11/05/2017

:00:00. > :00:07.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:00:08. > :00:10.Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked more than a week

:00:11. > :00:15.The document includes plans to nationalise the railways,

:00:16. > :00:17.Royal Mail and parts of the energy industry

:00:18. > :00:37.Good morning, it's Thursday 11th May.

:00:38. > :00:42.A record fine for a company that made 100 million cold calls

:00:43. > :00:49.Why those on the latest treatments can expect to live just as long

:00:50. > :01:05.Good morning. Today I am talking about trade, an important issue in

:01:06. > :01:07.the run-up to the election. I am at a textiles company in Yorkshire to

:01:08. > :01:08.find out how good we are exporting. In sport - its not

:01:09. > :01:11.over yet for Arsenal. They're up to fifth

:01:12. > :01:14.in the Premier League after beating Southampton, just outside

:01:15. > :01:16.the Champions League places. And Carol is out and

:01:17. > :01:30.about with the weather. I am at Kenwood house in London

:01:31. > :01:35.where it is a beautiful yet chilly start to the day. For most of us it

:01:36. > :01:39.will be dry and sunny how whether there will be heavy downpours across

:01:40. > :01:44.parts of southern England and south Wales through the day. It will feel

:01:45. > :01:49.humid and some of us will reach 24 Celsius. Do details in 15 minutes.

:01:50. > :01:56.Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked -

:01:57. > :01:58.more than a week before its official launch.

:01:59. > :02:02.was obtained by the BBC and several newspapers.

:02:03. > :02:04.It includes proposals to nationalise the railways

:02:05. > :02:08.A plan to create publicly owned energy companies in every region

:02:09. > :02:11.of the UK and the introduction of price caps.

:02:12. > :02:13.And there's a commitment to abolish tuition fees

:02:14. > :02:17.The proposals are expected to be discussed by senior Labour figures

:02:18. > :02:19.including the Shadow Cabinet at a meeting later today.

:02:20. > :02:26.Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster.

:02:27. > :02:35.I will start by asking you how on earth has happened. It is certainly

:02:36. > :02:41.not what the party would have wanted and definitely not what they would

:02:42. > :02:50.have planned and I think a clue! This is -- across the 20,000 words

:02:51. > :02:57.of this says that it is draft and confidential. A big clue that they

:02:58. > :03:00.did not think anybody would get hold of this document because when

:03:01. > :03:05.parties publish their manifestoes it is meant to be a big set piece

:03:06. > :03:09.event. Their manual for governing is published with a huge amount of

:03:10. > :03:16.fanfare. Instead, with this series of leaks it shows that there is a

:03:17. > :03:19.lot of division within the Labour Party and not a lot of discipline

:03:20. > :03:24.just four weeks out from the election. We have got it and we can

:03:25. > :03:29.see it, we are talking about it. What policies are the ones will be

:03:30. > :03:33.the headline grabbers now? There are many ideas in here. Some are new and

:03:34. > :03:38.some predictable. There are a few surprises as well. Some Labour

:03:39. > :03:47.figures do see this document as probably the most left-wing since

:03:48. > :03:51.the 1980s. Certainly the most detailed in a generation. There are

:03:52. > :03:55.20 points alone for the rights of workers. There will be some policy

:03:56. > :04:01.that stand out and some that will not be popular. Remember, not every

:04:02. > :04:05.privatisation is seen as a success. Polling on some issues like

:04:06. > :04:09.renationalisation of railways and capping energy prices, they are not

:04:10. > :04:16.as controversial as some critics claim. One interesting point is that

:04:17. > :04:23.in here, to please most of the unions is the existing Labour Party

:04:24. > :04:27.commitment to renewing the Trident nuclear system. Significantly,

:04:28. > :04:30.however, there is also a commitment for a defence review. That will

:04:31. > :04:36.allow opponents of the nuclear deterrent system, including Jeremy

:04:37. > :04:41.Corbyn, to question the commitment to the nuclear weapons system. I

:04:42. > :04:44.think there will be a lot in here that will please a lot of Jeremy

:04:45. > :04:50.Corbyn supporters and on the other side there will be some policy that

:04:51. > :04:54.is not sitting well with the rest of the Labour Party and reach out to

:04:55. > :04:57.Middle England who Jeremy Corbyn does need to reach out to his to win

:04:58. > :05:05.this election. One of the things the leaking of

:05:06. > :05:09.this manifesto means is that we are talking about it this morning as we

:05:10. > :05:12.can now talk about the labour policies. -- Labour policies.

:05:13. > :05:15.We'll be speaking to Andrew Gywnne, Labour's National Elections

:05:16. > :05:16.and Campaign co-ordinator, just after 7.

:05:17. > :05:19.The Conservatives say they will honour the Nato commitment

:05:20. > :05:22.to spend at least 2% of economic output on defence if they're

:05:23. > :05:26.They'll also increase the budget by at least 0.5% above inflation

:05:27. > :05:30.James Comey has made his first public comments since

:05:31. > :05:34.President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

:05:35. > :05:37.In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

:05:38. > :05:41.going to "spend time on the decision or the way it was executed."

:05:42. > :05:43.Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

:05:44. > :05:45.investigation into alleged links between the Trump

:05:46. > :05:50.Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not doing

:05:51. > :05:56.Three women are due to appear in court in London today,

:05:57. > :05:59.charged with preparing a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder.

:06:00. > :06:01.They include 21-year-old Rizlaine Boular, who was shot

:06:02. > :06:04.by police during a raid at a property in Willesden

:06:05. > :06:08.Seven other people, arrested as part of the investigation,

:06:09. > :06:10.have been released from police custody.

:06:11. > :06:13.A cold-calling firm has been fined a record ?400,000 for making almost

:06:14. > :06:18.Keurboom Communications made unsolicited automated calls relating

:06:19. > :06:20.to road-accident and PPI compensation.

:06:21. > :06:31.Most of us have received them - cold calls offering anything

:06:32. > :06:34.from help with PPI claims or road accidents to investing in some

:06:35. > :06:43.The cold callers play a numbers game, bombarding people in the hope

:06:44. > :06:46.that some will bite and take up their offers,

:06:47. > :06:51.This one company, Keurboom Communications,

:06:52. > :06:54.based in Bedfordshire, made almost 100 million automated

:06:55. > :07:00.The calls were about a variety of subject, including PPI

:07:01. > :07:06.People got numerous calls, often on the same day,

:07:07. > :07:10.Companies are allowed to make marketing calls,

:07:11. > :07:13.but only if you have given permission, such as ticking a box

:07:14. > :07:18.This company didn't have permission, and so got a record ?400,000 fine

:07:19. > :07:25.You can avoid many nuisance calls by signing up

:07:26. > :07:32.New laws which will allow the directors of cold-call companies

:07:33. > :07:35.which breaks the rules to be fined should also mean fewer nuisance

:07:36. > :07:42.Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have a near-normal life

:07:43. > :07:49.Researchers from Bristol University say new drug treatments mean many

:07:50. > :07:52.people who started treatment in this decade will live ten years longer

:07:53. > :07:54.than those who started treatment in the mid 1990s.

:07:55. > :07:59.Here's our health correspondent Jane Dreaper.

:08:00. > :08:03.VOICE-OVER: It is a deadly disease, and there is no known cure.

:08:04. > :08:05.Doom-laden government adverts in the 1980s warned

:08:06. > :08:08.about the dangers of the virus behind AIDS, and urged us not

:08:09. > :08:20.Jonathan learned he was HIV positive in 1982.

:08:21. > :08:22.He didn't expect to be alive all these years later.

:08:23. > :08:27.Now 67, he is enjoying a healthy and happy retirement.

:08:28. > :08:31.I never thought that I would hit 40, 50, 60.

:08:32. > :08:46.Medicine which stops HIV reproducing has helped Jonathan

:08:47. > :08:52.These anti-retroviral drugs became widely available in the UK

:08:53. > :08:57.Researchers from Bristol say a 20-year-old man who started HIV

:08:58. > :09:01.treatment in recent years should now live until the age of 73,

:09:02. > :09:08.and a woman should now reach 76, close to the average.

:09:09. > :09:12.It is hoped the findings will encourage anyone at risk of HIV

:09:13. > :09:17.The charity Terrence Higgins Trust says this research is great news,

:09:18. > :09:20.although some people are still unaware they have HIV,

:09:21. > :09:23.and this means they are missing out on the treatment which will help

:09:24. > :09:34.Later today Dyson, the engineering and design company will find out

:09:35. > :09:38.if its appeal to the European court of justice to change the way vacuum

:09:39. > :09:42.The company claims the present system is misleading as it tests

:09:43. > :09:44.appliances in a pristine condition without dust inside.

:09:45. > :09:51.Melanie Abbott from the You and Yours consumer programme reports.

:09:52. > :10:00.If you're having avocado with your breakfast this morning,

:10:01. > :10:10.... If you are having avocado at this time on a Thursday morning, you

:10:11. > :10:11.are doing pretty well. However, there is a warning.

:10:12. > :10:13.That's because a plastic surgeon says there's been an increase

:10:14. > :10:17.in people cutting their hands while trying to get the stone out.

:10:18. > :10:19.It's being dubbed by medical staff as "avocado hand".

:10:20. > :10:22.Simon Eccles, who's a plastic surgeon has told the Times the fruit

:10:23. > :10:42.No! To be fair, my uncle did that at Christmas time. No-one was in a fit

:10:43. > :10:48.state to drive him to a Andy either so we had to do a patch up job. I

:10:49. > :10:57.have seen avocado hand first hand... So to speak. He was fine. No fingers

:10:58. > :11:03.lost. I've done it a few times. Would a warning any difference? No,

:11:04. > :11:14.no we wouldn't. I think we have reached peak avocado. Let's talk now

:11:15. > :11:18.about Arsenal. They have yet to miss out on a place in the Champions

:11:19. > :11:18.League and they may yet still get one.

:11:19. > :11:23.Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud scored the second half goals to move

:11:24. > :11:25.them up to fifth above Manchester United.

:11:26. > :11:27.They're three points behind Manchester City in fourth.

:11:28. > :11:29.Holders Real Madrid could become the first team

:11:30. > :11:33.in the Champions League era to win back to back titles -

:11:34. > :11:35.they beat their neighbours Atletico 4-2 on aggregate,

:11:36. > :11:44.Manchester United manger Jose Mourinho says he had no regrets

:11:45. > :11:46.about prioritising the Europa League over the Premier League.

:11:47. > :11:49.United carry a one nil lead over Celta Vigo into tonight's semi-final

:11:50. > :11:56.Wayne Rooney says he does not want to leave the club.

:11:57. > :11:59.Slovenia's Luka Pibernik thought he'd won the fifth stage

:12:00. > :12:04.Arms aloft in victory he didn't realise the stage still had another

:12:05. > :12:13.Watching these pictures, the rest of the pellet on those past him and he

:12:14. > :12:21.wonders what happens and then he realises he has won more lap to go.

:12:22. > :12:31.He finished at position 148. He felt like such an idiot. Quite sad. Quite

:12:32. > :12:35.funny, however, as well. State with those for the papers but first, the

:12:36. > :12:43.weather. It looks grey yesterday, don't you think? Calm, no rain. But

:12:44. > :12:48.Carol has details for as an Kenwood house.

:12:49. > :12:55.Good morning to you both. It is beautiful here this morning. A chill

:12:56. > :13:03.starred as it is across many areas and hear the birds are singing in

:13:04. > :13:08.the sun is out and the house is open seven days a week, free of charge

:13:09. > :13:12.and it is 100 or so acres of beautiful gardens like this. For

:13:13. > :13:17.many of us it is a chilly start and as we go through the day it will

:13:18. > :13:21.become humid, particularly in the south and we look at thundery

:13:22. > :13:25.showers developing. For most of us it will remain dry and the thundery

:13:26. > :13:30.showers will be hit and miss. As you at the moment across southern areas.

:13:31. > :13:34.Hit and miss, again. The temperature and the sunshine will pick up

:13:35. > :13:40.quickly and it will be a warm albeit humid day for many parts of the UK.

:13:41. > :13:45.In the south-east, you can see around London, East Anglia and

:13:46. > :13:49.Southern counties along the coast it will be mostly dry but we have a

:13:50. > :13:54.line of thundery showers extending through Berkshire, Hampshire towards

:13:55. > :13:59.Gloucestershire into Cornel and Devon and south Wales. Not all of us

:14:00. > :14:04.will see one but if you catch it it will be heavy, thundery and it could

:14:05. > :14:09.have hail. Just be aware of that. Moving north into the north

:14:10. > :14:13.Midlands, in through the northern parts of Wales, north-west England

:14:14. > :14:18.and Ireland and much of Scotland, it is dry, sunny unpleasant. There will

:14:19. > :14:22.be one or two showers left over from this morning across the north-west

:14:23. > :14:25.and in the north and east there will be more cloud so that will hold the

:14:26. > :14:29.temperature down. Not as warm for you but as we come back into

:14:30. > :14:35.north-east England down towards The Wash and East Anglia were back into

:14:36. > :14:40.the sunshine. The line of thundery showers trips, drifts north and it

:14:41. > :14:48.will not be as cold and night as in recent nights. The other thing you

:14:49. > :14:54.will notice is that we are at the risk of air cool frost across

:14:55. > :14:58.north-east England. In the south will brighten up, still a humid feel

:14:59. > :15:02.to the weather, some showers tomorrow will also be heavy and

:15:03. > :15:07.thundery with hail mixed in. You know the drill with showers - not

:15:08. > :15:12.all of us will see them. Tomorrow's hi, 19 or 20. As we head onto the

:15:13. > :15:17.weekend, for Saturday in Scotland and Northern Ireland there will be

:15:18. > :15:23.able cloud around and some rain we will see sunshine and showers for

:15:24. > :15:27.England and Wales. A mixture of sunshine and also showers. And then

:15:28. > :15:32.later in the day it comes into the west overnight and into Sunday it

:15:33. > :15:36.crosses the UK, cleaving into North Sea by lunchtime and then, behind

:15:37. > :15:40.it, we are back into sunshine and showers. If you have been wanting

:15:41. > :15:42.some rain, some of us at least will get it and some of it will be heavy

:15:43. > :15:52.in the next few days. So beautiful to see you there with

:15:53. > :15:55.that beautiful yellow coat and those resplendent flowers. Thank you for

:15:56. > :16:02.inviting us into your garden. Just joking, it is not really hers. It is

:16:03. > :16:07.6:15am. We are going to look through some of the papers. No, actually, we

:16:08. > :16:13.are not going to do that. Cat, you are on hold. OK, I'm not going

:16:14. > :16:17.anywhere. Our main story today is Labor's draft manifesto being leaked

:16:18. > :16:20.more than a week for it was due to be published. It reveals plans to

:16:21. > :16:23.nationalise the railways and the Royal Mail, and scrap tuition fees.

:16:24. > :16:26.A cold calling firm's been given a record fine of ?400,000

:16:27. > :16:32.after making nearly 100 million nuisance calls.

:16:33. > :16:40.Now we will take a look at the papers. Cat is still with us. Hello!

:16:41. > :16:45.We just lost that minute somewhere. We are going to talk about our main

:16:46. > :16:50.story, on the front page of the Mirror and the Telegraph, and you

:16:51. > :16:55.have both of them. It is about the leak of the Labour Party manifesto,

:16:56. > :16:58.which is a slight embarrassment to the Labour Party, but it is

:16:59. > :17:01.interesting to see how the Telegraph and the Mirror, both papers that

:17:02. > :17:06.have the leaked documents, have gone about presenting that news. You can

:17:07. > :17:12.see the Telegraph, Corbyn's necessitate written back to the

:17:13. > :17:18.1970s. You can see the imagery. And the Mirror says it is a plan to fix

:17:19. > :17:21.a rip-off written. They both have the same document and obviously

:17:22. > :17:25.different papers have written it up in different ways. We should mention

:17:26. > :17:29.that Kate McCann, this lead story on the Telegraph, she is on the program

:17:30. > :17:32.later on. We will be discussing some of the contents in terms of the

:17:33. > :17:37.policy manoeuvres later this morning. The front page of the Daily

:17:38. > :17:42.Mail, labour's manifesto to drag us back to the 1970s. Not much around

:17:43. > :17:47.in the sports pages, but this caught my eye. It sparked a bit of a

:17:48. > :17:54.discussion at the sports desk this morning. Manchester United unveiling

:17:55. > :17:58.their new awake kit for next season. -- away kit. They have gone back to

:17:59. > :18:03.the same sort of pattern and the grey colour from 1992. In 1992 Alex

:18:04. > :18:07.Ferguson made them change out of their away kit at one point because

:18:08. > :18:11.it was hard for the players to pick each other out. You can see the

:18:12. > :18:15.players from the 1990s wearing that. It made us talk about what we were

:18:16. > :18:19.wearing in 1992. What would you be wearing? For me, it was one of those

:18:20. > :18:23.T-shirts that change colour when you got hot. One of the least flattering

:18:24. > :18:28.items of clothing I have ever owned. Yes, those were very bright colours.

:18:29. > :18:32.What did it change to? It had flowers, and they went orange when

:18:33. > :18:36.you got hot, and blue when you are cool. It just made you look sweaty

:18:37. > :18:43.all the time. Do you still have it? No, Charlie. The away kit these days

:18:44. > :18:48.is often designed to match jeans, because it is not really about

:18:49. > :18:52.wearing it on the pitch, it is about selling the shirt. So that fans

:18:53. > :18:57.where to go to the match. So it is more of a fashion statement. Do you

:18:58. > :19:01.know what I was wearing in the 1990s? I was wearing a pager.

:19:02. > :19:06.Remember pages? I used to have a little pager, you could wear them on

:19:07. > :19:11.your belt. They were for alerts. It was a work thing. You would get news

:19:12. > :19:15.alerts on your pager. It would make a little noise, or a vibration. What

:19:16. > :19:19.was the best news alert you ever had? Well, they are always the

:19:20. > :19:22.worst, aren't they? I will not reminisce about that, they were

:19:23. > :19:27.always about dreadful things. That was how the newsroom used to alert

:19:28. > :19:30.you. Lots of people have them. The story is that they are finally out

:19:31. > :19:33.of business, effectively. I am surprised they are still going at

:19:34. > :19:39.all. Somebody somewhere is wearing on this morning and wondering what

:19:40. > :19:43.they will do now. This in the Daily Mail, I don't agree with this at

:19:44. > :19:48.all. They say that smiling adds six years to your face. So smiling makes

:19:49. > :19:52.you look older. They have chosen to use a picture of the very beautiful

:19:53. > :19:56.Kate Moss, smiling in this picture, and not smiling in this picture. I

:19:57. > :20:01.would say that there are a few years between these photos being taken

:20:02. > :20:08.anyway. Who says that smiling at 60 as to your face? A study has found,

:20:09. > :20:11.scientists from the University in Israel, they found that when

:20:12. > :20:14.volunteers pulled a surprise face they looked almost one year younger

:20:15. > :20:18.than a neutral expression. So looking shocked makes you look

:20:19. > :20:27.younger. You doing the for us now? That is my surprise face. Now can

:20:28. > :20:31.you smile for us? We will let the audience decide, shall we? Thank

:20:32. > :20:34.you. Smiling definitely makes you look younger. Well, it makes me feel

:20:35. > :20:38.younger. 6:20am is the time. Recent election results have shown

:20:39. > :20:41.that opinion polls aren't always a reliable indication

:20:42. > :20:43.of what is going to happen So ahead the general election,

:20:44. > :20:47.the BBC's Nick Robinson has been out and about to see how

:20:48. > :20:50.voters really feel. Nick has been to Halifax,

:20:51. > :20:53.West Yorkshire, to meet a group of working class voters put together

:20:54. > :21:05.by Ipsos Mori to see We are here above a pub in Halifax.

:21:06. > :21:09.It might look a bit like a church because this is no ordinary pub.

:21:10. > :21:14.This is actually where the Halifax building society was founded. You

:21:15. > :21:18.can see those panels and stained-glass windows. We are here

:21:19. > :21:23.to talk about politics and eat some curry. We know that all of you voted

:21:24. > :21:25.for Brexit. What are you looking for in the person who leaves those

:21:26. > :21:32.negotiations? Somebody who is strong. Who is trying to get the

:21:33. > :21:36.best deal for Britain. To take the 85 early in euros bill when they

:21:37. > :21:50.throw at us. Confident. Not easily led. Trustworthy. Strong. You said

:21:51. > :21:55.trustworthy, as well? Yes, trustworthy, that is a good one. OK,

:21:56. > :22:00.those are the words. That is what you want. So is there anybody who

:22:01. > :22:07.feels that role for you? Not at the minute. Nigel Farage. Barrage? Well,

:22:08. > :22:12.he is staying in Europe to make sure we get a decent deal. I think we

:22:13. > :22:16.need somebody who doesn't exist at the moment. Somebody who has got a

:22:17. > :22:20.bit of a bone. We need somebody who is a realist, somebody who will

:22:21. > :22:24.listen to the people and take what the people have spoken to Europe.

