04/04/2017

:00:08. > :00:09.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

:00:10. > :00:11.Russian investigators are thought to have identified

:00:12. > :00:14.the man suspected of killing 11 people in the St Petersbourg

:00:15. > :00:18.Reports say the person behind the bomb is in his early 20's

:00:19. > :00:42.three days of mourning for the victims have been declared.

:00:43. > :00:47.A re-vamp of the government's campaign to help tens of thousands

:00:48. > :00:50.of troubled families - Ministers say they want to help

:00:51. > :00:56.struggling children by giving their parents more support.

:00:57. > :00:59.Returning to the honeymoon island where his wife Michaela was murdered

:01:00. > :01:01.six years ago, John McAreavey tells us about the challenges

:01:02. > :01:14.My deepest, darkest fears and nightmares actually came into

:01:15. > :01:17.reality here. So whenever you're actually physically back here,, you

:01:18. > :01:19.know, it's not easy. Nearly ?30m has been slashed

:01:20. > :01:23.from bus services in the last year, with more than 500

:01:24. > :01:25.routes cut or cancelled. But could new rules on how bus

:01:26. > :01:28.companies and councils work together In sport - he's apologised,

:01:29. > :01:35.but Sunderland boss David Moyes will be asked by the Football

:01:36. > :01:38.Association to explain himself after telling a BBC reporter

:01:39. > :01:47.she might "get a slap". # When I get old and losing my head,

:01:48. > :01:52.many years from now. 50 years on from the release

:01:53. > :01:56.of the album which brought us that song - we've a snapshot

:01:57. > :02:05.of what life's like - It depends on the actual individual

:02:06. > :02:06.person how you look after your body, how you look after yourself.

:02:07. > :02:16.Good morning. It is a cloudy start at the gate -- day across England

:02:17. > :02:21.and Wales will stop it will brighten up in the north later. For Scotland

:02:22. > :02:25.and Northern Ireland, a fresh start. A lot of showers in the far north

:02:26. > :02:26.and strengthening wind as well. I will more in 15 minutes.

:02:27. > :02:31.Russian media is reporting that the man suspected of killing 11

:02:32. > :02:34.people on a St Petersburg train is in his early 20s

:02:35. > :02:38.At least 45 people were injured in the explosion between two

:02:39. > :02:40.underground stations on Monday afternoon.

:02:41. > :02:54.In Russia's second city, a show of grief and solidarity.

:02:55. > :02:57.President Vladimir Putin was in St Petersburg at the time

:02:58. > :03:01.Above the station where the bombed train ended its journey,

:03:02. > :03:06.he paid his respects to those killed and injured on Monday afternoon.

:03:07. > :03:09.From underground, images have emerged of the mangled Metro train -

:03:10. > :03:12.doors blown out, passengers trying to escape the wreckage,

:03:13. > :03:23.Local media are reporting that the suspect is a man in his 20s

:03:24. > :03:25.from Central Asia but there are conflicting reports

:03:26. > :03:28.as to whether he was a suicide bomber.

:03:29. > :03:33.TRANSLATION: Law enforcement bodies and specia lservices are working

:03:34. > :03:36.and will do all they can in order to find out the cause

:03:37. > :03:45.At a nearby station, a second explosive device

:03:46. > :03:48.Security has been tightened across the country.

:03:49. > :03:50.Officials say this was an act of terror.

:03:51. > :03:52.Yet, at this makeshift memorial, Russians remained

:03:53. > :04:06.TRANSLATION: I am certain that we Russians will not be divided.

:04:07. > :04:09.At this precise moment, all people of all faiths,

:04:10. > :04:14.all religions, and all political borders, everone is united by grief.

:04:15. > :04:17.In recent years there have been several attacks on Russia's planes,

:04:18. > :04:24.Once again, ordinary Russians are asking how and why their loved ones

:04:25. > :04:30.were killed. Let's speak now to our Moscow

:04:31. > :04:33.correspondent Oleg Boldyrev from our Moscow

:04:34. > :04:34.studio this morning. A ?30 million commitment to get

:04:35. > :04:37.unemployed parents of disadvantaged children into work -

:04:38. > :04:40.will form part of the Troubled There'll be strong links between job

:04:41. > :04:43.centres and families Ministers in England want to give

:04:44. > :04:47.children better life chances but the government has been

:04:48. > :05:00.criticised for freezing benefits. It was after the London riots of

:05:01. > :05:07.2011 that David Cameron introduced the Troubled Families programme. The

:05:08. > :05:10.new government research shows the impact that parental conflict and

:05:11. > :05:21.worthlessness have on children's chances of doing well throughout

:05:22. > :05:24.their adult lives. -- worklessness retrieval stopped Allah know whether

:05:25. > :05:28.you are living or not living together, married or unmarried, the

:05:29. > :05:31.key is parents should maintain a good relationship. That is the key

:05:32. > :05:36.to the future success of their children. The ?30 million invested

:05:37. > :05:39.will go towards tried to resolve issues that can cause conflict in

:05:40. > :05:48.relationships. Unemployment, along with mental health. Also drug and

:05:49. > :05:54.alcohol dependency and homelessness. At this family Centre, it's welcome

:05:55. > :05:59.news. Early intervention is about avoiding escalated situation is

:06:00. > :06:03.further down the line. We believe it is very good value for money in

:06:04. > :06:07.terms of avoiding future problems. Others have criticised the scheme

:06:08. > :06:11.for being ineffective and antipoverty campaigners say it pales

:06:12. > :06:15.into insignificance when compared to the amount of money millions of

:06:16. > :06:17.families are missing out on duty changes in benefit payments.

:06:18. > :06:20.Aleksandra McKenzie, BBC News. A group of MPs has accused

:06:21. > :06:22.the government of making "unsubstantiated claims"

:06:23. > :06:24.about the potential impact of failing to reach

:06:25. > :06:27.a Brexit deal with the EU. Our political correspondent Ellie

:06:28. > :06:30.Price is in Westminster for us. Ellie, what exactly

:06:31. > :06:41.does this report say? Well, the main point is that

:06:42. > :06:45.Parliament must have say if no deal is reached at the end of the

:06:46. > :06:48.two-year negotiations and that the government must do more to

:06:49. > :06:51.investigate what would happen if no deal was reached at the end of those

:06:52. > :06:55.negotiations. Here is what the committee chairman had to say. In

:06:56. > :07:00.the absence of an economic assessment of that outcome, it would

:07:01. > :07:04.mean a return to tariffs, possible delays of imports, impact of trade

:07:05. > :07:06.between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and without the

:07:07. > :07:14.government setting out what mitigating steps it would put in

:07:15. > :07:18.place, the assertion that no deal is better than a bad deal is, in the

:07:19. > :07:21.words of the report, unsubstantiated. Now, the government

:07:22. > :07:25.says it is investigating all outcomes and that it does expect to

:07:26. > :07:28.get get a deal. There is another interesting bit to this report as

:07:29. > :07:32.well. This is a Brexit committee that is made up of cross party

:07:33. > :07:37.members, all sorts of members, meant to come to an agreement of all

:07:38. > :07:40.members. What we saw is an number of the probe except backing MPs walked

:07:41. > :07:45.out of the meeting with a draft of the guidelines of this report. It

:07:46. > :07:49.was rushed, partisan and skews -- skewed and it was too pessimistic

:07:50. > :07:53.about wrecks it. It matters because these select committees are meant to

:07:54. > :07:55.be holding the government to account -- Brexit. It damages their

:07:56. > :07:56.credibility otherwise. Theresa May has defended her trip

:07:57. > :07:59.to Saudi Arabia saying close ties are needed with the kingdom for both

:08:00. > :08:02.security and trade reasons. The Prime Minister arrives in Riyadh

:08:03. > :08:05.later after visiting the King of Jordan

:08:06. > :08:07.in Amman on Monday. Labour has criticised the UK's

:08:08. > :08:10.support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen but Mrs May said

:08:11. > :08:12.the government was also a significant donor of humanitarian

:08:13. > :08:30.aid to the country. Iraqi forces have opened safe

:08:31. > :08:32.corridors in western Mosul. It's hoped the corridors

:08:33. > :08:34.will enable trapped civilians to flee the ongoing battle to drive

:08:35. > :08:37.so called 'Islamic State' - out of its last main

:08:38. > :08:40.stronghold in the country. Iraqi government forces are planning

:08:41. > :08:43.to launch a major assault New research suggests working in hot

:08:44. > :08:48.temperatures increases the risk Scientists were

:08:49. > :08:50.investigating why the most common cause of death for serving

:08:51. > :08:53.firefighters is heart attack Our Health correspondent

:08:54. > :08:57.Sophie Hutchinson reports. Experienced firefighter

:08:58. > :09:00.Simon McNally used to It meant several times a day

:09:01. > :09:07.he was exposed to fires of up Then one day at work,

:09:08. > :09:11.he had a heart attack. You're hoping it was

:09:12. > :09:15.indigestion or you're hoping You're hoping it's not going t opve

:09:16. > :09:20.as sinister as a heart attack so it We keep ourselves reasonably fit

:09:21. > :09:29.in the Fire Service, we have to pass a standard

:09:30. > :09:31.test every year. We have a check-up

:09:32. > :09:33.every three years. So it was a bit confusing to be

:09:34. > :09:37.faced with those signs and symptoms. Heart attacks are the leading cause

:09:38. > :09:40.of death for frontline firefighters. Studies in America have shown almost

:09:41. > :09:44.half of all firefighters who die on duty are killed

:09:45. > :09:45.by heart problems. The new research carried out

:09:46. > :09:48.by Edinburgh University and published in the journal,

:09:49. > :09:50.Circulation, monitored the hearts of 19 healthy firefighters

:09:51. > :09:52.during mock rescues. It found body temperatures rose

:09:53. > :09:55.by one degree Celsius and remained high for up to four

:09:56. > :10:00.hours afterwards. Blood vessels failed to relax

:10:01. > :10:02.despite medication and the blood became stickier, carrying

:10:03. > :10:05.a high risk of forming Scientists believed the reason

:10:06. > :10:11.was the extreme physical They say simple measures such

:10:12. > :10:15.as staying hydrated and taking breaks to cool down are vital

:10:16. > :10:17.for saving firefighters lives. We'll be talking about the research

:10:18. > :10:34.are little later. The first official portrait

:10:35. > :10:37.of First Lady Melania Trump has been The image of the former model

:10:38. > :10:42.was taken in the White House by a Belgian photographer

:10:43. > :10:45.and was released with a statement from Mrs Trump saying

:10:46. > :10:47.she was looking forward to "working Social media reaction has been mixed

:10:48. > :10:54.with some saying the First Lady looked "beyond beautiful"

:10:55. > :10:56.while others questioned if the photo It is definitely a power photo.

:10:57. > :11:11.Reminds me bit of Dynasty. A Jack Russell from Devon has

:11:12. > :11:14.set a new world record Eight-year-old Jessica -

:11:15. > :11:17.and her owner Rachael Grylls - The team train for 15 minutes a day

:11:18. > :11:29.and they beat the previous record - And let's have a look at that

:11:30. > :11:42.technique in slow-mo. It is the timing and the moments and

:11:43. > :12:10.seconds he is in the air. You are talking about a Premier

:12:11. > :12:13.League manager under pressure. He was questioned by a BBC female

:12:14. > :12:17.reporter about the pressure on him and the fact that the club's owner

:12:18. > :12:22.was in the stands and he didn't like that question at all so he said to

:12:23. > :12:26.her, "You need to be careful with your questions or you might get a

:12:27. > :12:32.slap". A big row brewing and out whether those comments were sexist,

:12:33. > :12:35.inappropriate and David Moyes 's has apologised and the reporter has

:12:36. > :12:37.accepted it but there is still a lot going on. The FA is

:12:38. > :12:49.investigating and he may even be charged.

:12:50. > :12:53.In Sport, The Football Association ask Sunderland boss David Moyes

:12:54. > :12:56.to explain comments made to a BBC reporter after a post match

:12:57. > :13:01.He suggested the reporter could "get a slap" for asking certain questions

:13:02. > :13:03.but later apologised saying he deeply regrets what he said

:13:04. > :13:07.There are still over three months until the start of the women's

:13:08. > :13:09.European Championship in the Netherlands but England head

:13:10. > :13:11.coach Mark Sampson has already named his squad of 23

:13:12. > :13:15.England's first game is against Scotland but THEY won't

:13:16. > :13:17.announce their team until much closer to the championship.

:13:18. > :13:20.World Athletics' governing body the I -double A -

:13:21. > :13:24.F admit that they have been hacked by the Russian Fancy Bears group -

:13:25. > :13:26.responsible for leaking data about athlete's use of restricted

:13:27. > :13:33.We were all talking about it last time when there were revelations

:13:34. > :13:36.about which athletes were using which restrictive drugs because you

:13:37. > :13:43.have two apply to say you have asthma or a terrible injury. All

:13:44. > :13:46.these questions then arose about legitimacy of some people 's

:13:47. > :13:50.performances and some of athletes had to come out and say that they

:13:51. > :13:55.had altitude sick nurse or asthma. -- altitude sickness. No names

:13:56. > :14:06.mentioned yet but they will come out in the next few days and weeks. And

:14:07. > :14:07.we have the audio from David Moyes. We would love to know what you

:14:08. > :14:09.think. You're watching

:14:10. > :14:10.Breakfast from BBC News. The government announces a ?30

:14:11. > :14:15.million programme to help unemployed parents find work but is criticised

:14:16. > :14:17.for freezing benefits. Authorities in Russia are reported

:14:18. > :14:20.to have identified the man behind yesterday's attack

:14:21. > :14:40.on the St Petersburg metro. Shall we catch up with the weather?

:14:41. > :14:44.Go on then. Good morning. This morning it is not as cold as

:14:45. > :14:50.yesterday. For others it is a fresh start. What for most, we will see

:14:51. > :14:53.bright spells and some will have warmer conditions and yesterday,

:14:54. > :14:59.some won't be as warm as yesterday. So, what is happening? I weather in

:15:00. > :15:05.charge of the weather. We have a weather front sinking south through

:15:06. > :15:08.the day. That is producing the cloud for England and Wales and patchy

:15:09. > :15:12.rain. Some of the rain through the night has been heavy. You can see

:15:13. > :15:16.where it has been raining through the night. For the next couple of

:15:17. > :15:20.hours we could see the odd heavy burst and the odd rumble of thunder

:15:21. > :15:25.for parts of the south-east. You can see quite nicely on the chart where

:15:26. > :15:29.it is. This morning in London at 8am it will be 10 degrees. There are one

:15:30. > :15:34.or two breaks in the cloud for England and were. The main breaks

:15:35. > :15:39.are further north, for the north of England into Scotland and also parts

:15:40. > :15:43.of Northern Ireland -- Wales. It is a fresh start here with some showers

:15:44. > :15:47.and through the day the wind is going to strengthen, particularly so

:15:48. > :15:52.for the far north of Scotland and especially the Northern Isles. So,

:15:53. > :15:56.through the day, here comes the rain to the south-east. There will be a

:15:57. > :16:00.veil of cloud behind it. And for some it will take much of the

:16:01. > :16:04.afternoon into the evening before we see the back end of it. It will

:16:05. > :16:07.brighten from the north through the day, but we hang on to showers.

:16:08. > :16:12.Temperatures ranging from eight in the north to 16 in the south.

:16:13. > :16:17.Somewhere like Cardiff could see 16 or 17 and the same too in the

:16:18. > :16:21.Midlands. That will feel pleasant in the sunshine. As we head through the

:16:22. > :16:25.evening and overnight, eventually we will lose the showers, the cloud

:16:26. > :16:30.will move away and then for England and the Wii will have clear skies.

:16:31. > :16:37.-- England and Wales. Further north, cloud with gales or severe gales.

:16:38. > :16:44.Temperatures in towns, 4-8, in the countryside, much lower. It won't

:16:45. > :16:48.feel cold in the countryside, but we will see some frost around. It is

:16:49. > :16:51.nippy tomorrow with high pressure still in charge of the weather,

:16:52. > :16:58.still windy, not as windy, for the north of Scotland. And for most it

:16:59. > :17:02.will be fairly quiet weatherwise. Again, sunshine around, variable

:17:03. > :17:06.cloud and breezy. The strongest wind and showers for the north.

:17:07. > :17:14.Temperatures ranging from nine in the north to 13 or 14 further south.

:17:15. > :17:18.Yesterday, incidentally, we had a high in Gravesend of 18 degrees, so

:17:19. > :17:22.you can see the temperature just coming down a notch or two. Then on

:17:23. > :17:29.Thursday high pressure is still with us. Still a lot of quiet weather and

:17:30. > :17:33.RAM. Some of us get off to a chilly start with variable cloud -- quite a

:17:34. > :17:37.lot of weather around. A little sunshine would be lovely,

:17:38. > :17:40.Carol. Thank you very much. A mixed picture.

:17:41. > :17:42.It was the honeymoon that turned to unimaginable tragedy -

:17:43. > :17:45.a young wife who briefly left her new husband

:17:46. > :17:48.to visit their hotel room but never returned.

:17:49. > :17:49.Michaela McAreavey had been murdered.

:17:50. > :17:52.Six years on, her husband John is still looking for answers.

:17:53. > :17:55.He's now returned to Mauritius with the hope of finally getting

:17:56. > :18:06.From Port Louis, Mark Simpson reports.

:18:07. > :18:13.Back on the island where his wife was murdered. This is a return

:18:14. > :18:20.journey most people thought John McAreavey would never make. He first

:18:21. > :18:24.came to Mauritius six years ago. It was his honeymoon. But 12 days after

:18:25. > :18:31.getting married, Michaela McAreavey was murdered. His decision to return

:18:32. > :18:37.has surprised the authorities here. But he says they had better get used

:18:38. > :18:41.to it. If we have to be back next week if we have to be back next

:18:42. > :18:46.month, next year, we will be here as long as it takes to ensure that this

:18:47. > :18:51.case is resolved. If I am still standing here in 20 years, so be it.

:18:52. > :18:56.John and Michaela were a well-known couple back home in Northern

:18:57. > :18:59.Ireland. Her father, Mickey Hart, is one of Ireland's most successful

:19:00. > :19:03.Gaelic football managers. Michaela was killed at this hotel. She

:19:04. > :19:07.disturbed intruders who had broken into her room. They panicked and

:19:08. > :19:12.killed her. Two Hotel workers later went on trial for murder but both

:19:13. > :19:17.were found not guilty. Since then, John McAreavey hasn't spoken about

:19:18. > :19:23.the case but this week he has decided not just to speak out but to

:19:24. > :19:29.act. In Mauritius as a country, you know, I have absolutely nothing

:19:30. > :19:32.against. But the reality is, you know, my deepest fears and

:19:33. > :19:38.nightmares came to reality here. So whenever you are physically back in,

:19:39. > :19:42.you know, it is not easy. The death of a young Irish woman on honeymoon

:19:43. > :19:47.on this holiday island made headlines around the world, and in

:19:48. > :19:49.Mauritius it is front page news again this week with John

:19:50. > :19:56.McAreavey's sudden decision to return. I think people will be

:19:57. > :20:02.shocked. People will be shocked because we gathered that he had

:20:03. > :20:07.started a new life and that he would move on and forget about this

:20:08. > :20:12.tragedy. I think people will be surprised to see him and to see that

:20:13. > :20:21.his quest for the truth is still there. The hotel where Michaela

:20:22. > :20:25.McAreavey was killed still exists and is still busy. Six years on it

:20:26. > :20:29.has been renamed but what happened here has not been forgotten in

:20:30. > :20:34.Mauritius, especially now that John McAreavey is back on the island. And

:20:35. > :20:36.he is insisting this visit won't be his last. Mark Simpson, BBC News,

:20:37. > :20:40.Mauritius. Later in the programme,

:20:41. > :20:55.we'll be speaking to John McAreavey We are going to have a quick look at

:20:56. > :20:57.the papers. Go on then. The Telegraph's main story, what

:20:58. > :21:02.happened in St Petersburg yesterday, with pictures of the damage done to

:21:03. > :21:07.the underground train when a bomb went off. And they have a story that

:21:08. > :21:11.I suspect people will talk about, the Church of England accusing the

:21:12. > :21:17.National Trust of airbrushing faith after it dropped Easter from the

:21:18. > :21:20.Easter egg hunt. Hundreds of thousands of children searching for

:21:21. > :21:27.chocolate eggs at National Trust properties rebranded to exclude

:21:28. > :21:30.Easter for the first time whereas previously it was the ease direct

:21:31. > :21:35.rail and now it is called the great British egg hunt. The front page of

:21:36. > :21:41.the times, Theresa May coming down the steps in Saudi Arabia, and

:21:42. > :21:48.foreign aid profiteers. And the interesting juxtaposition on the

:21:49. > :21:54.Sun, rather it to Spain, the message to the meddling leaders of Spain and

:21:55. > :22:01.the EU at the same time as offering ?15 holidays to Spain. The front

:22:02. > :22:04.page of the Daily Mirror, Victoria Derbyshire, one of our colleagues,

:22:05. > :22:12.has done an interview on breast cancer. And how important it has

:22:13. > :22:20.been. She is normally on the channel after Breakfast. Yes. And a story

:22:21. > :22:24.about some robbers who poured boiling water over someone, and they

:22:25. > :22:30.were arrested after they had a ?19,000 spending spree in Dubai. One

:22:31. > :22:34.story on the back of the sport pages, something entertaining on the

:22:35. > :22:38.inside pages normally, but here is David Moyes and the story on his

:22:39. > :22:44.comments to a female reporter after a match dominating the back pages

:22:45. > :22:50.with the Mail calling for him to be sacked following those comments.

