:06. | |
from the IRA, who had a specific aim, and a specific modus operandi, | :56:07. | :56:12. | |
the IRA killed many civilians, let's not underestimate that, but by and | :56:13. | :56:16. | |
large, the IRA tactic was not to deliberately kill civilians, | :56:17. | :56:20. | |
although many civilians were killed by the IRA. Contrast that with | :56:21. | :56:25. | |
Al-Qaeda and so-called Islamic State, there are modus operandi is | :56:26. | :56:29. | |
to target, massacre, as many innocent civilians as possible with | :56:30. | :56:37. | |
no warning. Dealing with the IRA, or ETA or FARC is very different from | :56:38. | :56:41. | |
trying to deal with Islamist organisations like Al-Qaeda and | :56:42. | :56:47. | |
Islamic State. The IRA had an agenda, which was moving towards a | :56:48. | :56:50. | |
united Ireland, the British could negotiate on that, and we did, in | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
the end we reached the Good Friday agreement. Go shading and talking to | :56:55. | :57:00. | |
the so-called Islamic State, what do you talk about...? -- negotiating. | :57:01. | :57:03. | |
Bias is the most ruthless, dangerous, formidable terrorist | :57:04. | :57:07. | |
organisation that we have ever come across. -- IS. We have to deal with | :57:08. | :57:11. | |
them on two fronts. One, persuading the Muslim community here to reject | :57:12. | :57:22. | |
the ideology that IS stands for and also hitting them hard in their | :57:23. | :57:28. | |
bases at home in Iraq and Syria stop what we are looking at your | :57:29. | :57:31. | |
extensive work, where is this? This is in northern Iraq with the | :57:32. | :57:34. | |
Peshmerga forces, who were going to try and take out an outpost of IS, a | :57:35. | :57:41. | |
few hundred yards from where we were. | :57:42. | :57:55. | |
-- What we are looking at your extensive work, where is this? | :57:56. | :57:59. | |
The day before we went there, where I was, the person was killed by a | :58:00. | :58:05. | |
sniper, and so... You never take it for granted that it is safe. It is | :58:06. | :58:16. | |
risky, it is never that dangerous because you have a BBC mind, but we | :58:17. | :58:18. | |
all have hostile environment training before we go. You are not | :58:19. | :58:21. | |
prepared for the expected. That moment, in a report we saw, you met | :58:22. | :58:24. | |
a young man, back in the day, 1970... 1974. 12-year-old boy, he | :58:25. | :58:37. | |
was intent upon joining... Wanted to fight and die for Ireland. You meet | :58:38. | :58:40. | |
him again. I tracked him down, a couple of years ago, and that is one | :58:41. | :58:45. | |
of the things I remember, aged 12, wanting to fight and die for | :58:46. | :58:49. | |
Ireland, when I tracked him down, which was not easy, in West Belfast, | :58:50. | :58:54. | |
I was shocked at what I saw, when I knocked on the door. He said, you | :58:55. | :59:02. | |
haven't changed a bit, well I have, but if anybody had change, it was | :59:03. | :59:09. | |
him, 54, he looked 80, 90 years old, going on for 100. He is a victim as | :59:10. | :59:15. | |
well, wee Sean, he became an alcoholic, his life was destroyed, | :59:16. | :59:20. | |
his life was destroyed basically because he joined the IRA and went | :59:21. | :59:24. | |
to jail, I met him in the maze prison when I did documentaries... | :59:25. | :59:39. | |
His life was destroyed. Very moving. His remarks on the answer to my | :59:40. | :59:42. | |
question, if I met you again at that stage, would you still want to join | :59:43. | :59:46. | |
the IRA? He said, no. So sad. Thank you so much for joining us. | :59:47. | :59:54. | |
Peter Taylor's documentary, Fifty Years Behind the Headlines - | :59:55. | :59:57. | |
Reflections on Terror, is on BBC Radio Four tonight at 8pm and then | :59:58. | :59:58. | |
later on the iPlayer. Hello this is Breakfast, | :59:59. | :00:21. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. Anger over Gibraltar's role | :00:22. | :00:24. | |
in the coming Brexit negotiations. Spain says it wants a separate | :00:25. | :00:26. | |
deal on it's future. Foreign Secretary, Boris Johnson, | :00:27. | :00:29. | |
says the UK will be rock-like Good morning it's | :00:30. | :00:32. | |
Saturday 1st April. Also ahead, minimum pay for workers | :00:33. | :00:48. | |
aged 25 and over goes up from today; the government says around 2 million | :00:49. | :00:53. | |
people will benefit. Scotland increases the number of IVF | :00:54. | :00:58. | |
cycles available to couples And in Sport, Johanna Konta eyes | :00:59. | :01:02. | |
the biggest title of her career as she prepares to faces | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
Caroline Wozniacki in the final In the men's final Roger Federer | :01:09. | :01:10. | |
will play Rafa Nadal. The challenge of rowing | :01:11. | :01:16. | |
the Atlantic; we have the story of four friends, 39 days at sea | :01:17. | :01:20. | |
and a record breaking The weekend is looking mixed. | :01:21. | :01:35. | |
Somemight have to run for cover today. Tomorrow is looking mostly | :01:36. | :01:38. | |
sunny. Tensions are rising over | :01:39. | :01:40. | |
Gilbraltar's position during Brexit, after the EU gave Spain a potential | :01:41. | :01:46. | |
veto on any future deal Last night, the government said it | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
would stand up for Gibraltar's The enclave has accused Spain | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
of trying to manipulate discussions, in order | :01:54. | :01:58. | |
to further its 300-year-old Gibraltar has been in | :01:59. | :01:59. | |
British hands in 1713. It shares a border with Spain, | :02:00. | :02:06. | |
but rejects any Spanish The current proposals mean a deal | :02:07. | :02:11. | |
between the UK and the EU would not apply to Gibraltar | :02:12. | :02:24. | |
without an additional agreement Gibraltar's chief minister has | :02:25. | :02:26. | |
fiercely rejected this as an attempt by Spain to encroach on the rock's | :02:27. | :02:29. | |
ability to control its sovereignty. It is unfair and unnecessary | :02:30. | :02:32. | |
and clearly discriminatory. I am grateful Spain has been foolish | :02:33. | :02:37. | |
enough to play this card early in this process and not at five | :02:38. | :02:43. | |
minutes to midnight with an agreement in place, | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
bar the issue of Gibraltar. The British government has | :02:48. | :02:49. | |
been quick to affirm Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
tweeted that the UK remains implacable and rocklike | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
in our support for Gibraltar. But these are draft proposals, | :02:57. | :02:59. | |
due to be finalised by the EU Theresa May has until then | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
to try to persuade them to drop this Our Political Correspondent Matt | :03:06. | :03:11. | |
Cole is in our London studio. What could this mean | :03:12. | :03:19. | |
for negotiations? And what chance will Theresa May | :03:20. | :03:30. | |
have of persuading them? One might imagine this will make it on to the | :03:31. | :03:33. | |
final paper of the negotiating strategy of the EU. The EU 25 27 as | :03:34. | :03:39. | |
they will be without Britain are very much saying from here on in, | :03:40. | :03:42. | |
they'll look after their own and Spain is one of them. | :03:43. | :03:53. | |
The caveat is whether the deal would extend to Gibraltar. We are hearing | :03:54. | :04:01. | |
from sources that the answer to that is absolutely not. Theresa May will | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
have her work cut out on this. The big problem that has emerged from | :04:07. | :04:09. | |
the negotiating stat jitt outlined by the EU yesterday is the idea that | :04:10. | :04:13. | |
the Brexit divorce talks will have to take place before new talks on a | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
new trade relationship can take place. I think possibly that's a | :04:18. | :04:20. | |
blow to the British Government who wanted to do them in parallel but | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
possibly this could be why Spain are introducing this idea now because I | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
think they would think if they can get this signed off now, it would | :04:30. | :04:33. | |
put pressure on Britain ahead of the trade talks because Britain needs to | :04:34. | :04:37. | |
get the trade talks up and running and therefore if things he held up | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
by this Spanish question over Gibraltar, I think that Spain would | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
hope that gives them leverage. It's a surprise, people thought Spain | :04:47. | :04:49. | |
wouldn't bring this in, they certainly said they wouldn't but | :04:50. | :04:52. | |
