05/04/2017

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

:00:08. > :00:11.International outrage over a suspected gas attack on rebels

:00:12. > :00:17.in Syria, which killed more than 50 people.

:00:18. > :00:21.Washington has accused the Assad regime of barbarism.

:00:22. > :00:38.The UN Security Council will hold an emergency session later.

:00:39. > :00:39.Good morning. It's Wednesday, 5th April.

:00:40. > :00:45.Could diesel drivers be compensated for pollution charges planned

:00:46. > :00:52.Prince Harry pledges to finish the job his mother began to rid

:00:53. > :01:08.The UK still isn't as productive as other developed countries, so should

:01:09. > :01:12.we be working smarter and not just harder to solve the productivity

:01:13. > :01:13.puzzle? I'm in Devon this morning to find out.

:01:14. > :01:25.In sport, the best of the night's Premier League action

:01:26. > :01:27.Including Zlatan Ibrahimovic's injury time penalty which saves

:01:28. > :01:32.50 years on from the Summer of Love and the release

:01:33. > :01:35.of Sergeant Pepper's, we ask if, in the words of the Beatles,

:01:36. > :01:40.It can't get no worse, as The Beatles said in 1967!

:01:41. > :01:51.A chilly start with a touch of frost, but there is sunshine around.

:01:52. > :01:52.More cloud building from the north-west, with the winds easing in

:01:53. > :01:57.the far north-west of is Sunderland. The UN Security Council will hold

:01:58. > :02:01.an emergency session later to discuss a suspected

:02:02. > :02:04.chemical attack in Syria, which is reported to have

:02:05. > :02:07.killed at least 58 people, Washington has accused the Assad

:02:08. > :02:11.regime of "barbarism", but officials in Damascus have

:02:12. > :02:18.denied using chemical weapons. The US, Britain and France have

:02:19. > :02:21.called on the United Nations You may find images in

:02:22. > :02:35.Sarah Corker's report distressing. Hundreds of innocent Syrians,

:02:36. > :02:43.including many children, struggling to breathe after a suspected

:02:44. > :02:46.chemical attack in Idlib province. Distressing images and evidence that

:02:47. > :02:51.will no doubt dominate emergency talks held by the UN security

:02:52. > :02:53.council later today. Global leaders have called for a rapid

:02:54. > :02:59.investigation into what happened here. Some of the injured were

:03:00. > :03:05.treated across the border in Turkey. Medics wore face masks to protect

:03:06. > :03:09.themselves from the toxic gases. TRANSLATION: We were affected by the

:03:10. > :03:13.gas. We couldn't stand up. I felt dizzy and sick. I suffered from

:03:14. > :03:19.shortness of breath. I couldn't breathe. This apparent chemical

:03:20. > :03:23.strike on a rebel held town has brought furious international

:03:24. > :03:27.reaction. The US, Britain and France have all blamed the Syrian

:03:28. > :03:30.government for the attack. I'm appalled by the reports that there's

:03:31. > :03:35.been a chemical web and attack on a town south of Idlib, allegedly by

:03:36. > :03:38.the Syrian regime. We condemn the use of chemical weapons in all

:03:39. > :03:42.circumstances. If proven this will be further evidence of the barbarism

:03:43. > :03:47.of the Syrian regime. Using chemical weapons is a war crime. President

:03:48. > :03:52.Assad's regime denied launching Tuesday's attack, echoing denials it

:03:53. > :03:59.has made over the course of Syria's six year civil war. And just as

:04:00. > :04:05.doctors were treating those who survived, the hospital was hit by an

:04:06. > :04:08.airstrike. The attack will overshadow an international

:04:09. > :04:12.conference in Brussels later, discussing aid effort in Syria.

:04:13. > :04:17.Thousands of civilians are still trapped by fighting. What effective

:04:18. > :04:19.action can international community now take to prevent a repeat of

:04:20. > :04:28.this? In just over one hour we will get

:04:29. > :04:29.more information on this. We will speak to a professor of

:04:30. > :04:31.environmental toxicology. The Prime Minister has indicated

:04:32. > :04:34.that free movement of EU citizens across British borders may have

:04:35. > :04:37.to continue in some form Theresa May was speaking

:04:38. > :04:41.to reporters during the final leg Our political correspondent,

:04:42. > :04:56.Eleanor Garnier, joins What's really interesting is the

:04:57. > :05:00.time that we are getting from ministers as they are discussing

:05:01. > :05:04.immigration policy. Suggestions of a sharp cut in EU migration after

:05:05. > :05:12.Brexit, seemed to have I think given way to more caveat qualification. As

:05:13. > :05:15.the Prime Minister goes into these negotiations of course the key

:05:16. > :05:19.question is what Britain's immigration policy will look like.

:05:20. > :05:24.That's why she was pressed on issue by journalists on her trip to the

:05:25. > :05:28.Gulf. She said free movement or curbs on free movement would not

:05:29. > :05:32.come into force straightaway, that there would need to be a phase of

:05:33. > :05:37.implementation, so that businesses and the government too would have

:05:38. > :05:41.time to adjust to the new rules. She did insist that what was good about

:05:42. > :05:46.Brexit was that borders and immigration policy would come under

:05:47. > :05:49.British control. Clearly she has left open the possibility that

:05:50. > :05:54.freedom of movement might continue, at least temporarily. We know that

:05:55. > :06:00.the talks now have two years to be completed. Many have said that the

:06:01. > :06:03.talks are going to be tough, so I think what we are going to be seeing

:06:04. > :06:07.now is the government and the Prime Minister if you like showing a bit

:06:08. > :06:11.of give and take, a bit of compromise, that is probably going

:06:12. > :06:13.to be needed if the government is going to succeed in its mission to

:06:14. > :06:14.make Brexit a success. Thank you. Labour has failed the Jewish

:06:15. > :06:18.community by not expelling Ken Livingstone from the party,

:06:19. > :06:21.according to the Chief Rabbi The former Mayor of London

:06:22. > :06:25.was yesterday given a further one-year suspension for claiming

:06:26. > :06:27.Hitler supported Zionism The US military has confirmed that

:06:28. > :06:32.North Korea fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the Sea

:06:33. > :06:36.off Japan overnight. The launch comes on the eve

:06:37. > :06:39.of a visit by China's President Xi Jinping to the United States

:06:40. > :06:43.to meet President Trump. The two will discuss how

:06:44. > :06:45.to curb North Korea's Drivers of diesel cars

:06:46. > :07:01.who are facing new charges and restrictions in cities

:07:02. > :07:03.across the UK could receive The government is expected to reveal

:07:04. > :07:12.a new plan to improve air quality later this month and this morning

:07:13. > :07:15.there are hints that motorists could receive support in switching

:07:16. > :07:22.to cleaner vehicles. When buying a new card to you go

:07:23. > :07:26.diesel or petrol? It can be confusing and is possibly a bit of a

:07:27. > :07:28.gamble. A lower vehicle tax introduced by the then Chancellor

:07:29. > :07:32.Gordon Brown has encouraged motorists to opt for diesel. It is

:07:33. > :07:37.regarded as more economical and, in terms of carbon dioxide emissions,

:07:38. > :07:40.less harmful. Here is a diesel car being tested. It meets the required

:07:41. > :07:46.standard. But there is increasing concern that diesel cars have met

:07:47. > :07:49.dangerous levels of nitrogen dioxide, thought to have caused

:07:50. > :07:55.thousands of premature deaths in the UK. Air pollution limits have been

:07:56. > :08:00.repeatedly exceeded in places, including Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow

:08:01. > :08:07.and London. Tell me what this is! The London mayor described the

:08:08. > :08:11.city's air as lethal. In proposals he says all but the newest diesel

:08:12. > :08:17.cars will face a charge to drive in the city's emission zone. The Prime

:08:18. > :08:22.Minister appeared to be offering help for diesel owners. She told

:08:23. > :08:25.reporters: I am very conscious of the fact that past governments have

:08:26. > :08:29.encouraged people to buy diesel cars and we need to take that into

:08:30. > :08:34.account when we're looking at what we do in the future. The government

:08:35. > :08:37.has required to produce a new air quality plant later this month. It

:08:38. > :08:43.comes after the European Commission sent a final warning over breaches

:08:44. > :08:48.of legal air pollution limits in the UK.

:08:49. > :08:50.A child has suffered life-threatening injuries

:08:51. > :08:54.The attack happened in Chatham yesterday afternoon.

:08:55. > :08:58.Two people have been arrested over the incident and the dog was shot

:08:59. > :09:11.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend what is called a

:09:12. > :09:15.congregation of hope and reconciliation. About 200 people are

:09:16. > :09:19.expected to attend the event at Westminster Valley. Families of the

:09:20. > :09:20.victims, faith leaders and first responders will be amongst the

:09:21. > :09:21.guests. Back to our main story now and news

:09:22. > :09:25.of a chemical attack in Syria, which has claimed the lives

:09:26. > :09:28.of at least 58 people. It came on the eve of a major

:09:29. > :09:31.international summit in Brussels Let's speak now to our

:09:32. > :09:47.correspondent Ben James, Let's talk a little bit about the

:09:48. > :09:50.incident itself. There is some horrendous information coming out

:09:51. > :09:57.about it. Awful pictures, awful footage that has emerged when this

:09:58. > :10:00.is said to have happened, first thing yesterday morning in the town

:10:01. > :10:06.of Khan Sheikhoun, an opposition held part of the north-west of

:10:07. > :10:08.Syria. There are accounts of people suffocating, choking, lots of

:10:09. > :10:14.pictures of children being treated for breathing difficulties, some

:10:15. > :10:19.foaming at the mouth. Many around the world, including the White

:10:20. > :10:23.House, talking about President Assad's government being responsible

:10:24. > :10:27.for this. This is an area that has been under bombardment from Syrian

:10:28. > :10:31.and Russian forces, but we are getting this statement in the last

:10:32. > :10:35.few hours from the Russian defence ministry, saying that there was a

:10:36. > :10:38.Syrian strike on this area, but it hit a workshop for the production of

:10:39. > :10:45.lined minds filled with poisonous substances. -- landmines. The

:10:46. > :10:48.Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons last year put

:10:49. > :10:51.together a report that cited three incidents where there was evidence

:10:52. > :10:56.of the Syrian government using chemical weapons, using chlorine in

:10:57. > :11:00.the conflict. Also the so-called Islamic State using mustard gas, but

:11:01. > :11:04.not the groups operating in this part of Syria. You will also

:11:05. > :11:08.remember back in 2013 a big conversation around chemical weapons

:11:09. > :11:12.that ended up with President Assad's government agreeing to a deal

:11:13. > :11:18.brokered by the United States and Russia to decommission and declares

:11:19. > :11:21.the piles of such weapons. -- declared stockpiles. That was said

:11:22. > :11:25.to have been completed at the beginning of last year, but what

:11:26. > :11:27.opposition forces will say is that some of those weapons were

:11:28. > :11:33.potentially not declared and may have been used here. Later today the

:11:34. > :11:36.UN Security Council will khamsin in a meeting to talk about what

:11:37. > :11:39.happened and discuss a response to it. -- convene in a meeting. Thank

:11:40. > :11:43.you. Prince Harry has pledged to help rid

:11:44. > :11:46.the world of landmines by 2025. He's backing the world's

:11:47. > :11:48.two leading charities, which were supported by his mother,

:11:49. > :11:51.Diana, Princess of Wales. In a speech last night Harry

:11:52. > :11:54.said he wanted to "finish the job and rid the planet of landmines",

:11:55. > :12:05.as our royal correspondent It was one of the many images of her

:12:06. > :12:10.that caught the world's attention. Diana, Princess of Wales, a matter

:12:11. > :12:14.of months before her death, visiting a mine clearance operation in

:12:15. > :12:19.Angola. She couldn't understand why the world was doing more and she

:12:20. > :12:23.said so. I committed to supporting in whatever way I can... Her

:12:24. > :12:29.intervention upset some politicians who called her ill informed. A few

:12:30. > :12:34.months later Diana was dead. But the world had heard. The treaty was

:12:35. > :12:40.passed, real progress was made. Forward now to 2017 and it is her

:12:41. > :12:45.son Harry who is challenging the world to finish his mother's work.

:12:46. > :12:52.In August, 1997, one month before her death, Diana went to Bosnia.

:12:53. > :12:57.There she met two boys, both of whom had lost their legs to landmines.

:12:58. > :13:01.The one of them, Harry said she had made a promise. When my mother said

:13:02. > :13:06.goodbye to him that August, just weeks before her untimely death, she

:13:07. > :13:15.told him that he would not be forgotten. Please, help me keep her

:13:16. > :13:20.word and other people like them throughout the world. Harry Met the

:13:21. > :13:26.man and his friend, both now grown men. Both struggling with the life

:13:27. > :13:32.changing effects of weapons of war, which, as Diana pointed out 20 years

:13:33. > :13:33.ago, kill and main without discrimination long after the wars

:13:34. > :13:38.are over. A rare pink diamond has become

:13:39. > :13:41.the most expensive gemstone ever The 60-carat Pink Star fetched more

:13:42. > :14:03.than ?57 million at Sotheby's Look at that! Extraordinary.

:14:04. > :14:07.It does nothing for me. At least you wouldn't lose it down

:14:08. > :14:11.the plug hole. If you have that money you probably wouldn't be doing

:14:12. > :14:17.the washing up... We are talking again about this man,

:14:18. > :14:19.Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He has saved their skin on a number of occasions.

:14:20. > :14:22.Manchester United left it late to earn a draw in last night's

:14:23. > :14:24.Premier League match at home to Everton.

:14:25. > :14:27.Everton scored in the first half, but Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored

:14:28. > :14:30.It means United stay fifth in the table.

:14:31. > :14:32.Sunderland's board gave their support to David Moyes

:14:33. > :14:34.following comments made to a BBC reporter.

:14:35. > :14:37.But they remain at the bottom of the Premier League table

:14:38. > :14:45.after a 2-0 loss to champions Leicester.

:14:46. > :14:50.Heather Watson wasted two match points before eventually winning in

:14:51. > :14:51.three sets against her Serbian opponent.

:14:52. > :14:54.And defending champion Danny Willett hopes a return to the Masters can

:14:55. > :14:58.He's failed to win a tournament since donning the green

:14:59. > :15:08.I will be talking more about Danny Willett and his buildup to the

:15:09. > :15:10.Masters in a newspaper review, because I've got the menu for the

:15:11. > :15:16.champions Neal. I know what it is at it sounds

:15:17. > :15:21.great! -- meal. Before that, look at the weather forecast.

:15:22. > :15:28.Good morning. A chilly started the day, especially in parts of England

:15:29. > :15:32.and Wales where temperatures in some areas are around freezing, a touch

:15:33. > :15:37.of frost around, some sunshine too under those clear skies and for most

:15:38. > :15:41.of the country today it will remain mainly dry as high pressure remains

:15:42. > :15:45.in charge. You can see the squeeze on the isobars in the far north of

:15:46. > :15:49.Scotland and Northern Isles, very windy through the night here. Slowly

:15:50. > :15:53.today we will start to see those winds easing. The other thing you

:15:54. > :15:57.will notice on the chart is the cloud, that cloud thicken off to

:15:58. > :16:01.produce showers in Western and Northern Scotland but equally some

:16:02. > :16:06.breaks in McLeod where we will see sunshine. In northern England, the

:16:07. > :16:11.north-east has the brakes -- that cloud. A fair bit of cloud towards

:16:12. > :16:16.the Midlands. The odd spot coming out of that. East Anglia, Kent,

:16:17. > :16:20.London, the south Midlands, the Isle of Wight, to the south-west, a

:16:21. > :16:25.beautiful start. Nippy if you're heading out, a touch of frost in

:16:26. > :16:30.rural areas. South Wales seeing sunshine but north Wales prone to a

:16:31. > :16:35.bit more cloud first thing and as we go to the Irish Sea and Northern

:16:36. > :16:44.Ireland, a similar story, more cloud with showers flirting with the north

:16:45. > :16:48.and west. As we go through the course of the day, we see some of

:16:49. > :16:51.the cloud filtering further south. Still some holes punched in it, not

:16:52. > :16:54.a bad afternoon in north-east Scotland and parts of north-east

:16:55. > :16:56.England and southern counties, including south Wales. Temperatures

:16:57. > :17:00.today will be highest in the sunshine. In Cardiff we could see 15

:17:01. > :17:05.or 16, 12 or 13 in north-east England, maybe even 14 around Fife.

:17:06. > :17:10.Then tonight we will see some frost in parts of eastern Scotland, Wales

:17:11. > :17:15.and the south-west but that leads us into tomorrow and Friday, similar

:17:16. > :17:20.weather to what we will see today. Largely dry, sunny spells and

:17:21. > :17:24.variable amounts of cloud. Heading into the weekend, high pressure is

:17:25. > :17:27.in scones across much of the country, weather fronts flirting

:17:28. > :17:32.with the north-west, bringing more cloud at times and also some

:17:33. > :17:37.showers. -- ensconced. We will pull in our air from the south, turning

:17:38. > :17:40.much warmer. The highest temperatures in the sunshine are

:17:41. > :17:45.likely to be across southern, central and eastern parts of England

:17:46. > :17:51.where we could see highs of 20, even locally 21 or 22. In old muggy that

:17:52. > :17:58.is 72 Fahrenheit. Perhaps in Aberdeenshire by Sunday that is 17

:17:59. > :18:02.likely. Out towards the west, more cloud and showers where we have the

:18:03. > :18:06.weather fronts, and that will suppress temperatures. For most of

:18:07. > :18:11.the UK on Saturday, largely dry and on Sunday, a similar story but with

:18:12. > :18:15.higher temperatures and a bit more sunshine across southern, some

:18:16. > :18:19.Western and some northern areas. If you like it warm it's coming your

:18:20. > :18:23.way this weekend, especially Sunday, but it won't last.

:18:24. > :18:30.So disappointing! One little bit of news, looking through the papers,

:18:31. > :18:35.have you seen the story about your name, it is going out of fashion in

:18:36. > :18:40.a big way! So upsetting! Thanks, Charlie! A list of names

:18:41. > :18:48.disappearing fast, amongst them, Carol is one. Sally, Carol and

:18:49. > :18:53.Nigel. Malcolm is in trouble, the name Clive. I just thought I would

:18:54. > :18:59.let you know! Charming! Charlie isn't on the list either. There are

:19:00. > :19:06.loads of Charlize, I know loads of them! -- Charlies. Let's look at the

:19:07. > :19:11.front pages and what's going on in Syria. Some harrowing images on the

:19:12. > :19:14.front pages and in some of the reports we will show you this

:19:15. > :19:18.morning, this is about the chemical attack, many of the casualties we

:19:19. > :19:23.know now our children and we will talk about that through the morning.

:19:24. > :19:27.The Telegraph's main story is about diesel, diesel cars will be given

:19:28. > :19:32.financial help by the government, Theresa May has hinted at this on a

:19:33. > :19:42.plane journey she was on last night. Cities countrywide preparing to

:19:43. > :19:46.introduce new taxes on diesel cars and the Duchess of Cambridge at the

:19:47. > :19:49.opening night of a musical extravaganza last night, 42nd St.

:19:50. > :19:53.The story about the toxic air is the headline on the Guardian, that is

:19:54. > :19:56.linked to diesel fumes and emissions we will talk about as well, another

:19:57. > :20:00.one of those images from Syria on the front page of the Guardian.

:20:01. > :20:04.Diesel is the lead story for the Mail but they have this photograph,

:20:05. > :20:11.which is quite extraordinary. This is a Spanish warship. A close pass

:20:12. > :20:17.is the way we would describe it past Gibraltar yesterday. You can just

:20:18. > :20:22.see it here, a tiny patrol boat which warned off the ship. It gives

:20:23. > :20:26.you a sense of what might be going on and what sort of messages people

:20:27. > :20:31.are trying to send. What have you got for us? I said in the sports

:20:32. > :20:38.news, a look at Danny Willett's Champion's menu, before the Masters

:20:39. > :20:41.kicks off tomorrow, they have a Champion's dinner and the reigning

:20:42. > :20:46.champion from Yorkshire, Danny Willett, got to choose the menu. On

:20:47. > :20:49.it was a cottage pie for starters followed by roast beef and Yorkshire

:20:50. > :20:54.putting and then apple crumble to finish. Of course! He said if the

:20:55. > :20:59.chef doesn't get the Yorkshire puddings right, he will be in the

:21:00. > :21:03.kitchen, if they go flat then they won't be happy. My mum's Yorkshire

:21:04. > :21:09.puddings are famously flat, she wouldn't be the one for him! I don't

:21:10. > :21:14.cook them but having watched I know it is to do with the heat of the

:21:15. > :21:18.oil! It is all in the timing! Danny Willett kicking off the Masters with

:21:19. > :21:23.the best type of Yorkshire preparation. I think your OK at the

:21:24. > :21:35.moment, your name. I've got Catherine Middleton you see. Is it

:21:36. > :21:40.with a K or a C? With a C. I'm OK for now because it is so popular!

