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:00:08. > :00:09.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Rachel Burden and Charlie

:00:10. > :00:12.The Conservatives try to play down speculation that taxes will rise

:00:13. > :00:17.Labour accuses the Government of planning a tax bombshell,

:00:18. > :00:20.while the Liberal Democrats say Theresa May intends to hit

:00:21. > :00:42.Good morning, it's Saturday the 22nd of April.

:00:43. > :00:44.50,000 police officers are deployed across France,

:00:45. > :00:47.as security is tightened ahead of the first round of voting

:00:48. > :00:54.in the country's presidential election.

:00:55. > :01:00.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as you've never heard them before,

:01:01. > :01:02.presenting the Chart Show while getting the message

:01:03. > :01:05.across to young people about their mental health campaign.

:01:06. > :01:08.In sport, Chelsea chase the double, the Premier League leaders take

:01:09. > :01:11.on their closes rivals Tottenham, in the first of this weekend's FA

:01:12. > :01:25.Good morning. We have a decent weekend in prospect. Plenty of dry

:01:26. > :01:29.weather and even some sunshine, there's a big change on the way for

:01:30. > :01:32.the start of next week. Something much colder on the way. All the

:01:33. > :01:33.details in about 15 minutes. The Conservatives are attempting

:01:34. > :01:37.to play down speculation that they will raise taxes

:01:38. > :01:42.if they win the general election. Yesterday, the Chancellor,

:01:43. > :01:45.Phillip Hammond, hinted that the Government might abandon

:01:46. > :01:48.the pledge made at the last election not to raise income tax,

:01:49. > :01:51.national insurance or VAT. Labour and the Liberal Democrats

:01:52. > :01:55.were quick to jump on what they saw as a change of policy,

:01:56. > :01:58.warning that tax rises lie ahead. Our political correspondent,

:01:59. > :02:08.Iain Watson, reports. The American Revolutionary Benjamin

:02:09. > :02:13.Franklin said that uncertainties were tax and death and commitments

:02:14. > :02:17.to push tax rates up can prove fatal to political campaigns. On a visit

:02:18. > :02:20.to the United States Philip Hammond criticised the constraints placed on

:02:21. > :02:25.him by his party's previous pledges on tax. All chancellors would prefer

:02:26. > :02:30.to have more flexible in how they manage the economy and how they

:02:31. > :02:36.manage the overall tax burden down, than to have their hands

:02:37. > :02:39.constrained. Then this happened. Even some Conservative supporting

:02:40. > :02:42.newspapers speculated that taxes would rise if the parties

:02:43. > :02:46.re-elected, so Conservative sources were swift to say that the

:02:47. > :02:50.Chancellor's comments should be seen as a hint of tax increases to come.

:02:51. > :02:54.What has been remarkable so early in the campaign has been the level of

:02:55. > :02:57.detail that emerged even before the manifesto is published. We already

:02:58. > :03:01.know the reason they will recommit to the international aid target,

:03:02. > :03:05.which some room for wriggling, and she says there will be increases in

:03:06. > :03:08.the state pension. Labour is committed to retain a policy of

:03:09. > :03:14.putting pensions up by a minimum of 2.5%. Theresa May seems incapable of

:03:15. > :03:18.answering any questions about protection of the triple lock on the

:03:19. > :03:23.state pension. Well, I give you that commitment now! Labour will maintain

:03:24. > :03:27.the triple lock! At the end of this first week of campaigning, policies

:03:28. > :03:28.are emerging and political battle lines are being drawn.

:03:29. > :03:31.In around 40 minutes we'll be speaking about the so-called triple

:03:32. > :03:33.lock on state pensions, and its chances of survival

:03:34. > :03:39.More than 50,000 troops are being deployed across France

:03:40. > :03:41.in preparation for voting in the country's presidential

:03:42. > :03:43.election after the killing of a police officer in Paris.

:03:44. > :03:45.Terrorism dominated the final day of campaigning

:03:46. > :03:48.after the shooting and security has been increased before polls

:03:49. > :04:00.The French prepare for an election organised under

:04:01. > :04:07.Armed police and gendarmes have been a common sight in the streets

:04:08. > :04:15.50,000 of them have been deployed across the country.

:04:16. > :04:23.The French are also used to that presence of soldiers patrolling

:04:24. > :04:25.their cities. When the campaign started,

:04:26. > :04:28.many in France believed it would be It turned out voters have

:04:29. > :04:32.so far been more concerned It remains unclear

:04:33. > :04:35.whether Thursday's attack will have a last-minute

:04:36. > :04:38.impact on people's choice. We've had enough of anxiety,

:04:39. > :04:41.and things like that, So just wanted to

:04:42. > :04:47.ignore it, personally. So maybe it will have an impact,

:04:48. > :04:51.but I don't know. TRANSLATION: I'm not worried

:04:52. > :04:53.about Sunday in particular, but I am worried, in

:04:54. > :04:56.general, for all of us. I just don't think our politicians

:04:57. > :04:59.really have a full grasp The most important, I think,

:05:00. > :05:03.it's economy, and economic recovery. The Champs-Elysees have reopened,

:05:04. > :05:15.and are bustling again. But, on the pavement,

:05:16. > :05:18.a reminder of the attack, in which a police officer was killed

:05:19. > :05:32.and two others wounded. On the eve of the most unpredictable

:05:33. > :05:35.presidential election in years, Thursday's shooting will have

:05:36. > :05:40.repercussions beyond the French capital.

:05:41. > :05:42.Across France, people hope for a peaceful vote.

:05:43. > :05:50.A sports ombudsman should be appointed to protect athletes

:05:51. > :05:53.That's one of the recommendations of a year-long review commissioned

:05:54. > :05:56.It was led by the 11-time Paralympic gold-medallist

:05:57. > :05:58.Baroness Grey-Thompson, following a spate of bullying

:05:59. > :06:00.allegations against coaches, mounting concern over the treatment

:06:01. > :06:11.of injuries and the child sex abuse scandal in football.

:06:12. > :06:17.Winning medals is something that I think everyone in the UK would

:06:18. > :06:22.support. We feel better as a nation when we are winning paramedics,

:06:23. > :06:25.football, you name it, it's a moment to celebrate. But I think over the

:06:26. > :06:29.last few years duty of care is something that has slipped away. I

:06:30. > :06:34.don't think it has been intentional or malicious, but there are hard

:06:35. > :06:38.targets out there and we want to see British athletes do well. If we get

:06:39. > :06:41.duty of care right we can do well, if not better.

:06:42. > :06:44.US Vice-President Mike Pence says a US naval strike group will arrive

:06:45. > :06:47.in waters near North Korea in a matter of days.

:06:48. > :06:49.There had been confusion earlier this week over

:06:50. > :06:52.whether the USS Carl Vinson was heading into the Sea

:06:53. > :06:55.However, in a press conference with the Australian PM,

:06:56. > :06:59.Mr Pence said the US wanted to show North Korea it had the resources

:07:00. > :07:07.All options are on the table. Let me assure you, the United States will

:07:08. > :07:11.continue to work closely with Australia, our other allies in the

:07:12. > :07:15.region and with China to bring economic and diplomatic dash to bear

:07:16. > :07:17.on the regime in Pyongyang until they abandon their nuclear and

:07:18. > :07:18.ballistic missile programmes. Taliban gunmen have killed more

:07:19. > :07:23.than 70 troops at an Afghanistan army base outside the northern

:07:24. > :07:25.city of Mazar-i-Sharif. A military spokesman said

:07:26. > :07:27.the insurgents were disguised in army uniforms when they attacked

:07:28. > :07:30.soldiers leaving the base's The Taliban said its attackers had

:07:31. > :07:35.set off an explosion, allowing suicide bombers to breach

:07:36. > :07:39.the base's defences. Two men have been arrested

:07:40. > :07:42.in connection with an acid attack, which left two people

:07:43. > :07:44.blinded in one eye. 20 people were hurt

:07:45. > :07:47.in the attack at the nightclub The two men in their twenties have

:07:48. > :07:51.been arrested on suspicion Police are still urging another man

:07:52. > :08:01.to hand himself into police. From curries and box sets

:08:02. > :08:03.to Prince George's favourite TV programme, the Duke and Duchess

:08:04. > :08:06.of Cambridge have spoken about their family life

:08:07. > :08:08.together on Radio 1. The couple were promoting

:08:09. > :08:12.their mental health campaign on the station's chart show,

:08:13. > :08:15.as our Royal correspondent Please welcome to Radio 1 the Duke

:08:16. > :08:19.and Duchess of Cambridge. With a destiny to fulfil,

:08:20. > :08:24.some DJ-ing in the meantime. These are royals bringing

:08:25. > :08:29.their message about mental health to a young audience,

:08:30. > :08:31.and a confession about listening Obviously, I wouldn't

:08:32. > :08:36.tell you who I was. What are you doing

:08:37. > :08:39.texting in your car? I have not texted while driving,

:08:40. > :08:44.because that is illegal. The princely fan, who seeks

:08:45. > :08:47.shout-outs, and who was castigated when he missed a royal event

:08:48. > :08:50.for a skiing and clubbing trip, It's not something you can

:08:51. > :08:54.really do all the time? No, and you know, I've got in enough

:08:55. > :08:57.trouble with my dancing recently, so it's kind of best

:08:58. > :09:00.to keep away from that, The price of such airtime,

:09:01. > :09:04.questions that wouldn't have amused Victoria, like what takes

:09:05. > :09:06.their fancy for a TV supper. Yeah, I'm not so good

:09:07. > :09:09.with the spicy food, though. If you do a takeaway,

:09:10. > :09:13.they must never believe you when you're ordering it

:09:14. > :09:15.to the palace, right? It doesn't usually get

:09:16. > :09:18.ordered to the palace, We tend to go and pick

:09:19. > :09:21.it up, not ourselves. Go for a little visit

:09:22. > :09:25.around the area. He's not going to go

:09:26. > :09:28.to Chicken Cottage, is he? The royals remained,

:09:29. > :09:31.and were set to work. The official chart with Greg James

:09:32. > :09:34.and the Duke and Duchess He had 13 weeks at number one,

:09:35. > :09:39.with Shape Of You, before Harry came Radio bringing together briefly two

:09:40. > :09:43.national institutions, So, number one is Ed

:09:44. > :09:49.Sheeran, Shape Of You. For a couple facing a life of pomp,

:09:50. > :09:52.this was pure pleasure. When I'm on holiday,

:09:53. > :09:55.would you mind stepping in? To be honest, we could

:09:56. > :09:58.probably do a better job. For the first time since

:09:59. > :10:08.the Industrial Revolution, Britain has gone a whole working

:10:09. > :10:11.day without using coal National Grid said the news

:10:12. > :10:15.was a "watershed moment" in attempts Taxes on CO2 emissions

:10:16. > :10:19.and the falling cost of renewable energy have made coal plants less

:10:20. > :10:33.economical in recent years. The Nasa probe Cassini

:10:34. > :10:36.is about to put itself on a path that will lead to its destruction

:10:37. > :10:39.in the clouds of Saturn. The craft will pass the planet's

:10:40. > :10:42.moon, Titan, this morning. But this will put it on a trajectory

:10:43. > :10:46.from which it can't escape and it will be destroyed in

:10:47. > :10:47.Saturn's atmosphere. Launched in 1997, Cassini has been

:10:48. > :10:51.in orbit around Saturn for 12 years. This Sunday some 30,000

:10:52. > :10:53.people will take part in the London Marathon,

:10:54. > :10:57.among them is one man believed to be the only competitor who'll combine

:10:58. > :11:09.the run with a karaoke performance. Graham Burns from Broadstairs

:11:10. > :11:18.hopes his sixth marathon will see him break ?50,000

:11:19. > :11:21.fundraising for a breast cancer He is expected to sing his 40 track

:11:22. > :11:25.playlist several times around the course, including

:11:26. > :11:37.such hits as 500 Miles So he's going to sing and broadcast

:11:38. > :11:42.and perform all the way? Whether you like it or not.

:11:43. > :11:50.That's extraordinary! Good luck to Graham. And everyone

:11:51. > :11:55.else taking part. I had a very specific marathon running playlist.

:11:56. > :12:01.One is that a very appropriate for running. He mentioned 500 Miles,

:12:02. > :12:05.Keep on Running, other ones, Don't Stop Me Now.

:12:06. > :12:09.Did you have any that weren't on the list?

:12:10. > :12:13.Yes, Jerusalem was my rousing start to the race.

:12:14. > :12:25.At the beginning? Yeah. But with what other suggestions. Run Baby

:12:26. > :12:29.Run, Born to Run, Running on Empty. Basically anything with a run in it.

:12:30. > :12:32.It doesn't have to have that word in it to make you feel inspired! It

:12:33. > :12:38.could be anything! Let us know at hashtag BBC

:12:39. > :12:43.Breakfast. Take it easy today!

:12:44. > :12:50.Let's have a quick look at some of the front pages. The Daily Mail

:12:51. > :12:57.newspaper, you've just seen the royal couple at Radio one. They are

:12:58. > :13:03.concentrating on mortgage price wars, suggestions that mortgage

:13:04. > :13:07.companies will be slashing rates, that the phrase used here, to

:13:08. > :13:10.extremely low levels, possibly the lowest level seen in the mortgage

:13:11. > :13:14.market. That's one of the developments being looked at today.

:13:15. > :13:18.Speculations about tax commitments in the upcoming general election on

:13:19. > :13:24.the front page of the Mirror and the Sun. The VAT bombshell. At the

:13:25. > :13:28.moment the Tories haven't ruled out raising VAT and national insurance.

:13:29. > :13:32.The suspicion is that want to leave themselves some Flex ability. The

:13:33. > :13:38.front page of the Sun. They also suggest that tax rises could be on

:13:39. > :13:47.the way. -- flexibility. They are also looking at the threat to the

:13:48. > :13:51.triple lock, the state pension, which we will talk about later and

:13:52. > :13:54.how that might impact you if you receive the state pension.

:13:55. > :13:58.On the front page of the Telegraph you can see the picture of the Duke

:13:59. > :14:05.and a chess of Cambridge -- Duchess of Cambridge. Everybody using the

:14:06. > :14:10.phrase" unusually candid". Again, takes on the front page.

:14:11. > :14:15.Overspending more generally. It's about foreign aid, the commitment

:14:16. > :14:19.from Theresa May, and the lack of commitment. Exactly what the tax

:14:20. > :14:23.situation will be when they finally come up with a manifesto. We've got

:14:24. > :14:28.a few weeks to wait for that, at the hint is that they won't commit to

:14:29. > :14:32.raising taxes again. You've been hearing from

:14:33. > :14:36.representatives of all of the parties this week and we will hear

:14:37. > :14:40.from you keep this morning. This is on the Times. A different

:14:41. > :14:45.story, talking about future trade deals between Britain and the US.

:14:46. > :14:48.They say Donald Trump will put the EU ahead of Britain in the trade

:14:49. > :14:54.queue when it comes to doing deals with the US. They say it's a victory

:14:55. > :14:59.for Angela Merkel and a victory as well for Brussels. And a picture of

:15:00. > :15:02.the Queen, it was her 91st birthday yesterday.

:15:03. > :15:05.We will have a few review of the papers later this morning.

:15:06. > :15:07.You are watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:15:08. > :15:10.The main stories this morning: The Conservatives are trying to play

:15:11. > :15:11.down speculation they are considering tax increases

:15:12. > :15:15.50,000 troops will be deployed across France in preparation

:15:16. > :15:17.for voting in the country's presidential election,

:15:18. > :15:31.after the killing of a police officer in Paris.

:15:32. > :15:35.Here is Ben with a look at this morning's weather.

:15:36. > :15:42.The weather is rather important this weekend. I think it is rather good

:15:43. > :15:46.for the marathon. Yes, good morning to both of you. It should be a

:15:47. > :15:50.fairly cool start in the mostly dry day ahead. We will have the full

:15:51. > :15:54.forecast in a moment but today's getting off to a decent start as

:15:55. > :15:58.well. Not as decent as this everywhere, what a gorgeous sunrise

:15:59. > :16:02.from one of our Weather Watchers. A bit more cloud around generally but

:16:03. > :16:07.mostly dry weekend with some spells of sunshine. High pressure still

:16:08. > :16:10.with us but we have this weather front, a fly on the ointment

:16:11. > :16:14.bringing more in the way of cloud and the odd spot of rain southwards.

:16:15. > :16:17.That weather front gets stuck across Northern Ireland, so a fairly cloudy

:16:18. > :16:21.start across many southern areas of England and Wales, but here the

:16:22. > :16:23.cloud should rake up. We will see some decent sunshine by the

:16:24. > :16:27.afternoon. A few showers perhaps across eastern England, heavy

:16:28. > :16:31.showers across northern Scotland. If you are out and about at 4pm, some

:16:32. > :16:36.of the brightest weather in the Channel Islands, up into Wales, some

:16:37. > :16:40.temperatures in the midteens, maybe 17 in places. You could catch the

:16:41. > :16:44.odd light shower across East Anglia and the south-east but you will be

:16:45. > :16:48.unlike if do. Most places dry, northern England dry with sunny

:16:49. > :16:51.spells, always a lot of clout for Northern Ireland. Southern Scotland

:16:52. > :16:55.in decent shape but north of the Central belt there will be some

:16:56. > :16:58.showers. It will be breezy, and Chile in the Northern Isles, just

:16:59. > :17:02.four degrees in Lerwick. Showers will continue in northern Scotland,

:17:03. > :17:05.they will tend to die away where they have developed elsewhere. A

:17:06. > :17:11.largely dry night. Some clearer spells, the odd Mr patch, and towns

:17:12. > :17:15.and cities four to eight degrees in the countryside, not too far away

:17:16. > :17:19.from freezing. The chilly start to the marathon but as we go through

:17:20. > :17:23.the day those temperatures will lift up into the teens. We will see some

:17:24. > :17:27.spells of sunshine developing and it will be mostly a fine dry day for

:17:28. > :17:30.much of England and Wales. For Northern Ireland in Scotland more in

:17:31. > :17:34.the way of cloud, some outbreaks of rain, and some heavy rain developing

:17:35. > :17:38.late in the day across the North of Scotland. And that is the first sign

:17:39. > :17:43.of quite a big change in our weather. We have a weather front

:17:44. > :17:47.developing, that will bring some wet and windy weather but then we turn

:17:48. > :17:50.our eyes to this cold front sinking its way southwards into the start of

:17:51. > :17:54.next week, bringing so much, much colder weather to all of us. I hope

:17:55. > :17:58.you have not lost that winter coat just yet. Thank you very much, sound

:17:59. > :17:58.advice. Time now to take a look

:17:59. > :18:01.at the latest cinema releases in this week's Film Review,

:18:02. > :18:18.with Simon McCoy and Jason Solomons. Hello, and welcome to

:18:19. > :18:21.The Film Review on BBC News. To take us through the cinema

:18:22. > :18:24.releases this week is Jason The glamour of old-school Hollywood

:18:25. > :18:30.is the backdrop for a love story between a starlet and her chauffeur

:18:31. > :18:33.under the watchful eye of reclusive billionaire Howard Hughes

:18:34. > :18:35.in Warren Beatty's Rules Don't We have the sands of time,

:18:36. > :18:45.which reveal voices from a hidden mirror in the form of

:18:46. > :18:47.Gertrude Bell's letters from Baghdad, as read

:18:48. > :18:49.out by Tilda Swinton And wartime London's rubble provides

:18:50. > :18:59.the setting for Gemma Arterton and Bill Nighy in Their Finest,

:19:00. > :19:01.as they struggle to produce Warren Beatty, he hasn't

:19:02. > :19:13.had the best of years! It has been 16 years

:19:14. > :19:19.since he wrote and directed... As he gets older

:19:20. > :19:24.is he getting better? This is a vanity project

:19:25. > :19:26.that he wrote, directed, It's interesting, he began

:19:27. > :19:35.at the end of old Hollywood It brought indie cinema

:19:36. > :19:39.into the fore, destroying This is old Hollywood

:19:40. > :19:44.where he started out in as an actor. You can imagine him coming

:19:45. > :19:47.into town like the star It's good on the details of how

:19:48. > :19:56.a boss like Howard Hughes Even presidents wait

:19:57. > :20:04.on the wealth of Howard Hughes It shows how he used to keep

:20:05. > :20:08.starlets in various places, the big mansions he kept them in,

:20:09. > :20:11.they were secretive, But not to Warren

:20:12. > :20:28.Beatty's Howard Hughes... I decided when I won a talent

:20:29. > :20:32.contest that maybe I would give it Two weeks in Los Angeles,

:20:33. > :20:40.you are working for Howard Hughes? I hope Howard Hughes doesn't expect

:20:41. > :20:49.to meet you in a hotel room... I would like to thank

:20:50. > :20:52.you for my acting classes, ballet classes and the chance

:20:53. > :20:55.to become a star. Sex is bad because it

:20:56. > :21:11.could lead to dancing. Movie actresses are supposed to be

:21:12. > :21:17.sexy, and they're the rules Without Carly Simon here,

:21:18. > :21:21.some people suggest that Warren Beatty could be talking

:21:22. > :21:24.about himself in some of this? He has been a figure in Hollywood,

:21:25. > :21:30.and him playing Howard Hughes recently, played by Leonardo

:21:31. > :21:32.DiCaprio in Martin Scorsese's The Aviator, he is a strange

:21:33. > :21:34.and shadowy figure that Like Indiana Jones,

:21:35. > :21:39.with a pilot jacket. I think Warren Beatty becomes

:21:40. > :21:42.obsessed with the mania that Howard Hughes himself was overtaken

:21:43. > :21:45.by and the film becomes oppressive You think it will be light

:21:46. > :21:51.and fluffy and full of '50s jazz The romance between Lily Collins

:21:52. > :21:59.and Alden Ehrenreich, it is overshadowed by his ego

:22:00. > :22:02.in his own film, a Howard Hughes I see where he was going

:22:03. > :22:10.but it is like Oscars night - We've all heard about Lawrence

:22:11. > :22:26.of Arabia but not many people have heard of Gertrude Bell,

:22:27. > :22:29.the Queen of the Desert? Yes, maybe we have heard

:22:30. > :22:31.of Lawrence of Arabia Gertrude Bell never really had hers,

:22:32. > :22:36.and this documentary is as epic There is another film

:22:37. > :22:40.with Nicole Kidman, but this is a more fitting tribute

:22:41. > :22:43.through this letters that she left through her correspondence

:22:44. > :22:46.in the desert. She was the most powerful women

:22:47. > :22:49.in the British Empire. At the end of World War I,

:22:50. > :22:52.the borders of Arabia She was very much involved in that

:22:53. > :22:58.with Winston Churchill, riding into the desert,

:22:59. > :23:00.a redoubtable British colonial figure, intrepid explorer, part spy,

:23:01. > :23:02.part stateswoman, part antiquarian. In the Arab world, she learned

:23:03. > :23:05.Farsi, she understood everything. Magnificently played by

:23:06. > :23:07.Tilda Swinton, as you would expect. What is well done in

:23:08. > :23:10.the documentary, directed by two women, they resurrected these

:23:11. > :23:12.letters, finding brilliant archive footage from Baghdad and Damascus -

:23:13. > :23:15.all of that stuff we see The Sphinx is an apt figure

:23:16. > :23:20.as Gertrude Bell stares out. There's footage now from the region

:23:21. > :23:23.which is war-torn and ravaged. War was always something in that

:23:24. > :23:27.sand, but there is an elegance to it, a kind of colonial innocence

:23:28. > :23:30.in that footage which is beautiful. Gertrude Bell's voice rings out

:23:31. > :23:42.as a lost voice of the British A British film crew

:23:43. > :24:17.attempting to boost morale In this film, they have

:24:18. > :24:22.Bill Nighy and Gemma Arterton. They wanted to make authenticity

:24:23. > :24:25.and optimism shine out to boost Stiff upper lip, chocks

:24:26. > :24:36.away for Their Finest, This goes back to the 1940s,

:24:37. > :24:41.Gemma Arterton making her way as a script girl, directing slop

:24:42. > :24:43.dialogue, the romantic Here she is, elbowing her way

:24:44. > :24:57.and finding her voice on the set. Even taking on Bill Nighy,

:24:58. > :25:00.who plays a washed-up actor, An example, a mention

:25:01. > :25:07.of the clever code. I may say that would be the first

:25:08. > :25:11.clever thing that she's done Just a dash of humour

:25:12. > :25:18.and further along... It's the caption at the end

:25:19. > :25:29.is going to be "He's not listening It's a joke for women

:25:30. > :25:34.who never think that If you start answering,

:25:35. > :25:38.the caption would make sense. I will be in my dressing room,

:25:39. > :25:51.if anyone needs me... Gemma Arterton revealed

:25:52. > :25:53.on the One Show recently that she used Alex Jones's accent

:25:54. > :25:56.as a model for that? There is a presenting gig

:25:57. > :25:59.for her if the Oscars I did not know that was

:26:00. > :26:06.Alex Jones - very good! She is very good in it,

:26:07. > :26:09.Gemma Arterton, the rosy-cheeked script girl who becomes

:26:10. > :26:12.the force of the movie. It is about female voices

:26:13. > :26:14.coming in while the war People saying, when the war

:26:15. > :26:19.was finished, that the women would not go back into their little