:22:25. > :22:28.Somebody who understands the needs of somebody from a working-class

:22:29. > :22:32.background, not somebody born the vessel the spoon in their mouth. Is

:22:33. > :22:37.there no leading politician in Britain who speaks for the working

:22:38. > :22:41.class? Jeremy Corbyn. He does? He does, yeah. He is definitely the

:22:42. > :22:46.most down to earth, the biggest realist out of them all, I think.

:22:47. > :22:53.And probably the most trustworthy. Anybody else like Jeremy Corbyn? No?

:22:54. > :22:59.Not sure? Just me, on my own. Nobody said Theresa May. I voted Labor the

:23:00. > :23:10.past few times, but I honestly don't know if I will vote Labor again this

:23:11. > :23:14.time. -- Labour. Lots of in-house arguing, they cannot seem to get

:23:15. > :23:18.their own house in order. If that is the state of their house, I don't

:23:19. > :23:22.want them coming to my house. As far as you can remember, have you ever

:23:23. > :23:27.voted for a different party? Probably in the late 80s or early

:23:28. > :23:31.90s, I voted Conservative back then. But you have been labour for a long

:23:32. > :23:37.time. A long time coming yes. Could you make the journey back? I don't

:23:38. > :23:42.know. As I said before, it is a sticky wicket. Not sure if you want

:23:43. > :23:46.to go as far as voting Tory? Not too sure, no. However, never say never.

:23:47. > :23:50.If they have got something that is good and solid in place, and

:23:51. > :23:56.something they can prove, well, then maybe I could sway. What about you,

:23:57. > :24:02.John? You said you would vote Tory. I would. We were talking about

:24:03. > :24:06.Corbyn speaking for the working class, there are lots of people who

:24:07. > :24:09.say they could not vote Tory. He doesn't have the charisma, as far as

:24:10. > :24:13.I'm concerned. He reminds me of somebody from the 1970s, like

:24:14. > :24:18.Michael foot. An old Labour MP, somebody was no charisma. He has not

:24:19. > :24:24.got enough charisma. So I couldn't vote to him. Plus, lots of the

:24:25. > :24:31.Labour MPs, I can think of about three, Corbyn, Dannevirke, actually,

:24:32. > :24:38.I can only remember two. I don't really know who anybody is. But you

:24:39. > :24:44.feel strongly about him? I do, yes. I think Labour created a mess and I

:24:45. > :24:48.think they should come back in and clear it up. They will make a bigger

:24:49. > :24:52.mess. I don't think they will. I think they will write their wrongs.

:24:53. > :24:56.You have to believe in that person earns what he says, you have to

:24:57. > :24:58.believe in what they say. And you don't? No.

:24:59. > :25:02.You can see more of that discussion on Nick's Election Takeaways at 2:30

:25:03. > :25:04.on Saturday afternoon on the BBC News Channel.

:25:05. > :25:07.And there'll be more from Nick in the coming weeks on Breakfast,

:25:08. > :25:10.looking at the challenges facing some of the other parties ahead

:25:11. > :25:22.Latest figures coming up about how much Britain is buying and selling

:25:23. > :25:28.from the rest of the world. Good morning, everybody. I am at a

:25:29. > :25:32.fabrics factory where you can see what they are making, churning out

:25:33. > :25:37.about 8 million metres of fabrics every year. You might recognise some

:25:38. > :25:41.of it, because it is the kind of stuff you will see on bus seats,

:25:42. > :25:45.perhaps on the tube, certainly you might be sitting on this at some

:25:46. > :25:50.point in the future. They sell this product all over the world, to 80

:25:51. > :25:54.different countries. They export about 68% of what they manufacture.

:25:55. > :25:58.That is why we are here, we are talking about trade. We will find

:25:59. > :26:02.out later on this morning how we have been doing in terms of our

:26:03. > :26:05.trade. At the moment we are in a trade deficit. In other words, we

:26:06. > :26:08.are importing more than we are exporting. Certainly our

:26:09. > :26:13.relationship with other countries is really important for us to be making

:26:14. > :26:17.money in this country. Interestingly, since the referendum,

:26:18. > :26:21.I have spoken a lot about the value of the pound falling. That actually

:26:22. > :26:27.helps exports because it makes our products cheaper for other countries

:26:28. > :26:31.to buy. So it will be interesting to see, with these figures, whether

:26:32. > :26:35.that has made a difference at all to what is happening in terms of the

:26:36. > :26:39.trade deficit. So they will be out at about 9:30am. I will be here

:26:40. > :26:44.throughout the morning, talking to them about how we can make sure that

:26:45. > :26:48.we export enough to get rid of that trade deficit. And also, what it

:26:49. > :26:52.will mean for things like the election and Brexit, how we will get

:26:53. > :26:57.the right trade deals in order to do that. It is beautiful, isn't it? All

:26:58. > :26:59.the colours on the fabrics they have been using. I will be showing more

:27:00. > :30:23.of this off been using. I will be showing more

:30:24. > :30:28.next month's election we are hosting a special question service in Saint

:30:29. > :30:31.Leonards. That's if an hour. -- and that's it for now.

:30:32. > :30:33.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:30:34. > :30:37.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

:30:38. > :30:41.Just why did Donald Trump fire the director of the FBI,

:30:42. > :30:44.We'll be live in Washington to analyse the latest

:30:45. > :31:02.I put a plastic bucket over his head and he said are, eyes. Very good.

:31:03. > :31:04.Who needs CGI when you've got a bucket.

:31:05. > :31:07.Actor Michael Fassbender and director Ridley Scott

:31:08. > :31:10.on the new Alien film and the return of cinema's scariest creature.

:31:11. > :31:13.The 17th century painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" inspired

:31:14. > :31:16.Tracy Chevalier to write a best selling book of the same name.

:31:17. > :31:19.She'll be here after nine to tell us how Shakespeare has

:31:20. > :31:26.But now a summary of this morning's main news.

:31:27. > :31:28.Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked

:31:29. > :31:34.more than a week before its official launch.

:31:35. > :31:37.The 51-page document was obtained by the BBC and several newspapers.

:31:38. > :31:39.It includes proposals to nationalise the railways

:31:40. > :31:43.A plan to create publicly owned energy companies in every region

:31:44. > :31:46.of the UK and the introduction of price caps.

:31:47. > :31:48.And there's a commitment to abolish tuition fees

:31:49. > :31:54.The proposals are expected to be discussed by senior Labour figures

:31:55. > :31:57.including the Shadow Cabinet at a meeting later today.

:31:58. > :32:06.Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster.

:32:07. > :32:13.I know you have been reading through the draft of the manifesto but it is

:32:14. > :32:17.quite embarrassing that it is out there, isn't it? It is certainly not

:32:18. > :32:23.what the party wanted and certainly not what their plan would have been.

:32:24. > :32:31.The big clue to that, all through the document are printed right

:32:32. > :32:35.across every single page the watermark draft and confidential. So

:32:36. > :32:38.obviously the Labour party did not expect anyone to get their hands on

:32:39. > :32:46.it. What is in the manifesto? What are they going to say? There are

:32:47. > :32:52.some things in here that will be popular. Not everybody sees

:32:53. > :32:55.privatisation as a success so ring nationalising railways, for example

:32:56. > :33:01.and capping energy prices. Those things will be popular. There is

:33:02. > :33:05.also contrast with the Conservative Party. No figure put on immigration.

:33:06. > :33:11.There are guarantees that rather than cutting we welfare that

:33:12. > :33:17.payments to some groups will rise. When it comes to Trident, there is a

:33:18. > :33:22.commitment to the existing Labour proposal for renewal but there is

:33:23. > :33:26.also a commitment to review win, having a defence review and that

:33:27. > :33:32.will allow critics of the system, such as Jeremy Corbyn, to question

:33:33. > :33:36.whether at all it should be renewed. With the document there are things

:33:37. > :33:41.that will be very pleasing to many in the Gerry Jeremy Corbyn camp but

:33:42. > :33:48.outside that count, whether he can reach out to Middle England which he

:33:49. > :33:51.needs to do if he is to win, that remains a question. Another big

:33:52. > :33:59.thing that will be hanging over the document is does it all add up? Can

:34:00. > :34:03.labour described in detail exactly how these policies will be paid for?

:34:04. > :34:07.There are big commitments to think that tuition fees and social care,

:34:08. > :34:13.as well as other big spending projects. They will all need to be

:34:14. > :34:16.costed with the tax spelt out if the commitment of Labour to have a fully

:34:17. > :34:30.costed manifesto is to come true. The Liberal Democrats say they will

:34:31. > :34:35.accept refugees. They are committed to reopening the programme for

:34:36. > :34:36.unaccompanied asylum seeker children stranded in Europe.

:34:37. > :34:39.James Comey has made his first public comments since

:34:40. > :34:42.President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

:34:43. > :34:45.In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

:34:46. > :34:49.going to "spend time on the decision or the way it was executed."

:34:50. > :34:52.Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

:34:53. > :34:54.investigation into alleged links between the Trump

:34:55. > :34:58.Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not doing

:34:59. > :35:01.Three women are due to appear in court in London today,

:35:02. > :35:04.charged with preparing a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder.

:35:05. > :35:06.They include 21-year-old Rizlaine Boular, who was shot

:35:07. > :35:09.by police during a raid at a property in Willesden

:35:10. > :35:12.Seven other people, arrested as part of the investigation,

:35:13. > :35:14.have been released from police custody.

:35:15. > :35:17.A cold-calling company has been fined a record ?400,000

:35:18. > :35:23.Keurboom Communications bombarded people with almost 100 million

:35:24. > :35:27.nuisance phone calls about road accidents and PPI claims over

:35:28. > :35:32.The fine was handed to them by the Information Commissioner's

:35:33. > :35:39.Office, which has already fined 23 companies in the past year.

:35:40. > :35:42.Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have a near-normal life

:35:43. > :35:49.Researchers from Bristol University say new drug treatments mean many

:35:50. > :35:52.people are now living ten years longer than those who started

:35:53. > :35:56.Their findings show a ten-year increase in life expectancy

:35:57. > :36:07.since anti-retroviral drugs became widely available two decades ago.

:36:08. > :36:13.Are you ready to sprinkle some stardust on this programme?

:36:14. > :36:15.David Beckham is facing criticism for his acting

:36:16. > :36:20.He was met with cheers at the premier of the new film

:36:21. > :36:23.King Arthur: Legend of the Sword in Los Angeles, but reception

:36:24. > :36:27.for his performance in the movie hasn't been so welcoming by some

:36:28. > :36:41.Where do you want me? Bouncing on my knee? Where do you think I want you?

:36:42. > :36:46.Hands on the hilt, stupid. It must be hard to direct that sequence...

:36:47. > :36:51.To tell David what to say? It can be tricky. I think he is great. Better

:36:52. > :36:58.than any of us would be. What do you mean it can be tricky directing

:36:59. > :37:02.sports stars in movies? What do you know? I just suggested it may be.

:37:03. > :37:09.You have a superstar coming into the ranks. How do you say, OK, can I

:37:10. > :37:18.have a little more emotion? They deal with superstar movie stars.

:37:19. > :37:23.There are in your experience, because you are in the remake of

:37:24. > :37:27.Love actually, it was difficult for Richard Curtis to direct you? To be

:37:28. > :37:33.fair, I did not have any lines. That is possibly Testament in its self

:37:34. > :37:37.that they did not trust me with lines. I would be interested in

:37:38. > :37:43.people who can name big sports stars who have been successes in an acting

:37:44. > :37:49.career. Vinnie Jones is not allowed. That was too long ago. But he was

:37:50. > :37:56.great. Although he did play himself. Leave that one with me. There were

:37:57. > :38:05.many basketball players... How about Arnold Schwarzenegger? How about the

:38:06. > :38:09.Rock? There we go. Here's the wrestler and that is part pantomime,

:38:10. > :38:24.isn't it? Oh, you will have the wrestling fans on the -- your back.

:38:25. > :38:32.Imagine the mind claims on the bluster of the rest of the Premier

:38:33. > :38:34.League whereas Arsene quietly goes about his business. Arsenal have had

:38:35. > :38:36.a late surge. Will they make it? Arsenal are closing in on the top

:38:37. > :38:39.four in the Premier League after a two nil win away

:38:40. > :38:42.at Southampton last night Some nimble footwork

:38:43. > :38:44.from Alexis Sanchez gave Arsenal the lead in the second half

:38:45. > :38:47.while an Olivier Giroud header made sure of the points

:38:48. > :38:59.for Arsene Wenger's in-form side In the second half I believe that

:39:00. > :39:05.going forward they looked dangerous and dynamic and I am pleased with

:39:06. > :39:10.the performance. Do you feel that nine points from your last three

:39:11. > :39:16.matches would do it? I do not know. The only thing I do know is that we

:39:17. > :39:18.give our best to win every game and we will start again on Saturday.

:39:19. > :39:21.Holders Real Madrid reached the final of the Champions League

:39:22. > :39:23.after a 4-2 aggregate win over neighbours Atletico.

:39:24. > :39:26.They had to resist a fightback though with goals from Saul Niguez

:39:27. > :39:29.and Antoine Griezmann putting Atletico 2-0 up after quarter

:39:30. > :39:32.But Isco's away goal just before half time effectively won Real

:39:33. > :39:36.the tie, even though they lost 2-1 on the night.

:39:37. > :39:38.Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney says he wants to stay

:39:39. > :39:41.at Old Trafford despite not featuring in Jose Mourinho's side

:39:42. > :39:44.for much of the season Rooney is unlikely to feature as United

:39:45. > :39:47.defend a 1-0 lead in tonight's Europa League semi-final second leg

:39:48. > :39:51.against Spanish side Celta Vigo, but the captain insists he doesn't

:39:52. > :40:10.I would like to play more. That is the way it has panned out and, you

:40:11. > :40:22.know, and I am happy to help the team on and off the pitch. I haven't

:40:23. > :40:24.made a plan nor a big fuss but, of course, I am a football player and I

:40:25. > :40:27.would like to play football. Britain's Geraint Thomas

:40:28. > :40:29.and Adam Yates remain second and third overall after the fifth

:40:30. > :40:32.stage of the Giro d'Italia. But the stage was rather

:40:33. > :40:35.embarrassing for Slovenian cyclist He was leading as it

:40:36. > :40:38.entered Messina in Sicily. Unfortunately for him

:40:39. > :40:41.he celebrated his victory a lap The rest of the pellet on came

:40:42. > :41:00.behind him and overtook him. The poor cyclist finished 148. It is

:41:01. > :41:03.so sad. Can you imagine how embarrassing that is. You feel so

:41:04. > :41:05.sorry for him. It's the decision that has stunned

:41:06. > :41:09.America but the former head of the FBI, James Comey,

:41:10. > :41:13.says he's not going to spend time thinking about why

:41:14. > :41:17.President Trump fired him. In a farewell letter to staff,

:41:18. > :41:20.Mr Comey wrote "I have long believed that a President can fire an FBI

:41:21. > :41:23.Director for any reason, So let's look at what some

:41:24. > :41:29.of those reasons could be with Dr Mike Cornfield,

:41:30. > :41:40.a political scientist I would like to talk about the

:41:41. > :41:46.letter from James Comey in a second because it was quite sanguine. An

:41:47. > :41:50.interesting letter to his staff. But let's start with Donald Trump. Did

:41:51. > :41:55.he think this through for long before making the decision? I think

:41:56. > :42:00.he brooded over it for a long time but he did not prepare his

:42:01. > :42:04.explanation very well and he did not have a replacement ready. He looks

:42:05. > :42:10.more guilty than he did before. If he had done this in a more

:42:11. > :42:15.professional manner from a political standpoint, I think that more people

:42:16. > :42:21.would have accepted the decision without agony. James Comey was not

:42:22. > :42:26.the most popular person in America. According to Donald Trump, James

:42:27. > :42:31.Comey had lost the confidence of Republicans and Democrats. Is that

:42:32. > :42:36.fair to say? It is. He behaved erratically over the last year.

:42:37. > :42:43.Getting involved in the election and he did lose a lot of confidence. I

:42:44. > :42:46.think one of the things that Mr Trump, President Trump, excuse me,

:42:47. > :42:50.hasn't quite reconciled himself to is the idea that everyone who works

:42:51. > :42:54.in the executive branch of the Federal government is not his

:42:55. > :43:01.employee. He has the right to fire somebody or for any cause whatever

:43:02. > :43:06.but that person does not do his job according to the way a president

:43:07. > :43:13.wants. He does his way according to the Constitution and the laws of the

:43:14. > :43:17.land. There is tension there. Are we seeing here then a man who was

:43:18. > :43:22.learning as he goes along and, quite clearly, doing things at times that

:43:23. > :43:28.may not make a huge amount of sense? Well... He has the lowest ratings of

:43:29. > :43:34.any president since polling began. I don't think they will rise this week

:43:35. > :43:38.after this decision. He has not accomplished anything on domestic

:43:39. > :43:42.policy because he cannot get Congress to vote as he wants. He is

:43:43. > :43:47.one accomplishment has been nominating a new Supreme Court

:43:48. > :43:52.Justice. So he's not doing well and this will not help. James Comey was

:43:53. > :43:58.not the most popular person in America but he was popular within

:43:59. > :44:03.the FBI, wasn't it? That is absolutely correct. As you know

:44:04. > :44:10.there are many comparisons being made right now between this scandal

:44:11. > :44:14.and Watergate 45 years ago. And, of course, Watergate turned on the

:44:15. > :44:23.leaks of someone who had worked at the FBI who went under the name of

:44:24. > :44:27.Deep Throat. The President not only has less support in official

:44:28. > :44:30.aboveground Washington he probably has less support within the FBI

:44:31. > :44:35.because they are mad at what they see as a betrayal of this

:44:36. > :44:45.investigation. So we are all waiting for more leaks. Who knows what may

:44:46. > :44:47.happen. Thank you very much indeed. The time now is 644 and time for a

:44:48. > :44:59.look at the weather. upside to getting up early, and it

:45:00. > :45:03.looks like where you are this morning it is one of those days.

:45:04. > :45:07.Absolutely right. Good morning. A beautiful start to the day here at

:45:08. > :45:11.Kenwood House. You can see it in all its glory behind me. The original

:45:12. > :45:18.building was built in the early 17th century. All around, look at these

:45:19. > :45:21.gorgeous grounds. They are used for many scenes from many films,

:45:22. > :45:24.including Notting Hill. You might remember Julia Roberts herself was

:45:25. > :45:29.filming here in the movie Notting Hill when Hugh Grant came down and

:45:30. > :45:33.found her. It is so peaceful, so tranquil and quiet. It is chilly,

:45:34. > :45:38.not just here but across many parts of the UK first thing this morning.

:45:39. > :45:42.If you have got cloud around, the chances are it will not away and

:45:43. > :45:45.leave you with a sunny day. In fact, it will turn more humid through the

:45:46. > :45:50.day, and we will see further heavy thundery downpours developing. This

:45:51. > :45:53.morning, what we have is lots of dry weather. The temperature will pick

:45:54. > :45:57.up quite quickly now in the sunshine. Patchy rain across the far

:45:58. > :46:01.north of Scotland that will tend to ease through the day, and Dave few

:46:02. > :46:05.showers, some of which a thundery, across parts of southern England,

:46:06. > :46:09.South Wales and the Channel Islands. They are very hit and miss at the

:46:10. > :46:13.moment. Heading into the afternoon, if we go down into the south-east we

:46:14. > :46:18.will see lots of dry weather, and along coastal counties in the south.

:46:19. > :46:22.Go along the M4 corridor to the west of London, to places like Berkshire,

:46:23. > :46:25.Hampshire, Gloucestershire, the West Country, Devon, Cornwall and South

:46:26. > :46:29.Wales, that is where we are likely to see some torrential downpours

:46:30. > :46:34.which could lead to local issues of surface water flooding. North Wales,

:46:35. > :46:37.most of the Midlands, north-west England and Northern Ireland will

:46:38. > :46:41.see sunshine, feeling pleasantly warm and gentle breezes. In

:46:42. > :46:44.Scotland, the remnants of this morning's ran across the north-west,

:46:45. > :46:49.but nothing to write home about. -- rain. Cloud across parts of the

:46:50. > :46:52.northern and eastern coasts holding temperatures down, but for the rest

:46:53. > :46:57.of Scotland, the north-east of England and East Anglia, we are back

:46:58. > :47:01.into sunny skies, and feeling pleasant temperatures, up to 24.

