22/08/2017

:00:00. > :00:07.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Dan Walker and Naga Munchetty.

:00:08. > :00:09.President Trump announces a new strategy to take

:00:10. > :00:13.He says there will be no hasty withdrawal and the US

:00:14. > :00:29.These killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that is no place is

:00:30. > :00:41.beyond the reach of American might and American arms.

:00:42. > :00:46.Also this morning - Ford announces a scrappage scheme

:00:47. > :00:57.Ford is the latest car maker to offer incentives for UK drivers

:00:58. > :01:00.to scrap their old diesel cars for less polluting new models.

:01:01. > :01:10.An earthquake has hit southern Italy. One person has died, but

:01:11. > :01:12.rescuers have saved others, including a baby who was dug out of

:01:13. > :01:12.the rubble. Kick It Out calls for an independent

:01:13. > :01:17.review after striker Eni Aluko accused the manager of the England

:01:18. > :01:19.women's team of discrimination. But Mark Sampson and the FA deny any

:01:20. > :01:23.wrongdoing and say they were cleared And Carol is out and

:01:24. > :01:37.about with the weather. Good morning from Green Park in

:01:38. > :01:41.London. I have good company this morning, these lovely ladies. It is

:01:42. > :01:45.the first time since the 1930s there have been sheep in Green Park. These

:01:46. > :01:50.are not any ordinary sheep. I will tell you more later. After a murky

:01:51. > :01:56.start things will get brighter. It could get up to 26 or 27 in parts of

:01:57. > :01:59.the UK, but there will also be heavy showers later for Northern Ireland,

:02:00. > :02:02.northern England and Scotland. More details in 15 minutes.

:02:03. > :02:06.President Trump says the US will "fight to win" in Afghanistan,

:02:07. > :02:09.as he unveils a new strategy in the war against the Taliban.

:02:10. > :02:13.In a major speech last night he said that he had changed his mind

:02:14. > :02:15.about withdrawing troops from the country.

:02:16. > :02:17.He also called on NATO allies to do more.

:02:18. > :02:25.Our Washington correspondent Aleem Maqbool reports.

:02:26. > :02:31.The man who always said he didn't want to intervene abroad came to

:02:32. > :02:35.announce the intervention in Afghanistan is going to ratchet up.

:02:36. > :02:44.He said it was for the right reasons. We are not nationbuilding

:02:45. > :02:48.again. We are killing terrorists. He announced the lifting of a cap on

:02:49. > :02:51.the number of US troops in Afghanistan, and that there would be

:02:52. > :02:58.no time limit on them staying there. My original instincts was to pull

:02:59. > :03:03.out, and historically, I like following my instincts. But all my

:03:04. > :03:12.life, I've heard that decisions are much different when you sit behind

:03:13. > :03:15.the desk in the Oval Office. A very different Donald Trump to the one

:03:16. > :03:26.who said this kind of thing right through the Obama years.

:03:27. > :03:32.And that is the basis on which she campaigned as a presidential

:03:33. > :03:37.candidate, that he wouldn't spend American resources abroad, but here

:03:38. > :03:40.at home. He says he now realises that pulling out American troops

:03:41. > :03:46.from Afghanistan would leave a vacuum for militants. But it will be

:03:47. > :03:50.a disappointment to many of his supporters. This will mean there is

:03:51. > :03:55.still no end in sight for America's longest war.

:03:56. > :04:01.President Trump also called for Nato allies to do more in Afghanistan.

:04:02. > :04:06.Let's get the latest from our political correspondent, Ian Watson.

:04:07. > :04:11.Good morning. It is the UK's response to this speech from Donald

:04:12. > :04:13.Trump? Even before he delivered that speech, the Defence Secretary,

:04:14. > :04:17.Michael Fallon, spoke to his opposite number in America, US

:04:18. > :04:22.Defence Secretary James Mattis. They discussed the situation in

:04:23. > :04:26.Afghanistan and after the speech, they issued a statement from the

:04:27. > :04:29.Ministry of Defence, saying that the President's edition is very welcome,

:04:30. > :04:34.that it is good to be staying the course in Afghanistan. --

:04:35. > :04:37.President's position. It also says that despite the challenges in

:04:38. > :04:41.Afghanistan, we will help build up the fragile democracy there. So

:04:42. > :04:45.certainly a welcome from the minister of defence, with regards to

:04:46. > :04:50.the change of tone from Donald Trump. But also, the UK has also

:04:51. > :04:54.increased its troop numbers in Afghanistan even before the

:04:55. > :04:59.President's speech. Back in June we sent an extra 85 troops. We have

:05:00. > :05:02.just under 600 in the country. There has been no specific request from

:05:03. > :05:07.the US for us to send more soldiers to that ongoing conflict. Ian, thank

:05:08. > :05:09.you. We will have more on that through this morning, it is our main

:05:10. > :05:11.story. Four men accused of being part

:05:12. > :05:14.of a terror cell which killed 15 people in Spain last week

:05:15. > :05:17.are due to appear in court The suspects arrived at a jail just

:05:18. > :05:22.outside of the city last night. Police in Catalonia say they shot

:05:23. > :05:25.dead the suspected driver of the van which ploughed into pedestrians

:05:26. > :05:28.in Barcelona on Thursday. Younes Abouyaaqoub was found hiding

:05:29. > :05:31.in a vineyard 30 miles west Ford is the latest car maker

:05:32. > :05:35.to offer incentives to UK drivers to scrap their old diesel cars

:05:36. > :05:38.for a new, less polluting vehicle. Steph, can tell us

:05:39. > :05:51.more about the deal? Good morning. This has a lot to do

:05:52. > :05:55.without pollution. It is about trying to get rid of all the cars on

:05:56. > :05:59.the road that are the most polluting. We know that from 2040,

:06:00. > :06:02.the government have said they will ban the sale of any petrol and

:06:03. > :06:05.diesel cars. In the meantime, you have lots of other car companies

:06:06. > :06:10.thinking about how they can sell more of their new model cars, but

:06:11. > :06:13.also try to reduce the number of the more polluting models off the road.

:06:14. > :06:18.Ford are the latest introduce a scrappage scheme. They say that if

:06:19. > :06:23.your car is older than seven years, it can be any make of Cork -- car,

:06:24. > :06:27.it doesn't matter if it is Ford or not, you can buy Ford car and get

:06:28. > :06:31.?2000 off if you give them your older, more polluting car. This is

:06:32. > :06:35.for both petrol and diesel cars. We have seen similar schemes from the

:06:36. > :06:41.likes of Vauxhall. Also BMW and Mercedes, they did it for these --

:06:42. > :06:44.for diesel cars only. The idea is that they want to reduce the number

:06:45. > :06:47.of diesel cars in particular, because they are more polluting. The

:06:48. > :06:51.number of diesel cars has gone up from something like 3.2 million on

:06:52. > :06:55.the roads in 2000, right up to 10 million now. So there are quite a

:06:56. > :07:02.lot of diesel cars out there. That is what they are looking at, trying

:07:03. > :07:06.to reduce the number of them, so that the air quality is better. We

:07:07. > :07:10.will be speaking to the boss of Ford letter about this. -- later.

:07:11. > :07:13.The US Navy has ordered a worldwide "operational pause" of its fleet

:07:14. > :07:16.after a destroyer collided with a tanker near Singapore,

:07:17. > :07:20.Five other sailors were injured in the incident involving the guided

:07:21. > :07:24.It was the fourth US Navy ship to crash this year,

:07:25. > :07:28.and the second in the past two months.

:07:29. > :07:32.At least one person has died and at least 25 people injured

:07:33. > :07:34.on the Italian island of Ischia in southern Italy.

:07:35. > :07:37.The tourists and residents ran into the streets as buildings

:07:38. > :07:39.collapsed when the quake hit just before 9:00pm local time.

:07:40. > :07:53.The earthquake struck just as local families and tourists on the holiday

:07:54. > :07:59.island sat down for dinner. Houses were flattened. People were

:08:00. > :08:04.evacuated from buildings, including the local hospital. One woman was

:08:05. > :08:12.killed when rubble fell from a church. At least 20 other people

:08:13. > :08:15.were injured. Ischia is an hour's ferry ride from Naples, and lies

:08:16. > :08:24.about seven miles from the epicentre of the earthquake. The island's

:08:25. > :08:32.northern town was the worst hit. In the village, firemen located a baby

:08:33. > :08:43.trap beneath the rubble. After a delicate operation, a welcome sound.

:08:44. > :08:48.BABY CYING. -- BABY CRYING. Some firemen were already on the island

:08:49. > :08:52.to deal with fires. Others flew in. Italy's beautiful island (SIREN

:08:53. > :08:56.BLARES) net for visitors, but unfortunately in an area prone to

:08:57. > :09:00.seismic activity, they can often cost lives. After this latest

:09:01. > :09:04.earthquake, one resident said it looked like a bomb had hit.

:09:05. > :09:06.The former chancellor, George Osborne, has called

:09:07. > :09:09.on Theresa May to commit to building a high speed rail line

:09:10. > :09:13.As the Chairman of the Northern Powerhouse Partnership,

:09:14. > :09:15.Mr Osborne has written in the Financial Times that more

:09:16. > :09:18.money needs to be spent on public transport outside of London.

:09:19. > :09:21.The government has said it is investing billions of pounds

:09:22. > :09:26.For the first time in almost a century, a total solar eclipse has

:09:27. > :09:29.Millions of people watched as the moon passed in front

:09:30. > :09:32.of the sun, casting a deep shadow more than 60 miles

:09:33. > :09:35.Our science correspondent Pallab Ghosh joined the sky

:09:36. > :09:54.They came in their tens of thousands, like pilgrims, to the

:09:55. > :09:58.tiny town of Madras. They came to witness one of nature's great

:09:59. > :10:02.spectacles. It is a quarter past ten in the morning but it seems like my

:10:03. > :10:05.time. We are just a few seconds away from the total eclipse and the moon

:10:06. > :10:13.has almost completely covered the sun. It looks like a smiley face in

:10:14. > :10:21.the sky. The sun DIMMs to an eerie pale light. -- dims. Up above, a

:10:22. > :10:29.thin smile in the sky. And then a flash. A diamond ring. And then the

:10:30. > :10:33.moon blocks the sun's Bright disc, its atmosphere normally washed away

:10:34. > :10:40.by the solar lights now appears as a halo around the moon. It seems like

:10:41. > :10:47.a shimmering black pearl, hanging in the sky. This was definitely

:10:48. > :10:51.something you have to see in person. It is something that you can't

:10:52. > :10:56.describe. The eclipse crossed the entire US. Ten states. A distance of

:10:57. > :11:07.two and half thousand miles, in just 90 minutes. From coast to coast, it

:11:08. > :11:10.seemed everybody was interested. For two incredible minutes, the tiny

:11:11. > :11:13.town became the centre of the universe, as those he became the

:11:14. > :11:20.first in America to witness one of the great wonders of the solar

:11:21. > :11:24.system. -- those here. We will have more on that in the morning, and we

:11:25. > :11:27.will be speaking to one of the eclipse chasers that we had on

:11:28. > :11:33.yesterday. I thought he would say Bonnie Tyler. No, although she was

:11:34. > :11:37.everywhere yesterday. We will have her singing Total Eclipse of the

:11:38. > :11:43.Heart on a cruise ship later. What was your favourite toy growing up? I

:11:44. > :11:46.like to Lego. Tilting bricks. I didn't actually have Lego, I had one

:11:47. > :11:52.of the alternatives. I liked the funny felt. I loved the funny felt.

:11:53. > :11:56.You could do villages and towns and all sorts of things. It was

:11:57. > :12:01.wonderful. I found some in my mum's old cupboard ten years ago and dug

:12:02. > :12:06.it out. Was it still sticky? No, but I used it anyway. The reason we are

:12:07. > :12:08.asking this is because we are talking about the best toys of the

:12:09. > :12:10.last 100 years. Well, the Royal Mail has had

:12:11. > :12:13.a go and picked out 10 Among them are Stickle Bricks,

:12:14. > :12:23.Meccano and the Space Hopper This is bound to be controversial. I

:12:24. > :12:28.never had a space hopper, I always wanted one. I would wonder, where

:12:29. > :12:32.you tall as a child? Yes, I was about this tool now, at the age of

:12:33. > :12:36.11. I always wondered how tall people got on them. With great

:12:37. > :12:43.difficulty. Short people like me really struggled. Powerful fires.

:12:44. > :12:49.They were useful. What are they? Those little gladiators? There we

:12:50. > :12:55.go! Fuzzy felt. I am disappointed we haven't seen a girl's world. What is

:12:56. > :12:59.that? You don't know what a girl's world is? It was not creepy at all,

:13:00. > :13:08.the head with their hair. The doll without the body. I didn't realise

:13:09. > :13:11.that Sindy, they canvassed girls, and they overwhelmingly picked Sindy

:13:12. > :13:15.has a name for the dole they wanted. Other than Cyndi Lauper, which is

:13:16. > :13:21.built from there, I have never met a Cindy in my life. I liked her

:13:22. > :13:25.because you could get brunette ones. Well, I'm glad we've cleared that

:13:26. > :13:29.up. Let us know about your favourite toys. Good morning, Sally.

:13:30. > :13:34.Yes, we are talking about a story you might have seen developing in

:13:35. > :13:38.the last couple of days. And unsettling story for any other to,

:13:39. > :13:40.who has been on this programme many times, the former England striker.

:13:41. > :13:42.Anti-racism campaign group Kick It Out is calling

:13:43. > :13:45.for a comprehensive and independent review after an England footballer

:13:46. > :13:47.alleged she was dropped following claims of racial

:13:48. > :13:49.discrimination by manager Mark Sampson.

:13:50. > :13:55.Striker Eni Aluko accused Sampson of making racial

:13:56. > :14:00.He and the FA have been cleared of any wrongdoing in both an FA

:14:01. > :14:01.review and an independent investigation.

:14:02. > :14:03.Everton's Wayne Rooney scored his 200th Premier League goal

:14:04. > :14:06.in the 1-1 draw last night at Manchester City.

:14:07. > :14:09.Raheem Sterling equalised for the hosts, who had Kyle Walker

:14:10. > :14:12.sent off on his home debut, after the England defender received

:14:13. > :14:17.two yellow cards in quick succession.

:14:18. > :14:20.Team Sky's Chris Froome took the leader's red jersey after stage

:14:21. > :14:22.three of the Vuelta a Espana yesterday.

:14:23. > :14:26.He's aiming to become only the third man to win both the Tour de France

:14:27. > :14:30.England's women play France in the semi-final

:14:31. > :14:35.Head coach Simon Middleton has made two changes to his side

:14:36. > :14:38.for the match as Lydia Thompson comes in on the wing

:14:39. > :14:43.and Rachel Burford returns at inside centre.

:14:44. > :14:49.He has been making lots of changes through this tournament. This is,

:14:50. > :14:50.without question, his strongest selection so far.

:14:51. > :14:53.Carol's here with this mornings weather.

:14:54. > :15:06.She's out and about with some woolly friends in London's Green Park.

:15:07. > :15:15.Good morning. We have a lovely flock of sheep. This one is called

:15:16. > :15:20.Juniper. Olivia is next to her, and next to her as Esmeralda. She is

:15:21. > :15:29.very shy this morning. We have over here another, and they are very

:15:30. > :15:33.cute, I must say. They are in Green Park, in London, and the reason

:15:34. > :15:37.we're here is that the Royal parks are running a grazing trial the

:15:38. > :15:41.moment. So the sheep have not been in Green Park since the 1930s. No

:15:42. > :15:46.sheep has, and these will be here until Sunday. The purpose of the

:15:47. > :15:50.grazing trial is that the sheep will eat the dominant plants and grass,

:15:51. > :15:54.allowing space for other plants to grow. Another thing they will do is

:15:55. > :15:57.try and put seeds back into the ground, so we will see further

:15:58. > :16:03.growth as well. My favourite is Olivia, with a tufty fringe. The

:16:04. > :16:08.weather is not so kind to us this morning. It is cloudy and damp in

:16:09. > :16:12.London, and that is the case across many parts. It is a cloudy and murky

:16:13. > :16:19.start, with some fog around but it will brighten up later and some

:16:20. > :16:22.parts of the UK will hit 26 or 27 Celsius. This morning we have the

:16:23. > :16:26.rain crossing Scotland which will increasingly turn patchy as we go

:16:27. > :16:30.through the course of the day. You can see the cloud in the fog we have

:16:31. > :16:33.had across parts of Wales, the Midlands, for example. Through the

:16:34. > :16:36.morning we will see showers coming across south-west England. Those

:16:37. > :16:41.could get into the Midlands and they will turn heavier and more organised

:16:42. > :16:44.as they headed to Northern Ireland. There will be some heavy showers

:16:45. > :16:47.across the Grampians and the Murray Firth in southern Scotland, and we

:16:48. > :16:51.could see some breaks. Temperatures into about the 20s. Northern England

:16:52. > :16:56.also seeing some showers are so they're in, or heavy and thundery

:16:57. > :17:01.later on. As we come south a lot of dry weather. Cloud braking, the Sun

:17:02. > :17:05.coming out and somewhere in central or southern England we could hit 26

:17:06. > :17:10.or 27 today. Sunshine prevails as push into the south-west and in two

:17:11. > :17:13.Wales, but one or two showers here and there are more especially across

:17:14. > :17:18.northern parts of Wales. For Wales we could hit the mid-20s in any

:17:19. > :17:23.sunshine but it will be a wet afternoon in Northern Ireland. And

:17:24. > :17:26.some of that rain will be heavy. Showers basically gathering

:17:27. > :17:30.together. As we head on through the evening and overnight, the showery

:17:31. > :17:33.outbreaks of rain across Northern Ireland transfer into Scotland and

:17:34. > :17:37.also northern England, and some of those could be heavy and still

:17:38. > :17:41.thundery. Behind the heavy showers across Wales, generally for most of

:17:42. > :17:46.the UK away from those areas we are looking at a dry at night with loads

:17:47. > :17:52.between 14 and 17. Tomorrow we pick up the rain again across Scotland --

:17:53. > :17:56.lows. Continuing to push steadily eastwards into the North Sea. A line

:17:57. > :18:01.of cloud also crossing other parts of England and Wales in the east.

:18:02. > :18:04.That is a line of cloud, as I mentioned, and it will still be long

:18:05. > :18:08.enough before that cloud gets out and clears for us to see higher

:18:09. > :18:13.temperatures. Still quite humid, like today. Kind of some brighter

:18:14. > :18:17.skies and fresher. On Thursday the northern half of the country will

:18:18. > :18:21.see some wet weather. Further south, dry and bright and temperatures

:18:22. > :18:26.again into the low 20s, as opposed to the mid or high 20s at best. I

:18:27. > :18:30.must say, there are an awful lot of beasties around this morning. They

:18:31. > :18:35.have been encouraged by the higher levels of humidity. We can see them

:18:36. > :18:43.flying around you, but at least you have the sheep, Carol. Yes, the

:18:44. > :18:48.sheep are very nice. I am working on some sheep facts for you later,

:18:49. > :18:58.Carol, OK? I think she is looking forward to that. Carol is generally

:18:59. > :19:04.-- genuinely considering going home after that. Our main story this

:19:05. > :19:08.morning: the US is demanding an Afghan troop boost. We saw President

:19:09. > :19:12.Trump giving a speech implying that more troops will be deployed to

:19:13. > :19:16.Afghanistan as he commit to tackling the war on terror there. Loads of

:19:17. > :19:23.papers dealing with the new series of Bake Off on Channel 4. On the

:19:24. > :19:40.front page of the Sun, doughnuts, they say. We also have a picture on

:19:41. > :19:46.the front page of the Daily Telegraph, of a presenter telling a

:19:47. > :19:50.fan to fast forward the ad breaks. Keep fit to get money off weekly

:19:51. > :19:57.shopping. It proposes discounts and free bicycles to encourage healthy

:19:58. > :20:01.living. There was the eclipse yesterday, I didn't show you the

:20:02. > :20:05.picture on the front page of the Times. Millions of Americans coast

:20:06. > :20:12.to coast were able to watch it on a picture of Donald Trump and his

:20:13. > :20:16.wife, Melania, wearing protective glasses. It is even more orange than

:20:17. > :20:22.me is the headline. Good morning to you both. The other story on the

:20:23. > :20:27.front of that paper, next to Donald Trump, is one about high streets.

:20:28. > :20:31.About banks abandoning High Street. They say High Street banks are

:20:32. > :20:34.shutting more than ten branches a week. Interestingly they have a

:20:35. > :20:42.little table inside which tells you how many banks have shed the

:20:43. > :20:52.answers. For example, RBS had over 2020 11 and now they have just under

:20:53. > :20:56.1500. -- 2000 in 2011. That is because a lot more of us now use

:20:57. > :21:00.banking online and fewer people use the branches. But for some people,

:21:01. > :21:06.they don't have access to the internet. One other thing I wanted

:21:07. > :21:09.to show you is, Apple have been... Obviously the world's biggest

:21:10. > :21:14.technology company, have been running a competition to try and

:21:15. > :21:17.find some new engineers. So they have been hiding job adverts on

:21:18. > :21:21.their website. Basically if you manage to find the advert they are

:21:22. > :21:26.saying you must be good enough to potentially work for us. You are an

:21:27. > :21:34.engineer. Act in the day, a long time ago. She is happy with her

:21:35. > :21:38.current job! You can never have too many jobs. Imagine working for

:21:39. > :21:49.Apple, I'm sure that would be fun. Not that this isn't. There we go.