:26:20. > :26:22.boxes after this taste of freedom. It is about that, but the film

:26:23. > :26:25.is good at wartime tailoring It is funny, witty and elegant,

:26:26. > :26:30.as you would expect from people like Bill Nighy, but the spectre

:26:31. > :26:34.of death is never far away. There is a mix of romance

:26:35. > :26:42.and the making of a movie, There is that madness of making

:26:43. > :26:46.movies which hangs this together. It's interesting -

:26:47. > :26:48.movies provide shape and structure, and an ending where life at that

:26:49. > :26:53.time was full of mess and never did. That is why people

:26:54. > :26:55.loved movies back then. 30 million people per week

:26:56. > :26:57.went to the movies. It was the revival for the British

:26:58. > :27:01.people, after a demise beforehand? It would be great if this can get

:27:02. > :27:04.an audience of 30 million I don't think it will,

:27:05. > :27:08.but this film is witty, A very good performance

:27:09. > :27:11.from Gemma Arterton, and neatly tied up by the director,

:27:12. > :27:14.Lone Scherfig, with a good People might think it is a women's

:27:15. > :27:18.picture, but it has depth and elegance, and I love the wartime

:27:19. > :27:21.tailoring in the costumes. Yes, it is out at most cinemas,

:27:22. > :27:42.it isn't a horror film in a scary There is this depth going on,

:27:43. > :27:48.like in The Stepford Wives. A black guy goes to a white

:27:49. > :27:51.neighbourhood to meet the parents, They do not know that her daughter's

:27:52. > :27:55.boyfriend is black? And then they find out,

:27:56. > :27:59.then we realise that maybe they do? It isn't a scary horror film

:28:00. > :28:02.with scary bits going on. It is a really edgy

:28:03. > :28:06.bit of US comedy. There is the British

:28:07. > :28:24.actor Daniel Kaluuya there who is brilliant in it

:28:25. > :28:28.and Allison Williams, who was in Girls, that just finished

:28:29. > :28:32.on television this week. If you are missing it,

:28:33. > :28:36.there is one of them in Get Out. And the best DVD,

:28:37. > :28:38.The Lady From Shanghai. And Rita Hayworth,

:28:39. > :28:43.his wife at the time. In this famous film, he cut her hair

:28:44. > :28:52.and turned her blonde! It's a bit of a mess, this movie,

:28:53. > :29:05.and the final sequence is a hall of mirrors - you don't know

:29:06. > :29:08.who is shooting at who. There's this scene

:29:09. > :29:11.which was later spoofed. It is a puzzle but it has

:29:12. > :29:19.all of the classic things you need Orson Welles does one

:29:20. > :29:24.of the worst Irish accents. Nevertheless, it has a great

:29:25. > :29:28.atmosphere and shows that Orson Welles was a fantastic

:29:29. > :29:30.film-maker but ultimately flawed. That is what you want

:29:31. > :29:34.from your Orson Welles films. And that is what you want

:29:35. > :29:38.from Jason Solomons. Hello, this is Breakfast,

:29:39. > :30:02.with Charlie Stayt and Rachel Coming up before 7am,

:30:03. > :30:05.Ben will have the weather. But first, a summary of this

:30:06. > :30:09.morning's main news. The Conservatives are attempting

:30:10. > :30:11.to play down speculation that they will raise taxes

:30:12. > :30:18.if they win the general election. Yesterday, the Chancellor,

:30:19. > :30:19.Phillip Hammond, hinted that the government might abandon

:30:20. > :30:23.the pledge made at the last election not to raise income tax,

:30:24. > :30:28.national insurance or VAT. Labour and the Liberal Democrats

:30:29. > :30:32.were quick to jump on what they saw as a change of policy,

:30:33. > :30:35.warning that tax rises lie ahead. 50,000 police officers

:30:36. > :30:37.are being deployed across France ahead of the first round of

:30:38. > :30:40.the country's presidential election. Terrorism and security went

:30:41. > :30:43.to the top of the agenda on the final day of campaigning

:30:44. > :30:46.yesterday after a policeman was shot dead by a suspected Islamist

:30:47. > :30:51.militant on the Champs-Elysees. Polls on the French

:30:52. > :30:55.mainland open tomorrow. A Sports Ombudsman should be

:30:56. > :30:58.appointed to protect athletes That's one of the recommendations

:30:59. > :31:01.of a year-long review commissioned It was led by the 11-time

:31:02. > :31:07.Paralympic gold-medallist Baroness Grey-Thompson

:31:08. > :31:09.following a spate of bullying allegations against coaches,

:31:10. > :31:12.mounting concern over the treatment of injuries, and the child sex abuse

:31:13. > :31:17.scandal in football. Winning medals is something

:31:18. > :31:19.that I think everyone We feel better as a nation

:31:20. > :31:30.when we are winning Olympics, Paralympics, football, you name it,

:31:31. > :31:33.it's a moment to celebrate. But I think over the last few years

:31:34. > :31:37.duty of care is something that I don't think it has been

:31:38. > :31:40.intentional or malicious, it's just there are hard targets out

:31:41. > :31:44.there and we want to see British If we get duty of care

:31:45. > :31:48.right we can do as well, US Vice-President Mike Pence says

:31:49. > :31:52.a US naval strike group will arrive in waters near North Korea

:31:53. > :31:55.in a matter of days. There had been confusion

:31:56. > :31:57.earlier this week over whether the USS Carl Vinson

:31:58. > :31:59.was heading into the Sea However, in a press conference

:32:00. > :32:06.with the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Pence said the US wanted to show

:32:07. > :32:10.North Korea it had the resources Two men have been arrested

:32:11. > :32:14.in connection with an acid attack, which left two people

:32:15. > :32:19.blinded in one eye. 20 people were hurt

:32:20. > :32:21.in the attack at the nightclub The two men in their twenties have

:32:22. > :32:25.been arrested on suspicion Police are still urging another man

:32:26. > :32:32.to hand himself into police. For the first time since

:32:33. > :32:34.the Industrial Revolution Britain has gone a whole working

:32:35. > :32:37.day without using coal National Grid said the news

:32:38. > :32:40.was a "watershed moment" in attempts Taxes on CO2 emissions

:32:41. > :32:45.and the falling cost of renewable energy have made coal plants less

:32:46. > :32:55.economical in recent years. A Nasa probe, flying

:32:56. > :32:59.near the planet Saturn, is about to set itself

:33:00. > :33:02.on a path of destruction, Cassini will pass the planet's moon,

:33:03. > :33:06.Titan, this morning. But this will cause it to change

:33:07. > :33:09.course and head straight for Saturn's atmosphere

:33:10. > :33:11.where it will be destroyed. It's hoped before its demise it

:33:12. > :33:15.will be able to make some last minute measurements

:33:16. > :33:22.of the planet's rings, And of course it was Cassini that

:33:23. > :33:26.discovered hydrogen on the moon a round Saturn, that indicated there

:33:27. > :33:30.may be the presence of life on the moon. It's done a very important job

:33:31. > :33:36.and I feel slightly sad that it will go and just... That the technical

:33:37. > :33:40.sound it will make. Good, now we know.

:33:41. > :33:45.That's the noise it will make. That sounds very high-tech.

:33:46. > :33:48.Explosions in football to the day, at least we are hoping in the FA

:33:49. > :33:56.Cup. It is a brilliant weekend. How exciting. Very excited about

:33:57. > :34:01.Chelsea against spurs. They've been scoring goals for fun at the moment,

:34:02. > :34:07.Spurs, and Chelsea are notoriously hard to break down, so how will this

:34:08. > :34:12.turnout? A massive weekend in FA Cup.

:34:13. > :34:15.It's not just English teams in Cup semi-final action this weekend,

:34:16. > :34:19.But let's with the teatime kick off at Wembley,

:34:20. > :34:21.where the two best teams in the Premier League,

:34:22. > :34:23.Chelsea and Tottenham, meet in the FA Cup.

:34:24. > :34:26.For the winners, it's a place in the final and dreams

:34:27. > :34:36.We will play again in Europe. Great manager, great players. Players that

:34:37. > :34:41.won a European competition in the World Cup. I think we are going to

:34:42. > :34:41.play again one of the best teams in Europe.

:34:42. > :34:51.I think Tottenham is a great team and they are showing for the second

:34:52. > :34:56.consecutive year to fight for the title. Last season they missed. And

:34:57. > :35:00.this season they are trying again. And that match is live

:35:01. > :35:03.on BBC One and Radio 5 live, Tomorrow, it's Arsenal

:35:04. > :35:08.against Manchester City in the second FA Cup semi-final

:35:09. > :35:14.and at Hampden Park. In Scotland, go for

:35:15. > :35:17.the treble, as they take on Rangers in the Scottish

:35:18. > :35:19.Cup semi-finals. But the action begins this

:35:20. > :35:33.lunch-time, when the holders We've seen off Hearts already in

:35:34. > :35:38.impressive fashion, so Aberdeen, the second-best team over the last few

:35:39. > :35:43.years, they keep improving every year under Derek. They've been to

:35:44. > :35:47.the League Cup final already and the semi-final. They've had a good

:35:48. > :35:49.season. But you've got 14 to the competition who can win a trophy and

:35:50. > :35:59.I'm just pleased that we are there. I just want to go and try to win it

:36:00. > :36:02.and get into the final first and foremost to do that. We've been some

:36:03. > :36:06.good teams along the way. Ross County, a tough match against

:36:07. > :36:11.Partick Thistle and another tough on waiting for us. But he don't get the

:36:12. > :36:13.finals without tough challenges. We've got another one on Saturday,

:36:14. > :36:16.but looking forward to it. The England manager Gareth Southgate

:36:17. > :36:20.said he was "stunned" by the death of his close friend and former

:36:21. > :36:22.team-mate Ugo Ehiogu, describing him as a "gentleman"

:36:23. > :36:25.and a "credit to football". Ehiogu passed away yesterday

:36:26. > :36:28.at the age of 44, after suffering a heart attack at Tottenham's

:36:29. > :36:30.training ground, where Southgate said, "He was a gentle

:36:31. > :36:34.giant away from football" There was a minute's applause

:36:35. > :36:41.for Ehiogu ahead of last night's Championship match between

:36:42. > :36:43.Norwich and Brighton. The Brighton goalkeeper

:36:44. > :36:46.David Stockdale scoring two freakish own goals,

:36:47. > :36:55.as they lost 2-0 at Norwich. Both times, the ball hit

:36:56. > :36:58.the woodwork before rebounding Brighton have already won promotion

:36:59. > :37:05.to the Premier League. Manchester City women face a huge

:37:06. > :37:11.test in the Champions League semi-finals this afternoon

:37:12. > :37:14.as they play holders Lyon at home This is City's first season playing

:37:15. > :37:24.in Europe's top club competition whereas Lyon have reached

:37:25. > :37:27.five of the last seven You can watch highlights

:37:28. > :37:34.on the Women's Football Show tomorrow evening at

:37:35. > :37:38.11:50pm on BBC One. Widnes remain bottom

:37:39. > :37:40.of the Super League despite their first

:37:41. > :37:45.home win of the season. They trailed St Helens

:37:46. > :37:53.into the final few minutes, but a late try gave

:37:54. > :37:56.them victory by 16-14. The 2015 World Snooker champion

:37:57. > :37:59.Stuart Bingham has been knocked out of this year's tournament

:38:00. > :38:01.by Kyran Wilson. Wilson had the upper hand for most

:38:02. > :38:05.of the match and had a clear lead when Bingham made a hash

:38:06. > :38:08.of this attempt at a pot, allowing Wilson to clear up

:38:09. > :38:10.and complete a 13-10 win and become the first player

:38:11. > :38:13.into the quarter-finals. And five-time champion

:38:14. > :38:15.Ronnie O'Sullivan will resume his second round match this morning

:38:16. > :38:17.against another former winner He needs just three more

:38:18. > :38:35.frames for victory. Ellie Downie has become the first

:38:36. > :38:39.British woman to win all round called a European Championships. She

:38:40. > :38:44.was in second place going into the floor routine. The final discipline

:38:45. > :38:48.of four. She beat her Hungarian opponent into second place. Ellie

:38:49. > :38:52.Downie will compete in every individual finals over that weekend.

:38:53. > :38:59.I studied the bowl differently this time. That went well, the bar went

:39:00. > :39:03.well, the Dean was British a key and on the floor I try to not what

:39:04. > :39:07.anyone else and go up and focus on myself. After the second stumble

:39:08. > :39:10.pass I was like, I'm not sure if it is enough. But I would have been

:39:11. > :39:12.happy with second, then when the school came through I was

:39:13. > :39:20.speechless. I don't have words. She says she is speechless, but she

:39:21. > :39:23.still has load of finals to come because she is in the finals of all

:39:24. > :39:30.of the other apparatus! She is a great young talent.

:39:31. > :39:34.Shias. The thing I really like about her is she is a lovely person as

:39:35. > :39:42.well. -- she is. Very humble. What a talent. I am still reeling

:39:43. > :39:48.from that goalkeeper! Yes, let's focus on that!

:39:49. > :39:53.Two off his own head! One hit the bar and came off his back, the other

:39:54. > :39:56.hit the post and came off his back. Unlucky? That's a tough day. Let's

:39:57. > :40:02.have another look. Talk us through. You have to feel

:40:03. > :40:07.sorry for him. He is probably thinking, well, in the grand scheme

:40:08. > :40:11.of things it doesn't matter too much, I will be a Premier Li player

:40:12. > :40:16.next season, but it is very unfortunate. -- in the league.

:40:17. > :40:20.On the upside he will be a YouTube sensation!

:40:21. > :40:25.I think they call it going viral, don't they? That's a term!

:40:26. > :40:28.The general election campaign is just a few days old and one topic

:40:29. > :40:30.is already emerging as a key battleground.

:40:31. > :40:33.The so-called triple lock on state pensions was brought

:40:34. > :40:35.in by the Conservative-led coalition in 2010.

:40:36. > :40:38.Theresa May has so far refused to guarantee keeping it if she wins

:40:39. > :40:42.the election, while Labour has pledged to keep it until 2025.

:40:43. > :40:48.Well, it guarantees that the state pension will rise

:40:49. > :40:52.Either the same as average earnings, keeping the increase in pensioners'

:40:53. > :40:54.income at the same rate as those in work.

:40:55. > :40:57.Or in line with the consumer price index.

:40:58. > :41:00.That's the measure of how much British households are paying

:41:01. > :41:03.for a typical basket of food, goods and services.

:41:04. > :41:11.The triple lock guarantees to increase the state pension

:41:12. > :41:15.by whichever of these three measures is highest.

:41:16. > :41:22.So how popular is the policy of looking after pensioners?

:41:23. > :41:28.They've worked through their lives and they've paid their national

:41:29. > :41:32.insurance. They've paid their taxes, so I think they deserve it as much

:41:33. > :41:36.as anyone else. If you can't look after the elderly what can you do?

:41:37. > :41:41.If it can be done, stopping for them. They don't need it. A lot of

:41:42. > :41:41.them just put it straight in the bank.

:41:42. > :41:46.He's in our Bristol studio to help us unpick the triple lock.

:41:47. > :41:52.Good morning. We will leave aside for just a moment, we will come back

:41:53. > :41:57.to it, the motive issues and political issues. Just do the maths.

:41:58. > :42:02.It is an expensive thing to carry on a pledge over. Absolutely it is and

:42:03. > :42:07.this has always been a problem with it. It was introduced to raise

:42:08. > :42:11.pension income levels and it was necessary and has been achieving

:42:12. > :42:15.that. But the state pension costs the government about ?90 billion a

:42:16. > :42:20.year, with a very big chunk public spending. The triple lock, by giving

:42:21. > :42:23.pensioners the best of each of those measures, so it will always be

:42:24. > :42:27.running ahead of the rest of the population generally, means that the

:42:28. > :42:31.cost of the state pension would inevitably keep rising and if we

:42:32. > :42:35.project forward to the middle of the century it would add about annexed

:42:36. > :42:40.to 1% of gross domestic product under the cost of the state pension.

:42:41. > :42:44.So there's an argument that it is not sustainable in the long-term,

:42:45. > :42:48.but it has been doing its job and really it's a question of how much

:42:49. > :42:51.longer we should keep it for for finding alternative measures, now

:42:52. > :42:55.that we've raised incomes up to appropriate levels. That becomes

:42:56. > :43:01.interesting because on the one hand there are various alternatives, the

:43:02. > :43:05.idea that you don't guarantee it at all, so very soon after the

:43:06. > :43:10.election, or the idea that you keep it going for a period of time, maybe

:43:11. > :43:15.until 2020, or maybe beyond that. The Labour Party talk about until

:43:16. > :43:21.2025. Each of those has a cost issue attached. It does and this is money

:43:22. > :43:25.that could be spent elsewhere, on defence, the NHS, police. So the

:43:26. > :43:30.government has to make hard spending decisions. Labour have identified

:43:31. > :43:32.that they need to woo older voters, something the Conservatives have

:43:33. > :43:37.done very successfully in previous elections. Jeremy Corbyn's Paul

:43:38. > :43:41.ratings aren't especially good with the over 65, so they've issued a

:43:42. > :43:46.number of pledges, including this triple lock pledge, specifically

:43:47. > :43:51.targeted at older voters who say they will keep it until 2025. I

:43:52. > :43:56.think there's a expectation outside the Labour Party and elsewhere that

:43:57. > :44:00.the policy as a whole objectively has pretty much run its course. But

:44:01. > :44:04.it is now doing this election campaign less about that and more

:44:05. > :44:07.about winning hearts and minds and putting the right messages out to

:44:08. > :44:11.the right blocks of voters and that's a challenge now for the

:44:12. > :44:15.Conservatives, where they will put their marker down on this issue. All

:44:16. > :44:19.of which takes us back to the voices be heard a moment ago about the

:44:20. > :44:23.emotions around this. We heard from some younger people. There is an

:44:24. > :44:27.emotive issue around this, where people think it is fair and you

:44:28. > :44:31.should treat older people and pensioners with respect. Part of

:44:32. > :44:35.that comes down to the financial equation. It's a difficult thing to

:44:36. > :44:39.tell the group of people they are going to get less. Absolutely it is.

:44:40. > :44:44.The interesting thing here is pension incomes on average, after

:44:45. > :44:49.housing costs, on average, I stress, are actually higher than the working

:44:50. > :44:53.population. Many pensioners, people who have recently moved into

:44:54. > :44:56.retirement and have good final pensions, many continuing to work,

:44:57. > :45:01.many are doing well for themselves. So while there are still pockets of

:45:02. > :45:05.pensioner poverty, on average pensioners are doing pretty well and

:45:06. > :45:09.it is important to remember that the state pensions are being paid for

:45:10. > :45:13.after taxes raised by younger workers today. There's always this

:45:14. > :45:15.question of how you strike a balance across the different generations and

:45:16. > :45:17.that something next government is going to have to wrestle with. Good

:45:18. > :45:22.to talk to you. Thank you. Here is Ben with a look

:45:23. > :45:32.at this morning's weather. I wonder whether he wants to comment

:45:33. > :45:37.on this. Inside the Times it says never mind spring, get your winter

:45:38. > :45:44.woollies on. It talks about snow in some places and possible icy blast

:45:45. > :45:49.on the way. It is April. What do you have to say for yourself? That's

:45:50. > :45:53.right, it might be April but there is something much colder on the way.

:45:54. > :45:56.We will rewind the seasons and I hope you can remember where you left

:45:57. > :46:00.that winter coat. There is something called on the way. The weekend is

:46:01. > :46:05.looking pretty decent. That was the scene from a Weather Watcher in

:46:06. > :46:09.Norfolk a short time ago. Mostly dry weather with some spells of sunshine

:46:10. > :46:13.to come courtesy of this area of high pressure. However, this little

:46:14. > :46:17.cold area is a fly on the appointment, providing a lot of

:46:18. > :46:20.clout as we start the day across Northern Ireland and southern parts

:46:21. > :46:24.of England and Wales. I think Northern Ireland today will stay

:46:25. > :46:27.pretty cloudy. Across England and Wales, the club will break up.

:46:28. > :46:32.Southern Scotland and pretty decent shape. Northern Scotland seeing some

:46:33. > :46:36.showers, some of the showers turning wintry, the first sign of what is to

:46:37. > :46:39.come. But focusing on this afternoon, the Channel Islands and

:46:40. > :46:42.south-east England, seeing some sunny spells. Temperatures across

:46:43. > :46:47.Wales could get up to the mid-to high teens in places. One ought two

:46:48. > :46:51.showers can't be ruled out in the south-east. You will be unlucky to

:46:52. > :46:55.catch one. Not a bad day for northern England. Southern Scotland

:46:56. > :46:59.a mixture of patchy cloud and sunny spells. Showers blowing in the

:47:00. > :47:04.northern Scotland, some of them went three. Four degrees the temperature

:47:05. > :47:07.in Lerwick. As we go through the evening and overnight we will keep

:47:08. > :47:11.showers going in Scotland. Elsewhere, a largely dry night. A

:47:12. > :47:15.bit of clout around, maybe the odd Mr patch and it will get cold enough

:47:16. > :47:20.for a touch of frost. Towns and cities on the chilly side but in the

:47:21. > :47:24.countryside close to freezing. The London Marathon on, a cool start is

:47:25. > :47:28.not a bad thing for the runners. I think things will brighten up and

:47:29. > :47:32.warm up a little bit as the day goes on. A lot of dry and bright weather

:47:33. > :47:35.to come for much of England and Wales. Northern Ireland and Scotland

:47:36. > :47:39.seeing cloud and outbreaks of patchy rain. Heavier rain and strong winds

:47:40. > :47:43.later in the day for northern Scotland, and that is the first sign

:47:44. > :47:47.of this. A developing area of low pressure sliding across the North of

:47:48. > :47:50.Scotland, and this cold front here will work its way southwards during

:47:51. > :47:54.Sunday night and Monday, bringing some rain with it, and behind it

:47:55. > :47:59.that is our icy blast. Are colder, overnight frost. Daytimes will be

:48:00. > :48:06.very chilly as well, and yes, there could be some wintry showers, even

:48:07. > :48:11.some rain. Thank you very much. Don't pack away your scarf and hat

:48:12. > :48:16.and gloves just yet. And this is what it looks like outside. I can

:48:17. > :48:22.live with that. Not quite bikini weather, knowing Salford. At the bad

:48:23. > :48:24.weather has a few more days and it is going to be like that.

:48:25. > :48:27.The news is coming up in a few moments here on Breakfast.

:48:28. > :48:38.I don't know if you have noticed, but there seems to have been a lot

:48:39. > :48:52.This week, Click is taking a trip to Paris, where this weekend,

:48:53. > :48:55.the French take to the polls in the first round of

:48:56. > :49:06.And curiously, from a technology point of view, the way we vote

:49:07. > :49:09.seems, if anything, to be going backwards.

:49:10. > :49:11.In the last election, France did allow online voting

:49:12. > :49:19.For both the presidential elections and the legislative elections,

:49:20. > :49:22.in June, it is back to pen and paper.

:49:23. > :49:25.And that's due to the fear of cyber attacks, which the French national

:49:26. > :49:28.cyber security agency says are an extremely high risk.

:49:29. > :49:32.Queues of people, paper voting - surely there has to be a better way.

:49:33. > :49:34.Well, we asked BBC Newsbeat's political editor Jonathan Blake

:49:35. > :49:45.Ancient institutions and modern technology.

:49:46. > :49:52.As elections are held worldwide throughout 2017,

:49:53. > :49:53.that could radically reshape the political landscape,

:49:54. > :49:57.most people will cast their vote in the same way it has been done

:49:58. > :50:01.for decades, using a pencil and paper to put a cross in a box.

:50:02. > :50:05.One company is working on a way to make voting more convenient and,

:50:06. > :50:08.they say, more secure, with an app that lets you register

:50:09. > :50:20.It uses facial biometrics, and combines that with some sort

:50:21. > :50:23.of government document, whether it is a passport or driver's

:50:24. > :50:25.licence, to create a digital identity, which the voter

:50:26. > :50:33.So this is a demonstration version of the app which Smartmatic have

:50:34. > :50:36.We will start by registering, first of all.

:50:37. > :50:42.We'll go with driver's licence, because I have that handy.

:50:43. > :50:45.Once the ID is matched to your face, the app confirms

:50:46. > :50:53.And we are voting for Rushfield Borough Council,

:50:54. > :50:58.It's asked me to take a photo, so if I hold up the camera,

:50:59. > :51:00.the phone will take a selfie automatically.

:51:01. > :51:03.So here there is a list of candidates, the same

:51:04. > :51:05.as you would see on the ballot paper.

:51:06. > :51:08.I don't need to tell you who I'm voting for,

:51:09. > :51:13.You are asking people to take a photo of their face,

:51:14. > :51:14.capture an image of the photo identification.

:51:15. > :51:17.How secure is that information, where does it go?

:51:18. > :51:20.The digital identity you create is unique to you,

:51:21. > :51:23.and it stays on your device, on your personal mobile phone

:51:24. > :51:26.or tablet, whatever it is you use to create it.

