11/08/2017 Breakfast

This is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Naga

Arrests as the contaminated egg scandal spreads to more

It's now known that 700,000 eggs have been sent to the UK from farms

Some processed foods have been pulled from supermarket shelves,

but officials insist it's unlikely the public is at risk.

The US Defence Secretary says war with North Korea

James Mattis insists diplomacy is delivering results.

A friendship forged through football.

One month on from the death of Bradley Lowery, Premier League

striker, Jermain Defoe, tells us how he's been inspired

He loved his football. He loved me. I loved him. For me, every time I

saw him it was a special feeling. Good morning.

And I'm live here at the London Stadium.

It's day eight of the World Athletics Championships

and all morning here on BBC Breakfast.

I'll be rounding up the action for you.

And there was no fairy tale ending for Isaac Makwala in the men's 200

He finished sixth while Britain's Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake was fourth.

Should the locals get to decide on what happens in the rough

neighbourhood? Is people-power the answer

to our housing crisis? A new campaign says locals

should get more say It would speed up construction,

but critics say it could It is a beautiful start to the day.

Will the weather remain this way? I will have the full forecast in 50

minutes. Thank you. -- 15 minutes. The scandal over contaminated eggs

continues to spread across Europe, with Denmark the latest

country to be affected. 20 tons of infected eggs have been

sold in Denmark where authorities said boiled and peeled eggs

were found to contain traces of Fipronil, an insecticide commonly

used to rid animals of fleas, Two eastern European countries,

Romania and Slovakia, have also reported

tainted consignments. Police investigating the European

egg contamination scandal have Supermarkets scrambling

to clear shelves. A pesticide commonly in use to kill

lice and fleas has made its way Earlier this week,

the Food Standards Agency says The agency said you would have to

eat 10,000 contaminated eggs to see an effect. There is no reason people

should avoid it. It is unlikely there is any public health risk. We

thing people deserve good they can trust. That means not having food

that has a substance that should not be there. So far, some salads and

sandwiches sold by these four supermarkets have been withdrawn,

but whole eggs are safe. Despite those assurances, it is spreading

through Europe. Millions of eggs will be destroyed, as will hundreds

of thousands of hens. Four years ago, horsemeat was found in burgers

and ready meals. Once again, questions are being raised about

what goes in processed foods and where it comes from. Officials hope

that the contaminated eggs will be out of the food chain soon, but the

investigation into Europe's latest food scandal is likely to go on for

some time. BBC News. The US Defence Secretary,

James Mattis, says America is still trying to use diplomacy

to resolve the growing tension He has been speaking after Pyongyang

announced plans to fire four missiles near the American

territory of Guam. President Trump says

the regime should be "very, very nervous" if it does

anything to the US. My portfolio, my mission, my

responsibility, is to have military options should they be needed.

However, right now, Secretary Rex Tillerson and Nikki Haley, you can

see the American effort is diplomatically lead and has

diplomatic traction and is gaining diplomatic results. And I want to

stay right there in right now. The tragedy of war is well enough known

and does not need another characterisation beyond the fact

that it would be catastrophic. Robin Brant is in Seoul

for us this morning. Good morning. We are hearing more of

the war of words from both sides. What is the feeling over there? Life

goes on, frankly. People here just after lunchtime are facing the idea

of conflict. Only 35 miles away is where a barrage is facing the

country. You are hearing the words from the president and the Defence

Secretary. The South Koreans here would like to hear President Trump

reminding the world he does not want to see North Korea threatening

United States and its allies, Japan and South Korea as well. That

reminds people hear of the military alliance they have with the United

States. That is so important for protecting this country. That

diplomatic effort you heard before, we don't know what Mattis is getting

at. The new president of South Korea, he is more conciliatory in

his tone than his predecessor. They were talking about ending the sabre

rattling from Pyongyang and trying to get negotiations back on to bring

some lasting peace for the peninsula.

Hundreds of people are going to be moved out of their high-rise flats

after an investigation has revealed they are not safe.

242 flats in south-east London are affected.

The issue with the gas supply was discovered

during an investigation into fire safety prompted

Dan Johnson is there with the latest.

I am assuming those ones behind you are the flats in question. Good

morning. Yes. There are four blocks of them. More than 240 flats which

have had gas cuts already and residents have been told they will

have to move out so structural work can be done up it is not immediate

evacuation. It is something that will take time to plan. The council

says with the gas cut off people will be safe. They provided electric

heaters so people can keep warm and get hot water. They will have to

undertake serious structural work. This all goes back to a disaster at

another tower block more than 45 years ago when a small gas explosion

prompted a collapse that killed four people. Tower blocks like these were

supposed to have been strengthened to guard against that sort of

explosion causing a similar collapse. The investigations that

took place here in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire have revealed

that strengthening work was never actually carried out. That is why

the council is going to have to take action. We are seeing even more

broad rough percussions from the Grenfell Tower fire rippling out.

This does not involve the cladding. It is potentially a whole other

issue that will have to be explored. OK. Thank you very much.

Donations made to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire are not

reaching survivors fast enough, according to campaigners in West

Figures from the Charity Commission show that less than 15% of the 18.9

million raised has been given to people affected.

They claim that early difficulties in identifying and contacting those

CCTV cameras will be compulsory in all abattoirs in England, under new

plans announced by the Environment Secretary, Michael Gove. Vets

working for the Food Standards Agency will be given unrestricted

access to footage from all areas containing livestock. Abattoirs with

failing standards of care could face a criminal investigation or lose

staff licences. A six-week consultation will now be held on how

to implement the measures. I think this is a very important

animal welfare measure and it gives even greater confidence to the

consumer, both at home and abroad, that British produced reddish meat

is at the highest possible standards during the life of the animal and

that its death. -- British. The airports and airlines

with the worst summer flight delays I will name and shame them. It is a

BBC investigation. We are looking at delays from last summer and the one

before. Those are the latest figures. There are some interesting

findings. Some will come as a surprise. There have been record

numbers of strikes for air-traffic patrol, especially in France, Spain,

Italy, Greece. Lots of bad weather has affected air travel as well. And

congested airspace, which makes it difficult. You might have to wait

even longer. The numbers. One in five flights to and from the UK are

now delayed by more than 30 minutes according to the BBC. You won't mind

too much. But that is increasing in frequency. EasyJet was named and

shamed as the worst offender. The average summer flights delayed by 24

minutes. If you take one of those flights, expect that the late.

Gatwick Airport is the one that has been noted as having the worst, with

an average waiting time of 27 minutes. EasyJet operate the most

flights in Gatwick Airport. They carry millions of passengers each

year. They are congested and have many planes that go to Europe. That

is why they have the most congested aerospace and they only have one

runway. But if you are travelling from a small regional airport you

will have less to late. Bradford is seeing the least delays. There are

many reasons why it will not be welcome reading for those tried to

get away this summer to be and now there are calls once again for

compensation. We should not have to ask for compensation, they should

offer it automatically. If you are trying to figure out what your area

is like, go to the website. The addresses on your TV screen. You can

find out where you are most likely to face a delay.

There was a surprise result in the 200-metre men's

Turkey's Ramil Guliyev won, dashing the hopes

of Botswana's Isacc Makwala, who had run a solo time trial to get

this far after his initial controversial exclusion

British athletes failed to win any medals, but there were some

promising performances in the London Stadium.

Our sports news correspondent, Andy Swiss, reports.

He urged to a hero's welcome. After beating illness, could Isacc Makwala

beat his rivals? But his remarkable story did not have a happy ending.

South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk looks on course for his second

title. But it was an unheralded name that grabbed the headlines. Ramil

Guliyev of Turkey grabbing gold. With Mitchell Blake forced and Isacc

Makwala back in six. -- fourth. It was not meant to be. It was not

meant to be. I had two trial runs yesterday. Earlier, there were hopes

of success for a lay Doyle, but she finished last in her final, with

America's Corey Carter taking gold. Today's hopes for Britain will be

led by Dina Asher-Smith. After six days without a British medal, the

fans will be crossing their fingers. Andy Swiss, BBC News, at the London

Stadium. It's not unusual to find some flotsom or jetsom washed up on

a beach in British summertime, but the coast of Norfolk has seen some

unusually large debris make itself at home on the shore. I love those

words. The Maritime and Coastguard Agency confirmed two large plastic

pipes measuring eight feet in diameter have washed up on beaches

at Winterton and Sea Pallling, with the largest segment reaching 1,500

feet. You get a sense because you can see the person close by. They

came loose while being towed to North Africa and another ten

segments are still at sea. Of that size! They will pop-up! How will

they deal with it? What do they do? They don't have holes in them. You

can run through them. They are giant pipes to run liquid through. There

is a hollow area in the centre. You can see it, that bit in the middle.