they have. It's a problem for the Brexit negotiating team to sort out. | :04:53. | :04:53. | |
Another one. Thank you very much. Two million people are set | :04:54. | :04:57. | |
for a pay rise today, as the national living wage goes up | :04:58. | :05:00. | |
to ?7.50 an hour. The change has been broadly | :05:01. | :05:03. | |
welcomed by unions. But employers have expressed | :05:04. | :05:05. | |
concern about the strain Here's our business | :05:06. | :05:07. | |
correspondent Joe Lynam. 23-year-old Lewis is already paid | :05:08. | :05:13. | |
more by the national living He certainly notices the difference | :05:14. | :05:15. | |
from his previous company. I was struggling for money, | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
it was a big concern for me. It was very much go to work come | :05:22. | :05:25. | |
back, spend the night Now I can afford a social life | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
and to do stuff in the local area. From today, workers over 25 must | :05:31. | :05:37. | |
be paid at least ?7.50 an hour. If you work a full week | :05:38. | :05:44. | |
you will get at least ?281.25. Many members were already paying | :05:45. | :05:49. | |
staff more than the level For those that weren't, | :05:50. | :05:54. | |
it's adding significant costs to their businesses, | :05:55. | :06:00. | |
around about ?900 a year for staff on average and a further ?120 a year | :06:01. | :06:06. | |
with the knock-on consequences for national insurance | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
payments as well. Much of that cost will be absorbed | :06:10. | :06:11. | |
by the businesses themselves rather than passing it on in the form | :06:12. | :06:14. | |
of hire prices. Controversial business rates | :06:15. | :06:17. | |
come into force today. Whilst most companies | :06:18. | :06:20. | |
will be paying less, some, especially in the south-east, | :06:21. | :06:24. | |
face much higher bills. And a new system for | :06:25. | :06:27. | |
calculating car taxes starts. Hybrid car owners will be | :06:28. | :06:31. | |
paying more than they did. Around 4,000 households in England | :06:32. | :06:35. | |
earning more than ?100,000 a year have received taxpayers' money | :06:36. | :06:40. | |
to help them buy a home. Official figures also reveal | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
that the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme has assisted more than 20,000 | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
households who were not Labour said it showed the initiative | :06:49. | :06:51. | |
was "badly targeted" but the government insisted it | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
continued to make home ownership Patients referred to the NHS | :06:58. | :06:59. | |
for fertility treatment in Scotland will be eligible for three full | :07:00. | :07:05. | |
cycles of IVF treatment. From today, the Scottish government | :07:06. | :07:08. | |
is increasing the number of cycles funded by the health service | :07:09. | :07:10. | |
for women under 40 It's expected to cost | :07:11. | :07:13. | |
about ?1 million a year. It is thought that around one | :07:14. | :07:17. | |
in seven couples experience In Scotland, up until now, | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
women under 40 have been offered two Older women between 40 and 42 | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
will also be offered one cycle In other parts of the UK, | :07:30. | :07:40. | |
the number of IVF cycles on the NHS In England, up to three full | :07:41. | :07:47. | |
cycles are recommended. But local commissioning | :07:48. | :07:54. | |
groups decide, and in half the areas in England, | :07:55. | :07:59. | |
only one cycle is offered. In Wales women under 40 | :08:00. | :08:02. | |
are entitled to two cycles. The IVF programme in Scotland | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
is expected to cost the NHS Money which has already | :08:06. | :08:11. | |
been put aside. The minister says changes to IVF | :08:12. | :08:17. | |
treatment in Scotland make it the fairest and most generous | :08:18. | :08:20. | |
in the UK. Protesters in Paraguay have stormed | :08:21. | :08:32. | |
the Congress and set fire to the building as anger grows over | :08:33. | :08:34. | |
moves to allow President Cartes The demonstrations were triggered | :08:35. | :08:38. | |
by a Senate vote behind closed doors to change the constitution, | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
ending the one term limit. Campaigners say Paraguay's | :08:45. | :08:47. | |
democracy is under threat. Two women have died and more feared | :08:48. | :08:58. | |
to have died as as a result of the cyclone Debby floods. | :08:59. | :09:04. | |
It's happening in Queensland and New South Wales. The Prime Minister | :09:05. | :09:09. | |
urged people to be vigilant and not take risks. | :09:10. | :09:16. | |
People living in Orkney enjoy the best quality of life of any | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
rural area in the UK according to a new survey. | :09:21. | :09:22. | |
The study by the Bank of Scotland praised the islands | :09:23. | :09:25. | |
for their stunning scenery, low crime rates and | :09:26. | :09:27. | |
It is the first time they have topped the poll, | :09:28. | :09:31. | |
They beat Wychavon in the West Midlands into second place. | :09:32. | :09:36. | |
It's a rocky outpost at the South of Spain with a population of 30,000 | :09:37. | :09:39. | |
but it is already clear Gibraltar is likely to play a major role | :09:40. | :09:44. | |
Yesterday, its government accused Spain which has disputed the UK's | :09:45. | :09:49. | |
claim to the territory for 300 years of manipulating the European Council | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
We're joined now by Gibraltar's chief minister Fabian Picardo. | :09:53. | :10:01. | |
Thank you very much for your time this morning Mr Picardo. Can I get | :10:02. | :10:10. | |
your reaction - a lot of people describe this as a surprise if not a | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
shock that it was included within the EU's draft proposals - what was | :10:15. | :10:18. | |
your initial reaction? Good morning. I think in Gibraltar, we did not | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
expect to see Gibraltar singled out for discriminatory treatment in this | :10:24. | :10:26. | |
way. Of course, there are going to be issues that Gibraltar needs to | :10:27. | :10:29. | |
work won the United Kingdom and with Spain. Spain is our neighbour, it's | :10:30. | :10:33. | |
going to be our access point into Schengen and the European Union, but | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
to see ourselves singled out in a way that means that we cannot have | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
the UK's new trade deal with the EU, such as it may be if one is done, | :10:43. | :10:47. | |
without Spain's approval and say-so and perhaps seeking to extract a | :10:48. | :10:52. | |
price is really quite disgraceful. Spain might have been expected to do | :10:53. | :10:56. | |
this, but the European Council to have gone along with this, even | :10:57. | :11:00. | |
putting it in a draft when Gibraltar is the place in Europe that was most | :11:01. | :11:09. | |
pro-European Union, we voted 96% to stay in the UK, we might have | :11:10. | :11:13. | |
expected this from Spain but not the European Council. It's up for | :11:14. | :11:18. | |
discussion. The EU says that is one of the things, and that is the way | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
they want to treat it. What would you have Theresa May do in advance | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
of the actual talks starting? The European Council is saying this is a | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
draft of the guidelines to go into the negotiation. This draft now has | :11:30. | :11:34. | |
to be approved by all of the other member states to become the firm | :11:35. | :11:39. | |
guidelines as at 29th April. I don't know whether the Maltese, the Irish, | :11:40. | :11:44. | |
the Scandinavians, the Germans are going to go along with taking the | :11:45. | :11:49. | |
30,000 people of Gibraltar and singling them out in the way this is | :11:50. | :11:54. | |
proposed. In any event, it's the mandate to negotiate that's give | :11:55. | :12:01. | |
tonne Mr Tusk and he then, or to Mr Barnier rather, and he arrives at | :12:02. | :12:03. | |
the negotiation with the guidelines. When you arrive with a negotiation, | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
you arrive with a list of achievements and you walk out | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
achieving less than them. I think Theresa May is going to insist that | :12:12. | :12:16. | |
the people of Gibraltar are not discriminated against, the Foreign | :12:17. | :12:18. | |