:51:27. > :51:31.You are in control of it at all times, and you are in control

:51:32. > :51:34.of what pieces of information you use to create that idea,

:51:35. > :51:46.But concerns about cyber security mean countries once embracing

:51:47. > :51:48.the use of technology in democracy are having second thoughts.

:51:49. > :51:50.France has suspended online voting in elections,

:51:51. > :51:53.this year, saying the risk of cyber attacks is extremely high.

:51:54. > :51:56.And in the Netherlands, where the voting system has been

:51:57. > :51:58.computerised since 2008, this year they are counting

:51:59. > :52:08.But the country that has earned a reputation as the electronic

:52:09. > :52:11.voting capital of the world is sticking to its guns.

:52:12. > :52:13.Estonia is almost obsessive about its digital identity.

:52:14. > :52:16.Here in Estonia, everyone from the age of 15 carries

:52:17. > :52:26.Using this, and accompanying PIN numbers, you can access your bank,

:52:27. > :52:29.phone company, energy firm, but also a lot of official information.

:52:30. > :52:32.You can see this man's name, address, date of birth,

:52:33. > :52:34.where he went to school, health records, everything down

:52:35. > :52:41.In Estonia, voting is just another thing you can do online.

:52:42. > :52:44.Download software, use your ID card and PIN to make a selection,

:52:45. > :52:48.and vote from the comfort of your home, or wherever is convenient.

:52:49. > :52:51.Around one in three votes is now cast online, but officials admit it

:52:52. > :52:58.The internet voter is a transformed paper voter.

:52:59. > :53:01.Having a novelty, a convenient method of voting, is not enough

:53:02. > :53:04.to bring people from the "no voting" zone back to voting,

:53:05. > :53:06.or to voting, because you need other incentives.

:53:07. > :53:14.You need policy, you need a reason to vote.

:53:15. > :53:33.Other countries seem reluctant to follow Estonia's lead.

:53:34. > :53:35.They have identification cards, and the amount of information

:53:36. > :53:40.it is a very different space to what we have in the UK,

:53:41. > :53:43.where they don't have a privacy agenda, about protecting individual

:53:44. > :53:46.We believe the current paper-and-pen method is the best way forward,

:53:47. > :53:48.that actually it means that each individual's vote

:53:49. > :53:53.As technology advances, calls to digitise democracy

:53:54. > :53:55.will continue, but so will concerns about cyber security,

:53:56. > :53:58.so the pencil and paper may well always have its place.

:53:59. > :54:02.And how would you feel about renting your car

:54:03. > :54:07.Well, believe it or not, here, there is an app that lets

:54:08. > :54:19.Drivy has been operating for six years.

:54:20. > :54:22.Over 40,000 car owners have chosen to list their cars on the platform,

:54:23. > :54:25.mainly in France, Germany, and Spain, racking up one-and-a-half

:54:26. > :54:45.The app gives me a list of vehicles available in the designated area

:54:46. > :54:49.And then I can swipe through pictures and details

:54:50. > :54:52.Yeah, it's basically Airbnb, but for your car.

:54:53. > :54:55.Right, first impressions of the Drivy office,

:54:56. > :55:03.But how has this company persuaded thousands of people

:55:04. > :55:07.I don't know whether it is because I'm British,

:55:08. > :55:11.but I think it's a crazy idea to randomly hire my car out

:55:12. > :55:15.Do you not think that no one will partake of this,

:55:16. > :55:19.because of the risk of damage and having your car stolen?

:55:20. > :55:22.We definitely knew from the start that it would sound like a crazy

:55:23. > :55:24.idea to lend your car, to most people.

:55:25. > :55:27.The question was, would some people agree it was a good idea,

:55:28. > :55:30.and that it's efficient, and how do I protect these people

:55:31. > :55:34.who are willing to try, rather than convince the majority.

:55:35. > :55:39.Do you think there is a reason why sharing services do very well here?

:55:40. > :55:42.Yeah, I think that France is special, because it has the right

:55:43. > :55:44.mix of being, like, still a rich country,

:55:45. > :55:48.where the law is really enforced, where business is going well,

:55:49. > :55:57.So I think it's the right balance for sharing economy to thrive.

:55:58. > :56:00.British and Americans are more scared about lending their cars.

:56:01. > :56:03.I'm not really sure, I don't know, but I heard that you teach kids

:56:04. > :56:07.And that is something that I absolutely don't know in France.

:56:08. > :56:11.So maybe less trust of people you don't know, and less willingness

:56:12. > :56:18.to share time, or things, with other people.

:56:19. > :56:24.You have been to London, then, clearly.

:56:25. > :56:34.With Drivy Open, which is our big technological focus,

:56:35. > :56:37.now, we can geo-locate cars, see where the car is going,

:56:38. > :56:42.You can use the accelerometer to see if there were impacts.

:56:43. > :56:47.And basically, the future which is coming, which is all

:56:48. > :56:49.about connected cars, and then autonomous,

:56:50. > :56:51.cars is playing huge in our favour, because increasingly,

:56:52. > :56:55.the amount of data you have on the car, the control over the way

:56:56. > :56:57.it's driven is going to increase until it's autonomous,

:56:58. > :57:01.and then whoever is in the car is no longer a problem,

:57:02. > :57:08.except for sandwich crumbs or stuff like that.

:57:09. > :57:18.Not that red tape is always a problem here.

:57:19. > :57:24.One start-up, in a northern suburb of Paris, has already been given

:57:25. > :57:27.permission to place three of its pods around the city.

:57:28. > :57:30.So, what on Earth is Agricool putting inside these second-hand

:57:31. > :57:32.shipping containers that makes them so desirable?

:57:33. > :57:44.You probably know that fruit sold in city supermarkets has usually

:57:45. > :57:48.been on a long journey, over several days, to get there.

:57:49. > :57:50.And that means it has to be picked before it's ripe,

:57:51. > :57:54.and isn't as sweet or nutritious as it would be if it was left

:57:55. > :58:02.Well, this is a way of keeping fruit on the plant, in cities,

:58:03. > :58:14.There you go, four walls of strawberries bathing

:58:15. > :58:24.Here's all the water that you need, which is pumped in, and then

:58:25. > :58:26.when it's finished, it's pumped back out again.

:58:27. > :58:30.Here are your nutrients, and over here, a box of bumblebees.

:58:31. > :58:33.Did you know you could order bumblebees by the box?

:58:34. > :58:37.That's where they live, that's where they travel in and out,

:58:38. > :58:39.and that's where the pollination happens.

:58:40. > :58:41.Agricool is currently experimenting with different colours of light

:58:42. > :58:44.and different mixes of nutrients in order to get

:58:45. > :58:48.Well, inside each shipping container, we create a real paradise

:58:49. > :58:52.So best air, the CO2 level, the best lights, with LED lights.

:58:53. > :58:55.We can grow the equivalent of 4000 square metres in only

:58:56. > :59:01.So it is like 120,000 times more productive,

:59:02. > :59:03.using 90% less water, using no pesticides,

:59:04. > :59:04.actually, and using only renewable energy.

:59:05. > :59:15.Just to be clear, these shipping containers won't move,

:59:16. > :59:16.they'll be permanent fixtures in cities.

:59:17. > :59:19.And with a minutely controlled climate, a new batch of strawberries

:59:20. > :59:22.can be grown every 11 weeks, meaning city folk can experience

:59:23. > :59:24.the taste of country living all year round.

:59:25. > :59:29.And that's it for the short cut of Click from Paris.

:59:30. > :59:32.Plenty more in the full-length version which is available to watch

:59:33. > :59:35.on iPlayer right now, and plenty more from us on Twitter

:59:36. > :59:36.throughout the week, that's @bbcclick.

:59:37. > :00:06.And everyone back to mine for strawberries.

:00:07. > :00:08.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Rachel Burden and Charlie

:00:09. > :00:14.The Conservatives try to play down speculation that taxes will rise

:00:15. > :00:18.Labour accuses the Government of planning a tax bombshell,

:00:19. > :00:20.while the Liberal Democrats say Theresa May intends to hit

:00:21. > :00:39.Good morning, it's Saturday the 22nd of April.

:00:40. > :00:43.50,000 police officers are deployed across France,

:00:44. > :00:46.as security is tightened ahead of the first round of voting

:00:47. > :00:51.in the country's presidential election.

:00:52. > :00:57.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge as you've never heard them before,

:00:58. > :00:59.presenting the Chart Show while getting the message

:01:00. > :01:11.across to young people about their mental health campaign.

:01:12. > :01:17.We've put them in the spot because it is quiet and they will be happy

:01:18. > :01:21.here and they have access into our garden and a neighbour's garden. How

:01:22. > :01:22.this village in East Yorkshire has returned many hedgehogs back to the

:01:23. > :01:24.wild. We have a decent

:01:25. > :01:27.weekend in prospect. Plenty of dry weather

:01:28. > :01:30.and even some sunshine, but there's a big change on the way

:01:31. > :01:34.for the start of next week. The Conservatives are attempting

:01:35. > :01:44.to play down speculation that they will raise taxes

:01:45. > :01:49.if they win the general election. Yesterday, the Chancellor,

:01:50. > :01:51.Phillip Hammond, hinted that the Government might abandon

:01:52. > :01:54.the pledge made at the last election not to raise income tax,

:01:55. > :01:59.national insurance or VAT. Labour and the Liberal Democrats

:02:00. > :02:02.were quick to jump on what they saw as a change of policy,

:02:03. > :02:05.warning that tax rises lie ahead. Our political correspondent,

:02:06. > :02:09.Iain Watson, reports. The American revolutionary

:02:10. > :02:11.Benjamin Franklin said the two uncertainties were tax

:02:12. > :02:13.and death and commitments to push tax rates up can prove fatal

:02:14. > :02:17.to political campaigns. On a visit to the United States,

:02:18. > :02:20.Chancellor Philip Hammond criticised the constraints placed on him

:02:21. > :02:23.by his party's previous All chancellors would prefer to have

:02:24. > :02:29.more flexibility in how they manage the economy and how they manage

:02:30. > :02:32.the overall tax burden down, than to have their

:02:33. > :02:39.hands constrained. Even some Conservative supporting

:02:40. > :02:42.newspapers speculated that taxes would rise if the party's

:02:43. > :02:44.re-elected, so Conservative sources were swift to say that

:02:45. > :02:48.the Chancellor's comments should be seen as a hint of tax

:02:49. > :02:51.increases to come. What has been remarkable so early

:02:52. > :02:55.in the campaign has been the level of detail that's emerged even before

:02:56. > :02:59.the manifesto is published. We already know Theresa May

:03:00. > :03:02.will recommit to the international aid target, with some wriggle room,

:03:03. > :03:05.and she says there will be increases Labour is committed to retaining

:03:06. > :03:12.a policy of putting pensions up Theresa May seems incapable

:03:13. > :03:15.of answering any questions about protection of the triple lock

:03:16. > :03:18.on the state pension. Well, I give you that

:03:19. > :03:20.commitment now! Labour will maintain

:03:21. > :03:25.the triple lock! At the end of this first

:03:26. > :03:27.week of campaigning, policies are emerging and political

:03:28. > :03:35.battle lines are being drawn. Our political correspondent

:03:36. > :03:43.Leila Nathoo is at Westminster this I think we are going to get these

:03:44. > :03:50.rows and this speculation until we get some clarity. Good morning,

:03:51. > :03:53.either way. Clarity on what is in these manifestoes. Absolutely. This

:03:54. > :03:56.suggestion yesterday from Philip Hammond, that he would like more

:03:57. > :04:02.flexibility to manage the economy, rather than being constrained by the

:04:03. > :04:12.manifesto pledge, not to raise VAT, not to raise national insurance, he

:04:13. > :04:15.-- that was swiftly played down by a Conservative sources. Some headlines

:04:16. > :04:20.pleading, no, no, Prime Minister. Labour was quick to criticise,

:04:21. > :04:27.saying there was a tax bombshell ahead. The Lib Dems con -- accusing

:04:28. > :04:34.them of hitting the pockets of the white van man. Philip Hammond before

:04:35. > :04:37.pledged he would increase national insurance contributions, before

:04:38. > :04:42.quickly realising that he had broken that manifesto pledge. Within days

:04:43. > :04:46.after lots of hostility among Tory backbenchers Theresa May had ordered

:04:47. > :04:52.a U-turn on the policy. It was ditched. So clearly there is a gulf

:04:53. > :04:56.between Theresa May, who is a odds with Chancellor Philip Hammond over

:04:57. > :04:58.tax policy, but we will have to wait and see what ends up in the

:04:59. > :04:59.manifesto. Thank you very much. More than 50,000 troops

:05:00. > :05:02.are being deployed across France in preparation for voting

:05:03. > :05:04.in the country's presidential election after the killing

:05:05. > :05:16.of a police officer in Paris. Terrorism dominated the final day of

:05:17. > :05:17.campaigning and security has been increased before polls in mainland

:05:18. > :05:18.France open on Sunday. The French prepare for

:05:19. > :05:21.an election organised under Armed police and gendarmes have been

:05:22. > :05:31.a common sight in the streets 50,000 of them have been

:05:32. > :05:37.deployed across the country. The French are also used to that

:05:38. > :05:44.presence of soldiers patrolling When the campaign started,

:05:45. > :05:49.many in France believed it would be It turned out voters have

:05:50. > :05:55.so far been more concerned It remains unclear

:05:56. > :05:59.whether Thursday's attack will have a last-minute

:06:00. > :06:05.impact on people's choice. We've had enough of anxiety,

:06:06. > :06:07.and things like that, So just wanted to

:06:08. > :06:11.ignore it, personally. So maybe it will have an impact,

:06:12. > :06:15.but I don't know. TRANSLATION: I'm not worried

:06:16. > :06:17.about Sunday in particular, but I am worried, in

:06:18. > :06:20.general, for all of us. I just don't think our politicians

:06:21. > :06:23.really have a full grasp The most important, I think,

:06:24. > :06:30.it's economy, and economic recovery. The Champs-Elysees have reopened,

:06:31. > :06:37.and are bustling again. But, on the pavement,

:06:38. > :06:40.a reminder of the attack, in which a police officer was killed

:06:41. > :06:43.and two others wounded. On the eve of the most unpredictable

:06:44. > :06:46.presidential election in years, Thursday's shooting will have

:06:47. > :06:52.repercussions beyond the French Across France, people hope

:06:53. > :07:01.for a peaceful vote. A sports ombudsman should be

:07:02. > :07:10.appointed to protect athletes That's one of the recommendations

:07:11. > :07:14.of a year-long review commissioned It was led by the 11-time

:07:15. > :07:19.Paralympic gold-medallist Baroness Grey-Thompson,

:07:20. > :07:21.following a spate of bullying allegations against coaches,

:07:22. > :07:23.mounting concern over the treatment of injuries and the child sex abuse

:07:24. > :07:31.scandal in football. Winning medals is something

:07:32. > :07:34.that I think everyone We feel better as a nation

:07:35. > :07:38.when we are winning Olympics, Paralympics, football, you name it,

:07:39. > :07:44.it's a moment to celebrate. But I think over the last few years

:07:45. > :07:48.duty of care is something that I don't think it has been

:07:49. > :07:52.intentional or malicious, it's just there are hard targets out

:07:53. > :07:55.there and we want to see British If we get duty of care

:07:56. > :07:59.right we can do as well, US Vice-President Mike Pence says

:08:00. > :08:04.a US naval strike group will arrive in waters near North Korea

:08:05. > :08:06.in a matter of days. There had been confusion

:08:07. > :08:08.earlier this week over whether the USS Carl Vinson

:08:09. > :08:11.was heading into the Sea However, in a press conference

:08:12. > :08:19.with the Australian PM, Mr Pence said the US wanted to show

:08:20. > :08:22.North Korea it had the resources Let me assure you, the United States

:08:23. > :08:31.will continue to work closely with Australia, our other allies

:08:32. > :08:34.in the region and with China to bring economic and diplomatic

:08:35. > :08:37.sanctions to bear on the regime in Pyongyang until they

:08:38. > :08:39.abandon their nuclear Taliban gunmen have killed more

:08:40. > :08:44.than 70 troops at an Afghanistan army base outside the northern

:08:45. > :08:48.city of Mazar-i-Sharif. A military spokesman said

:08:49. > :08:50.the insurgents were disguised in army uniforms when they attacked

:08:51. > :08:53.soldiers leaving the base's The Taliban said its attackers had

:08:54. > :08:56.set off an explosion, allowing suicide bombers to breach

:08:57. > :09:04.the base's defences. Two men have been arrested

:09:05. > :09:06.in connection with an acid attack, which left two people

:09:07. > :09:09.blinded in one eye. 20 people were hurt

:09:10. > :09:11.in the attack at the nightclub The two men in their twenties have

:09:12. > :09:16.been arrested on suspicion Police are still urging another man

:09:17. > :09:26.to hand himself into police. From takeaways and box sets

:09:27. > :09:31.to Prince George's favourite TV programme, I think it was

:09:32. > :09:34.Fireman Sam, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spoken

:09:35. > :09:37.about their family life The couple were promoting

:09:38. > :09:40.their mental health campaign on the station's chart show,

:09:41. > :09:42.as our Royal correspondent Please welcome to Radio 1 the Duke

:09:43. > :09:46.and Duchess of Cambridge. With a destiny to fulfil,

:09:47. > :09:50.some DJ-ing in the meantime. These are royals bringing

:09:51. > :09:52.their message about mental health to a young audience,

:09:53. > :09:55.and a confession about listening Obviously, I wouldn't

:09:56. > :10:00.tell you who I was. What are you doing

:10:01. > :10:07.texting in your car? I have not texted while driving,

:10:08. > :10:11.because that is illegal. The princely fan, who seeks

:10:12. > :10:14.shout-outs, and who was castigated when he missed a royal event

:10:15. > :10:17.for a skiing and clubbing trip, It's not something you can

:10:18. > :10:21.really do all the time? No, and you know, I've got in enough

:10:22. > :10:25.trouble with my dancing recently, so it's kind of best

:10:26. > :10:27.to keep away from that, The price of such airtime,

:10:28. > :10:31.questions that wouldn't have amused Victoria, like what takes

:10:32. > :10:34.their fancy for a TV supper. Yeah, I'm not so good

:10:35. > :10:36.with the spicy food, though. If you do a takeaway,

:10:37. > :10:40.they must never believe you when you're ordering it

:10:41. > :10:43.to the palace, right? It doesn't usually get

:10:44. > :10:45.ordered to the palace, We tend to go and pick

:10:46. > :10:49.it up, not ourselves. Go for a little visit

:10:50. > :10:52.around the area. He's not going to go

:10:53. > :10:55.to Chicken Cottage, is he? The royals remained,

:10:56. > :10:58.and were set to work. The official chart with Greg James

:10:59. > :11:01.and the Duke and Duchess He had 13 weeks at number one,

:11:02. > :11:06.with Shape Of You, before Harry came Radio bringing together briefly two

:11:07. > :11:10.national institutions, So, number one is Ed

:11:11. > :11:14.Sheeran, Shape Of You. For a couple facing a life of pomp,

:11:15. > :11:17.this was pure pleasure. When I'm on holiday,

:11:18. > :11:19.would you mind stepping in? To be honest, we could

:11:20. > :11:33.probably do a better job. We will be discussing the more

:11:34. > :11:36.relaxed style of the royals later this morning.

:11:37. > :11:41.That's one of my fantasy jobs, presenting the chart show on Radio

:11:42. > :11:43.one. Obviously I am way too old now! Don't rule it out!

:11:44. > :11:45.For the first time since the Industrial Revolution,

:11:46. > :11:48.Britain has gone a whole working day without using coal

:11:49. > :11:51.National Grid said the news was a "watershed moment" in attempts

:11:52. > :12:02.Taxes on CO2 emissions and the falling cost of renewable

:12:03. > :12:05.energy have made coal plants less economical in recent years.

:12:06. > :12:08.The Nasa probe Cassini is about to put itself on a path

:12:09. > :12:12.that will lead to its destruction in the clouds of Saturn.

:12:13. > :12:15.The craft will pass the planet's moon, Titan, this morning.

:12:16. > :12:19.But this will put it on a trajectory from which it can't escape and it

:12:20. > :12:26.will be destroyed in Saturn's atmosphere.

:12:27. > :12:33.It is hoped before its demise it can make some last-minute measurements

:12:34. > :12:33.of the planet's rotation and length of day.

:12:34. > :12:37.This Sunday some 30,000 people will take part

:12:38. > :12:41.in the London Marathon, good luck if you're among them!

:12:42. > :12:44.One of those is believed to be the only competitor who'll combine

:12:45. > :12:56.This is Graham Burns from Broadstairs, who hopes his

:12:57. > :13:03.sixth marathon will see him break ?50,000

:13:04. > :13:05.fundraising for a breast cancer charity.

:13:06. > :13:08.He is expected to sing his 40 track playlist several times around

:13:09. > :13:10.the course, including such hits as 500 Miles

:13:11. > :13:17.That's amazing. He's going to sing all the way! We will have to keep an

:13:18. > :13:21.eye on the race tomorrow. We are told the weather will be

:13:22. > :13:26.good. Yes, not too hot. Good luck to Graham and anyone else taking part.

:13:27. > :13:35.We've had a number of suggestions on the best running tracks. Radio one.

:13:36. > :13:40.-- Run to the Hills by Iron Maiden. Another said The Climb by Miley

:13:41. > :13:42.Cyrus. Any more, let us know. You've done the marathon. A couple

:13:43. > :13:47.of years ago. It's tough. It has been dubbed the Brexit

:13:48. > :13:50.election and whoever wins in June will have to deal with the complex

:13:51. > :13:53.negotiations of taking Britain out So what does the summer

:13:54. > :13:56.hold for UKIP? Its leader Paul Nuttall says

:13:57. > :13:59.he will take a "positive message But with its main objective

:14:00. > :14:05.achieved, will the party We're joined now by John Bickley,

:14:06. > :14:17.UKIP's spokesperson on immigration. We will talk to you about all sorts

:14:18. > :14:22.of other things as well. Ukip is not the party they were and didn't have

:14:23. > :14:26.the same purpose. I know lots of your campaigning in recent weeks has

:14:27. > :14:31.been about convincing people that you still have a message to get out

:14:32. > :14:36.there. We still do. This election shouldn't have been called. Theresa

:14:37. > :14:40.May is telling us it has been called for the sake of the country, but I

:14:41. > :14:44.think it was called for the sake of the Conservative Party. When Theresa

:14:45. > :14:50.May announced the election some of these channels submitted files to

:14:51. > :14:56.the Crown Prosecution Service that could lead to potentially the

:14:57. > :15:00.prosecution of a number of Tory MPs. So quite handy to call a general

:15:01. > :15:06.election. Maybe white the slate clean, so this Tory MPs on the way.

:15:07. > :15:09.But all of this is a distraction for the fact that actually what the

:15:10. > :15:14.Conservatives are doing is leading the country into what many suspect

:15:15. > :15:18.will be a fairly hard Brexit, and people are now turning to men and

:15:19. > :15:23.saying, why vote for Ukip when you know we will get the same outcome? I

:15:24. > :15:27.agree that what Theresa May has done is give this impression too many

:15:28. > :15:31.people who have been Ukip supporters or Leave voters last year. She has

:15:32. > :15:37.given them the impression that the Tory party will deliver Brexit. We

:15:38. > :15:40.don't trust her to deliver Brexit. Remember, the Tory party is made up

:15:41. > :15:43.mainly of Remainers. She was a Remainer. The establishment, the

:15:44. > :15:56.civil service, are mainly Remainers. They are all Brexiteers now. Why is

:15:57. > :16:00.it that your most famous representative, Nigel Farage, is not

:16:01. > :16:05.running our? Nigel has come up with a good reason for him to ensure that

:16:06. > :16:09.we get Brexit, to remain in the European Parliament where we can

:16:10. > :16:12.hold their feet to the fire. He can go around Europe... We know he has

:16:13. > :16:17.had ambitions to get into Westminster for years. He wouldn't

:16:18. > :16:21.have run in elections otherwise. He is running scared, isn't he? Nigel

:16:22. > :16:26.is very clear minded. Let's not forget that UKIP has caused the

:16:27. > :16:29.biggest change in British politics in 40 years. With very few

:16:30. > :16:33.representatives in Parliament, we have had more impact on British

:16:34. > :16:37.politics and the way this country is going to move forward than anyone

:16:38. > :16:41.else in 40 years. A lot of that is down to Nigel. Nigel is a smart guy

:16:42. > :16:45.and he realises that in the EU Parliament he will have an

:16:46. > :16:51.opportunity in pole position to hold the EU to account. We will take your

:16:52. > :16:57.word for it. Other people have a different opinion on it. Will our

:16:58. > :17:01.banks run with UKIP's blessing? Aaron has been a generous supporter

:17:02. > :17:05.of UKIP over the years, and the party is talking to Aaron about how

:17:06. > :17:08.he can help us in this general election, as it does with many

:17:09. > :17:13.people, and I would say watch this space over the next few days. This

:17:14. > :17:15.is a man who insulted many people from Liverpool and beyond with his

:17:16. > :17:19.comments which many found distasteful about Hillsborough.