:22:51. > :22:55.David Moyes in slap wrap on the back of the Star and lots of analysis on

:22:56. > :23:00.the worst, you know, what is the worst part of what he said? Sarah

:23:01. > :23:04.Sheppard in the Times talking about, is it the fact he threatened to slap

:23:05. > :23:09.her, the fact he drew attention to the fact she is a woman, or is it

:23:10. > :23:13.just in general a problem in football, that managers are so

:23:14. > :23:18.powerful they get to pick and choose which questions they answer, they

:23:19. > :23:23.can treat reporters as they want to. The interesting reaction to it, Gary

:23:24. > :23:27.Lineker said this is the problem, manages sometimes treat interviewers

:23:28. > :23:31.with such disdain, and that is inexcusable. People at home can make

:23:32. > :23:37.their own judgement because at 6:40am... We have the transcript of

:23:38. > :23:43.what happened. And picking up on the Financial Times, electric cars are

:23:44. > :23:51.here to stay when the valley of one of the companies has overtaken that

:23:52. > :23:57.of Ford, Tesla shares rose to a value of $47.5 billion, well beyond

:23:58. > :24:12.Ford, whose shares fell two points for while Tesla made 7000 cars while

:24:13. > :24:17.Ford made over 2 million. Clearly a change in how we get around and

:24:18. > :24:21.Tesla wants to get ahead. Far more charging points all over the place

:24:22. > :24:25.these days. It is sorting out the battery thing. There are not enough.

:24:26. > :24:30.You don't want to drive down the motorway and sit for one hour while

:24:31. > :24:33.the charges. There is the issue of taking out and recharging with a

:24:34. > :24:39.different battery. You look confused. No, not at all. I just

:24:40. > :24:43.want to know that the battery is good enough. Exactly. And that it

:24:44. > :24:45.will get you where you want to go. That is all we want.

:24:46. > :24:48.It's 50 years since the Beatles recorded Sergeant Pepper's Lonely

:24:49. > :24:52.Hearts Club Band, and every day this week we're getting the old record

:24:53. > :24:57.player out to give the beloved old vinyl a spin again.

:24:58. > :25:01.Today's pop pick is, When I'm 64, a number Paul McCartney wrote

:25:02. > :25:04.We've been out to hear some of your memories.

:25:05. > :25:06.And, just a warning, there's some screechy

:25:07. > :25:36.Yuan, two, three, four. # when I get older, losing my hair. # many years

:25:37. > :25:58.from now. We will be sending Valentine... # birthdays,

:25:59. > :26:16.greetings... When I'm 64 was one of the favourites, wasn't it? Time

:26:17. > :26:22.search change. I 64 isn't old any more. I know people who are 64 who

:26:23. > :26:29.are a little bit more wild than I am. # will you still love me when I

:26:30. > :26:34.am 64? It seems like a lifetime away, and I am sure it did for Paul

:26:35. > :26:45.when he wrote it as a teenager and I just think, what am I going to be

:26:46. > :26:53.doing. # we are out until 2:45am, will you lock the door? There is no

:26:54. > :27:02.age, you can just - it depends how the individual looks after your

:27:03. > :27:07.body. # will you still need me when I'm 64?

:27:08. > :27:15.I probably won't still be here on Breakfast when I am 64. Well, who

:27:16. > :27:23.knows? Who knows these days. So many years away, hundreds of years away,

:27:24. > :27:25.surely. Get in touch with us. What will you want to be doing when

:27:26. > :27:28.you're 64? Time now to get the news,

:27:29. > :27:31.travel and weather where you are. I'm back with the latest

:27:32. > :30:51.from the BBC London newsroom Plenty more on our website

:30:52. > :30:54.at the usual address. Now, though, it's back

:30:55. > :30:59.to Louise and Dan. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:31:00. > :31:02.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. We'll bring you all the latest news

:31:03. > :31:05.and sport in a moment, It was a horrific

:31:06. > :31:11.and shocking crime. Six years ago John McAreavey's

:31:12. > :31:13.wife was murdered while they were on honeymoon in

:31:14. > :31:16.Mauritius. John has returned to the island

:31:17. > :31:19.and will tell us about his There are just twelve months to go

:31:20. > :31:26.until Australia hosts We'll catch up with several athletes

:31:27. > :31:31.who are preparing to follow the baton to the Gold Coast

:31:32. > :31:50.for the "Friendly Games". And as Breakfast celebrates a half

:31:51. > :31:52.century of Sergeant Pepper, we'll see if Paul McCartney's lyrics

:31:53. > :31:55.to "When I'm 64" ring true But now a summary of this

:31:56. > :32:03.morning's main news. Russia is still on alert

:32:04. > :32:05.following the explosion between two St Petersburg underground stations

:32:06. > :32:08.yesterday afternoon. Russian media is reporting

:32:09. > :32:10.that the man suspected of carrying out the attack is in his early 20s

:32:11. > :32:15.and from Central Asia. 11 people were killed and 51 people

:32:16. > :32:19.are being treated in hospital. Three days of mourning

:32:20. > :32:45.for the victims have been declared. Research has showed that children

:32:46. > :32:50.with nonworking adults achieve less. Ministers say they want to give

:32:51. > :32:51.children that life chances but the government has been criticised for

:32:52. > :32:56.freezing benefits. A group of MPs has accused

:32:57. > :32:58.the government of making "unsubstantiated claims"

:32:59. > :33:00.about the potential impact of failing to reach

:33:01. > :33:03.a Brexit deal with the EU. The Exiting the EU Committee

:33:04. > :33:05.report criticised the Prime Minister's position that

:33:06. > :33:08.no deal was better than a bad deal and called on the government

:33:09. > :33:11.to carry out an urgent impact Some of the committee members say

:33:12. > :33:14.the report is rushed Theresa May has defended her trip

:33:15. > :33:19.to Saudi Arabia saying close ties are needed with the kingdom for both

:33:20. > :33:22.security and trade reasons. The Prime Minister arrives in Riyadh

:33:23. > :33:25.later after visiting the King Labour has criticised the UK's

:33:26. > :33:30.support for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen but Mrs May said

:33:31. > :33:33.the government was also a significant donor of humanitarian

:33:34. > :33:41.aid to the country. Researchers say they are closer

:33:42. > :33:43.to understanding why firefighters are at such a high risk

:33:44. > :33:46.of suffering heart attacks. The authors of a new study say

:33:47. > :33:51.firefighters' blood becomes sticky at high temperatures meaning

:33:52. > :33:54.it is more likely to form The National Fire Chiefs Council

:33:55. > :33:58.says it will consider the findings The Church of England has accused

:33:59. > :34:05.the National Trust of "airbrushing faith" after it dropped the word

:34:06. > :34:07."Easter" from its annual The Archbishop of York,

:34:08. > :34:12.John Sentamu, described the decision as "spitting on the grave"

:34:13. > :34:15.of John Cadbury, the The National Trust said

:34:16. > :34:33.the accusations were nonsense. If you like tall buildings

:34:34. > :34:35.and fireworks - stand by - South Korea's tallest

:34:36. > :34:38.building, the 123 story - 'Lotte World Tower',

:34:39. > :34:40.formally opened on Monday. And what better way to celebrate

:34:41. > :35:01.than with fireworks When you moved into a new house, did

:35:02. > :35:11.you celebrate in that style? No. Kat, we are talking about David

:35:12. > :35:17.Moyes. You have the actual interview. We are going to play the

:35:18. > :35:21.interview between Vicki Sparks come at a female reporter, and David

:35:22. > :35:24.Moyes in which he said to her, you know, those questions are getting a

:35:25. > :35:29.bit cheeky, watch out next time you come around here because" you might

:35:30. > :35:33.get a slap" even though you are a woman. It's the even though you are

:35:34. > :35:44.a woman that has introduced the WestJet about it being sexist. There

:35:45. > :35:45.is a huge debate about it. -- about whether it is sexist.

:35:46. > :35:48.The Football Association will ask David Moyes to explain himself

:35:49. > :35:51.about comments he made to a BBC reporter last month.

:35:52. > :35:53.Vicki Sparks has accepted an apology from the Sunderland manager

:35:54. > :36:07.after he told her "she might get a slap".

:36:08. > :36:09.Moyes had taken exception to her line of questioning

:36:10. > :36:12.about whether he was feeling the pressure after their match

:36:13. > :36:15.Moyes apologised for this yesterday saying he regrets the comments,

:36:16. > :36:20.But it may not be enough, with reaction to the comments

:36:21. > :36:25.from the group Women In Football urging more action.

:36:26. > :36:31.What do you think? You work in football. I know that Vicki Sparks

:36:32. > :36:35.has accepted the apology that people are up in arms and some say he needs

:36:36. > :36:40.to resign or someone should sack him. How do you feel as a woman who

:36:41. > :36:46.worked in that industry? I do think it's necessarily as sexist comment.

:36:47. > :36:51.I think the fact that he adds, "Even though you are a woman" brings

:36:52. > :36:56.gender in but I think he is meaning to be sexist. I think what is worse

:36:57. > :37:03.for me and I think maybe what is worse for Vicki Sparks is the fact

:37:04. > :37:10.that he said, "You need to be careful next time". Does it give you

:37:11. > :37:17.an insight into the sort of control that they have over what is being

:37:18. > :37:22.said? It is this attitude that "I don't have to answer these questions

:37:23. > :37:26.that you are asking me". It is the watch yourself next time you come in

:37:27. > :37:31.because I am the boss around here. I'm not defending David Moyes but it

:37:32. > :37:34.isn't very high pressure job. Somebody asks question which is

:37:35. > :37:38.valid and you can react in a bad way. What he said was indefensible

:37:39. > :37:42.but the interesting thing is that you're not there and Vicky wasn't

:37:43. > :37:48.there in that situation because she was a woman. She is a journalist and

:37:49. > :37:52.that should be the qualification. People are coming out saying that

:37:53. > :37:55.what David Moyes said was indefensible. We will be hearing

:37:56. > :37:59.from some of those later in the programme.

:38:00. > :38:02.A full programme of midweek fixtures in the Premier League begins

:38:03. > :38:04.Moyes' Sunderland travel to Champions Leicester City.

:38:05. > :38:06.The pick of tonight's games is at Old Trafford,

:38:07. > :38:10.where Manchester United will look to close the gap on the top four

:38:11. > :38:14.It's the second of nine games for United in April

:38:15. > :38:17.but despite the distraction of the Europa League next week,

:38:18. > :38:18.the United manager isn't looking that far ahead

:38:19. > :38:22.There are still over three months to go until the start of the women's

:38:23. > :38:25.European Championship, but England head coach Mark Sampson

:38:26. > :38:28.has already named his final squad of 23 for the tournament.

:38:29. > :38:30.19 already have experience from their third place finish

:38:31. > :38:33.at the World Cup two years ago, but four uncapped players have been

:38:34. > :38:35.named including three from Manchester City.

:38:36. > :38:40.England's first match is against Scotland on July 19th.

:38:41. > :38:46.We're not afraid to say we want to win this tournament but we know we

:38:47. > :38:50.have to be respectful of other nations. We know that there is a lot

:38:51. > :38:54.of quality out there and ultimately, the best prepared team and the team

:38:55. > :38:56.that prepares well, performs well on the day, Winters many games as they

:38:57. > :39:03.possibly can. -- wins as many. Scotland won't name their squad

:39:04. > :39:05.until closer to the tournament - but they have named their new coach

:39:06. > :39:09.- Shelly Kerr says she is "extremely proud and honoured

:39:10. > :39:12.to be Scotland coach - she'll take over after the summer,

:39:13. > :39:14.having previously coached Arsenal Ladies - and she became

:39:15. > :39:17.the first female manager in British men's senior football

:39:18. > :39:19.when she took charge Loughborough Lightning have gone top

:39:20. > :39:23.of the Netball Super League after beating Celtic

:39:24. > :39:25.Dragons 65-45 last night. Elsewhere, last year's beaten

:39:26. > :39:27.finallists Manchester Thunder have moved up to fourth, coming

:39:28. > :39:31.from behind at half time to beat Herfordshire Mavericks

:39:32. > :39:34.59 points to 50. The Russian hackers Fancy Bears have

:39:35. > :39:38.struck again, and this time it's the World Athletics body -

:39:39. > :39:41.the IAAF - that has been targeted. Their president Lord Coe has

:39:42. > :39:44.apologised to its athletes for the breach in their security

:39:45. > :39:47.of their Therapeutic Use Exemption information - but it's not yet known

:39:48. > :40:04.what will be revealed. We uncovered this ourselves. This

:40:05. > :40:08.wasn't something that just happened. We were looking at the safety and

:40:09. > :40:15.security of our systems. Unfortunately, during that process,

:40:16. > :40:18.we discovered that we had been accessed. We have now done

:40:19. > :40:25.everything that we possibly could to put new systems in place. So the

:40:26. > :40:32.IAAF know they have been hacked. The last time they were hacked, it was

:40:33. > :40:44.the likes of Alistair Brownlee who had to have drugs for altitude

:40:45. > :40:48.sickness. Serena Williams, Alistair Brownlee and Bradley Wiggins, last

:40:49. > :40:48.time. We will see who comes at this time.

:40:49. > :40:50.Russian security services are on high alert following yesterday's

:40:51. > :40:53.explosion on the metro system in St Petersburg,

:40:54. > :40:55.which killed 11 people and left more than 40 injured.

:40:56. > :40:57.Russian investigators are treating the blast

:40:58. > :41:05.Our correspondent Oleg Boldyrev is in Moscow for us this morning.

:41:06. > :41:11.Thank you for your time on this. Can you bring us up to date because

:41:12. > :41:17.there are developments all the time. What more do we know this morning.

:41:18. > :41:23.Very little concerned that apart from the number of deceased stands

:41:24. > :41:33.at 11 and the number receiving help for wounds is around 50. There have

:41:34. > :41:38.been things leak to us from forces and some will be disproved.

:41:39. > :41:43.Yesterday they were claiming that two suspects and later that was

:41:44. > :41:47.corrected. It looks like now the investigation is looking into a

:41:48. > :41:52.single perpetrator who left one explosive device on one central

:41:53. > :41:56.station in St Petersburg. That device failed to go off and was

:41:57. > :42:03.later found and deactivated. And then the man will, reportedly a

:42:04. > :42:07.young man, 22 or 23-year-old, blue and other device and himself in the

:42:08. > :42:15.process. We get now conflicting reports that he might have been born

:42:16. > :42:20.in one of the Central Asian republics, either Kazakhstan

:42:21. > :42:32.Kazakhstan. We're not sure whether this be followed up on. -- we are

:42:33. > :42:36.getting confirmation in several hours. What has the reaction been

:42:37. > :42:44.like in Moscow and St Petersburg? Most people are horrified. There are

:42:45. > :42:49.flowers and candles both in St Petersburg on the station where it

:42:50. > :42:54.happened and in Moscow. The security situation here in Moscow is pretty

:42:55. > :42:57.calm. I was travelling this morning to the office and there was no

:42:58. > :43:04.heightened police presence but reports from all major Russian

:43:05. > :43:13.cities are they are putting forces on high alert. The question is

:43:14. > :43:21.whether even more higher security measures can be implemented. There

:43:22. > :43:24.are lots of those who say that some sweeping antiterrorism measures

:43:25. > :43:28.which have been passed last year, for example, would have been

:43:29. > :43:32.ineffective in a situation like this because we have some leaks from

:43:33. > :43:36.other sources close to the investigation saying that security

:43:37. > :43:41.services in St Petersburg had some fragmented information about a

:43:42. > :43:46.terror plot but they didn't have enough to act upon it. Obviously, a

:43:47. > :43:47.lot of questions to security services in this particular

:43:48. > :43:55.incident. You're watching BBC breakfast. Lots

:43:56. > :43:59.coming up on the programme this morning. Carol is looking for the

:44:00. > :44:03.weather. It's not as chilly as it was, is it? For some of us this

:44:04. > :44:08.morning, no. Yesterday for example in London, it was around about five

:44:09. > :44:12.or six Celsius. At the moment, it is now ten. What we are looking at

:44:13. > :44:20.today is a bright spells. Some of us will have some sunshine and for

:44:21. > :44:23.some, it will feel fresher than it did this morning. High pressure

:44:24. > :44:26.still firmly in charge of the weather. A weaker weather front

:44:27. > :44:29.sinking southwards. That is introducing the cloud we currently

:44:30. > :44:34.have across England and Wales. Also the patchy rain. Some of the rain,

:44:35. > :44:38.albeit patchy, is heavy and will continue to be so for the next

:44:39. > :44:45.couple of hours. With without a rumble of thunder. The thunder risk

:44:46. > :44:49.at about eight o'clock. The showers and patchy rain continuing. You can

:44:50. > :44:55.see a lot of cloud across England and Wales with temperatures widely

:44:56. > :44:59.into double figures. We move into the far north of England and

:45:00. > :45:04.Scotland and also Northern Ireland, are much fresh start to the day with

:45:05. > :45:07.clearer skies. A lot of showers coming in, especially across the far

:45:08. > :45:11.North of Scotland. Especially the Northern Isles. Through the day, the

:45:12. > :45:15.wind will strengthen. Up through the course of the morning and the

:45:16. > :45:18.afternoon, the cloud tends to push down and following on the weather

:45:19. > :45:23.front into the near continent but it will brighten up until probably this

:45:24. > :45:26.evening in the far south-east just before dark. You can see behind it,

:45:27. > :45:33.the sunshine prevails with temperatures widely eight to about

:45:34. > :45:38.16. That eight in the Northern Isles will feel cold and the showers and

:45:39. > :45:43.gales. For example, Cardiff, parts of south-west England, it is not

:45:44. > :45:47.without possibility that you could get 16 or indeed 17 Celsius. In the

:45:48. > :45:51.sunshine, that will feel pleasant for this time of year. The sickening

:45:52. > :45:54.and overnight, we lose the rain and the cloud. Clear scope dominate

:45:55. > :46:01.across the likes of England and Wales. A bit more clout in Scotland.

:46:02. > :46:05.-- clear skies dominate. The odd eight and sixes and sevens. It will

:46:06. > :46:10.be much colder than that in the countryside. We are looking at frost

:46:11. > :46:14.across England and Wales. It will be a cold start the day tomorrow. Still

:46:15. > :46:18.under the influence of high pressure. You can see the squeeze of

:46:19. > :46:22.the isobars, still windy in north but not as windy as it will be later

:46:23. > :46:26.today and tonight. For most of us tomorrow after a bright start, you

:46:27. > :46:30.will notice the cloud starting to push down from the north. Parts of

:46:31. > :46:34.south-west England, for example, hanging on to the sunshine at it

:46:35. > :46:38.longer that a lot of this will be high clouds which will be right or

:46:39. > :46:42.hazy sunshine rather than wall-to-wall blue skies.