:21:50. > :21:54.Moving on. The 200th goal last night for Wayne Rooney. Interesting that

:21:55. > :22:00.taps England might recall him for a World Cup next year. Him and Alan

:22:01. > :22:04.Shearer, maybe he can come back as well! He might be relishing the idea

:22:05. > :22:07.of the international breaks and resting during that time, and

:22:08. > :22:13.therefore making himself a better performer when he comes in place for

:22:14. > :22:17.Everton. And in the Star, we will be talking about this until the

:22:18. > :22:22.weekend. Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor fighting on Saturday night,

:22:23. > :22:26.this weekend. They think it will be worth around ?1 billion, generate ?1

:22:27. > :22:31.billion of revenue. The two of them will share around ?300 million

:22:32. > :22:36.between them. Conor McGregor making his professional Boxing Day but

:22:37. > :22:41.against potentially one of the best boxers ever. There has been a lot of

:22:42. > :22:42.talk, we will see what happens when they get in the ring.

:22:43. > :22:44.Today marks three months since a suicide bomber

:22:45. > :22:46.detonated his device at an Ariana Grande concert

:22:47. > :22:49.in the Manchester Arena, killing 22 people and injuring many more.

:22:50. > :22:52.The memories of that night are likely to stay with those

:22:53. > :22:56.But clinicians say, if people are still being adversely affected

:22:57. > :22:58.by trauma, they should seek additional support.

:22:59. > :23:18.That he is never far away, really. Suddenly you catch yourself

:23:19. > :23:25.thinking, oh my gosh, Martin would have loved this. It is a shame he

:23:26. > :23:29.isn't there. We are in Saint Ann 's Square in the centre of Manchester.

:23:30. > :23:34.It became the focus of remembrance, where thousands of people left

:23:35. > :23:38.flowers. Murray lost her son Martin in the attack. She has been a

:23:39. > :23:44.therapist for more than 20 years, but has decided she can no longer do

:23:45. > :23:48.her job. I don't think with what happened to me that I will ever be

:23:49. > :23:56.in a position to offer psychological support to anybody else, because I

:23:57. > :23:59.think I am so damaged through this. She meeting 18-year-old Caitlin. On

:24:00. > :24:04.the night of the attack, Caitlin was knocked off her feet by the force of

:24:05. > :24:08.the blast, but escaped without physical injury. She became

:24:09. > :24:13.withdrawn, started having nightmares, and is now seeing a

:24:14. > :24:17.counsellor. It wasn't until a few weeks, I would say, after, where it

:24:18. > :24:21.really hit me, where the guilt at me. The guilt, Tommy a bit more

:24:22. > :24:30.about that. Managed to walk out without a mark on. Obviously there

:24:31. > :24:34.are people who lost their lives, ... You have nightmares and flashbacks?

:24:35. > :24:43.Yes, all the time. I have nightmares about people, about violence, about

:24:44. > :24:51.obviously people trying to blow me up. Shias obviously suffering from

:24:52. > :24:55.survivor's guilt. A lot of Martin's friends had that as well, and with

:24:56. > :25:04.the help of therapy, obviously it is helping her to kind of normalised

:25:05. > :25:08.that feeling. This is the Manchester Resilience Hub. It is co-ordinating

:25:09. > :25:12.services specifically for people caught up in the attack. It is about

:25:13. > :25:16.12 weeks now since the attack. Is that the sort of time you are

:25:17. > :25:22.talking about, where people have many to access help? Yes, we view 12

:25:23. > :25:26.weeks period, post- incident, as a significant milestone. If you are

:25:27. > :25:30.still exhibiting sips symptoms at the 12 week point, they are probably

:25:31. > :25:35.not going to resolve without some kind of help for intervention. The

:25:36. > :25:42.hub is helping more than 200 people accessed psychological support. But

:25:43. > :25:49.they want everyone who need help to come forward. She hasn't had any

:25:50. > :25:53.counselling herself, but has decided she will get help. I have decided I

:25:54. > :26:02.needed, because like so many people and damage to some extent. Back in

:26:03. > :26:05.Saint Ann 's Square, the Sea of flowers from well-wishers has all

:26:06. > :26:09.but gone. The pain, the memory, will never go. But with the right help,

:26:10. > :26:16.the hope is that life will become easier for those left behind.

:26:17. > :26:22.And we should say a big thank you to the mother of Martin, for speaking

:26:23. > :29:45.And if you are driving past Green to us for that report.

:29:46. > :29:48.And if you are driving past Green Park this week, don't be surprised

:29:49. > :29:53.if you see some sheep. They are not lost, they are helping the flowers

:29:54. > :29:56.to grow. I will be back in half an hour.

:29:57. > :29:59.Hello, this is Breakfast with Naga Munchetty and Dan Walker.

:30:00. > :30:03.We'll bring you all the latest news and sport in a moment,

:30:04. > :30:06.but also on Breakfast this morning, while millions of people saw that

:30:07. > :30:08.stunning solar eclipse from the ground yesterday -

:30:09. > :30:13.Stay tuned to see the incredible view from on board

:30:14. > :30:18.Will the soggy bottoms be the same - or will it be all-change at Bake Off

:30:19. > :30:26.We've give you a sneak preview after 8:00.

:30:27. > :30:28.They're the best-loved comedy duo of all time,

:30:29. > :30:32.but a new book on Stan Laurel tells the tale of the complicated love

:30:33. > :30:35.We'll speak to the author after 9:00.

:30:36. > :30:41.But now a summary of this morning's main news.

:30:42. > :30:44.President Trump says the US will "fight to win" in Afghanistan,

:30:45. > :30:47.as he unveiled a new strategy in the war against the Taliban.

:30:48. > :30:51.In a major speech last night he said that he had changed his mind

:30:52. > :30:53.about withdrawing troops from the country.

:30:54. > :30:57.He also called on NATO allies to do more as he lifted the cap

:30:58. > :31:00.on the number of US troops in Afghanistan and said there was no

:31:01. > :31:16.Our troops will fight to win. We will fight to win. From now on,

:31:17. > :31:22.victory will have a clear definition. Attacking our enemies,

:31:23. > :31:28.obliterated in Isis, crushing al-Qaeda, preventing the calibre and

:31:29. > :31:32.from taking over Afghanistan, and stopping mass terror attacks against

:31:33. > :31:33.America before they emerge. -- preventing the Taliban from taking

:31:34. > :31:35.over. Let's get more on this

:31:36. > :31:37.from our correspondent Secunder Kermani, who joins us

:31:38. > :31:46.from the Afghan capital Kabul. What has been the reaction there?

:31:47. > :31:53.Obviously the situation on the ground is something Donald Trump is

:31:54. > :31:56.determined to tackle. As you say, there has been a steady

:31:57. > :32:00.deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan over the

:32:01. > :32:03.last couple of years. Last year almost three and a half thousand

:32:04. > :32:08.civilians lost their lives as a result of the violence. The

:32:09. > :32:14.government here controls just around 60% of territory. There had been

:32:15. > :32:17.concerns that if there were to be a complete withdrawal of American

:32:18. > :32:22.forces, that could end up loosing the Taliban. Instead it seems

:32:23. > :32:26.President Trump has committed to ensuring that the Taliban do not

:32:27. > :32:29.take over Afghanistan, and that has been welcomed by the Afghan

:32:30. > :32:34.government. At the moment we are still waiting for the Afghan

:32:35. > :32:37.president to give a press conference that he should be doing any moment

:32:38. > :32:42.now, really, to set out his response. I have been speaking to a

:32:43. > :32:46.former head of the Afghan army. He told me he thought this was a very

:32:47. > :32:52.positive development and it would help improve security in

:32:53. > :32:56.Afghanistan. Lots of us guns are also welcoming the strong words

:32:57. > :33:03.President Trump had four Prakasam. -- Lots of Afghans. He accused

:33:04. > :33:10.Pakistan of providing safe haven for the Taliban. Pakistan has always

:33:11. > :33:12.denied that, but this has been an accusation that the international

:33:13. > :33:19.community has long made against Pakistan. It now remains to be seen

:33:20. > :33:22.whether President Trump can affect any change in Pakistan's

:33:23. > :33:23.relationship with the Taliban and whether that improves the prospects

:33:24. > :33:27.of peace in Afghanistan. Thank you. Four men accused of being part

:33:28. > :33:30.of a terror cell which killed 15 people in Spain last week

:33:31. > :33:34.are due to appear in court The suspects arrived at a jail just

:33:35. > :33:38.outside of the city last night. Police in Catalonia say they shot

:33:39. > :33:42.dead the suspected driver of the van which ploughed into pedestrians

:33:43. > :33:44.in Barcelona on Thursday. Younes Abouyaaqoub was found hiding

:33:45. > :34:01.in a vineyard 30 miles west The carmaker Ford is offering

:34:02. > :34:06.customers a cash incentive to scrap their old car in return for a less

:34:07. > :34:11.polluting vehicle. The scheme offers drivers ?2000 off a new Ford if they

:34:12. > :34:16.trade in a petrol or diesel car or van. It must be more than seven

:34:17. > :34:22.years old. The scheme will run until the end of the year. Steph will have

:34:23. > :34:27.more in about 20 minutes. And earthquake has hit the island of

:34:28. > :34:29.Ischia, off the coast of Naples, killing one person and injuring

:34:30. > :34:35.about 20 others. Several people lost or missing. A church and other

:34:36. > :34:38.buildings have collapsed. The Fire Brigade have released footage of a

:34:39. > :34:42.baby being rescued from the rubble caused by the quake.

:34:43. > :34:45.What's been the nation's favourite toy of the past 100 years?

:34:46. > :34:48.That question is bound to spark a debate.

:34:49. > :34:52.I would never want to be tasked with this job. It is a big one.

:34:53. > :34:56.Well, the Royal Mail has had a go and picked out 10

:34:57. > :35:00.Among them are Stickle Bricks, Meccano and the Space Hopper

:35:01. > :35:08.You never got a space hopper, did you? I never got on with it. Maybe I

:35:09. > :35:13.have Alan 's tissues. I couldn't stay on top of it. My mother sold my

:35:14. > :35:22.action man to my next-door neighbour without telling me. I am a bit by

:35:23. > :35:31.that still. And good old teddy. They have been picked for their enduring

:35:32. > :35:36.appeal. Those cast soldiers, I can't remember the guy's name. I will find

:35:37. > :35:41.it. And fuzzy felt, which is your favourite. I was a big fan of fuzzy

:35:42. > :35:46.felt. And even in recent years. Why not? I will try to remember that

:35:47. > :35:54.man's name. It will come back to me. You are a fan of Sindy, Sally? Yes,

:35:55. > :35:58.I had a brunette. You didn't need a blonde. Breaking the mould. Don't we

:35:59. > :36:03.like to do that? Good morning, everybody.

:36:04. > :36:05.Anti-racism campaign group Kick It Out is calling

:36:06. > :36:08.for a "comprehensive and independent review" after an England footballer

:36:09. > :36:10.alleged she was dropped following claims of racial discrimination.

:36:11. > :36:13.Striker Eni Aluko accused manager Mark Sampson of making "racial

:36:14. > :36:17.He and the FA have been cleared of any wrongdoing in both an FA

:36:18. > :36:25.review and an independent investigation.

:36:26. > :36:33.He asked me, you know, which family members, who is coming to watch the

:36:34. > :36:38.game for you? I said I have family coming in from Nigeria, actually. I

:36:39. > :36:46.have family flying in. And he's said... Make sure they don't come

:36:47. > :36:51.over with Ebola. Yeah. When that was said, did you challenge them at the

:36:52. > :36:57.time? Did you say that was a mix of the ball? No, I laughed. -- did you

:36:58. > :37:01.say that was unacceptable. I was in shock. I didn't know... I didn't

:37:02. > :37:07.know what to say. The FA says the Ebola allegations

:37:08. > :37:10.were not investigated because Aluko did not include them

:37:11. > :37:12.in her formal complaint. The player received a ?80,000

:37:13. > :37:15.settlement though a review concluded The FA said the settlement was made

:37:16. > :37:23.to avoid disrupting Euro 2017. There was another milestone

:37:24. > :37:26.for Wayne Rooney, as the Everton striker scored his 200th goal

:37:27. > :37:28.in the Premier League, scoring in the 1-1 draw

:37:29. > :37:31.at Manchester City last night. He becomes only the second man

:37:32. > :37:34.to reach the landmark, City were down to 10 men

:37:35. > :37:40.after Kyle Walker received two yellows, before Raheem Sterling

:37:41. > :37:42.equalised for the home side to ensure the match

:37:43. > :37:55.ended a point apiece. I am not surprised about this

:37:56. > :37:59.performance. I know the player, owner how eager he was to come back

:38:00. > :38:04.to Everton, and he is showing that quality on the ball and the

:38:05. > :38:05.productivity of the player that he showed tonight, again, we are really

:38:06. > :38:14.happy that he is back. You are disappointed when you do not

:38:15. > :38:18.play what you are. What we put absolutely everything on the pitch,

:38:19. > :38:22.that is why we are happy for that. Can I ask you about the performance

:38:23. > :38:25.of Raheem Sterling? You took a chance with him, we've impressed

:38:26. > :38:28.with him this evening? All of them, I was impressed with all of them.

:38:29. > :38:31.Scotland manager Gordon Strachan has named his squad for the upcoming

:38:32. > :38:32.international break, and Millwall goalkeeper

:38:33. > :38:34.Jordan Archer has received his first call-up.

:38:35. > :38:37.Strachan's side is gearing up to take on Lithuania and Malta

:38:38. > :38:39.in next month's world cup qualifiers.

:38:40. > :38:41.Scotland are currently fourth in their group,

:38:42. > :38:43.four points off a qualifying position for next year's tournament

:38:44. > :38:59.We've got to try to win both games. I don't think we are ever exported

:39:00. > :39:04.to draw a game. We are excited to win. If we get a draw, we get a

:39:05. > :39:07.draw. As if we get a win, that is for sure, Germany, years away, we

:39:08. > :39:10.put on a magnificent performance. England, we beat 3-0. We try to win

:39:11. > :39:11.the game. England's women are preparing

:39:12. > :39:13.for their Rugby World Cup semi-final Lydia Thompson will start

:39:14. > :39:17.on the wing, having recovered After rotating his squad

:39:18. > :39:20.throughout the pool stage, this is the strongest England

:39:21. > :39:33.team named by head coach We had our combinations mapped out

:39:34. > :39:37.for all of the games, and it was to culminate to get into this stage

:39:38. > :39:41.now, and this is about putting in the best 23 that you feel are right

:39:42. > :39:45.for the job, and if you feel it is the right 23 for the next one you

:39:46. > :39:49.put them out again. If you don't, you make changes. Simple as that. We

:39:50. > :39:54.don't even need to think about the next game until we get through here.

:39:55. > :39:55.This is going to be huge and that is what we are focused on.

:39:56. > :39:58.And finally, we've seen some great younger hockey players in recent

:39:59. > :40:00.days, but what about the older generation?

:40:01. > :40:04.Here's England's Peter Ross scoring a cracking goal at the over 75s

:40:05. > :40:15.Thanks to that goal England progressed to the final,

:40:16. > :40:18.and if they can beat the Netherlands later today they'll be crowned

:40:19. > :40:28.Shall I just remind you, that is the over 75 is hockey. -- 75s. You never

:40:29. > :40:29.lose it. I think there is hope for all of us, perhaps. Some more than

:40:30. > :40:32.others. We will get the weather with Carol

:40:33. > :40:34.in a moment. In the last year or so,

:40:35. > :40:38.the terrorism threat in Europe has We've seen low-tech,

:40:39. > :40:41.difficult-to-defend knife attacks on popular locations,

:40:42. > :40:43.vehicles driven into crowds, and attacks using

:40:44. > :40:45.guns and explosives. So what can the authorities do

:40:46. > :40:48.to prevent attacks like the one Joining us from our London

:40:49. > :40:52.studio is Chris Phillips, former head of the National Counter

:40:53. > :41:04.Terrorism Security Office. Good morning, thank you for your

:41:05. > :41:08.time. It appears, the letters that we know, is that police have killed

:41:09. > :41:16.or arrested all of the members of this carousel. -- the latest that we

:41:17. > :41:19.know. -- terror cell. What is the priority now, moving forward? They

:41:20. > :41:23.have to build a case against the people that they have still alive,

:41:24. > :41:26.and also, let's not forget, this is a very large group of people that

:41:27. > :41:30.intelligence services in Spain appear not to have known too much

:41:31. > :41:33.about. That is a real worry. I think right across Europe they will be

:41:34. > :41:38.looking at this with some trepidation. How many other groups

:41:39. > :41:44.like this are out there? How many other people has this imam infected

:41:45. > :41:49.with radicalisation. Worrying times, and I think there is also the issue,

:41:50. > :41:53.on this occasion, that the threat level, really, the threat picture

:41:54. > :41:57.has really stepped up a gear, with the fact that they were going to use

:41:58. > :42:02.vehicle bombs. That is the scary thing. We have seen that use of

:42:03. > :42:06.explosives in the past. Why do you say that is a step up, because of

:42:07. > :42:11.the scale of it? It is a massive step up. I think governments and

:42:12. > :42:15.police services need to look at this with trepidation. Because what we

:42:16. > :42:20.see with a vehicle bombs is immense damage. Absolutely immense damage.

:42:21. > :42:24.Huge loss of life, if they are successful. Of course, this group

:42:25. > :42:30.fully intended, it appears, to arm up three vehicles, three vehicles

:42:31. > :42:33.put into the right location, which could actually bring buildings down.

:42:34. > :42:38.We have seen that across the world. If you think back to Manchester in

:42:39. > :42:44.1996, a very big on decimated the city. That one was an IRA bomb, and

:42:45. > :42:49.of course the IRA gave us a warning. Isis and these kinds of people will

:42:50. > :42:54.not give us warnings. If this is the case, and you are right, and this is

:42:55. > :42:59.a game changer, how do we protect public spaces and places like us

:43:00. > :43:02.alone, the pedestrian area of Las Ramblas, where this vehicle drove

:43:03. > :43:11.down and could have had a bomb in it? -- public spaces and places like

:43:12. > :43:15.Barcelona. We started doing this work and the UK, identifying iconic

:43:16. > :43:18.sites and putting protection in. We must not think there is anything

:43:19. > :43:24.like 100% security. Absolutely is not. In fact, all that you can do at

:43:25. > :43:30.these events is reduce the number of casualties. But you should do that.

:43:31. > :43:33.A simple point, actually, is that in an explosion, 90% of the people are

:43:34. > :43:38.injured or killed by flying glass. But you can protect against glass.

:43:39. > :43:44.You can put film on it, you can change it to laminated glass, so

:43:45. > :43:48.fewer people are injured. This terrorism threat has taken a step up

:43:49. > :43:52.with this group in Barcelona, and also, we know for a fact now,

:43:53. > :43:56.really, that this terrorism threat will be with us for many years to

:43:57. > :43:59.come. Now is the time that companies, businesses, but also

:44:00. > :44:02.police forces and governments need to spend money protecting crowded

:44:03. > :44:07.places. There are things that you can do, to keep people await -- to

:44:08. > :44:11.keep vehicles away from crowds. Interesting points. Thank you.

:44:12. > :44:14.Carol has the weather now, and she's got sheep with her,

:44:15. > :44:25.You are really excited about the sheep. I love sheep. Would you like

:44:26. > :44:32.a sheep fact now? No thanks. LAUGHTER

:44:33. > :44:40.. Right, OK. Get on with it, then. Do it in your own time. Good morning

:44:41. > :44:44.from Green Park in London. You are quite right, I have got some lovely

:44:45. > :44:48.girls with me this morning. You can see them behind me here. Various

:44:49. > :44:53.different breeds, and some more over here. They have very groovy names,

:44:54. > :45:02.too. This is as morale by. Right next to her we have Olivia. And just

:45:03. > :45:05.behind Olivia we have Juniper. The reason they are here is because the

:45:06. > :45:11.royal parks are raising at -- running a grazing trial. Basically,

:45:12. > :45:15.that is to help detect and in courage growth in this particular

:45:16. > :45:21.part of Green Park. -- protect and encourage. Various breeds of sheep

:45:22. > :45:24.will eat more dominant grasses and plants, allowing the space for

:45:25. > :45:27.different plants to grow up. And they trample the seeds back in, so

:45:28. > :45:32.we see further growth developing. The sheep are controlled by

:45:33. > :45:37.neighbours. Look at this little dog, this little terrier. What a clever

:45:38. > :45:41.girl you are. She is tiny, and the sheep are so big. I am very

:45:42. > :45:45.impressed with your skills. The weather is not quite so impressive

:45:46. > :45:49.this morning. Cloudy and stamp this morning. Across many parts of the

:45:50. > :45:51.country it is a murky start. Low cloud and some fog around as well.