:17:20. > :17:26.Would you be comfortable having someone like that bearing the UKIP

:17:27. > :17:36.banner? Aaron can defend himself. What he said was wrong,.. Let's see

:17:37. > :17:41.if he works with UKIP in some manner during this election. You have to

:17:42. > :17:45.move on in life, and we all had to apologise for things we do wrong.

:17:46. > :17:51.What I am saying to you as there may be a way in which... I don't know,

:17:52. > :17:54.maybe not. You have talked about tactical voting and have set in some

:17:55. > :17:58.circumstances it might be more appropriate to have UKIP supporters

:17:59. > :18:03.put their vote to the Conservatives if it is the kind of MP who will get

:18:04. > :18:08.the kind of Brexit that UKIP would support. So you haven't ruled out

:18:09. > :18:13.that kind of tactical voting. No, because I think Mrs May has said

:18:14. > :18:17.this was an election about Brexit and of course we want to ensure the

:18:18. > :18:21.17.4 million people who voted to leave last year get Brexit, not some

:18:22. > :18:27.die looted version of it. So putting country before party, we will put

:18:28. > :18:32.this tactically. I would say to all Tory voters you cannot win some

:18:33. > :18:35.seats, but if you send the UKIP candidate back to Parliament, that

:18:36. > :18:40.person would help Theresa May deliver Brexit. You have no MPs now

:18:41. > :18:44.that Douglas Carswell has stepped back from UKIP, he hasn't gone back

:18:45. > :18:50.from the Conservatives. You expect to end up with any MPs after this

:18:51. > :18:54.election? I think we can, we just have to be careful how we target

:18:55. > :18:58.certain seats. We have demonstrated that you can have a massive impact

:18:59. > :19:02.on politics even when you are not populating the green benches. Thank

:19:03. > :19:03.you very much for coming in to see us this morning.

:19:04. > :19:07.Here is Ben with a look at this morning's weather.

:19:08. > :19:14.Thank you, a very good morning. The weekend weather is not looking too

:19:15. > :19:18.bad. For many of us we are getting off to a fine start. There are some

:19:19. > :19:23.cloud around, but the sunrise coming through as well. This picture from

:19:24. > :19:26.one of our Weather Watchers in west Wales and it will be a largely dry

:19:27. > :19:30.weekend. There will be some sunshine. We are starting the day

:19:31. > :19:34.with a fair amount of cloud courtesy of this weather front, a very weak

:19:35. > :19:37.affair. It will be a focus for cloudier skies and maybe one or two

:19:38. > :19:41.showers. But generally speaking high pressure is in charge. A nice slice

:19:42. > :19:44.of sunshine at the moment across south-west Scotland, north-east

:19:45. > :19:58.England, done in the east Wales, the Midlands, parts of the south-east as

:19:59. > :20:02.well. Fair amounts of cloud as well but for many the cloud will break

:20:03. > :20:06.up. We will see fair spells of sunshine as well as one or two

:20:07. > :20:09.showers. If you are out and about through the Channel Islands, into

:20:10. > :20:12.the south-east of England, Wales, West Midlands, you will see some

:20:13. > :20:15.spells of sunshine. Temperatures around the mid-teens, 15 to 17

:20:16. > :20:19.degrees. A small chance of a shower across the south-east. You will be

:20:20. > :20:22.unlucky if you catch one. Chilly on the east coast, much of northern

:20:23. > :20:25.England seemed patchy cloud and sunny spells. Northern Ireland will

:20:26. > :20:27.stay quite cloudy through the day. The best of the brightness and

:20:28. > :20:31.southern Scotland. Northern Scotland seeing some showers, some of them

:20:32. > :20:33.quite heavy and wintry over higher ground and a pretty chilly feel

:20:34. > :20:36.here. The showers will continue across northern Scotland overnight

:20:37. > :20:40.at elsewhere it will become largely dry. Some clear spells, the odd

:20:41. > :20:43.dispatch, and even in our towns, not far away from freezing out of the

:20:44. > :20:47.countryside, cold enough for a touch of ground frost. Cold start is not a

:20:48. > :20:51.bad thing for the London Marathon tomorrow, getting off to a single

:20:52. > :20:55.figure start. Things will warm up as we go through the day and they will

:20:56. > :20:58.probably brighten up as well. The cloud will break up so across

:20:59. > :21:01.England and Wales we expect that they are sunny spells tomorrow. More

:21:02. > :21:04.clubfoot northern Scotland, southern Scotland, perhaps cringing into the

:21:05. > :21:09.far north of England. The odd spot of rain here as well and by the end

:21:10. > :21:12.of the day some heavy rains but across the far north of Scotland.

:21:13. > :21:16.And that is the first sign of what is to come. Quite a big change on

:21:17. > :21:20.the way. This area of low pressure will initially bring some wet and

:21:21. > :21:23.quite windy weather, and then we turn our highs to this cold front

:21:24. > :21:26.which dives its way southwards during Sunday night and Monday,

:21:27. > :21:30.bringing some rain. But look at these blue colours racing across the

:21:31. > :21:33.map. We will get into some very cold air. Overnight frosts, singledigit

:21:34. > :21:36.temperatures by day and there will be some showers around as well, and

:21:37. > :21:40.those could be wintry, with some snow to fairly low levels at times.

:21:41. > :21:44.I hope you can remember where you have left that winter coat. Good

:21:45. > :21:45.advice. Thank you very much, we will see you a little bit later on.

:21:46. > :21:48.New arrivals in the neighbourhood often get people peering over

:21:49. > :21:51.the fence out of curiosity, but the latest arrivals in one

:21:52. > :21:54.village are more likely to be scurrying under them.

:21:55. > :21:57.52 hedgehogs were released back into the wilds of East Yorkshire

:21:58. > :22:00.this week, after being nursed back to health in animal sanctuaries.

:22:01. > :22:05.Our reporter Tim Muffett went along to meet them.

:22:06. > :22:12.Residents of Burton Fleming await new arrivals. They are a bit

:22:13. > :22:18.prickly, apparently, are in desperate need of a fresh start. Are

:22:19. > :22:22.you excited? Yes. It will keep the grubs down, hopefully. From an

:22:23. > :22:28.animal century 40 miles away, they finally arrived. 52 hedgehogs, all

:22:29. > :22:33.found sick or injured across the North of England. Most of these have

:22:34. > :22:38.come in as babies, and we have hand fed them, hand reared them. This one

:22:39. > :22:43.was in a really bad way when she came in. She was very tiny. Very

:22:44. > :22:47.sick. Veronica and her husband, Frank, run the charity Andrews

:22:48. > :22:53.hedgehog hospital. They believe the village of Burton Fleming, now

:22:54. > :22:58.considered hedgehog friendly, will give the animals the best chance.

:22:59. > :23:01.Our village doesn't have major roads around it and hedgehogs need to

:23:02. > :23:06.travel and get around different gardens. Provided everyone puts a

:23:07. > :23:10.hole in the garden to make sure they can move around, we hope that the

:23:11. > :23:15.numbers will improve -- a hole in the garden fence. We are going to be

:23:16. > :23:20.putting the hedgehogs in our garden, because I have three little boys who

:23:21. > :23:24.have never seen alive hedgehog for. Look at his face. Do you like him?

:23:25. > :23:30.Assessing hedgehog numbers is tricky, but in the 1950s it is

:23:31. > :23:34.thought there were around 30 million in Britain. But now,

:23:35. > :23:39.conservationists believe numbers have plummeted to under 1 million.

:23:40. > :23:46.We are taking all the hedgerows away, which is what the hedgehogs

:23:47. > :23:51.need. Roadkill, slug pellets, tremors, bonfires. They have a tough

:23:52. > :23:57.time. The hedgehogs are temporarily marked as Mail or female, so they

:23:58. > :24:05.can be released in pairs, and then it is time to say goodbye. Oh

:24:06. > :24:11.sweetheart. They are all out having the time of their lives. We have

:24:12. > :24:16.been through so much with them. But they are now out where they should

:24:17. > :24:19.be. They are wild animals, we know they have to go. We know everyone in

:24:20. > :24:26.the village will be looking after them. Other villages aiming for

:24:27. > :24:33.hedgehog friendly status include Windlesham, in Surrey, and Cornwall.

:24:34. > :24:37.We put them in this spot because it is very quiet, and they will be

:24:38. > :24:41.happy here, and they have access into our garden, into our

:24:42. > :24:46.neighbour's garden. Dusk. Time to let the hedgehogs go. What is it

:24:47. > :24:50.like when you see a hedgehog returned to the wild? It is what we

:24:51. > :24:54.aim for. Our whole purpose in life is to take an injured or sick

:24:55. > :25:01.hedgehog, make it better, and return it back into the wild. Already to

:25:02. > :25:06.go. To nature. It is hoped, back for good.

:25:07. > :25:15.People love hedgehogs. Life is better with pictures of hedgehogs in

:25:16. > :25:17.our world. Why is that? I don't know. They are gorgeous creatures,

:25:18. > :25:19.really special. Should bosses be allowed to force

:25:20. > :25:22.female members of their workforce Currently the law says employers can

:25:23. > :25:26.dismiss staff who don't meet reasonable dress code guidelines,

:25:27. > :25:28.and allows different codes When Nicola Thorp was sent home

:25:29. > :25:32.for refusing to wear high heels, she started a petition calling

:25:33. > :25:35.for the law to be changed. However, the Government has

:25:36. > :25:38.now rejected that call. Nicola joins us from

:25:39. > :25:48.our London newsroom. A very good morning to you. Good

:25:49. > :25:52.morning. You must be very disappointed that this is not going

:25:53. > :25:57.further. It is going further. I am disappointed they have decided not

:25:58. > :26:01.to change legislation but the government has said it will enforce

:26:02. > :26:05.the guidelines, and they will set out the guidelines over the summer,

:26:06. > :26:09.what those guidelines are they have not specified yet. It seems like a

:26:10. > :26:13.weak response to such a strong call to action, but we are going to have

:26:14. > :26:18.to see what they come up with. So these guidelines you are talking

:26:19. > :26:21.about, would they be specific? In your case it is about high heels.

:26:22. > :26:26.That was the issue. You were told you had to wear them and he didn't

:26:27. > :26:31.want to, and you were camping at the time. Do you wanted to be specific

:26:32. > :26:37.to items clothing such as footwear, or what do you want? -- temping. I

:26:38. > :26:41.think guidelines should be specific because as it stands an employer can

:26:42. > :26:44.distinguish between a Mail and female dress code and what often

:26:45. > :26:48.happens in those cases is women end up losing out, because often there

:26:49. > :26:52.is more expected of women in terms of how they look, with their hair,

:26:53. > :26:57.make-up, high heels, et cetera. And that pressure isn't necessarily put

:26:58. > :27:00.on men. So what I wanted was for the government to scrap that entirely

:27:01. > :27:04.and say, do you know what? It doesn't matter whether you are Mail

:27:05. > :27:08.or female, as long as you are smart at work. We are not going to enforce

:27:09. > :27:13.things like high heels and make up upon you. But I don't know whether

:27:14. > :27:17.these guidelines will stay. They might make it clear that employers

:27:18. > :27:20.who do force employees to wear high heels are already breaking the

:27:21. > :27:25.equalities act 2010, which says you have to treat men and women equally.

:27:26. > :27:29.In my mind wearing a smart pair of flat women's shoes is exactly the

:27:30. > :27:33.same as wearing a smart power of flat men's shoes. So why on earth

:27:34. > :27:37.women would be asked to put their health at risk, or hurt their

:27:38. > :27:44.ankles, et cetera, or feel sexualised in the workplace, I just

:27:45. > :27:48.don't think it is necessary. Nicola, I am really interested in this,

:27:49. > :27:51.because you might think on the face of it, surely the number of

:27:52. > :27:55.circumstances where this comes up is very small but you say a lot of

:27:56. > :27:59.women have been back in touch with you to say things like, I was sacked

:28:00. > :28:02.for not wearing lipstick, or an inappropriate skirt length. It is

:28:03. > :28:06.thousands, and I would say on the grand scheme of things this isn't

:28:07. > :28:11.one of the biggest issues at all, so why our employers forcing women to

:28:12. > :28:13.do it, and making women feel uncomfortable in the workplace?

:28:14. > :28:18.There is explicit and implicit sexism everywhere. These are rules

:28:19. > :28:23.in black and white, and are explicit, but even if we brought in

:28:24. > :28:27.the strictest rules to outlaw any kind of overt sexism, laws are only

:28:28. > :28:32.as good as the people who enforce them. So we need to make sure that

:28:33. > :28:35.employers know that this kind of dress code policy is completely

:28:36. > :28:40.unacceptable. There are so many women feel pressured to look a

:28:41. > :28:45.certain way in their daily lives. But to look sexualised, or more

:28:46. > :28:51.attractive in the workplace, I don't think in 2017 that is something we

:28:52. > :28:55.should be expected to do. How would guidelines work in relation to

:28:56. > :29:00.uniforms? Can an employer get around something by, if you like, saying

:29:01. > :29:04.what we have is a uniform, and the uniform is what you have to wear,

:29:05. > :29:08.and maybe you don't like it, but that is what you have to wear?

:29:09. > :29:11.Absolutely, we have all had to wear uniforms we don't like wearing in

:29:12. > :29:15.our lives. But the difference would be if they made women wear a uniform

:29:16. > :29:19.that was less comfortable than men. I am sure you yourself wouldn't like

:29:20. > :29:24.it if, tomorrow, the BBC said part of your uniform is a four inch heel,

:29:25. > :29:28.but it is fine because we are making the women do it as well. It just

:29:29. > :29:38.wouldn't be fair. That is an image to counter! A nice one to leave us

:29:39. > :29:42.with -- image to conjure! Charlie will definitely not be wearing his

:29:43. > :30:22.heels tomorrow morning. Headlines coming up just after this.

:30:23. > :30:24.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Rachel

:30:25. > :30:30.Coming up before 8am, Ben will have the weather.

:30:31. > :30:35.But first, a summary of this morning's main news.

:30:36. > :30:37.The Conservatives are attempting to play down speculation

:30:38. > :30:40.that they will raise taxes if they win the general election.

:30:41. > :30:43.Yesterday, the Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, hinted

:30:44. > :30:46.that the government might abandon the pledge made at the last election

:30:47. > :30:49.not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT.

:30:50. > :30:52.Labour and the Liberal Democrats were quick to jump on what they saw

:30:53. > :30:59.as a change of policy, warning that tax rises lie ahead.

:31:00. > :31:01.More than 50,000 troops are being deployed across France

:31:02. > :31:03.in preparation for voting in the country's presidential

:31:04. > :31:08.election after the killing of a police officer in Paris.

:31:09. > :31:10.The BBC's Karin Giannone is in Paris.

:31:11. > :31:18.Karin, how big a role will security have in tomorrow's vote?

:31:19. > :31:26.It was always going to be an important weekend in France. Events

:31:27. > :31:35.over the past few days have changed things a little. What did the like

:31:36. > :31:40.in France? Welcome to a scene of Parisi and normality. A market just

:31:41. > :31:45.a stones throw from Notre Dame. People are really just getting on

:31:46. > :31:53.with their normal Saturday. It is a day of political silence. They

:31:54. > :32:00.aren't allowed to be hearing any messages from politicians. That

:32:01. > :32:06.might be a relief after months of political batwing. As you mentioned

:32:07. > :32:13.the terrible events of Thursday mean police are patrolling all the time.

:32:14. > :32:18.People are wondering what affects that will have on political

:32:19. > :32:22.intentions, the choices people make in the ballot boxes, but also

:32:23. > :32:26.whether the French will be put off from turning out to vote because of

:32:27. > :32:30.security fears and turnout is so important in this election because

:32:31. > :32:36.the top four candidates are really neck and neck. Let's just give you

:32:37. > :32:41.one final thought about Thursday night. It has emerged that the

:32:42. > :32:49.victim, the 37-year-old policeman, had been deployed in November 2015

:32:50. > :32:55.at the Bataclan theatre. One year later he was there at the concert

:32:56. > :32:59.that we opened the concert hall when Sting performed. He was interviewed

:33:00. > :33:03.that night and he said he was happy to be there, to defend civic values

:33:04. > :33:05.and say no to terrorists. Thank you very much.

:33:06. > :33:08.US Vice-President Mike Pence says a US naval strike group will arrive

:33:09. > :33:11.in waters near North Korea in a matter of days.

:33:12. > :33:13.There had been confusion earlier this week over

:33:14. > :33:16.whether the USS Carl Vinson was heading into the Sea

:33:17. > :33:20.However, in a press conference with the Australian Prime Minister,

:33:21. > :33:23.Mr Pence said the US wanted to show North Korea it had the resources

:33:24. > :33:32.For the first time since the Industrial Revolution Britain

:33:33. > :33:34.has gone a whole working day without using coal

:33:35. > :33:40.National Grid said the news was a "watershed moment" in attempts

:33:41. > :33:46.Taxes on CO2 emissions and the falling cost of renewable

:33:47. > :33:52.energy have made coal plants less economical in recent years.

:33:53. > :33:54.A Nasa probe, flying near the planet Saturn,

:33:55. > :33:56.is about to set itself on a path of destruction,

:33:57. > :34:01.Cassini will pass the planet's moon, Titan, this morning.

:34:02. > :34:06.But this will cause it to change course and head straight

:34:07. > :34:08.for Saturn's atmosphere where it will be destroyed.

:34:09. > :34:12.It's hoped before its demise it will be able to make some last

:34:13. > :34:13.minute measurements of the planet's rings,

:34:14. > :34:27.Are you not going to repeat the noise it made? Earlier you made a

:34:28. > :34:31.very scientific noise. Those are the main stories this

:34:32. > :34:35.morning. Over to the sport. Good morning. We

:34:36. > :34:42.are at the business end this weekend of the FA Cup. The teams are just

:34:43. > :34:46.two wins away from the trophy and it's very exciting.

:34:47. > :34:50.We haven't had a semi-final weekend like this for a long time.

:34:51. > :34:56.Two teams in English cup semifinals for the FA Cup, really going for it.

:34:57. > :35:00.Now they are going to meet in the FA Cup and it will be really exciting.

:35:01. > :35:04.Hard to call either way, I wouldn't want to say. Yes, good morning.

:35:05. > :35:07.It's not just English teams in Cup semi-final action this weekend,

:35:08. > :35:11.But let's with the teatime kick off at Wembley,

:35:12. > :35:14.where the two best teams in the Premier League,

:35:15. > :35:17.Chelsea and Tottenham, meet in the FA Cup.

:35:18. > :35:20.For the winners, it's a place in the final and dreams

:35:21. > :35:32.We will play again one of hte best teams in Europe.

:35:33. > :35:35.Players that won European competitions in the World Cups.

:35:36. > :35:39.I think we are going to play again one of the best teams in Europe.

:35:40. > :35:43.I think Tottenham is a great team and they are showing for the second

:35:44. > :35:45.consecutive year to fight for the title.

:35:46. > :35:55.And this season they are trying again.

:35:56. > :35:59.And that match is live on BBC One and Radio 5 live,

:36:00. > :36:09.In Scotland, go for the treble, as they take

:36:10. > :36:11.on Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi-finals.

:36:12. > :36:13.But the action begins this lunch-time, when the holders

:36:14. > :36:16.We've seen off Hearts already in impressive fashion,

:36:17. > :36:19.so Aberdeen, the second-best team over the last few years,

:36:20. > :36:33.they keep improving every year under Derek.

:36:34. > :36:36.They've been to the League Cup final already and the semi-final.

:36:37. > :36:41.But you've got four teams in the competition who can win

:36:42. > :36:43.a trophy and I'm just pleased that we are there.

:36:44. > :36:48.I just want to go and try to win it and get into the final first

:36:49. > :36:51.We've beaten some good teams along the way.

:36:52. > :36:54.Ross County, a tough match against Partick Thistle and another

:36:55. > :36:58.But you don't get to the finals without tough challenges.

:36:59. > :37:04.We've got another one on Saturday, but looking forward to it.

:37:05. > :37:07.The England manager Gareth Southgate said he was "stunned" by the death

:37:08. > :37:10.of his close friend and former team-mate Ugo Ehiogu,

:37:11. > :37:12.describing him as a "gentleman" and a "credit to football".

:37:13. > :37:15.Ehiogu passed away yesterday at the age of 44, after suffering

:37:16. > :37:17.a heart attack at Tottenham's training ground, where

:37:18. > :37:22.Southgate said, "He was a gentle giant away from football"

:37:23. > :37:35.There was a minute's applause for Ehiogu ahead of last night's

:37:36. > :37:36.Championship match between Norwich and Brighton.

:37:37. > :37:39.The Brighton goalkeeper David Stockdale scoring

:37:40. > :37:42.two freakish own goals, as they lost 2-0 at Norwich.

:37:43. > :37:44.Both times, the ball hit the woodwork before rebounding

:37:45. > :38:04.Brighton have already won promotion to the Premier League.

:38:05. > :38:12.Manchester City women face a huge test in the Champions League

:38:13. > :38:15.semi-finals this afternoon as they play holders Lyon at home

:38:16. > :38:19.This is City's first season playing in Europe's top club competition

:38:20. > :38:21.whereas Lyon have reached five of the last seven

:38:22. > :38:25.You can watch highlights on the Women's Football Show

:38:26. > :38:34.tomorrow evening at 11:50pm on BBC One.

:38:35. > :38:36.Widnes remain bottom of the Super League

:38:37. > :38:40.despite their first home win of the season.

:38:41. > :38:43.They trailed St Helens into the final few minutes,

:38:44. > :38:45.but a late try gave them victory by 16-14.

:38:46. > :38:48.The hosts were trailing 14-12 going into the final few minutes,

:38:49. > :38:51.but some great defence and Patrick Ah Van's second score

:38:52. > :38:53.of the game, secured the narrow victory.

:38:54. > :38:56.The 2015 World Snooker champion Stuart Bingham has been knocked out

:38:57. > :38:58.of this year's tournament by Kyran Wilson.

:38:59. > :39:02.Wilson had the upper hand for most of the match and had a clear lead

:39:03. > :39:05.when Bingham made a hash of this attempt at a pot,

:39:06. > :39:07.allowing Wilson to clear up and complete a 13-10 win

:39:08. > :39:10.and become the first player into the quarter-finals.

:39:11. > :39:13.And five-time champion Ronnie O'Sullivan will resume his

:39:14. > :39:15.second round match this morning against another former winner

:39:16. > :39:19.He needs just three more frames for victory.

:39:20. > :39:22.Ellie Downie has become the first British woman to win

:39:23. > :39:34.all round called a European Championships.

:39:35. > :39:39.Britain face Romania in the crunch. There could be back in the world

:39:40. > :39:44.group for the first time since 1993. Heather Watson is on court first

:39:45. > :39:47.against Simona Halep, followed by Johanna Konta.

:39:48. > :39:55.We've got such a strong team, such a strong team spirit, but I think

:39:56. > :39:59.that's enough to help each other through this week. Obviously you

:40:00. > :40:07.always hope for a home tie, but again the fact that it is sold-out

:40:08. > :40:12.arena makes it more exciting and all of us like playing on the big

:40:13. > :40:15.stages. I just have to say, how one lucky was the goalkeeper!

:40:16. > :40:23.That's tough. Isn't it hard?

:40:24. > :40:24.I think as you said before, I think everybody will be watching it

:40:25. > :40:30.online. That's the way that happens.

:40:31. > :40:35.They suddenly become household names. For it to happen twice, once,

:40:36. > :40:44.you think there are now. But twice! They are Premier League players now.

:40:45. > :40:51.You can follow the tennis on the BBC later today.

:40:52. > :41:00.I was going to say something about Smashy and Lighty. Do you remember

:41:01. > :41:12.them? They were spoof DJs. The Duke and Dutch -- Duchess have had a go.

