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This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :00:00. | :00:14. | |
A political earthquake in France as two outsiders are chosen | :00:15. | :00:17. | |
for the final stage of the presidential election. | :00:18. | :00:19. | |
The National Front's Marine Le Pen and the centrist, Emanuel Macron, | :00:20. | :00:22. | |
will go head to head in two weeks' time. | :00:23. | :00:36. | |
A man hunt is launched after the death of a ex-Royal Navy | :00:37. | :00:47. | |
officer killed trying to stop burglars steal his | :00:48. | :00:49. | |
The police describe it as beyond criminal. | :00:50. | :00:54. | |
This could have happened to absolutely anybody. You hear a noise | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
downstairs and go and see what it is. It is incredibly tragic. | :01:03. | :01:04. | |
Six months on from the closure of the Calais Jungle refugee camp, | :01:05. | :01:07. | |
we hear new evidence that migrants are returning to the town. | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
Today, I'm talking about the housing market, as new research says average | :01:11. | :01:13. | |
But as sales fall, I'll be looking at what is going on. | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
In sport, Sanchez shines for Arsenal. | :01:19. | :01:20. | |
His winner in extra-time sees them book their place in the FA Cup final | :01:21. | :01:24. | |
And this is St Davids in south-west Wales. | :01:25. | :01:31. | |
We'll be live there later as the search for the next UK City | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
Good morning. Good morning. A taste of winter in the forecast this week | :01:36. | :01:49. | |
with some snow, especially in the north and north-east. There will be | :01:50. | :01:55. | |
some sunshine. It is not until the second part of the weekend the | :01:56. | :02:00. | |
weekend that it will warm up. And I will have more details on 50 | :02:01. | :02:02. | |
minutes. Thank you, Carol. -- 15. French voters have rejected the two | :02:03. | :02:08. | |
traditional ruling parties, with their candidates | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
being knocked out in the first Instead, the pro-European, | :02:13. | :02:14. | |
Emmanuel Macron, is set to face the far-right leader, | :02:15. | :02:18. | |
Marine Le Pen, in a run-off Mr Macron is widely seen | :02:19. | :02:21. | |
as favourite as our Europe correspondent, James | :02:22. | :02:25. | |
Reynolds, reports Emanuel Macron is France's newcomer, | :02:26. | :02:30. | |
and now the winner of this election to back first round. He is an | :02:31. | :02:36. | |
insider who has run as an outsider. The 39-year-old is EU and grow | :02:37. | :02:43. | |
business and a centrist. He resigned as a minister in order to form his | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
own political movement. And his gamble has paid off. TRANSLATION: I | :02:47. | :02:50. | |
hope that in a fortnight, I will become your | :02:51. | :02:58. | |
president. His supporters believe the rest of the country will now | :02:59. | :03:04. | |
rally around him. This is his first election. The French people still | :03:05. | :03:09. | |
hardly know him. He is now the favourite to become the next | :03:10. | :03:12. | |
president of this country. Marine Le Pen, the leader of Front National, | :03:13. | :03:19. | |
will fight him in the final round. She won more votes than the party | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
has ever won before. She matched her father's achievement 13 years ago in | :03:25. | :03:30. | |
reaching a presidential run-off. The French people must take this | :03:31. | :03:34. | |
historic opportunity, because the bigger issue is the globalisation | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
putting our civilisation in danger. In Bastille Square in Paris, | :03:45. | :03:48. | |
protesters faced off against the police. These demonstrators were | :03:49. | :03:52. | |
angered by the result of this vote. Day, and the rest of the country, | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
will have their final say in two weeks' time. James Reynolds, BBC | :03:58. | :03:59. | |
News, Paris. Let's speak now to our Paris | :04:00. | :04:00. | |
correspondent, Hugh Schofield. How much does this first | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
round result illustrate that France is breaking away from | :04:04. | :04:05. | |
the political norm? Give us a sense of the significance. | :04:06. | :04:14. | |
Quite a turnaround, isn't it? Yes, indeed. Two outsiders in the | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
running. All questions are now focusing on who will win in two | :04:21. | :04:26. | |
weeks' time. Before the election, Marine Le Pen told me, and every | :04:27. | :04:30. | |
other journalist wanted to ask that question, whether Emanuel Macron was | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
her ideal opponent, because she wants to turn it into France versus | :04:36. | :04:40. | |
globalisation. She believes there are many people out there who | :04:41. | :04:45. | |
believe in medal Davos Mis a Davos man, Mr moneybags, someone who likes | :04:46. | :04:53. | |
the existing system. If she can tap into that feeling in France, she | :04:54. | :04:58. | |
will expand her support from 20 something which it is now. It will | :04:59. | :05:02. | |
be a big fight for her at all the polls suggest she will not make it. | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
There is a lot riding around Macron. Every suggestion, and my feeling, is | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
that he is almost certain to be the leader of France. We will talk about | :05:13. | :05:16. | |
it a lot on our programme. Thank you. | :05:17. | :05:17. | |
Police in have begun a murder inquiry after a former Royal Navy | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
officer was killed by thieves who stole his car from | :05:21. | :05:23. | |
Michael Samwell, 35, died after confronting intruders | :05:24. | :05:25. | |
who broke into his home in Greater Manchester in the early | :05:26. | :05:28. | |
How did a disturbance at a house in the early hours and in a murder | :05:29. | :05:40. | |
investigation? Michael Samwell and his wife were woken up by a loud | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
noise, and the former Royal Navy officer went downstairs to have a | :05:45. | :05:47. | |
look. The exact sequence of events that followed are not clear that be | :05:48. | :05:52. | |
but outside, now cordoned off, the 35 year old was run over as his car | :05:53. | :05:56. | |
was stolen. He later died in hospital. The car was found | :05:57. | :06:01. | |
abandoned a few miles away but the leaders could have happened to | :06:02. | :06:06. | |
anyone. You hear a noise downstairs and you go and see what it is. It is | :06:07. | :06:10. | |
incredibly tragic he has lost his life. This is described as a quiet | :06:11. | :06:14. | |
corner of Manchester. And they gathered in silence. People came to | :06:15. | :06:19. | |
pay their respects, laying flowers at the scene. Over a battery | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
realistic item, a car, to take a life. -- materialistic. Is that what | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
it has come down to? It will be a bit different here now. I am a bit | :06:35. | :06:40. | |
shaken up because it is close to ours. I am scared. Whoever is | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
responsible is still on the run. One theory is they did break in simply | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
to get their hands on the car. If that is the case, it leads to a far | :06:49. | :06:55. | |
more serious enquiry. BBC News. We will have more on that later in the | :06:56. | :06:57. | |
morning. Jeremy Corbyn is promising to repeal | :06:58. | :06:58. | |
what he calls "vicious" trade union legislation, brought | :06:59. | :07:02. | |
in by the Conservatives, The Labour leader is making his | :07:03. | :07:03. | |
first campaign visit to Scotland today, where his party is trying | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
to claw back support after huge losses in the election | :07:09. | :07:12. | |
two years ago. Our political correspondent, | :07:13. | :07:13. | |
Chris Mason, is in Westminster Chris, Mr Corbyn had | :07:14. | :07:16. | |
a tough day yesterday? It was. It struck at the heart of | :07:17. | :07:28. | |
the central castle Jeremy Corbyn has had ever since he became the Labour | :07:29. | :07:34. | |
leader. -- tussle. It is simple. He has views and his MPs have different | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
ones. The Mets yesterday was around the issue of defence, in particular, | :07:39. | :07:45. | |
the nuclear deterrent. He has been a lifelong unilateralist, a person | :07:46. | :07:53. | |
wants to get rid of it. So he said in an interview with the BBC that | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
the discussion around that policy had not yet been concluded. A couple | :07:59. | :08:04. | |
of hours later a statement was put out saying yes he had and labour | :08:05. | :08:11. | |
would keep it. They also talked about the Scottish trade union | :08:12. | :08:15. | |
Congress. He will mention policies he is proud of, like the ?10 minimum | :08:16. | :08:23. | |
wage hike. The Scottish National Party also addressed the same | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
Congress saying Labour are not the challenges for them they are facing | :08:27. | :08:31. | |
the Tories. They say the SNP are the only ones who can be a viable | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
opposition to them. Thank you very much. We will see you a little bit | :08:37. | :08:38. | |
later on. Two men are due to appear in court | :08:39. | :08:39. | |
today, charged in connection with an acid attack at a nightclub | :08:40. | :08:42. | |
in east London on Easter Monday, which left two people | :08:43. | :08:46. | |
blind in one eye. Arthur Collins, who's 24 | :08:47. | :08:48. | |
and the boyfriend of the reality TV star, Ferne McCann, is facing 14 | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
counts of wounding with intent and one count of throwing corrosive | :08:52. | :08:54. | |
fluid with intent to cause Andre Phoenix, who's 21, | :08:55. | :08:57. | |
faces seven counts of wounding with intent to cause | :08:58. | :09:00. | |
grievous bodily harm. Tougher punishments for the most | :09:01. | :09:06. | |
serious cases of speeding have come into force in England | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
and Wales today. Drivers can now be fined 1.5 | :09:10. | :09:11. | |
times their weekly wage That means driving over 50 miles | :09:12. | :09:13. | |
an hour in a 30 zone or 100 miles The Government will go | :09:14. | :09:19. | |
to the High Court to try to delay publishing its strategy | :09:20. | :09:26. | |
for tackling air pollution. Today was the deadline for ministers | :09:27. | :09:28. | |
to present their plans, but they claim voting rules mean | :09:29. | :09:31. | |
they can't publish sensitive policies before | :09:32. | :09:34. | |
the General Election. Campaigners say they're trying | :09:35. | :09:35. | |
to dodge a difficult issue. Our environment analyst, | :09:36. | :09:38. | |
Roger Harrabin, reports. Britain's fill the air was supposed | :09:39. | :09:54. | |
to have been cleaned up by 2010. Governments found the task hard and | :09:55. | :09:58. | |
expensive, so policies have crept along. Until campaigners at the High | :09:59. | :10:03. | |
Court one day case that ministers had a legal duty to protect people | :10:04. | :10:09. | |
from pollution. -- won there. Today was the date stipulated for the air | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
pollution policy to be published. That was until this. I have just | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
chaired a meeting of the cabinet where we agreed that the government | :10:19. | :10:23. | |
should call a general election. Her election announcement, ministers | :10:24. | :10:25. | |
argue, made it impossible to publish the document now. It is too | :10:26. | :10:30. | |
politically sensitive and in breach of election rules. Here is the real | :10:31. | :10:37. | |
reason for the big delay, say green campaigners, dirty diesel cars. And | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
the government dithering over a pollution tax rate Costly scrapping | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
scheme. They had five months to come up with a new plan and have waited | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
until the last minute. That is unacceptable We need this plan | :10:51. | :10:56. | |
introduced now. People are suffering. It is a public health | :10:57. | :11:04. | |
issue, not a political one. If ministers persuade the judge to | :11:05. | :11:07. | |
delay, any prickly political decisions will come after the | :11:08. | :11:08. | |
election. Roger Harrabin, BBC News. Over 40,000 runners crossed | :11:09. | :11:09. | |
the London Marathon finish And while a record number | :11:10. | :11:12. | |
of competitors took part in the race, this is the moment | :11:13. | :11:15. | |
everyone is talking about. Matthew Rees stopped his race | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
to help David Wyeth cross The organisers have praised Mr Rees, | :11:19. | :11:21. | |
saying he "encompassed everything that's so special about | :11:22. | :11:24. | |
the London Marathon." We'll be reuniting the duo, | :11:25. | :11:26. | |
just after half past seven. Congratulations to all of them. I | :11:27. | :11:32. | |
bet they are feeling a bit sore this morning. This is amazing. He got a | :11:33. | :11:52. | |
massive amount of applause. We will reunite them soon. I hope he is | :11:53. | :11:57. | |
feeling better than that this morning. He was speaking. Amazingly, | :11:58. | :12:05. | |
they did it under three hours, both of them. Staggering, literally. | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
A group of British firms has unveiled plans to test driverless | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
cars on city roads and motorways in the UK, for the first time. | :12:12. | :12:15. | |
The Driven Consortium, backed by government money, | :12:16. | :12:16. | |
intends to try out a fleet of autonomous vehicles | :12:17. | :12:19. | |
So far, trials of driverless vehicles in the UK have mainly taken | :12:20. | :12:24. | |
place at slow speeds and not on public roads. | :12:25. | :12:31. | |
A 12-year-old who was trying to drive across the entire breadth | :12:32. | :12:36. | |
of Australia has been arrested by police. | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
The boy was already 800 miles into his journey when he was pulled | :12:39. | :12:45. | |
over by a routine patrol because the bumper of his vehicle | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
Police believe he'd planned to keep going all the way to Perth, | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
The minimum driving age in New South Wales | :12:55. | :12:57. | |
So many questions. Like how did he persuade people he could fill up | :12:58. | :13:07. | |
with petrol. Presumably he must have done it. Hopefully he has an older | :13:08. | :13:18. | |
says. And a beard. We need someone with interrogation skills. Tim | :13:19. | :13:28. | |
Hastings. He is on later. Are you up-to-date with Line Of Duty? I am | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
not even finished with season one. Get out of the studio. I am on | :13:33. | :13:39. | |
spoiler-duty alert. I will make sure no one has anything real. When we do | :13:40. | :13:45. | |
the interview, there are things we have to talk about. -- ruined. . If | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
you are not up-to-date, you will have to not listen. I will have to | :13:51. | :13:56. | |
make several cups of tea because I have not seen it and I know it is | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
brilliant. He is one of the superstars of the series. I will | :14:01. | :14:02. | |
make myself scarce at that point. Isn't that a great picture of Arsene | :14:03. | :14:16. | |
Wenger? That encompasses exact what it means to him. They are under so | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
much pressure, Arsenal. If they win the FA Cup, could that justify him | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
staying in the job after all of that criticism? Yes, good morning, | :14:28. | :14:30. | |
everyone. Arsenal will play Chelsea in next | :14:31. | :14:31. | |
month's FA Cup final after they beat The Gunners came from behind | :14:32. | :14:34. | |
to secure a 2-1 win in the semi final after Alexis Sanchez | :14:35. | :14:39. | |
poached their winner. It's his 24th goal of the season | :14:40. | :14:41. | |
and means manager Arsene Wenger now has the chance to win | :14:42. | :14:45. | |
his seventh FA Cup. Meanwhile, Chelsea's N'Golo Kante | :14:46. | :14:47. | |
has been named the PFA's player The midfielder, who joined | :14:48. | :14:50. | |
from Leicester last summer, Tottenham's Dele Alli | :14:51. | :14:57. | |
was named best young player Celtic remain on course | :14:58. | :15:01. | |
for their first domestic treble in 16 years after they beat | :15:02. | :15:05. | |
Old Firm rivals Rangers 2-0 And Great Britain's women's tennis | :15:06. | :15:08. | |
team lost their Fed Cup play-off match to Romania, after both | :15:09. | :15:14. | |
Johanna Konta and Heather Watson failed to win their | :15:15. | :15:17. | |
singles rubbers . The tie was overshadowed | :15:18. | :15:18. | |
by the banning of Romanian captain Illie Nastase for swearing | :15:19. | :15:21. | |
at officials and the British team. It really ended on a sour note, | :15:22. | :15:34. | |
that. They did not shake hands at the end of the match. They were off | :15:35. | :15:40. | |
to celebrate with their team instead. All kinds of bad things | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
written in the press about the tension in the third cup tie. Such a | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
shame. -- Fed Cup tie. And we will have more goals later. Yes, some | :15:52. | :15:53. | |
magic from Lionel Messi. look at the frost around, Carol. | :15:54. | :16:08. | |
Warning to those of you. The recent frost around. Not just frost but as | :16:09. | :16:12. | |
we go through the first half of this week there is an and is in the | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
forecast as well. Some of us will cease now but not all of us. What is | :16:17. | :16:21. | |
happening today as we have a few weather fronts sinking south. Behind | :16:22. | :16:27. | |
the cold front, look how that cold air it goes southwards, reaching | :16:28. | :16:30. | |
their later this evening. All of us will be feeling it by tonight and | :16:31. | :16:34. | |
tomorrow morning. First thing this morning we do have bright skies | :16:35. | :16:39. | |
across the southern counties. Here we also look at sunshine. And as we | :16:40. | :16:42. | |
go through the morning you will start to notice increasing amounts | :16:43. | :16:46. | |
of cloud cold in from the north-west. At this it should remain | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
largely dry. Temperatures at eight o'clock between nine and 11 degrees. | :16:52. | :16:55. | |
Moving into the Midlands, East Anglia and Wales there is more cloud | :16:56. | :17:00. | |
around, spots of rain that extend across northern England into | :17:01. | :17:02. | |
Northern Ireland as well. Moving south so it will brighten up. A lot | :17:03. | :17:09. | |
of sunshine in Scotland. It is also cold. Across the north there is | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
snow, even at lower levels as we go through the course of the day. There | :17:15. | :17:18. | |
will also be sleet and hail in as well. The wind will strengthen in | :17:19. | :17:22. | |
the north, touching gale force with that exposure. They come straight | :17:23. | :17:26. | |
down from the Arctic so it will accentuate the cold. Through the | :17:27. | :17:30. | |
day, there goes the patchy rain moving into southern counties and we | :17:31. | :17:34. | |
hang on to the wintry and is in the north but even through the afternoon | :17:35. | :17:37. | |
we could see wintry showers heading down through eastern Scotland into | :17:38. | :17:45. | |
north-east England. Calls you are in Aberdeen this afternoon with a | :17:46. | :17:50. | |
maximum temperature of two Celsius but we hang on to mild conditions in | :17:51. | :17:54. | |
the south. That will not last. As we go into the evening and overnight | :17:55. | :17:59. | |
and there goes our weather front into the Channel Islands. And clear | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
skies so there will be a lot of frost around tonight and, still, | :18:04. | :18:06. | |
those showers persisting and snow across the far north. You can see | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
how it comes down that is closed as well. Showers though not all of us | :18:11. | :18:16. | |
can see them. And still is an wintry as in the forecast, is still a low | :18:17. | :18:21. | |
level in the north as we come down the eastern side of England, for | :18:22. | :18:24. | |
example, some showers will be wintry as well with a mix of hail and sleet | :18:25. | :18:29. | |
and thunder and lightning. More showers developing over towards the | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
west, one of those may have wintry component is well both of the south | :18:33. | :18:36. | |
we are looking at rise of 11 degrees. Still cold as we look | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
further north. And as we head on into Wednesday, a mixture. We still | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
have some rain in the south, al be a really patchy. More rain coming in | :18:46. | :18:50. | |
across the north but after that temperatures will pick up and it | :18:51. | :18:55. | |
will not feel quite as cool. Thank you, Carol, see you later. Let's | :18:56. | :19:04. | |
look at the of the newspapers. The front page of the Telegraph is | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
talking about labour's nuclear implosion. An interview the Jeremy | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
Corbyn did yesterday ruling out ever using a nuclear deterrent or | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
refusing to back a drone strike to call a nice as leader. The Labour | :19:18. | :19:21. | |
Party had to come out and make sure, to re- clarify, is that the way they | :19:22. | :19:26. | |
are putting? The position they hold on Trident. Lots of pictures as well | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
of the London marathon. Lovely. This is front page of the Daily Mirror. | :19:35. | :19:37. | |
Again, the picture from the marathon. We have these two runners | :19:38. | :19:55. | |
here... Their main story is Maddie McCann snatched a rich family, that | :19:56. | :19:58. | |
is the main story of the mirror. From page of the mail, don't lots of | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
paper talking about what happen in France yesterday. They call it the | :20:04. | :20:06. | |
new French Revolution. This is a picture of the wife in the Navy | :20:07. | :20:10. | |
officer who was her husband, who was killed by car thieves when they took | :20:11. | :20:15. | |
his car from outside his house. The front page of the Times this morning | :20:16. | :20:20. | |
has a picture of Marine Le Pen, French elite humiliated as outsiders | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
slip to victory. We should be live in Paris for the very latest on | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
throughout the morning for you. Financial Times, talking about the | :20:28. | :20:32. | |
French presidential election. Emmanual Macron and Marine Le Pen to | :20:33. | :20:38. | |
face-off is the way they phrase that. I give you a flash of the | :20:39. | :20:44. | |
Guardian. They have, again, a picture of not Marine Le Pen, she is | :20:45. | :20:48. | |