:21:41. > :21:42.South Sudan is in the grip of a devastating famine,

:21:43. > :21:45.with more than five million people in desperate need of food.

:21:46. > :21:48.As civil war rages in the world's youngest country, the humanitarian

:21:49. > :21:53.It's a place where people now endure a daily

:21:54. > :21:57.And as Anna Foster reports, South Sudan's only children's

:21:58. > :22:11.A blown up tank lies abandoned in a field. Children whose job it is to

:22:12. > :22:17.watch over their family's herds of cows use it as a watchtower. From

:22:18. > :22:20.conflict to crisis. In the capital city, Juba, the country's only

:22:21. > :22:26.Children's Hospital is struggling with the numbers of malnourished

:22:27. > :22:30.children. We admit over 200 everyday and for now it is quite alarming

:22:31. > :22:34.because there's famine in the country and malnutrition rates are

:22:35. > :22:38.rising every day and it is now overwhelming. In the north, famine

:22:39. > :22:42.has been officially declared. Aid agencies are still able to provide

:22:43. > :22:46.for villages by road at the moment until the rainy season later this

:22:47. > :22:50.month. Then this for our drive to get aid deliveries brew will be

:22:51. > :22:54.impossible. In the villages they survive on the bare minimum. This

:22:55. > :22:59.pot of grain will feed a family of ten for two weeks. Guns are never

:23:00. > :23:04.far away in South Sudan. We passed a pickup truck full of young children

:23:05. > :23:08.with rifles, one even carried a rocket propelled grenade. Wherever

:23:09. > :23:11.you go across Unity State you will find villages like this one,

:23:12. > :23:15.deserted and abandoned after an attack. Here the soldiers pushed to

:23:16. > :23:19.the villages out and took it over as a barracks but what it means is all

:23:20. > :23:22.the crops the villagers might have grown in the field, all the food

:23:23. > :23:27.they might have preserved and kept for cover times, is completely

:23:28. > :23:31.wasted, and wherever the people here end up if they survive the attack

:23:32. > :23:38.means lack of food is a real problem. In Liberty Stadium, this

:23:39. > :23:42.town was attacked three years ago. 200 people tried to shelter in this

:23:43. > :23:49.mosque and were killed. Now it's a shanty town. Many living here fled

:23:50. > :23:53.to a United Nations camp set up to protect them. Built for 60,000, now

:23:54. > :24:00.more than double that number call it home. UN soldiers patrol to keep the

:24:01. > :24:03.peace. Aid agencies described this as a man-made famine, a claim

:24:04. > :24:08.disputed by the government. But nobody disputes the scale of the

:24:09. > :24:12.problem. Right now there's fighting continuing and we really do need a

:24:13. > :24:17.unilateral ceasefire from the government, without that and without

:24:18. > :24:21.the fighting stopping I can't see the situation getting any better.

:24:22. > :24:25.More people will be displaced, there will be more problems in terms of us

:24:26. > :24:27.being able to reach them. And the number of people who are at risk

:24:28. > :24:45.will increase. At the maternity hospital in Bechu,

:24:46. > :24:49.a baby boy is born into a life surrounded by fences and barbed

:24:50. > :24:55.wire. Not to keep him but to keep the raging civil war out. And

:24:56. > :24:57.Foster, BBC News, South Sudan. -- Anna Foster.

:24:58. > :25:02.Anna Foster in South Sudan and she'll be presenting Drive

:25:03. > :25:07.on BBC Radio 5Live from there from 4pm this afternoon.

:25:08. > :25:13.Later we will have a go at driverless cars, looking at the

:25:14. > :25:17.issue and we will see what progress has been made. I thought we would

:25:18. > :25:19.have won in the studio the way we were selling it -- you were selling

:25:20. > :25:22.it -- one in the studio. It's 50 years since the Beatles

:25:23. > :25:25.recorded Sergeant Pepper's Lonely So all this week we're giving

:25:26. > :25:29.the record a spin and looking at the legacy of

:25:30. > :25:31.those iconic tracks. Today we're focusing

:25:32. > :25:33.on Getting Better and have been to Liverpool to ask whether those

:25:34. > :25:57.words ring true half a century on. The song itself... Paul McCartney

:25:58. > :26:01.saying it's getting better but John saying it couldn't get much worse,

:26:02. > :26:05.that's kind of reflective of the British attitude, stiff upper lip

:26:06. > :26:10.and we needed more than ever. I think life has changed a lot since

:26:11. > :26:16.the 60s and seventies. I think in the 60s and 70s people were a lot

:26:17. > :26:21.more carefree. They weren't money orientated like people are now.

:26:22. > :26:26.Crime was a lot less. Our children were safer. I think they were

:26:27. > :26:31.definitely better days. I would have loved to see how life would have

:26:32. > :26:35.been like in the sixties. But I do enjoy my life now. Things that are

:26:36. > :26:39.happening around the world are kind of scary but I think that because

:26:40. > :26:43.it's so awful it is bringing the human race together. It was better

:26:44. > :26:49.for youngsters then, a lot better for youngsters. I think these days

:26:50. > :26:53.youngsters are stressed, university, they're always in competition with

:26:54. > :26:57.their friends, this that and the other. We had nothing to be in

:26:58. > :27:01.competition with! A lot of people ask if I would want to live back in

:27:02. > :27:05.the day when the Beatles were around and I say no, absolutely not,

:27:06. > :27:10.because women's rights and rights for people of other races, what they

:27:11. > :27:14.are today if anything I would like to live 30 or 40 years in the future

:27:15. > :27:23.where hopefully things are more equal. Things were better then, if

:27:24. > :27:25.you ask question in 40 years time, people won't remember 2017 but they

:27:26. > :27:34.will still remember the sixties! He's probably right! Later we will

:27:35. > :27:41.talk to Tweedy and also Lord Tebbit and you can tell us if you think

:27:42. > :31:02.things are getting better or not. -- Twiggy.

:31:03. > :31:06.Now, though, it's back to Charlie and Louise.

:31:07. > :31:15.with Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin.

:31:16. > :31:20.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment.

:31:21. > :31:26.We're in Devon this morning to discover how British businesses

:31:27. > :31:30.Following on from the work of his mother, we'll find out how

:31:31. > :31:37.Prince Harry wants to help rid the world of landmines by 2025.

:31:38. > :31:40.And after 9am, the presenter and author Dawn O'Porter will be

:31:41. > :31:43.here to talk about her new novel Cows and why

:31:44. > :31:46.she believes women are under too much pressure to follow the herd.

:31:47. > :31:51.But now a summary of this morning's main news.

:31:52. > :31:54.The UN Security Council will hold an emergency session later

:31:55. > :31:56.to discuss a suspected chemical attack in Syria,

:31:57. > :31:59.which is reported to have killed at least 58 people -

:32:00. > :32:03.Washington has accused the Assad regime of "barbarism",

:32:04. > :32:08.but officials in Damascus have denied using chemical weapons.

:32:09. > :32:11.The US, Britain and France have called on the United Nations

:32:12. > :32:18.Officials in Damascus have denied using chemical weapons.

:32:19. > :32:22.You may find images in Sarah Corker's report upsetting.

:32:23. > :32:24.Hundreds of innocent Syrians, including many children,

:32:25. > :32:28.struggling to breathe after a suspected chemical attack

:32:29. > :32:36.Distressing images and evidence that will no doubt dominate emergency

:32:37. > :32:40.talks held by the UN Security Council later today.

:32:41. > :32:42.Global leaders have called for a rapid investigation

:32:43. > :32:51.Some of the injured were treated across the border in Turkey.

:32:52. > :32:55.Medics wore face masks to protect themselves from the toxic gases.

:32:56. > :32:57.TRANSLATION: We were affected by the gas.

:32:58. > :33:07.This apparent chemical strike on a rebel held town has brought

:33:08. > :33:15.The US, Britain and France have all blamed the Syrian government

:33:16. > :33:20.I'm appalled by the reports that there's been a chemical weapons

:33:21. > :33:24.attack on a town south of Idlib, allegedly by the Syrian regime.

:33:25. > :33:28.We condemn the use of chemical weapons in all circumstances.

:33:29. > :33:30.If proven, this will be further evidence of the barbarism

:33:31. > :33:36.Using chemical weapons is a war crime.

:33:37. > :33:42.President Assad's regime denied launching Tuesday's attack,

:33:43. > :33:44.echoing denials it's made over the course of Syria's six

:33:45. > :33:49.And just as doctors were treating those who survived, the hospital

:33:50. > :34:00.The attack will overshadow an international conference

:34:01. > :34:02.in Brussels later, discussing aid efforts in Syria.

:34:03. > :34:06.Thousands of civilians are still trapped by fighting.

:34:07. > :34:08.What effective action can the international community now take

:34:09. > :34:18.The Prime Minister has indicated that free movement of EU citizens

:34:19. > :34:20.across British frontiers may need to continue in some

:34:21. > :34:23.Theresa May explained that, while immigration would be under

:34:24. > :34:27.British control from the moment the UK left the EU, there would need

:34:28. > :34:36.The US military has confirmed that North Korea fired a medium-range

:34:37. > :34:41.ballistic missile into the Sea off Japan overnight.

:34:42. > :34:45.The launch comes on the eve of a visit by China's President Xi

:34:46. > :34:48.Jinping to the United States to meet President Trump.

:34:49. > :34:51.The two will discuss how to curb North Korea's

:34:52. > :34:57.Drivers of diesel cars, who are facing new charges

:34:58. > :35:00.and restrictions in cities across the UK, could receive compensation.

:35:01. > :35:04.The government is expected to reveal a new plan to improve air quality

:35:05. > :35:07.later this month and this morning there are hints the proposals

:35:08. > :35:12.could include extra support for affected motorists.

:35:13. > :35:14.A child has suffered life-threatening injuries

:35:15. > :35:18.The attack happened in Chatham yesterday afternoon.

:35:19. > :35:22.Two people have been arrested over the incident and the dog was shot

:35:23. > :35:30.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend what's

:35:31. > :35:32.being called "a service of hope" for the victims

:35:33. > :35:36.Around 2,000 people are expected to attend the event at Westminster

:35:37. > :35:39.Families of the victims, faith leaders and representatives

:35:40. > :35:41.from the emergency services will be among the guests.

:35:42. > :35:44.Prince Harry has pledged his support to help rid the world

:35:45. > :35:50.His mother, Diana Princess of Wales, first shone a light on the issue

:35:51. > :35:54.Since then, 27 countries have been declared as mine free,

:35:55. > :35:56.but an estimated 60 million people still live in areas

:35:57. > :36:15.Too many communities remain shackled in poverty and fear, but it doesn't

:36:16. > :36:18.need to be this way. With the renewed focus this anniversary

:36:19. > :36:24.demands, we should celebrate the joint commitment to finishing the

:36:25. > :36:25.job and use there example to bring other organisations into this

:36:26. > :36:29.collaboration. We will be talking more about the

:36:30. > :36:39.campaign later this morning. And we are talking about goals.

:36:40. > :36:44.A very late goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic saved Manchester United.

:36:45. > :36:55.They did get a goal last night, as did Everton. But it was apparently a

:36:56. > :36:55.dog's dinner off again. -- of a game.

:36:56. > :36:59.As so many times this season, Manchester United had to rely

:37:00. > :37:03.His penalty in injury time secured a 1-1 draw at home to Everton.

:37:04. > :37:06.The visitors took the lead when captain Phil Jagielka hooked

:37:07. > :37:10.But United persisted, and when Ashley Williams

:37:11. > :37:14.handled the ball in injury time he was sent off.

:37:15. > :37:16.A penalty was awarded and Ibrahimovic converted.

:37:17. > :37:30.It is an amazing run, 20 matches unbeaten, but too many draws at home

:37:31. > :37:33.and because of that we are in a position that we are because we have

:37:34. > :37:38.the spirit, the defensive organisation. Normally we build

:37:39. > :37:40.well. Not today, we didn't create a lot today, but we don't score enough

:37:41. > :37:49.goals. We don't have squads like Man United

:37:50. > :37:54.and Chelsea. We had seven players of 18 tonight, 22 and younger. That's

:37:55. > :38:01.the future of the club. Maybe that's a little bit more difficult now to

:38:02. > :38:05.take the next step. Still, a point against Man United and we know we

:38:06. > :38:08.are close to them. Maybe it's more for next season than this season.

:38:09. > :38:11.Sunderland issued a statement ahead of their match against Leicester,

:38:12. > :38:13.saying they fully supported their manager David Moyes

:38:14. > :38:23.following his controversial comments to a female BBC reporter.

:38:24. > :38:29.His side lost 2-0 at Leicester and so remain bottom of the Premier

:38:30. > :38:32.Islam Slimani and Jamie Vardy scored the goals for Leicester

:38:33. > :38:38.I thought we did more than enough to maybe being in front. I didn't think

:38:39. > :38:42.Leicester had the form that I've seen them in recent weeks. I thought

:38:43. > :38:42.we played well and made it difficult for them.

:38:43. > :38:46.Burnley ended a run of seven games without a win by beating

:38:47. > :38:48.George Boyd scored the game's only goal.

:38:49. > :38:50.Elsewhere, Watford beat West Brom 2-0.

:38:51. > :38:53.There are six Premier League matches as well this evening.

:38:54. > :38:55.In Scotland, Celtic have already won the Premiership title

:38:56. > :38:57.and Aberdeen are well placed to finish runners-up.

:38:58. > :39:01.They beat Inverness 1-0 last night to move 13 points clear of Rangers

:39:02. > :39:05.Elsewhere, Ross County have moved above Dundee to eighth after beating

:39:06. > :39:11.The Republic of Ireland women's football team have threatened

:39:12. > :39:13.to strike in a row over their treatment

:39:14. > :39:16.by the Football Association of Ireland, which could see

:39:17. > :39:18.their match with Slovakia next Monday called off.

:39:19. > :39:21.A group of 13 players held a press conference yesterday

:39:22. > :39:28.They want compensation for lost earnings while on international duty

:39:29. > :39:33.The FAI says it's deeply disappointed because it has made

:39:34. > :39:39.repeated offers to discuss payment and compensation.

:39:40. > :39:42.Defending champion Heather Watson is into the second round of

:39:43. > :39:45.the Monterray Open, following a three set win over Nina

:39:46. > :39:51.Watson squandered two opportunities to wrap up

:39:52. > :39:54.the match in the second set tie-break and she wasn't too pleased

:39:55. > :40:00.A single break in the final set helped seal the match and setup

:40:01. > :40:03.a second round meeting with sixth seed Ekaterina Makerova.

:40:04. > :40:06.Finally, the Masters gets under way tomorrow and Danny Willett

:40:07. > :40:08.will start the defence of his title alongside

:40:09. > :40:11.and the Australian amateur Curtis Luck.

:40:12. > :40:13.It's been a tough 12 months for Willett, who's struggled

:40:14. > :40:20.for form after becoming the first Englishman in 20 years,

:40:21. > :40:24.since Sir Nick Faldo's victory, to wear the Green Jacket.

:40:25. > :40:30.To be the Masters champion for this tournament has been amazing. To be

:40:31. > :40:33.able to take the green jacket to places and to where it with pride

:40:34. > :40:38.and for people to see the expression on people's faces when they see one

:40:39. > :40:40.in the flesh is something special to see.

:40:41. > :40:45.It was a surprise victory. Danny Willett winning the title. Who

:40:46. > :40:46.knows? Maybe Augusta will inspire more magic.

:40:47. > :40:48.Thank you. New figures out this morning

:40:49. > :40:56.are expected to show the productivity of British

:40:57. > :40:58.businesses continues to lag behind that of other countries,

:40:59. > :41:01.including Germany and the US. So should we be

:41:02. > :41:03.working faster, harder and perhaps even smarter

:41:04. > :41:14.to boost economic output? Good morning.

:41:15. > :41:17.That's right, that is also known as the productivity puzzle and it is

:41:18. > :41:22.something all businesses and economies are struggling with. This

:41:23. > :41:25.is the table you mentioned. This is a real challenge. The UK still

:41:26. > :41:29.lagging behind other developed countries like the US, Italy, France

:41:30. > :41:34.and Germany when it comes to productivity stakes. That's a real

:41:35. > :41:38.concern for the government, about how to improve productivity, but

:41:39. > :41:42.also a concern for business, because weak productivity is bad news for

:41:43. > :41:46.business, add news for profits and bad news to our living standards,

:41:47. > :41:50.because rising productivity should mean we get a pay rise and it should

:41:51. > :41:54.mean that living standards increase. Well, in Devon we've been looking at

:41:55. > :41:58.exactly what they do and this place makes this. It might not look like

:41:59. > :42:03.much but the fact that this run is on this track, it goes into all

:42:04. > :42:06.things like machinery, and that means they are more productive and

:42:07. > :42:09.efficient. The machines break down they soften. That means you aren't

:42:10. > :42:13.spending money or time preparing them. Barry is the boss here. Good

:42:14. > :42:19.morning. You make these things here. As I say, it doesn't look like much,

:42:20. > :42:22.but it's a really important part of many machines that though in the

:42:23. > :42:26.factories up and down the country. You've improved efficiency, what

:42:27. > :42:30.have you done? We've invested record levels on machines and people, but

:42:31. > :42:35.that's not the only answer because that takes time. We looked at how we

:42:36. > :42:39.do things differently. New technologies, with robot loading,

:42:40. > :42:48.you software for reducing cycle times. That's helped with

:42:49. > :42:56.machinists. Decision-makers. And more added value. So it isn't just

:42:57. > :43:01.the new machines, it means that staff can be more productive. So

:43:02. > :43:06.they can do stuff that will add real value? That's right. Because they

:43:07. > :43:13.have more time, the programme inside the job... They can make decisions

:43:14. > :43:16.on when they make products. So we've got a new stocking system, so that

:43:17. > :43:22.when we get orders for stocks change and the machinists can decide when

:43:23. > :43:26.to make the product. We can see you need to make the red, the green

:43:27. > :43:35.means it is in stock. That's taking away the job for some who it may

:43:36. > :43:39.have been a tedious job. That's right, they can go and do something

:43:40. > :43:43.more challenging. The machinists can decide when he makes the work, based

:43:44. > :43:48.on colour coding on the large screen. Good to talk to you. Thanks.

:43:49. > :43:53.I want to introduce you to Joe, who is an expert on this. We are hearing

:43:54. > :43:56.about manufacturing because it is maybe easier to see how that works.

:43:57. > :44:02.You just make machines more efficient. If you are headdress, or

:44:03. > :44:07.a banker, how do you improve productivity? It is a different

:44:08. > :44:11.phenomenon. I work at university. I can increase my productivity by

:44:12. > :44:15.avoiding distractions when I'm marking and so on, but ultimately

:44:16. > :44:19.the only way to increase my productivity is to have larger class

:44:20. > :44:26.sizes or to mark more quickly, spend less time on each essay. So it isn't

:44:27. > :44:30.even clear if you want higher productivity because when you are

:44:31. > :44:34.paying for a service you are paying for somebody's time. So if you get

:44:35. > :44:38.less time it may be measured as more productive but it might not be what

:44:39. > :44:41.you need. On the other hand, you have the same issues in terms of

:44:42. > :44:45.capital investment, needing machinery and training, education

:44:46. > :44:50.and skills and so on, there are two sides. One is there's a different

:44:51. > :44:53.type of process, but the other is similar in terms of capital

:44:54. > :44:57.investment and skills. We talked about the league table, why the UK

:44:58. > :45:02.is so behind many other countries. What are we doing wrong in this

:45:03. > :45:05.country? The problem of productivity slowdown in growth and productivity

:45:06. > :45:11.is something which is going to cross the G7 nations, but it is worse in

:45:12. > :45:15.the UK. Apart from Japan, where we have the worst figures. Productivity

:45:16. > :45:19.growth has been close to the row since the crash in 2008. One

:45:20. > :45:25.possible answer is that it is to do with the austerity policies, which

:45:26. > :45:28.have led to weak demand. Firms don't see demand and submitted have an

:45:29. > :45:31.incentive to do what this company has done, installing new machinery,

:45:32. > :45:34.training staff and raising productivity through those

:45:35. > :45:41.mechanisms. As we much. There you have it. That's why this is such a

:45:42. > :45:46.puzzle. -- thanks very much. Making businesses more productive, but it's

:45:47. > :45:51.not about putting in more hours, it is about working smarter as well.

:45:52. > :45:56.Join me after 7am when I will explain more and show you what this

:45:57. > :46:01.does, because I don't get -- I did it much justice!

:46:02. > :46:06.Thanks very much! We will look forward to that! Carol, can you work

:46:07. > :46:13.smarter, please? I will do my best. Some high

:46:14. > :46:18.temperatures by the weekend if that's any good? We don't have that

:46:19. > :46:21.this morning, a chilly start to the day, especially in parts of England

:46:22. > :46:25.and Wales with the temperature very close to freezing so in rural areas

:46:26. > :46:30.we have some frost around but for most it will be a mainly dry day.