:47:02. > :47:04.That will fill humid in London. Through the evening and overnight,

:47:05. > :47:09.all these showers migrate north. We will also see some in the west. It

:47:10. > :47:14.will not be as cold as last night, and we will start to see some poor

:47:15. > :47:21.coming in across the north of Scotland. -- some hoarforst. Moora,

:47:22. > :47:25.lots of showers, heavy and thundery with hail. Some sunshine in between.

:47:26. > :47:28.Through the afternoon you will see more cloud coming in from the coast,

:47:29. > :47:32.along the northern and eastern parts of Scotland and the north-east of

:47:33. > :47:39.England, and there will be Hill fold developing as well. -- hill fog. As

:47:40. > :47:43.we head into the weekend, on Saturday, Scotland and Northern

:47:44. > :47:48.Ireland will have a cloudy start with some rain, fragmenting to leave

:47:49. > :47:51.showers and sunshine. For England and Wales, sunshine and showers, and

:47:52. > :47:55.temperatures coming down a touch from where we are at the moment.

:47:56. > :47:58.Later in the day, a weather front coming in from the west will

:47:59. > :48:02.introduce rain. Overnight and into Sunday, that will move east,

:48:03. > :48:05.clearing into the North Sea. Behind it, you have probably guessed,

:48:06. > :48:10.sunshine and showers. What's going on with the weather in the next

:48:11. > :48:12.couple of days, and for those of us who want rain, some of us will

:48:13. > :48:23.actually see it. -- lots going It looks like she is on a film set.

:48:24. > :48:26.Beautiful. Later today, we will get some figures released which will

:48:27. > :48:31.give us a clue as to how Britain is doing with exports at the moment,

:48:32. > :48:34.and with imports. Steph isn't a textile mill in East Yorkshire,

:48:35. > :48:40.already shipping more than half of what they make overseas. -- Steph is

:48:41. > :48:47.at eight textile mill. What do they make of air? They make fabrics the

:48:48. > :48:54.lots of things that you sit on. Bus seats, cube seats, lots of different

:48:55. > :48:59.fabrics. -- tube seats. Sorry for the noise, it is quite loud, but I

:49:00. > :49:03.want to show you this. Ahmed is here making sure that he has got all this

:49:04. > :49:11.going, that thread is going off to be died. -- dyed. The reason we are

:49:12. > :49:15.here is to talk about trade. As Charlie said, we will be finding out

:49:16. > :49:19.later this morning the latest trade figures. Just to give you a bit of

:49:20. > :49:24.information about it, you should see it appearing on the screen below me

:49:25. > :49:28.as well, we are actually in a trade deficit at the moment.

:49:29. > :49:34.That means we import more than we export. We have seen with the value

:49:35. > :49:40.of the pound falling that our products are a bit cheaper.

:49:41. > :49:44.Companies like this also import a lot of products, in order to be able

:49:45. > :49:47.to make the fabrics here. So those create different costs when you

:49:48. > :49:53.think about the value of the pound. Here is one of the bosses. How is

:49:54. > :49:59.your business doing well, on the exports front? Well, we exported 60%

:50:00. > :50:05.of what we manufacture here. That is over ?50 million every year. It is

:50:06. > :50:09.growing over 10% each year, with around about two thirds of what we

:50:10. > :50:15.export going to be EU. I merrily Germany, Poland, Sweden. So you have

:50:16. > :50:20.got double-digit growth, which lots of businesses would kill for. Where

:50:21. > :50:25.is that coming from? It is coming from a strategy that we believe in,

:50:26. > :50:30.which is not just setting short-term goals, but taking a long-term view.

:50:31. > :50:33.We are also entering new markets and have done so recently in North

:50:34. > :50:38.America and China, where the growth we are seeing there is well over

:50:39. > :50:42.30%. Obviously there is a lot going on at the moment and trade is the

:50:43. > :50:51.big topic of the election. Brexit is coming. Does this mean for you as a

:50:52. > :50:54.business person? -- what does this. Well, nothing changes in terms of

:50:55. > :50:58.innovation and product, because that is critical for our clients, as well

:50:59. > :51:04.as investing in capital equipment to keep ourselves as productive and as

:51:05. > :51:09.efficient as possible. But obviously having Brexit hanging over our heads

:51:10. > :51:13.is a bit of a sword over our heads, in terms of the impact on us. We buy

:51:14. > :51:18.raw materials from Europe every year and we export even more back into

:51:19. > :51:20.the EU, so clearly the impact of tariffs, and potentially border

:51:21. > :51:25.restrictions on border delays, that is critical for us to understand

:51:26. > :51:33.going forward. Thank you for your time. Thank you for having a seer.

:51:34. > :51:36.We have got Leslie Bachelor here, we just heard Graham talking about some

:51:37. > :51:41.of the concerns he has about leaving the European Union in terms of the

:51:42. > :51:44.tariffs and water controls. What are businesses thinking about at the

:51:45. > :51:49.moment? I think we all just want certainty. That is the main message

:51:50. > :51:52.we are hearing. What we are also finding is that people are looking

:51:53. > :51:56.at new markets outside Europe, and what we are going to try to do is

:51:57. > :51:59.encourage them to research it thoroughly and get it right, really.

:52:00. > :52:04.There is a chance for opportunities for businesses as well? Absolutely.

:52:05. > :52:08.I think it is great, because we have got a bit complacent. It is so easy

:52:09. > :52:12.to do business with the EU that we have started to take it for granted.

:52:13. > :52:16.Now we will have to start thinking and planning a lot more. Obviously

:52:17. > :52:19.this morning we have got the latest trade figures out. What we expect? I

:52:20. > :52:24.don't think we expect anything surprising. I think they will be

:52:25. > :52:28.quite static. There will be some industries that are going very well,

:52:29. > :52:31.taking advantage of the weaker pound, whereas some of them will be

:52:32. > :52:34.suffering because they are bringing in more raw materials. It is a

:52:35. > :52:37.little bit swings and roundabouts. But businesses are getting on with

:52:38. > :52:45.business, what they do best. Leslie, thank you. I want to show you this.

:52:46. > :52:49.It is hard to show on camera, but you can see the thread is going

:52:50. > :52:53.through at an incredible speed there, all ready to be zipped off

:52:54. > :52:55.and made into the fabrics they make here. I will show you some of those

:52:56. > :53:04.a little bit later on this morning. I want to see some of the fabrics

:53:05. > :53:08.that his young bus seats, you know, those brightly coloured and jazzy

:53:09. > :53:12.ones. We will expect that soon. It is 6:52 a.m..

:53:13. > :53:15.It began with just 10 pupils in 1967, now in its 50th year

:53:16. > :53:18.the National Star College in Cheltenham caters for more

:53:19. > :53:21.But its mission has remained the same -

:53:22. > :53:23.to help young people with disabilities realise

:53:24. > :53:26.Our disability news Correspondent, Nikki Fox, has been speaking

:53:27. > :53:35.Happy birthday! Things have changed a lot over the 50 years that Star

:53:36. > :53:40.College has been going. The students here, born from overseas, come from

:53:41. > :53:45.all over the United Kingdom. In 1967 first 10 students arrived. Now the

:53:46. > :53:53.college has over 150, all with very different disabilities. Patrick

:53:54. > :53:57.studied here in the 1980s. He left this place with A-levels and went on

:53:58. > :54:04.to get a degree in social science. This is the actual BBC computer that

:54:05. > :54:07.Patrick took his exams on. Today, he is back with his former teacher

:54:08. > :54:17.John, reminiscing about how quickly he picked up the old technology. I

:54:18. > :54:25.absolutely love my three years here. My dad often said the Star College

:54:26. > :54:28.was the equivalent to... I think personally it is essential to have

:54:29. > :54:37.specialised schools and colleges for students with complex disabilities.

:54:38. > :54:40.Hello, how are you? Thanks to these accessible flats, students can study

:54:41. > :54:45.and live independently away from home. You've got a lot of space

:54:46. > :54:52.here. There is a pillow on your bed. Who is that man? Boyfriend! What do

:54:53. > :54:57.you think your life would be like if you were not living in this place? I

:54:58. > :55:03.would need more help. You would need more help? Do you think you would be

:55:04. > :55:26.less independent than you are? Yeah. This school changed my life.

:55:27. > :55:34.As the college celebrates its big anniversary, it is expanding with

:55:35. > :55:37.new schools in England and Wales. Although as a charity, uncertainties

:55:38. > :55:46.around funding make every investment a calculated risk. But being bold is

:55:47. > :55:50.what National Star is all about. The FRC is to realise the aspirations of

:55:51. > :55:59.disabled people, and today, just for fun, they are doing that in a

:56:00. > :56:03.hot-air balloon. -- the ethos here. The tailored support that people get

:56:04. > :56:07.here allows them to freedom to live and study like any other student,

:56:08. > :56:13.with one aim. To prepare them in the way possible for life after college.

:56:14. > :56:18.Nikki Fox committee is in use. Brilliant images to finish that

:56:19. > :56:21.piece. And of course, the entire ethos about places to give people

:56:22. > :56:28.the independence that they can achieve. Great to see. It is 6:56

:56:29. > :56:31.a.m.. Still to come, how many times have you received a nuisance call

:56:32. > :56:35.about PPA claims of accidents that were not your fault? We will hear

:56:36. > :56:37.about the firm that is facing a record fine for sending out nearly

:56:38. > :56:37.100 million Hello, this is Breakfast,

:56:38. > :00:08.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. Labour's draft election manifesto

:00:09. > :00:11.has been leaked more than a week The document includes plans

:00:12. > :00:14.to nationalise the railways, Royal Mail and parts

:00:15. > :00:17.of the energy industry Good morning, it's

:00:18. > :00:31.Thursday 11th May. A record fine for a company that

:00:32. > :00:50.made 100 million cold calls Today I am talking about trade, an

:00:51. > :00:55.important issue in the run-up to the election. And with Brexit looming. I

:00:56. > :00:57.am at a textile factory in Yorkshire to find out how good we are

:00:58. > :00:57.exporting. In sport - it's not

:00:58. > :01:00.over yet for Arsenal. They're up to fifth

:01:01. > :01:02.in the Premier League after beating Southampton, just outside

:01:03. > :01:06.the Champions League places. And the Aliens are back -

:01:07. > :01:09.director Ridley Scott tells us how he came up with the look

:01:10. > :01:28.for space's scariest monster. He originally only had eyes. And

:01:29. > :01:33.then Eiger was staring. I put a plastic bucket ovaries head and he

:01:34. > :01:41.said oh, no eyes. Very good. -- over his head. It is a chilly start

:01:42. > :01:46.across many parts of the UK as well as a sunny one. There are showers

:01:47. > :01:50.around in the south and we will see further showers develop later and it

:01:51. > :01:51.will feel humid with highs today reaching 24 Celsius.

:01:52. > :01:56.Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked -

:01:57. > :01:58.more than a week before its official launch.

:01:59. > :02:04.was obtained by the BBC and several newspapers.

:02:05. > :02:06.It includes proposals to nationalise the railways

:02:07. > :02:10.A plan to create publicly owned energy companies in every region

:02:11. > :02:13.of the UK and the introduction of price caps.

:02:14. > :02:16.And there's a commitment to abolish tuition fees

:02:17. > :02:23.The proposals are expected to be discussed by senior Labour figures

:02:24. > :02:25.including the Shadow Cabinet at a meeting later today.

:02:26. > :02:34.Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster.

:02:35. > :02:41.We will discuss the policies in a second but, first of all, how

:02:42. > :02:45.embarrassing that this manifesto draft is out there in all of the

:02:46. > :02:49.newspapers and we talk about it before the Labour Party plan that we

:02:50. > :02:52.know what is in it. It is embarrassing. And it is definitely

:02:53. > :02:59.not what the party would have wanted nor indeed planned. A big clue to

:03:00. > :03:02.that is the fact that printed on every single page across the 20,000

:03:03. > :03:07.word document it says draft, confidential. So clearly the party

:03:08. > :03:12.did not expect the BBC or newspapers to get hold of the document. What it

:03:13. > :03:18.shows in this series of leaks is the division within Labour and the lack

:03:19. > :03:23.of discipline just four weeks out from a general election. The one

:03:24. > :03:26.upside for us as journalists is that we have some in concrete to talk

:03:27. > :03:31.about. What other highlights? There will be some policies of course that

:03:32. > :03:36.are very popular. Things like renationalising the railways, a cap

:03:37. > :03:40.on energy prices as well. They are not as controversial as some critics

:03:41. > :03:46.would make out. There are some noticeable differences with the

:03:47. > :03:49.Conservatives. There is no target on immigration, rather than a guarantee

:03:50. > :03:55.there is... Rather than guaranteeing cutting, rather, there is a

:03:56. > :04:01.guarantee that payments to some groups will increase. There is a

:04:02. > :04:06.commitment to renewing Trident but, significantly, there is a commitment

:04:07. > :04:10.to a defence review. That will allow critics and opponents of the nuclear

:04:11. > :04:15.deterrent, such as Jeremy Corbyn, the leader, to question it. There is

:04:16. > :04:22.lots of detail in here, things like providing free Wi-Fi in city centres

:04:23. > :04:26.and public trans port. Even banning certain pesticides. There are lots

:04:27. > :04:32.of detail and lots of big spending commitments. ?1 billion the social

:04:33. > :04:36.care, scrapping tuition fees. That will cost a lot of money. Opponents

:04:37. > :04:40.and sceptical voters will want more details about other promised from

:04:41. > :04:45.labour that everything in he will be costed. Remember, this is just one

:04:46. > :04:49.draft of the BBC have gotten hold. It meant to be signed off today by

:04:50. > :04:53.big figures in the Labour Party so they could, of course, be changes to

:04:54. > :04:59.come. It will be interesting to see the draft document matches the

:05:00. > :05:08.document see in the end. We will speak to the national elections and

:05:09. > :05:09.campaign co-ordinator just after seven.

:05:10. > :05:12.The Conservatives say they will honour the Nato commitment

:05:13. > :05:15.to spend at least 2% of economic output on defence if they're

:05:16. > :05:19.They'll also increase the budget by at least 0.5% above inflation

:05:20. > :05:23.James Comey has made his first public comments since

:05:24. > :05:27.President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

:05:28. > :05:30.In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

:05:31. > :05:33.going to "spend time on the decision or the way it was executed."

:05:34. > :05:36.Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

:05:37. > :05:38.investigation into alleged links between the Trump

:05:39. > :05:42.Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not doing

:05:43. > :05:48.He has become more famous than me. Donald Trump may have once embraced

:05:49. > :05:51.the FBI director but the Lovell shortlist. It is thought the

:05:52. > :05:54.President's frustration had been building for months. He had hoped

:05:55. > :05:57.that allegations that Russia had meddled in the US election to help

:05:58. > :06:03.him when to be dismissed as fake news. But the towering figure of the

:06:04. > :06:08.FBI to capture the story alive by confirming the investigation. And

:06:09. > :06:12.that is why Democrats think that Mr Trump fired him. The Russian leader

:06:13. > :06:19.offered his opinion on his way to a hockey match in Sochi. TRANSLATION:

:06:20. > :06:27.President Trump is acting in accordance with his law and the

:06:28. > :06:31.Constitution. In a farewell letter, James Comey told his colleagues he

:06:32. > :06:35.was not going to spend time on the decision or the way was executed. He

:06:36. > :06:41.said that the American people should see the FBI as a rock of sense,

:06:42. > :06:46.honesty and independence. Meanwhile, the investigation continues and,

:06:47. > :06:49.back at the centre of it, if the former National Security adviser

:06:50. > :06:56.Michael Flynn. He was 5/ lying about his with the Russian ambassador.

:06:57. > :07:02.Senators are now wish to form new demand -- have now issued a formal

:07:03. > :07:04.demand, a sub Li Na, for further details. The controversy surrounding

:07:05. > :07:09.Donald Trump and his aides goes on. Three women are due to appear

:07:10. > :07:12.in court in London today, charged with preparing a terrorist

:07:13. > :07:15.act and conspiracy to murder. They include 21-year-old

:07:16. > :07:17.Rizlaine Boular, who was shot by police during a raid

:07:18. > :07:20.at a property in Willesden Seven other people, arrested as part

:07:21. > :07:23.of the investigation, have been released

:07:24. > :07:26.from police custody. A cold-calling firm has been fined

:07:27. > :07:29.a record ?400,000 for making almost Keurboom Communications made

:07:30. > :07:38.unsolicited automated calls relating to road-accident

:07:39. > :07:39.and PPI compensation. Most of us have received them -

:07:40. > :07:50.cold calls offering anything from help with PPI claims or road

:07:51. > :07:53.accidents to investing in some The cold callers play a numbers

:07:54. > :07:58.game, bombarding people in the hope that some will bite

:07:59. > :08:00.and take up their offers, This one company,

:08:01. > :08:06.Keurboom Communications, based in Bedfordshire,

:08:07. > :08:08.made almost 100 million automated The calls were about a variety

:08:09. > :08:18.of subject, including PPI People got numerous calls,

:08:19. > :08:23.often on the same day, Companies are allowed

:08:24. > :08:27.to make marketing calls, but only if you have given

:08:28. > :08:31.permission, such as ticking a box This company didn't have permission,

:08:32. > :08:35.and so got a record ?400,000 fine You can avoid many nuisance

:08:36. > :08:40.calls by signing up New laws which will allow

:08:41. > :08:47.the directors of cold-call companies which breaks the rules to be fined

:08:48. > :08:51.should also mean fewer nuisance Later today Dyson, the engineering

:08:52. > :09:01.and design company will find out if its appeal to the European court

:09:02. > :09:05.of justice to change the way vacuum The company claims the present

:09:06. > :09:09.system is misleading as it tests appliances in a pristine condition

:09:10. > :09:12.without dust inside. Melanie Abbott from the You and

:09:13. > :09:23.Yours consumer programme reports. If you're having avocado

:09:24. > :09:31.with your breakfast this morning, That's because a plastic surgeon

:09:32. > :09:36.says there's been an increase in people cutting their hands

:09:37. > :09:39.while trying to get the stone out. It's being dubbed by medical

:09:40. > :09:44.staff as "avocado hand". Simon Eccles, who's a plastic

:09:45. > :10:03.surgeon has told the Times the fruit Beware! Be careful. Open at your

:10:04. > :10:10.peril. It is easy to laugh at... I'd like to knows different techniques

:10:11. > :10:14.for opening and avocado. A cut and twist, a teaspoon... I just know

:10:15. > :10:20.those two. It is ten minutes past seven at the moment. What are the

:10:21. > :10:29.most astonishing medical achievements of our generation. A

:10:30. > :10:36.study led by Bristol University, published points to the success of

:10:37. > :10:36.HIV treatments in the past two decades.

:10:37. > :10:38.We're joined by Paul Attinello who was diagnosed

:10:39. > :10:41.with HIV in 1987, and from our Bristol studio, Jonathan Sterne,

:10:42. > :10:54.Good morning to you both. If I could come to you first of all, Paul,

:10:55. > :11:02.could we heed your health story and how you why now? It is quite long. I

:11:03. > :11:10.was probably infected in 1981, 1982 in San Francisco. A boyfriend fell

:11:11. > :11:14.horribly ill because everything went wrong at once in 1983, the first

:11:15. > :11:19.time I really noticed. But we did not really know how anything was

:11:20. > :11:24.passed on, you know? When I teach this to students they forget how

:11:25. > :11:31.long it took to figure anything out. So I finally went for testing in

:11:32. > :11:35.April 1987 and I was sure I would be positive. So we will come to the

:11:36. > :11:42.doctor and a second but at that point in time, the prognosis for you

:11:43. > :11:50.was what? The social worker who gave me my results was a psychoanalyst in

:11:51. > :11:56.training so did psychoanalysis with him for five years. The whole point

:11:57. > :12:00.was we knew I would be dead soon. And all of the understanding and

:12:01. > :12:04.medical science at that point said that the position you Irene, you are

:12:05. > :12:10.going to die and it will be quite a short lifespan. Yes. Until 1996. And

:12:11. > :12:13.even then, I know that it took a long time for me to really

:12:14. > :12:19.understand that was not the whole point of my life. Listening to that

:12:20. > :12:23.it is a perfect illustration of just how far we have come. Could you

:12:24. > :12:30.outline for is where medicine has reached in terms of treatments now?

:12:31. > :12:34.As you say, the big revolution occurred in the late 1990s when

:12:35. > :12:39.combination therapies became widely available and it became apparent

:12:40. > :12:44.that what had been a rapid death sentence was no longer the case.