in the small picture there, but Mr Macron. Macron versus Marine Le Pen. | :20:49. | :20:55. | |
The result expected from the final round in two week's time. Front page | :20:56. | :21:01. | |
of many this morning. How often use cash these days? It has reduced | :21:02. | :21:08. | |
heavily. Now there are some cafes where they say they are not taking | :21:09. | :21:12. | |
any cash at all. Really? We don't take cash. Yes. Because the person | :21:13. | :21:20. | |
who owns this cafe is from south-east London, one of many they | :21:21. | :21:25. | |
safe, small businesses now accepting payments only by card because the | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
owner had been in Sweden and been to many different places and realised | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
that he had not spent any cash at all because places did not take it | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
and they have not noticed. They wanted to try that out here because | :21:37. | :21:40. | |
it is quite expensive for businesses to handle cash. That is quite | :21:41. | :21:48. | |
interesting, isn't it? I think it is very interesting, not having any | :21:49. | :21:52. | |
cash at all. Imagine, this is in the Times today. Imagine you go down to | :21:53. | :21:56. | |
your local tennis club on a Sunday free bit of a hit and you hear | :21:57. | :22:00. | |
someone grunting on the court next door. Anything, hang on, is second, | :22:01. | :22:05. | |
that sounds like Maria Sharapova. It is. She is having a comeback this | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
week from her doping and for taking a banned substance. She spent 15 | :22:11. | :22:15. | |
months out of the sport and she is returning to play in Stuttgart. But | :22:16. | :22:20. | |
she is not allowed into the arena at Stuttgart to practise until midnight | :22:21. | :22:24. | |
tomorrow night. So she is using a local tennis club to practise. And, | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
so, families are playing on the court next door to her, she had to | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
walk past their courts to go to the cafe to get a drink of water and | :22:33. | :22:36. | |
stuff like that. But, yeah, this is Maria Sharapova's comeback to | :22:37. | :22:40. | |
Dennis. All that grunting. The buildup. To quickly show you this? I | :22:41. | :22:51. | |
cannot believe this is true but apparently you now that I am a big | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
fan of coffee. Apparently just climbing the stairs will do me more | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
good than actually having a cup of coffee I do not believe that. But, | :23:01. | :23:05. | |
that is not practical, is it? You want to go climb the stairs for ten | :23:06. | :23:10. | |
minutes? Yes, go for it. It is a step up... Can I just show you a big | :23:11. | :23:20. | |
dog? Yes. A big dog, a massive one. 15 stone six. When he stands up here | :23:21. | :23:31. | |
seven foot tall. Seven feet! That is him standing on two legs. | :23:32. | :23:32. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :23:33. | :23:34. | |
At its peak the make-shift camp known as the Jungle in Calais | :23:35. | :23:40. | |
was home to 7,000 migrants, most desperately looking for a route | :23:41. | :23:43. | |
Six months ago it was shut down and authorities say there are only | :23:44. | :23:47. | |
around 100 migrants still in the French port. | :23:48. | :23:50. | |
But a new report seen exclusively by BBC Breakfast puts the figure | :23:51. | :23:53. | |
at four times that, with migrants including | :23:54. | :23:55. | |
unaccompanied children sleeping rough in Calais and Paris. | :23:56. | :23:57. | |
Breakfast's Graham Satchell has been to Northern France to see the impact | :23:58. | :24:00. | |
Six months after the jungle closed, the centre of Calais is a picture of | :24:01. | :24:15. | |
calm. Cafe culture at its most serene. The port, so long a | :24:16. | :24:19. | |
destination for migrants is now running normally. Laurie traffic is | :24:20. | :24:26. | |
up 10%. It is very quiet. Before we had 8000 migrants per month to day | :24:27. | :24:40. | |
that is down to 300. The jungle was home to some 10,000 migrants. It | :24:41. | :24:44. | |
came to be seen by the authorities as a magnet or people wanting to get | :24:45. | :24:48. | |
to Britain. So did closing it solve a problem? Bottles... Rocks... When | :24:49. | :24:59. | |
he crosses the border into France, Jacob won't stop. So we caught up | :25:00. | :25:04. | |
with him in Belgium. Although it is safe getting in and out of France | :25:05. | :25:09. | |
the problem now is that you do not feel safe in more areas of friends. | :25:10. | :25:14. | |
It has not got work, it has not gone away. It simply moved the problem. | :25:15. | :25:20. | |
Six in the evening. On the corner of an industrial estate in Calais, a | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
nightly ritual is played out. Charities hand out food and clothes | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
to migrants. Most teenagers without their parents, like this 15-year-old | :25:29. | :25:35. | |
from Eritrea. You want to go to England? And do you have family | :25:36. | :25:41. | |
there? Yes. Your uncle is there? Why do you not stay here and claim | :25:42. | :25:45. | |
asylum here in France. I do not like it. You do not like France? The | :25:46. | :25:52. | |
report out today from the refugee Project says there are about 400 | :25:53. | :25:56. | |
migrants in Calais today, many sleeping in the woods. Public | :25:57. | :26:00. | |
opinion has hardened war forms of migration but Michael McCue's from | :26:01. | :26:05. | |
the refugee youth service says a genuine asylum claims must be heard. | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
It is not about what people want or do not want. We have tens of | :26:10. | :26:13. | |
thousands of children's moving across Europe. There is a legal | :26:14. | :26:17. | |
right for many of these children to go to the UK. It is being actively | :26:18. | :26:23. | |
obstructed. 30 minutes from Calais, this is what is left of another | :26:24. | :26:27. | |
microcap near Dunkirk. It burnt down after a fight between rival groups | :26:28. | :26:32. | |
of Kurds and Afghans. This is where many migrants came when the jungle | :26:33. | :26:35. | |
closed. The French government had plans in place to dismantle the camp | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
for the fire. The government wants to pretend that the problem does not | :26:40. | :26:44. | |
exist and the strategy is to destroy the places where people live, | :26:45. | :26:49. | |
thinking that if we destroy their places and they have no places to be | :26:50. | :26:55. | |
a will disappear. Just after seven a.m. In Calais, the police move in. | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
The French determined another account will not be established. One | :27:00. | :27:03. | |
of the migrants is arrested. The problem here has been alleviated but | :27:04. | :27:09. | |
not solved. As the weather improves, thousands of migrants are already on | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
the move across the Middle East and Africa. Many will make it here in | :27:14. | :27:21. | |
the hope of getting to the UK. You are watching BBC breakfast. Still to | :27:22. | :27:23. | |
come this Hull might only have just | :27:24. | :27:26. | |
begun its tenure as City of Culture but the race is | :27:27. | :27:32. | |
on for its successor. Nick Higham is in | :27:33. | :27:34. | |
St Davids in Wales. good morning. This is as far west in | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
Wales that you can go and Britain's tiniest city of just 1800 people. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
What chance do they have of This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker | :27:45. | :31:04. | |
and Louise Minchin. We'll bring you all the latest news | :31:05. | :31:16. | |
and sport in a moment. It's the image that defined | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
the London Marathon, the moment a selfless runner gave | :31:20. | :31:24. | |
up his race time to help another We'll speak to the pair, | :31:25. | :31:28. | |
reunited for the first time Also this morning, it's being billed | :31:29. | :31:32. | |
as the candidate of hope As two outsiders are chosen to go | :31:33. | :31:41. | |
head to head in the French presidential election, | :31:42. | :31:52. | |
we'll have the latest Might officers conduct themselves | :31:53. | :32:06. | |
according to the letter of the law. So there was not one embedded in | :32:07. | :32:08. | |
your force for years? And the pressure's mounting | :32:09. | :32:09. | |
on Superintendent Ted Hastings and his inexhaustible quest | :32:10. | :32:11. | |
to root out corruption. Line of Duty star, Adrian Dunbar, | :32:12. | :32:13. | |
is on the sofa just after 8.30. But now, a summary of this | :32:14. | :32:17. | |
morning's main news. I will take responsibility for all | :32:18. | :32:30. | |
of the spoiler alerts. I'm on Team Ted. Go, Ted! | :32:31. | :32:31. | |
In an extraordinary result, French voters have rejected the two | :32:32. | :32:34. | |
traditional ruling parties, with their candidates being knocked | :32:35. | :32:36. | |
out in the first round of the Presidential election. | :32:37. | :32:38. | |
Instead, the far-right leader, Marine le Pen, is set to face | :32:39. | :32:41. | |
Mr Macron is widely seen as the favourite going | :32:42. | :32:45. | |
Police have begun a murder inquiry after a former Royal Navy officer | :32:46. | :32:52. | |
was killed by thieves who stole his car from outside his house. | :32:53. | :32:56. | |
Michael Samwell died after confronting intruders | :32:57. | :32:57. | |
who broke into his home in Manchester in the early hours | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
Jeremy Corbyn is promising to repeal what he calls "vicious" trade union | :33:01. | :33:06. | |
legislation, brought in by the Conservatives, | :33:07. | :33:08. | |
The Labour leader will make the pledge today to trade union | :33:09. | :33:13. | |
members in Scotland, where his party's trying to claw | :33:14. | :33:15. | |
back support after huge losses in the election two years ago. | :33:16. | :33:24. | |
The government will go to the High Court to try to delay | :33:25. | :33:28. | |
publishing its strategy for tackling air pollution. | :33:29. | :33:30. | |
Today was the deadline for ministers to present their plans, | :33:31. | :33:32. | |
but they claim voting rules mean they can't publish sensitive | :33:33. | :33:35. | |
policies before the General Election. | :33:36. | :33:36. | |
Campaigners say they're trying to dodge a difficult issue | :33:37. | :33:39. | |
because of nervousness about increasing tax | :33:40. | :33:40. | |
Over 40,000 runners crossed the London Marathon finish | :33:41. | :33:54. | |
And while a record number of competitors took part | :33:55. | :33:58. | |
in the race, this is the moment everyone is talking about. | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
Matthew Rees stopped his race to help David Wyeth cross | :34:02. | :34:03. | |
The organisers have praised Mr Rees, saying he "encompassed everything | :34:04. | :34:08. | |
that's so special about the London Marathon." | :34:09. | :34:13. | |
We'll be reuniting the duo just after half past seven. | :34:14. | :34:17. | |
That was a lovely moment. Amazing. I am surprised you are not gushing | :34:18. | :34:38. | |
already. Yesterday it did wring tears to my eyes. I did a race. | :34:39. | :34:46. | |
Maybe I was a bit tired, but it did not do it to me. Imagine you have | :34:47. | :34:52. | |
trained that hard and you are going for your time. He must have added | :34:53. | :35:00. | |
another 5-6 minute onto his. Incredible athletes and sportsmen as | :35:01. | :35:05. | |
well. I was also watching the FA Cup semi-final yesterday. What a match. | :35:06. | :35:12. | |
I was doing my on line shopping as well at the same time. I love the | :35:13. | :35:17. | |
insight into your life. Absolutely brilliant. Into extra time as well. | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
A group of British firms has unveiled plans to test driverless | :35:21. | :35:30. | |
Arsenal will face Chelsea in next month's FA Cup final, | :35:31. | :35:33. | |
after beating Manchester City 2-1 in extra time at Wembley. | :35:34. | :35:35. | |
They did it the hard way in the semi-final, | :35:36. | :35:38. | |
coming from behind after City had taken the lead through Sergio | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
The Gunners though found an equaliser through Nacho Monreal | :35:42. | :35:44. | |
to send the game into extra time, before Alexis Sanchez then | :35:45. | :35:46. | |
People questioned us a lot recently. We had some tough times. But in | :35:47. | :35:53. | |
these difficult times, you can be divided, which is the natural | :35:54. | :35:57. | |
inclination, or you can be united. And I think today we showed the | :35:58. | :36:01. | |
right response and stayed together. We are not in the final. We tried to | :36:02. | :36:18. | |
do it. Umm... So, I don't have too many regrets. I don't have regrets | :36:19. | :36:23. | |
with the team. We tried to do what we wanted to do. And that is it. | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
So, no trophy for Pep Guardiola this year, and Manchester United | :36:26. | :36:28. | |
are breathing down their rivals' necks in the Premier League. | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
A 2-0 win at Burnley means Jose Mourinho's side are now just | :36:32. | :36:34. | |
a point behind City and the fourth Champions League spot. | :36:35. | :36:37. | |
Which gives Thursday's Manchester Derby an extra bit of spice. | :36:38. | :36:39. | |
United have something of an injury crisis, | :36:40. | :36:41. | |
Wayne Rooney made just his second Premier League start of the year | :36:42. | :36:44. | |
but he and Anthony Martial scored for United to secure the win. | :36:45. | :36:51. | |
Third placed Liverpool slipped up, losing 2-1 at home to Crystal | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
Philip Coutinho put the hosts ahead with a great free kick, | :36:55. | :37:00. | |
but two goals by former Liverpool forward Christian Benteke gave | :37:01. | :37:03. | |
Palace the victory and eases their relegation worries. | :37:04. | :37:05. | |
Chelsea's N'Golo Kante has won the Professional Footballers | :37:06. | :37:07. | |
Association Player of the Year Award. | :37:08. | :37:09. | |
The midfielder, who was instrumental in Leicester's title win last season | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
topped the poll which is voted for by fellow players. | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
Tottenham's Dele Alli won the young player prize for the second | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
successive year while Manchester City's Lucy Bronze won | :37:19. | :37:20. | |
the Women's Player of the Year Award. | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
Celtic remain on course for their first domestic treble | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
since 2001 after they beat Old Firm rivals Rangers 2-0 to reach | :37:29. | :37:31. | |
They've already wrapped up the league title | :37:32. | :37:34. | |
and the Scottish League Cup this season and an early goal | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
Scott Sinclair doubled their lead with a penalty in the second half, | :37:38. | :37:42. | |
the third goal he's scored against Rangers this season. | :37:43. | :37:44. | |
Celtic will face Aberdeen in the final next month. | :37:45. | :37:55. | |
We have to keep our heads in the ground and focused. We have a few | :37:56. | :38:07. | |
games to focus on. We are undefeated in the league. We have to keep that | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
going. We still have it all to play for. It will keep us in good shape. | :38:13. | :38:20. | |
Here are the goals you have been looking forward to. | :38:21. | :38:30. | |
Not only did the game begin with this month's Masters winner, | :38:31. | :38:33. | |
Sergio Garcia, being paraded before the crowd inside the Bernabeau, | :38:34. | :38:36. | |
It was 2-2 going into the final ten seconds of injury time | :38:37. | :38:41. | |
when Lionel Messi scored a dramatic winner. | :38:42. | :38:43. | |
Sergio Ramos was sent off. That is incredible. 500 goals! | :38:44. | :39:02. | |
Great Britain have lost their Fed Cup play-off | :39:03. | :39:04. | |
against Romania after Johanna Konta and Heather Watson both | :39:05. | :39:06. | |
It was a much less controversial day's play, following the Romania | :39:07. | :39:11. | |
captain Ilie Nastase's ban on Saturday for swearing at a number | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
Simona Halep beat the British number one in straight sets, | :39:15. | :39:17. | |
while Watson lost her rubber to Irina-Camelia Begu. | :39:18. | :39:20. | |
The 3-1 defeat means Britain now move back to the Europe-Africa Zone. | :39:21. | :39:36. | |
Now we've heard about the sportsmanship of Swansea Harriers | :39:37. | :39:38. | |
runner Matthew Rees at the London Marathon, | :39:39. | :39:40. | |
he helped fellow competitor David Wyeth over the line. | :39:41. | :39:43. | |
But he wasn't the only member of the Swansea club to shine | :39:44. | :39:46. | |
Josh Griffiths was running his first marathon. | :39:47. | :39:48. | |
Not only did he finish, he was the first Briton | :39:49. | :39:51. | |
across the line with a time of two hours 14 minutes 49 seconds, | :39:52. | :39:54. | |
He completed the course in a qualifying time | :39:55. | :39:58. | |
for the World Championships so quite a day for the club runner from South | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
Have a look about. Coming from absolutely nowhere! Did not even | :40:03. | :40:07. | |
look too bad at the end over there. And he is going to the World | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
Championships if he wants to of course. He will be alongside some of | :40:12. | :40:26. | |
the best runners in the world. That is one of my dreams that repeats. | :40:27. | :40:37. | |
Most people have exam anxiety dreams. Maybe I need some better | :40:38. | :40:44. | |
one's. These are dreams and you need to turn them into reality. | :40:45. | :41:05. | |
This is data from one of the biggest property websites Rightmove. | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
That's up 2.2% compared to last year. | :41:09. | :41:14. | |
And that is the slowest growth in asking prices for four years. | :41:15. | :41:17. | |
Also, it's obviously not just about what people are asking, | :41:18. | :41:20. | |
And house prices are growing at half the rate since last summer, | :41:21. | :41:27. | |
according to official figures. | :41:28. | :41:29. | |
Rising inflation is hitting our pockets too, | :41:30. | :41:31. | |
which could put pressure on the market. | :41:32. | :41:42. | |
Or is the estate agent. -- with me. What do you think about this? As you | :41:43. | :41:52. | |
said, asking prices are readily one part of the story. It will encourage | :41:53. | :42:01. | |
confidence. There is also always a mixed picture on that. The key point | :42:02. | :42:07. | |
is not asking prices, but achievement prices. What is it | :42:08. | :42:13. | |
telling us at the moment? The market is in a stable place. It is not | :42:14. | :42:18. | |
absolutely flying like it was in its absolute peak, but it is a long way | :42:19. | :42:23. | |
better than the depths of despair in 2007. Surveys tell us sales rate the | :42:24. | :42:29. | |
highest point in volume since that terrible time back in the financial | :42:30. | :42:34. | |
crisis of 2007. Even though prices are not running the way they were, | :42:35. | :42:38. | |
the number of deals is that a satisfactory level. You are saying | :42:39. | :42:44. | |
the number of deals is at a satisfactory level. What could | :42:45. | :42:49. | |
change? There is obviously still uncertainty to come. The European | :42:50. | :42:54. | |
Union and Brexit. There is always a combination of factors taking place. | :42:55. | :42:57. | |
The fundamentals of any market are the demand and availability of | :42:58. | :43:03. | |
finance. If you have those two critical points, that should get you | :43:04. | :43:07. | |
through these bumps in the road like general elections and referendums | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
and those kinds of things. If you don't have those fundamentals, you | :43:11. | :43:16. | |
can have problems. But at the moment we see that the levels of demand are | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
good, especially with first-time buyers as well. Mortgage finance is | :43:21. | :43:25. | |
reasonably good in relative terms. We would anticipate those would help | :43:26. | :43:28. | |
through these other events which will make people think twice. It is | :43:29. | :43:34. | |
about confidence. Absolutely, it is the key to the market. When you are | :43:35. | :43:45. | |
looking at houses, do you see lots of "Sold" boards around? That makes | :43:46. | :43:52. | |
a huge difference. Also what you hear in the news. That affects | :43:53. | :43:59. | |
confidence either well or badly. At the moment, things are not euphoric, | :44:00. | :44:07. | |
but there certainly stable. People are feeling reasonably confident | :44:08. | :44:10. | |
about the market. That is helping us through other headwinds and factors. | :44:11. | :44:14. | |
Thank you very much for your time this morning, Robert Reed. If you | :44:15. | :44:18. | |
have time, talk to us in an hour's drive. -- time. The weather is | :44:19. | :44:23. | |
calling. That was a live shiver. then. And I will be back in half an | :44:24. | :44:29. | |
hour. A taste of winter though we are | :44:30. | :44:35. | |
looking for the first half of this week. It will be far colder with | :44:36. | :44:41. | |
some of us seeing snow. Parts of northern England are moderate but | :44:42. | :44:45. | |
for the rest of the UK, temperatures are low. We will cease and showers | :44:46. | :44:51. | |
not just today but also through tomorrow and Wednesday and frosty | :44:52. | :44:54. | |
nights. So, gardeners, take note. What is happening today is we have a | :44:55. | :44:59. | |
cold front or to thinking southwards and beyond that the air will come | :45:00. | :45:03. | |
straight down from the Arctic. Later this evening it will be across all | :45:04. | :45:08. | |
of us. The thing this morning, it is not. We still have high temperatures | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
to start the day in the south but colder already across the north and | :45:13. | :45:15. | |
that is where we are seeing some snow. Into this morning. We have got | :45:16. | :45:19. | |
some sunshine just throughout the day across southern parts of | :45:20. | :45:23. | |
England. Temperatures by eight o'clock around ten or 11 Celsius. As | :45:24. | :45:27. | |
they move across the Midlands into East Anglia, it is a cloudier | :45:28. | :45:33. | |
picture with some patchy rain. The patchy rain extends across the | :45:34. | :45:36. | |
northern England, the Isle of Man and also southern parts of Northern | :45:37. | :45:40. | |
Ireland that was a front means the rain is thinking south and behind it | :45:41. | :45:43. | |
it will brighten up quite nicely. Cold, however. Some sunshine and | :45:44. | :45:49. | |
snow, especially across a far north of Scotland, even at lower levels. | :45:50. | :45:53. | |
Through the day, the other thing that will happen is that the wind | :45:54. | :45:56. | |
will pick up, especially in the north but if you recall that is | :45:57. | :46:00. | |
coming from the Arctic so what is quite accentuated. As the weather | :46:01. | :46:06. | |
since Southee can see what happens. More showers across the east of | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
Scotland into England. At lower levels across north-east England it | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
is more likely to be sleet and hail a little rain in there as well. As | :46:16. | :46:21. | |
the other weather front thinks Southee will produce patchy rain. | :46:22. | :46:24. | |