:46:31. > :46:35.High pressure is still very much in charge of our web so not lot

:46:36. > :46:38.happening. We have a squeeze on these isobars in the north of

:46:39. > :46:42.Scotland and the Northern Isles, still windy for you for a while and

:46:43. > :46:45.then easing through the day. Some sunshine on the cards first thing

:46:46. > :46:49.where we have the lowest temperatures and the clearest skies

:46:50. > :46:53.at some cloud around and that producing the showers in western and

:46:54. > :46:58.Northern Scotland. Equally some sunshine here too but you can see in

:46:59. > :47:02.western Scotland and much of northern England and away from the

:47:03. > :47:07.north-east, a beautiful start to the day, and East Anglia, Essex and

:47:08. > :47:14.Kent, under clear skies nippy. For the south Midlands, the Isle of

:47:15. > :47:18.Wight and all points towards the south-west and the Isles of Scilly,

:47:19. > :47:22.clear skies, temperature dipping, and the same for south Wales, but

:47:23. > :47:27.sunshine from the word go. North Wales and Northern Ireland seeing

:47:28. > :47:30.thicker cloud and in Northern Ireland a few showers, especially

:47:31. > :47:35.across the north and north-west. Through the course of the day, all

:47:36. > :47:39.this cloud will start to filter a bit further south. Some of it will

:47:40. > :47:44.be thick enough for the odd shower if you're unlucky, depending on your

:47:45. > :47:48.point of view, and even where we have the cloud we have holes

:47:49. > :47:51.developing, the sunshine will prevail across southern counties

:47:52. > :47:54.into the south-west, parts of north-east England and north-east

:47:55. > :48:00.Scotland. In the sunshine temperatures could get up to 15 or

:48:01. > :48:05.16 despite what you can see, more what you would expect under cloud.

:48:06. > :48:09.Tonight a touch of frost in parts of eastern Scotland, south Wales and

:48:10. > :48:14.south-west England leading us into tomorrow and Friday. A largely dry

:48:15. > :48:19.day, sunny spells, variable amounts of cloud, sunny conditions compared

:48:20. > :48:23.to today. Heading into the weekend, high pressure becomes ensconced

:48:24. > :48:26.right across us so we still have weather fronts flirting with the

:48:27. > :48:30.north-west producing more cloud and showers at times, but we start to

:48:31. > :48:35.pull up this milder air from the Azores and the near continent.

:48:36. > :48:38.Turning warmer on the weekend, especially Sunday. For parts of

:48:39. > :48:44.central, southern and eastern England, we are looking at highs of

:48:45. > :48:50.between 20 and 22, 20 272 Fahrenheit in old language, in the west where

:48:51. > :48:52.we have a weather front, more cloud and at times showers, so

:48:53. > :48:54.temperatures won't be at high. At all that sunshine, Carol! Thank

:48:55. > :49:00.you very much indeed -- look at! The former Mayor of London,

:49:01. > :49:02.Ken Livingstone, has been suspended from the Labour Party for a further

:49:03. > :49:06.year after claiming Hitler supported Yesterday a committee found

:49:07. > :49:09.he acted in a manner that was grossly

:49:10. > :49:11.detrimental to his party. But some, including

:49:12. > :49:13.the Labour MP Wes Streeting, say the punishment

:49:14. > :49:15.doesn't go far enough. Let's speak to our

:49:16. > :49:17.political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier, who joins

:49:18. > :49:29.us from Westminster. Give us an assessment of the damage

:49:30. > :49:33.done at this stage. Year. I don't think this is an easy thing for

:49:34. > :49:39.Labour, this issue of anti-Semitism in the party. They tried to close it

:49:40. > :49:43.down last year with that enquiry and hope that everything was all sorted

:49:44. > :49:48.but this recent episode has opened it all up again. Remember Ken

:49:49. > :49:54.Livingstone is a big Labour figure, the former Mayor of London, and a

:49:55. > :49:59.key ally of Jeremy Corbyn and known to be a colourful character, no

:50:00. > :50:03.stranger to controversy. This latest issue started last year when he was

:50:04. > :50:08.interviewed by a BBC local radio station, he was defending a

:50:09. > :50:11.colleague facing allegations of anti-Semitism, and it was in that

:50:12. > :50:16.interview that Ken Livingstone said that Hitler had at one time

:50:17. > :50:20.supported Zionism. That's the movement that advocates the creation

:50:21. > :50:25.of a Jewish state. It was that comment that provoked a huge

:50:26. > :50:29.backlash and he himself was accused of being anti-Semitic. Yesterday a

:50:30. > :50:34.panel that was held behind closed doors, a secret panel if you like,

:50:35. > :50:39.decided that mist Livingstone should be suspended from the party for two

:50:40. > :50:43.years. He has in fact already served one year of that suspension -- Mr

:50:44. > :50:47.Livingstone. The panel said he brought the party into disrepute

:50:48. > :50:54.after acting in a manner grossly detrimental to the party. He remains

:50:55. > :50:57.a Labour Party member, he is banned from holding office or representing

:50:58. > :51:01.the party in any way, and last night, after the result of the

:51:02. > :51:05.disciplinary hearing, Ken Livingstone remained unrepentant,

:51:06. > :51:07.insisting he had been suspended for telling the truth. Here's a bit of

:51:08. > :51:13.what he said afterwards. If anyone is upset by what I said

:51:14. > :51:17.then of course I'm sorry but I'm not going to apologise for something I

:51:18. > :51:22.didn't say. I did not say Hitler was a Zionist. You said he supported

:51:23. > :51:26.Zionism in the 1930s, do you apologise for saying that? I got a

:51:27. > :51:31.Jewish newspaper here with an article saying what I said was true,

:51:32. > :51:39.if you would like me to read it out I will. You have offended portions

:51:40. > :51:42.of the Jewish community, would you apologise to them? If I offended

:51:43. > :51:47.them I would but get them to check what I said. There's this cure a

:51:48. > :51:54.situation where he is unrepentant but for the party that just prolongs

:51:55. > :51:57.the agony -- curious situation. The reaction last night was pretty

:51:58. > :52:03.strong from some elements in the party. Some Labour MPs said the idea

:52:04. > :52:07.of suspending him was pathetic and embarrassing. The Chief Rabbi itself

:52:08. > :52:11.said the party had failed the Jewish community by not expelling Mr

:52:12. > :52:15.Livingstone and the party yet again showed it isn't sufficiently serious

:52:16. > :52:19.about tackling the scourge of anti-Semitism. Last year Jeremy

:52:20. > :52:23.Corbyn commission an enquiry into anti-Semitism in the party after

:52:24. > :52:27.being accused of not doing enough to stamp it out. Jeremy Corbyn has

:52:28. > :52:33.consistently said he has done everything he can to stamp it out

:52:34. > :52:36.and has always said there is no place for anti-Semitism in the

:52:37. > :52:42.party. Eleanor, for the moment, thank you very much.

:52:43. > :52:46.50 years ago, Paul McCartney first sang it's betting better

:52:47. > :52:48.all the time, an optimistic message which soundtracked

:52:49. > :52:53.All this week, we've been looking at the legacy

:52:54. > :52:56.of The Beatles' record Sergeant Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band.

:52:57. > :52:58.Today Breakfast's Graham Satchell has been looking at whether things

:52:59. > :53:01.have continued to get better ever since those lyrics

:53:02. > :53:15.Things were kind of far out in 1967. It was the year of the summer of

:53:16. > :53:19.Love. Swinging London is being called... The Beatles song Getting

:53:20. > :53:23.Better seemed to sum up the progressive optimism of the age.

:53:24. > :53:31.We're listening the track with three people who remember the year well.

:53:32. > :53:36.When you say the 60s, people immediately think the Beatles and

:53:37. > :53:41.it's usually my face. Twiggy makes everyone look twice... Twiggy was

:53:42. > :53:46.the face of the time, androgynous, optimistic, young. For me life was

:53:47. > :53:50.getting better. I think amongst my friends, the young people, it was

:53:51. > :54:00.getting better because we suddenly had a voice. Norman Tebbit was a

:54:01. > :54:04.pilot in 1967 but already planning his political career. I took the

:54:05. > :54:08.view at that time that a lot of things were getting worse, that the

:54:09. > :54:17.industrial scene was getting worse and worse. A greater number of days

:54:18. > :54:24.lost in strikes. Every international car company with a factory here was

:54:25. > :54:28.intent on getting out. In 1967, things were so bad I

:54:29. > :54:32.couldn't think that much ahead. Norwell Roberts was the first black

:54:33. > :54:37.police officer in the Met. What was said to him by fellow officers in

:54:38. > :54:42.1960s Evan was shocking and will still cause offence to date. I

:54:43. > :54:46.remember my first day distinctly because when I met one of my

:54:47. > :54:52.reporting sergeants, he said look, you, I'll see you never pass your

:54:53. > :54:59.probation. I mean, today those words hurt, don't they? Did they hurt in

:55:00. > :55:04.1967? Those words hurt in 1967 and they still hurt now. When he first

:55:05. > :55:07.went on the beat, Norwell was stared at by white people and called Judas

:55:08. > :55:12.by some in the black community. Progress has been slow but he says

:55:13. > :55:16.of course race relations are getting better. I don't get stared at, put

:55:17. > :55:22.it this way I don't get stared at too much walking down the road.

:55:23. > :55:26.Thank God for small mercies! 9067 was the year homosexuality was

:55:27. > :55:29.decriminalised and abortion allowed in some cases and while Getting

:55:30. > :55:32.Better sounds like a simple, upbeat pop song, some of the lyrics are

:55:33. > :55:41.routinely honest -- 1967. Are used to be cruel to my woman and

:55:42. > :55:46.I beat her and kept her apart from the things that she loved -- I used

:55:47. > :55:52.to be. I forgot that last verse is quite dark. It's much better for

:55:53. > :55:56.women now and it's much better, you know, for gay people all around the

:55:57. > :56:00.world and it's happening everywhere, which is as it should be. For

:56:01. > :56:06.traditionalists the back end of the 60s is where the rot set in. I think

:56:07. > :56:09.we were beginning to see the damage which was being done to the

:56:10. > :56:15.institution of marriage for example. Of course some things are getting

:56:16. > :56:18.better, and refrigerators work better, central heating is better,

:56:19. > :56:23.clothes washers are better, all of those sorts of things which take

:56:24. > :56:28.work off our hands. So fridges are better... Is that really it? We have

:56:29. > :56:33.to be optimistic otherwise I don't know what we can do. It can't get

:56:34. > :56:38.any worse? It can't get any worse, as the Beatles said in 1967.

:56:39. > :56:43.Isn't it funny hearing those recollections! It's an interesting

:56:44. > :56:50.discussion because on what measure do you judge it? Fridge based? With

:56:51. > :56:52.bridges, things have got better! So much to discuss! -- fridges.

:56:53. > :56:56.And after 8:30am we'll be speaking to the Creative Director

:56:57. > :56:58.of Liverpool International Music Festival about the impact

:56:59. > :57:01.the Beatles continue to have in their home city

:57:02. > :00:23.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:00:24. > :00:52.This is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Louise

:00:53. > :00:55.International outrage over a suspected gas attack on rebels

:00:56. > :01:02.in Syria, which killed more than 58 people.

:01:03. > :01:06.Washington has accused the Assad regime of barbarism.

:01:07. > :01:21.The UN Security Council will hold an emergency session later.

:01:22. > :01:23.Good morning. It's Wednesday, 5th April.

:01:24. > :01:28.Could diesel drivers be compensated for pollution charges planned

:01:29. > :01:35.Prince Harry pledges to finish the job his mother began to rid

:01:36. > :01:51.Good morning. The UK still isn't as productive as other European

:01:52. > :01:54.countries. It is what is known as the productivity puzzle. Should we

:01:55. > :01:58.all be working smarter as well as harder? I am in Devon to find out.

:01:59. > :02:00.In sport, the best of the night's Premier League action,

:02:01. > :02:03.including Zlatan Ibrahimovic's injury time penalty which saves

:02:04. > :02:10.Driverless cars are available for the British public to try

:02:11. > :02:26.Good morning. Clear skies across England and Wales. A chilly start,

:02:27. > :02:29.with frost. A bit of cloud in the north-west. Through the day that

:02:30. > :02:35.will sink southwards. Still some sunshine. Strong winds in the far

:02:36. > :02:37.north of Scotland will ease. More detail in about 15 minutes.

:02:38. > :02:44.The UN Security Council will sit in emergency session later

:02:45. > :02:54.to discuss a suspected chemical attack in Syria.

:02:55. > :02:58.At least 72 people, 20 of them children,

:02:59. > :03:01.are said to have been killed but some estimates put the number

:03:02. > :03:04.The US has accused President Assad's regime of "barbarism" and joined

:03:05. > :03:07.Britain and France in calling on the United Nations to order

:03:08. > :03:11.This morning, the Russian defence ministry claimed the incident

:03:12. > :03:14.was caused by the bombing of a rebel-held chemical weapons depot.

:03:15. > :03:17.You may find images in Sarah Corker's report upsetting.

:03:18. > :03:19.Hundreds of innocent Syrians, including many children,

:03:20. > :03:21.struggling to breathe after a suspected chemical attack

:03:22. > :03:28.Distressing images and evidence that will no doubt dominate emergency

:03:29. > :03:36.talks held by the UN Security Council later today.

:03:37. > :03:41.Global leaders have called for a rapid investigation

:03:42. > :03:45.Some of the injured were treated across the border in Turkey.

:03:46. > :03:50.Medics wore face masks to protect themselves from the toxic gases.

:03:51. > :03:52.TRANSLATION: We were affected by the gas.

:03:53. > :04:01.This apparent chemical strike on a rebel-held town has brought

:04:02. > :04:08.The US, Britain and France have all blamed the Syrian government

:04:09. > :04:12.I'm appalled by the reports that there's been a chemical weapons

:04:13. > :04:15.attack on a town south of Idlib, allegedly by the Syrian regime.

:04:16. > :04:18.We condemn the use of chemical weapons in all circumstances.

:04:19. > :04:21.If proven, this will be further evidence of the barbarism

:04:22. > :04:27.Using chemical weapons is a war crime.

:04:28. > :04:29.President Assad's regime denied launching Tuesday's attack,

:04:30. > :04:32.echoing denials it's made over the course of Syria's six

:04:33. > :04:40.And just as doctors were treating those who survived, the hospital

:04:41. > :04:50.The attack will overshadow an international conference

:04:51. > :04:53.in Brussels later, discussing aid efforts in Syria.

:04:54. > :04:55.Thousands of civilians are still trapped by fighting.

:04:56. > :04:58.What effective action can the international community now take

:04:59. > :05:17.Earlier on Breakfast, our correspondent in

:05:18. > :05:20.Beirut Ben James explained how Syria's ally Russia has blamed

:05:21. > :05:29.Any around the world, including the White House, talking about President

:05:30. > :05:33.Assad's of and being responsible for this. This area has been under

:05:34. > :05:37.bombardment from Syrian and Russian forces, what we got this statement

:05:38. > :05:41.in the last few hours from the Russian defence ministry, saying

:05:42. > :05:44.that there was a Syrian strike on this area, but it hit a workshop for

:05:45. > :05:50.the production of landmines filled with poisonous substances. Worth

:05:51. > :05:53.saying that the United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition

:05:54. > :05:56.of Chemical Weapons last year put together a report that cited three

:05:57. > :05:59.incidents where there was evidence of the Syrian government using

:06:00. > :06:05.chemical weapons, using chlorine, in the Syrian conflict. Later today the

:06:06. > :06:09.UN Security Council will convene an emergency meeting to talk about what

:06:10. > :06:09.happened, to discuss a response to it.

:06:10. > :06:12.The Prime Minister has indicated that free movement of EU citizens

:06:13. > :06:15.across British borders may have to continue in some form

:06:16. > :06:22.Theresa May was speaking to reporters during the final leg

:06:23. > :06:25.Our political correspondent, Eleanor Garnier, joins

:06:26. > :06:37.How significant is this? Is it policy? I think what's interesting

:06:38. > :06:42.is that as we hear ministers talking about immigration policy, the tone

:06:43. > :06:47.of what they are saying is I think giving way to caveats and

:06:48. > :06:50.qualification. As the Prime Minister goes into this Brexit negotiations,

:06:51. > :06:54.of course our future immigration policy is going to be a key

:06:55. > :07:01.question. That's why she was pressed by journalists on her visit to the

:07:02. > :07:05.Gulf. Theresa May said freedom of movement, a curb on it, might not

:07:06. > :07:08.come into force Treadaway and there might need to be a period of

:07:09. > :07:12.implementation so that the government and businesses can get

:07:13. > :07:15.used to the new rules. The Prime Minister did emphasise that because

:07:16. > :07:19.of Rex app, Britain would take control of its borders and

:07:20. > :07:25.immigration policy. -- because of Brexit. What she has left open the

:07:26. > :07:29.possibility that freedom of movement will continue at least temporarily.

:07:30. > :07:33.The two-year deadline for the talks has now started to get even closer.

:07:34. > :07:38.The clock is ticking and many have said the talks are going to be

:07:39. > :07:42.difficult. I think we are getting that the government is preparing the

:07:43. > :07:46.ground and showing a bit of give and take, a bit of compromise that might

:07:47. > :07:49.be needed if the government is going to succeed in its mission to make

:07:50. > :07:55.Brexit a success. Labour has failed the Jewish

:07:56. > :07:57.community by not expelling Ken Livingstone from the party,

:07:58. > :08:00.according to the Chief Rabbi The former Mayor of London

:08:01. > :08:03.was yesterday given a further one-year suspension for claiming

:08:04. > :08:05.Hitler supported Zionism The US military has confirmed that

:08:06. > :08:10.North Korea fired a medium-range ballistic missile into the Sea

:08:11. > :08:17.off Japan overnight. The launch comes on the eve

:08:18. > :08:20.of a visit by China's President Xi Jinping to the United States

:08:21. > :08:22.to meet President Trump. The two will discuss how

:08:23. > :08:25.to curb North Korea's Drivers of diesel cars,

:08:26. > :08:31.who are facing new charges and restrictions in

:08:32. > :08:33.cities across the UK, The government is expected to reveal

:08:34. > :08:37.a new plan to improve air quality later this month and this

:08:38. > :08:40.morning there are hints it could include extra support

:08:41. > :08:42.for affected motorists. When buying a new car,

:08:43. > :08:51.do you go diesel or petrol? It can be confusing,

:08:52. > :09:00.and is possibly a bit of a gamble. A lower vehicle tax

:09:01. > :09:03.introduced by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown has

:09:04. > :09:05.encouraged motorists It is regarded as more economical

:09:06. > :09:13.and, in terms of carbon dioxide But there is increasing

:09:14. > :09:19.concern that diesel cars emit dangerous levels

:09:20. > :09:21.of nitrogen dioxide, thought to have caused thousands

:09:22. > :09:26.of premature deaths in the UK. Air pollution limits have been

:09:27. > :09:29.repeatedly exceeded in places including Birmingham, Leeds,

:09:30. > :09:31.Glasgow, and London. It's a poster

:09:32. > :09:38.about air pollution. The London Mayor, Sadiq Khan,

:09:39. > :09:41.described the city's air as lethal. In fresh proposals, he says

:09:42. > :09:51.all but the newest diesel cars will face a charge to drive

:09:52. > :10:13.in the city's ultra-low emissions Theresa May said: the government is

:10:14. > :10:17.required to produce a new air policy plan later this month. This comes

:10:18. > :10:20.after the European Commission sent a final warning over breaches of the

:10:21. > :10:24.legal air pollution limits in the UK.

:10:25. > :10:25.A child has suffered life-threatening injuries

:10:26. > :10:30.The attack happened in Chatham yesterday afternoon.

:10:31. > :10:33.Two people have been arrested over the incident and the dog was shot

:10:34. > :10:41.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend what's being called

:10:42. > :10:43."a service of Hope and Reconciliation later",

:10:44. > :10:46.for the victims of the Westminster attack.

:10:47. > :10:49.Families of the victims, faith leaders and first responders

:10:50. > :11:02.Our correspondent is at Westminster for us. Take us through what will be

:11:03. > :11:09.happening today. This is the first time that the Abbey has held the

:11:10. > :11:13.service. It will be broken down into two parts. The first will be the

:11:14. > :11:16.more traditional part, the remembrance and prayers for the dead

:11:17. > :11:25.and injured at the Westminster attacks. The second part will be an

:11:26. > :11:28.emphasis on what was believed to be a positive response to those

:11:29. > :11:36.attacks. It was that most people put out a hand of love, rather than that

:11:37. > :11:40.of hate. I asked the Abbey to summarise what the service would be

:11:41. > :11:45.about. They said while it was a vicious attack, there is no other

:11:46. > :11:48.way to deal with it than a concrete wall of solidarity between

:11:49. > :11:52.communities and as a result of faith leaders, from all across Britain. So

:11:53. > :12:04.all of the Christian the nominations and also the main religions here in

:12:05. > :12:09.written, Hindus, Jews. All of those people will be taking place. Some in

:12:10. > :12:14.the service itself. What do we know about the order of service? It will

:12:15. > :12:18.begin with an initial blessing and will run through two well-known

:12:19. > :12:24.hymns. There will be a series of readings. The mayor has been invited

:12:25. > :12:31.to make one. In terms of the guests, those who will be inside the Abbey,

:12:32. > :12:36.there will be about 1800 people. The Prime Minister of course is abroad.