:41:13. > :41:14.From coping with grief, to the strains of being new parents,

:41:15. > :41:18.the younger members of the royal family have opened up about some

:41:19. > :41:25.And when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge dropped in on Radio 1

:41:26. > :41:28.yesterday, the conversation may have centred on dealing with mental

:41:29. > :41:30.health, but it was also a lot more light-hearted,

:41:31. > :41:42.We are both quite keen on boxed sets. When the get times in

:41:43. > :41:47.evenings. What the kids are in bed. I guess you to watch children's

:41:48. > :41:52.programmes as well? Yes. Lots of children's programmes. There are lot

:41:53. > :41:56.of them out there. Some of them are really good but you have to pretend

:41:57. > :41:58.you are really interested because George gets upset if you aren't

:41:59. > :42:09.showing due diligence to the characters. Fireman Sam lot. A are

:42:10. > :42:10.we at the Peppa Pig stage yet? We've gone past it. Charlotte will

:42:11. > :42:11.probably be into it soon. So what have we learnt

:42:12. > :42:15.about the younger members The royal historian Kate Williams

:42:16. > :42:23.joins us now from our Good morning. We have picked out a

:42:24. > :42:28.clip in which they were talking about some really quite personal and

:42:29. > :42:34.trivial stuff, about family life. What do you make of what they were

:42:35. > :42:39.saying yesterday? Well, what we were really seeing was an opening up, and

:42:40. > :42:42.intimacy, for the royals. They were talking about what the children

:42:43. > :42:47.liked, they were talking about how they like take aways and comfortable

:42:48. > :42:50.clothes. They were really talking about their at home life, aside we

:42:51. > :42:58.never get to see, and throughout history we see a lot of... Quite a

:42:59. > :43:02.risky strategy. There was the 1960s documentary which showed Prince

:43:03. > :43:07.Philip making sausages. That was seen as too much, so it was taken

:43:08. > :43:11.off circulation. We can't see it because we've seen them in too much

:43:12. > :43:14.of an intimate way. So they are sometimes afraid of that. But here

:43:15. > :43:18.they are talking about their family really openly and I think that's

:43:19. > :43:22.because they know that if they want to get the attention, with their

:43:23. > :43:27.heads together, conversations like this really help that. We will talk

:43:28. > :43:32.more about the campaign in a moment. On that occasion they walked into a

:43:33. > :43:36.live radio studio. There would have been a time when that was seen as a

:43:37. > :43:42.dangerous thing to do, just because it's a live studio environment. They

:43:43. > :43:45.are clearly getting more comfortable with handling that kind of an

:43:46. > :43:52.environment. Yes, it would have been seen as uncontrolled. Any question

:43:53. > :44:00.could be asked. Whereas often what was preferred were pre- records,

:44:01. > :44:02.questions approved in advance, everything talked about, no

:44:03. > :44:06.surprises. Here they are really saying they are happy to be open to

:44:07. > :44:11.the surprises and happy to talk freely and that's where the best

:44:12. > :44:15.side of the young royals comes out. When you see them outside of the

:44:16. > :44:18.controlled environment you start to see the warm aside, the more

:44:19. > :44:23.intimate side of William and Catherine. Thing is, they are very

:44:24. > :44:29.popular. We tend to see them doing a lot, we always see Katherine playing

:44:30. > :44:33.cricket and sport. We see speaking quite so much, but when she does it

:44:34. > :44:37.really does engage the public and I think that's what the royals have

:44:38. > :44:42.realised and what the palace have realised. They really are the secret

:44:43. > :44:46.weapons in a sense, but they have to talk and what we really want to know

:44:47. > :44:51.about is the intimate side of their family life. That something that

:44:52. > :44:55.when they talk about gets huge amount of coverage. The more serious

:44:56. > :44:58.side of what they've been doing recently is of course talking about

:44:59. > :45:02.their own motivations linked to William and Harry and their mother's

:45:03. > :45:07.death. It's been a very significant moment, hasn't it? Both historically

:45:08. > :45:12.and also on personal terms. It's been very significant. We saw

:45:13. > :45:17.Harry's very groundbreaking interview about his experiences,

:45:18. > :45:20.about the response to his mother's death and we've never heard how they

:45:21. > :45:24.talk about anything like that before and indeed members of the Royal

:45:25. > :45:29.family don't tend to talk about bereavement and death and the big

:45:30. > :45:33.sections of their lives. For many people that was a real revelation,

:45:34. > :45:39.here is Harry and William especially Harry, saying he bottled it up,

:45:40. > :45:43.didn't want to talk about it and it caused a lot of mental distress and

:45:44. > :45:47.he came near a breakdown over the misery and unhappiness, the despair,

:45:48. > :45:53.he felt over his mother's death. What was very striking when he saw

:45:54. > :45:59.that interview that they did outside on the bench, Harry said, you think

:46:00. > :46:05.everyone else's life is perfect. You might think that about a royal, they

:46:06. > :46:09.have money, privilege, the adulation, but Harry had been

:46:10. > :46:14.suffering from all these years over the death of Diana and also William.

:46:15. > :46:18.The fact that they wanted to open up about that and talk about it, to

:46:19. > :46:21.give hope to other people who were suffering, I think is very striking.

:46:22. > :46:27.Because there could be criticised for it, to stop talking, stop

:46:28. > :46:31.moaning, and yet it was their efforts to try to say you have to

:46:32. > :46:35.talk about things and then you will feel better. That's very much. We

:46:36. > :46:37.will chat again later in the programme.

:46:38. > :46:40.Here is Ben with a look at this morning's weather.

:46:41. > :46:47.A bright start for many of us, but don't be fooled. There is cold air

:46:48. > :46:52.on the way. Yes, something called for just about all of us for the

:46:53. > :46:54.start of next week. The weekend starting a decent fashion in

:46:55. > :46:59.Shropshire. Sunshine of the story for most of us as we go through the

:47:00. > :47:03.next couple of days. Here is our first look at the satellite picture

:47:04. > :47:07.this morning. There is a fair amount of cloud around, but a nice slice of

:47:08. > :47:10.sunshine through south-west Scotland, parts of East Wales, the

:47:11. > :47:14.West Midlands and down towards the south coast as well. But even where

:47:15. > :47:18.we start the day with cloud things should brighten up and we will see

:47:19. > :47:21.some spells of sunshine. Quite a few showers in Scotland, some of those

:47:22. > :47:25.wintry, with a chilly feel and one or two showers elsewhere. The vast

:47:26. > :47:29.majority will stay dry. Through the Channel Islands into the south-west

:47:30. > :47:32.of England, Wales, the West Midlands, we will see some sunny

:47:33. > :47:37.spells through the afternoon. Temperatures up to 16 or 17 degrees

:47:38. > :47:41.but a small chance of a shower across the south-east, East Anglia.

:47:42. > :47:44.Rather chilly feel close to the east coast at much of northern England

:47:45. > :47:48.dry. Northern Ireland is likely to stay pretty cloudy through the day.

:47:49. > :47:52.Was southern Scotland, northern Scotland, a lot of showers and just

:47:53. > :47:55.four degrees the afternoon temperature in Lerwick. As we go

:47:56. > :47:59.through the evening and overnight as showers will continue, some of them

:48:00. > :48:05.wintry, but elsewhere are largely dry night. Some clear spells and the

:48:06. > :48:09.odd Mr patch, a clear night, out in the countryside: for a touch of

:48:10. > :48:13.frost. Chilly is not a bad thing for the start of the London Marathon. It

:48:14. > :48:17.will be cool to start off tomorrow morning. Things should brighten up

:48:18. > :48:20.as we go through the day. They will warm up as well. Many parts of

:48:21. > :48:24.England and Wales that is the story. Sunny spells through tomorrow.

:48:25. > :48:28.Northern Ireland and southern Scotland, some patchy rain. Heavy

:48:29. > :48:32.rain in northern Scotland. Temperatures six in Lerwick, that

:48:33. > :48:33.cold air moving southwards as we head into next week.

:48:34. > :48:36.Now on BBC News, it is time for Newswatch, with Samira Ahmed.

:48:37. > :48:39.Under the spotlight this week, election coverage, and how to report

:48:40. > :48:47.They are off again as BBC News embarks on covering another general

:48:48. > :48:49.election campaign, how much attention should be given

:48:50. > :48:55.to the views of people like Brenda from Bristol?

:48:56. > :49:04.And correspondent John Sudworth on the challenges of reporting

:49:05. > :49:08.from North Korea, surrounded by government minders.

:49:09. > :49:12.My job is to work out how far I can push being a nuisance

:49:13. > :49:24.and an annoyance without getting me or my team into difficulty.

:49:25. > :49:27.Tuesday morning saw one of those moments when,

:49:28. > :49:29.after an hour of speculative gossip, almost everyone here

:49:30. > :49:31.in Broadcasting House listened to an announcement,

:49:32. > :49:34.takes a deep breath and embarks on a period of frenzied,

:49:35. > :49:36.journalistic activity which, in this case, could last

:49:37. > :49:46.I have just chaired a meeting of the Cabinet, where we agreed

:49:47. > :49:49.that the Government should call a general election,

:49:50. > :49:59.All day, reporters and presenters flocked to Downing Street.

:50:00. > :50:00.Occasionally there was some activity.

:50:01. > :50:03.Mr Johnson, are you looking forward to an early election?

:50:04. > :50:11.Cabinet ministers have been in there since 8:30am.

:50:12. > :50:14.Mr Hunt, are you looking forward to an election?

:50:15. > :50:17.I get a feeling it's going to be a futile task.

:50:18. > :50:20.No one is going to want to trump Theresa May.

:50:21. > :50:30.They will be very obedient and walk straight down the street.

:50:31. > :50:34.And when Mrs May appeared later, Eleanor Garnier was just as vocal.

:50:35. > :50:40.Have you changed your mind, Prime Minister?

:50:41. > :50:49.How many more times are you going to change your mind,

:50:50. > :50:54.The practice of shouting questions at Downing Street came under attack

:50:55. > :51:17.Alan Adams wrote to him after watching Eleanor Garnier

:51:18. > :51:39.And April Dilley summed it up like this.

:51:40. > :51:43.BBC News did ensure it got away from Westminster on Tuesday to seek

:51:44. > :51:48.some public reaction to the news of the snap election.

:51:49. > :51:51.All this voting doesn't please everyone, like Brenda, in Bristol.

:51:52. > :52:06.There's too much politics going on at the moment.

:52:07. > :52:16.This struck a cord with some, such as Guy Green.

:52:17. > :52:18.Brenda swiftly became the overnight media sensation.

:52:19. > :52:20.The BBC rode the wave enthusiastically with a follow-up

:52:21. > :52:23.report on the following night from Jon Kay.

:52:24. > :53:27.There will be plenty more to say on Newswatch about the BBC election

:53:28. > :54:21.But, for now, let's leave it with this plea from Clare Crick.

:54:22. > :54:22.Away from all the political excitement in Britain,

:54:23. > :54:25.world news has been dominated by escalating tensions

:54:26. > :54:28.between the United States and North Korea.

:54:29. > :54:35.Satellite images led to news reports that the highly repressive

:54:36. > :54:42.and secretive state was preparing for a fixed nuclear test.

:54:43. > :54:45.And on Monday it warned of all-out war if the United States used

:54:46. > :54:46.military force against it.

:54:47. > :54:49.Amid this war of words, the BBC's John Sudworth was invited

:54:50. > :54:57.to Pyongyang, where he interviewed the vice foreign minister.

:54:58. > :55:00.We asked him on his expectations of the journalistic trip

:55:01. > :55:05.North Korea is all about shows of strength.

:55:06. > :55:10.The first today came in this tae kwon do demonstration.

:55:11. > :55:14.The journalists, when they arrive, and I've been on a few of these

:55:15. > :55:17.trips now, you are met by at least one government minder,

:55:18. > :55:22.in our case on this visit, two government minders,

:55:23. > :55:26.who were our own personal minders for the rest of the six days

:55:27. > :55:32.So, they basically followed our every step.

:55:33. > :55:34.In fact, more than that, they set our itinerary

:55:35. > :55:49.They knew exactly where our steps were going to take us,

:55:50. > :55:52.and they came along and watched over every interview that we did,

:55:53. > :55:54.occasionally quibbled over questions we asked,

:55:55. > :55:56.or took issue with things that I'd said to camera.

:55:57. > :56:00.My own sort of recorded thoughts for the reporting I was doing upset

:56:01. > :56:05.And it's the same for any journalist who is ever given permission to go

:56:06. > :56:09.You might think, what's the point, and it's a good question.

:56:10. > :56:14.We can, given all the limitations, still speak to ordinary

:56:15. > :56:23.And we are able, of course, to attempt to judge for ourselves

:56:24. > :56:27.how much of what they're telling us is what they really feel,

:56:28. > :56:30.or how much is being filtered because they know they are being

:56:31. > :56:33.The Dear Marshall, Kim Jong-un, feeds and clothes us,

:56:34. > :56:41.Even were somebody to want to speak their own mind,

:56:42. > :56:43.to tell something a little different, that would challenge

:56:44. > :56:51.the risks would be so extreme that we have to assume that we're

:56:52. > :56:52.not getting anywhere close to real opinion.

:56:53. > :56:58.That said, you know, you can still judge in people's

:56:59. > :57:01.reactions to the sort of questions you ask.

:57:02. > :57:04.You can tell through the sorts of pauses that they may

:57:05. > :57:11.You can sort of see them second-guess the questions,

:57:12. > :57:15.and you can learn a lot from doing that.

:57:16. > :57:18.And even, you know, leaving aside the difficulty of speaking

:57:19. > :57:20.to ordinary people, just to be inside North Korea,

:57:21. > :57:24.this most totalitarian of states, to feel for ourselves the way

:57:25. > :57:29.in which every aspect of civil life, of social life, is utterly owned

:57:30. > :57:31.and controlled by the system, I think is useful.

:57:32. > :57:47.Every now and again, it wants the world to hear something.

:57:48. > :57:49.And on this occasion, of course, we were invited in,

:57:50. > :57:52.along with a couple of hundred other foreign reporters,

:57:53. > :57:54.to witness its grand, great military parade.

:57:55. > :57:59.This was a signal to the world, of course, about the state

:58:00. > :58:01.of advancement of its missile technology.

:58:02. > :58:04.And this was, if you like, a message of defiance,

:58:05. > :58:07.that North Korea had carefully calibrated,

:58:08. > :58:12.that it wanted to send to one particular audience,

:58:13. > :58:15.of course, in President Donald Trump.

:58:16. > :58:18.And it wanted the world's media there, to amplify and broadcast that

:58:19. > :58:31.Another word of caution, I suppose, about these trips.

:58:32. > :58:33.But again, standing alongside that parade, watching the crowds,

:58:34. > :58:36.trying to judge for ourselves whether the extraordinary emotion

:58:37. > :58:43.There have been instances where foreign reporters have found

:58:44. > :58:46.themselves in a tricky situation, as a result of the regime taking

:58:47. > :58:50.I think, on the round, it's fair to conclude that,

:58:51. > :58:56.because North Korea has invited the foreign media,

:58:57. > :59:02.because they want us to project a certain message on their behalf,

:59:03. > :59:04.that they also understand that, with that, comes a certain

:59:05. > :59:13.And you know, I think for me, on the ground in Pyongyang,

:59:14. > :59:17.my job is to work out how far I can push being a nuisance

:59:18. > :59:20.and an annoyance, without crossing a line, and getting me

:59:21. > :59:25.We need to afford the people we are dealing with,

:59:26. > :59:27.inside North Korea, at least that due respect.

:59:28. > :59:44.As long as we do that I think we are on pretty safe ground.

:59:45. > :59:45.Thank you very much to John Sudworth.

:59:46. > :59:48.Finally, coverage of the gun attack that killed a policeman

:59:49. > :59:51.on the Champs-Elysees in Paris on Thursday evening raised again

:59:52. > :59:54.a thorny issue for journalists, outlined here by Jeff Richmond from

:59:55. > :00:11.Thank you to all of you who got in touch with us this week.

:00:12. > :00:14.If you want to share your opinions, or even appear on the programme,

:00:15. > :00:27.And do have a look at previous discussions on the website.

:00:28. > :00:31.We'll be back to hear your thoughts about BBC News coverage

:00:32. > :01:11.Hello this is Breakfast, with Rachel Burden and Charlie Stayt.

:01:12. > :01:14.The Conservatives try to play down speculation that taxes will rise

:01:15. > :01:19.Labour accuses the government of planning a tax bombshell,

:01:20. > :01:21.while the Liberal Democrats say Theresa May intends to hit

:01:22. > :01:42.Good morning it's Saturday the 22nd of April.

:01:43. > :01:51.50,000 police officers are deployed across France,

:01:52. > :01:54.as security is tightened ahead of the first round of voting in

:01:55. > :02:01.We put them in the sport because it is quiet. They will be happy. And

:02:02. > :02:07.they have access to our garden and our neighbour 's garden. -- in this

:02:08. > :02:09.spot. A helping hand for hedgehogs -

:02:10. > :02:12.how a village in East Yorkshire has returned dozens of prickly creatures

:02:13. > :02:14.back to the wild. Mike's taken to the slopes this

:02:15. > :02:17.week, trying to keep up with 18 year old Millie Knight,

:02:18. > :02:19.Britain's first world Chelsea chase the double -

:02:20. > :02:23.the Premier League leaders take on their closes rivals

:02:24. > :02:25.Tottenham, in the first of this weekend's FA Cup

:02:26. > :02:35.semi-finals at Wembley. A decent weekend in prospect. Plenty

:02:36. > :02:39.of dry weather. Even some sunshine. But there is a big change on the way

:02:40. > :02:42.for the start of next week, something much colder on the way.

:02:43. > :02:45.All of the details in about 15 minutes.

:02:46. > :02:48.The Conservatives are attempting to play down speculation

:02:49. > :02:51.that they will raise taxes if they win the general election.

:02:52. > :02:53.Yesterday, the Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, hinted

:02:54. > :02:56.that the government might abandon the pledge made at the last election

:02:57. > :02:59.not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT.

:03:00. > :03:01.Labour and the Liberal Democrats were quick to jump

:03:02. > :03:03.on what they saw as a change of policy, warning that

:03:04. > :03:14.Our Political Correspondent, Iain Watson, reports.

:03:15. > :03:24.All correspondent is in Westminster. Tax was always going to be a big

:03:25. > :03:29.issue. Yes. Tax during a general election campaign is a word they

:03:30. > :03:33.don't want to mention. But we are looking for any hints of what might

:03:34. > :03:39.be in statements. Yesterday Philip Hammond suggesting he might want to

:03:40. > :03:43.drop not raising VAT, not raising National Insurance, not raise income

:03:44. > :03:48.tax, because he says chances want the flexibility to manage the

:03:49. > :03:51.economy. Those three taxes are big revenue raisers. He said he would

:03:52. > :03:56.rather they were not constrained. The Lib Dems and Labour quick to

:03:57. > :04:01.criticise saying it would hit the pockets of White Van Man. Cena tax

:04:02. > :04:08.bombshell lies ahead. Although Labour have said they want the rich

:04:09. > :04:13.to pay more taxes. -- saying a tax bombshell lies ahead. Cast your mind

:04:14. > :04:18.back, it seems a long time ago now, to the Budget in March. Philip

:04:19. > :04:22.Hammond's U-turn very quickly when he intended to raise National

:04:23. > :04:26.Insurance contributions for the self-employed. That was ditched.

:04:27. > :04:29.Some differences between Theresa May and Philip Hammond on tax policy. We

:04:30. > :04:31.will have to see where we end up when the manifestos, out in the

:04:32. > :04:36.coming weeks. Thank you. More than 50,000 troops

:04:37. > :04:38.are being deployed across France in preparation for voting

:04:39. > :04:40.in the country's presidential election after the killing

:04:41. > :04:49.of a police officer in Paris. All correspondent is in Paris at the

:04:50. > :04:54.moment. It looks like life returning to some normality, but security will

:04:55. > :05:01.no doubt play a big role over the coming days.

:05:02. > :05:08.Security is very tight. It has been ramped up. There are police walking

:05:09. > :05:12.around in this bustling market. But this is a scene of Peruvian

:05:13. > :05:21.normality this morning. A very normal Saturday morning. This is the

:05:22. > :05:25.market, just a stone's throw from Notre Dame Cathedral. Today is a day

:05:26. > :05:30.of political silence. Campaigning ended at midnight. There are no

:05:31. > :05:32.bombardments from politicians. So the French have a chance to breathe

:05:33. > :05:39.after months of relentless political battles. But the events of Thursday

:05:40. > :05:43.night, just a couple of miles from here, on everybody's minds. It is

:05:44. > :05:46.visible in the security presence all around. Also because people are

:05:47. > :05:50.wondering what kind of effect that will have on this election. Whether

:05:51. > :05:54.it will have an effect on peoples voting intentions, and also what

:05:55. > :05:59.effect it will have on turnout. Whether people will be put off from

:06:00. > :06:03.coming out to vote because of the security threat. Let's bring you one

:06:04. > :06:12.detail about the victim of Thursday night's attack. The man -- policeman

:06:13. > :06:19.was 37. He was actually deployed to the Bataclan theatre massacre. He

:06:20. > :06:23.returned there one year later on patrol. He was interviewed by a

:06:24. > :06:28.magazine and he told them, I'm happy to be here, to defend our civic

:06:29. > :06:32.values, and to say no to terrorists. Six months later he lost his own

:06:33. > :06:39.life. Very poignant dimension to that

:06:40. > :06:42.story. Thanks very much. Mike Pence says a US naval strike group will

:06:43. > :06:45.arrive in waters near North Korea in a matter of days.

:06:46. > :06:47.There had been confusion earlier this week over

:06:48. > :06:49.whether the USS Carl Vinson was heading into the

:06:50. > :06:53.However in a press conference with the Australian Prime Minister,

:06:54. > :06:57.Mr Pence said the US wanted to show North Korea it had the resources

:06:58. > :07:08.Let me assure you, the United States will continue to work closely

:07:09. > :07:11.with Australia, our other allies in the region and with China

:07:12. > :07:13.to bring economic and diplomatic sanctions to bear on the regime

:07:14. > :07:15.in Pyongyang until they abandon their nuclear

:07:16. > :07:29.The Sun newspaper has printed a formal apology to Everton

:07:30. > :07:31.Former editor Kelvin McKenzie compared

:07:32. > :07:34.the footballer to a gorilla in an article for his column.

:07:35. > :07:36.Ross Barkley's grandfather is from Nigeria but the newspaper says

:07:37. > :07:43.Kelvin McKenzie remains suspended from The Sun.

:07:44. > :07:45.For the first time since the industrial revolution

:07:46. > :07:48.Britain has gone a whole working day without using coal to

:07:49. > :07:52.National Grid said the news was a "watershed moment" in attempts

:07:53. > :07:55.Taxes on CO2 emissions, and the falling cost

:07:56. > :07:57.of renewable energy, have made coal plants less

:07:58. > :08:08.A NASA probe, flying near the planet Saturn is about to set it's self

:08:09. > :08:11.on a path of destruction, as it runs out of fuel.

:08:12. > :08:16.But this will cause it to change course and heading straight

:08:17. > :08:18.for Saturn's atmosphere where it will be destroyed.

:08:19. > :08:21.It's hoped before it's demise, it will be able to make some last

:08:22. > :08:32.minute measurements of the planet's rings, rotation, and length of day.

:08:33. > :08:34.From take-aways and box sets, to Prince George's favourite TV

:08:35. > :08:36.programme, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have spoken

:08:37. > :08:38.about their family life together on Radio One.

:08:39. > :08:40.The couple were promoting their mental health campaign

:08:41. > :08:42.on the station's chart show as our Royal Correspondent

:08:43. > :08:46.Please welcome to Radio 1 the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.

:08:47. > :08:49.With a destiny to fulfil, some DJ-ing in the meantime.

:08:50. > :08:52.These are royals bringing their message about mental health

:08:53. > :08:53.to a young audience, and a confession

:08:54. > :09:01.Obviously, I wouldn't tell you who I was.

:09:02. > :09:04.What are you doing texting in your car?

:09:05. > :09:10.I have not texted while driving, because that is illegal.

:09:11. > :09:12.The princely fan, who seeks shout-outs, and who was castigated

:09:13. > :09:15.when he missed a royal event for a skiing and clubbing trip,

:09:16. > :09:18.It's not something you can really do all the time?

:09:19. > :09:22.No, and you know, I've got in enough trouble with my dancing recently,

:09:23. > :09:25.so it's kind of best to keep away from that, to be honest.

:09:26. > :09:27.The price of such airtime, questions that wouldn't

:09:28. > :09:29.have amused Victoria, like what takes their

:09:30. > :09:33.Yeah, I'm not so good with the spicy food, though.

:09:34. > :09:37.If you do a takeaway, they must never believe

:09:38. > :09:39.you when you're ordering it to the palace, right?

:09:40. > :09:41.It doesn't usually get ordered to the palace, Chris.

:09:42. > :09:44.We tend to go and pick it up, not ourselves.

:09:45. > :09:48.Go for a little visit around the area.

:09:49. > :09:50.He's not going to go to Chicken Cottage, is he?

:09:51. > :09:56.The royals remained, and were set to work.

:09:57. > :09:58.The official chart with Greg James and the Duke

:09:59. > :09:59.and Duchess of Cambridge - go.

:10:00. > :10:03.He had 13 weeks at number one, with Shape Of You, before Harry came

:10:04. > :10:08.Radio bringing together briefly two national institutions,

:10:09. > :10:16.So, number one is Ed Sheeran, Shape Of You.

:10:17. > :10:20.For a couple facing a life of pomp, this was pure pleasure.

:10:21. > :10:22.When I'm on holiday, would you mind stepping in?

:10:23. > :10:24.To be honest, we could probably do a better job.

:10:25. > :10:39.How do you think they did? Not too bad. It could have been

:10:40. > :10:42.awful. They seemed very relaxed. We will

:10:43. > :10:47.have the weather in a few minutes time.

:10:48. > :10:50.Last December we spoke to the Team GB Paralympic sprinter Libby Clegg,

:10:51. > :10:52.who was testing a special pair of goggles to help

:10:53. > :10:55.For one family watching it was the breakthrough

:10:56. > :10:59.Their ten year old son Charlie has a similar condition,

:11:00. > :11:02.so they contacted the doctors involved and he is now the youngest

:11:03. > :11:06.We'll speak to Charlie and his mum in a moment but first

:11:07. > :11:08.let's take a look back at Libby and her fiance trying

:11:09. > :11:22.On one level the goggles act as a big magnifying glass. But there is a

:11:23. > :11:27.lot more. It makes edges of objects sharper and really brings out the

:11:28. > :11:32.contrast between light and shade. Darren was keen to have a go at

:11:33. > :11:42.them, too. He's also got a form of macular dystrophy. You have a big

:11:43. > :11:46.spot! You look really old. You are making me self-conscious. Go back to

:11:47. > :11:52.being completely, like... Blind. I can see my tattoos. That's mad.