You can see a difference in temperature. It is not cold in the | :46:25. | :46:28. | |
south but it certainly is in the north, it will feel raw up there, | :46:29. | :46:32. | |
especially in the wind. Through the evening and overnight, is windy. | :46:33. | :46:36. | |
There is still a wintry flavour coming south but for Scotland into | :46:37. | :46:39. | |
Northern Ireland and also across parts of north-east England and | :46:40. | :46:43. | |
Wales but not all of us will see it. There will be a lot of dry weather | :46:44. | :46:47. | |
around and we also have a widespread frost. Tomorrow we start with a | :46:48. | :46:55. | |
strong wind, still some snow showers down to levels in the north of the | :46:56. | :46:59. | |
country. Again in the east were likely to see some showers being | :47:00. | :47:03. | |
wintry with a mix of hail, thunder, lightning, wet snow and we may see | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
the odd wintry Flake over in the west but most of us will just see | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
some rain. Wrap up warm for the next few days. Thank you very much, | :47:13. | :47:18. | |
Carol. That was sound advice. I have got my big coat out again. General | :47:19. | :47:26. | |
Lord Richards has told the Daily Telegraph this morning the Jeremy | :47:27. | :47:29. | |
Corbyn should not be trusted with the defence of the nation. | :47:30. | :47:30. | |
Yesterday Jeremy Corbyn said he would review of "all aspects" | :47:31. | :47:33. | |
of defence if Labour won power, but refused to say whether he would | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
keep Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent. | :47:38. | :47:38. | |
Andrew Gwynne is Labour's National Elections and Campaign co-ordinator | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
Good morning and thank you for joining us. There is quite a lot of | :47:43. | :47:50. | |
pick up and I want to be quite clear this morning with you. What is | :47:51. | :47:55. | |
Labour Party policy. Will it renew Trident. The party policy is that | :47:56. | :48:01. | |
Trident will be renewed. That has been agreed and settled by the | :48:02. | :48:04. | |
National policy Forum and by our annual conference. How then does | :48:05. | :48:09. | |
Jeremy Corbyn not answer the question in the same way that you | :48:10. | :48:13. | |
did? Well, of course, Jeremy talking about a wider defence review and we | :48:14. | :48:18. | |
want to make sure that defence resources are spent in absolutely | :48:19. | :48:22. | |
the right way. We have a government that supposedly is committed to | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
spending 2% of GDP on defence was that they have only managed to meet | :48:27. | :48:31. | |
that target by fiddling the figures to include things like pensions in | :48:32. | :48:36. | |
that spending. Great return to the Trident question? Jeremy Corbyn is | :48:37. | :48:43. | |
saying, and he sets yesterday that the party still having that | :48:44. | :48:48. | |
discussion about whether or not to commit Trident Woods manifesto. The | :48:49. | :48:56. | |
issue of Trident is settled by the Labour Party policy-making forums. | :48:57. | :49:00. | |
It was agreed by Labour conference. And, so, that is the situation. We | :49:01. | :49:07. | |
are committed to Trident renewal. Could you explain then how there is | :49:08. | :49:10. | |
this divergences between the leader and the party policy? I'm not sure | :49:11. | :49:16. | |
that there is. I think that what Jeremy was talking about was a wider | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
defence review. We want to make sure that defence spending is put into | :49:21. | :49:24. | |
all the right areas to meet modern needs for the defence of the realm. | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
We ask another question about what he said, would you authorise killing | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
of the ISIS leader was to Mark Wood that did part of policy, would you | :49:35. | :49:39. | |
do it? I'm not sure that these things are matters for party policy. | :49:40. | :49:47. | |
If I were given some good intelligence then I would make that | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
decision based on the intelligence. But I do not think it is a bad | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
thing. Jeremy Taylor not rule that out, may I point out, I do not think | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
it is about thing to have a leader that could take considered view as | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
to whether there would be civilian children killed in the process. If | :50:04. | :50:08. | |
it were a clear strike on the leader of ices and there were no other | :50:09. | :50:13. | |
casualties they would clearly, my own view is, yes, I would take that | :50:14. | :50:18. | |
decision. You are speaking about defence. With regards to defence, | :50:19. | :50:22. | |
what are you talking about? Are you thinking of more shot waters, more | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
troops? Where would you find this investment? -- more soldiers. What | :50:27. | :50:33. | |
we have seen since 2010 is the old forces cut from over 100,000 | :50:34. | :50:38. | |
personnel to fewer than 80,000. What we have seen is money wasted by the | :50:39. | :50:44. | |
scrapping of Nimrod, the scrapping of the Harrier jump jets. We have | :50:45. | :50:50. | |
seen a lot of waste. We think that money could be spent in a smarter | :50:51. | :50:55. | |
way and it is not just about making sure we have enough armed personnel, | :50:56. | :50:59. | |
it is about how we deploy them as well. So that we can get British | :51:00. | :51:02. | |
troops involved in peacekeeping missions around the world. And will | :51:03. | :51:07. | |
you commit to a certain number of armed personnel? We are committed to | :51:08. | :51:12. | |
seeing at least 2% of GDP spent for defence. That is without fiddling | :51:13. | :51:18. | |
the figures in the way that the Conservatives have done. And, | :51:19. | :51:22. | |
clearly, there will be a defence review to decide how that money will | :51:23. | :51:26. | |
be spent. We are entering the second week of what seems to be this | :51:27. | :51:30. | |
campaign. When you are on the doorstep to use a Jeremy Corbyn | :51:31. | :51:34. | |
would be of good Prime Minister for the UK? Is that what you say? | :51:35. | :51:39. | |
Absolutely. I think that under Jeremy Laidler has got a vision for | :51:40. | :51:43. | |
a better, fairer Britain. In Britain that will work for the many and not | :51:44. | :51:49. | |
just a few. On education, on health, on pension, on a whole variety of | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
policy that we have announced that we will be announcing in the days | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
and weeks ahead. I think that people will see that sense of direction | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
under the Labour Party is that we want to change the emphasis from | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
just serving those at the very top to serving the vast majority of | :52:07. | :52:10. | |
people in this country, a government works are the many are not the few. | :52:11. | :52:14. | |
And, briefly, when will the manifesto be ready? It will be ready | :52:15. | :52:19. | |
in early May. We have got a fast track process under the Labour Party | :52:20. | :52:26. | |
constitution, a meeting, a clause five meeting as a technical term, | :52:27. | :52:29. | |
all the interested parties and stakeholders will sit down and fresh | :52:30. | :52:35. | |
direction of travel and are now went out yesterday to party member is | :52:36. | :52:38. | |
asking for their priorities because it is crucial that we get party | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
member feedback is world we will have a manifesto in the early weeks | :52:43. | :52:43. | |
of May. 24 your time. You're watching | :52:44. | :52:47. | |
Breakfast from BBC News. Some lively pictures now from one of | :52:48. | :52:58. | |
Britain's most beautiful cathedrals this morning. Saint Davids in | :52:59. | :53:03. | |
Pembrokeshire. It is the smallest city in Britain, bidding to become a | :53:04. | :53:10. | |
city of culture. That honour is currently held by Hull but other | :53:11. | :53:13. | |
places are already bidding for their chance in 2021. | :53:14. | :53:17. | |
Good morning. We are about as far west in Wales as you can get without | :53:18. | :53:24. | |
falling into the Irish Sea. Behind me, this is blended mediaeval | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
gateway is the entrance to the cathedral. Behind it, the city of | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
Saint Davids with a population of 1800. Here is the cathedral | :53:34. | :53:36. | |
dedicated to the patron saint of Wales. What this place BB UK city of | :53:37. | :53:42. | |
culture in 2021? In a moment I will speak to the man behind Saint | :53:43. | :53:46. | |
Davids's did but first I have also been to another of the 11 cities | :53:47. | :53:49. | |
lining up to the accolade. Warrington. George Crombie, famous | :53:50. | :54:05. | |
for his ukelele playing was born here in 1904. The first IKEA opened | :54:06. | :54:12. | |
here in 1987. In 1968 the players was made a new town in the town Hall | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
has some spectacular gates. But culture? In Warrington? Hasn't | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
always been at the forefront of what have been doing? No. Now, they are | :54:23. | :54:28. | |
hoping to change all that. As we transition from the new town to the | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
new city, that city has to have a compelling cultural offer because we | :54:33. | :54:35. | |
know what cities that don't have that end up like. They are | :54:36. | :54:42. | |
abandoned. They do not have vibrancy they are not a magnet of talent and | :54:43. | :54:48. | |
for young people that they ought to be. Warrington's economic lead | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
successful and unemployment is low. But you would not know it, looking | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
at the town centre. This is what they call the cultural quarter. A | :54:58. | :55:01. | |
museum and Lybrand. They say it is the oldest public library in | :55:02. | :55:04. | |
England. A small concert Hall. The Pyramid arts Centre. But it is | :55:05. | :55:10. | |
quiet. The truth is, people here who want theatre or major art galleries | :55:11. | :55:15. | |
go to Liverpool or Manchester. The concert venue was called Parr Hall | :55:16. | :55:20. | |
and outside amid a musician and promoter who said that the live | :55:21. | :55:23. | |
music scene has enjoyed a modest revival lately but could do much | :55:24. | :55:28. | |
better if the town was a city of culture. I have met artist from | :55:29. | :55:32. | |
here, they do not get the opportunities here, you need to go | :55:33. | :55:36. | |
abroad to find them, had to to Manchester, to Liverpool. So there | :55:37. | :55:42. | |
may not be loads of stuff going on but that does not mean that people | :55:43. | :55:46. | |
from Warrington do not have the talent and skill. # last year, Viola | :55:47. | :56:00. | |
Davis were on the cusp of success when they and their manager were | :56:01. | :56:03. | |
killed in a road accident. They came from Warrington. Proof that culture | :56:04. | :56:08. | |
can flourish here alongside the soap works and the trickle Powells. That | :56:09. | :56:16. | |
is Warrington, one of 11 cities bidding. With me now is that Mike, | :56:17. | :56:22. | |
the head of cultural services here in Pembrokeshire. We are quite short | :56:23. | :56:27. | |
time. Why Saint Davids? It is so tiny. Surely it cannot possibly be a | :56:28. | :56:31. | |
city of culture question mark I think it can. It has a unique | :56:32. | :56:36. | |
proposition. We have a world-class coastline behind us, beautiful and | :56:37. | :56:40. | |
amazing magnificent heritage. Just something completely different from | :56:41. | :56:43. | |
all the other cities across the UK. What we offer is going to be | :56:44. | :56:47. | |
transformational, it will be innovative, it will be something | :56:48. | :56:50. | |
that will blow the minds of people and I think everybody needs to get | :56:51. | :56:55. | |
behind us to make that happen. Can I have one big event, one big thing | :56:56. | :56:59. | |
that you hope to achieve that as a city of culture? We will have a huge | :57:00. | :57:03. | |
number of events. The main thing, rather than one thing, the thing is | :57:04. | :57:06. | |
the inclusivity of this programme. Much as things that people think | :57:07. | :57:11. | |
about, theatre, opera, art, culture is for every body. People who | :57:12. | :57:14. | |
skateboarder doing culture, people who watch soap operas is doing | :57:15. | :57:18. | |
culture. There will be a whole range of activities for everyone to get | :57:19. | :57:21. | |
behind. Good luck. 11 cities bidding and yours is one of thumb. Good | :57:22. | :57:25. | |
luck. We will be down there throughout the morning. It is quite | :57:26. | :57:26. | |
lovely down there. Time now to get the news, | :57:27. | :57:28. | |
travel and weather where you are. Temperatures make a slight recovery | :57:29. | :00:50. | |
by the end of the week. Vanessa Phelps is on BBC London | :00:51. | :00:53. | |
with a breakfast show until then. This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
and Louise Minchin. A political earthquake in France | :00:57. | :01:02. | |
as two outsiders are chosen for the final stage | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
of the presidential election. The National Front's Marine Le Pen | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
and the centrist, Emmanuel Macron, will go head to head | :01:08. | :01:10. | |
in two weeks' time. A manhunt is launched | :01:11. | :01:23. | |
after the death of a ex-Royal Navy officer killed trying | :01:24. | :01:34. | |
to stop burglars steal his The police describe it | :01:35. | :01:37. | |
as beyond criminal. This could have happened | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
to absolutely anybody. You hear a noise downstairs | :01:43. | :01:44. | |
and go and see what it is. The moment that defined | :01:45. | :01:47. | |
the London Marathon. A selfless runner gives up his race | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
time to help another competitor Today, I'm talking about the housing | :01:52. | :01:55. | |
market, as new research says average But as sales fall, I'll be looking | :01:56. | :02:04. | |
at what is going on. In sport, Sanchez | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
shines for Arsenal. His winner in extra-time sees them | :02:11. | :02:11. | |
book their place in the FA Cup final And this is St Davids | :02:12. | :02:15. | |
in south-west Wales. We'll be live there later | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
as the search for the next UK City Good morning. Chills will be | :02:23. | :02:40. | |
multiplying. Called for the first half of the week. Snow, not just | :02:41. | :02:45. | |
today, but tomorrow and Wednesday. -- snow. Averages will start to | :02:46. | :02:57. | |
climb next week. I will have details in 15 minutes. Don't lose control, | :02:58. | :02:59. | |
Carol. See you later. French voters have rejected the two | :03:00. | :03:00. | |
traditional ruling parties, with their candidates | :03:01. | :03:04. | |
being knocked out in the first Instead, the pro-European, | :03:05. | :03:07. | |
Emmanuel Macron, is set to face the far-right leader, | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
Marine Le Pen, in a run-off Mr Macron is widely seen | :03:12. | :03:13. | |
as favourite as our Europe correspondent, James | :03:14. | :03:17. | |
Reynolds, reports Emmanuel Macron is France's | :03:18. | :03:20. | |
newcomer, and now the winner of this | :03:21. | :03:22. | |
election's first round. He is an insider who's | :03:23. | :03:25. | |
run as an outsider. The 39-year-old is a pro-EU, | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
pro-business centrist. He resigned as a minister in order | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
to form his own political movement. TRANSLATION: I hope | :03:33. | :03:35. | |
that in a fortnight, His supporters believe that the rest | :03:36. | :03:40. | |
of the country will now This is Emmanuel Macron's | :03:41. | :03:50. | |
first election. The French people | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
still hardly know him. He's now the favourite to become | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
this country's next president. Marine Le Pen, the Front Nationale | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
leader, will fight Mr Macron She won more votes than the party | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
has ever won before, and matches her Jean-Marie father's | :04:11. | :04:18. | |
achievement 15 years ago in reaching TRANSLATION: The French people must | :04:19. | :04:21. | |
take this historic opportunity because the biggest issue | :04:22. | :04:24. | |
is the globalisation that is putting our | :04:25. | :04:26. | |
civilisation in danger. In Bastille Square in Paris, | :04:27. | :04:35. | |
some left-wing protesters faced off These demonstrators were angered | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
by the results of this vote. They, and the rest of the country, | :04:39. | :04:41. | |
will have their final say Police have begun a murder inquiry | :04:42. | :04:44. | |
after a former Royal Navy officer was killed by thieves | :04:45. | :04:57. | |
who stole his car from Michael Samwell, 35, | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
died after confronting intruders who broke into his home | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
in Greater Manchester in the early How did a disturbance | :05:03. | :05:05. | |
at a house in the early hours Michael Samwell and his wife | :05:06. | :05:12. | |
were woken up by a loud noise, and the former Royal Naval Officer | :05:13. | :05:20. | |
went downstairs to have a look. The exact sequence of events that | :05:21. | :05:29. | |
followed is not clear, but outside, now cordoned off, | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
the 35 year old was run over He was taken to hospital | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
where he later died of his injuries. The car was found abandoned | :05:36. | :05:45. | |
a few miles away. You hear a noise downstairs | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
and you go and see what it is. It is incredibly tragic | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
he has lost his life. This is described as a quiet | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
corner of Manchester. And gathered in silence, | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
people came to pay their respects, Over a materialistic item, a car, | :05:59. | :06:00. | |
you take somebody's life. I am a bit shaken up | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
because obviously it is close Whoever is responsible | :06:09. | :06:19. | |
is still on the run. One theory is they did break | :06:20. | :06:25. | |
in simply to get their hands If that is the case, it leads | :06:26. | :06:28. | |
to a far more serious enquiry. Jeremy Corbyn is promising to repeal | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
what he calls "vicious" trade union legislation, brought | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
in by the Conservatives, The Labour leader is making his | :06:38. | :06:38. | |
first campaign visit to Scotland today, where his party is trying | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
to claw back support after huge losses in the election | :06:44. | :06:46. | |
two years ago. Our political correspondent, | :06:47. | :06:48. | |
Chris Mason, is in Westminster In some ways it was quite a tough | :06:49. | :06:56. | |
day for Jeremy Corbyn yesterday. Good morning. It was tough. It could | :06:57. | :07:01. | |
write to the heart of the problem for Jeremy Corbyn since he became | :07:02. | :07:08. | |
Labour leader. He has a set of views that are just very, very different | :07:09. | :07:14. | |
from a lot of his MPs. Where it was particularly sticky for him | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
yesterday is when he was pushed on the Andrew Marr Show on BBC One | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
whether or not he would renew the nuclear deterrent of the UK if he | :07:23. | :07:26. | |
was Prime Minister. He has been opposed to it his whole life. He | :07:27. | :07:29. | |
said that policy was still under discussion. The thing is, lots of | :07:30. | :07:35. | |
other Labour types, including frontbenchers, have said no, no, no, | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
it is Labour policy that it will be renewed under a Labour government. A | :07:42. | :07:46. | |
frontbencher was sitting in this very seed a few minutes ago. You | :07:47. | :07:49. | |
will see the political equivalent of gaffer tape being used to take over | :07:50. | :07:53. | |
the gap between party policy and the leader. The issue of Trident is | :07:54. | :08:01. | |
settled by the Labour Party's policy making conferences. That is the | :08:02. | :08:08. | |
situation. We are committed to Trident renewal. You can be certain | :08:09. | :08:13. | |
that the Conservatives will absolutely hammer Labour on this. | :08:14. | :08:19. | |
Today, and again and again during the campaign. Jeremy Corbyn will try | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
to change the focus. He is in Scotland addressing the Congress. He | :08:25. | :08:28. | |
will talk about the idea of a ?10 minimum wage. Interestingly, the SNP | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, also at the same Congress a little | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
later on, is saying Labour are no longer her big threat in Scotland, | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
instead it is the Conservatives. One poll over the weekend suggested the | :08:45. | :08:49. | |
Conservatives would make a significant gain in Scotland in | :08:50. | :08:54. | |
June. And we will speak to Michael Fallon at ten past eight. Thank you | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
very much for that. Two men are due to appear in court | :08:57. | :08:57. | |
today, charged in connection with an acid attack at a nightclub | :08:58. | :09:01. | |
in east London on Easter Monday, which left two people | :09:02. | :09:04. | |
blind in one eye. Arthur Collins, who's 24 | :09:05. | :09:06. | |
and the boyfriend of the reality TV star, Ferne McCann, is facing 14 | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
counts of wounding with intent and one count of throwing corrosive | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
fluid with intent to cause Andre Phoenix, who's 21, | :09:13. | :09:15. | |
faces seven counts of wounding with intent to cause | :09:16. | :09:18. | |
grievous bodily harm. Tougher punishments for the most | :09:19. | :09:21. | |
serious cases of speeding have come into force in England | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
and Wales today. Drivers can now be fined 1.5 | :09:25. | :09:25. | |
times their weekly wage That means driving over 50 miles | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
an hour in a 30 zone or 100 miles The Government will go | :09:29. | :09:33. | |
to the High Court to try to delay publishing its strategy | :09:34. | :09:41. | |
for tackling air pollution. Today was the deadline for ministers | :09:42. | :09:43. | |
to present their plans, but they claim voting rules mean | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
they can't publish sensitive policies before | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
the General Election. Campaigners say they're trying | :09:50. | :09:50. | |
to dodge a difficult issue. Our environment analyst, | :09:51. | :09:53. | |