:12:37. > :12:39.And as you mentioned earlier the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and

:12:40. > :12:43.Prince Harry will be here representing the Royal family and it

:12:44. > :12:52.is thought that they will be meeting that the terms and the families of

:12:53. > :12:56.the victims of the attack which took place exactly two weeks ago.

:12:57. > :12:58.The United States has accused the Syrian government of brutal,

:12:59. > :13:01.unabashed barbarism, after a suspected gas attack

:13:02. > :13:04.in north Syria in which at least 70 people were killed.

:13:05. > :13:06.President Assad's regime has denied it launched the attack,

:13:07. > :13:09.but, as one of the last rebel strongholds in Syria,

:13:10. > :13:17.The last major chemical attack was in 2013, when more

:13:18. > :13:23.The regime faced no punishment, despite threats from America.

:13:24. > :13:29.Four years on and the Syrian regime is even stronger.

:13:30. > :13:37.Joining us now is Alistair Hay, who's a professor of

:13:38. > :13:41.environmental toxicology from Leeds University.

:13:42. > :13:47.You've worked in previous war situations before and dealt with

:13:48. > :13:52.chemical attack. What's the evidence you've seen that leads to any

:13:53. > :13:56.conclusions about what happened? I think it is the symptom is that

:13:57. > :14:01.people have and the numbers. There are very few external injuries on

:14:02. > :14:05.people. You were looking at people who seem to have a problem with

:14:06. > :14:11.breathing and asphyxia seems to be that primary cause of death. Some of

:14:12. > :14:15.the other symptoms in individuals, some people appear to be frothing at

:14:16. > :14:21.the mouth. We know that one of the chemical families, the nerve agent,

:14:22. > :14:27.causes massive secretions of fluid in the lungs, so you get the

:14:28. > :14:30.production of something that's a bit like a soapie film, so when you

:14:31. > :14:34.breathe through but it is like breathing through soapy water. And

:14:35. > :14:44.the other symptoms, the nerve agents, as we suspect, they paralyse

:14:45. > :14:50.the muscles and so any voluntary or in voluntary activity is prevented.

:14:51. > :14:55.So people feel weak, they lose co-ordination, their vision goes.

:14:56. > :14:58.But of course the crucial thing is the muscles that control the

:14:59. > :15:04.breathing and this causes is fixation. So it is something that's

:15:05. > :15:10.very potent and it fits the pattern of what happened in Syria in 2013.

:15:11. > :15:16.You say something that's very potent. Can you name it might be?

:15:17. > :15:21.Some people have mentioned sarin or chlorine. It isn't chlorine.

:15:22. > :15:24.Chlorine was used many times by the Syrian regime last year and it is

:15:25. > :15:31.primarily an irritant. Could it be sarin? There a number of different

:15:32. > :15:34.nerve agents. Sarin has been chosen for because it is volatile and

:15:35. > :15:39.spreads more readily. Others are much less volatile. Until there's

:15:40. > :15:41.some investigation will never know for certain force of Ita to fit the

:15:42. > :15:49.picture. What likelihood is there of a

:15:50. > :15:53.conclusive assessment of what's happened? At the moment we are in a

:15:54. > :15:57.situation of claim and counterclaim about who is responsible and exactly

:15:58. > :16:03.what it is. What will give it conclusive evidence of what it was

:16:04. > :16:07.and who did this? It needs on the ground investigation, it needs

:16:08. > :16:11.inspectors to be able to go in. They need a ceasefire so inspectors can

:16:12. > :16:17.get in says the safely. Previously inspectors have been shot at when

:16:18. > :16:21.they are trying to get evidence. They need munition samples and blood

:16:22. > :16:26.and year in samples and talk to people. You said munition samples,

:16:27. > :16:34.that's so they've can work out how this material ended up in that place

:16:35. > :16:37.-- you're in. The suggestion was it was a depot that was hit, that was

:16:38. > :16:47.storing something. -- Beau Ryan. There's no evidence that I have seen

:16:48. > :16:51.that the rebels have access to chemical weapons. The Syrian regime

:16:52. > :16:56.should have disarmed. It was required to do this under a treaty

:16:57. > :17:03.it entered into in 2013 so it should have disarmed. But there are many

:17:04. > :17:08.questions. What is the prominence of this weapon, who supplied it, where

:17:09. > :17:14.did they get the material? Lots of unanswered questions but the

:17:15. > :17:18.suggestion it is from a Rebel stockpile is really highly

:17:19. > :17:22.improbable. -- rebel. The effects are devastating. Some of the

:17:23. > :17:26.pictures are too horrendous to even look at or think about. This is

:17:27. > :17:31.indiscriminate. You can't see it, there's nothing you can do?

:17:32. > :17:35.Absolutely nothing. The only protection is if you have a gas mask

:17:36. > :17:40.and a protective suit but of course civilians don't have that. This is

:17:41. > :17:44.the problem with chemical weapons, they are indiscriminate. You can't

:17:45. > :17:49.believe the Syrians are experiencing this yet again. We've seen people

:17:50. > :17:55.trying to be treated in this desperate situation hosing people

:17:56. > :18:00.down, is there a treatment? There is a treatment. They would look at the

:18:01. > :18:04.situation of individuals and the doctors in Syria sadly are well

:18:05. > :18:08.versed in what they need to do now. I and others have been involved in

:18:09. > :18:12.training some of the doctors. They know what to do so they will clean

:18:13. > :18:18.people, remove their clothing so the doctors are not at risk from

:18:19. > :18:22.handling contaminated clothing. There are antidotes you can give to

:18:23. > :18:27.block the action of these agents and of course people will need help in

:18:28. > :18:31.some instances with their breathing because the breathing is what is

:18:32. > :18:36.compromised in the main. So there are procedures, but you see the

:18:37. > :18:41.pictures, they are working flat out really to save lives. We're hearing

:18:42. > :18:45.a large number of children amongst those affected, many of them killed,

:18:46. > :18:51.does it make any difference, adult to trial, to how you're affected?

:18:52. > :18:59.Same symptoms really, no -- adult to child. We are all vulnerable, these

:19:00. > :19:04.are very potent agents. Generally it is through inhalation but they also

:19:05. > :19:07.penetrate through the skin as well. The symptoms are very similar

:19:08. > :19:10.irrespective of age. Professor, thank you very much we time this

:19:11. > :19:17.morning. You're very welcome. We can catch up with Carol who has

:19:18. > :19:18.been talking about the cold and the sunshine.

:19:19. > :19:25.Good morning. Where we have had clearer skies by night, temperatures

:19:26. > :19:28.have dropped, a touch of frost in England and Wales this morning and

:19:29. > :19:33.that's where we start with a good deal of sunshine. For many today it

:19:34. > :19:36.will remain mainly dry, mainly because at the moment there are

:19:37. > :19:39.showers. High pressure firmly in charge of the weather, the weather

:19:40. > :19:44.not changing that much through the next few days but the one thing that

:19:45. > :19:50.will is the wind in the far north of Scotland. Today it will ease, still

:19:51. > :19:53.very gusty at the moment. You can see quite a bit of cloud in the

:19:54. > :19:56.northern half of the country, producing showers in the north and

:19:57. > :19:59.north-west of Northern Ireland this morning, also across western

:20:00. > :20:03.Scotland and the Northern Isles, where it will be windy for the next

:20:04. > :20:07.few hours, but in between the showers, bright and sunny skies, but

:20:08. > :20:11.more cloud as we go towards Dumfries and Galloway. In northern England, a

:20:12. > :20:17.fair bet of cloud producing some showers. North-east England off to a

:20:18. > :20:21.bright start with sunshine. In East Anglia, Essex, Kent, London and the

:20:22. > :20:25.Isle of Wight, a chilly start, especially in the countryside, but a

:20:26. > :20:30.fair bit of sunshine, as we have in south-west England and the Isles of

:20:31. > :20:35.Scilly. South Wales ensuing some sunshine. North Wales hanging onto a

:20:36. > :20:39.bit more cloud. Through the day this cloud will tend to rotate around the

:20:40. > :20:43.area of high pressure, so coming south. The best of the sunshine in

:20:44. > :20:46.southern counties, south Wales, parts of north-east England and

:20:47. > :20:52.eastern Scotland. In the sunshine we could easily sea temperatures up to

:20:53. > :21:00.15 or 16, under the cloud temperatures will be suppressed so

:21:01. > :21:04.why is of 11 -13. Tonight some frost in eastern Scotland and south-west

:21:05. > :21:09.England -- highs of. On Friday the weather similar to today. Again,

:21:10. > :21:13.largely dry, the odd shower, sunny spells and variable amounts of

:21:14. > :21:18.cloud. As we head into the weekend, what will happen is we will still be

:21:19. > :21:22.dominated by high pressure sitting right across us. We have weather

:21:23. > :21:26.fronts flirting with the north-west of the country introducing more

:21:27. > :21:30.cloud and the odd shower but by Sunday, look at this, the air coming

:21:31. > :21:35.up from the Azores and the near continent, so pumping up warm air.

:21:36. > :21:39.This doesn't represent sunshine, just the temperature we are talking

:21:40. > :21:44.about here. So the central, Eastern and southern parts of the UK could

:21:45. > :21:50.see temperatures between 20 and 22, 22 is 72 in old language, and 17 in

:21:51. > :21:54.Aberdeenshire. Where we have the weather fronts nearby, a bit more

:21:55. > :21:59.cloud, so a faint yellow, temperatures not quite as high.

:22:00. > :22:03.Looking at Saturday, a chilly start, a touch of frost for some first

:22:04. > :22:07.thing. A fair bit of sunshine around, our weather front dangling

:22:08. > :22:15.in the north-west producing this cloud, some rain and showers. As we

:22:16. > :22:18.head into Sunday, again a chilly start but more sunshine on Sunday

:22:19. > :22:22.away from the north-west where we hang onto this cloud, and on Sunday

:22:23. > :22:26.we are likely to see the highest temperatures but it won't last.

:22:27. > :22:29.Thanks very much. We can see it is sunny outside because stay with us,

:22:30. > :22:31.you will see in a moment. Driverless cars look set to play

:22:32. > :22:34.an increasing role in getting us That's one of the questions

:22:35. > :22:42.being asked at a project in south east London, where Fiona Lamdin

:22:43. > :22:53.is for us this morning. We are possibly in the most

:22:54. > :22:59.connected place. Above me we have the cable cars, the airport is very

:23:00. > :23:02.close by. We have the river bus and taxis and the Tube, and right on

:23:03. > :23:09.cue, the driverless pod arrives. This is the first day they are using

:23:10. > :23:14.them, the public haven't been in yet. Let me show you around, Nick,

:23:15. > :23:20.good morning. Show me how some of these work. We have a camera at the

:23:21. > :23:24.front, we have some senses. Tell us how it works. A combination of

:23:25. > :23:28.lasers and cameras that allow the vehicle to understand where it is,

:23:29. > :23:33.what it sees and how to navigate to get to its destination. Let's go and

:23:34. > :23:37.have a test. As we get in, I have told you it is driverless, I should

:23:38. > :23:41.point out there is someone here in the corner. Good morning. You are

:23:42. > :23:48.here just for safety but when these things start you wouldn't be here,

:23:49. > :23:52.would you? We will always have someone to monitor, but only for

:23:53. > :23:56.safety. We're going to get in if we can get our cameraman in. Here we

:23:57. > :24:04.go. The doors are going to close. And we're off. How fast are these

:24:05. > :24:11.things going to go? At the moment up to 50km/h, about nine mph, four

:24:12. > :24:15.metres per second -- 15km/h. It is pretty smooth, you jump in and it

:24:16. > :24:19.takes you on a slow, leisurely trip and you type in where you want to

:24:20. > :24:23.go? You will summon the vehicle with an app and it will take you to your

:24:24. > :24:27.destination. The trials are about understanding what the public think

:24:28. > :24:34.about these vehicles as a service in the city. Is this a reality, how

:24:35. > :24:38.many years before these pods could be everywhere in the city? In cities

:24:39. > :24:41.it could be very quick, it could be a couple of years where we could see

:24:42. > :24:45.these as a commercial service operating in geographically

:24:46. > :24:50.constrained environments as a commercially viable service. How

:24:51. > :24:56.will it be, 20 years, 30 years, will we be ditching the car? Will we say

:24:57. > :25:00.to our children, we won't go on a long car journey, actually we camp

:25:01. > :25:05.late card games... Is that a reality, are we going to stop

:25:06. > :25:09.driving -- can play. We are confident that automation will make

:25:10. > :25:12.things safer, cleaner and more affordable but we need to bring the

:25:13. > :25:17.public on that journey and that's what these trials are all about. I

:25:18. > :25:21.don't know if you saw but we actually did stop, we are getting

:25:22. > :25:29.out and we have... Good morning. You have been looking into what the

:25:30. > :25:32.public think about these pods. What does the research say, are people

:25:33. > :25:37.nervous? It is interesting because this is a new type of vehicle. We've

:25:38. > :25:42.looked at over 120 people, different age groups and backgrounds,

:25:43. > :25:47.cyclists, car users and non- car users, we have found there is a

:25:48. > :25:51.utopian view and a dystopian view, some are scared about technology and

:25:52. > :25:56.others ask aired. It falls into two age groups, younger people are

:25:57. > :26:00.excited. -- are scared. Young people really want this product and a

:26:01. > :26:04.service instead of a product because they aren't getting their licences

:26:05. > :26:09.as much and at the other end elderly people want it because it extends

:26:10. > :26:13.their use of cars. Really interesting demographic changes. I

:26:14. > :26:17.asked my taxi driver on the way this morning, wanting to know what he

:26:18. > :26:21.felt about being out of a job in the next number of years, the only thing

:26:22. > :26:26.he said is that you can't talk to anyone, when you get in these pods

:26:27. > :26:34.they are quite isolating and lonely. A lot of discussion and thoughts.

:26:35. > :26:37.Back here in an hour to take you on another journey! Quite a few

:26:38. > :26:42.questions, Charlie? I was curious, was it preprogrammed to go from one

:26:43. > :26:46.place to the other? It is at the moment but the idea is you will be

:26:47. > :26:52.able to choose where to go. Fascinating! Yes! We will be back

:26:53. > :26:52.with her later and she can answer your questions.

:26:53. > :26:59.Four months after the Chancellor pledged

:27:00. > :27:02.?23 billion to get the UK working harder and smarter,

:27:03. > :27:05.Ben's in Devon to find out how British businesses are trying

:27:06. > :27:07.to solve the puzzle of productivity.

:27:08. > :27:13.That looks like a puzzle, Ben? Good morning, guys. Welcome to Devon, I

:27:14. > :27:17.promised earlier I would explain how this works and why this was part of

:27:18. > :27:20.the answer to the productivity puzzle. This traditionally would

:27:21. > :27:25.have been done with ballbearings, there are now no ballbearings in it

:27:26. > :27:29.and it means it breaks down less often and is used in machinery

:27:30. > :27:33.Countrywide, so less time wasted and more productive time. We are talking

:27:34. > :27:38.about the productivity puzzle because the UK is way behind other

:27:39. > :27:46.European countries in terms of productivity, behind France, Germany

:27:47. > :27:48.and the US. What can be done to address it? Why isn't it just about

:27:49. > :27:49.working harder? It's about working Now, though, it's back

:27:50. > :31:08.to Charlie and Louise. with Charlie Stayt and Louise

:31:09. > :31:24.Minchin. The UN Security Council will sit

:31:25. > :31:29.in emergency session later to discuss a suspected

:31:30. > :31:32.chemical attack in Syria. At least 72 people,

:31:33. > :31:34.20 of them children, but some estimates put

:31:35. > :31:38.the number much higher. The US has accused President Assad's

:31:39. > :31:41.regime of "barbarism" and joined Britain and France in calling

:31:42. > :31:44.on the United Nations to order This morning, Russia claimed

:31:45. > :31:50.the incident was caused by the bombing of a rebel-held

:31:51. > :31:59.chemical weapons depot. earlier, a professor from Leeds

:32:00. > :32:05.University told us this was highly improbable. There is no evidence

:32:06. > :32:11.that I am aware of that the rebels had access to chemical agents and

:32:12. > :32:15.chemical weapons. The Syrian regime should have disarmed. It was

:32:16. > :32:19.required to do this under a treaty that it entered into in 2013. It

:32:20. > :32:24.should have disarmed. But there are many questions. What is the

:32:25. > :32:28.provenance of this particular weapon? Who supplied it? Where did

:32:29. > :32:30.they get the material? Lots of unanswered questions.

:32:31. > :32:34.The Prime Minister has indicated that free movement of EU citizens

:32:35. > :32:36.across British frontiers may need to continue in some

:32:37. > :32:39.Theresa May explained that while immigration would be under

:32:40. > :32:43.British control from the moment the UK left the EU, there would need

:32:44. > :32:52.Labour has failed the Jewish community by not expelling

:32:53. > :32:55.Ken Livingstone from the party, according to the chief rabbi,

:32:56. > :32:59.The former Mayor of London was yesterday given a further

:33:00. > :33:00.one-year suspension for claiming Hitler supported Zionism

:33:01. > :33:09.The US military has confirmed that North Korea fired a medium-range

:33:10. > :33:12.ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan overnight.

:33:13. > :33:16.The launch comes on the eve of a visit by China's President Xi

:33:17. > :33:20.Jinping to the United States to meet President Trump.

:33:21. > :33:22.The two will discuss how to curb North Korea's

:33:23. > :33:26.A child has suffered life-threatening injuries

:33:27. > :33:33.The attack happened in Chatham yesterday afternoon.

:33:34. > :33:37.Two people have been arrested over the incident and the dog was shot

:33:38. > :33:42.A parliamentary report has called for radical changes to the NHS

:33:43. > :33:45.in England, saying there's been a shocking lack

:33:46. > :33:51.A committee of medical experts and peers suggest the health service

:33:52. > :33:53.needs better funding and staff training.

:33:54. > :33:56.The government says more money has been committed to the NHS

:33:57. > :34:04.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend what's being called

:34:05. > :34:08."a service of hope" for the victims of the Westminster attack later.

:34:09. > :34:10.Around 2,000 people will be in the congregation at Westminster

:34:11. > :34:13.Families of the victims, faith leaders and representatives

:34:14. > :34:16.from the emergency services will be among the guests.

:34:17. > :34:19.Drivers of diesel cars who are facing new charges

:34:20. > :34:21.and restrictions in cities across the UK

:34:22. > :34:28.The government is expected to reveal a new plan to improve air quality

:34:29. > :34:31.later this month and this morning there are hints the proposals

:34:32. > :34:38.could include extra support for affected motorists.