Secretary who I spoke to yesterday said that he'd continue to be | :12:19. | :12:22. | |
implacable and ruthless in the defence of the rights of the people | :12:23. | :12:27. | |
of Gibraltar and I expect nothing else from Mrs May and her team. It | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
sounds like you are satisfied with the assureties you have had from the | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
British Government. Do you think the negotiations proper shouldn't start | :12:36. | :12:39. | |
until Gibraltar is taken off the agenda? Well, look this is an issue | :12:40. | :12:45. | |
which is being put on the agenda by the other side. We have no control | :12:46. | :12:50. | |
what the other side talk about. You might similarly say let's not | :12:51. | :12:59. | |
talking until the European take off the table any suggestion. One thing | :13:00. | :13:05. | |
that people were putting to me after the referendum result was whether | :13:06. | :13:08. | |
Spain might wait until there was a good agreement for the UK and at | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
five minutes to Midnight raise the issue of Gibraltar then try to | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
scumtering whole deal. Every cloud has a silver lining, Spain's played | :13:17. | :13:21. | |
its card very early in this game, we can all now see them coming, it's | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
time for people to stand up shoulder-to-shoulder with the people | :13:26. | :13:29. | |
of Gibraltar and defend the interests of the 30,000 richest | :13:30. | :13:33. | |
citizens that live in Gibraltar. Not sure what room you're in as we are | :13:34. | :13:36. | |
talking to you, we can see the picture of the Queen and the flags | :13:37. | :13:40. | |
behind you, but give us a sense of how raw emotions are over there? | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
It's not my bedroom! This is the Office of the Chief Minister of | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
Gibraltar where you'd expect to see those characteristics of what is the | :13:50. | :13:53. | |
executive of a British territory. The British Government of Gibraltar | :13:54. | :13:56. | |
is answerable of course to Her Majesty the Queen represented by a | :13:57. | :14:01. | |
Government in Gibraltar. We feel passionately British and nothing is | :14:02. | :14:03. | |
going to change us. We are not going to be a pawn. We want the culprits, | :14:04. | :14:08. | |
because the European Union looks at Britain as though they are in an | :14:09. | :14:12. | |
acrimonious divorce, we are the partner to the EU and we are the | :14:13. | :14:17. | |
ones walking away, well Gibraltar wasn't responsible for that but we | :14:18. | :14:19. | |
feel passionately British and nothing is going to change that. | :14:20. | :14:23. | |
Thank you very much. I like the line about it not being your bedroom, | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
very funny, we like that, thank you for your time. Glad he cleared that | :14:28. | :14:33. | |
one up! I didn't think it was but, you know, now we know. Very smartly | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
dressed in his bedroom in a suit and tie! | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
Now to Tomas for the weekend weather. | :14:43. | :14:49. | |
Good morning. Some of us are waking Up to this sort of weather. Lots of | :14:50. | :14:53. | |
clear blue sky and fluffy fair weather cloud. Over the next few | :14:54. | :14:57. | |
hours, we are going to see quite a change. The fluffy clouds will brew | :14:58. | :15:03. | |
into something a little more dark and sinister, so we'll talk about | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
the showers in a moment. There has been some rain around already across | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
Wales and the north-west of England so it's not great everywhere, it's | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
already raining and wet in some places and pretty grim. But we've | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
got some sunshine in the forecast today but many of us will be | :15:18. | :15:21. | |
catching the showers. The showers may bring thunder and light thing, | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
hail too. The thinking is that early in the afternoon, say about lunch | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
time, it's more western parts of the UK that'll get the heavier showers. | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
South-western England through the West Country into Wales, the | :15:35. | :15:38. | |
north-west here, Northern Ireland and most of Scotland. | :15:39. | :15:49. | |
Later in the afternoon, showers in the east, perhaps some thunder too. | :15:50. | :15:59. | |
Some of us will dodge the showers completely and will be wondering | :16:00. | :16:02. | |
where are they. The night will be clear. Chilly with frost around, | :16:03. | :16:10. | |
particularly across northern areas. Mostly grass frost. Tomorrow a | :16:11. | :16:15. | |
different day. No showers. This high that is going to build from the | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
south is going to stop the showers from forming. That is quite often | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
what high pressures do, they put a lid on things. We then get a fine, | :16:24. | :16:28. | |
clear day. Maybe just a few scattered clouds tomorrow, harmless | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
ones. 16 or 17 in London, 13 for most though and some of the coastal | :16:33. | :16:36. | |
areas a little fresher. Two very different days this weekend. A bit | :16:37. | :16:39. | |
of sunshine, a bit of rain and sunshine and a bit of rain again. | :16:40. | :16:44. | |
That's today. We'll call that April showers. A chilly night. Then | :16:45. | :16:48. | |
tomorrow should be sunny from dawn until dusk. | :16:49. | :17:00. | |
Patients referred to the NHS for fertility treatment in Scotland | :17:01. | :17:03. | |
will be eligible for three full cycles of IVF treatment. | :17:04. | :17:06. | |
From today, the Scottish government is increasing the number of cycles | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
funded by the health service for women under 40 | :17:12. | :17:13. | |
Charles Kingsland is Professor of Reproductive Medicine | :17:14. | :17:21. | |
Thank you for coming in. This sounds generous, three cycles for women | :17:22. | :17:32. | |
under 40? It is. The first IVF baby was born in the National Health | :17:33. | :17:35. | |
Service up the road in old ham of course. When the baby was born, | :17:36. | :17:40. | |
there was such a public outcry about babies being born In test-tubes | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
within the NHS, society wasn't really quite ready for those | :17:46. | :17:51. | |
technological advances. IVF went underground and the NHS rejected it | :17:52. | :17:56. | |
and the treatment went into the private sector. It grew up in the | :17:57. | :18:02. | |
private sector. Over the past generation, various commissioning | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
bodies have drawn IVF treatment back into the NHS and now of course it's | :18:07. | :18:11. | |
a successful treatment. But some areas have been more successful than | :18:12. | :18:18. | |
others and this is what's led to the postcode lottery where depending on | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
where you live you have varying access to criteria. Now the | :18:24. | :18:27. | |
Government guidelines have been followed and patients are allowed to | :18:28. | :18:30. | |
have three cycles which is great for Scotland. You talk about varying | :18:31. | :18:37. | |
degrees of access. In some places there is no individual access at | :18:38. | :18:42. | |
all? That's right. IVF is very high profile as a subject. Sad | :18:43. | :18:49. | |
beginnings, happy endings, damsels in disit's, wicked scientists, nasty | :18:50. | :18:55. | |
doctors, it's a Harry Potter story. But you can live on one side of the | :18:56. | :19:01. | |
road where you have access to funding, the other side of the road | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
won't. In Croydon they have withdrawn funding recently. If you | :19:05. | :19:08. | |
have a fertility problem which can be a devastating effect not just on | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
your general health but on your whole life, you may not get access. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
So in parts of London, there is no NHS funding. Now in Scotland, | :19:18. | :19:23. | |
provided you fulfil the criteria which are laid down, but there again | :19:24. | :19:26. | |
you could say it's biassed towards women over the age of 40 because if | :19:27. | :19:31. | |