:45:52. > :46:01.It will brighten up later on. Looking at the UK as a whole, we

:46:02. > :46:05.have rain across Scotland, drifting north-east. Behind it, all this

:46:06. > :46:09.cloud is beginning to break up. Showers coming across south-west

:46:10. > :46:13.England, drifting into the West Midlands, and also in and across

:46:14. > :46:16.parts of Wales. The heaviest showers will be across Northern Ireland as

:46:17. > :46:20.we go through the afternoon. Speaking of the afternoon, the cloud

:46:21. > :46:24.building ahead of those showers in western Scotland, there will be one

:46:25. > :46:27.to make heavy showers across the Grampians, but the Murray Firth and

:46:28. > :46:33.southern Scotland will see brighter skies. Showers across southern

:46:34. > :46:36.England, turning thundery later. The further south you go, the drier the

:46:37. > :46:42.weather. One of two showers, that is all. The cloud continuing to break.

:46:43. > :46:47.South-west England and Wales could hit highs of 26 or 27 today. So lots

:46:48. > :46:51.of sunshine this afternoon, one of two showers in Wales, especially in

:46:52. > :46:55.the north. If you follow that line through you can see that the rain

:46:56. > :46:59.that we are looking at why then will be hitting Northern Ireland. Some of

:47:00. > :47:02.that will be heavy. As we go through the course of the evening and

:47:03. > :47:06.overnight, that rain in Northern Ireland pushes into Scotland and

:47:07. > :47:10.northern England. This is when it is likely to be heavy and thundery. We

:47:11. > :47:15.can still see one or two showers across Wales, but for most of us it

:47:16. > :47:19.will be dry. A cold night, with a range of temperatures between 14 and

:47:20. > :47:25.17 Celsius. It will still feel humid, rather like it does today. As

:47:26. > :47:29.we begin the day tomorrow, we have that rain across Scotland and

:47:30. > :47:32.northern England, continuing to sweep north-east through the course

:47:33. > :47:37.of the day. Behind it, brighter and fresher conditions come in. The

:47:38. > :47:40.other end of that line of rain is really a band of cloud moving across

:47:41. > :47:45.eastern England and East Anglia. Before it moves across it will still

:47:46. > :47:49.be quite warm and humid. As it pushes through, the fresher air

:47:50. > :47:53.pushes in for all of us and we will have a sunny end to the day. On

:47:54. > :47:58.Thursday, we see a north and south split. In the north it will be wet

:47:59. > :48:00.and in the south it will be dry. Fresher conditions, and more

:48:01. > :48:06.comfortable, with temperatures getting up to about 23 degrees. So

:48:07. > :48:10.that is how it is looking here in London at Green Park. If you want to

:48:11. > :48:14.come and see the sheep, they are here until we get to Sunday. Mavis

:48:15. > :48:18.is back inside me as well. Dan, now you can get on with your sheep

:48:19. > :48:23.facts. No interest in sheep, thank you. She is there with Mavis,

:48:24. > :48:29.absolutely smitten. What a gorgeous dog.

:48:30. > :48:32.Ford is the latest carmaker to offer drivers cash to trade

:48:33. > :48:34.in their old cars for new, less-polluting models.

:48:35. > :48:47.Good morning. Yes, good morning to you both. This is a lot to do with

:48:48. > :48:51.air quality and trying to make it a lot cleaner when we are driving on

:48:52. > :48:54.things, because there are so many cars on the roads.

:48:55. > :48:57.The Government has been under pressure to improve air quality

:48:58. > :48:59.since it emerged that the UK regularly breached EU

:49:00. > :49:08.This July, the Government published its clean air strategy,

:49:09. > :49:11.laying out plans to spend ?3 billion in bringing air

:49:12. > :49:15.It included plans to ban the sale of new diesel and petrol

:49:16. > :49:18.Diesel cars in particular have emerged as the biggest source

:49:19. > :49:21.of harmful nitrogen dioxide, which can raise the risk of strokes,

:49:22. > :49:25.The number of diesel vehicles on Britain's roads has risen

:49:26. > :49:28.from 3.2 million in 2000 to more than 10 million today.

:49:29. > :49:30.The Government wants to get that number down,

:49:31. > :49:33.and for more of us to swap older, polluting cars

:49:34. > :49:37.But they stopped short of including a nationwide scrappage scheme

:49:38. > :49:40.for old diesel cars in their plans announced in July, a move

:49:41. > :49:42.that was criticised by environmentalists.

:49:43. > :49:44.They are still deciding whether they will introduce this,

:49:45. > :49:46.with a decision expected this autumn.

:49:47. > :49:49.That has left the car industry to step in and offer

:49:50. > :49:52.Today, Ford is offering between ?2,000 and ?7,000

:49:53. > :49:55.for customers to scrap any diesel or petrol car with Euro five

:49:56. > :49:57.pollution limits registered before the end of 2009,

:49:58. > :50:00.if they buy a new Ford car or transit van.

:50:01. > :50:03.They follow similar incentive schemes to trade in older diesel

:50:04. > :50:05.and petrol cars from Vauxhall, BMW, and Mercedes-Benz.

:50:06. > :50:08.VW are also considering introducing a scrappage scheme for older diesels

:50:09. > :50:12.Jim Holder is with me, from WhatCar, to make sense of it all.

:50:13. > :50:18.What are your thoughts on this? ?2000 is a decent amount of money,

:50:19. > :50:22.but if you are buying a new car it probably isn't that much, is it? I

:50:23. > :50:25.think it is great that Britain's largest carmaker is trying to do

:50:26. > :50:29.something positive but you have to consider whether the owner of a car

:50:30. > :50:32.worth ?2000 or less has the wherewithal to go into a 12,000

:50:33. > :50:35.pound car moving forward. There are other ways of purchasing, that Ford

:50:36. > :50:39.can offer, and you can finance it, but you have to wonder about the

:50:40. > :50:43.potential 90 million people who are in these cars, and how many could

:50:44. > :50:48.afford to make the leap and how many would look to a new car rather than

:50:49. > :50:51.a newer use the car. And also this is for any car by any manufacturer

:50:52. > :50:55.which is seven years or older. Cars at seven years old could probably be

:50:56. > :50:58.worth more than 2000 pounds as well. Absolutely, I think people need to

:50:59. > :51:01.do their homework on both sides, really, because we recommend that

:51:02. > :51:04.people haggle, and they haggle quite hard. You have to take that into

:51:05. > :51:08.consideration, but also your trade-in is often worth at least

:51:09. > :51:11.?2000. If an average family car is around seven years old, it would be

:51:12. > :51:15.worth more like ?5,000. So you need to do your homework. And clearly

:51:16. > :51:19.some people will benefit if they have cars older than that in worth a

:51:20. > :51:22.lot less. How does this compare with what we have heard from the other

:51:23. > :51:25.manufacturers? A slight differences. Some of the manufacturers, BMW and

:51:26. > :51:28.Mercedes, are focused on swapping cars the low emission ones. Ford and

:51:29. > :51:33.Vauxhall are focusing on different ones. They all have the same aim and

:51:34. > :51:37.an offer of a discount at the end of it. Now, I started this by saying it

:51:38. > :51:41.is all about air quality, a lot of this is about selling new cars, as

:51:42. > :51:44.well, isn't it? They have seen sales dipped recently. Absolutely, they

:51:45. > :51:48.have been running along at record levels and that level has come down

:51:49. > :51:52.in recent months. So they are keen to sell more cars, but they are also

:51:53. > :51:56.keen to put a positive message out there since the VW diesel gate

:51:57. > :52:01.scandal. They have been impacted by a lot of negative headlines and this

:52:02. > :52:06.is one way to state that they do have low emissions offerings out

:52:07. > :52:11.there today. Don't wait, we do have cars in our showrooms now. And that

:52:12. > :52:15.is important, to try and get that level of emissions down. And we are

:52:16. > :52:16.going to be talking to the boss of Ford in about one hour's time.

:52:17. > :52:20.The total solar eclipse which wowed the United States on Monday actually

:52:21. > :52:23.began more than 800 miles from its shores, in a desolate spot

:52:24. > :52:26.A handful of lucky passengers, including media, scientists

:52:27. > :52:29.and employees of Alaska Airlines, got the chance to see the spectacle

:52:30. > :52:34.They watched in awe from a Boeing 737 sent to chase the moon's shadow

:52:35. > :52:44.Our North America correspondent James Cook was on board.

:52:45. > :52:57.The moon was after the sun, and we were on the tail of both.

:52:58. > :53:00.From Portland, in the north-western state of Oregon, the flight

:53:01. > :53:02.dubbed Solar One struck out across the Pacific.

:53:03. > :53:06.By the time we arrived, 800 miles from the shore,

:53:07. > :53:09.our satellite was already taking a chunk out of our star.

:53:10. > :53:14.And, as the moment of totality drew close, time itself seemed

:53:15. > :53:35.It's such an incredibly breathtaking express.

:53:36. > :53:44.and neither do pictures or video, or anything.

:53:45. > :53:47.It's just incredible to witness, really it is.

:53:48. > :53:55.It was more beautiful than anything I could have imagined.

:53:56. > :53:58.It was diverse in colour and density, and it was just

:53:59. > :54:03.Just too short, really just too short.

:54:04. > :54:18.Jasmine Shepherd and her brother were the envy of their fellow

:54:19. > :54:21.Americans, having won a competition to see the eclipse fully 15 minutes

:54:22. > :54:25.We're so lucky to have viewed the spectacular event.

:54:26. > :54:27.We're in awe, and humbled and grateful.

:54:28. > :54:30.It was a great experience, and everybody on board

:54:31. > :54:33.And the countdown to totality was very cool,

:54:34. > :54:41.God is good, that's all I can say, God is good.

:54:42. > :54:44.That was a breathtaking moment, but it was over in a flash.

:54:45. > :54:47.The shadow is now reaching towards the United States,

:54:48. > :54:49.where millions more are watching and waiting.

:54:50. > :54:52.But only those on board could save that they were the first

:54:53. > :54:55.to see the spectacle, from a front row seat in the theatre

:54:56. > :54:58.James Cooke, BBC News, above the Pacific Ocean.

:54:59. > :55:01.You will remember that yesterday we were telling you that

:55:02. > :55:04.Bonnie Tyler was going to sing on board a cruise ship

:55:05. > :55:06.performing her classic Total Eclipse of the Heart.

:55:07. > :55:24.# Once upon a time, there was light in my life. Now there is only love

:55:25. > :55:26.in the dark. # Nothing I can say... # Total Eclipse of the Heart. Come

:55:27. > :55:38.on! Whoo! I can't believe they are more

:55:39. > :55:42.interested in the actual eclipse. That was just ridiculous, how awful!

:55:43. > :55:45.How do you! It is great to have a belly laugh,

:55:46. > :55:48.but what makes the perfect joke? We will be bringing you the funniest

:55:49. > :55:52.one-liner from the Edinburgh Fringe But for now, let's hear some

:55:53. > :56:03.of the ones you have sent in. How does the man in the moon cut his

:56:04. > :56:21.hair? Eclipse it. This one is from

:56:22. > :56:23.Stewpot, in Blackpool. "My best mate bought his last

:56:24. > :59:45.car off Bonnie Tyler. "My best mate bought his last

:59:46. > :59:49.why only three London boroughs managed to achieve their recycling

:59:50. > :59:51.targets. Bexley is at the top of the list.

:59:52. > :59:54.Hello, this is Breakfast, with Naga Munchetty and Dan Walker.

:59:55. > :59:56.President Trump announces a new strategy to take

:59:57. > :00:01.He says there will be no hasty withdrawal and the US

:00:02. > :00:13.These killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that no places

:00:14. > :00:24.beyond reach of American might and American arms. -- no place is.

:00:25. > :00:33.Also this morning, Ford announce a scrappage scheme for diesel cars.

:00:34. > :00:37.Ford is the latest car maker to offer cash for drivers

:00:38. > :00:40.to scrap their old cars for less polluting new ones.

:00:41. > :00:43.An earthquake has hit southern Italy.

:00:44. > :00:46.One person has died but rescuers have managed to save others

:00:47. > :00:49.Anti-racism campaign group Kick It Out calls for an independent

:00:50. > :00:55.review after striker Eni Aluko accused the manager of the.

:00:56. > :01:01.England women's team of discrimination.

:01:02. > :01:05.But Mark Sampson and the FA deny any wrongdoing and they were cleared

:01:06. > :01:16.And Carol is out and about with the weather.

:01:17. > :01:25.Good morning from Green Park in London. I am here with these lovely

:01:26. > :01:30.ladies, a rare breed of sheep. It is the first time since the 1930s Green

:01:31. > :01:35.Park has had sheep. Why are they here? I will tell you in 15 minutes.

:01:36. > :01:38.A cloudy and murky start to the day, with drizzle around and rain

:01:39. > :01:43.crossing Scotland. It will brighten up, and for some people it will be

:01:44. > :01:45.quite warm and humid. Heavier rain moving in across Northern Ireland,

:01:46. > :01:48.western Scotland and northern England later on. I will have more

:01:49. > :01:49.details in 15 minutes. President Trump says the US

:01:50. > :01:54.will "fight to win" in Afghanistan, as he unveils a new strategy

:01:55. > :01:57.in the war against the Taliban. In a major speech last night he said

:01:58. > :02:01.that he had changed his mind about withdrawing troops

:02:02. > :02:03.from the country. He also called on Nato

:02:04. > :02:05.allies to do more. Our Washington correspondent

:02:06. > :02:08.Aleem Maqbool reports. The man who always said he didn't

:02:09. > :02:11.want to intervene abroad came to announce the intervention

:02:12. > :02:13.in Afghanistan is going He said it was for

:02:14. > :02:18.the right reasons. He announced the lifting of a cap

:02:19. > :02:32.on the number of US troops in Afghanistan, and that there

:02:33. > :02:34.would be no time limit My original instinct was to pull

:02:35. > :02:41.out, and historically, But all my life, I've heard that

:02:42. > :02:46.decisions are much different when you sit behind the desk

:02:47. > :02:57.in the Oval Office. A very different Donald Trump

:02:58. > :03:00.to the one who said this kind of thing right through

:03:01. > :03:07.the Obama years. And that is the basis

:03:08. > :03:12.on which he campaigned as a presidential candidate,

:03:13. > :03:14.that he wouldn't spend American He says he now realises that pulling

:03:15. > :03:26.out American troops from Afghanistan But it will be a disappointment

:03:27. > :03:33.to many of his supporters. This will mean there is still no end

:03:34. > :03:39.in sight for America's longest war. In a few minutes we'll be talking

:03:40. > :03:42.to a Washington columnist Four men accused of being part

:03:43. > :03:49.of a terror cell which killed 15 people in Spain last week

:03:50. > :03:52.are due to appear in court The suspects arrived at a jail just

:03:53. > :03:57.outside of the city last night. Police in Catalonia say they shot

:03:58. > :04:00.dead the suspected driver of the van which ploughed into pedestrians

:04:01. > :04:03.in Barcelona on Thursday. Younes Abouyaaqoub was found hiding

:04:04. > :04:06.in a vineyard 30 miles west The US Navy has ordered a worldwide

:04:07. > :04:18."operational pause" of its fleet after a destroyer collided

:04:19. > :04:20.with a tanker near Singapore, 5 other sailors were injured

:04:21. > :04:25.in the incident involving the guided It was the fourth US Navy

:04:26. > :04:29.ship to crash this year, and the second in

:04:30. > :04:33.the past two months. At least one person has died

:04:34. > :04:37.and at least 25 people injured after an earthquake hit the Italian

:04:38. > :04:40.island of Ischia in southern Italy. The tourists and residents ran

:04:41. > :04:43.into the streets as buildings collapsed when the quake hit just

:04:44. > :04:45.before 9pm local time. The earthquake struck just as local

:04:46. > :04:57.families and tourists on the holiday People were evacuated

:04:58. > :05:03.from buildings, including One woman was killed

:05:04. > :05:09.when rubble fell from a church. At least 20 other

:05:10. > :05:16.people were injured. Ischia is an hour's ferry ride

:05:17. > :05:19.from Naples, and lies about seven miles from the epicentre

:05:20. > :05:21.of the earthquake. The island's northern town

:05:22. > :05:24.of Casamicciola was the worst hit. In the village, firemen located

:05:25. > :05:27.a baby trap beneath the rubble. After a delicate operation,

:05:28. > :05:36.a welcome sound. Some firemen were already

:05:37. > :05:45.on the island to deal Italy's beautiful islands

:05:46. > :05:58.are a draw for visitors, but unfortunately in an area prone

:05:59. > :06:02.to seismic activity, After this latest earthquake,

:06:03. > :06:09.one resident said it looked Ford is the latest car maker

:06:10. > :06:19.to offer incentives to UK drivers to scrap their old cars for a new,

:06:20. > :06:22.less polluting vehicle. Steph can tell us

:06:23. > :06:29.more about the deal? Quite a few car makers have already

:06:30. > :06:34.done this. Yes. Car makers, and also the government, are under pressure

:06:35. > :06:37.to improve air quality in the country because there is an

:06:38. > :06:40.increasing number of cars on the road. It is diesel cars in

:06:41. > :06:44.particular which have faced the most criticism. The number of those has

:06:45. > :06:48.increased a lot. Something like 3.2 million in the year 2000, to 10

:06:49. > :06:53.million today. So there has certainly been an increase in diesel

:06:54. > :06:56.cars and that is a big concern. So far we have not have the government

:06:57. > :07:01.introduce any type of scrappage scheme, so the carmakers have taken

:07:02. > :07:05.it up on themselves. Ford is the latest manufacturer to announce that

:07:06. > :07:09.it is going to be running a scheme where you can trade in your car,

:07:10. > :07:15.which is seven years or older, for ?2000 off one of their new cars.

:07:16. > :07:20.That sounds like a good deal if your car is worth ?2000 or less, but not

:07:21. > :07:23.so great if you have a car that is seven years old and worth more than

:07:24. > :07:28.that, because you might get more money selling it yourself. So there

:07:29. > :07:32.are some criticisms, but it is great to hear that companies are looking

:07:33. > :07:37.at how we can improve air quality. I will be speaking to the boss of Ford

:07:38. > :07:41.later in the programme, because as you say, they are not the only car

:07:42. > :07:44.manufacturer doing this. We have heard from Vauxhall, who had a

:07:45. > :07:49.similar scheme for diesel and petrol cars. Ford are also includes in

:07:50. > :07:54.diesel and petrol cars. -- including. And we have the likes of

:07:55. > :07:57.BMW, which has introduced a scrappage scheme just for diesel

:07:58. > :08:01.cars. If you are buying a new car and you have an older car, it is

:08:02. > :08:03.worth seeing if this is something you could benefit from. A big change

:08:04. > :08:07.in the industry. Thank you. The former chancellor,

:08:08. > :08:08.George Osborne, has called on Theresa May to commit to building

:08:09. > :08:12.a high speed rail line As the Chairman of the Northern

:08:13. > :08:16.Powerhouse Partnership, Mr Osborne has written

:08:17. > :08:19.in the Financial Times that more money needs to be spent on public

:08:20. > :08:22.transport outside of London. The government has said

:08:23. > :08:25.it is investing billions of pounds For the first time in almost

:08:26. > :08:29.a century, a total solar eclipse has Millions of people watched

:08:30. > :08:33.as the moon passed in front of the Sun casting a deep

:08:34. > :08:36.shadow more than 60 miles Our science correspondent

:08:37. > :08:39.Pallab Ghosh joined the sky watchers They came in their tens

:08:40. > :08:44.of thousands, like pilgrims, They came to witness one

:08:45. > :08:48.of nature's great spectacles. It is a quarter past ten

:08:49. > :08:51.in the morning but it We are just a few seconds away

:08:52. > :09:06.from the total eclipse and the moon has almost completely

:09:07. > :09:08.covered the sun. It looks like a smiley

:09:09. > :09:10.face in the sky. And then the moon blocks

:09:11. > :09:28.the sun's bright disc. Its atmosphere, normally washed

:09:29. > :09:31.away by the solar light, now appears as a halo

:09:32. > :09:33.around the moon. It seems like a shimmering black

:09:34. > :09:41.pearl, hanging in the sky. This was definitely something

:09:42. > :09:44.you have to see in person. It's something that

:09:45. > :09:46.you can't describe. The eclipse crossed the entire US -

:09:47. > :09:51.ten states, a distance of 2,500 From coast to coast,

:09:52. > :09:55.it seemed everybody was interested. For two incredible minutes,

:09:56. > :10:12.the tiny town became the centre of the universe, as those

:10:13. > :10:15.here became the first in America to witness one of the great wonders

:10:16. > :10:25.of the solar system. What are you think has been the

:10:26. > :10:30.nation's favourite toy of the past 100 years? It is going to be a

:10:31. > :10:35.debate, isn't it? I can sense it bubbling away. I am a big fan of

:10:36. > :10:41.fuzzy felt, but you are a Lego girl. Remember spirograph? That was

:10:42. > :10:48.brilliant. Hours and hours of pictures going around and around.

