11/05/2017 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked more than a week

The document includes plans to nationalise the railways,

Royal Mail and parts of the energy industry

Good morning, it's Thursday 11th May.

A record fine for a company that made 100 million cold calls

Why those on the latest treatments can expect to live just as long

Good morning. Today I am talking about trade, an important issue in

the run-up to the election. I am at a textiles company in Yorkshire to

find out how good we are exporting. In sport - its not

over yet for Arsenal. They're up to fifth

in the Premier League after beating Southampton, just outside

the Champions League places. And Carol is out and

about with the weather. I am at Kenwood house in London

where it is a beautiful yet chilly start to the day. For most of us it

will be dry and sunny how whether there will be heavy downpours across

parts of southern England and south Wales through the day. It will feel

humid and some of us will reach 24 Celsius. Do details in 15 minutes.

Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked -

more than a week before its official launch.

was obtained by the BBC and several newspapers.

It includes proposals to nationalise the railways

A plan to create publicly owned energy companies in every region

of the UK and the introduction of price caps.

And there's a commitment to abolish tuition fees

The proposals are expected to be discussed by senior Labour figures

including the Shadow Cabinet at a meeting later today.

Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster.

I will start by asking you how on earth has happened. It is certainly

not what the party would have wanted and definitely not what they would

have planned and I think a clue! This is -- across the 20,000 words

of this says that it is draft and confidential. A big clue that they

did not think anybody would get hold of this document because when

parties publish their manifestoes it is meant to be a big set piece

event. Their manual for governing is published with a huge amount of

fanfare. Instead, with this series of leaks it shows that there is a

lot of division within the Labour Party and not a lot of discipline

just four weeks out from the election. We have got it and we can

see it, we are talking about it. What policies are the ones will be

the headline grabbers now? There are many ideas in here. Some are new and

some predictable. There are a few surprises as well. Some Labour

figures do see this document as probably the most left-wing since

the 1980s. Certainly the most detailed in a generation. There are

20 points alone for the rights of workers. There will be some policy

that stand out and some that will not be popular. Remember, not every

privatisation is seen as a success. Polling on some issues like

renationalisation of railways and capping energy prices, they are not

as controversial as some critics claim. One interesting point is that

in here, to please most of the unions is the existing Labour Party

commitment to renewing the Trident nuclear system. Significantly,

however, there is also a commitment for a defence review. That will

allow opponents of the nuclear deterrent system, including Jeremy

Corbyn, to question the commitment to the nuclear weapons system. I

think there will be a lot in here that will please a lot of Jeremy

Corbyn supporters and on the other side there will be some policy that

is not sitting well with the rest of the Labour Party and reach out to

Middle England who Jeremy Corbyn does need to reach out to his to win

this election. One of the things the leaking of

this manifesto means is that we are talking about it this morning as we

can now talk about the labour policies. -- Labour policies.

We'll be speaking to Andrew Gywnne, Labour's National Elections

and Campaign co-ordinator, just after 7.

The Conservatives say they will honour the Nato commitment

to spend at least 2% of economic output on defence if they're

They'll also increase the budget by at least 0.5% above inflation

James Comey has made his first public comments since

President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

going to "spend time on the decision or the way it was executed."

Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

investigation into alleged links between the Trump

Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not doing

Three women are due to appear in court in London today,

charged with preparing a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder.

They include 21-year-old Rizlaine Boular, who was shot

by police during a raid at a property in Willesden

Seven other people, arrested as part of the investigation,

have been released from police custody.

A cold-calling firm has been fined a record ?400,000 for making almost

Keurboom Communications made unsolicited automated calls relating

to road-accident and PPI compensation.

Most of us have received them - cold calls offering anything

from help with PPI claims or road accidents to investing in some

The cold callers play a numbers game, bombarding people in the hope

that some will bite and take up their offers,

This one company, Keurboom Communications,

based in Bedfordshire, made almost 100 million automated

The calls were about a variety of subject, including PPI

People got numerous calls, often on the same day,

Companies are allowed to make marketing calls,

but only if you have given permission, such as ticking a box

This company didn't have permission, and so got a record ?400,000 fine

You can avoid many nuisance calls by signing up

New laws which will allow the directors of cold-call companies

which breaks the rules to be fined should also mean fewer nuisance

Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have a near-normal life

Researchers from Bristol University say new drug treatments mean many

people who started treatment in this decade will live ten years longer

than those who started treatment in the mid 1990s.

Here's our health correspondent Jane Dreaper.

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

Doom-laden government adverts in the 1980s warned

about the dangers of the virus behind AIDS, and urged us not

Jonathan learned he was HIV positive in 1982.

He didn't expect to be alive all these years later.

Now 67, he is enjoying a healthy and happy retirement.

I never thought that I would hit 40, 50, 60.

Medicine which stops HIV reproducing has helped Jonathan

These anti-retroviral drugs became widely available in the UK

Researchers from Bristol say a 20-year-old man who started HIV

treatment in recent years should now live until the age of 73,

and a woman should now reach 76, close to the average.

It is hoped the findings will encourage anyone at risk of HIV

The charity Terrence Higgins Trust says this research is great news,

although some people are still unaware they have HIV,

and this means they are missing out on the treatment which will help

Later today Dyson, the engineering and design company will find out

if its appeal to the European court of justice to change the way vacuum

The company claims the present system is misleading as it tests

appliances in a pristine condition without dust inside.

Melanie Abbott from the You and Yours consumer programme reports.

If you're having avocado with your breakfast this morning,

... If you are having avocado at this time on a Thursday morning, you

are doing pretty well. However, there is a warning.

That's because a plastic surgeon says there's been an increase

in people cutting their hands while trying to get the stone out.

It's being dubbed by medical staff as "avocado hand".

Simon Eccles, who's a plastic surgeon has told the Times the fruit

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

state to drive him to a Andy either so we had to do a patch up job. I

have seen avocado hand first hand... So to speak. He was fine. No fingers

lost. I've done it a few times. Would a warning any difference? No,

no we wouldn't. I think we have reached peak avocado. Let's talk now

about Arsenal. They have yet to miss out on a place in the Champions

League and they may yet still get one.

Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud scored the second half goals to move

them up to fifth above Manchester United.

They're three points behind Manchester City in fourth.

Holders Real Madrid could become the first team

in the Champions League era to win back to back titles -

they beat their neighbours Atletico 4-2 on aggregate,

Manchester United manger Jose Mourinho says he had no regrets

about prioritising the Europa League over the Premier League.

United carry a one nil lead over Celta Vigo into tonight's semi-final

Wayne Rooney says he does not want to leave the club.

Slovenia's Luka Pibernik thought he'd won the fifth stage

Arms aloft in victory he didn't realise the stage still had another

Watching these pictures, the rest of the pellet on those past him and he

wonders what happens and then he realises he has won more lap to go.

He finished at position 148. He felt like such an idiot. Quite sad. Quite

funny, however, as well. State with those for the papers but first, the

weather. It looks grey yesterday, don't you think? Calm, no rain. But

Carol has details for as an Kenwood house.

Good morning to you both. It is beautiful here this morning. A chill

starred as it is across many areas and hear the birds are singing in

the sun is out and the house is open seven days a week, free of charge

and it is 100 or so acres of beautiful gardens like this. For

many of us it is a chilly start and as we go through the day it will

become humid, particularly in the south and we look at thundery

showers developing. For most of us it will remain dry and the thundery

showers will be hit and miss. As you at the moment across southern areas.

Hit and miss, again. The temperature and the sunshine will pick up

quickly and it will be a warm albeit humid day for many parts of the UK.