:11:53. > :11:54.We're joined by Charlie, his mum Helen and also

:11:55. > :11:56.Elodie Draperi from Give Vision, the company that

:11:57. > :12:10.Good morning to all of you. Charlie, good morning. Helen, you saw that

:12:11. > :12:15.report, and you thought, do you know what, I think Charlie could benefit.

:12:16. > :12:22.It was auntie Sarah. She saw it. She jumped onto the phone. We were at

:12:23. > :12:26.school. We didn't see it live. But she said this gadget is going to

:12:27. > :12:33.change Charlie's life, didn't she? Very long story short. A couple of

:12:34. > :12:40.tweaks, contact with Kennedy, a trial, and here we are. -- contact

:12:41. > :12:45.with Elodie, a trial, and here we are. Explain to us your vision, what

:12:46. > :12:51.you see normally and what difference do the goggles make? Without the

:12:52. > :12:57.goggles, everything from far away is way smaller and fuzzier. In the

:12:58. > :13:02.studio, for example, we have the cameras over there, are you able to

:13:03. > :13:09.see the cameras clearly? That is about 12 feet. The writing on the

:13:10. > :13:15.cameras, they would probably be lines with little spaces in. White

:13:16. > :13:17.lines. And with the goggles on, because you use these in the

:13:18. > :13:24.classroom, what difference do they make? The main difference that would

:13:25. > :13:33.make is, basically, it zooms in. It's really big. It's not fuzzy.

:13:34. > :13:37.It's clear, isn't it? It's really clear and it really helps. We're

:13:38. > :13:42.having a look at you in your classroom. This has made a big

:13:43. > :13:45.difference to you in school, hasn't it? What difference has it made in

:13:46. > :13:51.your lessons, being able to take part in normal school life? It's

:13:52. > :13:57.basically, do you want me to help? Before the goggles, any access to

:13:58. > :14:01.the interactive whiteboard, or the normal white board the teacher was

:14:02. > :14:07.using, Charlie had no chance. He did not see. He would rely on his

:14:08. > :14:09.classmates, and quite recently a teaching assistant that works with

:14:10. > :14:15.him, to help him see what was going on. Now, he sits with his

:14:16. > :14:20.classmates, sometimes without adult support at all, and accesses the

:14:21. > :14:27.lesson in real-time. Brilliant. The same as everybody else. No delay. No

:14:28. > :14:31.additional things written down next to him. It must be great for you to

:14:32. > :14:39.see a success story, to see how it is helping people. It is very

:14:40. > :14:45.rewarding work. In developing this technology, we have enhanced

:14:46. > :14:50.people's remaining site. People with severe sight impairment. What it

:14:51. > :14:54.does is it improves their visual performance and accuracy. They can

:14:55. > :14:59.see things sharper, they can see things which are further away. They

:15:00. > :15:02.look bulky. I was expecting them to be heavy, but they are not, they are

:15:03. > :15:07.light, what material are they made out of? It depends. We have

:15:08. > :15:14.different types of headsets, because we have different levels of

:15:15. > :15:23.magnification. We have almost ten different headsets. We gave the name

:15:24. > :15:29.of our first use, so this is the Charlie. It really depends. -- we

:15:30. > :15:34.gave this the name of our first user, so this is the Charlie. It's

:15:35. > :15:39.mostly for people who use a magnifier, or need to enlarge

:15:40. > :15:45.everything, or maybe they don't have very clear vision. It will help them

:15:46. > :15:51.for indoor activities at home, at work, or at school, like Charlie. We

:15:52. > :16:00.can see the moment after moment you tried the goggles for the first

:16:01. > :16:15.time. Let's have a look. Are you all right? Are you just really pleased?

:16:16. > :16:22.That brings it home. One is technology, one is the sheer

:16:23. > :16:29.emotion. What was happening? I was crying because I'd never seen that

:16:30. > :16:36.thing before. In my mind I was thinking this is so cool. The

:16:37. > :16:42.headset made me experience how to see normally like other people do.

:16:43. > :16:50.That was Harry in that video, my 11-year-old brother. Who came in?

:16:51. > :16:57.Harry was just in front playing Fifa. Charlie is normally this

:16:58. > :17:09.close. He was sat on the chair, far away, and experiencing it for the

:17:10. > :17:14.first time. What was that like? My voice was all over the place in that

:17:15. > :17:20.clip. We did not expect it to be so life changing for him and just

:17:21. > :17:23.utterly beyond anything that we could have imagined. Lovely to see

:17:24. > :17:27.all of you here this morning. Thank you for coming in this morning.

:17:28. > :17:37.Charlie you are looking very smart this morning. Everyone has said

:17:38. > :17:41.that, even my grandad. Libby Clegg, the athlete who has inspired

:17:42. > :17:46.Charlie, really wanted to be here but she could not change her

:17:47. > :17:55.training commitments. Instead, she wants to send you a gig, she is

:17:56. > :18:03.sending you some tickets for the para World Championships. She wants

:18:04. > :18:09.to catch up with you. Will you go? Yes. My grandmother wants her

:18:10. > :18:13.autograph because of all the things she has achieved. We will get it

:18:14. > :18:22.when we meet her in the summer. Thank you very much. Here is Ben

:18:23. > :18:26.with the weather. A fairly good news story for you on the weather front,

:18:27. > :18:33.as far as the weekend is concerned. Some of us will get off to a decent

:18:34. > :18:37.-- some of us got off to a decent start, this is a picture from one of

:18:38. > :18:41.our weather watchers. But as you can see from the satellite, not sunny

:18:42. > :18:45.for everyone, some cloud around, especially over northern Scotland

:18:46. > :18:50.bringing showers. Though showers will be persistent over Northern

:18:51. > :18:53.Ireland. Sunny skies across England and Wales. Where we do have the

:18:54. > :18:59.cloud it will break up, we will see sunny spells. They keep the showers

:19:00. > :19:05.over northern Scotland which will also be chilly. This afternoon, 4pm,

:19:06. > :19:09.south-east England, Wales, down to the Channel Islands, through the

:19:10. > :19:13.Bristol area, into the West Midlands, these areas should see

:19:14. > :19:16.good spells of sunshine. Some spells of sunshine across East Anglia and

:19:17. > :19:21.the south-east. But the odd chance of catching a shower. Chilly close

:19:22. > :19:24.to the east coast, 8 degrees in Sunderland. Northern Ireland

:19:25. > :19:28.sticking with a largely cloudy sky. Fairly bright for Southern Scotland.

:19:29. > :19:33.Northern Scotland seeing sunshine and showers. Wintry over higher

:19:34. > :19:36.ground. Breezy and feeling chilly here. Some of these showers across

:19:37. > :19:43.northern Scotland will continue overnight. Largely dry night, it

:19:44. > :19:47.will get cold enough for a touch of frost, particularly out in the

:19:48. > :19:51.countryside. A chilly start even in the centre of London. Not bad news

:19:52. > :19:54.for the marathon runners at the starting line. Things should

:19:55. > :19:59.brighten up through the day and things will warm up into the

:20:00. > :20:03.afternoon for those taking time to finish. Across Wales, bright skies

:20:04. > :20:06.and sunshine tomorrow, but north-west England clouding over.

:20:07. > :20:11.Similar stories in Northern Ireland and Scotland. The odd splash of

:20:12. > :20:15.rain. Heavy rain in the afternoon from northern Scotland. Just 6

:20:16. > :20:19.degrees in Shetland. And that is the sign of what is to come for the new

:20:20. > :20:23.week. This area of low pressure swinging across northern and eastern

:20:24. > :20:27.Scotland with windy weather, wet weather, and this cold front pushes

:20:28. > :20:32.south and the floodgates open to a cold blast of wind from the North.

:20:33. > :20:36.It'll be like going in reverse with the seasons. Chilly weather, wintry

:20:37. > :20:40.showers, even some snow to fairly low levels in some places.

:20:41. > :20:46.That is enough to make us cry for other reasons, and not good ones. I

:20:47. > :20:52.got very emotional. The general election campaign is just a few days

:20:53. > :20:54.old. One topic already emerging as a key battle ground.

:20:55. > :20:58.The so-called triple lock on state pensions was brought in by the

:20:59. > :21:03.Conservative led coalition back in 2010. Theresa May has so far refused

:21:04. > :21:04.to guarantee keeping it if she wins the election. While Labour has

:21:05. > :21:16.pledged to keep it until 2025. It guarantees

:21:17. > :21:20.that the state pension will rise Either the same as average earnings,

:21:21. > :21:24.keeping the increase in pensioners' income at the same rate as those

:21:25. > :21:26.in work Or in line with

:21:27. > :21:28.the consumer price index. That's the measure of how much

:21:29. > :21:30.British households are paying for a typical basket of food,

:21:31. > :21:32.goods and services. Or it simply

:21:33. > :21:34.goes up by 2.5%. The triple lock guarantees

:21:35. > :21:36.to increase the state pension by whichever of these three

:21:37. > :21:38.measures is highest. So how popular is the policy

:21:39. > :21:42.of looking after pensioners? They've worked through their lives

:21:43. > :21:44.and they've paid their national insurance, they've paid their taxes,

:21:45. > :21:48.so I think they deserve it as much If you can't look after

:21:49. > :21:51.the elderly, what can you do? If it can be done, stop it for them

:21:52. > :21:55.- they don't need it. A lot of them just put it

:21:56. > :22:08.straight in the bank. Earlier the pensions analyst helped

:22:09. > :22:11.us on the triple lock. It was introduced to help raise pension

:22:12. > :22:16.income levels. It was necessary. It's been achieving that. The state

:22:17. > :22:21.pension costs the government around ?90 billion per year. It's a big

:22:22. > :22:25.chunk of public spending. The triple lock, by giving pensioners the best

:22:26. > :22:29.of those three measures, so it'll always be running ahead of the rest

:22:30. > :22:34.of the population generally, means that the cost of the state pension

:22:35. > :22:38.would inevitably keep rising if we project forward to the middle of

:22:39. > :22:42.this century. It would add another 1% of GDP on to the cost of the

:22:43. > :22:46.state pension. There is an argument that it isn't sustainable in the

:22:47. > :22:49.long term, but it has been doing its job, it is doing its job, and really

:22:50. > :22:55.it's a question of how much longer we should keep it for before finding

:22:56. > :22:56.an alternative measure now we have raised the incomes to an appropriate

:22:57. > :23:16.level. He explains that very well. Normally

:23:17. > :23:19.it's difficult to stop him. He's got a lot to say.

:23:20. > :23:22.It is about the convocations of the triple lock, the economic factors,

:23:23. > :23:26.but also there is a big political dimension about how you keep

:23:27. > :23:33.pensioners onside during the course of a general election.

:23:34. > :23:42.This is Breakfast. Time for a look at the papers now.

:23:43. > :23:56.Professor of extragalactic astronomy! How are you? You will be

:23:57. > :23:58.bringing us down to earth. For the first time since the Industrial

:23:59. > :24:04.Revolution, Britain actually went without coal power for a whole day.

:24:05. > :24:08.Would you explain that? This means that we have a national grid.

:24:09. > :24:12.Whenever you use electricity, you switch the kettle on, you get

:24:13. > :24:16.electricity supplied on demand. But we have to generate that electricity

:24:17. > :24:21.somehow. Traditionally the way to do that was to burn coal in coal

:24:22. > :24:24.powered stations. Now we have a much more diverse set of ways to produce

:24:25. > :24:29.energy to feed into that electricity grid. We have solar farms, wind

:24:30. > :24:33.farms, renewables, and nuclear energy. This was the first time for

:24:34. > :24:37.a whole day that the coal power stations were switched off and did

:24:38. > :24:41.not provide electricity into the grid. We managed to supply the

:24:42. > :24:46.nation's energy without burning coal for a whole day, which is

:24:47. > :24:58.impressive. It's intriguing. Your second choice centres on talking. --

:24:59. > :25:11.There was a dummy device, it did not have nuclear material in it, the

:25:12. > :25:20.plane that was flying over with it, the catch came loose, and it almost

:25:21. > :25:27.dropped it on Dorking. Why there? It was just the flight path that is the

:25:28. > :25:36.catch came loose. But they dumped it in the Thames vestry, which is where

:25:37. > :25:39.it is still today. The Uber revolution with taxis has been

:25:40. > :25:45.extremely interesting to observe. But they are now bringing it to

:25:46. > :25:49.bikes. People in Cambridge, there are many bikes. Everybody tends to

:25:50. > :25:55.cycle, the way they have tried to bring this is with a Chinese

:25:56. > :26:01.company. The idea is they would have bikes around the city. Instead of

:26:02. > :26:05.going to a docking station for collection, you just use your mobile

:26:06. > :26:10.phone. This would be different to the Boris bikes. That's right. You

:26:11. > :26:15.would pick one up from a lamp post, you would be sent a code to unlock

:26:16. > :26:19.the lock. They are popular in Chinese capitals. They are hoping

:26:20. > :26:24.this will take off in Britain. And they work as a scheme? There are so

:26:25. > :26:31.many of them, very popular in China, very much the way to rent bikes, so

:26:32. > :26:38.we shall see. Lots of people braced for doing the marathon. There is a

:26:39. > :26:43.story about how to deal with that. This caught my eye because it will

:26:44. > :26:47.be music to many people's ears. A story that has come out from a

:26:48. > :26:51.remarkable Santa Convention. It is the beer and health symposium in

:26:52. > :26:55.Brussels. It says the best way to recover after a marathon is to have

:26:56. > :26:58.a pint of beer and a packet of peanuts. You want to replace lost

:26:59. > :27:03.fluids, potassium and salts, and the salts from the peanuts will do that,

:27:04. > :27:08.as the beer has everything you need, better than an energy drink,

:27:09. > :27:13.apparently. Really? I thought they would encourage dehydration. How

:27:14. > :27:16.does that work? I think it's a fine balance. Don't go out and get drunk

:27:17. > :27:21.after the marathon, but think about how you replace your lost fluids and

:27:22. > :27:24.lost salts. I did the Manchester marathon. There is a beer tent at

:27:25. > :27:28.the end. And it was a glorious sight.

:27:29. > :27:33.Did you say it was the beer symposium which has told us that

:27:34. > :27:37.beer is good for us? I thought there might have been something. You need

:27:38. > :27:44.to understand where the story came from. Yes, important. And the story

:27:45. > :27:47.in the Daily Express? This Rolls-Royce is up for sale. It is

:27:48. > :27:58.being sold by a Cheshire company fought tooth -- Cheshire company for

:27:59. > :28:01.?200,000. You can buy a slice of history as well as a beautiful car.

:28:02. > :28:07.The conversations which must have taken place in that car. This was

:28:08. > :28:14.around D-Day, this was the staff car which transported Field Marshal

:28:15. > :28:24.Montgomery. Rachel is getting quite upset about Cassini.

:28:25. > :28:30.It has been in the news lately because they found water on the

:28:31. > :28:37.moon. Cassini has been an extremely important probe. Exactly. The whole

:28:38. > :28:42.experiment was designed that it would fly into Saturn and it would

:28:43. > :28:45.be destroyed this September. That is part of the experiment. Data will be

:28:46. > :28:49.taken all the way which will revolutionise our understanding of

:28:50. > :28:53.that planet. But the teams are upset it is coming to the end of the

:28:54. > :29:05.mission. Thank you very much. Coming up: After that horrific crash

:29:06. > :29:10.at the race last weekend, Billy Monger lost both his legs. We will

:29:11. > :29:11.talk about his recovery and the motor racing world which is

:29:12. > :29:55.supporting him. Hello, this is Breakfast with

:29:56. > :29:57.Charlie Stayt and Rachel Burden. Coming up before 9: Ben

:29:58. > :29:59.will have the weather. But, first, a summary of this

:30:00. > :30:04.morning's main news. The Conservatives are attempting

:30:05. > :30:06.to play down speculation that they will raise taxes

:30:07. > :30:11.if they win the general election. Yesterday, the Chancellor,

:30:12. > :30:17.Phillip Hammond, hinted that the government might abandon

:30:18. > :30:20.the pledge made at the last election not to raise income tax,

:30:21. > :30:22.national insurance or VAT. Labour and the Liberal Democrats

:30:23. > :30:25.were quick to jump on what they saw as a change of policy,

:30:26. > :30:28.warning that tax rises lie ahead. Meanwhile the UKIP spokesman

:30:29. > :30:30.on immigration has told Breakfast that people should vote tactically

:30:31. > :30:42.to get the version Mrs May said the election is about

:30:43. > :30:45.Brexit. Of course, we want to ensure that the 17.4 million people who

:30:46. > :30:49.voted to leave get Brexit and not a diluted verse of it. So putting

:30:50. > :30:53.country before party, I think we will look at this tactically and

:30:54. > :30:57.look at where I stood a few years ago, I would say to the Tory voters

:30:58. > :31:02.there, you can't win the seat, but if you send a Ukip candidate to

:31:03. > :31:06.Parliament, that person would help Theresa May deliver Brexit.

:31:07. > :31:08.50,000 police officers are being deployed across France ahead

:31:09. > :31:10.of the first round of the country's presidential election.

:31:11. > :31:13.Terrorism and security went to the top of the agenda

:31:14. > :31:16.on the final day of campaigning yesterday,

:31:17. > :31:18.after a policeman was shot dead by a suspected Islamist

:31:19. > :31:22.Polls on the French mainland open tomorrow.

:31:23. > :31:25.US Vice-President, Mike Pence, says a US naval strike group will arrive

:31:26. > :31:28.in waters near North Korea in a matter of days.

:31:29. > :31:29.There had been confusion earlier this week over

:31:30. > :31:32.whether the USS Carl Vinson was heading into the

:31:33. > :31:38.However, in a press conference with the Australian Prime Minister,

:31:39. > :31:41.Mr Pence said the US wanted to show North Korea it had the resources

:31:42. > :31:50.Taliban gunmen have killed more than 70 troops at an Afghanistan

:31:51. > :31:53.army base outside the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif.

:31:54. > :31:55.A military spokesman said the insurgents were disguised

:31:56. > :31:58.in army uniforms when they attacked soldiers leaving the base's

:31:59. > :32:04.The Taliban said its attackers had set off an explosion,

:32:05. > :32:13.allowing suicide bombers to breach the base's defences.

:32:14. > :32:16.A NASA probe, flying near the planet Saturn is about to set it's self

:32:17. > :32:19.on a path of destruction, as it runs out of fuel.

:32:20. > :32:21.Cassini will pass the planet's moon, Titan, this morning.

:32:22. > :32:24.But this will cause it to change course and head straight

:32:25. > :32:28.for Saturn's atmosphere where it will be destroyed.

:32:29. > :32:32.It's hoped before it's demise, it will be able to make some last

:32:33. > :32:40.minute measurements of the planet's rings, rotation, and length of day.

:32:41. > :32:45.Those are the main stories this morning.

:32:46. > :32:56.It is all about the FA Cup today and two cracking semi-finals lined p.

:32:57. > :33:06.Yes one today, Chelsea going head-to-head with Tottenham. I

:33:07. > :33:11.wonder what effect the result could have on them, how that will affect

:33:12. > :33:17.their Premier League run. Also, because Spurs beat Chelsea the other

:33:18. > :33:22.week, are Chelsea rattled? They are. Chelsea have lost twice this month

:33:23. > :33:24.and that was up thinkable before. It will be interesting and that is

:33:25. > :33:27.where we will start. Let's with the tea-time

:33:28. > :33:29.kick off at Wembley, where the two best teams

:33:30. > :33:31.in the Premier League, Chelsea and Tottenham,

:33:32. > :33:33.meet in the first of this weekend's You'll have noticed

:33:34. > :33:36.there's no Dan Walker on the sofa this morning -

:33:37. > :33:39.that's because he's on FA Cup duty It's on BBC One at 12 o'clock,

:33:40. > :33:44.when you'll can hear what Cesc Fabregas has to say

:33:45. > :33:47.about life under Chelsea manager He's completely different,

:33:48. > :33:52.completely different to what I'm used to, what I experienced in my

:33:53. > :33:55.career, another philosophy, another I had to adapt like everyone

:33:56. > :34:01.else to what he wants. I'm just trying to play

:34:02. > :34:06.well when I've the chance and show him

:34:07. > :34:09.that I deserve to play. I like to play, football is my life

:34:10. > :34:13.and it is still my life, but I dealt with it in a way that I didn't

:34:14. > :34:17.think I was capable of of. No, you just go to training,

:34:18. > :34:32.you give your best to improve. I will keep doing it until he has no

:34:33. > :34:44.option but put me on. And that match is live

:34:45. > :34:47.on BBC One and Radio 5 live - Tomorrow it's Arsenal

:34:48. > :34:50.against Manchester City in the second FA Cup semi-final

:34:51. > :34:52.and in the Scottish Cup, Celtic are going for the treble -

:34:53. > :34:55.they're up against their old rivals The first of the semis is this

:34:56. > :34:59.lunchtime, when the holders We've seen off Hearts already

:35:00. > :35:06.in impressive fashion, so Aberdeen, the second-best team

:35:07. > :35:08.over the last few years, they keep improving

:35:09. > :35:12.every year under Derek. They've been to the League Cup final

:35:13. > :35:16.already and the semi-final. But you've got four teams

:35:17. > :35:21.in the competition who can win a trophy and I'm just

:35:22. > :35:27.pleased that we are there. I just want to go and try to win it

:35:28. > :35:31.and get into the final first We've beaten some good

:35:32. > :35:35.teams along the way. Ross County, a tough match

:35:36. > :35:37.against Partick Thistle and another But you don't get to the finals

:35:38. > :35:44.without tough challenges. We've got another one on Saturday,

:35:45. > :35:49.but looking forward to it. The England manager Gareth Southgate

:35:50. > :35:52.said he was stunned by the death of his close friend and former

:35:53. > :35:54.team-mate Ugo Ehiogu, describing him as a "gentleman"

:35:55. > :35:58.and a "credit to football". Ehiogu passed away

:35:59. > :35:59.yesterday, aged 44, after suffering a heart attack

:36:00. > :36:01.at Tottenham's training ground, where he was

:36:02. > :36:08.the club's Under-23 coach. There was a minute's applause

:36:09. > :36:15.for Ehiogu ahead of last night's Championship match

:36:16. > :36:19.between Norwich and Brighton. The game itself was bizarre -

:36:20. > :36:21.the Brighton goalkeeper David Stockdale scoring two freakish

:36:22. > :36:23.own goals, as they lost Both times, the ball hit

:36:24. > :36:29.the woodwork before rebounding Brighton have already won promotion

:36:30. > :36:41.to the Premier League. What a big day in Manchester

:36:42. > :36:43.City Women's history, they face a huge test

:36:44. > :36:45.in the semi-finals of the Champions League this afternoon,

:36:46. > :36:51.against defending champions Lyon. This is City's first season playing

:36:52. > :36:54.in Europe's top club competition whereas Lyon have reached five

:36:55. > :36:56.of the last seven finals - You can watch highlights

:36:57. > :37:00.of the first leg on the Women's Football Show, tomorrow evening

:37:01. > :37:11.at ten to midnight, on BBC One. Widnes are still bottom

:37:12. > :37:13.of the Super League despite their first home win

:37:14. > :37:16.of the season. They were trailing St Helens

:37:17. > :37:19.going into the final few minutes but a late try

:37:20. > :37:21.from Patrick Ah Van gave them The 2015 World Snooker champion

:37:22. > :37:29.Stuart Bingham has been knocked out of this year's tournament by Kyran

:37:30. > :37:32.Wilson. Wilson had the upper hand for most

:37:33. > :37:35.of the match and had a clear lead when Bingham made a hash of this

:37:36. > :37:41.attempt at a pot - allowing Wilson to clear up and complete a 13-10 win

:37:42. > :37:44.and become the first player And five-time champion

:37:45. > :37:51.Ronnie O'Sullivan will resume his second round match this morning

:37:52. > :37:53.against another former winner Shaun Murphy with a 10-6 lead -

:37:54. > :37:56.he needs just three more Ellie Downie has made history,

:37:57. > :38:03.becoming the first British gymnast to win All-Around gold

:38:04. > :38:08.at the European Championships. She was in second place

:38:09. > :38:10.going into the floor routine in Romania -

:38:11. > :38:12.her final discipline of four - and beat Hungary's Sofia Kovacs

:38:13. > :38:18.into second place. Downie will compete in every

:38:19. > :38:20.individual final over I started the vault

:38:21. > :38:28.differently this time. That went well, the bar went well,

:38:29. > :38:31.the beam was pretty tricky and on the floor I try to not watch

:38:32. > :38:35.anyone else on the floor and go up After the second stumble,

:38:36. > :38:39.I was like, I'm not sure But I would have been happy

:38:40. > :38:43.with second, then when the score Britain's Fed Cup team

:38:44. > :38:49.face Romania in a crunch A win, and GB would be

:38:50. > :38:53.back in the World Group Heather Watson is on court

:38:54. > :38:57.first, against world number 5 Simona Halep -

:38:58. > :38:59.followed by Britain's own top ten We have got such a strong team,

:39:00. > :39:10.such a strong I guess team spirit, that I think that's enough to pull

:39:11. > :39:13.each other through this week. You always hope for a home tie,

:39:14. > :39:17.but the fact it is a sold out arena makes it more exciting and puts us

:39:18. > :39:50.on stage and all of us You can follow the action on the BBC

:39:51. > :40:04.web-site. The former champion Illya Nastase is in problem for making

:40:05. > :40:07.excepts about a woman player's pregnancy.

