03/06/2017 Breakfast

Hello, this is Breakfast, with Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty.

Tough questions for both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn,

as they face a television audience of voters.

My wage slips from 2009 reflect exactly what I earn today. How can

that be fair? Will you allow North Korea or some idiot in Iran to bomb

us? It will be too late to start talking them.

The Prime Minister was forced to defend the government's record

public spending, while Mr Corbyn denied he would be weak on defence.

We will put more money into the NHS but there is no magic money tree.

Any circumstance where someone is prepared to use a nuclear weapon is

disastrous for the entire planet. Good morning, it's Saturday

the third of June. Ariana Grande returns to Manchester

and visits children in hospital, Hope for ovarian cancer patients,

as the early trial of a new drug In sport, it's the biggest prize

in European club football, and Cardiff is preparing to host

the final of the Champions League between Juventus and Real Madrid,

for whom, Welsh star Gareth Bale Meanwhile, I've been getting

to grips with the post war sport As a new production

of Annie opens in London - we hear from its star Miranda Hart

about her West End debut. Suddenly doing something new when

you are known for other things was intimidating now I love it. I

totally love it. Good morning. We have swept away the

warmth and humidity from the last few days. A cool and fresh weekend

ahead with spells of sunshine, a few showers and the details coming up.

Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have faced tough questions from a TV

audience, just days before the general election.

They were challenged separately in a special edition

Mrs May faced uncomfortable questions about NHS funding.

While Mr Corbyn faced a robust exchange over whether he would use

Our political correspondent Vicky Young was there.

They came here hoping to persuade people that they have what it takes

to lead the country. No-one expected an easy ride but from the start it

was clear that this would be a testing evening. Theresa May was

accused of being untrustworthy, of changing her mind on calling an

election had on policies such as social care. Others were angry about

funding for schools and hospitals. My wage slips from 2009 reflect

exactly what I am earning today. How can that be fair? We have had to

take hard choices across the public sector in relation to pay restraint.

We did that because of the decisions we had to take to bring public

spending under control as it was not under control under the previous

labour government. Brexit is why Theresa May said she called this

election. She said she was determined to deliver. We take this

opportunity of Brexit, new trade deals around the rest of the world,

seeing how we can build a prosperous stronger and fairer Britain. I think

we can do that and I think we can do that because I believe in Britain

and the British people. For Jeremy Corbyn, this was a chance to prove

he was ready to take the top job in politics. He was unapologetic about

plans to raise taxes for companies and higher earners. Where will

skilled workers come from tomorrow? Where are the consumers of tomorrow?

I think we looked at our society and used public investment in order to

improve services and give real chances to everybody. Poverty is a

waste. But Jeremy Corbyn had his most difficult moment when he was

pressed to say whether or not he would ever use nuclear weapons.

Would you allow North Korea or some idiot in Iran to bomb us and then

start talking? It will be too late. No, of course not. The general

election is less than one week away. This was a great opportunity for

voters to see both the people will want to be Brymon is a full setting

out their vision but coming under real pressure over policies. But

hope that this will be the moment when the public swings behind them.

One of Theresa May's most senior ministers has said a future

Conservative government would not raise income tax -

The Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, told

the Daily Telegraph the party was "not in the business

Labour has already said it would increase income tax rates

to 45 pence in the pound for those earning more than ?80,000.

The singer Ariana Grande has visited fans in hospital who were injured

in the terror attack at her Manchester concert.

The star spent time with youngsters at the Royal Manchester Children's

Hospital in a surprise appearance ahead of a benefit concert

The smiles say it all. Fans like this eight-year-old girl who was

still recovering from her injuries in hospital, reading the singer who

means so much to them. The children had been getting ready for bed when

the star arrived unexpectedly, bringing gifts and signing

autographs. There were thanks as well for the nurses. And tomorrow

she will perform at a concert to raise funds for the victims and

their families. The 22 lives are lost have been at Saint Ann 's

Square which has become the focal point for those wish to pay tribute,

to contemplate and to grieve. The Manchester City council says that

this may be the last weekend the flowers remain in place as it needs

to look at relocating them respectively. It will now consider

setting up a permanent memorial in the city. It is a must. The 22 who

died... Just have to have something that is a testament to what

happened. I think people will want to come for ever, just to pay their

respects, really because, as I say, it should not have happened and they

were babies, won't they? And should have been the night of their life

and it wasn't. It is sad. A big heart was all of the names on the

date of birth of all of them would be a good idea. Alongside the

remembrance, the police operation goes on. Last night a car was taken

away which they say could be significant to their investigation.

Police will be out again in force for tomorrow's concert.

Just after eight we will be speaking to Lily Harrison's dad Adam

about that encounter with Ariana Grande.

A new drug to treat ovarian cancer has been described as very promising

Charities have called it an important step in treating

Developed by the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS

Foundation Trust, the drug shrank tumours in almost half of the 15

women in the advanced stages of the disease who took part

The drug enters a cell exactly like folic acid or vitamin B nine. The

difference is it does not involve getting into normal selves. That is

why this drug attacks the tumour and you see an encouraging tumour

response but you do not see side-effects like diarrhoea, hair

loss or susceptibility to infections as you see another chemotherapy

patients. -- in other chemotherapy patients.

Statins - which are usually prescribed to lower cholesterol -

could help reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer by 27%,

Scientists in China who analysed research involving 200,000 women,

found patients who took the drug were less likely

Charities have welcomed the news but say more clinical

The consumer group Which is calling on British Airways to create

an automatic compensation system for passengers who are affected

by serious flight-delays and cancellations.

It comes a week after a major IT failure caused hundreds

of the airline's flights to be grounded.

Here's our business correspondent Joe Lynam.

The images of the week from BA. We rear passengers waiting for flights,

some of which ended up being cancelled. The compensation bill

could exceed ?100 million for the airline. BA says it will treat

customers fairly and refund legitimate expenses but consumer

advocates say that is not enough. In a letter to the chief executive it

says it compensation should be automatic for patients out

passengers out of pocket. They should not have to apply directly to

airlines for a refund. An automated system would seem time and money for

BA as well is prevent companies from making profit from misery of others.

People are entitled to money but they are not given it automatically.

Passengers are often not realising what they are entitled to. The

airlines compete compensation because they know what's what you

were wrong and what you are entitled to and we think that should be the

rules. There are other sectors in energy and water where you are

automatically paid compensation if you do not receive servers. In

response, BA said it had put additional resources into its call

centres to process claims quickly as possible. One group that is not out

of pocket are investors in BA's parent company and. Its shares were

up this week despite the whirlwind you are by customers. -- despite the

world end you would by customers. Over 174 balls fans are due in

Cardiff this weekend. Good morning, Thomas. The sun is shining and there

is a real concern and focus on security. What will be an amazing

match, won't it? A beautiful morning here today that, actually, the

players playing in the National Stadium later on this evening will

not be witnessing these conditions as the roof has been closed in

Cardiff for security reasons. I was walking through the centre of town

to get here this morning and you can see the huge police presence on the

street. 1500 additional officers from neighbouring forces have come

in to help in this operation. Today they are as offences around the

centre of Cardiff and the roads have been blocked off so there are

expected to be delays for people coming in and leaving. They ask fans

to arrive at least two hours before into the Stadium as there will be

additional security checks. This was always going to be a massive

security operation for card of before the atrocities in Manchester

but last Thursday just gone now, the football Association of Wales

confirmed that this was the largest scale security operation for any of

its sporting events in the UK. Many people looking forward. Thank you

very much. And if you thought that was a big competition, you have seen

nothing yet. The main competition this weekend is spelling. OK... It

matters. It mattered to the competitors of an annual spelling

bee in America. We have been taking a look. Could you repeat the word?

From 11 million entrants, a 12 hour final and it all came down to this

one word. M a R O seat a I N. And how do you spell dumbstruck? You

could be forgiven for thinking it mattered less to the 12-year-old

girl and more to her father. This is an institution in the United States

and a monopoly for Indian Americans. This was the 13th time in the world

and Indian-American took the trophy. How difficult can it be? He was the

showman this year. Cockie does not always mean correct. And when this

young boy stumbled over this world the game was up. So the trophy the

kudos and the $40,000 first prize goes to this young girl. It leaves

the rest of Australian the wake of junior genius. Here is one more for

you. Can you spell inadequate? Did you know the meaning of those words?