In the south-east, you can see around London, East Anglia and

Southern counties along the coast it will be mostly dry but we have a

line of thundery showers extending through Berkshire, Hampshire towards

Gloucestershire into Cornel and Devon and south Wales. Not all of us

will see one but if you catch it it will be heavy, thundery and it could

have hail. Just be aware of that. Moving north into the north

Midlands, in through the northern parts of Wales, north-west England

and Ireland and much of Scotland, it is dry, sunny unpleasant. There will

be one or two showers left over from this morning across the north-west

and in the north and east there will be more cloud so that will hold the

temperature down. Not as warm for you but as we come back into

north-east England down towards The Wash and East Anglia were back into

the sunshine. The line of thundery showers trips, drifts north and it

will not be as cold and night as in recent nights. The other thing you

will notice is that we are at the risk of air cool frost across

north-east England. In the south will brighten up, still a humid feel

to the weather, some showers tomorrow will also be heavy and

thundery with hail mixed in. You know the drill with showers - not

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

weekend, for Saturday in Scotland and Northern Ireland there will be

able cloud around and some rain we will see sunshine and showers for

England and Wales. A mixture of sunshine and also showers. And then

later in the day it comes into the west overnight and into Sunday it

crosses the UK, cleaving into North Sea by lunchtime and then, behind

it, we are back into sunshine and showers. If you have been wanting

some rain, some of us at least will get it and some of it will be heavy

in the next few days. So beautiful to see you there with

that beautiful yellow coat and those resplendent flowers. Thank you for

inviting us into your garden. Just joking, it is not really hers. It is

6:15am. We are going to look through some of the papers. No, actually, we

are not going to do that. Cat, you are on hold. OK, I'm not going

anywhere. Our main story today is Labor's draft manifesto being leaked

more than a week for it was due to be published. It reveals plans to

nationalise the railways and the Royal Mail, and scrap tuition fees.

A cold calling firm's been given a record fine of ?400,000

after making nearly 100 million nuisance calls.

Now we will take a look at the papers. Cat is still with us. Hello!

We just lost that minute somewhere. We are going to talk about our main

story, on the front page of the Mirror and the Telegraph, and you

have both of them. It is about the leak of the Labour Party manifesto,

which is a slight embarrassment to the Labour Party, but it is

interesting to see how the Telegraph and the Mirror, both papers that

have the leaked documents, have gone about presenting that news. You can

see the Telegraph, Corbyn's necessitate written back to the

1970s. You can see the imagery. And the Mirror says it is a plan to fix

a rip-off written. They both have the same document and obviously

different papers have written it up in different ways. We should mention

that Kate McCann, this lead story on the Telegraph, she is on the program

later on. We will be discussing some of the contents in terms of the

policy manoeuvres later this morning. The front page of the Daily

Mail, labour's manifesto to drag us back to the 1970s. Not much around

in the sports pages, but this caught my eye. It sparked a bit of a

discussion at the sports desk this morning. Manchester United unveiling

their new awake kit for next season. -- away kit. They have gone back to

the same sort of pattern and the grey colour from 1992. In 1992 Alex

Ferguson made them change out of their away kit at one point because

it was hard for the players to pick each other out. You can see the

players from the 1990s wearing that. It made us talk about what we were

wearing in 1992. What would you be wearing? For me, it was one of those

T-shirts that change colour when you got hot. One of the least flattering

items of clothing I have ever owned. Yes, those were very bright colours.

What did it change to? It had flowers, and they went orange when

you got hot, and blue when you are cool. It just made you look sweaty

all the time. Do you still have it? No, Charlie. The away kit these days

is often designed to match jeans, because it is not really about

wearing it on the pitch, it is about selling the shirt. So that fans

where to go to the match. So it is more of a fashion statement. Do you

know what I was wearing in the 1990s? I was wearing a pager.

Remember pages? I used to have a little pager, you could wear them on

your belt. They were for alerts. It was a work thing. You would get news

alerts on your pager. It would make a little noise, or a vibration. What

was the best news alert you ever had? Well, they are always the

worst, aren't they? I will not reminisce about that, they were

always about dreadful things. That was how the newsroom used to alert

you. Lots of people have them. The story is that they are finally out

of business, effectively. I am surprised they are still going at

all. Somebody somewhere is wearing on this morning and wondering what

they will do now. This in the Daily Mail, I don't agree with this at

all. They say that smiling adds six years to your face. So smiling makes

you look older. They have chosen to use a picture of the very beautiful

Kate Moss, smiling in this picture, and not smiling in this picture. I

would say that there are a few years between these photos being taken

anyway. Who says that smiling at 60 as to your face? A study has found,

scientists from the University in Israel, they found that when

volunteers pulled a surprise face they looked almost one year younger

than a neutral expression. So looking shocked makes you look

younger. You doing the for us now? That is my surprise face. Now can

you smile for us? We will let the audience decide, shall we? Thank

you. Smiling definitely makes you look younger. Well, it makes me feel

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

that opinion polls aren't always a reliable indication

of what is going to happen So ahead the general election,

the BBC's Nick Robinson has been out and about to see how

voters really feel. Nick has been to Halifax,

West Yorkshire, to meet a group of working class voters put together

by Ipsos Mori to see We are here above a pub in Halifax.

It might look a bit like a church because this is no ordinary pub.

This is actually where the Halifax building society was founded. You

can see those panels and stained-glass windows. We are here

to talk about politics and eat some curry. We know that all of you voted

for Brexit. What are you looking for in the person who leaves those

negotiations? Somebody who is strong. Who is trying to get the

best deal for Britain. To take the 85 early in euros bill when they

throw at us. Confident. Not easily led. Trustworthy. Strong. You said

trustworthy, as well? Yes, trustworthy, that is a good one. OK,

those are the words. That is what you want. So is there anybody who

feels that role for you? Not at the minute. Nigel Farage. Barrage? Well,

he is staying in Europe to make sure we get a decent deal. I think we

need somebody who doesn't exist at the moment. Somebody who has got a

bit of a bone. We need somebody who is a realist, somebody who will

listen to the people and take what the people have spoken to Europe.

Somebody who understands the needs of somebody from a working-class

background, not somebody born the vessel the spoon in their mouth. Is

there no leading politician in Britain who speaks for the working

class? Jeremy Corbyn. He does? He does, yeah. He is definitely the

most down to earth, the biggest realist out of them all, I think.

And probably the most trustworthy. Anybody else like Jeremy Corbyn? No?

Not sure? Just me, on my own. Nobody said Theresa May. I voted Labor the

past few times, but I honestly don't know if I will vote Labor again this

time. -- Labour. Lots of in-house arguing, they cannot seem to get

their own house in order. If that is the state of their house, I don't

want them coming to my house. As far as you can remember, have you ever

voted for a different party? Probably in the late 80s or early

90s, I voted Conservative back then. But you have been labour for a long

time. A long time coming yes. Could you make the journey back? I don't

know. As I said before, it is a sticky wicket. Not sure if you want

to go as far as voting Tory? Not too sure, no. However, never say never.

If they have got something that is good and solid in place, and

something they can prove, well, then maybe I could sway. What about you,

John? You said you would vote Tory. I would. We were talking about

Corbyn speaking for the working class, there are lots of people who

say they could not vote Tory. He doesn't have the charisma, as far as

I'm concerned. He reminds me of somebody from the 1970s, like

Michael foot. An old Labour MP, somebody was no charisma. He has not

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

Labour MPs, I can think of about three, Corbyn, Dannevirke, actually,

I can only remember two. I don't really know who anybody is. But you

feel strongly about him? I do, yes. I think Labour created a mess and I

think they should come back in and clear it up. They will make a bigger

mess. I don't think they will. I think they will write their wrongs.

You have to believe in that person earns what he says, you have to

believe in what they say. And you don't? No.

You can see more of that discussion on Nick's Election Takeaways at 2:30

on Saturday afternoon on the BBC News Channel.

And there'll be more from Nick in the coming weeks on Breakfast,

looking at the challenges facing some of the other parties ahead

Latest figures coming up about how much Britain is buying and selling

from the rest of the world. Good morning, everybody. I am at a

fabrics factory where you can see what they are making, churning out

about 8 million metres of fabrics every year. You might recognise some

of it, because it is the kind of stuff you will see on bus seats,

perhaps on the tube, certainly you might be sitting on this at some

point in the future. They sell this product all over the world, to 80

different countries. They export about 68% of what they manufacture.

That is why we are here, we are talking about trade. We will find

out later on this morning how we have been doing in terms of our

trade. At the moment we are in a trade deficit. In other words, we

are importing more than we are exporting. Certainly our

relationship with other countries is really important for us to be making

money in this country. Interestingly, since the referendum,

I have spoken a lot about the value of the pound falling. That actually

helps exports because it makes our products cheaper for other countries

to buy. So it will be interesting to see, with these figures, whether

that has made a difference at all to what is happening in terms of the

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

throughout the morning, talking to them about how we can make sure that

we export enough to get rid of that trade deficit. And also, what it

will mean for things like the election and Brexit, how we will get

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

the colours on the fabrics they have been using. I will be showing more

of this off been using. I will be showing more

next month's election we are hosting a special question service in Saint

Leonards. That's if an hour. -- and that's it for now.

Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

Just why did Donald Trump fire the director of the FBI,

We'll be live in Washington to analyse the latest

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Who needs CGI when you've got a bucket.

Actor Michael Fassbender and director Ridley Scott

on the new Alien film and the return of cinema's scariest creature.

The 17th century painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" inspired

Tracy Chevalier to write a best selling book of the same name.

She'll be here after nine to tell us how Shakespeare has

But now a summary of this morning's main news.

Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked

more than a week before its official launch.

The 51-page document was obtained by the BBC and several newspapers.

It includes proposals to nationalise the railways

A plan to create publicly owned energy companies in every region

of the UK and the introduction of price caps.

And there's a commitment to abolish tuition fees

The proposals are expected to be discussed by senior Labour figures

including the Shadow Cabinet at a meeting later today.

Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster.

I know you have been reading through the draft of the manifesto but it is

quite embarrassing that it is out there, isn't it? It is certainly not

what the party wanted and certainly not what their plan would have been.

The big clue to that, all through the document are printed right

across every single page the watermark draft and confidential. So

obviously the Labour party did not expect anyone to get their hands on

it. What is in the manifesto? What are they going to say? There are

some things in here that will be popular. Not everybody sees

privatisation as a success so ring nationalising railways, for example

and capping energy prices. Those things will be popular. There is

also contrast with the Conservative Party. No figure put on immigration.

There are guarantees that rather than cutting we welfare that

payments to some groups will rise. When it comes to Trident, there is a

commitment to the existing Labour proposal for renewal but there is

also a commitment to review win, having a defence review and that

will allow critics of the system, such as Jeremy Corbyn, to question

whether at all it should be renewed. With the document there are things

that will be very pleasing to many in the Gerry Jeremy Corbyn camp but

outside that count, whether he can reach out to Middle England which he

needs to do if he is to win, that remains a question. Another big

thing that will be hanging over the document is does it all add up? Can

labour described in detail exactly how these policies will be paid for?

There are big commitments to think that tuition fees and social care,

as well as other big spending projects. They will all need to be

costed with the tax spelt out if the commitment of Labour to have a fully

costed manifesto is to come true. The Liberal Democrats say they will

accept refugees. They are committed to reopening the programme for

unaccompanied asylum seeker children stranded in Europe.

James Comey has made his first public comments since

President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

going to "spend time on the decision or the way it was executed."

Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

investigation into alleged links between the Trump

Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not doing

Three women are due to appear in court in London today,

charged with preparing a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder.

They include 21-year-old Rizlaine Boular, who was shot

by police during a raid at a property in Willesden

Seven other people, arrested as part of the investigation,

have been released from police custody.

A cold-calling company has been fined a record ?400,000

Keurboom Communications bombarded people with almost 100 million

nuisance phone calls about road accidents and PPI claims over

The fine was handed to them by the Information Commissioner's

Office, which has already fined 23 companies in the past year.

Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have a near-normal life

Researchers from Bristol University say new drug treatments mean many

people are now living ten years longer than those who started

Their findings show a ten-year increase in life expectancy

since anti-retroviral drugs became widely available two decades ago.

Are you ready to sprinkle some stardust on this programme?

David Beckham is facing criticism for his acting

He was met with cheers at the premier of the new film

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword in Los Angeles, but reception

for his performance in the movie hasn't been so welcoming by some

Where do you want me? Bouncing on my knee? Where do you think I want you?

Hands on the hilt, stupid. It must be hard to direct that sequence...

To tell David what to say? It can be tricky. I think he is great. Better

than any of us would be. What do you mean it can be tricky directing

sports stars in movies? What do you know? I just suggested it may be.

You have a superstar coming into the ranks. How do you say, OK, can I

have a little more emotion? They deal with superstar movie stars.

There are in your experience, because you are in the remake of

Love actually, it was difficult for Richard Curtis to direct you? To be

fair, I did not have any lines. That is possibly Testament in its self

that they did not trust me with lines. I would be interested in

people who can name big sports stars who have been successes in an acting

career. Vinnie Jones is not allowed. That was too long ago. But he was

great. Although he did play himself. Leave that one with me. There were

many basketball players... How about Arnold Schwarzenegger? How about the

Rock? There we go. Here's the wrestler and that is part pantomime,

isn't it? Oh, you will have the wrestling fans on the -- your back.

Imagine the mind claims on the bluster of the rest of the Premier

League whereas Arsene quietly goes about his business. Arsenal have had

a late surge. Will they make it? Arsenal are closing in on the top

four in the Premier League after a two nil win away

at Southampton last night Some nimble footwork

from Alexis Sanchez gave Arsenal the lead in the second half

while an Olivier Giroud header made sure of the points

for Arsene Wenger's in-form side In the second half I believe that

going forward they looked dangerous and dynamic and I am pleased with

the performance. Do you feel that nine points from your last three

matches would do it? I do not know. The only thing I do know is that we

give our best to win every game and we will start again on Saturday.

Holders Real Madrid reached the final of the Champions League

after a 4-2 aggregate win over neighbours Atletico.

They had to resist a fightback though with goals from Saul Niguez

and Antoine Griezmann putting Atletico 2-0 up after quarter

But Isco's away goal just before half time effectively won Real

the tie, even though they lost 2-1 on the night.

Manchester United captain Wayne Rooney says he wants to stay

at Old Trafford despite not featuring in Jose Mourinho's side

for much of the season Rooney is unlikely to feature as United

defend a 1-0 lead in tonight's Europa League semi-final second leg

against Spanish side Celta Vigo, but the captain insists he doesn't

I would like to play more. That is the way it has panned out and, you

know, and I am happy to help the team on and off the pitch. I haven't

made a plan nor a big fuss but, of course, I am a football player and I

would like to play football. Britain's Geraint Thomas

and Adam Yates remain second and third overall after the fifth

stage of the Giro d'Italia. But the stage was rather

embarrassing for Slovenian cyclist He was leading as it

entered Messina in Sicily. Unfortunately for him

he celebrated his victory a lap The rest of the pellet on came

behind him and overtook him. The poor cyclist finished 148. It is

so sad. Can you imagine how embarrassing that is. You feel so

sorry for him. It's the decision that has stunned

America but the former head of the FBI, James Comey,

says he's not going to spend time thinking about why

President Trump fired him. In a farewell letter to staff,

Mr Comey wrote "I have long believed that a President can fire an FBI

Director for any reason, So let's look at what some

of those reasons could be with Dr Mike Cornfield,

a political scientist I would like to talk about the

letter from James Comey in a second because it was quite sanguine. An

interesting letter to his staff. But let's start with Donald Trump. Did

he think this through for long before making the decision? I think

he brooded over it for a long time but he did not prepare his

explanation very well and he did not have a replacement ready. He looks

more guilty than he did before. If he had done this in a more

professional manner from a political standpoint, I think that more people

would have accepted the decision without agony. James Comey was not

the most popular person in America. According to Donald Trump, James

Comey had lost the confidence of Republicans and Democrats. Is that

fair to say? It is. He behaved erratically over the last year.

Getting involved in the election and he did lose a lot of confidence. I

think one of the things that Mr Trump, President Trump, excuse me,

hasn't quite reconciled himself to is the idea that everyone who works

in the executive branch of the Federal government is not his

employee. He has the right to fire somebody or for any cause whatever

but that person does not do his job according to the way a president

wants. He does his way according to the Constitution and the laws of the

land. There is tension there. Are we seeing here then a man who was

learning as he goes along and, quite clearly, doing things at times that

may not make a huge amount of sense? Well... He has the lowest ratings of

any president since polling began. I don't think they will rise this week

after this decision. He has not accomplished anything on domestic

policy because he cannot get Congress to vote as he wants. He is

one accomplishment has been nominating a new Supreme Court

Justice. So he's not doing well and this will not help. James Comey was

not the most popular person in America but he was popular within

the FBI, wasn't it? That is absolutely correct. As you know

there are many comparisons being made right now between this scandal

and Watergate 45 years ago. And, of course, Watergate turned on the

leaks of someone who had worked at the FBI who went under the name of

Deep Throat. The President not only has less support in official

aboveground Washington he probably has less support within the FBI

because they are mad at what they see as a betrayal of this

investigation. So we are all waiting for more leaks. Who knows what may

happen. Thank you very much indeed. The time now is 644 and time for a

look at the weather. upside to getting up early, and it

looks like where you are this morning it is one of those days.