Roger Harrabin, reports. Britain's filthy air was supposed | :09:54. | :10:03. | |
to have been cleaned up by 2010. But governments found | :10:04. | :10:07. | |
the task hard and expensive, Until campaigners at the High Court | :10:08. | :10:09. | |
won their case that ministers had a legal duty to protect | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
people from pollution. Today, the 24th of April, | :10:16. | :10:24. | |
was the date stipulated by the judge for the air pollution policy | :10:25. | :10:27. | |
to be published. I have just chaired a meeting | :10:28. | :10:29. | |
of the cabinet where we agreed that the Government should | :10:30. | :10:34. | |
call a general election. Her election announcement, | :10:35. | :10:36. | |
ministers argued, made it impossible Too politically sensitive, | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
in breach of election rules. Here's the real reason | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
for the bid to delay, say green campaigners, | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
dirty diesel cars. And government dithering over | :10:49. | :10:49. | |
a pollution tax rate They had five months to come up | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
with a new plan and have waited People are suffering in health | :10:56. | :11:00. | |
from the air they are breathing.. It is a public health issue, | :11:01. | :11:11. | |
not a political one. If ministers persuade the judge | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
to delay, any prickly political decisions will come | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
after the election. Over 40,000 runners crossed | :11:19. | :11:19. | |
the London Marathon finish And while a record number | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
of competitors took part in the race, this is the moment | :11:23. | :11:26. | |
everyone is talking about. Matthew Rees stopped his race | :11:27. | :11:29. | |
to help David Wyeth cross The organisers have praised Mr Rees, | :11:30. | :11:31. | |
saying he "encompassed everything that's so special about | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the London Marathon." We'll be reuniting the duo just | :11:36. | :11:37. | |
after half past seven. I hope you had an amazing day and | :11:38. | :12:06. | |
you are feeling OK. Many people are walking like Thunderbirds this | :12:07. | :12:10. | |
morning. I am sure it was worth it. Loads of money earned for charity. | :12:11. | :12:13. | |
A group of British firms has unveiled plans to test driverless | :12:14. | :12:16. | |
cars on city roads and motorways in the UK, for the first time. | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
The Driven Consortium, backed by government money, | :12:21. | :12:22. | |
intends to try out a fleet of autonomous vehicles | :12:23. | :12:24. | |
So far, trials of driverless vehicles in the UK have mainly taken | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
place at slow speeds and not on public roads. | :12:30. | :12:34. | |
A 12-year-old who was trying to drive across the entire breadth | :12:35. | :12:36. | |
of Australia has been arrested by police. | :12:37. | :12:38. | |
The boy was already 800 miles into his journey when he was pulled | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
over by a routine patrol because the bumper of his vehicle | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Police believe he'd planned to keep going all the way to Perth, | :12:47. | :12:54. | |
The minimum driving age in New South Wales | :12:55. | :12:58. | |
I always thought it would take a lot longer than that to drive across | :12:59. | :13:06. | |
Australia. So, he was 12! There are certainly questions about how he | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
managed to do that, really. I am perplexed by that. It has worried | :13:10. | :13:15. | |
you? As he fill up with petrol, where are his parents? Ted Hastings | :13:16. | :13:29. | |
will be with us at 840, by the way. If you have not seen the episode | :13:30. | :13:39. | |
last night, due warning. Spoiler alerts. Era when the lot for me this | :13:40. | :13:41. | |
morning. -- You ruined. France is entering unfamiliar | :13:42. | :13:51. | |
political waters following the first round of their | :13:52. | :13:53. | |
presidential election. Voters rejected traditional parties | :13:54. | :13:55. | |
in favour of two outsiders. Only a few months ago, | :13:56. | :13:57. | |
Emmanuel Macron left government to set up his own | :13:58. | :14:00. | |
political movement. His opponent, Marine Le Pen, | :14:01. | :14:01. | |
is the leader of the far-right We can now speak to the BBC's | :14:02. | :14:04. | |
Karin Giannone, who is in Paris Good morning. There is so much to | :14:05. | :14:15. | |
discuss. Good morning from Paris. France is waking up from some of the | :14:16. | :14:20. | |
political earthquakes they had, although they were predicted. The | :14:21. | :14:24. | |
fact the two main political parties in France that have dominated the | :14:25. | :14:28. | |
scene for more than 50 years have been wiped off the map in the first | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
round of the presidential election. I have two | :14:33. | :14:42. | |
guests. A warm welcome to both of you. How much of a shock to the | :14:43. | :14:52. | |
landscape is this? Less of a shock than you think. For the first time | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
in several years, pollsters got it absolutely right. The likelihood is | :14:57. | :15:04. | |
that Macron will be elected will be a continuation of the previous | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
government where he was a minister. Fewer surprises. Marine Le Pen is | :15:08. | :15:15. | |
doing extremely well. The Socialist Party is dead, which is an | :15:16. | :15:18. | |
interesting thing in itself. There is a resilient force in France for a | :15:19. | :15:26. | |
very Corbynised left-wing. The biggest surprise is probably that | :15:27. | :15:32. | |
the isn't a surprise. You heard Anne Elizabeth saying it will be Emmanuel | :15:33. | :15:37. | |
Macron who wins this. You disagree? Of cost. That is why we have | :15:38. | :15:43. | |
campaigned. I think that last night's results are tremendous, | :15:44. | :15:51. | |
despite the fact that most media in France are backing up Macron. And | :15:52. | :15:58. | |
despite that, Marine Le Pen has done well. We will campaign to show the | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
French citizens why we should vote for her. As the party detoxified its | :16:04. | :16:09. | |
image? We heard accusations even last night of races and intolerance. | :16:10. | :16:19. | |
-- racism. I know there are failures they are trying to hide by using the | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
fear factor in trying to express things like racism, which is not | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
true. Marine Le Pen is in favour of a patriotic France gathering | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
together for a positive future. Macron does not even believe in | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
French culture. Be choice is quite clear. -- the. Why is this so | :16:39. | :16:47. | |
important if you are looking from outside France? Certainly in the UK | :16:48. | :16:50. | |
people are wondering what the difference is between the two | :16:51. | :16:51. | |
candidates. Macron was courageous in that he | :16:52. | :17:05. | |
campaigned on a completely pro- Europe campaign. There were no | :17:06. | :17:11. | |
missed giving is, no buts. That was brave because we felt there was an | :17:12. | :17:19. | |
unbroken narrative. He has now managed to do well in this with a | :17:20. | :17:23. | |
party that he created only one year ago. Waving their flags. That is a | :17:24. | :17:34. | |
change. Before Brexit it was a bit different because with the | :17:35. | :17:40. | |
government and everything, the notion of punishing Britain and not | :17:41. | :17:45. | |
allowing Britain to get away with not playing by the rules and still | :17:46. | :17:49. | |
getting exactly, is the same thing as when she was a member of the EU, | :17:50. | :17:59. | |
that has been Macron's line as well. We have 13 days until it all happens | :18:00. | :18:03. | |
all over again when those two candidates will be reduced to one on | :18:04. | :18:17. | |
May seven. Thank you very much. It is not easy to do. Beautiful skies | :18:18. | :18:21. | |
in central London this morning. Isn't that lovely? We will be live | :18:22. | :18:26. | |
there in 30 minutes. We have to marathon runners, one who helped the | :18:27. | :18:29. | |
other over the line. What a beautiful day that is. It looks | :18:30. | :18:32. | |
gorgeous, doesn't it? Carol has a big coat a warning for us. Hello, | :18:33. | :18:40. | |
Carol. Good morning to you both. You are quite right. It is beautiful | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
currently in London with temperatures at seven or eight | :18:44. | :18:46. | |
Celsius but chilly elsewhere in the country with frost and wintry | :18:47. | :18:51. | |
showers are in the forecast. It snows across four of northern | :18:52. | :18:56. | |
Scotland. A few fronts moving south behind those we pull in this cold | :18:57. | :19:01. | |
Arctic air it has crossed the northern half a country already and | :19:02. | :19:05. | |
it will get across all areas by the time we get to midnight. We have two | :19:06. | :19:11. | |
distinctive bands of patchy rain and another one of snow. Both across | :19:12. | :19:17. | |
northern England, Wales and the Midlands, East Anglia heading south | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
but for Southern counties there are some sunshine around first thing | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
this morning. The cloud will continue to build from the | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
north-west. A little patchy rain across Wales into the Midlands, East | :19:27. | :19:30. | |
Anglia but it is patchy. The other band across northern England and | :19:31. | :19:33. | |
also Northern Ireland are both heading south so brightening up | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
behind both but it is cold across Scotland, the of Ireland first thing | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
in many have the snow showers across the north, even at low levels. The | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
other feature of the weather today is that the wind is going to | :19:46. | :19:48. | |
strengthen, particularly so where you are exposed wood across north. | :19:49. | :19:53. | |
It will touch powerful. But it is coming from a cool direction so that | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
will really accentuate the cold feel. And through the day we will | :19:57. | :20:00. | |
see some of the showers just moved east coast of Scotland into the far | :20:01. | :20:03. | |
north-east of England. Those ones, again, they will have a wintry mix | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
in them, perhaps some snow, mostly in the hills but a mixture of sleet | :20:08. | :20:13. | |
and hail as well. Meanwhile, our rain band continues to push south | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
into southern England defender broken up this question at cloud | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
will build. Here we hang on to high temperatures with the cold air | :20:21. | :20:23. | |
filtering down and will continue to do so behind this band of rain as we | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
head into the evening and overnight. Under clear skies were looking at | :20:28. | :20:31. | |
widespread frost. Snow continues in the north, we dry south, from | :20:32. | :20:35. | |
showers across the north of Ireland in eastern parts of England and also | :20:36. | :20:39. | |
north Wales as well. So watch out for ice on services first thing in | :20:40. | :20:43. | |
the morning. After the cold start there will be a lot of sunshine and | :20:44. | :20:48. | |
wintry and is coming out of showers. Almost anywhere but, the thing is | :20:49. | :20:52. | |
with showers, not all of us will catch them and it is going to feel | :20:53. | :20:56. | |
cold as we go through the day tomorrow with temperatures between | :20:57. | :21:01. | |
about six and 11 degrees. As we head on into Wednesday we will still have | :21:02. | :21:04. | |
some wintry showers coming out of the showers but a lot of them will | :21:05. | :21:09. | |
be rain and, really, this is the last day for very cold conditions | :21:10. | :21:12. | |
because as we head into the second part of the week and into the | :21:13. | :21:16. | |
weekend, the temperature will slowly start to come back. So you'll be | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
able to put away your big winter coat again by the time we go to the | :21:20. | :21:24. | |
weekend. That is very good to know. I know you're excited, Carol. I | :21:25. | :21:32. | |
cannot wait and a good listen to them talking all day. I'm sure he | :21:33. | :21:40. | |
would you a wee girl. If he calls me fell on BBC breakfast, that will be | :21:41. | :21:41. | |
the highlight of my entire career. Let's get the latest | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
business news now - Steph's talking house prices | :21:46. | :21:47. | |
and currency this morning... Good morning, fella. Nice to see | :21:48. | :21:59. | |
you. Let me tell you what is going on. The data from one of the biggest | :22:00. | :22:05. | |
property website says the average asking price of houses are at a | :22:06. | :22:10. | |
record ?313,000. That is up 2.2% compared to last year but it is | :22:11. | :22:14. | |
actually the slowest growth of four year with finesse. It is obviously | :22:15. | :22:18. | |
not just what people are asking it is also what people are paying those | :22:19. | :22:24. | |
that statistic show that on the whole, how is prices are growing at | :22:25. | :22:28. | |
half the race they were last summer. There has been movement on the | :22:29. | :22:32. | |
currency market as well. This is off the back of the French presidential | :22:33. | :22:35. | |
election. Of course, that was all coming in overnight from the first | :22:36. | :22:39. | |
round and the value of the euro is actually... Excuse me, I have a | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
cough at the moment. I keep coughing. It is a five month high | :22:43. | :22:46. | |
against the dollar. It rose against the pound as well so this morning | :22:47. | :22:51. | |
the euro was... You may have to jump in and help me. I will give you an | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
update on how the stock market is doing when they open. This is a | :22:58. | :23:03. | |
clear classic sign of how you know when you first delight you have | :23:04. | :23:07. | |
grown up. You may be other legally vote drink alcohol at 18 but | :23:08. | :23:11. | |
research from nationwide says it is not until the age of 27 that you | :23:12. | :23:14. | |
feel grown up. I was asking myself this earlier, what made you feel | :23:15. | :23:20. | |
grown-up? For me, I felt it when I purchased toilet paper. It did not | :23:21. | :23:26. | |
just appear in your house. Probably when I had to buy and I'm pants. You | :23:27. | :23:30. | |
rely on your parents to purchase them full I'm not sure... I often | :23:31. | :23:35. | |
don't feel like a grown up. That is a good point. Even though I am | :23:36. | :23:41. | |
obviously I am. I need to go rescue myself now. Well done. She's | :23:42. | :23:44. | |
soldiered on. Gen 723 this morning. The Calais was home to migrants | :23:45. | :23:58. | |
looking for a route into the UK. Six months ago it was shut down on the | :23:59. | :24:02. | |
authorities say there are only 100 migrants still in the French pork. | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
The new report seen exclusively by this programme puts the figure at | :24:06. | :24:12. | |
four time with finesse that. Our breakfast reporter has been to | :24:13. | :24:16. | |
northern France to see the impact of the closure of the camp. | :24:17. | :24:17. | |
Six months after the jungle closed, the centre of Calais | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
The port, so long a destination for migrants is now | :24:21. | :24:28. | |
Before we had 8000 migrants per month that we would discover, | :24:29. | :24:46. | |
The Jungle was home to some 10,000 migrants. | :24:47. | :24:50. | |
It came to be seen by the authorities | :24:51. | :24:54. | |
as a magnet for people wanting to get to Britain. | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
When he crosses the border into France, | :24:58. | :25:12. | |
Although it is safe getting in and out of France | :25:13. | :25:18. | |
the problem now is that you do not feel safe in more areas of France. | :25:19. | :25:23. | |
On the corner of an industrial estate in Calais, a nightly ritual | :25:24. | :25:31. | |
Charities hand out food and clothes to migrants. | :25:32. | :25:35. | |
Most teenagers without their parents, like this 15-year-old | :25:36. | :25:37. | |
Why do you not stay here and claim asylum here in France? | :25:38. | :25:53. | |
The report out today from the refugee | :25:54. | :26:08. | |
Project says there are about 400 migrants in Calais today, | :26:09. | :26:10. | |
Public opinion has hardened for all forms | :26:11. | :26:16. | |
Public opinion has hardened for all forms of migration | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
but Michael McHugh from the refugee youth service says | :26:25. | :26:26. | |
a genuine asylum claims must be heard. | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
It is not about what people want or do not want. | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
We have tens of thousands of children's moving | :26:32. | :26:33. | |
There is a legal right for many of these children to go | :26:34. | :26:37. | |
30 minutes from Calais, this is what is left of another | :26:38. | :26:41. | |
It burnt down after a fight between rival groups | :26:42. | :26:44. | |
This is where many migrants came when the Jungle | :26:45. | :26:48. | |
The French government had plans in place to dismantle the camp | :26:49. | :26:51. | |
The government wants to pretend that the problem does not | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
exist and their strategy is to destroy the places | :26:56. | :26:57. | |
thinking that if we destroy their places and they have no places | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
The French determined another account will not be established. | :27:02. | :27:09. | |
The problem here has been alleviated but | :27:10. | :27:13. | |
As the weather improves, thousands of migrants are already | :27:14. | :27:17. | |
on the move across the Middle East and | :27:18. | :27:20. | |
Many will make it here in the hope of getting to the UK. | :27:21. | :27:34. | |
Fascinating stuff. Coming up in a few minutes time, the picture from | :27:35. | :27:40. | |
the London marathon of those two men helping each other across the line. | :27:41. | :27:44. | |
We will speak to the pair of them. They will hear here in ten minutes. | :27:45. | :31:06. | |
Vanessa Phelps is on BBC Radio London with a breakfast | :31:07. | :31:08. | |
This is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. | :31:09. | :31:17. | |
We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment. | :31:18. | :31:21. | |
It's the image that defined the London Marathon, | :31:22. | :31:27. | |
the moment a selfless runner gave up his race time to help another | :31:28. | :31:30. | |
We'll speak to the pair, reunited for the first time | :31:31. | :31:35. | |
Also this morning, it's being billed as the candidate of hope | :31:36. | :31:41. | |
As two outsiders are chosen to go head to head in the French | :31:42. | :31:45. | |
presidential election, we'll have the latest | :31:46. | :31:47. | |
In the last half-hour, police say they have arrested a man who killed | :31:48. | :32:10. | |
Michael Samwell. Jeremy Corbyn is promising to repeal | :32:11. | :32:12. | |
what he calls "vicious" trade union legislation, brought | :32:13. | :32:15. | |
in by the Conservatives, The Labour leader will make | :32:16. | :32:16. | |
the pledge today to trade union members in Scotland, | :32:17. | :32:21. | |
where his party's trying to claw back support after huge losses | :32:22. | :32:23. | |
in the election two years ago. We will speak to Defence Secretary | :32:24. | :32:29. | |
Michael Fallon soon. Tougher punishments for the most | :32:30. | :32:44. | |
serious cases of speeding have come into force in England | :32:45. | :32:47. | |
and Wales today. Drivers can now be fined 1.5 | :32:48. | :32:49. | |
times their weekly wage That means driving over 50 miles | :32:50. | :32:52. | |
an hour in a 30 zone or 100 miles A group of British firms has | :32:53. | :32:57. | |
unveiled plans to test driverless cars on city roads and motorways | :32:58. | :33:01. | |
in the UK for the first time. The Driven Consortium, | :33:02. | :33:05. | |
backed by government money, intends to try out a fleet | :33:06. | :33:07. | |
of autonomous vehicles So far, trials of driverless | :33:08. | :33:09. | |
vehicles in the UK have mainly taken place at slow speeds | :33:10. | :33:14. | |
and not on public roads. I think these pictures have gone | :33:15. | :33:21. | |
just over the bar of cute animal pictures. I was just thinking the | :33:22. | :33:27. | |
other week that we haven't had panda news in some time. | :33:28. | :33:28. | |
Despite being from a species famed for its laziness, | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
one Giant Panda in south-west China is shaping up to be | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
Sprightly Meng Meng has been wowing her keepers by performing | :33:35. | :33:37. | |
a series of energetic somersaults in her enclosure. | :33:38. | :33:39. | |
But perhaps she could use a bit more practice, | :33:40. | :33:42. | |
because at one point she accidentally rolls straight | :33:43. | :33:44. | |
Look at that. Thank you. Anyway. Coming up in the programme, Carol | :33:45. | :34:08. | |
will have the very cold weather. Apparently by the weekend you won't | :34:09. | :34:15. | |
need your coat. You are doing her job for her. Sorry. | :34:16. | :34:24. | |
Some great goals coming up in our report about the FA Cup semi-final. | :34:25. | :34:33. | |
And look at that picture of Arsene Wenger. After all of that criticism. | :34:34. | :34:45. | |
He is on to his seventh FA Cup. But will that be in our. He needs a | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
mandate to lead. -- that be enough. Arsenal will face Chelsea in next | :34:50. | :34:54. | |
month's FA Cup final, after beating Manchester City 2-1 | :34:55. | :34:57. | |
in extra time at Wembley. They did it the hard | :34:58. | :35:00. | |
way in the semi-final, coming from behind after City had | :35:01. | :35:02. | |
taken the lead through Sergio The Gunners though found | :35:03. | :35:05. | |
an equaliser through Nacho Monreal to send the game into extra time, | :35:06. | :35:08. | |
before Alexis Sanchez then But in these difficult | :35:09. | :35:11. | |
times, you can be divided, which is the natural | :35:12. | :35:23. | |
inclination, or you can be united. And I think today we showed | :35:24. | :35:26. | |
the right response and stayed So, no trophy for Pep Guardiola this | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
year, and Manchester United are breathing down their rivals' | :35:30. | :36:04. | |
necks in the Premier League. A 2-0 win at Burnley means | :36:05. | :36:07. | |
Jose Mourinho's side are now just a point behind City and the fourth | :36:08. | :36:10. | |
Champions League spot. Which gives Thursday's Manchester | :36:11. | :36:13. | |
Derby an extra bit of spice. United have something | :36:14. | :36:15. | |
of an injury crisis, Wayne Rooney made just his second | :36:16. | :36:17. | |
Premier League start of the year but he and Anthony Martial scored | :36:18. | :36:20. | |
for United to secure the win. Third placed Liverpool slipped up, | :36:21. | :36:26. | |
losing 2-1 at home to Crystal Philip Coutinho put the hosts ahead | :36:27. | :36:29. | |