:10:49. > :11:01.No, spirograph was not that. You are thinking of etcher sketch. --

:11:02. > :11:08.Etch-a-Sketch. What was the other thing I was thinking of? When you

:11:09. > :11:15.act things out? Sherrard 's. -- Charades. Anyway, the Royal Mail has

:11:16. > :11:20.had a go, and is picking out some of the nation's favourite toys for a

:11:21. > :11:22.set of commemorative stamps. The Royal Mail said it chose those toys

:11:23. > :11:33.to their enduring appeal. Karawatha of the weather later on,

:11:34. > :11:36.she is with some sheep. -- Carol will have.

:11:37. > :11:41.Today marks three months since a suicide bomber detonated his device

:11:42. > :11:46.as an Ariana Grande concert at the Manchester Arena. It killed 22

:11:47. > :11:50.people and injured many more. Memories of that night are likely to

:11:51. > :11:52.stay with those who were there forever, but medical experts say

:11:53. > :11:54.that if people are still suffering from that trauma, at this point they

:11:55. > :12:05.should seek additional support. The tears are never

:12:06. > :12:07.far away, really. Suddenly you catch yourself

:12:08. > :12:09.thinking, oh, my gosh, We are in Saint Ann's Square,

:12:10. > :12:15.in the centre of Manchester. It became the focus of remembrance,

:12:16. > :12:18.where thousands of people left Figen and Stuart Murray

:12:19. > :12:21.lost their son Martyn Hett She's been a therapist

:12:22. > :12:26.for more than 20 years, but has decided she can

:12:27. > :12:29.no longer do her job. I don't think, with what happened

:12:30. > :12:32.to me, that I will ever be in a position to offer psychological

:12:33. > :12:35.support to anybody else, because I think I am

:12:36. > :12:39.so damaged through this. On the night of the attack,

:12:40. > :12:49.Kaitlin was knocked off her feet by the force of the blast,

:12:50. > :12:52.but escaped without physical injury. She became withdrawn,

:12:53. > :12:54.started having nightmares, It wasn't until a few weeks,

:12:55. > :13:00.I would say, after, where it really The guilt - tell me

:13:01. > :13:07.a bit more about that. I managed to walk out

:13:08. > :13:10.without a mark on. Obviously there are people

:13:11. > :13:16.who lost their lives... I have nightmares about people -

:13:17. > :13:21.about violence, about obviously She's obviously suffering

:13:22. > :13:32.from survivor's guilt. A lot of Martyn's friends

:13:33. > :13:35.had that, as well. And with the help of therapy,

:13:36. > :13:44.obviously it's helping her to kind This is the Manchester

:13:45. > :13:47.Resilience Hub. It is co-ordinating services

:13:48. > :13:49.specifically for people caught up It is about 12 weeks

:13:50. > :13:58.now since the attack. Is that the sort of time

:13:59. > :14:03.you are talking about, where people here may

:14:04. > :14:05.need to access help? Yes, we view the 12-weeks

:14:06. > :14:07.period, post-incident, If you are still exhibiting symptoms

:14:08. > :14:13.at the 12-week point, they are probably not

:14:14. > :14:15.going to resolve without some kind The hub is helping more than 200

:14:16. > :14:20.people access psychological support, but they want everyone who needs

:14:21. > :14:23.help to come forward. Figen hasn't had any

:14:24. > :14:25.counselling herself, I have decided I need it,

:14:26. > :14:33.because like so many people, Back in Saint Ann's Square,

:14:34. > :14:40.the sea of flowers from well-wishers But, with the right help,

:14:41. > :15:15.the hope is that life will become If you were directly affect to buy

:15:16. > :15:19.that attack at Manchester Arena and you think you might need help from

:15:20. > :15:21.the Manchester Resilience Hub, you can contact your GP, your local

:15:22. > :15:27.therapy service, or call NHS 111. You are watching

:15:28. > :15:29.Breakfast from BBC News. The main stories this

:15:30. > :15:31.morning: President Trump has announced his new strategy

:15:32. > :15:33.for the war in Afghanistan, and hinted he is prepared to send

:15:34. > :15:37.more troops to fight the Taliban. Ford has become the latest car

:15:38. > :15:40.manufacturer to offer customers incentives to get rid

:15:41. > :15:43.of their old car or van in exchange And Carol is here with

:15:44. > :15:53.this morning's weather. She is out and about with some rare

:15:54. > :16:08.breeds of sheep in London's Green Carol would not let you give her

:16:09. > :16:13.your sheep facts. But there is such huge demand. And this is handy,

:16:14. > :16:18.bearing in mind where the sheep are. Did you know they have a field of

:16:19. > :16:22.vision of around 300 degrees, which means they can actually see behind

:16:23. > :16:30.them without turning their heads? In actual fact, they are looking at you

:16:31. > :16:34.now. Thank you for that, moving swiftly on. Good morning from Green

:16:35. > :16:39.Park in London. Look at these beautiful girls behind me. A lovely

:16:40. > :16:46.flock of rare breed sheep. The reason we are here this morning --

:16:47. > :16:55.someone who knows about the reason we're here this is Alice. Thanks to

:16:56. > :17:00.support from the postcode lottery, we have been able to launch Mission

:17:01. > :17:05.Support, protecting the invertebrates who lived in a park,

:17:06. > :17:09.all the animals who do not have a backbone, which is in fact over 90%

:17:10. > :17:15.of the known animals in the world. That is a lot. Why do you want to

:17:16. > :17:18.protect them, if they are so many? They are so important for our

:17:19. > :17:23.ecosystems. They are pollinators, they help break down our waste, and

:17:24. > :17:28.they are vital parts of the food chain, as well. What are the sheep

:17:29. > :17:34.doing here? Because they are not a rare breed, what are they doing here

:17:35. > :17:37.this morning? So this is one of our wildflower meadows, and we have

:17:38. > :17:40.brought the sheep into Grays it and improve the bio diversity of the

:17:41. > :17:44.vegetation, which will help encourage a wider variety of

:17:45. > :17:48.invertebrates into the park. So the rare breed sheep are able to graze

:17:49. > :17:55.the rough vegetation which is here, leaving space for growth, and they

:17:56. > :18:00.also trample the seeds into the ground. This is the first

:18:01. > :18:06.conservation grazing trial in rural parks. It is becoming an

:18:07. > :18:10.increasingly option. We have other wildflower meadows, so I would love

:18:11. > :18:18.to see it rolled out if it is successful. Is there any way we can

:18:19. > :18:21.get involved in it, as the public? We have been running citizen science

:18:22. > :18:24.projects and we have had a giant snail rolling around London

:18:25. > :18:28.throughout the school holidays doing a family programme with stories and

:18:29. > :18:33.activities about invertebrates and we have a few more dates at the end

:18:34. > :18:40.of the holidays and half term. And other sheep here 44/7? No, they are

:18:41. > :18:48.London commuters, so they are dealing with the rush-hour traffic.

:18:49. > :18:52.They go back to their farm at night. Thank you for joining us, and

:18:53. > :18:56.getting up so early. There are lots of beasties flying around. We are

:18:57. > :19:06.being eaten alive, they are loving us as well. The weather has not been

:19:07. > :19:10.particularly kind. To many parts of the UK, the forecast today is a

:19:11. > :19:14.cloudy, murky start, but it will brighten up later on, and we should

:19:15. > :19:18.see some sunshine. Some parts of central, southern England and Wales

:19:19. > :19:24.could see temperatures as high as 26 or 27 Celsius. But there is some

:19:25. > :19:28.rain in the forecast. If we take a look at the charts we have some rain

:19:29. > :19:30.moving across parts of Scotland at the moment, increasingly turning

:19:31. > :19:34.patchy. There is quite a bit of cloud around, some fog around as

:19:35. > :19:38.well, but already some breaks across parts of the Midlands and Wales. We

:19:39. > :19:42.are looking at showers coming across south-west England, also in through

:19:43. > :19:45.Wales, and they will become more organised as they push into Northern

:19:46. > :19:57.Ireland, especially through the course of the afternoon, where they

:19:58. > :20:00.will turn quite heavy. At the same time the cloud will build ahead of

:20:01. > :20:03.them into Scotland and northern England. So this afternoon in

:20:04. > :20:06.Scotland we will have some heavy showers around, but equally there

:20:07. > :20:09.will be some breaks in the cloud, around the Murray Firth, the

:20:10. > :20:13.southern up lines, and here we could see highs up to 20 Celsius. The

:20:14. > :20:16.showers coming in later. For northern England you will see the

:20:17. > :20:19.cloud Ilves, some showers arriving. Later they will be heavy and

:20:20. > :20:22.thundery. As we comes out into the Midlands, East Anglia, heading down

:20:23. > :20:25.towards Kent, southern counties of England, again there will be

:20:26. > :20:28.variable amounts of cloud but equally there will be some sunshine

:20:29. > :20:32.around as well. For Wales you will see one or two showers, but Northern

:20:33. > :20:36.Ireland seeing a fair bit of rain. The showers seem to have romped off,

:20:37. > :20:39.so I will tell you what is happening tonight. We have the rain pushing

:20:40. > :20:43.steadily out of Northern Ireland, in the northern England, and also into

:20:44. > :20:46.Scotland. Some of that will be heavy, some of that will be

:20:47. > :20:49.thundery. We will also see some showers across Wales, but it will be

:20:50. > :20:52.another humid night, temperatures falling to between 14 and 17

:20:53. > :20:56.Celsius. Tomorrow, Wednesday, we will have that rain moving across

:20:57. > :21:01.Scotland, continuing pushing into north-easterly direction, moving

:21:02. > :21:05.across northern England, and then cloud across eastern parts of

:21:06. > :21:08.England. Behind that it will be brighter. There will be some

:21:09. > :21:11.pressure conditions coming in but it will still be humid in the

:21:12. > :21:16.south-east. By the time we get to Thursday, north, south split. Rain

:21:17. > :21:20.in the north, brighter in the south, but by then we will all be in some

:21:21. > :21:25.pressure conditions, with highs by then up to about 23 Celsius. So that

:21:26. > :21:33.is how it is looking here in London. From me, Alice, and the beasties,

:21:34. > :21:41.back to you in the studio. I have another sheep fact for you later on.

:21:42. > :21:50.Save yourself. Can't wait. Genuine disappointment from Carol Kirkwood.

:21:51. > :21:56.I have never seen Carol looks so disappointed. Shall we take a look

:21:57. > :22:00.at the papers? Lots of Bake Off news. Journalists have had a

:22:01. > :22:06.preview, haven't they, of the first episode. Will be talking about the

:22:07. > :22:14.new programme on Channel 4. Prue Leeds, one of the centres, might get

:22:15. > :22:19.into a little bit of trouble for this -- presenters. She is saying to

:22:20. > :22:22.viewers fast forward through the adverts, so recorded and fast

:22:23. > :22:29.forward through the advertising, because that is what has led to

:22:30. > :22:36.complaints, with big fans saying it has interrupted their watching the

:22:37. > :22:40.rising of the cakes. And the Sun says there will be record length for

:22:41. > :22:44.ad breaks, which is maybe what she was talking about. The front page of

:22:45. > :22:49.the Times, loads of pictures on the front pages of the solar eclipse,

:22:50. > :22:55.which was available to view across 14 states in America with the right

:22:56. > :22:58.pair of glasses, of course. The main story is something else we are

:22:59. > :23:02.dealing with this morning, the US demand Afghan troop boost on the

:23:03. > :23:06.back of Donald Trump's speech last night. That is what we will turn our

:23:07. > :23:11.attention to right now on the programme.

:23:12. > :23:13.Donald Trump has said the US will fight to win in Afghanistan

:23:14. > :23:17.as he laid out a new path forward for the United States

:23:18. > :23:21.It is the latest development in a conflict that is now

:23:22. > :23:26.The war in Afghanistan began almost 16 years ago with a US bombing

:23:27. > :23:28.campaign in October 2001, one month after the 9/11 attacks.

:23:29. > :23:30.The UK joined the conflict in November 2001.

:23:31. > :23:32.The Coalition claimed victory in December 2001,

:23:33. > :23:35.when the Taliban was forced from its last

:23:36. > :23:38.But two years later, militant groups like the Taliban had

:23:39. > :23:40.regrouped, and the Afghan government now

:23:41. > :23:44.of the country, with the rest either under the control of insurgents

:23:45. > :23:51.The US currently has 8,400 troops in Afghanistan.

:23:52. > :23:54.The UK has deployed about 500, providing security in Kabul

:23:55. > :23:58.In a moment we'll find out what the reaction has been

:23:59. > :24:00.in Afghanistan from our correspondent Secunder Kermani,

:24:01. > :24:02.but first let's get the UK's response with our political

:24:03. > :24:21.We have had comments from our Defence Secretary, we have been

:24:22. > :24:24.waiting for those in relation to what Trump has said. The Defence

:24:25. > :24:28.Secretary has said he welcomes the approach taken by Donald Trump, the

:24:29. > :24:32.commitment to staying the course in Afghanistan. Remember, of course,

:24:33. > :24:35.Donald Trump when he was a candidate rather than a president was

:24:36. > :24:39.describing the conflict there is a waste of time. He was talking about

:24:40. > :24:42.bringing troops back home, rebuilding America rather than

:24:43. > :24:47.Afghanistan. This time he says he is not involved in nation-building in

:24:48. > :24:51.Afghanistan, at with killing terrorists, as he would see it. But

:24:52. > :24:54.there has been a commitment by the Ministry of Defence, and they are

:24:55. > :24:59.pleased that the President has reflected that. There was also a

:25:00. > :25:04.phone call between Michael Fallon and James Mattis before Donald Trump

:25:05. > :25:07.spoke. He was the first NATO leader the Americans rang and they had a

:25:08. > :25:12.discussion about what should happen to rebuild the Afghan democracy. As

:25:13. > :25:19.I understand it there is no specific request for more British troops. In

:25:20. > :25:23.fact there was an increase in June, to do the kind of work you were

:25:24. > :25:27.suggesting, including training Afghan troops. Just over 500 British

:25:28. > :25:31.troops there at the moment so it is unlikely we will send more troops at

:25:32. > :25:35.this stage and the President himself did not box himself in or come up

:25:36. > :25:45.with a specific figure for any increase in the American military in

:25:46. > :25:48.Afghanistan, either. Our correspondent is in Kabul. Much

:25:49. > :25:56.criticism of how little progress has been made since 2001. What is the

:25:57. > :26:00.reaction they are? Well, as you say, the security situation has been

:26:01. > :26:05.deteriorating over the past few years. Last year, for example,

:26:06. > :26:10.almost 3500 Afghan civilians lost their lives because of the violence,

:26:11. > :26:15.and there had been concern here that if America were to completely

:26:16. > :26:21.withdraw the troops, even though most are not in active combat roles,

:26:22. > :26:24.then it would have been a boost to the Taliban. As you say, the Afghan

:26:25. > :26:29.government controls only about 60% of territory in the country.

:26:30. > :26:34.Insurgents, mainly the Taliban, control about 10% and they contest

:26:35. > :26:38.about a third of the country. And so today's comments, the announcement

:26:39. > :26:42.by President Trump, has been welcomed by Afghan leaders. We are

:26:43. > :26:45.waiting to hear from the Afghan president, who is due to speak

:26:46. > :26:49.shortly, but I was speaking to the former head of the Afghan army and

:26:50. > :26:54.he said that he thought this would be a positive development for peace

:26:55. > :26:58.in Afghanistan. He welcomed the idea of more troops. Most people in

:26:59. > :27:02.Afghanistan seemed to want the troops to play a kind of supporting,

:27:03. > :27:06.advisory role. They want to see Afghan forces continue to take the

:27:07. > :27:11.lead on the battlefield. One other aspect of President Trump's

:27:12. > :27:16.announcement that has gone down quite well here has been his strong

:27:17. > :27:21.criticism of Pakistan. The Afghan intelligence services have long

:27:22. > :27:26.accused Pakistan of sheltering and supporting the Afghan Taliban.

:27:27. > :27:33.President Trump said that Pakistan was providing safe haven for the

:27:34. > :27:37.Taliban and some of the Allied militant groups that work alongside

:27:38. > :27:41.it. So that is another aspect that has gone down quite well here, and

:27:42. > :27:46.people here will be waiting to see what kind of leverage President

:27:47. > :27:51.Trump can exert over Pakistan. Pakistan, for a it's part, has

:27:52. > :27:56.always denied any role in supporting terrorist groups. Good to talk to

:27:57. > :27:57.you, good to hear the view from Afghanistan, as well.

:27:58. > :31:23.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:31:24. > :31:35.Hello, this is Breakfast with Naga Munchetty and Dan Walker.

:31:36. > :31:41.President Trump says the US will "fight to win" in Afghanistan,

:31:42. > :31:44.as he unveiled a new strategy in the war against the Taliban.

:31:45. > :31:48.In a major speech last night he said that he had changed his mind

:31:49. > :31:49.about withdrawing troops from the country.

:31:50. > :31:53.He also called on NATO allies to do more as he lifted the cap

:31:54. > :31:57.on the number of US troops in Afghanistan and said there was no

:31:58. > :32:06.From now on, victory will have a clear

:32:07. > :32:19.Attacking our enemies, obliterating Isis,

:32:20. > :32:21.crushing al-Qaeda, preventing the Taliban from taking over

:32:22. > :32:23.Afghanistan, and stopping mass terror attacks against America

:32:24. > :32:32.Four men accused of being part of a terror cell which killed 15

:32:33. > :32:35.people in Spain last week are due to appear in court

:32:36. > :32:40.The suspects arrived at a jail just outside of the city last night.

:32:41. > :32:43.Police in Catalonia say they shot dead the suspected driver of the van

:32:44. > :32:46.which ploughed into pedestrians in Barcelona on Thursday.

:32:47. > :32:48.Younes Abouyaaqoub was found hiding in a vineyard 30 miles west

:32:49. > :32:53.The carmaker Ford is offering customers a cash incentive

:32:54. > :32:57.to scrap their old car in exchange for a new less polluting vehicle.

:32:58. > :33:00.The firm is the latest car manufacturer to come up

:33:01. > :33:02.with a scrappage scheme, which offers drivers two thousand

:33:03. > :33:06.pounds off a new Ford if they trade in a petrol or diesel car or van

:33:07. > :33:10.The scheme will run until the end of the year.

:33:11. > :33:19.Steph will have more on that in twenty minutes.

:33:20. > :33:21.An earthquake has hit the Italian island of Ischia,

:33:22. > :33:24.off the coast of Naples, killing at least one person

:33:25. > :33:27.It's reported several people are missing.

:33:28. > :33:30.TV images show a church and other buildings have collapsed.

:33:31. > :33:32.The fire brigade have released footage of a baby being rescued

:33:33. > :33:41.Millions of people turned out to see the first total solar eclipse

:33:42. > :33:47.The moon passed in front of the Sun, casting a deep shadow more than 60

:33:48. > :33:51.It began on the west coast of America above Oregon,

:33:52. > :33:54.and in the space of abut 90 minutes swept across 13 states,

:33:55. > :34:10.Beautiful pictures, and thank you to all of you for sending in your shots

:34:11. > :34:14.as well. We will be speaking to some eclipse chasers on the programme,

:34:15. > :34:18.who we saw yesterday, and will be revisiting one today. They went to a

:34:19. > :34:22.mountain range in Wyoming and showed us their pictures, and it was as

:34:23. > :34:25.beautiful as they described it. Just stunning. When we saw somebody on

:34:26. > :34:29.the plane which was chasing the eclipse, you don't think of it, but

:34:30. > :34:32.they were talking about the different colours you see as well.