:46:43. > :46:45.Temperatures tomorrow, 8- 14. With each passing day, the temperature

:46:46. > :46:47.just drops by a couple of degrees but for most, the weather remains

:46:48. > :46:51.fine and a settled, Dan and Louise. I like that. You know that we like a

:46:52. > :46:56.little bit of sunshine. In the last year, hundreds of bus

:46:57. > :47:00.routes have been reduced or scrapped altogether, but new laws

:47:01. > :47:02.could change that. Yes, they could. Many people rely on

:47:03. > :47:07.those services. Yes, those new rules will give city

:47:08. > :47:10.councils more power over routes, fares and schedules,

:47:11. > :47:13.in the same way that a separate body, Transport for London,

:47:14. > :47:15.governs public transport Five billion journeys were made

:47:16. > :47:25.on British buses last year. But not all of them are profitable,

:47:26. > :47:28.particularly in remote areas, so they get a subsidy

:47:29. > :47:31.from the local authority. But those subsidies have faced big

:47:32. > :47:36.cuts over the last year, amounting to ?28 million,

:47:37. > :47:38.that's about a third slashed from budgets

:47:39. > :47:44.in England and Wales. You can see on the map,

:47:45. > :47:47.the darker the map, So the smallest cuts

:47:48. > :47:50.were in the West Midlands. The north-west also

:47:51. > :48:01.saw big cuts too. Four councils - Middlesbrough,

:48:02. > :48:03.Lancashire, Torbay and the Isle of Wight - have had to stop bus

:48:04. > :48:06.subsidies altogether. And that can have a big impact

:48:07. > :48:09.on services, as these people in Cumbria noticed after subsidies

:48:10. > :48:24.there were cut two years ago. We had a regular bus service that

:48:25. > :48:29.ran up and down the valley and it was how people got to work, the

:48:30. > :48:35.hospital and school. I have used buses not to go to Carlisle or the

:48:36. > :48:41.hospital if necessary. It is just impossible. If anything happened to

:48:42. > :48:48.my husband, I would be stark. I have a daughter who lives here who

:48:49. > :48:52.doesn't drive. I don't drive. My daughter goes to school 80 miles

:48:53. > :48:57.away and since they cut the bus I have had to rely on friends to get

:48:58. > :49:03.her to school. Somewhere that spends a lot of money on public transport,

:49:04. > :49:08.for example Jersey, visitors will use the transport system to get

:49:09. > :49:12.around the island very easily. If we are competing with them, then we

:49:13. > :49:16.will lose out. We are currently working with the different operators

:49:17. > :49:17.to try to find a way to get the service up and running. In the

:49:18. > :49:21.long-term, it is hard to see. Cumbria Council say

:49:22. > :49:23.they are supporting various Let's speak to Giles Fearnely,

:49:24. > :49:39.boss of one of the country's biggest Good morning. I am interested in

:49:40. > :49:44.what the cuts to subsidies mean for you. We have seen the headlines. Ask

:49:45. > :49:49.services have to be cut. Talk me through from eight business services

:49:50. > :49:55.point of view. Outside London nine out of ten bus services are run

:49:56. > :50:00.commercially. -- bus. Bus services rely on public funding. There are

:50:01. > :50:04.not enough passengers to pay the cost of the service. You rely on

:50:05. > :50:11.local authorities to come forward to provide funding to help the services

:50:12. > :50:15.operate. This is the dilemma. As a commercial organisation, you exist

:50:16. > :50:21.to make honey, to make a profit with shareholders. That is what

:50:22. > :50:25.businesses do. On the other hand, councils say, we want these services

:50:26. > :50:30.in remote areas that when make money. You cannot square the circle.

:50:31. > :50:33.How can you do both went there is not enough money to go around? Local

:50:34. > :50:39.authorities have a duty to decide whether or not a service should

:50:40. > :50:42.operate when there is not enough passengers to run it commercially

:50:43. > :50:45.and we have worked closely with other operators with local

:50:46. > :50:53.authorities to try to find solutions. For instance in the West

:50:54. > :50:56.Country services are under threat and some services have been

:50:57. > :51:01.withdrawn. We were struck by the local community who were determined

:51:02. > :51:05.to save the service. For six months we found extra money and worked with

:51:06. > :51:09.the community to try to save the service to encourage people to use

:51:10. > :51:15.it. This is all about the people using the service. It is working

:51:16. > :51:18.very well and people are using the service thanks to the local

:51:19. > :51:22.community coming together and encouraging people to use it. We

:51:23. > :51:25.implore other communities to come together to try to work with the

:51:26. > :51:31.local authority to save these services. If the changes to the bus

:51:32. > :51:35.services Bill are brought into force it would give councils more control

:51:36. > :51:40.over the services that they provide. For the passengers you might say it

:51:41. > :51:44.is a good thing. Is it the case that the council is asking you to do more

:51:45. > :51:48.and not willing to pay for it? We welcome the bus services Bill and

:51:49. > :51:56.encourage those who were closely to benefit passengers. It doesn't solve

:51:57. > :52:00.customers and passengers' issues, one is congestion, it will make bus

:52:01. > :52:04.journeys less attractive, and secondly it will not create more

:52:05. > :52:08.money for services like those we are talking about. It has to be local

:52:09. > :52:13.decisions, local allocation of money, which can be difficult at

:52:14. > :52:16.times. That is the local authorities having to work hard and look

:52:17. > :52:22.carefully at how to allocate their money. I wish we could talk more but

:52:23. > :52:25.time is done. The boss of FirstGroup speaking to us. More from me later.

:52:26. > :52:28.Thank you. To a young Paul McCartney,

:52:29. > :52:31.being 64 meant hair loss, digging the weeds, knitting

:52:32. > :52:34.by the fireside and grandchildren But do the famous lyrics

:52:35. > :52:37.to "When I'm 64" ring true For our special series

:52:38. > :52:41.on Sergeant Pepper's half century Tim Muffet has been to the Isle

:52:42. > :53:02.of Wight to find out. # when I get old, losing my hair,

:53:03. > :53:07.many years from now... A whimsical song about getting old, knitting

:53:08. > :53:10.sweaters and wasting away. For 64-year-old Gavia it doesn't ring

:53:11. > :53:16.true. It is different from the Beatles' song. It is rather

:53:17. > :53:24.different. I am not aware of being 64. I am having the time of my life.

:53:25. > :53:31.# when you still need me, when you still feed me when I'm 64. I feed

:53:32. > :53:39.myself. I am fairly independent currently and long may it be thus.

:53:40. > :53:45.There has been huge changes in life expectancy over the last 50 years.

:53:46. > :53:50.So if we look at the 64-year-old in 1967, you would have on average 12

:53:51. > :53:56.years of life expectancy. A woman would have around 80 years life

:53:57. > :54:01.expectancy. Today that has transformed, especially for men, and

:54:02. > :54:06.actually a man aged 64 will have 23 years of life expectancy ahead, so

:54:07. > :54:11.that is over a doubling. Not all 64 -year-olds are as active as Gavia

:54:12. > :54:18.but better diet, less smoking and medical advances have all helped. #

:54:19. > :54:25.when I get old... Paul Stevens is also 64 and works part-time as a

:54:26. > :54:29.road patrol officer. He has been married to Gwen for it years. Both

:54:30. > :54:35.were previously divorced. Commonplace today. Not so 50 years

:54:36. > :54:39.ago. It just makes life easier rather than being frowned on. Yes, a

:54:40. > :54:49.lot of people were stuck in unhappy marriages before that. #

:54:50. > :54:58.grandchildren on your knee... Grandchildren on your knee. Not

:54:59. > :55:04.fear, Chuck and Dave. We have George, Lenin. If we look back to

:55:05. > :55:12.1967 and those aged 64, about 5% of their marriages entered -- ended in

:55:13. > :55:21.divorce, which results in more blended families. # every summer we

:55:22. > :55:26.can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight. So, a cottage in the Isle of

:55:27. > :55:32.Wight. # we will scrimp and save. You are both 64 and this is yours.

:55:33. > :55:39.And it is not too dear. Do you scrimp and save? At the end of the

:55:40. > :55:43.day, yes. Colin and Jenny rent out holiday homes and run a garlic farm.

:55:44. > :55:48.Neither have immediate plans to retire. I run the holiday cottages

:55:49. > :55:54.and part of the restaurant and the shop. The big change has been in

:55:55. > :55:58.women. So, if you go back 50 years, only a quarter of women aged 60- 64

:55:59. > :56:04.were in the market. Today it is two thirds. Changes to the state pension

:56:05. > :56:09.age as well as laws banning age and gender discrimination have all

:56:10. > :56:14.played a role. Compared to 1967, being 64 today is a very different

:56:15. > :56:18.experience. Tim Muffet, BBC News, on the Isle of Wight.

:56:19. > :56:25.Wonderful to see everybody clearly enjoying themselves. Yes, we will be

:56:26. > :56:29.speaking to the Isle of Wight Festival later on. We have been

:56:30. > :56:34.asking what you want to do when you are 64. How would will be riding a

:56:35. > :56:38.Harley-Davidson across the Planes with tears in his eyes for love

:56:39. > :56:46.lost, and getting on with the caring duties. Tony says I will be 64 in

:56:47. > :56:51.June and I live in the Philippines, hopefully I will drink beer with

:56:52. > :56:54.this ongoing down. I would like to live by the sea. And would you like

:56:55. > :56:58.to tell the BBC Breakfast viewers what you will be doing? I will be

:56:59. > :57:02.writing books. That isn't exactly what you said. OK. You can all look

:57:03. > :57:03.forward to that, maybe. Time now to get the news,

:57:04. > :57:07.travel and weather where you are. the temperature rises just a little

:57:08. > :00:27.as the high pressure builds I'm back with the latest

:00:28. > :00:32.from the BBC London newsroom Hello, this is Breakfast,

:00:33. > :00:38.with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker. Russian investigators

:00:39. > :00:40.are thought to have identified the man suspected of killing 11

:00:41. > :00:43.people in the St Petersbourg Reports say the person behind

:00:44. > :00:46.the bomb is in his early 20's three days of mourning

:00:47. > :01:07.for the victims have been declared. A re-vamp of the government's

:01:08. > :01:12.campaign to help tens of thousands of troubled families -

:01:13. > :01:15.Ministers say they want to help struggling children by giving

:01:16. > :01:17.their parents more support. Returning to the honeymoon island

:01:18. > :01:20.where his wife Michaela was murdered six years ago, John McAreavey tells

:01:21. > :01:23.us about the challenges My deepest, darkest fears

:01:24. > :01:29.and nightmares actually came So whenever you're actually

:01:30. > :01:35.physically back here, Nearly ?30m has been slashed

:01:36. > :01:41.from bus services in the last year, with more than 500

:01:42. > :01:45.routes cut or cancelled. But could new rules on how bus

:01:46. > :01:48.companies and councils work together In sport - he's apologised,

:01:49. > :01:54.but Sunderland boss David Moyes will be asked by the Football

:01:55. > :01:57.Association to explain himself after telling a BBC reporter

:01:58. > :02:02.she might "get a slap". # When I get old and losing my hair,

:02:03. > :02:08.many years from now. 50 years on from the release

:02:09. > :02:11.of the album which brought us that song - we've a snapshot

:02:12. > :02:29.of what life's like - I can imagine everybody is going to

:02:30. > :02:29.be singing that all morning, like me.

:02:30. > :02:38.We have some rain pushing south eastwards but it will be pushing up.

:02:39. > :02:41.Some cloud around the northern Ireland and Scotland but some sunny

:02:42. > :02:43.spells and a strengthening weed and across the far north. More in about

:02:44. > :02:52.15 minutes. Russian investigators are thought

:02:53. > :02:56.to have identified the man suspected of killing 11 people in the St

:02:57. > :02:59.Petersbourg underground attack. Reports say the man is in his early

:03:00. > :03:02.20s and from Central Asia. At least 45 people were also injured

:03:03. > :03:05.in the explosion between two In Russia's second city,

:03:06. > :03:14.a show of grief and solidarity. President Vladimir Putin

:03:15. > :03:17.was in St Petersburg at the time Above the station where the bombed

:03:18. > :03:24.train ended its journey, he paid his respects to those killed

:03:25. > :03:27.and injured on Monday afternoon. From underground, images have

:03:28. > :03:34.emerged of the mangled Metro train - doors blown out, passengers trying

:03:35. > :03:39.to escape the wreckage. Local media are reporting

:03:40. > :03:45.that the suspect is a man in his 20s from Central Asia but there

:03:46. > :03:47.are conflicting reports as to whether he was

:03:48. > :03:49.a suicide bomber. TRANSLATION: Law enforcement bodies

:03:50. > :03:52.and special services are working and will do all they can in order

:03:53. > :03:55.to find out the cause At a nearby station,

:03:56. > :04:01.a second explosive device Security has been tightened

:04:02. > :04:11.across the country. Officials say this

:04:12. > :04:13.was an act of terror. Yet, at this makeshift memorial,

:04:14. > :04:16.there was a sense of defiance. TRANSLATION: I am certain that we

:04:17. > :04:19.Russians will not be divided. At this precise moment,

:04:20. > :04:21.all people of all faiths, all religions, and all

:04:22. > :04:23.political borders, everyone In recent years Russia's planes,

:04:24. > :04:34.trains, and airports have all been Once again, ordinary Russians

:04:35. > :04:38.are asking how and why their loved Let's speak now to our Moscow

:04:39. > :05:01.correspondent Oleg Boldyrev There is more information coming out

:05:02. > :05:06.about what happened? The media noise is picking up this morning. In the

:05:07. > :05:12.past Alloa, two reports from two separate Central Asian republics

:05:13. > :05:17.saying that the local authorities are assisting Russian investigators.

:05:18. > :05:37.Working on the assumption that a young man who is a Russian citizen

:05:38. > :05:42.living in Russia but from either Kazakhstan or Kyrgyzstan. Early

:05:43. > :05:53.reports are saying that the person left first of explosive device and

:05:54. > :05:57.then went and blue a second device similar to the first one, killing

:05:58. > :06:08.himself in the process. The first device was found and deactivated.

:06:09. > :06:15.One of the bodies found could have been the one of the bomb. -- bomber.

:06:16. > :06:18.A revised plan to get parents from troubled families back

:06:19. > :06:20.into work is being launched by the government today.

:06:21. > :06:23.Research shows that children from families with no working adults

:06:24. > :06:25.achieve less at school and into adult life.

:06:26. > :06:29.It was after the London riots of 2011 that David Cameron

:06:30. > :06:30.introduced the Troubled Families programme.

:06:31. > :06:33.New government research shows the impact that parental conflict

:06:34. > :06:35.and worklessness have on children's chances of doing well throughout

:06:36. > :06:41.One of the things that really matters is the relationship

:06:42. > :06:50.We know that relationships break down but whether you're living

:06:51. > :06:56.together or not living together, married or unmarried,

:06:57. > :06:59.the key is that the parents should maintain a good relationship.

:07:00. > :07:01.That is an absolute key to the future success

:07:02. > :07:05.The ?30 million invested will go towards trying to resolve issues

:07:06. > :07:07.that can cause conflict in relationships.

:07:08. > :07:08.Unemployment, along with mental health.

:07:09. > :07:10.Also drug and alcohol dependency and homelessness.

:07:11. > :07:15.At this family Centre, it's welcome news.

:07:16. > :07:18.Early intervention is about avoiding escalated situations further

:07:19. > :07:26.We welcome that but also believe it is very good value for money

:07:27. > :07:28.in terms of avoiding future problems.

:07:29. > :07:30.Others have criticised the scheme for being ineffective

:07:31. > :07:31.and anti-poverty campaigners say it pales

:07:32. > :07:34.into insignificance when compared to the amount of money millions

:07:35. > :07:37.of families are missing out on due to changes in benefit payments.

:07:38. > :07:52.In just a few minutes time will be working to that and pensions

:07:53. > :07:53.Secretary Damian Green. A group of MPs has accused

:07:54. > :07:56.the government of making "unsubstantiated claims"

:07:57. > :07:58.about the potential impact of failing to reach

:07:59. > :08:00.a Brexit deal with the EU. Our political correspondent Ellie

:08:01. > :08:03.Price is in Westminster for us. Ellie, what exactly

:08:04. > :08:15.does this report say? Article 50 was triggered to break

:08:16. > :08:19.fanfare here last week and that was essentially when the stopwatch

:08:20. > :08:25.started on the Brexit negotiations. What this report says that if the

:08:26. > :08:30.government needs to do more in case no deal was reached. The government

:08:31. > :08:34.has previously said it wouldn't offer. Here is what the chairman had

:08:35. > :08:43.to say. In the absence of an economic assessments, it would mean

:08:44. > :08:46.tariffs, and impact on trade between Northern Ireland and the Republic of

:08:47. > :08:52.Ireland and without the government setting out what mitigating steps it

:08:53. > :08:58.would put in place, the assertion that no deal is better than a bad

:08:59. > :09:01.deal is, in the words of the report, unsubstantiated. The government says

:09:02. > :09:07.it is looking into all potential outcomes and it expects a deal to be

:09:08. > :09:15.reached. Another interesting port -- point, is made up of MPs from all

:09:16. > :09:18.the parties and MPs who voted pro, - remain and pro- Brexit. The probe

:09:19. > :09:23.Brexit people walked out last week when it was being discussed and said

:09:24. > :09:28.that the report was rushed, partisan and skewed and too pessimistic about

:09:29. > :09:31.Brexit. Why does it matter? The select committees are meant to hold

:09:32. > :09:35.the government to act count and if they can't all come to an agreement,

:09:36. > :09:38.it is as eventually just pro remained MPs to come to the

:09:39. > :09:39.conclusion is and it brings its credibility into question.

:09:40. > :09:42.Theresa May has defended her trip to Saudi Arabia saying close ties

:09:43. > :09:45.are needed with the kingdom for both security and trade reasons.

:09:46. > :09:47.The Prime Minister arrives in Riyadh later after visiting

:09:48. > :09:50.the King of Jordan in Amman on Monday.

:09:51. > :09:52.Labour has criticised the UK's support for the Saudi-led coalition

:09:53. > :09:55.fighting in Yemen but Mrs May said the government was also

:09:56. > :10:20.a significant donor of humanitarian aid to the country.

:10:21. > :10:22.The Church of England has accused the National Trust of "airbrushing

:10:23. > :10:25.faith" after it dropped the word "Easter" from its annual

:10:26. > :10:28.The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, described the decision

:10:29. > :10:31.as "spitting on the grave" of John Cadbury, the

:10:32. > :10:34.The National Trust said the accusations were nonsense.

:10:35. > :10:36.Researchers say they are closer to understanding why firefighters

:10:37. > :10:39.are at such a high risk of suffering heart attacks.

:10:40. > :10:42.The authors of a new study say firefighters' blood becomes

:10:43. > :10:44.sticky at high temperatures and their blood vessels fail

:10:45. > :10:48.Our Health correspondent Sophie Hutchinson reports.

:10:49. > :10:49.Experienced firefighter Simon McNally used to

:10:50. > :10:53.It meant several times a day he was exposed to fires of up

:10:54. > :11:02.Then one day at work, he had a heart attack.

:11:03. > :11:08.You're hoping it was indigestion or you're hoping

:11:09. > :11:13.You're hoping it's not going to be as sinister as a heart attack so it

:11:14. > :11:16.We keep ourselves reasonably fit in the Fire Service,

:11:17. > :11:19.we have to pass a standard test every year.

:11:20. > :11:21.We have a check-up every three years.

:11:22. > :11:24.So it was a bit confusing to be faced with those signs and symptoms.

:11:25. > :11:27.Heart attacks are the leading cause of death for frontline firefighters.

:11:28. > :11:31.Studies in America have shown almost half of all firefighters who die

:11:32. > :11:33.on duty are killed by heart problems.

:11:34. > :11:35.The new research carried out by Edinburgh University

:11:36. > :11:37.and published in the journal, Circulation, monitored the hearts

:11:38. > :11:39.of 19 healthy firefighters during mock rescues.

:11:40. > :11:42.It found body temperatures rose by one degree Celsius and remained

:11:43. > :11:44.high for up to four hours afterwards.

:11:45. > :11:47.Blood vessels failed to relax despite medication and the blood

:11:48. > :11:49.became stickier, carrying a high risk of forming

:11:50. > :11:52.Scientists believe the reason was the extreme physical

:11:53. > :11:57.They say simple measures such as staying hydrated and taking

:11:58. > :12:00.breaks to cool down are vital for saving firefighters lives.