That is the pipe bit where stuff goes through it and comes out the

other end. But the other end? And red. And it was old... Look, I can't

explain that. If you have seen something bigger than that washed up

on a beach... If you have seen a bigger pipe than Charlie's... OK...

Sarah is that the balloon Festival. It is the 39th Bristol balloon

fiesta and the pilots are getting ready. Throughout the four days, we

are set to see about 130 and it is a nice start to the day. , and we will

see some rain at times today said this morning here in Bristol and

across much of southern and central England, a fine start. Quite fresh.

And the south-east, some more cloud and Mr Dennis. There is sunshine

this morning across the Midlands. Some rain across parts of Cumbria

and Northumberland. A better brightness for the east of Scotland.

Rain in the West, which could be quite heavy. Also cloud in town. A

blustery start to the morning of those outbreaks of rain. Some of

that rain edging into the west of Wales but the Central and East

Wales, fine and dry to start the day and some sunshine into the

south-west of England. Rain across the Isles of Scilly. Through the

course of the day, that rain, edging its way further eastwards. A spell

of rain and some strong winds. The south of England and East Anglia

should avoid the wet weather. Temperatures around 22 degrees.

Moving through the course of this evening, that band of rain and brisk

wind will move its way across the south-east of England and East

Anglia and it will be followed by showers across the rest of the

country. By Saturday morning, temperatures around 13- 15 degrees

but most places are going to be dry. The weekend is not looking bad. A

bit of breeze in the sunny spells Scilly should see fine weather.

Those temperatures will range between 16 and 22 degrees. The high

pressure stays with us into the second half of the weekend. It looks

dry once again. Sunday to most of us is looking like a fine day. Still

the chance of one or two showers. We should see the temperatures about

16, 20 two degrees. Fairly fine weather on the cards. We are going

to look at the papers. The scare over eggs is on the front pages.

Our lead story this morning, we've been reassured there was almost no

risk at all in terms of public health to people. We hope to get

some more clarification. You would have to eat 10,000 of them to become

ill, actually. Remarkable pictures here on the front page of the time.

Holidaymakers were in southern Spain, in Cadiz, and this dinghy

appeared on the beach carrying 30 African migrants, swept into shore

and passengers leap off and sweep into the sand. On the front page of

The Daily Telegraph, this is the image from the US Court, the case

involving Taylor Swift and 's portrait in which she is accusing a

radio DJ of groping her and the main story is harking back to the Asian

sex gangs who have been targeting young women. The tension is

ratcheting between North Korea and the United States. The US Defence

Secretary James Mattis says diplomacy is going to be used but

the Mirror says that British planes are going to be used to spy on North

Korea. A fascinating story. And if you have ever applied for planning

permission,, you know you have to go to local council. Your neighbours

will decide whether or not you can get that planning permission to do

whatever it is. They are suggesting it could boost the economy. About

?10,000 better off. You could do all sorts of extensions. People will

just agree to all sorts of things. There is a big question as well. May

be happy for it to go elsewhere. But it's a brilliant story here on the

times. I'm not sure which one I would move my desk next to. We love

this story. This is a study in the times which says if you move your

desk at work next to someone who is really good in the office, you would

do well served by the halo effect. Why did think both of our -- both of

us are sitting next to C? That is so not true. C, don't underestimate

yourself. If you have office politics going on, who'd do you sit

next to? It stands to reason. I think the logic works the other

way... Least capable all the worst behaved. If you are sitting next to

the swot... You got to think about these things. We gravitated towards

you because you are the swot. The safety of the UK food chain is

being questioned after eggs were found to be contaminated with the

pesticide fipronil. But as the investigation in Europe spreads, the

number of eggs affected could rise. Heather Hancock is the chairman of

the Food Standards Agency. Good morning to you. I wanted of all ask

what you can say to people who are concerned about the eggs they may be

eating. Good morning, C. I want to reassure people about the eggs they

might be eating. The risk to public health from this very small -- this

very small proportion of eggs, the risk is very low. People do not need

to worry about any impact on them from eating these eggs. Even though

700,000 eggs, they sound like a lot. It's in the context of a seating

more than 10 billion eggs per year so it helps to put that in

proportion. This is a very low risk issue. When you say the risk, can

you quantify? We are talking about a grown adult, someone like me would

have to weed one of these eggs every day to the rest of our lives to face

any serious potential health risk. The latest figures we are being

told, some 700,000 eggs that were affected. Earlier, the first

emerged, it was just 20 1000. Can you account for white rose so

swiftly and why the initial figure was so wrong? -- why it rose. We

were made aware that there were no known eggs that made it in but we

all recognise this has been a fast-moving incident in Holland and

Belgium. Over the weekend, our first notification that they thought

21,000 eggs had got to the UK and that prompted us to launch our

investigations and as a result, the industry coming forward, we've

established the number is currently 700,000 eggs. That is the nature of

these things. There are about 150 farms affected in the Netherlands.

They are uncovering more evidence as time has gone on and we've been

reacting to that. How confident are you the 700,000 figure is correct

given what you said about the number escalating so quickly? New

information may still come forward. We can't say that's it. There may

well be more eggs. The risk issue will remain the same. A lifetime

consumption is needed. We are still expecting a very small proportion of

the total number of eggs in the UK. We produce something like 85% of the

eggs we eat here in the UK and there is no evidence that substance has

been wrongly used in the UK. With the agency, giving what you said

about this being imported, would you recommend, seeing as there are a

number of supermarkets, should they only be using UK eggs in all

products? There is nothing to suggest that eggs from elsewhere

have the same problems. We would not say that. The reason we've asked the

supermarkets to withdraw from the shelves is not because they are a

risk to public health, it's more an issue of trusting food. These eggs

have something in them which should not be there and that is why we are

asking for the eggs be withdrawn. Heather Hancock, thank you for your

time. Now, it's the time of year

when lots of us will be heading It's the perfect location to take

lots of photos as we lounge around Well, earlier this week,

the now ex-editor of Vogue published this photo

on social media, sparking a frenzy of

debate about selfies. And do summer selfies lead

to increasing body anxiety? We asked a group of young

people what they thought. Test is a filter, clean your skin.

You just do little filters on Instagram. Would you put in

unfiltered picture up? Yes. If I take it picture, as long as I'm

comfortable, I don't care what anybody things. Is there pressure to

always be edited and looking your best? Sometimes it makes you look

nicer and are not really self-conscious if I'm using a

filter. It makes you feel better that you can have a picture that

everyone else can, not appreciate, but like as well as you do. And

celebrities, when you see them, do you presume they are filtered?

Sometimes you hope they are because they look that good and you don't

look like that sometimes so it gives you a bit of relief to note that is

not real. I like it when they do natural photos but then again, you

know they have make-up, it's not a surprise. I'm going to make your

legs a bit longer. A lot longer. Skinnier waists? Yes. I will put

some make up on you. Wow, I look so much better in the fake me. I could

get used to that. I do think she should have changed a

single thing. She looks fabulous. I find this quite bizarre, quite

worrying. I don't know if you adjust your settings when you take a photo.

I just try to make my face bigger. Everybody is doing it all the time.

What do you think? Do you prefer being enhanced by a filter? Should

we stay natural? We would love to hear your thoughts and see your

pictures. Send us an email. After 730, we will be joined by reality

television star Cady McDermott. She tells us how she uses social media

to promote her business and brands at how much enhancement she uses.

This is Breakfast with Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty.

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

In his first interview since the death of six-year-old,

Bradley Lowery, from a rare form of cancer, footballer,

Jermain Defoe, tells us about the impact their friendship

Also this morning, badly injured in the Manchester bombing,

Robbie Potter and his partner were waiting to collect

their daughters from the Ariana Grande concert

He'll be here to tell us about his long road to recovery.

And heavier than ten adult African elephants and longer than three

Could this dinosaur be the biggest creature ever to have

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

Police investigating the European egg contamination scandal have

arrested two company directors following raids in the Netherlands.

Here, the Food Standards Agency has revealed that 700,000 contaminated

eggs have been imported from Dutch farms, but it insists it is "highly

unlikely" they pose any risk to human health.

Sandwiches and salads are among the foods that have now been removed

The US Defence Secretary James Mattis says America is still trying

to use diplomacy to resolve the growing tension with North Korea

He said diplomatic efforts were yielding results,

though military options were ready if needed.