:12:45. > :12:52.What we have shown is that things have become steadily better over

:12:53. > :12:56.years since then and, so, because of better drugs, that are easier to

:12:57. > :13:01.take with fewer side-effects and less likely to develop resistance to

:13:02. > :13:07.and more drug options if the virus you are infected with does develop

:13:08. > :13:11.resistance, patients the starting therapy these days, providing they

:13:12. > :13:16.start early in the course of the infection, can expect to live a new

:13:17. > :13:19.normal lifespan. Could I ask you this? Treatment has changed

:13:20. > :13:25.significantly and this news is wonderful to hear. As a changed

:13:26. > :13:29.attitudes, in a way? In a way that is more challenging? Because people

:13:30. > :13:33.are no longer so frightened of HIV and AIDS any more so they are really

:13:34. > :13:41.not being careful about not getting it. There are different levels. I

:13:42. > :13:44.just taught a course on this at university again and we speak to

:13:45. > :13:48.medical students and people all over the world. There is always a level

:13:49. > :13:52.of being rational and medical about it and then there is the very

:13:53. > :14:01.charged crazy level where, oh my God, I'm going to die. All the

:14:02. > :14:07.people that were 19 quite accustomed to the fact that patients who come

:14:08. > :14:13.in a just sure that this is the end of the world. And, generally, the

:14:14. > :14:18.patient group, people who have been HIV-positive for a while will often

:14:19. > :14:24.speak to people who are newly diagnosed. Normally what we try to

:14:25. > :14:28.say is... It is OK, it will not be that bad. But then when someone is

:14:29. > :14:33.not infected, it usually it's that you do not want this. It is still

:14:34. > :14:40.rough on the body. But people newly diagnosed today should expect to

:14:41. > :14:45.have a normal life. It is an amazing achievement to reach this point. If

:14:46. > :14:48.you could try and name one thing that has changed over the years, was

:14:49. > :14:52.that the money was made available for the research? So often in

:14:53. > :14:55.medical science, the argument is just around how much money goes into

:14:56. > :14:59.the research process. Did something happen in relation to that which

:15:00. > :15:05.made this possible? Certainly, money was made available for research but

:15:06. > :15:12.in sub Saharan Africa in particular, money was also made available to

:15:13. > :15:17.treat millions of people. And, um, in fact it is not often understood

:15:18. > :15:21.achievement of President George W Bush that he decided to put billions

:15:22. > :15:26.of American dollars into treating people in sub Saharan Africa. It is

:15:27. > :15:30.not just people in North America who have had access to treatment. With

:15:31. > :15:36.regard to the situation now I think another very important finding from

:15:37. > :15:39.recent years is that if you are on these therapies and successfully

:15:40. > :15:47.treated it is hugely beneficial for you but it also means that you are

:15:48. > :15:52.very unlikely to transmit the virus to anyone else. It has become very

:15:53. > :15:56.important to address these issues of stigma and to say to those who may

:15:57. > :16:01.be infected with HIV to please get tested, if you think you may be at

:16:02. > :16:04.risk and health systems need to try to diagnose people because that will

:16:05. > :16:08.benefit the people who go on the treatment. It will also mean that

:16:09. > :16:12.there are fewer new infections. At the moment treatment is lifelong and

:16:13. > :16:14.Europe and in America it costs a lot of money. Thank you very much both

:16:15. > :16:18.of you for your time. You're watching

:16:19. > :16:27.Breakfast from BBC News. Shall we look outside and see what

:16:28. > :16:31.the weather is like? It is looking a bit sunnier at Salford quays this

:16:32. > :16:36.morning. At week not compare with the views were Carol is, at Kenwood

:16:37. > :16:41.House in north London. -- but we cannot compare. Can you describe

:16:42. > :16:46.exactly what vegetation is behind you?

:16:47. > :16:50.Yikes! Rhododendrons, that is the best I can offer. It is beautiful

:16:51. > :16:54.here at Kenwood House in north London. The sun is out, but it is

:16:55. > :16:59.chilly if you are stepping out, not just in north London but across the

:17:00. > :17:05.board. Today will be largely dry, but increasingly it is going to turn

:17:06. > :17:09.humid, especially in the south. Some parts of southern England,

:17:10. > :17:12.especially the south-east, could hit 2223dC, but there will also be

:17:13. > :17:15.thunderstorms developing, some of which will be torrential. -- 22 or

:17:16. > :17:24.23 Celsius. If you have cloud around you at the

:17:25. > :17:27.moment the chances are high that it will burn away. We have showers

:17:28. > :17:32.scattered around southern areas, and some of them are thundery. In

:17:33. > :17:35.Scotland we have the remnants of a weather front producing some patchy

:17:36. > :17:38.rain, which will increasingly weakened through the day. This

:17:39. > :17:41.afternoon across the south-east, lots of sunshine, but we are prone

:17:42. > :17:45.to some of those thunderstorms anywhere from west London all the

:17:46. > :17:49.way across the M4 corridor down towards Devon and Cornwall. Also,

:17:50. > :17:54.the southern half of Wales is not immune to those. They will be heavy,

:17:55. > :17:58.thundery, and also have some hail embedded. They could lead to issues

:17:59. > :18:01.of surface water flooding. North Wales, most of the Midlands and

:18:02. > :18:04.north-west England and Northern Ireland, as well as most of

:18:05. > :18:08.Scotland, will see a sunny and dry day. The remnants of this morning's

:18:09. > :18:11.rain across the north-west of Scotland, but across the far north

:18:12. > :18:15.and north-east there will be a bit more cloud. That will depress the

:18:16. > :18:18.temperatures. As we come further south again into north-east England,

:18:19. > :18:23.heading towards the wash and East Anglia, lots of dry weather and some

:18:24. > :18:27.sunshine. Through the evening and overnight, those thunderstorms start

:18:28. > :18:32.to migrate north. We will also have some in the west. It will not be as

:18:33. > :18:39.cold as it was last night. We will increasingly see more sea fret and

:18:40. > :18:44.hoar in the north of Scotland and north-west England. Some of the

:18:45. > :18:48.showers tomorrow will be heavy and thundery, with some hail, but drying

:18:49. > :18:52.up across southern England. Through the course of the day, especially in

:18:53. > :18:55.the afternoon, we will see more coastal fog coming up on shore

:18:56. > :19:02.across the north-east of the UK, as far south as north-east England, and

:19:03. > :19:06.there will also be some hill fog. Saturday will start on a cloudy note

:19:07. > :19:09.in Northern Ireland in Scotland, but that rain will fragment and we will

:19:10. > :19:14.see sunshine and heavy showers developing. England and Wales, a day

:19:15. > :19:17.of sunshine and showers. A later weather front coming in from the

:19:18. > :19:20.west will produce rain, drifting across our shores overnight and

:19:21. > :19:24.clearing into the North Sea during the course of Sunday. Behind that,

:19:25. > :19:28.we are back into sunshine and showers. If you are desperate to see

:19:29. > :19:30.some rain, some of us will definitely be seeing it in the next

:19:31. > :19:38.few days. Great to hear. And you look glorious

:19:39. > :19:41.and that sunshine, Carol. And good choice of coat. As always. Thank

:19:42. > :19:56.you, Charlie. It is 719 a.m.. It's 20,000 words

:19:57. > :19:58.spread over 51 pages. Stamped through each

:19:59. > :20:00.and every one of them, in capital letters,

:20:01. > :20:02.the word "confidential." Last night Labour's draft manifesto

:20:03. > :20:04.was leaked to several national It gives an insight into the party's

:20:05. > :20:08.vision for government. There are plans to scrap university

:20:09. > :20:11.tuition fees in England, nationalise the railways,

:20:12. > :20:13.and to ban zero-hours contracts. Andrew Gwynne is Labour's National

:20:14. > :20:25.Elections and Campaigns Coordinator Thank you for your time this

:20:26. > :20:30.morning. Just take us through what has happened. How did the leak come

:20:31. > :20:34.about? I don't know, and this isn't how I planned to spend my morning

:20:35. > :20:39.today. But it gives us an opportunity, doesn't it, to talk

:20:40. > :20:43.about the kind of Britain that we want to see after June eight, the

:20:44. > :20:48.kind of return that labour believes in, which is a fairer and more equal

:20:49. > :20:53.society. A Britain for the many and not a few. There are some good ideas

:20:54. > :20:57.in this document. Of course, it is not the Labour manifesto, because we

:20:58. > :21:00.have the small matter of a clause five meeting. Sorry to sound

:21:01. > :21:04.technical so early in the morning. But the Labour Party is a dim

:21:05. > :21:10.aquatic party, so today the reason why I am not in greater Manchester

:21:11. > :21:12.with you but down in London is because the Shadow Cabinet is

:21:13. > :21:15.meeting with the national executive committee, the Parliamentary

:21:16. > :21:23.committee of a bench MPs, and trading and is, to go through the

:21:24. > :21:30.draft manifesto. -- backbench MPs and trade unions. After today's

:21:31. > :21:34.meeting we will have a clearer picture of what is actually the

:21:35. > :21:40.manifesto. But there are some great ideas in doubt. We will come to the

:21:41. > :21:44.policies in a second, but if I can bring you back to the fact that it

:21:45. > :21:48.has been leaked, one of the criticisms of the Labour Party, and

:21:49. > :21:51.you be aware of this, is that there is an element of disunity. Lots of

:21:52. > :21:56.people acting against one another. The problem, in a way, is that this

:21:57. > :22:00.suggests that somebody did it, even at this stage in a general election

:22:01. > :22:03.campaign, that possibly somebody did it maliciously, of whatever reason,

:22:04. > :22:07.they just wanted to cause trouble for the party from within. Look,

:22:08. > :22:12.leaks happen. They always happen. They probably always will. The point

:22:13. > :22:17.is, there is an opportunity now. We are talking about Labour's policies

:22:18. > :22:22.a week in advance of when we would relaunch in them. So, you know, I am

:22:23. > :22:28.looking at the positives here. There are great ideas. I think it shows

:22:29. > :22:32.the direction of travel. Britain does not have to be like it is

:22:33. > :22:37.today. We want to change Britain for the better, a country that looks

:22:38. > :22:40.after our elderly and looks after our young people and gives them the

:22:41. > :22:44.best start in life. Britain under the Tories has gone backwards. We

:22:45. > :22:48.are being held that. We want a different division, a different

:22:49. > :22:51.society. You can see from this draft document some of those ideas would

:22:52. > :22:56.transfer the way that people live their lives in this country, and I

:22:57. > :22:59.think it is a great opportunity to flag up the direction of travel

:23:00. > :23:01.under a future Labour government. Let's talk about some of the

:23:02. > :23:10.specifics. Renationalise in the railways. -- renationalising. It has

:23:11. > :23:14.been talked about for a long time, it is going to be in the manifesto,

:23:15. > :23:18.I think we can take it that is one of the things that will not be

:23:19. > :23:22.changed. Is your pledge to the nation that a ticket to ride on the

:23:23. > :23:27.railways will be cheaper and the service will be better? Absolutely.

:23:28. > :23:31.We believe that is the case, that by bringing the railways into public

:23:32. > :23:38.ownership we can have a much better service for the customer. But, look,

:23:39. > :23:45.it shouldn't come as a surprise... If I made, the question was, will

:23:46. > :23:49.they be cheaper and better? -- if I may. Will the prices come down, to

:23:50. > :23:56.travel on the railways, under Ray Labour government? It is clearly our

:23:57. > :24:00.vision to have a cheaper, more affordable, more accessible public

:24:01. > :24:06.transport network in this country. So, you know, that is part of our

:24:07. > :24:10.vision. We know that state-owned railways can work. Look at the east

:24:11. > :24:16.coast railway. It was the best served rail system when it was under

:24:17. > :24:21.state control, until very recently. So, you know, that is a real... OK,

:24:22. > :24:25.let me, we are going to stay with this subject, if we may. It is

:24:26. > :24:30.useful to target some things sometimes. A lot of vertical parties

:24:31. > :24:33.might say that their vision is to create a better, cheaper travel

:24:34. > :24:36.system people can use. Lots of people might say that is their

:24:37. > :24:40.vision. What might differentiate you? We are at that point in the

:24:41. > :24:43.campaign went differences are becoming more clear. What might

:24:44. > :24:47.differentiate you from the Tories is that you are saying it is a pledge,

:24:48. > :24:51.you would guarantee that going on a train journey, today, people

:24:52. > :24:54.commuting, they will know that when a labour government comes into

:24:55. > :24:58.power, that journey will be cheaper and better. Is that a pledge, or

:24:59. > :25:02.just a hope? Well, let's see what is in the manifesto... We know what is

:25:03. > :25:07.in the manifesto, you can't say that any more. The point is that under

:25:08. > :25:10.the Tories, we have a railway system whereby the profits don't get

:25:11. > :25:15.ploughed back into reinvestment in the railways. The profits go to the

:25:16. > :25:19.private companies that are running the railways. That is not in the

:25:20. > :25:23.interests of customers crowded on trains. You haven't answered my

:25:24. > :25:26.question. That is not in the interests of customers paying

:25:27. > :25:30.through their noses for ever-increasing train fares. We want

:25:31. > :25:36.to make sure that the drain system works for the many, not the few. --

:25:37. > :25:40.train. That means we have a train system, a public transport system,

:25:41. > :25:42.in which the profits that are made are reinvested into the

:25:43. > :25:48.infrastructure of this country. I think most people agree with that.

:25:49. > :25:54.Certainly when you ask people, do you want your railways to be owned

:25:55. > :26:00.by you, and working in your interests rather than the interests

:26:01. > :26:04.of some shareholders often onstage nationalise train companies from

:26:05. > :26:08.other countries, most people say, yes, we want a train system that

:26:09. > :26:14.works for us. And that is what Labour's Odyssey is all about. We

:26:15. > :26:17.sometimes get hung up on some of the technical details, but this is about

:26:18. > :26:21.ordinary people. This is about making the system work for them.

:26:22. > :26:24.Whether it is transport, whether it is the NHS, whether it is

:26:25. > :26:29.educational looking after elderly people, you can see that there is a

:26:30. > :26:34.real vision here for a different kind of society. Something quite

:26:35. > :26:38.exciting. OK, thank you for your time this morning. That was Andrew

:26:39. > :26:44.Greene, national elections and campaign co-ordinator for the Labour

:26:45. > :26:48.Party. -- Andrew Gwyne. Steph is out and about this morning,

:26:49. > :26:54.talking about trade. She is in a mill where they weave and make up

:26:55. > :27:02.all three fabrics. I have my eye on new fabric for the sofa. It has to

:27:03. > :27:06.be read. Do they have any red? Do you know, the sofar that you are on

:27:07. > :27:13.at the moment is actually fabric that was made by this company? They

:27:14. > :27:17.just told me that. New Zealand lambs wool is what our sofa is made of. It

:27:18. > :27:21.is a bit shabby looking at the minute. I might get some cut-offs

:27:22. > :27:26.from here and jazz it up. It is a fascinating place. They make

:27:27. > :27:29.products sent all over the world. They make about 8 million metres

:27:30. > :27:35.every year fabric. Lots of it you will recognise, because they make it

:27:36. > :27:41.fall us seats and Qube seats and other things you might be sitting

:27:42. > :27:45.on. -- make it for bus seats and tube seats. Something like 80

:27:46. > :27:50.different countries they sell their products do. About 50% of what they

:27:51. > :27:53.make is exported. That is why we are here today, we are talking about

:27:54. > :27:58.trade. The latest figures are coming out about 9:30am. We are currently

:27:59. > :28:01.in a trade deficit, meaning we import more than we export. Of

:28:02. > :28:07.course, the ideal is that we do not have that deficit, so that we can

:28:08. > :28:10.export just as much as we import. That puts a lot of pressure on

:28:11. > :28:15.companies. I will be talking to them here about what they can try to do

:28:16. > :31:35.to increase exports across the UK. First,

:31:36. > :31:39.to increase exports across the UK. hour. 30 more on our website at the

:31:40. > :31:43.usual address. Now it is back Charlie and Sally.

:31:44. > :31:47.Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

:31:48. > :31:52.Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked to the press a week

:31:53. > :31:58.Due to be finalised today, the document outlines plans to scrap

:31:59. > :32:02.tuition fees, ban fracking and create some publicly owned

:32:03. > :32:06.energy companies as well as introducing a price cap.

:32:07. > :32:09.Labour says it would not comment on the leak but the Conservatives

:32:10. > :32:16.Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats are to announce that they'd accept

:32:17. > :32:18.10,000 refugees from Syria every year for the duration

:32:19. > :32:26.Party leader Tim Farron will also say that he is committed

:32:27. > :32:28.to reopening the Dubs programme for unaccompanied asylum seeking

:32:29. > :32:34.James Comey has made his first public comments since

:32:35. > :32:37.President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

:32:38. > :32:40.In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

:32:41. > :32:44.going to "spend time on the decision or the way it was executed."

:32:45. > :32:47.Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

:32:48. > :32:49.investigation into alleged links between the Trump

:32:50. > :32:53.Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not doing

:32:54. > :32:58.Three women are due to appear in court in London today,

:32:59. > :33:00.charged with preparing a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder.

:33:01. > :33:03.They include 21-year-old Rizlaine Boular, who was shot

:33:04. > :33:05.by police during a raid at a property in Willesden

:33:06. > :33:10.Seven other people, arrested as part of the investigation,

:33:11. > :33:19.have been released from police custody.

:33:20. > :33:22.Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have a near-normal life

:33:23. > :33:49.Their findings show a ten-year increase in life expectancy

:33:50. > :33:51.since anti-retroviral drugs became widely available two decades ago.

:33:52. > :33:53.David Beckham has made his big screen debut.

:33:54. > :33:57.He was met with cheers at the premier of the new film

:33:58. > :34:00.King Arthur: Legend of the Sword in Los Angeles, but the reception

:34:01. > :34:03.for his cameo performance as a soldier in the movie has been

:34:04. > :34:21.We were trying to think of other sports stars previously. He lay, of

:34:22. > :34:30.course escape to victory. How about others? Eric Cantona who has been in

:34:31. > :34:36.loads of movies. And another Chelsea player. Obviously it is a French

:34:37. > :34:41.thing. They have the flair, the artistry for isn't that like David

:34:42. > :34:48.in King Arthur? He has all of that, doesn't he? Not according to the

:34:49. > :34:55.critics. Arsenal are having a late surge. Many people wrote off their

:34:56. > :34:57.season and their coach but are they about to prove the critics wrong?

:34:58. > :35:00.Arsenal are closing in on the top four in the Premier League

:35:01. > :35:03.after a two nil win away at Southampton last night

:35:04. > :35:05.Some nimble footwork from Alexis Sanchez gave Arsenal

:35:06. > :35:08.the lead in the second half while an Olivier Giroud header

:35:09. > :35:10.made sure of the points for Arsene Wenger's in-form side

:35:11. > :35:14.In the second half I believe that going forward they looked dangerous

:35:15. > :35:18.and dynamic and I am pleased with the performance.

:35:19. > :35:21.Do you feel that nine points from your last three matches

:35:22. > :35:33.The only thing I do know is that we give our best to win

:35:34. > :35:38.every game and we will start again on Saturday.

:35:39. > :35:40.Holders Real Madrid reached the final of the Champions League

:35:41. > :35:44.after a 4-2 aggregate win over neighbours Atletico.

:35:45. > :35:47.They had to resist a fightback though with goals from Saul Niguez

:35:48. > :35:52.and Antoine Griezmann putting Atletico 2-0 up after quarter

:35:53. > :35:56.But Isco's away goal just before half time effectively won Real

:35:57. > :36:08.the tie, even though they lost 2-1 on the night.

:36:09. > :36:16.As a Mourinho says it is the biggest night in the history of Manchester

:36:17. > :36:20.united as they defend a one nil lead against the Spanish side

:36:21. > :36:22.Celta Vigo, but the captain insists he doesn't

:36:23. > :36:33.That is the way it has panned out and, you know,

:36:34. > :36:38.and I am happy to help the team on and off the pitch.

:36:39. > :36:46.I haven't made a plan nor a big fuss but, of course,

:36:47. > :36:56.I am a football player and I would like to play football.

:36:57. > :37:01.England batsman Alistair Cook scored his second century in three

:37:02. > :37:06.The former England captain hit 109 for Essex against Sussex -

:37:07. > :37:09.Britain's Geraint Thomas and Adam Yates remain second

:37:10. > :37:12.and third overall after the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia.

:37:13. > :37:14.But the stage was rather embarrassing for Slovenian cyclist

:37:15. > :37:18.He was leading as it entered Messina in Sicily.

:37:19. > :37:20.Unfortunately for him he celebrated his victory a lap

:37:21. > :37:29.The rest of the peleton came behind him and overtook him.

:37:30. > :37:36.If you listen carefully you can hear the bell ringing to say you have one

:37:37. > :37:45.more that to go in the rest of the group catching up, overtake him and

:37:46. > :37:50.he finished in 148. In the worst thing for him, he has to go out and

:37:51. > :37:54.do it all again today. He will not make the same mistake again. It is

:37:55. > :37:58.A telemarketing company that bombarded people with unwanted calls

:37:59. > :38:01.about PPI compensation and road traffic accident claims is facing

:38:02. > :38:03.a record fine from the Information Commissioner.