:34:33. > :34:37.You just think of it as black and white. People were saying yesterday

:34:38. > :34:41.how special it was, I suppose when you just see a photograph, you don't

:34:42. > :34:45.see the full range of colour, do you? We'll be talking about that

:34:46. > :34:52.more later in the programme and Carol have the weather for us. Sally

:34:53. > :34:57.has sport now. Yes, we are talking about one of England's most capped

:34:58. > :35:00.players, Eni Aluko, who has been on this programme many times. She has

:35:01. > :35:01.been speaking about what has been going on in her professional life

:35:02. > :35:03.over the past few months. Anti-racism campaign group

:35:04. > :35:05.Kick It Out is calling for a "comprehensive and independent

:35:06. > :35:08.review" after an England footballer alleged she was dropped following

:35:09. > :35:10.claims of racial discrimination. Striker Eni Aluko accused manager

:35:11. > :35:13.Mark Sampson of making "racial He and the FA have been cleared

:35:14. > :35:18.of any wrongdoing in both an FA review and an independent

:35:19. > :35:19.investigation. He asked me, you know,

:35:20. > :35:21.which family members, who is coming to watch

:35:22. > :35:24.the game for you? I said I have family coming

:35:25. > :35:26.in from Nigeria, actually. Make sure they don't

:35:27. > :35:34.come over with Ebola. When that was said, did

:35:35. > :35:40.you challenge them at the time? Did you say that was

:35:41. > :35:45.a mix of the ball? The FA says the Ebola allegations

:35:46. > :35:59.were not investigated because Aluko did not include them

:36:00. > :36:02.in her formal complaint. The player received a ?80,000

:36:03. > :36:06.settlement though a review concluded The FA said the settlement was made

:36:07. > :36:12.to avoid disrupting Euro 2017. There was another milestone

:36:13. > :36:15.for Wayne Rooney, as the Everton striker scored his 200th goal

:36:16. > :36:17.in the Premier League, scoring in the 1-1 draw

:36:18. > :36:20.at Manchester City last night. He becomes only the second man

:36:21. > :36:23.to reach the landmark, City were down to 10 men

:36:24. > :36:27.after Kyle Walker received two yellows, before Raheem Sterling

:36:28. > :36:29.equalised for the home side to ensure the match

:36:30. > :36:38.ended a point apiece. I am not surprised

:36:39. > :36:40.about this performance. I know the player, owner how

:36:41. > :36:44.eager he was to come back to Everton, and he is showing

:36:45. > :36:47.that quality on the ball and the productivity

:36:48. > :36:49.of the player that he showed tonight, again,

:36:50. > :36:57.we are really happy that he is back. You are disappointed

:36:58. > :37:09.when you do not play what you are. Another great achievement by Wayne

:37:10. > :37:12.Rooney, receiving praise from his manager Ronald Koeman. He also

:37:13. > :37:15.received congratulations from the only man who has scored more Premier

:37:16. > :37:19.League goals than him. Congratulations on reaching 200 and

:37:20. > :37:24.the league goals. A great achievement. Where have you been?

:37:25. > :37:28.The 200 club has been a lonely place over the last couple of years. Well

:37:29. > :37:30.done, I'm sure you've got more in you.

:37:31. > :37:33.England's women are preparing for their Rugby World Cup semi-final

:37:34. > :37:36.Lydia Thompson will start on the wing, having recovered

:37:37. > :37:40.After rotating his squad throughout the pool stage,

:37:41. > :37:42.this is the strongest England team named by head coach

:37:43. > :37:49.Team Sky's Chris Froome has taken the leader's red jersey after stage

:37:50. > :37:53.Froome finished third to take a 2-second lead overall.

:37:54. > :37:55.It was won by Italy's Vincenzo Nibali.

:37:56. > :37:59.The Briton is aiming to become just the third man to win the Tour de

:38:00. > :38:04.And finally, we've seen some great younger hockey players in recent

:38:05. > :38:06.days, but what about the older generation?

:38:07. > :38:09.Here's England's Peter Ross scoring a cracking goal at the over-75s

:38:10. > :38:24.Thanks to that goal England progressed to the final,

:38:25. > :38:27.and if they can beat the Netherlands later today they'll be crowned

:38:28. > :38:40.I should just point out they were playing Germany there, in the white.

:38:41. > :38:47.Over 75s! Where were the Germans? They didn't turn up. Do you remember

:38:48. > :38:50.when Mark did that peace, playing rugby league about guys at various

:38:51. > :38:54.ages, Andy Ward different coloured shorts depended on how old you are?

:38:55. > :39:00.Yes, but they still tackled! Yes, Andy got flattened -- flattened

:39:01. > :39:02.ironman over 75, as I recall. I would be worried about raking a hip,

:39:03. > :39:07.even now. -- breaking. The total solar eclipse which wowed

:39:08. > :39:10.the United States on Monday actually began more than 800 miles

:39:11. > :39:14.from its shores, in a desolate spot A handful of lucky passengers -

:39:15. > :39:17.including media, scientists and employees of Alaska Airlines -

:39:18. > :39:21.got the chance to see the spectacle They watched in awe from a Boeing

:39:22. > :39:25.737 which chased the moon's shadow Our North America Correspondent

:39:26. > :39:35.James Cook was on board. The moon was after the sun,

:39:36. > :39:40.and we were on the tail of both. From Portland, in the north-western

:39:41. > :39:43.state of Oregon, the flight dubbed Solar One struck out

:39:44. > :39:53.across the Pacific. By the time we arrived,

:39:54. > :39:55.800 miles from the shore, our satellite was already taking

:39:56. > :39:58.a chunk out of our star. And, as the moment of totality drew

:39:59. > :40:03.close, time itself seemed It's such an incredibly

:40:04. > :40:14.breathtaking express. Words don't do it justice,

:40:15. > :40:17.and neither do pictures It's just incredible

:40:18. > :40:20.to witness, really it is. It was more beautiful than anything

:40:21. > :40:40.I could have imagined. It was diverse in colour and

:40:41. > :40:44.density, and it was just amazing. Just too short,

:40:45. > :40:46.really just too short. Jasmine Shepherd and her brother

:40:47. > :40:49.were the envy of their fellow Americans, having won a competition

:40:50. > :40:52.to see the eclipse fully 15 minutes We're so lucky to have viewed

:40:53. > :40:56.the spectacular event. We're in awe, and

:40:57. > :41:03.humbled and grateful. It was a great experience,

:41:04. > :41:05.and everybody on board And the countdown to

:41:06. > :41:08.totality was very cool, God is good, that's all

:41:09. > :41:14.I can say, God is good. That was a breathtaking moment,

:41:15. > :41:18.but it was over in a flash. The shadow is now reaching

:41:19. > :41:20.towards the United States, where millions more

:41:21. > :41:22.are watching and waiting. But only those on board

:41:23. > :41:25.could save that they were the first to see the spectacle,

:41:26. > :41:29.from a front row seat in the theatre James Cooke, BBC News,

:41:30. > :41:41.above the Pacific Ocean. We're joined now Richard Friedman,

:41:42. > :41:43.who we spoke to yesterday as he prepared to fulfill

:41:44. > :41:46.a lifetime's ambition Richard's 60-year wait finally came

:41:47. > :42:05.to end as he gathered Richard, welcome back. You are in a

:42:06. > :42:09.car, currently leaving with plenty of other eclipse chasers, stuck in

:42:10. > :42:12.all sorts of traffic. Thankfully, we cannot quite see you, you are

:42:13. > :42:20.slightly eclipsed yourself, but what was it like? OK. We left the hotel

:42:21. > :42:23.at five o'clock this morning, we were afraid of traffic, and there

:42:24. > :42:29.was hardly any traffic. The eclipse was absolutely fantastic. It was an

:42:30. > :42:33.experience that was worth waiting for. It was on my bucket list years

:42:34. > :42:38.before there was ever anything called a bucket list. And I have to

:42:39. > :42:42.tell you, you can see an eclipse on television, but it doesn't compare

:42:43. > :42:48.at all to experiencing it in person. It was just incredible. You said

:42:49. > :42:51.yesterday on the programme, you thought it might be quite an

:42:52. > :42:56.emotional experience, being down at the family. Was it like that? I have

:42:57. > :43:01.to admit that I kind of dried in front of them a little bit. It was

:43:02. > :43:06.just that emotional. You know, you spend your whole life, you look up

:43:07. > :43:09.to the sky, you see the sun and and all of a sudden you see this

:43:10. > :43:14.brilliant diamond ring and glowing in the sky, and then the corona

:43:15. > :43:20.around the sun, and it is very dark. It goes from light to dark and back

:43:21. > :43:25.to light again, and the crowds of people go crazy, cheering. It is an

:43:26. > :43:32.emotional experience. It is an experience that is just incredibly

:43:33. > :43:37.beautiful, and it was everything. Absolutely. Even my wife said that

:43:38. > :43:43.it was incredible. So you know it was good. You said yesterday, your

:43:44. > :43:47.wife takes some impressing. You have waited a long time to see this

:43:48. > :43:51.eclipse with your family. Is that enough for you? Will you go around

:43:52. > :43:56.the world to see it again now that you have experienced it? I think so.

:43:57. > :44:00.I do not know if I am an eclipse JC yet, but having seen it and been so

:44:01. > :44:06.satisfied with it, definitely, yes. -- eclipse chaser yet. Everybody in

:44:07. > :44:09.our family was extremely happy that we went. A great family event. My

:44:10. > :44:15.grandchildren will remember it forever. We were there with them to

:44:16. > :44:18.experience it, it meant a lot to us. We appreciate you coming back on the

:44:19. > :44:23.programme again today. Thank you very much. Richard Freedman, one of

:44:24. > :44:27.those eclipse chasers in America. If you are thinking about when the next

:44:28. > :44:32.one will be, there is going to be a big Daddy, a total eclipse, on

:44:33. > :44:35.August 12, 2045, which they say will be the most impressive in the

:44:36. > :44:45.creditor century. And this country,... Why? Because it is big,

:44:46. > :44:49.it is total. Anyway, the UK does not get one until 2090. I am not sure

:44:50. > :44:54.either of us will be around. No, I'm not sure. Thanks, down. That's a

:44:55. > :45:01.nice feeling. Carol, you won't be around either.

:45:02. > :45:10.I was having a chat with Bolivia, this lovely sheep. She is here with

:45:11. > :45:27.me in London this morning, in Green Park -- Olivia. Tom is here as part

:45:28. > :45:31.of Mission Invertebrate. First of all, what is Mission Invertebrate?

:45:32. > :45:38.Well, it is a project which is trying to involve the vast range of

:45:39. > :45:42.invertebrates within the park. I am providing this flock of rare breed

:45:43. > :45:50.sheep, and we can serve them, along with the rare breeds survival trust.

:45:51. > :45:54.Why are you using rare breeds? Well, the reason we use the rare breeds is

:45:55. > :45:57.they are a bit lighter footed and are more suited to grazing his

:45:58. > :46:03.wildflower meadows, whereas commercial sheep need a bit more

:46:04. > :46:08.TLC, and a bit of a less harsh environment. These breeds have been

:46:09. > :46:13.created on the wilds of the British countryside, not that we are in

:46:14. > :46:17.Green Park at the moment. I know there have not been sheep in Green

:46:18. > :46:22.Park since the 1930s. How long will these girls be here? They will be

:46:23. > :46:26.here until Sunday so hopefully they will have had a good munch on the

:46:27. > :46:30.dominant plant and grass species and will help to spread the seeds and a

:46:31. > :46:35.little bit of fertilising as they go. They are doing a grand job, I

:46:36. > :46:40.must say. Come on, Olivia, let's have a look around here. Good girl.

:46:41. > :46:46.So you can actually see the lovely, big space that the sheep have.

:46:47. > :46:49.Olivia, stopped. She is very well trained. There are lots of beasties

:46:50. > :46:54.out this morning generally, because it is a humid start to the day, and

:46:55. > :46:59.for many of us it is quite a cloudy start as well. It is murky, but it

:47:00. > :47:03.will brighten up later on. What we currently have is rain across

:47:04. > :47:06.Scotland, and that rain will turn increasingly patchy as we go through

:47:07. > :47:10.the course of the day. A lot of cloud around, some fog as well but

:47:11. > :47:13.some bright skies already across parts of Wales and the Midlands.

:47:14. > :47:16.Through the day we will see some showers develop across south-west

:47:17. > :47:19.England, for example, a few into Wales, but they will start to get

:47:20. > :47:25.organised and turn heavier across Northern Ireland. By 4pm in the

:47:26. > :47:28.afternoon across Scotland, a lot of dry weather. The cloud building from

:47:29. > :47:32.the west as the showers come in. Heavy showers from the Grampians but

:47:33. > :47:35.Murray further in the southern up lines will see a bit more sunshine.

:47:36. > :47:40.A few showers across northern England. Some of those later will be

:47:41. > :47:44.heavy and thundery. As we come south into the Midlands, East Anglia,

:47:45. > :47:48.Kent, Essex, Yorkshire and towards Dorset, the cloud will break and it

:47:49. > :47:52.will feel quite muggy. Temperatures getting up locally across parts of

:47:53. > :47:57.Wales and central and southern England to 26, 27, but more

:47:58. > :48:01.generally 23 to 25. In Wales you could catch a few showers, more

:48:02. > :48:04.especially in the north, and for Northern Ireland you will have

:48:05. > :48:08.showers setting in, some of them merging to give heavier spells of

:48:09. > :48:12.rain. As we go through the course of the evening and overnight, the rain

:48:13. > :48:15.in Northern Ireland transfers into Scotland and northern England.

:48:16. > :48:20.Again, some of that, through the evening and particular, will be

:48:21. > :48:25.heavy and thundery. There will be quite a bit of cloud around, and

:48:26. > :48:28.temperatures falling to between 14 and 17 Celsius. Tomorrow we start

:48:29. > :48:32.off with that rain in Scotland and northern end, pushing north

:48:33. > :48:35.eastwards. The tail end of it across East of England will produce a fair

:48:36. > :48:38.bit of cloud around, and it will still be muggy across parts of

:48:39. > :48:43.eastern and south-eastern England. As the cloud moves away we will all

:48:44. > :48:48.be in fresher conditions, with some brightness coming through as well.

:48:49. > :48:51.As we head on into Thursday we are looking at a north-south split. In

:48:52. > :48:56.the north that is likely to be cloudy and wet. In the south it will

:48:57. > :48:59.be drier and brighter but then we will all be in fresher conditions,

:49:00. > :49:04.with a maximum temperature probably up to about 23 Celsius. There are

:49:05. > :49:09.certainly plenty of beasties around here this morning, I must say. We

:49:10. > :49:15.are being eaten alive and tickled as well by lovely Olivia here. So maybe

:49:16. > :49:23.you have a few sheep fact now. I have a question for you. I am

:49:24. > :49:27.keeping Dan away from you with the facts. What I have a question for

:49:28. > :49:39.you. Why did the sheep call the police? I don't know. Because she

:49:40. > :49:45.had been fleeced. Naga, that is a shocker. Tell Robert, he is the one

:49:46. > :49:47.who sent it in. I am just reading it out! There is a reason for that

:49:48. > :49:50.terrible joke, though. We will be bringing you the funniest

:49:51. > :49:53.one-liner from the Edinburgh Fringe later in the programme, but for now,

:49:54. > :49:57.let's hear some of the ones Ian has tweeted: "Met

:49:58. > :50:04.Van Gogh in a pub. I like that joke. I have not got one

:50:05. > :50:26.here now, but Steph has won. And finally: "I've just bought

:50:27. > :50:28.a Fatboy Slim sat-nav. The only instruction it ever

:50:29. > :50:39.gives is Right Here, What do you get if you cross an

:50:40. > :50:53.angry sheep with a moody cow? I don't know. An animal in baaaad

:50:54. > :50:56.mood. Shall I give you some business news instead? I am better at that,

:50:57. > :50:57.let's be fair. Ford is the latest carmaker to offer

:50:58. > :51:00.incentives for UK drivers to scrap their old diesel cars

:51:01. > :51:03.for more environmentally Ford is offering customers a minimum

:51:04. > :51:08.of ?2,000 off the value of a new car when they trade in their car

:51:09. > :51:11.which is at least seven years old. It follows similar schemes by other

:51:12. > :51:14.car manufacturers such as Vauxhall, Ford says it is all about

:51:15. > :51:17.improving air quality. Andy Barratt is the managing

:51:18. > :51:20.director of Ford in Britain. He joins me now from our

:51:21. > :51:29.newsroom in London. Good morning. How many cars are you

:51:30. > :51:33.expecting to sell off the back of this? Well, this is about an air

:51:34. > :51:37.quality improvement, it is not necessarily a marketing ploy. There

:51:38. > :51:41.are 90 million cars in the category that we have targeted here that if

:51:42. > :51:45.you took them all off the road, and by no means, no one can do that in

:51:46. > :51:49.one go, that is the equivalent of three coal-fired power stations. So

:51:50. > :51:54.there is a big climate change opportunity. We think this is the

:51:55. > :51:59.first step on our journey to improve air quality, and we will take a few

:52:00. > :52:06.thousand off in this initial stage. And we are just testing customer

:52:07. > :52:10.reaction at this point. A few thousand compared to 19 million is

:52:11. > :52:14.not very many. It is not, but it is part of a longer journey which will

:52:15. > :52:17.improve hybrids, electrical vehicles, and we are testing plug-in

:52:18. > :52:25.hybrid transit in London later this year. That is all a part of that 23

:52:26. > :52:29.year journey to 2040, whether has set its benchmark to change motoring

:52:30. > :52:35.forever. You are a bit kinder times on this, aren't you? You could have

:52:36. > :52:39.brought these deals out earlier, and Ford did not make a fully electric

:52:40. > :52:44.car yet. We do make a fully electric car, we have been selling a fully

:52:45. > :52:48.electric Focus in the UK for the last five or six years. We also have

:52:49. > :52:51.hybrids available and we are the second largest producer of hybrids

:52:52. > :52:55.and the world, so I would disagree that we are behind the times, but we

:52:56. > :53:03.have listened to our customers. We employ over 1000 people directly or

:53:04. > :53:07.indirectly in the UK and 500 customers drive our cars to go about

:53:08. > :53:11.their daily business. We have listened to them, and it is now on

:53:12. > :53:16.their agenda, and we are inviting those 90 million people to join us

:53:17. > :53:21.in the debate and step forward. Looking at this deal, it is only

:53:22. > :53:25.really worth it if you have a car which is ?2000 or less. In reality,

:53:26. > :53:30.anyone with a car at that value is not going to be able to afford a car

:53:31. > :53:36.at ?12,000, which is the cheapest car you can get on this deal. It is

:53:37. > :53:41.not necessarily just ?2000, because we have other incentives. But that

:53:42. > :53:45.is towards the scrappage. That is the value of their part of the

:53:46. > :53:48.exchange but if you move to modern cars they are more efficient,

:53:49. > :53:52.require less servicing, they may be cheaper to insure because of the

:53:53. > :53:55.latest technology, as well. You have to take the whole cost of motoring

:53:56. > :53:59.into account to make your decision. It is not for everyone, but we are

:54:00. > :54:03.inviting those who may be interested to come forward. It could be pushing

:54:04. > :54:07.more people in the finance deals, with cars, couldn't it? But they may

:54:08. > :54:11.already be on finance deals, and this would work in their favour.

:54:12. > :54:16.That is why it is down to each individual to make their choice. Why

:54:17. > :54:20.have you not included your cheapest car on the steel? The cheapest car

:54:21. > :54:25.is ?10,700, and that is the brand-new Fiesta, which we are only

:54:26. > :54:33.just launching today -- this deal. We have developed a scheme for the

:54:34. > :54:40.masses, rather than just a few. Why isn't your Kia car included? It is

:54:41. > :54:45.cheaper, but we don't have enough supply on the ground and we are

:54:46. > :54:52.targeting the most popular models like Fiesta and Focus. Is it about

:54:53. > :54:56.profit margins? It isn't, because if it was about profit margins we would

:54:57. > :55:04.have something more effective around maintenance or around discount. This

:55:05. > :55:07.is about quality. -- air quality. It is changing exchange rates on

:55:08. > :55:11.commodity prices we have seen over the last few months, and inevitably

:55:12. > :55:20.prices have risen. Thank you very much for your time.

:55:21. > :55:27.Always quite difficult for a boss to justify making money or not making

:55:28. > :55:29.money. Inevitably it is about selling new cars as well, so it is

:55:30. > :55:32.my job to be a bit cynical. You are watching

:55:33. > :55:34.Breakfast from BBC News. Still to come this morning:

:55:35. > :55:38.Will the soggy bottoms be the same, or will it be all-change at Bake Off

:55:39. > :55:42.now it has moved to a new home? We will give you a sneak preview

:55:43. > :55:58.in the next half hour. A couple of 5-star reviews in the

:55:59. > :59:18.papers from the sneak preview, but for the rest of us it starts

:59:19. > :59:21.She will also have more in the raids which have just taken place in

:59:22. > :59:24.connection to the Notting Hill Carnival. She will be speaking to

:59:25. > :59:51.our reporter, who joined officers this morning. Goodbye for now.

:59:52. > :59:55.Hello this is Breakfast, with Naga Munchetty and Dan Walker.

:59:56. > :59:59.President Trump announces a new strategy to take

:00:00. > :00:04.He says there will be no hasty withdrawal and the US

:00:05. > :00:15.These killers need to know they have nowhere to hide, that no place is

:00:16. > :00:29.beyond the reach of American might and American arms.

:00:30. > :00:32.Good morning, it's Tuesday 22nd August.

:00:33. > :00:36.Also this morning, Ford announce a scrappage scheme for diesel cars.

:00:37. > :00:42.Ford is the latest car maker to offer cash for drivers

:00:43. > :00:46.to scrap their old cars for less polluting new ones.