:34:39. > :34:41.A rare pink diamond has become the most expensive gemstone ever

:34:42. > :34:45.The 60-carat 'pink star' fetched more than ?57 million at Sotheby's,

:34:46. > :34:59.Coming up on the programme, Carol will have the weather

:35:00. > :35:19.We are talking about Zlatan Ibrahimovic after he scored injury

:35:20. > :35:23.time penalty. This time, just a draw. I could you can look at

:35:24. > :35:28.Manchester United's season one of two ways. There are probably 20

:35:29. > :35:30.games which are unbeaten but half of them are drawers, which is why they

:35:31. > :35:33.are still in fifth. As so many times this season,

:35:34. > :35:36.Manchester United had to rely His penalty in injury time secured

:35:37. > :35:41.a 1-1 draw at home to Everton. The visitors took the lead

:35:42. > :35:43.when captain Phil Jagielka hooked But United persisted,

:35:44. > :35:52.and when Ashley Williams handled the ball in injury

:35:53. > :35:55.time he was sent off. A penalty was awarded and

:35:56. > :35:57.Ibrahimovic converted. It's an amazing run,

:35:58. > :36:00.20 matches unbeaten, but too many draws at home

:36:01. > :36:04.and because of that we are in the position that we are

:36:05. > :36:07.because we have the spirit, Not today, we didn't create

:36:08. > :36:13.a lot today, but we don't We don't have squads

:36:14. > :36:22.like Man United and Chelsea. We had seven players of 18

:36:23. > :36:27.tonight, 22 and younger. Maybe that's a little bit more

:36:28. > :36:33.difficult now to take the next step. Still, a point against Man United

:36:34. > :36:39.and we know we are close to them. Maybe it's more for next

:36:40. > :36:42.season than this season. Sunderland issued a statement ahead

:36:43. > :36:45.of their match against Leicester, saying they fully supported

:36:46. > :36:47.their manager David Moyes following his controversial comments

:36:48. > :36:51.to a female BBC reporter. On the field, Moyes's

:36:52. > :36:52.problems continue. His side lost 2-0 at Leicester

:36:53. > :36:56.and so remain bottom of the Premier Islam Slimani and Jamie Vardy scored

:36:57. > :37:00.the goals for Leicester. I thought we did more than enough

:37:01. > :37:04.to maybe being in front. I didn't think Leicester

:37:05. > :37:06.had the form that I've I thought we played well and made

:37:07. > :37:20.it difficult for them. Burnley ended a run of seven games

:37:21. > :37:23.without a win by beating George Boyd scored

:37:24. > :37:26.the game's only goal. Elsewhere, Watford

:37:27. > :37:28.beat West Brom 2-0. There are six Premier League matches

:37:29. > :37:31.as well this evening. In Scotland, Celtic have already won

:37:32. > :37:34.the Premiership title and Aberdeen are well placed

:37:35. > :37:36.to finish runners-up. They beat Inverness 1-0 last night

:37:37. > :37:39.to move 13 points clear of Rangers Elsewhere, Ross County have moved

:37:40. > :37:43.above Dundee to eighth after beating The Republic of Ireland women's

:37:44. > :37:48.football team have threatened to strike in a row

:37:49. > :37:50.over their treatment by the Football Association

:37:51. > :37:52.of Ireland, which could see their match with Slovakia

:37:53. > :37:56.next Monday called off. A group of 13 players held a press

:37:57. > :37:58.conference yesterday They want compensation for lost

:37:59. > :38:03.earnings while on international duty The FAI says it's deeply

:38:04. > :38:09.disappointed because it has made repeated offers to discuss

:38:10. > :38:14.payment and compensation. Defending champion Heather Watson

:38:15. > :38:16.is into the second round of the Monterray Open,

:38:17. > :38:19.following a three set win over Nina Watson squandered two

:38:20. > :38:24.opportunities to wrap up A single break in the final set

:38:25. > :38:34.helped seal the match and setup a second round meeting with sixth

:38:35. > :38:36.seed Ekaterina Makerova. Finally, the Masters gets under way

:38:37. > :38:39.tomorrow and Danny Willett will start the defence

:38:40. > :38:41.of his title alongside and the Australian

:38:42. > :38:47.amateur Curtis Luck. It's been a tough 12 months

:38:48. > :38:50.for Willett, who's struggled for form after becoming the first

:38:51. > :38:52.Englishman in 20 years, since Sir Nick Faldo's victory,

:38:53. > :38:58.to wear the Green Jacket. To be Masters champion for this 12

:38:59. > :39:02.months has been amazing. To be able to take the green jacket

:39:03. > :39:06.to places and to wear it with pride and for people to see it,

:39:07. > :39:09.the expression on people's faces when they see one

:39:10. > :39:19.in the flesh is something He tweeted this morning to say that

:39:20. > :39:22.the champions dinner last night was excellent, so I am assuming that

:39:23. > :39:26.means the Yorkshire puddings were a success!

:39:27. > :39:37.An estimated 60 million people around the world still live in fear

:39:38. > :39:40.So following in the footsteps of his mother, Prince Harry has

:39:41. > :39:45.pledged to "finish the job" and rid the planet of the danger by 2025.

:39:46. > :39:49.In a speech at Kensington Palace yesterday,

:39:50. > :39:52.he paid tribute to his mother, explaining how she visited Bosnia

:39:53. > :39:57.in 1997 and made a promise to two boys who lost their legs there.

:39:58. > :40:05.When my mother said goodbye to him that August, just weeks before his

:40:06. > :40:14.untimely death, she told him he would not be forgotten. Please help

:40:15. > :40:21.me keep her word to those two children and others throughout the

:40:22. > :40:25.world who still need us to finish the job and rid the planet of

:40:26. > :40:29.landmines. Princess Diana first shone a spotlight on issue 20 years

:40:30. > :41:03.ago. Let's have a look at what has happened since then.

:41:04. > :41:31.These steps collapsed down on themselves with the weight...

:41:32. > :41:38.Joining us is Sean Sutton. 60 million people still affected. You

:41:39. > :41:42.were at the event last night with Prince Harry. He is very emotional

:41:43. > :41:51.about this, actually. It was a very moving speech. What a tribute to his

:41:52. > :41:55.mum. Amazing. Prince Harry is raising awareness for this issue,

:41:56. > :42:00.but also for the extended commitment from the British government, which

:42:01. > :42:04.is very welcome. Again, a great testimony to his mum and the work

:42:05. > :42:08.she did all those years ago. Interesting, when you see those

:42:09. > :42:14.images of her kitted out and doing those press trips she did, the

:42:15. > :42:19.spotlight that it put on the issue then matters now, just as it did

:42:20. > :42:24.then. You met her many years ago? Yes, I'm a photographer by trade and

:42:25. > :42:30.a big part of my work is still documentary photography. I had an

:42:31. > :42:34.exhibition with the Royal Geographical Society and I spoke to

:42:35. > :42:41.her about the pictures and met other guests at that time, Ken and Jerry.

:42:42. > :42:47.Ken Rutherford and Gerry Whyte, who both lost legs to mines some years

:42:48. > :42:52.before. So we all met her at the same time and we were also together

:42:53. > :42:58.last night. Give us a sense of where these mines are. I understand in

:42:59. > :43:02.some areas they are just in houses? There's a real landmine emergency at

:43:03. > :43:07.the moment in the Middle East, in Iraq, where I've just come from,

:43:08. > :43:11.there's a terrible problem. Minefields run around villages,

:43:12. > :43:19.through them, around schools. As an example, one village, before we

:43:20. > :43:22.started working there, 44 families had returned, ten people had died,

:43:23. > :43:30.five people injured. This was in October. Now that village has been

:43:31. > :43:34.cleared and 520 of the original 540 families have gone home. That's

:43:35. > :43:38.because of the work that we are doing. Otherwise they would still be

:43:39. > :43:48.in camps or trying to rent somewhere. It is a race against

:43:49. > :43:52.time. There is amazing work being done and this event last night was

:43:53. > :43:59.the champion of fact that there are many countries that we can finish.

:44:00. > :44:02.We can make landmine -- the countries landmine free if we come

:44:03. > :44:06.together. Talking about the practicalities, how do you know

:44:07. > :44:15.initially that an area has a problem with landmines? Without being

:44:16. > :44:19.fisheaters -- facetious is because someone gets injured, and you start

:44:20. > :44:27.looking? People are forced to go home. Most people know they are in a

:44:28. > :44:30.dangerous area. There are also booby-traps in houses. Technically

:44:31. > :44:35.there are ways you can find out, about whether there are landmines,

:44:36. > :44:42.by using machines or dogs, finding exactly where the rows are. But

:44:43. > :44:46.everywhere at that environment, you have to consider a dangerous. As I

:44:47. > :44:50.said, ten deaths in that village. They find out the hard way which

:44:51. > :44:57.parts are more dangerous than others. Imagine living like that,

:44:58. > :45:01.with your kids. In that environment is the -- environment. You say you

:45:02. > :45:05.can clear a place, but that notion of being there, the possibility that

:45:06. > :45:11.something might be missed. Very unlikely. Every day I walk on land

:45:12. > :45:15.that we've cleared. It is part of my job to document the problems and

:45:16. > :45:20.solutions we offer. I would take my family there, I honestly would. I

:45:21. > :45:25.feel very confident in the work we do and we have to. If you are going

:45:26. > :45:28.to clear land and pass it on to the authorities, to let the kids go back

:45:29. > :45:30.to school, you've got to be pretty sure that it's cleared. Painstaking

:45:31. > :45:34.work. Thank you very much. You're watching

:45:35. > :45:35.Breakfast from BBC News. emergency talks after a suspected

:45:36. > :45:52.chemical attack in Syria left dozens In the last few minutes the Foreign

:45:53. > :45:56.Secretary Boris Johnson has arrived at a conference on Syria which is

:45:57. > :45:59.being held in Brussels this morning and has been giving his reaction.

:46:00. > :46:07.I think what it shows is this is a government that has absolutely no

:46:08. > :46:11.compassion for its own people, that has put itself beyond the pale. I

:46:12. > :46:16.certainly think that it will need to be investigated and the question of

:46:17. > :46:20.culpability for what has been done will need to be established and

:46:21. > :46:23.where it is possible to bring criminal prosecutions, as you

:46:24. > :46:28.suggest, I think that is certainly appropriate. But I think what it

:46:29. > :46:38.confirms to everybody is that this is a barbaric regime that has made

:46:39. > :46:43.it impossible for us to imagine them continuing to be an authority over

:46:44. > :46:45.the people of Syria after this conflict is over. I simply don't see

:46:46. > :46:52.how that can happen. Boris Johnson speaking ahead of that

:46:53. > :46:56.UN Security Council meeting taking place later today and the latest

:46:57. > :47:03.figures this morning, it's being reported as many as 72 were killed

:47:04. > :47:06.in that attack. We will be discussing it further on Breakfast

:47:07. > :47:09.but a little pause for the moment and catch up with the weather.

:47:10. > :47:16.A chilly start in some parts of England and Wales under the clear

:47:17. > :47:20.skies by night, we have seen the temperatures tumble lower enough for

:47:21. > :47:25.a touch of frost but here we have some sunshine. For most today it

:47:26. > :47:29.will remain mainly dry, I say mainly because a few showers are in the

:47:30. > :47:33.forecast. High pressure remains the driving force for the next few days,

:47:34. > :47:35.things fairly settled, but the strong wind will change in the

:47:36. > :47:42.Northern Isles. . Still gusty but today it will ease

:47:43. > :47:46.down. Quite a lot of cloud in the north-west of the UK and through the

:47:47. > :47:50.day some of that will go south. Even so we will still see some holes in

:47:51. > :47:56.the cloud and sunny spells developing, just not everywhere. By

:47:57. > :48:00.4pm, across Kent and southern counties generally, we are going to

:48:01. > :48:04.hang onto that sunshine and that will extend into the Channel Islands

:48:05. > :48:08.but only 11 as the maximum here. From the Isles of Scilly to

:48:09. > :48:12.south-west England, again we are looking at some sunshine. As we go

:48:13. > :48:16.through south Wales, into Gloucestershire, the Midlands, much

:48:17. > :48:20.of the rest of Wales, we're looking at a cloudier scenario and some of

:48:21. > :48:25.this is iCloud so it will be bright but not wall to wall blue skies. For

:48:26. > :48:30.Northern Ireland and Scotland, cloud in the north-west but even so, some

:48:31. > :48:34.holes in that but the brighter skies will be in the east and in the east

:48:35. > :48:38.we could see temperatures up to 15. Parts of the Northeast also favoured

:48:39. > :48:42.to hang onto a bit of sunshine as we go through the day. Generally

:48:43. > :48:48.speaking those are our temperature values, 11-14, in the sunshine we

:48:49. > :48:53.could hit 15 or 16. For example, Cardiff. Cold in the Northern Isles.

:48:54. > :48:57.A touch of frost in eastern Scotland, south Wales and south-west

:48:58. > :49:02.England, moving us into another day tomorrow and also Friday of very

:49:03. > :49:06.similar weather conditions. Largely dry, one or two showers, sunny

:49:07. > :49:10.spells but variable amounts of cloud, so chasing the holes in the

:49:11. > :49:14.cloud to find the sunshine. But turning warmer. High pressure once

:49:15. > :49:18.again really ensconced as we go through the weekend. Weather fronts

:49:19. > :49:22.coming from the north-west will introduce more cloud and at times

:49:23. > :49:27.the odd shower in the north-west, but by Sunday we are pulling in

:49:28. > :49:32.milder air, warmer air from the Azores. So on Sunday we can expect

:49:33. > :49:37.temperatures across parts of central, southern and eastern

:49:38. > :49:44.England between 25 and 22, 22 is 72 Fahrenheit. Aberdeenshire, 17. -- 20

:49:45. > :49:48.and 22. This represents the warm air, it isn't sunshine. You can see

:49:49. > :49:54.out to the west we have a paler yellow, so here not as mild. So on

:49:55. > :49:58.Saturday we start on a chilly note, a touch of frost, a fair bit of

:49:59. > :50:02.sunshine around, a bit more cloud in the north-west but even so, glimmers

:50:03. > :50:06.of sunshine, one or two showers and by the time we get to Sunday, again

:50:07. > :50:15.after a chilly start, sunshine developing widely across England and

:50:16. > :50:18.Wales and eastern Scotland. For the rest of Scotland and Northern

:50:19. > :50:21.Ireland, bright spells, but again with our weather front close by,

:50:22. > :50:25.rain and showers but Sunday will see the highest temperatures, up to 22

:50:26. > :50:28.in the areas I mentioned, but it won't last. But thank you for

:50:29. > :50:29.bringing us some sunshine! See you in half an hour.

:50:30. > :50:32.New figures out this morning are expected to show

:50:33. > :50:34.the productivity of British businesses continues to lag behind

:50:35. > :50:36.that of other countries, including Germany and the US.

:50:37. > :50:38.So should we be working faster, harder,

:50:39. > :50:41.and perhaps even smarter, to boost economic output?

:50:42. > :50:50.Ben is in Tiverton in Devon for us this morning.

:50:51. > :50:56.Some robotic machinery? Yes, welcome to Devon, I've made some friends

:50:57. > :51:01.this morning, these are some of the machines they have here because this

:51:02. > :51:04.place makes all sorts of things. Linear motion technology, replacing

:51:05. > :51:09.things like the ballbearings and making sure the equipment that moves

:51:10. > :51:12.can do so more efficiently and productively, meaning fewer

:51:13. > :51:15.breakdowns and less time spent repairing machines, more time

:51:16. > :51:20.producing. Barry is the boss. Good morning. We are looking at some of

:51:21. > :51:24.this scenery you have installed, it comes at great expense but it is how

:51:25. > :51:29.you improve productivity, and it's not just about sackings. It is about

:51:30. > :51:33.upscaling staff and challenging them to do different things, turning them

:51:34. > :51:36.from machine minders into programmers and decision-makers.

:51:37. > :51:43.We look around this factory, it now allows the staff to do more, to do

:51:44. > :51:48.more value added stuff and allows them to be more productive. Exactly,

:51:49. > :51:53.it has helped us to grow because we have been moving mundane jobs onto

:51:54. > :51:58.more added value jobs. Come to me because I want to introduce you to

:51:59. > :52:01.do other people. When we talk about manufacturing, the challenge is you

:52:02. > :52:07.can see how you might be more productive, but looking at

:52:08. > :52:11.services... Sarah and Jo are with me, they make stuff here and putting

:52:12. > :52:15.more machines in would be more productive, but what if you are a

:52:16. > :52:20.bank, hairdresser or restaurant, services, how would you do it? Lots

:52:21. > :52:23.of ways, but you just need to make sure employees know what is required

:52:24. > :52:27.of them through things like appraisals and effective management,

:52:28. > :52:30.because all too often people are promoted into positions of

:52:31. > :52:33.management when they don't know what is required. Communication and

:52:34. > :52:40.training is the most important thing. How would you make sure you

:52:41. > :52:44.have the right staff to do the job, we talked about replacing humans

:52:45. > :52:48.with robots and putting those humans on to add more value. It sounds that

:52:49. > :52:53.easy but it isn't that easy in practice? Definitely not. It's all

:52:54. > :52:58.about recruiting to make sure you have the right people for the right

:52:59. > :53:03.job with the right skill set. Joe, why is the UK struggling to improve

:53:04. > :53:07.productivity? It improved after the financial crisis, then it dropped,

:53:08. > :53:11.and we have struggled to get to the levels of the four. We've seen the

:53:12. > :53:19.same pattern across much of the advanced nations -- before.

:53:20. > :53:27.Productivity has fallen... We have had .3% since the financial crisis.

:53:28. > :53:31.One answer might be in this country we are failing to have an industrial

:53:32. > :53:36.strategy at the government level, we don't have policies to get companies

:53:37. > :53:44.to invest in new machinery and train their workforce. Instead we have had

:53:45. > :53:49.austerity and that isn't intrusive to a productive high reach economy.

:53:50. > :53:57.If anyone is watching and they run a business big or small, what do they

:53:58. > :54:00.need to start thinking about? For employers it's about making sure you

:54:01. > :54:04.have the right policies and procedures in place, so your focus

:54:05. > :54:08.on what you want to achieve. If everyone is aligned to the same

:54:09. > :54:13.goals you have a better chance of improving productivity. Good advice.

:54:14. > :54:17.For the moment, thanks very much. That's the issue, we talk about

:54:18. > :54:21.productivity, it feels like an issue a bit difficult to grasp but it's

:54:22. > :54:24.really important for business because if productivity improves,

:54:25. > :54:30.our wages go up and living standards go up too. There's a real fear this

:54:31. > :54:34.is the first generation were living standards are rising as quickly as

:54:35. > :54:42.have in the past and that all comes down to productivity. It's called

:54:43. > :54:44.the productivity puzzle. Thanks very much, Ben.

:54:45. > :54:46.All this week on Breakfast we're celebrating 50 years

:54:47. > :54:48.since The Beatles released their iconic album

:54:49. > :54:50.Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

:54:51. > :54:52.Today we're focusing on the track Getting Better

:54:53. > :54:55.and Breakfast's Graham Satchell has been asking whether those words

:54:56. > :55:19.The song itself isn't really saying things are getting better.

:55:20. > :55:22.Paul McCartney saying it's getting better but John saying it couldn't

:55:23. > :55:24.get much worse, that's kind of reflective of the British

:55:25. > :55:28.attitude, stiff upper lip and we need it now more than ever.

:55:29. > :55:31.I think life has changed a lot since the '60s and '70s.

:55:32. > :55:34.I think in the '60s and '70s people were a lot more carefree.

:55:35. > :55:36.They weren't money-orientated like people are now.

:55:37. > :55:43.I think they were definitely better days.

:55:44. > :55:47.I would have loved to see how life would have been like in the '60s.

:55:48. > :55:53.Things that are happening around the world are kind of scary

:55:54. > :55:55.but I think that because it's so awful it's bringing

:55:56. > :56:00.It was better for youngsters then, a lot better for youngsters.

:56:01. > :56:02.I think these days youngsters are stressed, university,

:56:03. > :56:05.they're always in competition with their friends, this that

:56:06. > :56:14.We had nothing to be in competition with!

:56:15. > :56:18.A lot of people ask if I would want to live back in the day

:56:19. > :56:21.when the Beatles were around and I always say no,

:56:22. > :56:23.absolutely not, because women's rights and rights for people

:56:24. > :56:26.of other races, weren't what they are today.

:56:27. > :56:29.If anything I'd rather live 30 or 40 years in the future where hopefully

:56:30. > :56:35.Nah, '60s was much better than they are now.

:56:36. > :56:39.If you ask the same question in 50 years time, people won't remember

:56:40. > :56:48.2015 or '17, but they'll still remember the '60s!

:56:49. > :56:52.Are things getting better? I think it is how you judge it, isn't it?

:56:53. > :00:14.Let us know your thoughts anyway. Hello, this is Breakfast with

:00:15. > :00:28.Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin. International outrage over

:00:29. > :00:30.a suspected gas attack on rebels in Syria which killed at least 70

:00:31. > :00:33.people Washington has accused The UN Security Council will hold

:00:34. > :00:48.an emergency session later. Good morning.

:00:49. > :00:52.It's Wednesday, 5th April. Could diesel

:00:53. > :00:56.drivers be compensated for pollution charges planned in some

:00:57. > :00:59.of our cities? Prince Harry pledges to finish

:01:00. > :01:13.the job his mother began - The UK lags behind France, Germany

:01:14. > :01:17.and the United States when it comes to productivity, but is it about

:01:18. > :01:22.working harder or just about working a bit smarter? I'm in Devon to try

:01:23. > :01:25.and find the answers to the UK's productivity puzzle.

:01:26. > :01:27.In sport, the best of the night's Premier League action Including

:01:28. > :01:30.a Zlatan Ibrahimovic injury time penalty which saves the day

:01:31. > :01:35.Driverless cars are available for the British public to try

:01:36. > :01:41.for the first time - we'll be giving them a go.

:01:42. > :01:54.Good morning. Over the next few days the weather will be very samy. It

:01:55. > :01:58.will be largely dry and variable amounts of cloud and sunny spells.

:01:59. > :02:00.Temperatures are set to climb into the low 20s by under. I'll have more

:02:01. > :02:11.details in 15 minutes. At least 72 people including 20

:02:12. > :02:15.children are now thought to have been killed in a chemical weapons

:02:16. > :02:29.attack on a rebel town in north-west Syria.

:02:30. > :02:34.Members of the UN Security Council will meet later for an emergency

:02:35. > :02:39.session to discuss the incident and just a warning as well, you may find

:02:40. > :02:44.some of the images in Sarah Corker's report upsetting.

:02:45. > :02:45.Hundreds of innocent Syrians, including many children,

:02:46. > :02:47.struggling to breathe after a suspected chemical

:02:48. > :02:54.Distressing images and evidence that will no doubt dominate emergency

:02:55. > :02:58.talks held by the UN Security Council later today.

:02:59. > :03:02.Global leaders have called for a rapid investigation

:03:03. > :03:08.Some of the injured were treated across the border in Turkey.

