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Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Naga | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
'You're fired' - more upheaval at the White House, | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
as yet another senior official is sacked. | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
Outspoken communications chief Anthony Scaramucci gets the axe, | :00:16. | :00:19. | |
just 11 days after being appointed, after a foul-mouthed | :00:20. | :00:21. | |
Good morning, it is Tuesday one August. | :00:22. | :00:47. | |
Also this morning: Tackling terror online. | :00:48. | :00:48. | |
The Home Secretary tells the world's biggest internet companies they must | :00:49. | :00:51. | |
do more to fight the spread of extremism. | :00:52. | :00:53. | |
We are asking them to work harder on this, to put more effort, more | :00:54. | :01:01. | |
resources into it, and to work together to deliver it. | :01:02. | :01:02. | |
A new approach to speed up surgery for pancreatic cancer raises hopes | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
Car hire customers are being driven mad by problems with vehicle damage | :01:06. | :01:12. | |
In sport: It is as easy one, two, three for England's cricketers. | :01:13. | :01:22. | |
Moeen Ali takes a hat-trick to win the third test against South Africa | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
England now lead the series 2-1 going into the final | :01:27. | :01:30. | |
And Carol has popped outside to bring us the weather. | :01:31. | :01:36. | |
Good morning from the roof of Broadcasting House in London, where | :01:37. | :01:46. | |
we have got some blue sky. The forecast, though, for today, is for | :01:47. | :01:50. | |
some showers, some of them heavy and slow-moving but in between there | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
could be sunshine. It could stay dry in the south-east. I will have more | :01:56. | :01:57. | |
in 15 minutes. First, our main story: | :01:58. | :01:58. | |
The White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
has been fired less than two weeks after his appointment, | :02:02. | :02:03. | |
in the latest high-profile departure His sacking was the first decision | :02:04. | :02:05. | |
to be taken by new chief of staff, General John Kelly, and it is seen | :02:06. | :02:11. | |
as an attempt to bring Tonight, breaking news: Forced out | :02:12. | :02:14. | |
after just 11 days at the White Game of Thrones, House | :02:15. | :02:27. | |
of Cards - pick your drama. Washington thrown into a frenzy | :02:28. | :02:36. | |
after the newly minted Anthony Scaramucci took | :02:37. | :02:39. | |
to the podium ten days ago He came in guns blazing, | :02:40. | :02:43. | |
promising to flip the script Although his eye was on getting rid | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
of then-chief of staff Reince Priebus, | :02:48. | :02:58. | |
it was Sean Spicer who was the first to go, resigning in protest | :02:59. | :03:01. | |
at the man called 'Mooch.' You know, one of the things I can't | :03:02. | :03:04. | |
stand about this town Where I grew up, in | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
the neighbourhood I grow up, The self-proclaimed outsider took it | :03:16. | :03:19. | |
too far, launching into a tirade of obscenities to a journalist, | :03:20. | :03:24. | |
accidentally on the record, Scaramucci seemed to have won | :03:25. | :03:26. | |
when Reince Priebus resigned. But a new-new sheriff was in town, | :03:27. | :03:37. | |
General John Kelly, the secretary His request was that | :03:38. | :03:41. | |
Scaramucci had to go. Kelly's wish, the | :03:42. | :03:50. | |
President's command. After the swearing-in ceremony, | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
the Mooch was escorted Donald Trump has been in office | :03:56. | :03:57. | |
for nearly six months, but his presidency has been plagued | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
by chaos and controversy. From multiple investigations | :04:02. | :04:03. | |
into his campaign's connections with Russia, to constant staffing | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
shake-ups at the White House. But, with a four-star | :04:07. | :04:11. | |
general at the helm, the administration | :04:12. | :04:16. | |
is hoping that it will be smoother Internet giants such as Google, | :04:17. | :04:18. | |
Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have been told they must do more | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
to tackle online extremism. Following a meeting | :04:24. | :04:26. | |
with the companies, the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, | :04:27. | :04:28. | |
said they needed to invest more and work together in | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
order to stop the spread But there are worries | :04:32. | :04:33. | |
the privacy of ordinary users Our North America technology | :04:34. | :04:36. | |
reporter Dave Lee reports. Terror on the streets of the UK. | :04:37. | :04:43. | |
Organised, police say, with the help of social media. So companies here | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
in Silicon Valley are being told they must do more to prevent the | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
spread of extremist content online. What I need them to acknowledge is | :04:52. | :04:55. | |
that the enemy, who is really trying to move swiftly online, to | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
radicalise people in their own homes, are really stepping their | :05:00. | :05:03. | |
game up, and we need our response stepped up as well. And there is | :05:04. | :05:07. | |
also concerned the new measures might mean a loss of privacy for all | :05:08. | :05:12. | |
of us. It is not possible to say we are going to monitor all | :05:13. | :05:15. | |
communications on our platforms, but still preserve users' privacy. We | :05:16. | :05:19. | |
might attempt to minimise the impact on users' by the sea, but you are | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
certainly going to be... It is not going to be as private as it was | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
before. They have to face up, people who might oppose this, to what our | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
enemy is trying to do. They are trying to weaponise people at home. | :05:34. | :05:37. | |
Vulnerable people, trying to turn them into terrorists. And what | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
happens is, when this material goes online, it is circulated really | :05:42. | :05:46. | |
fast. Another worry, as security experts will tell you, is that | :05:47. | :05:49. | |
terrorists could simply move to harder to reach parts of the | :05:50. | :05:50. | |
internet. Patients with pancreatic cancer | :05:51. | :05:51. | |
are being operated on in just two weeks, instead of two months, | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
after being diagnosed. Research published in the medical | :05:55. | :05:56. | |
journal HPB says early surgery increases patients' chances | :05:57. | :05:59. | |
of having their tumours Doctors in Birmingham | :06:00. | :06:01. | |
hope their approach will Kate Rigby was amazed at how | :06:02. | :06:03. | |
smoothly the NHS worked when she was diagnosed | :06:04. | :06:16. | |
with pancreatic cancer. Within seven days, she had had | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
surgery at the Queen Elizabeth I can't control NHS budget, | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
and all the other things for the poor people | :06:23. | :06:40. | |
who aren't as lucky as me. Normally, people with jaundice | :06:41. | :06:43. | |
like Mrs Rigby have a stent put in to relieve symptoms, | :06:44. | :06:49. | |
which delays the main operation. A nurse was employed to speed up | :06:50. | :06:51. | |
treatment from two months to 16 days, meaning a fifth more | :06:52. | :06:58. | |
patients were able to Cutting out the step also said | :06:59. | :07:00. | |
the NHS ?3,200 per patient. We save the NHS potentially ?200,000 | :07:01. | :07:09. | |
per year, with the number of patients that have | :07:10. | :07:12. | |
surgery in our team. And so that, then, is a reproducible | :07:13. | :07:15. | |
model, that other units up and down Pancreatic cancer has | :07:16. | :07:18. | |
a very low survival rate. It will be two years before doctors | :07:19. | :07:23. | |
can say whether treating patients more | :07:24. | :07:26. | |
quickly actually means And, if they do, that will beg | :07:27. | :07:27. | |
the question as to whether or not other aggressive cancers should be | :07:28. | :07:35. | |
treated more quickly. For now, Kate Rigby knows | :07:36. | :07:38. | |
that she has been given the best chance possible to survive | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
pancreatic cancer. From today, babies born in England, | :07:42. | :07:42. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland are to be offered a new vaccine which protects | :07:43. | :07:47. | |
against hepatitis B. The hexavalent vaccine will also | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
immunise against five other diseases including polio, tetanus | :07:51. | :07:52. | |
and whooping cough. Health Protection Scotland | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
is set to adopt a similar Public Health England | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
says the new vaccine has Prison staff have regained control | :07:57. | :07:59. | |
at a jail in Hertfordshire, after reports of a riot breaking | :08:00. | :08:09. | |
out across two wings. Police armed with riot gear | :08:10. | :08:12. | |
were sent to Mount prison, The Ministry of Justice says | :08:13. | :08:15. | |
order has been restored Prison staff, known as the Tornado | :08:16. | :08:31. | |
squad, trained to deal with disturbances, entered HMP the Mount | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
prison yesterday morning. They could be seen carrying shields and batons. | :08:37. | :08:47. | |
Two wings of the prison were said to be no longer in control of guards. | :08:48. | :08:50. | |
From outside the walls of the prison, shouting could be heard, | :08:51. | :08:54. | |
along with what sounded like stun grenades. Late last night, the | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
Ministry of Justice said the trouble had ended, and no staff or prisoners | :08:59. | :09:05. | |
were injured. A report by the prison's independent monitoring | :09:06. | :09:08. | |
board, released yesterday morning, warned staff shortages were adding | :09:09. | :09:12. | |
to problems and mounting violence in the jail. While the prison officers' | :09:13. | :09:16. | |
Association said staff shortages were a neck and epidemic, partly due | :09:17. | :09:23. | |
to poor salaries -- were an academic. | :09:24. | :09:25. | |
Workers at the Bank of England will today hold their first strike | :09:26. | :09:28. | |
in more than 50 years, as part of a campaign | :09:29. | :09:30. | |
Members of the Unite union will walk out for three days, | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
after talks at the conciliation service, Acas, broke | :09:35. | :09:36. | |
Unite wants the Bank to scrap its 1% cap on pay rises, | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
arguing that a third of staff will get no increase this year. | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
The bank says essential business will continue as normal | :09:45. | :09:46. | |
Pupils should be taught about the importance | :09:47. | :09:49. | |
of breast-feeding in schools, according to the professional body | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is also calling | :09:53. | :09:56. | |
on ministers to legislate for breast-feeding breaks | :09:57. | :09:57. | |
The college says Britain has one of the lowest rates | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
of breast-feeding in Europe, blaming social stigma for the trend. | :10:03. | :10:09. | |
More needs to be done to stop women being forced to wear high heels | :10:10. | :10:13. | |
at work, according to scientists at the University of Aberdeen. | :10:14. | :10:15. | |
Academics looked at the physical and social impact of wearing | :10:16. | :10:18. | |
the shoes, and say there is enough evidence to suggest they are bad | :10:19. | :10:22. | |
Earlier this year, the Government rejected calls for a ban | :10:23. | :10:26. | |
The saying goes that a dog is a man's best friend, | :10:27. | :10:32. | |
so when Petey the pooch's owner became stuck in his car | :10:33. | :10:35. | |
during a flash-flood, there was no way he was going | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
The car was submerged after a dry creek bed was engulfed | :10:39. | :10:42. | |
Rescuers had to use a crane to get to the car, before Petey was handed | :10:43. | :10:48. | |
over by his owner, who then climbed out. | :10:49. | :10:50. | |
The pair could then walk across the crane to safety | :10:51. | :10:52. | |
The love of a dog. All safe and well. I assume the dog's name is not | :10:53. | :11:15. | |
Petey the pooch. Should we doublecheck? Why are you asking me? | :11:16. | :11:24. | |
You just read it out. Surely your script is right. But I think it is | :11:25. | :11:39. | |
Petey,,, the pooch. I cannot wait to tell you about a story we have | :11:40. | :11:43. | |
coming up in a little while about Barry the Shetland pony. We have | :11:44. | :11:48. | |
Petey the pooch and Barry the Shetland pony. More on that in a | :11:49. | :11:57. | |
moment. We will start with a great day for Moeen Ali, who was recently | :11:58. | :12:01. | |
described as a batsman who can bowl a bit. Not the biggest complement in | :12:02. | :12:04. | |
the world, and they proved him wrong yesterday. | :12:05. | :12:05. | |
England's cricketers have gone 2-1 up in the Test series | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
against South Africa, after a dramatic final day | :12:09. | :12:10. | |
With the hosts needing six wickets, Toby Roland-Jones took two in two | :12:11. | :12:14. | |
balls before lunch, while Moeen Ali went one better, | :12:15. | :12:17. | |
his hat-trick sealing a 239-run victory. | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
David Rudisha, the world and Olympic 800m champion, | :12:22. | :12:23. | |
will miss this month's World Athletics Championships. | :12:24. | :12:25. | |
Rudisha won the world title in Beijing two years ago, | :12:26. | :12:27. | |
and broke the world record in London in 2012. | :12:28. | :12:35. | |
And Jose Mourinho has made his third big summer signing at Manchester | :12:36. | :12:38. | |
Nemanja Matic, a player he signed for Chelsea three years ago, | :12:39. | :12:42. | |
has moved to Old Trafford for a fee of around ?40 million. | :12:43. | :12:49. | |
Ronaldo has appeared in court in Spain, facing allegations of tax | :12:50. | :12:57. | |
evasion. He is accused of evading just over ?30 million. He said he | :12:58. | :13:03. | |
never had any intentions of evading paying his taxes. | :13:04. | :13:04. | |
The deal is done for Los Angeles to host the Olympics | :13:05. | :13:07. | |
It means the Games will be staged in Paris in seven years' time. | :13:08. | :13:12. | |
The two cities had been competing to host the event in 2024, | :13:13. | :13:16. | |
The International Olympics Committee have welcomed the move, | :13:17. | :13:19. | |
and have pledged ?1.4 billion to LA's organising committee. | :13:20. | :13:28. | |
The Olympic Games are going back to Hollywood. When is Barry coming? | :13:29. | :13:36. | |
Barry is coming during the papers in a few minutes' time. First we must | :13:37. | :13:42. | |
get the weather. There could be some thunderstorms around today. You are | :13:43. | :13:46. | |
outside on the roof of new Broadcasting House. That's right. It | :13:47. | :13:51. | |
is lovely out here this morning, as well. It is not too cold, there is a | :13:52. | :13:56. | |
gentle breeze. The sun is out, we have blue skies but the weather | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
forecast for many is one of sunshine, but they will also be some | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
heavy showers in there and as you rightly said, some of those will be | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
thundery with some hail mixed in. Not all of us will see them. We take | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
a look around the country at our charts and we have some showers | :14:12. | :14:15. | |
already this morning. If we start at 9am in Scotland we have some | :14:16. | :14:18. | |
showers, some heavy, just north of the central belt at the moment. | :14:19. | :14:23. | |
There are one or two across southern Scotland as well, but equally a lot | :14:24. | :14:27. | |
of dry weather with temperatures at 9am around 13 degrees in Edinburgh. | :14:28. | :14:32. | |
For north-east England we have some heavy showers, of those merging. | :14:33. | :14:36. | |
Some quite large totals in the next six hours or so, north-east England | :14:37. | :14:41. | |
off to a drier and brighter start. As we move into East Anglia, Essex, | :14:42. | :14:46. | |
Kent, all the way down into the Isle of Wight, a bright start some sunny | :14:47. | :14:52. | |
skies. That continues as we head towards Dorset, Gloucestershire, and | :14:53. | :14:54. | |
into the south-east of England we are looking at one or two showers. | :14:55. | :15:00. | |
But most of us starting on a dry note. For Wales, you have more | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
showers, some of them merging in the same way they are across north-west | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
England. So we could see some large rainfall totals and as we look | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
across the Irish Sea into Northern Ireland, it is the west which will | :15:11. | :15:14. | |
see some showers. The East mostly dry and bright. As we go through the | :15:15. | :15:18. | |
course of the day, you will find a lot of further showers will develop. | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
Some of them, as you rightly said, will be heavy and thundery with some | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
hail. Especially as we take a line from south Wales towards the Wash | :15:28. | :15:31. | |
northwards. Parts of the south-east could mist them all together and | :15:32. | :15:35. | |
stay dry and in the sunshine it could feel quite pleasant. Hiser to | :15:36. | :15:40. | |
23 here. As we head into the evening and overnight, many of the showers | :15:41. | :15:43. | |
will die away. There will be a few left, but through the night we will | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
see the cloud built across south-west England and south Wales, | :15:48. | :15:50. | |
and some showers arrive. And then later we will have some rain coming | :15:51. | :15:54. | |
in. It will be a chilly night across the northern half of Scotland in | :15:55. | :15:59. | |
rural areas, with single figure temperatures, we are looking at. So | :16:00. | :16:03. | |
tomorrow we start off on a dry note in central and eastern areas, with | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
some sunshine, but the cloud will encroach with some showers ahead of | :16:08. | :16:10. | |
that band of rain, spreading out across the South Coast, the | :16:11. | :16:14. | |
south-west and Wales. It will be heavy and persistent and will move | :16:15. | :16:17. | |
north eastwards through the course of the day, the company by windy | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
conditions across south-west, England, and South Wales. Overnight | :16:22. | :16:26. | |
that clears away so by the time we get to Thursday there will be a curl | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
of rain coming in across northern and western Scotland, and parts of | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
northern England as well. Away from that we are looking at a fair bit of | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
dry weather and breezy conditions, and also some sunshine. Temperatures | :16:39. | :16:43. | |
again up to the low 20s at best. So, although there is some rain and also | :16:44. | :16:46. | |
some showers in the forecast, there is also going to be affected of dry | :16:47. | :16:50. | |
weather and some sunshine. But, as we head towards the end of the week | :16:51. | :16:54. | |
we are back into the showers, so changeable. | :16:55. | :16:58. | |
At least it's lovely where you are, you don't want a shower today, do | :16:59. | :17:06. | |
you? Absolutely, not like this. Thanks, Kate. Let's look through | :17:07. | :17:11. | |
some of the papers. Sally is here. The front page of the Guardian, a | :17:12. | :17:16. | |
lot of interest, we will talk about this through the morning, you may | :17:17. | :17:21. | |
have heard of Anthony Scaramucci and in the short time he was White House | :17:22. | :17:24. | |
communications director it would be fair to say he made quite a stir but | :17:25. | :17:29. | |
he's gone already. I don't even think he officially had his job. | :17:30. | :17:35. | |
Nine or ten days he has been addressing the press, now he's gone | :17:36. | :17:38. | |
and question marks over what's going on with the Trump administration and | :17:39. | :17:41. | |
we will talk about that more later. That's on the front page of the | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
Daily Telegraph as well. Its lead story is Statins are needlessly | :17:49. | :17:55. | |
being doled out to millions, it's due to people's age, the Royal | :17:56. | :18:00. | |
College of GPs has called. The college has called to an end of the | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
blanket doling out of Statins. The Trump story on the front page of the | :18:07. | :18:12. | |
Times. Passengers enjoying waits of up to four hours on arrival at | :18:13. | :18:18. | |
European airports -- injuring. Sean, you have a story that ties into some | :18:19. | :18:23. | |
of the trauma? We talked about it a few weeks ago. On the front page of | :18:24. | :18:28. | |
the papers yesterday as well we saw it. Car hire. Generally it's been | :18:29. | :18:34. | |
making headlines lately. The Daily Mail is continuing their | :18:35. | :18:36. | |
investigation by saying car hire sharks have been caught red-handed. | :18:37. | :18:41. | |
A few issues people might be familiar with, paying the excess | :18:42. | :18:45. | |
waiver at the desk. You arrive and they say you can't take the car | :18:46. | :18:49. | |
until you have paid extra. You don't have to do that but people feel | :18:50. | :18:54. | |
pressured to do that a. Fuel options as well, do you have to pay to leave | :18:55. | :19:01. | |
it filled up or bring it back half empty? On this investigation the | :19:02. | :19:04. | |
companies say they dealt with the individual issues. We will talk | :19:05. | :19:07. | |
about this more in half an hour so if anyone has had any issues then | :19:08. | :19:12. | |
let us know. Lot of headlines over the last few days. | :19:13. | :19:17. | |
In the Daily Mail we have this story about Rory McIlroy, this came out | :19:18. | :19:20. | |
yesterday but it hasn't quite been confirmed that he is parting ways | :19:21. | :19:25. | |
with his caddie of many years, JP Fitzgerald, they have done a list of | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
the highs and lows of Rory and JP and it's only a couple of weeks ago | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
at the Open that he credited JP with having a word with him and saying | :19:35. | :19:39. | |
remember who you are, you are Rory McIlroy. If that is official today | :19:40. | :19:43. | |
that will be interesting. There's been a lot of speculation about | :19:44. | :19:50. | |
whether he would stay on the bag because Rory hasn't been performing | :19:51. | :19:54. | |
well. And who he would go for instead? May be someone from a | :19:55. | :19:57. | |
different stable in terms of how they look at caddying. I promised | :19:58. | :20:00. | |
you Barry, Barry the Shetland pony. It's not a story about Barry but | :20:01. | :20:06. | |
it's about this young man here, Rocco Dettori, 12, who raced | :20:07. | :20:11. | |
yesterday at Ascot on Barry the Shetland pony, he won, he is | :20:12. | :20:15. | |
Frankie's son, Frankie said he didn't want him to be a jockey but | :20:16. | :20:21. | |
this child is throwing such promise and determination, Frankie Dettori | :20:22. | :20:24. | |
saying he only has to ride for four years and then they can race against | :20:25. | :20:30. | |
each other -- showing. I didn't know that they did Shetland pony racing? | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
You have seen the Shetland pony Grand National? We have read that | :20:34. | :20:38. | |
script on the programme. I don't remember that at all. The Shetland | :20:39. | :20:42. | |
pony Grand National. One of the highlights of my year. Did Mike | :20:43. | :20:47. | |
Bushell compete in it? No, I don't thing he would be allowed. They | :20:48. | :20:52. | |