Absolutely right. Good morning. A beautiful start to the day here at

Kenwood House. You can see it in all its glory behind me. The original

building was built in the early 17th century. All around, look at these

gorgeous grounds. They are used for many scenes from many films,

including Notting Hill. You might remember Julia Roberts herself was

filming here in the movie Notting Hill when Hugh Grant came down and

found her. It is so peaceful, so tranquil and quiet. It is chilly,

not just here but across many parts of the UK first thing this morning.

If you have got cloud around, the chances are it will not away and

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

day, and we will see further heavy thundery downpours developing. This

morning, what we have is lots of dry weather. The temperature will pick

up quite quickly now in the sunshine. Patchy rain across the far

north of Scotland that will tend to ease through the day, and Dave few

showers, some of which a thundery, across parts of southern England,

South Wales and the Channel Islands. They are very hit and miss at the

moment. Heading into the afternoon, if we go down into the south-east we

will see lots of dry weather, and along coastal counties in the south.

Go along the M4 corridor to the west of London, to places like Berkshire,

Hampshire, Gloucestershire, the West Country, Devon, Cornwall and South

Wales, that is where we are likely to see some torrential downpours

which could lead to local issues of surface water flooding. North Wales,

most of the Midlands, north-west England and Northern Ireland will

see sunshine, feeling pleasantly warm and gentle breezes. In

Scotland, the remnants of this morning's ran across the north-west,

but nothing to write home about. -- rain. Cloud across parts of the

northern and eastern coasts holding temperatures down, but for the rest

of Scotland, the north-east of England and East Anglia, we are back

into sunny skies, and feeling pleasant temperatures, up to 24.

That will fill humid in London. Through the evening and overnight,

all these showers migrate north. We will also see some in the west. It

will not be as cold as last night, and we will start to see some poor

coming in across the north of Scotland. -- some hoarforst. Moora,

lots of showers, heavy and thundery with hail. Some sunshine in between.

Through the afternoon you will see more cloud coming in from the coast,

along the northern and eastern parts of Scotland and the north-east of

England, and there will be Hill fold developing as well. -- hill fog. As

we head into the weekend, on Saturday, Scotland and Northern

Ireland will have a cloudy start with some rain, fragmenting to leave

showers and sunshine. For England and Wales, sunshine and showers, and

temperatures coming down a touch from where we are at the moment.

Later in the day, a weather front coming in from the west will

introduce rain. Overnight and into Sunday, that will move east,

clearing into the North Sea. Behind it, you have probably guessed,

sunshine and showers. What's going on with the weather in the next

couple of days, and for those of us who want rain, some of us will

actually see it. -- lots going It looks like she is on a film set.

Beautiful. Later today, we will get some figures released which will

give us a clue as to how Britain is doing with exports at the moment,

and with imports. Steph isn't a textile mill in East Yorkshire,

already shipping more than half of what they make overseas. -- Steph is

at eight textile mill. What do they make of air? They make fabrics the

lots of things that you sit on. Bus seats, cube seats, lots of different

fabrics. -- tube seats. Sorry for the noise, it is quite loud, but I

want to show you this. Ahmed is here making sure that he has got all this

going, that thread is going off to be died. -- dyed. The reason we are

here is to talk about trade. As Charlie said, we will be finding out

later this morning the latest trade figures. Just to give you a bit of

information about it, you should see it appearing on the screen below me

as well, we are actually in a trade deficit at the moment.

That means we import more than we export. We have seen with the value

of the pound falling that our products are a bit cheaper.

Companies like this also import a lot of products, in order to be able

to make the fabrics here. So those create different costs when you

think about the value of the pound. Here is one of the bosses. How is

your business doing well, on the exports front? Well, we exported 60%

of what we manufacture here. That is over ?50 million every year. It is

growing over 10% each year, with around about two thirds of what we

export going to be EU. I merrily Germany, Poland, Sweden. So you have

got double-digit growth, which lots of businesses would kill for. Where

is that coming from? It is coming from a strategy that we believe in,

which is not just setting short-term goals, but taking a long-term view.

We are also entering new markets and have done so recently in North

America and China, where the growth we are seeing there is well over

30%. Obviously there is a lot going on at the moment and trade is the

big topic of the election. Brexit is coming. Does this mean for you as a

business person? -- what does this. Well, nothing changes in terms of

innovation and product, because that is critical for our clients, as well

as investing in capital equipment to keep ourselves as productive and as

efficient as possible. But obviously having Brexit hanging over our heads

is a bit of a sword over our heads, in terms of the impact on us. We buy

raw materials from Europe every year and we export even more back into

the EU, so clearly the impact of tariffs, and potentially border

restrictions on border delays, that is critical for us to understand

going forward. Thank you for your time. Thank you for having a seer.

We have got Leslie Bachelor here, we just heard Graham talking about some

of the concerns he has about leaving the European Union in terms of the

tariffs and water controls. What are businesses thinking about at the

moment? I think we all just want certainty. That is the main message

we are hearing. What we are also finding is that people are looking

at new markets outside Europe, and what we are going to try to do is

encourage them to research it thoroughly and get it right, really.

There is a chance for opportunities for businesses as well? Absolutely.

I think it is great, because we have got a bit complacent. It is so easy

to do business with the EU that we have started to take it for granted.

Now we will have to start thinking and planning a lot more. Obviously

this morning we have got the latest trade figures out. What we expect? I

don't think we expect anything surprising. I think they will be

quite static. There will be some industries that are going very well,

taking advantage of the weaker pound, whereas some of them will be

suffering because they are bringing in more raw materials. It is a

little bit swings and roundabouts. But businesses are getting on with

business, what they do best. Leslie, thank you. I want to show you this.

It is hard to show on camera, but you can see the thread is going

through at an incredible speed there, all ready to be zipped off

and made into the fabrics they make here. I will show you some of those

a little bit later on this morning. I want to see some of the fabrics

that his young bus seats, you know, those brightly coloured and jazzy

ones. We will expect that soon. It is 6:52 a.m..

It began with just 10 pupils in 1967, now in its 50th year

the National Star College in Cheltenham caters for more

But its mission has remained the same -

to help young people with disabilities realise

Our disability news Correspondent, Nikki Fox, has been speaking

Happy birthday! Things have changed a lot over the 50 years that Star

College has been going. The students here, born from overseas, come from

all over the United Kingdom. In 1967 first 10 students arrived. Now the

college has over 150, all with very different disabilities. Patrick

studied here in the 1980s. He left this place with A-levels and went on

to get a degree in social science. This is the actual BBC computer that

Patrick took his exams on. Today, he is back with his former teacher

John, reminiscing about how quickly he picked up the old technology. I

absolutely love my three years here. My dad often said the Star College

was the equivalent to... I think personally it is essential to have

specialised schools and colleges for students with complex disabilities.

Hello, how are you? Thanks to these accessible flats, students can study

and live independently away from home. You've got a lot of space

here. There is a pillow on your bed. Who is that man? Boyfriend! What do

you think your life would be like if you were not living in this place? I

would need more help. You would need more help? Do you think you would be

less independent than you are? Yeah. This school changed my life.

As the college celebrates its big anniversary, it is expanding with

new schools in England and Wales. Although as a charity, uncertainties

around funding make every investment a calculated risk. But being bold is

what National Star is all about. The FRC is to realise the aspirations of

disabled people, and today, just for fun, they are doing that in a

hot-air balloon. -- the ethos here. The tailored support that people get

here allows them to freedom to live and study like any other student,

with one aim. To prepare them in the way possible for life after college.

Nikki Fox committee is in use. Brilliant images to finish that

piece. And of course, the entire ethos about places to give people

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

a.m.. Still to come, how many times have you received a nuisance call

about PPA claims of accidents that were not your fault? We will hear

about the firm that is facing a record fine for sending out nearly

100 million Hello, this is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent. Labour's draft election manifesto

has been leaked more than a week The document includes plans

to nationalise the railways, Royal Mail and parts

of the energy industry Good morning, it's

Thursday 11th May. A record fine for a company that

made 100 million cold calls Today I am talking about trade, an

important issue in the run-up to the election. And with Brexit looming. I

am at a textile factory in Yorkshire to find out how good we are

exporting. In sport - it's not

over yet for Arsenal. They're up to fifth

in the Premier League after beating Southampton, just outside

the Champions League places. And the Aliens are back -

director Ridley Scott tells us how he came up with the look

for space's scariest monster. He originally only had eyes. And

then Eiger was staring. I put a plastic bucket ovaries head and he

said oh, no eyes. Very good. -- over his head. It is a chilly start

across many parts of the UK as well as a sunny one. There are showers

around in the south and we will see further showers develop later and it

will feel humid with highs today reaching 24 Celsius.

Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked -

more than a week before its official launch.

was obtained by the BBC and several newspapers.

It includes proposals to nationalise the railways

A plan to create publicly owned energy companies in every region

of the UK and the introduction of price caps.

And there's a commitment to abolish tuition fees

The proposals are expected to be discussed by senior Labour figures

including the Shadow Cabinet at a meeting later today.

Our political correspondent Eleanor Garnier is in Westminster.

We will discuss the policies in a second but, first of all, how

embarrassing that this manifesto draft is out there in all of the

newspapers and we talk about it before the Labour Party plan that we

know what is in it. It is embarrassing. And it is definitely

not what the party would have wanted nor indeed planned. A big clue to

that is the fact that printed on every single page across the 20,000

word document it says draft, confidential. So clearly the party

did not expect the BBC or newspapers to get hold of the document. What it

shows in this series of leaks is the division within Labour and the lack

of discipline just four weeks out from a general election. The one

upside for us as journalists is that we have some in concrete to talk

about. What other highlights? There will be some policies of course that

are very popular. Things like renationalising the railways, a cap

on energy prices as well. They are not as controversial as some critics

would make out. There are some noticeable differences with the

Conservatives. There is no target on immigration, rather than a guarantee

there is... Rather than guaranteeing cutting, rather, there is a

guarantee that payments to some groups will increase. There is a

commitment to renewing Trident but, significantly, there is a commitment

to a defence review. That will allow critics and opponents of the nuclear

deterrent, such as Jeremy Corbyn, the leader, to question it. There is

lots of detail in here, things like providing free Wi-Fi in city centres

and public trans port. Even banning certain pesticides. There are lots

of detail and lots of big spending commitments. ?1 billion the social

care, scrapping tuition fees. That will cost a lot of money. Opponents

and sceptical voters will want more details about other promised from

labour that everything in he will be costed. Remember, this is just one

draft of the BBC have gotten hold. It meant to be signed off today by

big figures in the Labour Party so they could, of course, be changes to

come. It will be interesting to see the draft document matches the

document see in the end. We will speak to the national elections and

campaign co-ordinator just after seven.

The Conservatives say they will honour the Nato commitment

to spend at least 2% of economic output on defence if they're

They'll also increase the budget by at least 0.5% above inflation

James Comey has made his first public comments since

President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

going to "spend time on the decision or the way it was executed."

Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

investigation into alleged links between the Trump

Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not doing

He has become more famous than me. Donald Trump may have once embraced

the FBI director but the Lovell shortlist. It is thought the

President's frustration had been building for months. He had hoped

that allegations that Russia had meddled in the US election to help

him when to be dismissed as fake news. But the towering figure of the

FBI to capture the story alive by confirming the investigation. And

that is why Democrats think that Mr Trump fired him. The Russian leader

offered his opinion on his way to a hockey match in Sochi. TRANSLATION:

President Trump is acting in accordance with his law and the

Constitution. In a farewell letter, James Comey told his colleagues he

was not going to spend time on the decision or the way was executed. He

said that the American people should see the FBI as a rock of sense,

honesty and independence. Meanwhile, the investigation continues and,

back at the centre of it, if the former National Security adviser

Michael Flynn. He was 5/ lying about his with the Russian ambassador.

Senators are now wish to form new demand -- have now issued a formal

demand, a sub Li Na, for further details. The controversy surrounding

Donald Trump and his aides goes on. Three women are due to appear

in court in London today, charged with preparing a terrorist

act and conspiracy to murder. They include 21-year-old

Rizlaine Boular, who was shot by police during a raid

at a property in Willesden Seven other people, arrested as part

of the investigation, have been released

from police custody. A cold-calling firm has been fined

a record ?400,000 for making almost Keurboom Communications made

unsolicited automated calls relating to road-accident

and PPI compensation. Most of us have received them -

cold calls offering anything from help with PPI claims or road

accidents to investing in some The cold callers play a numbers

game, bombarding people in the hope that some will bite

and take up their offers, This one company,

Keurboom Communications, based in Bedfordshire,

made almost 100 million automated The calls were about a variety

of subject, including PPI People got numerous calls,

often on the same day, Companies are allowed

to make marketing calls, but only if you have given

permission, such as ticking a box This company didn't have permission,

and so got a record ?400,000 fine You can avoid many nuisance

calls by signing up New laws which will allow

the directors of cold-call companies which breaks the rules to be fined

should also mean fewer nuisance Later today Dyson, the engineering

and design company will find out if its appeal to the European court

of justice to change the way vacuum The company claims the present

system is misleading as it tests appliances in a pristine condition

without dust inside. Melanie Abbott from the You and

Yours consumer programme reports. If you're having avocado

with your breakfast this morning, That's because a plastic surgeon

says there's been an increase in people cutting their hands

while trying to get the stone out. It's being dubbed by medical

staff as "avocado hand". Simon Eccles, who's a plastic

surgeon has told the Times the fruit Beware! Be careful. Open at your

peril. It is easy to laugh at... I'd like to knows different techniques

for opening and avocado. A cut and twist, a teaspoon... I just know

those two. It is ten minutes past seven at the moment. What are the

most astonishing medical achievements of our generation. A

study led by Bristol University, published points to the success of

HIV treatments in the past two decades.

We're joined by Paul Attinello who was diagnosed

with HIV in 1987, and from our Bristol studio, Jonathan Sterne,

Good morning to you both. If I could come to you first of all, Paul,

could we heed your health story and how you why now? It is quite long. I

was probably infected in 1981, 1982 in San Francisco. A boyfriend fell

horribly ill because everything went wrong at once in 1983, the first

time I really noticed. But we did not really know how anything was

passed on, you know? When I teach this to students they forget how

long it took to figure anything out. So I finally went for testing in

April 1987 and I was sure I would be positive. So we will come to the

doctor and a second but at that point in time, the prognosis for you

was what? The social worker who gave me my results was a psychoanalyst in

training so did psychoanalysis with him for five years. The whole point

was we knew I would be dead soon. And all of the understanding and

medical science at that point said that the position you Irene, you are

going to die and it will be quite a short lifespan. Yes. Until 1996. And

even then, I know that it took a long time for me to really

understand that was not the whole point of my life. Listening to that

it is a perfect illustration of just how far we have come. Could you

outline for is where medicine has reached in terms of treatments now?

As you say, the big revolution occurred in the late 1990s when

combination therapies became widely available and it became apparent

that what had been a rapid death sentence was no longer the case.

What we have shown is that things have become steadily better over

years since then and, so, because of better drugs, that are easier to

take with fewer side-effects and less likely to develop resistance to

and more drug options if the virus you are infected with does develop

resistance, patients the starting therapy these days, providing they

start early in the course of the infection, can expect to live a new

normal lifespan. Could I ask you this? Treatment has changed

significantly and this news is wonderful to hear. As a changed

attitudes, in a way? In a way that is more challenging? Because people

are no longer so frightened of HIV and AIDS any more so they are really

not being careful about not getting it. There are different levels. I

just taught a course on this at university again and we speak to

medical students and people all over the world. There is always a level

of being rational and medical about it and then there is the very

charged crazy level where, oh my God, I'm going to die. All the

people that were 19 quite accustomed to the fact that patients who come

in a just sure that this is the end of the world. And, generally, the

patient group, people who have been HIV-positive for a while will often

speak to people who are newly diagnosed. Normally what we try to

say is... It is OK, it will not be that bad. But then when someone is

not infected, it usually it's that you do not want this. It is still

rough on the body. But people newly diagnosed today should expect to

have a normal life. It is an amazing achievement to reach this point. If

you could try and name one thing that has changed over the years, was

that the money was made available for the research? So often in

medical science, the argument is just around how much money goes into

the research process. Did something happen in relation to that which

made this possible? Certainly, money was made available for research but

in sub Saharan Africa in particular, money was also made available to

treat millions of people. And, um, in fact it is not often understood

achievement of President George W Bush that he decided to put billions

of American dollars into treating people in sub Saharan Africa. It is

not just people in North America who have had access to treatment. With

regard to the situation now I think another very important finding from

recent years is that if you are on these therapies and successfully

treated it is hugely beneficial for you but it also means that you are

very unlikely to transmit the virus to anyone else. It has become very

important to address these issues of stigma and to say to those who may

be infected with HIV to please get tested, if you think you may be at

risk and health systems need to try to diagnose people because that will

benefit the people who go on the treatment. It will also mean that

there are fewer new infections. At the moment treatment is lifelong and

Europe and in America it costs a lot of money. Thank you very much both

of you for your time. You're watching

Breakfast from BBC News. Shall we look outside and see what

the weather is like? It is looking a bit sunnier at Salford quays this

morning. At week not compare with the views were Carol is, at Kenwood

House in north London. -- but we cannot compare. Can you describe

exactly what vegetation is behind you?