No, I had trouble with the definitions. Did you know what's

mogollon was? It is an archaeological culture of Indigenous

people. And the other will work? It was a type of grass. Not only do

both of us not know how to spell these words, we'd had not even heard

of them. This is call my Bluff at 14 minutes past six. The Saturday

morning papers, let's have a quick look. The debate finished at ten

o'clock last night so many papers are struggling to get it on the

front page. The Guardian managed on a later edition. They said the Prime

Minister faulted as she was challenged over her record on public

services. But most of the online pundits seem to think that both

candidates scored hits and misses last night. In Scotland yesterday,

with Will looking at this story. Nicola Sturgeon saying she will help

Jeremy Corbyn. There is talk of if there is a coalition or if the SNP

needs to join hands with the Labour Party and the SNP will shore up the

Jeremy Corbyn government if there is an inconclusive election result is

that she she would not necessarily be part of a coalition but

progressive issue by issue talks. Trying to get to the bottom of the

Daily Telegraph story for you later, the Tory tax pledge with suggestions

overnight from Boris Jens, Johnson that they make pledge more strongly

than they have done in the manifesto but they will not do it via income

tax. If not, where will the money come from? We will be talking to a

former secretary at around ten past eight about that. It is quarter past

six. And the weather is glorious ahead of the Champions League match.

Ben, good morning. Will it be like that for everyone?

Y-E-S. Well, not that simple. There is some nice weather, some spells of

sunshine, but one or two match ours as well. Having said that, for many

it will be a lovely start. This picture is from our Weather Watcher

in St Ives, Cornwall. As I mentioned, there will be some

passing showers to content with. One thing we have lost is the warmth and

humidity over the past few days, swept away by a weather front. As

band of cloud, which brought some of the thunderstorms yesterday. The

cloud still hanging around for the time being across parts of eastern

and south-eastern England. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, East Anglia

and the south-east will have a disappointing start with some cloud,

outbreaks of Ah Chee rain and the odd heavy burst. -- patchy rain. We

can start the day with a slice of sunshine further north, a bit

chilly, perhaps the odd fog patches well. Fine for much of Scotland.

Extra cloud the eastern and north-eastern areas and Northern

Ireland. That is summed extra showers showing their hands across

western Scotland and Northern Ireland. -- notice some extra

showers. These will pep up later in the day, and we could see heavy

thundery downpours in Scotland. We will lose the patchy rain from the

south-east, so things will improve here. Lots of dry weather across

England and Wales generally. Temperatures down on where they have

been. So for the big match in Cardiff tonight, even to services

Real Madrid, the Champions League final, it should be fine. Let

sunshine, temperatures dipping away as the match goes on. We will see a

few hours of sunshine for a time, leading us into a dry night for

nearly everybody, with temperatures in towns and cities dipping to

around 8- 11. Tomorrow it is another day of sunshine and showers. More of

the same in many ways. Many places starting dry. The showers get going

across parts of northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland. Late

in the day it will cloud of red for the south-west and Wales with some

showery rain here as well. Temperatures cool around fresher

than recently. Not feeling too bad in the sunshine, 16- 20 degrees. I

have to briefly show you what happens as we head into the start of

next week it has things look like they will turn much more unsettled

from the west. Areas of low pressure swarming and ready to bring us

somewhat, potentially quite windy weather as we had on through Monday.

That rain will sweep in from the south-west, potentially with some

strong winds as well. For the weekend, not looking too bad. A mix

of sunshine and showers. Lets down Saturday and Sunday, that

doesn't look so nice. It is 6:18am. It's now time to join James King

and Ben Brown for the Film Review. They're taking a look

at the latest cinema releases, including Wonder Woman

and After the Storm. Hello, and welcome to the film

review on BBC News. Taking us through this week's cinema releases

as James King. James, what do you have for us? A globetrotting week

this week. From America via ancient Greece, we have DC's new superhero

blockbuster Wonder Woman. And from Japan, the quiet and pensive drama

After the Storm. And from France and Switzerland, stop motion animation,

My Life as a Courgette. If nothing else, that is one of the best titles

of the year, isn't it? It certainly is, it is intriguing. Let's begin

with Wonder Woman. It has had some pretty good reviews, actually. Yes,

a good ours. We had a bit more than eclipse of Wonder Woman last year in

Batman versus Superman, a fairly painful experience, but she was good

in it. Then she is going to be just this week later on this year, again

with Batman and Batman and Superman and various other superheroes. This

is her on her own, a stand-alone movie directed by Patty Jenkins. It

is an origin story, so where did she come from? She has never referred to

as Wonder Woman in the movie, she is Diana Prince. We hear about are up

ringing on this remote, magical island created Ivy ancient Greeks,

run by these Amazonian warrior women. We learn about her

involvement in the First World War. This is Gal Gadot, she is with Chris

Pyne, an American pilot and despite a crash lands on this magical island

where she lives, and is taken prisoner. -- Chris Pine. My, uh...

My name is Steve Trevor, pilot, American expeditionary forces. That

is all I am at liberty to say. Assigned to British intelligence.

What the hell is this thing? The compels you to reveal the truth. It

is really hot. What is your mission? Whoever you are, you more danger

than you think. What is your mission? I am a spy. I am a spy. I

am a spy. I suppose we are used to seeing all the male superheroes.

Superman and iron man and so on. But this is a female superhero. It feels

different and refreshing because of that. Also with Patty Jenkins, a

female director, as well. Having said that, a lot of it, and part of

the reason I enjoyed it, is that it feels quite old-fashioned and

traditional. What I mean by that is that it has this refreshing lack of

cynicism. I remember in the 1980s and early 1990s when some of what us

as were not things to be embarrassed about. They were full of fun,

happiness, Joy, rather campy. This is like that. Certainly a lot of DC

comic book movies like suicide squad from last year, they have been

pretty cynical and pretty moody and fairly miserable. They have done

very well but they haven't exactly been full of fun. Wonder Woman is

fun. And it feels like stand-alone movie, that doesn't particular

connect to anything else. It doesn't particular connect to the rest of

the DC world. It has, shock horror, a beginning and a middle and an end.

And it makes sense. If you don't like it movies, if you have never

seen another comic movie, you could watch this and still enjoy it. I

think that is why people love it so much. We also have a Japanese film,

After the Storm. Yes, written and directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. He is

a great filmmaker of family dramas. Our Little Sister is a few years

old, it is well worth seeing. This one is about a writer who is washed

up. He had some early success but in his Middle Ages he is struggling to

write again, and actually use gambling more than he is writing. He

is a strange from his son and his ex-wife. He has a difficult

relationship with his mother. They are brought together in his mother's

flat one night while they are sheltering from a tornado. It does

take quite a while to get to that point and certainly for maybe the

first half-hour you do wonder where this is going. But actually, I think

that meandering quality tyres is ultimately its real power. It is a

film that takes things slowly, it allows characters to blossom slowly,

it allows us to get to know them slowly. And it is the antithesis,

really, the hyperactive block us. It is very much a slow character piece.

It reminded me a little bit, oddly perhaps, of some Michael Lee films.

It has that domestic setting, that kitchensink setting. Humour and

drama. It is a character driven film rather than a plot driven film.

Modest, definitely, but actually really moving. You mentioned the

great title, My Life as a Courgette. Yes, all my life as a zucchini if

you are in America. It is about a boy sent to a foster home with other

orphans whose age. Yes, stop motion animation. This was Oscar-nominated

this year, alongside Zootropolis, which one. To get to that was

amazing, because this was a small film, a French and Swiss

coproduction, 66 minutes. That is how long it is. Really small-scale

stuff. To get Oscar-nominated was amazing. Like you said, a boy goes

into a foster home. I saw it with subtitles but the clip we have here

is dubbed. How old are you, son? Nine. So can you tell me a little

bit about your mother? Uh... She really liked to drink beer. Her

mashed potatoes were always good and sometimes we had fun. OK. Not

always? So, where is your father? Here. Hmm. It has made's chick on it

too, my mum always said that mother like chips, so put one on them. OK.