with a great free kick, but two goals by former Liverpool | :36:30. | :36:32. | |
forward Christian Benteke gave Palace the victory and eases | :36:33. | :36:35. | |
their relegation worries. Chelsea's N'Golo Kante has won | :36:36. | :36:46. | |
the Professional Footballers Association Player | :36:47. | :36:48. | |
of the Year Award. Celtic remain on course | :36:49. | :36:49. | |
for their first domestic treble since 2001 after they beat Old Firm | :36:50. | :36:52. | |
rivals Rangers 2-0 to reach They've already wrapped | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
up the league title and the Scottish League Cup this | :36:56. | :36:58. | |
season and an early goal Scott Sinclair doubled their lead | :36:59. | :37:01. | |
with a penalty in the second half, the third goal he's scored | :37:02. | :37:06. | |
against Rangers this season. Celtic will face Aberdeen | :37:07. | :37:08. | |
in the final next month. And finally, since El Classico | :37:09. | :37:15. | |
between Barcelona and Real Madrid is no ordinary football game, | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
we decided to save it to the end. Not only did the game begin | :37:19. | :37:21. | |
with this month's Masters winner, Sergio Garcia, being paraded before | :37:22. | :37:25. | |
the crowd inside the Bernabeau, It was 2-2 going into the final ten | :37:26. | :37:28. | |
seconds of injury time when Lionel Messi scored | :37:29. | :37:33. | |
a dramatic winner. He got two in the game, | :37:34. | :37:35. | |
to put his side top of the league Great Britain have lost | :37:36. | :37:40. | |
their Fed Cup play-off against Romania after Johanna Konta | :37:41. | :37:51. | |
and Heather Watson both It was a much less controversial | :37:52. | :37:54. | |
day's play, following the Romania captain Ilie Nastase's ban | :37:55. | :37:58. | |
on Saturday for swearing at a number Simona Halep beat the British number | :37:59. | :38:01. | |
one in straight sets, while Watson lost her rubber | :38:02. | :38:05. | |
to Irina-Camelia Begu. The 3-1 defeat means Britain now | :38:06. | :38:07. | |
move back to the Europe-Africa Zone. A bad taste in the mouth of tennis. | :38:08. | :38:27. | |
There are some investigations afoot. Wimbledon have already said they | :38:28. | :38:32. | |
will not be inviting them. We will be following that one. We will | :38:33. | :38:39. | |
continue with the sporting theme. First of all, congratulations to the | :38:40. | :38:43. | |
40,000 people that did the marathon yesterday. Well done. I hope you | :38:44. | :38:47. | |
feel OK this morning. But there was one picture through | :38:48. | :38:57. | |
all of the tears that summed it all up. These pictures are amazing. | :38:58. | :39:02. | |
It's the unforgettable moment from this year's London Marathon, | :39:03. | :39:04. | |
an exhausted runner being helped across the finish line | :39:05. | :39:07. | |
Matthew Rees sacrificed his own race to half push, | :39:08. | :39:10. | |
half pull David Wyeth up The Mall to the finish line. | :39:11. | :39:13. | |
We'll be reuniting the two in a moment for the first time | :39:14. | :39:17. | |
But first let's have a look at the incredible effort | :39:18. | :39:20. | |
This is so hard. Every single part of his body is shutting down. We are | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
seeing the camaraderie of the marathon and the spirit. All of | :39:27. | :39:30. | |
these people want to break there time. They are still stopping to | :39:31. | :39:33. | |
help him. Incredible scenes. 175 metres down. The Royals have joined. | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
You can see Prince William and Prince Harry looking out in | :39:38. | :39:42. | |
disbelief at what they are seeing. The camaraderie, which is what it is | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
all about. They are sacrificing what could be a PB. Who knows? They are | :39:48. | :39:55. | |
trying to get them over the line. James, I know you have just run your | :39:56. | :39:59. | |
own fantastic race, but when you see that, that kind of sums up, doesn't | :40:00. | :40:08. | |
it, what it is all about. It shows the selfless nature of the runners. | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
I saw the same kind of thing happening when I went past. | :40:12. | :40:13. | |
Joining us now from Tower Bridge in London are the reunited runners, | :40:14. | :40:17. | |
Thank you, both, so much for joining us. What an amazing thing. Both of | :40:18. | :40:27. | |
you look well. But, David, you did not look well yesterday. How are you | :40:28. | :40:33. | |
feeling? I did not, did I? I feel great. Thank you so much for asking. | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
I feel recovered, but a little bit sore. Tell us about that moment when | :40:38. | :40:43. | |
you first caught sight of David. Did you immediately think I have to help | :40:44. | :40:48. | |
him? What kind of state was he in? I took the final corner ready to | :40:49. | :40:52. | |
sprint the final couple of metres. Then I saw David and his legs | :40:53. | :40:57. | |
completely collapse beneath him. I thought I need to help this guy and | :40:58. | :41:02. | |
he needs to get to the finish. 26 miles, the finish is just there. It | :41:03. | :41:06. | |
was important we get to the end and cross together. It is a beautiful | :41:07. | :41:10. | |
image. I know you have been saying that anyone would have done it. I | :41:11. | :41:14. | |
think many people this morning contacted are saying they would not | :41:15. | :41:21. | |
have done it, and some said that you did it, and that is the point. It is | :41:22. | :41:28. | |
great if I have inspired anyone. I think anyone would have done the | :41:29. | :41:32. | |
same thing. Is not me, the next runner. It is just about being human | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
and seeing someone struggling and helping them out. Tell us, what were | :41:37. | :41:42. | |
you saying to David? We can see you quite clearly chatting. What were | :41:43. | :41:47. | |
you saying? It looks like I was quite angry. I was trying to | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
motivate him. I was saying the finish is right there, we will | :41:52. | :41:56. | |
finish, you can do it. I just wanted him to get to the end. David, give | :41:57. | :42:02. | |
us an idea of what you were going through. Sorry, carry on. He said I | :42:03. | :42:09. | |
am determined to get there. That is the problem. I was so determined | :42:10. | :42:14. | |
that I got the idea we were going to make it happen. Many people here | :42:15. | :42:23. | |
either have run a marathon, and they will know that three hours is a lot, | :42:24. | :42:28. | |
they will know the feeling of giving up in your body. Could you even hear | :42:29. | :42:32. | |
what he was saying to you? My head was clear enough for the | :42:33. | :42:36. | |
conversation. What was going through my head was, don't you stop, you | :42:37. | :42:41. | |
need to keep going. This is kind of my problem. In fact, when the | :42:42. | :42:46. | |
volunteer came over, you know, I was still really keen. He just dropped | :42:47. | :42:52. | |
me and got a good time. Obviously, we had never met, so I did not know | :42:53. | :42:57. | |
his circumstances as well. As you mentioned earlier, he could well | :42:58. | :43:02. | |
have been on for a personal best. I did not know that. I was frustrated | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
he was giving up his race. I know how important it is. Many people | :43:08. | :43:12. | |
want to know, did you get a PB, were you on for one? What happened? No. | :43:13. | :43:18. | |
Early on in the race my calf seized up and I was in pain. Most of the | :43:19. | :43:23. | |
race for me was I need to finish and that is my accomplishment, | :43:24. | :43:28. | |
finishing. When I saw David struggling, it was the same thing | :43:29. | :43:32. | |
for him. He needed to make it. It seemed the perfect ending for my | :43:33. | :43:36. | |
race to help him across. And yet he was telling me to go on, but I just | :43:37. | :43:41. | |
wanted to make sure he did get to the finish line and was not taken to | :43:42. | :43:48. | |
the side. I am so grateful. Yes. I can't say how grateful I am because | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
you say that, Matthew, that others would have stopped. I am sure they | :43:54. | :43:59. | |
would have been others. But you persisted. I told you to go and you | :44:00. | :44:09. | |
did not. Such a gentleman. You are making me cry, the terror of you. A | :44:10. | :44:15. | |
great day for Swansea as well. Have you had a drink yet? Will he remain | :44:16. | :44:21. | |
in touch? What is going to happen? We will definitely stay in touch. We | :44:22. | :44:24. | |
have been through something incredible together. A marathon I | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
will never forget. It does sum up the running community as well. We | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
are really pleased you have seen this. It got caught on the cameras. | :44:35. | :44:38. | |
This stuff happens all over the place in races up and down the | :44:39. | :44:43. | |
country. And I am grateful that he demonstrated what it is like. I have | :44:44. | :44:52. | |
had references and people say that we were rivals. We were not rivals. | :44:53. | :45:01. | |
I am pleased everyone saw that. A beautiful story. I am afraid we lost | :45:02. | :45:07. | |
a bit of the line there right at the end. How incredible. That is what it | :45:08. | :45:14. | |
is all about. That is very much the running community. | :45:15. | :46:15. | |
a couple of fronts heading south and behind the cold air is streaming in. | :46:16. | :46:29. | |
If you are in the wind, it will feel bitter. We have the wintry nurse at | :46:30. | :46:36. | |
moment, snow to low levels. There is a band of rain sinking south across | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
the south of England at the moment with sunshine but the cloud will | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
build as we go through the course of the morning. Behind that, however, | :46:45. | :46:49. | |
darker skies. Still more snow to come through the course of the day, | :46:50. | :46:52. | |
eastern Scotland into the north-east of England we are looking at wintry | :46:53. | :46:56. | |
showers in the very nature suggests that we will see them. The two | :46:57. | :47:05. | |
fronts heading south will be down towards the Isle of Wight and over | :47:06. | :47:09. | |
towards the south-west of England and south Wales. The rain on them | :47:10. | :47:13. | |
will be fairly patchy but the cloud will be far noticeable than this | :47:14. | :47:18. | |
morning. As we push into north Wales, it will begin to brighten up. | :47:19. | :47:25. | |
Across Northern Ireland you could see some winter in a few of the | :47:26. | :47:30. | |
showers but mostly on the hills. In the evening and are tonight it is | :47:31. | :47:34. | |
still windy with snow falling across northern and central parts of | :47:35. | :47:38. | |
Scotland and the east coast we could also see some wintry and is in good | :47:39. | :47:42. | |
season wintry sun showers across Northern Ireland and north Wales for | :47:43. | :47:46. | |
a time. There will be dry weather and clear skies so there will be | :47:47. | :47:49. | |
frost and there will also be the risk of ice on untreated surfaces. | :47:50. | :47:54. | |
It is all happening. Tomorrow we start off on a cold note that there | :47:55. | :47:58. | |
will be sunshine. A plethora showers, some wintry, and some | :47:59. | :48:06. | |
falling as sleet and hail with the risk of Thunder and lightning. In | :48:07. | :48:09. | |
between we will see some sunshine. It will still feel quite raw, | :48:10. | :48:15. | |
particularly in the north. On Wednesday, while we have some rain, | :48:16. | :48:22. | |
still nothing substantial. Patchy in nature, more rain coming in across | :48:23. | :48:26. | |
the north and north-west in between bright skies and then as we head | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
into the second part of the weekend, that a richer once again will start | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
to pick up. Until then, get your winter woollies out because you will | :48:35. | :48:43. | |
need them. I am still... Act here mode. An emotional high after | :48:44. | :48:50. | |
listening to those runners. That is the sort of thing, if you need | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
motivation then hopefully... Hopefully they have raised your pep | :48:56. | :49:03. | |
this morning. Steph, Steph, can we talk about the housing market? I | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
don't know if that would help but let's give it a go. | :49:09. | :49:10. | |
This is data from one of the biggest property websites Rightmove | :49:11. | :49:13. | |
who say that average asking prices are at a record of ?313,000. | :49:14. | :49:16. | |
That's up 2.2% compared to last year. | :49:17. | :49:18. | |
And is the slowest growth in asking prices for four years. | :49:19. | :49:21. | |
Also, it's obviously not just about what people are asking, | :49:22. | :49:24. | |
And house prices are growing at half the rate since last summer | :49:25. | :49:31. | |
Rising inflation is hitting our pockets too - | :49:32. | :49:34. | |
which could put pressure on the market. | :49:35. | :49:41. | |
I'm joined now by Jodie. Jodie, it is about how buyers and sellers are | :49:42. | :49:51. | |
feeling about the economy when it comes to what is happening in the | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
market. Or is a change in confidence at the moment so it talks about the | :49:56. | :49:58. | |
house price research and house prices are still growing but they | :49:59. | :50:03. | |
are growing to a much lower rate than we have seen before. There is | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
some disparity across the country in that as well. So what we're seeing | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
is slowing down in the growth of house prices and we have also | :50:11. | :50:14. | |
recently seen a reversal in the trend in terms of retail sales and a | :50:15. | :50:17. | |
quarter on quarter decline. Interesting, isn't it? A bit of a | :50:18. | :50:22. | |
surprise. We are an economy driven by consumer spending so when we feel | :50:23. | :50:29. | |
rates is -- when we see retail sales take a hit that is a concern. | :50:30. | :50:32. | |
Exactly. The economy is fuelled by the consumer over the last two or | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
three years and, in particular, in the last nine months. There have | :50:37. | :50:42. | |
been no let up in spending. I think, however, in terms of surprise, not | :50:43. | :50:46. | |
necessarily inflation is starting to bite, it is inflation over 2% now | :50:47. | :50:50. | |
and it is really starting to hit the consumer. And inflation, of course, | :50:51. | :50:54. | |
is the rise in the cost of living and that is been changing because of | :50:55. | :50:58. | |
what has been going on politically. So... Can you explain that? We see | :50:59. | :51:03. | |
inflation driving up prices, driving up commodity prices and the impact | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
of the deep valuation of sterling means it costs us more to purchase | :51:10. | :51:13. | |
things which therefore hits our disposable income and hits our | :51:14. | :51:17. | |
discretionary spend. We are not the only economy that sees its was the | :51:18. | :51:23. | |
devaluation is an important factor, other economies also suffer at the | :51:24. | :51:27. | |
moment. And what is the general election normally different economy? | :51:28. | :51:30. | |
I was a surprise when that was announced. Definitely a surprise. In | :51:31. | :51:35. | |
terms of a snap election. It is very different, however, to a normal | :51:36. | :51:38. | |
election. Just 45 days away now so it really is what it says on the | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
tin. There is still a risk of destruction when people talking | :51:45. | :51:48. | |
about the election and all of the politics go around it. However, it | :51:49. | :51:52. | |
is a much lower level than we normally see on the impact of will | :51:53. | :52:01. | |
have a bigger effect on retail. At least it is not long to go until the | :52:02. | :52:05. | |
election. It saves us having to discuss it too often. Thank you very | :52:06. | :52:08. | |
much, Steph. It's Britain's smallest city | :52:09. | :52:15. | |
and is bidding for the chance That honour is currently held | :52:16. | :52:19. | |
by Hull but already towns and cities are lining up for their chance | :52:20. | :52:24. | |
of winning the accolade in 2021. Good morning, Nick. Looking lovely | :52:25. | :52:39. | |
here and you can hear the bells of the cathedral here timing as they | :52:40. | :52:42. | |
summon people to morning service. This is, as you say, the smallest | :52:43. | :52:48. | |
city in written, a population of 1800, no more than a large village | :52:49. | :52:53. | |
but it has ambition. It is one of the 11 places bidding to become the | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
UK city of culture in 20 to anyone. But find out what it has too far. | :52:58. | :53:01. | |
Paul runs hotels here in the city. Make your pitch. Why then David? | :53:02. | :53:07. | |
There is something special here. We punch above our weight in terms of | :53:08. | :53:11. | |
culture. We have something special in our landscape, not merely the | :53:12. | :53:18. | |
cathedral and Art galleries, we are the art capital of Wales, but also | :53:19. | :53:22. | |
the landscape. We are preserved by the National Park nearby so the | :53:23. | :53:28. | |
opportunity for the government is to offer the offer from regeneration | :53:29. | :53:35. | |
and community support as opposed to just an urban city. All the talk | :53:36. | :53:41. | |
about the surrounding area as well, surely you have not got, have you, | :53:42. | :53:46. | |
enough cloud here or in a free sources to mount a serious bid? | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
Absolutely. We already host major events like a cliff diving | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
championship, iron man, major events come here. We have a major festival | :53:55. | :53:59. | |
of the cathedral every year. An international music festival takes | :54:00. | :54:04. | |
place. And it involves the whole region. An amazing cultural artistic | :54:05. | :54:11. | |
community. We have events going throughout all the year and we have | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
the capacity to take more visitors here. Cornwall has 12 times more | :54:16. | :54:20. | |
visitors than us. Our infrastructure is better than Cornwall and we are | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
more accessible and the potential here needs to be filled. You are | :54:25. | :54:28. | |
doing quite well here. It is a lovely spot with a vigorous tourist | :54:29. | :54:32. | |
injury Street. There are big cities such as Sunderland, places that need | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
it more that really... The boost to being city of culture but that would | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
bring, it would make a tremendous difference. Would make a difference | :54:41. | :54:45. | |
here? This is a small community. The meeting we have here is tourism and | :54:46. | :54:49. | |
farming in most of the farmers have to diversify into tourism and there | :54:50. | :54:54. | |
are underprivileged backgrounds and community see the really benefit | :54:55. | :54:57. | |
from regeneration. It keeps people here in Pembrokeshire, inspires them | :54:58. | :55:03. | |
to inspire a career in hospitality instead of going outside the county | :55:04. | :55:07. | |
to work in a big city. There is so much... And it is the C. This will | :55:08. | :55:13. | |
help generations here for years to come. -- it is the legacy. 11 cities | :55:14. | :55:19. | |
bidding, they need to get their applications in by the end of the | :55:20. | :55:24. | |
week. We will learn which city will be successful in December. Thank you | :55:25. | :55:30. | |
very much indeed. Line a duty fans keep asking what time superintendent | :55:31. | :55:40. | |
Ted Hastings is on. 8:40. I am on guard. I'll is because I have not | :55:41. | :55:47. | |
seen last night. I will tell you when to go make a cup of tea. Do we | :55:48. | :55:53. | |
have anything from a cyber smack episode? Is a snippet. My officers | :55:54. | :56:00. | |
conduct themselves to the letter of the law. So there was now deeply | :56:01. | :56:04. | |
corrupt officer embedded for in nine-years? It is so good. There is | :56:05. | :56:09. | |
so much going on, isn't there? Thank you to everyone who has sent in a | :56:10. | :56:17. | |
suggestion for line of duty bingo. Darling, senior, for the purposes of | :56:18. | :56:21. | |
the tape, the letter of the law, that wee girl, give me strength and, | :56:22. | :56:27. | |
of course, fed up. Do you think we are off the rank superior enough to | :56:28. | :56:32. | |
even interview him? One of us will require reclamation in the next 30 | :56:33. | :56:35. | |
minutes. I will remain silent and bring in the evidence, you can ask | :56:36. | :56:37. | |
questions. Time It is beginning to feel much colder. | :56:38. | :59:57. | |
I will return in 30 minutes. Hello, this is Breakfast, | :59:58. | :00:23. | |
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. A political earthquake | :00:24. | :00:25. | |
in France, as two outsiders are chosen for the final stage | :00:26. | :00:27. | |
of the presidential election. The National Front's Marine Le Pen | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
and the centrist Emmanuel Macron will go head to head | :00:31. | :00:32. | |
in two weeks' time. Police arrest a man | :00:33. | :00:49. | |
following the death of a former Royal Navy officer who confronted | :00:50. | :00:55. | |
burglars who were trying Six months on from the closure | :00:56. | :00:57. | |
of the Calais Jungle refugee camp, The moment that defined | :00:58. | :01:05. | |
the London Marathon - a selfless runner gives up his race | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
time to help another We will definitely stay in touch. We | :01:08. | :01:21. | |
have been through something amazing together. | :01:22. | :01:28. | |
Today I'm talking about the housing market, as new research says average | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
But with sales slowing, I'll be looking at what is going on. | :01:32. | :01:35. | |
In sport, Sanchez shines for Arsenal. | :01:36. | :01:37. | |
sees them book their place in the FA Cup final after victory | :01:38. | :01:40. | |
And we are live in St Davids in West Wales as the search for the UK City | :01:41. | :01:50. | |
of Culture heats up. It is a cold start of the day. For | :01:51. | :02:01. | |
the next few days, it will be told as we pull in a northerly wind from | :02:02. | :02:05. | |
the Arctic. Some of us will see sunshine, and others will get some | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
snow. It has been an extraordinary | :02:07. | :02:08. | |
night in French politics. For the first time in nearly 60 | :02:09. | :02:15. | |
years, neither of the two main parties in France will be | :02:16. | :02:18. | |
in the final run-off Instead, the pro-European | :02:19. | :02:20. | |
Emmanuel Macron is set to face in a run-off for the | :02:21. | :02:23. | |
presidency next month. Our Europe Correspondent, | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
James Reynolds has more. Emmanuel Macron is France's | :02:27. | :02:35. | |
newcomer, and now the winner He is an insider who's | :02:36. | :02:37. | |
run as an outsider. The 39-year-old is a pro-EU, | :02:38. | :02:44. | |
pro-business centrist. He resigned as a minister in order | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
to form his own political movement. TRANSLATION: I hope | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
that in a fortnight, His supporters believe that the rest | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