:00:47. > :00:48.I'll be asking the boss of Ford who will benefit

:00:49. > :00:54.An earthquake has hit southern Italy; one person has died

:00:55. > :00:58.but rescuers have managed to save others including a baby.

:00:59. > :01:03.Anti racism campaign group Kick It Out calls for an independent

:01:04. > :01:06.review after striker Eni Aluko accused the manager of the England

:01:07. > :01:12.But Mark Sampson and the FA deny any wrongdoing and they were cleared

:01:13. > :01:20.And Carol is out and about with the weather.

:01:21. > :01:26.She has a doing with her. Good morning, this is Mavis looking

:01:27. > :01:29.after the sheep that you can see in the background. We are all part of

:01:30. > :01:33.mission invertebrate. We'll tell you more in 15 minutes. The forecast

:01:34. > :01:37.today after a cloudy murky start, it will brighten up but we have some

:01:38. > :01:41.rain on the way, especially so across Northern Ireland, parts of

:01:42. > :01:48.Scotland and northern England later. Back in 15 minutes.

:01:49. > :01:50.Good morning. First, our main story.

:01:51. > :01:53.President Trump says the US will "fight to win" in Afghanistan,

:01:54. > :01:56.as he unveils a new strategy in the war against the Taliban.

:01:57. > :01:59.In a major speech last night, he said that he had changed his mind

:02:00. > :02:02.about withdrawing troops from the country.

:02:03. > :02:05.He also called on Nato allies to do more.

:02:06. > :02:10.Our Washington correspondent Aleem Maqbool reports.

:02:11. > :02:13.The man who always said he didn't want to intervene abroad came

:02:14. > :02:17.to announce the intervention in Afghanistan is going

:02:18. > :02:22.He said it was for the right reasons.

:02:23. > :02:31.He announced the lifting of a cap on the number of US troops

:02:32. > :02:34.in Afghanistan, and that there would be no time limit

:02:35. > :02:43.My original instinct was to pull out, and historically,

:02:44. > :02:49.But all my life, I've heard that decisions are much different

:02:50. > :02:55.when you sit behind the desk in the Oval Office.

:02:56. > :02:58.A very different Donald Trump to the one who said this kind

:02:59. > :03:10.of thing right through the Obama years.

:03:11. > :03:16.And that is the basis on which he campaigned

:03:17. > :03:18.as a presidential candidate, that he wouldn't spend American

:03:19. > :03:23.He says he now realises that pulling out American troops from Afghanistan

:03:24. > :03:33.But it will be a disappointment to many of his supporters.

:03:34. > :03:41.This will mean there is still no end in sight for America's longest war.

:03:42. > :03:45.President Trump also called for Nato allies to do more in Afghanistan.

:03:46. > :03:47.Let's get the latest from our political

:03:48. > :03:57.What's likely to be the reaction from the UK?

:03:58. > :04:02.Sir Michael Fallon has already responded. He welcomes the

:04:03. > :04:05.President's ongoing commitment to Afghanistan and the commitment to

:04:06. > :04:09.stay the course in Afghanistan, this coming of course from a President

:04:10. > :04:11.who, as a candidate for the presidency, suggested that

:04:12. > :04:16.involvement in Afghanistan would be a waste of time. We heard the

:04:17. > :04:20.President say that this wasn't about nation-building but killing

:04:21. > :04:25.terrorists. But in a phone call with the US Defence Secretary, James mat

:04:26. > :04:27.it is yesterday, Michael Fallon discussed rebuilding Afghanistan's

:04:28. > :04:32.fragile democracy. As I understand it, in that phone call, there was no

:04:33. > :04:36.specific demand or request for Britain or America to send more

:04:37. > :04:41.troops, in fact we sent more troops in advance of the speech back in

:04:42. > :04:46.June, another 85, so just under 500 British troops currently in

:04:47. > :04:51.Afghanistan, being involved in training missions included in that.

:04:52. > :04:53.This now looks for the long haul. Thank you very much.

:04:54. > :04:57.Four men accused of being part of a terror cell which killed 15

:04:58. > :05:01.people in Spain last week are due to appear in court

:05:02. > :05:06.The suspects arrived at a jail just outside of the city last night.

:05:07. > :05:10.Police in Catalonia say they shot dead the suspected driver of the van

:05:11. > :05:13.which ploughed into pedestrians in Barcelona on Thursday.

:05:14. > :05:16.Younes Abouyaaqoub was found hiding in a vineyard 30

:05:17. > :05:24.At least one person has died and at least 25 people injured

:05:25. > :05:27.after an earthquake hit the Italian island of Ischia in southern Italy.

:05:28. > :05:30.The tourists and residents ran into the streets as buildings

:05:31. > :05:32.collapsed when the quake hit just before 9pm local time.

:05:33. > :05:40.The earthquake struck just as local families and tourists on the holiday

:05:41. > :05:51.People were evacuated from buildings, including

:05:52. > :05:58.One woman was killed when rubble fell from a church.

:05:59. > :06:02.At least 20 other people were injured.

:06:03. > :06:05.Ischia is an hour's ferry ride from Naples and lies about seven

:06:06. > :06:08.miles from the epicentre of the earthquake.

:06:09. > :06:13.The island's northern town of Casamicciola was the worst hit.

:06:14. > :06:19.In the village, firemen located a baby trap beneath the rubble.

:06:20. > :06:24.After a delicate operation, a welcome sound.

:06:25. > :06:33.Some firemen were already on the island to deal with wildfires.

:06:34. > :06:39.Italy's beautiful islands are a draw for visitors,

:06:40. > :06:43.but unfortunately in an area prone to seismic activity,

:06:44. > :06:49.After this latest earthquake, one resident said it looked

:06:50. > :07:02.The US Navy has ordered a worldwide "operational pause" of its fleet

:07:03. > :07:05.after a destroyer collided with a tanker near Singapore,

:07:06. > :07:10.Five other sailors were injured in the incident involving the guided

:07:11. > :07:15.It was the fourth US Navy ship to crash this year,

:07:16. > :07:22.and the second in the past two months.

:07:23. > :07:25.For the first time in almost a century, a total solar eclipse has

:07:26. > :07:29.Millions of people watched as the moon passed in front

:07:30. > :07:32.of the Sun casting a deep shadow more than 60 miles

:07:33. > :07:58.Some beautiful pictures there. Absolutely stunning. We are talking

:07:59. > :08:06.about favourite toys from our past. Yours was? Fuzzy felt. Mine was a

:08:07. > :08:10.Lego thing but also Spirograph. The reason we are talking about this is,

:08:11. > :08:18.Royal Mail's picked out their ten and got a new set of stamps as well.

:08:19. > :08:22.Stickle bricks is in there, Meccano, the space hopper which didn't two

:08:23. > :08:29.down well in the Munchetty household? Well, I went down! Your

:08:30. > :08:39.mum sold your Action Man. To the next door neighbour. Sally and I had

:08:40. > :08:44.Cindy, the brunette ones. Cuddly bears, toy soldiers, those are the

:08:45. > :08:50.ten Royal Mail have picked. Thank you for all your interaction on that

:08:51. > :08:56.this morning and thank you for your jokes as well. You saw Carol earlier

:08:57. > :08:58.on, she'll bring us the weather and Sally will have the sport in around

:08:59. > :09:01.20 minutes. Today marks three months

:09:02. > :09:03.since a suicide bomber detonated his device

:09:04. > :09:05.at an Ariana Grande concert in the Manchester Arena, killing 22

:09:06. > :09:08.people and injuring many more. The memories of that night

:09:09. > :09:11.are likely to stay with those who were there forever,

:09:12. > :09:15.but medical experts say that if people are still being adversely

:09:16. > :09:18.affected by trauma they should Breakfast's Graham

:09:19. > :09:29.Satchell reports. Suddenly you catch yourself

:09:30. > :09:36.thinking, oh, my gosh, We are in St Ann's Square,

:09:37. > :09:43.in the centre of Manchester. It became the focus

:09:44. > :09:45.of remembrance, where thousands Figen and Stuart Murray lost

:09:46. > :09:50.their son Martyn Hett in the attack. Figen has been a therapist

:09:51. > :09:53.for more than 20 years, but has decided she can no longer

:09:54. > :09:56.do her job. I don't think, with what happened

:09:57. > :10:01.to me, that I will ever be in a position to offer psychological

:10:02. > :10:05.support to anybody else, because I think I am

:10:06. > :10:08.so damaged through this. On the night of the attack,

:10:09. > :10:15.Kaitlin was knocked off her feet by the force of the blast,

:10:16. > :10:18.but escaped without physical injury. She became withdrawn,

:10:19. > :10:22.started having nightmares, It wasn't until a few weeks,

:10:23. > :10:28.I would say, after, where it really hit me,

:10:29. > :10:31.where the guilt at me. The guilt - tell me

:10:32. > :10:33.a bit more about that. I managed to walk out

:10:34. > :10:36.without a mark on. Obviously there are people

:10:37. > :10:39.who lost their lives... I have nightmares about people -

:10:40. > :10:48.about violence, about obviously She's obviously suffering

:10:49. > :10:57.from survivor's guilt. A lot of Martyn's friends

:10:58. > :11:02.had that, as well. And with the help of therapy,

:11:03. > :11:08.obviously it's helping her to kind This is the Manchester

:11:09. > :11:15.Resilience Hub. It is co-ordinating services

:11:16. > :11:18.specifically for people It is about 12 weeks

:11:19. > :11:24.now since the attack. Is that the sort of time

:11:25. > :11:27.you are talking about, where people here may need

:11:28. > :11:32.to access help? Yes, we view the 12-weeks

:11:33. > :11:35.period, post-incident, If you are still exhibiting symptoms

:11:36. > :11:40.at the 12-week point, they are probably not

:11:41. > :11:42.going to resolve without some kind The hub is helping more than 200

:11:43. > :11:50.people access psychological support, but they want everyone who needs

:11:51. > :11:52.help to come forward. Figen hasn't had any

:11:53. > :11:55.counselling herself, I have decided I need it,

:11:56. > :12:04.because like so many people, Back in St Ann's Square,

:12:05. > :12:11.the sea of flowers from But, with the right help,

:12:12. > :12:21.the hope is that life will become Figen was talking to Graham satchel

:12:22. > :12:38.there. Let's discuss this in more

:12:39. > :12:47.detail with Dr Sandi Mann, We have spoken before in the wake of

:12:48. > :12:53.the Manchester Arena attack. The kind of people you are talking to

:12:54. > :12:56.now, you are seeing that they're still adversely affectd by what's

:12:57. > :13:00.happened? There are a mixture of people still affected. Obviously

:13:01. > :13:03.those who were there, affected and injured and their families, then

:13:04. > :13:07.there is the next generation, the people in the outer circle who

:13:08. > :13:15.weren't directly impacted physically but were there and are suffering

:13:16. > :13:19.from survivor's guilt or some form of PTSD, post-traumatic stress

:13:20. > :13:25.disorder. Today is a key point because it's the 12-week period

:13:26. > :13:28.which is a point at which PTSD can start to be diagnosed, so today is a

:13:29. > :13:32.crucial day for therapists and people in mental health.

:13:33. > :13:35.Interestingly, I'm seeing people who weren't directly affected, they

:13:36. > :13:39.weren't there, didn't know anybody who was injured but they're still

:13:40. > :13:42.directly affected and I feel that those people are slipping through

:13:43. > :13:47.the net because they weren't there and they feel that they can't get

:13:48. > :13:51.access to support because why should they, they weren't directly affected

:13:52. > :13:55.but they were indirectly affected and it's still impacting on them

:13:56. > :13:58.quite significantly. In terms of those who were there, what are the

:13:59. > :14:03.symptoms that you are seeing with regards to this PTSD and you will

:14:04. > :14:08.see in the coming days and weeks? One of the most significant symptoms

:14:09. > :14:12.is flashbacks, they keep seeing things, especially if they saw

:14:13. > :14:17.horrific things or hearing things, the sound of the explosion, people

:14:18. > :14:21.still report that. There is a lot of jumpiness or being hyperalert, as we

:14:22. > :14:25.call it, so a slight sound, the door banging, the jumping and going into

:14:26. > :14:31.a stress response or adrenaline response, people might have panic

:14:32. > :14:36.attacks when out and about if a fire alarm goes off somewhere, something

:14:37. > :14:39.like that, so that hypersensitivity, hyperalert, not sleeping well, not

:14:40. > :14:42.functioning basically. So people who're not functioning normally,

:14:43. > :14:46.they're the ones who desperately need the help. There'll be a lot of

:14:47. > :14:49.people who may have some of the symptoms but generally the

:14:50. > :14:52.functioning is happening, they're getting on with their lives. What

:14:53. > :14:57.should you do if you are close to someone or working with someone or a

:14:58. > :15:00.family member who you think may still be very adversely affected but

:15:01. > :15:04.you are not quite sure. What should you look out for and how can you

:15:05. > :15:05.approach them to make sure that they're aware that there is help

:15:06. > :15:13.there? If they are not functioning

:15:14. > :15:18.properly, that is the key thing. Are they avoiding a lot of things so

:15:19. > :15:24.they are not able to live a normal life? If so, they need help. Now is

:15:25. > :15:29.the time, if they haven't already. They may be thinking, I should be

:15:30. > :15:33.moving on. Now is when you can get intervention. Until now we have not

:15:34. > :15:40.been able to offer intervention, only counselling. Now we can offer

:15:41. > :15:42.interventions like EMD are, an effective technique for treating

:15:43. > :15:53.post-traumatic stress disorder. -- EMD. I movement desensitisation. It

:15:54. > :15:58.is an amazing technique where we get people to reprocess those images

:15:59. > :16:03.stuck in their brains that they Get rid of, intruding their thoughts,

:16:04. > :16:07.they can't move on. It was so traumatic they couldn't process it

:16:08. > :16:11.at the time. Thank you for talking to us macro. -- us.

:16:12. > :16:13.If you were directly affected by the attack

:16:14. > :16:16.at the Manchester Arena, and think you might need help

:16:17. > :16:18.from the Manchester Resilience Hub, you can contact your GP,

:16:19. > :16:23.your local therapies service or call NHS 111.

:16:24. > :16:31.We are going to talk to Carol this morning. She is out and about and

:16:32. > :16:37.she is being kept company by a dog, maybe. She has had lots of sheep.

:16:38. > :16:40.And I don't think it's so enjoyable, lots of flies. The flies are

:16:41. > :16:46.attracted to Carol. They have been everywhere.

:16:47. > :16:52.They are everywhere. They are eating us alive. Good morning. The reason I

:16:53. > :16:56.am here in Green Park in London is because the royal Parks are running

:16:57. > :17:01.a trial, a grazing trial at the moment, to improve the meadow

:17:02. > :17:05.quality for the bugs that live here. This is the first time there have

:17:06. > :17:12.been sheep years since the 1930s. These are rear breeds. -- rare

:17:13. > :17:18.breeds. They are part of mission invertebrate. It is those the Royal

:17:19. > :17:23.Parks are trying to improve the Meadow quality for. What the sheep

:17:24. > :17:28.do is they eat the dominant plants, allowing space for other plants to

:17:29. > :17:33.grow. They trample their feet in the ground and further plants grow. It

:17:34. > :17:36.is a lovely cycle. The sheep are here until and including this

:17:37. > :17:41.Sunday. The weather has been kind this

:17:42. > :17:47.morning. It was drizzly earlier. Now it is just cloudy. Across many parts

:17:48. > :17:51.of the UK we are starting off on a cloudy note. It will brighten up.

:17:52. > :17:58.For some parts of England and Wales we could hit 26 or 27. We have some

:17:59. > :18:03.rain increasingly turning patchy as it moves north-east across Scotland.

:18:04. > :18:08.Dry weather in Wales and the Midlands. We are likely to see some

:18:09. > :18:11.showers across south-west England and Wales, and merge across Northern

:18:12. > :18:16.Ireland. By four o'clock this afternoon in Scotland, the rain will

:18:17. > :18:20.move into the north-east. There will be some showers. Some brightness

:18:21. > :18:25.across the Moray Firth and the southern uplands. There will also be

:18:26. > :18:32.showers across southern England, but later, when they are likely to be

:18:33. > :18:36.heavy and sundry. The Midlands, East Anglia, Kent, Hampshire and the Isle

:18:37. > :18:39.of Wight, brighter skies and sunshine. Somewhere in central or

:18:40. > :18:47.southern England could reach 26. Most of us will miss showers. There

:18:48. > :18:52.will be more showers across North Wales. For Northern Ireland, the

:18:53. > :18:55.showers ganging up to produce a spell of heavy rain, which could

:18:56. > :18:59.prove thundery. As we had through this evening and overnight, the

:19:00. > :19:02.reigning Northern Ireland extends across Scotland and injured Northern

:19:03. > :19:07.England, where it is likely to be heavy and sundry. There will be

:19:08. > :19:14.showers across Wales and some clear skies. Another humid day. Rather

:19:15. > :19:20.like today. Temperatures between 14 and 17 Celsius. Tomorrow morning we

:19:21. > :19:23.start with rain across Scotland and northern England. That is drifting

:19:24. > :19:26.north-east. The tail end of that heading towards eastern and

:19:27. > :19:34.south-eastern England producing some cloud. Here it will be quite humid.

:19:35. > :19:37.Behind all of that, brighter skies and fresher conditions. Eventually

:19:38. > :19:43.the cloud pushes into the North Sea and the fresher conditions will move

:19:44. > :19:48.into the south-east. By the time we get to Thursday, look at the north

:19:49. > :19:54.South split. A wet day in the North, drier and brighter in the South. For

:19:55. > :19:58.all of us it would be a fresher day. Temperatures a maximum of 22

:19:59. > :20:01.Celsius. We are going to leave you to it. We are being absolutely eaten

:20:02. > :20:11.alive this morning. Sort yourself out Carol. We will see

:20:12. > :20:15.you in half an hour. You get Ichi yourself when you see

:20:16. > :20:22.bugs. We have had some bugs on the camera

:20:23. > :20:29.lens this morning. Not here! Green Park.

:20:30. > :20:38.I knew about them I just thought that some had made their way here.

:20:39. > :20:48.Excellent 30 seconds of television, everyone! Shall we talk about Ford?

:20:49. > :20:51.Lots of the car manufacturers have been looking at how they can help

:20:52. > :20:58.the government reduce air pollution in the UK to make the air quality

:20:59. > :21:03.better. Today, Ford is the latest to offer a scrappage scheme for older

:21:04. > :21:09.cars. What they are saying is you can't get a new car with ?2000 off

:21:10. > :21:13.if you trade in a car that is seven years older. It could be an inmate

:21:14. > :21:16.of car. It doesn't have to be fought. They are one of a number of

:21:17. > :21:20.manufacturers who have introduced schemes like this. Vauxhall is

:21:21. > :21:26.another. Specifically diesel scrappage schemes with BMW and

:21:27. > :21:30.Mercedes. I talked to the boss of Ford earlier about how much this is

:21:31. > :21:37.a good deal in terms of value for money. This only makes sense if you

:21:38. > :21:41.have a car worth ?2000 or less. The cheapest car you can get with Ford

:21:42. > :21:45.on this deal is a ?12,000 car. There is a question of how much this is

:21:46. > :21:50.worth. That is what I was talking to the boss of Ford about.

:21:51. > :21:57.Modern cars are more fuel efficient, they require less servicing. They

:21:58. > :22:00.may be cheaper to insure because of later technology. You have to take

:22:01. > :22:05.the whole cost of motoring into account to make your decision. It is

:22:06. > :22:11.not for everyone. We are those who may be interested to come forward.

:22:12. > :22:14.There are around 90 million cars on the road which are seven years or

:22:15. > :22:22.older. It is about reducing that number. For Dan Ruimy expecting this

:22:23. > :22:26.to be a couple of thousand cars. -- Ford are only expecting this.

:22:27. > :22:29.Thank you. It's no longer on the BBC,

:22:30. > :22:32.but The Great British Bake Off returns to our screens

:22:33. > :22:34.in a week's time. Three quarters of the presenting

:22:35. > :22:36.line-up has changed - I think they are still baking cakes.

:22:37. > :22:47.And parades. Biscuits. -- breads. TV critics and the press had a sneak

:22:48. > :22:50.preview of the new-style Channel 4 Bake Off yesterday.

:22:51. > :23:00.Let's take a look. Paul and Pru must now decide who

:23:01. > :23:04.will be our first star Baker and who will be the first to leave the wake

:23:05. > :23:09.of team. The standard has been ridiculously high. This is one of

:23:10. > :23:16.the row -- strongest challenges I have seen for the first programme.

:23:17. > :23:22.That was a cracking good watermelon. Sophie has been constant. Stephen

:23:23. > :23:29.didn't fail us. Nobody wants to be the first person to leave. Who is in

:23:30. > :23:33.danger? Liam was stunning. Stacey, sensational. This didn't look like a

:23:34. > :23:39.handbag. Peter has not done well. Chris is full of good ideas. 'S

:23:40. > :23:44.flavours are spectacular but is baking falls short. None of it

:23:45. > :23:54.sounds straightforward. We have to send somebody. I'll take a hit for

:23:55. > :23:55.the team. It's been great. Sandy will be fine.