you are under 40 you get three sickles but when you are over 40 you | :19:32. | :19:34. | |
only get one arbitrarily. So it's not a question of being fair, what | :19:35. | :19:40. | |
people need is the knowledge to know that it's equally unfair to | :19:41. | :19:46. | |
everybody. So in Scotland, great, in Croydon, not so good. Statistically, | :19:47. | :19:54. | |
if you look back 20 years, how much has IVF improved? Three cycles of | :19:55. | :19:59. | |
IVF, are you likely to know after one cycle whether it's going to | :20:00. | :20:03. | |
eventually be successful? Yes. When I first started many years ago it | :20:04. | :20:08. | |
was a bit of a lottery. There were so many variables, the technology | :20:09. | :20:14. | |
was in its early stages. Nowadays, it's far more successful. You can | :20:15. | :20:19. | |
actually predict with a reasonable degree of certainty who is going to | :20:20. | :20:26. | |
get pregnant. It's unusual nowadays to see couples who you think should | :20:27. | :20:32. | |
have got pregnant but didn't. Not getting pregnant with IVF is far | :20:33. | :20:37. | |
more predictable, as is pregnancy. No conversation about health care is | :20:38. | :20:40. | |
complete without the financial picture, so in Scotland they've put | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
a costing on this haven't they? Yes. It's a ?1 million figure. Wa would | :20:46. | :20:50. | |
be the equivalent if you apply to it the rest of the UK, because that | :20:51. | :20:55. | |
doesn't sound relative to other costs in the NHS a huge sum of | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
money? It's not. IVF relatively speaking is cheap. It's not that | :21:01. | :21:04. | |
expensive compared with other treatments. But there is this stigma | :21:05. | :21:10. | |
about fertility which, is it a disorder, a disease, should we | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
compare it with dementia and mental illness, these are the conversations | :21:16. | :21:18. | |
that have to take place daily in commissioning groups, where do we | :21:19. | :21:22. | |
put the money. It's only when you want to have a child and you can't | :21:23. | :21:27. | |
and you can't get accessibility, you realise what a devastating effect | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
infertility can have. What are the options for people who live | :21:33. | :21:36. | |
somewhere where there is no funding? You need to get the right | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
information from your commissioning authority. There's a lot of | :21:40. | :21:44. | |
misconceptions about who does and doesn't get treatment. The | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
commissioning authorities will know exactly. If you can't get treatment | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
within the National Health Service, you then have to resort to funding | :21:51. | :21:54. | |
the treatment yourself. That can be a lottery so it's important to get | :21:55. | :21:58. | |
the right advice at the right time from somebody who you trust. | :21:59. | :22:02. | |
Professor, thank you very much. Thank you. | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :22:06. | :22:13. | |
City commentator Justin Urqhart-Stewart is here to tell us | :22:14. | :22:16. | |
What have you got from the newspapers this morning? House | :22:17. | :22:27. | |
obsession. And Nationwide is reporting the first fall for nearly | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
two years. It's only a month before so it puts it into perspective. The | :22:32. | :22:39. | |
average price of a home in the UK, ?207 News, gone up significantly. | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
Just a small fall. The south still strong. Northern Ireland saw a | :22:46. | :22:48. | |
slight increase. It was the only part of the UK which had a crash in | :22:49. | :22:56. | |
2008. -- ?207,000. This little graph, it has some huge rises in it? | :22:57. | :23:01. | |
Monthly changes, yes. They are going up. But it's a strange level they | :23:02. | :23:07. | |
have on here. What looks like dramatic falls are 2.3% and the | :23:08. | :23:12. | |
rises, so it's over-emphasising it but it's basically seeing something | :23:13. | :23:16. | |
that's slowly slowing down. Really we are seeing the ownership rates | :23:17. | :23:21. | |
coming down. Hardly surprising, 35-44, that was at 74%, now down to | :23:22. | :23:27. | |
56%. We were talking about landlords earlier, many more people are | :23:28. | :23:32. | |
Rennesing not buying? The figures there, they say that, it was only | :23:33. | :23:36. | |
12% used to rent ten years ago, now 20%. South-east England people can't | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
afford properties. That is a big change. The next story, snack | :23:41. | :23:46. | |
machines? Yes, you can go to a snack machine because you want that | :23:47. | :23:49. | |
chocolate bar. Yes, it's in the window calling you. Yes, I've got to | :23:50. | :23:53. | |
have it now. I love people doing research. Here is a good use of an | :23:54. | :23:57. | |
expert. It's established if you had to wait 25 seconds and there are | :23:58. | :24:02. | |
other things in that snack machine rather than chocolate, you would | :24:03. | :24:06. | |
have a healthy snack, your brain would start criticising you and | :24:07. | :24:10. | |
thinking, maybe I should have the chocolate one, maybe I should have | :24:11. | :24:19. | |
the healthy one. So it's the delay? The delay changes your mind. So do | :24:20. | :24:24. | |
you think there should be - if you knew in advance there was a longer | :24:25. | :24:28. | |
delay for the delivery of the clunk, if you knew it was going to take | :24:29. | :24:32. | |
longer, you would think... Yes. I don't think that would work. I think | :24:33. | :24:36. | |
if you were just standing there - we have been in that situation where | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
you look at the vending machines and there are rows of chocolate bars and | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
they are trying to make them a litling healthier now and you see | :24:44. | :24:47. | |
one little lonely green apple which looks sad. It's been been there for | :24:48. | :24:52. | |
months and it's never going to match up to the chocolate. You could gear | :24:53. | :24:58. | |
it wrongly so that every time no matter what you punch in you still | :24:59. | :25:02. | |
get something healthy but that would be really annoying. I like your | :25:03. | :25:06. | |
thinking. Your next story is in the Daily Mail. It is. This one is, we | :25:07. | :25:13. | |
all must have seen this from the 1955 film of the Dambusters. There | :25:14. | :25:17. | |
we are, there is the Professor looking at the Bouncing Bomb in | :25:18. | :25:21. | |
Herne Bay and the bomb falls apart. This is before the Dambusters raid. | :25:22. | :25:26. | |
Lo and behold, I thought this being April 1st this was a spook. Yes, I | :25:27. | :25:31. | |
was a little worried. But it's true, they have found part of the Bouncing | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Bomb, presumably one that didn't explode, presumably a testing one | :25:36. | :25:39. | |
that fell apart. It's so heavy they can't move it. It might end up being | :25:40. | :25:43. | |
a piece of art, which considering the other pieces of art I've seen | :25:44. | :25:47. | |
recently, that looks impressive. There is a picture next to it of the | :25:48. | :25:53. | |
original bomb. A captured one. Not sure how you capture a bomb! With a | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
German fellow standing next to it. These things were absolutely huge. | :25:58. | :26:01. | |
Almost like a seeingn't of it. ? Yes, just one end of it there. It's | :26:02. | :26:08. | |
almost the height of an individual. Very brave standing there or | :26:09. | :26:11. | |
foolish. It's already dropped by now. We are going towards the | :26:12. | :26:19. | |
territory now where people might be thinking it's 1st April and what is | :26:20. | :26:22. | |
what? I was waiting to be caught out. Surely this is true though, the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
winner by a short head phone, personal stereos for Grand National | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
horses. That's what you need. When you are betting on the Grand | :26:31. | :26:33. | |
National, look for the ones which have their own head phones on. Head | :26:34. | :26:39. | |
phones? Yes. A nice picture of a horse with a hood on with its head | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
phones and presumably with its iPad or other items. So horse play list, | :26:45. | :26:51. | |
trot in the city by Billy idol, you better you bet by the Who and we are | :26:52. | :26:59. | |