He made his remarks shortly after President Trump had stepped

up his rhetoric, saying his threat to unleash "fire and fury"

on North Korea might not have been tough enough.

My portfolio, my mission, my responsibility, is to have

military options should they be needed.

However, right now, Secretary Rex Tillerson

and Ambassador Haley, you can see the American effort

is diplomatically led, it has diplomatic traction

and is gaining diplomatic results.

And I want to stay right there right now.

The tragedy of war is well enough known

and does not need another characterisation beyond the fact

Donations made to the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire are not

reaching survivors quickly enough, according to campaigners in West

Figures from the Charity Commission show that less than 15% of the ?18.9

million raised has been given to people affected almost two months

after the tragedy, but it says that early difficulties in identifying

and contacting those who need help are being overcome.

American singer, Taylor Swift, has told a US court how

she was sexually assaulted by a radio DJ four years ago,

Yesterday, the singer took the stand in the trial,

which began in Denver earlier this week.

The 27-year-old, who is suing DJ, David Mueller, over the incident,

told the court he had grabbed her as she met fans ahead

We will get the weather a little later on. Now for the sport. There

were some shocks last night at the Athletic Championships. Jessica is

at the stadium in London. Good morning. We will have a morning

session today. Finally. The last few days we have not had anything. I

want to show you that the engineers have done everything for us this

morning. Let me tell you about one of the stars of the championships,

Isaac. There is talk from politicians in Botswana there may be

a national holiday in his honour. Can you imagine? Settler, there was

no fairy tale ending for him last night.

It's been an incredible few days for Isaac Makwala

but there was to be no fairy tale ending for him in the final

of the 200-metres last night, as he finished 6th.

You'll remember Makwala was forced to miss the final of the 400-metres

due to illness and had to run a time trial just to get

Having made the final he was in contention around the bend

Turkey's Ramil Gulyev won the race ahead of Wayde Van Niekerk.

Great Britain's Nathaneel Mitchel Blake finished fourth.

Makwala blamed his performance on having to run two races

200 yesterday. It has cost me a lot. It took it out of you. It took

everything out of me. Running alone in the semi-final. Running in the

rain. It took all of my energy. So I can hear... But I am happy that I

ran and I did my best. Dina Asher-Smith will be the sole

British runner in tonight's final She was an automatic qualifier

after she finished second I completely broke my third read. I

had to spend six weeks not doing anything. Putting weight on it. And

then gradually putting weight on it for the next six weeks. I was out of

walking. Then I learned how to walk. And then I am here. It was not that

bad. I am joking, I would not recommend it. It was not that fun.

There was disappointment for the British team captain

Eilidh Doyle in the 400-metres hurdles.

She came last in the final which was won by the American Kori

There will be three British women in the semi-finals of the women's

Lynsey Sharp, Adelle Tracy, and Shelayna Oskan-Clarke,

And there will be two British men in tonight's

Meanwhile, an exhausted Laura Muir qualified for the final

She was one of the fastest losers in her semi-final,

with the exertions of finishing fourth in the 1,500 metres

earlier this week looking like they've taken their toll on her.

Eilish McColgan looked impressive as she also made it through,

I came into this really positive. I felt like I recovered from the 1500.

But last night the legs just went. I have not run a 5000 since January.

It is just getting used to it. I know what to expect now more for the

final. Katarina Johnson-Thompson has made

it the final of the high jump after failing in that

event in the heptathlon. She will be joined by

Morgan Lake who also cleared There was talk the American

Christian Taylor could rake Jonathan Edwards' 22-year-old record. --

break. He did not. But he still got 17.6 metres. Let's have a quick look

at what's been going on away from the athletics.

Rory McIlroy said "the course played tricky,"

after his opening round at the USPGA Championship.

He dropped three shots in two holes to finish the day five shots

And the Premier League returns tonight with Arsenal playing host

Arsenal haven't won their opening game since 2014 and manager

Arsene Wenger knows they need to change that.

The squad looks good. We need to transform the quality of the

preparation in the points. That is a pragmatic view, of course. What

matters is the next game and winning it and starting in a strong way

which we did not do last year. That is what we want to achieve this

year. The start of the Premier League

season is coming along quick. Mo Farah and Usain Bolt will be back on

the track this weekend. It will be action packed! We will be looking

forward to that. It always looks magnificent over there. That track.

The grass looks great! The British Athletics team are back

in action on day eight of the World Here's a quick look ahead

to some of the moments There is a morning session today. So

the ones to watch starts with Tiffany Porter. And bronze medallist

in 2013. She wants to make it to the semi-final. Robbie Grabarz should

breeze through this preliminary stage. He wants to replicate London

2012 when he got bronze only one British woman made it through to the

final. Lorraine Ugen. She hopes to back up her European indoor medal in

March with a podium place. Next up, Britain's Lynsey Sharp. She competed

in 2016 in Rio when she came sixth. Nick Miller qualified automatically

for the final. The gold-medallist made it with his first throw. Dina

Asher-Smith made it into the 200 metre final. She broke her foot in

February and the prognosis was grim. But her comeback has been

incredible. Can she get a medal? She goes at 9:50. If you want to keep up

with the action, tune in to BBC Two at 9:30am this morning. And then hop

over to BBC One until 10pm. And finally, BBC Two four the last hour

of coverage. -- for. Hundreds of flights will be

evacuated after structural problems were found in four tower blocks were

. They had their gas cut off with immediate effect.

Yesterday, the gas supply to 242 flats in Ledbury Towers,

south London was cut off with immediate effect.

A letter was sent to residents saying officials would distribute

electric hotplates and that residents could take showers

Councillor Stephanie Cryan is Deputy Leader and Cabinet member

for Housing at Southwark Council, she joins us from our

Thank you very much for talking to us this morning. Good morning. Good

morning. Can you tell us, we have explained the number of flats in the

process, how long has it taken to get to this point? What was found in

terms of what was structurally wrong with these flats? After the

aftermath of Grenfell Tower, we had a resident come to us worried about

cracks in the properties. We did a full structural report on the state

of the properties. And yesterday we heard that actually there was a

potential issue with the gas supply and we made the decision to cut it

off immediately. Just to be clear, we spoke a lot about cladding and

fire risks. This is not an issue with cladding. This is an issue with

gas. What are the risks posed by the gas? The structure of the tower

block are similar to Rogue Point. If there was a gas explosion that could

be in locations. That is why we took this decision when we found out to

cut it off. As a member of Suffolk Council, you will be familiar with

the criticism in terms of organisation of residence. What can

you do to make the lives of those who live there easier and as little

inconvenienced as possible? There will be some inconvenience but we

want to minimise it as much as possible. We want people to stay in

their flats. We cut the gas supply off but we are giving hotplates to

those who need them. There was some protesting when we found out there

was an issue with the cracks in the building. Anyone who wants to move

out, we will get them accommodation. They can bid on the top band of

housing if they want to move. We will find accommodation for those

who want to. We also understand some will want to stay in their homes.

Therefore, we want to make sure we offer hotplates for cooking. The

situation will last until we can make the electrical switch over.

They can have hot water and cooking facilities. All of the leisure

centres are available for anyone who needs to show as well. Can you

guarantee that they will be safe if they stay? -- shower. Because the

gas has been switched off, the risk of gas has been taken away from

them. We have a fire safety issue, but there are wardens on every

floor. We have talked to the London Fire Brigade to make sure people can

stay safe in their homes. Tell me, do you think that the examinations

of these powers would have happened without the Grenfell Tower issue? --

towerds. We will we were looking at the

cracks. The residents have flagged that up. People need to look around

and take things more seriously. Grenfell Tower is the catalyst.

However, if the cracks -- cracks have been reported, we would have

looked into them. I could not say one way or the other but I think

Grenfell Tower has put things into the spotlight. I tell you what has

come to mind is that if residents are not flagging up these things

they have flagged the past and have not been followed up, it feels like

it is up to them to push councils like yours to check on safety and

without that, these checks would not take place. Is that fair? We took

the decision after Grenfell Tower, we have 174 sour -- tower blocks in

Southwark and we have made the highest level of fire risk

assessment. For residents in Southwark, I want to reassure them,

we are working to make sure residents are safe as possible.

Thank you very much for your time. Sarah is bringing us the weather.