:23:56. > :23:57.Our entertainment correspondent, Lizo Mzimba, was there

:23:58. > :24:06.So what did you think of the new Bake Off Lizo?

:24:07. > :24:13.I should give a big Paul Hollywood pause and say, I really liked it. It

:24:14. > :24:18.worked quite well. There have been big changes since the last series.

:24:19. > :24:22.But it is a very special programme to many, many millions of viewers.

:24:23. > :24:28.It is the kind of show they feel doesn't belong to the BBC, it

:24:29. > :24:32.belongs to the nation. So tinker with it at your peril. I think the

:24:33. > :24:36.changes that Channel 4 have made haven't altered the character of it.

:24:37. > :24:41.It has got Pru Leith rather than Mary Berry. She is probably as close

:24:42. > :24:47.as you can get. And Noel Fielding and Sandy toxic play to their

:24:48. > :24:51.strengths. Their humour works well. There is so much that is so familiar

:24:52. > :24:56.about the programme. It felt very comfortable. It had the tent, it had

:24:57. > :25:04.the music, and the engine that drives it through, the 12 competing

:25:05. > :25:08.bakers. Some of them had near disasters. For me at least the

:25:09. > :25:14.programme worked really well. I wasn't thinking, it's not the same,

:25:15. > :25:18.it needs Mel and Sue. I was just enjoying the show as I was swept

:25:19. > :25:27.along. All of this does relate to ratings. If the cakes rise, they are

:25:28. > :25:29.hoping the ratings will rise, too. On BBC One it was the most popular

:25:30. > :25:35.programme on British television, getting ratings in the range of 14

:25:36. > :25:40.million. On Channel 4 it is very unlikely it will hit those kinds of

:25:41. > :25:46.heights. But applauded in context, even if it loses half to three

:25:47. > :25:51.quarters of its audience on Channel 4, it will still be getting three to

:25:52. > :25:54.4 million. A massive hit for Channel 4 along side programmes like

:25:55. > :26:03.Gogglebox. They would be getting a fantastic audience. They also have a

:26:04. > :26:06.public service remit. They will be having a sizeable hit. Even though

:26:07. > :26:10.it would not get the massive figures it gets on the BBC. They only know

:26:11. > :26:15.themselves the intricate finances, how much they paid for the programme

:26:16. > :26:20.and how it will work with the advertising. But certainly from a

:26:21. > :26:23.viewing point of view, if it gets after three quarters fewer viewers,

:26:24. > :26:24.it will be a big for the channel. Thank you.

:26:25. > :26:32.The Great British Bake Off returns next Tuesday at 8pm on Channel 4.

:26:33. > :26:36.I'm sure we'll be talking about that week.

:26:37. > :26:39.Coming up in a moment on the BBC News Channel is Business Live.

:26:40. > :26:41.Here on Breakfast, while millions of people saw that

:26:42. > :26:43.stunning solar eclipse from the ground yesterday,

:26:44. > :26:47.Stay tuned to see the view from on board an eclipse-chasing jet.

:26:48. > :30:17.Time now to get the news, travel and weather where you are.

:30:18. > :30:25.Hello, this is Breakfast with Naga Munchetty and Dan Walker.

:30:26. > :30:28.Let's bring you up to date with the day's main news.

:30:29. > :30:31.President Trump says the US will fight to win in Afghanistan,

:30:32. > :30:34.as he unveiled a new strategy in the war against the Taliban.

:30:35. > :30:37.In a major speech last night, he said that he had changed his mind

:30:38. > :30:39.about withdrawing troops from the country.

:30:40. > :30:42.He also called on Nato allies to do more,

:30:43. > :30:45.as he lifted the cap on the number of US troops in Afghanistan

:30:46. > :30:47.and said there was no timeline for bringing them home.

:30:48. > :30:57.From now on, victory will have a clear definition.

:30:58. > :31:02.Attacking our enemies, obliterating Isis, crushing Al-Qaeda,

:31:03. > :31:06.preventing the Taliban from taking over Afghanistan,

:31:07. > :31:16.and stopping mass terror attacks against America before they emerge.

:31:17. > :31:19.Four men accused of being part of a terror cell

:31:20. > :31:25.which killed 15 people in Spain last week

:31:26. > :31:28.have arrived in court in Madrid this morning.

:31:29. > :31:32.Police in Catalonia say they shot dead the suspected driver of the van

:31:33. > :31:34.which ploughed into pedestrians in Barcelona on Thursday.

:31:35. > :31:35.Younes Abouyaaqoub was found hiding

:31:36. > :31:44.in a vineyard 30 miles west of the city.

:31:45. > :31:46.An earthquake has hit the Italian island of Ischia,

:31:47. > :31:50.killing at least one person and injuring about 25 others.

:31:51. > :31:55.Tourists and residents ran into the street as buildings collapsed. Mark

:31:56. > :32:04.Lobel has more. The earthquake struck just as local

:32:05. > :32:06.families and tourists on the holiday People were evacuated

:32:07. > :32:10.from buildings, One woman was killed

:32:11. > :32:16.when rubble fell from a church. At least 20 other

:32:17. > :32:19.people were injured. Ischia is an hour's ferry ride

:32:20. > :32:22.from Naples and lies about seven miles from the epicentre

:32:23. > :32:32.of the earthquake. The northern town of

:32:33. > :32:37.Casamicciola was the worst hit. In the village, firemen located

:32:38. > :32:41.a baby trap beneath the rubble. After a delicate operation,

:32:42. > :32:45.a welcome sound. Some rescue workers

:32:46. > :32:59.were already on the island to deal with wildfires,

:33:00. > :33:03.others flew in. Italy's beautiful islands

:33:04. > :33:06.are a magnet for visitors, but unfortunately in an area

:33:07. > :33:08.prone to seismic activity one resident said it looked

:33:09. > :33:16.like a bomb had hit. The car-maker Ford is offering

:33:17. > :33:23.customers a cash incentive to scrap their old car in exchange

:33:24. > :33:26.for a new less polluting vehicle. The firm is the latest car

:33:27. > :33:28.manufacturer to come up with a scrappage scheme,

:33:29. > :33:30.which offers drivers ?2,000 off a new Ford if they trade

:33:31. > :33:34.in a petrol or diesel car or van The scheme will run

:33:35. > :33:39.until the end of the year. The US Navy has ordered a worldwide

:33:40. > :33:42.operational pause of its fleet after a destroyer collided

:33:43. > :33:46.with a tanker near Singapore, Five other sailors were

:33:47. > :33:52.injured in the incident involving the guided missile

:33:53. > :33:54.destroyer USS John S McCain. It was the fourth US Navy ship

:33:55. > :33:57.to crash this year, and the second

:33:58. > :34:04.in the past two months. What's been the nation's favourite

:34:05. > :34:07.toy of the past 100 years? The Royal Mail has had

:34:08. > :34:10.a go and picked out ten Among them are Stickle Bricks,

:34:11. > :34:36.Meccano and the Space Hopper, One that does not pop up, but you

:34:37. > :34:41.loved it, Spirograph? I wish they hadn't said in your

:34:42. > :34:44.year, I was enjoying your movements trying to explain it! They had those

:34:45. > :34:55.plastic disks, you could make amazing shapes.

:34:56. > :35:02.Thank you for helping me out! This is my artistic doodling! Joanna

:35:03. > :35:07.Gosling is going to save us now, what is on the programme later?

:35:08. > :35:10.Good morning, the debate around legalising cannabis, we looked at

:35:11. > :35:15.very different approaches to drugs in Portugal and Sweden to see what

:35:16. > :35:19.lessons can be learned. This process of chatting to a psychologist, a

:35:20. > :35:24.doctor, coming in here, it has made you think about your drug use?

:35:25. > :35:30.Exactly, I am not addicted, so I will stop. From me, it will make me

:35:31. > :35:38.stop, I don't need it. The systems in Portugal, I think this is the

:35:39. > :35:39.best. Join us after Breakfast on BBC Two, the BBC News Channel, and

:35:40. > :35:41.online. And coming up here

:35:42. > :35:43.on Breakfast this morning, we'll be talking to the rail-mad

:35:44. > :35:46.couple who've just returned from visiting every single

:35:47. > :35:48.train station in Britain. They'll be arriving at Platform

:35:49. > :35:52.Breakfast in just a few minutes. Will the funniest joke

:35:53. > :35:54.at Edinburgh Fringe We'll find out soon,

:35:55. > :35:57.when we hear it straight from the comedian's mouth

:35:58. > :35:59.and ask him what he thinks They're the best-loved

:36:00. > :36:05.comedy duo of all time, tells the tale of the complicated

:36:06. > :36:10.love lives behind the laughs. We'll speak to the

:36:11. > :36:22.author after nine. Their relationship was absolutely

:36:23. > :36:26.fascinating. Was at Stan Laurel that died first?

:36:27. > :36:29.Oliver Hardy. But after that, he never worked

:36:30. > :36:33.again. He wrote sketches for them that were

:36:34. > :36:35.never released, he missed him so much, he was heartbroken when he

:36:36. > :36:41.died. We will discuss that, that will be

:36:42. > :36:44.about 9:05, but Sally is here to talk about a really interesting

:36:45. > :36:49.story in football which is causing quite a bit of debate.

:36:50. > :36:52.We are talking about one of the most capped England players of the

:36:53. > :36:57.current era, Eni Aluko, and you will have seen her recently as a

:36:58. > :37:00.commentator at the recent women's Euros.

:37:01. > :37:02.Antiracism campaign group Kick It Out is calling

:37:03. > :37:04.for a "comprehensive and independent review" after an England footballer

:37:05. > :37:06.alleged she was dropped following claims of racial discrimination.

:37:07. > :37:08.Striker Eni Aluko accused manager Mark Sampson

:37:09. > :37:10.of making "racial and prejudicial" remarks.

:37:11. > :37:12.He and the FA have been cleared of any wrongdoing

:37:13. > :37:17.in both an FA review and an independent investigation.

:37:18. > :37:19.He asked me, you know, which family members,

:37:20. > :37:22."Who's coming to watch the game for you?"

:37:23. > :37:26.I said, "I have family coming in from Nigeria, actually."

:37:27. > :37:31."I have family flying in." And he said...

:37:32. > :37:34."Make sure they don't come over with Ebola."

:37:35. > :37:40.When that was said, did you challenge him at the time?

:37:41. > :37:57.The FA says the Ebola allegations were not investigated

:37:58. > :38:00.because Aluko did not include them in her formal complaint.

:38:01. > :38:03.The player received a ?80,000 settlement

:38:04. > :38:06.though a review concluded she had not been singled out.

:38:07. > :38:16.The FA said the settlement was made to avoid disrupting Euro 2017.

:38:17. > :38:18.There was another milestone for Wayne Rooney last night,

:38:19. > :38:20.as the Everton striker scored his 200th goal

:38:21. > :38:22.in the Premier League, scoring in the 1-1 draw

:38:23. > :38:26.City were down to ten men after Kyle Walker

:38:27. > :38:27.received two yellows, before Raheem Sterling equalised

:38:28. > :38:31.for the home side to ensure the match ended a point apiece.

:38:32. > :38:36.It was Rooney, though, who grabbed the headlines.

:38:37. > :38:39.You received this message of congratulations from the only other

:38:40. > :38:41.member of the 200 club. Congratulations, Wayne, on reaching

:38:42. > :38:43.200 Premier League goals, a great achievement.

:38:44. > :38:44.Where have you been, man? The 200 club has been a lonely place

:38:45. > :38:48.over the last few years. Well done, I'm sure

:38:49. > :38:51.you've got a few more in you. England's women are preparing

:38:52. > :38:53.for their Rugby World Cup semifinal Lydia Thompson will

:38:54. > :38:56.start on the wing, Head coach Simon Middleton

:38:57. > :39:01.rotated his squad heavily throughout the pool stage but has

:39:02. > :39:03.named his strongest squad for what will be their toughest test

:39:04. > :39:16.of the tournament so far. We had our accommodation mapped out

:39:17. > :39:20.for all the pool games, and it was to culminate in getting to the stage

:39:21. > :39:23.where we are now, but this is about putting the best winning team that

:39:24. > :39:28.are right for the job, and if you feel it is the right 23 for the next

:39:29. > :39:32.one, we will put them out again, if not, we will make changes, simple as

:39:33. > :39:36.that. But we are only thinking about this next game, this is going to be

:39:37. > :39:41.huge, that is what we are focused on. You can listen to that game on

:39:42. > :39:52.Radio 5 live tonight. Chris Froome has taken the lead's red jersey in

:39:53. > :39:56.the Vuelta in a stage won by Vincenzo Nibali. Is aiming to become

:39:57. > :40:01.just the third man to win the Tour de France and the Vuelta in the same

:40:02. > :40:05.year. If that is quite a feat, watch this, we have seen some great young

:40:06. > :40:09.hockey players in recent times, but what about the older generation?

:40:10. > :40:17.This is Peter Ross scoring a cracking goal for the over 75s

:40:18. > :40:21.grandmasters European cup. Thanks to that goal, England have progressed

:40:22. > :40:25.to the final. If they can be the Netherlands later today, they will

:40:26. > :40:30.be the European Cup champions. That German guy looks a little

:40:31. > :40:33.guilty, not really tracking back there!

:40:34. > :40:36.He looked like he was not as engaged as everybody else. Is that a nice

:40:37. > :40:40.way of saying it? That is the most polite way of

:40:41. > :40:43.saying it, that is why you are in the job! Thank you very much. Are

:40:44. > :40:48.you on tomorrow? See you tomorrow! The total solar eclipse which wowed

:40:49. > :40:52.the United States on Monday actually began more than 800 miles

:40:53. > :40:55.from its shores in a desolate spot A handful of lucky passengers -

:40:56. > :40:58.including media, scientists and employees

:40:59. > :41:00.of Alaska Airlines - got the chance to see

:41:01. > :41:03.the spectacle before anyone else. They watched in awe

:41:04. > :41:06.from a Boeing 737 which chased the moon's shadow

:41:07. > :41:10.at 40,000 feet in the air. Our North America correspondent

:41:11. > :41:15.James Cook was on board. The moon was after the sun,

:41:16. > :41:21.and we were on the tail of both. From Portland, in the north-western

:41:22. > :41:23.state of Oregon, the flight dubbed Solar One

:41:24. > :41:28.struck out across the Pacific. By the time we arrived,

:41:29. > :41:31.800 miles from the shore, our satellite was already

:41:32. > :41:35.taking a chunk out of our star. And as the moment of

:41:36. > :41:41.totality drew close, It's such an incredibly

:41:42. > :42:00.breathtaking express. and neither do pictures

:42:01. > :42:07.or video or anything. It's just incredible to witness,

:42:08. > :42:09.really it is. It was more beautiful

:42:10. > :42:21.than anything I could have imagined. It was diverse in colour and

:42:22. > :42:25.density, and it was just amazing. Just too short,

:42:26. > :42:27.really just too short. Jasmine Shepherd and her brother

:42:28. > :42:30.were the envy of their fellow Americans, having won a competition

:42:31. > :42:33.to see the eclipse fully 15 minutes We're in awe to have viewed

:42:34. > :42:46.the spectacular event. We're in awe, and

:42:47. > :42:48.humbled and grateful. It was a great experience, and

:42:49. > :42:51.everybody on board was so excited. And the countdown to

:42:52. > :42:53.totality was very cool, God is good, that's all

:42:54. > :42:57.I can say, God is good. That was a breathtaking moment,

:42:58. > :43:01.but it was over in a flash. The shadow is now reaching

:43:02. > :43:04.towards the United States, where millions more

:43:05. > :43:10.are watching and waiting. But only those on board could say

:43:11. > :43:13.that they were the first to see the spectacle,

:43:14. > :43:15.from a front-row seat James Cooke, BBC News,

:43:16. > :43:31.above the Pacific Ocean. Well, earlier on the programme we

:43:32. > :43:35.caught up with a man we spoke to yesterday, as he was preparing to

:43:36. > :43:39.fulfil a lifetime's ambition to see an eclipse. His 60 year weight came

:43:40. > :43:44.to an end as he gathered with family in Idaho, and he told us what it was

:43:45. > :43:50.like. The eclipse was absolutely fantastic, it was an experience that

:43:51. > :43:54.was worth waiting for, it was on my bucket list years before there was

:43:55. > :43:58.anything called a bucket list. And I have to tell you, you can see an

:43:59. > :44:04.eclipse on TV, but it does not compare at all to experiencing it in

:44:05. > :44:07.person. You were saying pot sorry, you were saying yesterday on the

:44:08. > :44:11.programme that you thought it might be quite an emotional experience

:44:12. > :44:18.being with your family, was it that way? I have to admit that I kind of

:44:19. > :44:23.cried a little bit, it was that emotional, and you spend your entire

:44:24. > :44:27.alive looking at the sky, you see the sun, you see the moon, and then

:44:28. > :44:32.all of a sudden you see this brilliant diamond ring blowing in

:44:33. > :44:36.the sky, and then the corona around the sun, and it is very dark, it

:44:37. > :44:42.goes from light to dark and back to light again. And the crowds of

:44:43. > :44:46.people just go crazy, cheering, and it is an emotional experience, it is

:44:47. > :44:53.an experience for an event that is just incredibly beautiful, and yes,

:44:54. > :44:58.it was everything, absolutely. And even my wife said it was incredible!

:44:59. > :45:02.So you know it was good! You were saying yesterday that he takes a bit

:45:03. > :45:05.of impressing! You have waited a long time to see this eclipse with

:45:06. > :45:11.your family, is that enough for you, or are you going to follow it around

:45:12. > :45:16.the world to see it again? I think so, I don't know if I am an eclipse

:45:17. > :45:22.Jacek yet, but having seen it and been so satisfied with it,

:45:23. > :45:28.definitely, yes. Everyone in our family was just, you know, extremely

:45:29. > :45:32.happy that we went, it was a great family event, my grandchildren will

:45:33. > :45:38.remember it for ever, it meant a lot to us.

:45:39. > :45:44.We also spoke to a group going up the mountains in Wyoming.

:45:45. > :45:46.We've also been sent this picture in by Andres Ross,

:45:47. > :45:49.he was part of a group eclipse chasers we spoke

:45:50. > :45:53.This was taken in Teton Village, in the western state of Wyoming.

:45:54. > :45:57.Stunning. He said thank you for letting us, on Breakfast yesterday,

:45:58. > :46:02.feel free to show this to your viewers.

:46:03. > :46:05.That's lovely. One thing we noticed was the different colours. You don't

:46:06. > :46:11.expect to see that. And the eeriness.

:46:12. > :46:14.Do you remember the one in 1999 over here?

:46:15. > :46:17.No. There is always that voluntary

:46:18. > :46:25.cheering. It feels like a special moment. Richard has been waiting 60

:46:26. > :46:27.years for that. And he was very organised, as well.

:46:28. > :46:31.She's out and about with grazing sheep right in the heart of London.

:46:32. > :46:41.She has been with all sorts of animals. Are you enjoying yourself?

:46:42. > :46:44.Yes. It is all happening in London in Green Park. I am here because the

:46:45. > :46:51.Royal Parks are launching, if you like, here this weekend mission

:46:52. > :46:57.invertebrate. We have got sheep here for the first time since the 1930s.

:46:58. > :47:02.I can talk to Tom, who was a farmer. Good morning. Tell us about your

:47:03. > :47:06.mission and your involvement in it. Mission invertebrate is our project

:47:07. > :47:13.to try and encourage the variety of invertebrates within the royal

:47:14. > :47:20.Parks. I am a farm manager over in east London on the Isle of dogs.

:47:21. > :47:26.These are our rare breed sheep in the distance. Some of these here,

:47:27. > :47:29.there are only about 500 to 900 of the certain breeds left. That's

:47:30. > :47:32.working in conjunction with the rare breeds survival trust to try to

:47:33. > :47:38.conserve these. Which ones are you talking about?

:47:39. > :47:47.The white face woodland is rare. And the Oxford down, as well. These

:47:48. > :47:52.animals are very important. Not only because they are superb lawn mowers

:47:53. > :47:56.for environments like this, but also because they are part of our

:47:57. > :47:59.agricultural history. How are they helping this particular

:48:00. > :48:03.mission? They are coming in here, the flowers

:48:04. > :48:09.have finished flowering. The grasses have seeded. They are eating down

:48:10. > :48:13.the dominant species of both. It's been lovely talking to you and

:48:14. > :48:17.Mavis. Mavis has been looking after the sheep all morning. Isn't she

:48:18. > :48:22.gorgeous? She is a Patterdale Terrier. She is

:48:23. > :48:27.so lovely. The weather this morning hasn't been too bad. We started off

:48:28. > :48:31.with cloud and drizzle but it is brightening up. The forecasts in the

:48:32. > :48:38.UK is a murky and cloudy one but it will brighten up later. We have some

:48:39. > :48:41.rain at the moment across the North of Scotland, moving north east.