:12:01. > :12:12.We'll be talking about the research are little later.

:12:13. > :12:15.The first official portrait of First Lady Melania Trump has been

:12:16. > :12:20.The image of the former model was taken in the White House

:12:21. > :12:22.by a Belgian photographer and was released with a statement

:12:23. > :12:25.from Mrs Trump saying she was looking forward to "working

:12:26. > :12:30.Social media reaction has been mixed with some saying the First Lady

:12:31. > :12:33.looked "beyond beautiful" while others questioned if the photo

:12:34. > :12:40.A Jack Russell from Devon has set a new world record

:12:41. > :12:44.Eight-year-old Jessica - and her owner Rachael Grylls -

:12:45. > :12:50.The team train for 15 minutes a day and they beat the previous record -

:12:51. > :13:12.And let's have a look at that technique in slow-mo.

:13:13. > :13:18.As we've been hearing this morning, children from families where no-one

:13:19. > :13:21.works are almost twice as likely to fail in education according

:13:22. > :13:29.Today, ministers are announcing a ?30m plan to help these children

:13:30. > :13:36.Key to that plan is Jobcentre Plus and increasing their role in helping

:13:37. > :13:38.long-term unemployed parents into work -

:13:39. > :13:42.seen as a big barrier to the development

:13:43. > :13:45.The strategy is an extension of one announced by former

:13:46. > :13:48.Prime Minister David Cameron in 2011.

:13:49. > :13:50.That came just after the London riots with the aim

:13:51. > :13:56.of turning round the lives of 120,000 so-called "troubled

:13:57. > :13:58.families", who the government said were costing the state

:13:59. > :14:04.Joining us now from Westminster is Work and Pensions Secretary Damian

:14:05. > :14:17.Thank you for joining us. Let's start with how to define a troubled

:14:18. > :14:23.family, one would be getting access to this kind of development and

:14:24. > :14:27.education, and money. Families that have multiple problems, so often out

:14:28. > :14:33.of work, which is obviously where my department comes in, to help them

:14:34. > :14:36.work, and also commonly parents may have problems with addiction to

:14:37. > :14:41.either alcohol or drugs, they may have debt problems, they may have

:14:42. > :14:45.housing problems. It is solving the multiple problems at once that we

:14:46. > :14:49.need to do not just for the adults in the family but specifically for

:14:50. > :14:53.the children in the family so that they get the best start in life and

:14:54. > :14:57.so that their chances are not defined by the first few years of

:14:58. > :15:01.it, that is this programme, and that is why we are dealing with workless

:15:02. > :15:06.nurse and also with issues like the rental conflict which can lead to

:15:07. > :15:09.much poorer performance in schools for children -- worklessness. Is it

:15:10. > :15:15.a government role, do you think, to start dealing with relationship

:15:16. > :15:22.problems in some ways? We won't do it directly. The money you mentioned

:15:23. > :15:32.will go to charities and voluntary organisations experienced in helping

:15:33. > :15:36.people maintain relationships even if their own relationship with the

:15:37. > :15:40.adults has broken down. We have research which shows whether or not

:15:41. > :15:43.the parents stay together, even if they split up because they cannot

:15:44. > :15:47.live with each other, if they can maintain a good relationship it is

:15:48. > :15:52.much better for the children's performance generally and that is

:15:53. > :15:57.what we need to do. And if the state doesn't intervene at this point,

:15:58. > :16:00.then we know it is going to have to intervene further down the line,

:16:01. > :16:04.possibly through the criminal justice system or the health system.

:16:05. > :16:08.Quite a lot of these problems can lead to mental health problems later

:16:09. > :16:14.in life. This is part of a programme that has gone on for some years with

:16:15. > :16:18.many millions already spent on these Troubled Families Programme. There

:16:19. > :16:22.is research from the national also to research which said they could

:16:23. > :16:26.not find consistent evidence that it had any significant or systematic

:16:27. > :16:30.impact. Is the programme itself in trouble? I don't agree with that

:16:31. > :16:36.national institute report. I thought it was on the programme. There are

:16:37. > :16:40.improvements that can be made to the Troubled Families Programme. That is

:16:41. > :16:44.what we are doing. We are bringing it closer together with job centres.

:16:45. > :16:48.We have found that being workless is almost the key to a lot of other

:16:49. > :16:54.problems. If we can get people back to work it will help the other

:16:55. > :16:57.problems. One of the insights of the Troubled Families Programme is you

:16:58. > :17:02.need a key worker who is responsible for helping the individual family.

:17:03. > :17:10.To often in the past the police would be dealing with one family

:17:11. > :17:15.member, maybe the child was not go to school, and these were never

:17:16. > :17:19.joined-up. Having one individual responsible for that is much better.

:17:20. > :17:23.Of course every programme can be improved. That is what we are trying

:17:24. > :17:28.to do. Just explain, you are investing money in these families,

:17:29. > :17:36.at the same time as freezing their benefits. We -- these are not the

:17:37. > :17:40.same families at all. Many of them would be, wouldn't they? Not

:17:41. > :17:45.necessarily. There is clearly overlap. We are doing a lot for

:17:46. > :17:51.people at the lower end of the income scale. We have improved the

:17:52. > :17:59.national living wage, that goes up this week. We are taking people...

:18:00. > :18:04.We are increasing the tax allowance, so we take them at a income tax. And

:18:05. > :18:09.later this year we are introducing 30 hours of childcare. We are doing

:18:10. > :18:14.a lot to help families at the bottom end of the scale. -- out of income

:18:15. > :18:15.tax. Thank you for your time this morning.

:18:16. > :18:21.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:18:22. > :18:27.Let's have a look at what is happening in the weather with Carol.

:18:28. > :18:32.I love a little bit of Tyne Wear action.

:18:33. > :18:37.What we have at the moment is a cloudy start for some and it will

:18:38. > :18:41.brighten up where we have the dull skies, except for the south-east.

:18:42. > :18:48.And you will find it will feel fresher than yesterday. In the

:18:49. > :18:52.southern areas it is a mild start because of the cloud amongst the

:18:53. > :18:57.high pressure and a weather front sinking south with patchy rain. Look

:18:58. > :19:02.at these queries on the isobars in the north of the country. Later it

:19:03. > :19:05.will be very windy. The weather front has been producing showers,

:19:06. > :19:10.the bright colours indicating they were heavy, and the odd rumble of

:19:11. > :19:15.thunder for another hour. Showers continue but for the rest of England

:19:16. > :19:21.and Wales it is cloudy with the odd spot in the breeze. It is not very

:19:22. > :19:25.cold. As women into northern England, Scotland and Northern

:19:26. > :19:31.Ireland, there is cloud around -- as we move. It is fresh with showers.

:19:32. > :19:36.For the north of Northern Ireland and the north of Scotland, the wind

:19:37. > :19:41.will pick up here, touching gale force, possibly severe gales in the

:19:42. > :19:50.Northern Isles, especially set Shetland -- Shetland. We are left

:19:51. > :19:56.with cloud and showers in the afternoon. In Wales, Scotland and

:19:57. > :20:01.Northern Ireland, it will be largely dry with sunshine. Temperatures

:20:02. > :20:07.feeling cold at around eight in the Northern Isles. 15 or 16, possibly

:20:08. > :20:13.17 in Cardiff, south-west England and the south-west Midlands. It will

:20:14. > :20:17.feel pleasant for the time of year. Overnight we lose the cloud from the

:20:18. > :20:21.south-east. Clear skies around, still severe gales for the north of

:20:22. > :20:24.Scotland, and it will be a cold night. We are looking at

:20:25. > :20:28.temperatures in towns and cities, seven or eight, and in the

:20:29. > :20:32.countryside temperatures will be lower. It will be low enough for a

:20:33. > :20:38.touch of grass frost here and there. Tomorrow a chilly start to the day.

:20:39. > :20:41.Under the high pressure things are fairly settled. It will be windy for

:20:42. > :20:46.the far north of Scotland. Just not as windy as later today and don't

:20:47. > :20:55.stop and what he will find is we get off to a bright start and cloud

:20:56. > :20:59.pushes down from the north. It will be bright rather than wall-to-wall

:21:00. > :21:03.blue skies. In the south-west of England, should hang on to the

:21:04. > :21:07.sunshine for the longest with temperatures between eight and 14. A

:21:08. > :21:12.quick look at Thursday, MEP start to the day with clear skies overnight,

:21:13. > :21:17.sunshine, variable amounts of cloud and showers in the north-west --a

:21:18. > :21:22.nippy start. Temperatures between about ten and 15. Thank you. Just

:21:23. > :21:27.discussing how lovely it is to have light evenings as well. Yes. Thank

:21:28. > :21:32.you. You love a warm evening. Yes, I do. Some of girl, hey? Definitely.

:21:33. > :21:34.OK. You wait ages for a business story

:21:35. > :21:38.then three come along at once. Ben's here with the latest

:21:39. > :21:42.on changes to bus services and more. Nearly ?30 million has been slashed

:21:43. > :21:45.from subsidies for bus services in the last year across

:21:46. > :21:47.England and Wales. That's led to a reduction

:21:48. > :21:51.or cancellation of 500 services. The biggest cuts were in

:21:52. > :21:53.the south-west and north-west of But new rules are expected to hand

:21:54. > :21:57.more powers to city councils giving them greater control over routes,

:21:58. > :22:08.ticketing, fares and information. I am going to talk more about that

:22:09. > :22:12.in around half an hour. Chancellor Philip Hammond starts

:22:13. > :22:15.a major trade mission to India as he looks to secure new trade

:22:16. > :22:18.deals after the vote On the first day of the two-day trip

:22:19. > :22:22.to Delhi and Mumbai, Mr Hammond

:22:23. > :22:24.is expected to open talks with Indian finance minister over

:22:25. > :22:27.establishing a new economic Since 2000, the UK has invested more

:22:28. > :22:31.than ?19 bilion in India, more than the US or any

:22:32. > :22:33.other European country. Online clothing retailer ASOS has

:22:34. > :22:36.just reported what it calls solid UK growth with sales

:22:37. > :22:45.up 18% in the UK. But in a sign of the changing way

:22:46. > :22:49.we shop, it says 58% of all orders But the cost of dealing with returns

:22:50. > :22:56.remains a problem for online firms with customers ordering

:22:57. > :22:58.more than they need That's an expensive

:22:59. > :23:06.cost for retailers. We are going to talk more about this

:23:07. > :23:13.in about half an hour. Thank you. It was the honeymoon that turned

:23:14. > :23:16.to unimaginable tragedy - a young wife who briefly

:23:17. > :23:18.left her new husband to visit their hotel

:23:19. > :23:20.room but never returned. Michaela McAreavey

:23:21. > :23:22.had been murdered. Six years on, her husband John

:23:23. > :23:31.is still looking for answers. Two Hotel workers were accused of

:23:32. > :23:33.her murder but later they were acquitted in court.

:23:34. > :23:36.John has now returned to Mauritius with the hope of finally getting

:23:37. > :23:39.From Port Louis, Mark Simpson reports.

:23:40. > :23:43.Back on the island where his wife was murdered.

:23:44. > :23:46.This is a return journey most people thought John McAreavey

:23:47. > :23:53.He first came to Mauritius six years ago.

:23:54. > :23:59.But 12 days after getting married, Michaela McAreavey was murdered.

:24:00. > :24:03.His decision to return has surprised the authorities here.

:24:04. > :24:10.But he says they had better get used to it.

:24:11. > :24:13.If we have to be back next week, we will be back.

:24:14. > :24:18.If we have to be back next month, next year, we will be here as long

:24:19. > :24:20.as it takes to ensure that this case is resolved.

:24:21. > :24:23.If I'm still standing here in 20 years, so be it.

:24:24. > :24:27.John and Michaela were a well-known couple back home in Northern

:24:28. > :24:29.Her father, Mickey Hart, is one of Ireland's most successful

:24:30. > :24:39.She disturbed intruders who broke into her room.

:24:40. > :24:47.Two hotel workers later went on trial for murder but both

:24:48. > :24:51.Since then, John McAreavey hasn't spoken about the case but this week

:24:52. > :24:54.he has decided not just to speak out but to act.

:24:55. > :25:00.Mauritius, as a country, you know, I have absolutely nothing against.

:25:01. > :25:03.But the reality is, you know, my deepest fears and nightmares came

:25:04. > :25:09.So, whenever you're actually physically back here,

:25:10. > :25:14.The death of a young Irish woman on honeymoon on this holiday island

:25:15. > :25:19.And in Mauritius it's front page news again this week,

:25:20. > :25:22.with John McAreavey's sudden decision to return.

:25:23. > :25:29.People will be shocked because we gathered that he had

:25:30. > :25:32.started a new life and that he would move on and forget

:25:33. > :25:42.I think people will be surprised to see him and to see that his quest

:25:43. > :25:47.The hotel where Michaela McAreavey was killed still exists

:25:48. > :26:02.Six years on it's been renamed but what happened here has not been

:26:03. > :26:04.forgotten in Mauritius, especially now that John McAreavey

:26:05. > :26:08.And he is insisting this visit won't be his last.

:26:09. > :26:14.Later in the programme, we'll be speaking to John McAreavey

:26:15. > :26:21.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:26:22. > :26:26.Still to come this morning: There's just a year to go until the next

:26:27. > :26:29.Commonwealth Games, our reporter Steve Godden is with some

:26:30. > :26:32.of the athletes who'll be swapping the Firth of Forth

:26:33. > :26:43.Morning. Yes, good morning, welcome to the outskirts of Edinburgh are

:26:44. > :26:47.not somewhere that you would mistake for the Gold Coast. As you can see,

:26:48. > :26:53.the volleyball players are going through their paces for the first

:26:54. > :26:56.time the sport will appear at the Commonwealth Games. A big moment for

:26:57. > :26:58.the sport, and for these players here. We will speak to them a little

:26:59. > :30:18.bit later on. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:30:19. > :30:41.with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. Investigations continue in the

:30:42. > :30:50.explosion in the Russian Metro in which 11 people were killed and 51

:30:51. > :30:57.injured. The suspect could be a Kyrgyzstan Russian. These are live

:30:58. > :31:02.pictures from St Petersburg where three days of mourning have been

:31:03. > :31:07.declared. President Putin visited the scene of the explosion late last

:31:08. > :31:13.night. Moron-mac at the programme. -- more

:31:14. > :31:20.on that. A revised plan to get parents

:31:21. > :31:23.from troubled families into work is being launched by

:31:24. > :31:26.the government today. Research shows that children

:31:27. > :31:28.from families with no working adults achieve less

:31:29. > :31:31.at school and into adult life. A ?30 million fund will try improve

:31:32. > :31:35.links between out of work parents Ministers say they want to give

:31:36. > :31:38.children better life chances but the government has been

:31:39. > :31:41.criticised for freezing benefits. A group of MPs has accused

:31:42. > :31:43.the government of making "unsubstantiated claims"

:31:44. > :31:45.about the potential impact of failing to reach

:31:46. > :31:48.a Brexit deal with the EU. The Exiting the EU Committee

:31:49. > :31:50.report criticised the Prime Minister's position that

:31:51. > :31:53.no deal was better than a bad deal and called on the government

:31:54. > :31:56.to carry out an urgent impact Some of the committee members say

:31:57. > :31:59.the report is rushed Researchers say they are closer

:32:00. > :32:06.to understanding why firefighters are at such a high risk

:32:07. > :32:09.of suffering heart attacks. The authors of a new study say

:32:10. > :32:12.firefighters' blood becomes sticky at high temperatures meaning

:32:13. > :32:15.it is more likely to form The National Fire Chiefs Council

:32:16. > :32:19.says it will consider the findings We will be speaking to those behind

:32:20. > :32:31.the research later on. Prince Harry is to give his support

:32:32. > :32:34.to a campaign to rid the world The Prince is expected to pay

:32:35. > :32:39.tribute to his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales,

:32:40. > :32:41.in a speech at Kensington Palace later to mark International

:32:42. > :32:43.Mine Awareness Day. Princess Diana travelled

:32:44. > :32:46.to a minefield in Angola shortly before her death and Prince Harry

:32:47. > :32:48.has made similar trips since becoming patron

:32:49. > :33:02.of the HALO Trust charity. The Church of England has accused

:33:03. > :33:04.the National Trust of "airbrushing faith" after it dropped the word

:33:05. > :33:07."Easter" from its annual The Archbishop of York,

:33:08. > :33:10.John Sentamu, described the decision as "spitting on the grave"

:33:11. > :33:13.of John Cadbury, the The National Trust said

:33:14. > :33:16.the accusations were nonsense. Coming up on the programme,

:33:17. > :33:28.Carol will have the weather for you. And it is a morning of sport. The

:33:29. > :33:33.back page dominated by the future of David Moyes and white -- what might

:33:34. > :33:37.happen to him. Some people are calling thing to be sacked or at

:33:38. > :33:42.least resigned. The comments he made to a BBC reporter where he said the

:33:43. > :33:46.question was a bit cheeky and you might get a slap next time you come

:33:47. > :33:50.in, you should be careful next time you come to Sunderland. They were

:33:51. > :33:54.both laughing but I think after the event, once the laughter stopped,

:33:55. > :33:58.people were analysing those comments and thinking there was something of

:33:59. > :34:01.its sinister perhaps behind them. Lots of people reacting very

:34:02. > :34:05.differently to this story on Twitter. We have been talking all

:34:06. > :34:13.morning. Rachel Bald Island says" it is called banter. " It should be the

:34:14. > :34:19.reporter's decision if she was offended. Eden says a man is

:34:20. > :34:27.verbally abusive to women because he thinks he can. This man says not

:34:28. > :34:33.only was it sexist and aggressive, but sinister. He should so -- show

:34:34. > :34:36.respect to reporters. Lots of people say if fair enough, it is

:34:37. > :34:42.disrespectful to the reporter, whether or not she is a woman. Vicki

:34:43. > :34:44.Sparks has accepted the apology. At a pinch you lodged a complaint in

:34:45. > :34:50.the first first place. The Football Association will ask

:34:51. > :34:52.David Moyes to explain himself about comments he made to a BBC

:34:53. > :34:55.reporter last month. Vicki Sparks has accepted an apology

:34:56. > :34:58.from the Sunderland manager after he told her "she

:34:59. > :35:00.might get a slap". Moyes had taken exception

:35:01. > :35:02.to her line of questioning about whether he was feeling

:35:03. > :35:05.the pressure after their match A full programme of midweek fixtures

:35:06. > :35:29.in the Premier League begins Moyes' Sunderland travel

:35:30. > :35:31.to Champions Leicester City. The pick of tonight's

:35:32. > :35:34.games is at Old Trafford, where Manchester United will look

:35:35. > :35:37.to close the gap on the top four It's the second of nine

:35:38. > :35:41.games for United in April but despite the distraction

:35:42. > :35:44.of the Europa League next week, the United manager isn't

:35:45. > :35:54.looking that far ahead. This week is a week without Europa

:35:55. > :35:59.league. This week is easy but the focus point of view is easy. We have

:36:00. > :36:03.to play Everton, we have to play Sunderland and these two matches, we

:36:04. > :36:07.have to go for them thinking about the Premier League and nothing else.

:36:08. > :36:11.There are still over three months to go until the start of the women's

:36:12. > :36:13.European Championship, but England head coach Mark Sampson

:36:14. > :36:16.has already named his final squad of 23 for the tournament.

:36:17. > :36:19.19 already have experience from their third place finish

:36:20. > :36:22.at the World Cup two years ago, but four uncapped players have been

:36:23. > :36:24.named including three from Manchester City.

:36:25. > :36:40.England's first match is against Scotland on July 19th.

:36:41. > :36:43.Scotland won't name their squad until closer to the tournament -

:36:44. > :36:47.but they have named their new coach - Shelly Kerr says she is "extremely

:36:48. > :36:49.proud and honoured to be Scotland coach -

:36:50. > :36:51.she'll take over after the summer, having previously coached

:36:52. > :36:55.Arsenal Ladies - and she became the first female manager in British

:36:56. > :36:57.men's senior football when she took charge

:36:58. > :37:03.Keep us updated with what you think about the David Moyes situation.

:37:04. > :37:07.Whether or not you think it's sexist, the wrong thing to do, just

:37:08. > :37:11.a bit of banter, all kinds of opinions out there at the moment. We

:37:12. > :37:12.will look again in a few hours time. -- in a few moments.