I am going to take you to a really nice place with other children who

are like you. Kids who have no mum or dad. Does it work? It really

does. Heartbreaking, actually. But uplifting. It is not a film about

how miserable it is to be in care. There is misery in the film, of

course there is. But ultimately it is about the friendships that this

character makes. Courgette is his nickname. The friendships he makes,

the relationships he has, why it was a great place for him to go to. It

is actually quite uplifting. I was think that children's films should

have darkness and pain in them, and that is in that, but ultimately it

is a feelgood movie. And 66 minutes? It packs a lot in. People often

complain of films are too long, but I wonder if people complain this is

too short. It is a possibility, because you will be paying the same

amount of money. But it shows that if you are economical with your

screenplay and write a brilliant story you can pack a lot in, even

with a short running time. I have seen films that are to three hours

and have much lessened and in this movie. Let's talk about best out at

the moment. There were previews of this last weekend, Stephen Fry wrote

the book on which this is based, and he did a question-and-answer session

in lots of seminars with Roger Allen, the lead actor in this. He

plays the title character, really, because the title character is

likened to a hippo. He is this rotund, boozy writer and poet

investigating some rather strange goings on at a stately home. He is

the reason to watch it. Roger Allen is a fantastic actor and he has some

outrageous lines in this. He is definitely not PC, but by the end of

the movie he is rather heroic Andy rather admire his common sense.

Certainly there are some jawdropping lines, some jawdropping dialogue. He

is having a whale of a time, just this doozy, couldn't care less kind

of guy. Of course the film itself, the plot is hardly edge of your seat

stuff. It is a movie to watch because of that league formance.

Mixed reviews, but you recommend it? I recommend it because of that lead

performance. He is so much fun to spend time with. Stephen Fry wrote

the book in 1994 and he said, you know what, I like this character so

much I want to revisit him because he does have so many great lines.

All right, your best DVD the moment? Yes, so this is The Founder, it is

about Raymond crocs, the man who in the 1950s and 1960s turned

McDonald's into the big franchise, the multinational franchise that it

is now. And it stars Michael Keaton, there was a bit of an Oscar buzz

about this when it was announced, but actually a couple of things

happen. The release they changed which didn't help things, and people

watch the movie and said, well, Michael Keaton is brilliant but

actually this guy doesn't seem that likeable. He doesn't really seem

that nice. It's got great reviews and I would give it a great review,

but the problem with this film is, do you want to watch two hours about

someone who doesn't actually seem that likeable layperson? I think it

is very interest wise, had driven and determine he was to make this

restored into a big success, but he is not someone you are going to

think, he is a real big hero. -- restaurant into a big success.

People do like success stories and how people create things, though,

like Steve jobs. Yes, and in that film he was not lovable all the way

through. I do recommend it. Lots of people missed it in the cinema, I

recommend it for the small screen. There is that slight issue about it.

Michael Keaton is back on form with Spotlight and Bird Pav man. He is

brilliant at this because he can do those grey areas where he is playing

people who are not obvious or clear-cut. Great stuff. Thank you

for being with us. That is it for this week. Thank you so much for

watching the Film Review. Goodbye to now.

Hello, this is Breakfast with Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty.

Coming up before seven, Ben has the weather.

But first, a summary of this morning's main news.

Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have faced tough questions from a TV

audience, just days before the general election.

They were challenged separately in a special edition

Mrs May faced uncomfortable questions about NHS funding.

While Mr Corbyn faced a robust exchange over whether he would use

One of Theresa May's most senior ministers has said a future

Conservative government would not raise income tax -

The Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, told

the Daily Telegraph the party was "not in the business

Labour has already said it would increase income tax rates

to 45-pence in the pound for those earning more than ?80,000.

The pop star Ariana Grande has made a surprise visit to fans in hospital

who were injured in the terror attack at her Manchester concert.

The singer spent time chatting to patients and posing

for photographs at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital ahead

of a benefit concert in the city tomorrow in aid

A new drug to treat ovarian cancer has been described as very promising

Charities have called it an important step in treating

Developed by the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS

Foundation Trust, the drug shrank tumours in almost half of the 15

women in the advanced stages of the disease who took part

Statins - which are usually prescribed to lower cholesterol -

could help reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer by 27%,

Scientists in China who analysed research involving 200,000 women,

found patients who took the drug were less likely

Charities have welcomed the news but say more clinical

Do you know when I comes after E and how many Cs

Are you a good speller? ... Two. Two Cs. It's on the autocue... I almost

got away with it. A 12-year-old girl from California

has won the US National Spelling Bee Ananya Vinay correctly

spelled the word marocain - a type of dress fabric -

to defeat Rohan Rajeev and win She says she will split the money

with her younger brother. She had to spell about 200 words get

that. It will go through some of them later. How was your spelling,

Mike? Isn't there a rhyme about when I comes before E? There are

exceptions, however. Test later. I would like that. Sure we do now?

Committee? I think that is enough for now.

Talking now about the Champions League final in Cardiff will Gareth

bale LA? It probably will not start. But he is fit. Is a Spanish

journalist walking from Madrid to Cardiff. He is in somewhere in

Bristol at the moment. He will be singing, that is how you recognise

him. Whether Bale plays or not,

Real Madrid, are aiming to become the first team since 1990

to win back to back So it could be a historic

night in Cardiff. heavyweights, Juventus,

whom the Madrid Manager Zinedine Real Madrid and Juventus fans have

travelled here in their tens of thousands. Cardiff has welcomed to

the giants of European football for what could be a classic. It will be

great. If you win it is going to be the best experience in my life. We

have a balanced teams were confident we can win. For us to defeat

Juventus... Real Madrid always win the finals. At 39, the goalkeeper

knows it may be his last chance. In a season when British teams again

fell short in Europe at least one British player has reached the

final. A homecoming for Gareth bale. The trouble is he is unlikely to

start or Real Madrid. He may be at the heart of the market into this

final. He is plastered all over town. But he has not actually been

in the Madrid team for about six weeks because of injury. It is

disappointing, especially in his hometown but I think it would

probably get his head around it if he doesn't start he will come on and

make an impact on what he does and that 20 minutes or half an hour,

maybe even longer in extra time. He is a special player who can score

all types of goals. He won the Champions League in 2008 and the FA

Cup here in 2004. A teenage scoring star than he has developed into an

icon of the game. A brand that is still a serial winner. A man to the

grand occasion. That is what tonight promises to be.

It was a positive evening for Northern Ireland as they beat

New Zealand 1-0 in Belfast last night.

The friendly had been organised as Michael O'Neill's side warm up

for next week's World Cup qualifier in Azerbaijan.

The only goal of the game, came from the Scottish Premiership's

leading scorer: Ross County's, Liam Boyce.

In just a couple of hours, the British and Irish Lions

will kick off their tour of New Zealand with a match

against the Provincial Barbarians, in Whangarei.

Head coach Warren Gatland, has named a starting fifteen,

largely made up, of those who were in camp together before

the tour, with captain Sam Warburton part of an all-Welsh back-row.

The Provincial Barbarians' Number 10, is Bryn Gatland,

a 22-year-old who has represented the Auckland Blues,

He can probably expect to make a few tackles on the weekend but we have

not spoken too much about the game and he is excited about the

opportunity, if he does get a chance to play against us looking forward

to seeing how he goes. England all rounder Chris Woakes has

been ruled out of the rest of the Champions Trophy,

due to a side strain, he picked up in the opening

match of the tournament. Woakes only played, two overs,

of Thursday's win, over Bangladesh England are unlikely

to name his replacement, until this afternoon,

after the England Lions match, which involves two of the possible

candidates: Steve Finn and Tom Some better news for England though,

because elsewhere in their group, the match between Australia

and New Zealand ended in a draw - after rain forced the

match to be abandoned. That means England now need only one

more win to guarantee a place At the French Open,

Britain's Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund are

in action later today while defending mens

champion Novak Djokovic is through to the fourth round,

but he had to fight for it. Argentine Diego Schwartzman,

the world number 41, took Djokovic, to

five sets yesterday. The world number two though had

enough, to see out the victory. The nine-time champions

at Roland Garros through in straight sets against, Nikoloz Basilashvili,

dropping only one game, The defending women's champion,

Garbine Muguruza, is safely She beat Yulia Putintseva,

in straight sets. It's a big day in the racing

calendar with the Derby at Epsom. There was a surprise on day one

of the meeting where Enable, ridden by Frankie

Dettori, won the Oaks. John Gosden's filly was a 6-1 shot

for the mile-and-a-half Classic, run in driving rain,

after a thunderstorm hit the track Odds-on favourite

Rhododendron finished second. It grew up in the bomb sites of

Britain, after the Second World War, and is once again now proving to be,

one of the fastest growing cycling It is cycle speedway

and as the British team, arrive in Poland today,

as they build up to the World Championship later this year,

I've been to train at Coventry No brakes, no gears just dirt and

plenty of guts. And cycle Speedway is accessible to all ages, even if

you are five. Like Lucy. It is a little bit slippery. I love it

because I dislike it. It is cycling at its purest, really. It is rough,

ready and raw. It took off in the rubble of bombsites after the Second

World War. Only a bomb site, a bunch of kids having fun. But here is

where stars of speed are born. Sit back and see if you can spot a

champion of tomorrow. One day the crowd will rule so the children who

learnt it all the hard way on a cycle Speedway. It started after the

war on the bombsites and, you know, a load of kids with nothing to do.