:38:04. > :38:07.Keurboom Communications has been issued with a ?400,000 fine

:38:08. > :38:15.More than 1000 complaints were made about the company over an 18 month

:38:16. > :38:22.period as they made almost 100 million calls.

:38:23. > :38:25.In the past year 23 companies have been fined for making nuisance calls

:38:26. > :38:28.by the ICO, making it their busiest year dealing

:38:29. > :38:36.Here with us now is Simon Entwisle, the Deputy Commissioner

:38:37. > :38:39.of the Information Commissioner's Office to tell us how big

:38:40. > :38:51.I can see already it is quite a big problem. It is huge and has been for

:38:52. > :38:55.some time. For five years, since we had the power to levy fines, we have

:38:56. > :38:59.been working with others in a concerted campaign to try and do

:39:00. > :39:04.what we can to stamp out this scourge of nuisance calls. Last year

:39:05. > :39:10.was our busiest year was 23 fines and although this power fine is the

:39:11. > :39:19.biggest ever, it is not that far ahead the one below are which is for

:39:20. > :39:22.?350,000. This company made almost 100 million nuisance calls in 18

:39:23. > :39:27.months. Is the fine even big enough was to mark the maximum we can hit

:39:28. > :39:32.is 500000 and this is significant. The money is only part of the

:39:33. > :39:35.problem. Sorry, part of the solution. This company has gone out

:39:36. > :39:39.of business so they will not be making any more nuisance calls to

:39:40. > :39:44.individuals. How will they pay their fine? It is a challenge to get the

:39:45. > :39:48.money back when companies go out of business. We will do the best we

:39:49. > :39:52.can, insolvency practices and whatever to get money from them but

:39:53. > :39:56.we may not be successful. However, what the ICO was pushing the

:39:57. > :40:00.government to do is to introduce a new offence so that the directors of

:40:01. > :40:05.these companies are personally liable and we feel that that will

:40:06. > :40:09.help us get the money back and act as a deterrent to those who feel

:40:10. > :40:16.they can set up the company and then put it into insolvency when they get

:40:17. > :40:19.fined. This is point for a vague pence for every call they made.

:40:20. > :40:26.Might some companies think it is worth anyway? Not 100 million people

:40:27. > :40:31.received a call, not all calls are connected. The answer machines, some

:40:32. > :40:35.bounce back. But you are right, companies like this make a business

:40:36. > :40:41.decision. They decide whether or not this is worthwhile to do. And what

:40:42. > :40:44.we are here to do is play a part in saying that, actually, if you do

:40:45. > :40:47.breach these rules there is a potential significant fine and the

:40:48. > :40:51.end and that should help them think twice about taking action. We have

:40:52. > :40:54.had a huge response from people at home this morning. One main

:40:55. > :40:58.complaint is that the information from these cold callers is sold on

:40:59. > :41:04.to insurance companies and then sold on again. Is that something you

:41:05. > :41:07.think should be banned? It is definitely a problem and definitely

:41:08. > :41:13.something that there is laws to Brit vent and protect again and an area

:41:14. > :41:17.we are also active in. We have a stream of work looking at the

:41:18. > :41:26.transfer and sale of personal data between organisations. Some of it is

:41:27. > :41:33.legitimate but some is not. We may need to tie back to other companies

:41:34. > :41:39.that feed into the cycle of information being shared and it gets

:41:40. > :41:42.to companies like Keurboom Communications to use it to phone

:41:43. > :41:51.people. This whole cycle is part of the work stream that we do. People

:41:52. > :41:57.are just sick and tired of nuisance calls. There are things they can do

:41:58. > :42:02.about it. What can they do? You can get a call blocker. You need to be

:42:03. > :42:06.careful about the information you give to people when you give them

:42:07. > :42:12.your phone number, particularly your landline number. You could leave

:42:13. > :42:25.your answer machine on so you wait and hear who you are receiving a

:42:26. > :42:31.call from. And let us know about the phone calls you have received, there

:42:32. > :42:34.is a form to fill in on our website that information feeds into the

:42:35. > :42:38.information we got last year that helps us to track down these

:42:39. > :42:45.callers, identify the numbers that we use as evidence to issue the

:42:46. > :42:55.fines. It has annoyed many people. The time now is 7:42. A main stories

:42:56. > :42:59.this morning... The draft manifesto for labour has been leaked a week

:43:00. > :43:05.before it was due to be published. We revealed plans to nationalise

:43:06. > :43:09.railways and scrap tuition fees. A cold calling for home has been given

:43:10. > :43:17.a record fine of ?400,000 after making the 100 million nuisance

:43:18. > :43:20.calls. Let's have a look at the weather this morning. Carol is out

:43:21. > :43:26.and about for us this morning. This is just outside the studio here and

:43:27. > :43:31.there is some pale sunshine, clearing up. It is meant to be a

:43:32. > :43:36.nice day here. I'm guessing the Carol can tell is for sure. You are

:43:37. > :43:44.absolutely right. This is Kenwood house and look at these little

:43:45. > :43:48.goslings. They are so cute. There are Egyptian geese at the front and

:43:49. > :43:53.Canadian geese at the back. The parents are quite protective of

:43:54. > :43:57.their babies. Behind me you can see a bridge but it is not as it seems

:43:58. > :44:03.because that is not actually a bridge, it is a facade to make it

:44:04. > :44:08.look like this pond is actually a lake which flows under the bridge.

:44:09. > :44:12.It is all an illusion. There are some big fish in there this morning

:44:13. > :44:17.as well. We have cloud cover coming over us here in London but generally

:44:18. > :44:23.speaking for most of us it is going to be a sunny day that will

:44:24. > :44:26.increasingly turn humid and we will see further as thunderstorms

:44:27. > :44:30.develop. This morning what we have is a chilly start if you are just

:44:31. > :44:35.stepping out. A lot of blue sky with cloud around. That will melt away

:44:36. > :44:39.and then we have a few well scattered thunderstorms, not many at

:44:40. > :44:42.this stage of the day. We go through the morning because in the sunshine

:44:43. > :44:46.that temperature will skip up quite quickly and we have also got a weak

:44:47. > :44:53.weather front in the north of Scotland producing patchy rain. In

:44:54. > :44:56.the afternoon, to the west of London along the corridor Somerset into the

:44:57. > :44:59.south-west of England, the southern half of Wales were to see the

:45:00. > :45:04.thunderstorms develop. The south coast itself will more than likely

:45:05. > :45:08.stay dry and north of that line of thunderstorms it will be dry with a

:45:09. > :45:14.fair bit of sunshine. Sunshine across north Wales, the Midlands and

:45:15. > :45:17.into north-west England it also across north-west Ireland is to

:45:18. > :45:21.Scotland. We will have a couple of spots of rain in the north-west from

:45:22. > :45:24.this morning and look at cloud across the far north and north-east

:45:25. > :45:27.coastline of Scotland which will keep temperatures pegged back. As we

:45:28. > :45:30.come back into the north-east of England down towards The Wash and

:45:31. > :45:36.East Anglia were returned to sunshine. Through this evening and

:45:37. > :45:40.overnight there is heavy standard downpours migrating northwards it

:45:41. > :45:45.will not be as cold as the night just gone and, increasingly, we see

:45:46. > :45:49.cloud build that we will have fresh air coming in across the north-east.

:45:50. > :45:54.Tomorrow, we start off at the right good old array of thunderstorms.

:45:55. > :45:58.Like today some will be heavy and sundry with hail and it could lead

:45:59. > :46:01.to surface water flooding issues. In between there will be sunshine and

:46:02. > :46:05.it will dry out across Southern counties. Temperatures are quite

:46:06. > :46:10.similar to what we are looking at today, around about the 20, maybe

:46:11. > :46:14.just over 20 mark as our highest temperature but, increasingly, we

:46:15. > :46:18.see more cloud, across the north and east of the UK. On Saturday,

:46:19. > :46:22.Scotland and Northern Ireland will start of cloudy with rain. That will

:46:23. > :46:26.fragment into sunshine and heavy showers stopped in England and Wales

:46:27. > :46:30.a day of sunshine and showers and then into Sunday we have a line of

:46:31. > :46:33.rain moving from the west to the east through the course of the

:46:34. > :46:36.night, clearing into the North Sea via the afternoon on Sunday and then

:46:37. > :46:41.behind that, sunshine and showers once again. Does anybody looking for

:46:42. > :46:46.rain for the garden, well, there is some on the horizon.

:46:47. > :46:53.It looks so calm and peaceful there. By way of contrast, we are taking

:46:54. > :46:56.you to a textile mill, which is pretty noisy. That is where Steph is

:46:57. > :47:00.today. We have new figures coming out today which are all about

:47:01. > :47:07.imports and exports. Checking your hat, you are looking good. You are

:47:08. > :47:11.great. Awkward! Good morning, everybody. Let me explain where I am

:47:12. > :47:16.this morning. I am in a brilliant textile mill. You can see Ahmad

:47:17. > :47:22.here, just re- threading this machine. What a job, trying to get

:47:23. > :47:27.that sorted. This is a business which makes something like 8 million

:47:28. > :47:31.metres of fabric every single year. It is the kind of fabric you would

:47:32. > :47:37.see on bus seats and cubes. You might even be sitting on some today.

:47:38. > :47:41.It is a business which exports a lot. That is what we are talking

:47:42. > :47:45.about at the moment, trade, and how we can increase the trade we do

:47:46. > :47:49.around the world. It is a big issue for the election and Brexit. Leslie

:47:50. > :47:55.bachelor joins us from the Institute of Exports. What are your thoughts

:47:56. > :47:59.about how we are doing in terms of trade? I think we are holding our

:48:00. > :48:03.own. I am surprised it has gone as well as it has. It has been hard for

:48:04. > :48:07.some of the manufacturers that are importing, and the cost of freight,

:48:08. > :48:12.because of the dollar et cetera. It has been quite challenging. But

:48:13. > :48:16.exporting is all about challengers. This business is growing 10% year on

:48:17. > :48:22.year. Doing incredibly well, exporting to 80 different countries.

:48:23. > :48:26.How do we replicate that? Well, I was speaking to grant earlier, and

:48:27. > :48:30.he talked about how much research it does, and how he is careful before

:48:31. > :48:34.he gets into any new market and find out everything he can about what is

:48:35. > :48:38.going on. I think that is a habit we have to get back into, finding out

:48:39. > :48:41.all the detail, not just the surface. That is hard for

:48:42. > :48:45.businesses, when they have lots going on. It is, but we mustn't

:48:46. > :48:48.forget that there is a lot of help out there. The government have got

:48:49. > :48:51.the department from international trade now, we are always out there,

:48:52. > :48:55.the Institute is a waste happy to help people. There is more help than

:48:56. > :48:59.you realise. Thank you. I am going to zip you through here so you can

:49:00. > :49:03.see more of the factory. The reason we are talking about this is because

:49:04. > :49:07.we have got the latest trade figures out this morning. You should see

:49:08. > :49:10.some of those facts appearing on your screen beneath me as well,

:49:11. > :49:15.because we are currently in a trade deficit, which means we import more

:49:16. > :49:19.goods and services than we actually export them to sell abroad. Of

:49:20. > :49:24.course, that means it can put lots of pressure on the economy in terms

:49:25. > :49:28.of our alliance with other countries, and currencies around the

:49:29. > :49:34.world. -- reliance on other countries. Paul here is from the

:49:35. > :49:38.centre of the Cities. You have done lots of research on this. Who is

:49:39. > :49:42.good, and who can do better? Sunderland comes out on top, partly

:49:43. > :49:45.because of a Nissan. We see places like Worthington doing well as well,

:49:46. > :49:49.she is perhaps not what you would expect. We do see places like

:49:50. > :49:52.Huddersfield and other cities across Yorkshire not doing very well, and

:49:53. > :49:56.there is an issue there about how much they are exporting, what that

:49:57. > :50:00.means the jobs and what it means the money and people's pockets. What

:50:01. > :50:05.could those areas that are not doing so well do to be better at it. What

:50:06. > :50:08.is the difference? The key thing for places like Huddersfield is that

:50:09. > :50:12.there are not enough businesses like this which are exporting. You have

:50:13. > :50:16.to ask why that is. What's of it comes down to skills, do we have

:50:17. > :50:20.enough people with the right skills? You mentioned Sunderland. They have

:50:21. > :50:25.obviously got Nissan. That can make a big difference, just one business,

:50:26. > :50:29.but then that is a bit of a worry if you are just relying on the one as

:50:30. > :50:32.well. Indeed. When you talk about trade deals as well all around the

:50:33. > :50:36.world, it becomes sensitive, in terms of not getting the right deal

:50:37. > :50:40.for one company, which can have a big impact on one place. With ink

:50:41. > :50:43.about how we can export more. We can actually export more through a range

:50:44. > :50:46.of different industries. And we think about doing different trade

:50:47. > :50:49.deals with think about different sectors, not just one sector,

:50:50. > :50:58.because we export across lots of different areas. Obviously we are

:50:59. > :51:02.in... (INAUDIBLE). Particularly when we see some of the more successful

:51:03. > :51:06.cities in the greater south-east, they exports of services rather than

:51:07. > :51:09.exporting lots of goods, and we have to think about how to encourage

:51:10. > :51:12.that. Encourage places which are not doing very well in terms of exports,

:51:13. > :51:17.to get more businesses and export more of those services to. Thank you

:51:18. > :51:20.for your time. Let's go look at them re- threading the machine before we

:51:21. > :51:24.go. It is fascinating to see all of this, how quickly everything moves.

:51:25. > :51:29.I wonder if you can see the threads? They are so white, it might be

:51:30. > :51:33.tricky to see it on TV. I will be showing you the actual fabrics that

:51:34. > :51:37.are at the end of the production line, at the other end of the

:51:38. > :51:39.factory. More from me a bit later on.

:51:40. > :51:49.A fascinating place. That factory is so tidy. Much tidier than our

:51:50. > :51:53.newsroom. It certainly is. Now, when you talk about scary characters in

:51:54. > :51:59.movies, the next one has to be one of the most. Never mind the shark

:52:00. > :52:02.from Jaws. The alien, the space creature from the Alien film series.

:52:03. > :52:07.That thing gave me nightmares for years. So many people will remember

:52:08. > :52:12.the original from 1979, with the creature bursting out of John hurt,

:52:13. > :52:15.of course. The latest film in the Alien series stars Michael

:52:16. > :52:20.Fassbender and is directed by Ridley Scott, who is the nature of the

:52:21. > :52:23.original back in 1979. When they were deciding who should go and meet

:52:24. > :52:28.Michael Fassbender, they didn't pick me. They chose you. By his own

:52:29. > :52:32.admission, Michael Fassbender does say that he gets upstaged, of

:52:33. > :52:37.course, by the creature that is the alien. Let's have a look.

:52:38. > :52:43.Firstly, Ridley, there is something about the Alien movies which gets

:52:44. > :52:48.people very excited. It narrows down to one very special thing, the Alien

:52:49. > :52:53.itself. I think the term or Mac is very primordial, disturbing, and it

:52:54. > :52:59.has got no eyes. -- the Alien itself is very. The original Alien had eyes

:53:00. > :53:06.in the design. We were staring at it and weep at a plastic bit over its

:53:07. > :53:09.head, and then HR Giger said, no eyes, very good. So we have an

:53:10. > :53:17.aspect forehead. For meters above you. How far do you go back with the

:53:18. > :53:21.alien story, Michael? Did you watch it when you were younger? I guess I

:53:22. > :53:28.was around ten, I think. Ten years old! I think so. You must have been

:53:29. > :53:32.very frightened. I was, I remember not moving very much. Just being

:53:33. > :53:37.transfixed. Maybe I was a bit older. I just remember that feeling of

:53:38. > :53:55.thinking, this was different than anything I've seen before. Did you

:53:56. > :54:03.have to learn some new tricks to play this role? The flute, and a bit

:54:04. > :54:07.of piano. How has that gone? The flute was ridiculous because it just

:54:08. > :54:12.sounded awful. We were in Australia, shooting the movie, and I was

:54:13. > :54:16.staying in this place in Tamarama, and my neighbour, I kept thinking,

:54:17. > :54:20.God, the neighbours are going to hear this. And I heard the neighbour

:54:21. > :54:24.go, I hate listening to somebody learn how to plan instrument. So

:54:25. > :54:28.from then on I put a bit of Sellotape over the peace. So I was

:54:29. > :54:33.playing silent flute. Michael, Ridley is sitting next to you right

:54:34. > :54:37.now, but I understand he is quite a perfectionist onset. Is that true,

:54:38. > :54:43.is it a rumour? It is more than that. It is about, I think, his

:54:44. > :54:47.understanding of a set. So especially with these kinds of

:54:48. > :54:51.films, they can move very slowly. There is a lot of dead time on a

:54:52. > :54:57.set. Idle hands are the devil 's workshop. That is where people get

:54:58. > :55:02.into a funky mood and you need people to be on their game. Ridley

:55:03. > :55:06.shoots really fast. It is like for five cameras on the go at once. And

:55:07. > :55:10.everybody is on their tiptoes. Michael, inevitably in this film

:55:11. > :55:13.there is quite a bit of running away. Quite a bit of running and

:55:14. > :55:17.running away. Is running a skill that you already have? You have done

:55:18. > :55:21.some running before. I am pretty good at running. That was the one

:55:22. > :55:25.thing I was good at in terms of sports when I was young. So you are

:55:26. > :55:29.pretty good at that anyway. You know, it is probably the worst thing

:55:30. > :55:33.to do, to run away from a creature like that. You can't outrun it. You

:55:34. > :55:38.can't climb, either. Hold on, you giving us the guidelines of what to

:55:39. > :55:42.do if faced with the Alien? Neil on the ground, like with they are. If

:55:43. > :55:46.you do that, it will have a good sniff and then maybe go away.

:55:47. > :55:49.Somebody once told me with some wild animals, if you run away in a

:55:50. > :55:55.zig-zag formation... That is a crocodile. Is it? Yeah, yeah. They

:55:56. > :55:59.can go 30 miles an hour on dry land, but only in a straight line. Where

:56:00. > :56:03.is the Alien has all the tricks. It has everything. The Alien gets you

:56:04. > :56:08.either way. I love it. Thank you. Thank you very much.

:56:09. > :56:16.It is not short on big, scary moments. The film, or the interview?

:56:17. > :56:20.The film. It does deliver. Now you know, don't zig-zag away from

:56:21. > :56:24.aliens. We are here to inform, educate and entertain, and you

:56:25. > :59:43.certainly educated us. Alien Covenant opens in cinemas

:59:44. > :59:51.the London newsroom in half an hour. In Timor on our website at the usual

:59:52. > :59:52.address and more all day on the busy news London. -- plenty more on our

:59:53. > :00:19.website. Goodbye for now. Hello this is Breakfast,

:00:20. > :00:21.with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. Labour's draft election manifesto

:00:22. > :00:24.has been leaked more than a week The document includes plans

:00:25. > :00:31.to nationalise the railways, Royal Mail and parts of the energy

:00:32. > :00:35.industry as well as Good morning it's Thursday,

:00:36. > :00:51.the 11th of May. A record fine for a company that

:00:52. > :01:12.made 100 million cold Today I am talking about trade, an

:01:13. > :01:15.important issue in the run-up to the election. I am at a textile

:01:16. > :01:19.manufacturers to find out how good we are exporting.

:01:20. > :01:21.In sport - it's not over yet for Arsenal

:01:22. > :01:23.They're up to fifth in the Premier League

:01:24. > :01:25.just outside the Champions League places.

:01:26. > :01:29.And we will have the story of the unfortunate cyclist who celebrated

:01:30. > :01:31.his win a lap too soon. And the Aliens are back -

:01:32. > :01:34.director Ridley Scott tells us how he came up with the look

:01:35. > :01:46.for space's scariest monster. The original one had eyes, and I put

:01:47. > :01:54.a plastic bucket over its head. He said, no eyes, very good. And more

:01:55. > :01:58.weather on the way, Carol is bringing the sunshine? Good morning

:01:59. > :02:02.from Kenwood house in London. A beautiful, tranquil start to the

:02:03. > :02:06.day, but chilly across many areas. But most will have a dry day with

:02:07. > :02:11.some sunshine, increasingly turning humid from the south and we will see

:02:12. > :02:14.some thunderstorms. But not all of us. More details in 15 minutes.

:02:15. > :02:19.Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked more than a week

:02:20. > :02:25.The 51 page document was obtained by the BBC and several newspapers.

:02:26. > :02:28.It includes proposals to nationalise the railways and the postal service

:02:29. > :02:31.and a plan to create publicly owned energy companies in every

:02:32. > :02:36.region of the UK and the introduction of price caps.