Yikes! Rhododendrons, that is the best I can offer. It is beautiful

here at Kenwood House in north London. The sun is out, but it is

chilly if you are stepping out, not just in north London but across the

board. Today will be largely dry, but increasingly it is going to turn

humid, especially in the south. Some parts of southern England,

especially the south-east, could hit 2223dC, but there will also be

thunderstorms developing, some of which will be torrential. -- 22 or

23 Celsius. If you have cloud around you at the

moment the chances are high that it will burn away. We have showers

scattered around southern areas, and some of them are thundery. In

Scotland we have the remnants of a weather front producing some patchy

rain, which will increasingly weakened through the day. This

afternoon across the south-east, lots of sunshine, but we are prone

to some of those thunderstorms anywhere from west London all the

way across the M4 corridor down towards Devon and Cornwall. Also,

the southern half of Wales is not immune to those. They will be heavy,

thundery, and also have some hail embedded. They could lead to issues

of surface water flooding. North Wales, most of the Midlands and

north-west England and Northern Ireland, as well as most of

Scotland, will see a sunny and dry day. The remnants of this morning's

rain across the north-west of Scotland, but across the far north

and north-east there will be a bit more cloud. That will depress the

temperatures. As we come further south again into north-east England,

heading towards the wash and East Anglia, lots of dry weather and some

sunshine. Through the evening and overnight, those thunderstorms start

to migrate north. We will also have some in the west. It will not be as

cold as it was last night. We will increasingly see more sea fret and

hoar in the north of Scotland and north-west England. Some of the

showers tomorrow will be heavy and thundery, with some hail, but drying

up across southern England. Through the course of the day, especially in

the afternoon, we will see more coastal fog coming up on shore

across the north-east of the UK, as far south as north-east England, and

there will also be some hill fog. Saturday will start on a cloudy note

in Northern Ireland in Scotland, but that rain will fragment and we will

see sunshine and heavy showers developing. England and Wales, a day

of sunshine and showers. A later weather front coming in from the

west will produce rain, drifting across our shores overnight and

clearing into the North Sea during the course of Sunday. Behind that,

we are back into sunshine and showers. If you are desperate to see

some rain, some of us will definitely be seeing it in the next

few days. Great to hear. And you look glorious

and that sunshine, Carol. And good choice of coat. As always. Thank

you, Charlie. It is 719 a.m.. It's 20,000 words

spread over 51 pages. Stamped through each

and every one of them, in capital letters,

the word "confidential." Last night Labour's draft manifesto

was leaked to several national It gives an insight into the party's

vision for government. There are plans to scrap university

tuition fees in England, nationalise the railways,

and to ban zero-hours contracts. Andrew Gwynne is Labour's National

Elections and Campaigns Coordinator Thank you for your time this

morning. Just take us through what has happened. How did the leak come

about? I don't know, and this isn't how I planned to spend my morning

today. But it gives us an opportunity, doesn't it, to talk

about the kind of Britain that we want to see after June eight, the

kind of return that labour believes in, which is a fairer and more equal

society. A Britain for the many and not a few. There are some good ideas

in this document. Of course, it is not the Labour manifesto, because we

have the small matter of a clause five meeting. Sorry to sound

technical so early in the morning. But the Labour Party is a dim

aquatic party, so today the reason why I am not in greater Manchester

with you but down in London is because the Shadow Cabinet is

meeting with the national executive committee, the Parliamentary

committee of a bench MPs, and trading and is, to go through the

draft manifesto. -- backbench MPs and trade unions. After today's

meeting we will have a clearer picture of what is actually the

manifesto. But there are some great ideas in doubt. We will come to the

policies in a second, but if I can bring you back to the fact that it

has been leaked, one of the criticisms of the Labour Party, and

you be aware of this, is that there is an element of disunity. Lots of

people acting against one another. The problem, in a way, is that this

suggests that somebody did it, even at this stage in a general election

campaign, that possibly somebody did it maliciously, of whatever reason,

they just wanted to cause trouble for the party from within. Look,

leaks happen. They always happen. They probably always will. The point

is, there is an opportunity now. We are talking about Labour's policies

a week in advance of when we would relaunch in them. So, you know, I am

looking at the positives here. There are great ideas. I think it shows

the direction of travel. Britain does not have to be like it is

today. We want to change Britain for the better, a country that looks

after our elderly and looks after our young people and gives them the

best start in life. Britain under the Tories has gone backwards. We

are being held that. We want a different division, a different

society. You can see from this draft document some of those ideas would

transfer the way that people live their lives in this country, and I

think it is a great opportunity to flag up the direction of travel

under a future Labour government. Let's talk about some of the

specifics. Renationalise in the railways. -- renationalising. It has

been talked about for a long time, it is going to be in the manifesto,

I think we can take it that is one of the things that will not be

changed. Is your pledge to the nation that a ticket to ride on the

railways will be cheaper and the service will be better? Absolutely.

We believe that is the case, that by bringing the railways into public

ownership we can have a much better service for the customer. But, look,

it shouldn't come as a surprise... If I made, the question was, will

they be cheaper and better? -- if I may. Will the prices come down, to

travel on the railways, under Ray Labour government? It is clearly our

vision to have a cheaper, more affordable, more accessible public

transport network in this country. So, you know, that is part of our

vision. We know that state-owned railways can work. Look at the east

coast railway. It was the best served rail system when it was under

state control, until very recently. So, you know, that is a real... OK,

let me, we are going to stay with this subject, if we may. It is

useful to target some things sometimes. A lot of vertical parties

might say that their vision is to create a better, cheaper travel

system people can use. Lots of people might say that is their

vision. What might differentiate you? We are at that point in the

campaign went differences are becoming more clear. What might

differentiate you from the Tories is that you are saying it is a pledge,

you would guarantee that going on a train journey, today, people

commuting, they will know that when a labour government comes into

power, that journey will be cheaper and better. Is that a pledge, or

just a hope? Well, let's see what is in the manifesto... We know what is

in the manifesto, you can't say that any more. The point is that under

the Tories, we have a railway system whereby the profits don't get

ploughed back into reinvestment in the railways. The profits go to the

private companies that are running the railways. That is not in the

interests of customers crowded on trains. You haven't answered my

question. That is not in the interests of customers paying

through their noses for ever-increasing train fares. We want

to make sure that the drain system works for the many, not the few. --

train. That means we have a train system, a public transport system,

in which the profits that are made are reinvested into the

infrastructure of this country. I think most people agree with that.

Certainly when you ask people, do you want your railways to be owned

by you, and working in your interests rather than the interests

of some shareholders often onstage nationalise train companies from

other countries, most people say, yes, we want a train system that

works for us. And that is what Labour's Odyssey is all about. We

sometimes get hung up on some of the technical details, but this is about

ordinary people. This is about making the system work for them.