Decided to make like a Speedway. It boomed. Tracks were absolutely

everywhere. As cities were rebuilt in the post-war years, the cycle

Speedway tracks disappeared. But now purpose-built ones like this one in

Coventry have brought it back as a cheaper and safer alternative to

motor Speedway. There are leagues again and the World Championships in

Australia later this year. We are trying to reinvent it a little bit

and add some flair. Really trying to get people involved from all age

groups. It is far more accessible and not so worrying about being on

the back of a motorbike. It also makes it easier to turn up and pay a

couple of quid, hire a bike and enter a race. This is where the

nerves kick in. This is the position you need to adopt for the maximum

speed up to the first corner. Cut up there, trying to come inside.

Ooh sometimes... Nearly at the fence. It is fast and explosive with

four riders competing over four labs. They say in this sport it is

first or dirt and most races are won as you skid around the corners. It

is a little frightening because you do not know where if you will fall.

You just want to get the inside of people and overtake them. I get

quite aggressive. It is full contact. And you either come out on

the right side or the wrong side. Indeed, the whole British

championship was won on the very last bend last season. I was ten

yards away from being a champion. I was happy with second. It can

certainly hurt when your dreams and up in the dirt. How incredible, to

go the whole season and have decided on the final bend. Cycling at its

purest form. Talking about the difference about that and the

velodrome. These are free will bikes unlike the ones in the velodrome. No

gears, no brakes. It is the purest cheapest dirtiest bikes because they

are so raw and simple. When you are doing it, did you feel you are

constantly leaning left. It is a small track. That is part of it,

when you go around the bend. I suppose that is why thrives in the

inner city. You just don't need a lot of base. Thank you very much.

She's become one of Britain's biggest stars after appearing

Now the actor Miranda Hart is making her West End debut

She's playing Miss Hannigan - the infamous orphanage manager -

in the musical which first opened in America 40 years ago.

Our arts editor, Will Gompertz has been to meet Miranda and three

of her co-stars as they prepare for next week's opening night.

# It's a hard knock life... The show may be called Annie that this

particular West End reduction is all about around. It is a vulnerable

place when you are the face on the poster. You think if people are

wanting to knock me down. There is that fear. We are very good at

celebrating success, we prefer to pick on the things we are not good

at. Does it feel like this is a content rich story? Kind. You can

relate to it with orphans. There will always be orphans in the world

like people in Syria and the it is kind of putting old-fashioned

stories into today's life. # It's a hard knock life... Who has got the

worst American accent? Oh, that is a harsh question! Probably me. I was

going to say that! That is a great idea. Basically call them, I am

moving on. Miranda made her name with a sitcom she is now a star.

What advice does she have? Being yourself and doing things out guided

and having fun and not getting caught up with any trappings of

fate, wanting to be about fame or money because that does bring you

happiness. There has been discussion of Veranda coming back. I like the

idea of Miranda and Gary being married. It could be a sitcom. Don't

get married. I am not. I am best man. I miss my sitcom family and the

character but whether that means I will start writing again, I do not

know. She does have plenty to get on with. Not least spending the summer

living her dream and starring in this West End musical.

That has going to be on your brain all day. I do like the song,

however. By the end of the day you won't, I will sing it to you.

That doesn't look like a hard knock weather day.

I wish I could think of a number pun now. Yes, a lovely start in many

places today. A sunny start in those spots. Through the day we will see

one or two showers starting to develop. Some of those could be on

the heavy side. One thing we haven't lost is all the warmth and humidity

we had over the last couple of days. It has been swept away by this

stripe of clouds, a weather front which has moved through.

Thunderstorms across parts of the south-east yesterday. The remnants

of this front still hanging on a path -- across parts of Yorkshire

and East Anglia. A bit of patchy rain here for a time. A nice slice

of sunshine before showers start to march in from the north-west. Some

of these showers will really be on the heavy side. Showers probably

have used in the middle part of the day for Northern Ireland. It will be

in the middle part of the afternoon that the showers turned heavy across

Scotland. Some of these could contain rumbles of thunder. Lots of

rain in a short space of time. The showers could be slow-moving across

north-eastern parts of Scotland. 12 showers the Northern England. It

should be largely dry this afternoon across the East Midlands and East

Anglia, down into the south-east. 3122, not too bad in the sunshine,

but not assume human as yesterday. A few showers into the afternoon.

Quite hit and miss in east Wales and the south-west, but they should

clear away as we head into the first part of the evening. The big match

in Cardiff tonight, the Champions League final, it should be fine,

some late sunshine, but it will turn cooler as the match goes on. It is

going to turn into a fairly cool night for many of us. They largely

dry night as well. Showers will continue for a time across Northern

Ireland Scotland but even here they will fade away. And cities, 9- 11

degrees. Tomorrow, essentially we do it all again. Another day of

sunshine and showers. A few more showers across northern England

tomorrow. Northern Ireland Scotland seeing heavy showers, clouding over

a bit for the south-west and Wales late in the day, with some showery

rain starting to develop. Temperature wise we're looking at

highs 16- 20 degrees. Still that's slightly cooler and fresher feel.

You might not want to think about the start of the new wheat just yet

but I have to show you this because things are going to change, turning

much more unsettled from the western areas of low pressure piling in,

bringing wet and potentially windy weather for some of us on Monday.

You don't have to show us that. You just don't. It is not his fault, I

must remember, it is never their fault.

It's 6:47 and you're watching Breakfast.

This week the team is at the Hay Literature Festival.

Summer is on the way and, well, it wouldn't be a British summer

without a visit to a good old fashioned festival.

Known as the Town of Books, Hay-on-Wye, in Wales,

It's a literary mecca, an annual gathering of artists,

authors, Daleks and, yep, even Royals.

It's even been called the Woodstock of the Mind by none other

than former US President Bill Clinton.

This year it's the 30th Hay Festival and the line-up is pretty stellar.

Well, for the second year in a row, we've been invited to share some

of our favourite experiences and show off some really good tech,

all in front of a real, live audience of actual people.

A packed tent waited, all that we had to do

We have robots falling over, experiments in haptic feedback

and demos in binaural sound, but that was nothing compared

to the climax - a Click-created wavy, shouty game built

In the meantime, it can't have have escaped your attention that around

the UK things are getting a touch political.

As the general election looms, those politicians are using increasingly

sophisticated techniques in order to learn more about us.

The advertising reach of Facebook has long been an open secret,

but now it's something the political parties are getting in on too.

In fact, both the Trump campaign and the Leave.EU groups credited

Facebook as being a vital part of their electioneering.

We know that the personal details that you give to social networks

allow them to send you relevant, targeted content, and it goes much

deeper than just your basic demographics.

There are now data analytics companies claiming to be able

to micro-target and micro-tweak messages for individual readers,

If you know the personality of the people you're targeting,

you can nuance your messaging to resonate more effectively

What's also emerging is that political parties have been

using this data to reach potential voters, on a very granular level.

So who is being targeted on Facebook and how?

Well, until now, there's been nothing around to analyse any

of this, but the snap general election galvanised

Louis Knight-Webb and Sam Jeffers to develop Who Targets Me,

a plug-in to tell each of us how we're being targeted.

When you install the plug-in for the first time, it asks

for your age, your gender and your location, and then it

starts scouring your Facebook feed looking for adverts

So once you've installed the plug-in, it works

in the background to extract the whole advert that you see

So it pulls out the headline, the subtitle, any related videos,

We also get the reaction - so how many likes, how many

comments, how many shares - so we can see which messages

Are they particularly clandestine messages,

are they slightly subversive, are they even fake news?