:03:09. > :03:14.Medics wore face masks to protect themselves from the toxic gases.

:03:15. > :03:16.TRANSLATION: We were affected by the gas.

:03:17. > :03:26.This apparent chemical strike on a rebel held town has brought

:03:27. > :03:32.The US, Britain and France have all blamed the Syrian

:03:33. > :03:44.Using chemical weapons is a war crime.

:03:45. > :03:45.President Assad's regime denied launching Tuesday's attack,

:03:46. > :03:48.echoing denials it has made over the course of Syria's

:03:49. > :03:52.And just as doctors were treating those who survived, the hospital

:03:53. > :04:01.The attack will overshadow an international conference

:04:02. > :04:03.in Brussels later, discussing aid effort in Syria.

:04:04. > :04:05.Thousands of civilians are still trapped by fighting.

:04:06. > :04:07.What effective action can the international community now take

:04:08. > :04:21.Speaking this morning - ahead of a conference

:04:22. > :04:25.on Syria in Brussels - the Foreign Minister Boris Johnson

:04:26. > :04:30.He also joined the United States and France in calling on the UN

:04:31. > :04:41.I think what it shows is that this is a Government that has no

:04:42. > :04:48.compassion for its own people. That has put itself beyond the pail. I

:04:49. > :04:52.think it will need to be investigated and the question of

:04:53. > :04:57.culpability for what it has done will need to be established and

:04:58. > :04:59.where it is possible to bring criminal prosecutions where you

:05:00. > :05:04.suggest, that is certainly appropriate, but I think what it

:05:05. > :05:13.confirms to everybody is that this is a barbaric regime that has made

:05:14. > :05:17.it impossible for us to imagine them continuing to be an authority over

:05:18. > :05:19.the people of Syria after this conflict is over. I simply don't see

:05:20. > :05:25.how that can happen. The Prime Minister has indicated

:05:26. > :05:27.that free movement of EU citizens across British borders may have

:05:28. > :05:30.to continue in some form Theresa May was speaking

:05:31. > :05:33.to reporters during the final leg Our Political Correspondent,

:05:34. > :05:50.Eleanor Garnier, joins Well, I think this is interesting

:05:51. > :05:54.because the tone we're getting from ministers talking about immigration

:05:55. > :05:58.seems to have changed. That idea of a steep cut in EU migration after

:05:59. > :06:03.Brexit I think has given way to caveats and a but of qualification.

:06:04. > :06:09.Of course, as Theresa May goes into the Brexit negotiations, a key

:06:10. > :06:12.question is just what our immigration policy is going to look

:06:13. > :06:16.like and that's why the Prime Minister was pressed on her trip to

:06:17. > :06:21.the Gulf. The Prime Minister said that curbs on free movement of

:06:22. > :06:25.people night not come in straightaway, there might need to be

:06:26. > :06:33.a period of implementation so the Government and businesses too can

:06:34. > :06:37.get used to the new rules. She said our borders and our policy on

:06:38. > :06:41.immigration would come under British control after Brexit, but I think

:06:42. > :06:45.she left over the possibility that free movement might continue for a

:06:46. > :06:49.little bit, albeit, temporarily. The two years for the talks to be

:06:50. > :06:54.completed has now started. Many have said this is going to be tough. I

:06:55. > :06:57.think what we're seeing is the Prime Minister, Government, laying the

:06:58. > :07:02.ground if you like, showing there may need to be a bit of give, a bit

:07:03. > :07:04.of take, compromise, if the Government is going to make a

:07:05. > :07:09.success out of Brexit. Eleanor, thank you.

:07:10. > :07:11.Labour has failed the Jewish community by not expelling

:07:12. > :07:13.Ken Livingstone from the party - according to the Chief

:07:14. > :07:20.The former Mayor of London was yesterday given a further

:07:21. > :07:22.one-year suspension for claiming Hitler supported

:07:23. > :07:33.Drivers of diesel cars who are facing new charges

:07:34. > :07:35.and restrictions in cities across the UK could

:07:36. > :07:39.The Government is expected to reveal a new plan to improve air quality

:07:40. > :07:42.later this month and this morning there are hints it could

:07:43. > :07:44.include extra support for affected motorists.

:07:45. > :07:49.When buying a new car, do you go diesel or petrol?

:07:50. > :07:52.It can be confusing and is possibly a bit of a gamble.

:07:53. > :07:55.A lower vehicle tax introduced by the then Chancellor Gordon Brown

:07:56. > :08:00.has encouraged motorists to opt for diesel.

:08:01. > :08:03.It is regarded as more economical and, in terms of carbon dioxide

:08:04. > :08:14.But there is increasing concern that diesel cars omit dangerous levels

:08:15. > :08:16.of nitrogen dioxide, thought to have caused thousands

:08:17. > :08:26.Air pollution limits have been repeatedly exceeded in places,

:08:27. > :08:29.including Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow and London.

:08:30. > :08:39.The London mayor described the city's air as lethal.

:08:40. > :08:41.In fresh proposals he says all but the newest diesel cars

:08:42. > :08:45.will face a charge to drive in the city's ultra

:08:46. > :08:49.The Prime Minister appeared to be offering help for diesel owners.

:08:50. > :08:52.She told reporters, "I am very conscious of the fact that past

:08:53. > :08:54.governments have encouraged people to buy diesel cars and we need

:08:55. > :08:57.to take that into account when we're looking at what we do

:08:58. > :09:05.The Government has required to produce a new air quality

:09:06. > :09:10.It comes after the European Commission sent a final warning over

:09:11. > :09:20.breaches of legal air pollution limits in the UK.

:09:21. > :09:23.The US military has confirmed that North Korea fired a medium-range

:09:24. > :09:25.ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan overnight.

:09:26. > :09:28.The launch comes on the eve of a visit by China's President Xi

:09:29. > :09:30.Jinping to the United States to meet President Trump.

:09:31. > :09:32.The two will discuss how to curb North Korea's

:09:33. > :09:39.A child has suffered life-threatening injuries

:09:40. > :09:43.The attack happened in Chatham yesterday afternoon.

:09:44. > :09:46.Two people have been arrested over the incident and the dog

:09:47. > :09:54.Prince Harry has pledged to help rid the world of landmines by 2025

:09:55. > :09:58.and "finish the job" started by his mother Princess Diana.

:09:59. > :10:00.In an emotional speech at Kensington Palace last night,

:10:01. > :10:03.the Prince introduced two victims of landmines who his mother had

:10:04. > :10:13.Our Royal Correspondent, Nicholas Witchell reports.

:10:14. > :10:16.It was one of the many images of her that caught

:10:17. > :10:20.Diana, Princess of Wales, a matter of months before her death,

:10:21. > :10:21.visiting a mine clearance operation in Angola.

:10:22. > :10:25.She couldn't understand why the world wasn't doing

:10:26. > :10:36.I am committed to supporting in whatever way I can...

:10:37. > :10:37.Her intervention upset some politicians who called

:10:38. > :10:46.A treaty was passed, real progress was made.

:10:47. > :10:49.Forward now to 2017 and it is her son, Harry,

:10:50. > :10:55.who is challenging the world to finish his mother's work.

:10:56. > :10:57.In August 1997, one month before her death,

:10:58. > :11:10.There she met two boys both of whom had

:11:11. > :11:14.To one of them, Harry said she had made a promise.

:11:15. > :11:15.When my mother said goodbye to Zarko that August,

:11:16. > :11:18.just weeks before her untimely death, she told him

:11:19. > :11:24.Please help me keep her word to Zarko and Malic, and others

:11:25. > :11:30.Harry met Zarko and his friend, both now grown men.

:11:31. > :11:34.Both, though, struggling with the life changing

:11:35. > :11:38.effects of weapons of war, which, as Diana pointed out 20

:11:39. > :11:41.years ago, kill and main without discrimination long

:11:42. > :11:59.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend what's being called

:12:00. > :12:01."a service of hope", for the victims of the

:12:02. > :12:04.Faith leaders and members of the emergency services will also

:12:05. > :12:09.It will be led by the Dean of Westminster, The Very

:12:10. > :12:11.Reverend Dr John Hall, who we can speak to now.

:12:12. > :12:17.Thank you very much for joining us on a busy day. Tell us about the

:12:18. > :12:22.service. What will it be like? What will it feature? Well, I think one

:12:23. > :12:26.of the things is that we need to take into account the very shocking

:12:27. > :12:30.events that happened a fortnight ago and to recognise that we have the

:12:31. > :12:34.families of the victims and many of those who were injured in the

:12:35. > :12:39.terrible attacks on Westminster Bridge and of course, at the Palace

:12:40. > :12:42.of Westminster. So we shall be reflecting on the experience and on

:12:43. > :12:48.what happened and asking ourselves the question - why on earth did this

:12:49. > :12:53.go on? What was it for? It seems so pointless, so random, so

:12:54. > :12:57.meaningless, so we're left a bit bewildered and shocked by it. So

:12:58. > :13:00.that's the first thing. The second thing is we're representing the

:13:01. > :13:04.whole community. Many of those people who were involved in

:13:05. > :13:07.responding to what happened, both in the police and in the ambulance

:13:08. > :13:10.services and the Fire Service and the hospitals and so on, so many

:13:11. > :13:15.people who were involved, so many people who were engaged at the time

:13:16. > :13:20.and we want them to have a moment to reflect on what happened and also to

:13:21. > :13:25.look forward so the main theme is what hope is there at a time of

:13:26. > :13:28.darkness, at a time of sorrow, at a time of loss? I think the sense is

:13:29. > :13:34.that we're bringing the whole community together. We're having

:13:35. > :13:38.people from all the faith tradition speaking together, praying together,

:13:39. > :13:42.present there, some of them Sadiq Khan will say a prayer who is the

:13:43. > :13:46.Muslim Mayor of London, thank goodness that's the case. And others

:13:47. > :13:50.as well. So the point is, that we want to say we're all together. We

:13:51. > :13:55.stand together and there is hope in that. We need to build a more

:13:56. > :14:00.harmonious and more cohesive society in which all the diversities are

:14:01. > :14:04.enriching us and we come together in peace and friendship.

:14:05. > :14:09.And you outlined all those questions, so many of us have asked

:14:10. > :14:11.ourselves and it is a difficult message and those questions

:14:12. > :14:17.alongside that message of hope, isn't it? It is a difficult message

:14:18. > :14:21.to get across, but I think we're in a very extraordinary society. We

:14:22. > :14:27.often speak about the times of turmoil and times of difficulty

:14:28. > :14:30.within our national life and in the West, generally speaking in Europe

:14:31. > :14:35.where there are many things which are dislocating us at the moment.

:14:36. > :14:40.You know, we are a very rich, diverse society and that genuinely

:14:41. > :14:43.in my view is a strength. All the different faiths together and we can

:14:44. > :14:48.live in peace and harmony together. There is no doubt about that in my

:14:49. > :14:52.mind. It was very interesting after the events we had a meeting of the

:14:53. > :14:58.different Faith Leaders across London with the Metropolitan Police

:14:59. > :15:03.the day after the attack happened and all the faiths were there

:15:04. > :15:06.together and it was very powerful to me that especially the Muslim

:15:07. > :15:12.leaders said, "This act is no part of us. This is not part of our

:15:13. > :15:19.faith. We repudiate it completely." There is a wider question for us

:15:20. > :15:25.which is how someone who has become dislocated, no longer has his own

:15:26. > :15:30.roots in society, is as it were outside the community, who might

:15:31. > :15:36.feel tempted for some reason which ke went possibly understand to do

:15:37. > :15:41.something which is really an act of hopelessness, no hope, no future and

:15:42. > :15:44.no joy in it. To do something as terrible as happened on the bridge

:15:45. > :15:48.and at the Palace of Westminster, how can we as a community ensure

:15:49. > :15:52.that those desperate people, who might be out to do that sort of

:15:53. > :15:55.terrible thing are discouraged from doing so and don't do it. It is a

:15:56. > :16:03.really important question for us. And the picture we have got a view

:16:04. > :16:07.is poignant because it happened only metres from where you are standing,

:16:08. > :16:10.right in the heart of London. Absolutely at the centre of our

:16:11. > :16:15.democracy. Although you might say, well, there were not many people

:16:16. > :16:25.killed, but each death is a terrible thing in itself. Of course it is not

:16:26. > :16:31.the same as 2005, 7/7, were so many people were killed and injured.

:16:32. > :16:35.Nevertheless, it has international significance. The whole world was

:16:36. > :16:38.watching. Because it is right here. And the Houses of Parliament, the

:16:39. > :16:44.Palace of Westminster is the centre of our democracy. We have the

:16:45. > :16:49.judicial structure here, the Supreme Court is here. We have the civil

:16:50. > :16:53.service here. So Bia-Bi, the established church with the

:16:54. > :16:56.judiciary and the executive and the legislature, all around Parliament

:16:57. > :17:00.Square. It was a real attack on the centre of our national life, on our

:17:01. > :17:03.democracy. I appreciate your time this morning. The Dean of

:17:04. > :17:09.Westminster, thank you so much. And that service at Westminster

:17:10. > :17:12.Abbey will be broadcast on BBC One You're watching

:17:13. > :17:18.Breakfast from BBC News. The UN Security Council is to hold

:17:19. > :17:23.emergency talks after a suspected chemical attack in Syria left dozens

:17:24. > :17:27.of civilians dead and wounded. Theresa May has suggested

:17:28. > :17:29.that the free movement of EU citizens into the UK could continue

:17:30. > :17:40.for a period of time after Brexit. Here's Carol with a look

:17:41. > :17:49.at this morning's weather. Good morning. We've got some

:17:50. > :17:56.beautiful weather watcher pictures this morning. This one from

:17:57. > :18:00.Guernsey, Guernsey, lovely sunrise. If you have an allergy, tree pollen

:18:01. > :18:07.will be causing you problems this morning. Docking of high pressure,

:18:08. > :18:11.it is dominating our weather and will continue to do so right away to

:18:12. > :18:14.the weekend. The weather remains settled and samey except for across

:18:15. > :18:20.the Northern Isles, where it is still very windy. This morning,

:18:21. > :18:24.there has been a cold start across parts of England and Wales, with

:18:25. > :18:29.clear skies and the touch of frost. The cloud will be moving southwards.

:18:30. > :18:33.By the time we get to mid-afternoon, parts of south-east England are

:18:34. > :18:35.hanging onto the sunshine. A little more cloud developing during the

:18:36. > :18:41.afternoon but a lot of it will be high-level cloud. Across the Isle of

:18:42. > :18:45.Wight, the Isles of Scilly in south-west England, the same. South

:18:46. > :18:50.Wales will see sunshine but a bit more cloud across the west of Wales.

:18:51. > :18:54.Moving into Cheshire, when Fisher and Cumbria, more cloud. Equally,

:18:55. > :18:59.there will be some holes here and there. After this morning's showers

:19:00. > :19:02.in Northern Ireland, many of them feeding and limited sunny spells.

:19:03. > :19:07.Western Scotland will see a lot of showers feeding as well put the

:19:08. > :19:11.brighter skies will be in the East. Perhaps 14 or 15 Celsius. And it is

:19:12. > :19:16.the same across north-east England. We'll see the brightest skies with

:19:17. > :19:21.more cloud elsewhere. Even so, there will still be some holes. These are

:19:22. > :19:25.the temperatures you expect. In the sunshine in Cardiff, it could hit 15

:19:26. > :19:30.or 16, for example. Overnight, we are expecting frost in the eastern

:19:31. > :19:33.parts of Scotland, south Wales and the south-west. But tomorrow and

:19:34. > :19:38.Friday, the weather will be quite samey. Largely dry with sunny spells

:19:39. > :19:42.and variable amounts of cloud. So that leads us into the weekend. High

:19:43. > :19:48.pressure will become ensconced across us. The warmest day of the

:19:49. > :19:51.weekend will be Sunday but on Saturday and Sunday with weather

:19:52. > :19:56.close to the North west, we will see more cloud here and also some

:19:57. > :19:59.showers. But we are pulling in milder air. 22 Celsius is absolutely

:20:00. > :20:04.feasible across central, southern and eastern parts of England. Where

:20:05. > :20:09.we hang onto the shoulder conditions, we are more likely to

:20:10. > :20:14.see 13. After a chilly start on Saturday, for many parts of the UK

:20:15. > :20:17.will see sunshine coming through. In the sunshine, we will see the

:20:18. > :20:21.highest temperatures. Across the north-west, we will hang onto cloud.

:20:22. > :20:27.Showers at times with some bright spots. On Sunday, starting off on a

:20:28. > :20:35.chilly note. But look at the sunshine across England, Wales and

:20:36. > :20:39.eastern Scotland. With a weather front close by, we're seeing more

:20:40. > :20:43.cloud in the north-west. But still, some brightness. Not as warm. And if

:20:44. > :20:46.you do not like it that warm, well, in the early part of next week it

:20:47. > :20:53.will turn more unsettled and the temperatures will come back down.

:20:54. > :21:01.Something for everyone. And I did see that 22, Carol!

:21:02. > :21:07.Bennies wearing hive is jackets and goggles today, talking about how

:21:08. > :21:17.businesses become more productive. -- Ben has gone all hi-vis. It is

:21:18. > :21:23.all about increasing productivity. There is a tendency to look at

:21:24. > :21:26.machines like this as replacing human jobs but it is about

:21:27. > :21:30.increasing productivity because of all the Lee McCulloch these machines

:21:31. > :21:34.are doing the jobs that humans do not necessarily want to, or that are

:21:35. > :21:40.not necessarily the best use of their time. It is about freeing up

:21:41. > :21:43.human power to go and do other jobs that add more value to the business.

:21:44. > :21:48.These machines around us and to the productivity and help to solve the

:21:49. > :21:52.productivity puzzle in the UK, about why the UK is still way down the

:21:53. > :21:56.rankings, behind the US, France and Germany when it comes to

:21:57. > :21:59.productivity, and why it is not just about asking us all to work harder,

:22:00. > :22:05.it is about getting us to work smarter, too. Joe, good morning. Why

:22:06. > :22:09.is it that the UK is still so far down the league table of

:22:10. > :22:13.productivity? We do not have policies in place in this country to

:22:14. > :22:18.preside incentives to firms to do what this country has done,

:22:19. > :22:24.investing in new technology. -- to provide incentives. We are working

:22:25. > :22:28.in the right direction here but we do not have an industrial strategy.

:22:29. > :22:34.Instead we have had austerity, and credit driven growth. All of the big

:22:35. > :22:40.pieces of the policy puzzle is just not there. There is a tendency to

:22:41. > :22:43.think that robots will just replace humans and the humans will get fired

:22:44. > :22:50.and unemployment will go up but it is really about using human skills

:22:51. > :22:56.and upscaling that workforce, isn't it? That is the key question. What

:22:57. > :23:00.happens to the people you replace with robots. Do you train them up,

:23:01. > :23:08.do they learn to do more skilled work or to they end up out of the

:23:09. > :23:13.sector, maybe in a lower skilled sector, making coffee or flipping

:23:14. > :23:16.burgers? In the long-term, technology ends to higher

:23:17. > :23:20.productivity but it is not always automatic. And the key to all of

:23:21. > :23:23.this, why we need to get about this, is that higher productivity should

:23:24. > :23:28.mean higher wages and higher wages should mean that living standards go

:23:29. > :23:31.up. That has not happened because as you heard, it is still pretty

:23:32. > :23:35.sluggish in this country. We will talk more in half an hour about how

:23:36. > :23:42.the UK can solve that productivity puzzle. Thank you very much, Ben.

:23:43. > :23:44.Back to our main story now and the Syrian government has

:23:45. > :23:46.been accused of brutal, unabashed barbarism,

:23:47. > :23:49.after a suspected gas attack in north Syria in which at least 70

:23:50. > :23:57.Foreign Minister Boris Johnson has joined

:23:58. > :24:00.the United States and France in calling on the UN to order

:24:01. > :24:03.This morning, Russia claimed the incident was caused

:24:04. > :24:05.by the bombing of a rebel-held chemical weapons depot.

:24:06. > :24:07.But earlier on Breakfast, Professor Alastair Hay

:24:08. > :24:14.from Leeds University told us this was highly improbable.

:24:15. > :24:19.There is no evidence that I am aware of that the rebels have had access

:24:20. > :24:24.to chemical agents or chemical weapons. The Syrian regime should

:24:25. > :24:29.have disarmed. That was required to do this under a treaty that it

:24:30. > :24:35.entered into in 2013. So it should have disarmed. But there are many,

:24:36. > :24:38.many questions. What is the province of this particular weapon, who

:24:39. > :24:39.supplied it and where did they get the material? Lots of unanswered

:24:40. > :24:47.questions. We're joined now by President of

:24:48. > :24:50.the Syrian American Medical Society, Dr Ahmad Tarajki who's

:24:51. > :24:54.in California this morning. We have seen some very harrowing

:24:55. > :24:58.images on our TV screens of the immediate aftermath. What are you

:24:59. > :25:06.making of what you have seen and heard so far? Thank you for posting

:25:07. > :25:10.me. Unfortunately the situation is very horrific, as you referred to.