Whether it is transport, whether it is the NHS, whether it is

educational looking after elderly people, you can see that there is a

real vision here for a different kind of society. Something quite

exciting. OK, thank you for your time this morning. That was Andrew

Greene, national elections and campaign co-ordinator for the Labour

Party. -- Andrew Gwyne. Steph is out and about this morning,

talking about trade. She is in a mill where they weave and make up

all three fabrics. I have my eye on new fabric for the sofa. It has to

be read. Do they have any red? Do you know, the sofar that you are on

at the moment is actually fabric that was made by this company? They

just told me that. New Zealand lambs wool is what our sofa is made of. It

is a bit shabby looking at the minute. I might get some cut-offs

from here and jazz it up. It is a fascinating place. They make

products sent all over the world. They make about 8 million metres

every year fabric. Lots of it you will recognise, because they make it

fall us seats and Qube seats and other things you might be sitting

on. -- make it for bus seats and tube seats. Something like 80

different countries they sell their products do. About 50% of what they

make is exported. That is why we are here today, we are talking about

trade. The latest figures are coming out about 9:30am. We are currently

in a trade deficit, meaning we import more than we export. Of

course, the ideal is that we do not have that deficit, so that we can

export just as much as we import. That puts a lot of pressure on

companies. I will be talking to them here about what they can try to do

to increase exports across the UK. First,

to increase exports across the UK. hour. 30 more on our website at the

usual address. Now it is back Charlie and Sally.

Hello, this is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Sally Nugent.

Labour's draft election manifesto has been leaked to the press a week

Due to be finalised today, the document outlines plans to scrap

tuition fees, ban fracking and create some publicly owned

energy companies as well as introducing a price cap.

Labour says it would not comment on the leak but the Conservatives

Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats are to announce that they'd accept

10,000 refugees from Syria every year for the duration

Party leader Tim Farron will also say that he is committed

to reopening the Dubs programme for unaccompanied asylum seeking

James Comey has made his first public comments since

President Trump sacked him as the head of the FBI on Tuesday.

In a farewell letter to colleagues, Mr Comey said he wasn't

going to "spend time on the decision or the way it was executed."

Democrats say they suspect the dismissal is linked to the FBI's

investigation into alleged links between the Trump

Mr Trump said Mr Comey was fired "because he was not doing

Three women are due to appear in court in London today,

charged with preparing a terrorist act and conspiracy to murder.

They include 21-year-old Rizlaine Boular, who was shot

by police during a raid at a property in Willesden

Seven other people, arrested as part of the investigation,

have been released from police custody.

Young people on the latest HIV drugs now have a near-normal life

Their findings show a ten-year increase in life expectancy

since anti-retroviral drugs became widely available two decades ago.

David Beckham has made his big screen debut.

He was met with cheers at the premier of the new film

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword in Los Angeles, but the reception

for his cameo performance as a soldier in the movie has been

We were trying to think of other sports stars previously. He lay, of

course escape to victory. How about others? Eric Cantona who has been in

loads of movies. And another Chelsea player. Obviously it is a French

thing. They have the flair, the artistry for isn't that like David

in King Arthur? He has all of that, doesn't he? Not according to the

critics. Arsenal are having a late surge. Many people wrote off their

season and their coach but are they about to prove the critics wrong?

Arsenal are closing in on the top four in the Premier League

after a two nil win away at Southampton last night

Some nimble footwork from Alexis Sanchez gave Arsenal

the lead in the second half while an Olivier Giroud header

made sure of the points for Arsene Wenger's in-form side

In the second half I believe that going forward they looked dangerous

and dynamic and I am pleased with the performance.

Do you feel that nine points from your last three matches

The only thing I do know is that we give our best to win

every game and we will start again on Saturday.

Holders Real Madrid reached the final of the Champions League

after a 4-2 aggregate win over neighbours Atletico.

They had to resist a fightback though with goals from Saul Niguez

and Antoine Griezmann putting Atletico 2-0 up after quarter

But Isco's away goal just before half time effectively won Real

the tie, even though they lost 2-1 on the night.

As a Mourinho says it is the biggest night in the history of Manchester

united as they defend a one nil lead against the Spanish side

Celta Vigo, but the captain insists he doesn't

That is the way it has panned out and, you know,

and I am happy to help the team on and off the pitch.

I haven't made a plan nor a big fuss but, of course,

I am a football player and I would like to play football.

England batsman Alistair Cook scored his second century in three

The former England captain hit 109 for Essex against Sussex -

Britain's Geraint Thomas and Adam Yates remain second

and third overall after the fifth stage of the Giro d'Italia.

But the stage was rather embarrassing for Slovenian cyclist

He was leading as it entered Messina in Sicily.

Unfortunately for him he celebrated his victory a lap

The rest of the peleton came behind him and overtook him.

If you listen carefully you can hear the bell ringing to say you have one

more that to go in the rest of the group catching up, overtake him and

he finished in 148. In the worst thing for him, he has to go out and

do it all again today. He will not make the same mistake again. It is

A telemarketing company that bombarded people with unwanted calls

about PPI compensation and road traffic accident claims is facing

a record fine from the Information Commissioner.

Keurboom Communications has been issued with a ?400,000 fine

More than 1000 complaints were made about the company over an 18 month

period as they made almost 100 million calls.

In the past year 23 companies have been fined for making nuisance calls

by the ICO, making it their busiest year dealing

Here with us now is Simon Entwisle, the Deputy Commissioner

of the Information Commissioner's Office to tell us how big

I can see already it is quite a big problem. It is huge and has been for

some time. For five years, since we had the power to levy fines, we have

been working with others in a concerted campaign to try and do

what we can to stamp out this scourge of nuisance calls. Last year

was our busiest year was 23 fines and although this power fine is the

biggest ever, it is not that far ahead the one below are which is for

?350,000. This company made almost 100 million nuisance calls in 18

months. Is the fine even big enough was to mark the maximum we can hit

is 500000 and this is significant. The money is only part of the

problem. Sorry, part of the solution. This company has gone out

of business so they will not be making any more nuisance calls to

individuals. How will they pay their fine? It is a challenge to get the

money back when companies go out of business. We will do the best we

can, insolvency practices and whatever to get money from them but

we may not be successful. However, what the ICO was pushing the

government to do is to introduce a new offence so that the directors of

these companies are personally liable and we feel that that will

help us get the money back and act as a deterrent to those who feel

they can set up the company and then put it into insolvency when they get

fined. This is point for a vague pence for every call they made.

Might some companies think it is worth anyway? Not 100 million people

received a call, not all calls are connected. The answer machines, some

bounce back. But you are right, companies like this make a business

decision. They decide whether or not this is worthwhile to do. And what

we are here to do is play a part in saying that, actually, if you do

breach these rules there is a potential significant fine and the

end and that should help them think twice about taking action. We have

had a huge response from people at home this morning. One main

complaint is that the information from these cold callers is sold on

to insurance companies and then sold on again. Is that something you

think should be banned? It is definitely a problem and definitely

something that there is laws to Brit vent and protect again and an area

we are also active in. We have a stream of work looking at the

transfer and sale of personal data between organisations. Some of it is

legitimate but some is not. We may need to tie back to other companies

that feed into the cycle of information being shared and it gets

to companies like Keurboom Communications to use it to phone

people. This whole cycle is part of the work stream that we do. People

are just sick and tired of nuisance calls. There are things they can do

about it. What can they do? You can get a call blocker. You need to be

careful about the information you give to people when you give them

your phone number, particularly your landline number. You could leave

your answer machine on so you wait and hear who you are receiving a

call from. And let us know about the phone calls you have received, there

is a form to fill in on our website that information feeds into the

information we got last year that helps us to track down these

callers, identify the numbers that we use as evidence to issue the

fines. It has annoyed many people. The time now is 7:42. A main stories

this morning... The draft manifesto for labour has been leaked a week

before it was due to be published. We revealed plans to nationalise

railways and scrap tuition fees. A cold calling for home has been given

a record fine of ?400,000 after making the 100 million nuisance

calls. Let's have a look at the weather this morning. Carol is out

and about for us this morning. This is just outside the studio here and

there is some pale sunshine, clearing up. It is meant to be a

nice day here. I'm guessing the Carol can tell is for sure. You are

absolutely right. This is Kenwood house and look at these little

goslings. They are so cute. There are Egyptian geese at the front and

Canadian geese at the back. The parents are quite protective of

their babies. Behind me you can see a bridge but it is not as it seems

because that is not actually a bridge, it is a facade to make it

look like this pond is actually a lake which flows under the bridge.