She has the Bristol International balloon Festival. Has something

blown up behind you? Good morning. We have a window of

fine weather in Bristol for the 39th International balloon Fiesta and

it's quite some spectacle this morning. Lots of balloons have

already taken off. Slowly drifting off into the distance. This is

Europe's largest annual gathering. The balloon fiesta runs over four

days. There will be about half a million visitors. Watching 130

balloons taking part in this incredible event. It is quite a

tranquil start to the day. Elsewhere across the country, it will be

changing a bit today. Outbreaks of rain at times. This morning, across

Bristol, Sunshine, fairly light. Quite fresh. A bit more cloud in the

south-east of England. As we had our way northwards, Sunshine across the

morning. A bit of rain for the likes of Cumbria, Northumberland. Quite

windy with the outbreaks of rain. A bitter brightness across the east of

Scotland. Cloudy, windy, with rain over the higher ground. For Northern

Ireland, some clouds and outbreaks of mainly light and patchy rain. The

rain pushing into western parts of Wales. Relatively light wind. Some

rain into the far south-west of England. As we head through the

course of the day, that rain, strong wind, will move its way slowly

further south-east. Showers to the south-east of England. Yet,

temperatures will reach around 22 degrees. Elsewhere, around 17- 19

Celsius. Into the evening hours, that rain through south-east

England. Clear spells and showers across much of the country and

overnight, those showers ease away. The wind will fall as well. By the

time we get to Saturday morning, temperatures around 13, 15 degrees.

Saturday shaping up to be mainly fine day. Some sunshine on offer.

Showers lingering. Many of us will avoid any of those showers. Lighter

winds then we will see today. We will see those temperatures about

16, 20 two degrees. But high-pressure nudging in through the

course of the weekend, another largely dry day on Sunday. The

charts of a few showers here and there. The most of us, and other dry

day with lighter winds and temperatures around 16, 20 two

degrees. And improving picture through the weekend.

You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

Ben is go to talk to us about what happens if you are going to change

your house. Many people have been through this know it is tedious.

We've talked about the housing shortage.

The government says 250,000 new homes need to be built

in England every year to meet demand.

But last year, the figure was nowhere near that.

Just 150,000 new homes were actually built.

But there were nearly half a million planning applications

in England last year - which suggests there is demand

to build and extend homes, but the process can be

So today - the free-market think tank

the Adam Smith Institute has a radical solution.

He says you and your neighbours should decide on planning

John Myers is one of the lead campaigners and wrote this report.

Nice to see you. I said that you and your neighbours will be able to

decide on planning permission. It's not quite as simple as that but

nonetheless, it would be quite a departure from the current system.

We set out to create an effective reform that is really just a tweak

to the existing system. It makes life easier for councils and

planners. That is what they care about. Where a whole street is in

favour of a proposal, why shouldn't they be able to let that go through?

If I want to extend the council says no, what can I do? The proposal is

not aimed at individual applications. If the street would

like to add a story or an extension, why not give them a vote? What

concerns the neighbours is, what is going to look like at the end? With

two thirds of the would like to do that, and they should have the

ability to do it. Let us say the entire street would get a blanket

permission to build that extra story. Or more ambitious, if they

want to. They don't have to do. They can just sit on it. In peak demand,

often a homeowner could be better off so there is a powerful

incentive. Adding value to the house, so it would make homeowners

better off. How is it solve the housing crisis? It doesn't mean

there are more homes to solve it? In many cities, a lot of homes have

been created by splitting houses into flats. That is one easy way. If

the street wants to give them permission to knock down basic

terraces. They should be allowed to do that. And people agreeing.

Getting neighbours to agree on anything is difficult. We share it

should require a two thirds majority. Really good to talk to

you. After seven o'clock, I will talk more about the airport delays.

More on that later. It's just over a month

since six-year-old Bradley Lowery died after battling

a rare form of cancer. The Sunderland fan won

a legion of supporters across the country, including

footballer Jermain Defoe. Now, in his first interview

since Bradley's death, Jermain told the BBC how he's been

inspired by his best mate. They were best friends and it was a

friendship which captured the hearts of everyone. Have a nice picture in

the house of me and Bradley at the England game. It's a special story.

My best friend, he was genuine. He was a kid who knew... He just loved

his football. He loved me, I loved him and after seeing his eyes, it

was genuine because he was a child. There was nothing I could give him

apart from just being a friend. It was an instant connection. Even

towards the end, when he was really struggling and you couldn't really

move, I would walk into the move anti- fashion the room and he would

just jump up and his mum said, he hasn't moved all day certainly, it

was a special feeling. The emotion is still raw but the impact the

little boy has had on Dafoe has been striking. The Bournemouth striker

says it is a gift and he will be forever grateful. I always wake up

thinking, you know, if you don't feel well, you feel tired, snap out

of it. Because I can see little kids suffer like that and still fight, to

me, there is no bigger motivation. I could go through anything. You

walked out within 70 times. It was the best. He was looking down the

tunnel. I came down the tunnel, gave him a cuddle. For him to do that,

that was special. And we walked out, standing now, singing the national

anthem. Being involved in the squad and actually playing, and scoring...

For me, it's one of the best moments of my career. You can see the whole

of that interval -- This is Breakfast,

with Charlie Stayt and Naga Arrests as the contaminated egg

scandal spreads to more It's now known that 700,000 eggs

have been sent to the UK from farms Some processed foods have been

pulled from supermarket shelves, but officials insist it's unlikely

the public is at risk. Also this morning, the US defence

secretary says war with North Korea James Mattis insists diplomacy

is delivering results. A friendship forged

through football. One month on from the death

of Bradley Lowery, Jermain Defoe speaks for the first time

about his best friend. He loved his football. He loved me.

I loved him. For me, it was how I saw him, it was a special feeling.

Good morning. I am live at the London Stadium, on day eight of the

World Athletics Championship. Here on BBC Breakfast we are getting

excited about one British athlete in particular. Six months ago she wrote

her foot at the beaming smile said it all. Dina Asher-Smith is back and

tonight she will line up against the world's vest in the 200 metres

final. Good morning. Congestion, air traffic control strikes in bad

weather or cause flight delays. But which airports and airlines are the

worst offenders? I will have the details.

Good morning. I am airborne at the balloon fiesta in Bristol. I will

bring you the weather details in about 15 minutes.

Police investigating the European egg contamination scandal have

arrested two company directors following raids in the Netherlands.

Here, the Food Standards Agency has revealed that 700,000 contaminated

eggs have been imported from Dutch farms, but it insists it is "highly

unlikely" they pose any risk to human health.

Sandwiches and salads are among the foods that have now been removed

from UK supermarket shelves, as Natasha Emerson reports.

Millions of eggs destroyed, supermarkets scrambling

Two men have been held by Dutch police over batches of poisonous

Fipronil, a pesticide commonly used to kill lice and fleas on pets,

has made its way into the food chain.

Earlier this week, the Food Standards Agency said

21,000 contaminated eggs had been imported to the UK.

Now, it thinks it could be as many as 700,000.

But that's still only a fraction of the 34 million we eat each day.

And the agency said you would have to eat 10,000 contaminated eggs

There's no reason people should avoid eating eggs.

Our assessment is it is unlikely there is any public health risk.

We think people deserve food they can trust.

That means not having food that has a substance that should

So far, some salads and sandwiches sold by these four supermarkets have

been withdrawn from sale, but whole eggs are safe.

Despite those reassurances, the scandal continues to spread

through Europe, Millions of eggs will be destroyed,

as will hundreds of thousands of hens.

Four years ago, horsemeat was found in burgers and ready meals.

Once again, questions are being raised about what goes

in processed foods and where it comes from.

Officials hope that the contaminated eggs will be out of the food chain

soon, but the investigation into Europe's latest food scandal

We will be speaking to a global food security expert about what can be

done to protect the UK food chain from this kind of contamination in

just under ten minutes. The US Defence Secretary James

Mattis says America is still trying to use diplomacy to resolve

the growing tension with North Korea He said diplomatic efforts

were yielding results, though military options

were ready if needed. He made his remarks shortly

after President Trump had stepped up his rhetoric, saying his threat

to unleash "fire and fury" on North Korea might not

have been tough enough. My portfolio, my mission,

my responsibility, is to have military options

should they be needed. is diplomatically led,

it has diplomatic traction And I want to stay

right there right now. The tragedy of war is well enough

known and does not need another characterisation beyond the fact

that it would be catastrophic. Let's see what he does with Guam. He

does something in Guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody

has seen before, what will happen in North Korea.

Robin Brant is in Seoul for us this morning.

You heard the President's reaction, pretty strong words. How are all

there reacting to this escalating tension? -- how are people there

reacting. What a contrast in tone from those two men. People in South

Korea have lived with the prospect of conflict with their northern

neighbour for decades. There has been no change in the alert here.