:37:13. > :37:15.Australia's Gold Coast is the setting for the 21st

:37:16. > :37:17.Commonwealth Games which begins exactly one year today.

:37:18. > :37:20.70 nations will compete across 18 sports and seven para-sports.

:37:21. > :37:22.For the first time, Beach Volleyball will be included

:37:23. > :37:26.in the line up and Steven Godden is live this morning near Edinburgh

:37:27. > :37:42.On a morning like this, you could just about confused this beach with

:37:43. > :37:45.the Gold Coast in Australia. Particularly where you hand the

:37:46. > :37:49.camera around and see beach volleyball going on. It is the first

:37:50. > :37:54.time the sport will appear in the Commonwealth Games. It has been an

:37:55. > :38:00.Olympic sport since 1996. Scotland hopefuls are going through their

:38:01. > :38:06.paces here. Here is Lin Beattie who is hopeful to qualify. Is this a

:38:07. > :38:11.typical morning? We have been pretty lucky with the weather this morning.

:38:12. > :38:14.We have been down here all winter, training in all sorts of ways. This

:38:15. > :38:20.is our training base. We are grateful to have new permanent post

:38:21. > :38:24.behind us. The wind and rain you have experience throughout the

:38:25. > :38:29.weather, will that be in a Vantage? I hope so. We don't know what the

:38:30. > :38:33.weather is going to be like -- and find it. We have just been back from

:38:34. > :38:37.Sydney and the weather is very Scottish, if you like. We think it

:38:38. > :38:41.is an advantage. The mental advantage that we get from training

:38:42. > :38:44.in this weather has got to be a benefit.

:38:45. > :38:57.What are you hoping the experience will bring from the Olympics? Think

:38:58. > :39:02.I have learned a lot stop now moving onto the beach and an operant

:39:03. > :39:09.Junichi to play the Commonwealth games representing Scotland. --

:39:10. > :39:14.opportunity. Showing people that Scotland are a team to be reckoned

:39:15. > :39:22.with in the world of each volleyball -- beach volleyball. What are the

:39:23. > :39:26.differences between normal volleyball and beach volleyball? The

:39:27. > :39:30.biggest change is the mental side. There is only two of you out there

:39:31. > :39:35.on the beach so if one of you is not having a good day, you have to work

:39:36. > :39:38.hard to get over that. The game can be over in a second. That is

:39:39. > :39:41.something we have been working hard on. Scotland had their most

:39:42. > :39:45.successful Commonwealth games the last time, the host games in

:39:46. > :39:49.Glasgow. They are hoping for the best overseas. The beach volleyball

:39:50. > :39:54.players are hoping to play their part. It does look like a lovely day

:39:55. > :39:56.but slightly unusual outfits. From one Commonwealth Athlete

:39:57. > :40:00.to another, we're joined by the current Commonwealth

:40:01. > :40:05.Flyweight champion Nicola Adams. Nicola is also a double

:40:06. > :40:07.Olympic, World, But she is leaving amateur boxing

:40:08. > :40:11.behind and this weekend faces her first bout

:40:12. > :40:22.as a professional. We will come to that in a minute

:40:23. > :40:27.that lets rewind to the Commonwealth Games. It is so exciting. What are

:40:28. > :40:35.your favourite memories? Just being in the arena and the buzz of the

:40:36. > :40:41.crowd. Everybody was so excited. It was the first time women's boxing

:40:42. > :40:46.was involved. It was nice to create that bit of history. Becoming the

:40:47. > :40:54.first female to get a medal. Gold medal. There were questions about

:40:55. > :40:58.you turning pro. What was it that made you finally decide, OK, this is

:40:59. > :41:03.it. I'm not going to do the amateur side again, and to GoPro. I wanted

:41:04. > :41:07.to follow in the footsteps of Muhammad Ali. He went from being an

:41:08. > :41:11.Olympic champion to be in a world champion as a pro and I want to be

:41:12. > :41:16.able to emulate that and follow my hero. Explained to us who are not

:41:17. > :41:21.familiar, it's completely different for you, isn't it? What are the

:41:22. > :41:26.different priorities? The number of rounds I will do. I will do tend to

:41:27. > :41:30.minute rounds and there will be no headgear. You will see a little bit

:41:31. > :41:36.more of me now. Talk to us about your opponent. The matches taking

:41:37. > :41:39.place in Manchester. This is the first time you have fought in the UK

:41:40. > :41:44.since the Olympics. Are really excited about this weekend. I can't

:41:45. > :41:50.wait. The first time competing in the UK since 2012. They expect my

:41:51. > :41:55.opponent will come to win. --I expect. I think I will have the edge

:41:56. > :42:00.and come away with a victory. Tell us about the Olympics as well. You

:42:01. > :42:05.could have gone for three. Oakwood. I had to think a lot about that. Go

:42:06. > :42:13.for the triple or do I turn professional. -- yes, I could.

:42:14. > :42:17.Hopefully become a multi- weight world champion. I know you are just

:42:18. > :42:21.starting out with a pro career but have you got any idea how long you

:42:22. > :42:28.want to be involved? The maximum, probably four years, I reckon. Y

:42:29. > :42:34.four years? I have other interests as well. I think that will be a nice

:42:35. > :42:47.time to gracefully disappear from the sport but not entirely. -- why.

:42:48. > :42:54.And your partner is also a boxer? You used to be on the same podium

:42:55. > :42:58.but now you a different fight weight so you would never fight each other.

:42:59. > :43:03.We have been in the same weight class through the amateurs for nine

:43:04. > :43:12.years. We never fought because of the draw, so strange. It must be

:43:13. > :43:19.nerve racking watching her. I was nervous for the whole two weeks. To

:43:20. > :43:30.use bar with each other? No. No, we don't. -- do you spar. Just thinking

:43:31. > :43:36.about the tactics, having fun, enjoying myself. Most importantly,

:43:37. > :43:40.getting the victory. How have things changed for you in the last few

:43:41. > :43:47.years? You have been around for an awfully long time. Have things

:43:48. > :43:54.changed, have attitudes changed to women's boxing in the last few

:43:55. > :43:58.years? There, attitudes have changed immensely. I think after the

:43:59. > :44:04.Olympics in 2012, I was so surprised and shocked how Britain and the rest

:44:05. > :44:12.of the world took to women's boxing. It has just grown and grown. You

:44:13. > :44:16.must get young girls going up and saying that they are doing it

:44:17. > :44:20.because of you. I actually had one girl come up to me saying that she

:44:21. > :44:24.had done ballet for the last five years and after seeing me win the

:44:25. > :44:35.Olympics, she has taken up boxing. And actually ballet is not a bad

:44:36. > :44:38.preparation, is it? Yes! Is there enough competition in women's boxing

:44:39. > :44:44.to keep you going for the next four years? Are they more light is coming

:44:45. > :44:50.in? Yes, a lot. Especially from the amateur ranks. As the media and the

:44:51. > :44:57.professional boxing rows, there will be a lot more. I'm going to be kept

:44:58. > :45:01.quite busy. -- grows. Are there any women particularly that you want to

:45:02. > :45:09.fight? Pretty much anybody who is holding the title. You are going

:45:10. > :45:16.after them! Yes, I will be coming after them. Great to talk to you

:45:17. > :45:21.again. Thank you. All the best this week.

:45:22. > :45:24.To a young Paul McCartney, being 64 meant hair loss,

:45:25. > :45:26.digging the weeds, knitting by the fireside and grandchildren

:45:27. > :45:37.Do the famous lyrics to "When I'm 64" ring true

:45:38. > :45:41.For our special series on Sergeant Pepper's half century

:45:42. > :45:45.Tim Muffet has been of course to the Isle of Wight to find out.

:45:46. > :45:53.A whimsical song about getting old, knitting sweaters and wasting away.

:45:54. > :45:59.For 64-year-old Gavia, it doesn't ring true.

:46:00. > :46:01.It's different from the Beatles' song.

:46:02. > :46:29.I'm fairly independent currently, and long may it be thus.

:46:30. > :46:32.There's been huge changes in life expectancy over the last 50 years.

:46:33. > :46:38.So, if we look at the 64-year-old in 1967, you would have on average

:46:39. > :46:47.A woman would have around 18 more years life expectancy.

:46:48. > :46:51.Today, that's transformed, especially for men, and actually

:46:52. > :46:54.a man aged 64 will have 23 years of life expectancy ahead,

:46:55. > :46:59.Not all 64-year-olds are as active as Gavia but better diet,

:47:00. > :47:04.less smoking and medical advances have all helped.

:47:05. > :47:15.Paul Stevens is also 64 and works part-time as a road patrol officer.

:47:16. > :47:18.He's been married to Gwen for eight years.

:47:19. > :47:28.It just makes life easier rather than being frowned on.

:47:29. > :47:31.Yeah, a lot of people were stuck in unhappy marriages before that.

:47:32. > :47:59.If we look back to 1967 and those aged 64, about 5% of their marriages

:48:00. > :48:02.ended in divorce, whereas now it is a third, which results

:48:03. > :48:14.# Every summer we can rent a cottage in the Isle of Wight.

:48:15. > :48:23.Colin and Jenny, you are both 64 and this is yours.

:48:24. > :48:31.Colin and Jenny rent out holiday homes and run a garlic farm.

:48:32. > :48:37.Neither have immediate plans to retire.

:48:38. > :48:41.I run the holiday cottages and have a part of the restaurant

:48:42. > :48:47.So, if you go back 50 years, only a quarter of women aged 60-64

:48:48. > :48:53.Changes to the state pension age as well as laws banning age

:48:54. > :48:56.and gender discrimination have all played a role.

:48:57. > :48:59.Compared to 1967, being 64 today is a very different experience.

:49:00. > :49:12.Tim Muffet, BBC News, on the Isle of Wight.

:49:13. > :49:18.Some people clearly enjoying themselves, and why wouldn't they?

:49:19. > :49:21.Later we will speak to the almost 64-year-old promoter of the Isle of

:49:22. > :49:25.Wight Festival and booking Paul McCartney to headline the festival.

:49:26. > :49:30.Thank you for your messages on what you would like to do. I would like

:49:31. > :49:34.to be working but I hope I can live here in Northern Ireland by the sea.

:49:35. > :49:41.I never dreamt it would happen. I want to live by the sea. Her name is

:49:42. > :49:48.Nan. She is not a nan by the way. She might be. Colin says, hair

:49:49. > :49:51.fading, Valentines, no birthday. Fed me only rarely, staying out until a

:49:52. > :49:57.quarter to four, you're having a laugh. And Dawn, I will still be

:49:58. > :50:02.working. Thank you for getting in touch, please send in those

:50:03. > :50:13.messages. I love to read them. Is this the sort of view that you would

:50:14. > :50:17.like? Yes. This is a beautiful Weather Watchers picture sent in

:50:18. > :50:22.this morning of East Yorkshire. We have another one from Norfolk. Look

:50:23. > :50:26.at this, lovely blue skies. This isn't the picture everywhere. The

:50:27. > :50:30.other thing I want to tell you about as pollen season has started is

:50:31. > :50:35.yesterday across England and why is the levels were high -- and Wales

:50:36. > :50:40.the levels were high. For the rest of us it is moderate or low. Now,

:50:41. > :50:44.what has happened is high pressure is dominating the weather. We have a

:50:45. > :50:49.weather front moving southwards producing cloud and patchy rain.

:50:50. > :50:53.Today too, look at the squeezed isobars for the north of Scotland,

:50:54. > :50:56.the wind will strengthen here, touching gale force, even severe

:50:57. > :51:00.gales for the Northern Isles, especially Shetland. This morning we

:51:01. > :51:04.watched the cloud and rain pushed to the south-east. You could hear the

:51:05. > :51:10.odd rumble of thunder but not for long. It is brightening up from the

:51:11. > :51:14.north with sunshine. By the mid- afternoon, beautiful for northern

:51:15. > :51:18.England if you like it sunny, the same for Scotland, however there are

:51:19. > :51:23.showers and it will be windy. As a result, it will be cold for the

:51:24. > :51:26.Northern Ireland. One or two showers in the west. Northern Ireland,

:51:27. > :51:32.bright or sunny spells. Highs of about 12 degrees in Belfast. In

:51:33. > :51:39.Wales, it is brightening with sunshine, 10 degrees in Aberystwyth.

:51:40. > :51:43.South-west England, quite a bit of sunshine developing, and you can see

:51:44. > :51:45.the tail end of the cloud from the weather front extending across

:51:46. > :51:49.southern counties. The weather front is still producing showery at the

:51:50. > :51:57.end of south-east and East Anglia. -- outbreaks. Clear skies across

:51:58. > :52:02.England and Wales after that, clear skies for Scotland and Northern

:52:03. > :52:06.Ireland, but still the possibility of severe gales in the north.

:52:07. > :52:10.Temperatures in towns and cities between six and eight Celsius but

:52:11. > :52:14.lower than that in the countryside, certainly low enough for a touch of

:52:15. > :52:19.frost. So, if you are tempted into the garden in the recent weather,

:52:20. > :52:22.bear that in mind. So, high pressure still dominating the weather

:52:23. > :52:28.tomorrow. It will do so for much of the week. Still windy in the north,

:52:29. > :52:31.though not quite as windy as it will be later today and tonight. Tomorrow

:52:32. > :52:36.we start on a chilly and bright note with sunshine. Cloud in the

:52:37. > :52:41.north-west producing drizzle moving south through the day but a lot of

:52:42. > :52:44.it will be high cloud so it will be a bright day with some breaks. It

:52:45. > :52:47.looks like south-west England will hang on to the sunshine for the

:52:48. > :52:53.longest. Temperatures continuing just to come down by a notch or two

:52:54. > :52:59.with a top temperature of 13 or 14. The same on Thursday. A chilly start

:53:00. > :53:04.with the overnight cloud, some sunshine, variable amounts of cloud

:53:05. > :53:09.and showers in the west. Thank you, so, really cold at night. For some

:53:10. > :53:12.of us it certainly is, much more fresh across Scotland and Northern

:53:13. > :53:16.Ireland than it was yesterday before England and Wales with the cloud it

:53:17. > :53:22.is much more mild Moso it depends where you are. Thank you.

:53:23. > :53:25.In the last year, hundreds of bus routes have been reduced or scrapped

:53:26. > :53:29.altogether, but new laws could change that.

:53:30. > :53:33.Yes, those new rules will give city councils more power over routes,

:53:34. > :53:35.fares and schedules, in the same way that a separate

:53:36. > :53:37.body, Transport for London, governs public transport

:53:38. > :53:46.Five billion journeys were made on British buses last year.

:53:47. > :53:48.But not all of them are profitable, particularly in remote areas,

:53:49. > :53:52.so they get a subsidy from the local authority.

:53:53. > :53:55.But those subsidies have faced big cuts over the last year,

:53:56. > :53:58.amounting to ?28 million, that's about a third slashed

:53:59. > :54:02.You can see on the map, the darker the map,

:54:03. > :54:06.So the smallest cuts were in the West Midlands.

:54:07. > :54:17.The north-west also saw big cuts too.

:54:18. > :54:20.Four councils - Middlesbrough, Lancashire, Torbay and the Isle

:54:21. > :54:23.of Wight - have had to stop bus subsidies altogether.

:54:24. > :54:26.And that can have a big impact on services, as these people

:54:27. > :54:29.in Cumbria noticed after subsidies there were cut two years ago.

:54:30. > :54:32.With me now is Lianna Etkind from the Campaign for Better

:54:33. > :54:37.Good morning. Let's clarify this. Many would assume may be wrongly

:54:38. > :54:42.that the council at the moment governance bus services. That is not

:54:43. > :54:47.always the case? 80% of buses outside London and the UK are run as

:54:48. > :54:53.commercial services. Bus companies decide where to run the route and

:54:54. > :54:58.what timetable to stick to. 20% are supported services where the local

:54:59. > :55:02.authority subsidises the bus service and has some say in where the buses

:55:03. > :55:09.go and which communities they serve. At the moment the proposals get the

:55:10. > :55:15.local authority more control to make it more joined up. What difference

:55:16. > :55:20.for passengers? Where local authorities decide to use the Bus

:55:21. > :55:28.Services Bill it will enable local authorities to start planning their

:55:29. > :55:31.bus networks as a whole, rather than route by route, and even transport

:55:32. > :55:35.network planning, to make sure the bus timetable matches the rail

:55:36. > :55:42.timetable and when the train comes to the station. It will also enable

:55:43. > :55:45.councils to introduce multimodal and multi- operator ticketing, so

:55:46. > :55:49.instead of buying a bus ticket on one bus and then being told you

:55:50. > :55:53.can't use it on the bus back because it is a different company, the Bus

:55:54. > :55:57.Services Bill will enable you to have one ticket or one card for the

:55:58. > :56:01.same fare and use it on buses or even on transport as a whole

:56:02. > :56:06.throughout the city or area. Is it fair to put the pressure on the bus

:56:07. > :56:09.services, the bus companies themselves? You might say the

:56:10. > :56:13.councils have said they will cut how much they subsidise the service and

:56:14. > :56:17.then the bus company, a commercial organisation, they exist to make

:56:18. > :56:21.money. Then there is a space in the middle where they don't overlap. The

:56:22. > :56:25.council is cutting the money, that Company needs to profit, and they

:56:26. > :56:29.will never meet. We would like the Bus Services Bill to be supported by

:56:30. > :56:36.sustainable long-term funding and the government needs to recognise

:56:37. > :56:39.that the buses support strong economies and communities, but

:56:40. > :56:45.actually bus companies have nothing to fear from the Bus Services Bill.

:56:46. > :56:50.Indeed, when franchising was introduced in Jersey in 2013, bus

:56:51. > :56:54.passenger numbers went up by a third. New routes were put on,

:56:55. > :56:59.frequency increased. Actually, I think people will gain from the

:57:00. > :57:02.better bus services. Bus companies too, when the services are more

:57:03. > :57:07.attractive, we'll see people move from the car or other forms of

:57:08. > :57:12.transport and they will start to take buses. It is good to talk to

:57:13. > :57:15.you, thank you. More from me after 8am. Thank you.

:57:16. > :00:37.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:00:38. > :00:46.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

:00:47. > :00:52.Security services say they have identified the man suspected of

:00:53. > :00:56.killing 11 people in the St Petersburg underground attack. They

:00:57. > :00:59.say he is from Kyrgyzstan with Russian citizenship.

:01:00. > :01:10.Three days of mourning for the victims have been declared.

:01:11. > :01:12.Good morning, it's Tuesday 4th April.

:01:13. > :01:17.The hidden health risks facing firefighters,

:01:18. > :01:21.and how new research is explaining why they are at such a high risk

:01:22. > :01:26.Returning to the honeymoon island where his wife, Michaela,

:01:27. > :01:28.was murdered six years ago, John McAreavey tells us

:01:29. > :01:36.Nearly ?30 million has been slashed from bus services in the last year,

:01:37. > :01:40.with more than 500 routes cut or cancelled.

:01:41. > :01:42.But could new rules change the way they operate?

:01:43. > :01:49.but Sunderland boss David Moyes will be asked by the Football Association

:01:50. > :01:51.to explain himself after telling a BBC reporter

:01:52. > :02:04.# When I get older, losing my hair many years from now...

:02:05. > :02:07.50 years on from the release of the album which brought us that

:02:08. > :02:09.song, we've a snapshot of what life's like

:02:10. > :02:19.And with a year until the Commonwealth Games, we are on

:02:20. > :02:21.Portobello beach with the Scottish beach volleyball team.

:02:22. > :02:32.Good morning. We have already seen the sunshine across Scotland,

:02:33. > :02:36.Northern Ireland and northern England. A bright and fresh start.

:02:37. > :02:42.Summer showers in the north. For England and Wales, quite a bit of

:02:43. > :02:46.cloud with patchy rain moving south. It will brighten open later.

:02:47. > :02:53.Good morning. First, our main story.

:02:54. > :02:58.Security services have identified the man suspected of killing 11

:02:59. > :03:00.people in the St Petersburg underground attack.

:03:01. > :03:03.The Kyrgyz Security Service has told the BBC that the main suspect

:03:04. > :03:06.in the attack is a Kyrgyz national who gained Russian citizenship.

:03:07. > :03:08.11 people died in the blast, and more than 50 are being

:03:09. > :03:12.The country is marking three days of national mourning,

:03:13. > :03:17.In Russia's second city, a show of grief and solidarity.