:25:11. > :25:21.Over the last week, the frequent incidents of attacks, from a mixture

:25:22. > :25:24.of chlorine gas and what looks like Syrian products, has called

:25:25. > :25:28.civilians and civil society to be very horrified. We have been

:25:29. > :25:33.alarming the national community about such an attack. As we have

:25:34. > :25:37.experienced before over the last few years, usually those attacks will

:25:38. > :25:40.start on a smaller scale, as if the regime is testing the water of what

:25:41. > :25:44.the international community will respond to. And with the absence of

:25:45. > :25:47.responses, the attacks have increased and now we have larger

:25:48. > :25:54.scale attacks. To increase the fatalities of these attacks, the

:25:55. > :25:57.regime unfortunately attacked the hospitals that have experience in

:25:58. > :26:07.dealing with patients who are exposed to chemical attacks. That is

:26:08. > :26:12.why we have seen attacks on this larger scale, and we have seen

:26:13. > :26:14.people in the streets because of a lack of infrastructure, the

:26:15. > :26:19.hospitals unable to treat them. Also, during the attacks themselves,

:26:20. > :26:23.we have seen how one of the hospitals was attacked, and also

:26:24. > :26:30.there was another attack, two attacks on to make units, the first

:26:31. > :26:36.responders, white helmet units. Can I just ask you, briefly, if I may,

:26:37. > :26:39.about the reaction you have heard so far and what hope you have that

:26:40. > :26:47.anything tangible will be done as a result of what has happened now?

:26:48. > :26:51.Certainly, we are looking at two levels. On the international

:26:52. > :26:57.platform, this is a major challenge to the United States and the UN

:26:58. > :27:04.Security Council. We heard two days ago from Ambassador Haley, as she

:27:05. > :27:12.was advancing the United States agenda of supporting international

:27:13. > :27:19.human rights and accountability. People are looking at the United

:27:20. > :27:23.States and what it achieved, what it promised two days ago. On the local

:27:24. > :27:29.level, inside Syria, people see this as part of the general agenda,

:27:30. > :27:35.displacing civil society, displacing people out of these towns. The

:27:36. > :27:42.scenario is made to continue to displace people, similar to what we

:27:43. > :27:50.saw in Mediya where people are being forced out of their towns,

:27:51. > :27:53.comparable to what is going on. Eventually, people are displaced out

:27:54. > :28:02.of the town and that displacement is what is causing... I appreciated but

:28:03. > :28:08.I'm sorry, we are out of time. -- I appreciate it. Thank you. There will

:28:09. > :28:11.be more on that throughout the day, including the BBC news channel.

:28:12. > :31:29.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:31:30. > :31:31.Now though, it's back to Charlie and Louise.

:31:32. > :31:41.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Louise Minchin.

:31:42. > :31:45.At least 72 people, including 20 children,

:31:46. > :31:48.are now thought to have been killed in a suspected chemical weapons

:31:49. > :31:50.attack on a rebel town in north-west Syria.

:31:51. > :31:53.The UK's Ambassador to the UN said it bore "all the hallmarks"

:31:54. > :31:56.of an attack by President Assad's regime, describing it as a war

:31:57. > :31:58.crime, but Russia has said the chemicals came from rebel

:31:59. > :32:04.Members of the UN Security Council will meet later for an emergency

:32:05. > :32:10.Speaking this morning, ahead of a conference

:32:11. > :32:12.on Syria in Brussels, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson

:32:13. > :32:18.He also joined the United States and France in calling on the UN

:32:19. > :32:24.I think what it shows is that this is a Government that has no

:32:25. > :32:43.I certainly think it will need to be investigated, and the question

:32:44. > :32:47.of culpability for what has been done will need to be established,

:32:48. > :32:52.and where it is possible to bring criminal prosecutions,

:32:53. > :32:54.as you suggest, that is certainly appropriate.

:32:55. > :33:00.confirms to everybody is that this is a barbaric regime that has made

:33:01. > :33:03.it impossible for us to imagine them continuing to be an authority over

:33:04. > :33:05.the people of Syria after this conflict is over.

:33:06. > :33:10.I simply don't see how that can happen.

:33:11. > :33:13.The Prime Minister has indicated that free movement of EU citizens

:33:14. > :33:16.across British frontiers may need to continue in some

:33:17. > :33:18.form after Brexit. Theresa May explained that

:33:19. > :33:20.while immigration would be under British control from the moment

:33:21. > :33:28.the UK left the EU, there would need to be a period of implementation.

:33:29. > :33:30.Labour has failed the Jewish community by not expelling

:33:31. > :33:33.Ken Livingstone from the party, according to the Chief

:33:34. > :33:38.The former Mayor of London was yesterday given a further

:33:39. > :33:39.one-year suspension for claiming Hitler supported

:33:40. > :33:46.A child has suffered life-threatening injuries

:33:47. > :33:54.The attack happened in Chatham yesterday afternoon.

:33:55. > :33:57.Two people have been arrested over the incident, and the dog

:33:58. > :34:03.A Parliamentary report has called for radical changes

:34:04. > :34:06.to the NHS in England, saying there's been a shocking lack

:34:07. > :34:08.of long-term strategic planning. A committee of medical experts

:34:09. > :34:10.and peers suggest the health service needs better

:34:11. > :34:13.The Government says more money has been committed

:34:14. > :34:25.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge will attend what's being called

:34:26. > :34:29.a Service of Hope for the victims of the

:34:30. > :34:32.Around 2000 people will be in the congregation

:34:33. > :34:35.Families of the victims, faith leaders and representatives

:34:36. > :34:37.from the emergency services will be among the guests.

:34:38. > :34:39.Drivers of diesel cars, who are facing new charges

:34:40. > :34:41.and restrictions in cities across the UK, could

:34:42. > :34:43.receive compensation. The government is expected to reveal

:34:44. > :34:45.a new plan to improve air quality later this month.

:34:46. > :34:48.This morning there are hints the proposals could include extra

:34:49. > :34:57.A rare pink diamond has become the most expensive gemstone

:34:58. > :35:13.We talk about this thing often, but the prices just go up and up. Look

:35:14. > :35:16.at that! Is that really worth ?57 million quid Lexmark. It is an

:35:17. > :35:18.extraordinary amount of money. The 60-carat Pink Star fetched

:35:19. > :35:29.more than ?57 million A modest looking thing, isn't it?!

:35:30. > :35:33.Honestly, I'm so ignorant about diamonds, I could possibly not

:35:34. > :35:39.notice it. I'm serious, apart from the fact that it is big, I might

:35:40. > :35:44.just think, that's a bit bling! It is that, also very expensive.

:35:45. > :35:48.Let's see what's coming up with Victoria Derbyshire on BBC Two.

:35:49. > :35:55.We have an exclusive interview with the woman who violent and abusive ex

:35:56. > :35:59.has been subject to the first ever court order forcing him to tell the

:36:00. > :36:02.police if he gets a new girlfriend. She urges women in a similar

:36:03. > :36:06.relationship to find the strength to turn their back on it. You can lose

:36:07. > :36:14.a lot, and you can lose your children, your wife, yourself. --

:36:15. > :36:17.your life. Join us for the full interview.

:36:18. > :36:25.And coming up here on Breakfast this morning...

:36:26. > :36:32.Harder, faster, smarter working. We are discovering how British

:36:33. > :36:36.businesses are trying to boost productivity.

:36:37. > :36:38.Half century after the release of Sergeant Pepper, we'll look

:36:39. > :36:40.at whether things have been "Getting Better" over

:36:41. > :36:50.After 9am, the presenter and author Dawn O'Porter

:36:51. > :36:53.will be here to tell us about her new novel, Cows,

:36:54. > :36:56.and why she believes women are under too much pressure to follow

:36:57. > :37:03.First, though, all of the sport with cat.

:37:04. > :37:10.There was a time when Old Trafford was a fortress, but nowadays you are

:37:11. > :37:13.more likely to see a dull draw. As so many times this season,

:37:14. > :37:16.Manchester United had to rely His penalty in injury time secured

:37:17. > :37:20.a 1-1 draw at home to Everton. The visitors took the lead

:37:21. > :37:22.when captain Phil Jagielka But United persisted,

:37:23. > :37:26.and when Ashley Williams handled the ball in injury time,

:37:27. > :37:29.he was sent off, a penalty was It's an amazing run

:37:30. > :37:45.of 20 matches unbeaten, but too many draws at home,

:37:46. > :37:49.and because of that we are in a position that we are,

:37:50. > :37:52.because we have the spirit, Not today, we didn't create

:37:53. > :37:57.a lot today, but we don't Sunderland issued a statement ahead

:37:58. > :38:05.of their match against Leicester saying they fully supported

:38:06. > :38:07.their manager, David Moyes, following his controversial comments

:38:08. > :38:09.to a female BBC reporter. On the field, Moyes's

:38:10. > :38:11.problems continue - his side lost 2-0 at Leicester

:38:12. > :38:13.and so remain bottom Islam Slimani and Jamie Vardy scored

:38:14. > :38:19.the goals for Leicester. Burnley ended a run of seven

:38:20. > :38:22.games without a win George Boyd scored

:38:23. > :38:25.the game's only goal. Elsewhere, Watford

:38:26. > :38:28.beat West Brom 2-0. There's six Premier League

:38:29. > :38:32.matches this evening. In Scotland, Celtic have already won

:38:33. > :38:35.the Premiership title - and Aberdeen are well placed

:38:36. > :38:38.to finish runners-up. They beat Inverness 1-0 last night,

:38:39. > :38:41.to move 13 points clear Elsewhere, Ross County have

:38:42. > :38:44.moved above Dundee to 8th The Republic of Ireland

:38:45. > :38:53.women's football team have threatened to strike in a row

:38:54. > :38:57.over their treatment by the Football Association of Ireland,

:38:58. > :38:59.which could see their match with Slovakia next

:39:00. > :39:01.Monday called off. A group of 13 players held a press

:39:02. > :39:03.conference yesterday They want compensation for lost

:39:04. > :39:07.earnings while on international The FAI says it's deeply

:39:08. > :39:12.disappointed because it has made repeated offers to discuss payment

:39:13. > :39:18.and compensation. Defending champion Heather Watson

:39:19. > :39:24.is into the second round of the Monterey Open

:39:25. > :39:26.following a three-set win Watson squandered two opportunities

:39:27. > :39:29.to wrap up the match in the second set tie break,

:39:30. > :39:34.and wasn't too pleased to lose it. A single break in the final set

:39:35. > :39:39.helped seal the match and setup a second round meeting with sixth

:39:40. > :39:49.seed Ekaterina Makerova. Heather Watson... Did she get in

:39:50. > :39:55.trouble for that? She will, she will have been given a court violation.

:39:56. > :40:02.She won't have lost any points, but you do get a chord violation. It was

:40:03. > :40:08.a proper hammering! But tennis racket knew it was in trouble! --

:40:09. > :40:15.that tennis racket. How do you feel about a driverless car? I like the

:40:16. > :40:21.idea of being asleep whilst I'll is like I'm being driven. I'm not sure

:40:22. > :40:24.you are allowed to sleep! Normally I sleep in the car anyway but I feel

:40:25. > :40:28.guilty because the driver has to stay awake. If it is a driverless

:40:29. > :40:37.car, everybody can have a lovely snooze. All is that not allowed?

:40:38. > :40:42.Driverless cars look set to play a crucial role in getting us from A to

:40:43. > :40:47.B. How ready are we to trust a car that drives itself. Fiona is that a

:40:48. > :40:53.project in East London. You are able to show as how a driverless car

:40:54. > :40:58.works? I can. In two cycles. First of all, I can take you to the skies.

:40:59. > :41:03.You can see the plane above me and the cable car. If we go back down to

:41:04. > :41:07.the water, their river buses and taxis, there is the tube and the

:41:08. > :41:13.trains. If you spin round here you can see the driverless pods. The

:41:14. > :41:16.sensors at the front, the cameras, that is how it works. Before we show

:41:17. > :41:19.you inside, we have grabbed this gentleman of the street this

:41:20. > :41:24.morning. We want to find out, how would you feel about getting in

:41:25. > :41:29.this? I'd be very interested. What is it, what its purpose was the

:41:30. > :41:36.local well, it is a you can get in, do your work, have a sleep would you

:41:37. > :41:41.like that or not? That would be very nice. Who controls it? We are going

:41:42. > :41:46.to find out. Would you trust it? Yes, I would. The thumbs up from

:41:47. > :41:53.him, thank you very much. Let's have a look inside. The door is open for

:41:54. > :41:57.us. We come inside, and, well, it's quite small inside. Just to let you

:41:58. > :42:02.know, at the moment they are trialling these. 100 people can have

:42:03. > :42:06.a go for the next two kilometres and test it and see what they think.

:42:07. > :42:11.First of all we need to find out how it works. How does it work? It uses

:42:12. > :42:15.a combination of cameras and lasers to understand where it is and how it

:42:16. > :42:28.needs to move to get to its destination. What every body wants

:42:29. > :42:31.to know is, how safe is it? If a cat or a dog or a pedestrian while to

:42:32. > :42:34.run in front of us, what would happen? We have done a programme of

:42:35. > :42:37.tests of Street and in this environment to make sure it behaves

:42:38. > :42:39.as we expect it to. The lasers and cameras pick up all of the movement

:42:40. > :42:42.and make predictions so that the vehicle can stop safely should it

:42:43. > :42:45.need to. How quickly can it stop? If a cat was in front of us, can it

:42:46. > :42:49.stop right now? Yes, it will slow down as quickly as it possibly can.

:42:50. > :42:53.It is not magic. If something were to stop out at the very last minute

:42:54. > :42:58.it cannot respond to that. But where it can make the predictions it can

:42:59. > :43:02.stop successfully. Obviously it is a trial at the moment. But how soon I

:43:03. > :43:08.going to see these ports on our streets and by hailing these? We

:43:09. > :43:11.need to understand what the public makes of these vehicles, what are

:43:12. > :43:14.their hopes and ambitions. She mean they are positive and they would

:43:15. > :43:19.like to see these vehicles with a couple of years you can see this

:43:20. > :43:24.becoming a commercial service -- assuming they are positive. How soon

:43:25. > :43:30.is it before we will be ditching our cars, is that a reality? We will be

:43:31. > :43:34.swapping our cars for one of these? Particularly in cities you can see

:43:35. > :43:39.they are safe, clean, affordable and accessible. It will not be necessary

:43:40. > :43:42.for people to own and use their own private cars. How that plays out

:43:43. > :43:46.across the whole country, there will be different use cases in different

:43:47. > :43:52.environments. Certainly as a safer form of transport, this is one part

:43:53. > :43:57.of the future. Just give me a timescale? I think we're already

:43:58. > :44:01.seeing people choosing not to take their drivers tests and find other

:44:02. > :44:05.ways to achieve their mobility, and this type of vehicle can support

:44:06. > :44:09.that. Over the next few years it is much less likely people will want to

:44:10. > :44:12.use their own cars, particularly in cities. Gradually that will move

:44:13. > :44:17.into other environments as well. The gentleman there gave up as the

:44:18. > :44:20.thumbs up. I was asking my taxi driver how would he feel about being

:44:21. > :44:24.replaced. He wasn't overjoyed about the idea but he said that when

:44:25. > :44:29.people get into his taxi they love to talk to him and share their

:44:30. > :44:33.problems. Will it be quite a lonely experience coming in one of these by

:44:34. > :44:39.yourself? By yourself, it would be. But on a long motorway journeys it

:44:40. > :44:43.would allow families to talk and play games. It would release time

:44:44. > :44:47.spent driving for productive and social uses, that is an exciting

:44:48. > :44:53.future. Just tell us the hurdles you have in the way before we are all

:44:54. > :44:56.effectively moving around in these pods? Somebody was saying it is all

:44:57. > :44:59.to do with the data network. Can you explain about the hurdles you have

:45:00. > :45:04.to go through before this could become a reality? There are number

:45:05. > :45:06.of hurdles, some of them technical, some of the regular trick, but also

:45:07. > :45:19.the public. We need to understand the public's

:45:20. > :45:22.perception and how they would adapt to the use of automated vehicles

:45:23. > :45:25.whether it is an cities or motorways. That is what we are doing

:45:26. > :45:27.in these trials, engaging with the public so they can offer their views

:45:28. > :45:29.and have a real experience of driving in an automated vehicle and

:45:30. > :45:32.give us some feedback. The statistics say that 95% of all road

:45:33. > :45:36.accidents are down to human error. Could this driverless pod by our

:45:37. > :45:42.future? Fear no, I'm sure lots of people have got lots of questions.

:45:43. > :45:46.-- Fiona. They are ridiculing me for thinking this, but if that pod you

:45:47. > :45:49.are in, the driverless car, if a dustbin happened to be in its wake,

:45:50. > :45:53.as you were doing too little journey, would it just stopped and

:45:54. > :45:58.wait like a stalemate or would it navigate around it?

:45:59. > :46:07.I am going to put this to the expert. They want to know if there

:46:08. > :46:16.was a dustbin in front of us, would the sensors be able to navigate

:46:17. > :46:20.around? For the purposes of these trials, if there was an unexpected

:46:21. > :46:24.obstacle, the vehicle would stop. We are not offering a commercial

:46:25. > :46:27.service. We can manage that situation. In the future as

:46:28. > :46:32.technology becomes more sophisticated, we can find ways of

:46:33. > :46:37.navigating around that obstacle. I would probably have to physically

:46:38. > :46:42.move it if there was a dustbin at the moment. But going forward, these

:46:43. > :46:47.pods would be advanced enough to be able to navigate around. Does that

:46:48. > :46:53.answer your question? Absolutely. You are laughing at me! Dustbins are

:46:54. > :46:59.a part of the life we live. If they get in the road, what would happen?

:47:00. > :47:05.One day hopefully they will be able to get past the bins. Are there

:47:06. > :47:11.could be another industry in bin moving. Very technological things

:47:12. > :47:30.confounded by basic stuff. Have you got any answers, Carol?

:47:31. > :47:34.No, but I can tell you it is getting warmer and especially by the time

:47:35. > :47:37.you get to Sunday. A chilly start in rural areas this morning. Beautiful

:47:38. > :47:44.Weather Watchers picture. Look at that sky. A lovely start to the day.

:47:45. > :47:50.If you have an allergy to pollen, at the moment the pollen levels are

:47:51. > :47:54.high across South Wales, south-west England, the Channel Islands, East

:47:55. > :47:58.Anglia and the south-east. As we go through the next few days as high

:47:59. > :48:02.pressure remains firmly in charge, things remain settled. It will get

:48:03. > :48:07.warmer. Pollen levels across England and Wales will be high by the time

:48:08. > :48:10.you get to Sunday. Today what we have got, strong winds across the

:48:11. > :48:15.Northern Isles. They will ease during the day. A veil of cloud

:48:16. > :48:24.which will meander south during the day. Some will see some sunny skies.

:48:25. > :48:28.We will hang on to it in north-west Scotland and South Wales. By the

:48:29. > :48:32.time you get to the afternoon, we are looking at some sunshine. The

:48:33. > :48:37.same across the Channel Islands, into the south-west and the Isles of

:48:38. > :48:41.Scilly. As we push into Wales, South Wales will see the sunshine. More

:48:42. > :48:46.cloud in the west Wales, the Midlands and North West England. The

:48:47. > :48:51.Isle of Man will see some cloud this afternoon, as will Northern Ireland.

:48:52. > :48:57.There will be some holes punched in the cloud, so some will see some

:48:58. > :49:00.sunny spells. Showers easing in western and northern Scotland. It is

:49:01. > :49:04.eastern Scotland who will hang onto the sunshine, as were parts of

:49:05. > :49:11.north-east England and the North Midlands. We will see some holes

:49:12. > :49:17.punched in that cloud. Temperatures, 11 to 14. In the sunshine we could

:49:18. > :49:21.see higher. Cardiff could hit 15 or 16. Tonight we're looking at a touch

:49:22. > :49:26.of frost across eastern Scotland, South Wales and south-west England.

:49:27. > :49:30.Leading us into the forecast for tomorrow and Friday, which is

:49:31. > :49:37.similar to today. Largely dry, sunny spells, variable cloud. As we head

:49:38. > :49:44.into the weekend, high pressure becomes as ensconced. Things remain

:49:45. > :49:51.unsettled. It will be breezier. More cloud, rain and showers. Look at the

:49:52. > :49:54.direction of the isobars. A warm direction. The forecast has just

:49:55. > :49:59.been updated. If you are watching earlier, you will notice this

:50:00. > :50:03.temperature has climbed by 1 degrees. Across Central, eastern and

:50:04. > :50:09.southern England, we could hit 23 Celsius. But under the cloud and the

:50:10. > :50:14.showers in the north-west, it will be a fresher 13. It will not last

:50:15. > :50:21.into next week though. I'll take 23!