We're not seeing more of military presence. They were prepared for

swift action yesterday. In terms of people on the streets they would

need more assurance to hear other comments coming from President Trump

when he reminded North Korea that they cannot go around threatening

the US, Japan and South Korea, because that military alliance

between South Korea and the US is crucial diplomatically, but also in

terms of protecting this country. South Koreans have elected a new

president relatively recently, President Moon, who is more

conciliatory in his tone. He wants Pyongyang back at the negotiating

table to negotiate a lasting peace on the peninsula. I think that tally

is much more with the tone of what James Mattis was seen, in terms of

this primarily eating a diplomatic effort. -- tallies much more.

Hundreds of people are going to be moved out of their high rise flats

after an investigation has revealed they are not safe there.

242 flats in South East London are affected.

The issue with the gas supply was discovered

during an investigation into fire safety prompted

Dan Johnson is there with the latest.

Dan, what is the nature of the problem? Quite complicated. Let's

make it clear, this is not about cladding, although this

investigation started after the Grenfell Tower. It is not even

primarily about fire safety. This is about the structure of the towers

and whether or not they are strong enough to endure something like a

gas explosion. There was supposed to be worked on these towers in the

1960s after a similar block collapsed when there was a gas

explosion. But now the council has uncovered that it looks like that

work was never done, so it cannot guarantee that those towers would

the safe if there was a gas explosion. That is why they have

called for the gas supply to be switched off immediately. Gas

engineers have just arrived. It is not a problem with the gas supply

itself, it is the structure of the building that they need to make

safe. To do that work they will have to move residents out. They will

have to reinforce the building and convert the heating and hot water to

electric. So residents will have to be relocated at least temporarily.

Lots of work to do here. This is potentially a big issue which could

affect many other tower blocks constructed at the same time. It is

another big issue that is developing, another worry for people

living in high-rise blocks. The airports and airlines

with the worst summer flight delays If they are on this list they might

not want to listen to you now? No, we are going to name and shame them.

This is a BBC investigation looking at the data, airports and airlines

over the past two summers. It is interesting. It is caused by all

sorts of things. Their congestion, obviously. Too many planes in the

skies. What sort out traffic control strikes in France, Italy and Spain

over the past few years. -- lots of air traffic control strikes. And bad

weather. The investigation found one in five flights to and from the UK

had a delay of more than 30 minutes. If it is just 30 minutes you don't

mind too much. This evidence suggests it is becoming increasingly

common. The worst airline, the worst offender, easyJet. An average flight

delay in the summer of 24 minutes. EasyJet, for its part, it says that

is because they carry more passengers. They are a bigger

airline, they have 78 million passengers every year. The airport

that is the worst offender is Gatwick. The average weight there is

27 minutes after your scheduled departure time. -- wait. Gatwick

says they only have one runway, they are very congested and they fly lots

to Europe, which is most susceptible to congestion and air traffic

strikes. There is good news. If you travel from a local, smaller,

regional airport, they tend to do better. Leeds Bradford and Belfast

airport hosted well. They had the shortest delays. If you are delayed,

does it necessarily mean you arrive late? No, this is interesting. This

is what the trains have been caught up on. They give themselves more

time in the arrival time. They say that they will arrive a bit later

than they do, which means they always arrive on time. So even if

you take off late, you might make up that time in the air, all the

scheduled arrival time is late anyway, so it looks like you arrive

on time, they don't have to pay compensation and nobody is unhappy.

But the train companies were caught up with that. One word on the

airports, if you want to check where you regularly travel to and from you

can check it out on our website. Thank you. Let's look at sport. And

there were some shocks at the World Athletics Championship in London

last night in the men's 200 metres. The favourites missed out but they

were safe there is a lending for Botswana's Isaac McQualter, who ran

a solo time trail just to get there. -- there was a fairytale ending for

Botswana's Isaac McQualter. He emerged to a great crowd. After

beating illness, could he beat his rivals? It did not have a happy

ending. South Africa's Wade Vanni Kirk looked on course for his second

title, but it was an heralded -- and unheralded name which grabbed the

headlines. Ramil Guliyev taking gold, from Turkey, ahead of Wade

Vanni Kirk and Isaac McQualter back in sixth. For the Botswanan it was

not to be. It was not to be. I had a crazy day yesterday. 200 metres

yesterday. Earlier, there were hopes of reduced success for Aily Doyle in

the hurdles, but the team captain finished last in her finals, with

America's Corey Carter taking gold. Today, the UK's hopes will be led by

Dina Asher-Smith in the women's 200 metres and Lorraine Ugen in the long

jump. After six days without a British medal, the fans will be

crossing their fingers. There it is, the London Stadium,

where all the action will take place through the programme. After eight

o'clock we will be speaking to Colin Jackson, and he will tell us who he

thinks he has his eye on for success later today.

Everybody is fascinated by things that get washed up on the beach.

Little things, big things. Look at this. This is the coast of Norfolk.

You get a sense looking from a distance that there is some really

big stuff that has washed up here. The Maritime and coastguard agency

confirms two large plastic pipes, and when we say large, you can see

those people near them. They are eight feet in diameter. I was

concerned about this yellow and red thing on the end of the pipes. If

they are eight feet in diameter you would think you would be able to run

through them. They are, apparently, are the plug-ins. You could get an

anchor on to that as well. You could tell it and link it to other pipes.

I was concerned, because if you wait in a minute, you can see the other

end of the pipe, which is hollow. Anyway, what we are asking you today

is, have you seen things washed up on the beach that are unusual?

Apparently there are ten more of these which are missing. They were

being heard, and came loose, and they were just drifting around, and

lo and behold they have ended up in Norfolk. -- they were being towed.

If you have seen anything like that wash up on the beach, send us a

picture. Now it Four years ago British shoppers

were horrified to find there could be traces

of horse meat in the food Now another food scandal has forced

retailers to pull products This time it's eggs contaminated

with the pesticide fipronil. Professor Chris Elliott is Director

of the Institute for Global Food He led an investigation into the UK

food industry after the horsemeat Thank you very much for joining us

this morning. Good morning. What do you make of these eggs getting into

the food chain, into the supermarkets - at one point they

thought it was 21,000, now up to 700,000 contaminated eggs in our

foodchain - how has this happened? The information points towards a

legal practice that has happened -- illegal practice that has happened

in Holland and further across Europe. The number of eggs that have

come into the UK is not known for sure. Started with a small number,

rose to 700,000, and I would not be surprised if it reaches several

million by the end of next week. OK, several million contaminated eggs.

Will they be in our system still? What about the extra eggs? What is

emerging is this illegal practice and the use of this insecticide

could have been going on for a considerable period of time. Most of

those egg products have now been consumed. The products we know our

contaminated in the UK, the retailer is selling the product are

undertaking voluntary recall is as a precautionary measure at the moment.

The implication is for many supermarkets that we buy and eat

British eggs. How clear, how where are we as consumers as that non-

British eggs are in sandwich fillings, which is what these eggs

have been used for? On a broader context we don't know what we are

eating and we don't know where it comes from. Specifically on eggs we

are 85% self-sufficient. We import over 1 billion eggs per year, which

end up in heavily processed foods like mayonnaise and Sam Burgess. You

don't really know where the material comes from. Why do you think that

is, whose fault is it, is that the supermarkets, the Food Standards

Agency? I am not sure we blame anybody about this. It would be

virtually impossible to name the country of origin of all of the

ingredients in processed foods. You could have 25- 30 ingredients and it

would be impossible to put those on labels. It is a clear message here

that those people who have been implicated in this in the UK, that

they are not involved in scandal in any way. The fact that they have

imported materials from another part of Europe means that they have

become vulnerable now. There is a clear message, purchase local when

you can. We have a fantastic industry in the UK. We should

support it much more. We are hearing that the European Commission has

called an emergency meeting of ministers from the countries

affected by this scandal. What are the key issues that they will

discuss next? Action needs to be taken. Consumers need to be made

safe. And this cannot happen again. Even more significant than the work

of the European Commission is Europol and the police force. They

are conducting a European wide investigation to see how far this

illegal use has spread. There is the potential that other member states

may become embroiled in this scandal over the next few days. What

everyone is trying to do is find out the level of the amount of abuse

that has gone on, where have the products, and, and can they be

withdrawn from supermarket shelves? Not only across Europe, right across

the world. Could this affect chicken flesh itself? The likelihood of that

is not known. I am aware there is a government laboratory in the

Netherlands testing the meat from the affected flocks. We should have

the results of their testing at the end of today or tomorrow. Good to

talk to you this morning. Thank you very much.