:03:18. > :03:19.President Vladimir Putin was in St Petersburg

:03:20. > :03:31.Above the station where the bombed train ended its journey,

:03:32. > :03:34.he paid his respects to those killed and injured on Monday afternoon.

:03:35. > :03:36.From underground, images have emerged of the mangled Metro train -

:03:37. > :03:39.doors blown out, passengers trying to escape the wreckage,

:03:40. > :03:42.Local media are reporting that the suspect is a man

:03:43. > :03:45.in his 20s from Central Asia but there are conflicting reports as

:03:46. > :03:54.TRANSLATION: Law enforcement bodies and special services are working

:03:55. > :03:57.and will do all they can in order to find out the cause

:03:58. > :04:03.At a nearby station, a second explosive device

:04:04. > :04:09.Security has been tightened across the country.

:04:10. > :04:12.Officials say this was an act of terror.

:04:13. > :04:14.Yet, at this makeshift memorial, Russians remained

:04:15. > :04:23.TRANSLATION: I am certain that we Russians will not be divided.

:04:24. > :04:26.At this precise moment, all people of all faiths,

:04:27. > :04:34.all religions, and all political borders, everone is united by grief.

:04:35. > :04:37.In recent years there have been several attacks on Russia's planes,

:04:38. > :04:42.Once again, ordinary Russians are asking how and why their loved

:04:43. > :04:49.ones asking how and why their loved ones were killed.

:04:50. > :04:51.Earlier, we spoke to our Moscow Correspondent, Oleg Boldyrev,

:04:52. > :05:01.who gave us this update on the investigation.

:05:02. > :05:09.It looks like now the investigation is looking into a single perpetrator

:05:10. > :05:14.who left one explosive device on one central station in Saint Petersburg.

:05:15. > :05:19.That device failed to go off, was later found and deactivated. Then

:05:20. > :05:28.the man, reportedly a young man, blew another device himself in the

:05:29. > :05:31.process. We are getting conflicting reports that he might have been born

:05:32. > :05:40.in one of the Central Asian republics. Either Kyrgyzstan or keg

:05:41. > :05:47.stand. -- Kazakhstan. Investigators are not talking much officially. We

:05:48. > :05:50.don't expect any concrete statements from them for several hours.

:05:51. > :05:53.A revised plan to get parents from troubled families back

:05:54. > :05:55.into work, is being launched by the government today.

:05:56. > :05:57.Research shows that children from families with no working adults

:05:58. > :05:59.achieve less at school and into adult life.

:06:00. > :06:07.It was after the London riots of 2011 that David Cameron introduced

:06:08. > :06:14.Now new research shows the impact that

:06:15. > :06:17.parental conflict and no job have been children's chances of doing

:06:18. > :06:24.It's solving these multiple problems at

:06:25. > :06:27.once that we need to do, not just for the adults,

:06:28. > :06:30.but for the children in the family so that they get the

:06:31. > :06:35.best start in life so their chance ins life aren't defined by the first

:06:36. > :06:42.The ?30 million invested will go towards trying to

:06:43. > :06:44.resolve issues that can cause conflict in relationships.

:06:45. > :06:47.Unemployment, along with mental health, also drug and alcohol

:06:48. > :06:54.For those at this family centre, it is

:06:55. > :06:58.Early intervention is about avoiding escalating situations

:06:59. > :07:02.We welcome that, but believe it is very good

:07:03. > :07:06.value for money in regards to avoiding future problems.

:07:07. > :07:08.Others have criticised the scheme for being

:07:09. > :07:15.ineffective and anti-poverty campaigners says it pales into

:07:16. > :07:17.insignificance when compared to the amount of money millions

:07:18. > :07:19.of families are losing out on due to changes in

:07:20. > :07:30.Within the past few minutes, the Prime Minister has

:07:31. > :07:33.defended her trip to Saudi Arabia, saying close ties are needed

:07:34. > :07:36.with the kingdom for security and trade reasons.

:07:37. > :07:42.She has been speaking to John Pienaar in Riyadh. The Prime

:07:43. > :07:46.Minister said it was right to support the Saudi led coalition in

:07:47. > :07:49.Yemen. We are concerned about the

:07:50. > :07:54.humanitarian situation. That's why the UK was the fourth largest donor

:07:55. > :07:59.to the Yemen in terms of humanitarian aid. We will be

:08:00. > :08:03.continuing with that. Yes, we will raise the humanitarian issue. It is

:08:04. > :08:07.important we recognise the threat there is in terms of people's lives,

:08:08. > :08:16.and we will be supporting that through the aid and support we give.

:08:17. > :08:20.Do you expect a frosty reception when you raise issues of human

:08:21. > :08:24.rights? The important thing for the United Kingdom when we meet people

:08:25. > :08:29.and we want to raise issues of human rights, and that may be in a number

:08:30. > :08:34.of countries, is if we have a relationship with them, we can do

:08:35. > :08:38.that. Rather than standing on the sidelines sniping, it is important

:08:39. > :08:42.to engage, to talk to people, to talk about our interests, and to

:08:43. > :08:43.raise difficult issues when it is necessary.

:08:44. > :08:50.Ellie Price is at Westminster for us.

:08:51. > :08:56.The Prime Minister not polling any punches? Absolutely not. Prime

:08:57. > :09:00.Ministers always get asked these questions whenever they go to

:09:01. > :09:05.countries linked with humanitarian crises. She wasn't pulling punches.

:09:06. > :09:11.She is therefore trade talks. She linked trade talks in the

:09:12. > :09:16.post-Brexit world with security. She pointed out that since the

:09:17. > :09:20.relationship with Saudi Arabia, that Britain's relationship has meant it

:09:21. > :09:26.has saved lives. Certainly taking on that question and keen to show that

:09:27. > :09:29.Britain wants a strong role in the world post-Brexit. MPs have been

:09:30. > :09:37.talking about the possible cost of a deal or no deal in Brexit? That's

:09:38. > :09:40.right. A select committee reports suggest the government needs to do

:09:41. > :09:48.more to work out what it would cost if there was no deal reached at the

:09:49. > :09:51.end of the negotiations. The government suggestion that no deal

:09:52. > :09:55.is better than a bad deal is unsubstantiated. Theresa May also

:09:56. > :09:58.responded to that. She said the government was looking at every

:09:59. > :10:02.possible outcome and her feeling was that it was in everybody's interests

:10:03. > :10:10.to reach a deal. She wasn't taking on too much of that. What he said in

:10:11. > :10:14.a Lancaster House -- house speech, she said it was simply not a major

:10:15. > :10:15.concern to her, she thinks there will be a deal.

:10:16. > :10:18.Iraqi forces have opened safe routes out of western Mosul.

:10:19. > :10:21.It's hoped they will enable trapped civilians to flee the ongoing battle

:10:22. > :10:23.to drive so called Islamic State out of its last main

:10:24. > :10:28.Iraqi government forces are planning to launch a major assault

:10:29. > :10:39.The first official portrait of First Lady Melania Trump has been

:10:40. > :10:45.The image of the former model was taken in the White House

:10:46. > :10:48.by a Belgian photographer, and was released with a statement

:10:49. > :10:50.from Mrs Trump saying she was looking forward to "working

:10:51. > :10:54.Social media reaction has been mixed, with some saying

:10:55. > :10:57.the First Lady looked "beyond beautiful", while others

:10:58. > :11:06.questioned if the photo had been airbrushed.

:11:07. > :11:12.Probably quite a few others didn't really care either.

:11:13. > :11:14.Six years ago, newlyweds Michaela and John McAreavey set off

:11:15. > :11:17.Days later, Michaela was dead, killed in her hotel room

:11:18. > :11:21.Two hotel workers were accused of her murder, but later

:11:22. > :11:26.This week, her husband John has returned to the island still

:11:27. > :11:29.determined to get justice for his wife.

:11:30. > :11:48.This is a return journey most people thought John McAreavey would never

:11:49. > :11:54.make. He first came to Mauritius six years ago. It was his honeymoon. But

:11:55. > :12:02.12 days after getting married, his wife, Michaela, was murdered. John

:12:03. > :12:07.and Michaela Wari well-known couple backcombing Northern Ireland. Our

:12:08. > :12:12.father is one of Island Micro's one of -- most successful Gaelic

:12:13. > :12:19.football managers. In a way the boys are mummy's boys and I'm daddy's

:12:20. > :12:25.girls. Michaela was killed at this hotel. She disturbed intruders. They

:12:26. > :12:28.panicked and killed her. Two Hotel workers later went on trial for

:12:29. > :12:32.murder but both were found not guilty. The death of a young

:12:33. > :12:38.Irishwoman on honeymoon on this holiday island made headlines around

:12:39. > :12:41.the world. In Mauritius, it is front-page news again this week,

:12:42. > :12:48.with John McAreavey's sudden to return. People will be shocked

:12:49. > :12:52.because we gathered that he has started a new life, that he would

:12:53. > :13:01.move on and forget about this tragedy. I think people will be

:13:02. > :13:02.surprised to see him and to see that his quest for the truth is still

:13:03. > :13:08.there. John McAreavey joins

:13:09. > :13:19.us from the Mauritian Thank you for being with us. There

:13:20. > :13:25.must have been a really emotional journey for you. How are you feeling

:13:26. > :13:30.being back on the island? Yeah, it's never easy coming back to Mauritius.

:13:31. > :13:37.The reality is this is my third time back here. The first time back after

:13:38. > :13:44.the trial in 2012. But my overriding feeling is one of determination.

:13:45. > :13:49.Were all aware of what happened in the past and the injustice that

:13:50. > :13:57.happened in 2012. But 2017 for me is the start of a new process. I'm just

:13:58. > :14:00.very much engaged in seeking determination from the narration of

:14:01. > :14:05.authorities in that justice can ultimately be served for Michaela.

:14:06. > :14:10.We saw in the peace there that you return to the capital has produced

:14:11. > :14:18.headlines. I wonder how people have been responding to you return? Has

:14:19. > :14:25.it been supportive? It has, and I suppose I wondered myself how my

:14:26. > :14:32.visit would be treated. We haven't been here five years and I suppose I

:14:33. > :14:35.was worried that perhaps the narration public were just a little

:14:36. > :14:42.bit setup of this case by now and wanted to forget about it. -- bit

:14:43. > :14:48.fed up. But largely the response has been very positive. They have

:14:49. > :14:53.assured me they are still very much committed to smack -- to resolving

:14:54. > :14:58.this case. Words can be easily spoken and at this stage nearly six

:14:59. > :15:01.and a half years later from Michaela's death, what we need is

:15:02. > :15:07.action. So I'm very much hoping that when we return to Ireland, we can

:15:08. > :15:11.start to see the wheels of justice turn quicker. The response from the

:15:12. > :15:17.Morrison public has been good, has been warm. I have spoken to many

:15:18. > :15:23.people. Not just as a victim of this trial today, the Mauritian people

:15:24. > :15:27.have felt this as well. Their reputation has been tarnished by

:15:28. > :15:32.this. I think they are very much hoping that this can be resolved

:15:33. > :15:37.themselves. So hopefully together we will be able to uncovering new

:15:38. > :15:41.information that can help's achieve that goal. I know you are there with

:15:42. > :15:47.members of your family. How important is that for you? You want

:15:48. > :15:52.to get justice, but also it must be such an emotional, geographically

:15:53. > :16:01.for you to be back there, knowing what happened some years ago?

:16:02. > :16:12.It's not easy. I'm lucky that the family members that we have here, my

:16:13. > :16:17.sister and brother-in-law Mark Hart, we have been very supportive

:16:18. > :16:22.together in this process. It istive. It is emotional. I suppose the kind

:16:23. > :16:27.of the feelings that were experienced here before can tend to

:16:28. > :16:32.creep in. But I just think that you have to keep a focussed mind on our

:16:33. > :16:37.sole objective and that is to reach justice for Michaela. If you have

:16:38. > :16:41.got a clear focus, a clear objective then you can really put your energy

:16:42. > :16:46.towards that and that's what we've been doing and so far it has been

:16:47. > :16:52.working for us. And John, please tell me you don't

:16:53. > :16:59.want to talk about this if it is uncomfortable, but do you feel you

:17:00. > :17:04.have been able to grieve properly or will that only happen when you've

:17:05. > :17:08.got justice? I guess it has been a complicated process. As a

:17:09. > :17:12.26-year-old man I had to learn a lot about life at that time, but I do

:17:13. > :17:16.feel that I have grieved, but I don't think from my understanding

:17:17. > :17:21.and my own, I suppose experience, grieving isn't something that you do

:17:22. > :17:29.at one stage and then you park it and that's that. It is a process and

:17:30. > :17:34.I guess, you know, justice for Michaela would certainly aid that,

:17:35. > :17:41.but I need to stress that this isn't about me. This is about Michaela,

:17:42. > :17:45.you know and sometimes in, you know the process, the meetings, what

:17:46. > :17:50.actually happened to Michaela can get lost in that, you know, she was

:17:51. > :17:57.a 27-year-old woman who had just begun a new stage in her life and

:17:58. > :18:02.she was brutally murdered. Brutally murdered on her honeymoon and that's

:18:03. > :18:06.just so unjust and so unfair and I've taken the lead together with

:18:07. > :18:11.Michaela's family in ensuring that OK, we can never bring Michaela

:18:12. > :18:18.back, but the least what we can do is ensure that justice is served so

:18:19. > :18:23.hopefully this, me being here and appealing to the public will start

:18:24. > :18:29.to trigger a little bit more activity which can ultimately lead

:18:30. > :18:33.to our sole objective. John, I know there is a confidential phoneline

:18:34. > :18:36.that has been set-up. Are you hoping that that will encourage people to

:18:37. > :18:44.come forward with perhaps some fresh evidence? Yes, absolutely. There is

:18:45. > :18:54.many ways that people can make contact. We've set-up a confidential

:18:55. > :18:57.phoneline which exactly, it already exists, but we have retained the

:18:58. > :19:03.services of a registered usher. That's a private thing where people

:19:04. > :19:07.can contact anonymously if they wish, they can arrange to meet with

:19:08. > :19:13.this usher or send information via post and I think it's important

:19:14. > :19:17.actually to stress that because sometimes after five or six years,

:19:18. > :19:25.maybe people just don't want to come forward for whatever reasons, fear

:19:26. > :19:29.of reprisal, you know, it is a very small country and in a lot of cases,

:19:30. > :19:33.a lot of people, a lot of parishes would know each other, but it's more

:19:34. > :19:38.important that people search in their hearts and their conscience

:19:39. > :19:43.and do the right thing. So if they do have information, whether large

:19:44. > :19:47.or small, maybe irrelevant or irrelevant they are probably not the

:19:48. > :19:50.people to make that call. If you have anything at all, get in touch

:19:51. > :19:53.with the authorities or get in touch with the registered usher and the

:19:54. > :19:56.details of that, we will be disclosing today in our press

:19:57. > :19:59.conference. John, it has been really good to

:20:00. > :20:03.talk to you this morning. Thank you very much for your openness and your

:20:04. > :20:08.honesty this morning. We wish you all the best.

:20:09. > :20:15.Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather.

:20:16. > :20:25.Pollen season is underway. And particularly silver birch. High

:20:26. > :20:28.pressure is very much dominating our weather currently. We have got a

:20:29. > :20:33.weather front moving south-east wards. That's been producing a lot

:20:34. > :20:36.of cloud and splashes of rain across south-eastern areas and it is still

:20:37. > :20:39.with us. That will move away, but we will be left with quite a bit of

:20:40. > :20:43.cloud in its wake and that could still produce some showers. But

:20:44. > :20:46.brightening up across south-west England, Wales and Northern England,

:20:47. > :20:50.Scotland and Northern Ireland seeing sunny spells. A few showers and here

:20:51. > :20:53.the wind will strengthen. So for Northern England this afternoon,

:20:54. > :20:57.there will be a fair bit of sunshine. Temperatures up to 11 or

:20:58. > :21:01.12 Celsius. Similarly so for Eastern Scotland, but a lot of showers

:21:02. > :21:05.across the Northern Isles, gales and severe gales for Shetland. One or

:21:06. > :21:09.two showers in the west of Scotland with sunny spells. Bright or sunny

:21:10. > :21:13.skies across Northern Ireland, highs of 12 Celsius in Belfast. Across

:21:14. > :21:21.Wales, again a fair bit of sunshine. Temperatures up to ten Celsius in

:21:22. > :21:27.Aberystwyth. You can see the tail end of the weather front producing

:21:28. > :21:30.cloud across Devon and Somerset and Dorset, and the Isle of Wight and

:21:31. > :21:35.Kent and East Anglia and also the East Midlands. Here we're prone to

:21:36. > :21:39.the odd showerment that clears away into the North Sea and behind it,

:21:40. > :21:44.there will be clear skies. Still gales or severe gales across the far

:21:45. > :21:47.north of Scotland and in towns and cities, we're looking at

:21:48. > :21:51.temperatures six, seven and eight, but in the country sigh, lower than

:21:52. > :21:56.that. In the countryside once again, you can expect to see a touch of

:21:57. > :21:59.grass frost. Under those clear skies, it means tomorrow morning

:22:00. > :22:02.will start on a bright notement againen the influence of high

:22:03. > :22:07.pressure. The weather settled for the rest of this week. Still a

:22:08. > :22:13.squeeze on the isobars, still windy across the north, not as windy as it

:22:14. > :22:17.will be later today or tonight. Cloud in the north-west will spill

:22:18. > :22:21.southwards during the day. A lot of this is high cloud. So it will be

:22:22. > :22:24.bright, rather than wall to wall blue skies, but the south-west of

:22:25. > :22:27.England should hang on to sunshine. Here we are looking at a high of 12

:22:28. > :22:37.Celsius. Dan and Lou. They risk their lives protecting

:22:38. > :22:45.us from dangers such as burning buildings,

:22:46. > :22:47.road traffic accidents and floods. But are firefighters also exposing

:22:48. > :22:50.themselves to hidden health dangers? Researchers think they are closer

:22:51. > :22:52.to understanding why firefighters run such a high risk

:22:53. > :22:58.of having heart attacks. Joining us from Edinburgh

:22:59. > :23:00.is Amanda Hunter, the lead author of a new report into heart attacks

:23:01. > :23:03.among firefighters, and with us on the sofa is Les Skarratts

:23:04. > :23:09.from the Fire Brigades Union. Good morning both. Thank you very

:23:10. > :23:12.much for joining us. Amanda, explain to us what, you were looking at

:23:13. > :23:22.intense temperatures and effects on the body. What did you find?

:23:23. > :23:28.PROBLEM WITH SOUND We're going to pause while we sort

:23:29. > :23:32.out the microphone. Have you got a microphone on, Les? Yes. They seem

:23:33. > :23:35.to have found the correlation between working at high

:23:36. > :23:42.temperatures. What's your reaction to the research. ? We're grateful to

:23:43. > :23:48.Amanda and her colleagues for the research. I think the report itself

:23:49. > :23:54.is deeply worrying and deeply concerning and what the report

:23:55. > :23:58.indicates and I have to stress this is a training scenario, this is

:23:59. > :24:01.something we trained for. The reality is the temperatures could be

:24:02. > :24:08.much higher and stress levels be higher also. But what this report

:24:09. > :24:10.demonstrates is that in these times of firefighters in hostile

:24:11. > :24:18.environments, we lose a lot of water which we know anyway. But more

:24:19. > :24:22.importantly, our blood seems to thicken and that provides the deep

:24:23. > :24:28.concern for us. It seems our body and our heart has to work harder to

:24:29. > :24:31.send the blood around the body and that's the first time we've come

:24:32. > :24:34.across this evidence. So you think it will be a surprise to most

:24:35. > :24:41.firefighters. It is not the sort of job you go into thinking it will be

:24:42. > :24:46.at all times low risk. Most people are aware of what they're putting

:24:47. > :24:51.themselves through? I have been a firefighter for 35 years and worked

:24:52. > :24:57.in busy fire stations. What we weren't aware of were the physical

:24:58. > :25:02.logical stresses in that our blood gets thicker in high temperatures.