of the country will now This is Emmanuel Macron's first | :03:00. | :03:17. | |
election. The French people still hardly know him. He is now the | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
favourite to become this country's next president. Marine Le Pen, the | :03:22. | :03:27. | |
foreign national leader, will fight Emmanuel Macron in the final round. | :03:28. | :03:31. | |
She won more votes than the party has ever won before. It matches her | :03:32. | :03:35. | |
father's achievement 15 years ago in reaching a presidential run-off. | :03:36. | :03:43. | |
TRANSLATION: The French people must take this historic opportunity, | :03:44. | :03:46. | |
because the biggest issue is the globalisation that is putting our | :03:47. | :03:55. | |
civilisation in danger. In Bastille Square in Paris, some left-wing | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
protesters faced off against the police. These demonstrators were | :03:58. | :04:02. | |
angered by the results of this vote. They and the rest of the country | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
will have the final say in two weeks' time. | :04:06. | :04:09. | |
Let's speak now to our Paris Correspondent, Hugh Schofield. | :04:10. | :04:15. | |
Does Marine Le Pen have any chance of winning the next round? | :04:16. | :04:23. | |
There is no doubt that Emmanuel Macron is the clear favourite for | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
the second round in two weeks' time, but this is not going to be a rerun | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
of 2002. That year, Marine Le Pen's Father John Marine Le Pen got a big | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
shock breakthrough into the second round and round against Jacques | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Chirac, but he was wiped out in round two. He barely moved from his | :04:45. | :04:48. | |
ratings in the first round. This time, Marine Le Pen will be able to | :04:49. | :04:53. | |
build on her first-round score. We expect her to go a certain amount | :04:54. | :04:56. | |
because she is going to turn the second round into a big debate not | :04:57. | :05:05. | |
on the right divide, but on the nation versus Europe and nation | :05:06. | :05:08. | |
versus globalisation divide. She will pick up votes from the | :05:09. | :05:13. | |
centre-right candidate, but also from people who voted for the far | :05:14. | :05:18. | |
left. We can expect her vote to go up, but it is unlikely it will go up | :05:19. | :05:24. | |
enough to beat Emmanuel Macron. We will be back in Paris later in the | :05:25. | :05:26. | |
programme. Jeremy Corbyn is promising to repeal | :05:27. | :05:28. | |
what he calls "vicious" trade union legislation brought | :05:29. | :05:30. | |
in by the Conservatives The Labour leader is | :05:31. | :05:32. | |
making his first campaign visit to Scotland today, | :05:33. | :05:35. | |
where his party is trying to claw back support after huge losses | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
in the election two years ago. Our political correspondent | :05:39. | :05:43. | |
Chris Mason is here. I said our political mason! Are you | :05:44. | :06:02. | |
a mason?! Sorry, our political correspondent joins us. A tough day | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
for Mr Corbyn yesterday? There are still six weeks to go, so assemble | :06:07. | :06:13. | |
those words in the right order! Jeremy Corbyn had a tough time | :06:14. | :06:19. | |
yesterday. The essence of it was the challenge has faced since he has | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
been Labour leader and also why he won the Labour leadership in the | :06:23. | :06:25. | |
first place, which is that he is very different in his political | :06:26. | :06:29. | |
instinct and outlook and policies from lots of other Labour MPs. The | :06:30. | :06:33. | |
tricky thing yesterday was that he was articulating something which was | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
different from what we are now told us established party policy. He said | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
the party were having a discussion as to whether they would back the | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
renewal of the UK's nuclear deterrent. Jeremy Corbyn has been a | :06:45. | :06:48. | |
long-standing campaigner to get rid of it. The party then put out a | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
statement saying it would say in its manifesto, its bundle of promises, | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
that it would commit to renewing Trident. The party has had to | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
effectively get the gaffer tape out and stick it across the big gap | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
between what Jeremy Corbyn is saying and what lots of MPs would like him | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
to say. Today, he heads to Scotland to try and change the topic. The | :07:11. | :07:15. | |
Scottish National Party, incidentally, will say the real | :07:16. | :07:17. | |
threat to them is not Labour, but the Conservatives. Chris Mason, I | :07:18. | :07:24. | |
shall say it very carefully from now on! Thank you very much. | :07:25. | :07:30. | |
In the last hour, police say they've arrested a man in connection | :07:31. | :07:33. | |
with the murder of a former naval officer who was killed after | :07:34. | :07:36. | |
confronting intruders who broke into his home in Manchester. | :07:37. | :07:38. | |
Michael Samwell died after thieves ran him over with his own car. | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
How did a disturbance at a house in the early hours end | :07:42. | :07:45. | |
Michael Samwell and his wife were woken up by a loud noise, | :07:46. | :07:50. | |
and the former Royal Naval Officer went downstairs to have a look. | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
The exact sequence of events that followed is not clear, | :07:54. | :07:58. | |
but outside, now cordoned off, the 35-year-old was run over | :07:59. | :08:00. | |
He was taken to hospital, where he later died of his injuries. | :08:01. | :08:09. | |
The vehicle was found abandoned a few miles away. | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
You hear a noise downstairs and you go and see what it is. | :08:13. | :08:18. | |
It is incredibly tragic that he has lost his life. | :08:19. | :08:21. | |
This is described as a quiet corner of Manchester. | :08:22. | :08:23. | |
And gathered in silence, people came to pay their respects, | :08:24. | :08:26. | |
I am a bit shaken up because obviously it is close to my house. | :08:27. | :08:48. | |
One theory is they did break in simply to get | :08:49. | :08:51. | |
If that is the case, it's led to a far more serious enquiry. | :08:52. | :08:58. | |
Tougher punishments for the most serious cases of speeding have come | :08:59. | :09:00. | |
into force in England and Wales today. | :09:01. | :09:03. | |
Drivers can now be fined one and a half times their weekly | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
that means driving over 50 miles an hour in a 30 zone or | :09:07. | :09:10. | |
The Government will go to the High Court to try to delay | :09:11. | :09:15. | |
publishing its strategy for tackling air pollution. | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
Today was the deadline for ministers to present their plans, | :09:20. | :09:21. | |
but they claim voting rules mean they can't publish | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
sensitive policies before the general election. | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
Campaigners say they're trying to dodge a difficult issue. | :09:28. | :09:36. | |
Over 40,000 runners crossed the London Marathon | :09:37. | :09:37. | |
And while a record number of competitors took part | :09:38. | :09:43. | |
in the race, this is the moment everyone is talking about. | :09:44. | :09:47. | |
Matthew Rees stopped his race to help David Wyeth | :09:48. | :09:48. | |
The organisers have praised Mr Rees, saying he "encompassed | :09:49. | :09:55. | |
everything that's so special about the London Marathon". | :09:56. | :09:59. | |
Earlier, they told BBC Breakfast they had become friends overnight. | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
We will definitely stay in touch. We have been through something | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
incredible together, and a marathon I will never forget. And it does sum | :10:11. | :10:16. | |
up the running community as well. We are pleased that you have seen this. | :10:17. | :10:21. | |
It got caught on camera, but this stuff happens all over the place in | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
races up and down the country. I am grateful to Matthew, and he | :10:26. | :10:31. | |
demonstrated what it is like. I have heard references to a running rival. | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
We are not rivals on that day. Where are all in it together. | :10:38. | :10:43. | |
That explains why so many people take part in sport, because of the | :10:44. | :10:49. | |
camaraderie. It is not just runners, it is so many different athletes of | :10:50. | :10:53. | |
different sports. It is moments like that. | :10:54. | :10:55. | |
Theresa May's so-called gamble in calling an early general election | :10:56. | :10:58. | |
looks to some like a wager she can't lose. | :10:59. | :11:01. | |
But to win an increased majority, she needs to avoid two things - | :11:02. | :11:04. | |
and Labour resilience despite the opinion polls. | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
Jeremy Corbyn has said he would review "all aspects" | :11:10. | :11:11. | |
including Britain's Trident nuclear deterrent. | :11:12. | :11:14. | |
is the Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon. | :11:15. | :11:25. | |
With the situation Labour find themselves in over Trident, I know | :11:26. | :11:30. | |
they have given you a free hit over the last 48 hours, but don't you | :11:31. | :11:34. | |
yourselves as a party have questions the answer over seven years of | :11:35. | :11:40. | |
defence cuts? For example, on the number of troops, there was a | :11:41. | :11:43. | |
promising 2010 that it wouldn't go below 82,000, and it has. It is just | :11:44. | :11:51. | |
below 82,000 at the moment. But it is either a promise or it is not. It | :11:52. | :11:56. | |
was a promise in the manifesto, but the defence budget is rising again | :11:57. | :12:00. | |
now. It has been rising for the last couple of years. It is programmed to | :12:01. | :12:04. | |
rise each year of this Parliament. Or are adding strength to the Royal | :12:05. | :12:11. | |
Navy, we are increasing the Royal Air Force and we are investing in | :12:12. | :12:14. | |
the air planes to fly off the carriers, the frigates, the | :12:15. | :12:16. | |
submarines and the new equipment that our Armed Forces need. So we | :12:17. | :12:20. | |
are getting bigger defence. While the Conservatives are asking Labour | :12:21. | :12:24. | |
for clarity on defence, can we ask you about clarity on the | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
conservatives' tax policy? Is there going to be a party pledge about not | :12:30. | :12:35. | |
putting up income tax, VAT and national insurance? It at the | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
moment, your party are being a bit woolly on this. You will see the | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
manifesto in a couple of weeks' time that will set out our policy in all | :12:43. | :12:48. | |
these areas, defence, tax, the NHS and everything else. On tax, we are | :12:49. | :12:54. | |
the lower tax party. It is Labour governments that put up tax. We have | :12:55. | :12:59. | |
cut tax, particularly for people on the lowest earnings. We have taken 4 | :13:00. | :13:02. | |
million people out of tax altogether. This month, we have | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
increased the personal tax allowance to ?11,500. All our instincts are to | :13:08. | :13:13. | |
get tax as low as possible so that people on the lowest incomes can | :13:14. | :13:19. | |
keep more of what they earn. But you can't take Labour that they are not | :13:20. | :13:23. | |
being clear on Trident and then given unclear answer on your tax | :13:24. | :13:30. | |
policy. Jeremy Corbyn made it clear yesterday that he doesn't support | :13:31. | :13:34. | |
the nuclear deterrent. He is not even prepared to authorise RAF | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
strikes against terrorists. He has queried our Nato deployments, and he | :13:39. | :13:44. | |
is not prepared to tackle immigration. So Labour are putting | :13:45. | :13:49. | |
themselves as a risk to the security of this country, in contrast to the | :13:50. | :13:52. | |
strong and stable leadership that Theresa May and the Conservatives | :13:53. | :13:57. | |
are offering. Forgive me, but the question was about your tax policy. | :13:58. | :14:01. | |
You will see our tax policy in the manifesto, but you can also see what | :14:02. | :14:06. | |
we have done in government. We have taken people out of tax altogether | :14:07. | :14:10. | |
for the lowest paid. We have increased the personal tax allowance | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
and we are the party of low taxation. Yesterday, you promised to | :14:14. | :14:19. | |
cap energy prices for two thirds of British households. Isn't that a | :14:20. | :14:21. | |
Labour policy that you have fiddled with and adopted as your own? No, we | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
have always wanted to make sure that markets work better for working | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
families faced with large bills. We have seen large, arbitrary increases | :14:33. | :14:39. | |
from the big six energy companies. Again, when you see the manifesto, | :14:40. | :14:44. | |
we will be putting out proposals that will protect people against | :14:45. | :14:47. | |
sudden and large increases in their energy bills to make sure that | :14:48. | :14:53. | |
markets work better for consumers. But when a similar policy by Labour | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
was suggested, you were the energy minister in opposition and you said" | :14:59. | :15:02. | |
the idea from Labour would freeze new investment and increase the risk | :15:03. | :15:07. | |
of the lights going out". What has changed? Well, they were proposing a | :15:08. | :15:11. | |
freeze. We are not proposing a freeze because that means people | :15:12. | :15:17. | |
would not benefit when prices fall. That would have been dangerous and | :15:18. | :15:26. | |
costly. Energy is already highly regulated, and we will be proposing | :15:27. | :15:31. | |
that there should be the power to make sure people are protected | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
against very large increases, and you will see those proposals in | :15:36. | :15:38. | |
detail when the manifesto is published. They are very different | :15:39. | :15:41. | |
from the damaging freeze that label wanted a few years ago. | :15:42. | :15:47. | |
There is one important issue which people have been raising ever since | :15:48. | :15:58. | |
Theresa May announced the general election of and that's apathy and | :15:59. | :16:03. | |
people who maybe voting on 8th June don't want another general election. | :16:04. | :16:06. | |
This is what they don't want. There has been so many polls and votes, | :16:07. | :16:09. | |
they don't want to be involved in this again? Well, it is important | :16:10. | :16:13. | |
that we have stability for the next five years and we have an effective | :16:14. | :16:17. | |
majority to secure a successful exit from the European Union. That's what | :16:18. | :16:22. | |
people voted for last year and one of the biggest turn-outs we have | :16:23. | :16:25. | |
ever had and people want to make sure that we have a successful exit | :16:26. | :16:31. | |
that preserves economic co-operation and trade with Europe, the security | :16:32. | :16:36. | |
co-operation we already have with Europe and we do so in a way that | :16:37. | :16:40. | |
protects vital British interests. You can't do that unless you have a | :16:41. | :16:43. | |
strong working majority in Parliament and that is what we are | :16:44. | :16:49. | |
now campaigning for over the next six weeks you will see the Prime | :16:50. | :16:52. | |
Minister and the rest of us out around the country urging people to | :16:53. | :16:57. | |
get behind this Government and give Theresa May's leadership the | :16:58. | :16:59. | |
majority in Parliament that she needs to be able to look after this | :17:00. | :17:06. | |
country's long-term interests. Sir Michael Fallon, thank you. | :17:07. | :17:13. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :17:14. | :17:16. | |
French voters have chosen two outsiders - | :17:17. | :17:18. | |
Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen - to contest the final | :17:19. | :17:21. | |
A man has been arrested in connection with the death | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
of a former Royal Navy officer who was killed after | :17:25. | :17:27. | |
confronting burglars who were trying to steal his car. | :17:28. | :17:34. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :17:35. | :17:38. | |
This is one of our Weather Watchers photos. It is from Shetland. The | :17:39. | :17:46. | |
last time we had snow late on in April was last year and that was | :17:47. | :17:50. | |
across Northern England. We have it falling this morning. A beautiful | :17:51. | :17:55. | |
picture from Shetland. Look at how ominous the cloud looks. Further | :17:56. | :17:58. | |
snow showers to come in the next couple of days. By no means will we | :17:59. | :18:04. | |
all see snow. A few of us that will do and we're looking at frosty | :18:05. | :18:07. | |
nights as well. We have got weather fronts moving south. Behind this | :18:08. | :18:10. | |
cold front we are pulling in the cold air on a nearly wind, straight | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
down from the Arctic and it will be later on that it moves right the | :18:16. | :18:25. | |
away way across our shores. The cloud building. But brightening up | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
behind them, but still there will be some wintriness into the afternoon | :18:31. | :18:33. | |
and a few more of us seeing it this afternoon. So for Northern Ireland | :18:34. | :18:40. | |
you have got sunshine and showers. Any wintriness on the hills. Snow | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
falling at low levels across Northern Scotland. A lot of dry | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
weather. A cold day. A windy day. Down the East Coast of Scotland and | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
the far north-east of England you can expect to see some wintriness | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
coming out of the showers. Some sleet and hail and thunder and | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
lightening, but the rest of Northern England sunshine. The Midlands and | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
East Anglia, this is where we have got our weather front. Cloudy with | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
rain. But it is fairly sporadic and it is the same for south-west | :19:09. | :19:12. | |
England. The cloud will continue to build and we are looking at a cloudy | :19:13. | :19:16. | |
afternoon with patchy rain across Wales. Through this evening, as that | :19:17. | :19:22. | |
weather front pushes away from the South Coast and moves across into | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
the Channel Islands the cold air streams in behind it. We continue | :19:27. | :19:34. | |
with the snow across low levels, but we will see wintriness across | :19:35. | :19:36. | |
Northern Ireland and North Wales, but again, they are showers so not | :19:37. | :19:41. | |
all of us will catch one. A lot of dry weather and clear skies, so it | :19:42. | :19:44. | |
will be frosty and it will be icy of the so something to watch out for | :19:45. | :19:49. | |
first thing. But there will be a lot of sunshine tomorrow, but tomorrow, | :19:50. | :19:54. | |
a plethora of showers and once again almost anywhere you could see little | :19:55. | :19:58. | |
bit of wintriness in them. Still cold in the northerly wind. So | :19:59. | :20:03. | |
although we have seen temperatures between seven and 11 Celsius, if | :20:04. | :20:07. | |
you're exposed to the wined, it will feel colder than the temperatures | :20:08. | :20:11. | |
suggest. As we head on into Wednesday, there will be areas of | :20:12. | :20:16. | |
showery rain dotted around. Nothing substantial so if your garden is | :20:17. | :20:20. | |
crying out for t we will see dribs and drabs, but not really heavy and | :20:21. | :20:24. | |
temperatures seven to ten Celsius, but again we are hanging on to the | :20:25. | :20:29. | |
northerly breeze. As we move on into Thursday, still a bit draftee. We | :20:30. | :20:33. | |
have some rain sinking south, but we start to see the temperatures | :20:34. | :20:36. | |
recover and the temperatures will continue to recover as we head into | :20:37. | :20:40. | |
the weekend and the early part of next week, Dan and Lou. | :20:41. | :20:45. | |
I have never seen the map look that, the plethora of rain, all the little | :20:46. | :20:48. | |
dots everywhere. Thank you very much. See you soon. It is the little | :20:49. | :20:51. | |
things sometimes. Yeah. Yeah. At its peak the make-shift camp | :20:52. | :20:56. | |
known as the Jungle in Calais was home to 7,000 migrants, | :20:57. | :20:59. | |
most were looking for Six months ago it was shut down | :21:00. | :21:01. | |
and authorities say there are only around 100 migrants | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
still in the French port. But a new report seen exclusively | :21:06. | :21:08. | |
by BBC Breakfast puts the figure at four times that | :21:09. | :21:11. | |
with migrants including unaccompanied children sleeping | :21:12. | :21:13. | |
rough in Calais and Paris. Breakfast's Graham Satchell has been | :21:14. | :21:16. | |
to Northern France to see the impact Six months after the Jungle closed, | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
the centre of Calais The port, so long the destination | :21:20. | :21:26. | |
for migrants is running normally. Wtih lorries before we had | :21:27. | :21:36. | |
8,000 migrants per month that we would discover, | :21:37. | :21:50. | |
today that is down to 300. The Jungle was home | :21:51. | :21:52. | |
to some 10,000 migrants. It came to be seen by the | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
authorities as a magnet for people I've had bottles, rocks, | :22:00. | :22:02. | |
bricks thrown at the truck. When he crosses the border | :22:03. | :22:14. | |
into France, Jacob won't stop. Although it's safer getting | :22:15. | :22:17. | |
in and out of France the problem now is that you don't feel safe | :22:18. | :22:26. | |
in more areas of France. On the corner of an industrial | :22:27. | :22:33. | |
estate in Calais, a nightly Charities hand out food | :22:34. | :22:40. | |
and clothes to migrants. Most are teenagers | :22:41. | :22:43. | |
without their parents, Why do you not stay here and claim | :22:44. | :22:44. | |
asylum here in France? The report out today | :22:45. | :23:04. | |
from the refugee Rights Data Project says there are about 400 migrants | :23:05. | :23:14. | |
in Calais today, many Public opinion has hardened | :23:15. | :23:16. | |
for all forms of migration, but Michael McHugh from | :23:17. | :23:19. | |
the Refugee Youth Service says | :23:20. | :23:28. | |
genuine asylum claims must be heard. It is not about what people | :23:29. | :23:30. | |
want or do not want. We have tens of thousands | :23:31. | :23:33. | |
of children moving across Europe. There is a legal right for many | :23:34. | :23:35. | |
of these children to go to the UK. 30 minutes from Calais, | :23:36. | :23:39. | |
this is what is left of another migrant | :23:40. | :23:45. | |