:02:37. > :02:37.And there's a commitment to abolish tuition fees

:02:38. > :02:45.The proposals are expected to be discussed by senior Labour figures

:02:46. > :02:47.including the Shadow Cabinet at a meeting later today.

:02:48. > :02:55.Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster.

:02:56. > :03:00.Good morning. How on earth did this get out in the first place? Well, it

:03:01. > :03:06.is certainly not what the party planned. It is very embarrassing for

:03:07. > :03:10.Labour. I think a big clue as to how we know they did not want this to

:03:11. > :03:15.happen, right across the document, all 20,000 words of it, it says

:03:16. > :03:18.draft, confidential. Clearly, they did not expect the BBC, the daily

:03:19. > :03:27.Telegraph or the Daily Mirror to get their hands on it. Hearing from

:03:28. > :03:29.Labour's joint elections national coordinator, it clearly wasn't how

:03:30. > :03:34.he wanted to spend his morning. This is not how I planned to spend my

:03:35. > :03:38.morning today. But it gives us an opportunity to talk about the kind

:03:39. > :03:43.of Britain that we want to see after June the 8th, the kind of Britain

:03:44. > :03:50.that Labour believes in, a fairer, more equal society, Britain for the

:03:51. > :03:54.many, not the few. With this series of leaks, it shows the division

:03:55. > :03:59.within Labour, but also a lack of discipline, just four weeks from

:04:00. > :04:04.polling day. In terms of the policies themselves, are there any

:04:05. > :04:08.surprises? Plenty in here, loads and loads of detail. It stretches right

:04:09. > :04:12.across big infrastructure projects, national and domestic policies, but

:04:13. > :04:21.loads of detail like banning certain pesticides to protect bees, free

:04:22. > :04:28.Wi-Fi, public transport. There are many policies that will be popular,

:04:29. > :04:32.capping energy prices and renationalising railways are not as

:04:33. > :04:37.controversial as some might say. There is no target on cutting

:04:38. > :04:41.immigration, guarantees that rather than cutting welfare, some will see

:04:42. > :04:46.payments going up. Lots of detail, but also lots of expensive

:04:47. > :04:50.commitments. I think social care getting ?8 billion, reversing the

:04:51. > :04:52.cost for tuition fees, lots of welfare commitments, I think

:04:53. > :04:57.opponents and critics will want to see more detail to back-up Labour's

:04:58. > :05:05.promise that this will be a fully costed manifesto.

:05:06. > :05:14.We'll discuss this at 8:10 with journalist Paul Mason,

:05:15. > :05:17.and Kate McCann, political correspondent for the Telegraph.

:05:18. > :05:21.Staying on the election, and the Conservatives say

:05:22. > :05:24.they will honour the Nato commitment to spend at least 2%

:05:25. > :05:27.of economic output on defence if they're returned to office.

:05:28. > :05:29.They'll also increase the budget by at least 0.5% above inflation

:05:30. > :05:33.James Comey has made his first public comments since

:05:34. > :05:36.President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

:05:37. > :05:39.In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

:05:40. > :05:42.going to spend time on the decision or the way it was executed.

:05:43. > :05:44.Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

:05:45. > :05:46.investigation into alleged links between the Trump

:05:47. > :05:50.Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired because he was not

:05:51. > :05:57.Three women are due to appear in court in London today,

:05:58. > :05:59.charged with preparing a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder.

:06:00. > :06:02.They include 21-year-old Rizlaine Boular, who was shot

:06:03. > :06:04.by police during a raid at a property in

:06:05. > :06:09.Seven other people, arrested as part of the investigation, have been

:06:10. > :06:16.Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have a near-normal life

:06:17. > :06:22.Researchers from Bristol University say new drug treatments mean many

:06:23. > :06:25.people are now living ten years longer than those who started

:06:26. > :06:30.Their findings show a ten-year increase in life expectancy

:06:31. > :06:38.since anti-retroviral drugs became widely available two decades ago.

:06:39. > :06:41.A cold-calling firm has been fined a record ?400,000 for making almost

:06:42. > :06:47.Keurboom Communications made unsolicited automated calls

:06:48. > :06:49.relating to road-accident and PPI compensation.

:06:50. > :07:00.Most of us have received them - cold calls offering anything

:07:01. > :07:02.from help with PPI claims or road accidents, to investing

:07:03. > :07:08.The cold callers play the numbers game, bombarding people in the hope

:07:09. > :07:11.that some will bite and take up their offers.

:07:12. > :07:16.This one company, Keurboom Communications,

:07:17. > :07:19.based in Bedfordshire, made almost 100 million automated

:07:20. > :07:25.The calls were about a variety of subjects, including PPI

:07:26. > :07:32.People got numerous calls, often on the same day,

:07:33. > :07:36.Companies are allowed to make marketing calls,

:07:37. > :07:42.but only if you've given permission, such as ticking a box on a form.

:07:43. > :07:45.This company didn't have permission, and so got a record ?400,000 fine

:07:46. > :08:01.The maximum we can go to is 500,000. This is a significant fine. I think

:08:02. > :08:03.the money is only part of the solution here. This company has

:08:04. > :08:05.actually gone out of business, so they will not be making any more

:08:06. > :08:10.nuisance calls to individuals. You can avoid many nuisance

:08:11. > :08:12.calls by signing up New laws which will allow

:08:13. > :08:16.the directors of cold call companies which broke the rules to be fined

:08:17. > :08:18.should also mean fewer Later today Dyson, the engineering

:08:19. > :08:29.and design company, will find out if its appeal to the European court

:08:30. > :08:33.of justice to change the way vacuum The company claims the present

:08:34. > :08:37.system is misleading as it tests appliances in a pristine condition

:08:38. > :08:39.without dust inside. Melanie Abbott from the You and

:08:40. > :08:44.Yours consumer programme reports. The argument is all about dust

:08:45. > :08:47.and whether it should be used when a vacuum cleaner's performance

:08:48. > :08:55.and energy consumption is measured. Dyson says its tests using this

:08:56. > :08:58.industrial grade dust give a clearer picture of how the machine works

:08:59. > :09:01.in the home, but the standard energy rating is based on lab tests

:09:02. > :09:04.with the vacuum empty Currently because the vacuum cleaner

:09:05. > :09:10.is tested clean and with no dust, essentially the performance does

:09:11. > :09:15.not drop off. With a number of competitor

:09:16. > :09:21.machines, as you load the dust the bags have pores

:09:22. > :09:24.which clog and that reduces the flow rate and makes it harder

:09:25. > :09:31.for the consumer to clean. Who wouldn't want to do

:09:32. > :09:34.their cleaning this way? This test in this laboratory has

:09:35. > :09:37.proved conclusive but two years ago the European Court of Justice ruled

:09:38. > :09:39.that this couldn't be reliably replicated in other

:09:40. > :09:41.laboratories throughout the EU. Later this morning the company Dyson

:09:42. > :09:44.will find out if its appeal But other manufacturers are quite

:09:45. > :09:49.happy with the current system, saying it provides consistency

:09:50. > :09:51.and no one uses a vacuum cleaner If Dyson does lose today,

:09:52. > :09:58.it may well lobby the UK Government If you're having avocado

:09:59. > :10:06.with your breakfast this morning, you may want to think about how

:10:07. > :10:19.you're going to cut into it. It doesn't look dangerous, does it?

:10:20. > :10:25.When you use the knife to cut into it, you can cut your hand. Avocado

:10:26. > :10:30.hand is your thing. It is a medical term? You are laughing, you don't

:10:31. > :10:37.believe me? More and more people are getting injured. What is the proper

:10:38. > :10:39.way to do it? Simon Eccles, a London-based plastic surgeon, says

:10:40. > :10:45.such is the scale of the problem that the fruit should carry warning

:10:46. > :10:54.labels. You are warned! Do not cut into this. I can't believe they gave

:10:55. > :10:56.me a knife. The sport and weather is coming up in a few minutes. Carol is

:10:57. > :11:01.out enjoying the sunshine. Over 100,000 people have a stroke

:11:02. > :11:04.every year in the UK but this figure is about to change according

:11:05. > :11:07.to a new report by the Stroke Research suggests the number

:11:08. > :11:12.of strokes is likely to rise The number of people

:11:13. > :11:17.who die as a result will It also suggests that the number

:11:18. > :11:22.of stroke survivors is expected to rise by a third, placing enormous

:11:23. > :11:29.pressure on the NHS. Here with us now is GP

:11:30. > :11:32.Dr Claire Hutt and 80-year-old Janet Roger who suffered three

:11:33. > :11:42.mini-strokes in 2013. Welcome, both of you. Can I ask you,

:11:43. > :11:45.Doctor, just explain this extrapolation of what they are

:11:46. > :11:50.talking about, the next 20 years, such a rise in the number. How do

:11:51. > :11:56.you understand that? I believe it is a reflection of an ageing

:11:57. > :11:59.population. Strokes happen as you get older, people are living longer

:12:00. > :12:03.and the absolute number of strokes per year in the UK is going to rise.

:12:04. > :12:09.It is just one of the reflections of us having an ageing population.

:12:10. > :12:14.Janet, what happened to you? I had had a stressful week, it had been

:12:15. > :12:18.very hot weather. My husband is a musician and had been playing at a

:12:19. > :12:24.concert. We were home late. I had only been in bed about three hours.

:12:25. > :12:33.I found I was too hot and I tried to throw the duvet off, and it wouldn't

:12:34. > :12:35.go. I thought I was pushing it off, but it wouldn't go. I managed to

:12:36. > :12:40.wriggle out of bed and everything was OK. I thought, I don't think I

:12:41. > :12:48.should go back to sleep, really. However, I did stop half an hour

:12:49. > :12:53.later, I woke again and needed to go to the bathroom. I got out of bed

:12:54. > :12:59.and fell over. I walked across the bedroom and fell over again, I fell

:13:00. > :13:02.over three or four times. When I came out of the bathroom, it was all

:13:03. > :13:09.right, it had corrected, it was right again. That was two minor

:13:10. > :13:18.strokes. You had a series of minor strokes? There was two. My husband

:13:19. > :13:23.took me to hospital. They said they could not look after me there and

:13:24. > :13:39.then, I would have to go to Salford. They sent me to Salford Royal, where

:13:40. > :13:42.I had thrombolysis, a clot busting drug. An hour later, they said it

:13:43. > :13:49.would take an hour to go through my system. My husband was supposed to

:13:50. > :13:56.be playing at a church service that morning and had to fly home, and

:13:57. > :14:09.ring the Minister to say he couldn't do it. He came back's excuse me. I

:14:10. > :14:12.said I've got my speech back, until then, my leg, arm and speech were

:14:13. > :14:20.all affected. He said, you've got your face back. I had no clue that

:14:21. > :14:28.my face had slipped. Everything was fine. How important was it, in this

:14:29. > :14:32.case and many other cases like this, to get treatment very quickly?

:14:33. > :14:34.Absolutely, that is the most important thing. The thing that will

:14:35. > :14:38.predict your outcome and how well you will do with how quickly you can

:14:39. > :14:48.get to hospital. That is why there has been a big campaign, the FAST

:14:49. > :15:03.campaign. The F is for your face, the

:15:04. > :15:15.I have no problems any more, except I go to bed earlier than I did. It

:15:16. > :15:24.might just be an age thing. I was left with no symptoms. I felt very

:15:25. > :15:28.frail for quite a few weeks. I sat around the house, reading papers

:15:29. > :15:33.quite a lot. But now, I could, I clean, wash, do gardening at the

:15:34. > :15:45.moment. That is good to hear. In terms of

:15:46. > :15:53.advice, the principles remain the same? Absolutely. The things you

:15:54. > :15:56.need to do to keep you healthy, with an ageing population those things

:15:57. > :16:01.become more important. The main things are things we can all do. A

:16:02. > :16:06.healthy lifestyle, exercise, keeping your weight in target, not smoking,

:16:07. > :16:10.all of those things will decrease your likelihood of having a stroke

:16:11. > :16:14.by more than anything a doctor can do. It is really all about the

:16:15. > :16:16.lifestyle. Thank you very much for coming in. I am glad you are feeling

:16:17. > :16:20.I am glad you are feeling so much better.

:16:21. > :16:21.You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

:16:22. > :16:27.Labour's draft manifesto's been leaked more than a week before

:16:28. > :16:32.It reveals plans to nationalise the railways and scrap tuition fees.

:16:33. > :16:34.A cold calling firm's been given a record fine

:16:35. > :16:44.of ?400,000 after making nearly 100 million nuisance calls.

:16:45. > :16:51.About half an hour ago I said it was sunny and Carol was promising as

:16:52. > :16:55.sunshine all morning. Shall we have a look? What has happened? Good

:16:56. > :17:06.morning. There are showers in England and

:17:07. > :17:11.South Wales they are so scattered. But we are at Kenwood house this

:17:12. > :17:16.morning, it is right behind me there, our beautiful magnolia tree

:17:17. > :17:21.in front of it that is 100 years old. Kenwood house has been used as

:17:22. > :17:27.the setting for many films. Part of Notting Hill was filmed here. Swing

:17:28. > :17:31.Time was filmed here and recently Hamstead has been filmed here. That

:17:32. > :17:39.will be released in June and it is about Harry Hallows who squatted on

:17:40. > :17:43.Hampstead Heath for 17 years. There is more interest attached to it now.

:17:44. > :17:49.There are some showers across the South. But for many it will turn

:17:50. > :17:53.humid through the cause of the day, particularly from the south, and we

:17:54. > :17:57.will see heavy thunderstorms developed. This morning it is a

:17:58. > :18:01.chilly start with a lot of dry weather around and a lot of

:18:02. > :18:04.sunshine. Where we have cloud it will be thin, but we still have

:18:05. > :18:11.those scattered showers, some of them fading. As we head into the

:18:12. > :18:17.afternoon, we will see some big thunderstorms forming. In the

:18:18. > :18:23.south-east there will be a lot of dry weather in the South East and

:18:24. > :18:26.Southern counties close to the coast, but in Berkshire, Hampshire,

:18:27. > :18:31.Gloucestershire, heading into Somerset, Devon and Cornwall is

:18:32. > :18:39.where we are likely to see them. The southern half of Wales also has some

:18:40. > :18:41.heavy, thundery downpours. In Northern Ireland, North Wales,

:18:42. > :18:47.north-west England and Scotland we are looking at dry conditions. Some

:18:48. > :18:51.patchy rain across the far north of Scotland will ease through the

:18:52. > :18:56.course of the day. But on the east coast there will be a bit more cloud

:18:57. > :19:00.around. As we come South once again in North East England towards the

:19:01. > :19:06.wash, the Midlands and East Anglia, we are back into the sunshine.

:19:07. > :19:10.Overnight the thunderstorms will migrate northwards and there will be

:19:11. > :19:14.further showers developing in the West. However, there will be more

:19:15. > :19:19.cloud developing in the north and the east and some sea fog will come

:19:20. > :19:24.in. Tomorrow morning we start off with all those showers, some of

:19:25. > :19:30.which again will be heavy and thundery. There is a risk of surfers

:19:31. > :19:34.water flooding. In between there will be some sunshine and later on

:19:35. > :19:38.in the day you will notice more cloud developing across the

:19:39. > :19:46.coastlines in the east of Scotland and North East England. As we head

:19:47. > :19:51.into Saturday for Scotland and Northern Ireland we are again

:19:52. > :19:55.looking at a lot of cloud and rain and that leaves sunshine and showers

:19:56. > :20:00.and for England and Wales which are also looking at sunshine and

:20:01. > :20:04.showers. But later in the West there will be rain and that will cross

:20:05. > :20:08.overnight from Saturday into Sunday, clearing the East Coast in the

:20:09. > :20:12.afternoon on Sunday, leaving behind it a mixture of sunshine and

:20:13. > :20:20.showers. Already it is starting to brighten up here.

:20:21. > :20:26.It has stopped raining. Did you see that jogger? They ran past you and

:20:27. > :20:31.into the woods. What a lovely place to go for a run.

:20:32. > :20:36.Yes, there are a lot of people walking their dogs this morning.

:20:37. > :20:41.They have now gone into the pond for a swim.

:20:42. > :20:46.Labour was due to launch its manifesto last week, but things have

:20:47. > :20:50.not gone to plan. A draft copy of the document has

:20:51. > :21:04.been leaked to the BBC and several The Daily Mail says, dragging ass

:21:05. > :21:11.back to the 1970s. On the front page of the Daily Mirror, Labour will

:21:12. > :21:21.nationalise energy, rail and the mail.

:21:22. > :21:24.Let's do this side-by-side. You get an impression with the picture they

:21:25. > :21:31.are using as well. The Daily Telegraph is interesting

:21:32. > :21:33.because we will be talking to the journalist who wrote the front page.

:21:34. > :21:36.We're joined by journalist Paul Mason

:21:37. > :21:39.who supports Jeremy Corbyn, and Kate McCann, Senior political

:21:40. > :21:48.How was this allowed to happen? I have no idea. Maybe Kate could throw

:21:49. > :21:53.some light on it. I have been champing at the bit to go out and

:21:54. > :21:59.explain these policies. I do not know whether anyone remembers the

:22:00. > :22:03.1970s in the studio. I do. My dad and grandad started out as minors,

:22:04. > :22:08.but I ended up as an economics editor in the BBC because I went to

:22:09. > :22:13.university for free. I cannot wait to get out in the evening and talk

:22:14. > :22:26.to people about Labour's offer of a free education to every

:22:27. > :22:31.working-class child who wants it and free elderly care. This will be a

:22:32. > :22:33.game changer and I am glad they have got it out four days early, no

:22:34. > :22:36.matter the organisational chaos that surrounds it. That's top to Kate and

:22:37. > :22:39.ask how did this come out? Your front page has it in all its detail.

:22:40. > :22:43.Yes, it does. This is not how Labour wanted their manifesto to go down.

:22:44. > :22:46.One of the most important things about launching a manifesto is you

:22:47. > :22:52.get to handle how it looks to the public. You get to handle the pitch

:22:53. > :22:56.and that opportunity has been taken away from Jeremy Corbyn. We have

:22:57. > :23:04.heard quite a lot of this manifesto before. The energy and the education

:23:05. > :23:08.offerings are quite new, but a lot of this is about what Jeremy Corbyn

:23:09. > :23:12.has been talking about for a long time. But Labour will be

:23:13. > :23:16.disappointed because they do not get the opportunity to set it out to the

:23:17. > :23:20.public because it has been leaked in this way. Jeremy Corbyn looks like

:23:21. > :23:26.he cannot keep a hold of this important document and keep it out

:23:27. > :23:29.of the press for four days. The Conservative manifesto is being

:23:30. > :23:34.drawn up by a small group of people and we in the labour movement do it

:23:35. > :23:39.democratically. It has not been leaked from Jeremy Corbyn's offers.

:23:40. > :23:44.Drafts of this have been flowing around, trade union leaders, labour

:23:45. > :23:48.women, the Jewish labour movement, all the parts of this big party gets

:23:49. > :23:53.essayed today in a meeting that vote on whether this goes through. In

:23:54. > :23:59.fact in journalism we ask who benefits? Who benefits from this

:24:00. > :24:03.either people like me who won this manifesto to be radical,

:24:04. > :24:08.pro-working-class and to set what kind of country we come out of

:24:09. > :24:12.Brexit as, as a fairer and more just society. There are a few people in

:24:13. > :24:18.labour who do not want a radical manifesto like this. Sorry to

:24:19. > :24:23.interrupt. There are a few people in Labour who really do not want a

:24:24. > :24:28.radical manifesto. Do you think may be somebody who does want a radical

:24:29. > :24:33.manifesto may have leaked this so it cannot be changed? If it is changed

:24:34. > :24:38.in the next four days, the divisions are there to see. I have no idea.

:24:39. > :24:42.What we are not seeing in the manifesto is the costing. The

:24:43. > :24:45.interesting thing for me as a journalist and for cake as a

:24:46. > :24:50.journalist is when we scrutinise it and find out what taxes are being

:24:51. > :24:54.used to pay for this. That is not in there and it would not have been

:24:55. > :25:00.because it is very sensitive. But the big bombshell is quite how much

:25:01. > :25:03.it is prepared to tax the super-rich, property speculators,

:25:04. > :25:08.big companies, to pay for all this and I do not think it is all there.

:25:09. > :25:13.Your headline in the Telegraph today said the manifesto will take Britain

:25:14. > :25:18.back to the 1970s. Do you think it is fair? I think so, it is our

:25:19. > :25:24.headline, so I will stand by it. There is a lot in this manifesto

:25:25. > :25:27.that takes the country backwards, it opposed Labour's manifesto of 1983

:25:28. > :25:33.which did not go well with the public. Renationalising things like

:25:34. > :25:40.the energy markets, the Royal Mail, the railways, are not particularly

:25:41. > :25:45.interesting or new policies for people who might be looking to

:25:46. > :25:49.Labour as a alternative to the Conservatives. They are very

:25:50. > :25:52.expensive and there are no costings in this manifesto. That will be one

:25:53. > :25:57.of the key things we look to see over the next couple of days.