But how do data companies get the information in the first place?

A lot of the quizzes you fill out on Facebook or,

you know, you open a survey, it asks your Facebook profile

Sometimes you'll notice that there's a lot of permissions attached

and as soon as you click yes, all of your data is mined,

and it's then sold on to data brokers who then, eventually,

sell it to the political parties for use in their campaigns.

Although Facebook says it doesn't sell our information on,

data brokers can overlay any details they mine from the site with other

datasets that they have on people based on their email addresses.

The next step after that of course is to find similar users that

are using Facebook and then target adverts, from that advertiser that

supplied the email addresses, to those users.

There are just some people that you don't find on Twitter.

The very nature of the fact that I can't see your adverts,

you can't see my adverts, means that this approach had to be

It's a first of its kind anywhere in the world on this scale,

giving us citizens some transparency into what we're being shown,

Do you think that people wouldn't know that certain things are advert

A lot of the time people are scrolling through Facebook

and the adverts fit into this weird intersection of friend

It's quite easy to miss the adverts on Facebook.

So far, Who Targets Me has some 6,700 users in 620 constituencies,

and it's rising as we near polling day.

On the down side, it's only as good as the data it's managed

to crowd-source, so it isn't necessarily representative,

and it also doesn't work with mobile Facebook,

So we're seeing a mixture of two things.

We're seeing, firstly, A/B testing, which is where I try out two

different messages with the same group.

I see which one gets the best reaction and then

We're also seeing targeting, which is where I pick a particular

demographic of people, and then I send a message that's

So, for example, it might be young people targeted

The data from Who Targets Me is also being poured over by analysts

One aspect of their research is collecting dark posts,

ads which are here one day and gone the next.

It gives us the ability to create a repository of those dark posts.

So if promises are being made on Facebook, in ads which will

disappear the day after you use them, we should be able to go back

to those after the election, look at them, evaluate them

and maybe discuss them in the cold light of day.

And the irony is that, as we demand more transparency

from public bodies, the whole basis of political propaganda could be

on the brink of a revolutionary change.

What's interesting, I think, about the new environment

is the potential for using paid advertising and other techniques

to create individual propaganda bubbles around individual voters.

And that's not about controlling the market as a whole,

but it's about using smart targeted which, in a sense,

creates such a compelling and overarching information

environment for individual people that that in some ways constrains

what they do and controls what they do.

I think that's why some academic commentators and others

are beginning to think some of this is a bit spooky.

But politicians aren't the only ones with Facebook on their minds.

The social network was one of many topics on the very large brain

of national treasure and tech geek Stephen Fry.

I met up with him after he gave a lecture at the Hay Festival

highlighting how he thinks the world is being changed by social media,

The very current conversation is whether Facebook and platforms

like them should actually be considered publishers?

Should they take responsibility for what ends up on the site?

They are aware there is a problem, a serious problem.

If 80%, some people have said, is the...

You know, in proportion of people who get their news from Facebook

rather than from mainstream media, then surely it is incumbent

upon someone who is providing 80% of their news sources to make sure

that those news sources are not defamatory, blatant lies,

propaganda, the wrong kind of, you know, insulting...

I would posit there that a publisher is responsible for all the people

They are employed by that publisher and Facebook is clearly not that.

So do we need a third definition, a third thing?

I think there is a median sort of definition that it's not

beyond the wit of lawyers of the right kind to find that.

Your presentation was a warning that people should prepare

for the changes that are coming, for example, artificial

I said that it was a sort of transformation of

You know, it's an obsolescence of certain types of job,

but that doesn't mean forced redundancy of millions of workers.

I mentioned one of the pleasing things about AI and robotics,

and that is what's known as Moravec's paradox,

that what we're incredibly bad at, as individuals, machines tend to be

Complicated sums, rapid and incredible access of memory

from a database of a kind that we could never do,

sorting and swapping of information and cataloguing

But things we can do without even thinking,

like walk across the room or pick up a glass and have a sip of water,

But that's fine, because we don't want them to do that for us.

Where it gets difficult is in medium sort of service jobs,

Well, you could go the etymological route, and you could say

Legere is read and inter, interleg, and that's pretty good,

Just being able to see connections in things and people are talking

about the moment that we arrive at AGI, artificial general

intelligence, and that's when the various types of pattern

recognition, you know, numbers, data, you know,

certain faces and things like that, they all come together

so that they can be intelligent across these different things.

If you've got an artificial intelligence that's good at that

and another one that's good at that and another one that's good at that

Surely, just a collection of specialists of intelligences

under one umbrella is a general intelligence.

It doesn't have to be a breakthrough, it just has to be

I think that's very likely to be the way it goes.

But maybe you give it something else, some other kind of instinct

Its reward is similar to our reward system which is really

It's tryptophan and serotonin and endorphins of various kinds that

reward us and then we have a pain system to deter us, and there's

nothing to stop us giving that to a machine.

Stephen, thank you so much for your time.

Thank you for having us at your place.

That is it for this shortcut of Click.

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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty.

Tough questions for both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn,

as they face a television audience of voters.

My wage slips from 2009 reflect exactly what I am earning today. How

can that be fair was to mark we will put more money into the NHS but

there is no magic money tree. Would you allow North Korea or some idiot

in Iran to bomb us and then start talking? Any second stands in which

someone is prepared to use a nuclear weapon is disastrous to the whole

planet. Good morning, it's

Saturday the 3rd of June. Ariana Grande returns to Manchester

and visits children in hospital who were injured

in the arena bombing. Hope for ovarian cancer patients,

as the early trial of a new drug In sport, it's the biggest prize

in European club football, and Cardiff is preparing to host

the final of the Champions League between Juventus and Real Madrid,

for whom, Welsh star Gareth Bale Meanwhile, I've been getting

to grips with the post war sport As a new production

of Annie opens in London - we hear from its star Miranda Hart

about her West End debut. Suddenly doing something

new when you are known for other Good morning. We swept away the

warmth and humidity from the last few days. OTHERS: fresh weekend

ahead with spells of sunshine, a few passing showers and details coming

up. Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have

faced tough questions from a TV audience, just days before

the general election. They were challenged separately

in a special edition Mrs May faced uncomfortable

questions about NHS funding. While Mr Corbyn faced a robust

exchange over whether he would use Our political correspondent

Vicky Young was there. They came here hoping to persuade

people that they have what it takes No-one expected an easy ride

but from the start it was clear that this would be

a testing evening. Theresa May was accused

of being untrustworthy, of changing her mind on calling

an election and on policies such Others were angry about funding

for schools and hospitals. My wage slips from 2009 reflect

exactly what I am earning today. We have had to take hard

choices across the public sector in relation to public

sector pay restraint. We did that because of the decisions

we had to take to bring public spending under control

because it was not under control under the previous

Labour government. Brexit is why Theresa May

said she called this She said she was

determined to deliver. We take this opportunity

of Brexit, new trade deals around the rest of the world,

seeing how we can build a prosperous I think we can do that

and I think we can do that because I believe in Britain

and the British people. For Jeremy Corbyn, this

was a chance to prove he was ready to take

the top job in politics. He was unapologetic about plans

to raise taxes for companies Where will the skilled

workers come from tomorrow? I think it's time that we looked

at inequality in our society and used public investment in order

to improve services and give real But Jeremy Corbyn had his most

difficult moment when he was pressed to say whether or not he would ever

use nuclear weapons. Would you allow North Korea or some

idiot in Iran to bomb us and then The general election

is less than one week away. This was a great opportunity

for voters to see both the people who want to be Prime

Minister, setting out their vision but coming under

real pressure over policies. One of Theresa May's most senior

ministers has said a future Conservative government

would not raise income tax - The Conservative manifesto did not

rule out an increase but the Defence Secretary,

Sir Michael Fallon, told the Daily Telegraph that the party

was "not in the business Our political correspondent

Leila Nathoo is in Westminster I think it is a signal. Because

there has not been clarity on this issue of whether the Conservatives

would raise income tax. As you say it was not explicit in their

manifesto. Their only manifesto pledge was to not raise VAT.