:48:42. > :48:47.Increasingly turning more patchy as it does so. A lot of cloud. Breaks

:48:48. > :48:50.over the Midlands, Wales, south-west England. Some showers will pop up

:48:51. > :48:54.through the day across the South West and into Wales and gather force

:48:55. > :48:57.across Northern Ireland where they will be heavy. This afternoon in

:48:58. > :49:01.Scotland at four o'clock, there will be rain in the Northern Isles. The

:49:02. > :49:15.cloud building ahead of some showery outbreaks coming in from the

:49:16. > :49:18.south-west. And a lot of dry weather. If you catch some rain in

:49:19. > :49:19.the Grampian it is likely to be heavy. Some showers around this

:49:20. > :49:22.afternoon. Heavy and thundery ones will arrive later. In the South over

:49:23. > :49:25.Midlands, East Anglia, down towards Kent and the Isle of Wight, the

:49:26. > :49:29.clouds will continue to break up. We will see highs of around 27. But

:49:30. > :49:34.generally 23 to 25. That holds as we push into the south-west. In the

:49:35. > :49:38.sunshine, and the odd shower, temperatures climbing into the low

:49:39. > :49:44.20s. You're looking 26 and some areas of Wales. Showers in the north

:49:45. > :49:49.of Wales. And heavy showers from Northern Ireland with the odd rumble

:49:50. > :49:51.of thunder. What we have in the Northern Ireland will move into

:49:52. > :49:56.Scotland and northern England overnight. We will have a period of

:49:57. > :50:01.heavy and possibly thundery rain. Showers for Wales. The rest, some

:50:02. > :50:06.clear skies, some cloud, and another humid night, temperatures between 14

:50:07. > :50:09.to 17. Tomorrow we start off with rain over northern Scotland and

:50:10. > :50:13.northern England. All pushing into the North Sea. The tail end of that

:50:14. > :50:19.would extend on the east coast of England as a band of cloud. It'll

:50:20. > :50:22.still be mucking around this. High pressure and brighter conditions

:50:23. > :50:28.come in. As the cloud moves away into the North Sea that will arise

:50:29. > :50:33.in the south-east, as well. In the Thursday, a North South divide. In

:50:34. > :50:38.the north, showery and wet at times. In the south, dryer and brighter.

:50:39. > :50:42.And everyone is going to feel fresher over the next couple of

:50:43. > :50:47.days. We use the humidity. We pull in some warm air from the Atlantic.

:50:48. > :50:52.Our maximum temperature is likely to be 23 Celsius. We're having a

:50:53. > :51:00.brilliant time this morning. It has been fabulous. Back to you.

:51:01. > :51:06.Thank you. The sheep are playing hide and seek over your shoulder.

:51:07. > :51:11.They are all in the corner. We know we won't get you to do this today,

:51:12. > :51:16.no life sharing because it isn't the season, but a man called Ivan Scott

:51:17. > :51:21.in 2016 broke the world record... Our cameraman has gone off to see

:51:22. > :51:30.the sheep... Broke the record sharing his sheep, 37.9 seconds is

:51:31. > :51:34.the world record for sheep shearing. Amazing.

:51:35. > :51:40.But they don't look ready. CHUCKLES

:51:41. > :51:54.Very nice sheep. We have a sheep joke. This is from Aaron. What do

:51:55. > :52:00.you call a sheep without legs? A cloud.

:52:01. > :52:03.It is safe to say Carol has lost all interest.

:52:04. > :52:05.That's bad! CHUCKLES

:52:06. > :52:10.Thank you, Carol. She has loved it this morning.

:52:11. > :52:18.Talking about more jokes this morning... We have one from one of

:52:19. > :52:19.our production produces. -- producers.

:52:20. > :52:35.I got it right. I've been practising all morning. Do you not like it?

:52:36. > :52:36.Excellent. And whilst that probably

:52:37. > :52:38.won't win me any comedy awards, our next guest has been crowned king

:52:39. > :52:41.of the one-liner and perhaps A joke about the new pound coin has

:52:42. > :52:45.been named the funniest ahead of gags from Frankie

:52:46. > :52:52.Boyle and Alexei Sayle. Comedian Ken Cheng

:52:53. > :53:04.joins us now from Edinburgh. This is weird. We are essentially

:53:05. > :53:10.filming you in a tiny studio. Let's hear the funniest joke. I'm not a

:53:11. > :53:19.fan of the new pound coin, but then again I hate all change. I like the

:53:20. > :53:25.delivery. I think you've got it. How did you come up with that one? What

:53:26. > :53:29.is the genesis of a joke like that? With one line is it just comes out

:53:30. > :53:37.of nowhere. It pops into your head, I guess. -- one liners. You don't

:53:38. > :53:42.know which comedian has come up with the jokes and people vote for their

:53:43. > :53:48.favourite. What is it like to win a gong for a joke like this? It's

:53:49. > :53:53.great. It is a prestigious award. It has been going for ten years. It's a

:53:54. > :53:58.big thing. It's been getting bigger and bigger. Honoured to have won

:53:59. > :54:01.that. Some of our viewers have been sending in their jokes. They are on

:54:02. > :54:09.the bottom of the screen. Some of them are horrendous. How do you work

:54:10. > :54:16.out that a joke works as a comedian? Do you base it on the reaction of an

:54:17. > :54:20.audience, or friends? Not friends. Friends can be dishonest. Well, not

:54:21. > :54:26.intentionally, but they will be more supportive of you in a lot of

:54:27. > :54:30.situations. I generally, yes, it is a mix, I need to find it funny, but

:54:31. > :54:35.I need to test it out on an audience. If it flat lined on an

:54:36. > :54:40.audience it will be cut out. A modern way of testing, I suppose,

:54:41. > :54:47.most comedians would try out a warm up show. To test it out on Facebook

:54:48. > :54:51.sometimes? -- do you test it out. Use social media. Facebook and

:54:52. > :54:59.Twitter. Very useful. Great to test out there. I have seen you perform

:55:00. > :55:04.before. One liners are not a part of your set. You are more of a

:55:05. > :55:09.monologue comedian. I only have about four one liners. It is nice

:55:10. > :55:16.one of them got onto my list. Most of my stuff is longer, yes. Forgive

:55:17. > :55:23.my ignorance, did you tell that joke in your Edinburgh set this year? How

:55:24. > :55:32.did it go down if you did? I did. People grown when they hear it.

:55:33. > :55:37.Wonder how you made the transition to comedy. You were studying maths

:55:38. > :55:41.at Cambridge. You dropped out. Somewhere in your recent past you

:55:42. > :55:44.were a professional poker player, as well. I have been playing poker for

:55:45. > :55:49.the last ten years. That is how I support myself. I did a high

:55:50. > :56:00.transitioned into comedy. I fell into it. I tried out a gig. -- I did

:56:01. > :56:04.a transition into comedy. A few months before my first gig I had no

:56:05. > :56:09.inkling for comedy then it just happened. You have been very

:56:10. > :56:12.successful. Remind us, with that same deadpan delivery, of what has

:56:13. > :56:18.been voted the best joke at the Edinburgh fringe. Over to you. I'm

:56:19. > :56:22.not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again I hate all change.

:56:23. > :56:25.CHUCKLES Love that, thank you very much. What

:56:26. > :56:33.a face. Joke of the year. The train arriving at Platform one

:56:34. > :56:40.is carrying our next guests... They've called at every mainline

:56:41. > :56:42.station in Great Britain. It's been a three month journey,

:56:43. > :56:48.that started in Penzance, and now the final destination

:56:49. > :56:50.for this train is Geoff Marshall and Vicki Pipe,

:56:51. > :57:13.are with us now, but first lets take We are going to all of the stations.

:57:14. > :57:23.2563 stations. All of them?

:57:24. > :57:24.Let's do it. What is it? It is the cutest train I've ever

:57:25. > :57:35.seen. This is Britain's least used

:57:36. > :57:39.station, and there is nobody here. No one.

:57:40. > :57:44.Except for these guys. CHEERING

:57:45. > :57:58.Hello, welcome. Welcome to King 's home town. --

:57:59. > :58:05.King's Lynn, my home town. Well done on making it one month.

:58:06. > :58:13.Wow. Geoff Marshall and Vicki

:58:14. > :58:21.Pipe, good morning. I will admit, when we spoke about

:58:22. > :58:25.this a while ago I thought it was a bit weird.

:58:26. > :58:32.You had a look of, what on earth are they doing? We did lots of different

:58:33. > :58:37.reasons. We wanted to have an adventure. We both have an interest

:58:38. > :58:40.in the railways. Just makes videos for a living. We thought with all of

:58:41. > :58:44.the changes that would be happening over the next years to the network,

:58:45. > :58:49.we thought 2017 is the time to have this adventure and make a

:58:50. > :58:52.documentary about what Britain's railways are like. You've tried this

:58:53. > :58:58.sort of thing before. You did a challenge was the London

:58:59. > :59:01.Underground. We have twice held the world record for travelling all of

:59:02. > :59:05.the London Tube stations. And this one was born out of an idea in the

:59:06. > :59:09.pub. One of my friends ask if there was an equivalent record for doing

:59:10. > :59:16.the whole of the UK. They visit. But we set an unofficial time. Let's go

:59:17. > :59:22.through the rules. -- there isn't, but we set an unofficial time. You

:59:23. > :59:25.did not get off at every single station, right? If we did that it

:59:26. > :59:32.would have taken a year. About 11 months. Some stations don't even get

:59:33. > :59:37.one train a week. We had to go on a train that stopped at every station.

:59:38. > :59:41.We couldn't get a fast train. Predominantly come at most stations,

:59:42. > :59:46.as much as we could, we tried to step out on the platform, get a

:59:47. > :59:51.picture. There were some stations where we explored, we got out, had a

:59:52. > :59:55.look around, and also explored areas around the station, to see where can

:59:56. > :00:01.you get to, what can you do. Is your relationship stronger now? Be

:00:02. > :00:06.honest. Some people said we were having a holiday. We weren't. We

:00:07. > :00:09.were working hard every day. We learned to work together. There was

:00:10. > :00:12.a great quote from Ernest Hemingway, do not travel with those you don't

:00:13. > :00:18.love. I still hold that. We are good. Some minor arguments. But

:00:19. > :00:20.apart from that, we are OK. What were the arguments about? I can't

:00:21. > :00:29.remember. It is hard, we were working, we were

:00:30. > :00:34.making a documentary, filming, talking to people, and that was one

:00:35. > :00:38.of the best things. You met some amazing people. It wasn't just about

:00:39. > :00:43.riding trains, it was about exploring Britain, and one of the

:00:44. > :00:48.best conversations I had was with a couple between Scarborough and

:00:49. > :00:53.Bridlington, and they have said, we have never been to London before,

:00:54. > :00:56.and I thought, well, I have never been to Scarborough before, and it

:00:57. > :01:02.was quite beautiful to talk about our lives, a really nice moment. It

:01:03. > :01:10.is always nice to meet interesting people. Let's talk about Shippey

:01:11. > :01:19.Hill station. It is Britain's least used to station, it only had 12

:01:20. > :01:28.people officially who visited in the whole year, but when we went, we

:01:29. > :01:33.brought about 22 or 23 people. There were 19 us, and three local ladies

:01:34. > :01:38.also turned up. I think we set a new record for the number of people at

:01:39. > :01:47.Shippea Hill. It wasn't all great, we have got a picture of you being

:01:48. > :01:51.drenched dad Ribblehead Viaduct. It is just amazing there. The weather

:01:52. > :02:00.wasn't always kind, and Ribblehead was one of the days when it did pour

:02:01. > :02:03.down. It is an amazing feat of railway engineering, from Victorian

:02:04. > :02:12.times, which should never be forgotten. It is really impressive

:02:13. > :02:16.up close and personal. 14 weeks, six days, 18 hours... Who told you

:02:17. > :02:21.that?! That is correct! Go by is what is the next challenge? There

:02:22. > :02:25.was this running gag, people kept saying to all the castles or

:02:26. > :02:29.cathedrals, but in the hotel last night we were talking about maybe

:02:30. > :02:35.Ireland, and in Northern Ireland, but that is a maybe. That would only

:02:36. > :02:39.take a week or two at most, we think. You would get some absolutely

:02:40. > :02:45.beautiful views. We have been talking jokes all morning, and you

:02:46. > :02:50.did say you had a good joke. But you know what? This is a tough audience.

:02:51. > :03:00.I was think of a railway joke, but my favourite of all time, have you

:03:01. > :03:05.heard about those new dry pillows? They are making the headlines. That

:03:06. > :03:13.is what happens when you spend 14 weeks on a training! That way, go

:03:14. > :03:17.on, get off! Thank you very much! Lovely to meet you both, thank you

:03:18. > :03:20.for keeping us updated with the story.

:03:21. > :03:27.We'll be talking to the author who spent 20 years writing a book

:03:28. > :03:29.on his comedy hero, Stan Laurel, in a

:03:30. > :03:32.moment, but first a last, brief look at the headlines

:03:33. > :05:21.Their humour won them legions of fans

:05:22. > :05:23.in the 1920s and well beyond, and now Laurel and Hardy

:05:24. > :05:27.A film starring Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel

:05:28. > :05:30.is due to be released next year, and this week sees the publication

:05:31. > :05:32.of a book inspired by the complicated man behind

:05:33. > :05:35.the clumsy and childlike character he played on screen.

:05:36. > :05:40.The author of that book is John Connolly, and he joins us now.

:05:41. > :05:47.It is fair to say that you have been fascinated, particularly by Stan

:05:48. > :05:53.Laurel, for such a long time. Where did begin? The BBC, I am from the

:05:54. > :05:56.generation that remembers racing from Haydock park being cancelled

:05:57. > :06:02.because of rain, and the BBC would stick on Laurel and Hardy. I was

:06:03. > :06:07.staying with a friend, he collected lots of stuff, his house was full of

:06:08. > :06:12.junk that Americans call antiques, and he said he had a hat that Stan

:06:13. > :06:15.Laurel had given him. It never struck me that someone could have

:06:16. > :06:22.met him, because I associated him with his black and white era. But he

:06:23. > :06:25.kept his name in the Santa Monica phonebook, you could call him and

:06:26. > :06:31.say, do you mind if I come around? You would go around, he would make

:06:32. > :06:37.duty, and if he really liked it, he would give you a cheap derby hat to

:06:38. > :06:45.take away. Oliver Hardy had died eight years before he did, and what

:06:46. > :06:48.he did was grieve. You wouldn't work or do interviews, because he felt he

:06:49. > :06:52.had been defined by this other man, and people who saw him alone on the

:06:53. > :06:57.couch would say, where is the other half? There was a magic to them, I

:06:58. > :07:04.never think it is a bad time to recapture that, let's just see.

:07:05. > :07:42.Why don't you watch where you are going?!

:07:43. > :07:48.Marvellous! Their friendship really was something, wasn't it? I think

:07:49. > :07:51.that is one of the things that comes out when you watch them on screen,

:07:52. > :07:56.we see that they did like each other. We lost Jerry Lewis, one of

:07:57. > :07:59.the great stars, and he and Dean Martin had a very fractious

:08:00. > :08:03.relationship, Abbott and Costello, very fractures, they end up suing

:08:04. > :08:11.each other. Laurel and Hardy never argued, only once, about the degree

:08:12. > :08:15.of dish -- dishevelled and that was permitted to Oliver Hardy's hair.

:08:16. > :08:18.Stan Laurel knew that Oliver Hardy was the better actor, because he

:08:19. > :08:23.used to work as a projectionist, and he knew that a tiny gesture on

:08:24. > :08:29.screen would show big to the audience. Stan Laurel was always

:08:30. > :08:34.playing for the back row in music all, vaudeville, so there was no

:08:35. > :08:37.vanity or ego about him, he would work for Oliver Hardy. Oliver Hardy

:08:38. > :08:41.had been a jobbing actor, it had never really happened for him,

:08:42. > :08:44.stardom never came for Stan Laurel, but only together with a bow to

:08:45. > :08:54.create this wonderful partnership. He was a complicated character,

:08:55. > :08:57.married five times. And twice to the same woman, Oliver Hardy was married

:08:58. > :09:01.three times, they both have long-standing affairs with other

:09:02. > :09:05.women, and that is what is so difficult for us, we consider them

:09:06. > :09:08.as quite naive, almost childlike characters, and yet in real life

:09:09. > :09:11.they were, compared and men with difficult problems, they went

:09:12. > :09:15.through grief and loss. The only thing that sustained them was their

:09:16. > :09:21.friendship, which grew closer as the years went on. The book touches on

:09:22. > :09:26.other characters the age and their dislike or Stan's dislike of Charlie

:09:27. > :09:30.Chaplin, he learns things about him that are quite surprising. Use

:09:31. > :09:36.hugely admired Chaplin, he had been his and study, but he came from a

:09:37. > :09:42.different background, massive poverty, huge rage in Chaplin, and

:09:43. > :09:46.as a friend of mine said, nowadays he would be investigated by

:09:47. > :09:50.Operation Yewtree, he had a predilection for young girls. It

:09:51. > :09:53.must have been difficult for Stan Laurel, for this man he admired as a

:09:54. > :09:58.comedian, he had to look at his life and say, you are not necessarily a

:09:59. > :10:05.great human being, and that is the problem with Chaplin. Why did you

:10:06. > :10:10.call the book He? For most of his life, he lived under the name of

:10:11. > :10:15.Arthur Jefferson, the navy was born under in Ulverston. He took the name

:10:16. > :10:20.Stan Laurel as a construct, he did not really exist at all. Somewhere

:10:21. > :10:24.between those two identities, this young man who had grown up in

:10:25. > :10:28.Ulverston, the son of a theatre manager, he ended up in Hollywood as

:10:29. > :10:33.a huge star, and somewhere in between was this identity. I

:10:34. > :10:35.couldn't figure out what to call him, he wasn't Stan Laurel, and then

:10:36. > :10:47.he left Arthur Jefferson behind, so he is He in the book. And he called

:10:48. > :10:51.Oliver Hardy Babe. I think that is a name he couldn't come up with

:10:52. > :10:55.himself, so that people wouldn't call him Tubby, a way to avoid

:10:56. > :10:59.having one of those dreadful nicknames. He was always, like some

:11:00. > :11:06.large people are, very conscious of his weight. He had his vanities, but

:11:07. > :11:10.they were very understandable. Knowing what you know about him now,

:11:11. > :11:14.sharing this with many other people, do you watch the footage in a

:11:15. > :11:19.different wage I can see the artistry of it now, I think I took

:11:20. > :11:22.that for granted before, but Stan Laurel effectively wrote, directed

:11:23. > :11:26.and edited all of the short films, he was the creative genius behind

:11:27. > :11:33.the partnership, and he tailored them to bring out Oliver Hardy's

:11:34. > :11:35.strengths. Now that I know so much about their friendship, I see their

:11:36. > :11:38.friendship reflected, something genuine about those lovely short

:11:39. > :11:42.films. It is interesting that they both had such unhappy married lives,

:11:43. > :11:45.and in the films they are often in unhappy relationships with women. I

:11:46. > :11:52.think sometimes he took the unhappiness of his life and turned

:11:53. > :11:56.it into comedy in his films. It is difficult to imagine the level of

:11:57. > :12:00.superstardom of that age, but women would flock to them. Particularly

:12:01. > :12:04.Stan Laurel, he was a very handsome man with astonishing blue eyes that

:12:05. > :12:09.women fell four, he was quite successful with the ladies. When

:12:10. > :12:13.they came to England after the war, they could hear whistling at the

:12:14. > :12:16.docks, and it was thousands upon thousands of people standing on

:12:17. > :12:19.Southampton docks whistling their theme tune, which is quite a

:12:20. > :12:24.beautiful image. They came back to England, and England loves them,

:12:25. > :12:27.they were two of the biggest stars to come back after the Second World

:12:28. > :12:31.War, when there was still rationing, when people were still conscious of

:12:32. > :12:35.the loss, and still have these beautiful men arrive to cheer them

:12:36. > :12:39.up, they were lauded. When you look at the old footage, he had the most

:12:40. > :12:48.remarkably expressive eyebrows, and we talked about Roger Moore,

:12:49. > :12:53.something he used to express all sorts of emotion. They both did, and

:12:54. > :12:56.I think he learned a lot of that from Oliver Hardy, but Oliver Hardy

:12:57. > :13:00.was the one who realised, just look at the camera and open your eyes

:13:01. > :13:03.slightly wide, everyone will understand your pain, that was what

:13:04. > :13:08.was lovely about it. Stan Laurel became a better actor because of

:13:09. > :13:12.Oliver Hardy. 20 years in the making, your book. Pretty much, a

:13:13. > :13:19.lot of research, a lot of thinking, and it could have been twice as

:13:20. > :13:22.long, they were fascinating lives. A very interesting read. The book is

:13:23. > :13:24.called He. We are back tomorrow morning from six o'clock. Have a

:13:25. > :13:27.lovely day. Bye-bye.