don't have his size horse, it would be more like the Shetland pony. He | :20:53. | :20:57. | |
is scared with horses, he has had a few dodgy experiences with horses. | :20:58. | :21:03. | |
The Usain Bolt documentary was on last night and as the excitement | :21:04. | :21:07. | |
builds, is he already here, is here in the UK? You reminded me of | :21:08. | :21:12. | |
something I have in the Guardian and here's a man who wants to spoil his | :21:13. | :21:17. | |
party, he is hoping to race in the 100th is and he is saying, Ujah, he | :21:18. | :21:23. | |
is saying the world athletics Championships won't be a retirement | :21:24. | :21:27. | |
party for him, he wants to spoil his fun. Does he have the numbers to | :21:28. | :21:32. | |
back that up? Nearly! Apparently when Usain Bolt raced in Monaco the | :21:33. | :21:37. | |
last time they got all the athletes out half an hour before they needed | :21:38. | :21:41. | |
to to whip up the crowd because he makes the atmosphere change in a | :21:42. | :21:46. | |
stadium. It will be his last appearance in London as well! Thanks | :21:47. | :21:49. | |
very much. From today's people studying to be | :21:50. | :22:02. | |
in as is and midwives will no longer get bursaries. | :22:03. | :22:05. | |
The promise comes at a time when applications for these | :22:06. | :22:08. | |
From today, some degrees will no longer receive NHS bursaries. | :22:09. | :22:11. | |
Instead, they will have to apply for student loans. | :22:12. | :22:14. | |
Breakfast's John Maguire has discovered there is concern | :22:15. | :22:16. | |
that the move will stop mature students from retraining. | :22:17. | :22:20. | |
We get rid of that and you've now got what? These second year nursing | :22:21. | :22:27. | |
students are getting their first look at the a knack to marsh table | :22:28. | :22:31. | |
using the latest technology to take a 3-D trip through a virtual human | :22:32. | :22:38. | |
body. The degree course at the university of Central Lancashire is | :22:39. | :22:42. | |
funded by NHS bursaries and grants, but as of today applicants wanting | :22:43. | :22:47. | |
to study nursing, midwifery and other medical courses will need a | :22:48. | :22:51. | |
student loan in line with other undergraduates. So would it have | :22:52. | :22:56. | |
deterred these students? I don't think it would have made a | :22:57. | :22:59. | |
difference to myself because I really wanted to become a nurse and | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
although the financial implications of not having a bursary would have | :23:05. | :23:08. | |
impacted on me quite heavily, but I could have managed and my desire to | :23:09. | :23:16. | |
become a nurse has overridden those. But applications for these courses | :23:17. | :23:22. | |
have fallen by around 20%. Theories include doubts from European | :23:23. | :23:25. | |
students about Brexit. A birthrate decline in the number of 18 | :23:26. | :23:30. | |
-year-olds as well as concerns about the change in financing. The | :23:31. | :23:34. | |
universities, though, are determined to see the numbers recover and here | :23:35. | :23:38. | |
there's cautious optimism. We have seen a decline in the number of | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
applications coming through, but they're good quality and so the key | :23:43. | :23:46. | |
thing is that they convert into the numbers that we have. So I'm very | :23:47. | :23:53. | |
positive at this moment in time that we will recruit to target. One of | :23:54. | :23:58. | |
the main areas of concern is the impact on mature students. Nursing | :23:59. | :24:03. | |
and midwifery attract a much higher percentage of older applicants than | :24:04. | :24:06. | |
other degree courses and their life experience is seen as a vital part | :24:07. | :24:12. | |
of the mix on a ward. Sarah Cordy says a loan instead of a | :24:13. | :24:17. | |
bursary would have stopped her changing career to become a midwife. | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
To saddle students with a huge amount of debt when they are only | :24:21. | :24:25. | |
ever able to earn what the government dictates they can earn, | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
it doesn't seem to make sense to me and had I been making this decision | :24:30. | :24:33. | |
now knowing that I would have to take on the debt, I couldn't have | :24:34. | :24:37. | |
done it, no. The government argues that the cap on student places had | :24:38. | :24:41. | |
previously restricted numbers and that changing the funding will lead | :24:42. | :24:46. | |
to an increase in around 10,000 applicants. But Les Green says he | :24:47. | :24:51. | |
now can't afford to pursue his dream job. | :24:52. | :25:00. | |
I'm 41 so I would be paying that... ?30,000, I'll be paying back until I | :25:01. | :25:06. | |
finish probably my... Until I'm burning my pension. I don't think | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
I'd ever play that off, I'd play it until the rest of my career and | :25:11. | :25:15. | |
beyond. All signs agree that the NHS is in dire need of more clinical | :25:16. | :25:19. | |
staff but the debate centres on how to pay for them. John Maguire, BBC | :25:20. | :25:22. | |
News, Lancashire. Once | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
a blot on the landscape and under threat from demolition, | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
we're in Halifax looking of the country's only surviving | :25:30. | :25:31. | |
cloth hall. You saw the pictures of the fire and | :25:32. | :25:46. | |
now it's in great condition! More from their macro later. | :25:47. | :25:48. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :25:49. | :25:53. | |
Good morning, I'm Asad Ahmad. settle down towards the weekend. | :25:54. | :29:07. | |
Vanessa Feltz is on the BOC radio and on -- BBC Radio London in the | :29:08. | :29:13. | |
next hour. Hello, this is Breakfast, | :29:14. | :29:14. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Naga We will have the latest news | :29:15. | :29:20. | |
and sport in just a moment, and coming up on Breakfast today: | :29:21. | :29:26. | |
There has been a big increase in complaints against | :29:27. | :29:29. | |
hire car companies. We will tell you how to avoid | :29:30. | :29:32. | |
the pitfalls of renting a vehicle It is the music video that has | :29:33. | :29:36. | |
racked up millions of views on YouTube, challenging | :29:37. | :29:49. | |
gender stereotypes. Singer-songwriter-turned-director | :29:50. | :29:50. | |
Charli XCX will be on the sofa Anxiety and depression made author | :29:51. | :29:52. | |
Matt Haig obsessed with time. He will tell us how his mental | :29:53. | :29:59. | |
health has inspired him to write about a 400-year-old | :30:00. | :30:02. | |
history teacher. But now, a summary of this | :30:03. | :30:08. | |
morning's main news. The White House communications | :30:09. | :30:12. | |
director, Anthony Scaramucci, has been fired, less than two weeks | :30:13. | :30:14. | |
after his appointment. In the latest high-profile departure | :30:15. | :30:17. | |
from Donald Trump's top team, the new chief of staff, John Kelly, | :30:18. | :30:19. | |
asked Mr Scaramucci to step aside. The former banker made headlines | :30:20. | :30:23. | |
when derogatory comments he made about General Kelly's | :30:24. | :30:26. | |
predecessor were made public. The President certainly felt that | :30:27. | :30:41. | |
Anthony's comments were inappropriate for a person in that | :30:42. | :30:44. | |
position, and he didn't want to burden General Kelly, also, with | :30:45. | :30:51. | |
that line of succession. As I think we have made clear a few times over | :30:52. | :30:56. | |
the course of the last couple of days to several of you individually, | :30:57. | :30:59. | |
but General Kelly has the full authority to operate in the White | :31:00. | :31:03. | |
House, and all staff will report to him. | :31:04. | :31:04. | |
And, in just over half an hour's time, we will discuss in more detail | :31:05. | :31:08. | |
Internet giants such as Google, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft have | :31:09. | :31:16. | |
been told they must do more to tackle online extremism. | :31:17. | :31:19. | |
Following a meeting with the companies, | :31:20. | :31:20. | |
the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, said they needed to invest more | :31:21. | :31:23. | |
and work together in order to stop the spread | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
But there are worries the privacy of ordinary users | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
Patients with pancreatic cancer are being operated on in just two | :31:30. | :31:39. | |
weeks, instead of two months, after being diagnosed. | :31:40. | :31:41. | |
Research published in the medical journal HPB says early surgery | :31:42. | :31:44. | |
increases patients' chances of having their tumours | :31:45. | :31:46. | |
Doctors in Birmingham hope their approach will | :31:47. | :31:49. | |
Pupils should be taught about the importance | :31:50. | :31:55. | |
of breast-feeding in schools, according to the professional body | :31:56. | :31:57. | |
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is also calling | :31:58. | :32:01. | |
on ministers to legislate for breast-feeding breaks | :32:02. | :32:03. | |
The college says Britain has one of the lowest rates | :32:04. | :32:07. | |
of breast-feeding in Europe, blaming social stigma for the trend. | :32:08. | :32:22. | |
More needs to be done to stop women being forced to wear high heels | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
at work, according to scientists at the University of Aberdeen. | :32:26. | :32:28. | |
Academics looked at the physical and social impact of wearing | :32:29. | :32:31. | |
the shoes, and say there is enough evidence to suggest they are bad | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
Earlier this year, the Government rejected calls for a ban | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
California is famous for its surfers, but this week | :32:40. | :32:43. | |
it is the dogs that are hoping to catch the waves. | :32:44. | :32:46. | |
Canines of all sizes and breeds have been entering the annual surf dog | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
competition, which is now in its 12th year. | :32:51. | :32:52. | |
They are judged on how long they ride for, the height | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
I was literally looking at it and I didn't quite get it. Now I have | :32:56. | :33:20. | |
rather spoil the moment, because the pictures have gone. That is the | :33:21. | :33:27. | |
right face 2-ball, isn't it? It was there in the script. -- to pull. I | :33:28. | :33:35. | |
like the way you thought you would get away with not saying that gag. | :33:36. | :33:45. | |
And a fantastic hat-trick from Moeen Ali. The gorgeous picture of him | :33:46. | :33:48. | |
celebrating with his team-mates, and he has been up and down the order. | :33:49. | :33:53. | |
Where should they be putting him? He showed the sort of form yesterday | :33:54. | :33:56. | |
which suggests he should be higher up the order all the time. He is a | :33:57. | :34:01. | |
spin bowler, and his bowling yesterday was just incredible. | :34:02. | :34:07. | |
Trevor Bayliss, the England coach, called him a batter who bowls a bit. | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
England's cricketers went 2-1 up in the Test series | :34:11. | :34:12. | |
against South Africa yesterday, after an amazing final day | :34:13. | :34:15. | |
The tourists were trying to save a draw, but two wickets | :34:16. | :34:18. | |
in two balls from debutant Toby Roland-Jones ended those hopes. | :34:19. | :34:21. | |
The only resistance came from Dean Elgar, who went | :34:22. | :34:23. | |
But it was Moeen Ali who finished South Africa off, | :34:24. | :34:27. | |
winning the match in the perfect fashion, with a hat-trick. | :34:28. | :34:30. | |
England victorious by 239 runs, a vast improvement | :34:31. | :34:32. | |
upon their disastrous Trent Bridge performance, | :34:33. | :34:34. | |
which saw the team come under intense criticism two weeks ago. | :34:35. | :34:42. | |
You are going to be upset, because you don't want to hear it, but we | :34:43. | :34:49. | |
all know that wasn't a good enough performance for an England team, and | :34:50. | :34:53. | |
it would have been very easy to sulk and moan about it. The guys stepped | :34:54. | :34:57. | |
up and made sure they put in a really good performance here. And I | :34:58. | :35:01. | |
think now it is all about trying to go on further than we have done this | :35:02. | :35:05. | |
week, and make sure that we finish the series strong in Manchester. | :35:06. | :35:06. | |
The deal is done for Los Angeles to host the 2028 Olympic | :35:07. | :35:09. | |
LA's bid team has reached an agreement with the International | :35:10. | :35:13. | |
Olympic Committee, which is expected to be ratified | :35:14. | :35:15. | |
by the Los Angeles City Council later today. | :35:16. | :35:17. | |
LA had originally been bidding for the 2024 Games, | :35:18. | :35:20. | |
but that event is now set to take place in Paris. | :35:21. | :35:26. | |
The World Athletics Championships get under way at the weekend, | :35:27. | :35:29. | |
but one of the star attractions on the track won't be there. | :35:30. | :35:32. | |
David Rudisha, the world and Olympic 800m champion and world record | :35:33. | :35:35. | |
The Kenyan won the world title in Beijing two years ago, | :35:36. | :35:40. | |
and broke the world record in London in 2012. | :35:41. | :35:43. | |
Meanwhile, the sport's governing body, the IAAF, | :35:44. | :35:45. | |
says Russia remains banned from international competition, | :35:46. | :35:47. | |
because they haven't made sufficient progress in anti-doping. | :35:48. | :35:49. | |
Russia was barred from last year's Olympics for state-sponsored doping. | :35:50. | :35:52. | |
19 Russians will compete as independently at the World | :35:53. | :35:54. | |
We've seen progress, and yes, some of that - | :35:55. | :36:14. | |
on some occasions, some of that progress has | :36:15. | :36:16. | |
been quicker than on other occasions. | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
And it tended to speed up a little bit when there's been | :36:20. | :36:22. | |
a focus normally around the major championships. | :36:23. | :36:24. | |
So it's not that there isn't any progress, but the progress we want | :36:25. | :36:28. | |
has to culminate in a meeting of those criteria, and it's | :36:29. | :36:31. | |
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has made his third big | :36:32. | :36:34. | |
He has gone back to former club Chelsea and signed Nemanja Matic, | :36:35. | :36:39. | |
a player he signed for the Blues three years ago. | :36:40. | :36:42. | |
He has moved to Old Trafford for a fee of ?35 million. | :36:43. | :36:45. | |
Cristiano Ronaldo has appeared in court in Spain, | :36:46. | :36:49. | |
where he is facing allegation of tax evasion. | :36:50. | :36:51. | |
The Real Madrid star is accused of evading just over ?13 million. | :36:52. | :36:54. | |
He has said he has never had any intentions to evade paying taxes. | :36:55. | :37:06. | |
Liverpool's biggest independent supporters group has voted | :37:07. | :37:08. | |
overwhelmingly in favour of the safe standing at Premier League grounds. | :37:09. | :37:10. | |
The Premier League wrote to its 20 clubs last month to assess | :37:11. | :37:14. | |
whether they would be interested in staging trials. | :37:15. | :37:16. | |
It follows Celtic's decision to introduce around 3,000 rail | :37:17. | :37:18. | |
The question of safe standing at stadiums has been on the agenda | :37:19. | :37:26. | |
after Lord Justice Taylor's inquiry into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, | :37:27. | :37:28. | |
in which 96 Liverpool fans were killed. | :37:29. | :37:44. | |
Four-time Major champion Rory McIlroy has split | :37:45. | :37:46. | |
The pair have worked together for the past nine years, | :37:47. | :37:50. | |
and for each of McIlroy's Major successes. | :37:51. | :37:52. | |
Last month, McIlroy gave Fitzgerald credit for geeing him up | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
McIlroy is expected to confirm the news tomorrow ahead of this | :37:56. | :38:00. | |
week's World Golf Championship event in Ohio. | :38:01. | :38:02. | |
Now, finally, being a football manager is a precarious occupation. | :38:03. | :38:04. | |
If you don't get the results, more often than not, | :38:05. | :38:07. | |
Obviously most top managers get a big pay-off if they get sacked. | :38:08. | :38:12. | |
But, if ever Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp falls on hard times, | :38:13. | :38:15. | |
we reckon he could make a living as a sound engineer. | :38:16. | :38:18. | |
He came to Atletico Madrid manager Diego Simeone's rescue in a press | :38:19. | :38:22. | |
conference in Munich, fixing his microphone. | :38:23. | :38:23. | |
And, when it comes to audio, we thought Klopp was just | :38:24. | :38:26. | |
What you can't see, everybody at home, is behind us when we are all | :38:27. | :38:35. | |
plugged in, sometimes there is a sound man or woman who comes along | :38:36. | :38:39. | |
and fiddles with a wire, and winds us up. And Jurgen has the job. I | :38:40. | :38:45. | |
think we wind each other up. Never! Some of the biggest websites | :38:46. | :38:47. | |
on the internet have been told they must play a bigger part | :38:48. | :38:50. | |
in tackling online extremism. Home Secretary Amber Rudd | :38:51. | :38:53. | |
is in San Francisco to meet the bosses of online | :38:54. | :38:56. | |
giants including Google, She says they need to do more | :38:57. | :38:58. | |
to clamp down on those using the sites to share extreme | :38:59. | :39:02. | |
material and radicalise vulnerable Our North America technology | :39:03. | :39:05. | |
reporter Dave Lee joins us now. He has been taking a look at what | :39:06. | :39:23. | |
exactly Amber Road wants these companies to do. Taking a look at | :39:24. | :39:28. | |
the technology which is behind all the websites, and how easily they | :39:29. | :39:32. | |
can be accessed -- Amber Rudd. In terms of hacking, and what is | :39:33. | :39:36. | |
easiest for hackers to access and what is easiest for us to access. In | :39:37. | :39:42. | |
a few minutes we will speak to our technology correspondent to take us | :39:43. | :39:47. | |
through what Amber Rudd is saying, to what are the real powerbrokers in | :39:48. | :39:51. | |
Silicon Valley, in charge of those internet companies. | :39:52. | :39:57. | |
Donald Trump has sacked his communications director, just days | :39:58. | :40:04. | |
after appointing him. As you are just hearing, the Home Secretary is | :40:05. | :40:08. | |
in America challenging the likes of Facebook my Twitter and Google to do | :40:09. | :40:11. | |
more to remove extremist content online. Let's talk to Carol and find | :40:12. | :40:19. | |
out what is happening with the weather. It seems as if there will | :40:20. | :40:24. | |
be some storms kicking off in the skies. Well, there will be some | :40:25. | :40:28. | |
heavy showers. In Morcombe there has been 12 millimetres of rainfall. If | :40:29. | :40:32. | |
you are thinking is this ever going to stop? Intensity should ease off | :40:33. | :40:38. | |
in the next or so. Wales seems heavy downpours, but here on the | :40:39. | :40:42. | |
Broadcasting House in London it is pleasant. We have a son, blue skies | :40:43. | :40:46. | |
and it feels quite pleasant the warm as well. Through the day to day, the | :40:47. | :40:51. | |
forecast for us all is one of heavy showers and also some sunny spells. | :40:52. | :40:55. | |
Perhaps the exception to that will be in the south-east of England, | :40:56. | :41:02. | |
where we may well stay dry. In between the showers there will be | :41:03. | :41:05. | |
bright and sunny spells. Taking a look around the country at 9am, | :41:06. | :41:08. | |
there is some rain particularly across Scotland north of the Central | :41:09. | :41:13. | |
Belt. But even southern Scotland seeing some showers. In between, a | :41:14. | :41:18. | |
lot of dry and bright weather. For north-west England we will have some | :41:19. | :41:21. | |
heavy showers around as we go through the morning. Some of us will | :41:22. | :41:24. | |
have between ten and 20 millimetres of rainfall. But north-east England | :41:25. | :41:29. | |
dry and bright. Dry as we move southwards across the Midlands, East | :41:30. | :41:32. | |
Anglia, down into Essex and Kent, through Hampshire, Dorset on the | :41:33. | :41:36. | |
Isle of Wight, some sunny skies. South-west England seeing a few | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
showers and then back into Wales, where we have got more showers, and | :41:41. | :41:44. | |
they are heavy ones. Forming lines overnight. For Northern Ireland you | :41:45. | :41:47. | |
have some showers as well. More especially in the north and the | :41:48. | :41:51. | |
west. The East seeing something drier and brighter. As we go through | :41:52. | :41:55. | |
the course of the day, where it is currently dry, we will see further | :41:56. | :41:59. | |
showers develop. But as is the way with showers, not all of us will | :42:00. | :42:20. | |
catch one. Some of us will stay dry, at times it will be cloudy and at | :42:21. | :42:24. | |
times we will see some sunny skies. If we were to draw a line from South | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
Wales towards the Wash and points north of that, you are prone to | :42:29. | :42:31. | |
seeing some thunder and lightning and some hail. Further south some | :42:32. | :42:34. | |
showers but the south-east could stay dry and invite rhesus | :42:35. | :42:37. | |
temperatures up to 23 will feel quite pleasant. As we go through the | :42:38. | :42:41. | |
evening and overnight most of the showers will tend to fade. However, | :42:42. | :42:44. | |
we will see cloud increase, and then some rain is coming in, accompanied | :42:45. | :42:47. | |
by strengthening winds. Temperatures generally tend to about 15 overnight | :42:48. | :42:50. | |
temperatures in rural parts of Scotland will be lower. It will feel | :42:51. | :42:53. | |
chilly for you. Tomorrow we start off with a lot of dry weather, some | :42:54. | :42:57. | |
sunny spells as well across central and eastern parts of the UK. But the | :42:58. | :43:01. | |
rain already across the south-west is going to spread. The rain will be | :43:02. | :43:04. | |
heavy and persistent across the southern parts of Wales, south-west | :43:05. | :43:07. | |
England and southern counties and will advance north eastwards through | :43:08. | :43:10. | |
the course of the day. Always with cloud building ahead of it and a few | :43:11. | :43:13. | |
showers. Windy across the south-western parts of Wales, with | :43:14. | :43:16. | |
coastal hail. It clears overnight and we are looking at some sunny | :43:17. | :43:20. | |
skies as we head on into Thursday. But still, across western and | :43:21. | :43:23. | |
northern areas, we are not going to be immune to some showers. And then, | :43:24. | :43:27. | |
as we head into the latter part of the week, again we continue with | :43:28. | :43:30. | |
sunshine and showers. Something drier in the south on Saturday and | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
drier for many of us on Sunday. Thank you very much. Getting a bit | :43:35. | :43:38. | |
windy up on that route. A bit blustery. We started talking | :43:39. | :43:43. | |
yesterday about holiday car rentals. You get to the airport and they ask | :43:44. | :43:48. | |
for extra money, and then they say afterwards there is some damage. It | :43:49. | :43:53. | |
is a bit of a pickle, isn't it? And if it doesn't go smoothly, you are | :43:54. | :43:58. | |
just about to go on your holiday and it can feel like the worst thing | :43:59. | :44:01. | |
that can happen. Car companies have come under a bit of pressure lately. | :44:02. | :44:04. | |
They have been grabbing some headlines in the last few days and | :44:05. | :44:13. | |
weeks. Europcar may have to pay out ?30 million for overcharging on car | :44:14. | :44:17. | |
repairs. Today we can see that complaints from customers are on the | :44:18. | :44:22. | |
rise. If you are not able to sort it out with the car companies and their | :44:23. | :44:25. | |
complaint service you can go to the European consumer Centre. In the | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
last year they had seen almost 30% increase in the number of complaints | :44:31. | :44:33. | |
they are getting on this. Since last summer they have had to deal with | :44:34. | :44:38. | |
about 600 odd complaints about car hire. They have told us it is one of | :44:39. | :44:42. | |
the biggest issues they have had to deal with and the commonest | :44:43. | :44:45. | |
complaints, which some people might be familiar with, were about being | :44:46. | :44:48. | |
charged for damage the driver had not done and being misled over | :44:49. | :44:51. | |
excess insurance. That is the protection you can get encased the | :44:52. | :44:54. | |