Previously, the Conservatives under David Cameron had promised not to

raise National Insurance in contact or VAT so the tax triple lock, as it

was called. Theresa May, I think now sending a signal, really, to her

core supporters to try and ensure that they turn out and to reassure

them that actually she is not going to raise income tax for higher

earners. Labour says this is not as explicit for lower and middle-income

earners. They say that only the lower and middle income earners can

be saved from tax rises under them. It was clarification later from the

Conservatives saying they have no plans to raise tax. This is a

signal, not a promise, mind you, to the conservative base. Only five

days left until the election day. What can we expect over the weekend?

This is the final push. All parties will maximise the time. Whistlestop

tours of constituencies. Labour are campaigning against the plans of

Theresa May for social care and they are talking about her plans for

winter fuel allowance means testing. The Liberal Democrats are also

trying to attack the Conservatives on the social care plane. I think

there will be plenty of attacking the other party weak spots as well

as trying to get the core messages across with just days to go.

The singer Ariana Grande has visited fans in hospital who were injured

in the terror attack at her Manchester concert.

The star spent time with youngsters at the Royal Manchester Children's

Hospital in a surprise appearance ahead of a benefit concert

Fans like this eight-year-old Lily Harrison who was still

recovering from her injuries in hospital, greeting the singer

The children had been getting ready for bed when the star arrived

unexpectedly, bringing gifts and signing

There were thanks as well for the nurses.

And tomorrow she will perform at a concert to raise funds

The 22 lives lost have been remembered at Saint Ann's

Square which has become the focal point for those wish to pay tribute,

The Manchester City council says that

this may be the last weekend the flowers remain in place as it

needs to look at relocating them respectfully.

It will now consider setting up a permanent memorial in the city.

Just have to have something that is a testament

I think people will want to come for ever, just to pay

their respects, really because, as I say,

it should not have happened and they were babies, won't they?

And should have been the night of their life

A big heart with all of the names on the

date of birth of all of them would be a good idea.

Alongside the remembrance, the police operation

Last night a car was taken away which they say could be

Police will be out again in force for tomorrow's concert.

Just after eight o'clock we will be speaking to Lily Harrison's dad Adam

Statins - which are usually prescribed to lower cholesterol -

A new drug to treat ovarian cancer has been described promising after a

small clinical trial. It has been called an important step in treating

the cancer which at the moment has few drug options for. The drug

shrunken tumours in almost half of the 15 women in the advanced stages

of the disease who took part in the trial.

Statins - which are usually prescribed to lower cholesterol -

could help reduce the risk of dying from breast cancer by 27%,

Scientists in China who analysed research involving 200,000 women,

found patients who took the drug were less likely

Charities have welcomed the news but say more clinical

The consumer group Which is calling on British Airways to create

an automatic compensation system for passengers affected by serious

It comes a week after a major IT failure caused hundreds

of the airline's flights to be grounded.

The company says it has already taken steps to process claims

Meanwhile British Airways cabin crew have voted for four more days

of strike action starting on June 16th.

A huge police and security operation is being deployed across Cardiff,

as the city prepares for the Champions League Final.

More than 170,000 football fans are due to visit the Welsh capital

this weekend for the match between Real Madrid and Juventus.

Our Wales correspondent, Tomos Morgan, is there.

Security is important so let's talk to our correspondent about that. A

glorious morning fare. Fans of is that quite excited about this match.

The big picture is, and it is timely, that security is of utmost

importance. The players will not be witnessing these beautiful

conditions when they play the national stadium of Wales later on.

The roof will be closed. It is closed for security reasons. As I

was walking through town earlier to get to this location and as the

Juventus fans will witness there is a significant security presence here

on the grounds this morning. As you mentioned. There are 1500 additional

police officers in Cardiff for this event and there are steel fences

around the centre of Cardiff. The main roads right in the centre have

been blocked off and there is no way for any vehicle to get into this

location. This was always going to be a huge security operation even

before the atrocities that we saw recently in Manchester. This

operation was always going to be in place but up on Thursday the

football Association of Wales said that this was now the largest

security operation that has ever been put in place for a sporting

event in the UK. All of that has been put in place, of course, to

make certain that what happens in the Stadium runs as smoothly as

possible this evening. If you think that's a big

competition, you ain't Forget football - spelling

is even more intense... It's been the annual

spelling bee in America. From 11 million entrants,

a 12 hour final and it all came down You could be forgiven

for thinking it mattered less to the 12-year-old

girl and more to her father. Spelling Bee is an institution

in the United States This was the 13th time in a row

an Indian-American took the trophy. And when this young boy

stumbled over this word So the trophy, the kudos

and the $40,000 first prize It leaves the rest of us trailing

the wake of junior genius. Are you trying to spell and

inadequate? Your spelling of that word was inadequate stock we have a

list of far more confiscated works to test later. Ben will keep us up

today the weather. The 14 minutes past seven.

Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have faced a grilling from a live TV

audience on a range of issues from public spending

Jon Trickett is a Cabinet minister -- Shadow Cabinet minister, and

joins us from Leeds. As far as your leader Jeremy Corbyn is concerned,

there are some things that just won't go away, are there? Trident,

and his preparedness or not to press the nuclear button, that seems to

dog him at the end of this campaign. Well, I think those are the

questions that the Conservatives are trying to put in front of us, and it

is quite right that the questions are asked. Look, Labour is a patriot

it party and have no doubt about it, if this country comes under attack,

Labour will defend our country. They should be no doubting anybody's mind

that is what we will do. We think there are areas where we are

exposed, for example, there are not enough police any more, and we also

think the Border Force needs more people. We are promising to employ

an extra 500 people. People coming in and out of the country are not

being checked. It is a way for terrorists are coming. This defence

issue is big and complicated, but we will defend our country if we come

under attack, make a mistake about it. It is not just the Conservatives

putting this to Mr Corbyn. Members of the audience repeatedly put it to

him. That was one of the big issues they wanted explained from him. It

is reconciling the fact that, yes, he stuck to his guns, well, let's

not use the word guns, but he is adamantly against the use of nuclear

weapons throughout his political life. What is the point in having a

deterrent? It is only a deterrent if you say you are prepared to use it,

isn't it? Let's think for a minute about nuclear weapons. Throughout

the whole of human history that have been wars, but the weapons that were

designed to be used on a battlefield against enemy combatants, the thing

about nuclear weapons is, inevitably, they will be used to

kill hundreds of thousands of individual citizens or innocent

people, and that is the difference between nuclear weapons and all the

others. So these weapons are immoral. The world accepts that. We

have to find a way of getting rid of them overtime. I think what Jeremy

is concerned about is the morale to you of a weapon being used against

our citizens. -- morale at it. There are enough nuclear weapons in the

well to destroy the entire planet. We need a realistic land to find a

way out of the mess that the world has got ourselves into. -- realistic

plan. Make no mistake about it, while nuclear weapons are there, we

are going to rearm, that is the Labour Party position. But that is

what people are saying. Why spend those billions of pounds on

something if you say that you are not repaired to use it? I know we

have been through this loads of times, but it is one of those issues

which highlights the conflict, in a way, between who Jeremy Corbyn is,

the party he leads, and the position he wants to hold. That is what

voters are wrestling with. Well, each person will consider the whole

range of issues before us, but the Labour Party is committed to

renewing Trident. That is our position. I moved a resolution some

years ago personally about it. I suggested that the whole world

should be moving towards disarmament. By the way, we have a

legal obligation to disarm, across the whole world, and Britain will

try to do that. We will defend ourselves. There can be no doubt

about that whatsoever. I thought the whole debate last night was very

interesting. In a way, I think the stars were the audience. You are

right. They ask difficult and probing questions. That was right,

because democracy has come alive. It has come alive because the parties

are offering very different ways forward for our country. I think it

is amazing, if you are sitting on a train or sitting in the pub, people

are talking about politics for the first time in a long time. I was in

a Labour marginal seat this week, doing a peaceful Radio 4, and lots

of people said, they like what they have seen of Jeremy Corbyn in this

campaign, he has grown on them, they made positive remarks about him. But

time and time again I heard, even Labour voters saying to me, at the

end of the day I am still not sure about him. I am not sure he is a

Prime Minister. You know that there are lots of the pullout there, even

though they might like him, even though they might have warmed to

him, they just cannot get out of that final hurdle of voting him into

Downing Street. Well, look. Jeremy Corbyn is somebody who really

received a huge amount of abuse and a lot of attacks from all kinds of

sources in the last 18 months. People didn't get to know him until

the last few weeks when the election started. And the thing is, he has

been prepared to go anywhere and speak to anybody at any time. There

has been another leader, as well, Mrs May, and she is like a

submarine. She disappears for weeks on end when there is trouble and

then occasionally reappears. That isn't me saying that. David Cameron,

the Prime Minister, said she is like a submarine, a politician who

disappears. The trick is she has never engaged with the public

through this campaign. People have to make a choice, what kind of

leader do we want? A modern leader who is prepared to mix with people

and listen to what they say and act, or somebody who is promote and cold

and wooden? Somebody who is really not very clear about what policies

are? I think people are focusing both in Germany but also want

Theresa May. I think they are warming to him, but they will

continue to do so in the rest of the campaign. Jon Trickett, thank you.