:25:58. > :26:01.Another interesting thing is the influence of the unions on the

:26:02. > :26:06.manifesto. There are things about Orgreave, things about minors'

:26:07. > :26:10.pensioners in particular, quite specific issues on train drivers and

:26:11. > :26:15.strikes, which have clearly been written into the manifesto looking

:26:16. > :26:18.at which different groups Labour has to satisfy in order to get this

:26:19. > :26:24.manifesto passed and proved before it goes to the public. I wonder how

:26:25. > :26:29.well those things will go down with the wider population, many of whom

:26:30. > :26:34.are not part of the labour movement. I know you will not tell me how it

:26:35. > :26:39.has happened, but I am curious how the Telegraph gets hold of a Labour

:26:40. > :26:44.draft manifesto, how a right-leaning paper gets this manifesto. How did

:26:45. > :26:47.those circumstances arise? I would say good journalism and a good

:26:48. > :26:52.journalist would never reveal their sources, so I cannot talk about how

:26:53. > :26:57.we came by that leak. It is good journalism, that is how it works.

:26:58. > :27:00.Labour is about to have a huge conversation about is manifesto

:27:01. > :27:05.today were it decides with union leaders and members and other people

:27:06. > :27:09.at the top of the party exactly what goes in that manifesto. That is the

:27:10. > :27:13.point, this has been circulated amongst a big group of people. But

:27:14. > :27:19.it is an interesting point you make, Labour has done this before, but it

:27:20. > :27:23.is never leaked in full, and that does expose the deep split in the

:27:24. > :27:28.party at the moment. Jeremy Corbyn and his top team could not keep the

:27:29. > :27:31.manifesto under wraps. We have to leave it there, we could talk more.

:27:32. > :30:57.Time to get the news, travel and Hello, this is Breakfast with

:30:58. > :31:04.Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. Labour's draft election manifesto

:31:05. > :31:10.has been leaked to the press a week Due to be finalised today,

:31:11. > :31:14.the document outlines plans to scrap tuition fees,

:31:15. > :31:16.ban fracking and create some Labour's campaigns coordinator told

:31:17. > :31:20.Breakfast that the leak gives the party an opportunity to talk

:31:21. > :31:22.about their vision for the country but the Conservatives have

:31:23. > :31:28.called it "a shambles". Staying on the election

:31:29. > :31:30.and the Conservatives say they will honour the Nato commitment

:31:31. > :31:33.to spend at least 2% of economic output on defence

:31:34. > :31:35.if they're returned to office. They'll also increase the budget

:31:36. > :31:48.by at least 0.5% above inflation It's a growing defence budget,

:31:49. > :31:52.properly financed. We meet the target and we think it is right to

:31:53. > :31:55.commit to that, for the rest of this Parliament, so that our Armed Forces

:31:56. > :31:58.have the equipment they need to keep this country safe.

:31:59. > :32:01.Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats are to announce that they'd accept

:32:02. > :32:03.10,000 refugees from Syria every year for the duration

:32:04. > :32:07.Party leader Tim Farron will also say that he is committed

:32:08. > :32:09.to reopening the Dubs programme for unaccompanied children stranded

:32:10. > :32:15.James Comey has made his first public comments since

:32:16. > :32:18.President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

:32:19. > :32:20.In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

:32:21. > :32:24.going to "spend time on the decision or the way it was executed."

:32:25. > :32:26.Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

:32:27. > :32:28.investigation into alleged links between the Trump

:32:29. > :32:31.Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not

:32:32. > :32:42.Three women are due to appear in court in London today,

:32:43. > :32:45.charged with preparing a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder.

:32:46. > :32:47.They include 21-year-old Rizlaine Boular, who was shot

:32:48. > :32:49.by police during a raid at a property in

:32:50. > :32:53.Seven other people, arrested as part of the investigation, have been

:32:54. > :33:05.Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have a near-normal life

:33:06. > :33:09.Researchers from Bristol University say new drug treatments mean many

:33:10. > :33:11.people are now living ten years longer than those who started

:33:12. > :33:15.Their findings show a ten-year increase in life expectancy

:33:16. > :33:26.since anti-retroviral drugs became widely available two decades ago.

:33:27. > :33:28.A cold-calling company has been fined a record ?400,000

:33:29. > :33:33.Keurboom Communications bombarded people with almost 100 million

:33:34. > :33:40.nuisance phone calls about road accidents and PPI claims

:33:41. > :33:44.The fine was handed to them by the Information Commissioner's Office,

:33:45. > :33:51.which has already fined 23 companies in the past year.

:33:52. > :33:57.Dyson will find out if its appeal to the European Court of Justice to

:33:58. > :34:02.change the way vacuum cleaner are tested is successful. The company

:34:03. > :34:03.says the current system is misleading because appliances are

:34:04. > :34:19.tested when they are empty not full. David Beckham has made

:34:20. > :34:23.his big screen debut. He was met with cheers

:34:24. > :34:26.at the premier of the new film King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

:34:27. > :34:29.in Los Angeles, but the reception for his cameo performance

:34:30. > :34:41.as a soldier in the movie has been Where do you want me? Bouncing on my

:34:42. > :34:46.me, where do you think I want you. Hands on the hilt stupid. I can't

:34:47. > :34:51.play football. Exactly. Me neither. Or act. Or act for that matter. That

:34:52. > :35:03.is the cover all thing. Victoria Derbyshire is on at nine

:35:04. > :35:07.o'clock this morning on BBC Two. Let's see what's coming

:35:08. > :35:16.up on the programme. Geners ago a man died after he was

:35:17. > :35:20.retainedly 11 policemen in a mental health hospital. Yesterday it was

:35:21. > :35:25.found it contributed to his death. We speak to his parents and how they

:35:26. > :35:28.are waiting for some of the officers involved to face disciplinary

:35:29. > :35:32.proceedings. Join us after breakfast.

:35:33. > :35:36.Coming up here on Breakfast this morning.

:35:37. > :35:39.The ground breaking and renowned National Star college

:35:40. > :35:41.is celebrating its 50th year working with young people with disabilities.

:35:42. > :35:43.We'll hear from pupils past and present about how it's

:35:44. > :35:47.The 17th century painting Girl With a Pearl Earring inspired

:35:48. > :35:50.Tracy Chevalier to write a best selling book of the same name.

:35:51. > :35:53.She'll be here after nine, to tell us how Shakespeare has

:35:54. > :36:07.The original alien had eyes then Giger I was staring at it I put a

:36:08. > :36:12.The original alien had eyes then Giger I was staring at it I put a

:36:13. > :36:15.bucket its head, he say "Oh, no eye, very good."

:36:16. > :36:17.And who needs CGI when you've got a bucket!

:36:18. > :36:19.Actor Michael Fassbender and director Ridley Scott

:36:20. > :36:27.on the new Alien film and the return of cinema's scariest creature.

:36:28. > :36:35.You remember the first moment. Coming out. Yes. People make jokes

:36:36. > :36:42.about it when you're pregnant, don't they. Do they? Only mean ones.

:36:43. > :36:49.. Alien bursting out, I know. It is a kind of seminal moment in cinema,

:36:50. > :36:56.isn't it. Yes. Shall we move on? We were talking about Pogba and that

:36:57. > :36:59.world record-breaking transfer, Fifa have launched an investigation into

:37:00. > :37:05.the money involved in that, because there is rumours his agent took ?40

:37:06. > :37:09.million out of that one deal alone. Lots of criticism in football, from

:37:10. > :37:12.all over saying that is an obscene amount of money for one individual

:37:13. > :37:18.to make from a deal. Fifa are investigating. It is unclear whether

:37:19. > :37:22.my rules are broken, this debate is raging is it right to be paying

:37:23. > :37:25.people that much money? Lots of people saying the money should be

:37:26. > :37:30.going back in to football, it should be going into bringing down ticket

:37:31. > :37:34.prices so fans should appreciate it rather than individuals making

:37:35. > :37:38.themselves rich but interestingly, the FA chairman Greg Clarke said you

:37:39. > :37:42.know what, we pay film stars that much, we pay bankers that much, why

:37:43. > :37:45.shouldn't which pay footballers that much? And agents that much if that

:37:46. > :37:49.is what the clubs are willing to pay. And if the clubs have the cash

:37:50. > :37:53.which some have. It is an interesting side of the debate. Let

:37:54. > :37:57.us hear what he had to say this morning. If Manchester United want

:37:58. > :38:02.to pay an agent that much Mourne, I don't know, I haven't looked into

:38:03. > :38:06.each individual transfer, that is what they will pay, that is what

:38:07. > :38:12.they will pay. They are accountable to owners and fan, if they think it

:38:13. > :38:14.is good value for money, it is a commercial trans action. If Paula

:38:15. > :38:18.wants to change that and limit the amount of money that agents get, we

:38:19. > :38:23.will from the to sit down as a game, you know, led by the professional

:38:24. > :38:26.game and the Premier League and the EFL and the clubs and talk about

:38:27. > :38:29.that. I have seen a quote from the Fifa

:38:30. > :38:33.President saying individuals are going to make themselves rich from

:38:34. > :38:37.football, that is not welcome in the game and he wants peep like that

:38:38. > :38:41.out, so the debate raging there and we will probably hear more about

:38:42. > :38:44.that throughout the morning as Fifa are meeting in Dubai. Let us look at

:38:45. > :38:45.the action from last night. Let us look at the action

:38:46. > :38:47.from last night. Arsenal are closing in on the top

:38:48. > :38:50.four in the Premier League after a 2-0 win away

:38:51. > :38:52.at Southampton last night. Some nimble footwork

:38:53. > :38:54.from Alexis Sanchez gave Arsenal the lead in the second half,

:38:55. > :38:57.while an Olivier Giroud header made sure of the points

:38:58. > :39:01.for Arsene Wenger's in-form side. No team has ever won back to back

:39:02. > :39:04.Champions League titles - but Real Madrid could be

:39:05. > :39:07.about to change that. They're through to the final again

:39:08. > :39:09.after a 4-2 aggregate win over They had to resist a fightback

:39:10. > :39:13.though with goals from Saul Niguez and Antoine Griezmann putting

:39:14. > :39:15.Atletico 2-0 up after But Isco's away goal

:39:16. > :39:18.just before half time effectively won Real the tie,

:39:19. > :39:20.even though they lost It's the biggest night

:39:21. > :39:30.in Manchester United's history - United defend a 1-0 lead

:39:31. > :39:34.in tonight's Europa League semifinal second leg against Spanish side

:39:35. > :39:36.Celta Vigo - the winner of the Europa League goes

:39:37. > :39:39.on to the Champions League. And captain Wayne Rooney

:39:40. > :39:41.is unlikely to start - but he says despite falling out

:39:42. > :39:43.of favour, he doesn't Britain's Geraint Thomas

:39:44. > :39:52.and Adam Yates remain second and third overall after the fifth

:39:53. > :39:55.stage of the Giro d'Italia. But the stage was rather

:39:56. > :39:57.embarrassing for Slovenian He was leading as it

:39:58. > :40:00.entered Messina in Sicily. Unfortunately for him, he celebrated

:40:01. > :40:03.his victory a lap too early. Colombia's Fernando Gaviria

:40:04. > :40:04.was eventually first across the line, while poor

:40:05. > :40:31.old Luka finished 148th. Pride comes before a fall. Exactly

:40:32. > :40:36.and check. Check, check, check. Before you celebrate It is a story

:40:37. > :40:40.to tell, in years to come. I feel sorry for him, because he has to

:40:41. > :40:44.come out and do it again. That would have been his first stage win, as

:40:45. > :40:48.well, and that is why he was celebrating so hard. Supposing you

:40:49. > :40:53.didn't have any hope of winning, one of those race, it would be tempting

:40:54. > :40:58.to do that any way. Because he felt, he felt like he had won. He felt

:40:59. > :41:06.good for a moment in time. OK. Thank you very much.

:41:07. > :41:09.It's the nationally renowned centre that aims to help young

:41:10. > :41:10.people with disabilities realise their potential.

:41:11. > :41:12.Now the Star College in Gloucestershire is celebrating

:41:13. > :41:15.its 50th year with pupils from the past and present who say it

:41:16. > :41:19.Our disability news correspondent, Nikki Fox, reports.

:41:20. > :41:24.Things have changed a lot over the 50 years that Star

:41:25. > :41:32.The students here come from all over the United Kingdom.

:41:33. > :41:35.In 1967 the first 10 students arrived.

:41:36. > :41:38.Now the college has over 150, all with very

:41:39. > :41:48.He left this place with A-levels and went on to get a degree

:41:49. > :41:56.This is the actual BBC computer that Patrick took his exams on.

:41:57. > :41:58.Today, he is back with his former teacher

:41:59. > :42:06.John, reminiscing about how quickly he picked up the old technology.

:42:07. > :42:16.I absolutely loved my three years here.

:42:17. > :42:19.My dad often said the Star College was the equivalent to Eton.

:42:20. > :42:21.I think personally it is essential to have

:42:22. > :42:22.specialised schools and colleges for students

:42:23. > :42:31.Thanks to these accessible flats, students can study

:42:32. > :42:33.and live independently away from home.

:42:34. > :42:44.What do you think your life would be like if

:42:45. > :42:52.Do you think you would be less independent than you are?

:42:53. > :43:21.As the college celebrates its big anniversary, it is expanding

:43:22. > :43:23.with new schools in England and Wales.

:43:24. > :43:27.Although as a charity, uncertainties around funding make

:43:28. > :43:41.But being bold is what National Star is all about.

:43:42. > :43:43.The ethos here is to realise the aspirations of

:43:44. > :43:45.disabled people, and today, just for fun, they are doing that

:43:46. > :43:51.The tailored support that people get here allows them to freedom to live

:43:52. > :43:54.and study like any other student, with one aim -

:43:55. > :44:07.to prepare them in every way possible for life after college.

:44:08. > :44:12.Brill grant images to finish that piece. You have been haven't you

:44:13. > :44:16.Yes, the point is they give people a sort of a chance to be as good as

:44:17. > :44:19.they possibly can, a bit of independence in the community there,

:44:20. > :44:24.it's a great place. Great work they are doing.

:44:25. > :44:27.Steph is out and about, talking about trade, she has some official

:44:28. > :44:33.figures coming up and we are putting her hard at work in a factory this

:44:34. > :44:37.morning. What are you going to do for us next Steph? Morning

:44:38. > :44:40.everybody. Yes, they wouldn't let me near the machines. It is loud here

:44:41. > :44:47.but I really wanted to show you this. Have a look at this. This is

:44:48. > :44:52.fabric, they are being woven, you might recognise, a lot of the stuff

:44:53. > :44:56.here is used on bus, on tube seats, lots of fabulous colours, amazing to

:44:57. > :45:01.see there. We are here talking about trade. This is is a business which

:45:02. > :45:06.exports a lot of what it makes here, to 80 different country, around the

:45:07. > :45:12.world, and Grant is is one of the bosses here, for you, business is

:45:13. > :45:16.going really well isn't it. Why? We have a very good product. We invest

:45:17. > :45:21.a lot in innovation in products, and we invest a lot in capital equipment

:45:22. > :45:24.here which keeps us cost competitive, particularly for our

:45:25. > :45:32.exports, and that is allowing us to grow a over 10% a year.

:45:33. > :45:44.Tell us about your export markets? The main one is the EU. That takes

:45:45. > :45:48.about two thirds into Poland Sweden predominantly. We have opened up

:45:49. > :45:52.markets in the US and China which have been graded at over 30% per

:45:53. > :45:55.annum. What are the challenges that you are working through as a

:45:56. > :45:59.business? We have a lot of challenges. You get used to those in

:46:00. > :46:03.businesses which is why long-term plans are important. Equally, we

:46:04. > :46:11.can't get away from the concerns of Brexit, giving such a large

:46:12. > :46:15.proportion of exports are to the EU. Raw materials and tariff issues

:46:16. > :46:20.might relate to that, as well as our exports, but our customers in Europe

:46:21. > :46:26.rely on service that happens very quickly across borders, so delays of

:46:27. > :46:30.potentially getting products to them, delays and border issues are a

:46:31. > :46:35.concern without knowing fully the impact of Brexit. Thank you very

:46:36. > :46:38.much. I'll let you get on. This is a fascinating business all of this.

:46:39. > :46:41.The reason we are here is we are talking about trade, because the

:46:42. > :46:47.latest trade figures are out at 9. 30 this morning. We are in a trade

:46:48. > :46:52.deficit which means we import more than we export. Our cameraman trying

:46:53. > :46:56.to avoid things as we are walking around here but I love showing off

:46:57. > :47:03.these places so you can see what goes on. We do want to get rid of

:47:04. > :47:08.the trade deficit so we are importing and exporting, and don't

:47:09. > :47:13.have a gap. Lesley from the Institute of Exports is here.

:47:14. > :47:17.Morning. We heard Grant saying exporting is doing really well. How

:47:18. > :47:21.can we replicate that? We can learn from people like Grant certainly but

:47:22. > :47:26.the institute is there to help people and there's a question of

:47:27. > :47:32.finding out the need to want to do it and getting into the market. Look

:47:33. > :47:37.on the Internet, exporting or export, you find so much help there,

:47:38. > :47:42.it's really great. For businesses though at times on uncertainty,

:47:43. > :47:45.exporting can feel risky for them? I think you're absolutely right and

:47:46. > :47:49.it's an investment, you need to do a lot of work before you actually

:47:50. > :47:53.start exporting, and I think that's a key element that people forget.

:47:54. > :47:56.Find out how to do it and then do it better than everybody else is what

:47:57. > :48:01.we need to do. Thank you very much. Fascinating to see all of the stuff

:48:02. > :48:04.going on. That's Ahmed over there who's been threading that machine

:48:05. > :48:08.up. There's obviously regional differences in terms of how good we

:48:09. > :48:13.are in the UK at exporting. Paul is from the Centre for Cities and has

:48:14. > :48:18.done loads of research on this. We were chatting before. Morning. Why

:48:19. > :48:21.is this area doing well and why? Places like Sunderland doing very

:48:22. > :48:29.well, Worthing as well. That's because they have one big employer

:48:30. > :48:34.there exporting a lot, in Sunderland it's Nissan, in Worthing it's

:48:35. > :48:39.pharmaceuticals. What about those not doing so well? Huddersfield,

:48:40. > :48:45.where we are now and other cities don't do so well in terms of

:48:46. > :48:49.exporting, so we need to think, how do we get more businesses to export

:48:50. > :48:57.and create more jobs and put more money in people's pockets. If you

:48:58. > :49:02.can see, I hope you can, I hope you can see the threads and how quickly

:49:03. > :49:06.they are running. Our material on the red sofa which Charlie and Sally

:49:07. > :49:10.are on was made here too. A little fact for the morning. That is

:49:11. > :49:19.brilliant. I have to tell you, we need more! It needs an update. You

:49:20. > :49:23.can't quite see it there. There's a bit of a hole under there. There's a

:49:24. > :49:28.hole near where you sit. It's been there for a long time and nothing's

:49:29. > :49:33.been done about it. If you wanted to escape from the noise of where Steph

:49:34. > :49:39.was, look at this. We'll transport you now to where Carol is. Have a

:49:40. > :49:50.look at that! A lady on the lake in a yellow coat. Morning, Carol!

:49:51. > :49:55.Good morning from Kenwood House in London. The only noise is the noise

:49:56. > :50:00.the birds are making and it's so tranquil. There is just over 100

:50:01. > :50:04.acres of land here, beautiful scenery. I was showing you the

:50:05. > :50:08.bridge. This is the other end of the pond. This bridge is well and truly

:50:09. > :50:16.real but the pond stops right behind me on the other side. We've had a

:50:17. > :50:19.shower here in London, very unlucky because most are in the south-west

:50:20. > :50:23.and Dorset. Through the course of the day, not only will further

:50:24. > :50:26.showers be developing but they'll be heavy and thundzry and it's going to

:50:27. > :50:31.turn much more humid from the south than it has been. This morning,

:50:32. > :50:36.there's a lot of dry weather around. It's a chilly start, a fair bit of

:50:37. > :50:39.sunshine and cloud too and a few showers across parts of southern

:50:40. > :50:42.England and South Wales. Most of them are in the south-western half

:50:43. > :50:46.of the south, if you see what I mean.

:50:47. > :50:49.As we go through the day, as the temperatures rise, more energy

:50:50. > :50:54.builds and the atmosphere will see thunder storms. For the south-east

:50:55. > :51:04.this afternoon, it will be largely dry. From Berkshire, Hampshire into

:51:05. > :51:08.Gloucestershire, Somerset, Devon and Cornwall, that's where we'll see the

:51:09. > :51:14.storms, but a lot of them are hit and miss.