car gets damaged, and being overcharged for fuel. So how can you | :44:55. | :44:58. | |
avoid these sorts of problems, when you are going away for a nice | :44:59. | :45:00. | |
holiday? Martyn James is a consumer | :45:01. | :45:02. | |
expert from Resolver, Is this an area that's growing? It | :45:03. | :45:04. | |
against big companies. Is this an area that's growing? It | :45:05. | :45:11. | |
is and it's an area that gets under people's skin, asking around and | :45:12. | :45:15. | |
speaking to people about this, there are so many people who are upset or | :45:16. | :45:20. | |
who have been stitched up by car hire charges and full disclosure, | :45:21. | :45:24. | |
this happen to me and my partner ten years ago but we ended up paying | :45:25. | :45:29. | |
?500 excess for a tiny scratch on a bumper. It makes sense to keep an | :45:30. | :45:34. | |
eye out for some of the common ways they can squeeze more cash out of | :45:35. | :45:39. | |
you. Laura has got in touch saying she hired a van for a couple of | :45:40. | :45:43. | |
hours and ended up with a prank when she was taking it back but they | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
insisted they take ?1000 of her credit card for repairs and she | :45:48. | :45:51. | |
wasn't given any option but to pay up, she was totally unaware about | :45:52. | :45:56. | |
how much the van cost to fix. This is becoming an issue, Europcar | :45:57. | :45:59. | |
having to deal with that, what can you do to make sure you don't end up | :46:00. | :46:04. | |
in a pickle you don't want to be in? A good question. There's a couple of | :46:05. | :46:08. | |
simple things you can do in advance to avoid the common problems and I | :46:09. | :46:12. | |
should say not all car hire companies are out to get you but | :46:13. | :46:19. | |
they will try to squeeze you. If you arrive at the check-in desk and they | :46:20. | :46:23. | |
are trying to flog you and the kids are screaming that's when they will | :46:24. | :46:26. | |
try get you. Preparation is wonderful. Pic the best of not the | :46:27. | :46:33. | |
cheapest because the cheapest offer will have the highest excess the. If | :46:34. | :46:38. | |
you access fee is ?1000 then that is the amount of money you will play if | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
they claim they need to make repairs -- access fee. Dave said they hired | :46:43. | :46:49. | |
a car in Alicante and they had to wait six months for the ?1000 | :46:50. | :46:53. | |
deposit to come back. There's lots of things that you are asked at the | :46:54. | :46:58. | |
desk, do you have to do any of it? Not necessarily will. The credit | :46:59. | :47:01. | |
card one is interesting because they will freeze the deposit or they will | :47:02. | :47:06. | |
provisionally take it is the official term and refund it as soon | :47:07. | :47:10. | |
as. Let's be clear, there's never an excuse for it to take six months for | :47:11. | :47:14. | |
your own money to be returned. If you have a UK card you have more | :47:15. | :47:22. | |
rights and you can complain through us or the financial ombudsman so it | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
doesn't have to end in tears. When you hire a car and the damage issue, | :47:27. | :47:31. | |
should you be walking around filming it and getting the evidence you can | :47:32. | :47:37. | |
beforehand? It sounds awful but yes is the simple answer. You don't have | :47:38. | :47:41. | |
to go mad because we want people to enjoy their holidays but most people | :47:42. | :47:45. | |
have a tablet or smart phone, when you get in the car they will give | :47:46. | :47:49. | |
you a paper and they will draw on the marks were things need to change | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
so go around and photograph it from all angles and point out any | :47:54. | :47:57. | |
scratches because they can come back and haunt you when you hire the car | :47:58. | :48:03. | |
back. Factory much. Jed has got in touch with another tip, always | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
booked in advance, I imagine it could be worse if you turned up not | :48:08. | :48:11. | |
having a car ready and you have all those problems. Good tips all-round! | :48:12. | :48:13. | |
Thanks very much, Sean. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd is in | :48:14. | :48:22. | |
San Francisco where she is meeting big Internet companies to urge them | :48:23. | :48:25. | |
to do more to tackle online extremism. We can talk to our North | :48:26. | :48:29. | |
American technology reporter Dave Lee. Good to see you. What is she | :48:30. | :48:35. | |
going to try to persuade them to do? This is in terms of tackling the way | :48:36. | :48:37. | |
hackers have access to our accounts? It's more to do with the amount of | :48:38. | :48:46. | |
extremist material appearing on social networks, Facebook, Twitter, | :48:47. | :48:50. | |
Microsoft and Google, they are all getting together tomorrow here, | :48:51. | :48:54. | |
still Monday evening where I am, and they're going to talk about what | :48:55. | :48:58. | |
more can be done and the crucial thing is what does that mean? In the | :48:59. | :49:03. | |
Home Secretary's case, SheBelieves Cup these companies should use some | :49:04. | :49:07. | |
of their intelligence algorithms they used to block certain things -- | :49:08. | :49:13. | |
she believes these. They want to use that intelligence to block known | :49:14. | :49:17. | |
extremist material from ever being uploaded to Facebook. It won't just | :49:18. | :49:22. | |
appear and be taken down, it will be blocked before it's even put on the | :49:23. | :49:26. | |
site and that's a big step and something these companies think they | :49:27. | :49:29. | |
may be able to do. But they are reluctant, the reason being they are | :49:30. | :49:34. | |
obviously concerned with freedom of expression and privacy. I raised | :49:35. | :49:43. | |
this with the Home Secretary -- Home Secretary earlier and this is what | :49:44. | :49:44. | |
she said. They have to face up to what our | :49:45. | :49:50. | |
enemy is trying to do, they are trying to weaponised people at home, | :49:51. | :49:54. | |
vulnerable people and trying to turn them into terrorists and what | :49:55. | :49:57. | |
happens is when this material goes online it's circulated really fast. | :49:58. | :50:01. | |
What our company is saying in response to what Amber Rudd is | :50:02. | :50:07. | |
saying? -- what are the companies. They have put out a joint statement, | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
and none of them would do an interview with us about it, but | :50:12. | :50:14. | |
together they acknowledged this was a big problem and a big challenge | :50:15. | :50:18. | |
and something they wanted to tackle and they agree more can be done and | :50:19. | :50:23. | |
again the disagreement is what the Moore is. But privately from the | :50:24. | :50:27. | |
experts I have spoken to and some of the people at this set of companies | :50:28. | :50:32. | |
on the record, they feel hard done by because they feel they have done | :50:33. | :50:36. | |
a lot already to stop the spread of this material and sometimes they are | :50:37. | :50:41. | |
used as a scapegoat for what might be considered as a failure of | :50:42. | :50:45. | |
policing or following leads when it comes to terrorism in particular. | :50:46. | :50:49. | |
There will be give and take and in this meeting happening on Tuesday | :50:50. | :50:53. | |
here, we will see lots of progress and discussion about what can be | :50:54. | :50:56. | |
done, but I don't think tech companies will want to do too much | :50:57. | :51:00. | |
to upset their users and how they feel about using those services. | :51:01. | :51:05. | |
Dave, thanks bromance for joining us. Dave Lee from San Francisco. | :51:06. | :51:07. | |
Britain's only surviving cloth hall reopens today | :51:08. | :51:09. | |
after a multi-million pound renovation. | :51:10. | :51:13. | |
The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire was once the centre | :51:14. | :51:16. | |
of the world's wool trade and since then it has been | :51:17. | :51:19. | |
through a number of different incarnations. | :51:20. | :51:21. | |
Fiona Lamdin is there for us this morning. | :51:22. | :51:25. | |
Fiona, I think you're going to reveal it for us in just a minute | :51:26. | :51:31. | |
but this is an extraordinary building, isn't it? Well, just take | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
a look. It really does look like we could be in Italy this morning but | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
we are in Halifax. As you say, we're in the country's last remaining | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
intact Cloth Hall. This is the Piece Hall. It's been here for over 200 | :51:47. | :51:52. | |
years and I've been taking a look back at its history. | :51:53. | :51:58. | |
Fiona, I'm sorry that we don't have that report right now but can you | :51:59. | :52:02. | |
give us more of a look around and tell us more about that place | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
because as you said a moment ago, lots of people are thinking what an | :52:07. | :52:09. | |
extraordinary building architecturally and the scale of it? | :52:10. | :52:15. | |
Yes, as you can see, if you can have a look there is over 300 identical | :52:16. | :52:21. | |
doors, each have a little trading unit and a window and a door and | :52:22. | :52:25. | |
back then over 200 years ago this is where people came to trade their | :52:26. | :52:31. | |
cloth. In a minute we will introduce you to the counsellor who is | :52:32. | :52:38. | |
delighted to be opening this. If you come down here I'm going to take you | :52:39. | :52:42. | |
on a little tour and we're going to go and see... If you come down these | :52:43. | :52:57. | |
stairs... We are going to find out what's going to be going on. Coming | :52:58. | :53:02. | |
onto Nicky, we've been hearing a bit about the past and how it used to be | :53:03. | :53:06. | |
a trading place and how they're used to be loads of wall and cotton sold | :53:07. | :53:11. | |
here, tell us about what the future will be? The future will be another | :53:12. | :53:16. | |
bustling town square where we will have trade, heritage and culture | :53:17. | :53:20. | |
again in the square and what we want people to do is come here, meet each | :53:21. | :53:24. | |
other and visit the wonderful shops that have come on board. They are | :53:25. | :53:28. | |
absolutely beautiful. If we look behind there will be restaurants | :53:29. | :53:33. | |
here, do you hope to have music and theatre? There will be open air | :53:34. | :53:38. | |
theatre, music events. In the summer we will do screenings like Somerset | :53:39. | :53:43. | |
house in London so the idea is to make this a vibrant international | :53:44. | :53:46. | |
destination. People in Halifax have known about this place for a long | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
time, just coming to you, Tim Swift, you are hoping to pull people from | :53:51. | :53:56. | |
right across the world? You've seen this morning that macro 81 is really | :53:57. | :54:00. | |
this most extraordinary Georgian building. -- Piece Hall. The only | :54:01. | :54:04. | |
surviving cloth hall in Western Europe. People in Halifax and west | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
Yorkshire have always known about it but we think it has potential | :54:10. | :54:11. | |
national and international appeal as a place to visit and keep coming | :54:12. | :54:15. | |
back to. Yellow what's happening today? At 10am the bell is going to | :54:16. | :54:23. | |
go and the shots are going to open and trading will start again? That's | :54:24. | :54:31. | |
right, when it opened as Piece Hall it opened from just 10am to 2pm for | :54:32. | :54:37. | |
two hours and the bell marked the start of trading. We have a host of | :54:38. | :54:42. | |
events to date to show you what the Piece Hall will have going forward, | :54:43. | :54:47. | |
local people who haven't got in for the last three years will come in | :54:48. | :54:51. | |
and enjoy it -- today. People can also come and see what a wonderful | :54:52. | :54:55. | |
building it is. We will be here through the morning. Can you see all | :54:56. | :55:02. | |
those identical doors? If you pan around there's over 300 and we will | :55:03. | :55:05. | |
be here through the morning showing you what's going on inside those | :55:06. | :55:10. | |
doors. Fiona, thanks very much. Wonderful images. Congratulations to | :55:11. | :55:15. | |
whoever is on the camera for making it down the stairs earlier on | :55:16. | :55:18. | |
without mishap. Always great when it doesn't go | :55:19. | :55:19. | |
wrong! Student | :55:20. | :55:21. | |
loans are replacing NHS bursaries that funded some degrees | :55:22. | :55:26. | |
and with a fall in nursing and midwifery applications we'll ask | :55:27. | :55:29. | |
if the new system will deter mature Time now to get the news, | :55:30. | :55:32. | |
travel and weather where you are. Hello, this is Breakfast, | :55:33. | :59:02. | |
with Charlie Stayt and Naga 'You're fired' - more | :59:03. | :59:37. | |
upheaval at the White House, as yet another senior | :59:38. | :59:43. | |
official is sacked. Outspoken communications chief | :59:44. | :59:45. | |
Anthony Scaramucci gets the axe, just 11 days after being appointed, | :59:46. | :59:47. | |
following a foul-mouthed Good morning, it is | :59:48. | :59:50. | |
Tuesday one August. Also this morning: | :59:51. | :00:13. | |
Tackling terror online. The Home Secretary tells the world's | :00:14. | :00:15. | |
biggest internet companies they must do more to fight the | :00:16. | :00:18. | |
spread of extremism. We're asking them to work harder | :00:19. | :00:20. | |
on this, to put more effort, more resources into it, | :00:21. | :00:23. | |
and to work together to deliver it. A new approach to speed up surgery | :00:24. | :00:27. | |
for pancreatic cancer raises hopes We are about to find out how | :00:28. | :00:30. | |
British Gas has been performing, when it comes to profits, | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
customer numbers, and maybe In sport: It is as easy as one, two, | :00:40. | :00:41. | |
three for England's cricketers. Moeen Ali takes a hat-trick to win | :00:42. | :00:51. | |
the third Test against South Africa England now lead the series 2-1 | :00:52. | :00:54. | |
going into the final And Carol has popped outside | :00:55. | :00:58. | |
to bring us the weather. Good morning from the roof of | :00:59. | :01:09. | |
Broadcasting House in London, where it is sunny. There is a gentle trees | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
but it feels quite pleasant. The forecast for the UK as a whole, | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
though, is one of sunshine and showers. Some of the showers will be | :01:17. | :01:22. | |
heavy, and the best chance of staying dry in south-east England. I | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
will have more details in 15 minutes. | :01:26. | :01:26. | |
First, our main story: The White House communications | :01:27. | :01:29. | |
director, Anthony Scaramucci, has been fired less than two weeks | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
after his appointment, in the latest high-profile departure | :01:32. | :01:33. | |
His sacking was the first decision to be taken by new chief of staff, | :01:34. | :01:39. | |
General John Kelly, and it is seen as an attempt to bring stability | :01:40. | :01:42. | |
Tonight, breaking news: Forced out after just 11 days on the job | :01:43. | :01:50. | |
Game of Thrones, House of Cards - pick your drama. | :01:51. | :02:00. | |
Washington thrown into a frenzy after the newly minted, | :02:01. | :02:05. | |
smooth-talking White House communications director is sacked. | :02:06. | :02:06. | |
Anthony Scaramucci took to the podium ten days ago | :02:07. | :02:09. | |
He came in guns blazing, promising to flip the script | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
Although his eye was on getting rid of then-White House chief of staff | :02:14. | :02:30. | |
Reince Priebus, it was beleaguered press secretary Sean Spicer | :02:31. | :02:33. | |
who was the first to go, resigning in protest at the man | :02:34. | :02:36. | |
called 'Mooch.' But then a bit of foreshadowing. | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
You know, one of the things I can't stand about this town | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
Where I grew up, in the neighbourhood I grew up, | :02:42. | :02:45. | |
The self-proclaimed outsider took it too far, launching into a tirade | :02:46. | :02:49. | |
of obscenities to a journalist, accidentally on the record, | :02:50. | :02:51. | |
Reince resigned, Scaramucci seemed to have won, | :02:52. | :03:06. | |
reporting directly to the President. | :03:07. | :03:07. | |
But a new-new sheriff was in town, General John Kelly, the secretary | :03:08. | :03:11. | |
His request was that Scaramucci had to go. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Kelly's wish, the President's command. | :03:15. | :03:15. | |
After attending the swearing-in ceremony, the Mooch was escorted | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
Donald Trump has been in office for nearly six months, | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
but his presidency has been plagued by chaos and controversy. | :03:22. | :03:24. | |
From multiple investigations into his campaign's connections | :03:25. | :03:29. | |
with Russia, to constant staffing shake-ups at the White House. | :03:30. | :03:32. | |
But, with a four-star general at the helm now, | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
the administration is hoping that there will be smoother | :03:38. | :03:39. | |
The Home Secretary is challenging the likes of Facebook, | :03:40. | :03:50. | |
Twitter and Google to do more to remove extremist content online. | :03:51. | :03:53. | |
Amber Rudd has been attending a technology summit in San | :03:54. | :03:56. | |
She has told the firms they need to work together to protect | :03:57. | :03:59. | |
the public by stopping the spread of terror-related material. | :04:00. | :04:02. | |
Our North America technology reporter Dave Lee reports. | :04:03. | :04:04. | |
What I need them to acknowledge is that the enemy, who is really | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
trying to move swiftly online, to radicalise people | :04:09. | :04:10. | |
in their own homes, are really stepping their game up, | :04:11. | :04:12. | |
and we need our response stepped up as well. | :04:13. | :04:16. | |
They need to be the ones to own that. We're asking them to work | :04:17. | :04:22. | |
harder on this, to put more effort, more resources into it, and to work | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
together to deliver it. And in these meetings, actually, I have had a | :04:29. | :04:31. | |
very strong response from all of them. They say they will do just | :04:32. | :04:35. | |
that. None of them want to be the platform on which terrorists to | :04:36. | :04:38. | |
operate, and it is that imperative which is driving this forward. You | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
spoke about making these places on the internet hostile to terrorists. | :04:44. | :04:46. | |
What do you mean by that, exactly? How do you make something like that | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
hostile to Terras? Well, they have to make sure that the material that | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
carers want to put up gets taken down, or even better, doesn't go up | :04:56. | :04:59. | |
in the first place. That is what we are really trying to achieve. I | :05:00. | :05:02. | |
mean, in the UK we take down through our internet referral unit about | :05:03. | :05:25. | |
2000 hostile pieces a week. And that is continuing to rise. We need to | :05:26. | :05:29. | |
make sure that they take action to do this. Users are going to hear | :05:30. | :05:32. | |
this, regular users are going to hear this, and think what you are | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
trying to do is decide before someone posts something whether that | :05:37. | :05:39. | |
is allowed. I mean, that is censorship and the concerns about | :05:40. | :05:42. | |
that, I really... You are deciding before it even goes online whether | :05:43. | :05:45. | |
it is allowed. Well, I would ask users to decide very carefully the | :05:46. | :05:48. | |
consequences of what is going online. This is material that is | :05:49. | :05:51. | |
designed to encourage violence, it is designed to encourage terrorists. | :05:52. | :05:54. | |
Nobody wants that online. And there are ways that we can make sure that | :05:55. | :05:58. | |
the sort of people who they can track of who might be putting that | :05:59. | :06:02. | |
online, I stopped before it goes up, or indeed, as they put it up, it | :06:03. | :06:06. | |
stops actually going up, because they have managed to track it, and | :06:07. | :06:09. | |
they can identify it before it actually goes live. They have to | :06:10. | :06:13. | |
face up, people who might oppose this, to what our enemy is trying to | :06:14. | :06:16. | |
do. They are trying to weaponise people at home, vulnerable people, | :06:17. | :06:19. | |
trying to turn them into terrorists. And what happens is, when this | :06:20. | :06:22. | |
material goes online, it is circulated really fast. | :06:23. | :06:23. | |
Patients with pancreatic cancer are being operated on in just two | :06:24. | :06:26. | |
weeks, instead of two months, after being diagnosed. | :06:27. | :06:28. | |
Research published in the medical journal HPB says early surgery | :06:29. | :06:31. | |
increases patients' chances of having their tumours | :06:32. | :06:33. | |
Doctors in Birmingham hope their approach will | :06:34. | :06:36. | |
Kate Rigby was amazed at how smoothly the NHS worked | :06:37. | :06:40. | |
when she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. | :06:41. | :06:42. | |
Within seven days, she had had surgery at the Queen Elizabeth | :06:43. | :06:45. | |
I can't control NHS budget, and all the other things | :06:46. | :06:53. | |
for the poor people who aren't as lucky as me. | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
But what I can do is spread the word. | :06:58. | :07:00. | |
Normally, people with jaundice like Mrs Rigby have a stent put | :07:01. | :07:03. | |
in to relieve symptoms, which delays the main operation. | :07:04. | :07:05. | |
A nurse was employed to speed up treatment from two months to 16 | :07:06. | :07:11. | |
days, meaning a fifth more patients were able | :07:12. | :07:20. | |
to complete surgery to remove their cancer. | :07:21. | :07:22. | |
Cutting out the step also said the NHS ?3,200 per patient. | :07:23. | :07:25. | |
We save the NHS potentially ?200,000 per year, with the number | :07:26. | :07:28. | |
of patients that have surgery within our team. | :07:29. | :07:30. | |
And so that, then, is a reproducible model, that other units up and down | :07:31. | :07:34. | |
Pancreatic cancer has a very low survival rate. | :07:35. | :07:38. | |
It will be two years before doctors can say whether treating patients | :07:39. | :07:41. | |
more quickly actually means that they live longer. | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
And, if they do, that will beg the question as to whether or not | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
other aggressive cancers should be treated more quickly. | :07:48. | :07:50. | |
For now, Kate Rigby knows that she has been given the best | :07:51. | :07:54. | |
chance possible to survive pancreatic cancer. | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
British Gas has just announced its latest profits. | :07:57. | :08:05. | |
Yes, we have profits from British Gas and the parent company that own | :08:06. | :08:16. | |
it, and generally for the British Gas part of the business their | :08:17. | :08:22. | |
budgets are down. The biggest thing from the results statement this | :08:23. | :08:25. | |
morning is what they will do with energy prices. They are announcing | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
that from 15 September electricity prices will be going up a 12.5%. | :08:29. | :08:36. | |
British Gas had had a freeze longer than the other suppliers had had for | :08:37. | :08:40. | |
several months, but that has come through now. 12.5% on electricity. | :08:41. | :08:45. | |
Gas prices will be frozen, they say. That means it will be about ?76 on | :08:46. | :08:50. | |
average for everybody with a dual fuel bill with British Gas. Do we | :08:51. | :08:56. | |
know roughly how this compares to the other electricity companies? A | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
lot of the other suppliers have put up prices by a similar amount a | :09:00. | :09:03. | |
little earlier in the year. They had announced that. At wholesale prices, | :09:04. | :09:07. | |
so how much these big suppliers get paid to get energy into them, have | :09:08. | :09:12. | |