camp near Dunkirk. It burnt down after a fight | :23:46. | :23:46. | |
between rival groups This is where many migrants came | :23:47. | :23:48. | |
when the Jungle closed. The French government had plans | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
in place to dismantle The government wants to pretend | :23:53. | :23:54. | |
that the problem does not exist and their strategy is to destroy | :23:55. | :24:00. | |
the places where people live, thinking that if we destroy | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
their places and they have no places Just after seven in Calais, | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
the police move in. The French determined another camp | :24:08. | :24:20. | |
will not be established. The problem here has been | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
alleviated but not solved. As the weather improves, | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
thousands of migrants are already on the move | :24:26. | :24:27. | |
across the Middle East and Africa. Many will make it here in the hope | :24:28. | :24:30. | |
of getting to the UK. Let's talk business and Steph's | :24:31. | :24:39. | |
been getting an update on what the markets | :24:40. | :24:41. | |
are doing this morning. Yes. The stock markets have just | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
opened. There's been movement | :24:47. | :24:54. | |
on the currency and stock markets today off the back of the first | :24:55. | :24:57. | |
round of the French The leading share index here - | :24:58. | :25:00. | |
the FTSE 100 - which represents the value of our top 100 listed | :25:01. | :25:04. | |
companies opened up 1.4%. The value of the euro | :25:05. | :25:11. | |
is at a five-month high It rose against the pound | :25:12. | :25:13. | |
too, so this morning Data from one of the biggest | :25:14. | :25:27. | |
property websites Rightmove says that average asking prices | :25:28. | :25:32. | |
are at a record of ?313,000. That's up 2.2% compared to last | :25:33. | :25:35. | |
year, but that is the slowest London and the North East of England | :25:36. | :25:38. | |
are the only regions in the study where average asking prices | :25:39. | :25:43. | |
are lower than a year ago. When you did first | :25:44. | :25:49. | |
feel like a grown-up? You might be able to legally | :25:50. | :25:55. | |
vote and drink alcohol at 18, but research | :25:56. | :25:57. | |
from Nationwide says it's not until the age of 27 | :25:58. | :26:00. | |
that we feel grown up. According to their stats, | :26:01. | :26:02. | |
on average we open our first bank account at 17 and move out | :26:03. | :26:05. | |
of our parents at 21. We have had loads of messages about | :26:06. | :26:14. | |
this. Annie said she still doesn't feel grown-up and she's 65. I know | :26:15. | :26:20. | |
that Annie and she doesn't behave like a grown-up sometimes. You know | :26:21. | :26:25. | |
that Annie. She is very good at press-ups. At 65? Yes. Well, good on | :26:26. | :26:28. | |
her! Here on Breakfast, it may be | :26:29. | :26:36. | |
Britain's smallest city but does St David's in Pembrokeshire have | :26:37. | :26:39. | |
what it takes to be the UK's As the deadline for the 2021 | :26:40. | :26:42. | |
bid approaches, we'll be finding out more | :26:43. | :26:46. | |
about the runners and riders Time now to get the news, | :26:47. | :26:48. | |
travel and weather where you are. Time now to get the news, | :26:49. | :26:56. | |
travel and weather where you are. Hello this is Breakfast, | :26:57. | :30:22. | |
with Dan Walker and Louise Minchin. In an extraordinary result, | :30:23. | :30:36. | |
French voters have rejected the two traditional ruling parties, | :30:37. | :30:39. | |
with their candidates being knocked out in the first | :30:40. | :30:42. | |
round of the Presidential election. Instead, the far-right leader | :30:43. | :30:45. | |
Marine Le Pen is set to face Mr Macron is widely seen | :30:46. | :30:47. | |
as the favourite going In the last hour, police say they've | :30:48. | :30:52. | |
arrested a man in connection with the murder of a former naval | :30:53. | :30:59. | |
officer who was killed after confronting intruders who broke | :31:00. | :31:02. | |
into his home in Manchester. Michael Samwell died after thieves | :31:03. | :31:04. | |
ran him over with his own car. Jeremy Corbyn is promising to repeal | :31:05. | :31:07. | |
what he calls "vicious" trade union legislation, | :31:08. | :31:13. | |
brought in by the Conservatives, The Labour leader will make | :31:14. | :31:15. | |
the pledge today to trade union members in Scotland, | :31:16. | :31:23. | |
where his party's trying to claw back support after huge losses | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
in the election two years ago. Two men are due to appear in court | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
today, charged in connection with an acid attack at a nightclub | :31:31. | :31:33. | |
in east London on Easter Monday, which left two people blind | :31:34. | :31:36. | |
in one eye. Arthur Collins, who's | :31:37. | :31:38. | |
24 and the boyfriend of the reality TV star, | :31:39. | :31:40. | |
Ferne McCann, is facing 14 counts of wounding with intent and one | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
count of throwing corrosive fluid with intent to cause | :31:44. | :31:47. | |
grievous bodily harm. The government will go | :31:48. | :31:58. | |
to the High Court to try to delay publishing its strategy | :31:59. | :32:01. | |
for tackling air pollution. Today was the deadline for ministers | :32:02. | :32:03. | |
to present their plans, but they claim voting rules mean | :32:04. | :32:05. | |
they can't publish sensitive policies before | :32:06. | :32:07. | |
the general election. Campaigners say they're trying | :32:08. | :32:09. | |
to dodge a difficult issue because of nervousness | :32:10. | :32:11. | |
about increasing tax Tougher punishments for the most | :32:12. | :32:12. | |
serious cases of speeding have come into force in England and Wales | :32:13. | :32:18. | |
Today. Drivers can now be fined | :32:19. | :32:19. | |
one-and-a-half times their weekly That means driving over 50-miles | :32:20. | :32:22. | |
an hour in a 30-zone or 100-miles We can go back to Paris | :32:23. | :32:28. | |
where they are still digesting the results of the extraordinary | :32:29. | :32:43. | |
first round of the Some people calling this an | :32:44. | :32:59. | |
earthquake? It is exactly that, the two main parties who have dominated | :33:00. | :33:03. | |
the landscape for the past 50 or more years have been wiped out of | :33:04. | :33:09. | |
this contest. The ruling party, the Socialist party, Francois Hollande, | :33:10. | :33:16. | |
got 6% in yesterday's elections. So a significant time for the French. | :33:17. | :33:24. | |
With me is an author of a book called How The French Think. Will | :33:25. | :33:30. | |
you have to rewrite your book? One of the things I conclude in my book | :33:31. | :33:36. | |
is France is always divided into clusters of two. The second round | :33:37. | :33:42. | |
will be between the optimist is represented by Emmanuel Macron and | :33:43. | :33:46. | |
the pessimists represented by Marine Le Pen. In that respect the French | :33:47. | :33:50. | |
are still being true to form. What is going on in the French psyche to | :33:51. | :33:56. | |
opt for these candidates at a time like this? There is immense | :33:57. | :34:00. | |
frustration with the economy and with the political elite. What | :34:01. | :34:04. | |
Emmanuel Macron has been able to do very artfully is to exploit this | :34:05. | :34:10. | |
economic and political situation to his advantage. When he created his | :34:11. | :34:14. | |
movement a year ago, everyone thought it would be just a bubble. | :34:15. | :34:20. | |
Yet here we are, just one year later and he is at the threshold of the | :34:21. | :34:26. | |
French presidency. Do you think someone like Emmanuel Macron William | :34:27. | :34:30. | |
Knight France, if he wins? He is trying to bring together all the | :34:31. | :34:35. | |
things people agree on rather than divide people. In that sense he has | :34:36. | :34:39. | |
a hopeful project ahead of him. Whether he will be able to do so by | :34:40. | :34:45. | |
the institutions, is another matter. Thank you very much. Fascinating | :34:46. | :34:50. | |
times, changing times in France, but after months of relentless | :34:51. | :34:55. | |
campaigning, under the two weeks are upon us. Absolutely, thank you very | :34:56. | :34:56. | |
much, Aaron. My officers conduct themselves to | :34:57. | :35:13. | |
the letter of the law. So you didn't have a deeply corrupt officer | :35:14. | :35:17. | |
embedded in your department for the last two years? Adrian Dunbar will | :35:18. | :35:24. | |
be with us in about five minutes. After surviving cancer, | :35:25. | :35:34. | |
Jules Mountain almost died in an avalanche trying to reach | :35:35. | :35:36. | |
the summit of Mount Everest. He's written a book | :35:37. | :35:38. | |
about his experience. And, Star of Scottish band Texas, | :35:39. | :35:41. | |
Sharleen Spiteri will be here to tell us about "working out" | :35:42. | :35:51. | |
a new sound for their latest album and asking for a little help | :35:52. | :35:54. | |
from a famous friend. That is Thierry Henry Henry, driving | :35:55. | :36:10. | |
the car. Arsenal, Arsene Wenger. Congratulations, that is the best | :36:11. | :36:12. | |
link of the morning. Arsene Wenger could win his seventh | :36:13. | :36:25. | |
FA Cup. Pretty good, considering. Will he | :36:26. | :36:30. | |
keep his job? All the pressure is on pep Guardiola. He won't win a trophy | :36:31. | :36:40. | |
after being brought in as the best manager in football. I think there | :36:41. | :36:45. | |
will be big spending done over the summer. Yes, watch this space. | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
Arsenal will face Chelsea in next month's FA Cup final | :36:50. | :36:51. | |
after beating Manchester City 2-1 in extra time at Wembley. | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
They did it the hard way in the semifinal, | :36:55. | :36:56. | |
coming from behind after City had taken the lead | :36:57. | :36:58. | |
The Gunners, though, found an equaliser through Nacho Monreal | :36:59. | :37:01. | |
to send the game into extra time, before Alexis Sanchez | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
People questioned us a lot recently, you know, when we went through some | :37:05. | :37:15. | |
But in these difficult times, you can be divided, what is | :37:16. | :37:20. | |
natural inclination, or you can be united. | :37:21. | :37:25. | |
shown the right response, that we are capable to be together. | :37:26. | :37:33. | |
City's exit from the FA Cup means there'll be no trophy | :37:34. | :37:36. | |
for Pep Guardiola this year, and Manchester United are breathing | :37:37. | :37:39. | |
down their rivals' necks in the Premier League. | :37:40. | :37:41. | |
A 2-0 win at Burnley means Jose Mourinho's side are now just | :37:42. | :37:44. | |
a point behind City and the fourth Champions League spot, | :37:45. | :37:47. | |
which gives Thursday's Manchester derby an extra bit of spice. | :37:48. | :37:53. | |
United have something of an injury crisis, | :37:54. | :37:55. | |
which meant Wayne Rooney made just his second Premier League start | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
of the year, but he and Anthony Martial scored for United | :37:59. | :38:01. | |
Third-placed Liverpool slipped up, losing 2-1 | :38:02. | :38:06. | |
Philippe Coutinho put the hosts ahead with a great free kick, | :38:07. | :38:10. | |
but two goals by former Liverpool forward Christian Benteke | :38:11. | :38:13. | |
gave Palace the victory and eases their relegation worries. | :38:14. | :38:19. | |
Celtic remain on course for their first domestic Treble | :38:20. | :38:21. | |
since 2001 after they beat Old Firm rivals Rangers 2-0 to reach | :38:22. | :38:24. | |
They've already wrapped up the league title | :38:25. | :38:27. | |
and the Scottish League Cup this season, and an early goal | :38:28. | :38:29. | |
Scott Sinclair doubled their lead with a penalty in the second half, | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
the third goal he's scored against Rangers this season. | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
Celtic will face Aberdeen in the final next month. | :38:41. | :38:45. | |
Barcelona manager Luis Enrique described Lionel Messi | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
as the "best player in history" after he scored his 500th goal | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
for the club as they beat Real Madrid 3-2 to take them | :38:51. | :38:54. | |
There was a special guest to see it, too, | :38:55. | :39:01. | |
as Masters champion Sergio Garcia got things under way, | :39:02. | :39:03. | |
There was plenty of entertainment in the match itself. | :39:04. | :39:09. | |
Madrid had Sergioo Ramos sent off and it was 2-2 going into the final | :39:10. | :39:13. | |
ten seconds of injury time when Messi | :39:14. | :39:16. | |
He scored twice in the match to take his side top | :39:17. | :39:20. | |
Great Britain's Ellie Downie rounded off her fantastic weekend | :39:21. | :39:26. | |
at the European Gymnastics Championships | :39:27. | :39:28. | |
That took the 17-year-old's medal tally in Romania to four | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
after after winning all-around gold, silver in the vault | :39:33. | :39:35. | |
Claudia Fragapane finished seventh after a bad mistake. | :39:36. | :39:44. | |
Now, we've heard about the sportsmanship of | :39:45. | :39:46. | |
Swansea Harriers runner Matthew Rees at the London Marathon, as | :39:47. | :39:48. | |
he helped fellow competitor David Wyeth over the line. | :39:49. | :39:58. | |
But he wasn't the only member of the Swansea | :39:59. | :40:02. | |
Josh Griffiths was running his first marathon. | :40:03. | :40:05. | |
Not only did he finish, he was the first Briton | :40:06. | :40:07. | |
across the line with a time of 2 hours, 14 minutes and 49 seconds, | :40:08. | :40:11. | |
He completed the course in a qualifying time | :40:12. | :40:14. | |
for the World Championships so quite a day for the club | :40:15. | :40:17. | |
They must breed them fast and strong in south Wales. An amazing | :40:18. | :40:39. | |
performance. First marathon, first major marathon. Probably running | :40:40. | :40:43. | |
them round the mountains of South Wales on a daily basis. | :40:44. | :40:47. | |
Speaking about that amazing moment from the marathon, earlier, | :40:48. | :40:50. | |
we spoke to Matthew Rees and David Wyeth about those last | :40:51. | :40:55. | |
torturous 135 metres to the finish line. | :40:56. | :41:06. | |
I took the final corner, ready to sprint the few hundred | :41:07. | :41:09. | |
metres but I saw David and his legs had completely | :41:10. | :41:12. | |
In my mind, I was like, "That's the one, I need to help this guy, | :41:13. | :41:18. | |
He'd come 26 miles and the finish was just there, so, for me, | :41:19. | :41:23. | |
it was important to get into the end and cross together. | :41:24. | :41:25. | |
And what was going through my head was, "Don't you stop, | :41:26. | :41:28. | |
In fact, when the volunteer came over, you know, | :41:29. | :41:34. | |
I was still really keen that Matthew just dropped me and got a good time. | :41:35. | :41:39. | |
Obviously, we had never met so I did not know his | :41:40. | :41:41. | |
You know, as you mentioned earlier, you know, he could well | :41:42. | :41:47. | |
have been on for a PB, so I didn't know that | :41:48. | :41:50. | |
and I was frustrated that he was giving up his race. | :41:51. | :41:53. | |
Definitely stay in touch, you know, we have been through something | :41:54. | :41:57. | |
incredible together, amazing and a marathon | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
So yeah, we'll keep in touch definitely. | :42:02. | :42:04. | |
Absolutely, but it does sum up the running community as well. | :42:05. | :42:06. | |
You know, we are really pleased that you have seen this. | :42:07. | :42:10. | |
It got caught on the cameras but this stuff happens all over | :42:11. | :42:13. | |
the place in races up and down the country. | :42:14. | :42:15. | |
You know, I'm really grateful to Matthew but also | :42:16. | :42:17. | |
I've heard references to a running rival. | :42:18. | :42:23. | |
We are not rivals on that day, you know? | :42:24. | :42:25. | |
We are all fighting for the line together. | :42:26. | :42:34. | |
So many people take part in sport in this country, just because of the | :42:35. | :42:41. | |
camaraderie. Thank you for your comments this morning, you watch | :42:42. | :42:47. | |
them live yesterday and then saw them on Breakfast today. | :42:48. | :42:49. | |
If you haven't seen last night's episode of Line | :42:50. | :42:58. | |
The police corruption drama has had us on the edge of our seats | :42:59. | :43:09. | |
for the past five weeks, and as we inch towards the series | :43:10. | :43:11. | |
final on Sunday, we are still no closer to knowing if AC-12 will be | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
To perhaps shed some light on what more we can expect we'll be | :43:16. | :43:24. | |
speaking to Adrian Dunbar, who plays Superintendent Ted | :43:25. | :43:26. | |
But first, let's take a look at his character in action, | :43:27. | :43:29. | |
Sir, there's an institutional failure to admit error, here, sir. | :43:30. | :43:42. | |
Actually, it is a wilful effort to bury allegations | :43:43. | :43:46. | |
of wrongdoing and to cap it all, the only department that's trying | :43:47. | :43:48. | |
to get to the truth, mine, is the one that's being reduced. | :43:49. | :43:58. | |
to get to the truth, mine, is the one that's being recused. | :43:59. | :44:01. | |
To provide sufficient evidence against Roz Huntley. | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
Plus, she's levelled credible accusations against your undercover | :44:06. | :44:07. | |
officer of entrapment, of coaching witnesses, possibly even | :44:08. | :44:09. | |
My officers conduct themselves to the letter of the law, | :44:10. | :44:12. | |
Oh, so you didn't have a deeply corrupt officer embedded | :44:13. | :44:15. | |
No one regrets more than me, sir, not seeing through | :44:16. | :44:19. | |
Cottan's dying declaration - I want the full recording | :44:20. | :44:24. | |
You are causing havoc on Monday. We are divided into those who have seen | :44:25. | :44:44. | |
it and those who have seen it cannot talk to the people who have not. | :44:45. | :44:49. | |
People walk up and say, don't tell me. I haven't seen it. It is with | :44:50. | :44:58. | |
some trepidation I go into this interview, are we qualified to | :44:59. | :45:02. | |
interview? I think you are coming have done enough over the years to | :45:03. | :45:07. | |
be qualified. Just don't put me under too much pressure. | :45:08. | :45:14. | |
You are aware of the impact it's having on Sony people, and today we | :45:15. | :45:20. | |
have a pregnant lady called Anna who says she has texting specifically to | :45:21. | :45:23. | |
see you having watched last night. Hello! My wife is called Anna as | :45:24. | :45:29. | |
well. When you get the script, do you think what is happening now, as | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
actors? Absolutely, we get the first couple of episodes. You are reading | :45:35. | :45:38. | |
the first couple of episodes and you are kind of shocked by what is going | :45:39. | :45:42. | |
on. Then you get drip fed the next episode and you think, "Oh, my God!" | :45:43. | :45:47. | |
We can't pre-empt, when we are shooting it in blocks, we don't | :45:48. | :45:50. | |
necessarily know what is going to happen further down the line. It | :45:51. | :45:55. | |
comes as just a big a shock to us with the scripts are fed to us and | :45:56. | :46:04. | |
of course when Jed Mercurio writes comedies going towards the final | :46:05. | :46:07. | |
episode and he does not lock it in stone until he sees what else is | :46:08. | :46:12. | |
going on before it. So things can change. He has the ability to change | :46:13. | :46:17. | |
things as he sees fit. Tell us about Ted Hastings as a character to play. | :46:18. | :46:21. | |
Fantastic, it's been a great character for me to play because I | :46:22. | :46:25. | |
can bring my stuff to it, as it were. It's great to find, to be able | :46:26. | :46:30. | |
to be a character, as such. People seem to have warmed to him because | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
he's very old school, not very PC but at the same time, it is nice to | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
feel there is somebody out there who is trying to chase down the bad guys | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
and has a kind of moral core and those things. May be the non-PC that | :46:43. | :46:50. | |
catches it out. It could be that or any number of things. Of course, we | :46:51. | :46:56. | |
don't necessarily know. People play Hastings bingo when they watch Line | :46:57. | :47:03. | |
Of Duty. "For The purposes of the tape", Bent coppers, letter of the | :47:04. | :47:07. | |
law, one the tie, darling, that wee girl and of course, fella. Fella is | :47:08. | :47:12. | |
going big, hold on there, fella, seems to be all over the place. I | :47:13. | :47:16. | |
knocked on social media but Vicky McClure and Martin Compston keep on | :47:17. | :47:19. | |
sending me stuff to bring up to speed which is quite fun. Do you | :47:20. | :47:27. | |
watch it at I do. I'm filming, directing TV in Liverpool at the | :47:28. | :47:31. | |
minute for Jimmy McGovern, so I wasn't at home last night but | :47:32. | :47:35. | |
usually, I watch at home. The amazing thing is, not speaking from | :47:36. | :47:41. | |
a position of expertise, here, but what you manage to do, producers, | :47:42. | :47:47. | |
directors and actors is essentially, there's incredible scenes where you | :47:48. | :47:50. | |
have three or four people sat around a desk and the scene can sometimes | :47:51. | :47:54. | |
last 15 minutes and yet, it remains incredibly compelling TV. Yes, it's | :47:55. | :48:00. | |
very intense. Sometimes we have seen is that run to 26, we had a 32 page | :48:01. | :48:07. | |
seen at one point, each take to the best part of half an hour to shoot. | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
So they get intense because of that as well because of the longevity of | :48:12. | :48:15. | |
the scene as it goes on but also because it is structured, the | :48:16. | :48:20. | |
Byzantine nature of police, you are dealing with people who are very | :48:21. | :48:22. | |
smart and who understand the techniques that are used within | :48:23. | :48:27. | |
interrogation and so forth and interview. That is what makes it | :48:28. | :48:31. | |
very tense and it is very incremental. You can't jump ahead. | :48:32. | :48:35. | |
You have to very quietly go through stuff. I think people have really | :48:36. | :48:42. | |
got into that. I think the procedural element is very exciting, | :48:43. | :48:45. | |
on the one hand. And on the other hand, we have these incredible | :48:46. | :48:50. | |
twists and turns that happen, that keeps you on your toes as well. And | :48:51. | :48:56. | |
also, it is a show where, you know, the Leeds we don't have guessed | :48:57. | :49:01. | |
Leeds, we have Leeds. We have Thandie Newton at the minute, | :49:02. | :49:03. | |
putting in an incredible performance. And also, I think | :49:04. | :49:08. | |
Martin's character, you really got an insight into his character this | :49:09. | :49:12. | |
time through the series. There are all kinds of element is happening | :49:13. | :49:15. | |
within the series, I think, that is really grabbing everybody's | :49:16. | :49:19. | |
attention, there's lots to talk about as well as the storyline. We | :49:20. | :49:24. | |
don't want to give too much away. Recon. Because I specifically | :49:25. | :49:29. | |
haven't watched it yet! But can you give us a general sense? There is so | :49:30. | :49:35. | |
much to work out. Will there be... Have you seen the last one or not? | :49:36. | :49:39. | |