You're watching Breakfast from BBC News.

We are going to have a look at the weather. Is it rather forlorn,

watching a balloon lying on its side? It will be pumped up soon.

Pumped up? Well, air is going to be pumped into it, like a bicycle tyre.

I am not sure that is the technical term. Good morning. Yes, the

balloons will be inflated this morning. I want to show you this

special balloon. This red and yellow striped balloon is known as the

Bristol Bell, and it was the first modern hot air balloon anywhere in

Europe, designed and built by Don Cameron, the founder here. The

Bristol Bell is one of 130 balloons taking part in the festival over the

course of four days, it is a free event and we will see around 500,000

people taking part, coming to spectate. It is really quite a

spectacle, watching these balloons taking off and completely filling

the sky. So, this morning it is fine and tranquil to start the day with

some blue skies, relatively light wind, so ideal conditions for

balloons. Elsewhere across the country, rain at times. A weather

front is heading west to east across the country. This morning in Bristol

and across central and southern England it is a fine morning and dry

with sunshine. More cloud and misty weather in the south-east. As we

head through the north, clear skies and sunshine through the Midlands

and northern England. There is rain across Cumbria, Northumberland, into

southern Scotland. For eastern Scotland around Murray first we will

see brightness this morning. Western Scotland will stay cloudy with

outbreaks of rain -- Firth. And also quite windy with the arrival of the

rain. Northern Ireland is cloudy and breezy and some of the rain heading

into the west of Wales. Central and east Wales remains fine and dry. It

will be dry in the south-west. The rain across the Isles of Scilly into

western parts of Cornwall. Through the course of the day the rain in

northern and western parts of the UK, accompanied by the strong wind,

moves further east. The south-east of England and East Anglia should be

dry for a good part of the day. In the sunshine temperatures set to

reach 22 degrees. Elsewhere, typically 17- 19 degrees. This

evening and overnight, the rain will move across the south-east of

England. It is followed by clear spells and showers across the

country. Through the course of tonight most of the showers will

ease and the wind wilful lighter. Heading through the second half of

the night into the early hours of Saturday temperatures down to 13- 15

to start the weekend. It is not looking too bad with high pressure

in charge and some showers across Wales, northern England and

Scotland. Elsewhere, most of us will avoid the showers. There will be

spells of sunshine. The wind will ease through the day with

temperatures around 16- 22 degrees and the high pressure will hold on

through Saturday evening and overnight into Sunday. On onto the

second half of the weekend, Sunday will be another largely dry day.

Some spells of sunshine. It should be a little bit less breezy than

Saturday. The chance of one or two rogue showers around but most of us

will stay dry with temperatures around 16- 22 degrees. Rain today

but the weather isn't looking decent through the weekend. Very good.

Thank you. It looks magnificent. Lovely. Thank you.

The number of primary school children in England being excluded

and sent to specialist schools known as Pupil Referral Units

Research by BBC Breakfast has found more than 1,300 young children

are now being taught in this way, a rise of 66% in five years.

Although overall pupil numbers have gone up,

that doesn't account for the increase.

Breakfast's John McGuire visited a specialist centre in Norfolk.

Which surface will the car travel over. Engaging lessons, artwork on

the wall and positive measures everywhere - typical of a school.

But Brooklyn's is different, a Pupil Referral Unit, or a shortstay

school, children in Norfolk come here if they have been excluded or

are deemed to challenging to be taught by the original primary. We

spoke to some of out why they left their old school and we are

protecting their identity. It didn't make me comfortable. It was

horrible. The teachers were not that nice. I like it here. The teachers

are kind. I have been thought a lot about maths. It is really fun.

Latest figures show 1306 E eight are being taught in similar schools in

England, an increase of 66% over the last five years, although the number

of children overall has risen. Here at Brooklands they believe one

reason is the pressure on mainstream head teachers. You have a

challenging young person. At the same time they have teachers told,

we don't have the money to support the young person. I don't think any

young teacher wants to do that. Faced with the culture that we have

at the moment, many don't have any choice. Norfolk County Council says

exclusions have dropped but are still too high and continue to

create pressure locally and nationally. It is working with

schools to address the issue. This parent is happy with the education

and support her son receives at Brooklands but believes they should

have been a better understanding of his condition at his old primary,

and a place for him at a special school. He has autism and attention

deficit hyperactivity disorder. I was upset because he was being

classed as a naughty child. But he wasn't. He had learning

difficulties. When they were restraining him he would have

bruises on his arms when he finished school. Sometimes he would be locked

in a room kicking the walls and head-butting. I felt like every day

I was sending my child to a prison. Not school. Experts believe cuts in

the help for families who need extra support is one of the reasons for an

increase in the use of Pupil Referral Units. Those support

services are not there either in helping teachers cope with some of

those issues that exhibit themselves in the classroom, or some other

feelings young people have about schools, or some feelings they about

themselves, then I think we need to look at this quite seriously. The

government says children in referral units represent 0.03% of the primary

population. These schools ensure children receive a high quality

education. As a shortstay school, Brooklyn's is designed to teach

children from just two terms but now has some for up to two years. It is

highly effective in returning pupils to mainstream or special schools and

here they believe every child deserves a second chance and must be

given every chance to succeed. Martin Thacker, is head

teacher at Calow primary Good morning. Good morning. It is

harrowing to hear those stories of a mother talking about the

circumstances that her child found themselves in at a mainstream school

that led to the exclusion. What is your experience from your school? I

have been head teacher for 17 years. My experience is in that time I have

permanently excluded three children. The number of children who have been

excluded on a fixed term basis has increased over the last two or three

years. And can you see a pattern - what have you put that down to?

Budget cuts. The number of schools experiencing difficulties with

managing budgets has led to issues like staffing, so the actual pupil -

staff ratio has increased. The typical ratio is one teacher to

every 35 students and we have had to put teaching assistants back and

they are the members of staff to support students experiencing

difficulties. The implication is you will be put in a situation where you

need to exclude students more frequently? I predict that. When you

exclude them, what do you think is the best... The best way to help

them through this exclusion, is it to be sent home, or a PRU? In the

first instance, every teacher tries their hardest not to exclude. You

try to work with a range of agencies, behaviour support, teams

and so on, to try to implement strategies to help children stay in

mainstream education. When it comes to the point that the child is

disruptive, maybe violent, putting safety at risk, and others, then you

have to look at a fixed term exclusions and leading to permanent

exclusions, and ideally into a pupil referral unit so they might as

support, the staffing ratio is better, and working into the

mainstream. They need to be new to the school, don't they, so you have

to have a PRU close to the school so they can be put back into the

mainstream? You would hope so, because a child moved by taxi miles

away is not ideal for the child. The conclusions, when you look at the

statistics, people might think behaviour is getting worse - the

picture you are painting is much more nuanced, staffing levels are a

huge part of what might in previous times have been something you could

cope with? I see some types of assault which have increased and

worsened over the years. I don't say that children are more badly

behaved. You say assaults? On staff. In primary school? Yes in primary

school. Throwing furniture deliberately towards a member of

staff, and that is sold. Interesting to talk to you this morning. Thank

you -- that is assault. Time now to get the news,

travel and weather where you are. I'm back with the latest

from the BBC London newsroom Hello, this is Breakfast

with Charlie Stayt and Naga In the past half hour we've heard

that an emergency meeting is being called of ministers

from the key European countries affected by the egg

contamination scandal. Here the Food Standards Agency has

revealed that 700,000 contaminated eggs have been

imported from Dutch farms, but it insists it is "highly

unlikely" they pose any risk Sandwiches and salads are among

the foods that have now been removed The US Defence Secretary James

Mattis says America is still trying to use diplomacy to resolve

the growing tension with North Korea - and that war would

be catastrophic. He said diplomatic efforts

were yielding results, though military options

were ready if needed. He made his remarks shortly

after President Trump had stepped up his rhetoric - saying his threat

to unleash ' fire and fury ' on North Korea might not

have been tough enough. Donations made to the victims

of the Grenfell Tower fire are not reaching survivors quickly enough,

according to campaigners in West Figures from the Charity Commission

show that less than 15% of the ?18.9 million raised has been given

to people affected almost two months after the tragedy, but it says

that early difficulties in identifying and contacting those

who need help are being overcome. Passengers flying from Gatwick

during the last two summers experienced the longest average

delays, according to flight data Among the ten biggest airlines,

Easyjet travellers suffered the worst hold-ups with an average

delay of 24 minutes. Both the airport and the airline say

many of the problems Canada's foreign ministry

is investigating why at least one of its diplomats stationed in Cuba

has needed treatment for hearing Yesterday it emerged American

diplomats in Havana have experienced Media reports suggest Cuban agents

may have used a sonic device that Havana denies the allegation,

but the US has removed two Cuban diplomats from Washington

DC in retaliation. Coming up a little bit later on,

Sarah will have the weather and some beautiful images from a balloon

festival in Bristol. Blue skies and balloons. Very colourful ones, too.