actually been falling this year. We are talking to the boss of British | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
Gas in about 20 minutes or so. It will be interesting to see why he | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
says prices are going up so much, because we talk about inflation | :09:22. | :09:26. | |
going up between 2% and 3%, electricity bills going up by 2.5% | :09:27. | :09:30. | |
is a large amount. They say that for those who get the Warm Home | :09:31. | :09:36. | |
Discount, the 200,000 most vulnerable customers, they will be | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
covering that cost. So effectively a rebate you will be getting if you | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
are already getting the Warm Home Discount. But around 3 million | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
customers will see a big price rise on their electricity bill. When are | :09:49. | :09:53. | |
you talking to the boss? In about 20 minutes or so. If you have a | :09:54. | :09:57. | |
specific question you would like Sean to ask, 12% is a big increase. | :09:58. | :10:02. | |
E-mail as those questions. You can get in touch on Twitter as well. | :10:03. | :10:06. | |
Pupils should be taught about the importance | :10:07. | :10:07. | |
of breast-feeding in schools, according to the professional body | :10:08. | :10:10. | |
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is also calling | :10:11. | :10:14. | |
on ministers to legislate for breast-feeding breaks | :10:15. | :10:16. | |
The College says Britain has one of the lowest rates | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
of breast-feeding in Europe, blaming social stigma for the trend. | :10:21. | :10:31. | |
More needs to be done to stop women being forced to wear high heels | :10:32. | :10:35. | |
at work, according to scientists at the University of Aberdeen. | :10:36. | :10:38. | |
Academics looked at the physical and social impact of wearing | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
the shoes, and say there is enough evidence to suggest they are bad | :10:41. | :10:44. | |
Earlier this year, the Government rejected calls for a ban | :10:45. | :10:48. | |
When the owner of Petey the dog became stuck in his car | :10:49. | :10:54. | |
during a flash-flood, he decided there was no way | :10:55. | :10:57. | |
he was going to leave his pet in danger. | :10:58. | :10:59. | |
The car was submerged after a dry creek bed was engulfed | :11:00. | :11:02. | |
Rescuers had to use a crane to get to the car, before Petey was handed | :11:03. | :11:08. | |
over by his owner, who then climbed out. | :11:09. | :11:10. | |
The pair could then walk across the crane to safety | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
And Petey is all well, that is good. Sally will have the sport for us in | :11:14. | :11:35. | |
about half an hour. Carol will have the weather. | :11:36. | :11:38. | |
He is no stranger to delivering the words "You're fired", | :11:39. | :11:40. | |
but even for the reality TV star-turned-President, | :11:41. | :11:42. | |
the past 11 days have seen a staggering number of departures | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
from the West Wing of Donald Trump's White House. | :11:46. | :11:48. | |
Former communications director Anthony Scaramucci is the latest | :11:49. | :11:50. | |
Let's try and make sense of the latest developments | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
with the American political analyst Eric Ham, who is in our Washington | :11:55. | :11:57. | |
Lovely to speak to you again. So when Anthony Scaramucci was first at | :11:58. | :12:15. | |
the podium, the first thing he said is I am going to be very brief. He | :12:16. | :12:20. | |
certainly was. He meant that literally, yes. This is a record | :12:21. | :12:25. | |
departure in the White House, and it actually looks more like a Trump's | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
own reality show, the apprentice, because we are seeing so many people | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
depart from this White House, it is getting difficult to keep up -- The | :12:33. | :12:38. | |
Apprentice. This is the third high-profile departure from this | :12:39. | :12:41. | |
White House in just to make weeks, so it does look like the White House | :12:42. | :12:46. | |
in chaos and there are many in the Republican establishment that are | :12:47. | :12:50. | |
actually breathing a sigh of relief, hoping that General Kelly can | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
actually bring normalcy to the White House. Now, what is ironic about | :12:54. | :12:59. | |
this new addition to the White House, General Kelly, is that he is | :13:00. | :13:03. | |
actually the first military man to serve as White House chief of staff | :13:04. | :13:08. | |
since Alexander Haig, who was the White House chief of staff for | :13:09. | :13:12. | |
Richard Nixon. And there have been many who have actually compared | :13:13. | :13:17. | |
Donald Trump's administration thus far to the eventual downfall of | :13:18. | :13:21. | |
Richard Nixon. So this could get really interesting going forward. | :13:22. | :13:25. | |
Talk us through a little bit more about Anthony Scaramucci himself. | :13:26. | :13:28. | |
When he was appointed and spoke himself he talked about just how | :13:29. | :13:32. | |
close he was to Donald Trump, kind of personally, but also in terms of | :13:33. | :13:37. | |
their style. He is quite rash, someone who on the face of it you | :13:38. | :13:40. | |
would think Donald Trump would like to have in his team. But he is gone | :13:41. | :13:44. | |
and partly because he was so outspoken -- quite brash. Do you | :13:45. | :13:48. | |
think his departure means we are heading towards a new style of White | :13:49. | :13:52. | |
House administration? Actually, I think we are heading into a new | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
style in the short term. I do believe that Donald Trump made some | :13:57. | :14:00. | |
concessions to John Kelly in order for John Kelly to take this position | :14:01. | :14:07. | |
and I do believe that one of those concessions was that Anthony | :14:08. | :14:10. | |
Scaramucci needed to move on from this position. I believe that Kelly | :14:11. | :14:13. | |
wanted somebody who was more disciplined in that role, and so I | :14:14. | :14:17. | |
believe that in the short term what Donald Trump did is something that | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
he failed to do with his previous White House chief of staff, and that | :14:22. | :14:26. | |
is to empower him to actually run the operation and manage the White | :14:27. | :14:32. | |
House as it should be, and make the White House chief of staff the last | :14:33. | :14:37. | |
voice that many people in that White House here. Now, I think what will | :14:38. | :14:42. | |
be interesting going forward is many people typically see the White House | :14:43. | :14:46. | |
chief of staff as an administrative or maybe a management position, but | :14:47. | :14:50. | |
actually, in Washington, this is actually considered the top | :14:51. | :14:53. | |
political job in Washington. And so we don't typically see or think of | :14:54. | :14:58. | |
General Kelly as a political person. So I think this will be interesting | :14:59. | :15:04. | |
if he can actually develop, or if he has, political antenna. Because that | :15:05. | :15:07. | |
is something he is going to moving forward. | :15:08. | :15:10. | |
I'm going to play a clip of Anthony Scaramucci when he spoke to one of | :15:11. | :15:19. | |
our colleagues Emily Maitlis and it gives you a glimpse of why he has | :15:20. | :15:21. | |
now gone. One of the things I cannot stand | :15:22. | :15:26. | |
about this town is the backstabbing that goes on here. OK? Where I grew | :15:27. | :15:30. | |
up in the neighbourhood I'm from we're front stabbers, we like to | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
tell you where we're from and what we're doing. He was talking about | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
backstabbing, the ironies are so rich in this but if you were looking | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
for a positive spin about this and the White House is all about spin, | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
it's the positive that they think they are heading to a calmer spot. | :15:48. | :15:52. | |
It has been pretty hectic. It has been. I do believe that many people | :15:53. | :15:57. | |
will look at this move and think that this can be a turning point for | :15:58. | :16:03. | |
this administration. But again, I do believe that Scaramucci was acting | :16:04. | :16:07. | |
in the interests of Donald Trump and I do believe that President Trump | :16:08. | :16:11. | |
and Chile was pleased with the work that he had witnessed thus far from | :16:12. | :16:19. | |
Scaramucci -- actually. But I believe he recognised he needed a | :16:20. | :16:24. | |
strong White House chief of staff. If there's one thing we know about | :16:25. | :16:29. | |
Donald Trump, he has a great and high respect for military personnel. | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
I believe in the short-term, and I do believe this is a short-term fix, | :16:35. | :16:40. | |
he was willing to hand over the rains to John Kelly to move him into | :16:41. | :16:42. | |
this position. I believe we will see a more | :16:43. | :16:48. | |
disciplined White House but will we see a more disciplined President | :16:49. | :16:50. | |
Trump? That's the big question going | :16:51. | :16:59. | |
forward. The departure of Scaramucci is perhaps the easiest thing John | :17:00. | :17:03. | |
Kelly will be able to get done in this White House. Now the real | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
difficult work of running the White House and managing relationships | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
both with Congress and other Republican stakeholders, I think | :17:13. | :17:16. | |
that becomes the very heavylift that John Kelly is going to have to wrap | :17:17. | :17:26. | |
his hands around going forward. Eric, thanks for staying up late for | :17:27. | :17:31. | |
us, never a dull day in the White House! You could stay up and just be | :17:32. | :17:35. | |
entertained at all hours watching the White House! | :17:36. | :17:36. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :17:37. | :17:37. | |
The main stories this morning: | :17:38. | :17:39. | |
Donald Trump has sacked his communications director, | :17:40. | :17:41. | |
Anthony Scaramucci, just days after appointing him. | :17:42. | :17:43. | |
The Home Secretary is in America challenging the likes of Facebook, | :17:44. | :17:46. | |
Twitter and Google to do more to remove extremist content online. | :17:47. | :17:54. | |
Piece Mill which reopens in Halifax this morning. | :17:55. | :18:07. | |
It's to help celebrate Yorkshire Date. You can see the blue skies | :18:08. | :18:14. | |
peeking through the clouds. -- Date. Is that going to be the picture | :18:15. | :18:22. | |
across the country? -- Date. You're on the top of New Broadcasting House | :18:23. | :18:26. | |
in London? Good morning. It won't be the case everywhere and even in | :18:27. | :18:30. | |
Yorkshire it won't stay dry all day because what we have today is a | :18:31. | :18:34. | |
forecast of heavy showers, some will have hail and thunder embedded in | :18:35. | :18:38. | |
them, and bright spells or indeed sunny intervals. If we start by | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
looking at the country at 9am. In Scotland we will have some heavy | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
showers, particularly north of the central Belt. Where we don't have | :18:48. | :18:51. | |
the showers it's a bright start with southern Scotland seeing some | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
showers this morning, easing off through the morning, though. Some | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
heavy showers at the moment in parts of north-west England. Currently | :18:59. | :19:02. | |
north-east England is dry, as we've just seen in Halifax, and as we come | :19:03. | :19:06. | |
further south across the Peak District into the Midlands, East | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
Anglia, Essex and Kent all the way to the Home Counties and the Isle of | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Wight, similar skies to London, blue skies with some cloud here and | :19:15. | :19:19. | |
there. Drifting east woods, and westwards, against some sunshine but | :19:20. | :19:23. | |
a few showers in south-west England -- eastwards. In Wales, some heavy | :19:24. | :19:27. | |
showers and forming lines through the night, that's why they are | :19:28. | :19:32. | |
heavy, they are merging. As we push into Northern Ireland, the north and | :19:33. | :19:35. | |
west of Northern Ireland is seeing the showers this morning with the | :19:36. | :19:38. | |
east attending to be dry. Through the day further showers will develop | :19:39. | :19:43. | |
and some will push east. Not all of us will see them but there's the | :19:44. | :19:47. | |
potential for some to be heavy and thundery with some hail, especially | :19:48. | :19:51. | |
if we draw a line from said the south Wales to the Wash northwards, | :19:52. | :19:55. | |
that's where you're likely to see that combination. Further south, | :19:56. | :20:00. | |
south-east England could stay dry and in light winds, temperatures up | :20:01. | :20:04. | |
to 23 feeling quite pleasant but generally we're looking at a | :20:05. | :20:08. | |
temperature range of 17 to 20. As we had through the evening and | :20:09. | :20:17. | |
overnight, many the showers will tend to fade but through the latter | :20:18. | :20:21. | |
part of the night you'll notice the cloud encroaching into south-west | :20:22. | :20:23. | |
England and south Wales. The showers will start to arrive and the wind | :20:24. | :20:27. | |
will increase and the whole lot will be followed by rain. Temperatures | :20:28. | :20:30. | |
roughly ten to 15 overnight but lower than that in sheltered glens | :20:31. | :20:33. | |
in Scotland. For tomorrow for many we start off on a drier and brighter | :20:34. | :20:37. | |
note even with some sunshine but all the cloud and rain in the south-west | :20:38. | :20:41. | |
will move north-east and spread out across the south coast. That's where | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
it's going to be heavy and persistent and it will drift | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
north-east of through the day. Coastal gales in south-west England | :20:48. | :20:50. | |
and south-west Wales and eventually the rain pushes far north, not into | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
the far north of Scotland, which will hang on to the driest | :20:54. | :20:57. | |
conditions but tomorrow as a result will be cooler. Most of that clears | :20:58. | :21:01. | |
overnight and by Thursday we have a curl of rain coming into the north | :21:02. | :21:06. | |
and west of the UK. That will bring showery outbreaks of rain but for | :21:07. | :21:10. | |
many it will be dry, a breezy day and temperatures getting up into the | :21:11. | :21:15. | |
low 20s. That leads us into Friday, which is going to be a day of | :21:16. | :21:19. | |
sunshine and showers but at the moment it looks like we are going to | :21:20. | :21:23. | |
see hunting dry in the south on Saturday and for many on Sunday. But | :21:24. | :21:28. | |
that's an if because there are tropical storms in the Atlantic and | :21:29. | :21:31. | |
that could have a bearing on our weather, so I'll keep you posted on | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
that in the next couple of days. Keep us posted. Thanks bromance, see | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
you later on. Let's look at the morning papers, shall we? -- thanks | :21:42. | :21:45. | |
very much. The Daily Telegraph looking at Statins, lots of | :21:46. | :21:49. | |
discussion about how useful they are and who should be receiving them but | :21:50. | :21:53. | |
now the Royal College of GPs is warning they are being prescribed to | :21:54. | :21:57. | |
people because of their age and not their condition. The other story is | :21:58. | :22:03. | |
Mr Scaramucci, Anthony Scaramucci, has been removed as Donald Trump's | :22:04. | :22:06. | |
communications director after 11 days. That's on the front page of | :22:07. | :22:11. | |
the Mail as well, the picture is Scaramucci and Donald Trump, the | :22:12. | :22:16. | |
thumbs up shot clearly before this recent sacking and the main story | :22:17. | :22:21. | |
pupils as young as 11 could have lessons in breast-feeding to make it | :22:22. | :22:28. | |
better better known. Sam Shepard, the American actor and playwright | :22:29. | :22:33. | |
has died at 73 after suffering with motor neurone disease. On the front | :22:34. | :22:39. | |
page of the Sun, quite of the few -- quite a few of the papers focusing | :22:40. | :22:45. | |
on the Diana tapes featuring in a television documentary. This page on | :22:46. | :22:51. | |
the front of the Sun, very controversial story often, according | :22:52. | :22:55. | |
to this story Facebook shut down artificial intelligence experiments | :22:56. | :23:00. | |
after two robots began talking in a language only they understood. They | :23:01. | :23:04. | |
were set up to start having this discussion. It was a kind of | :23:05. | :23:09. | |
negotiation and watching the dialogue and eventually it made no | :23:10. | :23:13. | |
sense to anyone and the assumption was they understood each other but | :23:14. | :23:17. | |
we didn't understand them. The rise of the machines, sounds familiar! | :23:18. | :23:19. | |
From today, people studying to be nurses or midwives will no longer | :23:20. | :23:23. | |
receive NHS bursaries, instead they will have to apply | :23:24. | :23:25. | |
Applications for courses are down by more than 20%. | :23:26. | :23:29. | |
The Government says it is providing funding for an extra 10,000 | :23:30. | :23:31. | |
university places for students on nursing, midwifery and other | :23:32. | :23:34. | |
We get rid of that and you've now got what? | :23:35. | :23:48. | |
These second-year nursing students are getting their first look | :23:49. | :23:52. | |
at the Anatomage Table using the latest technology to take | :23:53. | :23:56. | |
a 3-D trip through a virtual human body. | :23:57. | :24:01. | |
Their degree course at the University of Central Lancashire | :24:02. | :24:04. | |
is funded by NHS bursaries and grants, but as of today | :24:05. | :24:07. | |
applicants wanting to study nursing, midwifery | :24:08. | :24:08. | |
and other medical courses will need a student loan in line | :24:09. | :24:11. | |
So would it have deterred these students? | :24:12. | :24:19. | |
I don't think it would have made a difference to myself | :24:20. | :24:22. | |
because I really wanted to become a nurse and although the financial | :24:23. | :24:25. | |
implications of not having a bursary would have impacted on me quite | :24:26. | :24:29. | |
heavily, but I could have managed and my desire to become a nurse | :24:30. | :24:32. | |
But applications for these courses have fallen by around 20%. | :24:33. | :24:41. | |
Theories include doubts from European students about Brexit. | :24:42. | :24:48. | |
A birthrate decline in the number of 18-year-olds as well as concerns | :24:49. | :24:51. | |
The universities, though, are determined to see the numbers | :24:52. | :24:56. | |
recover and here there's cautious optimism. | :24:57. | :24:58. | |
We have seen a decline in the number of applications coming through, | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
but they're good quality and so the key thing | :25:02. | :25:03. | |
is that they convert into the numbers that we have. | :25:04. | :25:06. | |
So I'm very positive at this moment in time | :25:07. | :25:08. | |
One of the main areas of concern is the impact on mature students. | :25:09. | :25:20. | |
Nursing and midwifery attract a much higher percentage of older | :25:21. | :25:25. | |
applicants than other degree courses and their life experience is seen | :25:26. | :25:29. | |
as a vital part of the mix on a ward. | :25:30. | :25:34. | |
Sarah Cordy says a loan instead of a bursary would have | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
stopped her changing career to become a midwife. | :25:38. | :25:41. | |
To saddle students with a huge amount of debt when they are only | :25:42. | :25:44. | |
ever able to earn what the government dictates they can | :25:45. | :25:51. | |
earn, it doesn't seem to make sense to me and had I been making this | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
decision now knowing that I would have to take on the debt, | :25:56. | :25:58. | |
The government argues that the cap on student places had previously | :25:59. | :26:03. | |
restricted numbers and that changing the funding will lead to an increase | :26:04. | :26:06. | |
But Les Green says he now can't afford to pursue his dream job. | :26:07. | :26:14. | |
?30,000, I'd be paying back until I finish probably my... | :26:15. | :26:30. | |
I don't think I'd ever play that off, I'd pay it until the rest | :26:31. | :26:38. | |
All signs agree that the NHS is in dire need of more clinical | :26:39. | :26:43. | |
staff but the debate centres on how to pay for them. | :26:44. | :26:46. | |
We're talking high heels later on. | :26:47. | :26:52. | |
Researchers say wearing them raises the risk of injury | :26:53. | :26:54. | |
and they also want action to stop women being forced to wear them, | :26:55. | :26:58. | |
despite the government already rejecting calls for a ban | :26:59. | :27:00. | |
Do they cause you pain, do you wear them because your boss | :27:01. | :27:04. | |
Get in contact and let us know your thoughts. | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are. | :27:09. | :30:31. | |
Hello, this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Naga | :30:32. | :30:41. | |
Our main story this morning, British Gas has announced it is increasing | :30:42. | :30:54. | |
its electricity charges by 12%. Those figures just out this morning. | :30:55. | :30:58. | |
We will bring you more details shortly, but British Gas announcing | :30:59. | :31:01. | |
that it is increasing those electricity prices by 12.5%. That | :31:02. | :31:08. | |
will be from mid-September and will affect around 3 million customers in | :31:09. | :31:12. | |
all, who are all on standard tariffs. It will add around ?76 a | :31:13. | :31:17. | |
year to dual fuel bills for the average household. It is the energy | :31:18. | :31:23. | |
firm's first price rise since 2013, and we will have more on that story | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
throughout the programme this morning. | :31:27. | :31:29. | |
The White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, | :31:30. | :31:31. | |
has been fired, less than two weeks after his appointment. | :31:32. | :31:34. | |
In the latest high-profile departure from Donald Trump's top team, | :31:35. | :31:37. | |
the new chief of staff, John Kelly, asked Mr Scaramucci to step aside. | :31:38. | :31:40. | |
The former banker made headlines when derogatory comments he made | :31:41. | :31:43. | |
about General Kelly's predecessor were made public. | :31:44. | :31:46. | |
The President certainly felt that Anthony's comments | :31:47. | :31:48. | |
were inappropriate for a person in that position, and he didn't | :31:49. | :31:51. | |
want to burden General Kelly, also, with that line of succession. | :31:52. | :31:54. | |
As I think we have made clear a few times over the course of the last | :31:55. | :31:59. | |
couple of days, to several of you individually, | :32:00. | :32:01. | |
but General Kelly has the full authority to operate | :32:02. | :32:03. | |
in the White House, and all staff will report to him. | :32:04. | :32:14. | |
The Home Secretary is challenging the likes of Facebook, | :32:15. | :32:17. | |
Twitter and Google to do more to remove extremist content online. | :32:18. | :32:20. | |
Amber Rudd has been attending a technology summit set up | :32:21. | :32:22. | |
by the internet giants in San Francisco, and has told | :32:23. | :32:25. | |
the firms they need to do more to protect the public by stopping | :32:26. | :32:29. | |
the spread of terror-related material. | :32:30. | :32:30. | |
But there is concern that the privacy of ordinary users | :32:31. | :32:33. | |
What I need them to acknowledges that the enemy, who is really trying | :32:34. | :32:46. | |
to move swiftly online, to radicalise people in their own | :32:47. | :32:50. | |
homes, are really stepping their game up. And we need our response | :32:51. | :32:52. | |
stepped up as well. Medical researchers have revealed | :32:53. | :32:55. | |
details of a new approach to treating people with pancreatic | :32:56. | :32:57. | |
cancer, one of the deadliest A pilot by the university hospitals | :32:58. | :33:00. | |
Birmingham found that early surgery increases patients' chances | :33:01. | :33:03. | |