There's a lot to work out. And of course, not all of it will be worked | :49:40. | :49:43. | |
out because there will be another series, of course. Do you know if | :49:44. | :49:46. | |
you're going to be in the neck series? I'm keeping my fingers | :49:47. | :49:50. | |
crossed. None of us really know if we will make the cut. I think Jed | :49:51. | :49:58. | |
I think we will all be there, exactly. But not everything will be | :49:59. | :50:02. | |
resolved but most of it will. There is this background noise all the | :50:03. | :50:08. | |
time with him, line of duty, that there is some larger conspiracy | :50:09. | :50:12. | |
happening is that we haven't quite got to the bottom of yet. This does | :50:13. | :50:16. | |
not give anything away but we have an exclusive clip from the final | :50:17. | :50:21. | |
episode. What? It's not very long and it won't ruin anything. But we | :50:22. | :50:24. | |
can't have you here without showing a bit. | :50:25. | :50:27. | |
Let's take a look from an exclusive clip from showing | :50:28. | :50:29. | |
Kate? Starting the first round of interviews, no news yet. She's done | :50:30. | :50:42. | |
it again. We had that case in the bomb that had! Schuster and every | :50:43. | :50:47. | |
off the scent. Who's on it? Murder squad, 89 observing. God give me | :50:48. | :50:52. | |
strength, the whole thing is kicking off, we are not even in the game! | :50:53. | :51:03. | |
Kate? Who is it from murder squad? My goodness, bit of Hastings bingo | :51:04. | :51:09. | |
as well. Give me strength! It gets my heart racing. I haven't seen the | :51:10. | :51:14. | |
episode myself yet. And of course, I haven't been around for a lot of the | :51:15. | :51:18. | |
stuff that has been filmed so I find it fascinating actually looking at | :51:19. | :51:22. | |
the series myself because I'm now seeing, you know, what a brilliant | :51:23. | :51:27. | |
performance everyone else is putting in elsewhere in the scenes. I know | :51:28. | :51:30. | |
you can't say who it is, you say you don't know so do you know who | :51:31. | :51:38. | |
balaclava man is? Do I know? Yes. You're going to have to wait and | :51:39. | :51:44. | |
see! Come on! I put it to you, Mr Dunbar, that you know... Now, | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
exactly, no, we don't know any of that yet. Most things will be | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
resolved but not everything because, you know, it's an ongoing series. | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
You know, I'm keeping my fingers crossed it will be on much longer. | :51:58. | :52:03. | |
It's an exciting time for TV in some ways, isn't it? It is, this is the | :52:04. | :52:11. | |
particular format that Jed has come up with and it is exciting. We are | :52:12. | :52:15. | |
moving into a more complicated style television making, if you like, | :52:16. | :52:25. | |
rather than just one episode, one case, one result, something that | :52:26. | :52:27. | |
goes on for a number series. Thank you for joining us. | :52:28. | :52:29. | |
The final episode from this series of Line of Duty | :52:30. | :52:31. | |
Carol Kirkwood is one of your biggest fans and she has only just | :52:32. | :52:40. | |
taken her hands over her eyes. Good morning, best bread on TV, Line | :52:41. | :52:46. | |
Of Duty. Thank you very much! Good morning, everyone. It is a chilly | :52:47. | :52:50. | |
start with some snow around as well, as you can see from one of the | :52:51. | :52:53. | |
Weather Watchers pictures taken this morning in Shetland. We have another | :52:54. | :52:57. | |
one from the Highlands. Look how ominous the cloud is looking. We | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
have seen some snow this morning, and on the radar chart, you can see | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
where it has been falling, primarily across northern Scotland. Elsewhere, | :53:07. | :53:10. | |
any precipitation coming out of the skies has been rain. For the next | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
few days, not immune to wintry showers but because they are | :53:16. | :53:17. | |
showers, not all of us will catch one but watch out for frost. What is | :53:18. | :53:22. | |
happening is happening is a cold front is sinking south and behind | :53:23. | :53:26. | |
it, all this cold air is streaming southwards, courtesy of a northerly | :53:27. | :53:30. | |
flow. The air is coming straight down from the Arctic. Across | :53:31. | :53:35. | |
northern Scotland, we continue with snow even at lower levels through | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
the day. The wind will strengthen, as I mentioned, coming from the | :53:40. | :53:43. | |
north and it will really accentuate the cold feel. Brightening up across | :53:44. | :53:47. | |
northern England and all the rest of the patchy rain sinking southwards, | :53:48. | :53:50. | |
eradicating the sunny start. Sunshine across a lot of northern | :53:51. | :53:54. | |
England this afternoon but across the far north-east and eastern | :53:55. | :53:57. | |
Scotland once again, some wintry showers. A mixture of rain, sleet, | :53:58. | :54:02. | |
hail and thunder and lightning but snowed still to lower levels in the | :54:03. | :54:05. | |
north and also windy. Northern Ireland with sunshine and showers. | :54:06. | :54:09. | |
On the hills, a bit of wintering is perhaps. For Wales, as the weather | :54:10. | :54:13. | |
front south, it will brighten up from the North, so bright in | :54:14. | :54:17. | |
Cheshire, the Wirral and North Wales but for the rest of Wales in | :54:18. | :54:20. | |
south-west England, a bit more cloud and some patchy rain. Patchy rain | :54:21. | :54:25. | |
across southern counties, through the Midlands, extending towards Kent | :54:26. | :54:28. | |
and East Anglia. But in the south, we are still in mild air this | :54:29. | :54:33. | |
afternoon. Through the evening, as the weather front clears down here, | :54:34. | :54:36. | |
taking rain into the Channel Islands, the cold air will filter | :54:37. | :54:40. | |
across everyone. A cold night to come, with some wintry gas in | :54:41. | :54:43. | |
Scotland still, down to low levels and also looking at some wintry | :54:44. | :54:48. | |
showers across eastern England, and Northern Ireland, and also, parts of | :54:49. | :54:52. | |
Wales. There will be a widespread frost and the risk of ice on | :54:53. | :54:57. | |
untreated surfaces. Tomorrow dawns on a lovely note for some with a lot | :54:58. | :55:00. | |
of sunshine and a cold start. There will be a lot of showers. Some of | :55:01. | :55:04. | |
those, almost anywhere, could have a wintry element but because they are | :55:05. | :55:09. | |
showers, it also means not all of us will see one. Some still getting | :55:10. | :55:12. | |
down to lower levels across parts of northern Scotland and once again, | :55:13. | :55:17. | |
towns and cities, 7-11 but in the wind, it will feel a lot colder than | :55:18. | :55:22. | |
that. On Wednesday, further showers, some of those once again could be | :55:23. | :55:27. | |
wintry in nature. Temperatures between 7-11 or 12. As we head | :55:28. | :55:30. | |
towards the latter part of the week and into the weekend, gradually, we | :55:31. | :55:34. | |
will start to see temperatures climbing once again. But certainly | :55:35. | :55:38. | |
for the next few days, you will need your winter coat once again. | :55:39. | :55:46. | |
It's OK, we can turn back the TV on, no more spoilers. | :55:47. | :55:55. | |
Lots of police officers have got in contact saying that Adrian Dunbar is | :55:56. | :55:59. | |
the most authentic superintendent on TV. So good. Some great guests on | :56:00. | :56:07. | |
the sofa this morning. Can you believe the Scottish band Texas have | :56:08. | :56:11. | |
been around for 30 years? The latest sound represents -- album represents | :56:12. | :56:15. | |
a fresh sound for the group. Sharleen Spiteri will be with us in | :56:16. | :56:18. | |
a few moments but first, let's have a look at a song from their new | :56:19. | :56:20. | |
album. # Don't you tell her, tell that girl | :56:21. | :56:22. | |
# You said forever, ever, oh, # How's she supposed to know that | :56:23. | :56:30. | |
you're meant to be together # If you don't tell | :56:31. | :56:35. | |
her, tell that girl Sharleen Spiteri, | :56:36. | :56:59. | |
welcome to BBC Breakfast. I asked you how you are but you are | :57:00. | :57:17. | |
living? I look about 70 at the moment. You normally leap about? I | :57:18. | :57:21. | |
do but I took of my moon boot to come on this morning. I had a bit of | :57:22. | :57:27. | |
an accident, a bit of a middle-aged accident, trying to act like I was | :57:28. | :57:33. | |
12. Bouncy castle. You are not the first. Know, and I definitely won't | :57:34. | :57:36. | |
be the last but what an idiot! You know when you feel like an absolute | :57:37. | :57:41. | |
idiot? I did it under the BBC's watch as well which was really funny | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
and they said, " we are not liable", and I thought nothing was going to | :57:47. | :57:49. | |
happen but the torn ligament and I've only got myself to blame. | :57:50. | :57:54. | |
You're a disgrace! That is what happens when you're in a band. We | :57:55. | :57:57. | |
were talking only about when you feel like a grown-up and you're a | :57:58. | :58:02. | |
similar age to me... I never feel like a grown-up. Who wants to be a | :58:03. | :58:06. | |
grown-up? Texas have been around for quite some time, as we were saying, | :58:07. | :58:10. | |
does this feel like a fresh start for a new chapter? Just the next | :58:11. | :58:14. | |
chapter of the story. This is what we do, make records, go out on tour. | :58:15. | :58:20. | |
It has been amazing, after the reception we had a few years ago | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
when we did the conversation, and the 25th anniversary, it was like | :58:26. | :58:30. | |
the tours were sold out, it was amazing, and we thought, "Right, | :58:31. | :58:33. | |
let's do the next record", and this is it. Tell us about the record. It | :58:34. | :58:39. | |
is a very positive, up record, we wanted to make one that gave you an | :58:40. | :58:42. | |
escape from real life. That is what we were really trying to do, that | :58:43. | :58:47. | |
moment of, "It's not nice out there at the moment, shut it off, hands in | :58:48. | :58:58. | |
the air, dance in the kitchen". A bit of escapism. That was what we | :58:59. | :59:01. | |
wanted in our lives so we very much try to make it on the record. Let's | :59:02. | :59:04. | |
show you a clip from the video, because we showed you at earlier | :59:05. | :59:07. | |
with Thierry Henry in it can and I want you to expire in how you got | :59:08. | :59:11. | |
Thierry Henry in the video. -- to explain. | :59:12. | :59:18. | |
# We've got to work it out. # Life is too short, let's work it | :59:19. | :59:28. | |
out. # We've got to work it out. | :59:29. | :59:34. | |
# Life's too short we've got to work it out. | :59:35. | :59:42. | |
# I know this is the last time. # Because you will never be mine. | :59:43. | :59:51. | |
# Go away, go away. # Its dramatic. Does he say anything | :59:52. | :00:12. | |
in the video? No, we were laughing away, and we kept getting told to be | :00:13. | :00:16. | |
quiet. So that is his serious face on. You have known each other for | :00:17. | :00:23. | |
how long? Since he came to Arsenal so about 18 years. He met at a game, | :00:24. | :00:32. | |
but you were neighbours? He lived in the road behind me. Patrick Viera | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
had invited me to a game and I am an Arsenal fan. I had a season ticket | :00:38. | :00:44. | |
but I had been invited to the player's Lounge. Then I met Thierry | :00:45. | :00:48. | |
Henry Henry and we realised we lived one street away from each other. And | :00:49. | :00:54. | |
I said, if you need somebody to show you around London, whatever. What | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
can I say, I am Scottish and hospitable and we have been friends | :01:01. | :01:08. | |
ever since. We were sitting in his kitchen and we were having lunch | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
talking absolute rubbish. And he said to me, have you finished the | :01:14. | :01:18. | |
record yet? And I said yes, I have got some of it, do you want to have | :01:19. | :01:24. | |
a listen? He said, I like that. He had a bit of a dance. And I said if | :01:25. | :01:35. | |
I ever get Hugh in a video, you are definitely not dancing because you | :01:36. | :01:40. | |
will outshine me. He was asking me to be in the video. I didn't want to | :01:41. | :01:47. | |
put him under pressure. So I called up and said, you can say no. And | :01:48. | :01:56. | |
then he said, I would love to do it. We had a great time. He is a | :01:57. | :02:05. | |
wonderful, great person. Very nice. It is an exhilarating album, | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
uplifting, escapism? It has been well received and everybody has been | :02:12. | :02:17. | |
positive. We go out on tour and restart end of August. By that time | :02:18. | :02:23. | |
you will be jumping about the stage. No bouncy castles. | :02:24. | :02:26. | |
Texas' new album is called 'Jump on Board'. | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
We're only four months into Hull's term as the UK City of Culture - | :02:32. | :02:39. | |
but already towns and cities are bidding for their chance | :02:40. | :02:41. | |
One potential contender is Britain's smallest city, | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
St David's in Pembrokeshire - which has a population | :02:46. | :02:47. | |
Beautiful it is. Behind the imposing Gately is the city of St Davids. A | :02:48. | :03:06. | |
large village, it has 1800 people. And then down there is Saint David's | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
Cathedral. This is going to be the focus, they hope of the city of | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
culture in 2021, 11 places bidding. I have been to another place in line | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
for this accolade, and that is Warrington between Liverpool and | :03:25. | :03:25. | |
Manchester. George Formby, famous | :03:26. | :03:31. | |
for his ukelele playing and his saucy songs, | :03:32. | :03:33. | |
was born here in 1904. Britain's first IKEA | :03:34. | :03:38. | |
opened here in 1987. In 1968, the place was made | :03:39. | :03:40. | |
a new town and the town hall has Has it always been at the forefront | :03:41. | :03:43. | |
of what we've been doing, culture? As we transition from a new town | :03:44. | :03:54. | |
to a new city, that city has to have a compelling cultural offer, | :03:55. | :04:00. | |
because we know what cities that They are abandoned of | :04:01. | :04:03. | |
an evening in the centre. They aren't the magnets of talent | :04:04. | :04:10. | |
and for young people Warrington's economically successful | :04:11. | :04:13. | |
and unemployment's low but you wouldn't know it, | :04:14. | :04:17. | |
looking at the town centre. This is what they call | :04:18. | :04:27. | |
Warrington's cultural quarter. They say it's the oldest | :04:28. | :04:28. | |
public library in England. The truth is, people | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
in Warrington who want theatre or major art galleries go | :04:36. | :04:42. | |
to Liverpool or Manchester. The concert venue's | :04:43. | :04:45. | |
called Parr Hall. Outside, I met a musician | :04:46. | :04:48. | |
and promoter who says Warrington's live music scene has enjoyed | :04:49. | :04:51. | |
a modest revival lately but could do much better if the town | :04:52. | :04:54. | |
were City of Culture. Any kind of artists, really, | :04:55. | :04:58. | |
who are from Warrington, you don't You have to go into | :04:59. | :05:01. | |
Manchester or Liverpool. So there might not be | :05:02. | :05:08. | |
loads and loads of stuff going on in Warrington but that | :05:09. | :05:12. | |
doesn't mean that people from Warrington don't | :05:13. | :05:14. | |
have the talents and skills. # Then she said that together | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
we could take on the world #. Last year, the band Viola Beach | :05:20. | :05:22. | |
were on the cusp of success when they and their manager | :05:23. | :05:26. | |
were killed in a road They came from Warrington, | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
proof that culture can flourish here alongside the giant soap works | :05:30. | :05:35. | |
and the unexpectedly That is Warrington. 11 places | :05:36. | :05:52. | |
queueing up for the city of culture. They have until the end of this week | :05:53. | :05:57. | |
to get their formal applications in. What about St Davids, I am joined by | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
two local artists. They say this is the art capital of Wales? Apparently | :06:05. | :06:10. | |
so, I came here about 30 years ago and I am amazed at how many little | :06:11. | :06:15. | |
galleries are around and how many people are interested in | :06:16. | :06:20. | |
contemporary arts. It has retained its historical identity, St Davids | :06:21. | :06:27. | |
is open to embracing contemporary art and art from around the world. | :06:28. | :06:34. | |
You are painting all 1800 residents of the place. This is your little | :06:35. | :06:45. | |
portrait of? Dorrien Davies. This project will entail doing 1800. Very | :06:46. | :06:52. | |
quickly, what has St Davids got apart from the fact it is very | :06:53. | :06:57. | |
timely and not really a plausible candidate for the city of Culture? | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
What has and it got? You have the wonderful pill in Schiller, this | :07:03. | :07:07. | |
beautiful cathedral, the centre of spirituality and huge talent, like | :07:08. | :07:13. | |
Graham. So many people come here to out the year. To have this place as | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
city of culture would add to the mix. Thank you both very much, I am | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
sorry we have so little time but St Davids get its application in by the | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
end of the week and we will know by the end of the year, the end of | :07:27. | :07:31. | |
Hull's yet of City of Culture, who will beat city of culture in 2021. | :07:32. | :07:36. | |
It is a cracking looking Cathedral. In a moment, we'll be speaking | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
to Jules Mountain about battling cancer and surviving | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
an avalanche on Everest. But first a last,brief | :07:43. | :07:43. | |
look at the headlines Now though it's back | :07:44. | :07:46. | |
to Dan and Louise. Jules Mountain survived a seven-hour | :07:47. | :09:24. | |
operation to remove a cancerous tumour in his head and four | :09:25. | :09:32. | |
months of chemotherapy. Spurred on by his recovery | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
he joined expedition to climb Mount Everest, | :09:37. | :09:38. | |
only to become caught up in the avalanche caused by the 2015 | :09:39. | :09:41. | |
earthquake in Nepal. Undeterred he returned and reached | :09:42. | :09:48. | |
the summit the following year. Now he's written a book | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
about his experience. So much to talk to you about. I have | :09:51. | :10:02. | |
read a lot of the book and a lot of it deals with the aftermath after | :10:03. | :10:07. | |
that horrendous earthquake and the devastation it caused. You were on | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
the mountain at the time and you had got back into your tent? I was at | :10:12. | :10:16. | |
base camp, had Breakfast and gone back to my tent. I was lying in the | :10:17. | :10:22. | |
tent and all of a sudden the ground move to the left. We were on a | :10:23. | :10:27. | |
glacier, several tonnes of ice and I thought, that cannot move. It felt | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
like someone was lifting me up by my back. It shunted me to the right. I | :10:32. | :10:37. | |
jumped out the tent and I looked up, and the two Polish climbers in from | :10:38. | :10:42. | |
the meat were looking up at the sky. The sky was filled full of snow | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
coming towards us. I have seen avalanches before but everything was | :10:47. | :10:52. | |
full of snow. You must have thought, that is it, at that moment? I did, I | :10:53. | :10:58. | |
thought I was going to die. My first reaction was, can I run. The ground | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
behind me was covered in ice and rocks and I only had my socks on. | :11:04. | :11:08. | |
And I thought, that is not going to happen so I dived back into my tent | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
and buried my head into my sleeping bag. Then the whole thing hit and | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
the tent was rocking backwards and forwards and I thought, it will blow | :11:18. | :11:22. | |
the tent away and I will die. You had an extraordinary escape, but | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
many didn't and then you had to deal with the aftermath which was | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
extremely traumatic? It was chaos, chaos like you could never imagine. | :11:33. | :11:37. | |
If somebody walked into your house with a broken arm, you call 999 and | :11:38. | :11:42. | |
you have 15 to 20 minutes and somebody else comes to take them | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
away. The only thing we had was helicopters coming into base camp, | :11:47. | :11:50. | |
bringing in supplies and they would take people away. You had a night on | :11:51. | :11:57. | |
the mountain? We had no help, no one was coming after the earthquake. We | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
had all these badly injured people, 22 people who had died and over 100 | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
injured. There was nobody to help them. Having been to cancer, which | :12:07. | :12:12. | |
you detailed beautifully in the book, if I can put it that way, | :12:13. | :12:16. | |
having been to that, what did your family think, here we go again? My | :12:17. | :12:24. | |
dad said, really? Have you got to do it again? I have got to do it again. | :12:25. | :12:29. | |
I'm that have kept going back until I managed to kill myself, it is that | :12:30. | :12:36. | |
addictive. Even though you have two young girls? Yes, two beautiful | :12:37. | :12:39. | |
young daughters. That was the hardest thing of being away for | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
eight weeks, the hardest thing was being away from them. It was very | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
tough. It was the toughest decision and the first year I went, I almost | :12:50. | :12:54. | |
came back after the first week. I hated sleeping in a tent at -15 | :12:55. | :13:00. | |
every night. I was slightly claustrophobic, I am six feet three, | :13:01. | :13:05. | |
I had my head stuck in one corner of the tent. It is like getting into | :13:06. | :13:09. | |
your freezer at night and going to sleep and wondering if you would be | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
alive in the morning. I don't mind the climbing, it is great but being | :13:14. | :13:18. | |
at base camp was the worst thing. I thought, I want to go home and steam | :13:19. | :13:22. | |
my daughters. And then I thought no, I will stick it out for a week. And | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
then I would make it one more week. Little steps. And then after two | :13:28. | :13:35. | |
weeks, I had acclimatised. It is an amazing story, thank you for talking | :13:36. | :13:36. | |
to us. And Jules's book is | :13:37. | :13:38. | |
called 'Aftershock - One Man's Quest and | :13:39. | :13:40. | |
the quake on Everest'. Every day we're bombarded | :13:41. | :13:42. | |
with conflicting messages about One minute we're told something is | :13:43. | :13:56. | |
the right thing to do, | :13:57. | :14:00. |