:25:03. > :25:05.That seems to demonstrate why a lot of our members in the Fire Brigades'

:25:06. > :25:11.Union die from heart attacks either within the hostile environment or

:25:12. > :25:15.shortly after the fire. OK. We can speak to Amanda now. Les you have

:25:16. > :25:19.explained a lot of what was in the report. Amanda I'm not sure if you

:25:20. > :25:23.were able to hear him. Is there anything that needs to be changed or

:25:24. > :25:28.should be done when firefighters are working in the intense temperatures?

:25:29. > :25:35.This was research funded by the British Heart Foundation. We showed

:25:36. > :25:41.the combination of the heat and physical exertion increased the

:25:42. > :25:44.blood clotting and impaired relaxation and they are two

:25:45. > :25:49.processes that happen in the evolution of a heart attack in a

:25:50. > :25:53.susceptible person. What we think could mitigate the risks are

:25:54. > :25:58.limitingks posure to hot temperatures and physical exertion

:25:59. > :26:01.in fire suppression scenarios and trying to cool and reduce body

:26:02. > :26:05.temperature as quickly as possible when they are removed from that

:26:06. > :26:12.situation and adequately rehydrating themselves. Do you think this will

:26:13. > :26:16.lead to changes? In terms of trying to bring the body temperature down

:26:17. > :26:19.as quickly as possible and maybe in talking to potential firefighters

:26:20. > :26:23.before they come into the roles? Well, we have got that information

:26:24. > :26:28.and that's what is hurting firefighters. The key issue as

:26:29. > :26:32.Amanda says is to limit firefighters in the fires that we attend and

:26:33. > :26:38.that's probably the very quickest fix we can do for firefighters.

:26:39. > :26:42.That's limiting firefighters in the fires to about 15 minutes. We lost

:26:43. > :26:45.10,000 firefighters over the last seven years so the firefighters that

:26:46. > :26:49.are employed now have to go into fires a lot more. Now we have got

:26:50. > :26:52.this knowledge we have to say the Government must reinvest in the Fire

:26:53. > :26:57.Service, have more firefighters so we don't have to go into these who

:26:58. > :27:02.is tiles environments on a frequent basis. Amanda, I know, it was brief,

:27:03. > :27:05.thank you for your time this morning.

:27:06. > :30:24.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:30:25. > :30:30.For now though here's Louise and Dan.

:30:31. > :30:38.This is Breakfast, with Louise Minchin and Dan Walker.

:30:39. > :30:45.Security services say they've identified the man suspected

:30:46. > :30:47.of killing 11 people in the St Petersburg

:30:48. > :30:51.The Kyrgyz Security Service has told the BBC that he is from

:30:52. > :30:52.Kyrgyzstan but had obtained Russian citizenship.

:30:53. > :30:55.11 people died in the blast and more than 50 are being

:30:56. > :31:02.These are live pictures from St Petersburg where three days

:31:03. > :31:08.President Putin visited the scene of the explosion late last night

:31:09. > :31:10.and laid a bunch of red flowers at a makeshift shrine

:31:11. > :31:18.Theresa May has continued to defend her trip to Saudi Arabia

:31:19. > :31:20.saying close ties are needed with the kingdom for both

:31:21. > :31:24.Within the past hour, the Prime Minister told our

:31:25. > :31:26.Chief Political Correspondent, John Pienaar, that it was right

:31:27. > :31:38.for the UK to support the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen

:31:39. > :31:47.'S When we need people and we want to make comments about human rights,

:31:48. > :31:50.if we have a relationship with them, we're able to do that. Rather than

:31:51. > :31:54.standing on the sidelines and sniping, it is important to engage,

:31:55. > :31:57.talk to people about our interests and yes, to raise difficult issues

:31:58. > :32:05.when we feel it is necessary to do so. She also responded to a

:32:06. > :32:10.backbench MP report, accusing the Government of making unsubstantiated

:32:11. > :32:14.claims about Brexit negotiations. The Exiting The Eu Committee report

:32:15. > :32:17.criticised the Prime Minister's position that no deal was better

:32:18. > :32:21.than a bad deal. Some committee members claimed the report had been

:32:22. > :32:22.rushed. The Prime Minister said the Government was still keeping every

:32:23. > :32:26.option open. The Mayor of London has confirmed

:32:27. > :32:30.he plans to introduce an ultra-low emission zone in the city a year

:32:31. > :32:39.earlier than previously planned. Sidiq Khan has said he wants to

:32:40. > :32:43.introduce the zone a year earlier than planned.

:32:44. > :32:45.The most polluting vehicles will have to pay a ?12.50 daily

:32:46. > :32:56.charge to enter central London from April 2019.

:32:57. > :33:00.The Church of England has accused The National Trust of airbrushing

:33:01. > :33:03.faith, after a dropped the word Easter from the annual Easter egg

:33:04. > :33:08.hunt. The Archbishop of York described the decision as spitting

:33:09. > :33:12.on the grave of John Cadbury, the chocolate firm's founder. The

:33:13. > :33:16.National Trust said the accusations were nonsense.

:33:17. > :33:27.We have been talking about cuts to services and what effect it has on

:33:28. > :33:39.communities. The biggest cuts were in the

:33:40. > :33:45.south-west, and the north-west of England. New rules are set to hand

:33:46. > :33:48.more power to city councils. That would give them greater control over

:33:49. > :33:54.routes, ticketing affairs and information. Within the last 30

:33:55. > :33:57.minutes, big supermarkets have announced that discount offers and

:33:58. > :34:01.buy one get one free deals could be coming to an end because new figures

:34:02. > :34:05.show the number of promotions in stores at their lowest level in 11

:34:06. > :34:10.years. Supermarkets have been slashing prices to win customers,

:34:11. > :34:15.amid fierce competition. New figures show there has been a big fall in

:34:16. > :34:20.flashy offers and prices are actually rising. On average, they

:34:21. > :34:21.are up by 2.3%. That means an average household is paying an extra

:34:22. > :34:28.?21 over the last three months. Online clothing retailer ASOS has

:34:29. > :34:30.just reported what it calls 'solid UK growth' with sales up 18%

:34:31. > :34:33.in the UK. But in a sign of the changing way

:34:34. > :34:36.we shop, says 58% of all orders But the cost of dealing with returns

:34:37. > :34:43.remains a problem for online firms with customers ordering more

:34:44. > :34:45.than they need, before That's an expensive

:34:46. > :34:59.cost for retailers. One other item that I think you

:35:00. > :35:11.should stay and watch. A Jack Russell from Devon has set

:35:12. > :35:18.a new world record in skipping. Eight-year-old Jessica

:35:19. > :35:21.and her owner Rachael Grylls the previous record -

:35:22. > :35:33.held by a Beagle - by just one skip. 59 skips. We like it so much coming

:35:34. > :35:37.here it is in slow motion. It is the precision with which they manage to

:35:38. > :35:41.do this. If we were to go into a deep level of analysis, I think if

:35:42. > :35:49.you map them onto each other, they would be identical. Just very... I

:35:50. > :35:54.have been studying it for some this morning.

:35:55. > :36:00.There is just a year to go until the next Commonwealth Games. We will

:36:01. > :36:01.speak to some of the athletes that will be swapping the Firth of Forth

:36:02. > :36:10.for the Australian Gold Coast. # Losing my hair, many years from

:36:11. > :36:17.now # Will you still be sending me a

:36:18. > :36:20.Valentine... All week, we are celebrating a

:36:21. > :36:26.half-century of Sergeant Pepper. We will see if the lyrics to When I'm

:36:27. > :36:30.64 strike a chord with people in their 60s today. And it is rather

:36:31. > :36:32.beautiful, but is Tuscany the best place for ten strangers to make a

:36:33. > :36:41.new start in life? That is the idea between -- behind a new documentary.

:36:42. > :36:47.You know we were talking about a photograph of grapheme ink

:36:48. > :36:51.yesterday? Yes, that will be on the programme today. It's an incredible

:36:52. > :36:55.substance. We don't really have much use for, it is strong, thin,

:36:56. > :37:00.powerful. You are normally write, but definitely right today. It could

:37:01. > :37:07.potentially take salt out of sea water and make it drinkable. That

:37:08. > :37:09.could change the world. We are speaking to somebody who has been

:37:10. > :37:13.working on that later in the programme.

:37:14. > :37:19.In the meantime, let's talk about David Moyes. Some comments he made

:37:20. > :37:24.to a reporter? Yes, and a female reporter, a lot of debate about

:37:25. > :37:29.whether or not he meant to be sexist with his comments. He said this

:37:30. > :37:35.female reporter, whose question he did not like, she would get a slap,

:37:36. > :37:38.even though she was a woman, and she had to be careful next time she came

:37:39. > :37:41.back to Sunderland. It is that point, even though you are a woman,

:37:42. > :37:44.that brought the gender argument into this. A lot of people are

:37:45. > :37:49.talking about the threat, next time you come back to Sunderland, life

:37:50. > :37:55.might not be quite as easy as it was before you ask these questions. A

:37:56. > :37:58.lot of people on social media, thank you for your messages. Sophie says,

:37:59. > :38:10.would David Moyes have said that to a male journalist? Banter or not, it

:38:11. > :38:13.is still sexist. One says it is sexist because he said he might not

:38:14. > :38:16.hit her because she was a woman and there is a threat as well. But a lot

:38:17. > :38:22.of people saying it is overblown, the outcry is more ridiculous than

:38:23. > :38:26.what was said. Sarah Louise says you can hear they are both laughing, it

:38:27. > :38:32.is banter. I am sure as a football presenter it was water off a duck's

:38:33. > :38:35.back. I think that is part of the story as well, as a football

:38:36. > :38:37.presenter, working in that industry, you have to put up with a lot of

:38:38. > :38:40.banter. The Football Association will ask

:38:41. > :38:42.David Moyes to explain himself about comments he made to a BBC

:38:43. > :38:45.reporter last month. Vicki Sparks has accepted an apology

:38:46. > :38:47.from the Sunderland manager after he told her "she might

:38:48. > :38:49.get a slap". Moyes had taken exception

:38:50. > :38:51.to her line of questioning about whether he was feeling

:38:52. > :38:53.the pressure after their A full programme of midweek

:38:54. > :39:17.fixtures in the Premier Moyes' Sunderland travel

:39:18. > :39:19.to Champions Leicester City. The pick of tonight's

:39:20. > :39:22.games is at Old Trafford, where Manchester United will look

:39:23. > :39:25.to close the gap on the top four It's the second of nine

:39:26. > :39:29.games for United in April but despite the distraction

:39:30. > :39:31.of the Europa League next week, the United manager isn't

:39:32. > :39:35.looking that far ahead. There are still over three months

:39:36. > :39:38.to go until the start of the women's European Championship,

:39:39. > :39:40.but England head coach Mark Sampson has already named his final squad

:39:41. > :39:42.of 23 for the tournament. 19 already have experience

:39:43. > :39:48.from their third place finish at the World Cup two years ago,

:39:49. > :39:51.but four uncapped players have been named including three

:39:52. > :39:53.from Manchester City. England's first match

:39:54. > :40:00.is against Scotland on July 19th. The Russian hackers Fancy Bears have

:40:01. > :40:03.struck again, and this time it's the World Athletics body -

:40:04. > :40:06.the IAAF - that has been targeted. Their president Lord Coe has

:40:07. > :40:08.apologised to its athletes for the breach in their security

:40:09. > :40:11.of their Therapeutic Use Exemption information -

:40:12. > :40:24.but it's not yet known We covered this ourselves, this was

:40:25. > :40:28.not something that just happened. We were looking at the safety and

:40:29. > :40:31.security of our systems. Unfortunately, throughout that,

:40:32. > :40:37.during that process, we discovered that we had been accessed. We have

:40:38. > :40:44.now done everything we possibly could to put new systems in place.

:40:45. > :40:48.The therapeutic use exemption, it is when athletes have a medical problem

:40:49. > :40:51.like asthma, and they have to apply to use drugs that are on the banned

:40:52. > :40:55.list. Questions raised about when they use them, if they are using

:40:56. > :40:59.them to benefit their performance. The IAAF know they have been hacked,

:41:00. > :41:02.but they don't know whose information has been stolen. I am

:41:03. > :41:06.sure we will find out if it begins to look out, that information.

:41:07. > :41:08.It's just a year to go until the 21st Commonwealth Games

:41:09. > :41:18.18 sports and seven para-sports will be played by 70 nations.

:41:19. > :41:21.And, for the first time, beach volleyball will be

:41:22. > :41:25.Steve Godden is in Edinburgh this morning, on the site

:41:26. > :41:37.It seems slightly unusual, really? Yes, good morning. A lovely morning

:41:38. > :41:40.here on Portobello beach. You could just about convince yourself you

:41:41. > :41:44.were on the Gold Coast. Especially when you swing the camera around and

:41:45. > :41:47.see what is going on, beach volleyball players playing. The

:41:48. > :41:51.uniforms are a bit different, long trousers and hats are the order of

:41:52. > :41:54.the day. But it is a bit chilly out here. The first time for beach

:41:55. > :41:58.volleyball appearing in the, what games. This is where the Scottish

:41:59. > :42:03.team are getting ready, hoping to qualify. One of them is with me now.

:42:04. > :42:08.How big a deal is this for you? It is a massive deal. The opportunity

:42:09. > :42:10.to represent Team Scotland at the Commonwealth Games, being part of

:42:11. > :42:15.something bigger, it is absolutely amazing. This is where you have put

:42:16. > :42:20.in the hard work, it's not always like this? It's not, today we have a

:42:21. > :42:24.really nice day. We have been here all winter, in all kinds of weather,

:42:25. > :42:30.training, because we know we need time on the sand to qualify. You

:42:31. > :42:35.captained Team GB indoors at London 2012. How do you hope the

:42:36. > :42:39.Commonwealth Games might compare? That experience of competing at a

:42:40. > :42:43.multisport event, competing for your country, for Team Scotland, it is

:42:44. > :42:47.what every sports person wants to achieve in their career. London was

:42:48. > :42:53.fantastic, to compete in your host country. To compete for beach

:42:54. > :42:57.volleyball, for Team at Scotland the Gold Coast, will be equally amazing.

:42:58. > :43:03.What can you and the team achieve once you get there? I think we can

:43:04. > :43:07.surprise a lot of people. We just returned from the world to, we beat

:43:08. > :43:11.an Australian team, another Commonwealth country, and really

:43:12. > :43:16.surprised people. We are not just looking to qualify, we are looking

:43:17. > :43:20.to get a medal when we get there. Before I go, of focus on what beach

:43:21. > :43:32.volleyball players are wearing. Let me introduce you to Jock The Dog. He

:43:33. > :43:40.is the official bikini. That is what it is going to look like. Did we

:43:41. > :43:49.miss the name of the dog? Chalk? Jock! Of course it is. Thank you,

:43:50. > :43:52.you are gorgeous. Jock! Not Chalk. The job we checked.

:43:53. > :43:54.Joining us on the sofa is England Hockey goalkeeper,

:43:55. > :43:56.Maddie Hinch, Northern Ireland 1500 metre runner Ciara Mageen,

:43:57. > :44:12.Good morning. Fantastic to see you. The Commonwealth Games, it is an

:44:13. > :44:15.exciting moment. What do you think? I can't wait, unfortunately I missed

:44:16. > :44:21.out on the last games through injury. It's not easy to break down

:44:22. > :44:28.into the home nations, where your home nation colours, it was very

:44:29. > :44:33.special for me to put on the Welsh jersey and get out there. From your

:44:34. > :44:37.point of view, everybody remembers Rio, with the gold medal. This will

:44:38. > :44:40.be a bit different. How are you looking forward to the Commonwealth

:44:41. > :44:45.Games? You are currently playing domestic hockey in the Netherlands?

:44:46. > :44:49.I can't believe it is just one year until we head over to the Gold

:44:50. > :44:52.Coast. Incredibly exciting, a fantastic opportunity to put on an

:44:53. > :44:56.England shirt and represent our home nations on a great stage, and become

:44:57. > :45:00.one big team. That is what makes it really exciting, you get to link up

:45:01. > :45:05.with other sports. It is kind of like living Rio all over again.

:45:06. > :45:07.There have been quite a few retirements, how many of the faces

:45:08. > :45:16.that we remember from the unbelievable final in Rio will be in

:45:17. > :45:19.that side? Not many, we still had to work incredibly hard to make sure we

:45:20. > :45:23.are on the team sheet. It will very different from the team in Rio. We

:45:24. > :45:27.have an incredibly exciting bunch of talent coming through. I'm feeling

:45:28. > :45:30.very old amongst that group. It's great, we're going to be in a

:45:31. > :45:33.fantastic position going into the tournament and we have a lot of

:45:34. > :45:40.confidence from the gold medal. A lot of hard work to be done before

:45:41. > :45:44.then. Team Northern Ireland, of course, Ciara, how excited are you?

:45:45. > :45:48.Tell us about the selection procedure. I'm really excited, it's

:45:49. > :45:56.not often you get to compete for your home nation. It's nice to

:45:57. > :45:59.represent our wee country. The selection criteria, we were

:46:00. > :46:04.discussing it, it is different between teams and individual sports.

:46:05. > :46:08.Currently, I have to make a selection time. I will have to make

:46:09. > :46:12.the standard, which I have already got in the bag. Going forward to

:46:13. > :46:17.this year, I want to hit it again and you don't want to leave it to

:46:18. > :46:20.chance. Once you get your standard, you go onto the selection list and

:46:21. > :46:22.it is up to the Northern Irish community to decide who is going to

:46:23. > :46:31.go. And I suppose it is the perils of

:46:32. > :46:34.injury. You have been in that position before, you do not want to

:46:35. > :46:39.pick up anything that will damage your preparation. That is the

:46:40. > :46:43.constant balance of an elite athlete. There is a fine line

:46:44. > :46:48.between peak physical fitness and tipping over the edge and being

:46:49. > :46:52.injured or sick. Our plans would be to be fit and healthy and at the

:46:53. > :46:56.peak of our physical condition but you have to make sure that you are

:46:57. > :47:01.balancing it. And balancing it out against other competitions as well.

:47:02. > :47:04.You will be doing that as well. Yes. The Commonwealth Games next year

:47:05. > :47:09.will be the start of our season. We have a full season after it. This

:47:10. > :47:12.year we have to focus on the World Series, and that is a lot of travel

:47:13. > :47:17.around the world. And hopefully the process of being in the World

:47:18. > :47:22.Series, I will qualify. What do you have to get? I have to get two top

:47:23. > :47:26.five finishes at a World Series race to secure a place. And are you

:47:27. > :47:32.feeling pressure to keep hockey up there? On the back success with Team

:47:33. > :47:36.GB, was it 10,000 people were joined hockey clubs in the weeks after? You

:47:37. > :47:42.were named goalkeeper of the year. Was it four penalties you saved in

:47:43. > :47:47.the final? Which is ridiculous! And now it is going on to the next level

:47:48. > :47:50.and maintaining that success. The impact of Rio has been immense.

:47:51. > :47:54.Hockey is on the map and everyone wants to take part, which is great.

:47:55. > :47:57.The Commonwealth Games gives us a chance to get people watching the

:47:58. > :48:01.sport and backing us. But like I said, it is going to be a very

:48:02. > :48:05.different team. We're going to go out there and focus on ourselves. We

:48:06. > :48:13.want to show everyone out there what it is all about. And it will be a

:48:14. > :48:19.great place to compete. It will be lovely. I have never been to

:48:20. > :48:25.Australia so that will be another thing scratched off my scratch map

:48:26. > :48:30.in the bedroom. It will be hard, and the conditions will be even harder

:48:31. > :48:33.because it will be hot, but the Commonwealth Games, it is now a

:48:34. > :48:38.sprint distance rather than the Olympic distance. And it will be

:48:39. > :48:42.much faster, or it could be. Exactly. And there will be the Mixed

:48:43. > :48:47.Team Relay, which is a really great event. Definitely worth watching.

:48:48. > :48:55.Great fun to watch. All the best to all of you. Stay fit, stay fit! One

:48:56. > :49:04.year until the Commonwealth Games but this week, the first major of

:49:05. > :49:08.the golfing season. Carol is here. What can you tell us about

:49:09. > :49:11.Wednesday? Even before it starts, for the

:49:12. > :49:17.practice today it will be sunny and warm but look at that tomorrow.

:49:18. > :49:21.Cloudy and wet. There is an 80% chance of rain and thunderstorms. As

:49:22. > :49:27.we head into the first day on Thursday, a 30% chance of showers,

:49:28. > :49:31.then fairly cloudy. But the wind will be a factor. That might be a

:49:32. > :49:37.problem for the players. Friday, the wind will be strong, and an

:49:38. > :49:41.improving picture. In the weekend, it will be sunny, warm and pleasant.