of having their tumours removed The charity, Pancreatic Cancer | :33:04. | :33:06. | |
UK, says the findings From today, babies born in England, | :33:07. | :33:25. | |
Wales and Northern Ireland are to be offered a new vaccine which protects | :33:26. | :33:38. | |
against hepatitis B. The hexavalent vaccine will also | :33:39. | :33:41. | |
immunise against five other diseases, including polio, | :33:42. | :33:43. | |
tetanus and whooping cough. Health Protection Scotland | :33:44. | :33:45. | |
is set to adopt a similar Public Health England | :33:46. | :33:47. | |
says the new vaccine has Workers at the Bank of England | :33:48. | :33:50. | |
will today hold their first strike in more than 50 years, | :33:51. | :33:54. | |
as part of a campaign Members of the Unite union | :33:55. | :33:57. | |
will walk out for three days, after talks at the conciliation | :33:58. | :34:01. | |
service, Acas, broke Unite wants the bank | :34:02. | :34:03. | |
to scrap its 1% cap on pay rises, arguing that a third of staff | :34:04. | :34:07. | |
will get no increase this year. The bank says essential business | :34:08. | :34:10. | |
will continue as normal Pupils should be taught | :34:11. | :34:13. | |
about the importance of breast-feeding in schools, | :34:14. | :34:16. | |
according to the professional body The Royal College of Paediatrics | :34:17. | :34:18. | |
and Child Health is also calling on ministers to legislate | :34:19. | :34:22. | |
for breast-feeding breaks The college says Britain has | :34:23. | :34:24. | |
one of the lowest rates of breast-feeding in Europe, | :34:25. | :34:28. | |
blaming social stigma for the trend. More needs to be done to stop women | :34:29. | :34:31. | |
being forced to wear high heels at work, according to scientists | :34:32. | :34:35. | |
at the University of Aberdeen. Academics looked at the physical | :34:36. | :34:37. | |
and social impact of wearing the shoes, and say there is enough | :34:38. | :34:40. | |
evidence to suggest they are bad Earlier this year, the Government | :34:41. | :34:44. | |
rejected calls for a ban A Canadian couple have been | :34:45. | :35:02. | |
described as heroes for using their speedboat to put out a wildfire. | :35:03. | :35:07. | |
They were on a river when they spotted smoke on the bank. Natasha | :35:08. | :35:12. | |
called the authorities but her partner had another idea and | :35:13. | :35:16. | |
repeatedly drove the speedboat close to shore, spinning it so that the | :35:17. | :35:25. | |
water douse the flames. -- doused the flames. The firefighters | :35:26. | :35:29. | |
eventually arrived and managed to put out the fire. | :35:30. | :35:33. | |
Carol will be here with the weather in ten minutes. | :35:34. | :35:37. | |
It is looking quite nice, we are seeing a bit of blue sky. Later, | :35:38. | :35:45. | |
later. I was just thinking there is a new James Bond film next year, | :35:46. | :35:50. | |
that chap should be auditioning. He probably does that anyway, a bit of | :35:51. | :35:55. | |
spinning around. Do you think? Are you not impressed? Well, why not? | :35:56. | :36:02. | |
And talking of spinning... Get it? I see where you are going there. | :36:03. | :36:04. | |
England's cricketers went 2-1 up in the Test series | :36:05. | :36:07. | |
against South Africa yesterday, after an amazing final day | :36:08. | :36:09. | |
The tourists were trying to save a draw, but two wickets | :36:10. | :36:14. | |
in two balls from debutant Toby Roland-Jones ended those hopes. | :36:15. | :36:16. | |
The only resistance came from Dean Elgar, who went | :36:17. | :36:19. | |
But it was Moeen Ali who finished South Africa off, | :36:20. | :36:23. | |
winning the match in the perfect fashion, with a hat-trick. | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
England victorious by 239 runs, a vast improvement | :36:26. | :36:27. | |
upon their disastrous Trent Bridge performance, | :36:28. | :36:29. | |
which saw the team come under intense criticism two weeks ago. | :36:30. | :36:44. | |
I think the way we played was brilliant. I looked down the side | :36:45. | :36:50. | |
and we had a number of matchwinners throughout. If we can get in a | :36:51. | :36:54. | |
position of strength early we can generally find ways to get across | :36:55. | :36:57. | |
the line. So I think it is really important that we continue to look | :36:58. | :37:01. | |
to do that. But the most important thing to me was that we responded | :37:02. | :37:04. | |
positively after last week. It was obviously very tough week for us but | :37:05. | :37:08. | |
it shows the character of the guys in the dressing room. | :37:09. | :37:09. | |
The World Athletics Championships get under way at the weekend, | :37:10. | :37:12. | |
but one of the star attractions on the track won't be there. | :37:13. | :37:15. | |
David Rudisha, the world and Olympic 800m champion and world record | :37:16. | :37:18. | |
The Kenyan won the world title in Beijing two years ago, | :37:19. | :37:23. | |
and broke the world record in London in 2012. | :37:24. | :37:26. | |
Meanwhile, the sport's governing body, the IAAF, | :37:27. | :37:27. | |
says Russia remains banned from international competition, | :37:28. | :37:29. | |
because they haven't made sufficient progress in anti-doping. | :37:30. | :37:31. | |
Russia was barred from last year's Olympics for state-sponsored doping. | :37:32. | :37:34. | |
19 Russians will compete as independently at the World | :37:35. | :37:37. | |
We've seen progress, and yes, some of that - | :37:38. | :37:43. | |
on some occasions, some of that progress has been quicker | :37:44. | :37:45. | |
And it tended to speed up a little bit when there's been a focus | :37:46. | :37:50. | |
normally around the major championships. | :37:51. | :37:52. | |
So it's not that there isn't any progress, but the progress we want | :37:53. | :37:55. | |
has to culminate in a meeting of those criteria, and it's clear | :37:56. | :37:58. | |
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has made his third big | :37:59. | :38:11. | |
He has gone back to former club Chelsea and signed Nemanja Matic, | :38:12. | :38:15. | |
a player he signed for the Blues three years ago. | :38:16. | :38:18. | |
He has moved to Old Trafford for a fee of ?35 million. | :38:19. | :38:21. | |
Cristiano Ronaldo has appeared in court in Spain, | :38:22. | :38:31. | |
where he is facing allegation of tax evasion. | :38:32. | :38:33. | |
The Real Madrid star is accused of evading just over ?13 million. | :38:34. | :38:37. | |
He has said he has never had any intentions to evade paying taxes. | :38:38. | :38:47. | |
Liverpool's biggest independent supporters group has voted | :38:48. | :38:49. | |
overwhelmingly in favour of the safe standing at Premier League grounds. | :38:50. | :38:52. | |
The Premier League wrote to its 20 clubs last month to assess | :38:53. | :38:55. | |
whether they would be interested in staging trials. | :38:56. | :38:57. | |
It follows Celtic's decision to introduce around 3,000 rail | :38:58. | :39:00. | |
The question of safe standing at stadiums has been on the agenda | :39:01. | :39:11. | |
after Lord Justice Taylor's inquiry into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, | :39:12. | :39:14. | |
in which 96 Liverpool fans were killed. | :39:15. | :39:16. | |
Four-time Major champion Rory McIlroy has split | :39:17. | :39:18. | |
The pair have worked together for the past nine years, | :39:19. | :39:22. | |
and for each of McIlroy's Major successes. | :39:23. | :39:24. | |
Last month, McIlroy gave Fitzgerald credit for geeing him up | :39:25. | :39:27. | |
McIlroy is expected to confirm the news tomorrow, ahead of this | :39:28. | :39:31. | |
week's World Golf Championship event in Ohio. | :39:32. | :39:45. | |
What are your earliest memories of an Olympics? What is the first big | :39:46. | :39:52. | |
Olympics you remember? One really sticks in my mind. My earliest | :39:53. | :39:55. | |
proper memory I think would be David Thompson. I wonder whether it might | :39:56. | :40:05. | |
have been... It might have been Los Angeles, 1984? That is actually | :40:06. | :40:09. | |
quite late, but if I am honest that is the first one. What about some of | :40:10. | :40:13. | |
the swimmers, David Wilkie and some of those swimmers Elli on... Who was | :40:14. | :40:23. | |
the Ethiopian runner, the woman? -- earlier on. Interestingly, you are | :40:24. | :40:26. | |
going back to 1984. The deal is done for Los Angeles | :40:27. | :40:30. | |
to host the 2028 Olympic LA's bid team has reached | :40:31. | :40:33. | |
an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, | :40:34. | :40:37. | |
which is expected to be ratified by the Los Angeles City | :40:38. | :40:39. | |
Council later today. LA had originally been | :40:40. | :40:41. | |
bidding for the 2024 Games, but that event is now set | :40:42. | :40:44. | |
to take place in Paris. When I said to you at the start of | :40:45. | :40:52. | |
this, what is your most striking Olympic memory, do you know what | :40:53. | :40:56. | |
mine is? The man with the jet pack arriving into the stadium in Los | :40:57. | :41:01. | |
Angeles. It was just like something from another world. It very much may | :41:02. | :41:06. | |
be Olympics much bigger, there was a sense of occasion to it. And in 1984 | :41:07. | :41:11. | |
no one really wanted that Olympics. Los Angeles to get and it did them a | :41:12. | :41:16. | |
world of good. It was a fantastic to be kept games, so the Olympics | :41:17. | :41:20. | |
definitely going back to Hollywood. -- fantastic Games. | :41:21. | :41:24. | |
British Gas have just announced they are putting their prices up | :41:25. | :41:28. | |
Sometimes it feels like it doesn't have much direct impact on people's | :41:29. | :41:36. | |
pockets, but this announcement really does. Yes, it is not just | :41:37. | :41:40. | |
about profits but about energy prices. | :41:41. | :41:41. | |
Yes, Britain's largest energy supplier has just said | :41:42. | :41:43. | |
that its electricity prices will go up by 12.5% from September. | :41:44. | :41:46. | |
Gas prices will be frozen, but it means around ?76 will be | :41:47. | :41:49. | |
added to average annual household duel fuel bills. | :41:50. | :41:51. | |
Iain Conn is the chief executive of Centrica. | :41:52. | :41:53. | |
Good morning. Good morning. The wholesale cost of energy, what you | :41:54. | :42:14. | |
pay for it, has been going down. So why is it going up customers? So | :42:15. | :42:19. | |
first of all, the last time we moved our electricity prices was in | :42:20. | :42:24. | |
January 2014, and since then they have been held flat. From that time, | :42:25. | :42:29. | |
and you are absolutely correct, wholesale prices have fallen. We | :42:30. | :42:33. | |
estimate about ?36 on the average bill. That is not what is driving | :42:34. | :42:38. | |
this. What is driving it is the transport and distribution costs. | :42:39. | :42:42. | |
The cost of getting the electricity to your home, and government, | :42:43. | :42:47. | |
environmental and policy costs. And when you add those two together, | :42:48. | :42:52. | |
that has gone up I approaching ?100. That is what is driving the | :42:53. | :42:55. | |
increase. I should finally say that, even after this increase, British | :42:56. | :43:07. | |
Gas's increase is lower than our competitors. We have heard that when | :43:08. | :43:11. | |
energy prices are going up or you that is often passed on. If when | :43:12. | :43:15. | |
they are falling at does not fall for the customer, does that mean the | :43:16. | :43:20. | |
energy market is not working for these customers? Actually, as the | :43:21. | :43:24. | |
energy prices have been falling, we have reduced gas prices four times | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
over the last few years. And the only reason electricity prices are | :43:31. | :43:34. | |
not falling, and are now rising, is because of these other costs. The | :43:35. | :43:39. | |
electricity costs are being affected either change in the electricity | :43:40. | :43:43. | |
system, as more renewables are coming on the big red -- by the | :43:44. | :43:57. | |
change. -- onto the grid. So if customers want to see electricity | :43:58. | :44:01. | |
prices falling, who do they look to to get that to fall? Is it the | :44:02. | :44:05. | |
government? Is that people providing you with energy? So first of all, | :44:06. | :44:09. | |
one has to remember that all energy costs have actually fallen, on | :44:10. | :44:14. | |
average, significantly over the last few years. Electricity by less, as I | :44:15. | :44:21. | |
have explained, gas prices by more, and we have been able to pass it | :44:22. | :44:25. | |
onto our customers. And this price in September is for electricity | :44:26. | :44:30. | |
only. Our gas prices are being held flat. It is a big figure, isn't it? | :44:31. | :44:39. | |
Ofgem are the regulator for the industry. They have said that | :44:40. | :44:48. | |
tariffs are lower. Why can't you switch people to a fixed-rate deal? | :44:49. | :44:52. | |
You know it is better for your customers. Festival, Ofgem have | :44:53. | :44:54. | |
published also that the average cost per hour supplier has gone up by | :44:55. | :45:00. | |
about 15% in the Kostya -- first of all. On standard variable tariffs. | :45:01. | :45:08. | |
Our standard tariff is a standard retail tariff. But standard variable | :45:09. | :45:12. | |
tariffs are not good value for a lot of customers, yet you still provide | :45:13. | :45:18. | |
it. So the standard variable tariff is part of our licence conditions. | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
And one of the things we are proposing is, instead of the | :45:22. | :45:25. | |
government capping the standard variable tariff, which we think | :45:26. | :45:28. | |
would not be good for competition or choice, we are actually advocating | :45:29. | :45:33. | |
that the standard variable tariff should be phased out completely. We | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
think that these tariffs that have no end to that term do not encourage | :45:38. | :45:43. | |
customers to shop around, and we are advocating ending it. | :45:44. | :45:47. | |
What do you say to customers where they have seen supermarkets say | :45:48. | :45:56. | |
there are prices rising, and British Gas have put up prices 12.5%, that | :45:57. | :46:01. | |
will squeeze their pockets more when wages are going up at the same rate. | :46:02. | :46:06. | |
What do you say to those people? It's very regrettable we have had to | :46:07. | :46:11. | |
put prices up. This is the first time for electricity in four years | :46:12. | :46:15. | |
and I remind you we have also reduced prices of gas a number of | :46:16. | :46:20. | |
times over the last few years so we are responsive. The average increase | :46:21. | :46:26. | |
will be 7.3% on a dual fuel bill and the final point I will make is we | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
are very concerned about some customers who have difficulty paying | :46:31. | :46:36. | |
and the warm home discount provided to some customers we consider | :46:37. | :46:40. | |
vulnerable, some of them are not protected by the prepayment cap that | :46:41. | :46:44. | |
came in at the beginning of this year and we voluntarily decided we | :46:45. | :46:48. | |
going to protect another 200,000 of those customers from this increase. | :46:49. | :46:53. | |
We are very conscious of people's pockets and the fact that energy is | :46:54. | :47:00. | |
a big part of the Bill. That is why we implemented a price freeze and | :47:01. | :47:04. | |
kept it open for as long as we could. Hyeon, thanks very much, the | :47:05. | :47:09. | |
Chief Executive of Centrica, which owns British Gas. -- Ian. Prices | :47:10. | :47:17. | |
going up not because of energy prices for them going up but they | :47:18. | :47:22. | |
say it is government costs and transmission costs have gone up so | :47:23. | :47:26. | |
much that it has had to go on to the customers. Sean, thanks very much. | :47:27. | :47:27. | |
You're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :47:28. | :47:29. | |
The main stories this morning: | :47:30. | :47:30. | |
Donald Trump has sacked his communications director, | :47:31. | :47:32. | |
Anthony Scaramucci, just days after appointing him. | :47:33. | :47:34. | |
The Home Secretary is in America challenging the likes of Facebook, | :47:35. | :47:37. | |
Twitter and Google to do more to remove extremist content online. | :47:38. | :47:50. | |
Let's have a look at the weather this morning and have a chat with | :47:51. | :47:57. | |
Carol. Good morning. Good morning from the roof of broadcasting house | :47:58. | :48:01. | |
in London. Good morning to you too. A fine start to the morning, breezy | :48:02. | :48:07. | |
but we are a few levels up. Blue skies and feeling pleasant but the | :48:08. | :48:10. | |
forecast for the UK is one of sunshine and heavy showers. Some of | :48:11. | :48:14. | |
the showers could have hail and thunder embedded in them but as is | :48:15. | :48:18. | |
the way with showers, not everyone will see one. If we take a tour | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
around the country at 9am, there is some rain in parts of Scotland, | :48:24. | :48:26. | |
particularly north of the Central Belt. Showers through the south of | :48:27. | :48:30. | |
the Central Belt but in between a lot of dry weather. Some heavy | :48:31. | :48:34. | |
showers and still some to come in north-west England this morning but | :48:35. | :48:38. | |
in north-east England at this stage it is dry with sunshine and that | :48:39. | :48:42. | |
continues as we go southwards in through the Peak District, the | :48:43. | :48:46. | |
Midlands, East Anglia, Essex, Kent, down to the Isle of Wight with | :48:47. | :48:49. | |
variable amounts of cloud and in amongst that sunshine we will seek | :48:50. | :48:55. | |
cloudy conditions. Further west, sunshine in Dorset and | :48:56. | :48:57. | |
Gloucestershire and in the south-west we could see some showers | :48:58. | :49:01. | |
but most will miss them but Wales is a different story, heavy showers | :49:02. | :49:04. | |
this morning on and off and with you much of the day but in between some | :49:05. | :49:09. | |
brighter skies. Northern Ireland, east is best, west with showers in | :49:10. | :49:13. | |
the north and west. Through the course of the day, showers in the | :49:14. | :49:18. | |
west will move a bit further eastwards, fragmenting. Further | :49:19. | :49:21. | |
showers will develop. We're not all going to catch one but if we were to | :49:22. | :49:26. | |
draw a line from south Wales to the wash, points north of that are more | :49:27. | :49:30. | |
prone to slow moving heavy showers with hail and thunder. Further south | :49:31. | :49:34. | |
the showers will be further and farther between. With highs of 23 it | :49:35. | :49:40. | |
will be pleasant in light breezes. Through the evening and overnight | :49:41. | :49:44. | |
the showers will fade but we have cloud building in south-west England | :49:45. | :49:47. | |
and south Wales and then some showers and then rain and the wind | :49:48. | :49:51. | |
strengthening. Temperature wise we are looking at ten to 15 as the | :49:52. | :49:55. | |
overnight lows, lower in rural Scotland, though. Tomorrow we start | :49:56. | :49:59. | |
with a lot of drier and brighter weather in northern, eastern and | :50:00. | :50:03. | |
central parts but the cloud will continue to drift north-east ahead | :50:04. | :50:07. | |
of the band of rain doing the same thing. You can see how it forks out. | :50:08. | :50:11. | |
The heaviest rain will be in Wales, south-west England and southern | :50:12. | :50:17. | |
counties and here it will also be persistent and we will see coastal | :50:18. | :50:20. | |
gales across the approaches of south-west England and southern | :50:21. | :50:22. | |
Wales. Northern Scotland staying dry. Through the course of the | :50:23. | :50:26. | |
evening and overnight, that rain pushes across and we have a curl of | :50:27. | :50:30. | |
showery outbreaks in the north and west but for many on Thursday it | :50:31. | :50:35. | |
will be dry and breezy with highs up to the low 20s. | :50:36. | :50:37. | |
Thanks, Carol. We will talk later. Thanks very much. | :50:38. | :50:41. | |
Britain's only surviving cloth hall reopens today | :50:42. | :50:43. | |
after a multi-million pound renovation. | :50:44. | :50:45. | |
The Piece Hall in Halifax, West Yorkshire | :50:46. | :50:47. | |
was once the centre of the world's wool trade and since then it has | :50:48. | :50:50. | |
been through a number of different incarnations. | :50:51. | :50:52. | |
Fiona Lamdin is there for us this morning. | :50:53. | :50:59. | |
It's an amazing building, Fiona, isn't it? Good morning. Good | :51:00. | :51:07. | |
morning. I'm in the middle of the Piece Hall, it feels like we could | :51:08. | :51:11. | |
be in Italy but this is Halifax. It's over 200 years old. It has an | :51:12. | :51:16. | |
extraordinary history but today at 10am it opens its doors to training | :51:17. | :51:20. | |
again but I've been looking back at the extraordinary history. -- | :51:21. | :51:25. | |
trading. For the last 2.5 centuries the Piece | :51:26. | :51:31. | |
Hall has stood at the heart of Halifax, where in 1779 people came | :51:32. | :51:37. | |
to trade pieces of cloth. There were at least 315 individual rooms built | :51:38. | :51:42. | |
for the sale of cloth, from which clothiers would have sold the will | :51:43. | :51:46. | |
to merchants. Merchants would have come from quite far afield, | :51:47. | :51:49. | |
including on occasion from Europe, and the trade from the Piece Hall | :51:50. | :51:53. | |
went back into Europe and also over to the Americas. All the Wall came | :51:54. | :51:57. | |
from local sheep woven by local families on their farms. This is an | :51:58. | :52:02. | |
example of the cloth most commonly sold in the Piece Hall and as you | :52:03. | :52:06. | |
can feel, it's pretty hard wearing, isn't it? Pretty rough. This was | :52:07. | :52:12. | |
largely used by the military so it would have been used to make | :52:13. | :52:18. | |
uniforms. This is the country's only surviving in fact cloth hall. With | :52:19. | :52:23. | |
315 individual yet identical trading rooms. It seems such a waste this | :52:24. | :52:32. | |
beautiful building was only open back then in the 18th century for | :52:33. | :52:37. | |
trading for two hours every week. But after the Industrial Revolution | :52:38. | :52:41. | |
the cloth was mainly made and sold from the mills. In its place the | :52:42. | :52:46. | |
Piece Hall was filled with fruit and veg sellers. But a century on, in | :52:47. | :52:51. | |
the 1970s, this is how the Piece Hall looked, a blot on the | :52:52. | :52:54. | |
landscape, threatened to be flattened to make way for a car | :52:55. | :52:59. | |
park. One of those who fought to save it back then was Mary Crosby. | :53:00. | :53:04. | |
She had a shop on the second floor. She hasn't been inside for decades. | :53:05. | :53:12. | |
We took her back. Wow! Wow! Isn't that lovely? | :53:13. | :53:14. | |
When I first came in it was all black, there were sheds around the | :53:15. | :53:20. | |
edge and warehouses in the middle and vehicles. When I came up onto | :53:21. | :53:27. | |
the balcony I remember there were holes in the floor and it smells of | :53:28. | :53:31. | |
cats. But you still fell in love with it? I still fell in love with | :53:32. | :53:35. | |
it. To start with there were only three of us for quite a long time | :53:36. | :53:39. | |
and there wasn't much prey to start with but it developed gradually. | :53:40. | :53:44. | |
It's hoped this historical hall will place Halifax back on the map. 238 | :53:45. | :53:50. | |
years on as the shelves fill up, this is a new chapter for this town, | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
but nothing is new for these old stones who have witnessed it all | :53:56. | :53:56. | |
before. We are very excited this morning to | :53:57. | :54:04. | |
be joined by David holes worth. Good morning. Good morning. You are | :54:05. | :54:09. | |
eighth generation here which actually means back then all those | :54:10. | :54:13. | |
years ago your family had three or four units we think around about | :54:14. | :54:20. | |
here. Your family were trailing behind us in these units? That's | :54:21. | :54:24. | |
right, in the days of the cottage industry we were what you might call | :54:25. | :54:29. | |
traders, we were supplying the cottage weavers with the yarn and | :54:30. | :54:32. | |
they made fabrics to certain patterns that were then brought to | :54:33. | :54:36. | |
my forebears and they sold the fabrics here in the rooms in the | :54:37. | :54:41. | |
Piece Hall back in 1779 through to around 1820. They were here on the | :54:42. | :54:48. | |
first day when it opened? Correct, obviously they contributed to the | :54:49. | :54:50. | |
building of this magnificent building. You are still in the | :54:51. | :54:55. | |
textile world, you have kept the tradition going? Myself I have been | :54:56. | :55:02. | |
in manufacturing all my life with manufacturing bus fabrics and now I | :55:03. | :55:06. | |