Let's go to Jessica, who is at the London Stadium covering the World

Athletics Championship. It looks like a grey day from that camera

angle, not at least we will not see the rain that we have had in the

last couple of days? -- but at least. Yes, good morning. It is

drier today. The sun is coming out. It is a very busy here with staff

setting up events, but today we are looking forward to Dina Asher-Smith.

She was actually in the stadium for the Olympics in 2012, but she was

not competing. She was a kit carrier, and she was so inspired by

the events that she took athletics more seriously, and five years later

here she is racing against some of the rest in the world. -- best.

It's been a difficult season for Dina Asher Smith.

But she was in impressive form in the 200 metres heats

and then last night she dazzled us all again.

She finished second in her semi final going through to tonight's

She's the only British woman in the showpiece.

I had to spend six weeks not doing anything.

And then gradually putting weight on it for the next six weeks.

I am joking, I would not recommend it.

Also in action in the 200 metres last night was Isaac Makwala.

But there was no fairytale ending to an incredible few days for him,

You'll remember Makwala was forced to miss the final of the 400 metres

due to illness and had to run a time trial just to get

Having made the final he was in contention around the bend

Turkey's Ramil Gulyev won gold, ahead of Wayde Van Niekerk.

Great Britain's Nathaneel Mitchel Blake finished fourth.

Makwala blamed his performance on having to run two races the day

And disappointment for A-League oil in the 200 metre hurdles. She came

last in the finals, which was won by the American Corey Carter.

There will be three British women in the semifinals of the women's

Lynsey Sharp, Adelle Tracy and Shelayna Oskan Clarke all through.

And there will be two British men into tonight's 1500 metres semi

Meanwhile, an exhausted Laura Muir qualified for the final

She was one of the fastest losers in her semi final,

with the exertions of finishing fourth in the 1500 metres

earlier this week looking like they've taken their toll on her.

Eilish McColgan looked impressive as she also made it through,

Katarina Johnson-Thompson has gone some way to making up

for her disappointing performance in the heptathlon,

she made the final of the individual high jump.

Where she will be joined by Morgan Lake who also cleared

Ahead of the men's triple jump final there had been talk

that the American Christian Taylor could break Jonathan Edwards's

He didn't - but still won gold with a jump of 17.68 metres.

One other story for you away from the athletics.

The Premier League returns tonight with Arsenal playing

Arsenal haven't won their opening game since 2014 and manager

Arsene Wenger knows they need to change that.

We need to transform the quality of the preparation in the points.

What matters is the next game and winning it and starting

in a strong way which we did not do last year.

That is what we want to achieve this year.

That final with Dina Asher-Smith in the 200 metres is tonight at about

950 p.m. . Also going for gold will be Lorraine Ugen in the women's long

jump. And there is a morning session here today. Coverage begins on BBC

Two at 930 a.m. . It's August, and for lots of us it

means holiday time at the beach. Cue lots of selfies of people

strutting about in their swimwear Earlier this week, former Vogue

editor Alexandra Shulman posted one selfie that sparked lots of debate

as to whether we should edit our pics,

or leave them natural. Do you often take selfies? I very

rarely take selfies. I don't think that I would. At some people do.

The point being with her that she was wearing very little, and if she

hadn't been the editor of Vogue, which is famous for taking pictures

of a certain style. Now, the All Party Parliamentary

Group on Body Image, has told BBC Breakfast

it is particularly concerned about "body image anxiety" amongst

young people at this time of year. Just do a filter, clear your skin. I

do filters on Instagram. Would any of you put up a picture which was

not filtered at all? Yeah. If I take a picture, as long as I am good with

it, I don't care what anyone else thinks. Do you think there is

pressure on you to always be edited, looking your best? I think sometimes

it makes you look nicer, and I am not really self-conscious about not

using a filter. It makes you look better, knowing that you can have a

picture that everybody else will, not appreciate, but everybody else

will like it like you do. What about celebrities? When you see their

pictures to you presume they are filtered? You often hope they are,

because they look that good, and you don't look like that. So it gives

you a bit of relief to know that that is not real. I like it when

celebrities do natural photos. Then again, you know they have make-up.

It is not a surprise. I am going to make your tussle is longer, your

waste skinnier. I can put some make-up on you. Wow! I would just

say, I think that Hayley looked great before all the adjustments in

that selfie. But some people do make adjustments.

Joining us now is Natasha Devon, a former model and writer

and Kady McDermott, a reality TV star who has almost one million

Good morning. Kady, we saw our reporter than having all her images

tweaked with filters. I think she looks lovely, that she wouldn't need

to change it. Why do people feel the need to tweak how they look? So that

it is not a true image of themselves? Social media is massive

nowadays. Girls feel very pressured, naturally, when they see all these

perfect people. Maybe they are edited, so people do feel under

pressure, but it is a very difficult subject. Some people do it and some

people don't. Do you? I don't edit my photos but I do use filters, if

only to brighten the image. I make sure my quality is good. I take them

on a camera, so I tweak the contrast. But I do not edit or

change the features on my body in any way. You are a stunning looking

woman, but this, the first picture there, does not look like how you

look here? Really? You don't think so? I think you look at in real

life, personally. Really! Thank you. The point I am making is that people

look at these images and see highly glamorised, perfect images, and they

think they need to be like that. Do you know what, I get lots of people

messaging me and saying, they want to look like me, and it does upset

me. I try to respond to people and say they are beautiful the way they

are. But on my Instagram I upload photos, I do Snapchat Sioux without

a scrap one as well. I have got folder was from the age of 11

following me so it is really important to me that I do not edit

my photos. -- I have got followers on the age of 11. I would never edit

a photo so that people think it does not look like me because that's is

showing in 11-year-olds that they should edit their photos. They

should be confident in themselves. There is evidence in the arena. For

those prolific social media users, part of the brain in the frontal

lobe responsible for understanding how you fit in the social hierarchy,

which can become enlarged in adolescents who spend a lot of time

online. That means they are obsessively concerned with how they

compare with other people. That has an effect with everything. So the

girl guide attitude survey found 52% of 12- 14-year-old girls avoid

everyday school activities because they don't like the way that they

look. You have to respect information like that. Maybe taking

the focus away from individual social media users. That kind of

blame is not useful. Looking at social media as an incredible tool

to share information and ask ourselves if we are using it in the

best way that we can. Help with that one - I am not quite clear what you

are saying. Should we be more relaxed about the altering of images

on social media - is that what you are saying? What Alexander has done

is positive, someone who has... I work in the fashion industry 20

years ago. Even then she was a name, she is a alpha female. For her to

say, I didn't put my life on hold, I have achieved these things and I

look normal underneath my clothes. The difference with Alexandra and

Katie is age and who is more able to be related with an young people are

likely to want to look like Katie's image and brand than Alexandra, even

though she is successful and smart, she is from a different generation

and she is not someone they can relate to. Perhaps not relate to,

though she is aspirational in that she has achieved a lot. We do young

people a disservice if we assume they are narcissistic or want to

look at certain way. There are a lot of ambitious young women who need

role models. What do you think when there is a parliamentary body that

says it is the time of year to be much more concerned about how young

people feel, and young people assessing their looks - who takes

responsibility, as someone with influence over the generation, in

influencing them? My following is 90% women. I have girls messaging me

all the time and ladies up to 50- 60, they say that I give them

motivation. I am a size six and very little, though I still have stretch

marks, and I have uploaded straight from the beach, some might look more

perfect, there are some on holiday with my boyfriend and people like

that I could have easily downloaded an app, smoothed it over and said I

don't have stretch marks. I am happy with myself. People have messaged me

to say that I have helped them to give them confidence as well. People

say that people look perfect on the outside, though you're not, always,

everyone has flaws, and it is about embracing that. Thank you so much of

this morning. Tell us what you think. Stay in touch. Whether or not

you filter your selfies or not. I will tell you who needs no filter,

Sarah. Sarah's bringing us the weather

from the Bristol International The pictures are stunning. The

balloons are impressive. I am loving your coat this morning. It is a

gorgeous morning here. We have sunshine to start the day. We have

had the mass ascent this morning, 104 balloons taken to the skies. You

can see some small model hot air balloons. These are scale models of

the bigger balloons as well. It is a Sareen morning. We have blue skies.