the Bob champions. I like that one! My favourite story is your last | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
story of the day, this one in the Guardian? Yes. My goodness, George | :27:04. | :27:08. | |
Osborne is a busy man. You can edit a paper, be paid huge amounts of | :27:09. | :27:14. | |
money in the City for one day a week, but no, actually, you can have | :27:15. | :27:26. | |
your own fashion designer job, Giorgio by Giorgio! There he is. | :27:27. | :27:33. | |
It's not a line of designer fashion. What? ! Are you saying this isn't | :27:34. | :27:37. | |
true? ! LAUGHTER. | :27:38. | :27:42. | |
A new fashion design of hi-viz vacts. Jackets. We are on BBC One | :27:43. | :27:54. | |
until 10 this morning when John Torode takes his place in the | :27:55. | :28:00. | |
Saturday Kitchen. We have an extraordinary guest, singer song | :28:01. | :28:03. | |
writer Amy McDonald, can you believing it, she's here on Saturday | :28:04. | :28:08. | |
Kitchen, to face your food heaven and hell? Yes, I'm scared. Your idea | :28:09. | :28:13. | |
of heaven? Prawns, chicken, something like that. What about | :28:14. | :28:18. | |
hell? Hell would be rabbit. I'm with you on that! Not for me. I'm going | :28:19. | :28:24. | |
to have to cook it as well so it would be more hellish. We are split | :28:25. | :28:29. | |
down the middle. The two chefs seem to have their own opinion. Making | :28:30. | :28:34. | |
his debut, Tommy Banks is with us. What are you cooking? Scallops with | :28:35. | :28:39. | |
Yorkshire rhubarb. Interesting. Good. Why not? Ben Tish how about | :28:40. | :28:48. | |
you? Classic roast chicken, Sunday lunch roast chicken cooked over a | :28:49. | :28:52. | |
piece of bread with wild garlic mayonnaise. Even if you get your | :28:53. | :28:58. | |
hell, Amy, you are going to eat well. Everyone's going to have great | :28:59. | :29:02. | |
food and eat all sorts of lovely things! Like that, John, see you | :29:03. | :29:07. | |
later. Coming up, four men, 3,000 miles, | :29:08. | :29:11. | |
memory of one of their brothers driving them on. We'll meet the four | :29:12. | :29:17. | |
friends who raised a record amount of Munroing across the Atlantic. | :29:18. | :29:18. | |
That is coming up before Hello this is Breakfast, with | :29:19. | :30:00. | |
Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. Coming up before ten, all of the | :30:01. | :30:05. | |
weather, but first, coming up to 9:30am, a summary of this morning's | :30:06. | :30:06. | |
main news: Tensions are rising over | :30:07. | :30:15. | |
Gilbraltar's position during Brexit, after the EU gave Spain a potential | :30:16. | :30:17. | |
veto on any future deal The enclave's administration | :30:18. | :30:20. | |
accused Spain of trying to manipulate | :30:21. | :30:22. | |
the discussions, in order to further Last night, the Foreign Secretary, | :30:23. | :30:24. | |
Boris Johnson, said the government would be "implacable and rock-like" | :30:25. | :30:28. | |
in its support for Gibraltar earlier, the territory's Chief | :30:29. | :30:30. | |
minister told breakfast why it is going to be a | :30:31. | :30:49. | |
crucial few months. We can be very tough indeed you're in negotiation | :30:50. | :30:52. | |
and one of the things put to me after the referendum was whether | :30:53. | :30:54. | |
Spain would wait until there was a good agreement with the United | :30:55. | :30:57. | |
Kingdom and then raise the issue of Gibraltar and that would scupper the | :30:58. | :30:59. | |
whole deal. Every is cloud has a silver lining, Spain has played its | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
card very early, we can all now see them coming, it is time for people | :31:03. | :31:05. | |
to stand up shoulder to shoulder with the people of Gibraltar and | :31:06. | :31:08. | |
defend the interests of the 30,000 British citizens that live in | :31:09. | :31:09. | |
Gibraltar. Two million people are set | :31:10. | :31:12. | |
for a pay rise today, as the national living wage goes | :31:13. | :31:19. | |
up to ?7.50 an hour. The change has been broadly | :31:20. | :31:22. | |
welcomed by unions. But there've been calls | :31:23. | :31:24. | |
from campaigners for the rate to be higher to meet the true cost | :31:25. | :31:27. | |
of living, while employers have expressed | :31:28. | :31:29. | |
concern about the strain Around 4,000 households in England | :31:30. | :31:31. | |
earning more than ?100,000 a year have received taxpayers' money | :31:32. | :31:37. | |
to help them buy a home. Official figures also reveal | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
that the Help to Buy Equity Loan scheme has assisted more than 20,000 | :31:41. | :31:42. | |
households who were not Labour said it showed the initiative | :31:43. | :31:45. | |
was "badly targeted" but the government insisted it | :31:46. | :31:48. | |
continued to make home ownership Patients referred to the NHS | :31:49. | :31:50. | |
for fertility treatment in Scotland will be eligible for three full | :31:51. | :31:54. | |
cycles of IVF treatment. From today, the Scottish government | :31:55. | :31:57. | |
is increasing the number of cycles funded by the health service | :31:58. | :31:59. | |
for women under 40 The change is expected to cost | :32:00. | :32:02. | |
about ?1 million a year. Protesters in Paraguay have stormed | :32:03. | :32:18. | |
the Congress and set fire to the building as anger grows over | :32:19. | :32:20. | |
moves to allow President Cartes The demonstrations were triggered | :32:21. | :32:23. | |
by a Senate vote behind closed doors to change the constitution, | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
ending the one term limit. Campaigners say Paraguay's | :32:28. | :32:30. | |
democracy is under threat. Two women have died and more people | :32:31. | :32:38. | |
are feared to have drowned as two Australian states are hit by floods | :32:39. | :32:40. | |
in the wake of Cyclone Debbie. Officials said that swollen rivers | :32:41. | :32:42. | |
continued to threaten tens of thousands of people living near | :32:43. | :32:44. | |
major rivers in Queensland and New South Wales. The Prime Minister, | :32:45. | :32:46. | |
Malcolm Turnbull, urged people to be vigilant and not to take risks. | :32:47. | :32:49. | |
Bob Dylan will finally accept his Nobel Prize | :32:50. | :32:51. | |
The American singer won the award in October but failed | :32:52. | :32:54. | |
to travel to pick it up, or deliver the lecture | :32:55. | :32:57. | |
that is required to receive the prize fund of around ?700,000. | :32:58. | :32:59. | |
If he doesn't fulfil the conditions by June, he will have | :33:00. | :33:02. | |
Do you think that you have been full? You have said all sorts of | :33:03. | :33:26. | |
strange things this morning, perhaps...? LAUGHTER | :33:27. | :33:30. | |
And it's 60 years since television viewers first saw this. | :33:31. | :33:33. | |
The past winter, one of the mildest in living memory, | :33:34. | :33:35. | |
has had its effect in other ways as well, it has resulted | :33:36. | :33:38. | |
in an especially heavy spaghetti harvest. | :33:39. | :33:39. | |
This is Panorama's famous Spaghetti tree report. | :33:40. | :33:41. | |
The three minute broadcast was watched by eight million people. | :33:42. | :33:44. | |
Unfortunately some viewers failed to see the funny side, | :33:45. | :33:46. | |
but others were so intrigued, they contacted the BBC to ask | :33:47. | :33:48. | |
where they could purchase their very own tree. | :33:49. | :34:02. | |
The more effort that goes into them, the more that you get back. Pinch, | :34:03. | :34:13. | |
punch, first day of the month, white rabbits, no returns, if you don't | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
say, no returns, then you can get the person back! A very confident | :34:17. | :34:19. | |
tennis player here. Johanna Konta, final of the Miami open, big day for | :34:20. | :34:24. | |
her, fingers crossed, if she wins it, biggest title of her career. She | :34:25. | :34:29. | |
is buying Caroline Wozniacki, who she beat in the scaly and open. -- | :34:30. | :34:37. | |
she is playing Caroline Wozniacki, who she beat in the Australian open. | :34:38. | :34:42. | |
Roger Federer playing later as well. Konta the first British | :34:43. | :34:52. | |
woman to reach the final. She's had a great year already | :34:53. | :34:54. | |
winning her second title at the Sydney International before | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
reaching the quarter finals She recognises that winning a third | :34:58. | :34:59. | |
title later is going to be difficult Most important thing | :35:00. | :35:03. | |
is to look to enjoy It's a great tournament to be a part | :35:04. | :35:07. | |
of to the very end. Not easy to get opportunities | :35:08. | :35:23. | |
like this, I play against tough | :35:24. | :35:30. | |
opponents, someone who has been around the top | :35:31. | :35:32. | |