On Friday morning we will know. Five days left. Thank you.

Here's Ben with a look at this morning's weather.

I cannot promise you it will all be glorious. My hint is to watch the

first two minutes of this. Then turn away.

If you cut me short I will not get to the end and you will not have to

look at the bad bit. We can do itself does not look too bad. A

mixture of sunshine and showers. Some wet and windy weather to come

for the start of next week. Decent weather to get out and about today

and tomorrow some sunny spells. Bear in mind they will be passing

downpours as well. This weather front, this band of cloud swept

through overnight. It brought thunderstorms across parts the

south-east yesterday. They are mostly cleared away now but still

lingering across eastern and south-eastern parts of England. Some

residual cloud, some mist and murk, some spots of rain here. A slice of

sunshine and some showers beginning to pack in from the north-west.

These showers will be heaviest around the middle part of the day

for Northern Ireland. They will be turning heavier in the middle of the

afternoon in Scotland. Here they can be quite slow-moving, especially in

the north-east, where they will be light. Some thunder and lightning

and a lot of rain in a short space of time. Some sunny spells between

showers. A few sunny spells creeping into England, at things should be

largely dry this afternoon. A fresher feel than we have had

recently. So pleasant in the sunshine. One to make showers

trundling across Wales and the south-west this afternoon. These

should push away to the eastern into the evening. For the big match in

Cardiff tonight, the final between Juventus and Real Madrid, it should

be fine, late sunshine but it will start to cool off a bit as the match

goes on. Showers continuing for a time across Northern Ireland

Scotland but generally it will turn into a dry night with clear spells.

Temperatures in towns and cities 9- 11. Into tomorrow, essentially we do

it all again. Sunshine and showers, probably more than today across

northern England, especially in the morning. Showers get going in the

afternoon again for Northern Ireland Scotland. Then things cloud over a

bid for the and Wales, showery rain moving in here as well. Temperatures

again, cooler and fresher, 16- 20 degrees. I've got time, so I'm going

to have to press a button and show you what happens on Monday. Areas of

low pressure swarming out west will push in, bringing heavy bursts of

rain and potentially some strong winds as well.

Well, he has to be truthful. Next time we will cut him off. We'll get

the controller. It is 7:22am. There were celebrations around

the world when the Paris climate change agreement was

signed two years ago. It was hailed as a major step

forward in tackling global But the news that President Trump

is withdrawing from the agreement has been widely criticised

by world leaders and those 194 other countries have

committed to the deal, which pledged to cut carbon

emissions, and limit the rise in the global average temperature

to 2 degrees Celsius So far America has spent almost ?780

million on the Green Climate Fund which helps developing countries

cope with the effects Alex Pearce ease the director of the

overseas development in situ. How much should we care that the United

States has pulled out of the climate change agreement? Obviously this is

political ramifications, but in the sense that physically, how much

difference, or monitor airily, how much difference will the withdrawal

make? -- mightily. -- monteraily. I think that his abdication of

responsibility on the Paris agreement will have profound

short-term and long-term effects. I was in Africa last week, in Uganda

and Kenya, and Uganda and Kenya are trying to grow out of poverty. They

have signed up to the Paris agreement which is basically them

saying, we are going to grow, but we will try to grow down a greener path

in the United States and the United Kingdom. But in order to do that

they need help. Theatre for the United States has been the largest

donor in supporting countries like Kenya and Uganda to grow, but to

grow greener. # heretofore the United States. So that they do not

contribute to the greenhouse gases warming the planet. President Trump

pulling back from these commitments and pulling out the rug from

countries like Kenya and Uganda, that is going to give them a much

harder choice to make stop if they end up building coal-fired power

plants instead of solar plants, that is not only going to affect things

today, but those plans will be with us for 20, 30, 40 years. Do you

think is decision to take America out will weaken the resolve of those

kinds of countries, to keep going? Thinking, if America is not going to

do it, why should we bother? I absolutely think it will. Keeping up

with commitments like Paris is not just a case of going to Paris and

signing an agreement. This is actually a process of daily

decision-making. People have to look at the trade-offs. If they are

without the type of support, the political support, that America

provides, as well as the financial support, then there are likely to be

lots of countries and lots of decisions that are made which will

take us in the wrong direction. But there are 194 countries signed up,

and China is one of them, which was always a big sticking point when it

came to China recognising its contribution to elution and to

environment will change. Ashraf pollution. Is that not enough. How

dependent of these countries and the well have to be on the US? The US is

still the second largest polluter in the world. First of all, its own

Paris commitments are critical to reducing the amount of greenhouse

gases. Although there are many cities and states and businesses in

the United States which say that they are still going to meet their

Paris commitments, if the federal government in the United States does

not support that trend towards less pollution and greener energy, then

it will mean more pollution for the planet. There is increasing drought,

increasing warming, all over the place. In the last 16 years we have

had if Dean of those years being the hottest on record. -- 15 of those

years. So what the US does today and what it does in the future actually

really matters. We are going to talk to you again later in the programme,

with somebody who is a supporter of Donald Trump, and believes that he

has done the right thing, and we can have a debate about that later on. I

look forward to that. It is 7:26am. Building flood defences can be

a complex and expensive task, but scientists say they have found

an army of expert engineers from the continent willing to do it

for free: European beavers. They are controversial with farmers

who say they damage fields, but as our environment analyst

Roger Harrabin reports, their re-introduction could help

clean up polluted water. In an ordinary Devon field, signs of

the extraordinary. A toilet, and electrified fence powered by solar.

This site is a scientific experiment on reintroducing beavers. In six

years, a pair of sharp tooth beavers has re-engineered this would land

into a Whitland. They fell the willow trees to lie horizontally

because they like to chew the bark off the vertical sprouts. Their

stick and have recreated the sort of landscape that existed for beavers

were hunted to extinction. -- stick dam recreated. This is another of

the ponds created by beavers. This demonstrates how much they can

re-engineer the landscape. I am, it looks like there is grass growing

out of the ground. Wrong. This is a beaver stick dam, right underneath

me. The place has been shaped by the teeth of rodents. These are beta

sticks. You can see the teeth marks where they have cut them off the

tree. They use these to create the dams, and the way that they have

manipulated the site has been dramatic. We have had a whole range

of different species coming in, bats, amphibians, lots of wetland

plants. It has been incredible. This site used to have 11 clumps of

frogspawn. Since the dams appeared, there are 681 clumps. The frogs are

food for grass snakes and herons. Then there is the benefit to soil

and water quality, monitored ibis equipment. What we are looking at

here is the quality of the water entering the beaver site. As we can

see from this sample taken at the end of the last ready -- heavy

rainfall event, there is lots of soil and water. It is leading this

farmland. Downstream, with all the beaver dams, we see much cleaner

water. The beaver dams have filtered the water and captured all the soil

running from the farm. We see much better water quality downstream.

This is not without controversy. In Scotland, where beavers have brought

back, some landowners have angrily complained that they have damaged

farmland, trees and water courses. The NFU fear unintended consequences

of beaver reintroduction but they say they are awaiting the formal

publication of results from the Devon trial site. We return to the

wetlands at dusk. Here is a treat. Email beaver has come out of hiding.

-- the mail beaver. What a fantastic privilege. I have just seen my first

beaver. They have not had a sighting like this to 18 months. He seems

completely unafraid. The scientists working here say the beavers have

not just improved water quality. They have also helped to protect

downstream areas from flooding by slowing heavy rainfall with their

dams. They want creatures like this reintroduced nationwide. Not all are

convinced, at the beavers here are making their own watery case. Will

Hello, this is Breakfast with Jon Kay and Naga Munchetty.