supply fabrics to large organisations, some of which are | :55:07. | :55:10. | |
manufactured locally. Is it amazing to see this building, to think those | :55:11. | :55:14. | |
hundreds of years ago your family were here, what's it like seeing it | :55:15. | :55:19. | |
open again? Magnificent. We used to come here when we were younger when | :55:20. | :55:23. | |
it was a market but it was pretty the credit but to have it restored | :55:24. | :55:27. | |
to this level is magnificent and it is super to have a large piazza | :55:28. | :55:32. | |
where we can have super events and theatricals and artists and music. | :55:33. | :55:37. | |
David, thanks for joining us. We are going to take you to meet one more | :55:38. | :55:43. | |
person. As David said, a fantastic piazza. Lisa is opening her | :55:44. | :55:48. | |
restaurant for the first time today. Very quickly, Lisa, this will be | :55:49. | :55:51. | |
your first restaurant? That's correct. We have been running | :55:52. | :55:57. | |
different catering events since 2011 starting in our living room, a | :55:58. | :56:01. | |
pop-up series of restaurants and now we are opening in Halifax. How does | :56:02. | :56:06. | |
it feel to think this is your first restaurant and you are opening | :56:07. | :56:10. | |
today? It feels fantastic, obviously slightly nervous but looking forward | :56:11. | :56:15. | |
to welcoming people in as part of wider celebrations. Leezer was | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
telling me earlier her vision very much... You will come out and see | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
why, look at this space, on a sunny evening they wouldn't want to be out | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
here having a coffee? -- Lisa. It really feels like we are in Europe. | :56:30. | :56:35. | |
A coffee and a slice of cake, Fiona, and take in the view. And just a | :56:36. | :56:40. | |
tiny bit warmer! Hey, it's not too bad, Carol will give us the latest | :56:41. | :56:43. | |
later on. Looks beautiful. This is Breakfast, with | :56:44. | :00:06. | |
Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty. Fuel bills on the rise - British Gas | :00:07. | :00:54. | |
hikes electricity bills by 12.5%. It'll hit more than three million | :00:55. | :01:00. | |
people, but the company says it's giving greater protection | :01:01. | :01:04. | |
to vulnerable customers. And the boss of Centrica has just | :01:05. | :01:15. | |
told me that prices are going up for customers despite the price of | :01:16. | :01:17. | |
energy falling for suppliers. Good morning, it's Tuesday | :01:18. | :01:29. | |
the 1st of August. 'You're fired' - more upheaval | :01:30. | :01:31. | |
at the White House as yet another Communications chief | :01:32. | :01:37. | |
Anthony Scaramucci gets the axe Tackling terror online - | :01:38. | :01:44. | |
the Home Secretary tells the world's biggest internet | :01:45. | :01:50. | |
companies they must do more to fight We are asking them to work harder on | :01:51. | :01:59. | |
this, to put more effort and resources into it, and to work | :02:00. | :02:01. | |
together to deliver it. In sport - it's as easy | :02:02. | :02:04. | |
one, two, three... Moeen Ali takes a hattrick | :02:05. | :02:06. | |
to win the third test England now lead the series 2-1 | :02:07. | :02:10. | |
going into the final He turned his battle with depression | :02:11. | :02:13. | |
into a best-selling memoir - now author Matt Haig will tell us | :02:14. | :02:19. | |
how it's inspired him to write a fictional tale about a man | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
who's 400 years old. # I was busy thinking about boys... | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
# Challenging the image | :02:30. | :02:35. | |
of women in music videos - we'll find out how singer Charli XCX | :02:36. | :02:38. | |
is turning the tables Good morning from the roof of | :02:39. | :02:52. | |
Broadcasting House in London, the sun is beating down but the forecast | :02:53. | :02:56. | |
today is one of sunshine and showers. Some thundery with hail, | :02:57. | :03:01. | |
some miss them all together, especially in south-east England. We | :03:02. | :03:03. | |
have more details in 15 minutes. British Gas says that | :03:04. | :03:04. | |
its electricity prices will go It'll affect just over | :03:05. | :03:15. | |
three million customers who are Let's get more detail | :03:16. | :03:18. | |
from Sean who joins us now. Sean, you interviewed the boss of | :03:19. | :03:24. | |
Centrica, the owner of British Gas. Challenging him quite a bit on why | :03:25. | :03:27. | |
we see this price rise now? Quite often we hear energy prices, when | :03:28. | :03:32. | |
they go up for suppliers, where they get their energy from in pipes | :03:33. | :03:36. | |
around the world, when they go up it is often passed on to customers but | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
in recent months, energy prices for them have been falling and so when | :03:41. | :03:45. | |
you put that to Ian Connor, the boss of Centrica, the owner of British | :03:46. | :03:56. | |
Gas, they say they have been falling but other costs are going up like | :03:57. | :03:58. | |
transmission costs, moving energy around the UK, investment into the | :03:59. | :04:00. | |
grid, as he put it, and general government policy, passed on through | :04:01. | :04:02. | |
suppliers and on to customers meaning that has put up costs. When | :04:03. | :04:05. | |
I put that to him he acknowledged that there were rises but he said | :04:06. | :04:12. | |
they had to be made. We are very conscious of people's pockets and | :04:13. | :04:19. | |
the fact that people and energy is a big part of the bill so we | :04:20. | :04:22. | |
implemented a price freeze and kept it open for as long as we could. | :04:23. | :04:27. | |
Remind us, that was the boss talking about some of the reasoning, can you | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
take us through the numbers, what are the rises? With gas there is no | :04:33. | :04:38. | |
rise but with electricity a rise of 12.5% for 3 million odd customers at | :04:39. | :04:43. | |
British Gas. On a dual fuel bill, that's about ?76 on top of what | :04:44. | :04:54. | |
they've paid previously, coming to an average about ?1120 for a dual | :04:55. | :04:57. | |
fuel bill, they say. For the 200,000 customers they have on the discount, | :04:58. | :04:59. | |
their most vulnerable customers, they will effectively get a rebate | :05:00. | :05:05. | |
for the costs of ?76 bid for the other ?2.8 -- 2.8 million customers, | :05:06. | :05:14. | |
they will take that on the chin. He said it was regrettable they had to | :05:15. | :05:19. | |
put up the prices but the standard tariff needs to be put out by energy | :05:20. | :05:24. | |
suppliers and he called for an end to it so it was not a default | :05:25. | :05:29. | |
option. You can be switched to lower tariffs, fixed payment plans? | :05:30. | :05:34. | |
Exactly, the regulator say that there is a lot of cheaper deals are | :05:35. | :05:42. | |
Benn, but not enough are switching so we can get the best deal -- are | :05:43. | :05:46. | |
out there. The White House communications | :05:47. | :05:48. | |
director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired less than two weeks | :05:49. | :05:53. | |
after his appointment, in the latest high-profile departure | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
from Donald Trump's top team. His sacking was the first decision | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
to be taken by new Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, and it's seen | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
as an attempt to bring stability Tonight, breaking news: Forced out | :06:01. | :06:03. | |
after just 11 days on the job Game of Thrones, House | :06:04. | :06:08. | |
of Cards - pick your drama. Washington thrown into a frenzy | :06:09. | :06:12. | |
after the newly minted Anthony Scaramucci took | :06:13. | :06:14. | |
to the podium ten days ago He came in guns blazing, | :06:15. | :06:28. | |
promising to flip the script Although his eye was on getting rid | :06:29. | :06:32. | |
of then chief-of-staff Reince Priebus, it was | :06:33. | :06:44. | |
Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigning in protest | :06:45. | :06:45. | |
at the man called "Mooch". You know, one of the things I can't | :06:46. | :06:49. | |
stand about this town Where I grew up, in | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
the neighbourhood I was in, The self-proclaimed outsider took it | :06:54. | :07:02. | |
too far, launching into a tirade of obscenities to a journalist, | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
accidentally on the record, Scaramucci seemed to have won | :07:07. | :07:08. | |
when Reince Priebus resigned, But a new-new sheriff was in town, | :07:09. | :07:21. | |
General John Kelly, the secretary His request, a source tells me, | :07:22. | :07:26. | |
was that Scaramucci had to go. Kelly's wish, the | :07:27. | :07:33. | |
President's command. After the swearing-in | :07:34. | :07:34. | |
ceremony, the Mooch Donald Trump has been in office | :07:35. | :07:35. | |
for nearly six months, but his presidency has been plagued | :07:36. | :07:39. | |
by chaos and controversy. From multiple investigations | :07:40. | :07:49. | |
into his campaign's contacts with Russia, to constant staffing | :07:50. | :07:50. | |
shake-ups at the White House. But, with a four-star | :07:51. | :07:53. | |
general at the helm now, the administration is hoping that it | :07:54. | :07:55. | |
will be smoother Suzanne Kianpour, | :07:56. | :07:57. | |
BBC News, Washington. The Home Secretary is challenging | :07:58. | :08:01. | |
the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google to do more | :08:02. | :08:04. | |
to remove extremist content online. Amber Rudd has been | :08:05. | :08:06. | |
attending a technology summit in San Francisco - | :08:07. | :08:08. | |
She spoke earlier with our North America Technology reporter, | :08:09. | :08:15. | |
Dave Lee who began by asking her What I need them to acknowledge | :08:16. | :08:17. | |
is that the enemy, who is really trying to move swiftly online, | :08:18. | :08:22. | |
to radicalise people in their own homes, are really | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
stepping their game up, and we need our response | :08:25. | :08:27. | |
stepped up as well. They need to be | :08:28. | :08:30. | |
the ones to own that. We're asking them to work harder | :08:31. | :08:34. | |
on this, to put more effort, more resources into it, | :08:35. | :08:37. | |
and to work together to deliver it. And in these meetings, actually, | :08:38. | :08:41. | |
I have had a very strong None of them want to be the platform | :08:42. | :08:44. | |
on which terrorists do operate, and it is that imperative | :08:45. | :08:50. | |
which is driving this forward. You spoke about making these | :08:51. | :08:52. | |
places on the internet How do you make something like that | :08:53. | :08:55. | |
hostile to terrorists? Well, they have to make sure | :08:56. | :09:03. | |
that the material that terrorists want to put up gets taken down, | :09:04. | :09:06. | |
or even better, doesn't go That is what we are really | :09:07. | :09:09. | |
trying to achieve. I mean, in the UK we take down, | :09:10. | :09:13. | |
through our internet referral unit, about 2,000 hostile pieces a week, | :09:14. | :09:16. | |
and that is continuing to rise. We need to make sure | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
that they take action to do this. Users are going to hear this, | :09:22. | :09:24. | |
regular users are going to hear this, and think what you are trying | :09:25. | :09:27. | |
to do is decide, before someone posts something, | :09:28. | :09:30. | |
whether that is allowed. I mean, that is censorship, | :09:31. | :09:32. | |
and the concerns about You are deciding before it even goes | :09:33. | :09:34. | |
online whether it is allowed. Well, I would ask users to decide | :09:35. | :09:42. | |
very carefully the consequences This is material that is designed | :09:43. | :09:44. | |
to encourage violence, it is designed to encourage | :09:45. | :09:48. | |
terrorists. And there are ways that we can make | :09:49. | :09:50. | |
sure that the sort of people who they can track who might be | :09:51. | :10:01. | |
putting that online are stopped before it goes up, or indeed, | :10:02. | :10:04. | |
as they put it up, it stops Because they have managed to track | :10:05. | :10:07. | |
it, and they can identify it before They have to face up, | :10:08. | :10:11. | |
people who might oppose this, They are trying to weaponise people | :10:12. | :10:17. | |
at home, vulnerable people, And what happens is, | :10:18. | :10:21. | |
when this material goes online, Amber Rudd speaking to our reporter | :10:22. | :10:25. | |
in San Francisco. Patients with pancreatic | :10:26. | :10:38. | |
cancer are being operated on in just two weeks, | :10:39. | :10:40. | |
instead of two months Research published in the medical | :10:41. | :10:42. | |
journal, HPB, says early surgery increases patients' chances | :10:43. | :10:46. | |
of having their tumours Doctors in Birmingham | :10:47. | :10:47. | |
hope their approach will be Kate Rigby was amazed at how | :10:48. | :10:50. | |
smoothly the NHS worked when she was diagnosed | :10:51. | :10:58. | |
with pancreatic cancer. Within seven days, she had had | :10:59. | :11:00. | |
surgery at the Queen Elizabeth I can't control NHS budget, | :11:01. | :11:02. | |
and all the other things for the poor people who aren't | :11:03. | :11:10. | |
as lucky as me. But what I can do | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
is spread the word. Normally, people with jaundice | :11:14. | :11:17. | |
like Mrs Rigby have a stent put in to relieve symptoms, | :11:18. | :11:19. | |
which delays the main operation. A nurse was employed | :11:20. | :11:22. | |
to speed up treatment from two months to 16 days, | :11:23. | :11:27. | |
meaning a fifth more patients were able to complete surgery | :11:28. | :11:30. | |
to remove their cancer. Cutting out the stent also said | :11:31. | :11:38. | |
the NHS ?3,200 per patient. We save the NHS potentially ?200,000 | :11:39. | :11:42. | |
per year, with the number of patients that have surgery | :11:43. | :11:45. | |
within our team. And so that, then, is a reproducible | :11:46. | :11:50. | |
model that other units up and down Pancreatic cancer has | :11:51. | :11:53. | |
a very low survival rate. It will be two years before doctors | :11:54. | :11:57. | |
can say whether treating patients more quickly actually means | :11:58. | :11:59. | |
that they live longer. And, if they do, that will beg | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
the question as to whether or not other aggressive cancers should be | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
treated more quickly. For now, Kate Rigby knows she has | :12:06. | :12:09. | |
been given the best chance possible Pupils should be taught | :12:10. | :12:12. | |
about the importance of breast-feeding in schools - | :12:13. | :12:21. | |
that's the advice of the professional body | :12:22. | :12:24. | |
which represents paediatricians. The Royal College of Paediatrics | :12:25. | :12:26. | |
and Child Health is also calling on ministers to legislate | :12:27. | :12:28. | |
for breast-feeding breaks The College says Britain has | :12:29. | :12:30. | |
one of the lowest rates of breast-feeding in Europe, | :12:31. | :12:37. | |
blaming social stigma More needs to be done | :12:38. | :12:38. | |
to stop women being forced to wear high heels at work, | :12:39. | :12:47. | |
according to scientists at Academics looked at | :12:48. | :12:50. | |
the physical and social impact of wearing the shoes and say | :12:51. | :12:53. | |
there's enough evidence to suggest they're bad | :12:54. | :12:55. | |
for the health of wearers. Earlier this year, the Government | :12:56. | :12:59. | |
rejected calls for a ban When the owner of Petey the dog | :13:00. | :13:01. | |
became stuck in his car during a flash flood, | :13:02. | :13:06. | |
he decided there was no way he was going | :13:07. | :13:09. | |
to leave his pet in danger. Have a look at the pictures here, | :13:10. | :13:18. | |
this is the scale of the problem they were facing. | :13:19. | :13:19. | |
The car was submerged after a dry creek bed was engulfed | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
Rescuers had to use a crane to get to the car before Petey | :13:23. | :13:29. | |
was handed over by his owner who then climbed out. | :13:30. | :13:32. | |
The pair could then walk across the crane | :13:33. | :13:38. | |
From today, babies born in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be | :13:39. | :13:45. | |
offered a new vaccine which protects against Hepatitis B. | :13:46. | :13:47. | |
The Hexavalent vaccine will also immunise against five other diseases | :13:48. | :13:49. | |
including diphtheria, polio, tetanus and whooping cough | :13:50. | :13:51. | |
and replaces the current "five in one" injection. | :13:52. | :13:58. | |
Health Protection Scotland is set to adopt a similar | :13:59. | :14:00. | |
Let's get more detail from Joanne Yarwood, | :14:01. | :14:03. | |
Head of Programmes for Immunisation at Public Health England | :14:04. | :14:05. | |
Good morning, lovely to see you both. Barbara, can I start with you | :14:06. | :14:18. | |
in terms of the detail of the new vaccinations? You will know full | :14:19. | :14:24. | |
well that a lot of parents worry quite a bit about vaccinations | :14:25. | :14:30. | |
anyway. You are adding one more. 5-6. Joanne, take us through, if you | :14:31. | :14:35. | |
would come exactly what this would comprise of and allay any fears | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
about another vaccine being included? Yes, we completely | :14:40. | :14:43. | |
understand parents have concerns about the safety of their children | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
and protecting them. But, this vaccine, as you have already | :14:49. | :14:52. | |
described, adds another element of protection to their children, to | :14:53. | :14:56. | |
protect them against some really serious and nasty infectious | :14:57. | :15:02. | |
diseases. We are delighted that we can add and introduce this vaccine | :15:03. | :15:06. | |
to babies born today, and add the extra protection into the programme. | :15:07. | :15:13. | |
Barbara, is good to have you on the sofa with us, how will parents react | :15:14. | :15:18. | |
to this? It is quite a worry, it's a stressful time when you take your | :15:19. | :15:23. | |
baby for a vaccine, you are tense and you are waiting for the baby to | :15:24. | :15:27. | |
be heard, and you worry about the consequences of the vaccine? Hearing | :15:28. | :15:32. | |
there are six strains of immunisation, six diseases to | :15:33. | :15:34. | |
immunise against seems a lot for a little one to take? | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
When baby is born they're exposed to millions of diseases and viruses, | :15:40. | :15:45. | |
changing a nappy, sitting in a waiting room, somebody coughing on | :15:46. | :15:52. | |
you, far, far more than in a properly prepared vaccine. One of | :15:53. | :15:58. | |
the examples given, on that first vaccination they get protection from | :15:59. | :16:02. | |
nine different diseases. Not just the six, but another three on top. | :16:03. | :16:07. | |
But if you were to give them 11 that would still only use up 0.1% of the | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
baby's immune system. They are so well prepared. Can I just ask you | :16:13. | :16:20. | |
about take up? In a GP's surgery, what's your practical knowledge of | :16:21. | :16:24. | |
how many people take up? It's clearly voluntary, what's the take | :16:25. | :16:28. | |
up? Well, we aim because we have targets in general practice, we aim | :16:29. | :16:32. | |
more about 90%. Do you reach that? Not always. In some areas it can be | :16:33. | :16:38. | |
as low as 80% and then there is a big drive to get the parents to | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
understand how important it is. Often what we do is we combine the | :16:42. | :16:46. | |
vaccination day with having the developmental check. Joanne, why | :16:47. | :16:53. | |
now? Why are we seeing hepatitis B being added to the vaccine now? | :16:54. | :16:58. | |
Where will we see a difference? Well, what we haven't discussed | :16:59. | :17:03. | |
really is we have an expert committee that advises us on the | :17:04. | :17:09. | |
additional vaccines that we maybe able to offer in our national | :17:10. | :17:12. | |
programme. So they've considered all the evidence. They've looked at it | :17:13. | :17:18. | |
and they advised that we should introduce this vaccine and babies | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
born today, all babies born from today, will be able to have this | :17:24. | :17:27. | |
vaccine so their first vaccine will be at eight weeks and we're really | :17:28. | :17:32. | |
pleased, we worked really hard to ensure that our national programme, | :17:33. | :17:37. | |
which really is amongst one of the best in the world, is able to offer | :17:38. | :17:41. | |
protection to as many infants as we can. Is hepatitis B a problem at the | :17:42. | :17:49. | |
moment in the UK? Well, the prevalence of hepatitis B is low in | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
England, in the UK, but we are part of a global community and the World | :17:55. | :18:02. | |
Health Organization has a commitment to protecting infants across the | :18:03. | :18:05. | |
whole world with this vaccine and there are at the moment 97 countries | :18:06. | :18:10. | |
that are already offering this vaccine and we know that more than | :18:11. | :18:15. | |
150 million doses has been given. So this is part of the really hard work | :18:16. | :18:20. | |
that everybody is doing to ensure that we can offer the best | :18:21. | :18:23. | |
protection available to our children. Thank you. And Barbara | :18:24. | :18:32. | |
Murray, Dr Barbara Murray, thank you for your time as well. | :18:33. | :18:38. | |
It's 8.18am and you're watching Breakfast from BBC News. | :18:39. | :18:40. | |
British Gas says that its electricity prices | :18:41. | :18:43. | |
It'll affect just over three million customers | :18:44. | :18:47. | |
Donald Trump has sacked his Communications Director, | :18:48. | :18:54. | |
Anthony Scaramucci, just days after appointing him. | :18:55. | :18:59. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
Started off early this morning a little bit blustery where you are | :19:04. | :19:10. | |
this morning on your little balcony overlooking London. | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
Yes it was a bit breezy up here, but we are quite a few levels up. It | :19:15. | :19:22. | |
feels pleasantly warm and we have got blue skies. This isn't the case | :19:23. | :19:25. | |
everywhere, it is across some parts of the UK. The forecast for us today | :19:26. | :19:30. | |
is one of heavy showers and bright or sunny spells. We have seen heavy | :19:31. | :19:34. | |
showers already this morning especially across north-west England | :19:35. | :19:38. | |
and Wales, but across Scotland, there are also some heavy showers | :19:39. | :19:41. | |
coming in from the south, we have got them across the Highlands as | :19:42. | :19:45. | |
well, the Outer Hebrides, but there is dry weather around. Still some | :19:46. | :19:49. | |
heavy showers moving from north-west England heading across the Pennines | :19:50. | :19:53. | |
through the day, but north-east England is dry and then as we come | :19:54. | :20:00. | |
further south, across the Peak District and Essex, Kent and towards | :20:01. | :20:05. | |
the Isle of Wight, a lot of dry weather, sunny skies, pleasantly | :20:06. | :20:09. | |
warm and gentle breezes. Further west, we are looking at sunshine | :20:10. | :20:13. | |
across Gloucestershire, Dorset, and south-west England seeing sunshine | :20:14. | :20:16. | |
and just a few showers, but Wales, you've got a few showers. They have | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
been lining up as we have gone through the course of the night. | :20:20. | :20:22. | |
Some are heavy. For Northern Ireland, here too, we've got showers | :20:23. | :20:25. | |
particularly in the north and the west. Further east, it is drier and | :20:26. | :20:29. | |
brighter with sunshine. Now through the course of the day, further | :20:30. | :20:32. | |
showers will develop. Some of them will be heavy. Some of them will be | :20:33. | :20:36. | |
thundery. Some will have hail in. That combination is likely to be | :20:37. | :20:41. | |
anywhere, from South Wales to the Wash, north of that line, but they | :20:42. | :20:44. | |
are showers. So not all of us will see them. Further south, the showers | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
will be less intense. Fewer and further between. And south-east | :20:48. | :20:51. | |