:51:15. > :51:18.The risk of localised surface water issues, so there could be some

:51:19. > :51:19.flooding. For North Wales, the Midlands, north-west England,

:51:20. > :51:26.Northern Ireland, most of Scotland, we are looking at a sunny afternoon.

:51:27. > :51:33.This morning's rain petering out across the north of Scotland.

:51:34. > :51:37.Temperatures will be pegged back hugely for the north-east of

:51:38. > :51:43.England. Towards the Wash and East Anglia we are back into the

:51:44. > :51:49.sunshine. Tonight we carry on with the showers. We'll see some sea haar

:51:50. > :51:54.coming in across the north-east coastlines. Not as cold as the night

:51:55. > :51:59.just gone. Tomorrow we start off with the showers still heavy and

:52:00. > :52:06.thundery with some hail moving north with still the risk of localised

:52:07. > :52:09.surface water flooding. It will dry up and in southern areas and

:52:10. > :52:15.temperatures won't be too dissimilar to today. So 19, 20, maybe 21. For

:52:16. > :52:19.Saturday, for Scotland and Northern Ireland, it's going to be cloudy to

:52:20. > :52:23.start with, with some rain. That will fragment, leaving us with

:52:24. > :52:26.sunshine and showers, some of the showers heavy. For England and

:52:27. > :52:29.Wales, it will be a mixture of sunshine and showers. You know the

:52:30. > :52:34.drill with showers, not all of us will see them. Later, a new weather

:52:35. > :52:37.front coming into the west will introduce rain. Overnight and

:52:38. > :52:41.through Sunday into the afternoon, that will cross the UK clearing off

:52:42. > :52:45.into the North Sea through the afternoon. Behind it, we see a

:52:46. > :52:50.return to our old friends, sunshine and showers. Charlie and Sal, if you

:52:51. > :52:54.have been looking for water for the gardens, there's some on the

:52:55. > :52:57.horizon. Thank goodness. Lovely surroundings, Carol, thank you very

:52:58. > :53:03.much. We were having a debate about sea haar. It's a new weather word.

:53:04. > :53:07.Yes. Sea haar. I love it when Carol puts a new word in. We have to have

:53:08. > :53:12.it explained to us. Add it to the list. Yes.

:53:13. > :53:15.Recent election results have shown that opinion polls aren't always

:53:16. > :53:19.a reliable indication of what is going to happen

:53:20. > :53:23.So ahead of the election, the BBC's Nick Robinson will be

:53:24. > :53:26.crossing the UK to see how voters really feel about

:53:27. > :53:30.Nick has been to Halifax, to meet a group of voters put

:53:31. > :53:35.This week Nick is looking at Labour's prospects.

:53:36. > :53:41.Tubb Tubb this is no ordinary pub, this is where the Halifax Building

:53:42. > :53:47.Society was founded, hence the oak panels and the stain glass windows.

:53:48. > :53:51.We are here to talk about politics. We know all of you voted for Brexit.

:53:52. > :53:57.What are you looking for in the person who leads the negotiations?

:53:58. > :54:02.Someone who's strong. We want the best deal for Britain. Who is not

:54:03. > :54:11.going to take the 85 billion euro bill. Terri? Confident. Not easily

:54:12. > :54:20.led. Nicola? Trustworthy. Open? Yes, strong. You said trustworthy as

:54:21. > :54:25.well? Yes. Confident and trustworthy, yes. Those are the

:54:26. > :54:30.words, that's what you want. So is there anybody that fills that role

:54:31. > :54:34.for you? Not at the minute. Nigel Farage. Nigel Farage? Yes, well he's

:54:35. > :54:41.staying in Europe to make sure we get a decent deal when we come out.

:54:42. > :54:45.I think we need someone that doesn't exist at the moment, somebody with a

:54:46. > :54:49.bit of backbone. We need somebody who is a realist that's going to

:54:50. > :54:54.listen to the people and take what the people have spoken to Europe.

:54:55. > :55:00.Somebody who understands the needs of somebody from a working class

:55:01. > :55:05.background, not somebody who was born with a silver spoon in their

:55:06. > :55:09.mouth. But there is nobody like that? Jeremy Corbyn, he's definitely

:55:10. > :55:14.the most down-to-earth, the biggest realist out of them all I think.

:55:15. > :55:24.Probably the most trustworthy. Anybody else like Jeremy Corbyn? No?

:55:25. > :55:29.Not sure? Just me on my own. Anybody say Theresa May? I voted Labour the

:55:30. > :55:34.past few times but I honestly don't know if I will vote Labour again

:55:35. > :55:38.this time. Why? They seem to be just doing turns on themselves, you know,

:55:39. > :55:42.a lot of in-house arguing, can't see to get their own house in order and

:55:43. > :55:46.if that's the state of their house, well I don't want them coming to my

:55:47. > :55:53.house, sorry. As far as you can remember, have you ever voted for a

:55:54. > :55:56.different party? Probably in the late 80s early 90s voted

:55:57. > :55:59.Conservative then. But you have been Labour for a long time? A long time,

:56:00. > :56:03.yes. And now could you make the journey all the way back? I don't

:56:04. > :56:07.know. I don't know. This is it, as I said, it's a sticky wicket. Not sure

:56:08. > :56:14.you want to go as far as voting Tory? Not too sure, no, no. However,

:56:15. > :56:19.never say never. If they've got something that's good and solid and

:56:20. > :56:24.something they can prove, well then maybe that could sway it for me.

:56:25. > :56:34.What about you, John, you said you would vote Tory? I would, yes. We

:56:35. > :56:40.talked about them being for the richer people? Corbyn reminds me

:56:41. > :56:45.like someone from the '70s, like Michael Foot, an old Labour MP

:56:46. > :56:49.that's nice and cuddly but sorry, he's got no charisma for me, or not

:56:50. > :56:56.enough. So I couldn't vote for him. Plus a lot of the Labour MPs, I can

:56:57. > :57:09.think of three, Corbyn, Diane Abbott and in fact I can't remember three,

:57:10. > :57:19.I can remember two, they're a haar amongist in group. You have to

:57:20. > :57:23.believe in the person and what he says. Any of them. You have got to

:57:24. > :57:36.believe in what they say. And you don't? No. They needed more eating

:57:37. > :57:38.in that take-away piece. Nick's take-aways, yes.

:57:39. > :57:41.You can see more of that discussion on Nick's Election Takeaways at 2.30

:57:42. > :57:43.on Saturday afternoon on the BBC News Channel.

:57:44. > :57:46.And there'll be more from Nick in the coming weeks on Breakfast

:57:47. > :57:48.looking at the challenges facing some of the other parties

:57:49. > :57:54.The scariest creature in space is back.

:57:55. > :57:58.The latest film in the Alien series stars Michael Fassbender

:57:59. > :58:01.and was directed by Ridley Scott, who was behind the camera

:58:02. > :58:10.The two of them told me their top tips for escaping the Alien,

:58:11. > :58:21.and how a bucket played a key role in shaping its unforgettable face.

:58:22. > :58:27.Fassbender plays a sinth. In the clips I've seen he looks very real.

:58:28. > :58:33.He does but he's not a real human being. Have you just told everybody

:58:34. > :58:36.what happened? No, that is existing knowledge from the preexisting

:58:37. > :58:41.material. Lucky old you you went to meet them. To talk about the special

:58:42. > :58:43.thing, about the scary thing, the Alien.

:58:44. > :58:46.Firstly, Ridley, there's, something about the Alien movies

:58:47. > :58:52.Well, it narrows down to one very special thing,

:58:53. > :58:57.I think the alien is pretty primordial, disturbing,

:58:58. > :59:04.If you - the original alien had eyes, and Giger,

:59:05. > :59:08.I was staring at it, and I put a plastic bucket

:59:09. > :59:10.over its head and he said, "Oh, no eyes, very good."

:59:11. > :59:30.Michael, how far do you go back with the Alien story?

:59:31. > :59:33.Do you remember watching it when you were younger?

:59:34. > :59:36.Yes, I saw it - I guess I was around ten, I'm thinking.

:59:37. > :59:42.Well, I'm thinking you must have been very frightened.

:59:43. > :59:44.I was, I remember not moving very much.

:59:45. > :59:50.Maybe I was a little older, but I just remember that feeling

:59:51. > :59:54.of thinking this was different than anything I'd seen before.

:59:55. > :59:59.I guess the way that Ridley shot it, it just seemed so real, the world.

:00:00. > :00:04.So you're introduced to this crew, you're introduced to the spaceship.

:00:05. > :00:08.We don't know about spaceships but we do know about cargo vessels,

:00:09. > :00:12.and things like that, and it looked like it -

:00:13. > :00:15.it looked like it was a bit beat up and it looked like there would have

:00:16. > :00:18.to be maintenance on the motor regularly, the crew were complaining

:00:19. > :00:21.they weren't getting paid enough, there was a lot of familiar stuff

:00:22. > :00:25.So when the alien arrived, you know, you're totally there,

:00:26. > :00:32.and believing in something which is very fantastic.

:00:33. > :00:45.In fact, you play more than one synth.

:00:46. > :00:50.Can you explain the principle of the character you're playing?

:00:51. > :00:54.Well, David, if anybody's seen Prometheus, he's back.

:00:55. > :00:56.He's got his head attached to his body again.

:00:57. > :00:59.Basically, though, the idea, the first day we came on set,

:01:00. > :01:01.Prometheus, Ridley was like, it's a butler in space.

:01:02. > :01:03.So basically he's there to look after the crew

:01:04. > :01:08.while they're in cryosleep, and also the ship, to maintain

:01:09. > :01:12.the ship, and so David is one of the first models,

:01:13. > :01:14.the David 8s that were created by Peter Weyland.

:01:15. > :01:20.He has introduced some human characteristics to this AI.

:01:21. > :01:26.Subsequently, ten years later, which is where we pick up this film,

:01:27. > :01:33.What they have done over the years is they have taken out

:01:34. > :01:35.those human elements, because people found it

:01:36. > :01:37.unsettling and disturbing, but David's still running around

:01:38. > :01:39.with his programming, and on top of that,

:01:40. > :01:42.he hasn't had any maintenance for the last ten years.

:01:43. > :01:47.Ridley, can I ask you about CGI and how you balance that

:01:48. > :01:49.with story telling, actors, because I know that is,

:01:50. > :01:51.it's such a big deal these days in movies,

:01:52. > :02:00.There's a trap in CGI, a trap can be an explosion,

:02:01. > :02:07.That's me, but the general audience will totally accept the giant

:02:08. > :02:09.explosion which should actually kill somebody.

:02:10. > :02:11.So the hardest thing to do, making a movie,

:02:12. > :02:18.If you haven't got a script, it's chaos and murder and overage.

:02:19. > :02:21.To get it on paper, making a movie is fun and it's

:02:22. > :02:26.Do you think sometimes then, that maybe, particularly

:02:27. > :02:29.in the sci-fi area, that the CGI, the effects and stuff,

:02:30. > :02:39.The horse is the story, but suddenly the horse

:02:40. > :02:46.is secondary to the cart, so you're watching certain things...

:02:47. > :02:51.That said, Michael Bay's, I mean these digital masterpieces,

:02:52. > :02:54.I mean, is the big digital film, with, what do you call it?

:02:55. > :03:04.And so people may laugh or love it, I admire it, because I haven't got

:03:05. > :03:07.the patience to do that, but he has that kind

:03:08. > :03:10.of brain that makes it work, and it is in ordinately successful.

:03:11. > :03:13.That's the only film where I can think that digital

:03:14. > :03:26.All of this is to start our new life.

:03:27. > :03:30.Michael, you have to learn some new tricks to play this role.

:03:31. > :03:41.The flute was ridiculous, because it sounded awful,

:03:42. > :03:46.and we were in Australia, shooting, shooting the movie,

:03:47. > :03:49.and I was staying in this place in Tamarama, and my neighbour,

:03:50. > :03:51.I heard, because I kept thinking the neighbours

:03:52. > :03:55.are going to hate this, and I heard the neighbour go,

:03:56. > :04:00."I hate listening to someone learning how to play an instrument".

:04:01. > :04:04.From then on, I put a bit of Sellotape in the air piece

:04:05. > :04:08.Michael, tell me - Ridley is sitting next to you now,

:04:09. > :04:10.but I understand he's quite a perfectionist on set,

:04:11. > :04:15.No, what I noticed, it's more than that, it's about -

:04:16. > :04:18.I think his understanding of a set, so especially with these kind

:04:19. > :04:22.of films, they can move very slowly, and there's a lot of dead time

:04:23. > :04:28.on a set then, and sort of idle hands with the devil's workshop,

:04:29. > :04:31.and so, you know, that's where people get in a funky sort

:04:32. > :04:34.of mood, and you need people to be on their game,

:04:35. > :04:39.So it's like four, five cameras on the go at once,

:04:40. > :04:42.and everybody's on their tippy-toes, so like, he'll said to the props

:04:43. > :04:44.people, "Can you get some black boot polish,

:04:45. > :04:46.I want to put something on the face", and they're

:04:47. > :04:48.going "Black boot polish", and they run off,

:04:49. > :04:51.And so everybody's always, you know - and he'll do

:04:52. > :04:55.the same to the actors, he'll go, "I think I'm going to mix

:04:56. > :04:57.this scene up a bit", so you're constantly on your toes.

:04:58. > :05:05.Michael, inevitably in this film there is quite a bit running away,

:05:06. > :05:07.quite a bit of running and running away.

:05:08. > :05:12.Is running away a skill you already had?

:05:13. > :05:14.You'd done quite a bit of running before, movie running?

:05:15. > :05:17.I'm pretty good at running, I mean, it was the one

:05:18. > :05:20.thing that I was good at, in terms of sports when I was young.

:05:21. > :05:27.It's probably the worst thing to do, is to run away

:05:28. > :05:30.Yes, you can't, you have to stare him out.

:05:31. > :05:35.Hold on, are you giving us the guidelines for what to do

:05:36. > :05:39.Kneeel, head on the ground, like a bear.

:05:40. > :05:43.If you do that, the bear will have a good old sniff and move away.

:05:44. > :05:47.Somebody once told me that with some wild animals if you run away

:05:48. > :05:52.Because they can run at, like, 30mph.

:05:53. > :05:58.Whereas the alien has all the tricks.

:05:59. > :06:12.Alien Covenant is in cinemas this weekend.

:06:13. > :06:17.Did you like it? It is one of those one, you are like that all the way

:06:18. > :06:22.through. First, let's take a last,

:06:23. > :07:58.brief look at the headlines She's the author that took

:07:59. > :08:09.inspiration from a 17th century Dutch painting to write the hugely

:08:10. > :08:11.successful novel "The Girl Now for her latest project,

:08:12. > :08:14.Tracy Chevalier, has taken one of Shakespeare's most famous plays

:08:15. > :08:17.and given it a modern twist. And Tracy joins us in

:08:18. > :08:26.the studio this morning. Good morning to you. Good morning.

:08:27. > :08:33.So, explain, what is the new book? The new book is called New Boy it is

:08:34. > :08:36.a retelling of Othello, it is part of the Shakespeare project asking

:08:37. > :08:41.writers to take a play and write a novel inspired by it. I could set it

:08:42. > :08:46.anywhere, any time I wanted. You set it in one of the cruellest places I

:08:47. > :08:53.can imagine, a playground in the 19707s. Yes. I could choose anywhere

:08:54. > :08:59.I liked, as long as it was a situation in which a person is

:09:00. > :09:04.different. There are two reasons I chose a school playground, one is we

:09:05. > :09:08.have experienced it, I could have put a Christian in a Muslim society

:09:09. > :09:13.or Canadian in America or whatever, but I thought everybody has been to

:09:14. > :09:17.school, everybody has been o on the playground watching when a new kid

:09:18. > :09:20.comes on or we have been a new kid ourself, so it is a universal

:09:21. > :09:25.situation. The other is more personal. When I was growing up in

:09:26. > :09:29.Washington, I lived in an integrated neighbourhood, and I unusually, for

:09:30. > :09:33.a white kid that the time, went to school that was mostly black, so I

:09:34. > :09:36.had several years experience of what it was like to have skin colour

:09:37. > :09:41.different from most of the people round me, so I could draw on that,

:09:42. > :09:46.although in the end I have gone the classic Shakespeare root so it is a

:09:47. > :09:49.black boy who walks on to an all white playground. What are the rules

:09:50. > :09:54.round doing a version? How closely do you stick? There were no rule,

:09:55. > :09:58.and some of the writers have gone way off-piste but I stuck closely to

:09:59. > :10:03.it, to the point where I set it over all over one day and it is in five

:10:04. > :10:07.acts, so to speak, the way the Shakespeare play is. It starts

:10:08. > :10:12.before school, morning recess, lunchtime, afternoon recess and

:10:13. > :10:18.after school, and it is mostly the playground, a bit inside, and it is

:10:19. > :10:21.all, they are all 11, and there are a few adult, the teachers but you

:10:22. > :10:27.really hear, it is mostly the kids' world. Because of the year it is set

:10:28. > :10:33.in, I don't know, maybe it is still the same now, only the an Wang, the

:10:34. > :10:36.racism is and it is mostly the playground, a bit inside, and it is

:10:37. > :10:39.all, they are all 11, and there are a few adult, the teachers but you

:10:40. > :10:42.really hear, it is mostly the kids' world. Because of the year it is set

:10:43. > :10:45.in, I don't know, maybe it is still the same now, only the an Wang, the

:10:46. > :10:48.racism is absolutely shocking -- language. It is is really shocking

:10:49. > :10:51.to us now, but it was sadly, it was there, at the time, and I am sorry

:10:52. > :10:53.to say that the story is still relevant, because racism hasn't gone

:10:54. > :10:56.away. Tell us about your experience with Shakespeare, as, so go back in

:10:57. > :10:59.time, when were you first introduced to any Shakespeare at all? I was 13

:11:00. > :11:04.and we studied Romeo and Juliet and it is dating myself now, it was in

:11:05. > :11:09.the early 70s and went to see the Steph rely film, where the two

:11:10. > :11:12.actors are really young, I don't know I would want to watch it now,

:11:13. > :11:17.but it was beautiful at the time and I fell in love with it. It is film

:11:18. > :11:22.before book... Were you familiar with the book before? Yes we studied

:11:23. > :11:25.it in school and we when to see the movie, then after that, I started

:11:26. > :11:29.going to plays, and live in London now, I have lived in London for 30

:11:30. > :11:34.years so I go to a lot of Shakespeare, so I have seen a lot of

:11:35. > :11:40.Othello, the most striking production I have seen, was two

:11:41. > :11:44.years ago at Stratford, they had it where Othello and his bully are both

:11:45. > :11:50.black, that was really different Isn't it interesting, we have seen

:11:51. > :11:55.so many adaptations brought to film, New Boy would make a great movie. We

:11:56. > :11:58.will see. But you know Shakespeare's stories are universal, I think that

:11:59. > :12:03.is why we go back to them again and again and they can be made in

:12:04. > :12:08.various different ways, and a play is, is a script for all different

:12:09. > :12:12.types of productions so productions of the plays tended to run the ga

:12:13. > :12:17.nut of being set all over the place, that is why I felt OK about taking

:12:18. > :12:22.it and making it into a novel. I thought in a way Shakespeare stole

:12:23. > :12:26.the story from somewhere else as well, I thought if he can do it so

:12:27. > :12:31.can I. Do you think where we are now we are more relaxed and if you like

:12:32. > :12:35.messing with an original, because there would have been a time when a

:12:36. > :12:39.lot of peel would have been up in arms about the idea of... They would

:12:40. > :12:43.have expected dub let and hose, but now I think most of the time when

:12:44. > :12:48.you go to see a Shakespeare production it is going to be

:12:49. > :12:52.something new and different and set, it will be modern, Malorie Blackman

:12:53. > :12:57.took the Othello story and Chasing the Stars and put it in future on

:12:58. > :13:02.spaceships. One of things about the book, just like the play, it is

:13:03. > :13:06.desperately sad at times isn't it. It is heartbreaking, you can see

:13:07. > :13:10.what is going to happen next. You can see every heartbreak as it is

:13:11. > :13:14.about to happen. Kids feel things so strongly, when you think of the

:13:15. > :13:19.pressure cooker of a playground and how difficult it St to be somebody's

:13:20. > :13:22.different from everyone else and everyone's a bit insecure and then

:13:23. > :13:26.you have the school bully thrown in, the most popular girl, and all of

:13:27. > :13:34.that together, it becomes a pressure cooker that just goes... I am taken

:13:35. > :13:37.right back! Lovely to see you this morning. Thank you.

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