:40:08. > :40:10.More than 700 thousand pounds has been raised to support a teenage

:40:11. > :40:12.racing driver who's had both legs amputated after a crash.

:40:13. > :40:14.Billy Monger who's 17, was airlifted to hospital

:40:15. > :40:16.from Donington Park after he hit another car on the

:40:17. > :40:21.Joining us now is Alice Powell, who coaches Billy and was there last

:40:22. > :40:32.How is Billy coping with the injuries, how is he doing in

:40:33. > :40:38.hospital? Well he is very determined is Billy. He is taking it as well as

:40:39. > :40:42.he can. I don't think anybody can prepare for the news that he has had

:40:43. > :40:47.to deal with. He is already desperate to get back in a car and

:40:48. > :40:53.pretending his driving and seeing how he can use the hand clutch. He

:40:54. > :41:04.is being positive. He has his wonderful family around him. So he

:41:05. > :41:09.is doing well. As I said, a just giving page has been set up. Have

:41:10. > :41:15.you been surprised by how the racing community has come together? Yeah,

:41:16. > :41:20.it's, the racing community is one big family. OK there is rivalries,

:41:21. > :41:24.but it is nice when people come together to help somebody who has

:41:25. > :41:28.got serious injuries like Billy has and it is fantastic the amount of

:41:29. > :41:34.money that has been raised. It has surprised all of us. The target was

:41:35. > :41:38.?260 thousand and we have surpassed that. We are going to keep going and

:41:39. > :41:42.see how much we can raise for Billy's future. Do you feel like

:41:43. > :41:52.this crash or anything could have been handled differently? It was one

:41:53. > :41:57.of those fluke accidents really. As many have seen the video footage, he

:41:58. > :42:02.had no time to react to the slow moving car that was moving slow for

:42:03. > :42:07.whatever reason. I believe there is an investigation under way about

:42:08. > :42:10.yellow flags. I was on the pit wall watching the live footage, so I

:42:11. > :42:16.didn't see any yellow flags. There may have been, I don't know. But

:42:17. > :42:21.it's just one of those fluke stents, it -- accidents. It doesn't happen

:42:22. > :42:26.very often. But unfortunately it happened to Billy. But he is doing

:42:27. > :42:29.well and being positive. There will always be talk about safety

:42:30. > :42:35.concerns, do you feel like more needs to be done to prevent crashes,

:42:36. > :42:40.how do you feel the safety protocols go on, are you happy with the level

:42:41. > :42:45.of safety at the moment? In Formula One, they have more safety

:42:46. > :42:52.procedures, they're travelling high speeds and I hate to say it's got

:42:53. > :42:57.more money. Formula four doesn't have as much money. There does need

:42:58. > :43:01.to be an improvement, whether to do with safety cars or virtual safety

:43:02. > :43:05.cars like in Formula One. So definitely something needs to

:43:06. > :43:09.improve. I'm sure the MSA and the FIA are going to take action and get

:43:10. > :43:14.something improved to prevent something so shocking like this

:43:15. > :43:20.happening again. Thank you. Great to talk to you. All the best to Billy

:43:21. > :43:26.and his family on what must be a harrowing experience. Thank you.

:43:27. > :43:34.Best thoughts with Billy and his family. But as I said, a massive

:43:35. > :43:38.weekend of sport and we were talking about semi-finals in the FA Cup,

:43:39. > :43:48.also in the rugby, in the champions cup. You will be interested Saracens

:43:49. > :44:04.against Munster. Munster in good form. My input trivia-wise into the

:44:05. > :44:10.sport, Gloster playing la Rochelle and they have a player who weighs 24

:44:11. > :44:16.stones. That is really big. Yes. That is a lot to carry around. He is

:44:17. > :44:17.not a scrum half I take it. No, but all these events taking place today.

:44:18. > :44:22.Thank you. The thought of skiing down

:44:23. > :44:25.a mountain at 80 miles an hour might fill most of us with fear

:44:26. > :44:27.but how about trying it 18-year-old Millie Knight lost

:44:28. > :44:31.virtually all of her sight at the age of 6 but earlier this

:44:32. > :44:34.year she interrupted her A-Level revision to win a first

:44:35. > :44:56.World Championship title Meet Britain's toughest of

:44:57. > :45:07.teenagers, the fear of doing your A level is nothing compared to racing

:45:08. > :45:10.down mountains at 80 mimp. Mph. But at six, Milly lost her sight. She

:45:11. > :45:16.has to listen to instructions from her guide. We have had a year

:45:17. > :45:20.working together. Ever which day we ski we get better. If he says go, I

:45:21. > :45:31.have to go. You rely on other senses. #123450i It is amazing what

:45:32. > :45:36.you can do with your other senses. I can't imagine what Milly does. She

:45:37. > :45:42.said if you can't see it you can't be scared. In Brett, Milly has found

:45:43. > :45:48.a perfect guide. He developed his communication skills in the Royal

:45:49. > :45:52.Navy and now he has steered Milly to a World Championship gold to confirm

:45:53. > :45:59.themselves as the top pair on the planet. Milly's made special goggles

:46:00. > :46:03.to replicate how little she can see. I'm going to put these on and Brett

:46:04. > :46:13.is wearing a bright orange jacket and we have got intercome. All I can

:46:14. > :46:19.see is a slither of very fine slither of light and I can't see

:46:20. > :46:22.where my poles are. This is absolutely ridiculous to think of

:46:23. > :46:30.what speeds they get up to like this. 80mph. Can you see me? Yes, if

:46:31. > :46:39.I'm tilting my head I can see the orange. Am I moving? I'm not moving

:46:40. > :46:43.am I? It was the strangest sensation, like being on an

:46:44. > :46:48.escalator in your sleep. At times I couldn't tell whether I was moving

:46:49. > :46:56.or not. And despite my lack of speed, it still came to a painful

:46:57. > :47:01.end. Milly knows the pain only too well, due to concussion she couldn't

:47:02. > :47:08.ski at the British Championships and that gave her rivals a chance to

:47:09. > :47:18.steal the limelight. Two others became the first to win the over all

:47:19. > :47:21.World Cup. We have to be ready for everything, if is there a lump you

:47:22. > :47:29.can't see, you don't get off balance. So soft knees all the time!

:47:30. > :47:34.Our visually impaired alpine athletes doing the seemingly

:47:35. > :47:39.impossible. Having a visual impairment is restricting off snow.

:47:40. > :47:45.The moment you're on snow, there is an amazing sense of freedom that you

:47:46. > :47:47.wouldn't experience anywhere else. It has grown my confidence as a

:47:48. > :47:59.person and skiing has made me. Amazing. Sitting, thinking that

:48:00. > :48:01.takes so much guts. She said, if you can't see it, it can't be scary. Not

:48:02. > :48:04.sure I would agree. The main stories this morning:

:48:05. > :48:08.Breakfast from BBC News. The Conservatives are trying to play

:48:09. > :48:10.down speculation they're considering tax increases

:48:11. > :48:13.if they win June's general election. 50,000 police officers will be

:48:14. > :48:16.deployed across France for voting in the country's presidential

:48:17. > :48:18.election, after the killing Here's Ben with a look

:48:19. > :48:36.at this morning's weather. Before Ben is here, to tell us it

:48:37. > :48:40.will get cold. This is what it look like this morning. Enjoy the moment.

:48:41. > :48:49.I think it is bright and clear for lots of people, but it is quite

:48:50. > :48:56.brisk and it is going to get a bit chillier, icy blasts, snow even. Ben

:48:57. > :49:02.tell us what is to come. You have pretty done my job! If you think it

:49:03. > :49:06.is brisk today, wait for the new week. I think the advice is make the

:49:07. > :49:11.most of what we have got. For most a decent start to the day. That is the

:49:12. > :49:16.scene from a weather watcher on the Wirral. It will be dry this weekend

:49:17. > :49:20.with some sunshine around. Not sunny for all of us at the moment. You can

:49:21. > :49:24.see the satellite showing a lot of cloud in Northern Ireland, parts of

:49:25. > :49:29.Wales, the South West, some cloud across East Anglia and the

:49:30. > :49:33.south-east. We are going to see showers in northern Scotland and

:49:34. > :49:36.here it will feel chilly. But generally a lot of the cloud will

:49:37. > :49:43.break up and we will see some sunshine. Let's look around the

:49:44. > :49:48.country. At 4 o'clock South West England, Wales, the Channel Islands,

:49:49. > :49:53.through Bristol to Birmingham some sunshine. Sunshine in East Anglia

:49:54. > :49:57.and the south-east. But don't be surprised if you catch the odd

:49:58. > :50:01.shower here. The east coast of England chilly. But much of northern

:50:02. > :50:10.England seeing sunshine. Northern Ireland will hold on to cloud. Sunny

:50:11. > :50:15.in southern Scotland. But showers in northern Scotland and very chilly.

:50:16. > :50:20.Tonight some showers continue across northern parts of Scotland. Most of

:50:21. > :50:24.us will have a dry night with a chilly night and a touch of frost

:50:25. > :50:31.widely. So a chilly start to tomorrow. But that is no bad

:50:32. > :50:35.anyoning thing for the marathon runners in London. It will warm up

:50:36. > :50:39.with. That is the story for much of England and Wales tomorrow, another

:50:40. > :50:42.fine day with sunshine. More cloud in north-west England and Northern

:50:43. > :50:47.Ireland and Scotland and some patchy rain here and for northern Scotland,

:50:48. > :50:51.things will turn wet and windy and again just six degrees there. And

:50:52. > :50:56.that is a sign of what is to come. Through Sunday night we see this low

:50:57. > :51:00.pressure winding itself up across the north with windy and wet weather

:51:01. > :51:06.and then into the start of the new week, we follow this cold front and

:51:07. > :51:09.it opens the flood gates to a bitterly cold northerly wind. Some

:51:10. > :51:13.very chilly weather it will feel like we have been winding the

:51:14. > :51:18.seasons back into winter. The question for you is can you remember

:51:19. > :51:23.where you left that winter coat? It feels like a long time since that

:51:24. > :51:28.sunny period. It was 25 degrees a couple of weekends ago. It will

:51:29. > :51:33.feel, and the temperatures during April, we expect them to go up, but

:51:34. > :51:37.they have been going down slowly. It feel like we have gone backwards. We

:51:38. > :51:43.don't like the blue lines. Thank you.

:51:44. > :51:45.Air pollution, deforestation, poisoned seas and climate change.

:51:46. > :51:47.The story of our natural world can often feel like one

:51:48. > :51:54.Today is World Earth day and, rather than focus on what's going wrong,

:51:55. > :51:56.scientists are pointing to some success stories, in the hope it

:51:57. > :52:00.Andrew Balmford is a professor of conservation science.

:52:01. > :52:22.Thank you for your time. This is about the power of thinking

:52:23. > :52:25.positively. Yes if we look back to the civil rights movement, Martin

:52:26. > :52:29.Luther King inspired the world by saying I have a dream, not saying, I

:52:30. > :52:33.have a problem. In the environment movement we have perhaps let the

:52:34. > :52:38.message predominate that there is a grave problem out there and that's

:52:39. > :52:41.understandable, the world, the natural world, is in trouble and

:52:42. > :52:45.needs us to change what we are doing to for that not to get worse. But we

:52:46. > :52:50.don't inspire people and bring them along with us by concentrating on

:52:51. > :52:54.the negative and the important thing is there are all sorts of

:52:55. > :53:00.extraordinary success stories out there, which which perhaps don't

:53:01. > :53:07.hear about, Amazon deforestation is down thirds in Brazil over 12 years.

:53:08. > :53:12.China in 2015 has started reducing its carbon dioxide emissions from

:53:13. > :53:17.burning fossil fuel. There are success stories out there that we

:53:18. > :53:22.want to celebrate. This weekend, 25 cities around the world are hosting

:53:23. > :53:26.what we are calling earth optimism events, where we will celebrate

:53:27. > :53:30.those stories and think about how we can scale up to address the

:53:31. > :53:34.challenges ahead and critically trying to inspire and empower people

:53:35. > :53:41.so they can do the many things that make a difference in Nair every day

:53:42. > :53:44.lives. It is not just about professional fixing the problem, but

:53:45. > :53:51.all of us owning the problem. One reason why people involved in the

:53:52. > :53:56.process have wanted to highlight the perils, the dangers, is to avoid us

:53:57. > :54:01.getting complacent. I'm assuming there is a danger Fer you tell

:54:02. > :54:05.people, you talked about deforestation, the good news, people

:54:06. > :54:12.say, that is sorted, we can move on. Is that the risk? It is a risk. And

:54:13. > :54:16.I understand that. But there is a need to realign things and address

:54:17. > :54:21.the balance, redress the balance in the opposite direction. We know from

:54:22. > :54:26.anyonings like road safety campaigns, if you just give people

:54:27. > :54:31.negative messages, they disengage and go into denial about problems.

:54:32. > :54:34.Whereas we need people to feel there are real solutions they need us to

:54:35. > :54:39.do things, but there are real solutions that dewith be part of.

:54:40. > :54:44.Can you bring this into people's homes, people at home watching, one

:54:45. > :54:49.of the things that are affecting them that are improving, that are

:54:50. > :54:54.the success story they can see, brooeft or feel? So all sorts of

:54:55. > :55:01.things, here in Cambridge we are going to be hearing success stories

:55:02. > :55:05.and hearing about solution, we are having a solutions fair, show casing

:55:06. > :55:11.things people can do, whether it is thinking about the food they waste

:55:12. > :55:14.or eating less meat and turning down the heating. Those are all

:55:15. > :55:19.contributions they can make. We can all do those things. But then

:55:20. > :55:24.looking out into the natural world, there are then lots of real success

:55:25. > :55:32.stories. Today's vents in Cambridge, we are going to be hosting, we are

:55:33. > :55:38.excited to be hosting Sir David Attenborough and when I was a child

:55:39. > :55:42.and watching nature shows and seeing David Attenborough seeing the

:55:43. > :55:46.gorillas in Africa, there are only a couple of gorillas left at that

:55:47. > :55:55.time. Since then efforts from different organisations have seen

:55:56. > :56:03.the numbers rise. There are now 880 for Rhyl whats central Africa,

:56:04. > :56:09.thanks to -- go Lil ras. We have a piece coming up on hedgehogs. Are we

:56:10. > :56:16.at a good place with them? Do you know anything about them? I don't

:56:17. > :56:21.know much. We are not in a good place with hedgehogs their numbers

:56:22. > :56:26.have declined. A lot of reasons, I suspect increasing road traffic. It

:56:27. > :56:27.is easy to drift into the bad news stories, but there are successes

:56:28. > :56:54.too. Thank you for that. 52 hedgehogs have been released into

:56:55. > :56:58.the wild after being nursed back to health.

:56:59. > :57:00.Residents of Burton Fleming await new arrivals.

:57:01. > :57:02.They are a bit prickly, apparently, and in desperate need

:57:03. > :57:07.It will keep the grubs down, hopefully.

:57:08. > :57:09.From an animal sanctuary 40 miles away, they finally arrived.

:57:10. > :57:12.52 hedgehogs, all found sick or injured across the north of

:57:13. > :57:18.Most of these have come in as babies, and we have hand-fed

:57:19. > :57:25.This one was in a really bad way when she came in.

:57:26. > :57:29.Veronica and her husband, Frank, run the charity Andrew's Hedgehog

:57:30. > :57:34.They believe the village of Burton Fleming, now considered

:57:35. > :57:38.hedgehog-friendly, will give the animals the best chance.

:57:39. > :57:43.Our village doesn't have major roads around it,

:57:44. > :57:52.and hedgehogs need to travel and get around different gardens.

:57:53. > :57:54.Providing everyone puts a hole in the garden fence,

:57:55. > :57:56.to make sure they can move around, we hope

:57:57. > :58:01.We are going to be putting the hedgehogs in our garden,

:58:02. > :58:04.because I have three little boys who have never seen

:58:05. > :58:12.Assessing hedgehog numbers is tricky, but in the 1950s,

:58:13. > :58:15.it is thought there were around 30 million in Britain.

:58:16. > :58:20.But now, conservationists believe numbers have plummeted

:58:21. > :58:26.We are taking all the hedgerows away, which is what the hedgehogs

:58:27. > :58:33.Roadkill, slug pellets, trimmers, bonfires.

:58:34. > :58:39.The hedgehogs are temporarily marked as male or female,

:58:40. > :58:46.so they can be released in pairs, and then it is time to say goodbye.

:58:47. > :58:53.They are all out having the time of their lives.

:58:54. > :58:57.We have been through so much with them.

:58:58. > :59:00.But they are now out where they should be.

:59:01. > :59:02.They are wild animals, we know they have to go.

:59:03. > :59:09.We know everyone in the village will be looking after them.

:59:10. > :59:11.Other villages aiming for hedgehog-friendly status include

:59:12. > :59:18.Windlesham in Surrey and Portreath in Cornwall.

:59:19. > :59:21.We put them in this spot because it is very quiet,

:59:22. > :59:23.and they will be happy here, and they have access

:59:24. > :59:25.into our garden, into our neighbour's garden.

:59:26. > :59:32.What is it like when you see a hedgehog returned to the wild?

:59:33. > :59:39.Our whole purpose in life is to take an injured or sick hedgehog,

:59:40. > :59:42.make it better, and return it back into the wild.

:59:43. > :59:56.To nature, it is hoped, back for good.

:59:57. > :00:22.Everyone loves a hedgehog. All the headlines coming up.

:00:23. > :00:24.Hello this is Breakfast, with Rachel Burden and Charlie Stayt.

:00:25. > :00:27.The Conservatives try to play down speculation that taxes will rise

:00:28. > :00:31.Labour accuses the government of planning a tax bombshell,

:00:32. > :00:34.while the Liberal Democrats say Theresa May intends to hit

:00:35. > :00:56.Good morning it's Saturday the 22nd of April.

:00:57. > :00:58.50,000 police officers are deployed across France,

:00:59. > :01:01.as security is tightened ahead of the first round of voting in

:01:02. > :01:23.The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge presenting on Radio 1 promoted their

:01:24. > :01:27.mental health campaign. Mike's taken to the slopes this

:01:28. > :01:31.week, trying to keep up with 18 year old Millie Knight,

:01:32. > :01:32.Britain's first world Chelsea chase the double -

:01:33. > :01:36.the Premier League leaders take on their closes rivals

:01:37. > :01:38.Tottenham, in the first of this weekend's FA Cup

:01:39. > :01:44.semi-finals at Wembley. And we take a look at the weather

:01:45. > :01:47.with them. Plenty of dry weather, even some

:01:48. > :01:51.sunshine, but a big change on the way for the start of next week.

:01:52. > :01:54.Something much colder on the way. I will have all of the details later.

:01:55. > :01:56.Thank you very much. The Conservatives are attempting

:01:57. > :02:00.to play down speculation that they will raise taxes

:02:01. > :02:03.if they win the general election. Yesterday, the Chancellor,

:02:04. > :02:04.Phillip Hammond, hinted that the government might abandon

:02:05. > :02:07.the pledge made at the last election not to raise income tax,

:02:08. > :02:09.national insurance or VAT. Labour and the Liberal Democrats

:02:10. > :02:11.were quick to jump on what they saw as a change

:02:12. > :02:14.of policy, warning that Our political correspondent

:02:15. > :02:19.Leila Nathoo is at Westminster this morning - so it seems

:02:20. > :02:30.the conservatives are Early days in the campaigning

:02:31. > :02:37.already. Tax front and centre. Absolutely. This is a nervousness on

:02:38. > :02:41.the half of the Tory party that they are alienating, potentially,

:02:42. > :02:46.traditional Tory voters by talk of tax rises. Theresa May confirmed

:02:47. > :02:49.yesterday she will continue to spend 4.7% of national income on overseas

:02:50. > :02:54.aid. That's controversial in some parts. She has also refused to

:02:55. > :03:00.guarantee the so-called pensions triple lock. Entrants will increase

:03:01. > :03:06.by a minimum of 2.5% a year. -- that means pensions. This talk of tax,

:03:07. > :03:11.Philip Hammond's suggestion that he wants to see the end of the

:03:12. > :03:16.commitment not to raise income tax or Piatti or National Insurance.

:03:17. > :03:23.That has caused alarm. Conservative sources are playing back down. -- or

:03:24. > :03:26.VAT or National Insurance. Labour says there was a tax bombshell

:03:27. > :03:33.ahead. The Lib Dems have said that this will hurt the pockets of White

:03:34. > :03:37.Van Man. Labour has said that the richest would pay their fair share

:03:38. > :03:41.of tax if elected. The battle lines are being drawn. Plenty of talks of

:03:42. > :03:52.policy before the manifestos have even been published. Just one final

:03:53. > :03:58.fought, we are hearing that Eric Pickles has said that he would step

:03:59. > :04:02.down. Other MPs have said the same. A very interesting election policy

:04:03. > :04:03.wise, but there will be a high turnover of MPs before the battle

:04:04. > :04:07.has even begun. Thanks very much.

:04:08. > :04:09.More than 50,000 troops are being deployed across France

:04:10. > :04:11.in preparation for voting in the country's presidential

:04:12. > :04:15.election after the killing of a police officer in Paris.

:04:16. > :04:21.Our correspondent is in Paris at the moment.

:04:22. > :04:29.The city returning to a degree of normality. How have the events of

:04:30. > :04:35.the last few days affected preparations for this election?

:04:36. > :04:42.Good morning. This is a scene of absolute brassiere normality. A busy

:04:43. > :04:46.marketplace on the boulevard St Germain. People are doing what they

:04:47. > :04:50.normally do on a Saturday morning. All the more so because this is a

:04:51. > :04:54.day of political silence. Just standing here, we have noticed

:04:55. > :04:58.police officers on patrol, armed police even through a market like

:04:59. > :05:01.this. It shows what is beneath the surface and what is in the

:05:02. > :05:05.background, this sense of high tension and tight security. France

:05:06. > :05:11.are under a state of emergency since November 20 15. And everybody is

:05:12. > :05:14.thinking about what happened on Thursday night to some degree when a

:05:15. > :05:22.police officer was gunned down just a couple of miles from here. It

:05:23. > :05:30.turns out that Nick Garnett from radio five live spoke to him at the

:05:31. > :05:35.reopening of the Bataclan theatre. The policeman said to him he was

:05:36. > :05:39.happy to be there. He wanted to defend his country's civic values

:05:40. > :05:43.and say no to terrorism. How sad it ironic that turned out to be. He

:05:44. > :05:48.lost his own life just five months later. Let me give you a sense of

:05:49. > :05:51.what the atmosphere is like from the newspapers this morning as we go

:05:52. > :06:01.into this period of silence a day before the election. Le Parisien,

:06:02. > :06:07.vote amid tension. The police presence very much on the front of

:06:08. > :06:12.that. Le Figaro, the shadow of terrorism hanging over the first

:06:13. > :06:14.round of voting. You can see the candidates' posters on the police

:06:15. > :06:22.presence. It really sums things up. Le Monde, one of the main

:06:23. > :06:25.newspapers, the campaign struck by terrorism. Although it seems like a

:06:26. > :06:29.normal scene in Paris, the day before the first round of the

:06:30. > :06:34.presidential elections, security is very much on people's minds.