England could escape them altogether, but we will see some in | :20:52. | :20:55. | |
East Anglia. Through the evening and overnight, well, we are looking at a | :20:56. | :21:00. | |
lot of the showers fading. It will be a chilly night in sheltered | :21:01. | :21:05. | |
glens, but the cloud will build. We will see showers and some rain | :21:06. | :21:09. | |
coming in. And that will be accompanied by strengthening winds. | :21:10. | :21:13. | |
So tomorrow, we start off with a lot of dry weather, but watch how the | :21:14. | :21:17. | |
rain spreads out as it moves north-east wards. That's going to be | :21:18. | :21:22. | |
heavy and persistent across Wales and south-west England and southern | :21:23. | :21:25. | |
counties and the wind will pick up touching gale force around some of | :21:26. | :21:29. | |
the coasts and that rain will advance northwards through the | :21:30. | :21:31. | |
courts day, but north-east Scotland should stay dry. So as a result of | :21:32. | :21:35. | |
this rain and the wind, it will feel cooler than it's going to do today | :21:36. | :21:41. | |
where it's going to feel warm. Into Thursday, we lose the rain. | :21:42. | :21:44. | |
Overnight, it will clear off into the North Sea, but we will have a | :21:45. | :21:46. | |
curl of showery rain coming in across parts of the north and the | :21:47. | :21:50. | |
west, but many of us will have a dry day with highs once again back up | :21:51. | :21:55. | |
into the low 20s, but it will be noticeably breezy. On Friday Naga | :21:56. | :21:59. | |
and Charlie, it will be sunshine and showers again. But you're making | :22:00. | :22:07. | |
sure you're hogging the sunshine. Oh, it's lovely. I know how Carlol | :22:08. | :22:11. | |
feels. I love it. Enjoy it. Style bible British Vogue makes | :22:12. | :22:19. | |
history today when Edward Enninful To bring in the changes he's | :22:20. | :22:21. | |
recruited the film-maker Steve McQueen and the model, | :22:22. | :22:25. | |
Naomi Campbell, but in the digital age when runway shows are live | :22:26. | :22:27. | |
streamed is there still a demand Let's discuss this now | :22:28. | :22:30. | |
with the fashion blogger, Bronwyn Cosgrave who was a features | :22:31. | :22:42. | |
editor at British Vogue. Good morning. Thank you for staying | :22:43. | :22:53. | |
up late for us. We've got a female Dr Scop who and now a male editor of | :22:54. | :22:59. | |
Vogue. The times are changing. It's about time. I mean and I actually | :23:00. | :23:04. | |
think this isn't about gender. There has been a lot in the press about | :23:05. | :23:10. | |
Edward's appointment. I really feel that they picked the best person for | :23:11. | :23:15. | |
the job. He has a track record that goes back decades. He started out on | :23:16. | :23:22. | |
i-D magazine which is the great British style bible. He has worked | :23:23. | :23:28. | |
in W Magazine in New York and for American Vogue. He is not an | :23:29. | :23:35. | |
outsider. It's Edward Enninful OBE. He is great friends, the second son | :23:36. | :23:43. | |
of Jonathan Newhouse who made the appointment, not the second son, the | :23:44. | :23:48. | |
adopted son and close to the Newhouse family. He is a wonderful | :23:49. | :23:53. | |
guy. Very imaginative. His great contribution so far was the black | :23:54. | :23:59. | |
issue which was published in 2008 at Vogue Italia which was the first all | :24:00. | :24:05. | |
black issue of Vogue. Also Vogue has had a man at the helm in the 1930s, | :24:06. | :24:13. | |
he was the editor of Paris Vogue and continued into the 1950s and was a | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
legendary character and men have constantly worked behind the scenes | :24:18. | :24:21. | |
at British Vogue so now it's time for somebody to take up the reigns. | :24:22. | :24:25. | |
That's the issue when it comes to what a man can do at the helm of | :24:26. | :24:31. | |
such an iconic magazine, it is interesting Maria about blogging and | :24:32. | :24:35. | |
the place of Vogue now. The place of a glossy magazine in our world and I | :24:36. | :24:41. | |
noticed that last year, some US Vogue writers were openly critical | :24:42. | :24:47. | |
of fashion bloggers, just basically saying, no to bloggers who change | :24:48. | :24:55. | |
head to toe and paid to change, there is this competition to say | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
well, who says what goes? And you are not the one to say it. Why | :24:59. | :25:04. | |
should there be a competition. I feel you could include bloggers a | :25:05. | :25:08. | |
lot more. It's not about a competition, it's about emgracing | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
the fact that the fashion industry is changing. The people are | :25:12. | :25:14. | |
embracing people like you who blog, isn't it? Yes. It is instant access. | :25:15. | :25:19. | |
So by the time you get a magazine and we will get your view on this | :25:20. | :25:24. | |
Bronwyn, by the time you get a magazine, it is out of date almost. | :25:25. | :25:28. | |
I feel like the instant access is there, if you open a copy of a | :25:29. | :25:32. | |
magazine, if you're going to find someone who you can relate to, it's | :25:33. | :25:36. | |
difficult. If you have a disability, if you open a copy of Vogue, you are | :25:37. | :25:40. | |
not likely going to see yourself represented in the pages, but you | :25:41. | :25:44. | |
can go online and within seconds search and a hashtag find hundreds | :25:45. | :25:49. | |
of people who are exactly like you. Maria, for your generation, is it | :25:50. | :25:53. | |
still a big deal, what's on the cover of British Vogue? Is that | :25:54. | :25:57. | |
still a big deal? It is personal to me because I have been a subscriber | :25:58. | :26:04. | |
since 2011 and I recently cancelled my subscription. The current issue | :26:05. | :26:09. | |
is on my desk in the packaging. What do you think of that? I actually, I | :26:10. | :26:16. | |
don't think a mag dean is out of date. I think a weekly publication | :26:17. | :26:24. | |
is out of date, but I think what a reader is looking at, looking to | :26:25. | :26:30. | |
when one buys Vogue is analysis and expertise. You know, it's not easy | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
to get a job at British Vogue, nor is it easy keeping a job at British | :26:36. | :26:39. | |
Vogue. They demand the absolute best. A lot of research and a lot of | :26:40. | :26:45. | |
intelligence and background goes into that magazine and you know | :26:46. | :26:51. | |
blogging, fantastic, but it's more off-the-cuff, you know, over the | :26:52. | :26:55. | |
last five years, yeah, I'd love to see British Vogue edited by a guest | :26:56. | :26:59. | |
blogger. That didn't happen. I think there is a slight insecurity within | :27:00. | :27:07. | |
the magazine establishment, about the whole social media landscape and | :27:08. | :27:20. | |
I do think, you know, I do think that castigating bloggers was a | :27:21. | :27:24. | |
misstep. Edward has over 5,000 Instagram followers and he appointed | :27:25. | :27:31. | |
Steve McQueen and Naomi Campbell, all these independent professionals | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
who to a certain extent rely on social media to keep building their | :27:36. | :27:39. | |
brands and today, Vogue is no longer just a magazine, it is a brand and | :27:40. | :27:43. | |
it has to compete with the best brands out there. Thank you very | :27:44. | :27:48. | |
Vanessa Feltz is on BBC Radio London to you and Maria, thank you. | :27:49. | :31:16. | |
Vanessa Feltz is on BBC Radio London until 10am but I will be back in | :31:17. | :31:18. | |
half an hour on BBC One. Hello this is Breakfast with | :31:19. | :31:23. | |
Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty. British Gas says that | :31:24. | :31:26. | |
its electricity prices Let's get more detail | :31:27. | :31:30. | |
from Sean who joins us now. These figures came in in the last | :31:31. | :31:43. | |
hour, what are the numbers? Electricity prices on British Gas | :31:44. | :31:49. | |
variable tariff will be up 12.5%. Gas prices will not be moving up. | :31:50. | :31:54. | |
That is from September. About ?76 on the dual fuel bill for over 3 | :31:55. | :32:00. | |
million customers on British Gas. For the customers who get the warm | :32:01. | :32:05. | |
home discount, they will get a rebate from the ?76 so in theory | :32:06. | :32:10. | |
they will not see a rise. We were talking to the boss earlier and he | :32:11. | :32:14. | |
said despite energy prices falling for them, they have had to pass on a | :32:15. | :32:19. | |
price rise for domestic customers because of other costs. Transmission | :32:20. | :32:23. | |
costs and government policy. The government had just sent me what | :32:24. | :32:27. | |
their take on the price rise is this morning. They are concerned this | :32:28. | :32:31. | |
price rise will hit many people on what they call poor value tariffs. | :32:32. | :32:35. | |
They said the government policy costs make up a small proportion of | :32:36. | :32:39. | |
household energy bills and cannot explain the rises today. We need the | :32:40. | :32:46. | |
boss of Centrica and an energy minister and see what they agree. | :32:47. | :32:51. | |
Because this toing and froing doesn't help anyone? No it doesn't. | :32:52. | :32:56. | |
There is the transmission costs as well, which isn't government policy | :32:57. | :33:02. | |
and isn't daily-macro is the costs going up at the energy companies. It | :33:03. | :33:08. | |
is all about the marketplace, isn't it? Are others on similar rates? | :33:09. | :33:15. | |
There are fixed rate deals you can switch to that are cheaper than | :33:16. | :33:19. | |
standard variable tariffs. It is the regulators and the companies say. | :33:20. | :33:23. | |
But the companies have to provide this standard tariff. Lots of people | :33:24. | :33:26. | |
end up on it and lots of people don't switch away from it. Thank | :33:27. | :33:28. | |
you. The White House communications | :33:29. | :33:31. | |
director Anthony Scaramucci has been fired less than two weeks | :33:32. | :33:34. | |
after his appointment. In the latest high-profile departure | :33:35. | :33:36. | |
from Donald Trump's top team, the new Chief of Staff John Kelly | :33:37. | :33:38. | |
asked Mr Scaramucci to step aside. The former banker made headlines | :33:39. | :33:42. | |
when derogatory comments he made about General Kelly's predecessor | :33:43. | :33:44. | |
were made public. The Home Secretary is challenging | :33:45. | :33:49. | |
the likes of Facebook, Twitter and Google to do more | :33:50. | :33:51. | |
to remove extremist content online. Amber Rudd has been attending | :33:52. | :33:54. | |
a technology summit set up by the internet giants | :33:55. | :33:56. | |
in San Francisco and has told the firms they need to do more | :33:57. | :33:58. | |
to protect the public by stopping the spread of terror | :33:59. | :34:01. | |
related material. But there is concern | :34:02. | :34:04. | |
that the privacy of ordinary users From today, there will be a new | :34:05. | :34:23. | |
vaccine which protects against hepatitis B. It will vaccinate | :34:24. | :34:29. | |
against polio, whooping cough and tetanus. Public Health England says | :34:30. | :34:35. | |
the new vaccine has been extensively tested. | :34:36. | :34:40. | |
Pupils should be taught about the importance | :34:41. | :34:42. | |
of breast-feeding in schools, that's the advice of the professional body | :34:43. | :34:45. | |
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health is also calling | :34:46. | :34:49. | |
on ministers to legislate for breast-feeding breaks | :34:50. | :34:50. | |
The College says Britain has one of the lowest rates | :34:51. | :34:54. | |
of breast-feeding in Europe, blaming social stigma | :34:55. | :34:56. | |
will have the weather in about ten minutes' time, | :34:57. | :35:14. | |
but also coming up on Breakfast this morning... | :35:15. | :35:16. | |
We'll ask whether its right employers can dictate what you wear | :35:17. | :35:18. | |
on your feet as new research suggests wearing high heels | :35:19. | :35:21. | |
It's the music video that's racked up | :35:22. | :35:26. | |
millions of views on YouTube challenging gender stereotypes. | :35:27. | :35:33. | |
Singer songwriter turned director, Charlie XCX will be on the sofa | :35:34. | :35:35. | |
Anxiety and depression made author, Matt Haig, obsessed with time. | :35:36. | :35:43. | |
He'll tell us how his mental health has inspired his latest novel about | :35:44. | :35:46. | |
But first let's get the sport with Sally. | :35:47. | :36:06. | |
Have you ever seen a happier face? Moeen Ali celebrating his hat-trick | :36:07. | :36:09. | |
yesterday. Good morning, everyone. England's cricketers went 2-1 | :36:10. | :36:13. | |
up in the Test series against South Africa | :36:14. | :36:15. | |
yesterday, after an amazing The tourists were trying | :36:16. | :36:17. | |
to save a draw, but two wickets in two balls from debutant | :36:18. | :36:21. | |
Toby Roland Jones ended those hopes. The only resistance | :36:22. | :36:23. | |
came from Dean Elgar, But it was Moeen Ali | :36:24. | :36:25. | |
who finished South Africa off, winning the match in the perfect | :36:26. | :36:31. | |
fashion, with a hat-trick. The World Athletics championships | :36:32. | :36:35. | |
get under way at the weekend, but one of the star attractions | :36:36. | :36:45. | |
on the track won't be there. David Rudisha, the World | :36:46. | :36:48. | |
and Olympic 800m champion and world record holder, | :36:49. | :36:50. | |
is out with a thigh injury. The Kenyan won the world title | :36:51. | :36:52. | |
in Beijing two years ago, and broke the world record | :36:53. | :36:55. | |
in London in 2012. Manchester United manager | :36:56. | :37:03. | |
Jose Mourinho has made his third big He's gone back to former club | :37:04. | :37:05. | |
Chelsea and signed Nemanja Matic, a player he signed for the Blues | :37:06. | :37:10. | |
three years ago. He has moved to Old Trafford | :37:11. | :37:13. | |
for a fee of ?35 million, Four-time Major champion | :37:14. | :37:16. | |
Rory McIlroy has split The pair have worked together | :37:17. | :37:25. | |
for the past nine years and for each Last month, McIlroy gave Fitzgerald | :37:26. | :37:30. | |
credit for geeing him up He said, remember who you are, you | :37:31. | :37:37. | |
are Rory McIlroy. McIlroy is expected to confirm | :37:38. | :37:50. | |
the news tomorrow ahead of this week's World Golf Championship | :37:51. | :37:52. | |
event in Ohio. The deal is done for Los Angeles | :37:53. | :37:54. | |
to host the 2028 Olympic LA's bid team has reached | :37:55. | :37:57. | |
an agreement with the International Olympic Committee, which is expected | :37:58. | :38:00. | |
to be ratified by the Los Angeles LA had originally been | :38:01. | :38:03. | |
bidding for the 2024 Games, but that event is now set | :38:04. | :38:08. | |
to take place in Paris. Two more or less confirmed at the | :38:09. | :38:17. | |
same time. Something to look forward to. | :38:18. | :38:28. | |
Absolutely. Olympics goes to Hollywood. Sally, thank you very | :38:29. | :38:29. | |
much. From today, people studying to be | :38:30. | :38:37. | |
nurses or midwives will no longer receive NHS bursaries, | :38:38. | :38:40. | |
instead, they will have Applications for courses | :38:41. | :38:42. | |
are down by more than 20%. The Government says it is providing | :38:43. | :38:45. | |
funding for an extra 10,000 university places for students | :38:46. | :38:48. | |
on nursing, midwifery and other We get rid of that and | :38:49. | :38:50. | |
you've now got what? These second-year nursing students | :38:51. | :38:58. | |
are getting their first look at the Anatomage Table | :38:59. | :39:01. | |
using the latest technology to take a 3-D trip through | :39:02. | :39:05. | |
a virtual human body. Their degree course at | :39:06. | :39:09. | |
the University of Central Lancashire is funded by NHS bursaries | :39:10. | :39:11. | |
and grants, but as of today applicants wanting to study nursing, | :39:12. | :39:15. | |
midwifery and other medical courses will need a student loan in line | :39:16. | :39:19. | |
with other undergraduates. So would it have | :39:20. | :39:24. | |
deterred these students? I don't think it would have made | :39:25. | :39:30. | |
a difference to myself because I really wanted to become | :39:31. | :39:33. | |
a nurse and although the financial implications of not having a bursary | :39:34. | :39:37. | |
would have impacted on me quite heavily, but I could have managed | :39:38. | :39:40. | |
and my desire to become a nurse But applications for these courses | :39:41. | :39:44. | |
have fallen by around 20%. Theories include doubts | :39:45. | :39:54. | |
from European students about Brexit, a birthrate decline in the number | :39:55. | :39:57. | |
of 18-year-olds as well as concerns The universities, though, | :39:58. | :40:02. | |
are determined to see the numbers recover and here | :40:03. | :40:09. | |
there's cautious optimism. We have seen a decline in the number | :40:10. | :40:12. | |
of applications coming through, but they're good quality | :40:13. | :40:15. | |
and so the key thing is that they convert | :40:16. | :40:17. | |
into the numbers that we have. So I'm very positive | :40:18. | :40:22. | |
at this moment in time One of the main areas of concern | :40:23. | :40:25. | |
is the impact on mature students. Nursing and midwifery attract a much | :40:26. | :40:32. | |
higher percentage of older applicants than other degree courses | :40:33. | :40:35. | |
and their life experience is seen as a vital part | :40:36. | :40:38. | |
of the mix on a ward. Sarah Cordey says a loan instead | :40:39. | :40:46. | |
of a bursary would have stopped her changing career | :40:47. | :40:48. | |
to become a midwife. To saddle students with a huge | :40:49. | :40:53. | |
amount of debt when they are only ever able to earn | :40:54. | :40:57. | |
what the government dictates they can earn, it doesn't seem | :40:58. | :41:00. | |
to make sense to me and had I been making this decision now | :41:01. | :41:04. | |
knowing that I would have to take on the debt, | :41:05. | :41:07. | |
I couldn't have done it, no. The government argues that the cap | :41:08. | :41:10. | |
on student places had previously restricted numbers and that changing | :41:11. | :41:12. | |
the funding will lead to an increase But Les Green says he now can't | :41:13. | :41:15. | |
afford to pursue his dream job. ?30,000, I'd be paying back | :41:16. | :41:26. | |
until I finish probably my... I don't think I'd ever pay that off, | :41:27. | :41:35. | |
I'd pay it until the rest All signs agree that the NHS | :41:36. | :41:50. | |
is in dire need of more clinical staff but the debate centres on how | :41:51. | :41:54. | |
to pay for them. We're joined now by Laura Serrant, | :41:55. | :41:57. | |
a professor of nursing at Sheffield Hallam University | :41:58. | :42:01. | |
and previously advised the Government on nursing | :42:02. | :42:03. | |
and midwifery in England. Good morning. What do you make of | :42:04. | :42:14. | |
these numbers, do they add up to you? We spoke to Jeremy Hunt | :42:15. | :42:18. | |
yesterday talking about targets and getting more nurses in specifically | :42:19. | :42:24. | |
into mental health, but overall, Bursaries are stopping and this | :42:25. | :42:28. | |
September we need more nurses to start training in order to fulfil | :42:29. | :42:34. | |
numbers, do they add up to you? It is not whether the numbers add up, | :42:35. | :42:40. | |
but whichever point you start nurse training, it is three years before | :42:41. | :42:43. | |
you see a qualified nurse. I suppose question is, if the challenge now | :42:44. | :42:51. | |
and we are short of people, the increase is one thing, but it won't | :42:52. | :42:56. | |
be an increase of the number of nurses and qualified in the system. | :42:57. | :43:02. | |
So we will never have enough nurses? There is always people coming in and | :43:03. | :43:07. | |
out and nursing is the largest profession. Most nursing every day | :43:08. | :43:15. | |
is given in a hands-on way but the demand is always going to go up. But | :43:16. | :43:19. | |
planning the workforce is always a longer term strategy. We do need to | :43:20. | :43:24. | |
think about how we manage that now as well as in three years. How do | :43:25. | :43:30. | |
some of these work out? The government said they will fund | :43:31. | :43:36. | |
10,000 extra places, but not until 2020 or 2021, so when they said they | :43:37. | :43:40. | |
will fund them, the Bursaries don't exist so students take out loans. | :43:41. | :43:45. | |
They are paying for the tuition and their education. What is the funding | :43:46. | :43:51. | |
element, this 10,000 funding, what is that? It is about being able to | :43:52. | :43:55. | |
support that number of students in the system will stop but aren't they | :43:56. | :44:05. | |
paying for it? I don't understand. We don't have much detail on how | :44:06. | :44:10. | |
that funding will support the number of nurses we are talking about. The | :44:11. | :44:16. | |
other thing to remember is, student nurses and midwives, other | :44:17. | :44:21. | |
practitioners as well, speech therapists, radio therapists, we | :44:22. | :44:24. | |
can't only train them within a university. This is a practice | :44:25. | :44:29. | |
discipline, so people learn in practice. So for every extra student | :44:30. | :44:34. | |
place, you will need extra places in hospitals and practice areas as | :44:35. | :44:39. | |
well. It is not as simple to say, if we have more students in the | :44:40. | :44:42. | |
university we will automatically have more practitioners. If they | :44:43. | :44:47. | |
want to do this and have an impact, even within the three-year time | :44:48. | :44:50. | |
frame, the only logical thing to do would be to create the places now? | :44:51. | :44:58. | |
Not wait, is there any logic in waiting? There is no logic in | :44:59. | :45:03. | |
waiting with the pressures we have now, but we have to look at other | :45:04. | :45:06. | |
ways of actually solving the problem. We can't just increased the | :45:07. | :45:10. | |
number of people coming in at one end of the system and then wait for | :45:11. | :45:14. | |
them to come out at the other end. Issues like supporting people in | :45:15. | :45:18. | |
practice, to get people to remain within nursing and not lose the | :45:19. | :45:21. | |
number of people we already have. How do we support a workforce under | :45:22. | :45:30. | |
pressure, but actually allow them to feel this is a good place to work? | :45:31. | :45:33. | |
Nurses, midwives and other health care professionals work very hard. | :45:34. | :45:37. | |
It is not an easy thing to do. It is nights, weekends, all the time we | :45:38. | :45:41. | |
are awake or asleep, there is somebody working. We need to not | :45:42. | :45:44. | |
only increase the number of students, but make sure the | :45:45. | :45:47. | |
workforce has the support it needs to do a really hard job. What is the | :45:48. | :45:52. | |
incentive at the moment to do this job when you have no support | :45:53. | :45:58. | |
studying from September, 1% pay at the moment, increased hours or | :45:59. | :46:00. | |
increased pressure because of reduced budgets, who is applying to | :46:01. | :46:04. | |
be a nurse? In a hurry are very popular | :46:05. | :46:14. | |
programmes. The issue was not so much in the number of people who | :46:15. | :46:18. | |
might apply -- nursing and midwifery are very popular programmes. At | :46:19. | :46:22. | |
Sheffield Hallam we have an average of five people applying for each | :46:23. | :46:26. | |
place, in children's nursing admit with Riordan is even more, I am sure | :46:27. | :46:30. | |
that is the same at other universities. It is a personal drive | :46:31. | :46:35. | |
that makes people want to do this profession. I do not think we will | :46:36. | :46:38. | |
lose people wanting to be nurses, midwives or speech therapists but we | :46:39. | :46:42. | |
do not want to make it harder for them to achieve what they want to | :46:43. | :46:47. | |
achieve. Thank you very much for your time, Professor. | :46:48. | :46:50. | |
Here's Carol with a look at this morning's weather. | :46:51. | :46:54. | |
She has been hogging the sun, are you continuing to do so? | :46:55. | :47:03. | |
Oh, yes! It is beautiful in London, the sun is beating down, feeling | :47:04. | :47:08. | |
pleasantly warm on the roof of Broadcasting House. The forecast is | :47:09. | :47:12. | |
not like this everywhere. For some, but not all. The forecast today is | :47:13. | :47:17. | |
one of sunshine and showers. Some showers will be heavy and sunny with | :47:18. | :47:20. | |
hail. We will not all see them. At 9am in | :47:21. | :47:26. | |
Scotland we have rain around. You can see it in the charts. Some rain | :47:27. | :47:33. | |
across southern Scotland, also a lot of dry weather. Temperatures in | :47:34. | :47:37. | |
Edinburgh around 13 or 14. Heavy rain this morning in | :47:38. | :47:40. | |
north-west England, there is still some around, some crossing the | :47:41. | :47:44. | |