of the game for so long. Overall, good enjoyment for | :35:33. | :35:38. | |
the challenges, and it will come. It's perhaps no great surprise | :35:39. | :35:46. | |
after his ongoing injury problems. Tiger Woods has pulled out of Golf's | :35:47. | :35:48. | |
first major of the year, He said he's just not "tournament | :35:49. | :35:51. | |
ready" due to his troublesome back, and that there's no timetable | :35:52. | :35:55. | |
for his return. He was sidelined for 15 months after | :35:56. | :35:57. | |
two surgeries to try and fix it. The 14-time major winner | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
won his first major Better news for | :36:02. | :36:03. | |
Britain's Charley Hull. She's three shots off the lead | :36:04. | :36:06. | |
at the halfway stage of the first women's major | :36:07. | :36:08. | |
of the year in California. She finished off her first | :36:09. | :36:10. | |
round with this birdie at the 18th. No hanging around though, | :36:11. | :36:13. | |
she immediately started her second round following delays | :36:14. | :36:15. | |
in the schedule Norway's Suzann Pettersen | :36:16. | :36:17. | |
leads on 7-under. Second placed Aberdeen prevented | :36:18. | :36:19. | |
Celtic from being crowned Scottish Premiership champions last | :36:20. | :36:21. | |
night after beating Dundee 7-0. Had they lost, then the title | :36:22. | :36:24. | |
would have been Celtic's, It was partly down to this guy | :36:25. | :36:26. | |
Andrew Considine who Not often you see a defender | :36:27. | :36:28. | |
score a hat trick. A win for Celtic against Hearts | :36:29. | :36:32. | |
on Sunday will clinch the title. Teams always raise their performance | :36:33. | :36:44. | |
for for big derby matches. It helps then to have your | :36:45. | :36:57. | |
best players available. No such luck for Liverpool today | :36:58. | :36:59. | |
who are missing the key duo of Jordan Henderson and Adam Lallana | :37:00. | :37:02. | |
for the Merseyside derby Let's hear from both managers, | :37:03. | :37:04. | |
firstly Jurgen Klopp who's been impressed with his opposite number | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
Ronald Koeman. They have had a really good run, | :37:09. | :37:10. | |
they have not lost a lot of games But, we are Liverpool, | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
we play at Anfield, and no one should underestimate | :37:14. | :37:19. | |
the power of Anfield. we all have to create | :37:20. | :37:20. | |
a special atmosphere. It is a new season, it is a new | :37:21. | :37:26. | |
game, a new manager at Everton. I heard a little bit about the last | :37:27. | :37:30. | |
two seasons of Everton, that maybe they were too afraid | :37:31. | :37:34. | |
to play against Liverpool. Why do you need to be afraid | :37:35. | :37:36. | |
to play against Liverpool? At the top, can anyone stop | :37:37. | :37:39. | |
league leaders Chelsea? but they can extend that | :37:40. | :38:10. | |
when they play Crystal Palace. And there's another Derby | :38:11. | :38:17. | |
at teatime, the south coast Derby, or the "El Classi-coast" | :38:18. | :38:21. | |
as it's being dubbed. Southampton taking on Bournemouth | :38:22. | :38:23. | |
are neck and neck in We just heard from manager | :38:24. | :38:25. | |
Ronald Koeman there who witnessed his defender Seamus Coleman suffer | :38:26. | :38:29. | |
a really nasty injury whilst playing for his country the Republic | :38:30. | :38:31. | |
of Ireland against Wales And now he's at the centre of a row | :38:32. | :38:33. | |
after accusing the national coach Martin O'Neill of not | :38:34. | :38:38. | |
protecting his player whilst he was away from his club side | :38:39. | :38:40. | |
on International duty. But O'Neill's responded calling | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
the Everton manager a "master Ronald Koeman is unhappy that his | :38:43. | :38:47. | |
player is now unavailable for the rest of the season. | :38:48. | :38:51. | |
Derby County have kept their slim hopes of a playoff place | :38:52. | :38:53. | |
alive with victory over Queens Park Rangers | :38:54. | :38:55. | |
Manager Gary Rowett marked his first home game | :38:56. | :38:58. | |
Matej Vydra scored the only goal of the game in the second | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
half and Derby are now six points off sixth placed | :39:03. | :39:04. | |
In Superleague, Castleford Tigers remain top on points difference | :39:05. | :39:14. | |
after they thrashed Huddersfield 52-16. Leeds Rhinos have moved up to | :39:15. | :39:19. | |
second with a 26-18 victory over Wigan. Leeds were only two points | :39:20. | :39:21. | |
ahead at half time, but ran in two tries in the second half to pull | :39:22. | :39:24. | |
clear - Carl Ablett with the final try. That's their fourth win in a | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
row. All eyes on Miami. Several hours of tennis watching ahead. 6pm, | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
British time, it gets under way. Gearing up for the match against | :39:32. | :39:35. | |
Caroline Wozniacki. We will talk a little more about that now. Johanna | :39:36. | :39:41. | |
Konta has become the first British woman to play in the final of the | :39:42. | :39:48. | |
Miami open tennis tournament. Can she win it? We will talk to a woman | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
who can predict whether she will not, the former British number one. | :39:52. | :39:55. | |
Jo Durie Let's start with the obvious one, can she do it? I think | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
she can do it, but I think Caroline Wozniacki is going | :40:00. | :40:00. | |
to be a little bit different from the last match in Australia where | :40:01. | :40:08. | |
Johanna Konta won very easily, this time she will be far tougher. Talk | :40:09. | :40:12. | |
to us about what you see in your Hannah Conser, because do those of | :40:13. | :40:16. | |
us who watch, she seems like a confidence player, she has a style, | :40:17. | :40:22. | |
she puts it out on the call, talk us through what her game has? Look at | :40:23. | :40:39. | |
the top ten. Look at Jo Konta, she has turned herself around with the | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
mental approach, steady as a rock, consistent with that, it has helped | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
her game. She has a natural, good first serve, gets a lot in, she has | :40:49. | :40:56. | |
improved her forehand. She works really hard. And she is totally | :40:57. | :41:04. | |
changing herself. Interesting to hear you talk about this and how | :41:05. | :41:07. | |
mentally she has changed herself, in practical terms, what does that | :41:08. | :41:11. | |
mean, what has she done? She has found a way of processing how she | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
goes about playing her matches. She is literally playing one point at a | :41:17. | :41:21. | |
time, not dwelling on anything that goes wrong, she is always looking to | :41:22. | :41:25. | |
the next point in a positive manner. She has managed to block everything | :41:26. | :41:30. | |
out and get on with being in the present, which is a pretty amazing | :41:31. | :41:36. | |
quality. She has beaten Venus Williams to get to the final, I know | :41:37. | :41:43. | |
that people say that Venus Williams is not the player she was but in a | :41:44. | :41:46. | |
major tournament, in that situation, a Williams sister is always a | :41:47. | :41:48. | |
formidable opponent, psychologically, is that another | :41:49. | :41:52. | |
marker? I think she quite slight playing her, she has beaten three | :41:53. | :41:55. | |
times, she has been playing very well this year. The Williams sisters | :41:56. | :42:01. | |
getting to the final of the stadium, nobody thought that would happen. | :42:02. | :42:05. | |
That was a very tricky match. And then Simona Halep, one sets down, | :42:06. | :42:13. | |
had not served for the match as well, again, her strong mental | :42:14. | :42:15. | |
approach brought her throat. Exciting times. Could be potentially | :42:16. | :42:20. | |
a hugely exciting year, she has got to a level where she has raised her | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
game, what does it take for her to step up to the very top, to get into | :42:25. | :42:30. | |
the top five, top three? I think that she just has too keep that | :42:31. | :42:36. | |
strong mental approach, her forehand has improved enough, she may be able | :42:37. | :42:44. | |
to improve it a touch more. Really, week after week. Now she feels | :42:45. | :42:46. | |
comfortable being in that sort of top ten mix, looking for the top | :42:47. | :42:51. | |
five, and you can even see in her interview, more relaxed about being | :42:52. | :42:54. | |
there, and being in the company of these players. You get used to it, | :42:55. | :42:59. | |