:06:35. > :06:40.Thanks very much. No candidate with an absolute majority. -- if there is

:06:41. > :06:42.no candidate with an absolute majority, it will go to a second

:06:43. > :06:44.round. US Vice-President Mike Pence says

:06:45. > :06:47.a US naval strike group will arrive in waters near North Korea

:06:48. > :06:50.in a matter of days. There had been confusion

:06:51. > :06:52.earlier this week over whether the USS Carl Vinson

:06:53. > :06:54.was heading into the However in a press conference

:06:55. > :06:58.with the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Pence said the US wanted to show

:06:59. > :07:01.North Korea it had the resources Let me assure you, the United States

:07:02. > :07:07.will continue to work closely with Australia, our other allies

:07:08. > :07:09.in the region and with China to bring economic and diplomatic

:07:10. > :07:12.sanctions to bear on the regime in Pyongyang until they

:07:13. > :07:14.abandon their nuclear Police in the German city of Cologne

:07:15. > :07:24.say the situation is tense, as thousands of demonstrators

:07:25. > :07:26.are gathering to protest against a conference

:07:27. > :07:28.of a right-wing party. One policeman was injured

:07:29. > :07:31.when he tried to prevent an attack on an 'Alternative Fur Deutschland'

:07:32. > :07:36.delegate. 4,000 officers are being

:07:37. > :07:38.deployed in the city, where at least 5 rallies

:07:39. > :07:42.are expected to be held today. The Sun newspaper has printed

:07:43. > :07:44.a formal apology to Everton Former editor

:07:45. > :07:47.Kelvin McKenzie compared the footballer to a gorilla

:07:48. > :07:49.in an article for his column. Ross Barkley's grandfather is from

:07:50. > :07:52.Nigeria but the newspaper says Kelvin McKenzie remains

:07:53. > :08:01.suspended from The Sun. For the first time

:08:02. > :08:03.since the industrial revolution Britain has gone a whole working day

:08:04. > :08:05.without using coal to National Grid said the news

:08:06. > :08:12.was a "watershed moment" in attempts Taxes on CO2 emissions,

:08:13. > :08:15.and the falling cost of renewable energy,

:08:16. > :08:17.have made coal plants less A NASA probe, flying near the planet

:08:18. > :08:27.Saturn is about to set it's self on a path of destruction,

:08:28. > :08:40.as it runs out of fuel. -- A NASA probe, flying near

:08:41. > :08:43.the planet Saturn has set itself on a path of destruction,

:08:44. > :08:46.as it runs out of fuel. Cassini will pass the planet's moon,

:08:47. > :08:48.Titan, this morning. But this will cause it to change

:08:49. > :08:51.course and heading straight for Saturn's atmosphere where it

:08:52. > :08:52.will be destroyed. It's hoped before it's demise,

:08:53. > :08:56.it will be able to make some last minute measurements of the planet's

:08:57. > :08:58.rings, rotation, and length of day. From take-aways and box sets,

:08:59. > :09:01.to Prince George's favourite TV programme, the Duke and Duchess

:09:02. > :09:02.of Cambridge have spoken about their family life

:09:03. > :09:05.together on Radio One. The couple were promoting

:09:06. > :09:07.their mental health campaign on the station's chart show

:09:08. > :09:09.as our Royal Correspondent Please welcome to Radio 1 the Duke

:09:10. > :09:12.and Duchess of Cambridge. With a destiny to fulfil,

:09:13. > :09:16.some DJ-ing in the meantime. These are royals bringing

:09:17. > :09:18.their message about mental health to a young audience,

:09:19. > :09:20.and a confession Obviously, I wouldn't

:09:21. > :09:26.tell you who I was. What are you doing

:09:27. > :09:29.texting in your car? I have not texted while driving,

:09:30. > :09:33.because that is illegal. The princely fan, who seeks

:09:34. > :09:35.shout-outs, and who was castigated when he missed a royal event

:09:36. > :09:38.for a skiing and clubbing trip, It's not something you can

:09:39. > :09:42.really do all the time? No, and you know, I've got in enough

:09:43. > :09:45.trouble with my dancing recently, so it's kind of best to keep away

:09:46. > :09:47.from that, to be honest. The price of such airtime,

:09:48. > :09:49.questions that wouldn't have amused Victoria,

:09:50. > :09:51.like what takes their Yeah, I'm not so good

:09:52. > :09:55.with the spicy food, though. If you do a takeaway,

:09:56. > :09:58.they must never believe you when you're ordering it

:09:59. > :10:00.to the palace, right? It doesn't usually get ordered

:10:01. > :10:02.to the palace, Chris. We tend to go and pick

:10:03. > :10:06.it up, not ourselves. Go for a little visit

:10:07. > :10:09.around the area. He's not going to go

:10:10. > :10:11.to Chicken Cottage, is he? The royals remained,

:10:12. > :10:16.and were set to work. The official chart with

:10:17. > :10:19.Greg James and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge -

:10:20. > :10:22.go. He had 13 weeks at number one,

:10:23. > :10:25.with Shape Of You, before Harry came Radio bringing together

:10:26. > :10:30.briefly two national institutions, So, number one is Ed

:10:31. > :10:39.Sheeran, Shape Of You. For a couple facing a life of pomp,

:10:40. > :10:41.this was pure pleasure. When I'm on holiday,

:10:42. > :10:44.would you mind stepping in? To be honest, we could

:10:45. > :11:05.probably do a better job. The irresponsibility to announce

:11:06. > :11:09.number one. Some 30,000 people will take part in the London Marathon.

:11:10. > :11:11.One man is believed to be the only competitor who will combine the run

:11:12. > :11:18.with a karaoke performance. Graham Burns from Broadstairs

:11:19. > :11:27.hopes his sixth marathon will see him break

:11:28. > :11:28.?50,000 fundraising for He is expected to sing his 40

:11:29. > :11:35.track playlist several times around the course -

:11:36. > :11:43.including such hits as '500 miles' I would imagine there would be lots

:11:44. > :11:45.of people joining in along the route. You get amazing support at

:11:46. > :11:47.the London Marathon. Good luck to Graham

:11:48. > :11:56.and everyone else taking part. People really appreciate having the

:11:57. > :12:03.support along the route. I really like that shot.

:12:04. > :12:05.We've had several suggestions this morning

:12:06. > :12:24.Nigel Schofield suggested Moonlight Mile.

:12:25. > :12:28.The suggestion mainly had the word running them. We could think out of

:12:29. > :12:36.the box. I can't think of anything. But there you go. When Theresa May

:12:37. > :12:41.stepped out of number ten on Tuesday to announce there would be a general

:12:42. > :12:43.election it took everybody by surprise.

:12:44. > :12:47.She has previously ruled it out. But in just under seven weeks we will go

:12:48. > :12:49.to the polls again. A little more than two years since the last

:12:50. > :12:54.general election. Let's get some thoughts now. Andrew

:12:55. > :12:59.Pierce, executive editor of the Daily Mail, and Anna Lewis, deputy

:13:00. > :13:05.editor of the new statesman. Thank you very much for joining us on

:13:06. > :13:10.Saturday morning. -- Helen Lewis, deputy editor of the New Statesman.

:13:11. > :13:13.What have you learned that you didn't already know? Good question.

:13:14. > :13:18.I think some things will happen again. I think it'll be a rerun of

:13:19. > :13:21.the 2015 campaign. Big focus on the south-west. That is where the Tories

:13:22. > :13:25.think they are vulnerable to do some seats to the Lib Dems. The dead cat,

:13:26. > :13:29.which will happen at some point, the opposition seem to be doing that

:13:30. > :13:35.quite well, someone will say something awful at one point. I have

:13:36. > :13:37.learned that it will be a boring campaign. Everybody assumes Theresa

:13:38. > :13:41.May is going to increase her majority. So we will have seven

:13:42. > :13:49.weeks of people saying, maybe that is not the case, oh, it is. Even

:13:50. > :13:54.1983 Margaret Thatcher wasn't this far ahead of Michael foot. At the

:13:55. > :13:58.pollsters got it right this time? What I have learned is that it is

:13:59. > :14:04.the utter demise of Ukip. Even Nigel Farage doesn't want to run. Douglas

:14:05. > :14:07.Carswell, who was their only MP, who went independent, and now is not

:14:08. > :14:10.running, I think that the Labour Party that is a worry. In a lot of

:14:11. > :14:15.those northern seas where there are small majorities and the Tories are

:14:16. > :14:18.breathing down their neck, Ukip have thousands of votes. Wildie switch

:14:19. > :14:23.back to Labour? Probably not. They will probably switch to the Tories

:14:24. > :14:31.who have given us Brexit. -- will they switch back to Labour? A lot of

:14:32. > :14:38.people say when they meet in, engage with him, he has an effect, people

:14:39. > :14:40.get on well with Jeremy Corbyn. How do you think they will go about

:14:41. > :14:47.making people understand just what he is about and whether he could be

:14:48. > :14:52.prime ministerial? That photo shoot, even Andrew's heart must have melted

:14:53. > :14:56.at seeing those pictures. Not much. This is the part of politics Jeremy

:14:57. > :15:00.Corbyn does well in. He is well liked in his constituency. When

:15:01. > :15:05.people talk to him they say he has time for them. Lots of people have

:15:06. > :15:08.said that she is not -- lots of people have said that Theresa May is

:15:09. > :15:11.not afraid of going up against Jeremy Corbyn, even though she

:15:12. > :15:17.doesn't want to do the TV debates, but he is quite down the line, and

:15:18. > :15:21.friendly. Theresa May's weakness is that she can look old and be

:15:22. > :15:25.controlling. The AV Jeremy Corbyn is to get him in front of cameras as

:15:26. > :15:29.much as possible. -- the aim for Jeremy Corbyn is to get him in front

:15:30. > :15:35.of cameras as much as possible. He looks like the cuddly grandpa. That

:15:36. > :15:39.will neutralise the effects that. There is a suggestion that Theresa

:15:40. > :15:43.May is not so keen on getting involved in a debate publicly. That

:15:44. > :15:48.she is staying away from being interviewed, for example. Are people

:15:49. > :15:54.going to buy into the idea that that may mean she has a fragility? That

:15:55. > :16:01.her image is all about strength and resolve. Her advisers have told her,

:16:02. > :16:05.you are so far ahead. She is about 35 to 40 points ahead of Jeremy

:16:06. > :16:10.Corbyn as who is seen as the best PM. She has the most to lose at a TV

:16:11. > :16:14.debate. They could be one slip. Why risk a banana skin when you don't

:16:15. > :16:17.have to? When Tony Blair was in a commanding position he laughed out

:16:18. > :16:23.loud at the idea he would do a TV debate with John Major. He never did

:16:24. > :16:28.and he won by a mile. It's an issue which gets everybody excited in the

:16:29. > :16:32.Westminster jungle. But in the real world I don't think people care very

:16:33. > :16:37.much. One thing people do care about is tax. That has entered the fray

:16:38. > :16:41.with this suggestion. Can the Tories get away with saying they are going

:16:42. > :16:46.to tax you more? It's about time we had some refreshing honesty with a

:16:47. > :16:56.manifesto. If you look at David Cameron's in 2015, there were 600

:16:57. > :17:01.recommendations. Ridiculous. One of the most ridiculous pledgers Cameron

:17:02. > :17:06.made was no increase in VAT, income tax, or National Insurance. Do not

:17:07. > :17:10.tie the hands of your Chancellor for five years. The Tories have a huge

:17:11. > :17:14.lead, so they can be honest and say, if things get rough we may have to

:17:15. > :17:21.put up your taxes. That is honest. Voters will respect that, I think.

:17:22. > :17:24.As and when we see the manifestos, don't pledge anything! Some people

:17:25. > :17:27.would like to get away with that. I think there will be a much shorter

:17:28. > :17:31.Tory manifesto compared with last time because they are so far ahead

:17:32. > :17:36.and they don't need to give these messages or fortune. I find it

:17:37. > :17:40.refreshing, like Andrew. Theresa May is trying to talk about getting her

:17:41. > :17:43.mandate for Brexit, and trying to escape from some of the pledges

:17:44. > :17:48.which were made in 2015. They were never meant to be enacted. They were

:17:49. > :17:52.meant to be bartered away, as Andrew has said. We will get a sense of

:17:53. > :17:55.what the government is going to do and what it wants, rather than a

:17:56. > :18:00.mishmash of last government plus a bit of Brexit plus a bit of Theresa

:18:01. > :18:09.May's own ideas about government. Thank you both very much. Let's take

:18:10. > :18:17.a look at the weather. Good morning. Many of you will like this weekend

:18:18. > :18:22.more than next week. Cold weather on the way. Springlike weather to be

:18:23. > :18:26.had this weekend. This was the scene from our weather watcher, Frank, in

:18:27. > :18:30.Worcestershire. Mainly driver that we can. Spells of sunshine, patchy

:18:31. > :18:36.cloud, but this is the satellite picture from earlier. -- mainly dry

:18:37. > :18:40.for the weekend. This cloud over Northern Ireland will be hard to

:18:41. > :18:45.shift. Some cloud over Wales, Southwest, and eastern England. But

:18:46. > :18:50.a lot of cloud will break up. We will see spells of sunshine. The few

:18:51. > :18:53.showers, particularly over the south-east, and showers continuing

:18:54. > :18:57.over North Scotland. Some of these will be wintry. If you're planning

:18:58. > :19:01.to get out today, it isn't looking too bad. The Channel Islands,

:19:02. > :19:05.south-west England come into the West Midlands, long spells of

:19:06. > :19:10.sunshine, temperatures as high as 17 degrees in places. The odd shower in

:19:11. > :19:16.the south-east. Cooler, as well, to the North Sea coast, maybe eight to

:19:17. > :19:20.9 degrees. Many fine in northern England. Southern Scotland with

:19:21. > :19:25.sunny spells. Some sunny spells further north, as well, but with the

:19:26. > :19:30.showers, some of them wintry, and temperatures just around four to 5

:19:31. > :19:35.degrees over Shetland. We will have a largely dry night in most areas.

:19:36. > :19:40.The odd patch of mist. It will get cold in the countryside for a touch

:19:41. > :19:44.of frost. A chilly start is not bad news for the marathon. It'll

:19:45. > :19:47.probably be single digits at the start line in London, then warming

:19:48. > :19:53.up and brightening up as the day goes on. Across the bulk of England

:19:54. > :19:56.and Wales it'll be another fine day, plenty of sunshine around, more

:19:57. > :19:58.cloud creeping its way down to north-west England, also for

:19:59. > :20:03.Northern Ireland and Scotland. The odd spot of rain here. Heavy rain

:20:04. > :20:07.developing later run over the northern isles of Scotland. With

:20:08. > :20:12.that, strong winds, and that is the first sign of what is to come. This

:20:13. > :20:16.low pressure will bind itself up across North Scotland make tomorrow.

:20:17. > :20:22.Strong winds for a while. Then we turn our eyes to this cold front. It

:20:23. > :20:25.is going to introduce cold air. These northerly winds are all the

:20:26. > :20:30.way from the Arctic into the start of next week. Overnight frosts,

:20:31. > :20:35.chilly days, and the chance of some wintry showers, even some snow, to

:20:36. > :20:45.quite low levels in a few places. We will keep you updated.

:20:46. > :20:54.Thanks very much. This is Breakfast. Time for a look at the papers.

:20:55. > :20:57.of Extragalactic Astronomy at Bath University,

:20:58. > :20:59.she's here to tell us what's caught her eye.

:21:00. > :21:09.We want to talk to you about Cassini. Cassini Has been going

:21:10. > :21:13.around Saturn and extracting information.

:21:14. > :21:18.It is a probe, isn't it? Exactly. It has been taking photographs and

:21:19. > :21:22.gathering information of some of the moons of Saturn. Some of the

:21:23. > :21:26.exciting results have been over the 12 year lifetime of this mission,

:21:27. > :21:30.the measurements it has made of the moons of Saturn, and looking for

:21:31. > :21:34.possible signs of life. It was planned to self-destruct.

:21:35. > :21:40.Absolutely. It is all scheduled in. What it is doing from now until

:21:41. > :21:45.September, is doing deep dives towards Saturn, it'll get closer and

:21:46. > :21:50.closer to the surface. In September it is designed to crash into Saturn.

:21:51. > :21:56.It is designed that way to make sure it does not crash into any of the

:21:57. > :22:01.moons because it doesn't want to contaminate any of them. I feel

:22:02. > :22:06.quite sad it is on its way out. If you look at Twitter and some of the

:22:07. > :22:10.comments the Cassini Tom Aggar scientists have been saying, it is

:22:11. > :22:22.clear it has been a phenomenal mission. -- Cassini scientists have

:22:23. > :22:27.been saying. We will have all of these measurements. We will learn so

:22:28. > :22:36.much about Saturn. The scientists are very sad to see the demise of

:22:37. > :22:40.the mission. Your next story. There has been lots of debate about

:22:41. > :22:44.whether artificial sweeteners in diet drinks are safe or not.

:22:45. > :22:50.Sometimes they are given a clean bill of health, sometimes not. This

:22:51. > :22:54.new study has shown some potential statistical links between prevalence

:22:55. > :23:01.of dementia and strokes, and the use of diet drinks. It needs a bit more

:23:02. > :23:05.research to look for the physical drives of this. This was an

:23:06. > :23:09.observational study, wasn't it? We ought to be cautious as we are with

:23:10. > :23:14.any sort of health scare. For a long time people have been saying I do

:23:15. > :23:20.not trust the artificial sweeteners. Yet, there is this drive against

:23:21. > :23:24.sugar. It is difficult to tell. Some other studies have shown that taking

:23:25. > :23:28.large quantities of diet drinks can switch off the body's natural

:23:29. > :23:33.mechanism for feeling full. If you have a bit of sugar in a balanced

:23:34. > :23:37.diet you will be mostly fine. I think anything in excess starts to

:23:38. > :23:40.push the limits of what is natural. Scientists have been looking more to

:23:41. > :23:45.corroborate these statistics and look for the biological mechanism

:23:46. > :23:49.that might underlie them. The Daily Mail, we were discussing this

:23:50. > :23:53.earlier, I'm curious about people's personal experiences on this one.

:23:54. > :23:56.This is the story about wearing high heels to work and whether an

:23:57. > :24:01.employer has the right to say you should wear those kind of shoes.

:24:02. > :24:06.That's right. The government decided, following a big online

:24:07. > :24:09.petition, not to change the law on this, but bring in new legislation

:24:10. > :24:13.and strengthen guidelines. Campaigners will be disappointed by

:24:14. > :24:17.that. But it goes to something more fundamental about discrimination in

:24:18. > :24:21.the workplace. And what we think of as smart for men and Smart for

:24:22. > :24:27.women. If you tell a gentleman, go and put some stilettos on, you know,

:24:28. > :24:32.think of it that way, would you ask a man to do the same? In the work

:24:33. > :24:35.environments you have been income have you been required to dress in a

:24:36. > :24:40.particular way, or in a way that maybe you would not want this to

:24:41. > :24:48.mark -- in work environments you have been in, have you been required

:24:49. > :24:51.to dress in a particular way. It is very much about an individual

:24:52. > :24:56.management at local level dictated to such a degree what somebody wears

:24:57. > :25:01.that it becomes uncomfortable. Ultimately it may violate things

:25:02. > :25:05.like the equality act 2010. The guidelines will probably strengthen

:25:06. > :25:08.hellfire employers can push this. If you are wearing smart, appropriate

:25:09. > :25:13.clothes, maybe forcing women to wear high heels in particular might not

:25:14. > :25:17.be the best thing. This is something which went viral a couple of years

:25:18. > :25:21.ago, the dress that appeared to change colour, or people's

:25:22. > :25:25.perception of it being very different. This was a nice story.

:25:26. > :25:30.People were debating online what the colour of this particular dress was.

:25:31. > :25:35.It sounds like a light story. But scientists started to think, how do

:25:36. > :25:38.people perceive colour. Going further beyond things like colour

:25:39. > :25:43.blindness and what happens with light and shade and how pigments

:25:44. > :25:47.react to different colours of light. There seemed to be a seasonal

:25:48. > :25:51.difference. Backlit, front lit. It is now an extended study now on how

:25:52. > :25:56.people perceive colour late at night, early in the morning, and

:25:57. > :26:01.different biology of the eyes. This dress has triggered some interesting

:26:02. > :26:03.studies. It went viral and then it gets some interesting findings and

:26:04. > :26:11.discussions. Actually quite exciting. Back on your turf. Are you

:26:12. > :26:16.a boffin? Say it loud and proud.

:26:17. > :26:24.No sign of aliens so far are what is this? We have a number of programmes

:26:25. > :26:28.internationally looking for signals that could be associated with extra

:26:29. > :26:34.terrestrial intelligence. The idea is to look in the radio part of the

:26:35. > :26:39.spectrum. When light has a certain wavelength, in radio wave it is

:26:40. > :26:45.about 20 centimetres. So big telescopes pick them up. I was

:26:46. > :26:49.talking about this the other day, are we hearing aliens? I don't think

:26:50. > :26:56.so. They might pick up a particular frequency. The idea was to look at

:26:57. > :26:58.around 20 centimetres where hydrogen naturally produces light. They are

:26:59. > :27:04.picking up signals they cannot explain. These are called fast radio

:27:05. > :27:08.bursts. We think they are a natural phenomenon. But we are keeping our

:27:09. > :27:10.minds open. Good, keep your mind open, you never know. Thank you very

:27:11. > :27:13.much. We're on BBC One until ten

:27:14. > :27:16.o'clock this morning, when John Torode takes over

:27:17. > :27:26.in the Saturday kitchen. How are things looking? Pretty good.

:27:27. > :27:30.We have had a rehearsal, things smell pretty good. Our special

:27:31. > :27:37.guest, Jason. How are you? Good to see you. You are facing Heaven or

:27:38. > :27:47.hell. I'm looking forward to half of it. Heaven is black cod with miso.

:27:48. > :27:57.And hell is cabbage. We might be able to convert you. We

:27:58. > :28:05.have two great chefs in the studio and a wine expert. Lisa, what are

:28:06. > :28:11.you cooking? A wild garlic soup with bacon fat potatoes and sour cream.

:28:12. > :28:15.Jason happy with that one. Richard H Turner, back again, great to see

:28:16. > :28:22.you, what are you cooking? Steak, chips, cheese, gravy. How is that?

:28:23. > :28:26.And some wine to go with all of that. Around the world, delicious

:28:27. > :28:31.flavours, some bargains, we will sample some beautiful winds today

:28:32. > :28:36.with these wonderful dishes. Food, wine, Saturday morning, and a few

:28:37. > :28:43.laughs. Let's not go too far. We will see you all at ten o'clock. He

:28:44. > :28:48.went too far dissing cabbage. You are a big fan, aren't you?

:28:49. > :28:55.Big fan, but I'm Irish will stop coming up in the next half hour...

:28:56. > :29:02.What would you have, pizza, Chinese? Curry. I'm not so good with the

:29:03. > :29:09.spicy food. We will discuss how the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's

:29:10. > :29:33.surprise outing to radio one picked up a few royal headlines.

:29:34. > :29:35.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Rachel Burden.

:29:36. > :29:37.Coming up before 10, Ben will have the weather.

:29:38. > :29:42.But first a summary of this morning's main news.

:29:43. > :29:44.The Conservatives are attempting to play down speculation

:29:45. > :29:47.that they will raise taxes if they win the general election.

:29:48. > :29:53.Yesterday, the Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, hinted

:29:54. > :29:56.that the Government might abandon the pledge made at the last election

:29:57. > :29:58.not to raise income tax, national insurance or VAT.

:29:59. > :30:01.Labour and the Liberal Democrats were quick to jump on what they saw

:30:02. > :30:06.as a change of policy, warning that tax rises lie ahead.

:30:07. > :30:08.Meanwhile the Ukip spokesman on immigration has told Breakfast

:30:09. > :30:10.that people should vote tactically to get the version

:30:11. > :30:16.Mrs May said the election is about Brexit.

:30:17. > :30:19.Of course, we want to ensure that the 17.4 million people who

:30:20. > :30:24.voted to leave get Brexit and not a diluted version of it.

:30:25. > :30:26.So, putting country before party, I think we

:30:27. > :30:29.will look at this tactically and look at where I stood a few years

:30:30. > :30:32.ago, I would say to the Tory voters there,

:30:33. > :30:33.you can't win the seat, but

:30:34. > :30:36.if you send a Ukip candidate to Parliament, that person

:30:37. > :30:40.would help Theresa May deliver Brexit.

:30:41. > :30:42.50,000 police officers are being deployed across France ahead

:30:43. > :30:45.of the first round of the country's presidential election.

:30:46. > :30:48.Terrorism and security went to the top of the agenda

:30:49. > :30:50.on the final day of campaigning yesterday,

:30:51. > :30:52.after a policeman was shot dead by a suspected Islamist

:30:53. > :30:59.Polls on the French mainland open tomorrow.

:31:00. > :31:02.US Vice-President, Mike Pence, says a US naval strike group will arrive

:31:03. > :31:06.in waters near North Korea in a matter of days.

:31:07. > :31:08.There had been confusion earlier this week over

:31:09. > :31:10.whether the USS Carl Vinson was heading into the

:31:11. > :31:14.However, in a press conference with the Australian Prime Minister,

:31:15. > :31:17.Mr Pence said the US wanted to show North Korea it had the resources

:31:18. > :31:43.A huge police operation is under way in co-loan before a far right

:31:44. > :31:48.demonstration. Five rallies are expected to be held today. For the

:31:49. > :31:53.first time since the industrial revolution, Britain has gone a whole

:31:54. > :32:03.working day without using coal to generate electricity. The National

:32:04. > :32:11.Grid said it was a water shed moment in efforts to remove coal.

:32:12. > :32:15.Those are the main stories this morning.

:32:16. > :32:32.Lots going on in sport. That cup it up for grabs.

:32:33. > :32:39.We have two teams, Spurs are scoring for fun and playing some amazing

:32:40. > :32:42.football and Chelsea are that team that are notoriously hard to break

:32:43. > :32:50.down. So it will be an interesting match. Both in the running for the

:32:51. > :32:57.Premier League. It is as much about momentum and this could carry them

:32:58. > :33:02.through. Imagine the psychological blow if you lose?

:33:03. > :33:04.Let's start with that tea-time kick off at Wembley,

:33:05. > :33:06.where the two best teams in the Premier League,