Pennines. Currently drive across most of north-east England. Across | :47:45. | :47:49. | |
the Midlands, East Anglia, towards Kent at the Isle of Wight, sky is | :47:50. | :47:53. | |
very similar to this. Big Sam pieces of code but also sunshine. West | :47:54. | :47:58. | |
across Gloucestershire, Dorset had into the south-west of England, lots | :47:59. | :48:03. | |
of dry weather with a few showers. Showers have been lining up for you | :48:04. | :48:07. | |
in Wales. That is how we have started the day. Not as heavy as | :48:08. | :48:12. | |
those across north-west England but you will notice them. | :48:13. | :48:15. | |
Showers in the north and west of Northern Ireland, the East is | :48:16. | :48:18. | |
predominantly dry. Through the day, further showers | :48:19. | :48:23. | |
developing. If we drew a line from South Wales towards the wash, points | :48:24. | :48:27. | |
north of that are more prone to the heavy showers with rain and thunder. | :48:28. | :48:30. | |
We will not all have that combination and we will not all sea | :48:31. | :48:35. | |
shallows. The showers are not as heavily further south, parts of the | :48:36. | :48:39. | |
south-east could stay dry, East Anglia is likely to see showers. | :48:40. | :48:44. | |
Highs of up to 23, gentle breezes. Feeling nice in the sunshine, the | :48:45. | :48:50. | |
general range is 18 to 20. Many showers will try off tonight, a | :48:51. | :48:55. | |
chilly night in the Glens of Scotland with temperatures into | :48:56. | :48:59. | |
single figures. Increasing amounts of cloud, showers and then Raine and | :49:00. | :49:02. | |
strengthening winds coming across south-west England and south-west | :49:03. | :49:08. | |
Wales. Tomorrow, spreading north eastwards through the day. The | :49:09. | :49:11. | |
heaviest and most persistent will be across Wales, south-west England in | :49:12. | :49:16. | |
seven counties. The wind will strengthen, coastal gales in the | :49:17. | :49:20. | |
south-west. That migrate northwards through the day, north-east Scotland | :49:21. | :49:27. | |
should stay dry. Into Thursday, the rain will cross through the course | :49:28. | :49:31. | |
of the night and then curl around the north and west, showery | :49:32. | :49:36. | |
outbreaks but it will be dry for many but breezy, temperatures | :49:37. | :49:37. | |
picking up once again. Carol, we will ask you something | :49:38. | :49:51. | |
odd. Can we see your shoes? I am wearing trainers. That is allowed | :49:52. | :49:57. | |
and sensible. Sensible workwear, you had to climb some stairs, you are on | :49:58. | :50:02. | |
the balcony, health and safety is important. That absolutely works. | :50:03. | :50:07. | |
We are doing a story about high hills and the pressure women find in | :50:08. | :50:10. | |
the workplace if they are told by their bosses they have to. -- we're | :50:11. | :50:19. | |
doing a story about high hills. Naga is wearing flat shoes as well. They | :50:20. | :50:29. | |
are very comfortable. It is still the law that employers cannot offer | :50:30. | :50:32. | |
workers a choice when it comes to heels. | :50:33. | :50:40. | |
Doctor Heather Morgan is in Aberdeen. You say more has to be | :50:41. | :50:47. | |
done to stop women from having to wear heels? You have looked at the | :50:48. | :50:51. | |
physical impact of wearing high heels? Yes, we have looked at the | :50:52. | :50:55. | |
physical impact of wearing high heels and we see that women are | :50:56. | :51:01. | |
wearing high heels, they suffer from musculoskeletal conditions, bunions, | :51:02. | :51:05. | |
pain, injury, negative health outcomes from wearing high heels. | :51:06. | :51:11. | |
This review, you have done a review, the results will be published in a | :51:12. | :51:18. | |
BMC Public health Journal, what will people find out? To be honest, I | :51:19. | :51:21. | |
think of women know that if you wear high heels for a long time your feet | :51:22. | :51:26. | |
ache, they don't feel good for a couple of hours, it is obvious it is | :51:27. | :51:33. | |
not doing you good? Absolutely. For women and anybody wearing high | :51:34. | :51:36. | |
heels, they need to be able to weigh up the risks and benefits. We looked | :51:37. | :51:39. | |
at the negative health outcomes of wearing high heels but considered | :51:40. | :51:44. | |
the social benefits. Many women enjoy wearing high heels because of | :51:45. | :51:49. | |
the benefits that it brings, the cultural norms and social | :51:50. | :51:52. | |
expectations. But we argue there should not be an expectation by | :51:53. | :51:56. | |
employers that women should be wearing high heels as part of a | :51:57. | :52:00. | |
uniform or an expectation that it is something they should wear to their | :52:01. | :52:04. | |
place of work. At the moment we do not have clear legislation on that. | :52:05. | :52:10. | |
We have the equality act, but we are finding that many women are | :52:11. | :52:13. | |
implicitly expected to wear high heels, maybe up to a third. Where? | :52:14. | :52:19. | |
In this job we are supposed to look smart and we try our best, I'm sure, | :52:20. | :52:23. | |
but I have never been told and I am not sure my colleagues have been | :52:24. | :52:26. | |
told that they had to wear high heels. Where do you have to wear | :52:27. | :52:31. | |
high heels, as a woman or a man? And the same with me, there is no | :52:32. | :52:35. | |
expectation. There was a survey within our review which included a | :52:36. | :52:39. | |
study reporting that to a third of women feel there is some sort of | :52:40. | :52:45. | |
social pressure. It is maybe not in writing or a code of dress, it might | :52:46. | :52:48. | |
not even be, please wear high heels, simply saying that to you, but after | :52:49. | :52:54. | |
we find women feel implicit pressure. It does not have to be | :52:55. | :52:58. | |
explicit, there is sometimes implicit pressure on women to feel | :52:59. | :53:01. | |
they are expected to wear heels in certain lines of work. Which lines | :53:02. | :53:08. | |
of work? Reception jobs, office work, maybe you're being asked to | :53:09. | :53:10. | |
show people around between rooms, they are the well -- they are the | :53:11. | :53:15. | |
ones we found mostly. Where image is really important for the work. That | :53:16. | :53:20. | |
is when women seem to be being asked or feel that they are being asked to | :53:21. | :53:25. | |
wear high heels. It is good to talk to you, Dr Heather Morgan from | :53:26. | :53:29. | |
Aberdeen University. Thank you for your time. Thank you. | :53:30. | :53:34. | |
We are joined in the studio by the singer Charli XCX. We were doing a | :53:35. | :53:41. | |
story about heels and the pressure whether it is from the workplace or | :53:42. | :53:46. | |
your peers to wear high heels. You are a younger generation, you are | :53:47. | :53:50. | |
wearing high heels today but is that because it is part of your | :53:51. | :53:55. | |
performance? I don't actually wear high heels that often, I just wanted | :53:56. | :54:00. | |
to match the sofa today. That is why I am rocking the red tone. Usually I | :54:01. | :54:07. | |
am a trainers person. Sensible and practical. We will talk more about | :54:08. | :54:12. | |
your new video, it is likely in keeping with the ethos, as I | :54:13. | :54:16. | |
understand it, of the idea that you should be free to do things however | :54:17. | :54:22. | |
you want and not stuck into stereotypes, male and female | :54:23. | :54:26. | |
stereotypes? Right. With my video I basically wanted to flip the male | :54:27. | :54:33. | |
gaze on its head, essentially. I directed the video and I basically | :54:34. | :54:39. | |
got a lot of celebrities, musicians, actors, sports stars to star in a | :54:40. | :54:45. | |
video. We can see them. Do you want to take us through who we are | :54:46. | :55:02. | |
seeing? Charlie, the rapper, will I am, Mark Robinson, Stormzy... The | :55:03. | :55:09. | |
posers are interesting, the scenarios. We honour getting into it | :55:10. | :55:14. | |
yet but we have a pillow fight coming up, some provocative posing | :55:15. | :55:17. | |
accent you waiting part of the body, lots of pink. Basically lots of ways | :55:18. | :55:25. | |
that women are portrayed in videos, overly sexualised, perhaps, or | :55:26. | :55:29. | |
stereotyped. This is an attempt, is it fair, to break down and challenge | :55:30. | :55:36. | |
those stereotypes? I have to stress this is definitely not me pointing a | :55:37. | :55:41. | |
finger or blaming the boys in this video or trying to make fun of them. | :55:42. | :55:48. | |
This is something... I basically harass them into being in this | :55:49. | :55:52. | |
video, continuously annoyed them and hit them up until they caved and | :55:53. | :55:59. | |
said yes. I guess the whole idea is to... Yeah, use the stereotypical | :56:00. | :56:04. | |
scenario is that girls are often seen in, the sexy pillow fight, the | :56:05. | :56:08. | |
shower scene, the paddling pool, and presented to them and have them act | :56:09. | :56:15. | |
it out. You often have that kind of thing where women are windowdressing | :56:16. | :56:19. | |
behind the singer. That is a very common situation in videos. Totally, | :56:20. | :56:24. | |
I made the active decision to not be in this video and have the guys do | :56:25. | :56:29. | |
all the work. They were all so down. They got my vision completely, I | :56:30. | :56:33. | |
mentioned the male gaze and they were all great, yeah, let's do it. | :56:34. | :56:37. | |
They completely got it. I thought it was really cool. How take to shoot? | :56:38. | :56:46. | |
Did it take ages? Just to tap them up must have taken a long time? So | :56:47. | :56:50. | |
long. We started shooting in March and finished about two weeks before | :56:51. | :56:54. | |
it came out, which was five days ago. It has been a long time. | :56:55. | :57:02. | |
Everyone is really busy and has scheduled, oh, my gosh. It took a | :57:03. | :57:08. | |
lot. We shot in LA, New York, London, the Coachella music | :57:09. | :57:13. | |
festival. It is interesting the idea of control. Maybe you have to go | :57:14. | :57:19. | |
back a few years now to when record labels would literally tell the | :57:20. | :57:22. | |
artists, particularly maybe the female artists, literally what they | :57:23. | :57:26. | |
should wear, how they should look, what their demeanour should be. Has | :57:27. | :57:32. | |
that changed a lot? Especially over the past five years, I really do | :57:33. | :57:38. | |
believe that has changed. I think lots of females in the industry are | :57:39. | :57:41. | |
so vocal about their opinions on feminism and their experience in the | :57:42. | :57:46. | |
music industry, and I think lots of female artists and artists in | :57:47. | :57:50. | |
general are so much more in control of their own career now. Just | :57:51. | :57:54. | |
because I feel like audiences are more intelligent, fans are cleverer, | :57:55. | :57:59. | |
they understand the marketing am putting together of a pop star and | :58:00. | :58:03. | |
they want somebody real, genuine and firm and not somebody built up. I | :58:04. | :58:08. | |
think artists have to take control and run their own game to be | :58:09. | :58:15. | |
successful. What are you more proud of, the musical video? I don't know. | :58:16. | :58:20. | |
With this I think I am proud of the video just because this is my first | :58:21. | :58:25. | |
time directing my own video, I have directed one video before, this is | :58:26. | :58:29. | |
the first time doing my own. The video makes more of a statement | :58:30. | :58:32. | |
about the song perhaps that the song does about the video, is that fair? | :58:33. | :58:38. | |
I really feel would be quite easy to make a very cute sexy video of me | :58:39. | :58:43. | |
singing about boys and I really didn't want to do that, I wanted | :58:44. | :58:48. | |
to... There will be pressure on you to keep this up, keep this message | :58:49. | :58:55. | |
up? That's OK. I think throughout my career I have been very vocal on my | :58:56. | :59:02. | |
opinion about being a woman in the music industry. I get asked | :59:03. | :59:05. | |
questions about feminism all the time and I am totally happy to | :59:06. | :59:09. | |
answer them. At the same time I think I am not somebody who is | :59:10. | :59:18. | |
worried about wearing revealing outfits are performing provocatively | :59:19. | :59:22. | |
sometimes onstage. As long as that is my choice I am completely happy | :59:23. | :59:26. | |
to do that. The second it is an instruction by a man or a record | :59:27. | :59:33. | |
label then it is not cruel, otherwise it is good. Just for the | :59:34. | :59:38. | |
record, I am not offended I was not called to be in the video. Next | :59:39. | :59:43. | |
time! Of ice ages is an issue. All those young men. | :59:44. | :59:50. | |
We will do an extended cut just for you. Just consider it next time. | :59:51. | :59:58. | |
Just consider it. Britain's only surviving cloth | :59:59. | :00:00. | |
hall reopens today after The Piece Hall in Halifax, | :00:01. | :00:07. | |
West Yorkshire, was once the centre of the world's wool trade | :00:08. | :00:11. | |
and since then it has been through a number | :00:12. | :00:14. | |
of different incarnations. Fiona Lamdin is there | :00:15. | :00:19. | |
for us this morning. It is a spectacular backdrop. It | :00:20. | :00:32. | |
looks like you could be in Italy or Venice, Rome. Good morning, Fiona. | :00:33. | :00:38. | |
You are right, it really does like we could be in Italy if you ignore | :00:39. | :00:43. | |
the cloud. There is blue sky that way. This is over 200 years old and | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
we have been looking back at its history. | :00:52. | :00:56. | |
For the last two and a half centuries the Piece Hall has stood | :00:57. | :00:59. | |
at the heart of Halifax, where in 1779 people came to trade | :01:00. | :01:02. | |
There were at least 315 individual rooms built for the sale of cloth, | :01:03. | :01:08. | |
from which clothiers would have sold the will to merchants. | :01:09. | :01:13. | |
from which clothiers would have sold the wool to merchants. | :01:14. | :01:16. | |
Merchants would have come from quite far afield, | :01:17. | :01:18. | |
including on occasion from Europe, and the trade from the Piece Hall | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
went back into Europe and also over to the Americas. | :01:22. | :01:24. | |
All the wool came from local sheep woven by local families | :01:25. | :01:26. | |
This is an example of the cloth most commonly sold in the Piece Hall | :01:27. | :01:33. | |
and as you can feel, it's pretty hard wearing, isn't it? | :01:34. | :01:36. | |
This was largely used by the military so it would have | :01:37. | :01:40. | |
This is the country's only surviving intact cloth hall with 315 | :01:41. | :01:51. | |
individual yet identical trading rooms. | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
It seems such a waste this beautiful building was only open back then | :01:55. | :01:58. | |
in the 18th century for trading for two hours every week. | :01:59. | :02:05. | |
But after the Industrial Revolution the cloth was mainly made and sold | :02:06. | :02:08. | |
In its place the Piece Hall was filled with fruit | :02:09. | :02:11. | |
But a century on, in the 1970s, this is how the Piece Hall looked, | :02:12. | :02:19. | |
a blot on the landscape, threatened to be flattened to make | :02:20. | :02:22. | |
One of those who fought to save it back then was Mary Crossley. | :02:23. | :02:28. | |
When I first came in it was all black, there were sheds around | :02:29. | :02:46. | |
the edge and warehouses in the middle and vehicles. | :02:47. | :02:51. | |
When I came up onto the balcony I remember there were holes | :02:52. | :03:04. | |
To start with there were only three of us for quite a long time | :03:05. | :03:16. | |
and there wasn't much to start with but it developed gradually. | :03:17. | :03:18. | |
It's hoped this historical hall will place Halifax back on the map. | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
238 years on as the shelves fill up, this is a new chapter for this town, | :03:22. | :03:25. | |
but nothing is new for these old stones who have witnessed | :03:26. | :03:28. | |
In the next half an hour, those grand old doors will be opening. You | :03:29. | :03:38. | |
can see the queues forming as the public will be able to come in here | :03:39. | :03:43. | |
for the first time. David, your family were actually here right on | :03:44. | :03:48. | |
day one all those years ago? Yes, nearly 240 years ago, we were | :03:49. | :03:54. | |
trading here and we had four rooms at the peace all behind us. Trading | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
in textiles and we have been trading in textiles ever since. What does it | :03:59. | :04:05. | |
feel like, knowing in the next hour, trading will be going on again? It | :04:06. | :04:10. | |
is terrific to see a place like there's open up again after years of | :04:11. | :04:14. | |
deterioration. It is lovely, it is going to be a great success. Coming | :04:15. | :04:20. | |
over to Hannah Cockroft, the Paralympian, who will be sounding | :04:21. | :04:24. | |
the bell. You will be starting the trading at ten a:m., good morning. | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
What does this place mean to you? Growing up here, it has been a big | :04:31. | :04:37. | |
part of your life? This is home to me, my mum brought me here to the | :04:38. | :04:41. | |
markets. They used to be a stage here, used to sing with the Halifax | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Young singers. It has played a massive part and coming home from | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
London 2012, this is where Halifax greeted me and welcomes me home. | :04:51. | :04:56. | |
What was that like? It was incredible, I think there were 3000 | :04:57. | :05:00. | |
people in here. Would love to see more today but just some of my | :05:01. | :05:05. | |
favourite memories because this is one of my favourite places in the | :05:06. | :05:10. | |
world. It is brilliant there is no cobbles, what do you love about the | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
renovation? It is easier to get around. It used to be cobbles and | :05:16. | :05:20. | |
even for my homecoming, I had to come in in a car because I couldn't | :05:21. | :05:25. | |
get across to the stage. Now I can get to every shop, there are lives | :05:26. | :05:30. | |
now and every level is accessible. New shops, all of which I can get in | :05:31. | :05:35. | |
and around. It is such a treat to have it and have the heart of | :05:36. | :05:41. | |
Halifax back. Thank you. Hannah will be ringing this bell, up there in an | :05:42. | :05:45. | |
hour to officially mark the start of trading again here. It has been | :05:46. | :05:52. | |
interesting looking round, it is always nice when you feel you have | :05:53. | :05:55. | |
discovered a place. I know people locally knew it was there and were | :05:56. | :05:57. | |
familiar with it, but there you go. I will be back with the lunchtime | :05:58. | :06:00. | |
Matt Haig in a moment, I will be back with the lunchtime | :06:01. | :07:42. | |
news at 1:30pm on BBC One. Have a good morning. Goodbye. | :07:43. | :07:51. | |
The issue of depression has featured heavily in Matt Haig's work. | :07:52. | :07:54. | |
His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive catalogued his fight | :07:55. | :07:57. | |
What might surprise many of his fans is that his new novel, | :07:58. | :08:02. | |
about a 400-year-old history teacher was again inspired by his own | :08:03. | :08:05. | |
In a moment we will go to the thinking behind the book, but how | :08:06. | :08:20. | |
can you be 400 years old? If you have made a condition called Anna | :08:21. | :08:27. | |
cheerier. You are not immortal, you are ageing but you are ageing much | :08:28. | :08:31. | |
slower. So in 15 years of normal time, he will age worn biological | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
year. People will think along the lines of vampires. They have | :08:37. | :08:44. | |
age-related stuff going on? Yes, but they are often stuck at an Isa Ben | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
Ryan age and useful all the time. But this condition means you will | :08:49. | :08:53. | |
end up being old for a very, very long time. The teacher in this book | :08:54. | :09:03. | |
is around what? He looks around 41, he is pretending to be 41. In what | :09:04. | :09:11. | |
you do with him, he is a history teacher, his process in life and the | :09:12. | :09:16. | |
rules that apply to his life, don't fall in love, basically move around | :09:17. | :09:20. | |
so you are not recognise. Change your name now and again. How has | :09:21. | :09:27. | |
mental health issues been linked with this? It is a total fantasy, | :09:28. | :09:35. | |
but it is quite autobiographical because I put a lot of my own | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
experience about having a condition, you are keeping secrets or otherwise | :09:41. | :09:44. | |
it is invisible, but you are carrying this baggage. And the thing | :09:45. | :09:51. | |
about depression, it plays tricks on time. Time is relative. When I was | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
sort of ill continuously, ill for about three years, I came out and | :09:57. | :10:02. | |
felt like I was almost 400 years old. Even now, that feels like half | :10:03. | :10:05. | |
my life because if you have got something that is painful, it | :10:06. | :10:09. | |
doesn't have to be mental illness but any trauma going on in your | :10:10. | :10:15. | |
life, time seems to slow and you are trapped in that moment. Rather than | :10:16. | :10:19. | |
write a novel directly about back, it would be more interesting to | :10:20. | :10:24. | |
explode that idea, little eyes it is someone being for centuries years | :10:25. | :10:32. | |
old. Does writing help you? Massively. Reading and writing saved | :10:33. | :10:36. | |
my life. I know it sounds melodramatic, but to be able to | :10:37. | :10:41. | |
write down what I was feeling at the time was very, very therapeutic. | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
Also writing fiction is therapeutic. When reality gets too much and makes | :10:47. | :10:50. | |
you feel quite claustrophobic, fiction is like comedy of the room | :10:51. | :10:54. | |
you can go to and have breathing space. You mention part of the | :10:55. | :11:00. | |
conditions in which your characters live this extraordinary lifetime. It | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
is like a curse, isn't it? Can't fall in love? Can't fall in love. | :11:05. | :11:15. | |
Can't fall in love. I am a hypochondriac, think I'm going to | :11:16. | :11:18. | |
fall down dead any minute. We all want to live for ever, but imagine | :11:19. | :11:28. | |
living for four centuries and it will not be a piece of cake. The | :11:29. | :11:32. | |
things he has seen, I have read the early part of the book, things crop | :11:33. | :11:36. | |
up, treble things which he has seen along the way. The witch trials, | :11:37. | :11:43. | |
vampires, it is the unknown and dealing with people who don't like | :11:44. | :11:47. | |
others who are different? Absolutely. In Elizabethan times, | :11:48. | :11:52. | |
there were all sorts of superstitions, but it would be | :11:53. | :11:55. | |
interesting to have, even now, there would be reasons to keep it in the | :11:56. | :12:00. | |
closet. If you had the choice, would you like to live for 400 years? It | :12:01. | :12:07. | |
would be hard to say no to. I would say no, immediately. I would say | :12:08. | :12:13. | |
yes. I am scared of my mortality. I think it would be a terrible thing, | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
I don't know. It would be OK if everyone around you would live for | :12:18. | :12:21. | |
400 years, but if you were the only person. It would be dreadful. No, | :12:22. | :12:27. | |
you would get to see so much of the world. There are references to | :12:28. | :12:32. | |
points in history, there is a balance to be made with things like | :12:33. | :12:39. | |
that because you cannot avoid it but it cannot be too laden with history? | :12:40. | :12:43. | |
It is history, but he is remembering it in the present. Even when he | :12:44. | :12:54. | |
talks about smartphones, he is remembering Shakespeare. What is | :12:55. | :13:02. | |
next? What is next? Well, the film rights have been sold to that, so I | :13:03. | :13:07. | |
may have some involvement with the screenplay. Did I read Benedict | :13:08. | :13:19. | |
Cumberbatch? You did. Will you be confirming Benedict Cumberbatch? I | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
think I am OK to do that, he will be playing the main character. There is | :13:23. | :13:27. | |
such a solid group of people. I am happy to get on with the next thing. | :13:28. | :13:30. | |
Been a pleasure to talk to you. Matt Haig's book is | :13:31. | :13:32. | |
called How to Stop Time. | :13:33. | :13:35. |