Quite tranquil. There is some sunshine and light winds. -- serene.

Elsewhere across the country, a front moving in.

There will be outbreaks of rain at times. Across much of England it is

a gorgeous morning with lots of sunshine, try it with light winds, a

little cloud in parts of the south and west and south east of England.

A little bit of mist and murk. Quite fresh feeling around 14- 15. Heading

north across the country, blue skies and sunshine. Across northern

England, there will be cloud and rain at 9am across Northumberland

and Cumbria, and rain in Scotland. Sunshine for eastern Scotland around

Aberdeenshire. For western Scotland we have cloud and outbreaks of rain.

Continuing into Northern Ireland. It will be windy with the rain around

as well. The rain moves in across the rest of Wales. Central and east

Wales is fine and dry. Much of south-west England begins on a fine

note, with a little rain in western Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.

The rain in the north and west, along with the strong wind, will

shift south eastwards. Much of south-east England and south and

East Anglia should be fine. 22 degrees. Elsewhere, typically 17-

19. It will feel quite breezy. Through the evening the band of rain

crosses through the south-east of England and East Anglia, followed by

clear spells and showers across all of the country overnight. The

showers will ease away and the wind will fall lighter, so temperatures

fall overnight around 13- 15 degrees in towns and cities, and cold in the

countryside. What about the weekend? High pressure is moving in. It is an

improving picture. Plenty of sunshine on Saturday. Showers around

parts of Scotland, northern England. Many avoiding those showers. And by

the afternoon in the sunny spells we will see top temperatures between

16- 22, so not bad, some showers and breezy. I pressure stays in charge

as we look at the second half of the weekend. Another largely dry day on

Sunday with the odd rogue shower around, though many of we the

showers with temperatures between 16- 21 degrees or so. So, rain at

times, but we will see a mainly fine weekend.

Thanks very much. It really does look marvellous. We will speak to

you later. So, Ben is talking to us this morning about women in

business. Yes, fascinating stories. We often

talk to people who are doing some quite cool things. We are going to

talk about that this morning. Yes - this is the latest in our

inspirational businesswoman series. Today's guest founded a tech company

that works with big brands to make sure their adverts get

seen and shared online. They use all sorts of data to work

out how and why something Sarah's been involved in famous

adverts like the Evian rollerskating babies ad and the Dove

body sketches ad. # hip, hot. # the rhythm of the

boogie. Today I am gonna ask you some questions about a person you

met earlier, and I am gonna ask you some general questions about her

face. She was thin, so you could see her cheekbones. And her chin was no

sense in. She had nice eyes. -- her chin was nice and thin. She had nice

blue eyes. Hi, ben. You don't make the ads.

Crucially, you make viral. We make them famous, we are a technology

platform, and the date we have been collecting over the last decade is

what we use to connect 90% of the biggest brands with 1.4 billion

consumers. You make it sound very easy - how do you do that? A lot

goes into it, though essentially we collect data on why people connect

with videos, what gets them sharing content and what gets them reacting

to the content. We found a motion is key. Creating a stronger emotional

impact is what makes all of the difference -- emotion. When we think

about bringing emotional intelligence to digital advertising.

We have a lot of connection with ads, thinking specifically about

supermarkets at Christmas, the John Lewis ad, the Sainsbury is that,

those are the ones we like and share and wait for. -- Sainsbury is ad.

That has changed. We actively search out advertising in a way that we

thought, you know, I want to avoid it. The best ads become content. You

see this at moments such as the Super Bowl in the US and Christmas

here. The feelings of anticipation and excitement gets people enjoying

the content, remembering the ad and wanting to purchase from the brand.

It has not always been about tech for you, has it? Let's go back a

couple of years. You left a job as a history lecturer to start this firm.

Why? I was lecturing American studies at Sussex University, I was

an academic, in a job I loved with colleagues are loved, and I was

teaching the American Revolution, and what I realised was there was a

revolution going on outside the door, the Internet revolution and

the social web is becoming huge. And I wanted to be part of that. Then

there were personal reasons as well - I was a mother of two of doing the

long commute from London into Sussex, and every week I left my son

at the nursery and it broke my heart. It was difficult to change

this. What is it that triggers this moment of change? It was 7/7. I was

on the system when the bomb exploded. Luckily, was caught up. I

was evacuated from the station. I went home feeling lucky and I

thought, if it was my last day, am I making it count? That is when I made

the change of. People for that you were mad to make the change, leaving

a good job, you had a mortgage, you had kids, and you said, we're gonna

start a business - how did you make the decision to take the gamble on

it? Starting a business is like having kids - there is never the

right time, there is always a reason not to do it. What I learned as an

academic is it is great to be curious and those who succeed keep

learning and exploring ideas and those who are prepared to take

risks. So it felt like a good time because we could see this big

opportunity in social media, Nvidia advertising. We take it for granted,

although you were starting this business, there was no Twitter or

Facebook -- video advertising. You spotted the trend. It was an

incredibly disruptive business model. Web advertising was just

becoming a thing. There was no advertising on YouTube. We took a

risk on that. We could see huge interest. We do that by iteating. We

had a comedy website first. What we saw was lots of people loved video

-- iterating. So successful, Rupert Murdoch's approached you, news Corp

now owns you. -- Newscorp. Is there a worry that you are selling at? We

are autonomous. And Newscorp have purchased us because of our

entrepreneurial culture. They have started up a lab that is about

bringing on board six companies to incubate ideas to create the future

of storytelling and journalism. I think Newscorp, like lots of others,

understand the importance of innovative thinking. So much more I

want to talk to you about, Sarah, and you are not going anywhere - we

will continue this conversation on Facebook Live on the BBC Breakfast

page at 8:15am, so send in your questions and I will put them to

her, she is going to stick around. Thank you very much. I won't have

you answer it now but I want to know your favourite advert of all-time.

Put it on Facebook. Thank you. It is on.

Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

Plenty more on our website at the usual address.

Hello this is Breakfast, with Charlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty.

An emergency meeting to discuss the Europe-wide egg

contamination scandal is called by the EU.

sent to the UK from European farms caught up in the scare.

Some processed foods have been pulled from supermarket shelves,

but officials insist it's unlikely the public is at risk.

Good morning it's Friday 11th August.

The US defence secretary says war with North Korea

James Mattis insists diplomacy is delivering results.

A friendship forged through football.

One month on from the death of Bradley Lowery, Jermain Defoe

speaks for the first time about his best friend.

He loved his football, he loved me, I loved him, for me every time I saw

him it was a special feeling. And I'm live here at

the London Stadium. It's Day 8 of the World Athletics

Championships and here on BBC Breakfast we're getting a little bit

excited about one British Six months ago she broke her foot -

but her beaming smile Dina Asher Smith is back

and she will line up against the world's best

in tonight's 200 metres final. Congestion, air traffic control

strikes and bad weather cause flight delays but which airports airlines

are the worst offenders? After being hit by the Manchester

bomb, Robbie Potter was left Just days after leaving hospital

he'll be here to tell us how doctors helped him to cheat death

by a hair's breadth. Good morning, the weather this

morning coming from the Bristol balloon Fiesta, we have watched 140

King off this morning, quite a spectacle, I will bring you a full

forecast in about 15 minutes. An emergency meeting is being called

by the EU to discuss the Europe-wide egg contamination scandal.

700,000 contaminated eggs have been imported from Dutch farms

and in the past hour has told us that number could rise.

The Agency insists it is "highly unlikely" the eggs pose any

Sandwiches and salads are among the foods that have now been removed

from UK supermarket shelves, as Natasha Emerson reports.

Millions of eggs destroyed, supermarkets scrambling

Two men have been held by Dutch police over batches of poisonous

Fipronil, a pesticide commonly used to kill lice and fleas on pets,

has made its way into the food chain.

Earlier this week, the Food Standards Agency said

21,000 contaminated eggs had been imported to the UK.

Now, it thinks it could be as many as 700,000.

But that's still only a fraction of the 34 million we eat each day.

And the Agency said you would have to eat 10,000 contaminated eggs

The reason we have asked to withdraw the product from the shelf is an

issue of trust in food, these eggs have something in them which should

not be there and that is why we are asking for the eggs to be withdrawn,

not because of the public health risk.

So far, some salads and sandwiches sold by these four supermarkets have

been withdrawn from sale, but whole eggs are safe.

Despite those reassurances, the scandal continues to spread

through Europe, with 11 countries now thought to be affected.