It is all an illusion. There are some big fish in there this morning

as well. We have cloud cover coming over us here in London but generally

speaking for most of us it is going to be a sunny day that will

increasingly turn humid and we will see further as thunderstorms

develop. This morning what we have is a chilly start if you are just

stepping out. A lot of blue sky with cloud around. That will melt away

and then we have a few well scattered thunderstorms, not many at

this stage of the day. We go through the morning because in the sunshine

that temperature will skip up quite quickly and we have also got a weak

weather front in the north of Scotland producing patchy rain. In

the afternoon, to the west of London along the corridor Somerset into the

south-west of England, the southern half of Wales were to see the

thunderstorms develop. The south coast itself will more than likely

stay dry and north of that line of thunderstorms it will be dry with a

fair bit of sunshine. Sunshine across north Wales, the Midlands and

into north-west England it also across north-west Ireland is to

Scotland. We will have a couple of spots of rain in the north-west from

this morning and look at cloud across the far north and north-east

coastline of Scotland which will keep temperatures pegged back. As we

come back into the north-east of England down towards The Wash and

East Anglia were returned to sunshine. Through this evening and

overnight there is heavy standard downpours migrating northwards it

will not be as cold as the night just gone and, increasingly, we see

cloud build that we will have fresh air coming in across the north-east.

Tomorrow, we start off at the right good old array of thunderstorms.

Like today some will be heavy and sundry with hail and it could lead

to surface water flooding issues. In between there will be sunshine and

it will dry out across Southern counties. Temperatures are quite

similar to what we are looking at today, around about the 20, maybe

just over 20 mark as our highest temperature but, increasingly, we

see more cloud, across the north and east of the UK. On Saturday,

Scotland and Northern Ireland will start of cloudy with rain. That will

fragment into sunshine and heavy showers stopped in England and Wales

a day of sunshine and showers and then into Sunday we have a line of

rain moving from the west to the east through the course of the

night, clearing into the North Sea via the afternoon on Sunday and then

behind that, sunshine and showers once again. Does anybody looking for

rain for the garden, well, there is some on the horizon.

It looks so calm and peaceful there. By way of contrast, we are taking

you to a textile mill, which is pretty noisy. That is where Steph is

today. We have new figures coming out today which are all about

imports and exports. Checking your hat, you are looking good. You are

great. Awkward! Good morning, everybody. Let me explain where I am

this morning. I am in a brilliant textile mill. You can see Ahmad

here, just re- threading this machine. What a job, trying to get

that sorted. This is a business which makes something like 8 million

metres of fabric every single year. It is the kind of fabric you would

see on bus seats and cubes. You might even be sitting on some today.

It is a business which exports a lot. That is what we are talking

about at the moment, trade, and how we can increase the trade we do

around the world. It is a big issue for the election and Brexit. Leslie

bachelor joins us from the Institute of Exports. What are your thoughts

about how we are doing in terms of trade? I think we are holding our

own. I am surprised it has gone as well as it has. It has been hard for

some of the manufacturers that are importing, and the cost of freight,

because of the dollar et cetera. It has been quite challenging. But

exporting is all about challengers. This business is growing 10% year on

year. Doing incredibly well, exporting to 80 different countries.

How do we replicate that? Well, I was speaking to grant earlier, and

he talked about how much research it does, and how he is careful before

he gets into any new market and find out everything he can about what is

going on. I think that is a habit we have to get back into, finding out

all the detail, not just the surface. That is hard for

businesses, when they have lots going on. It is, but we mustn't

forget that there is a lot of help out there. The government have got

the department from international trade now, we are always out there,

the Institute is a waste happy to help people. There is more help than

you realise. Thank you. I am going to zip you through here so you can

see more of the factory. The reason we are talking about this is because

we have got the latest trade figures out this morning. You should see

some of those facts appearing on your screen beneath me as well,

because we are currently in a trade deficit, which means we import more

goods and services than we actually export them to sell abroad. Of

course, that means it can put lots of pressure on the economy in terms

of our alliance with other countries, and currencies around the

world. -- reliance on other countries. Paul here is from the

centre of the Cities. You have done lots of research on this. Who is

good, and who can do better? Sunderland comes out on top, partly

because of a Nissan. We see places like Worthington doing well as well,

she is perhaps not what you would expect. We do see places like

Huddersfield and other cities across Yorkshire not doing very well, and

there is an issue there about how much they are exporting, what that

means the jobs and what it means the money and people's pockets. What

could those areas that are not doing so well do to be better at it. What

is the difference? The key thing for places like Huddersfield is that

there are not enough businesses like this which are exporting. You have

to ask why that is. What's of it comes down to skills, do we have

enough people with the right skills? You mentioned Sunderland. They have

obviously got Nissan. That can make a big difference, just one business,

but then that is a bit of a worry if you are just relying on the one as

well. Indeed. When you talk about trade deals as well all around the

world, it becomes sensitive, in terms of not getting the right deal

for one company, which can have a big impact on one place. With ink

about how we can export more. We can actually export more through a range

of different industries. And we think about doing different trade

deals with think about different sectors, not just one sector,

because we export across lots of different areas. Obviously we are

in... (INAUDIBLE). Particularly when we see some of the more successful

cities in the greater south-east, they exports of services rather than

exporting lots of goods, and we have to think about how to encourage

that. Encourage places which are not doing very well in terms of exports,

to get more businesses and export more of those services to. Thank you

for your time. Let's go look at them re- threading the machine before we

go. It is fascinating to see all of this, how quickly everything moves.

I wonder if you can see the threads? They are so white, it might be

tricky to see it on TV. I will be showing you the actual fabrics that

are at the end of the production line, at the other end of the

factory. More from me a bit later on.

A fascinating place. That factory is so tidy. Much tidier than our

newsroom. It certainly is. Now, when you talk about scary characters in

movies, the next one has to be one of the most. Never mind the shark

from Jaws. The alien, the space creature from the Alien film series.

That thing gave me nightmares for years. So many people will remember

the original from 1979, with the creature bursting out of John hurt,

of course. The latest film in the Alien series stars Michael

Fassbender and is directed by Ridley Scott, who is the nature of the

original back in 1979. When they were deciding who should go and meet

Michael Fassbender, they didn't pick me. They chose you. By his own

admission, Michael Fassbender does say that he gets upstaged, of

course, by the creature that is the alien. Let's have a look.

Firstly, Ridley, there is something about the Alien movies which gets

people very excited. It narrows down to one very special thing, the Alien

itself. I think the term or Mac is very primordial, disturbing, and it

has got no eyes. -- the Alien itself is very. The original Alien had eyes

in the design. We were staring at it and weep at a plastic bit over its

head, and then HR Giger said, no eyes, very good. So we have an

aspect forehead. For meters above you. How far do you go back with the

alien story, Michael? Did you watch it when you were younger? I guess I

was around ten, I think. Ten years old! I think so. You must have been

very frightened. I was, I remember not moving very much. Just being

transfixed. Maybe I was a bit older. I just remember that feeling of

thinking, this was different than anything I've seen before. Did you

have to learn some new tricks to play this role? The flute, and a bit

of piano. How has that gone? The flute was ridiculous because it just

sounded awful. We were in Australia, shooting the movie, and I was

staying in this place in Tamarama, and my neighbour, I kept thinking,

God, the neighbours are going to hear this. And I heard the neighbour

go, I hate listening to somebody learn how to plan instrument. So

from then on I put a bit of Sellotape over the peace. So I was

playing silent flute. Michael, Ridley is sitting next to you right

now, but I understand he is quite a perfectionist onset. Is that true,

is it a rumour? It is more than that. It is about, I think, his

understanding of a set. So especially with these kinds of

films, they can move very slowly. There is a lot of dead time on a

set. Idle hands are the devil 's workshop. That is where people get

into a funky mood and you need people to be on their game. Ridley

shoots really fast. It is like for five cameras on the go at once. And

everybody is on their tiptoes. Michael, inevitably in this film

there is quite a bit of running away. Quite a bit of running and

running away. Is running a skill that you already have? You have done

some running before. I am pretty good at running. That was the one

thing I was good at in terms of sports when I was young. So you are

pretty good at that anyway. You know, it is probably the worst thing

to do, to run away from a creature like that. You can't outrun it. You

can't climb, either. Hold on, you giving us the guidelines of what to

do if faced with the Alien? Neil on the ground, like with they are. If

you do that, it will have a good sniff and then maybe go away.

Somebody once told me with some wild animals, if you run away in a

zig-zag formation... That is a crocodile. Is it? Yeah, yeah. They

can go 30 miles an hour on dry land, but only in a straight line. Where

is the Alien has all the tricks. It has everything. The Alien gets you