she will get more and more used to it. Wimbledon will be interesting, | :43:00. | :43:03. | |
she can do well there, the clay will be tricky, her least favourite | :43:04. | :43:08. | |
surface. At the moment I don't think any of those top players want to | :43:09. | :43:18. | |
play her. Funny old world, lots of things change, something stay the | :43:19. | :43:20. | |
same, Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer, what is that about? That was a great | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
match between Nick Kyrgios and Roger Federer, I stayed up a bit too late | :43:24. | :43:29. | |
watching it! Isn't it... All the over 30 somethings doing well, | :43:30. | :43:33. | |
players maturing later in their careers. Coping with everything a | :43:34. | :43:39. | |
little bit better. Great to hear, I love what Joe just said, this could | :43:40. | :43:45. | |
be an important Wimbledon for Johanna Konta, I wonder what that | :43:46. | :43:50. | |
could mean. -- Jo. I also like the idea that good tennis players are | :43:51. | :43:54. | |
getting older, there is hope for us still! LAUGHTER | :43:55. | :44:00. | |
You can follow live text commentary of Saturday's final on the BBC Sport | :44:01. | :44:02. | |
website from about six o'clock. The main stories: Britain has said | :44:03. | :44:08. | |
it will protect Gibraltar from any sovereignty claims made by Spain | :44:09. | :44:12. | |
during Brexit negotiations. A pay rise for 2 million people, as the | :44:13. | :44:16. | |
national living wage rises to ?7.50 an hour. | :44:17. | :44:25. | |
This man has been earning his money this morning! Busy weekend for | :44:26. | :44:29. | |
weather. Rainbow weather, classic mixture of | :44:30. | :44:39. | |
sunshine and showers, this picture tells the story of today. Big clouds | :44:40. | :44:43. | |
forming a little bit later on in the afternoon, pouring rain here, and | :44:44. | :44:48. | |
then a mile either way, the sunshine beating down. A real mixed bag on | :44:49. | :44:53. | |
the way. You can see quite a few breaks in the cloud at the moment, | :44:54. | :44:59. | |
some of us enjoying fine weather, rain around already this morning. | :45:00. | :45:01. | |
Showers will get going in the next couple of hours or so, starting to | :45:02. | :45:05. | |
form across southern and western areas of the UK. Today, it is going | :45:06. | :45:11. | |
to be one of those days where the forecast is not going to satisfy | :45:12. | :45:14. | |
everybody. Some of us will get the odd downpour, thunder and lightning, | :45:15. | :45:20. | |
hail, some of us will miss it all together, some of us will be | :45:21. | :45:23. | |
expecting the rain and it will not come. Real mishmash of everything. | :45:24. | :45:28. | |
We get it, we are in April, these are April showers, this is what | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
happens this time of the year when we get strong sunshine, staring up | :45:34. | :45:36. | |
the air, the clouds bubble up and we get this ex of weather. Showers will | :45:37. | :45:45. | |
eventually clear a way through the evening, the sun is driving them, | :45:46. | :45:48. | |
when the sun sets, the showers will drive away, that is what showers do, | :45:49. | :45:52. | |
it is their life cycle. Clear night, temperatures 5 degrees in the north, | :45:53. | :45:57. | |
just about cold enough for grass frost. Nothing more than that, much | :45:58. | :46:01. | |
two miles across the South will stop tomorrow, different day, after a | :46:02. | :46:04. | |
showery Saturday, Sunday promises to be a sunny one. It will be crisp and | :46:05. | :46:09. | |
sunny from the morning onwards, very few clouds developing, very small | :46:10. | :46:15. | |
risk of catching a shower, maybe across eastern areas if some of | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
these clouds get big enough. For most of us, dry day, beautiful day | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
to be out in the garden doing the gardening, providing you don't get | :46:25. | :46:27. | |
too many downpours. Otherwise it will be on the muddy side. On | :46:28. | :46:33. | |
balance, fine day. Let's summarise, tale of two halves, April showers | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
today, chilly overnight, and then a fine sunny Sunday, whatever the | :46:39. | :46:40. | |
weather, have a great weekend! Curling is one of Team GB's most | :46:41. | :46:47. | |
successful Winter Olypmic sports. In the future, though, | :46:48. | :46:50. | |
they could be getting help Mike's been to a farm in Kent | :46:51. | :46:55. | |
where they've built England's first VOICEOVER: Where once they milked | :46:56. | :47:00. | |
cows, they are forming a new breed, intend, the Garden of England, | :47:01. | :47:08. | |
they are milking something very rare outside of Scotland, | :47:09. | :47:10. | |
curling talent for the future. It is because there | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
was nothing in England, I came down from Scotland, | :47:15. | :47:18. | |
where curling was something I would say, the cows, they made | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
a mess, you did not get any money, and they make a mess | :47:27. | :47:38. | |
and they still did not But he has stirred a passion | :47:39. | :47:41. | |
for the sport in southern England, helping to nurture future stars that | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
could one day help the Scots At the moment this is the only | :47:46. | :47:48. | |
dedicated purpose-built curling rink outside of Scotland but another | :47:49. | :47:52. | |
will open in Lancashire, Such a simple game, | :47:53. | :47:54. | |
push a rock up the ice, They do say this game is like chess, | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
I am going to give him a couple The great thing about this board, | :47:59. | :48:19. | |
you don't need to be on ice skates, one of the few I sport | :48:20. | :48:23. | |
where you don't need any skating ability to take part, | :48:24. | :48:26. | |
my job is to sweep as soon To try to get it the extra few | :48:27. | :48:29. | |
feet and centimetres. You don't need to be a typical | :48:30. | :48:33. | |
athlete to get along with curling, there is lots of different types | :48:34. | :48:39. | |
of curlers, and it is a great sport because there is individual skill | :48:40. | :48:43. | |
involved, but you need to play I like sliding, you have | :48:44. | :48:45. | |
to have a very specific technique to get it right, | :48:46. | :48:49. | |
takes time to perfect. It comes down to tactics, | :48:50. | :48:51. | |
comes down to knowing what the opposition is thinking | :48:52. | :48:53. | |
and where you can put They do say this game is like chess, | :48:54. | :48:56. | |
I am going to give him a couple The great thing about this board, | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
you don't need to be on ice skates, one of the few I sport | :49:02. | :49:05. | |
where you don't need any skating ability to take part, | :49:06. | :49:08. | |
my job is to sweep as soon To try to get it the extra few | :49:09. | :49:11. | |
feet and centimetres. -- as they say sweep, | :49:12. | :49:24. | |
here we go... You don't need to be a typical | :49:25. | :49:27. | |
athlete to get along with curling, there is lots of different types | :49:28. | :49:34. | |
of curlers, and it is a great sport because there is individual skill | :49:35. | :49:37. | |
involved, but you need to play In this sport, it is never quite | :49:38. | :49:39. | |
over until the last stone. 39 days, four hours, 14 minutes, | :49:40. | :49:56. | |
that is how long it took a group of four friends to row across the | :49:57. | :49:59. | |
Atlantic Ocean. Their aim was to raise funds for James' Place - a | :50:00. | :50:02. | |
centre for men dealing with anxiety and depression. It was named in | :50:03. | :50:05. | |
memory of the brother of one of the crew who killed himself ten years | :50:06. | :50:07. | |
ago. We'll speak to Harry, his mum and the rest of the rowing team but | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
first here's the story of their journey. | :50:11. | :50:17. | |
VOICEOVER: Relief, delight, exhaustion, tears. A mix of emotions | :50:18. | :50:26. | |
like no other. Following a journey like no other. Before setting off on | :50:27. | :50:33. | |
the 3000 mile unaided row across the Atlantic, Rory, Toby, Sam and Harry | :50:34. | :50:39. | |
explained why they were doing it. Ten years ago, my brother James | :50:40. | :50:43. | |
passed away, he took his own life. I have always wanted to do something | :50:44. | :50:48. | |
in his memory. Along came the challenge of running the Atlantic. | :50:49. | :50:52. | |
The journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua took just over 39 days, | :50:53. | :50:59. | |
there there were runners -- they were runners-up in the race, they | :51:00. | :51:03. | |