:50:22. > :50:23.50 years ago, Paul McCartney first sang, "It's getting

:50:24. > :50:25.better all the time" - an optimistic message which

:50:26. > :50:30.All this week, we've been looking at the legacy

:50:31. > :50:35.of The Beatles' record Sergeant Peppers Lonely

:50:36. > :50:39.Today, Breakfast's Graham Satchell has been looking at whether things

:50:40. > :50:41.have continued to "get better" ever since those lyrics

:50:42. > :50:49.# It's getting better all the time #.

:50:50. > :50:54.It was the year of the Summer of Love.

:50:55. > :50:56.VOICEOVER: Swinging London, it's been called...

:50:57. > :50:59.The Beatles' song Getting Better seemed to sum up the progressive

:51:00. > :51:04.We're listening to the track with three people who

:51:05. > :51:12.When you say the 60s, people, immediately, it's the Beatles.

:51:13. > :51:18.VOICEOVER: Twiggy makes everyone look twice.

:51:19. > :51:28.I think, amongst my friends and young people,

:51:29. > :51:32.that it was getting better because we suddenly had a voice.

:51:33. > :51:38.Norman Tebbit was a pilot in 1967, but already planning

:51:39. > :51:45.I took the view at that time that a lot of things were getting worse.

:51:46. > :51:51.That the industrial scene was getting worse and worse.

:51:52. > :51:55.Greater and greater number of days lost in strikes.

:51:56. > :51:57.Every international car company with a factory

:51:58. > :52:09.In 1967, things were so bad I couldn't think that much ahead.

:52:10. > :52:13.Norwell Roberts was the first black police officer in the Met.

:52:14. > :52:16.What was said to him by fellow officers in 1967 was shocking,

:52:17. > :52:25.Because, when I met one of our reporting sergeants,

:52:26. > :52:28.he said to me, "Look, you BLEEP, I'll see to it that

:52:29. > :52:33.I mean, today, those words hurt, don't they?

:52:34. > :52:41.Oh, those words hurt in 1967, and they still hurt now.

:52:42. > :52:44.When he first went on the beat, Norwell was stared at by white

:52:45. > :52:46.people, called Judas by some in the black community.

:52:47. > :52:50.Progress has been slow, but he says of course race

:52:51. > :52:56.I don't get stared at, put it this way, I don't get stared

:52:57. > :52:58.at too much now walking down the road.

:52:59. > :53:00.Well, thank god for small mercies then!

:53:01. > :53:04.1967 was the year homosexuality was decriminalised, abortion

:53:05. > :53:08.And while Getting Better sounds like a simple,

:53:09. > :53:10.upbeat pop song, some of the lyrics are brutally honest.

:53:11. > :53:18.# I used to be cruel to my woman and beat her and get her apart

:53:19. > :53:27.I'd forgot that last verse is quite dark, you know.

:53:28. > :53:29.It's much better for women now, and it's much better for,

:53:30. > :53:35.you know, gay people, all around the world,

:53:36. > :53:42.For traditionalists, the back-end of the 60s

:53:43. > :53:47.I think we were beginning to see the damage which was being

:53:48. > :53:50.done to the institution of marriage, for example.

:53:51. > :53:52.Of course, some things are getting better.

:53:53. > :53:55.Refrigerators work better, central heating is better,

:53:56. > :53:58.clothes washers are better, all those sort of things

:53:59. > :54:08.We have to be optimistic, otherwise I don't know what we'd do.

:54:09. > :54:23.It can't get no worse, as the Beatles said in 1967.

:54:24. > :54:27.I think we can all agree that fridges have probably got better.

:54:28. > :54:30.That was Graham Satchell trying find out whether things have got better

:54:31. > :54:33.Someone who might just know the answer is Yaw Owusu,

:54:34. > :54:34.creative director of Liverpool International

:54:35. > :54:45.Anybody looking at you will realise that probably the Beatles, you

:54:46. > :54:51.weren't around when this album first came out. How much does it mean to

:54:52. > :54:54.you? I think the Beatles generally, someone growing up in Liverpool and

:54:55. > :54:59.someone involved in the music industry, especially coming from the

:55:00. > :55:04.region, they are global artists. But more than that, inspirational. You

:55:05. > :55:09.always knew of the power of the Beatles growing up. I've travelled

:55:10. > :55:14.around the world. You realise it even more. They are almost like the

:55:15. > :55:19.gateway to Liverpool. If people don't know Liverpool or the UK, you

:55:20. > :55:24.mention the Beatles and everybody understands. It gives context. Once

:55:25. > :55:32.again, it opens a conversation to talk about new artists or new music

:55:33. > :55:36.forms. When you are doing your work as the international music Festival,

:55:37. > :55:42.that is a way of opening doors, is it? It is a starting point for any

:55:43. > :55:48.conversation? Anywhere in the world. I have worked in Africa, America,

:55:49. > :55:50.across Europe. The Beatles are a great way of starting conversation.

:55:51. > :55:58.Last year I was doing documentary work in Jamaica. The connections

:55:59. > :56:03.between the Beatles and Kingston are strong. It shows that if an artist

:56:04. > :56:08.comes from a place, a small place like Liverpool in context of other

:56:09. > :56:13.cities across the world, you can impact the world culturally by Group

:56:14. > :56:18.great at what you do. -- by being great. It continues to take artists

:56:19. > :56:23.from the city around the world. And of course it brings people to not

:56:24. > :56:28.just Liverpool, but the UK? One interesting statistic, the city of

:56:29. > :56:34.Liverpool did a report last year on the economic benefit of the Beatles.

:56:35. > :56:40.It brings 82 million IU to the city of Liverpool from tourism alone.

:56:41. > :56:48.That's amazing. To this day, 50 plus years on. We -- We have picked up on

:56:49. > :56:52.a particular lyric today. Getting better all the time. Can you imagine

:56:53. > :57:00.there are songs been written right now that people will be analysing

:57:01. > :57:02.the lyrics of in 50 years? Some of the Beatles lyrics have a real

:57:03. > :57:09.significance. We study them. I hope so. People always say, every

:57:10. > :57:14.generation, the music is not as good as it was in my time. I'm starting

:57:15. > :57:18.to say that now. I would hope so. There are a lot of great artists who

:57:19. > :57:24.have a lot to say. Their music and lyrics will be studied in the

:57:25. > :57:27.future. But the Beatles did a number of significant albums and a number

:57:28. > :57:32.of significant songs, as was kind of the trend between the 50s, 60s and

:57:33. > :57:38.70s, there was a a lot going on. What the young audiences make of the

:57:39. > :57:43.Beatles? A lot of the artist I work with see them as an inspiration. The

:57:44. > :57:46.result was a question of whether the Beatles overshadowed some of the

:57:47. > :57:49.music that came out of Liverpool. I would argue that it hasn't.

:57:50. > :57:56.Liverpool has always produced great music. And now new artists. Standing

:57:57. > :58:02.on the shoulders of giants you can see a bit further. It allows people

:58:03. > :58:05.to go, you are from the place where the Beatles are from? Maybe I will

:58:06. > :58:12.give that a listen. That's amazing. You see it in New York, Manchester,

:58:13. > :58:16.London... We have the greatest beacon in terms of the Beatles.

:58:17. > :58:20.Looking at some of the imagery behind us. Sergeant Peppers

:58:21. > :58:25.particularly, it was quite a wild time. People felt quite free. That

:58:26. > :58:28.hippie vibe. Is that something you can relate to? Does it feel like

:58:29. > :58:35.something that is completely alien to the way we lead our lives now?

:58:36. > :58:39.Nun, I think is right there. Look at how young artists and creatives,

:58:40. > :58:43.look at how the Internet has levelled the playing field. People

:58:44. > :58:49.can make independent films that do really well, shoot music videos on

:58:50. > :58:53.their equipment. Free speech, free art is probably the highest it has

:58:54. > :58:57.ever been. Consumption is at the highest it's ever been. You can put

:58:58. > :59:02.stuff out there? You don't have to have it vetted. You don't have to go

:59:03. > :59:05.through majors. I can put something on iTunes and it will be out

:59:06. > :59:09.tomorrow. That is a certain amount of power, which allows people to be

:59:10. > :59:14.honest in their art. The Beatles done it great when they done it with

:59:15. > :59:18.Sergeant Peppers. But right now, a lot of artists are doing that and

:59:19. > :59:22.can take that spirit, which is the key from what the Beatles done, this

:59:23. > :59:26.album and in particular, the spirit of being able to go, we have diverse

:59:27. > :59:31.interests and we're going to pull from them and do a piece of music

:59:32. > :59:37.that is honest and bold. Any artist should be inspired by that.

:59:38. > :59:40.Our Sergeant Peppers series continues tomorrow,

:59:41. > :59:42.when we'll be talking about the song that must have soundtracked

:59:43. > :59:45.thousands of school reunions - With a Little Help from My Friends.

:59:46. > :59:48.New figures out this morning are expected to show

:59:49. > :59:50.the productivity of British businesses continues to lag behind

:59:51. > :59:52.that of other countries, including Germany and the US.

:59:53. > :59:55.Why is that and what can be done about it?

:59:56. > :59:57.So, should we be working faster, harder, but also smarter,

:59:58. > :00:01.Ben is with a business in Tiverton in Devon to find out more.

:00:02. > :00:06.Good morning, welcome to Devon. We are talking about what you described

:00:07. > :00:10.there, what is known as the productivity puzzle. Why is the UK

:00:11. > :00:14.lagging behind other developed countries when it comes to how

:00:15. > :00:19.productive we are at work? I want to show you the league table. It's

:00:20. > :00:23.quite startling. We think we are redeveloped economy and doing pretty

:00:24. > :00:27.well, but we lag way behind our counterparts, places like the United

:00:28. > :00:35.States, France and Germany all ahead of us in the productivity stakes.

:00:36. > :00:37.It's a big challenge, but nobody is quite sure why we are not doing so

:00:38. > :00:40.well when it comes to how productively or as individuals. How

:00:41. > :00:43.much I were contributing to the economy each and every day that we

:00:44. > :00:46.go to work? Apparently it is not good enough. Firms need to start

:00:47. > :00:51.thinking about that ways of doing things. It is not just getting us to

:00:52. > :00:56.work harder, it is getting us to works model. Barry is the boss here,

:00:57. > :01:00.good morning. You guys have managed to produce productivity by all sorts

:01:01. > :01:04.of different methods -- work smarter. There are a lot of workers,

:01:05. > :01:12.but also a lot of robots too. We have invested in new machines, which

:01:13. > :01:16.help productivity. We also look at automation, robots loading machines.

:01:17. > :01:20.That has made a big difference in productivity. That is not just about

:01:21. > :01:25.sacking staff, it is about redeploying those staff. Rather than

:01:26. > :01:32.them doing more mundane jobs like stacking machine, that lets them do

:01:33. > :01:35.things that are profitable business. Exactly, people who would have been

:01:36. > :01:41.working on this machine have moved on to doing better things to help

:01:42. > :01:44.grow. We also help challenge the operators to programme machines,

:01:45. > :01:48.instead of just loading machines, it is programming the machines, and

:01:49. > :01:53.actually being part of adding more value, being decision-makers.

:01:54. > :01:57.Computers play a big role in that. Anything that is green is something

:01:58. > :02:01.you have got in stock, anything that is read is something you need to

:02:02. > :02:06.make. That takes away somebody will sitting down with a pen and paper

:02:07. > :02:13.and working this out stop Lord planners used to do the play sick --

:02:14. > :02:17.the basic planning, now the machine plans its own work and basically

:02:18. > :02:22.reacts to the live stocking situation, as you can see on the

:02:23. > :02:26.screen. Barry, thank you for having us. I want to introduce you to two

:02:27. > :02:32.other people. Good morning, guys. We talked about manufacturing, you can

:02:33. > :02:37.see what difference it makes to put robots into the plan. If you are a

:02:38. > :02:42.service company, it's a bit more difficult. If you are a bank, a

:02:43. > :02:45.hairdresser or a restaurant, how do you improve productivity in that

:02:46. > :02:48.industry? The key thing is to make sure you are recruiting the right

:02:49. > :02:53.people in the first place and managing them properly. Not being

:02:54. > :02:56.afraid to tackle issues at the earliest opportunity and giving your

:02:57. > :03:05.employees training and management skills to be able to in -- increase

:03:06. > :03:08.their productivity themselves. Many say that management skills are

:03:09. > :03:12.overlooked in this country anyway, you might get promoted but without

:03:13. > :03:16.any experience in managing and motivating and getting the best out

:03:17. > :03:20.of your workers. It's not just about making them do more hours and

:03:21. > :03:24.working hard. It is about working smarter rather than harder. It's

:03:25. > :03:27.about making sure that people have the skills on the training to do

:03:28. > :03:32.what they need to do, to fulfil whatever it is you are doing,

:03:33. > :03:39.whether it is he dressing, restaurants or whatever, making sure

:03:40. > :03:42.your employees know what is expected of them and you communicate with

:03:43. > :03:44.them. How do we make the country better and more productive? We

:03:45. > :03:48.talked about automation, some of it is about training, but we are still

:03:49. > :03:52.way behind the likes of the United States, France and Germany. Why?

:03:53. > :03:59.Almost all of the great that we have had in this country since the crisis

:04:00. > :04:04.has come from more labour falls use, none has come from output, and that

:04:05. > :04:09.is crucial. It is a combination of things. We have seen wages below

:04:10. > :04:14.where they were in 2008. There isn't any kind of static Thomaz Bellucci

:04:15. > :04:19.at the policy level, the Government level, -- there isn't kind of any

:04:20. > :04:24.strategy at the policy level, training and workforce and

:04:25. > :04:27.equipment. We have moved towards a low productivity, low-wage economy,

:04:28. > :04:33.and the policies haven't really been there to reverse that trade. Thank

:04:34. > :04:38.you. The real challenge is always about making sure that their staff

:04:39. > :04:41.are productive. If we improve productivity, in theory, as you

:04:42. > :04:46.heard from Joe, it also means improved wages. We all get paid a

:04:47. > :04:49.bit more, and living standards increased too because we are all a

:04:50. > :04:54.bit more well off. That hasn't been happening and it is a real problem

:04:55. > :04:57.is that the financial crisis, and firms are struggling to improve

:04:58. > :05:05.productivity, which is why it has been called by productivity puzzle.

:05:06. > :05:11.A lot of work to do, but hopefully some progress in places like this.

:05:12. > :05:18.Thank you, Ben. Backing me up on the fact that Daleks or able to get

:05:19. > :05:24.upstairs! It goes back to 1988, at some point the Dr was being chased,

:05:25. > :05:29.and somebody said, cunningly, go up the stairs, they will not get us!

:05:30. > :05:35.And then suddenly the Daleks begin to hover up the stairs on a band of

:05:36. > :05:39.red light. You even asked me how they did it, they did it on a band

:05:40. > :05:40.of red light! I'm so glad we sorted that out!

:05:41. > :05:43.In a moment, we'll be talking to the presenter and author

:05:44. > :05:45.Dawn O'Porter about the pressure on women in their 30s.

:05:46. > :07:29.Bye-bye. look at the headlines

:07:30. > :07:32.Welcome back, thank you for watching.

:07:33. > :07:35.A piece of meat, born to breed and past their sell-by-date.

:07:36. > :07:36.No, we're not talking about our bovine friends.

:07:37. > :07:39.This is how the presenter and author Dawn O'Porter worries women

:07:40. > :07:43.In her first adult novel, The Cows, she examines the pressures faced

:07:44. > :07:48.Dawn is here to explain why she believes it's OK

:07:49. > :07:58.Good morning. Can you explain that better than we Gestede? So, it's a

:07:59. > :08:03.book about the pressure on women to have children. I called it The Cows,

:08:04. > :08:08.the sole purpose of a cow, you know, in this world, is to reproduce and

:08:09. > :08:14.provide milk. And I think there is, in some echelons of society, there a

:08:15. > :08:17.similar view to what a woman's is. I just wanted to play with the idea

:08:18. > :08:22.that a lot of women don't want kids or can't have kids, and how we have

:08:23. > :08:26.to start considering that as more normal. A lot of women's route to

:08:27. > :08:30.become a mother isn't always, you know, find a man that you love and

:08:31. > :08:33.then have a baby. There are three different women in the book and they

:08:34. > :08:39.all have a different journey to how they become mothers not. And they

:08:40. > :08:42.are sort of, their slightly connected at the beginning. They are

:08:43. > :08:46.not friends, are they? I have read quite a lot of it, I'm guessing that

:08:47. > :08:51.they will become more connected. There is a connection, yes. Although

:08:52. > :08:54.when I was writing it, it was three different storylines, three

:08:55. > :08:58.different women, and that 1.I had to remind myself that they had to

:08:59. > :09:02.connect to make sense of the story, because they were going off in many

:09:03. > :09:07.different directions. I imagine one of them is more like you, or is

:09:08. > :09:10.there a part of you in all three of them? One is a successful blogger,

:09:11. > :09:18.one is a man who became pregnant after a one night stand, and one is

:09:19. > :09:23.a woman whose twin has died. There is an element of me in all of them.

:09:24. > :09:27.Stella had some tragedy in her life, which I had when I was young. Tara

:09:28. > :09:35.is a mother, and Camp is a content single child free blogger, which I

:09:36. > :09:41.probably would have become if I hadn't met my husband. They are all

:09:42. > :09:44.either if fantasy of me or a part of me, I have felt all of their

:09:45. > :09:48.feelings but I haven't lived their lives. There is a line about the

:09:49. > :09:53.question of, what do you see when you look in the mirror? One of the

:09:54. > :09:57.characters asked themselves. Is that something you do? Do you sort of, I

:09:58. > :10:00.mean, not literally look in the mirror, but the idea of thinking

:10:01. > :10:04.about who you are and what you were like? I think we put a lot of

:10:05. > :10:11.judgment about ourselves, the book is about the judgment we put on

:10:12. > :10:14.other people, but I was careful to make sure that it is about the

:10:15. > :10:17.judgment we put on ourselves as well. When you are judged by other

:10:18. > :10:19.people you get widget which and angry about it, but you are probably

:10:20. > :10:24.judging other people as well. It is this circle, we are in worst

:10:25. > :10:27.critics. It is hard to look at your reflection, you know, metaphorically

:10:28. > :10:33.or literally, and the really, really nice. But when I'm writing in the

:10:34. > :10:38.first person, I try to really get into the depth of the character and

:10:39. > :10:42.talk about how a woman, really, really analysers herself. Very often

:10:43. > :10:46.there is so much negativity. I did know why we do it to ourselves, we

:10:47. > :10:51.does do. The criticism of each other, you cover that in the book

:10:52. > :10:55.too. Very much so. There are school gate moments. The mother in the

:10:56. > :11:00.book, Tara, she feels very judged by the other mums, but there is a bit

:11:01. > :11:04.of a moment when she realises she is doing the same thing. I don't think

:11:05. > :11:07.it is realistic to say we should all stop judging each other, because

:11:08. > :11:12.it's impossible, it is barred of human nature. I think we should just

:11:13. > :11:16.be easy on each other. -- it is part of human nature. At a danger of

:11:17. > :11:21.being too generic about these things, but do you think women judge

:11:22. > :11:26.either themselves or one another more than men? I think so, I think

:11:27. > :11:29.it is a different kind of judgment. Mail judgment is more bravado, more

:11:30. > :11:34.of a power struggle. I think women's is a lot more detailed and intimate.

:11:35. > :11:39.I think women are hard on each other than men are

:11:40. > :11:47.you have already got a baby and you are having another one soon. Can I

:11:48. > :11:58.say hello to him! He has never seen me on TV! Hello Art! I wonder what

:11:59. > :12:02.his reaction will be. How old is he? He is two. It is going to be hard

:12:03. > :12:08.writing and looking after him. It is hard work. When he was in the house

:12:09. > :12:13.and I was in the house, I would get a few hours' childcare per day, you

:12:14. > :12:17.could hear him, you are pulled in two directions, I had to retrain my

:12:18. > :12:23.working brain completely after I had a kid. I'm OK now, like, I kind of

:12:24. > :12:27.have got into the flow of it. But at the start, you get four hours'

:12:28. > :12:38.childcare and then you're like, be creative, come up with an idea, I

:12:39. > :12:41.can't, I had not balance. In the end it came together. This being your

:12:42. > :12:44.first adult book, whose kind of verdict on it do either look forward

:12:45. > :12:47.to the most all dread the most all want someone to say, or do you

:12:48. > :12:50.think, I don't care, I like it and that is all that matters. I very

:12:51. > :12:54.much feel that if I am happy with it that is all that matters. I trust my

:12:55. > :12:58.editor, I work closely with her and I trust what she says. I never give

:12:59. > :13:04.anything to my friends or family. My husband Chris on you read it a few

:13:05. > :13:08.weeks ago, I give it to him with the final copy. He will. Throwing in

:13:09. > :13:12.ideas that sent me off on a tangent, then it is not my thing. So will he

:13:13. > :13:15.will be very clever, throwing in ideas. Lovely to see you this

:13:16. > :13:20.morning I'll be back with Sally

:13:21. > :13:28.from 6am tomorrow.