Coming up before eight, Ben has the weather.

But first, a summary of this morning's main news.

Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have faced tough questions from a TV

audience, just days before the general election.

They were challenged separately in a special edition

Mrs May faced uncomfortable questions about NHS funding.

While Mr Corbyn faced a robust exchange over whether he would use

The pop star Ariana Grande has made a surprise visit to fans in hospital

who were injured in the terror attack at her Manchester concert.

The singer spent time chatting to patients and posing

for photographs at the Royal Manchester Children's Hospital ahead

of a benefit concert in the city tomorrow in aid

One of Theresa May's most senior ministers has said a future

Conservative government would not raise income tax -

The Defence Secretary, Sir Michael Fallon, told

the Daily Telegraph the party was "not in the business

Labour has already said it would increase income tax rates

to 45-pence in the pound for those earning more than ?80,000.

A new drug to treat ovarian cancer has been described as very promising

Charities have called it an important step in treating

Developed by the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS

Foundation Trust, the drug shrank tumours in almost half of the 15

women in the advanced stages of the disease who took part

The consumer group Which is calling on British Airways to create

an automatic compensation system for passengers affected by serious

It comes a week after a major IT failure caused hundreds

of the airline's flights to be grounded.

The company says it has already taken steps to process claims

Meanwhile British Airways cabin crew have voted for four more days

of strike action starting on June 16th.

you might would be here and we have delivered. He will deliver us in his

call for the winner of the Champions League. Juventus, going for a

back-to-back win. Gareth bale, of course it is home soil for him. But

he won't start but he must play, at some point. Change the game with 20

minutes to go or something. This evening, the biggest match

in European club football, the Champions League

final, will be played at the Principality

Stadium in Cardiff. Security is tight of course

following last week's attack in Manchester, as thousands

of Real Madrid and Juventus fans A former Wales international

and Champions League winner, thinks Cardiff is ready

to host such an event. It is a great Stadium in the middle

of the city. A real buzz around not only Cardiff but Wales in general to

host a Champions League final and to host first is a good one with

Juventus and Real Madrid is great. So many big games and League Cup

finals have been played here as well and it is a tremendous venue.

The President, of the football's European governing body,

has told the BBC, that Britain deserves, to host a World Cup

Aleksander Seferin, says he hopes the tournament will be

They are absolutely capable of organising is from an organisational

point of view from infrastructure point of view and, of course, it is

a decision not just the FA but the government and all the others. But

this you know everything about English or British football so...

They deserve to have a World Cup in the near future.

It was a positive evening for Northern Ireland as they beat

New Zealand 1-0 in Belfast last night.

The friendly had been organised as Michael O'Neill's side warm up

for next week's World Cup qualifier in Azerbaijan.

The only goal of the game, came from the Scottish Premiership's

leading scorer: Ross County's, Liam Boyce.

Pleased with what we got from the game. We won the game which was

important and greater for Liam to get his goal. Disappointed that we

did not add to the final score. Physically was a challenging and

demanding game which was what we wanted and, as I said, it leaves us

in a good place in terms of what we have now and in terms of preparation

to play next week. The New British English Lions the

provincial barbarians Number 10 is interesting, Ben Gatlin, a

22-year-old was played to the Auckland blues and is the son of the

Lions boss. He can probably expect to make a few

tackles on the weekend but we have not spoken too much about the game

and he is excited about the opportunity, if he does get a chance

to play against us looking forward England all rounder Chris Woakes has

been ruled out of the rest of the Champions Trophy,

due to a side strain, he picked up in the opening

match of the tournament. Woakes only played, two overs,

of Thursday's win, over Bangladesh England are unlikely

to name his replacement, until this afternoon,

after the England Lions match, which involves two of the possible

candidates: Steve Finn and Tom At the French Open,

Britain's Andy Murray and Kyle Edmund are

in action later today while defending mens

champion Novak Djokovic is through to the fourth round,

but he had to fight for it. Argentine Diego Schwartzman,

the world number 41, took Djokovic, to

five sets yesterday. The world number two though had

enough, to see out the victory. The nine-time champions

at Roland Garros through in straight sets against, Nikoloz Basilashvili,

dropping only one game, The defending women's champion,

Garbine Muguruza, is safely She beat Yulia Putintseva,

in straight sets. Can you spell that players name? I

know it ends with the letter eyes. Let's get back to rugby league. It

is more straightforward. Two tries helped leads rhinos defeat Lee

centurions. So for leads, it takes them to third.

It grew up in the bomb sites of Britain, after the Second World War,

and is once again now proving to be, one of the fastest growing cycling

It is cycle speedway and as the British team,

arrive in Poland today, as they build up to the World

Championship later this year, I've been to train at Coventry

And cycle speedway is accessible to all ages, even if you are five.

It took off in the rubble of bombsites after the Second

Only a bomb site, a bunch of kids having fun.

But here is where stars of speed are born.

Sit back and see if you can spot a champion of tomorrow.

One day the crowd will roar for the children who learnt it

all the hard way on a cycle speedway.

It started after the war on the bombsites and,

you know, a load of kids with nothing to do.

As cities were rebuilt in the post-war years,

the cycle speedway tracks disappeared.

But now purpose-built ones like this one in Coventry have brought it back

as a cheaper and safer alternative to

There are leagues again and the World Championships

We are trying to reinvent it a little bit

Really trying to get people involved from all age groups.

It is far more accessible and not so worrying about being on the back

It also makes it easier to turn up and pay a couple of quid,

This is the position you need to adopt for the maximum

It is fast and explosive with four riders competing over four laps.

They say in this sport it is first or dirt and most races are won

It is a little frightening because you

You just want to get the inside of people

And you either come out on the right side or the wrong side.

Indeed, the whole British championship was won on the very

I was ten yards away from being a champion.

It can certainly hurt when your dreams end

So if you would like a taste of speedway without a motorbike it is a

very accessible form it does look dangerous. It would really hurt if I

fell off even though I was not going fast. And the Epsom Derby is in here

today's. Under certain race with a horse we should all back, Naggers.

It's not your horse, is it? No. No. Thank you, Mike.

She's become one of Britain's biggest stars after appearing

Now the actor Miranda Hart is making her West End debut

She's playing Miss Hannigan - the infamous orphanage manager -

in the musical which first opened in America 40 years ago.

Our arts editor, Will Gompertz has been to meet Miranda and three

of her co-stars as they prepare for next week's opening night.

The show may be called Annie but this particular West End

It is a vulnerable place when you are the face on the poster.

You think "Are people wanting to knock me down?"

We are not very good at celebrating success,

we prefer to pick on the things we are not good at.

Does it feel like this is a contemporary story?

There will always be orphans in the world like people in Syria

and it is kind of putting old-fashioned stories

Who has got the worst American accent?

Basically call Pickfords, I am moving on.

Being yourself and doing things outside it and having fun and not

getting caught up with any trappings of fame, wanting to be about fame

or money because that does not bring you happiness.

There has been discussion of Miranda coming back.

I like the idea of Miranda and Gary being married.

I miss my sitcom family and the character but whether that

means I will start writing again, I do not know.

Not least spending the summer living her dream and starring

Lovely. We keep saying you will be on our mind all day, that song. With

the bucket and the mop? Let's talk now to Ben and find out what is

happening with the weather this morning. I am pleased we are going

over to you now because I am happy you are not trying to sing with a

mop and bucket. I think we try to do that once and I

said no, that is my answer forever. It is not all good news if you like

dry weather but not looking too bad to start for this Weather Watcher in

Wales. There will be sunshine through the day but there will also

be showers in northern and western areas you can already see the

showers showing their hand out west, but in between, a nice slice of

sunshine. Plenty of fine weather through this morning and into the

afternoon. Things brightening up across east Anglia and the

south-east, but the showers will get going through the afternoon,

especially across Northern Ireland and Scotland. The heaviest around

lunchtime for Northern Ireland, then the middle of the afternoon for

Scotland. These showers will be slow-moving, especially up to the

north-east, where the winds will be fairly light, with rumbles of

thunder and flashes of lightning, lots of rain in a short space of

time. While two showers creeping into northern England. East anger