raised it record amount by a transatlantic rowing team, more than | :51:04. | :51:05. | |
half ?1 million, which will fund a centre for men confronting anxiety, | :51:06. | :51:10. | |
depression and suicide. The messages we got from people saying that they | :51:11. | :51:16. | |
had managed to overcome some sort of depression or issues like that, | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
pushing out this message. James' mum and brother, Clare and | :51:21. | :51:35. | |
Harry and friends Rory, Sam and Toby are here. Very good morning. Can I | :51:36. | :51:37. | |
just checked, how we are, aches and pains, saws, | :51:38. | :51:43. | |
have they all gone away? -- can I just check, how you are? -- sores. | :51:44. | :51:52. | |
It is one of the toughest sporting challenges in the world, more people | :51:53. | :51:57. | |
have climbed Everest. More people have gone into space! Quite | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
outstanding. You must be very proud. Where were you, when the challenge | :52:04. | :52:08. | |
was taking place. I was attached to my phone, looking at the app, | :52:09. | :52:13. | |
following every single move. Once they had gone it was better, it was | :52:14. | :52:18. | |
the anxiety leading up to their departure that was fairly intense. | :52:19. | :52:26. | |
All challenges are emotional, physical for you, as a mother, very | :52:27. | :52:28. | |
emotional, I should imagine, mixed emotions, supporting these young | :52:29. | :52:35. | |
men, and thinking about your son. Yes, when Harry broached the | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
subject, 18 months ago, I said, you know something, forget it, that's | :52:40. | :52:43. | |
not happening. But the boys won me round. I gave my wholehearted | :52:44. | :52:50. | |
support. I know that it was absolutely for the right calls and | :52:51. | :52:57. | |
the right thing. James's memory. I put myself behind it, it was the | :52:58. | :52:59. | |
most incredible moment of my life, when they came in. Also, you talk | :53:00. | :53:05. | |
about raising money, raising money for very specific thing, for a | :53:06. | :53:15. | |
sanctuary, a place for people to go to and get help, what is that, how | :53:16. | :53:18. | |
will it work? When James died, ten years ago, he went looking for help, | :53:19. | :53:21. | |
in the days leading up to his death, and he did not get the help he | :53:22. | :53:26. | |
needed. He was sent to Accident and Emergency and was told to sit and | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
wait, that is the wrong environment. I have always been thinking, what | :53:31. | :53:34. | |
would have made the difference, what might have saved his life? I feel | :53:35. | :53:38. | |
that a quiet, calm, peaceful, nurturing environment where men can | :53:39. | :53:42. | |
feel comfortable and they would be judged, there will be looked after, | :53:43. | :53:49. | |
that is the right plan. Very keen that we don't ignore the guys at the | :53:50. | :53:52. | |
back of the boat as well! Sam, Rory, how are you! Tell us, this place, | :53:53. | :54:03. | |
that you are talking about, there is a big issue around young men, | :54:04. | :54:06. | |
particularly, not talking about their emotions and issues around | :54:07. | :54:08. | |
mental health, must be at the forefront of your mind is doing the | :54:09. | :54:11. | |
challenge. Very much so, we are four men in that moment of our lives | :54:12. | :54:22. | |
where we may be at risk. Unfortunately, it is an issue that | :54:23. | :54:25. | |
affects so many young guys, and we feel that we have tried to kick the | :54:26. | :54:28. | |
stigma as much as we can, but there is a long way to go. A lot of times, | :54:29. | :54:31. | |
after a huge trauma, people want to do something practical, you want to | :54:32. | :54:34. | |
do something to help, you have done something really concrete. Does that | :54:35. | :54:41. | |
bring some comfort? Does that bring reassurance? From my point of view, | :54:42. | :54:47. | |
what is incredible about the campaign was that they raised the | :54:48. | :54:53. | |
stigma surrounding mental health issues in particular suicide. -- | :54:54. | :55:01. | |
they erased the stigma. The following they had was all about | :55:02. | :55:06. | |
what they were doing. There was nothing dark, no sadness surrounding | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
it, it was really positive. I think we want to take that forward to | :55:11. | :55:14. | |
James's place is a very positive thing. We have interviewed a few | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
people that have done daft adventures in the past and often | :55:20. | :55:28. | |
they get back in the first thing they do is start planning the next | :55:29. | :55:31. | |
one, is anything going on, have you done your bit? For now, I think, | :55:32. | :55:34. | |
yes, for the time being. We would all like to do something at some | :55:35. | :55:36. | |
point in the future, but we couldn't try to replicate what we have just | :55:37. | :55:42. | |
done. More than just the rowing, it was an emotional journey as well, | :55:43. | :55:47. | |
with the charity in mind, and James at the front of our minds, and so to | :55:48. | :55:51. | |
go out and try to do something again, it would need to be | :55:52. | :55:54. | |
different. We would like to do something in the future. Lovely to | :55:55. | :55:59. | |
see you all here today, congratulations. Thank you very much | :56:00. | :56:00. | |
indeed, well done. You might remember The Crystal Maze, | :56:01. | :56:05. | |
the quiz show in the 1990s. And if you ever wished | :56:06. | :56:08. | |
you could have a go, The format has been revived | :56:09. | :56:10. | |
as part of an immersive theatrical production, | :56:11. | :56:14. | |
which sees people take part, influence the show, and even become | :56:15. | :56:15. | |
characters themselves. Breakfast's Tim Muffett | :56:16. | :56:17. | |
has been to have a go. The audience as participants, | :56:18. | :56:31. | |
not just watching The Crystal Maze Experience opens | :56:32. | :56:39. | |
today in Manchester, based on the early 90s television | :56:40. | :56:48. | |
programme. It was a really British TV show, | :56:49. | :56:50. | |
a sense of irreverence, it was funny, tongue | :56:51. | :56:52. | |
in cheek, silly... That's just the way the Wookie | :56:53. | :56:57. | |
grumbles(!) Like the London show that has been | :56:58. | :57:10. | |
selling out for a year, this new Manchester production | :57:11. | :57:13. | |
will see audience members We have broken the disconnect now | :57:14. | :57:15. | |
between people wanting to be active and passive, | :57:16. | :57:23. | |
wanting to play and follow a journey rather than just be sat | :57:24. | :57:26. | |
in a dark auditorium. This immersive production might be | :57:27. | :57:28. | |
inspired by a television game show, but many theatre producers have | :57:29. | :57:31. | |
sought out new audiences by making Montagues and Capulets, a very | :57:32. | :57:33. | |
different version of Romeo + Juliet, the latest production by these | :57:34. | :57:47. | |
immersive specialists, Audiences choose which | :57:48. | :57:49. | |
subplot to follow. There is even dodgeball and a 90s | :57:50. | :58:06. | |
rave. Very immersive, not quite | :58:07. | :58:08. | |
what I was expecting. The fact it involves | :58:09. | :58:10. | |
everybody, that is the thing, The arts Council has seen a big rise | :58:11. | :58:12. | |
in the number of funding applications from experimental | :58:13. | :58:17. | |
theatre group, up 42% since 2014. Many immersive shows like this one | :58:18. | :58:19. | |
based on Alice in Wonderland have proved popular, | :58:20. | :58:21. | |
but some feel that the What has changed in immersive | :58:22. | :58:23. | |
theatre, it has gone from an art form that was new and exciting | :58:24. | :58:31. | |
to being something that people are ending up | :58:32. | :58:34. | |
going for the experience of it. If you haven't got something | :58:35. | :58:36. | |
you want to say and achieve, by bringing the audience | :58:37. | :58:38. | |
into the show, you may as well not do it immersive leak, | :58:39. | :58:41. | |
you may as well not do it at all. Confusing at times, audience | :58:42. | :58:44. | |
participation is a must, -- do it immersively, | :58:45. | :58:53. | |
you may as well not do it at all. Confusing at times, audience | :58:54. | :58:56. | |
participation is a must, the growth of immersive theatre | :58:57. | :58:58. | |
suggest that watching a show I am going to persuade you to have a | :58:59. | :59:12. | |
go at that! That is all from us, back tomorrow, | :59:13. | :59:13. | |
Marine Le Pen has her eyes on the French presidency. | :59:14. | :59:16. | |
As she tries to distance herself from her party's controversial past, | :59:17. | :59:21. |