:49:42. > :49:46.This morning, we have some gorgeous weather pictures to show you. This

:49:47. > :49:51.one, from East Yorkshire, lovely sunrise. Another one, also from East

:49:52. > :49:56.Yorkshire, look at the blue skies. But bearing in mind the tree pollen

:49:57. > :50:01.levels, which is high today across South Wales, England East Anglia and

:50:02. > :50:06.south-east England. High pressure is firmly in charge. We have a weather

:50:07. > :50:12.front moving south producing cloud and patchy rain. Later, you'll

:50:13. > :50:15.notice that in the North of Scotland, particularly Shetland, we

:50:16. > :50:19.will see the wind strengthened, touching gale force, even severe

:50:20. > :50:22.gales. There will be a lot of dry weather around today with a fair bit

:50:23. > :50:27.of sunshine and a lot of cloud behind the band of rain. The cloud

:50:28. > :50:30.will thick enough to produce showers across the Midlands and south-east.

:50:31. > :50:39.For Northern England, you are in for a fine afternoon. Even in western

:50:40. > :50:44.Scotland, there will be some sunshine, but it will feel cold and

:50:45. > :50:47.it will be windy and showery in the Northern Isles. For Northern

:50:48. > :50:51.Ireland, bright or sunny spells, and for Wales, after a dull start,

:50:52. > :50:54.brightening up with a lot of sunshine. Ten in Aberystwyth.

:50:55. > :51:00.South-west England also seeing some sunshine. But you can also see, for

:51:01. > :51:04.parts of Devon and Somerset, heading towards Hampshire and the Isle of

:51:05. > :51:11.Wight, the south and the East Midlands, there will be more cloud

:51:12. > :51:14.and also the risk of showers. Through the evening and overnight,

:51:15. > :51:17.there will be clear skies for the bulk of England and Wales. Some

:51:18. > :51:21.clear skies across England and Northern Ireland but still very

:51:22. > :51:24.windy across the North. In towns and cities, temperatures holding up

:51:25. > :51:28.between six and eight. In the countryside, it will be lower which

:51:29. > :51:33.means that we are prone to a touch of grass frost. It also means that

:51:34. > :51:43.where we have had clear skies, we are off to a sunny start. There will

:51:44. > :51:47.be cloud using -- producing drizzle. That means it will be bright, rather

:51:48. > :51:54.than multiple blue skies. We will hand two hang onto clear skies

:51:55. > :52:00.across south England. I quick look at Thursday, a very similar story.

:52:01. > :52:06.Variable amounts of cloud, and one or two showers in the Northwest.

:52:07. > :52:12.Lovely. Thank you, Carol. That was a good weather noise.

:52:13. > :52:14.Sunshine, you've got to love that. You know me, small things make me

:52:15. > :52:22.happy. There is nothing wrong with that.

:52:23. > :52:27.Talking about small things, we have been talking about graphene. There

:52:28. > :52:33.was a picture that had won a photography contest, painted in

:52:34. > :52:37.graphene. And now we are able to talk more about graphene.

:52:38. > :52:39.A sieve capable of removing salt from sea water has been made

:52:40. > :52:42.by researchers who looked into the uses of graphene.

:52:43. > :52:44.The process could give millions of people around the world access

:52:45. > :52:46.to clean drinking water and the sieve is now

:52:47. > :52:48.being tested against existing desalination membranes.

:52:49. > :52:50.Dr Rahul Nair lead the research team from the University

:52:51. > :53:03.Lovely to have you won, particularly as we were talking about graphene

:53:04. > :53:06.yesterday. -- have you on. Explain what graphene is. We know it is

:53:07. > :53:09.conductive and strong, what else can you tell us about it? It is the

:53:10. > :53:15.thinnest material you can imagine and it is only made of carbon atoms.

:53:16. > :53:18.It is absolutely permeable, which means that no other atom can come

:53:19. > :53:25.through the material. We have found that through this material, we can

:53:26. > :53:31.selectively let water through, but not salt. So in simple terms, if you

:53:32. > :53:35.manage to create it, it will be like a sieve, and you could pour sea

:53:36. > :53:42.water into it, and dripping water would come out? Yes. It is the

:53:43. > :53:46.finest serve you could imagine. Salt water goes through it but the salt

:53:47. > :53:50.will be blocked by the membrane. An ignorant question, obviously you

:53:51. > :53:56.would require all is in the serve. How small or those holes? And how do

:53:57. > :53:59.you begin to drill those holes? It is not an artificially made whole.

:54:00. > :54:04.What we do, we take different graphene sheets, and stack them on

:54:05. > :54:11.top of each other. The distance between two sheets is around one

:54:12. > :54:16.nanometre. One nanometre? Yes, two times the thickness of graphene. It

:54:17. > :54:19.means that the water molecule can go through the space but the salt

:54:20. > :54:24.molecule cannot. It sounds incredible. How far are you between

:54:25. > :54:28.being able to actually do this? It could make a huge difference around

:54:29. > :54:33.the world. This material, this membrane has been known of for some

:54:34. > :54:35.time and it was supposed to be used for water filtration but not for

:54:36. > :54:43.desalination. Desalination is very important. Now we have just

:54:44. > :54:49.demonstrated that we can choose the size of the membrane to the smallest

:54:50. > :54:59.size. So the next step is thinking of scalability, more study, with

:55:00. > :55:04.real sea water distil the nation. It is and amazing substance. -- real

:55:05. > :55:07.sea water distillation. For years, people have been trying to find the

:55:08. > :55:12.usage but this could be life-saving. Yes. In two graphene was discovered

:55:13. > :55:14.and we were looking at different properties. Now is the time to look

:55:15. > :55:22.at different real-world applications. I hope we will see

:55:23. > :55:27.more of this kind of research. And because if we can turn sea water

:55:28. > :55:29.into drinking water, it solves so many issues for people in countries

:55:30. > :55:32.where water is a problem. Really interesting to talk to you. Come

:55:33. > :55:38.back again with some graphene next time because I want to see what it

:55:39. > :55:42.looks like! Thank you very much. I think we will be hearing a lot more

:55:43. > :55:44.about graphene in the year is coming. Thank you, Rahul.

:55:45. > :55:47.To a young Paul McCartney being 64 meant hair loss, digging the weeds,

:55:48. > :55:49.knitting by the fireside and grandchildren on the knee.

:55:50. > :55:54.But do the famous lyrics to "When I'm 64" ring true

:55:55. > :55:59.For our special series on Sergeant Pepper's half century

:56:00. > :56:10.Tim Muffet has been to the Isle of Wight to find out.

:56:11. > :56:16.# When I get older, losing my hair. Everyone's a song about getting

:56:17. > :56:23.older, knitting sweaters and wasting away. For this 64-year-old, it does

:56:24. > :56:27.not ring true. Very different from the Beatles song. It is rather

:56:28. > :56:35.different! I am not aware of being 64. I am just having the time of my

:56:36. > :56:44.life. # Will you still feed me, when I'm 64? I feed myself and I need

:56:45. > :56:52.myself but I think I am probably fairly independent and long may it

:56:53. > :56:58.be lost. -- long may it be thus. There have been huge changes in life

:56:59. > :57:01.expectancy over the last 50 years, a 64-year-old in 1967 would have on

:57:02. > :57:08.average another 12 years of life expectancy ahead of you. In women

:57:09. > :57:14.would have around 18 years. Today, that has transformed, particularly

:57:15. > :57:19.for men. A man aged 64 now will have 23 years of life expectancy, over a

:57:20. > :57:25.doubling. Not all 6-4-year-olds are as active, but better diet, less

:57:26. > :57:31.smoking and medical advances have all helped. # When I get older,

:57:32. > :57:38.losing my hair... Paul is also 64 and works part-time as a road patrol

:57:39. > :57:42.officer. He has been married to go for eight years. Both were

:57:43. > :57:47.previously divorced. Commonplace today but not so 50 years ago. It

:57:48. > :57:54.makes life easier, rather than being frowned on. A lot of people were

:57:55. > :58:03.stuck in unhappy marriages before. # Grandchildren on your knee.

:58:04. > :58:06.# Vera, Chuck and Dave. Grandchildren on your knee, not Vera

:58:07. > :58:17.Chuck and Dave, but we have a George. We have a George, a Lennon.

:58:18. > :58:22.If we look at 1967, about 5% of marriages ended in divorce, compared

:58:23. > :58:26.to today, about a third. That results in more blended families.

:58:27. > :58:37.The grandchildren are wonderful. I wish I had had them first, really!

:58:38. > :58:43.A cottage on the Isle of Wight. # We shall scrimp and save.

:58:44. > :58:49.You are both 64. Is this yours? It is ours and it is not too dear. Do

:58:50. > :58:55.you scrimp and save? We scrimp and save. Colin and Jenny run a garlic

:58:56. > :59:00.farm and rent and holiday homes. Neither have immediate plans to

:59:01. > :59:05.retire. I run holiday cottages and the farm shop. The big change has

:59:06. > :59:10.been in women. If we go back 50 years, only a quarter of women aged

:59:11. > :59:14.16-6-4 were still in the labour market but today it is two thirds.

:59:15. > :59:18.Changes to the state pension age, as well as laws banning age and gender

:59:19. > :59:23.discrimination have all played a role, compared to 19 six to seven.

:59:24. > :59:32.Being 64 today is a very different experience. -- compared to 1967.

:59:33. > :59:37.Amazing they are called Lennon and George!

:59:38. > :59:39.John Giddings is a music agent and promoter of the Isle

:59:40. > :59:42.of Wight Festival - he booked Paul McCartney in 2010,

:59:43. > :59:49.That is true. It was absolutely fantastic. You wouldn't have thought

:59:50. > :59:54.he was that old, the energy that he had. An incredible show, Fifa hours.

:59:55. > :59:58.He wrote that song when he was just 16. A lot of comments coming in from

:59:59. > :00:05.viewers about being 64 all looking forward to being 64. Do you remember

:00:06. > :00:08.that album? What was it like to hear it for the first time? Incredible, a

:00:09. > :00:14.life changing moment. It was when pop music became art. It stopped

:00:15. > :00:18.being I love you, you love me, it had real subjects and songs and that

:00:19. > :00:25.is why it has lasted so long. I bought it in a shop, called the

:00:26. > :00:28.music room in St Albert, they had rooms where you could listen to an

:00:29. > :00:33.album before you bought it. When you heard that song, When I'm 64,

:00:34. > :00:38.everybody is saying, we never imagined we would get to that, does

:00:39. > :00:42.it feel old now, anyway? I thought my parents were old when they were

:00:43. > :00:47.40, I can't believe I am 64. I certainly never thought I would be

:00:48. > :00:51.running the festival. Lovely comments coming in. Nicholas says, I

:00:52. > :00:59.remember thinking when I was 16, I wonder what I'll be doing when I am

:01:00. > :01:01.64. Now I am 64, I am not the grey-haired old lady of my

:01:02. > :01:04.imagination. Life is still full of opportunities. I have just returned

:01:05. > :01:07.from a trip around the world on my own, something my late husband would

:01:08. > :01:11.never have done. Life is for living. Rosie has just turned 64 and is

:01:12. > :01:17.booked up to go to Glastonbury for the first time in her life. Good on

:01:18. > :01:22.her! The lyrics talk about gardening and knitting. Things have moved on?

:01:23. > :01:27.I don't like gardening, I don't like golf, I haven't got much choice.

:01:28. > :01:32.Knitting, definitely not. You talked about pop music becoming art. How

:01:33. > :01:37.does this album have such longevity? They were the first group, really,

:01:38. > :01:42.to write their own songs, and before that pop music was Sinatra, Elvis,

:01:43. > :01:47.saying other people's songs. They had an incredible body of work. They

:01:48. > :01:54.released... How many albums? This was their sixth or eight album

:01:55. > :01:58.already. The build-up before that, then suddenly it came good. I think

:01:59. > :02:03.we live the Golden age of rock and roll, with The Who, Pink Floyd, Led

:02:04. > :02:08.Zeppelin, I don't think groups have the opportunity nowadays to develop

:02:09. > :02:15.their craft in the same way. What was the album like? I was artwork

:02:16. > :02:18.inside it? Yes, a cutout, you could cut out medals and put them on. I

:02:19. > :02:24.never cut mine out because I didn't want to destroy it. It was a new

:02:25. > :02:27.World, a new beginning. To be part of that and see it all happen, that

:02:28. > :02:33.was the best thing about being old, really, you experienced it at the

:02:34. > :02:37.time. In some ways, it was the first concept album, wasn't it? They

:02:38. > :02:41.started off making it a concept album but run out of ideas after

:02:42. > :02:48.about three or four songs. Not complete concept. But iTunes has

:02:49. > :02:53.destroyed the concept album by being able to download a single song. You

:02:54. > :03:01.will not get another Tommy, Dark Side Of The Moon, Sergeant Pepper.

:03:02. > :03:03.You were on a journey, they chose which pasta go down? You'll across a

:03:04. > :03:16.body of work, not individual songs. The title track was fantastic. The

:03:17. > :03:19.day after it was released, Jimi Hendrix was playing and Paul

:03:20. > :03:25.McCartney was in the audience. Hendrix opened with that track. The

:03:26. > :03:31.day after it came out? Yes. He played it all the time, didn't he?

:03:32. > :03:34.Absolutely. I think he played it at the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970.

:03:35. > :03:44.Thank you for joining us. Tomorrow, we will be speaking to some famous

:03:45. > :03:46.faces from the 60s about their memories of the decade and life 50

:03:47. > :03:48.years on. Time for a last, brief

:03:49. > :03:50.look at the headlines Have you ever wanted to embark

:03:51. > :05:36.on an adventure that Have you ever thought

:05:37. > :05:45.of leaving everything behind Five men and five women

:05:46. > :05:50.from all walks of life have left their homes and moved

:05:51. > :05:53.to Tuscany for seven weeks to see if their dream of a new start

:05:54. > :05:56.at the heart of the Italian Their journey has been documented

:05:57. > :06:00.in a new BBC Two series. But before we meet some

:06:01. > :06:06.of them, let's take a look. I have seen this programme, you

:06:07. > :06:09.haven't! Maurizio's farm in the southern

:06:10. > :06:15.Tuscan hills is up for sale. Before he sells, he's

:06:16. > :06:17.handing over the running Hello!

:06:18. > :06:22.Hello! I'm too young to go

:06:23. > :06:30.in a rocking chair quite yet. Being a farmer, living in Tuscany

:06:31. > :06:37.is what I should be doing. But this once-in-a-lifetime

:06:38. > :06:38.opportunity comes By taking over the whole farm,

:06:39. > :06:49.they must tend the 13 acre vineyard. The little babies are starting

:06:50. > :06:59.to be made into oil. As well as breathe new life

:07:00. > :07:02.into the bed and breakfast. I can't quite believe

:07:03. > :07:04.this is happening. Joining us now are Tracy Williams,

:07:05. > :07:30.Andy Desmond and Gavin Patterson. Look at you, you've clearly had a

:07:31. > :07:34.good time! Good morning, all. I want to go back, you clearly had a good

:07:35. > :07:39.time. I want to go back to the first day at school, what was it like when

:07:40. > :07:42.you met each other? You decided you were going for several weeks to see

:07:43. > :07:46.if you could live abroad, but with people you don't know. I was the

:07:47. > :07:55.first one in. I managed to everybody. It was quite daunting. A

:07:56. > :07:59.bit of a shock. The lemon cello came out as soon as we got there. I think

:08:00. > :08:03.this was ten o'clock in the morning. I think some people thought we were

:08:04. > :08:09.going to be alcoholics for the whole of the time, but it didn't work like

:08:10. > :08:13.that. Did it? Andy, why did he wants to be involved? What did you want to

:08:14. > :08:21.get from the process? Basically, I just needed a change, a new

:08:22. > :08:27.direction. We went out in September, had a heart attack, had a stint

:08:28. > :08:32.fitted, I needed a change of life. And it was, you were a policeman for

:08:33. > :08:38.many years? Yes, for 31 years. I used to work in London. Murder

:08:39. > :08:43.squad, kidnap squad. A bit of stress. That is probably why I have

:08:44. > :08:51.a heart attack. I needed to go out and pick olives. Gavin, why did you

:08:52. > :08:55.decide to go? If I told you the truth, you would be shocked. It was

:08:56. > :09:00.because of alcohol, really. I had been out with some friends, had a

:09:01. > :09:05.feud drinks, Facebook popped up, if I hadn't have been drinking, I would

:09:06. > :09:09.not have applied. I was a bit fresh. And a couple of days later you were

:09:10. > :09:13.there? A couple of days later I got word I was going. Within two weeks I

:09:14. > :09:22.was on the plane. I needed to do something. I was in a comfortable

:09:23. > :09:29.rut. Why wouldn't anybody do it? You had jobs today while you were there.

:09:30. > :09:33.Yours was fixing fences? My first role was walking the perimeter

:09:34. > :09:41.fence. The vineyard, it was one of the only ones in the area. The large

:09:42. > :09:45.wild boar community was there, and we had an electric fence to keep

:09:46. > :09:48.them out. My job, for the first couple of weeks, was patrolling the

:09:49. > :09:55.area. That meant a nice five kilometre walk every morning. Before

:09:56. > :09:59.dawn. Tracy? Anything except cooking, I can't cook. I tried to

:10:00. > :10:06.make ratatouille once and Karen said, I don't think you put cucumber

:10:07. > :10:13.in a ratatouille. But I didn't know. Was it a bit soggy? It seemed OK to

:10:14. > :10:17.me... I didn't know any different. I was more on the construction side,

:10:18. > :10:23.painting, plumbing. Anything that wasn't to do with cooking. Gavin? A

:10:24. > :10:29.bit of everything, my background was catering. I did a lot of cooking.

:10:30. > :10:33.Mainly cooking, but we did other things as well. It was only fair,

:10:34. > :10:39.the distribution of labour. I will ask you how you got on. We have some

:10:40. > :10:48.footage. A bit of an argument about picking grapes. Could you work with

:10:49. > :10:51.Tracy, going down that side, like we discussed originally? It is a bit of

:10:52. > :10:57.a breakdown in communication, that is all. Can I not do this side?

:10:58. > :11:03.That's been done. Note it hasn't, there are loads of grapes. He has

:11:04. > :11:07.been down that side. Robert has not passed me. Can I flip to the other

:11:08. > :11:11.side? You boys, come back up that one. What happens when they have

:11:12. > :11:15.done that and come up there? Where do they go then? They use common

:11:16. > :11:17.sense and look down to see where people are working. We did that as

:11:18. > :11:32.well... Whoops! In fairness, you have to

:11:33. > :11:37.Labour manager. If you work in an off-licence, and then decide to take

:11:38. > :11:48.over the manager job, it's going to go wrong. Was it testy on occasions?

:11:49. > :11:52.In all close communities, even in tight families, there is always a

:11:53. > :11:59.bit of friction. I want to know about... You were thinking about

:12:00. > :12:05.going back, weren't you? Yes, in half term, along with Andy. You two

:12:06. > :12:11.have gone into business together to produce this? Talk us through it.

:12:12. > :12:21.This is the olive oil that we produced. It is a great colour. In

:12:22. > :12:27.the BBC canteen we don't have ciabatta or sourdough, but we do

:12:28. > :12:30.have brown bread. This is cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil.

:12:31. > :12:37.This is what we produced. Absolutely fabulous. I know you would expect us

:12:38. > :12:46.to say that, but it is nice. Tracey Hummer despite being in Tuscany, you

:12:47. > :12:53.hate olive oil and wine? It has a bit of a... At the end, doesn't it?

:12:54. > :13:00.The purity, the way it has been produced, it is top-notch. That is

:13:01. > :13:06.why we think it was... You are renting at the moment? I have taken

:13:07. > :13:10.over an olive grove, and I have 300 olive trees. I have to go back in a

:13:11. > :13:16.couple of weeks. It has been life changing, then. Thank you very much

:13:17. > :13:17.indeed, particularly for the olive oil. We'll enjoy watching the

:13:18. > :13:18.programme. Second Chance Summer: Tuscany -

:13:19. > :13:22.starts on BBC Two tomorrow at 9pm.